Phantom Dancer 25 Nov 2014 and the Strange Behaviour Of Rolling Things. Julius Sumner Miller #12

If you add the digits 2-5-1-1-1-4 which makes up the date for today’s Phantom Dancer, 25 November 2014, you get 14, which of course is this year.

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And 14 is a number with no other consequence for today’s Phantom Dancer show, 12 noon, 107.3 2SER Sydney. (Also heard online at http://www.2ser.com where you’ll also find an archive of past shows, just follow the Phantom Dancer links at Program Guide.)

But of consequence will be swing and jazz from live 1920s – 1960s radio and TV by Lionel Hampton, Bob Effros, Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines, Artie Shaw, a set of Eddie Condon and more. See the full play list below.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is program 12 in the series ‘Demonstrations in Physics’ with Professor Julius Sumner Miller and made at ABC TV in Sydney in 1969. The series was telecast in Australia as ‘Why Is It So?’ This week, the Professor demonstrates the strange physics of rolling things.

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN#133

2SER Tuesday 25 November 2014 12 noon – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT)

Set 1

I Haven’t Heard A Word From Baby Frank Coughlan Orchestra (voc) FC Comm Rec Sydney 6 Feb 1956 Open + St Louis Blues Boogie Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 30 Jan 1954 Rockin’ In Rhythm Ray Anthony Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler NY AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Jan 1952 Set 2     They Say It’s Wonderful Frank Sinatra Breakdown Session Hollywood 10 Mar 1946 Open + You Do Something To Me Paul Weston Orchestra ‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954 Debussy’s Danse Profane + Close Dave Rose Orchestra ‘California Melodies’ KHJ Mutual – Don Lees Los Angeles 4 Jul 1942 Set 3     Instrumnental Lionel Hampton Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Aquarium Restaurant NY AFRS Re-broadcast 1949 The Fatha Jump Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines ‘Yank Swing Sessions’ AFRS Hollywood 1944 Honeysuckle Rose Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945 Set 4     That’s You, Baby Annette Hanshaw (voc) with Bob Effros (tp) Benny Goodman (as) Comm Rec New York 5 Apr 1929 Tin Ear The Philco Orchestra (tp) Bob Effros ‘The Philco Hour’ Radio Transcription NY 1930 Here Comes A Lady Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) The Three Ambassadors Cocoanut Grove TRANSCO Radio Transcription Hollywood 1933 Set 5     Got A Bran’ New Suit Paul Whiteman Orchestra (tb) Jack Teagarden ‘Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 19 Jan 1936 What A Little Moonlight Can Do Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward Palomar Ballroom KFI NBC LA 22 Aug 1935 Lost Isham Jones Orchestra WOR Mutual NY 6 Mar 1936 Shuffle Off To Buffalo Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis ‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York 1934 Set 6     Satan Takes The Rhumba Erskine Hawkins Orchestra Comm Rec New York 2 Oct 1939 Softly As In A Morning Sunrise Artie Shaw Orchestra Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 2 Dec 1938 Who’s Got The Ball? Harry James Orchestra The Click WFIL ABC Philadelphia 23 Dec 1947 Sing Sing Sing Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 11 Apr 1939 Set 7     How Strange Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Brandon Radio Transcription New York 1939 Linda Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Charlie Fisher Green Room Hotel Edison WOR Mutual NY 1947 The Man I Love Del Courtney Orchestra Rainbow Room New Kenmore Hotel Albany NY 31 Oct 1939 Sophisticated Lady Les Brown Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NY AFRS Re-broadcast 28 Dec 1945 Set 8     Avalon Eddie Condon Group ‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ Town Hall WJZ NBC Blue NY 1944 It’s The Talk Of The Town Eddie Condon Group (voc) Red McKenzie ‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ Ritz Theatre WJZ NBC Blue NY 27 Jan 1945 Jazz Me Blues Eddie Condon Group ‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ Town Hall WJZ NBC Blue NY 22 Jul 1944