The Last Saturday Phantom Dancer This Week!

Hello Phantom Dancers,

There are big changes afoot.

Firstly, this Saturday’s show will be the last.

After six years of being heard twice a week on 2SER, the show will now be heard just once weekly – every Tuesday at the same time since the late 1990s – 12 noon.

But, instead of being a 90 minute show on Tuesday, it’ll be 2 hours from next week, 12 noon – 2pm

And, sometime this year, and I don’t know when as yet, you’ll be able to hear The Phantom dancer any time you want on the 2SER website

And now for this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, Vitaphone’s latest news on Hollywood from 1934. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #48
2SER Tuesday 23 April 2013 12 noon – 1:30pm (+10 hours GMT) 2SER Saturday 27 April 2013 – THE LAST SAT. SHOW 6 – 7:30pm (+10 hours GMT)
Set 1
If It Ain’t Love	Boswell Sisters (voc) Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra	Comm Rec New York 9 Apr 1932
Says My Heart	Larry Clinton (voc) Gene McNally aka Denis Day	‘Campus Club’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 2 Jul 1938
Dodgin’ The Dean	Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra	Savoy Ballroom WEAF NBC Red NY 22 Jan 1940
Ain’t Misbehavin’	Caspar Reardon (swing harp) Steven Leith Orchestra	‘Saturday Night Swing Club WABC CBS NY 12 Jun 1937
Set 2
I Sustain The Wings (theme) + In The Mood	Army Air Forces Overseas Orchestra (Glenn Miller) dir. Jerry Gray	‘I Sustain The Wings’ Bowling Green Vi WRC NBC Washington DC 17 Nov 1945
Take The A Train	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Bette Roche	Birdland WNBC NBC NY 20 Nov 1952
Someday Sweetheart	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 23 Oct 1937
Bases Loaded	Count Basie Orchestra	Birdland WNBC NBC NY 6 Jan 1953
Set 3
Ad + Coconut Grove	Sid King and the Five Strings	KTNT-FM Denton Tx 1954
As If I Didn’t Have Enough On My Mind	Leighton Noble Orchestra (voc) Helen Wynn	‘One Night Stand’ Starlight Roof Waldorf Astoria Hotel AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Jun 1946
Homesick That’s All	Dick Todd (voc)	‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Oct 1945
I’ve Told Every Little Star	Harry Sosnick Savings Bonds Orchestra	‘Guest Star’ New York 13 Aug 1950
Set 4
Roller-Skating On A Rainbow	Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) 3 Blue Notes	Radio Transcription New York 1938
High On A Windy Trumpet	Les Brown Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania AFRS Re-broadcast 28 Dec 1945
Struttin’ With Some Barbeque	Jack Teagarden All-Stars	‘Timex All-Star Jazz Show’ WNBC TV New York 30 Dec 1957
Mr Chips + Blue ‘n’ Boggie (theme)	Billy Eckstine Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945
Set 5
St Louis Blues	Jack Hylton Orchestra	Comm Rec London 5 Oct 1932
Open + First Song	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians	Tiparillo Pavilion New York World’s Fair WCBS CBS NY 1964
I Should Care	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Buddy DeVito	Meadowbrook Gardens KFI NBC LA 10 Feb 1946
The Trouble With Me Is You	King Cole Trio (voc) Nat king Cole	Trocadero KHJ Mutual LA 26 Apr 1945
Set 6
I’m Going Back To Where I Come From	Spike Jones and his City Slickers	Radio Transcription New York 1943
Caravan	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	Manhattan Centre WNEW NY 26 Sep 1939
Farewell Blues + Close	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Camel Caravan WABC CBS NY 13 Jan 1937

Greg Poppleton is Sydney’s only authentic 1920s – 1930s singer. Website: www.bakelitejazz.com . Latest CD on Bandcamp: http://gregpoppletonandhisbakelitebroadcasters.bandcamp.com/

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!

Krazy Kat Cartoon From 1932!

Greetings Phantom Dancers,

I’m so looking forward to being back in the 2SER 107.3 studios tomorrow broadcasting live

And what a swinging show I have for you. Three chances to hear Raymond Scott in different combinations, two incarnations of Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller live on 1930s – 1940s wireless and tunes by Bea Wain, Lena Horne and Ella Fitzgerald with her Orchestra

And the Video Of The Week? Seeing Stars. A Krazy Kat cartoon from 1932 packed full of Hollywood celebs. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #29 2SER Tuesday 4 December 2012 12 noon – 1:30pm (+11 hours GMT) 2SER Saturday 8 December 2012 6 – 7:30pm (+11 hours GMT) EVENTS Friday 7 December 2012 Courtyard Sessions Seymour Centre Greg Poppleton & the Bakelite Broadcasters 6:30pm Saturday 8 December 2012 Square Waffle, Leumeah Greg Poppleton & the Bakelite Broadcasters 7pm Set 1 Quando Ascolto Alla Radio Una Canzone (When I Hear A Song On The Radio) Giovanni Vallarino (voc) Rome 1940 This Changing World Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald Savoy Ballroom Harlem WEAF NBC Red NY 25 Jan 1940 Blues In Bb + Chicken & Waffles (Theme) Jam Session including Raymond Scott on piano ‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC New York 12 Jun 1937 Don’t Get Around Much Any More Wally Portingale All-In-Fun Revue (voc) Jack White ‘Army On Parade’ 2CH AWA Network Sydney Sep 1943 Set 2 Theme + Baby And Me Louis Prima Orchestra Hickory House NY via WJSV CBS Washington DC 22 Sep 1939 Sugar Foot Stomp Benny Goodman Orchestra Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WOR Mutual NY 21 Oct 1937 Down for The Count Glenn Miller Orchestra Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 7 Oct 1940 Apple Honey Woody Herman Orchestra Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 21 Jul 1945 Set 3 Bai Bai Blu Tre Italiani In America Comm Rec Milan 29 Dec 1940 Are You In The Mood? European Division Band of The Air Transport Command (g) Django Reinhardt AFN Paris 26 Oct 1945 East Of The Sun Larry Clinton Orchestra (voc) Bea Wain ‘RCA Campus Club’ Glen Island Casino WEAF NBC Red NY 2 Jul 1938 Theme + Blue Cellophane Duke Ellington Orchestra ’8th Downbeat Awards Concert’ Chicago Opera House Blue Network Chicago 25 Mar 1945 Set 4 Swinging At The Sugar Bowl The Hot Club Swing Stars Comm Rec Paris 14 Dec 1938 Rose Room Muggsy Spanier Club Hangover KQW CBS San Francisco 11 Apr 1953 Birdseed Special Raymond Scott Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 1940 Running Wild Peanuts Hucko (cl) Teddy Wilson (p) Jack Lesberg (b) Buddy Rich (d) ‘Eddie Condon Floor Show’ WNBT TV NBC NY 12 Mar 1949 Set 5 Two Buck Stew Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 9 Nov 1938 As Long As I Live Lionel Hampton Orchestra (voc) Lena Horne ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 26 Nov 1945 You’re Not The Kind Count Basie Orchestra ‘Stars In Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 14 Jan 1953 It Could Happen To You Raymond Scott Orchestra Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 16 Sep 1947 Set 6 Theme + Here We Go Again Glenn Miller Orchestra ‘Sunset Serenade’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ NBC 30 Aug 1941 Man I Love Paul Baron Orchestra (Coleman Hawkins – Tenor Sax) ‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 1944 I Wish I Could Tell you Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Lisa Morrow Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca KHJ Mutual LA 14 Jan 1946

Kings Cross Festival 24 Nov 2012 Music Line-Up

Here is the line-up of the 8 hour Concert Warren Fahey is producing for the Kings Cross Festival 2012. It is FREE and will be in Fitzroy Gardens, Kings Cross. You’d be nuts not to put this in your diary. Greg Poppleton & the Bakelite Broadcasters play songs from the 1920s from 1 – 1:30pm

In Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters will be Greg Poppleton (vocals and megaphone), Geoff Power (trumpet and sousaphone), Grahame Conlon (banjo), Ian Bloxsom (drums)

11am – 11.30 Margret RoadKnight & Marcus Holden
Songs about life, strife and the roll of the dice. Margret RoadKnight is one of Australia’s most respected singers of blues and contemporary song. Margret first performed in Kings Cross in the 1960s. She has appeared on over 25 albums. The NY Village Voice described her as “chameleon abilities – humorist, politico, blues-woman. rocker, folksinger” Accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Marcus Holden on fiddle, guitar and mandolin.

11.45 – 12.10 .Scott Sandwich & Emrys Quin’s Word Beat.
‘The Unnamed Italian Admiral’ and other performance poems. Off the air, radical, young and cheeky – this pair of wordsmiths break new ground in unravelling European history. Weird and wonderful.

12..20 – 12.50 The Beating Around The Cross Ukelele Band
Hail the Ukelele! The ukelele has a long history in Australia including being featured at the Tiki Room, Macleay Street in the 1960s (where the De Vere Hotel now stands). This loud-shirted ensemble makes it swing as it plunks.

1 – 1.30 Greg Poppleton & The Bakelite Broadcasters.
The moment the Bakelites play, you’ll instantly imagine yourself partying with your friends in the Great Gatsby Mansion, dancing the knees-up Charleston in a 1920s Speakeasy, sipping Gin Fizzes in the moonlight.

1.45- 2.15 The Larrikins. Warren Fahey, and his Larrikins perform bush songs and city ditties from Australia’s yesteryears plus some bush poems and yarns to stop the hens laying for a week!

Kings Cross Festival 2012

2.30 – 3.00 Characters of the Cross presentation by Lord Mayor Clover Moore and Adrian Bartel, Potts point Partnership, recognising some of our favourite locals. Vito of Piccolo Bar, Graham Long, Animal the Bikie, and Ashia and Carlotta of Les Girls.

3. – 3.15 Carlotta – the living legend of Kings Cross
Performing her new single and talking about her extraordinary life which has never been a drag.

3.30- 4pm The Fabulous Jeff Duff
Singing the songs of David Bowie and Lou Reed better than they ever did! Flamboyant, eccentric and totally unique.

4.15 – 5.30 pm The Pigs
The Pigs play rip-snorting fill the air with music that could only be described as the ‘pig’s ear’ – hillbilly meets bluegrass meets comedy meets whatever. Great fun for porkers

6 – 7.00 Renee Geyer – Australia’s legendary Queen of Soul.
After 25 albums and countless awards and accolades we welcome one of Australia’s finest singers and her all-star band.

Greg Poppleton At 1920s Themed 2012 Melbourne Cup Rocksalt Lunch

Greg Poppleton & the Bakelite Broadcasters had a huge amount of fun playing for a restaurant full of guests at Rocksalt Bar and Grill, 1 Marine Drive, Wollongong, for Rocksalt’s 1920s Great Gatsby theme 2012 Melbourne Cup Dugustation Lunch

It was great to see the dance floor full and everyone having fun to our 1920s and 1930s jazz and swing

Guests even bought a few of the new Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters’ 1920s CD ‘Doin’ The Charleston‘

Here’s some pictures taken of the Broadcasters towards the end of the fun afternoon as the dance floor was packed. To have Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters at your event, wedding and party, email Greg

Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters with Dancers at Rocksalt, Wollongong, for their 2012 Melbourne Cup Lunch

Greg Poppleton 1920s and 1930s style Swing Jazz Singer with the Bakelite Broadcasters: Al Davey trumpet and trombone, Tony Esterman piano, Darcy Wright double bass, Lawrie Thompson drums

Greg Poppleton, 1920s and 1930s Swing Singer with duo to sextet at Rocksalt Bar and Grill

Soviet Anti-Beatles Propaganda

The skin, kidneys, liver and Hammond B3 are all organs. Hear Johnny Saab play the Hammond live on 1939 radio on this week’s Phantom Dancer. Little Jack Little kicks off the show from 1930. There’s also live radio by Frank, Tommy Dorsey & Raymond Scott

Video Of The Week. Did you know – when The Beatles started they performed in swimming trunks with toilet seats around their heads? Get more on the inside dope by watching this week’s Phantom Dancer Video Of The Week, an excerpt from a 1966 Soviet propaganda film condemning The Beatles and Western Pop Culture. Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #14 2SER Tuesday 4 September 2012 12 noon – 1:30pm (+10 hours GMT) 2SER Saturday 8 September 2012 6 – 7:30pm (+10 hours GMT) Set 1 Sailing On A Sunbeam Little Jack Little (voc) Radio Transcription 1930 The Moon Of Manokoa Tony Martin (voc) Ray Noble Orchestra ‘Songs Of The Islands’ AFRS Hollywood 1944 Emmylou Jan Garber Orchestra (voc) Roy Cordell & The Trio Melody Mill WGN Chicago 1950 Medley: Melancholy Baby + Moonlight Becomes You + I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Right Myself A Letter + Dinah (theme) Dinah Shore (voc) Gordan Jenkins Orchestra ‘MUM Show’ KECA Blue LA 1944 Set 2 I Got Rhythm Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Buck Clayton (tp) Kenny Kersey (p) Irving Ashby (g) Billy Hadnott (b) Shado ilson (d) ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 22 Apr 1946 The Man I Love Herbie Fields Orchestra Glen Island Casino New Rochelle WOR Mutual NY 9 Aug 1944 Were You Fooling? Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Jack Howard & The 3 Keys ‘Cocoanut Grove’ TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1934 I’ll Take An Option On You Vincent Valsanti Orchestra ‘Cocoanut Grove’ TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1934 Set 3 Time On My Hands (theme) + Summertime + Tea For Two + White Sails Johnny Saab at the Hammond Organ WJSV CBS Washington DC 21 Sep 1939 Set 4 Shoo Shoo Baby George Trevare & His Australians (voc) Joan Blake Comm Rec Sydney 1944 Sweet Lorraine Frank Sinatra ‘Frank Sinatra Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Feb 1946 The Peanut Vendor Raymond Scott Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 1940 Old Man Harlem + Theme Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ‘America Dances’ via BBC London 28 May 1940 Set 5 Country Garden Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra Radio Transcription New York 1940 This Is The Moment Eddie Duchin Aircheck 1949 Tanzpueppchen (My Dancing Lady) Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Marita Gruendgens Comm Rec Berlin Nov 1934 Body & Soul (theme) + Chicago Coleman Hawkins Orchestra Savoy Ballroom New York 1940 Set 6 Hi Beck (continuing from last week) Lee Konitz Quartet Storyville Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston 5 Jan 1954

Mobile Phone Demonstration From 1922!

Goodness gracious! What a time you’ll have this week listening in to The Phantom Dancer!

Just like the two women on their 1922 mobile phone in this week’s Phantom Dancer Video Of The Week, just hook up your umbrella aerial to the nearest fire hydrant and tune into live vintage radio swing and jazz by Hal Kemp, George Trevare, Duke Ellington and lots more! See the play list below

Bobby Haggart and Ray Bauduc even duet on Big Noise from Winnetka live for you from 1939! Enjoy…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #12 2SER Tuesday 14 August 2012 12 noon – 1:30pm (+10 hours GMT) 2SER Saturday 18 August 2012 6 – 7:30pm (+10 hours GMT) Set 1 The Girl On The Police Gazette Jim Davidson & His ABC Dance Orchestra Regal-Zonophone Sydney 1936 Theme + Ring Dem Bell Tones Freddy Monroe (Frankie Masters) Orchestra ‘Streamlined Interlude’ WJSV CBS Washington 21 Sep 1939 Shoo Shoo Baby Thrasher Sisters (voc) Phil Davis Orchestra ‘Fountain Of Fun’ WLW Cincinnati 21 Nov 1943 Snap Your Fingers Buddy Morrow Orchestra (voc) Ellen Leigh & Band ‘One Night Stand’ Blue Room Lincoln Hotel NY AFRS Re-broadcast 27 May 1946 Set 2 Sweet Georgia Brown Oscar Aleman Y Su Quinteto De Swing Comm Rec Buenos Aires Nov 1941 Chassidic In America Moishe Oysher & Florence Weiss ‘Stanton St Program’ WBBC Brooklyn NY 1938 Strolling Charlie Barnet Orchestra Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 3 Jan 1947 C Jam Blues + Take The A Train (theme) Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945 Set 3 Goodbye Johnny Hans Albers ‘Wasser Fuer Canitoga’ Film Soundtrack Berlin 1938 Lonesome Road Baby Dodds Feature ‘This Is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 12 Apr 1947 You’ll Never Know Harry James Orchestra (voc) Jeannie Stole Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel KFI NBC Los Angeles 7 Jan 1953 Theme + But None Like You Freddy Martin Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1940s Set 4 Sweet Sue Seger Ellis And His Choirs Of Brass Radio Transcription New York 1937 Big Noise from Winnetka Bob Haggart – Ray Bauduc Duet ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 27 Jun 1939 This Can’t Be Love Artie Shaw Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 18 Jan 1939 Yankee Doodle Jack Teagarden (voc) Linda Keene ‘Young Man With A Band’ WABC CBS NY Nov 1939 Set 5 You’re Charming, You’re Lovely Tonight George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Johnny Fitzgerald Comm Rec Sydney 1945 Love Is Just Around The Corner Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Buddy Clark ‘Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red NY 5 Jan 1935 Polka Dots & Moonbeams Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra ‘America Dances’ WABC NY BBC London 28 May 1940 Hands Across The Table Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis Roof Garden Hotel Astor NY 5 Aug 1936 (Home Recording) Set 6 Confirmation Ben Webster Quintet New York 1962 Lullaby Of Birdland (theme) + Three Little Words Lester Young Quintet Birdland WJZ ABC NY 5 Sep 1956

Blue Moon – Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Dance Band

Here’s Lorenz and Hart’s 1934 hit, ‘Blue Moon’ by Greg Poppleton and his Bakelite Dance Band having a jolly ol’ time at Penrith. And I’d say the crowd had as much fun as we did by the amount of dancing they did

Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Dance Band play Blue Moon

We’ll be back to entertain you at the Castle Lounge, Penrith RSL, 8 Tindale St, Penrith on Saturday 8 January 2011 from 2 to 5pm. Free! Look forward to seeing you there. There’s a bistro in the club for lunch and drinks are at famously low club prices. Unfortunately the venue is restricted to persons aged 18 and above

In the band in this clip (and on 8 January) is myself, Greg Poppleton (bows); Grahame Conlon (g) Darcy Wright (db) and Bob Gillespie on drums

You can book Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Dance Band (trio to 6-piece) for your wedding reception (we also have an acoustic version for garden ceremonies), your corporate function and your party by emailing Greg at gregpoppleton@tpg.com.au or visit the band’s official website at www.gregpoppleton.com

LATEST NEWS

Greg Poppleton & his 6-piece Bakelite Dance Band are booked to play the 400 seat Glen Street Theatre, Glen St, Belrose, Tuesday 20 March 2012, 11am – 12:15pm as part of their celebrated Music in the Glen series.

Past performers in the Glen performers have included Kamahl & opera star Annalisa Kerrigan – so we’re in good company. Tickets will be on sale online at the Glen Street Box Office

As for Blue Moon. Please feel free to comment or give it the thumbs up. And share it with your friends

More clips soon…

Authentic 1920s & 30s Ideas for your Occasion

As Sydney’s only authentic 1920s and 1930s dance band singer and bandleader with The Bakelite Broadcasters (1920s-1930s Hot Jazz & Swing Trio – Sextet) and The Lounge Bar Lotharios (11-piece 1920s Dance Orchestra), I know that “There’s no more creative theme for a wedding or event than the 1920s & 30s…
- Gangsters like Al Capone shaped the look of ‘Success’ in men’s fashion
- Flappers like Clara Bow ‘The It Girl’ defined the ‘Modern Woman’
- Beautiful hair crowned the era: the ‘Bob’, ‘Finger Wave’, Louise Brook’s ‘Black Helmet’, and the slick look for men
- Night Clubs with jazz & swing for dancing were the acme of sophistication”

The 1920s & 30s were fill of spirit and fun!

So to give you some authentic 1920s & 30s ideas for your wedding, corporate event or party, I’ve put up Act 5 of the 1927 classic, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (German: Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt)

Why the 5th Act?

Well, because the fifth and final act is devoted to late 1920s nightlife – showgirl burlesques, trapeze artists, jugglers, bands, singers and dancers, movies, ice shows and hockey, skiers, sledders, indoor races, boxing and dance contests. People drink, flirt, and dance in beer halls and cocktail lounges and gamble at the tables

That should give you lots of ideas about dress and style for your occasion from what was at the time one of the trend-setting capitals of the world…

Now, please, enjoy, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (German: Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt)…

Book Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Broadcasters (1920s-1930s Trio – Sextet) or The Lounge Bar Lotharios (Sydney’s 11-piece authentic 1920s Dance Orchestra for your wedding, corporate event and party)