Happy 2021!
STOP PRESS
Due to Covid, the 6 Feb show has been postponed
2 Band shows in February
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Phantom Dancer Radio Show
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New Video
Sweet Sue from the album
Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2
Buy the album here
Enjoy this uptempo version of Sweet Sue by Greg Poppleton from the album ‘Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2’. Live footage of Greg’s 1920s – 30s band with swing dancers at Glen Street Theatre, Sydney Central Station, Concrete Blonde Kings Cross and Django Bar
BAND SHOWS
Sat 6 Feb
Great Art Deco Ball
Historic Carrington Hotel Katoomba
On Saturday 6 February from 7pm the Grand DIning Room will once more swing to the sounds of everyone’s favourite Greg Poppleton and his band. Your tickets also include a 3 course dinner and beverage package
Due to COVID capacity restrictions tickets are limited so register your interest early!
Ticket and accommodation packages will be available very soon.
Sun 14 Feb
Deco Park Picnic – Valentine’s Day
Cathy Freeman Park
Sydney Olympic Park’s Deco Park Picnic is chance to gather your friends, dress in your Sunday best and enjoy a long lunch on the lawn.
Let’s reimagine cultural experiences and take our creativity outdoors and connect to culture in the wide open, Covid Safe green spaces in Sydney Olympic Park.
Our community style picnic event will feature installations, themed hosts, visual performers, kids games, immersive theatre and roving live music. Guests will delight in curious vintage characters, live jazz and a shared glamorous nostalgia.
Date: Sunday 14th February, 2021
Location: Cathy Freeman Park, Sydney Olympic Park
Time: 11am – 3pm
Entry: Free – All Ages
Greg Poppleton Trio plays 11:30am – 1:30pm
Save the date and follow us for more updates, full entertainment program and event details which will be released soon!
Want to Book the Band?
These are the 3 Jan NSW Covid Rules
that apply to the band
Read regulations in full here
SINGING
Single singer with band
Nothing about one vocalist singing in front of a band such as myself.
However, I will assume from the official group singing advice that there must be 1.5m between performers and 5m between performers and the audience.
- The audience should not participate in singing or chanting indoors.
- There should be no dancefloors, except for weddings where the wedding party to a maximum of 20 are permitted.
BAND INSTRUMENTS
Players of non-reeded woodwind instruments (such as flutes and recorders) should maintain a physical distance of 3 metres from others in the direction of airflow, and
1.5 metres in all other directions.
Since brass instruments like trumpets, trombones and sousaphones aren’t mentioned, I will assume the above paragraph also applies to brass.
Players of all other musical instruments (including reeded woodwind instruments like saxophones and clarinets) should maintain a physical distance of 1.5 metres between each other and the audience. This would include other Greg Poppleton band instruments like banjo, guitar, washboard and drums.
Ensembles and other musical groups should rehearse and perform outdoors or in large, well-ventilated indoor spaces.
WEDDINGS
From 3 January 2021, a maximum of 100 people may attend a wedding (or a gathering after the service) subject to the following,
- one person per 4 square metres in indoor areas
- one person per 2 square metres rule in outdoor areas.
You must complete and register a COVID-19 Safety Plan for your event.
People attending will be required to provide their name and contact details so that they can be used for contact tracing.
Only the wedding party, to a maximum of 20 persons, is permitted on a dancefloor. There cannot be rotation of people on the dancefloor beyond this wedding party.
A function centre is a building or place used for holding events, functions, conferences, and includes convention centres, exhibition centres and reception centres. Function centre operators must complete and register a COVID Safety Plan.
If a trade show or exhibition is held in a function centre and open to the public, the maximum capacity is one person per 2 square metres outdoors or one person per 4 square metres in indoor areas.
No more than 5 performers should sing indoors, with 1.5m between performers and 5m between performers and the audience. The audience should not participate in singing or chanting indoors.
There should be no dancefloors.
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TUES 5 January 2021 SHOW
Featuring 1930s-40s Radio First Nighters
First nighters for the first Phantom Dancer of 2021 – your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton.
Hear excepts from the 1939 radio premier of Morton Gould’s ‘American Symphonette #2’, the first all African-American Variety show on NBC in 1948, and Duke Ellington introducing his Shakesphere suite over CBS from the 1957 Ravinia Festival
You can hear The Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/
FIRST NIGHTERS
Every week The Phantom Dancer brings you a feature artist. This week, it’s first nighter feature programs. Excerpts from three historic first nighters with some explaination about why they are so important below…
AMERICAN SYMPHONETTE No.3 RADIO PREMIER – WOR MBS New York City / CBC CANADA, 1939
Joseph Stevenson writes,
“This 1939 composition is one of the most convincing classical attempts to create a jazz spirit. It succeeds in doing so without the presence of any jazz players or use of improvisation. Nevertheless, jazz devices of coloration are used, such as wire brushes on drums, glissandi and lip slurs, and chord voicings that are common to jazz arrangements of the time. In addition, the themes (and their scales and harmonies) are jazz- and blues-derived. So successful was Gould in devising “jazz” themes for this symphonette that the second movement, “Pavane” has been widely quoted in actual jazz performances by such masters as John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Glenn Miller. The outer two movements of this three-movement piece are marked “Moderately fast” and “Very fast–Racy,” respectively. Incidentally, you have heard and are quite familiar with the theme of the Pavane, whether you know it or not. Outstanding listening. Gould is notable for creating excellent music, perfectly crafted, seemingly almost commercial in intent and yet, when really listened to, revealing unusual breadth. I always conclude listening to this piece believing that it is a true masterpiece without even trying to be. Wonderfully ingratiating music.”
‘SWINGTIME AT THE SAVOY’ WNBC NBC NY, 28 Jul 1948
New York Times headline: “The News of Radio; All-Negro Variety Show, ‘Swingtime at the Savoy,’ Will Bow Tonight on NBC”
“An all-Negro variety show, entitled “Swingtime at the Savoy,” will have its premiere at 8 o’clock tonight on NBC. The regular cast will include Lucky Millinder and his orchestra, Miller and Lee, comedians; Jackie (Moms) Pabley, comedienne, and the King Odem Quartet.” New York Times, 28 July 1948
RAVINIA FESTIVAL – DUKE ELLINGTON SHAKESPHERE SUITE PREMIER, CBS 1 JUL 1957
The Ravinia Festival is the oldest outdoor music festival in the United States, with a series of outdoor concerts and performances held every summer from June to September. In Ravinia Park’s first summer of 1905, it hosted the New York Philharmonic, and the prairie style Martin Theater dates from this time period. It has been the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) since 1936. Located in Highland Park, Illinois, the festival operates on the grounds of the 15 ha Ravinia Park, with a variety of outdoor and indoor performing arts facilities – Wiki
“In 1957, Duke Ellington premiered the latest in what would become a series of suites based on various subjects and inspirations. This one, inspired by the plays of William Shakespeare, had its U.S. premier at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago and was broadcast (much, but not all of it) via CBS Radio on July 1st, with the performance already underway. An album of the suite was planned and recorded, slated for release in November of 1957, but apparently the stereo version was scrapped and only the mono version was available until 1999. The world premier of the piece was given at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where Ellington and his band were scheduled to play for two nights. It was there that Ellington got the idea to do a suite based on Shakespearean themes, and along with his co-writer Billy Strayhorn, worked on the suite to be premiered the following year at the festival. So the actual world premier of most of Such Sweet Thunder took place at Stratford around June 30 1957, but it wasn’t complete and no recording of it exists.” Gordon Skene.
5 JANUARY PLAY LIST
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Play List – The Phantom Dancer
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107.3 2SER Tuesday 5 January 2020 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm |
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Set 1
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Swing on 1930s Radio | |
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Open + Panamania
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Leith Stevens Orchestra
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‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jun 1937
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Naila (Delibes)
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Arnold Johnson Orchestra
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Comm Rec (unissued) Variety Records New York City 26 May 1937
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RCA Radio Ad + Wolverine Blues + Study In Brown (theme)
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Larry Clinton Orchestra
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‘RCA Campus Club’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle WEAF NBC Red NY 2 Jul 1938
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Set 2
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Latin Sounds on 1946-53 Radio | |
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Open + Chiu Chiu
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Desi Arnez Orchestra
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Ciro’s KNX CBS LA 1946
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Bolero
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Sergio Torres Orchestra (voc) unannounced woman singer
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‘Chiclets Program’ XEW Mexico City 1949
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Chi sas? Chi sas?
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Xavier Cugat Orchestra
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‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Hotel Last Frontier NBC Las Vegas 30 Nov 1953
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Set 3
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1943-44 Swing Radio | |
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Joshua
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Richard Himber Orchestra
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‘Spotlight Bands’ Aniston, Alabama Blue Network 13 Nov 1943
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I’ve Got You Under My Skin
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Leo Reisman Orchestra
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‘Spotlight Bands’ National Press Club Washington DC Blue Network 23 Jan 1943
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I Got Rhythm + Close
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Lenny Conn Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’ Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 1949
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Set 4
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Special Music Programs | |
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First Movement
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Morton Gould Orchestra
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‘American Symphonette No. 3’ WOR MBS/CBC New York City 1939
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Open + I’ve Got Rhythm + Money Money (calypso)
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Lucky Millinder Orchestra with Noble Sissle and the Hall Sisters
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‘Swingtime At The Savoy’ WNBC NBC NY 28 Jul 1948
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Circle of Fourths + Jam With Sam
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Duke Ellington Orchestra
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‘Ravinia Festival’ WBBM CBS Chicago 1 Jul 1957
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Set 5
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1939 Radio Singers | |
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We Three
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Johnny Messner Orchestra (voc) Johnny Messner
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Radio Transcription New York City 1939
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Stairway To The Stars
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Teddy Wilson Orchestra (voc) Thelma Carpenter
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‘America Dances’ CBS NY / BBC London 1939
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From The Bottom Of My Heart
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Harry James Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra
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‘America Dances’ CBS NY / BBC London 19 Jul 1939
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Chew, Chew Your Bubblegum
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Chick Webb Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald
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Southland Cafe WNAC NBC Boton 4 May 1939
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Set 6
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Traditional Jazz on 1939 – 1951 Radio | |
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Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (theme) + Maple Leaf Rag
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Wild Bill Davison
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‘This Is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 19 Apr 1947
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You’re Driving Me Crazy
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Bob Crosby Bobcats
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‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 18 Jul 1939
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Snag It
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Henry ‘Red’ Allen Dixielanders
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‘Doctor Jazz’ Stuyvesant Casino WMGM NY 1950
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There’ll Be Some Changes Made + I Would Do Anything For You
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Eddie Condon Group (voc) Red McKenzie
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‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ Town Hall WJZ Blue NY 16 Sep 1944
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Set 7
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Benny Goodman On The Air | |
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The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
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Benny Goodman Quintet
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‘Jubilee’ AFRS Re-broadcast Jan 1948
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Clarinade
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Benny Goodman Orchestra
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Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca KECA ABC LA 26 Jan 1946
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Sweet Georgia Brown
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Benny Goodman Quintet
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‘Spotlight Bands’ Springfield Mass. Blue Network 29 Sep 1943
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Jack Benny-Gary Cooper Skit + One O’Clock Jump
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Benny Goodman Orchestra
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‘Jack Benny Show’ WEAF NBC NY 13 Dec 1942
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Set 8
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Modern Sounds on 1940s-50s Radio | |
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All of Me + VIP’s Boogie
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Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Bette Roche
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Town Casino NBC Cleveland 1952
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Hot House
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Barry Ulanov’s All Star Modern Jazz Musicians
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‘Bands For Bonds’ WOR MBS NY 13 Sep 1947
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Painted Rhythm
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Stan Kenton Orchestra
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Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 27 Nov 1945
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Fine and Dandy
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Slim Gaillard Quintet
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‘Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NY 2 Jun 1951
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