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12 and 16 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE SUBSCRIBE ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #513
107.3 2SER Tuesday 12 OCTOBER  & Saturday 16 OCTOBER 2021 Tuesday 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturday 5 – 6pm National Program will differ during 2SER Radiothon 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 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 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 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Subscribe online or call 9514 9500
Three Little Words	Tony Pastor Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Jantzen Beach Portland Oregon AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945
Laura	Tony Pastor Orchestra (voc) Dick Dyer	‘One Night Stand’ Jantzen Beach Portland Oregon AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945
I’ve Got You Under My Skin	Tony Pastor Orchestra (voc) Tony Pastor	‘One Night Stand’ Hollywood Palladium AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945
Set 2	Subscribe online or call 9514 9500
Music in the Moonlight (theme) + Fresh as a Daisy	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo Delys	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
Casa Loma Stomp	Jimmy Grier Orchestra	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
Trees + Music in the Moonlight (theme))	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Harry Foster	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
Set 3	Subscribe online or call 9514 9500
Open + You Belong to My Heart	Helen Forrest (voc) Gordon Jenkins Orchestra	‘Music for Millions’ Radio Transcription New York City 1945
After You’ve Gone + Baia	Helen Forrest (voc) Gordon Jenkins Orchestra	‘Music for Millions’ Radio Transcription New York City 1945
It’s the Least You Can Do + Close	Helen Forrest (voc) Gordon Jenkins Orchestra	‘Music for Millions’ Radio Transcription New York City 1945
Set 4	Subscribe online or call 9514 9500
Take The A-Train (theme) + Blues on the Double	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ Toledo Ohio ABC/AFRS 1945
The Kissing Bug	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Joya Sherrill	‘A Date With The Duke’ Toledo Ohio ABC/AFRS 1945
I Ain’t Got Nothing But The Blues	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Kay Davis and Al Hibbler	‘A Date With The Duke’ Toledo Ohio ABC/AFRS 1945
Teardrops in the Rain + My Little Brown Book	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Al Hibbler	‘A Date With The Duke’ Toledo Ohio ABC/AFRS 1945
Set 5	Subscribe online or call 9514 9500
Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid (theme) + Carambula	Machito (voc) Machito	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 1951
Cambia	Machito	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 1951
Cao Cao	Machito (voc) Graziella	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 1951
No, No, Chi, Chi	Machito (voc) Graziella	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 1951
Set 6	Subscribe online or call 9514 9500
Theme + Desert Night	John Kirby Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ Aquarium Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Jun 1944
I’ll Be Seeing You	John Kirby Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ Aquarium Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Jun 1944
Andyology	John Kirby Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ Aquarium Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Jun 1944
I Learned a Lesson	John Kirby Sextet (voc) Rosetta Williams	‘One Night Stand’ Aquarium Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Jun 1944
Set 7	Subscribe online or call 9514 9500
Limehouse Blues	Paul Lavalle Woodwinds	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 17 Dec 1941
You’re 1-A in the Army and A-1 in my Heart	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 17 Dec 1941
Pinetop’s Boogie	Sylvia Marlowe	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 17 Dec 1941
You Are My Sunshine + Close	Henry Levine	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 17 Dec 1941
Set 8	Subscribe online or call 9514 9500
Open + If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight	Peggy Lee	‘The Peggy Lee Show’ KNX CBS LA 15 Jul 1951
Too Young	Peggy Lee	‘The Peggy Lee Show’ KNX CBS LA 15 Jul 1951
It’s Time	Benny Goodman	‘The Peggy Lee Show’ KNX CBS LA 15 Jul 1951
Make the Man Happy	Peggy Lee	‘The Peggy Lee Show’ KNX CBS LA 15 Jul 1951

Doc Cheatham Always Trying New Ideas – Phantom Dancer 3 August 2021

Doc Cheatham, born Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist, requested by a regular listener. Doc Cheatham was an American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader. You’ll hear a set of bands he played in from live radio broadcasts, and a set of 1930s Cab Calloway in which band Cheatham played 1st trumpet. This is another classic Phantom Dancer as Sydney stays in lockdown.

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton. Hear past Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 9 February at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

Doc Cheatham, born Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist, requested by a regular listener. Doc Cheatham was an American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader. You’ll hear a set of bands he played in from live radio broadcasts, and a set of 1930s Cab Calloway in which band Cheatham played 1st trumpet.

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton. Hear past Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 3 August at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

NEVER STOPPED LEARNING – 1920s

His trumpet playing career began with jazz bands in the 1920s. When he started, he was influenced by the jazz that was around him and that had developed in the late 1910s. His early trumpet influences included Henry Busse and Johnny Dunn. He moved to Chicago in 1924 and heard King Oliver. Oliver’s playing was a revelation to Cheatham. Cheatham followed the Jazz King around and Oliver gave him a trumpet mute which Cheatham treasured and performed with for the rest of his career.

A further revelation came in 1925 when he met, and sometimes depped for Louis Armstrong. Armstrong became a lifelong influence on Cheatham.

So began a professional career playing in famous bands, and eventually leading his own, which involved constant experimentation with technique and musical form. A listener asked that I do a Phantom Dancer with Doc Cheatham as feature artist. When I read his story I connected immediately with his lifelong study of performance technique. I do it myself, currently experimenting with a different breathing technique for singing, and new camera techniques for acting.

1930s – SCHLOSSBERG

After touring Europe with the  Sam Wooding band in 1929-30, Cheatham returned to the US in 1930 and played with McKinney’s Cotton Pickers before joining the Cab Calloway Ork. Cheatham was Calloway’s lead trumpeter from 1932 to 1939.

He studied with Max Schlossberg for 6 months in 1931. 

Doc Cheatham in Cab Calloway’s Orchestra

 

1940s – CLAVE RHYTHM

As a swing trumpeter during WW2 Cheatham played in the orchestras Benny Carter, Teddy Wilson, Fletcher Henderson and Claude Hopkins.

After 1945, he moved to Latin music, joining the bands of Perez Prado, Marcelino Guerra and Ricardo Ray. 

He was fired the first time he joined Machito’s band. He couldn’t handle clave rhythm. Cheatham eventually mastered it.

1950 – 60s

Doc Cheatham singing

While continuing with Latin bands into the 1950s, Cheatham also played with Wilbur de Paris (in whose band he had played in 1927) and Sammy Price.

He was part of a tour of Africa for the US State Department in 1959 and led his own band on Broadway from 1960-65 before touring with Benny Goodman.

1970 – 90s

In his sixties during the 1970s, Doc Cheatham made a vigorous self-assessment of his trumpet playing. He taped himself, listening critically to the results. The discipline paid off with greater positive critical attention.

He even began singing. His singing career started by accident in a Paris recording studio on 2 May 1977. During a sound check at the start of a recording session with Sammy Price’s band, Cheatham sang and scatted his way through a couple of choruses of ‘What Can I Say Dear After I Say I’m Sorry’. The miking happened to be good from the start and the tape machine was already rolling. The track was included on the LP ‘Doc Cheatham: Good for What Ails You’. His singing was so well received, Cheatham continued to sing as well as play trumpet for the rest of his career.

In 1998, Doc received a posthumous Grammy for Best Jazz Solo on ‘Stardust’, a track on his CD, Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton (see video near the top of this article). His wife Amanda and daughter Alicia accepted the award on his behalf.

Watch Doc Cheatham on TV in Antwerp, 1958,

3 AUGUST PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #503
107.3 2SER Tuesday 3 August 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 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 4RPH Brisbane Sunday 3 – 4am 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Mickey Mouse Bands
Oh You Beautiful Doll (theme) + Lullaby of Broadway	Frank Foster Orchestra (voc) Frank Foster	‘One Night Stand’ Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 13 Aug 1945
The Ol’ Piano Roll Blues	Paul Neighbours Orchestra	Biltmore Bowl Biltmore Hotel LA via KGHL NBC Billings Montana 1954
Early in the Morning + Close	Freddy Martin Orchestra (voc) The Martin Men	‘One Night Stand’ Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Aug 1944
Set 2	Women Singers on 1945-46 Radio
Open + Look For the Silver Lining	Dinah Shore	‘Showtime’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
I Can See It My Way	Doris Day	‘Barry Gray’s Nightclub’ WOR Mutual NY 5 Feb 1946
If a Nightinggale Could Sing Like You + I Surrender Dear + Close	Ginny Simms	‘Ginny Simms Show’ WABC CBS NY 11 Jan 1946
Set 3	Club Hangover
Open + Royal Garden Blues	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 5 Feb 1955
I Found a New Baby	Ralph Sutton	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 7 Sep 1954
After Hours + When The Saints Come Marching In	Red Richards (piano) Muggsy Spanier Band	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 20 Nov 1954
Set 4	Doc Cheatham with Cab Calloway’s Ork
Hot Water	Doc Cheatham (tp) Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 7 Dec 1932
A Minor Breakdown	Doc Cheatham (tp) Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 10 Dec 1937
Mississippi Mud + Minnie the Moocher	Doc Cheatham (tp) Cab Calloway Orchestra (voc) Cab Calloway	KTSP Studios St Paul-Minneapolis 28 May 1938
Set 5	Bands Doc Cheatham Played In
Rocky Road	McKinney’s Cotton Pickers (tp is Rex Stewart, not Doc C) (voc) Don Redman	Comm Rec NYC 3 Nov 1930
Cao, Cao	Machito (voc) Graciela	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 1951
Whatever Lola Wants + Close	Perez Prado	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 24 Jul 1953
Set 6	Let’s Dance 1934-35
Let’s Dance (theme) + The Object of My Affection	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Buddy Clark	Let’s Dance WEAF NBC Red NY 1 Dec 1934
Solitude	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	Let’s Dance WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Mar 1935
Goodbye	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Let’s Dance WEAF NBC Red NY 1 Dec 1934
Set 7	Harry James 1950s Radio
Cirribirribin (Theme) + Stealin’ Apples	Harry James Orchestra	Aragon Ballroom WMAQ NBC Chicago 18 Jun 1954
Honeysuckle Rose	Harry James Octet	Aircheck c 1950
Palladium Party	Harry James Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WCBS CBS NY 25 May 1953
Honeysuckle Rose	Harry James Octet	Aircheck c 1950
Set 8	Women Radio Singers
Manhattan	Lee Wiley	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 1950
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen	Kay Starr (voc) Charlie Barnett Orchestra	‘For the Record’ WEAF NBC NY 11 Sep 1944
Robin Hood	Mildred Bailey	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 12 Feb 1945
I Miss Your Kiss	Joya Sherill (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date with the Duke’ WJZ ABC NY 12 May 1945

Bob Crosby and Machito – 500th CRN Phantom Dancer 13 July 2021

Bob Crosby is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist, in broadcasts from 1937 – 41. You’ll also hear live 1950 radio featuring Afro-Cuban jazz by Machito. And this is the 500th national Phantom Dancer heard across Australia over stations of the Community Radio Network. See the play list below.

I’ve brought you The Phantom Dancer, mostly live, every week since 1985. It’s been heard across Australia over the Community Radio Network since 2013. Though I wanted this week to be live, this week’s show is a re-broadcast of the 17 November 2020 Phantom Dancer as Sydney is in Covid lockdown.

Bob Crosby is an unusual figure in the history of show business. While he had a brother, Bing, who was one of the biggest names in the business, (the first multimedia star, leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1930 to 1954), Bob was both similar enough and different enough not to be overshadowed. They could even work together sharing the same self-effacing and laid-back wit.

Hear how Bob and Bing’s voices and personalities blend in this 1950 aircheck of ‘Let’s Do It Again’…

Hear all Phantom Dancers with Greg Poppleton, Tuesdays 12:04-2pm and Saturdays 5-5:56pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney and online at 2ser.com

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BAND

Bob Crosby started singing in the early 1930s with the Rhythm Boys, which included vocalist Ray Hendricks and guitarist Bill Pollard, and with Anson Weeks (1931–34) and the Dorsey Brothers (1934–35).

He led his first band in 1935 when the former members of Ben Pollack‘s band elected him leader.

Crosby’s “band-within-the-band,” the Bob-Cats, was a dixieland octet with soloists from the larger orchestra, many from New Orleans.

The Bob-Cats included at various times Ray Bauduc, Yank Lawson, Billy Butterfield, Charlie Spivak, Muggsy Spanier, Irving Fazola, Nappy Lamare, Jack Sperling, Joe Sullivan, Jess Stacy, Bob Haggart and Bob Zurke.

In the spring of 1940, during a performance in Chicago, teenager Doris Day was hired as the band’s vocalist.

For its theme song, the band chose George Gershwin‘s song “Summertime.” The band’s hits included “South Rampart Street Parade”, “March of the Bob Cats”, “In a Little Gypsy Tea Room”, “Whispers in the Dark”, “Day In, Day Out”, “Down Argentine Way”, “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby“, “Dolores”, and “New San Antonio Rose” . A bass-and-drums duet between Haggart and Bauduc, “Big Noise from Winnetka“, became a hit in 1938–39.

RADIO

During World War II, Bob Crosby spent 18 months in the Marines touring with bands in the Pacific. His radio variety series, The Bob Crosby Show, aired on NBC and CBS in different runs from 1943 – 1950. This was followed by Club Fifteen on CBS from 1947 -49, then 1950 – 53. A half-hour CBS daytime series, The Bob Crosby Show, followed from 1953 to 1957. Bob introduced the Canadian singer Gisele MacKenzie to American audiences and subsequently guest-starred in 1957 on her NBC television series, The Gisele MacKenzie Show.

In 1952, Bob replaced Phil Harris as the bandleader on The Jack Benny Program, remaining until Benny retired the radio show in 1955 after 23 years.

TV

Bob Crosby starred in his own afternoon variety show, The Bob Crosby show, that aired from 1953 to 1957. He also fronted a TV program in Australia in the 1960s. He was one of two featured singers (himself and Dennis Day) in mid-1950s episodes of The Jack Benny Program.

13 JULY PLAY LIST – 500th National Phantom Dancer Radio Show

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #500
107.3 2SER Tuesday 13 JULY 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 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 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 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 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Anson Weeks 1932 Radio
Theme + Let’s Fly Away	Anson Weeks Orchestra (voc) Bill Moreling	Radio Transcription San Francisco 1932
Medley	Anson Weeks Orchestra	Radio Transcription San Francisco 1932
Who’s Your Little Who Zis?	Anson Weeks Orchestra (voc) Bill Moreling	Radio Transcription San Francisco 1932
Set 2	Duke Ellington 1952 Radio
Theme + Bensonality	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jul 1952
All of Me + Bakiff	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Bette Roche	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jul 1952
Set 3	Early Cab Calloway Records
Jitterbug	Cab Calloway Orchestra (voc) CC	Comm Rec NYC 22 Jan 1934
Lady With a Fan	Cab Calloway Orchestra (voc) CC	Comm Rec NYC 1933
Doin’ The Rhumba	Cab Calloway Orchestra (voc) CC	Comm Rec NYC 3 Mar 1931
Set 4	Bob Crosby
Theme + Boogie Woogie Maxixe	Bob Crosby Orchestra	Blackhawk WGN Mutual Chicago 29 Apr 1940
Theme + In A Minor Mood + Dogtown Blues	Bob Crosby Orchestra	Swing Concert Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC red Chicago 18 May 1937
It’s You, You, Darling	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Marian Mann	Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker WOR Mutual NY 25 Mar 1940
Smokey Mary + Close	Bob Crosby Orchestra	Aircheck 23 May 1942
Set 5	African Rhythms
Field Recordings	Various	‘Biography in Rhythm’ WRCA NBC NY Jun 1955
Afro-Cuban Suite	Machito and his Afro-Cuban Band	‘Biography in Rhythm’ WRCA NBC NY Jun 1955
Set 6	Machito
Theme + Carambola	Machito and his Afro-Cuban Band (voc) Machito & Graziella	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 1951
Cao Cao	Machito and his Afro-Cuban Band (voc) Graziella	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 1951
Tanga	Machito and his Afro-Cuban Band with Zoot Sims	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 1951
Set 7	Leonid Utesov
Komsommol	Leonid Utesov and the RSFSR Orchestra	Melodia Records Moscow 1942
Mishka Odesset	Leonid Utesov and the RSFSR Orchestra	Melodia Records Moscow 1942
Baron von der Pshek	Leonid Utesov and the RSFSR Orchestra	Melodia Records Moscow 1943
Aosha	Leonid Utesov and daughter and the RSFSR Orchestra	Melodia Records Moscow 1943
Set 8	1940s Bop Radio
Low Ceiling	Beryl Booker	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America 1951
I Wished on the Moon	Beryl Booker	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America 1951
Mischevious Lady + The Moors	Melba Liston	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America 1951
I’ve Got The World on a String + Close	Hazel Scott	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America 1951

Hal Kemp Launched by Royal Drummer – Phantom Dancer 15 June 2021

Hal Kemp, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. You’ll hear his dance orchestra in broadcasts from 1934 to 1939. He was the tripling trumpets king, developing a unique sound for a ‘sweet band’ that made his orchestra one of the most popular of the Swing Era. And having the Prince of Wales, the future Eddie 8, sit in on drums with the band during an Atlantic crossing, kicked off his career.

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted presented by me, Greg Poppleton.

You can hear past Phantom Dancer mixes online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

Meanwhile, this Phantom Dancer mix will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 15 June, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

HAL

First up, the Hal Kemp Orchestra in action from the short, “Here’s Hal!”. Bandleader Hal Kemp leads his band in his own arrangement of “In an 18th Century Drawing Room”…

James Hal Kemp was a US reeds player, bandleader, composer and arranger.

He formed his first band in high school. At 19 he led the University of North Carolina band – the Carolina Club Orchestra. They went to England, where they made their first recordings in London, and on their return journey made the acquaintance of the Prince of Wales, who performed with them.

As a result, the band was mentioned in US press reports, so on their return they received several offers of contracts. In 1927, Kemp formed his own orchestra, which at various times featured Skinnay Ennis, Bunny Berigan, and John Scott Trotter. The band became a popular jazz orchestra in the late 1920s.

KEMP

In the 1930s, Kemp’s band turned to “sweet” dance music. From 1932 to 1934, they performed at the Blackhawk Restaurant in Chicago, and appeared regularly on radio broadcasts. They became well-known nationally, and secured a contract with Brunswick Records. Most of the vocals on their recordings were by Skinnay Ennis, whose vocal style and the arrangements by Trotter, which featured staccato triplets by the trumpeters and clarinets played through megaphones, gave Kemp’s records a distinctive sound.

Kemp and his orchestra had a number of hit records, including “Shuffle Off to Buffalo” (1933), “In the Middle of a Kiss” (1935), “There’s a Small Hotel” (1936), “When I’m With You” (1936), “This Year’s Kisses” (1937), and “Where or When” (1937).

Saxie Dowell in the Kemp Orchestra wrote what is still a children’s favourite, “Three Little Fishies” which he sings in this 1936 short…

In 1936, John Scott Trotter left the orchestra to join Bing Crosby and was succeeded as arranger by Hal Mooney and Lou Busch. Ennis left in 1938, and Bob Allen became the band’s featured singer. 

From 1937, Kemp recorded for Victor Records. His other recordings included “Got A Date With An Angel”, “Heart Of Stone”, “Lamplight”, “The Music Goes ‘Round And Around”, “You’re The Top”, “Bolero”, “Gloomy Sunday” and “Lullaby Of Broadway”.

Hal Kemp died in Madera, California in 1940, aged 36, following a road accident while driving from Los Angeles to a performance in San Francisco in foggy conditions. His car was hit by an oncoming truck. He died in hospital from pneumonia two days later. The orchestra remained operational for some time after Kemp’s death, led by singer Art Jarrett. It disbanded in the early 1940s.

One more band clip. First released in 1941, this short was filmed the day before Kemp was killed in a fatal automobile accident in 1940. It was re-released in 1953. The music includes “The Joke’s On You,” sung by band vocalist Maxine Grey, and “Trade Winds,” sung by band vocalist Robert Allen). The band also plays “I’ll Be Missing You”, and concludes with “Begin the Beguine.” This is not the same short as the 1938 Paramount short of the same name…

15 JUNE PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE   Community Radio Network Show CRN #495
107.3 2SER Tuesday 15 JUNE 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 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 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 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 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	1940s One Night Stand Radio
Minnie the Moocher (theme) + Foo a Little Ballyhoo	Cab Calloway Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ New Zanzibar Club New York City AFRS Re-broadcast Jul 1945
You’re My Thrill	Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) Betty Perry	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jan 1947
Northwest Passage + Blue Flame (theme)	Woody Herman Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Aug 1945
Set 2	Friendly Five Footnotes
I’ve Got Five Dollars (theme) + It’s the Girl	Freddie Rich Orchestra (voc) Freddie Rich	‘Friendly Five Footnotes’ Radio Transcription New York City 1932
I’m With You	Freddie Rich Orchestra (voc) Freddie Rich	‘Friendly Five Footnotes’ Radio Transcription New York City 1932
Roll on Mississippi + I’ve Got Five Dollars (theme)	Freddie Rich Orchestra	‘Friendly Five Footnotes’ Radio Transcription New York City 1932
Set 3	Francophone Radio
Honeysuckle Rose	Django Reinhardt with the ATC Band	‘Beaucoup de Music’ AFN Paris 1 Dec 1945
Song of Paris + close	Maurice Duvier Orchestra (voc) Lucille Dumont	‘Rhythms de Paris’ CBC Montreal 2 Nov 1951
Improvisation No. 6	Django Reinhardt	‘Beaucoup de Music’ AFN Paris 1 Dec 1945
Set 4	Hal Kemp
When Summer is Gone (theme) + You’ve Got Me Crying Again	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis	‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York 1934
A Heart of Stone	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Shinnay Ennis	‘Lady Esther Serenade’ WABC CBS NYC 26 Aug 1936
Lamplight	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Shinnay Ennis	‘Chesterfield Show’ WABC CBS NY 1937
Got a Daye with an Angel + Close	Hal Kemp Orchestra	‘R. H Macy Morning Show’ WOR Mutual NYC Oct 1935
Set 5	Stan Kenton 1953
Theme + Casual Jazz	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Hampton Casino Hampton Beach NH WBZ NBC Boston 21 Jul 1953
Yesterdays	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert Encores’ Blue Room WMAQ NBC Chicago 2 Apr 1953
Artistry in Rhythm	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Ross Auditorium KFSD NBC San Diego 10 Feb 1953
Set 6	Glenn Miller in German
In The Mood (theme) + Stardust	Glenn Miller Orchestra	‘Wehrmacht Hour’ American Broadcasting Station in Europe (ABSIE) London Nov 1944
Anvil Chorus	Glenn Miller Orchestra	‘Wehrmacht Hour’ American Broadcasting Station in Europe (ABSIE) London Nov 1944
String of Pearls	Glenn Miller Orchestra	‘Wehrmacht Hour’ American Broadcasting Station in Europe (ABSIE) London Nov 1944
Little Brown Jug + Close	Glenn Miller Orchestra	‘Wehrmacht Hour’ American Broadcasting Station in Europe (ABSIE) London Nov 1944
Set 7	1920s-30s Women Singers
Dancing on the Ceiling	Jessie Matthews	Comm Rec London 4 May 1934
Look For The Silver Lining	Marilyn Miller and Lawrence Gray	Soundtrack Hollywood Jun 1929
Everything’s in Rhythm with my Heart	Jessie Matthews	Comm Rec London 18 Sep 1935
Bill	Helen Morgan	Comm Rec New York City 14 Feb 1928
Set 8	Medleys
Someone to Watch Over Me + Somebody Loves Me + Fascinating Rhythm + Dawn of a New Day	Roy Bargy and Walter Gross (pianos) Lynn Murray Chorus	‘Everybody’s Music’ WABC CBS NY 10 Jun 1938
Medley of Ellington Hits	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Carnegie Hall New York City 13 Nov 1948
They Can’t Take That Away From Me + Nice Work If You Can Get It + Love Walked In	Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) Maxine Sullivan	‘Everybody’s Music’ WABC CBS NY 10 Jun 1938

Turk Murphy – Union Man Who Looked After His Musicians – Phantom Dancer 27 April 2021

Turk Murphy, San Francisco Great Revival trad trombonist, singer, composer, arranger, and band leader is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.

The Phantom Dancer – your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton.

Enjoy a whole library of Phantom Dancer mixes online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 27 April at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

 

TURK MURPHY

 

Born Melvin Edward Alton Murphy, Turk Murphy’s first instrument was a short cornet which originally belonged to his father.

Later, his father bought Turk his first trombone and he taught himself to play.

After study with a local music teacher and graduating high school in 1933, Turk joined the Merle Howard Orchestra. He toured the US in 1935 and 1936 as a member of the Val Bender, Will Osborne, and Mal Hallett Orchestras.

Turk met many of the musicians he would later play with while on the road, including clarinettist Bob Helm.

He quit touring in 1937 and with Lu Watters and other like-minded musicians he began collecting records, studying music theory, and teaching themselves to play in the traditional New Orleans style. He joined the Yerba Buena Jazz Band with Lu Watters in 1940.

Just as the Yerba Buena Jazz Band was receiving national attention and steady audiences, World War II intervened. Turk enlisted in the Navy in 1942, working at Alameda Naval Air Base as a mechanic. Turk continued to play, performing with many jazz notables, including the legendary Bunk Johnson.

Turk formed his own band in 1949. They toured nationally with multiple residencies in New York City, making their San Francisco home base the Italian Village club (1952 – 1954), The Tin Angel (1955 – 57) and Easy Street (1957 – 59) from where this week’s Phantom Dancer broadcasts originate.

The Turk Murphy Jazz Band recorded extensively, and their records for the Columbia label increased the popularity of the band nationally, especially in the 1950s and early 1960s. Turk’s recordings were well received critically and frequently reviewed in jazz publications like DownBeat, The Record Changer, and others. Turk was often in the top of popular jazz related polls as well.

In 1960, Turk opened his San Francisco nightclub, Earthquake McGoon’s. It operated for sixteen years before moving to two other locations and closing in 1984.

McGoon’s was a San Francisco fixture with regular audiences who came to dance and listen, as well as being a must-visit stop for tourists and visitors. Turk designed the multi-level Clay Street location himself, and he worked tirelessly to maintain the club and promote it.

Turk was was a success at both music and business, and his band appeared regularly on local and national radio and television, including twice on the Ed Sullivan Show. Turk even had an endorsement with Conn trombones. Turk was a prolific composer and arranger, writing for popular programs such as Sesame Street, for the stage and screen, and for his own musicians. Turk’s music was true to the New Orleans idiom, but he had his own recognizable sound influenced by a wide range of music, especially the classical composer Kurt Weill. Turk’s arrangement of Weill’s “Mack the Knife” was recorded by both Lotte Leyna and Louis Armstrong, a huge hit for Armstrong.

During his more than 50 years performing, arranging and composing, Turk and his band were recognized both nationally and internationally. In the 1970s, the Turk Murphy Jazz Band travelled internationally to great acclaim, including two visits to Australia.

THE GREAT REVIVAL

“In the late 1930s, two parallel movements resulted in the phenomenon known as The Great Revival. One branch of the movement involved record collectors and writers such as William Russell, Dave Stuart, Bill Colburn, Neshui Ertegun, and Lester Koenig. They wrote articles about early jazz records, published magazines aimed at devotees of vintage jazz, and eventually made contact with some legendary figures such as trumpeter Bunk Johnson (who claimed to have played in Buddy Bolden’s band) and trombonist Kid Ory (who made the first jazz record by an African-American band in 1922, and who played and recorded with King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton).

The other branch of the Great Revival was centered in San Francisco, where young musicians like Lu Watters, Turk Murphy, and Bob Helm desired to play the music from the Golden Era of hot jazz rather than the swing style that was currently popular.” – Hal Smith

 

UNION MAN

Turk employed a huge number of musicians in his band over the years, and he was a loyal supporter of the San Francisco Musician’s Union. Turk Murphy Jazz Band members played to a high standard and lost their jobs if they failed to perform to Turk’s satisfaction or were unreliable, but they were well taken care of financially. 

He always made sure he paid his musicians a living wage and would not play for people who wouldn’t pay him the best fees. He wouldn’t work for people who would ask him to do things outside of union rules.

Some of the long time Turk Murphy musicians you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer…

 

BOB HELM

Bob Helm, clarinet and sax, was one of the most talented, imaginative, and gifted musician of the Great Revival. He played music professionally as a teenager as he listened to broadcasts of Louis Armstrong from Sebastian’s Cotton Club in Los Angeles, collected records, and attended concerts and show.

He played in Territory bands across the western United States, ranging from Wingy Manone’s Orchestra to Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys.

Bob Helm settled in the Bay Area in the late ‘30s. Interested in early forms of jazz, he was an enthusiastic participant in small-band sessions. He joined Lu Watters’ Orchestra at Sweet’s Ballroom in Oakland, and doubled on clarinet and tenor sax. He also took part in after hours sessions with Watters, Turk Murphy, Bob Scobey, and others who would eventually form the Yerba Buena Jazz Band.

In 1943, Helm joined the U.S. Army. He served with the 18th Infantry Division, as a paratrooper, combat infantryman, and later with General George S. Patton’s 3rd Army. He also enjoyed a brief respite from the battlefield, playing tenor sax in a band backing Marlene Dietrich on a USO tour.

Helm was invited by Lu Watters’ to rejoin the YBJB in 1946. The band drew large crowds of both dancers and listeners throughout 1946. They recorded numerous sides for the West Coast label and were heard on station KGO’s live broadcasts from the club. 

His sound was a combination of the blues-drenched passion of Johnny Dodds with the eccentricity and creativity of Pee Wee Russell. Still, some writers and fans criticized his tone, and found problems with his intonation as well. The criticism continued throughout Helm’s career.

In a conversation nearly 40 years after the YBJB played at the Dawn Club, a fan asked Lu Watters whether Helm played flat. Lu instantly, and somewhat angrily, replied, “No! No! He plays wild and reckless!”

PETE CLUTE

Pete Clute graduated from Stanford University in 1956 with a degree in business and history.

Shortly after graduation, he joined the Turk Murphy Jazz Band.

In 1960 Turk Murphy and Pete Clute opened the first Earthquake McGoon’s nightclub on lower Broadway and in 1962 moved to the famed Clay Street location, where for sixteen years it was the world’s best known traditional jazz club.

Pete Clute performed on more than 20 LPs and composed numerous piano pieces and band scores.

After leaving the Turk Murphy Jazz Band in 1983, he performed with the Natural Gas Jazz Band and other ensembles throughout the 1980-90s.

BOB SHORT

Bob Short was probably the most influential tubaist of the Revival, though on this week’s Phantom Dancer you’ll hear him playing cornet with the Turk Murphy band. Short was playing tuba professionally by 1928 and also managed to learn string bass, banjo, and several other instruments by the time he wound up in Portland, Oregon in the mid-’40s. He played cornet and valve trombone with the Rose City Stompers, a group which became the nucleus of the Castle Jazz Band.

When the CJB was organized, Short switched to tuba and began to establish his reputation as one of the best of the San Francisco style. In the early ’50s, Short moved to the Bay Area to play tuba and cornet with Turk Murphy’s Jazz Band. He had the ability to switch embouchures from cornet to tuba without missing a beat.

During the ’50s, Short recorded several sessions with Murphy, with Bob Scobey and also the reunited Castle Jazz Band, and continued to work frequently with Murphy. In 1963, Short made the Blues Over Bodega session with Lu Watters and the associated concerts with Turk Murphy.

Short left the Murphy band permanently in 1964 to concentrate on flying.

Read more at https://exhibits.stanford.edu/sftjf/feature/turk-murphy

27 APRIL PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE   Community Radio Network Show CRN #487
107.3 2SER Tuesday 27 April 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 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 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 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 4RPH Brisbane Sunday 3 – 4am 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Swing Bands 1944 Radio
Racing With The Moon (Theme) + Harvard Square	Vaughan Monroe Orchestra (voc) Vaughan Monroe	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Commodore NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Feb 1945
Full Moon and Empty Arms	Buddy Morrow Orchestra (voc) Carl Denny	‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Mar 1946
Swanee River + Close	Jan Garber Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 31 Mar 1945
Set 2	Vincent Valsanti (Ted Fio Rito)
To Beautiful For Words	Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Howard Sisters and Jack Howard	Cocoanut Radio Transcription TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934
The Object of My Affection	Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Jack Howard and Candy	Cocoanut Radio Transcription TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934
Dancing in the Dark + Water Under The Bridge + Close	Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Bill Thomas	Cocoanut Radio Transcription TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934
Set 3	Pop Medley Radio
Cole Porter Medley	Norman Clothier Orchestra	‘Paris By Night’ Radiodiffusion PTT Paris and WJZ NBC Blue NY 21 Mar 1939
The Girlfriend Medley	Royal Air Force Entertainment Unit	‘Seranade to the Stars’ British Forces Radio 1948
Medley: Bewitched + Sentimental Journey +  Close (Daydreams Come True at Night)	Dick Jurgens Orchestra	Aragon Ballroom WGN Mutual Chicago Aug 1950
Set 4	Turk Murphy
Bay City (theme) + New Orleans Shuffle	Turk Murphy’s San Francisco Jazz Band	Easy Street KCBS San Francisco 7 Nov 1958
Tishomingo Blues	Turk Murphy’s San Francisco Jazz Band	Easy Street KCBS San Francisco 2 Dec 1958
Melancholy Blues	Turk Murphy’s San Francisco Jazz Band	Easy Street KCBS San Francisco 14 Nov 1958
Memphis Blues + Bay City (theme)	Turk Murphy’s San Francisco Jazz Band	Easy Street KCBS San Francisco 9 Dec 1958
Set 5	John Coltrane
Afro Blue	John Coltrane Quartet	‘Portraits in Jazz’ The Half Note WABC-FM NYC 26 Mar 1965
Set 6	1930s Radio Transcriptions
Troublesome Trumpet	Red Nichols Orchestra (voc) The Songcopators	Radio Transcription New York 30 Nov 1936
You’re The Top	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis	Radio Transcription New York 14 Dec 1934
You’ve Got That Something	Red Nichols Orchestra (voc) The Songcopators	Radio Transcription New York 30 Nov 1936
I Don’t Want To Be President	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis	Radio Transcription New York 14 Dec 1934
Set 7	1940s Big Bands
Mabel Mabel	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Woody Herman	‘Woody Herman Show’ ABC Jun 1946
Hey, Lawdy Mama	Andy Kirk Orchestra (voc) June Richmond	Aircheck 1946
Old Fashioned Love	Eddy Howard Orchestra (voc) Eddy Howard	Aragon Ballroom WGN Mutual Chicago 5 Dec 1945
At the Balalaika + Close	Ted Weems Orchestra (voc) Perry Como	‘Beat the Band’ WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 1941
Set 8	1950s Jazz TV
Medley	Duke Ellington	‘Stage Show’ CBS TV NY 1 Jan 1955
Basin Street Blues + Jeepers Creepers	Jack Teagarden (tp & voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Timex All-Star Jazz Show’ CBS TV NY 30 April 1958
Night Walk	Gerry Mulligan	‘Timex All-Star Jazz Show’ CBS TV NY 30 April 1958
St Louis Blues	Everybody	‘Timex All-Star Jazz Show’ CBS TV NY 30 April 1958

Doc Cheatham Mastered New Skills All His Life – Phantom Dancer 9 February 2021

Doc Cheatham, born Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist, requested by a regular listener. Doc Cheatham was an American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader. You’ll hear a set of bands he played in from live radio broadcasts, and a set of 1930s Cab Calloway in which band Cheatham played 1st trumpet.

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton. Hear past Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 9 February at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

NEVER STOPPED LEARNING – 1920s

His trumpet playing career began with jazz bands in the 1920s. When he started, he was influenced by the jazz that was around him and that had developed in the late 1910s. His early trumpet influences included Henry Busse and Johnny Dunn. He moved to Chicago in 1924 and heard King Oliver. Oliver’s playing was a revelation to Cheatham. Cheatham followed the Jazz King around and Oliver gave him a trumpet mute which Cheatham treasured and performed with for the rest of his career.

A further revelation came in 1925 when he met, and sometimes depped for Louis Armstrong. Armstrong became a lifelong influence on Cheatham.

So began a professional career playing in famous bands, and eventually leading his own, which involved constant experimentation with technique and musical form. A listener asked that I do a Phantom Dancer with Doc Cheatham as feature artist. When I read his story I connected immediately with his lifelong study of performance technique. I do it myself, currently experimenting with a different breathing technique for singing, and new camera techniques for acting.

1930s – SCHLOSSBERG

After touring Europe with the  Sam Wooding band in 1929-30, Cheatham returned to the US in 1930 and played with McKinney’s Cotton Pickers before joining the Cab Calloway Ork. Cheatham was Calloway’s lead trumpeter from 1932 to 1939.

He studied with Max Schlossberg for 6 months in 1931. 

Doc Cheatham in Cab Calloway’s Orchestra

 

1940s – CLAVE RHYTHM

As a swing trumpeter during WW2 Cheatham played in the orchestras Benny Carter, Teddy Wilson, Fletcher Henderson and Claude Hopkins.

After 1945, he moved to Latin music, joining the bands of Perez Prado, Marcelino Guerra and Ricardo Ray. 

He was fired the first time he joined Machito’s band. He couldn’t handle clave rhythm. Cheatham eventually mastered it.

1950 – 60s

Doc Cheatham singing

While continuing with Latin bands into the 1950s, Cheatham also played with Wilbur de Paris (in whose band he had played in 1927) and Sammy Price.

He was part of a tour of Africa for the US State Department in 1959 and led his own band on Broadway from 1960-65 before touring with Benny Goodman.

1970 – 90s

In his sixties during the 1970s, Doc Cheatham made a vigorous self-assessment of his trumpet playing. He taped himself, listening critically to the results. The discipline paid off with greater positive critical attention.

He even began singing. His singing career started by accident in a Paris recording studio on 2 May 1977. During a sound check at the start of a recording session with Sammy Price’s band, Cheatham sang and scatted his way through a couple of choruses of ‘What Can I Say Dear After I Say I’m Sorry’. The miking happened to be good from the start and the tape machine was already rolling. The track was included on the LP ‘Doc Cheatham: Good for What Ails You’. His singing was so well received, Cheatham continued to sing as well as play trumpet for the rest of his career.

In 1998, Doc received a posthumous Grammy for Best Jazz Solo on ‘Stardust’, a track on his CD, Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton (see video near the top of this article). His wife Amanda and daughter Alicia accepted the award on his behalf.

Watch Doc Cheatham on TV in Antwerp, 1958,

9 FEBRUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #474
107.3 2SER Tuesday 9 February 2021 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 4RPH Brisbane Sunday 3 – 4am 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Mickey Mouse Bands
Oh You Beautiful Doll (theme) + Lullaby of Broadway	Frank Foster Orchestra (voc) Frank Foster	‘One Night Stand’ Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 13 Aug 1945
The Ol’ Piano Roll Blues	Paul Neighbours Orchestra	Biltmore Bowl Biltmore Hotel LA via KGHL NBC Billings Montana 1954
Early in the Morning + Close	Freddy Martin Orchestra (voc) The Martin Men	‘One Night Stand’ Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Aug 1944
Set 2	Women Singers on 1945-46 Radio
Open + Look For the Silver Lining	Dinah Shore	‘Showtime’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
I Can See It My Way	Doris Day	‘Barry Gray’s Nightclub’ WOR Mutual NY 5 Feb 1946
If a Nightinggale Could Sing Like You + I Surrender Dear + Close	Ginny Simms	‘Ginny Simms Show’ WABC CBS NY 11 Jan 1946
Set 3	Club Hangover
Open + Royal Garden Blues	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 5 Feb 1955
I Found a New Baby	Ralph Sutton	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 7 Sep 1954
After Hours + When The Saints Come Marching In	Red Richards (piano) Muggsy Spanier Band	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 20 Nov 1954
Set 4	Doc Cheatham with Cab Calloway’s Ork
Hot Water	Doc Cheatham (tp) Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 7 Dec 1932
A Minor Breakdown	Doc Cheatham (tp) Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 10 Dec 1937
Mississippi Mud + Minnie the Moocher	Doc Cheatham (tp) Cab Calloway Orchestra (voc) Cab Calloway	KTSP Studios St Paul-Minneapolis 28 May 1938
Set 5	Bands Doc Cheatham Played In
Rocky Road	McKinney’s Cotton Pickers (tp is Rex Stewart, not Doc C) (voc) Don Redman	Comm Rec NYC 3 Nov 1930
Cao, Cao	Machito (voc) Graciela	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 1951
Whatever Lola Wants + Close	Perez Prado	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 24 Jul 1953
Set 6	Let’s Dance 1934-35
Let’s Dance (theme) + The Object of My Affection	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Buddy Clark	Let’s Dance WEAF NBC Red NY 1 Dec 1934
Solitude	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	Let’s Dance WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Mar 1935
Goodbye	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Let’s Dance WEAF NBC Red NY 1 Dec 1934
Set 7	Harry James 1950s Radio
Cirribirribin (Theme) + Stealin’ Apples	Harry James Orchestra	Aragon Ballroom WMAQ NBC Chicago 18 Jun 1954
Honeysuckle Rose	Harry James Octet	Aircheck c 1950
Palladium Party	Harry James Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WCBS CBS NY 25 May 1953
Honeysuckle Rose	Harry James Octet	Aircheck c 1950
Set 8	Women Radio Singers
Manhattan	Lee Wiley	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 1950
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen	Kay Starr (voc) Charlie Barnett Orchestra	‘For the Record’ WEAF NBC NY 11 Sep 1944
Robin Hood	Mildred Bailey	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 12 Feb 1945
I Miss Your Kiss	Joya Sherill (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date with the Duke’ WJZ ABC NY 12 May 1945

Leonid Utesov – Phantom Dancer 10 November 2020

Leonid Osipovich Utesov (Russian: Леонид Осипович Утёсов); real name Lazar (Leyzer) Iosifovich Vaysbeyn or Weissbein (Лазарь (Лейзер) Иосифович Вайсбейн) was a famous Soviet estrada singer and comic actor who became the first pop singer to be awarded the prestigious title of People’s Artist of the USSR in 1965. Hear all Phantom Dancers with Greg Poppleton, Tuesdays 12:04-2pm and Saturdays 5-5:56pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney and online at 2ser.com

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Leonid Utyosov was brought up in Odessa, Russian Empire and attended the Faig School of Commerce, from which he dropped out and joined the Borodanov Circus troupe as an acrobat. He started his stage career in 1911 in Kremenchuk, then returned to Odessa, changed his artistic name to Leonid Utyosov, and performed as a stand up comedian with the Rosanov troupe and with the Rishelyavsky Theatre. In 1917, he won a singing competition in Gomel, Belarus, then performed in Moscow.

In the 1920s, he moved to Leningrad and set up one of the first Soviet jazz bands. In Leningrad, he began collaboration with the popular composer, Isaak Dunayevsky, which turned out to be a breakthrough for both artists. At that time, Utyosov built a band of the finest musicians available in Leningrad, and created a style all his own – a jazz show with stand up comedy, which blended several styles, ranging from Russian folk songs to a variety of international cosmopolitan genres.

In 1928, Utyosov toured Europe and attended performances of American jazz bands in Paris, which influenced his own style. During the 1930s, Utyosov and his band, called “Thea-Jazz” (a portmanteau of Theatrical Jazz) had a regular gig at the Marble Hall of the Kirov Palace of Culture in Leningrad. Utyosov’s jazz band also performed at the Leningrad Maly Opera theatre, at the “Svoboda-teatr,” and at the Leningrad Music Hall. In his performances, Utyosov delivered a variety of musical styles, including such genres as American jazz, Argentine tango, French chanson, upbeat dance, and Russian folk music.

His popularity was on the rise in the 1930s when he co-starred with Lyubov Orlova in the comedy Jolly Fellows. In it, Utyosov performed the hit tango, “Serdtse” (Heart). During World War II, Utyosov performed on the front lines, helping lift the spirits of the Soviet soldiers fighting against the Nazis. On Victory Day (9 May 1945), he performed on Sverdlov Square in Moscow.

Utyosov lived in Moscow for the rest of his life, albeit in many of his songs he alluded to his native town of Odessa, where a monument to him was dedicated in 2000.

Richard Stites writes:

In the years of the “red jazz age” (1932–1936) European and Soviet bands were heard in dozens of cities. The kings were Alexander Tsfasman and Leonid Utesov. … Utesov – musically far less gifted – was actually more popular than Tsfasman, partly because of the spectacular success of his comedy film Happy-Go-Lucky Guys, but mostly because his Odessa background and his circus and carnival road experience on the southern borscht belt gave him a clowning manner. He resembled his idol, the personable Ted (“Is everybody happy?”) Lewis more than he did any of the great jazz figures of the time. In fact, Utesov was the typical estrada entertainer – quick witted, versatile, and funny. He was not only one of the stars of the 1930s but also a personal favorite of Stalin.

10 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream Community Radio Network Show CRN #440
107.3 2SER Tuesday 10 November 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
Set 1	Benny Goodman 1939 Radio
Let’s Dance + Pic-a-Rib	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WEAF NBC Red NY 14 Oct 1939
Moonlight Serenade	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Sep 1939
King Porter Stomp + Goodbye	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WEAF NBC Red NY 14 Oct 1939
Set 2	African Rhythms
Field Recordings	Various	‘Biography in Rhythm’ WRCA NBC NY Jun 1955
Afro-Cuban Suite	Machito and his Afro-Cuban Band	‘Biography in Rhythm’ WRCA NBC NY Jun 1955
Set 3	Machito
Theme + Carambola	Machito and his Afro-Cuban Band (voc) Machito & Graziella	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 1951
Cao Cao	Machito and his Afro-Cuban Band (voc) Graziella	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 1951
Tanga	Machito and his Afro-Cuban Band with Zoot Sims	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 1951
Set 4	Leonid Utesov
Komsommol	Leonid Utesov and the RSFSR Orchestra	Melodia Records Moscow 1942
Mishka Odesset	Leonid Utesov and the RSFSR Orchestra	Melodia Records Moscow 1942
Baron von der Pshek	Leonid Utesov and the RSFSR Orchestra	Melodia Records Moscow 1943
Aosha	Leonid Utesov and daughter and the RSFSR Orchestra	Melodia Records Moscow 1943
Set 5	Helen Forrest and Harry James
Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 1943
Theme + You’re In Love With Someone Else	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	Hotel Astor Roof WABC CBS NY 28 Aug 1942
Pennies From Heaven	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 1943
My Beloved is Rugged + Backbeat Boogie	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Radio Transcription Mar 1942
Set 6	Fats Waller Organ
Sloppy Water Blues	Fats Waller pipe organ	Comm Rec Camden NJ 14 Jan 1927
Bouncin’ on a V-Disc	Fats Waller pipe organ	V-Discs New York City 23 Sep 1943
Messin’ Around the Blues	Fats Waller pipe organ	Comm Rec Camden NJ 14 Jan 1927
Solitude	Fats Waller pipe organ	V-Discs New York City 23 Sep 1943
Set 7	1940s Swing Radio
Contrasts (theme) + King Porter Stomp	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network 11 Feb 1945
Blue Rain	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Connie Morgan	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network 19 Nov 1943
We’ll Be Together Again	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Jane Harvey	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 28 Dec 1945
Dinah + Gypsy Love Song	Cab Calloway Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Club Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jul 1945
Set 8	1940s Bop Radio
The Street Beat	Sir Charles Thompson All-Stars	Comm Rec 4 Sep 1945
Chasin’ The Bird	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 12 Mar 1949
Round Midnight	Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 31 Mar 1951

A Giant Soft Drink Bottle – Phantom Dancer 26 May 2020

A giant bottle of soft drink you’ll hear about in a 1932 ad on this week’s two hour non-stop swing jazz mix of live 1920s-60s radio, is your Greg Poppleton Phantom Dancer feature.

The Phantom Dancer has been produced and presented by 1920s-30s singer and actor Greg Poppleton since 1985. It can be heard online from 12:04pm AEST Tuesday 26 May at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

The last hour is all vinyl.

THE BOTTLE

Australia is a land of giant things as tourist attractions – the giant prawn, the big banana, the giant ram – but Alabama in the US had a big soft drink bottle. Though the bottle burnt down in the mid-1930s, its location is still called ‘The Bottle’. Here it is…

NiHi was a brand of soft drink in the US that was popular for its novelty flavours. The 1932 radio ad on this week’s Phantom Dancer praises Nihi’s ‘true fruit orange’. Fans of MASH would know that the character Radar drank Grape Nihi. Some other Nihi (pronounced Knee High) fizzy drink flavours included Chocolate, Root Beer, Lemonade, Wild Red, Blue Cream, and Peach. There were many more.

HISTORIC MARKER

The site of the giant bottle is now identified by a historical marker.

The marker reads,

“Built in 1924, and billed as ‘the world’s largest bottle’, The Bottle (also known as The Twist Inn) was built by John F. Williams, owner of the Nehi Bottling Company, in Opelika, Alabama. The Bottle stood 64 feet (19.5 m) tall, and measured forty-nine feet (14.94 m) in diameter at the base, and 16 feet (4.88 m) at the cap. The ground floor was a grocery store and service station, and the second and third floors were living quarters and storage. The neck of the Bottle had windows so as to be used as an observation tower. The bottle cap was the roof. Inside there was a spiral oak stairway. The Bottle became a gathering place for tourists and locals alike to swap yarns and have parties every Friday night on the balcony above the service station. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stopped briefly at The Bottle after visiting Auburn. The bottle burned one morning in te fall of 1936. Even though the structure no longer exists, the name survives on Alabama maps which still identify the area as ‘The Bottle’.”

Your Phantom Dancer Video(s) of the Week

Tune into band leader Griff William’s dance band show from the late 1940s / early 50s over WBKB TV (CBS) Chicago. Three clips + a fourth WKBK news from 1964 and the start of their Acuion Movie, Dragstrip Riot’ – Enjoy!!!

26 MAY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #438
107.3 2SER Tuesday 26 May 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm 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 2MCE Bathurst / Orange / Central West NSW Wednesday 9 – 10am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am
Set 1	Modernistic 1950s Dance Bands
Artistry in Rhythm (theme) + Tabu	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Lakeside Ballroom Dayton OH WLW NBC Cincinnati 16 Sep 1952
Savings Bonds Ad + The Stars and Stripes Forever	Ralph Flanagan Orchestra	‘Treasury Bandstand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WCBS CBS NY 1950
Wending My May Back Home + Close	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	‘Jazz Is My Beat’ New York City AFRTS Re-broadcast 1958
Set 2	Early Live 1930s Radio
Open + Music In My Fingers	George Shackley Ensemble (voc) Veronica Wiggins	‘Nihi Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1931
Margie + Do You Ever Think Of Me? + Sweet Sue	Jimmie Grier Orchestra	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel KFI NBC Gold Network LA 1932
Melancholy Moon + Pineapple Ad + It Gonna Rain No More + Aloha Oe	Wendall Hall	‘The Pineapple Picadour’ WMAQ NBC Chicago 2 Apr 1931
Set 3	Super Jive From 1937 – 38 Radio
Dark Forest (theme) + Limehouse Blues	Earl Hines Orchestra	Grand Terrace Room WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 3 Aug 1938
A Study in Blue	Larry Clinton Orchestra	Hotel Park Central WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jul 1939
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South + Camel Hop	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 20 Oct 1937
Set 4	1940s Dance Bands
Voglio Fischiettiare (I Like To Whistle)	Nuccia Natali and Vocal Trio with Orchestra	Comm Rec Cetra Turin 1940
The Sheik of Araby	Russ Morgan Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast 28 Apr 1944
Medley	Art Kassels and his Kassels-in-the-Air Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Chicago 1947
Set 5	Jazz and Pop on 1940 Radio
It Never Entered My Head	Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin	Radio Transcription New York City 1940
Open + Down For The Count	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 6 Nov 1940
St Louis Blues	Roy Eldridge	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 21 Apr 1940
Four Beat Shuffle + Pretty Little Petticoat (theme)	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 1940
Set 6	New Orleans Jazz on Radio
Open + Way Down Yonder in New Orleans	Louis Armstrong All-Stars	‘New Orleans Movie Opening’ Wintergarden Theatre WNBC NBC NY 19 Jun 1947
Open + At The Jazz Band Ball	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ Town Hall WJZ Blue NY 30 Sep 1944
I Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody None Of My Jelly Roll	Bud Freeman Summa Cum Laude Orchestra	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 May 1940
That’s A’Plenty + Relaxin’ At The Touro (theme)	Muggsy Spanier Dixieland All-Stars	Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 18 Apr 1953
Set 7	Big Bands on 1947 Radio
Who’s Got The Ball?	Harry James Orchestra	The Click WFIL Philadelphia 22 Dec 1947
Kate	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) The Town Criers	Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 6 Dec 1947
Everybody Eats When They Come To My House	Cab Calloway’s Caballiers (voc) CC	‘Guest Star’ New York City 1947
Passion Flower	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Ciro’s Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast Jul 1947
Set 8	Charlie Parker on WMCA NY 1949
Chasin’ The Bird	Charlie Parker Sextet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 12 Mar 1949
Confirmation	Charlie Parker Quintet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 19 Feb 1949
Scrapple From The Apple	Charlie Parker Quintet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 22 Jan 1949

10 April New Listen Welcome Phantom Dancer – Symphony Sid, Bop DJ

“Dean took the wheel and drove clear the rest of the way to New York, and we began to hear the Symphony Sid show on the radio with all the latest bop, and now we were entering the great and final city of America.” (Jack Kerouac, On the Road, pt. 3, ch. 11)

Ah yes, we’ll be hearing some of those broadcasts from the ‘all-night, all-frantic one’, Symphony Sid, on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

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This week you’ll also hear some early rock’n’roll airchecks from the 1950s, Jack Teagarden and his Trad band from Club Hangover over KCBS San Francisco (in particular Saint James Infirmary which has been requested), a set of Martha Tilton singing in front of Benny Goodman’s Orchestra over CBS in January and February 1939 and a whole lot more.

See the full play list below.

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV. It’s made in the studios of 2SER in Sydney. The Phantom Dancer is heard across Australia on stations of the Community Radio Network.

The Phantom Dancer is produced and presented by Australia’s only authentic 1920s-30s-style singer and band leader, Greg Poppleton.

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SYMPHONY SID

Born Sidney Tarnopol, which he shortened to Sid Torin, Symphony Sid was a DJ and bop promoter, credited with introducing bebop to the mass audience. He did this by co-producing ‘modern progressive jazz concerts’, as he called them, from 1945, but mainly through his radio show, the all-night, all-frantic Symphony Sid show.

Symphony Sid introducing Charlie Parker

Listening to many Symphony Sid airchecks, it seemed the show ran on WMCA New York from 1948-49, and then on the flagship New York ABC station, WJZ, until 1953, from midnight to 5pm Saturday and Sunday mornings.

Symphony Sid championed what he called ‘the finest in modern progressive jazz’. And as we’ll hear today, he also championed latin music by Machito and others, and he also hosted gospel radio shows not much later in his career when he moved from New York to Boston. At the end of his radio career in Miami, he was an influential Latin DJ and hosted live latin music on WBUS.

His show was a DJ show, where he’d spin records and listeners could call in Circle 6-2500 (WMCA) or Circle 6-4343 (WJZ), “guess the ‘gone’ side,” and make requests.

Then from 3:03am to 4, the show broadcast live bop (mostly) from The Royal Roost nightclub, and then from Birdland.

Sid would make the live introductions in a ‘flying-by-the-seat-of-his-pants’ style: a little bit dope-addled perhaps, sometimes forgetting names, sometimes covering for time with an impromptu interview, but always conversational and hipster.

Bandleaders who played these early morning shows included Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Tadd Dameron, Dinah Washington, Terry Gibbs, Lester Young, Machito, Charlie Ventura, Dave Brubeck, Chubby Jackson and Slim Gaillard.

Being on the Symphony Sid Show gave huge exposure to musicians. Some wrote tribute songs to him. ‘Jumpin’ With Symphony Sid’, which became his radio theme, was written by Lester Young with lyrics added later by King Pleasure. It was a hit in 1950 for the George Shearing Quintet. Illinois Jacquet wrote ‘Symphony in Sid’. Louis Jordan’s song, ‘After School Swing Session’ had the added title, ‘Swinging With Symphony Sid’.

“[Symphony Sid] is probably the greatest middleman jazz has ever known. A broadcaster for 35 years, once billed as ‘the all-night, all-frantic one’, he was the man to listen to in the forties, fifties and sixties if you wanted to know what was happening in jazz.”— Leslie Gourse, New York Times.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is a short aircheck of Symphony Sid introducing the live portion of on eof his 1948 WMCA shows from The Royal Roost. He introduces the Tadd Dameron small group. Enjoy…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #310 107.3 2SER Tuesday 10 April 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations. Set 1 1940s Pop Radio Theme + I Haven’t Got a Worry in the World Griff Williams Orchestra Empire Room Palmer House WGN Chicago 5 Mar 1947 Am I Blue? + Taking a Chance on Love Ethel Waters ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 17 Jul 1945 Twilight Time + Close Dean Hudson Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Blue Room Hotel Lincoln New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Nov 1944 Set 2 Modern Progressive Jazz on Radio Ol’ Man BeBop Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra AFRS Radio Transcription Hollywood 1946 No, No, Chi-Chi, No! Machito (voc) Gracie Graziella and Band ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 1951 Francesca + Artistry in Rhythm (theme) Stan Kenton Orchestra ‘Concert in Miniature’ Hampton Casino Hampton Beach NH WBZ NBC Boston 21 Jul 1953 Set 3 Rock’n’Roll Open + Straight Life King Porter ‘Burgie Big Beat’ KNX CBS LA 1956 Ad + But I Don’t Care Sid King and the Five Strings KTAE Taylor TX 1955 Flagwaver + Close Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band ‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 24 Jul 1956 Set 4 Jack Teagarden at Club Hangover Stardust on the Moon + Dear Old Southland Jack Teagarden Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 7 May 1954 Stomp, Mr Henry Lee Jack Teagarden Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 17 Apr 1954 Lazy River + I Got a Right to Sing the Blues (theme) Jack Teagarden Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 30 Apr 1954 Set 5 Martha Tilton Sings with Benny Goodman 1939 Hurry Home Martha Tilton (voc) Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 3 Jan 1939 Gotta Get Some Shuteye Martha Tilton (voc) Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 7 Feb 1939 I Have Eyes Martha Tilton (voc) Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 10 Jan 1939 Sweet Little Headache Martha Tilton (voc) Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 14 Feb 1939 Set 6 1950s Radio Swing Bands Blue Flame (theme) + Hollywood Blues Woody Herman Orchestra Blue Room Hotel Roosevelt WWL CBS New Orleans 1951 Hob Nail Boogie Count Basie Orchestra Birdland WNBC NBC NY 31 Aug 1952 Flager’s Drive Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WCBS CBS NY 1 Jan 1956 Summertime Claude Thornhill Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Aug 1956 Set 7 Sing-a-long Tunes with Blue Barron Heart and Soul Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Russ Carlyle Radio Transcription New York City 1938 You’re The Only Star In My Blue Heaven Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Russ Carlyle and the Glee Club Radio Transcription New York City 1938 Scatterbrain Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Charlie Fisher Radio Transcription New York City 1939 You Are My Sunshine Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Russ Carlyle Radio Transcription New York City 1940 Set 8 Symphony Sid Show Intro + Blue ‘n’ Boogie Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 31 Mar 1951 Symphony Sid live ad Symphony Sid ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Sep 1948 I’m Glad There’s You Charlie Ventura Group (voc) Jackie Cain Birdland WABC ABC NY 7 Nov 1958 Symphony Sid live ad Symphony Sid ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 18 Sep 1948 How High The Moon Lester Young (voc) Ella Fitzgerald Royal Roost WMCA NY 27 Nov 1948

18 Oct Phantom Dancer – Mr Hook Says Join The 2SER Subscriber Drive

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Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #235 107.3 2SER Tuesday 18 October 2016 2SER Subscriber Drive Subscribe, support 2SER and win!  After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: 2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12 2SER Sunday 2SER 5 – 6pm ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 30 other stations. Set 1 Swing Orchestras on 1944 Radio Open + Whispering Gene Krupa Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ Mutual Network 11 Nov 1944 Speak Low Bob Chester Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 8 Oct 1944 Somebody Loves Me Harry James Orchestra (voc) Kitty Kallen Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KECA Blue Network LA 12 Aug 1944 Set 2 Jump Radio From 1956 Open + Lady Be Good Louis Jordan Tympani Five (voc) Dotti Smith ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Zardi’s KFI NBC LA 15 Jul 1956 Goodbye Song Frances Faye (voc / piano) and Trio ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Cameo WRCA NBC NY 5 Mar 1956 Go, Go, Go + The Moon Is Not Green The Treniers (voc) Count Basie Orchestra ‘Alan Freed’s Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ KFWB CBS LA 1956 Set 3 Up-Tempo Traditional Jazz on 1944-58 Radio Open + I’d Do Anything For You Henry Red Allen (organ) Claude Hopkins ‘Bandstand USA’ Metropole WOR Mutual NY 11 Jan 1958 Memphis Blues Wild Bill Davison ‘This Is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 17 May 1947 Ensemble Close Eddie Condon ‘Eddie Condon’s Jazz Concert’ Town Hall WJZ Blue NY 5 Mar 1945 Set 4 Electric Guitar on 1940-45 Radio Gone With What Wind Benny Goodman Quartet (Charlie Christian eg) Aircheck Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel Los Angeles 6 Apr 1940 Open + I’ve Got Plenty of Nuttin’ Les Paul Trio (Les Paul eg) ‘Les Paul Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast 27 May 1945 Isle of Capri + Close Gay Claridge Orchestra (Mary Osbourne eg) ‘One Night Stand’ Chez Paree Chicago 7 Aug 1944 Set 5 1943-44 Radio Swing Bands Take The A Train (theme) + Hayfoot Strawfoot Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘Bonds Rally’ WEAF NBC NY 1 May 1943 Honeysuckle Rose + Talk About Phoning and Giving Fats Waller ‘Personally, It’s Off The Record’ WABC CBS NY 23 Sep 1943 I’ve Got Plenty of Nuttin’ Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Ada Brown ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood early 1943 Million Dollar Smile Lionel Hampton Orchestra (voc) Dinah Washington ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 16 Oct 1944 Set 6 Woody Herman – The Man Who Plays The Blues 1940s-50s Radio 125th Street Prophet Woody Herman Orchestra ‘Old Gold Show’ WABC CBS NY 1944 Mabel, Mabel Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) WH ‘Woody Herman Show’ ABC Jun 1946 Businessmen’s Bounce Woody Herman Orchestra Blue Room Hotel Roosevelt WWL CBS New Orleans 10 Nov 1951 Woodchoppers Ball Woody Herman Third Herd ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Peony Park WOW NBC Omaha 1954 Set 7 Jazz Noir on Live 1930s-50s Late Night Wireless Horizon Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters Comm Rec Chicago 3 Apr 1941 Forgotten Harry James Orchestra ‘Call For Music’ KFI NBC LA 1948 My Inspiration Bob Crosby Orchestra ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 18 Jul 1939 Naked City Raymond Scott Orchestra WRCA NBC NY Jan 1956 Set 8 Stomping 1930s Radio Swing College Stomp Philippe Brun Swing Band Comm Rec Paris 28 Dec 1937 Chew, Chew Your Bubblegum Chick Webb Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald Southland Cafe WNAC NBC Red Boston 4 May 1939 The Yam Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 30 Aug 1938 Pagan Love Song + Close Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WEAF NBC Red NY 5 Oct 1939