This Is The ABC (1955)

On last week’s Phantom Dancer we ran out of time to play live radio airchecks by Charlie Parker and Lester Young. This week, we’ll hear them for sure. As well as live 1930s-50s radio by the orchestras of George Olsen, Duke Ellington, Ray Herbeck and more. Tune in. Time and station after the Video of the Week

Video Of The Week:
Australia presents, “This Is The ABC’ (1955) a production by the Film Division, Department of the Interior, for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #11 2SER Tuesday 7 August 2012 12 noon – 1:30pm (+10 hours GMT) 2SER Saturday 11 August 2012 6 – 7:30pm (+10 hours GMT) Set 1 This Year’s Kisses Jim Davidson & His ABC Dance Orchestra Regal-Zonophone Sydney 1936 Bottoms Up Harry Owens Orchestra & Chorus ‘Songs Of The Islands’ AFRS Hollywood 1944 Carnegie Leap Eddie Condon Group ‘Eddie Condon’s Town Hall Jazz Concert’ Ritz Theatre WJZ Blue NY 3 Mar 1945 Set 2 Dayenu Yiddish Swingtette WEVD New York 1950 Am I Blue? Bunny Berrigan Orchestra ‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jun 1937 You Can’t See The Sun Billy Mills Orchestra ‘Johnson Wax Program’ NBC 25 Mar 1947 One O’Clock Jump Count Basie Orchestra Birdland WNBC NBC NY 29 Jul 1952 Set 3 So I Married The Girl George Olsen’s Music (voc) Hotcha Gardiner ‘Lucky Strike Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NY 1 Dec 1932 Love Letters Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) Dick Roberts ‘One Night Stand’ Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker NY AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Sep 1945 Come Rain Or Shine Dick Jurgens Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Castle ‘One Night Stand’ Garden Room Hotel Claremont Berkeley ca AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1946 September Song + Theme Freddy Nagel Orchestra Empire Room ABC Chicago 21 Sep 1947 Set 4 Shakey Shep Fields And His New Music Radio Transcription New York 1942 Love You Madly Duke Ellington Orchestra Birdland WNBC NBC NY 30 Jun 1951 I May Be Wrong Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 16 Jan 1936 Sheik Of Araby + Close Fats Waller WEAF NBC Red Radio City NY 5 Jul 1938 Set 5 Blue Dusk George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Al Royal Comm Rec Sydney 1944 It’s A Small World Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker WOR Mutual NY 25 Mar 1940 If I Loved You Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Stuart Foster ‘Tommy Dorsey Show’ NBC 19 Aug 1945 Romance (theme) + We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye Ray Herbeck & His Music With Romance Orchestra Trianon Ballroom WGN Chicago 24 Nov 1947 Set 6 Move Charlie Parker (as) Fats Navarro (tp) Bud Powell (p) Curley Russell (b) Art Blakey (d) Birdland WMCA NY 30 Jun 1950 Lullaby Of Birdland (theme) + Old Man River Lester Young Quintet Birdland WJZ ABC NY 5 Sep 1956

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