Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

Salutations Phantom Dancer,

Of course this week’s show has a version of ‘Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead’

But we’re a cut above the rest

We’ll be playing the live Glenn Miller swing version with Marion Hutton singing over WEAF New York in 1939. Make sure you tune in. What makes this version special? Marion obviously doesn’t think much of the song!

And since the famous song is from The Wizard Of Oz, this week’s Video Of The Week is a Command Performance USA film clip of Oz star, Judy Garland, singing the most famous song from the film, ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’. And Bob Hope’s in there, too. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #47
2SER Tuesday 16 April 2013 12 noon – 1:30pm (+10 hours GMT) 2SER Saturday 20 April 2013 6 – 7:30pm (+10 hours GMT)
Set 1
Ornithology	Bud Powell Trio	Birdland WJZ ABC NY 14 Feb 1953
Open + Tenderly	Sarah Vaughan	Birdland WNBC NBC NY 31 Mar 1953
D.B. Blues	Lester Young	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 20 Mar 1946
Bop City	Kai Winding	‘Adventures In Jazz’ WCBS TV CBS NY 4 Mar 1952
Set 2
Boo Hoo	Mullens Sisters (voc) Russ Morgan Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York 1937
Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead	Marion Hutton (voc) Glenn Miller Orchestra	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 10 Aug 1939
You’re Driving Me Crazy	Jan Savitt Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS re-broadcast 20 Sep 1945
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South + Camel Hop	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 20 Oct 1937
Set 3
Song Of The Inadequacy Of Live	Bertolt Brecht (voc) Theo Mackeben Jazz Band	Comm Rec Berlin 1930
Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man	Ethel Waters (voc) Fletcher Henderson (p)	‘Guest Star’ New York 16 Jul 1950
More Than You Know	Frank Sinatra	‘Max Factor Show’ KNX CBS LA 14 Mar 1945
Shake My Mother’s Hand	Roy Acuff	‘Roy Acuff Show’ WSM Nashville 1949
Set 4
Let’s All Sing Like The Birdies Sing	Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra	Comm Rec London 1935
Open + Get Happy	1944 Esquire All-Stars	‘Chamber Music Society Of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ Blue NY 16 Jan 1944
Straighten Up And Fly Right	Golden Gate Quartet	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Open + Smiles	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘For The Record’ WEAF NBC NY 11 Sep 1944
Set 5
Tony’s Wife	Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheums	Comm Rec London 28 Jun 1933
Lazy Lady Blues	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing	Avadon Ballroom KHJ Mutual Don Lees LA Jun 1946
When Day Is Done	Henry Busse Orchestra	Rose Room Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 28 Dec 1944
In The Still Of The Night	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Allan Jones	‘Woody Herman Show’ KECA ABC LA Oct 1944
Set 6
Alexanders Ragtime Band	Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights	Radio Transcription New York 1943
King Porter Stomp	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WEAF NBC Red NY 18 Apr 1939
Farewell Blues + Close	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Camel Caravan WABC CBS NY 13 Jan 1937

Czech Swing & Harmony Singing From 1941

On this week’s Phantom Dancer we highlight Benny Goodman’s swing band, swing sextet and his bop group in three different radio broadcasts. See the play list below

And the Video of the Week: a German swing song (Hmm Hmm) by the great Czech swing band and singers, R.A. Dvorsky and the Allan Sisters recorded in 1941. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #46 2SER Tuesday 9 April 2013 12 noon – 1:30pm (+10 hours GMT) 2SER Saturday 13 April 2013 6 – 7:30pm (+10 hours GMT) Set 1 Confessin’ Count Basie (organ) Nonet Comm Rec Boston 7 Sep 1954 Open + Skyliner Charlie Barnet Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ AFRS re-broadcast 2 Jun 1944 It’s A Beautiful Day Chuck Foster Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Ice Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker AFRS re-broadcast 13 Aug 1945 Chatanooga Shoe Shine Boy Jack Smith (voc) Margaret Whiting also heard. Frank deVol Orchestra ‘Oxydol Show’ KNX CBS LA 1950 Set 2 Festival Swing ’41 French All-Star Orchestra Paris Radio 26 Dec 1940 That’s My Weakness Now + I Love You Denis Segay and the Savings Bonds Orchestra (voc) The Three Singing Dollars ‘Guest Star’ New York 24 Jan 1954 Janine Clyde McCoy Orchestra ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1943 Birmingham Special Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra ‘GI Jive’ AFRS Hollywood 1945 Set 3 Annoying Evening Rain Bai Hing (voc) Orchestra Comm Rec Pathe Shanghai 1948 She’s Funny That Way Frank Sinatra (voc) ‘Vimms Vitamins Show’ WABC CBS NY 16 Aug 1944 Rislaia Vincent Lopez Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Grill Room Hotel Taft, New York AFRS re-broadcast 1959 Intermezzo Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS re-broadcast 29 Mar 1949 Set 4 Let Me Off Uptown Lucky Millinder Orchestra (voc) Trevor Bacon Comm Rec New York 18 Feb 1942 Umbrella Man Benny Goodman Sextet ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 10 Jan 1939 Jam With Sam Duke Ellington Orchestra Blackkawk Restaurant WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jul 1952 Jumpin’ At The Woodside Benny Goodman Orchestra WEAF NBC NY 9 Sep 1939 Set 5 There Goes That Song Again George Trevare Orchestra with vocal Comm Rec Sydney 1944 On The Sentimental Side Lee Wiley KHJ Mutual Don Lees Los Angeles 31 Mar 1938 Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man Mildred Bailey (voc) Woody Herman Orchestra ‘Wild Root Show’ NBC 8 Feb 1946 I’ll Get By Billie Holliday ‘Spotlight Bands’ Metropolitan Opera House WJZ Blue Network New York 18 Jan 1944 Set 6 Gandy Dancer George Hall Orchestra Radio Transcription New York 1937 When My Dreamboat Comes Home Count Basie Orchestra Savoy Ballroom New York 30 Jun 1937 Hold Tight + Close Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WEAF NBC Red NY 18 Apr 1939

Doin’ The Charleston Album

The latest independent release by Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters is pure 1920s in flavour and available on Bandcamp

With the same maverick spirit that produced ‘The Phantom Dancer’ (the sold-out first CD and the award-winning, national community radio show), ‘Doin’ The Charleston’, is the long-awaited second album from Greg Poppleton & The Bakelite Broadcasters

Recorded live-in-studio in just 5 hours, ‘Doin’ The Charleston’, is the first document of Greg Poppleton & The Bakelite Broadcasters as a purely Roaring 20s Speakeasy 5-piece. There are more layers, more stylistic tangents than before, with a DNA recovered from the very bones of smoking, catchy, 1920s speakeasy pop. At the forefront is the undeniably authentic and unique Roaring 20s vocal style of Greg Poppleton

A pre-release spin of ‘Doin The Charleston’ at the 2012 Sydney Fringe Festival had swing dancers crowding the dance floor

Greg Poppleton is very proud of the results, “For me, ‘Doin’ The Charleston’, is all about the songs, how they line up, intertwine, switch partners and promenade home”

Greg has expanded his 3.5 octave sonic palette with a long list of influences to forge his own sound. Heir to a tradition of finely-crafted, dramatic, confessional music that explores the ups and downs of life and love with a keenly-observed honesty that touches all who hear, Greg Poppleton is backed by what really is an all-star speakeasy band of world-touring jazz musicians…

Paul Furniss weaves shimmering, infectious, toe-tapping anthems using soprano, alto, tenor saxophones and clarinet. Al Davey wails, growls and caresses on trumpet and trombone. He brings together the brightest elements and darkest undertones in a unique blend of unshackled two-beat. Grahame Conlon’s banjo demands attention weaving audacious fat chords around the pulsing, minimalist sousaphone loops of Rod Herbert and ARIA nominee Geoff Power and the chemically infused drum beats and bootleg hooch washboard laid down by Bell band legend, Lawrie Thompson

The quintet makes lullabies, lush dreamy vintage pop, and the powerful, bone-rattling immediacy of hot, danceable jazz. Vocal hooks are inescapable, lush productions uncannily authentic to the Roaring 20s, as sophisticated and pristine as anything on a 78 disc. ‘Doin’ The Charleston’s’ 14 tracks (including a bonus alternate take on the soaring St James Infirmary) trace a unique aesthetic universe that is fully-crafted and fully-realised, deftly walking the lines between joyous exhilaration and otherworldly rapture, pleasure-centre pop and total self-possession

It has been described as the Temperance Seven meets’ Don Byron’s Bug Music

Greg Poppleton & The Bakelite Broadcasters’ is a universe that invites exploration and demands revisiting. ‘Doin’ The Charleston’ is a journey from darkness to light, from anger to love, from chaos to order. Buy at Bandcamp, CD Baby and bakelitejazz.com

Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters Trio for a 30th Birthday at the ArtHouse

‘Doin’ The Charleston’ has been featured by Bob Rogers in a one hour special on the album over 2CH and the Macquarie Network, Sydney. It has also been CD of the Week on ArtSoundFM Canberra and Jazz Album of the Week on 5MBS Adelaide

Former jazz critic for The Australian newspaper, Kevin Jones, wrote about ‘Doin The Charleston’…

“Even in the 21st century, the music of the so-called jazz age (the Roaring Twenties) still holds a fascination for many, judging by the number of bands which play this style of music world-wide. The Bakelite Broadcasters, led by vocalist Greg Poppleton, keeps the 1920s’ flag flying in Sydney as this enjoyable disc, the second by the group, shows.

They are mostly pre-Swing Era songs written before Benny Goodman launched jazz’s most popular years at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles on August 21, 1935 ranging from Paul Dresser’s My Gal Sal (1907) to Fats Wallers’ I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Lettter (1935) and include The Charleston (1923) and Sweet Lorraine and Button Up Your Overcoat (both written in 1928)
Listening to the 1929 recording by the Mound City Blue Blowers of I Ain’t Got Nobody and My Gal Sal shows the Broadcasters have captured the basic sound. Not surprising when you consider the group includes musicians of the calibre of Paul Furniss (reeds) Al Davey (trumpet and trombone) and Lawrie Thompson (drums and washboard) who show how well they have mastered the style. Grahame Conlon (tenor banjo) makes a mockery of those many banjo jokes with his rollicking solo on The Road To Gundagai. As for the leader, some may find his voice a little affected at times but he has captured that decade’s vocal style to perfection especially on Falling in Love Again sung in both English and German. As enjoyable as they are to listen to The Bakelite Broadcasters must be even better live.”

Enjoy!

Greg Poppleton Bakelite Broadcasters Trio At 30th Birthday

Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters (1920s Trio) played for a “Farewelling the 20s” 30th Birthday at The ArtHouse, Sydney

Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters Trio for a 30th Birthday at the ArtHouse

“Thank you so much for playing last night. So many people told me how fantastic the band was, and I loved it.”

Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters are available for your 20s – 30s theme birthday, too! And wedding. And corporate event. Visit the band website

Spike Jones All Star TV Review 1952

For those of you who follow the blog and are thinking, ‘Where’s last week show?’. Well, it went to air, but it was a postmodern pastiche Phantom Dancer of two classic shows, highly self-referential and highly amusing, no doubt. I had to pre-record as I was singing for a Tea Dance with Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters, 1920s-30s jazz and swing that afternoon

This week – a whole new Phantom Dancer for your listening and dancing pleasure on 107.3 2SER, online and digital radio. See the play list after this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #44 2SER Tuesday 26 March 2013 12 noon – 1:30pm (+11 hours GMT) 2SER Saturday 30 March 2013 6 – 7:30pm (+11 hours GMT) Set 1 Open + I Found A New Baby Eddie Condon Jazz Group ‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue Network New York 24 Jun 1944 Open + Happy Talk Martin Denny Orchestra London House WBBM CBS Chicago 1959 Second Hand Heart For Sale Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) Leah Ray ‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription TRANSCO Los Angeles 1933 What A Difference A Day Makes Joe Reichman Orchestra (voc) Ray Foster ‘One Night Stand’ Biltmore Bowl Biltmore Hotel AFRS Re-broadcast Jul 1944 Set 2 Cool Blues Charlie Parker Quintet ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Hi-Hat Club WCOP Boston 1954 Saturday Night The Andrew Sisters ‘Mail Call’ AFRS Hollywood 1944 Open + Dinah Count Basie Orchestra ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 2 Oct 1944 Always Air Transport Command Orchestra Aircheck AFN Paris Jan 1946 Set 3 A Friend Of Yours Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC 1946 Warsaw Concerto Alex Templeton ‘James Melton Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast 15 Apr 1945 Autumn In New York Bobby Sherwood Orchestra (voc) Lynn Stevens ‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast Jan 1947 Home On The Range Sammy Kaye Orchestra ‘Sunday Serenade’ WJZ Blue NY 15 Apr 1945 Set 4 What’ll I Do Claude Hopkins and his Cotton Club Orchestra Radio Transcription New York 18 Oct 1935 Song Of India Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra Cafe Rouge Statler Hotel WRCA NBC NY Dec 1955 Laughing At Life Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 16 Nov 1937 What Is It? Freddy Rich Orchestra ‘Friendly Five Footnotes’ Radio Transcription New York 1932 Set 5 Low Down Dirty Shame Joe Sullivan and his Cafe Society Orchestra (voc) Joe Turner Comm Rec New York 9 Feb 1940 Easy Street Charlie Spivak Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Century Room Hotel Commodore AFRS Re-broadcast 25 Feb 1945 Honeysuckle Rose + Midnight Joe Haymes Orchestra Grill Room Hotel McAlfin WABC CBS NY 29 Jan 1935 I Heard Johnny Claes and his Claepigeons (voc) Benny Lee Comm Rec London 1941 Set 6 Jungle Jive George Trevare and his Australians (voc) Elsie Wardrope Comm Rec Sydney 1943 Bugle Call Rag International Sweethearts Of Rhythm ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945 Harlen Airshaft + Close Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Club Zanzibar NY AFRS Re-broadcast 28 Oct 1945

9 Year Old Drummer With Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters

My 9-year old son, Damon, playing drums for Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters, Courtyard Sessions, Seymour Centre, Sydney, 1 Dec 2012

Two pics of my 9 year old son, Damon, playing drums for Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters, Courtyard Sessions, Seymour Centre, 1 December 2012. Grahame Conlon, guitar. Darcy Wright, double bass.

Damon played on all three sets of jazz from the 1920s and 1930s with two of Australia’s most experienced and accomplished swing musicians. Darcy has played in the touring bands of Tony Bennett, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and more. Grahame has played in the touring bands of Ernestine Anderson, Ricky May, James Morrison and more

You can find out more about Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters and the new album ‘Doin’ The Charleston’ on the band’s website www.bakelitejazz.com

George Burns & Grace Allen 1929 Vitaphone Short

Enjoy the latest Phantom Dancer play list and the latest Phantom Dancer Video of the Week: George Burns & Gracie Allen in a 1929 Vitaphone short, ‘Lambchops’…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #42 2SER Tuesday 12 March 2013 12 noon – 1:30pm (+11 hours GMT) 2SER Saturday 16 March 2013 6 – 7:30pm (+11 hours GMT) Set 1 Yours Chuck Foster Orchestra Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 7 Jan 1945 Theme + Shelter From A Shower Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Larry Stanley ‘Cocoanut Grove’ TRANSCO Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933 Goodbye My Love Ted Weems Orchestra (voc) Perry Como Trianon Ballroom WGN Mutual Chicago 10 Feb 1937 And There You Are + Close Lena Romay (voc) ‘Personal Album’ AFRS Hollywood 1944 Set 2 Rosalie Teddy Stauffer Orchestra (voc) Billy Toffel Comm Rec Berlin 9 Apr 1938 Bye Bye Baby Freddie Rich Orchestra ‘Your Hit Parade’ WEAF NBC Red NY 21 Oct 1936 Brazil Horace Heidt Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballromm Southgate Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Jan 1945 I Want To Be Happy Glenn Miller Orchestra Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 5 Apr 1940 Set 3 I’ve Got You Under My Skin Bud Powell (p) Roy Haynes (d) Oscar Pettiford (b) Birdland WJZ ABC NY 14 Feb 1953 Birdland Ad Studio Announcer WNBC NBC NY 6 Jan 1953 Over The Rainbow Stan Kenton Orchestra (feat.) Bob Burgess (tb) ‘Stars In Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 23 Apr 1953 Theme + The Mooche Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘Stars In Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 20 Nov 1952 Basie English Count Basie Orchestra ‘Stars In Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 6 Jan 1953 Set 4 I Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody My Jelly Roll Jack Parnell’s Jazzmen ‘Swing Session’ BBC London 13 Feb 1945 Theme + Unidentified Time Johnny Otis Orchestra ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1945 Barrelhouse Erskine Hawkins Orchestra (feat.) Illinois Jacquet ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1943 After You’ve Gone + Theme Fats Waller & his Rhythm Yacht Club WABC CBS NY 14 Oct 1938 Set 5 Old Man River Eliot Lawrence Orchestra (voc) Jack Hunter Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 2 Dec 1947 The Hour Of Parting Benny Goodman Orchestra Peacock Court Hotel Mark Hopkins KFRC Mutual Don Lees San Francisco 28 May 1940 Washboard Blues Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) Mildred Bailey ‘Paul Whiteman Show’ WABC CBS NY 1 May 1938 Monday Morning Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters (voc) Carlotta Dale Studios KYW NBC Red Philadelphia 17 Oct 1938 Set 6 Indiana Jimmy Dorsey’s Dorseyland Band Radio Transcription New York 1950 Bugle Call Rag International Sweethearts Of Rhythm ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945 Open + Light Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘Date With The Duke’ Radio City Music Hall WJZ ABC NY 10 Nov 1945

Bing, Bob and Gary Crosby All In One Phantom Dancer Package

Happy Motoring, Phantom Dancers!

This week’s show has full two sets of live radio from the 1930s including broadcasts by The Boswell Sisters, Bunny Berrigan and Bob Crosby

And this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is a 1962 partial episode of Bob’s brother Bing’s TV Show, Bing’s son Gary and Bob Hope

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #41 2SER Tuesday 5 March 2013 12 noon – 1:30pm (+11 hours GMT) 2SER & Star Observer Digital Wednesday 6 March 2013 8pm – 9:30pm (+11 hours GMT) 2SER Saturday 9 March 2013 6 – 7:30pm (+11 hours GMT) Set 1 The Gentleman Is A Dope Charlie Spivak Orchestra (voc) Irene Day ‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Rebroadcast 1948 In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening Ary Wayner Orchestra (voc) Andy Pearce ‘One Night Stand’ The Latin Quarter New York AFRS Rebroadcast 31 Jul 1951 Take It From The Top Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra Savoy Ballroom WEAF NBC Red NY 25 Jan 1940 Rhapsody In Blue Herbie Fields Orchestra Glen Island Casino WOR Mutual NY 9 Aug 1944 Set 2 Adios Stan Kenton Orchestra Comm Rec Los Angeles 11 Sep 1941 Say Si Si Xavier Cugat Orchestra (voc) Nita Rosa ‘Xavier Cugat Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1944 King Porter Stomp + Goodbye Benny Goodman Orchestra Joseph Urban Room Congress Hotel Chicago WEAF NBC Red NY 3 Feb 1936 Moonlight Serenade + I Never Knew Glenn Miller Orchestra Paradise Restaurant WEAF NBC Red NY 30 Dec 1938 Set 3 The Parade Of The Blues Boswell Sisters Radio Transcription Continental Broadcasting System Los Angeles 1930 Theme + There Must Be A Way Boyd Raeburn Orchestra (voc) David Allan and margie Wood Rose Room Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 19 Jun 1945 Ireland + Take It Easy Eddie Cantor and Ella Logan ‘Eddie Cantor Show’ Santa Anna Ca 21 Feb 1945 Set 4 White Star Stomp Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra Radio Transcription New York 1934 Hobo On Park Avenue Isham Jones Orchestra ‘United Cigar Store Program’ WOR Mutual NY 13 Mar 1936 Little Gate Special Bunny Berrigan Orchestra Trianon Balltoom WCLE Cleveland 9 Apr 1939 42nd Street + When Summer Is Gone Hal Kemp Orchestra ‘Lavena Program’ New York 1934 Set 5 You Are My Dream Gray Gordon and his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Cliff Grass Radio Transcription New York 1939 My Inspiration Bob Crosby Orchestra ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 16 Jul 1939 Night On The Desert Ray Noble Orchestra (voc) Al Bowlly ‘The Coty Salute To Youth’ WEAF NBC Red NY 13 Mar 1935 Robins And Roses Lee Wiley (voc) WABC CBS NY 17 Jun 1936 Set 6 Wahoo Charlie Parker Quintet ‘Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NY 30 Jun 1950 Bugle Call Rag International Sweethearts Of Rhythm ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945 Open + Light Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘Date With The Duke’ Radio City Music Hall WJZ ABC NY 10 Nov 1945

Patti Page On The Phantom Dancer

Happy New Year, Phantom Dancers!

I’m looking forward to playing lots more swing and jazz from live 1920s – 1960s radio and TV for you in 2013 on The Phantom Dancer. And, if you have any feedback or requests for to hear your favourite swing and jazz songs on the show, please email me at phantomdancer@2ser.com

Sad to note that the singing rage, Patti Page, passed away on New Year’s Day. So on this week’s Phantom Dancer, we hear Ms Page singing with the Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra on their Stage Show, CBS TV, New York, in 1956

And for the Phantom Dancer Video of the Week we see and hear Patti Page on her own TV show, The Big Record, in a duet with Johnnie Ray singing Walking My Baby Back Home. Enjoy! Check out this week’s play list after the video

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #33 2SER Tuesday 8 January 2013 12 noon – 1:30pm (+11 hours GMT) 2SER Saturday 12 January 2013 6 – 7:30pm (+11 hours GMT) Set 1 Buffoon Nathaniel Shilkret Victor Concert Orchestra Comm Rec Camden NJ 17 May 1932 The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker Bob Dyer (voc) and his Mountain Men ‘The Last Of The Hillbillies’ 3DB Melbourne 1940 Who Do You Love I Hope Dick Jurgens Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Castle ‘One Night Stand’ Garden Room Hotel Claremont Berkley Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1946 Close Nigel Bruce ‘Sherlock Holmes’ KHJ Mutual Don Lees Network LA 30 Apr 1945 Set 2 Traummusik Adolf Steimel und sein Organum Tanzorchester Comm Rec Berlin 13 Nov 1940 I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now Page Cavanaugh Trio ‘Jack Paar Show’ KFI NBC LA Jul 1947 Theme + Choppin’ Wood Woody Herman Orchestra Famous Door WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jan 1940 I Get A Kick Out Of You Frankie Carle Orchestra (voc) Greg Lawrence ‘The Summer Electric Hour’ WCBS CBS NY 13 Jun 1948 Set 3 Dark Eyes + Close Jimmy Joy Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ Harlingen Tx Blue Network 6 Jan 1945 Open + Opus One Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra ‘Stage Show’ WCBS TV CBS NY 8 Jan 1955 Then I’ll Be Happy Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Patti Page ‘Stage Show’ WCBS TV CBS NY 8 Jan 1955 You Too Can Be A Dreamer Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Patti Page ‘Stage Show’ WCBS TV CBS NY 8 Jan 1955 There Are Such Things Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra ‘Stage Show’ WCBS TV CBS NY 8 Jan 1955 Set 4 Caravan Eddy Howard Orchestra Radio Transcription Chicago 1948 Fickle Fling Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘Date With The Duke’ Apollo Theatre WJZ ABC NY 30 Jun 1945 Jump Sauce Harry James Orchestra Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca KFI NBC LA 10 Feb 1946 Jazz Me Blues + Ad Eddie Condon Group ‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ Ritz Theatre WJZ Blue NY 22 Jul 1944 Set 5 Avant De Mourir (My Prayer) Kurt Widmann mit seinem grossen Tanzorchester Comm Rec Berlin May 1943 Shake A Hand Faye Adams (voc) Stan ‘The Man’ Taylor Orchestra ‘Saturday Night Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party WCBS CBS NY 1957 Stranger On The Shore Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Marine Ballroom Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRS Re-broadcast Jul 1964 Goodbye + Close Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘Let’s Dance’ Radio City WEAF Red NBC NY 1 Dec 1934 Set 6 Rag Pop Alix Combelle et son Orchestre Comm Rec Paris 1951 Flat Foot Floogie Count Basie Orchestra ‘America Dances’ Famous Door WABC CBS NY Jul 1938 Boyd Meets Girl Boyd Raeburn Orchestra Rose Room Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 19 Jun 1945

1940s Christmas Movie Trailers

The Phantom Dancer will be heard on 107.3 2SER Sydney on Christmas Day at 12 noon. So you’ll hear a seasonal mix of swing and jazz from live Christmas Eve and Christmas Day broadcasts

See the play list after this week’s festive Phantom Dancer video…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network

2SER Tuesday 25 December 2012 12 noon – 1:30pm (+11 hours GMT)  2SER Saturday 29 December 2012 6 – 7:30pm (+11 hours GMT)

Set 1
Latin American Christmas Song	‘Chiquita’ with Orchestra	‘Chiquita’AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1946
Ad + Autumn Leaves	Gary Crosby (voc) Ray Noble Orchestra	‘The New Edgar Bergen Show’ KNX CBS LA 25 Dec 1955
Open + Take the A Train (theme) + Everything Goes	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1947
Ad + Let’s Have Another Cup Of Coffee	Roy Bargy Orchestra	‘Father Knows Best’ KFI NBC LA 21 Dec 1950
Set 2
Johnathon Thomas’ Christmas		Radio Transcription Dec 1938
Jingle Bells (Open) + One O’Clock Jump + Jumping At Ten	Delta Rhythm Boys + Count Basie Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1945
Two O’Clock Jump	Harry James Orchestra	‘Command Performance USA’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1945
The Ghost + Jingle Bells	Chico Hamilton Quintet	‘Stars of Jazz’ AFRTS Hollywood Dec 1958
Set 3
Open + Over The Rainbow	Judy Garland	‘Lux Radio Theatre’ KFI NBC LA 25 Dec 1950
I’ve A Strange New Rhythm In My Head + In The Still Of The Night	Eleanor Powell, Louis B Mayer, James Stewart, Meredith Willson Orchestra	‘Good News Of 1938′ KFI NBC LA 23 Dec 1937
Ad + By The Light Of The Silvery Moon + Close	Al Jolson (voc) Lou Bring Orchestra & Chorus	‘Kraft Music Hall’ KFI NBC LA 25 Dec 1947
Plymouth Rock + Christmas Seals Ad	Count Basie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY 16 Dec 1956
Set 4
Johnathon Thomas’ Christmas		Radio Transcription Dec 1938
Jingle Bells	Dave Brubeck Quartet	Birdland WJZ ABC NY Dec 1953
Santa Visits		1950s Radio?
Jingle Bells	Benny Goodman Orchestra	NBC Rhythm Thesaurus New York 6 Jun 1935
Jingle Bells	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Tex Beneke, Ernie & The Modernaires	‘Sunset Serenade’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 27 Dec 1941
Set 5
Half Nelson + White Christmas + Little Willie Leaps	Charlie Parker (as) Kenny Dorham (tp) Al haig (p) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d)	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 25 Dec 1948
Set 6
Swingin’ Them Jingle Bells	Fats Waller & His Rhythm	Comm Rec New York 29 Nov 1936