Rap From 1929 By The High-Hatted Tragedian Of Jazz, Ted Lewis

Hello Phantom Dancers,

On this week’s show, you’ll hear a rare radio broadcast from Shep Fields’ New Music (including early electric guitar) and a broadcast excerpt from Glen Island Casino by Bob Strong. There’s also a couple of sets of jazz and dance from 1920s-30s radio for your listening and dancing pleasure. Full play list below.

And for your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, from 1929, rap from the High Hatted Tragedian of Jazz, Ted Lewis.

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #52 2SER Tuesday 14 May 2013 12 noon – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) Set 1 When My Ship Comes In George Hall Hotel Taft Orchestra (voc) Allen Church Comm Rec Sydney 14 Sep 1934 Good For You Bad For Me Boswell Sisters Radio Transcription Continental LA 1930 Open + Flirtation Waltz Vincent Valsanti aka Ted Fio Rito Orchestra (voc) Jack Howard Radio Transcription TRANSCO LA 1934 Hold My Hand Ray Pearl Orchestra Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KHJ Mutual LA 10 Apr 1940 Set 2 9:20 Special Andy Kirk Orchestra ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 21 May 1945 Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone Eddie Heywood Sextet ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 21 May 1945 Sheik Of Araby + Lover Come Back To Me + Close Shep Fields and his New Music ‘Spotlight Bands’ Orlando Fl Blue Network 21 Jul 1943 Set 3 Good Night Desi Arnez Orchestra (voc) Desi Arnez Ciro’s Hollywood KNX BCS LA 1946 Texas Tex Tex Beneke Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 2 Oct 1946 Open + Kentucky Bob Strong Orchestra (voc) Tony Fiola ‘One Night Stand’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY 20 Aug 1944 The Continental Champs Butler (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra ‘Stand By For Music’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 6 Jan 1955 Set 4 Open + Re-stringing The Pearls Jerry Gray and his Band Of Today Palladium Ballroom KFI Los Angeles 20 Jan 1961 Open + Perdido Ray Anthony Orchestra ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1952 Open + Bop City + Close Charlie Barnet Orchestra Rendezvous Ballroom Balboa Ca KHJ Mutual LA 30 Jul 1949 Set 5 Don’t Be That Way Roy Eldridge and his Trumpet Ensemble Comm Rec New York 24 Jan 1944 Sleepy Lagoon Harry James Orchestra Roof Garden Hotel Astor WABC CBS NY 28 Aug 1942 Body And Soul Stan Kenton Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 27 Nov 1945 Blue Rain Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Connie Morgan Spotlight Bands Columbus OH Blue Network 19 Nov 1943 Set 6 Japanese Sandman Ray Noble Orchestra Beverly-Wiltshire Hotel Beverly Hills Ca KFI NBC Red LA 18 Feb 1940 Laughing At Life Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 19 Nov 1937 It’s You, You, Darling Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker WOR Mutual NY 25 Mar 1940 I’m An Old Cowhand Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ‘Ford V8 Show’ Texas Centennial CBS Dallas Tx Aug 1936 Set 7 At Your Command Fred Rich Orchestra Comm Rec New York 15 Jun 1931 Linda Earl Burtnett Orchestra (voc) Jess Kirkpatrick Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931 Nobody’s Sweetheart Now Mills Hotsy Totsy Gang ‘Brunswick Brevities’ New York Oct 1929 Royal Graden Blues Ray Miller Orchestra ‘Sunny Meadows Radio Show’ Radio Transcription Chicago Jan 1929 Set 8 Leap Frog Les Brown Orchestra Radio Transcription New York Sep 1949 Theme + The Dart Game Shelly Manne Quintet Basin Street WRCA NBC NY 1956 Groovin’ For Nat Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jul 1956 God Child Chubby Jackson Orchestra ‘Symphony Sid Show’ WMCA NY 12 Mar 1949

Phantom Dancer History – 2SER 1st Anniversary 1980

History time, Phantom Dancers,

The very first 2 hour Phantom Dancer (and Program 50 for national listeners) starts this week.

I started The Phantom Dancer on 107.3 2SER Sydney way back in December 1985.

I had already been doing a 15 minute segment of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV within another program called Cityscope since Dec 1984. The segment was called, Hot House, after the song.

Then in December 1985 I was asked to fill in for a vacated time slot. The previous show had been called Jazz Direction Out and I unhappily inherited the name.

However, the show hit the right note with listeners. I even had a few live shows, bring musicians into the studio like James Morrison, John Morrison, Ian Date, Andrew Speight, Ted Heath Goes Latin (the band) and an outside recording of Mic Conway and his Hiccups Orchestra.

And the first request came in, handwritten in blue biro, posted from a motel in Blakehurst on a scrap of pad paper.

The next name for the show after a schedule reshuffle was even worse than Jazz Direction Out. I didn’t choose it. My proposed title, ‘Hot Shit!’, was not accepted (and was at that time illegal). Because the show was in a late lunchtime slot, it got called ‘Swing Sandwich’. Cringe.

In 1989 there was yet another radio schedule reshuffle and the show was moved to 11:30pm – 1am Sunday night – Monday mornings. I called it ‘Round About Midnight’, after the song. Listenership bloomed. And I did a few ‘wacky’ things like a ‘Honeysuckle Rose-a-thon’ and a live mix of women in jazz with excerpts from an episode of Lost In Space. Like, far out, daddy-o!’.

Sunday nights used to start at 6pm for me at 2SER, because that’s when I’d also record, then dub edit, a weekly half-hour quiz show that had a 2 year run on 2SER called, ‘Wordsports’, a word game devised by performance poet Komninos and which I also ran at the Harold Park Hotel.

I also won the first of two BASF Hi Fi Certificates Of Merit for a soundscape called ‘Registered Clubs Of NSW A Musical Legacy,’ and began working in radio professionally.

In 1991 The Phantom Dancer won a BASF Hi Fi Certficate Of Merit for its special, ’42 Years Of TV’, demonstrating that TV had been around much longer than the 25 years the Australian commercial networks had been crowing about that year.

Another reshuffle saw the show put back to a weekday afternoon at 1pm. This, too, was considered a dead spot like late Sunday night, but contrary to expectations, listenership grew some more. In this ‘carnation, I called the show ‘The One O’Clock Jump’.

Another reshuffle shunted the show in 1994 to another then graveyard slot of 10:30am Tuesday morning. But the show did well. And I changed the name to The Phantom Dancer.

Introduced in 1994, The Phantom Dancer was the first 2SER show with a digitally edited theme – and that’s the show theme that’s still in use.

On 8 May 1995, The Phantom Dancer, was the first 2SER show (and possibly one of the first Sydney radio shows) to be wholly digitally produced and edited. The one hour special commemorated the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe. And it went to air on CD. The hard-to-get CD blank cost me around $30.

In 1997, The Phantom Dancer almost went off-air due to a ‘music producer’ who nevertheless still thought enough of the show to claim in a prestigious jazz dictionary (without telling me) that he ‘produced’ the show. He went on to an academic career.

The Phantom Dancer did have its one only ever producer in 1999. Jo White helped refocus the show and as a result, the show became even more popular in the 2000s and 2010s.

In April 2007, a story on The Phantom Dancer, was the feature article in a Sydney Morning Herald Metro lift out.

In November 2007, The Phantom Dancer, won Best Music Show in the annual national CBAA Radio Awards.

In 2008, the show began to be repeated 6am Sunday mornings.

Then in 2010, the repeat program was moved to 6pm Saturday evenings.

In 2011 I was very honoured to receive a much coveted 2SER volunteers award.

In 2012, The Phantom Dancer, went national. It’s now heard on over 30 radio stations of the Community Radio Network across Australia. It has a particularly strong listenership on the popular ArtsoundFM in Canberra.

And now, as of 30 April 2013, The Phantom Dancer has grown to be two hours long! And I still work professionally in radio – as a voice over artist with RGM Voices (here’s my voicereel) – as well as volunteer.

I suppose that makes me one of the many radio professionals 2SER has created over the years.

Many people have supported and nurtured the Phantom Dancer since 1985 when hair was long, black pants, black coats and black pointy shoes were de rigueur, and swing was a dirty word. The list of names is too long to print here. Most important are the many 2SER Phantom Dancer subscribers who keep Australia’s only live 1920s-60s radio swing & jazz show, and 2SER, on air with their subscriptions and donations. 2SER is a community supported station. Thank you.

Hence, this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week. It’s a mix of 2SER 1st Birthday Idents by Sydney commercial radio personalities for the very first subscriber drive in 1980. Long time 2SER listeners, is that the voice of John Cochrane giving George Donikian some feedback after his first ID read? Enjoy…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #50 2SER Tuesday 30 April 2013 12 noon – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) Set 1 Open + Ad Victor Miller Orchestra with Mel Blanc ‘Mel Blanc Show’ KNX CBS Los Angesles 3 Jul 1947 Open (April Showers+ + Baby Face Al Jolson (voc) Lou Bring Orchestra ‘Kraft Music Hall’ KFI NBC Los Angeles 7 Oct 1948 Mood Indigo Ted Fio Rito Orchestra Chez Paree WGN Chicago 1950 It’s A Long Way To Tipperary Wally Portingale Orchestra ‘Army On Parade’ 2CH AWA Network Sydney Sep 1943 Set 2 Back Room Romp (A Contrapuntal Stomp) Rex Stewart and his 52nd Street Stompers Comm Rec New York 7 Jul 1937 Boog It Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton and Band Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 5 Apr 1940 Jumpin’ For Maria Dean Hudson Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Blue Room Hotel Lincoln New York AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Nov 1944 Holiday For Strings Lucky Millinder Orchestra (p) Sir Charles Thompson ‘One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom Harlem, NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Jun 1946 Set 3 Night Life (Go Up In Smoke) Stan Kenton Orchestra Radio Transcription Los Angeles Oct 1941 Laura Charlie Parker Quartet ‘Symphony Sid Show’ WCOP Boston 1954 Ghost Of A Chance Lester Young ‘Adventures In Jazz’ WCBS TV CBS NY 1952 Walkin’ Andre Previn London House WBBM CBS Chicago 1959 Open + Undercurrent Blues Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 29 Mar 1949 Set 4 Sepulveda Jimmy Grier Orchestra Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1946 Lamar’s Boogie Cab Calloway Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Club Zanzibar New York AFRS Re-broadcast 1945 Winnin’ Boy Jelly Roll Morton ‘Chamber Music Society Of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1940 When You And I Were Young Maggie Fats Waller Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 3 Dec 1940 Set 5 Sorta Blue Graeme Bell Comm Rec Sylvania Hotel Sydney Jan 1960 Never On Sunday Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City AFRTS Re-broadcast 1964 Have I Told You Lately? Tony Bennett (voc) Gene Krupa Trio ‘Guard Sessions’ Hollywood 1963 My Love Is Blue Russ Morgan Orchestra Dunes Hotel KLAV CBS Las Vegas 19 Jul 1969 Set 6 RIde Tenderfoot Ride Dick Jurgens Orchestra (voc) Eddy Howard Radio Transcription New York 1938 Open + In A Minor Mood Bob Crosby Orchestra ‘Swing Concert’ Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 18 May 1937 News From Europe WABC CBS NY 30 Oct 1938 The Moon Was Yellow Billy Cotton Orchestra (voc) Alan Breeze Comm Rec London 19 Jan 1935 Set 7 Washington Squabble Claude Hopkins Orchestra Radio Transcription New York 1935 Caravan Bunny Berrigan Orchestra Manhattan Centre WNEW NY 26 Sep 1939 Babs + Baby Brown Inkspots WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Aug 1935

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/

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

Patty Andrews Curtain Call

Howdy Phantom Dancers,

A jam-packed show this week, including a dedication to long-time Phantom Dancer listener, Rosie. I hope you like Tony Murena playing Madam’s, Paris, 1940

Bob Dyer and Dawn Lake, mainstays of Australian TV in the 1960s, are heard in earlier in their careers as singers on this week’s Phantom Dancer

It was reported on 1 February that Patty Andrews, the last of the Andrews Sisters, stopped living at the age of 94. So as a tribute to her, the Phantom Dancer plays a solo radio performance by Patty from 1940 – she was the only who arrived at the broadcast after the sisters has a fight with their parents

Tune in, too, to plenty of 1930s – 50s swing and jazz live off the original wireless by bands like Count Basie, Woody Herman and Charlie Barnet

See the Andrew Sisters on this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week singing from the 1945 film, Her Lucky Night. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #37 2SER Tuesday 5 February 2013 12 noon – 1:30pm (+11 hours GMT) 2SER Saturday 9 February 2013 6 – 7:30pm (+11 hours GMT) Set 1 Wenn Ich Denn Klang Der Guitar (Begin The Beguine)r Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Irene Manning Radio Transcription ABSIE London 27 Nov 1944 Open Studio Announcer ‘Strange As It Seems’ WJSV CBS Washington DC 21 Sep 1939 I Never See Maggie Alone Bob Dyer & The Mountain Men Comm Rec Sydney 5 Sep 1940 The Man I Love Dawn Lake & The 2GB Orchestra ‘George Wallace Show’ 2GB Macquarie Network Sydney 1950s Set 2 Madam’s (for Rosie -a regular Phantom Dancer listener Tony Murena & his Swing Ensemble Comm Rec Paris 14 May 1939 By The Light Of The Silvery Moon Boyd Raeburn Orchestra Roseland Ballroom WABC CBS NY 11 Feb 1944 Strolling Charlie Barnet Orchestra Casino Gardens Ocean Park KECA ABC LA 3 Jan 1947 Mulligatawney Woody Herman’s Third Herd Starlite Roof Edgewater Hotel CBS Madison Wi 12 Jul 1950 Set 3 New Basie Blues Count Basie Orchestra Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 8 Feb 1953 I Love You Much Too Much Patti Andrews (voc) Glenn Miller Orchestra ‘Chesterfield Show’ WABC CBS NY 30 Jan 1940 Baby Get Lost + I Wanna Be Loved Dinah Washington (voc) Wynton Kelly Trio ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 21 Jul 1951 Set 4 Tumbling Tumbleweeds Jan Garber Orchestra (voc) Lee Bennett Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1940 Swingin’ On The Teagarden Gate Jack Teagarden Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ Blythe Ca Mutual Network 5 Nov 1943 Shadrack Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Johnny Mercer & The Quintones ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 4 Apr 1939 Stompy Jones Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC Evansville, In 30 Jun 1945 Set 5 As Announced Art Kassels & His Kassels-In-The-Air (voc) Gloria Hart & Chuck Johnson ‘Treasury Bandstand’ WWL CBS New Orleans 13 Jun 1950 Set 6 Tiger Rag Valaida Snow Comm Rec London 14 Jul 1937 It Must Be Jelly Harry James Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 1945 Skyliner Charlie Barnet Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ Fort Devon, Mass Blue Network 15 Oct 1945 Eager Beaver Stan Kenton Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 27 Nov 1945

Machito and his Afro-Cubans

Cheerio Phantom Dancers,

What a show of live 1920s-60s radio swing and jazz for you this week!

Tune into Hawaiian tunes from The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu in 1934, Lawrence Welk plays his Champagne Music over KECA LA in 1955 and for the Jitterbugs there’s Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Buddy Rich, Jimmy Dorsey and more. The live radio clip of Xavier Cugat has inspired me to post this Phantom dancer Video of the Week, Machito and his Afro-Cubans over WMCA’s Symphony Sid Show in the late 1940s. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #34 2SER Tuesday 15 January 2013 12 noon – 1:30pm (+11 hours GMT) 2SER Saturday 19 January 2013 6 – 7:30pm (+11 hours GMT) Set 1 Intro ‘Calling All Cars’ KNX CBS LA 17 Nov 1938 Scatterbrain Frankie Masters Orchestra (voc) Frankie Masters Radio Transcription New York 1939 Theme + Old Fashioned Swing Ted Weems Orchestra (voc) Perry Como Trianon Ballroom WGN Mutual Chicago 10 Feb 1937 Somebody Loves Me Irving Miller Orchestra with vocal ‘Mirth & Madness’ WEAF NBC NY 1944 Set 2 If I Didn’t Care Trocadero Dance Orchestra (voc) Olive Lester Comm Rec Sydney 10 Jan 1940 Open + ‘Kominoi Ostraw’ Lawrence Welk Orchestra ‘Lawrence Welk Show’ Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 1955 There’s A Lull In My Life Dorothy Lamour (voc) ‘Chase & Sanborn Hour’ KFI NBC Red LA 16 May 1937 Nero Xavier Cugat Orchestra (voc) Luis Del Campo ‘Xavier Cugat Show’ AFRS Rebroadcast Hollywood 1944 Set 3 Open + Roly Poly Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys ‘Wake Up Ranch’ KFVD Los Angeles 26 Feb 1949 Mauna Loa + Royal Hawaiian Hotel Hula + Lehi Lehi Oe + Close Keeamoku Louis Orchestra ‘Royal Hawaiian Hotel’ Radio Transcription Honolulu, Hawaii Sep 1934 Set 4 Open The Door Richard Your Hit Parade Orchestra (voc) The Hit Paraders ‘Your Hit Parade’ WEAF NBC NY 1 Mar 1947 Every Tub Count Basie Orchestra ‘Stars In Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 14 Jan 1953 Waiting For The Train To Come In Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Art Lund Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca KHJ Mutual LA 14 Jan 1946 Elmers Tune + Keep ‘Em Flying + Close Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Ray McKinley and the Modernaires ‘Sunset Serenade’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 27 Dec 1941 Set 5 Naked City Raymond Scott Orchestra ‘Your Hit Parade’ WRCA NBC NY Jan 1956 I Should Care Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Teddy Walters ‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network 11 Feb 1945 I’m In The Mood For Love Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Joe Harris Palomar Ballroom KFI NBC Red LA 22 Aug 1935 Just A-Sittin’ And A-Rockin’ Buddy Rich Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA Mar 1946 Set 6 Tuxedo Junction Erskine Hawkins Orchestra Aircheck 1946 Mood In Da Groove Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra Aircheck 18 Apr 1942 Kick It Gene Krupa Orchestra (voc) Anita O’Day Aircheck 7 Jun 1941 Palladium Party Harry James Orchestra Hotel Astor Roof WCBS CBS NY 25 May 1953

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

 

Benny Goodman Complete 1946 Broadcast

Hello Phantom Dancers,

Well, an unexpected surprise during last week’s Phantom Dancer – only one of the two turntables in the studio was working!

So I didn’t get to play all the records I had listed for you last week. But I know now that the turntable has been fixed, so you’ll be hearing live swing and jazz from 1920s – 1960s radio & TV by Lionel Hampton, Mildred Bailey and more I had listed for last week on this week’s show

Also some rare Australian radio from Melbourne’s 3AW in 1940, featuring pianist Isador Goodman and his Orchestra!

And for the Video of the Week, a complete Benny Goodman radio broadcast from the Palladium Ballroom in Hollywood in 1946. Enjoy…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #30 2SER Tuesday 11 December 2012 12 noon – 1:30pm (+11 hours GMT) 2SER Saturday 15 December 2012 6 – 7:30pm (+11 hours GMT) Set 1 You Call It Madness, I Call It Love Russ Columbo (voc) Nat Shilkret Orchestra Comm Rec New York 3 Sep 1931 Red Red Roses Gis Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Jack Smith Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931 Medley – Stadust + The Man I Love + I Don’t Know Why George Paxton Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania AFRS re-broadcast 21 Jun 1944 Set 2 Back Beat Boogie Harry James Orchestra Comm Rec Los Angeles 30 Nov 1939 The Man With The Mandolin Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NY 5 Dec 1939 My Gal Sal Paul Lavalle’s Termite-Proofed Woodwinds Chamber Music Society Of Lower Basin Street Radio City WJZ NBC Blue NY 16 Jun 1940 I’ve Got A Feeling I’m Falling Wild Bill Davison (cnt) Albert Nicholas (cl) George Brunies (tb) James P Johnson (p) Danny Barker (g) Pops Foster (b) Freddy Moore (d) ‘This Is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 24 May 1947 Set 3 Theme Parker Sisters ‘Sunday Night At 8′ 3AW Melbourne 10 Nov 1940 At The Quartermasters’ Store Isador Goodman Orchestra ‘Sunday Night At 8′ 3AW Melbourne 10 Nov 1940 All This And Heaven Too Nita Robinson (voc ) Isador Goodman Orchestra ‘Sunday Night At 8′ 3AW Melbourne 10 Nov 1940 Rhapsody In Blue Isador Goodman Piano and Orchestra ‘Sunday Night At 8′ 3AW Melbourne 10 Nov 1940 Set 4 Wenn Wir Uns Einmal Wiederseh’n Joop Carlquist und sein Hawaiian-Tanzorchester Comm Rec Berlin 1938 A Bee Bezindt Ozzie Nelson Orchestra Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 24 Mar 1940 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 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

The Rhythm & Blues Revue (1955) Full Movie

Hello 2SER Subscribers,

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And now – The Rhythm & Blues Revue – THE FULL MOVIE filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City, featuring a cast of popular African-American performers:
Willie Bryant, Freddie Robinson, Lionel Hampton, Faye Adams, Bill Bailey, Herb Jeffries, Freddy & Flo, Amos Milburn, The Larks, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Joe Turner, Delta Rhythm Boys, Martha Davis, Little Buck, Nat King Cole, Mantan Moreland & Nipsy Russell, Cab Calloway, Ruth Brown, Paul Williams Band…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital RadioCommunity Radio Network Show #22 2SER Saturday 27 October 2012 12 noon – 1:30pm (+11 hours GMT)   EVENTS Monday 15 October – Saturday 27 October Subscribe – 107.3 2SER Radiothon Sunday 28 October 2012 CD Launch – Greg Poppleton & the Bakelite Broadcasters Stage & Screen, Empire Cinema, Bowral, 1:30pm CD Launch followed by ‘Singin’ In The Rain’ on the Big Screen Set 1 Lemon Twist Charlie Barnet Orchestra Salt Air Ballroom KYSL Salt Lake City UT 5 Jun 1957 How High The Moon International All-Stars ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1948 Do You Savvy? John Kirby Sextet ‘One Night Stand’ Aquarium Restaurant New York AFRS Hollywood 8 Jul 1944 When They Ask About You + Close Hal McIntyre Orchestra (voc) Gloria Vance ‘Sound Off’ AFRS Hollywood 1944 Set 2 In The Mood Glenn Miller Orchestra ‘Sunset Serenade’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 22 Nov 1941 Along The Navaho Trail Your Hit Parade Orchestra (voc) Dick Todd ‘Your Hit Parade’ WEAF NBC NY 27 Oct 1945 Theme + Shoo Fly Pie Perry Como & The Satisfiers (voc) Lloyd Shavers Band ‘Chesterfield Supper Club’ WEAF NBC NY 3 Apr 1946 Any Bonds Today? ABC Dance Band (voc) Harold Williams Comm Rec Sydney 1945 Set 3 Leanin’ On The Ol’ Top Rail + So Goodnight (theme) Art Kassel & His Kassels-In-The-Air Walnut Room Bismarck Hotel WGN Mutual Chicago 1940 Time Out Jack Teagarden Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Coral Gables Weymouth Mass. AFRS Hollywood 24 Aug 1944 Hawaiian War Chant Jack Barrow Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park Ca . AFRS Hollywood 1947 That’s Why I’m Happy Helen Kane (voc) Leonard Joy Orchestra Comm Rec New York 15 Mar 1929 Set 4 Honeysuckle Rose Benny Carter ‘Chamber Music Society Of Lower Basin Street’ WEAF NBC Red NY 5 May 1940 Boogie Woogie Blues Gene Krupa Orchestra (voc) Carolyn Gray ‘One Night Stand’ The Click Philadelphia AFRS Hollywood 8 Jan 1945 Pacific Square Ad + Bugle Call Rag Gene Krupa Orchestra Pacific Square Mutual San Diego 2 Mar 1945 I Must See Annie Tonight Russ Morgan Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Lewis Radio Transcription New York 1938 Set 5 Amoco News + Ad WJSV CBS Washington DC 21 Sep 1939 They Didn’t Believe Me Red Nichols Five Pennies (voc) Scrappy Lambert ‘Brunswick Brevities’ New York 27 Aug 1929 What Is It? Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Bing Crosby, Loyce Whiteman, Jack Oakie ‘MJB Demi-Tasse Revue’ NBC Orange Network Los Angeles 1931 You’re The Cream In My Coffee + Close Ray Miller Orchestra (voc) Bob Nolan ‘Sunny Meadows Show’ Chicago 18 Jan 1929 Set 6 Johnny Zero George Trevare & His Australians (voc) Joan Blake Comm Rec Sydney 1944 Stealin’ Apples Benny Goodman Orchestra Astor Roof Hotel Astor WABC CBS NY Jul 1943 It Had To Be You Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong ‘Spotlight Bands’ Tuskagee Airfield Alabama 5 Oct 1944