Toni Harper - 1940s Child Wonder Singer

This week’s Phantom Dancer features a set of Glenn Miller without Glenn Miller – former band members who kept up the name or went their own musical directions. You’ll hear 1940s – 50s radio broadcasts by former Miller singer, Ray Eberle, former Miller arranger, Jerry Gray, Miller singer and saxophonist, Tex Beneke, and former Miller drummer, Ray McKinley

This week you’ll also hear a broadcast by ‘nine-year-old’ Toni Harper singing with the Count Basie Orchestra on a Jubilee show from Hollywood. And this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, features the young Toni Harper from the 1948 film ‘Make Believe Ballroom’. Enjoy…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital RadioCommunity Radio Network Show #9 2SER Tuesday 24 July 2012 12 noon – 1:30pm (+10 hours GMT)   2SER Saturday 28 July 2012 6 – 7:30pm (+10 hours GMT) Set 1 My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms Benny Goodman Orchestra Comm Rec New York 1935 Open (Blue Flame) + Who Dat Up Dere? Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Woody Herman and Band Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS Los Angeles 17 Oct 1944 Medley: Remember When + I Wish I Knew + How Deep Is The Ocean? Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) Dick Roberts ‘One Night Stand’ Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker NY AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Sep 1945 Frim Fram Sauce 9 Year Old Toni Harper (voc) Count Basie Orchestra ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1948 Set 2 Open + American Patrol Ray McKinley and the Glenn Miller Orchestra ‘Guest Star’ New York 30 Jun 1957 Troop Movement + Moonlight Serenade (theme) Tex Beneke and The Glenn Miller Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 11 Sep 1946 Ad + Re-stringing The Pearls Jerry Gray and his Band Of Today Edgewater Beach Hotel WMAQ NBC Chicago 8 Jun 1951 Come To The Mardi Gras + Close Ray Eberle Orchestra The Click WFIL ABC Philadelphia 18 Jul 1947 Set 3 How’s About It Phil Harris & Leah Ray (voc) Phil Harris Orchestra ‘Cocoanut Grove’ TRANSCO Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933 Comedy Frank Sinatra, Frances Langford, Bing Crosby & Dixie Lee’s sons: Gary, Dennis, Lindsay & Phillip ‘Command Performance’ AFRS Hollywood 1945 Set 4 Donna Lee Fats Navarro (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Lennie Tristano (p) Billy Bauer (g) Tommy Potter (b) Buddy Rich (d) ‘Bands For Bonds’ WOR Mutual NY 8 Nov 1947 O-Go-Mo Charlie Ventura Quartet (voc) Jackie Cain & Roy Kral ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 1948 Jazz Me Blues Paul Whiteman Orchestra ‘Forever Pops’ ABC Chicago 1951 Tiger Rag Louis Armstrong All-Stars Wintergarden Theatre WNBC NBC NY 19 Jun 1947 Set 5 Sunday, Monday Or Always George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Joan Blake & Terry Howard Comm Rec Sydney 1944 Peg O’ My Heart Charlie Spivak Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Century Room Commodore Hotel NY AFRS Re-broadcast 25 Feb 1945 Don’t Believe Everything You Dream Lionel Hampton Orchestra (voc) Rubel Blakey ‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jun 1944 All The Things You Are Sterling Young Orchestra (voc) Alan Simms Radio Transcription Chicago 1940 Set 6 Rhythm Mad Billy Cotton Orchestra Comm Rec London 26 Mar 1935 Melancholy Lullaby (theme) + Old Man River Benny Carter Orchestra Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca KECA Blue Network Los Angeles 1944 Lullaby Of Birdland (theme) + Old Man River Lester Young Quintet Birdland WJZ ABC NY 5 Sep 1956

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