Phantom Dancer Swing Mix 24 Feb 2015. Julius Sumner Miller Video 23 – Convection

Harps, Phantom Dancers!

Yes, there’re jazz harps on today’s Phantom Dancer, a 2 hour swing, jazz and dance mix from live 1930s – 60s radio and TV (listen online at http://www.2ser.com) for you every Tuesday, presented by Greg Poppleton.

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Still from Broadway Melody of 1936 featuring old NYC radio station callsign WHN.

 

Well two harps. But both associated with new music. Live from Shep Fields in 1943 and Oscar Pettiford in 1957. See the play list for lots more live otr goodies including brackets of early 1929-31 radio bands, Glenn Miller, hot swing, dixie and modernists.

As this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, recorded at ABC-TV in Sydney in 1969, Julius Sumner Miller investigates the Heat Energy Transfer By Convection. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN#146 2SER Tuesday 24 Feb 2015 12 noon – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) Set 1 Moonlight Serenade (theme) + Little Brown Jug Glenn Miller Orchestra Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 23 Nov 1940 Tiger Rag Glenn Miller Orchestra Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NY 5 Dec 1939 Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 10 Aug 1939 Set 2 Open + Running Wild Paul Lavalle Woodwinds ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 19 Nov 1941 St Louis Blues Sidney Bechet ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 28 Jul 1940 Aunt Hagar’s Children Blues + Basin St Blues (theme) Henry Levine Dixieland Octet ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 16 Jun 1940 Set 3 Easy To Remember Billie Holiday ‘Art Ford Jazz Party’ WNTA TV NY 18 Jul 1958 Magic Is The Moonlight Lena Romay ‘Personal Album’ AFRS Hollywood 1945 Suddenly It’s Spring Glen Gray and the Casa Lona Orchestra (voc) Eugenie Baird ‘One Night Stand’ Tune Town Ballroom St Louis AFRS re-broadcast 5 Apr 1944 You’re The Cream In My Coffee + I Know That You Know Nat King Cole Trio ‘King Cole Trio Time’ Cincinnati AFRS re-broadcast 6 Dec 1947 Set 4 No Love no Nothing Shep Fields New Music (voc) Meredith Blake ‘One Night Stand’ AFRS re-broadcast 1943 Blue Moon Stan Kenton Orchestra (featuring) Lee Konitz (as) ‘Concert Encores’ NBC 30 Sep 1952 Redskin Rhumba (theme) + Skyliner Charlie Barnet Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KFI NBC LA 12 Sep 1959 Set 5 Mr Basie Goes To Washington Raymond Scott Orchestra Aircheck New York 28 Apr 1944 The Elk’s Parade Bobby Sherwood Orchestra Aircheck Terrace Room NJ 17 Feb 1945 Let’s Blow Buddy Rich Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 27 Mar 1946 A Night In Tunisia Boyd Raeburn Orchestra Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 19 Jul 1945 Set 6 Reaching For The Moon Sam Lanin Orchestra (voc) Scrappy Lambert Hit of the Week Records New York Mar 1931 Turn On The Heat (theme) + Strike Up The Band + Alexander’s Ragtime Band Red Nichols Orchestra (voc) Dick Robertson ‘Heat’ New York 3 Aug 1930 You’re The Cream In My Coffee Ray Miller Orchestra ‘Sunny Meadows’ Chicago 18 Jan 1929 You Said It Earl Burtnett Orchestra Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931 Set 7 History of Music Horace Heidt Orchestra (narr.) HH Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1943 Henry Busse Orchestra Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 28 Dec 1944 The Little Man Who Wasn’t There Johnny Messner Orchestra Radio Transcription New York 1939 Copenhagen + Close Artie Shaw Orchestra Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 25 Nov 1938 Set 8 Confirmation Ben Webster Concert 1962 Undecided (theme) + Pennies From Heaven Charlie Shavers Quartet London House WBBM CBS Chicago May 1962 Two French Fries Oscar Pettiford Birdland WABC ABC NY 26 May 1957 Lover Come Back To Me Stan Getz Basin Street WRCA NBC NY 1956