Your 30 December Phantom Dancer spreads New Years cheer in the second hour with the complete 1945 AFRS New Year’s Dancing Party with aircheck excerpts by Stan Kenton, Carmen Cavallero, Louis Armstrong and more.
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In the first hour enjoy sets of swing, jazz and dance by 1950s jazz orchestras, crooners from the ‘40s and ‘50s, early radio dance bands from 1920s and 1930 and hot swing from the 1940s. Check out the bands and songs in the play list below.
Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, is Lesson 17 in the 48 part series of Dramatic Demonstrations in Physics with Professor Julius Sumner Miller demonstrating Thermometric Processes. These programs were made at ABC TV in Sydney in 1969.
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| Set 1 | ||
| I Haven’t The Heart | Stan Kenton Orchestra | Radio Transcription Los Angeles Oct 1941 |
| Let’s Get Away From It All | Andre Previn | London House WBBM CBS Chicago 1958 |
| Undecided | Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Jimmy McDonnell, Jeanie Clarke and The Three Blue Notes | ‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Nov 1951 |
| Set 2 | ||
| Open + Back In Your Own Backyard | Eddie Fisher (voc) Axel Stordahl Orchestra | ‘Coke Time’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1958 |
| It Happened In Monterey + Close | Perry Como and the Ray Charles Singers (voc) Mitchell Ayres Orchestra | ‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954 |
| Tumbling Tumbleweeds + Mama Won’t You Dance With Me? | Bob Crosby and the Modernaires (voc) Jerry Gray Orchestra | ‘Club 15’ KNX CBS LA 25 Nov 1947 |
| Set 3 | ||
| I Got The Ritz From The One I Love | Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) PH | Comm Rec San Francisco 13 Oct 1931 |
| Cinderella Brown | Philco Orchestra | ‘The Philco Hour’ Radio Transcription New York 1930 |
| Medley: If I Can’t Have You / If I Close My Eyes To The Rest Of The World | Colonial Club Orchestra | ‘Brunswick Brevities’ Radio Transcription New York 9 Nov 1929 |
| Set 4 | ||
| Open + Big John Special | Harry James and his Music Makers | ‘The Land’s Best Bands’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1951 |
| Woodchopper’s Ball | Woody Herman Orchestra | ‘Old Gold Show’ WABC CBS NY 2 Aug 1944 |
| No. 10 Ritchie Drive | Gene Krupa Trio | ‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Astor Roof NY AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jan 1945 |
| Set 5 | ||
| Sad Sack | Harry James Orchestra (Hollywood) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| One O’Clock Jump | Count Basie Orchestra (New York) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| Warsaw Concerto | Freddy Martin Orchestra (Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| Woodchopper’s Ball | Woody Herman Orchestra (Meadowbrook Ballroom, Cedar Grove NJ) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| Set 6 | ||
| Drum Boogie | Gene Krupa Orchestra (Hollywood Palladium) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| Just As You And I | Henry King Orchestra (voc) Joe Sudy (Hotel Mark Hopkins SF) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| Accentuate The Positive | Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA (Club Zanzibar NY) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| I Got Rhythm + I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me | Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (Casino Gardens, Ocean Park, Ca) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| Set 7 | ||
| Twilight Time | Les Brown and his Band of Renown (Café Rouge, Hotel Pennsyvania NY) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| Little Jazz | Artie Shaw (featuring Roy Eldridge) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| Tampico | Stan Kenton Orchestra (voc) June Christy (Panther Room, Hotel Sherman, Chicago) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| Song Of India | Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (San Diego) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| Twilight Time | Les Brown and his Band of Renown (Café Rouge, Hotel Pennsyvania NY) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| Set 8 | ||
| Polonaise | Carmen Cavallero Orchestra (Ciro’s, Hollywood) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| Robin Hood | Louis Prima Orchestra (voc) LP | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| Gotta Be This Or That | Benny Goodman Orchestra (with Slam Stewart b, Red Norvo vibes, Boston) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| Let The Zoomers Drool | Duke Ellington Orchestra (Evansville, Indiana) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
| Auld Lang Syne | Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (Grill Room, Hotel Taft, NY) | ‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945 |
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