Make Believe Ballroom

Make Believe Ballroom

Hosted by Jeff Bressler, The Make Believe Ballroom brings you Classic Big Band jazz, blues, boogie-woogie, and dixieland hits from the 30s and 40s each week.

The program has been broadcast almost continuously since 1935. The Ballroom is America's third-longest-running music radio program.

Each program mixes beloved 78 rpm records, stories, listener requests, and special guest features, all geared to bring you the music and history of the big band era.

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Make Believe Ballroom - 8/22/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 8/22/25 Edition

This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - some Bing Crosby duets, a long-forgotten female vocalist, a battling composer, a couple of ...

22 Aug 202558min

Make Believe Ballroom - 8/15/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 8/15/25 Edition

This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s -Frank Sinatra turned down for a job, a song that became a gold record 43 years after it was ...

15 Aug 202558min

Make Believe Ballroom - 8/8/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 8/8/25 Edition

This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - a one hit wonder, a lightly played Benny Goodman tune, how Marilyn helped Ella, listners em...

8 Aug 202558min

Make Believe Ballroom - 8/1/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 8/1/25 Edition

This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - a historic big band colaberation, a singing sisters nick name for a wildly popular comic an...

1 Aug 202558min

Make Believe Ballroom - 7/25/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 7/25/25 Edition

This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - we spin a couple of lightly played Glenn Miller recordings, two great classic Jam Sessions ...

25 Juli 202558min

Make Believe Ballroom - 7/18/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 7/18/25 Edition

This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - a big band leader who had to change his name, a popular bandleader who had a second career ...

18 Juli 202558min

Make Believe Ballroom - 7/11/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 7/11/25 Edition

This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - an email from a 95 year old veteran who played in the Air Force Band, a song written for th...

11 Juli 202558min

Make Believe Ballroom - 7/4/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 7/4/25 Edition

This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - a look at a listener's somewhat controversial list of the most influential jazz musicians a...

4 Juli 202557min

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