Jazz Piano Billy Maxted – Phantom Dancer 8 Nov 2022

Billy Maxted, U.S jazz arranger, and pianist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He wrote for Benny Goodman, Red Nichols and Claude Thornhill and led his own Dixieland band in the 1950s which we’ll hear live on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week.

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BILLY

Maxted began his career in 1937 as a member of the Red Nichols big band, for which he wrote arrangements.

From 1940 he played with Teddy Powell, Ben Pollack and Will Bradley (1941-42).

After serving in the U.S. Navy he wrote arrangements for the big bands of Claude Thornhill and Benny Goodman.

He led a band with Ray Eberle (1947-48) and soon after led his own Manhattan Jazz Band, which played Dixieland with Bob Zurke on boogie-woogie piano.

He was house pianist at Nick’s club in Greenwich Village from 1949-1960 from where he did a weekly broadcast over NBC.

In the 1950s he recorded for MGM, Brunswick, Cadence, and Seeco.

In 1958, British bandleader Reg Owen had a major hit on the American charts with Maxted’s upbeat instrumental composition, “Manhattan Spiritual”, released on the Palette label.

His sidemen included trumpeter Chuck Forsyth, trombonist Lee Gifford, either Sol Pace or Dan Tracey on clarinet, and (by 1958) bass saxophonist Johnny Dengler.

In the 1960s, he recorded for K&H and Liberty and as a sideman for Bob Crosby, Pee Wee Erwin, and Red Nichols.

8 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #550
107.3 2SER Tuesday 8 November 2022 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 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Selling Bonds
Open + Trumpeter’s Lullaby	Ralph Marterie Orchestra	‘Treasury Show’ WBBM CBS Chicago 26 Dec 1954
Two Sleepy People	Ralph Marterie Orchestra	‘Treasury Show’ WBBM CBS Chicago 26 Dec 1954
Babysitter	Ralph Marterie Orchestra	‘Treasury Show’ WBBM CBS Chicago 26 Dec 1954
The Gal That Got Away	Ralph Marterie Orchestra (voc) Bill Walters	‘Treasury Show’ WBBM CBS Chicago 26 Dec 1954
Set 2	Coleman Hawkins
It’s the Talk of the Town	Coleman Hawkins Quartet	London House WBBM CBS Chicago 19 Jun 1963
Honeysuckle Rose + Close	Coleman Hawkins Quartet	London House WBBM CBS Chicago 19 Jun 1963
Set 3	Art Lowrey
Open + Almost Like Being in Love	Art Lowrey Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Chase AFRS Re-broadcast KMOX CBS St Louis 1957
The Girl Without a Name	Art Lowrey Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Chase AFRS Re-broadcast KMOX CBS St Louis 1957
Monterey + Begin the Beguine	Art Lowrey Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Chase AFRS Re-broadcast KMOX CBS St Louis 1957
April Love + Say No More	Art Lowrey Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Chase AFRS Re-broadcast KMOX CBS St Louis 1957
Set 4	Billy Maxted
Open + Tin Roof Blues (theme) + Tailgate Ramble	Billy Maxted and his Manhattan Jazz Band	‘One Night Stand’ Nick’s AFRS Re-broadcast WRCA-FM NBC NYC 1957
When the Saints Go Marching In	Billy Maxted and his Manhattan Jazz Band	‘One Night Stand’ Nick’s AFRS Re-broadcast WRCA-FM NBC NYC 1957
Set 5	1930s-40s German Dance Orks
Guter Mond	Hans Carste Orchestra (voc) Rudi Schuericke	Comm Rec Berlin 1940
Ich mache alles mit Musik	Kurt Wege Soloists	Comm Rec Berlin 1940
Bei dir war es immer so schön	Kurt Wege Soloists	Comm Rec Berlin 1938
Über die Dächer der großen Stadt	Hans Carste Orchestra (voc) Rudi Schuericke Terzett	Comm Rec Berlin 1939
Set 6	1930s Dance Bands
Down T’uncle Bill’s	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis	Radio Transcription NYC 14 Dec 1934
Stompin’ at the Savoy	Isham Jones Orchestra	WOR Mutual NYC 24 Jan 1936
Babs	The Inkspots	WEAF NBC Red NYC 9 Aug 1935
Whistling in the Dark	Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
Set 7	1940s Women Singers
Blue Rain	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Connie Morgan	‘Spotlight Bands’ Columbus OH Blue Network 19 Nov 1943
I Cover the Waterfront	Sarah Vaughn	‘Eddie Condon Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948
Love Me or Leave Me	Sarah Vaughn	‘Eddie Condon Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948
It Had to Be You + Rocking Chair (theme)	Mildred Bailey	‘Music till Midnight’ WABC CBS NYC 1944
Set 8	1960s Radio and TV Jazz
Chicago	Benny Goodman Trio	WNBC NBC TV NYC 21 Aug 1967
Sometimes I’m Happy	Tony Bennett (voc) Gene Krupa Trio	Radio Transcription 1963
I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles + Rose Room	Charlie Shavers Quartet	London House WBBM CBS  Chicago May 1962

Tadd Dameron – Phantom Dancer 1 Nov 2022

Tadd Dameron, U.S jazz composer, arranger, and pianist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He was the most influential arranger of the bebop era. He also wrote charts for swing and hard bop players.

The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week.

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TADD

Tadd Dameron arranged for Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Jimmie Lunceford, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughan.  His greatest influences were George Gershwin and Duke Ellington.

In 1940-41 he was the piano player and arranger for the Kansas City band Harlan Leonard and his Rockets. With lyricist Carl Sigman he wrote “If You Could See Me Now” for Sarah Vaughan and it became one of her first signature songs.

In the late 1940s, Dameron wrote arrangements for Gillespie’s big band, who gave the première of his large-scale orchestral piece Soulphony in Three Hearts at Carnegie Hall in 1948.

That same year, as you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer, Dameron led his own group in New York, which included Fats Navarro.

In 1949 he was at the Paris Jazz Festival playing piano for  Miles Davis.

From 1961 he scored recordings by Milt Jackson, Sonny Stitt, and Blue Mitchell.

He arranged and played for rhythm and blues musician Bull Moose Jackson. Playing for Jackson at that same time was Benny Golson, who was to become a jazz composer in his own right. Golson has said that Dameron was the most important influence on his writing.

DAMERON

Dameron composed several bop and swing standards, including “Hot House”, “If You Could See Me Now”, “Our Delight”, “Good Bait” (composed for Count Basie) and “Lady Bird”.

His bands from the late 1940s and early 1950s featured leading players such as Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, Wardell Gray, and Clifford Brown. 

LATER

In 1956 he led two sessions based on his compositions, released as the 1956 album “Fontainebleau” and the 1957 album “Mating Call”. The latter featured John Coltrane.

Dameron developed a drug addiction by the end of his career. He was arrested on drug charges in 1957 and 1958, and served time (1959–60) in a federal prison hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.

After his release, Dameron recorded a single notable project as a leader, The Magic Touch, but was sidelined by health problems. He had several heart attacks before dying of cancer in 1965, at the age of 48. 

1 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #568
107.3 2SER Tuesday 1 November 2022 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 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Count Basie
Open + One O’Clock Jump (theme) + Dinah	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 2 Oct 1945
Baby, Won’t You Pleae Come Home?	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 2 Oct 1945
Basie Boogie	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 2 Oct 1945
Rock-a-Bye Basie	Count Basie Orchestra (ts) Illinois Jacquet	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 2 Oct 1945
Set 2	Selling Soft Drink
Coca Cola Waltz (theme) + Instrumental	Walter Blaufuss and the The Refreshment Club Orchestra	‘The Refreshment Club’ Radio Transcription Chicago 23 Nov 1936
Running a Temperature + Stepping Out to the Opera	Joan and The Escorts	‘The Refreshment Club’ Radio Transcription Chicago 23 Nov 1936
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love	Helen Jane Balke	‘The Refreshment Club’ Radio Transcription Chicago 23 Nov 1936
Tom Tom’s Drum + Sing, Baby, Sing + Close	Walter Blaufuss and the The Refreshment Club Orchestra	‘The Refreshment Club’ Radio Transcription Chicago 23 Nov 1936
Set 3	Benny Goodman
So In Love	Benny Goodman Orchestra  (voc) Terri Swopes	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Mar 1949
Blue Lou	Benny Goodman Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Mar 1949
Don’t Worry About Me	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Buddy Greco	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Mar 1949
El Greco + Let’s Dance (theme)	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Mar 1949
Set 4	Tadd Dameron
Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid (theme) + The Squirrel	Tadd Dameron Quintet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 28 Aug 1948
Good Bait + Anthropology	Tadd Dameron Quintet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 28 Aug 1948
Kitchenette Across the Hall	Tadd Dameron Quintet (voc) Pancho Kenny Hagood	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 28 Aug 1948
Rifftide (Lady Be Good) + Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid (theme)	Tadd Dameron Quintet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 28 Aug 1948
Set 5	Trad Jazz
These Foolish Things	Joe Bushkin (piano) Benny Morton (tb)	‘Eddie Condon Floor Show’ WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948
Someday	Louis Armstrong	Wintergarden Theatre WNBC NBC NYC 19 Jun 1947
Indiana	Billy Butterfield	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ Blue Network 27 Jan 1945
Riverside Blues	Muggsy Spanier	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 11 Apr 1953
Set 6	The Golden Seven
Darf ich bitten	Die Goldene Sieben	Comm Rec Berlin Apr 1936
Granada (In a Little Spanish Town)	Die Goldene Sieben	Comm Rec Berlin May 1938
Oh! Aha!	Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Rudi Schuericke Terzett	Comm Rec Berlin Feb 1939
Die Uhr Schlaegt 8	Die Goldene Sieben	Comm Rec Berlin Apr 1938
Set 7	1930s Swing
Do the New York	Gus Arnheim Orchestra	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1931
The Music Goes Round and Round	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 19 Jan 1936
Moten Swing + King Poeter Stomp	Count Basie Orchestra	Chatterbox Hotel William Penn WCAE NBC Red Pittsburgh 10 Jan 1937
You Turned the Tables on Me + Song is Ended (theme)	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription NYC 1937
Set 8	Modern Jazz
Four in a Bar	Paul Baron Sextet	‘Music til Midnight’ WABC CBS NYC 1944
Ridin’ High	Benny Goodman orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald	‘Texaco Show’ NBC TV 9 Apr 1957
Undecided (theme) + st Louis Blues	Charlie Shavers Quartet	‘London House’ WBBM CBS Chicago May 1962

Blues – 2SER Radiothon Wk 2 Tues – Phantom Dancer 18 Oct 2022

St Louis Blues features on this Tuesday’s annual 2SER radiothon Phantom Dancer. Time to subscribe and support 2SER community radio. Now is your moment to win great prizes when you pledge your support to 2SER which has been bringing you The Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton since 1985.

You’ll hear W.C Handy himself talk about St Louis Blues and play it on trumpet on a radio broadcast from 1940 on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

St Louis Blues with Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars (Edmond Hall clarinet solo, Trummy Young trombone) and the Lewisohn Stadium Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein With W.C Handy (composer in hat) watching. From 1956…

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W.C Handy playing St Louis Blues on the Ed Sullivan TV Show in 1948…

BIG BANDS

“The Saint Louis Blues” (or “St. Louis Blues“) is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914.

It was one of the first blues songs to succeed as a pop song and remains a fundamental part of jazz musicians’ repertoire (including mine).

The song has been called “the jazzman’s Hamlet“.

Here’s the St Louis Blues featured in the 1929 short ‘St Louis Blues’ starring Bessie Smith…

W.C. Handy said he had been inspired to compose the song by a chance meeting with a woman on the streets of St. Louis, Missouri, distraught over her husband’s absence. She lamented, “Ma man’s got a heart like a rock cast in de sea”, a key line of the song.^[7] Handy’s autobiography recounts his hearing the tune in St. Louis in 1892: “It had numerous one-line verses and they would sing it all night.”

The form of St Louis Blues is unusual in that the verses are the now-familiar standard twelve-bar blues in common time with three lines of lyrics, the first two lines repeated, but it also has a 16-bar bridge written in the habanera rhythm, characterized by Handy as tango. The tango-like rhythm is notated as a dotted quarter note followed by an eighth note and two quarter notes, with no slurs or ties.

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While blues often became simple and repetitive in form, “Saint Louis Blues” has multiple complementary and contrasting strains, similar to classic ragtime compositions.

Handy said his objective in writing the song was “to combine ragtime syncopation with a real melody in the spiritual tradition.”

Writing about the first time “Saint Louis Blues” was played (1914), Handy noted that

The one-step and other dances had been done to the tempo of “Memphis Blues” … When “St Louis Blues” was written the tango was in vogue. I tricked the dancers by arranging a tango introduction, breaking abruptly into a low-down blues. My eyes swept the floor anxiously, then suddenly I saw lightning strike. The dancers seemed electrified. Something within them came suddenly to life. An instinct that wanted so much to live, to fling its arms to spread joy, took them by the heels.

The first audio recording of “Saint Louis Blues” was by the house band at Columbia Records, directed by Charles A. Prince in December 1915. You can hear it below…

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“When sponsorship of events abruptly evaporated at the start of the pandemic, our subscribers helped us stay afloat. When lightning struck our antenna three years ago, our donors got us right back on air”, said Danny. “So we love our family and we’re really excited to be reconnecting again”

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Here’s that first recording of St Louis Blues from 1915…

18 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

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107.3 2SER Saturday 18 October 2022 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 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 2RDJ Burwood Wednesday 12 – 1pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am -12 noon 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	St Louis Blues
St Louis Blues	Keith Atkinson (cl) Wally Portingale  Orchestra	‘Aermy on Parade’ 2CH AWA Network Sydney Oct 1943
St Louis Blues	W,C Handy (tp) with Henry Levine’s Dixieland Octet	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NYC16 Jun 1940
St Louis Blues	Charlie and his Orchestra	RRG Berlin 1941
St Louis Blues	Wild Bill Davison	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NYC 10 May 1947
Set 2	St Louis Blues
St Louis Blues	Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith (piano solo) Joe Grasso (d)	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 24 Jun 1944
St Louis Blues (Le Tristezze di San Luigi)	Pippo Barzizza Orchestra (voc) Trio Lescano	Comm Rec Rome 1937
St Louis Blues	Gus Arhheim Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
Set 3	St Louis Blues
St Louis Blues	Paul Whiteman Orchestra (tb) Jack Teagarden	‘Paul whiteman’s Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 16 Feb 1936
St Louis Blues	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca 3 Jan 1947
St Louis Blues	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription NYC 1937
St Louis Blues	Die Goldene Sieben	Comm Rec Berlin Nov 1937
Set 4	St Louis Blues
St Louis Blues	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing	Chatterbox Hotel Penn WCAE NBC Red Pittsburgh 8 Feb 1937
St Louis Blues	Fats Waller	Aircheck Yacht Club NYC 14 Oct 1938
St Louis Blues	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NYC 28 Nov 1939
St Louis Blues	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WEAF NBC Red NYC 19 Oct 1939
Set 5	St Louis Blues
St Louis Blues	Roy Eldridge Orchestra	Aircheck Arcadia Ballroom NYC 1939
St Louis Blues	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Johnny Mercer	Fox Theatre KMOX CBS St Louis 9 May 1939
St Louis Blues	Mildred Bailey (voc) Blue Barron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NYC 1944
St Louis Blues	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert”WJZ Blue NYC 27 Jan 1945
Set 6	St Louis Blues
St Louis Blues	Louis Prima Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mitchell Field Long Island WOR Mutual NYC 15 Jan 1945
St Louis Blues	Benny Goodman Sexter	‘The Benny Goodman Show’ Hollywood 7 Oct 1946
St Louis Blues	Louis Armstrong All-Stars	‘Damon Runyon Memorial Jazz Concert’ WENR ABC Chicago 11 Dec 1948
St Louis Blues	Muggsy Spanier	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 18 Apr 1953
Set 7	St Louis Blues
St Louis Blues	Charlie Shavers Quartet	London House WBBM CBS Chicago May 1962
Set 8	St Louis Blues

Big Bands – 2SER Radiothon Wk 1 Sat – Phantom Dancer 15 Oct 2022

Big Bands feature on this Saturday’s live Phantom Dancer – live because it’s the annual 2SER radiothon. Now is your moment to win great prizes when you pledge your support to this community radio station. 2SER has been bringing you The Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton since 1985.

The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week.

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BIG BANDS

Big bands are jazz orchestras usually consisting of ten or more musicians with three sections: reeds, brass and rhythm.

Originating in the early 1910s and dominating jazz into the early 1950s, big band describes a genre of pop music.

Big bands started as accompaniment for dancing. In contrast to the typical jazz emphasis on improvisation, big bands relied on written compositions and arrangements.

Big bands in the 1920s – 1930s, typically had two or three trumpets, one or two trombones, three or four saxophones doubling clarinet and flute, and a rhythm section of double bass, piano, guitar and drum kit.

In the 1940s, Stan Kenton’s band used up to five trumpets, five trombones (three tenor and two bass trombones), five saxophones (two alto saxophones, two tenor saxophones, one baritone saxophone), and a rhythm section.

Duke Ellington at one time used six trumpets. Boyd Raeburn drew from symphony orchestras by adding flute, French horn, strings and timpani to his band.

In the early 1940s, the big bands of Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Les Brown, Artie Shaw, Glen Miller and more, added violins and cellos – ‘strings’.

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From Oct 7 to 21 the station takes a break from regular programming to celebrate everything that makes 2SER great! The music, the talks and, most importantly, the 2SER family! Under the theme of We Are Family, we’ll be asking everyone to become financial subscribers or to donate.

2SER Breakfast presenter, Danny Chifley, said ”Subscribers and donors are so important for the station – they help us maintain our independence and provide us with some stability in an ever-shifting cultural and economic environment”

“When sponsorship of events abruptly evaporated at the start of the pandemic, our subscribers helped us stay afloat. When lightning struck our antenna three years ago, our donors got us right back on air”, said Danny. “So we love our family and we’re really excited to be reconnecting again”

Anyone who subscribes during radiothon goes into the draw for incredible prizes including a vintage turntable and record voucher from Egg Records, Newtown or a Complete Studio Kit from RØDE that contains everything you need to make professional, studio-quality recordings at home. There’s also small business subscriber prizes including an Atomic Brewery Dinner and Drinks for 10 people.

Between 7 and 21 October call 9514 9500 or get online at 2ser.com and join the family!

15 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

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107.3 2SER Saturday 15 October 2022 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 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 2RDJ Burwood Wednesday 12 – 1pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am -12 noon 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Big Bands
Theme + Instrumental	Gay Claridge Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast Chez Paree Chicago 15 Oct 1945
Cirribirribin (theme) + Loveless Love	Harry James Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca 29 Jun 1944
What a Drag	Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Fats Daniels	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca 24 Oct 1945
You’re Blase	Sonny Dunham Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast Palladium Ballroom Hollywood Ca 1 Aug 1944
Set 2	Big Bands
I Was Here When You Left	Cab Calloway Orchesta (voc) Dottie Salters	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast New Zanzibar Cafe NYC Jul 1945
Theme + Hop, Skip and a Jump	Gene Krupa Orchestra (voc) Carolyn Raye	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca 31 Mar 1946
Out of This World + Black Orchid	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Frances Wayne	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC 23 Aug 1945
Set 3	Big Bands
Full Moon and Empty Arms	Buddy Morrow Orchestra (voc) Carl Denny	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast Blue Room Hotel Lincoln NYC 27 May 1945
Redskin Rumba (theme) + Murder at Peyton Hall	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca 3 Jan 1947
All of Me	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Claire Hogan	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC 7 Apr 1949
Golden Earrings	Del Courtney Orchestra (voc) Gil Vester	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast Rose Room Palace Hotel San Francisco 7 Jan 1948
Set 4	Big Bands
Dancing Tambourine	Ralph Flanagan Orchestra (voc) Band	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC 26 Sep 1950
Theme + I’m a Fool to Want You	Art Wayner Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast The Latin Quarter NYC 31 Jul 1951
Autumn Leaves	Ray Anthony Orchestra (voc) The Skyliners and Ray Deauville	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler NYC 12 Dec 1950
Johnny, Won’t You Stay Awhile? + Blue Champagne + I Only Have Eyes For You	Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Betty Clark	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast Palladium Ballroom Hollywood Ca 20 Nov 1951
Set 5	Big Bands
Set 6	Big Bands
Set 7	Big Bands
Set 8	Big Bands

2SER Radiothon Wk 1 Honeysuckle Rose – Phantom Dancer 11 Oct 2022

2SER Radiothon comes by but 2 weeks a year. It’s your chance to win great prizes when you pledge your support to this community radio station. 2SER has been bringing you The Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton since 1985. This week’s show is a Honeysuckle Rose-a-thon – all from vinyl 1930s-60s radio transcriptions.

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HONEYSUCKLE ROSE

Honeysuckle Rose is a 1929 song composed by Fats Waller with lyrics by Andy Razaf -written in Razaf’s home in Asbury New Jersey. It was introduced in the 1929 Off-Broadway revue “Load of Coal” at Connie’s Inn as a soft-shoe dance number.

Jazz is all about improvisation. And on this week’s Phantom Dancer, while you’re subscribing to 2SER, I’ll be playing as many versions of Honeysuckle Rose as I can from 1930s-60s radio

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11 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINESUBSCRIBE Community Radio Network Show CRN #565
107.3 2SER Tuesday 11 October 2022 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 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 2RDJ Burwood Wednesday 12 – 1pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am -12 noon 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Honeysuckle Rose
Honeysuckle Rose	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NYC 24 May 1938
Honeysuckle Rose	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NYC 4 Apr 1939
Honeysuckle Rose	Benny Goodman Quartet	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NYC 18 Jan 1938
Honeysuckle Rose	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Aircheck 9 Oct 1943
Set 2	Honeysuckle Rose
Honeysuckle Rose	Benny Goodman Quintet (voc) Kay Starr	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Jan 1948
Honeysuckle Rose	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red NYC 5 Jan 1935
Honeysuckle Rose	Bunny Berrigan, Bud Freeman, teddy Wilson, Joe Marsala, Stan King	‘A Demonstration of a Modern Form of Music’ Aircheck 12 Mar 1936
Set 3	Honeysuckle Rose
Honeysuckle Rose	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Apollo Theatre WJZ ABC NY 30 Jun 1945
Honeysuckle Rose	Henry Busse Orchestra (voc) Lenny Cohn	Radio Transcription 1935
Honeysuckle Rose	Fletcher Henderson Orchestra (voc) Lena Horne	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Honeysuckle Rose	Harry James Orchestra (g) Allen Reuss	Aircheck 1943
Set 4	Honeysuckle Rose
Honeysuckle Rose	Harry James Octet	Aircheck 1950
Honeysuckle Rose	Joe Haymes Orchestra	Grill Room Hotel McAlpen WABC CBS NYC 29 Jan 1935
Honeysuckle Rose	Jay McShann Orchestra	KFBI Witchita Falls, Kansas 2 Dec 1940
Honeysuckle Rose	Fats Waller	Aircheck 1930s
Set 5	Honeysuckle Rose
Honeysuckle Rose	Fats Waller	Aircheck 14 Oct 1938
Honeysuckle Rose	Leo Watson & John Kirby Sextet	‘Rudy Vallee Show’ WEAF NBC Red NYC 24 Mar 1939
Honeysuckle Rose	International Sweethearts of Rhythm	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945
Honeysuckle Rose	Louis Armstrong et al	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ Blue NYC 16 Jan 1944.
Set 6	Honeysuckle Rose
Honeysuckle Rose	Django Reinhardt (g) ATC Rhythm	AFN Paris 26 Oct 1945
Honeysuckle Rose	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 24 Feb 1945
Honeysuckle Rose	Django Reinhardt (g) ATC Rhythm with alto sax	‘Beaucoup de Music’ AFN Paris 1 Dec 1945
Honeysuckle Rose
Set 7	Honeysuckle Rose
Set 8	Honeysuckle Rose

Lenny Herman and 1950s Lounge Music – Phantom Dancer 4 Oct 2022

Lenny Herman accordionist and xylophonist led what was dubbed ‘The Mightiest Little Band in the Land’ in the 1940s and 50s. For fans of 1950s Lounge Music albums, here’s one of those bent easy listening orchestras live on 1948 and 1957 radio as this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.

The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week.

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LENNY

Lenny was a ‘best-seller on stereophonic tape’ (he released songs on reel-to-reel tape) and a band with bright party-like LP album covers from the 1950s beloved of record bin hunters with a penchant for the staidly wacky.

The Lenny Herman Quintet that you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer airchecks:

Lenny Herman – Accordion, Vibraphone, And Vocals
Alan Shurr – Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, And Vocals
Charles Shaw – Piano, Celeste, And Organ
Earl “Gumpy” Comfort – Violin, String Bass, And Vocals
Stan Scott – Drums

Lenny Herman’s legacy has been dumped on from great heights by contemporary music reviewers such as Eugene Chadbourne who wrote in All-Music:

“Lenny Herman is sometimes described as a jazz bandleader of the ’40s and ’50s, yet his band bus was really more of a bandwagon, using the latter word in terms of a fad or flavor of the day.

He got in early on [sic], covering “Daddy’s Little Girl” in 1947, and not with the shroud that might have really been appropriate with this anthem of treacle. Alternate publications of the sheet music for this song featured photographs of artists who recorded it; the version with the Lennie Herman Quintet describes the group as “Latin-American.” Despite this stylistic designation the small combo was also featured on a recording of “Grandfather’s Clock” the year before.

Herman also took charge of much larger groups, building a reputation as a big-band leader that eventually eclipsed that of the quintet, if a word as mighty as “eclipsed” can be used to describe something more like a radar blip than a super nova.

He recorded orchestra sides such as “When You Fall in Love” for Decca and a nifty red vinyl 45 entitled “Mightiest Lil’ Band in the Land.” During the early ’50s Herman was on the front line of the new trends in commercial children’s music, waving a diaper like a flag of surrender.

He used the quintet to cut “Percy the Pale Faced Polar Bear” in 1951 and eventually had enough tracks for tots and tykes to tote up the early-’60s Family Album LP, also featuring singer Ginny Gibson. The 1957 Dance Party showcases Herman’s talents on both accordion and xylophone, the set list consisting mostly of Tin Pan Alley hits.”

The reviewer, Eugene Chadbourne, and his Electric Rake…

HERMAN

Lenny gets a fairer review in musicbio.org:

“Although generally uncelebrated during his career being a band head, Lenny Herman made a substantial contribution towards the dance band music of NY, USA, from the first 50s onwards.

Located in hotels like the Astor, Edison, Roosevelt, Waldorf-Astoria and New Yorker, his small band, frequently dubbed ‘The Mightiest Small Music group In The Property’, etched an absolute impression over the night time dancers of these establishments with music such as for example ‘No Foolin’’.

Led by Herman’s accordion playing, the music group, which hardly ever numbered a lot more than ten and sometimes significantly less than eight, also discovered engagements additional afield in Philadelphia (the Warwick Resort), Atlantic Town (the Straymore Resort), Virginia Seaside (the Cavalier Resort) and Dallas (the Baker Resort).

With the middle-60s the music group had moved completely towards the Lake Tahoe region, where the right now five or six solid ensemble gained its living playing to combined audiences in the resort hotels.”

So now enjoy Lenny Herman on this week’s Phantom Dancer in airchecks from 1948 and 1957…

4 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #565
107.3 2SER Tuesday 4 October 2022 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 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 2RDJ Burwood Wednesday 12 – 1pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am -12 noon 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Tex Beneke
Moonlight Serenade (theme) + Uncle Remus	Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Tex Beneke, Jenny O’Conner and the Mellowlarks	‘March of Dimes’ Radio Transcription 1 Dec 1946
Falling Leaves	Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra	‘March of Dimes’ Radio Transcription 1 Dec 1946
Somewhere in the Night	Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Gary Stevens	‘March of Dimes’ Radio Transcription 1 Dec 1946
Give Me Five Minutes More + Moonlight Serenade (theme)	Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Tex Beneke	‘March of Dimes’ Radio Transcription 1 Dec 1946
Set 2	Your Hit Parade
Intro + I’m Gunna Love That Guy + It’s Gotta Be This or That	Joan Edwards	‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Oct 1945
I’ll Buy That Dream	The Hit Paraders	‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Oct 1945
On The Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe	Dick Todd	‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Oct 1945
Set 3	Latin Rhythms
My Shawl (theme) + In a Little Spanish Town	Xavier Cugat Orchestra	Roseland Ballroom WABC ABC NY 1958
Rhumba	Xavier Cugat Orchestra	Roseland Ballroom WABC ABC NY 1958
Besume	Xavier Cugat Orchestra	Roseland Ballroom WABC ABC NY 1958
Rhumba	Xavier Cugat Orchestra	Roseland Ballroom WABC ABC NY 1958
Set 4	Lenny Herman
Cecilia	Lenny Herman Quintet	Golden Thread Room Hotel New Yorker WCBS CBS NYC 1957
Kisses Are Better Than Roses	Lenny Herman Quintet (voc) Alan Shurr	Golden Thread Room Hotel New Yorker WCBS CBS NYC 1957
Don’t Forbid Me	Lenny Herman Quintet (voc) The Hermanaires	Golden Thread Room Hotel New Yorker WCBS CBS NYC 1957
Noon Balloon to Rangoon + In Ol’ Kalua (theme)	Lenny Herman Quintet	Hotel Astor WNBC NBC NYC 25 Jun 1948
Set 5	Western Swing
Does My Baby Love Me, Yes Sir!	Jimmie Revard and his Oklahoma Playboys	Comm Rec San Antonio TX 14 Sep 1937
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home	W. Lee O’Daniel (voc) Texas Rose	Comm Rec Dallas TX 15 May 1938
Sam the Old Accordian Man	Adolph Hofner and His Texans	Comm Rec Dallas TX 13 Feb 1940
Get Hot	W. Lee O’Daniel	Comm Rec San Antonio TX 21 Nov 1936
Set 6	Tommy Dorsey
Swing Low Sweet Chariot	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Bob Allen	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ 11 Feb 1941
I Dream of You	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Bob Allen	‘For the Record’ WEAF NBC Red NYC 17 Apr 1944
Always in My Heart	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra	‘Raleigh Show’ Capitol Theatre WJSV CBS Washington DC 18 Aug 1942
Losers Weepers	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 26 Nov 1940
Set 7	Lester Young
Lullaby of Birdland (theme) + Three Little Words	Lester Young Quintet	Birdland WABC ABC NYC 5 Sep 1956
How High the Moon	Lester Young Jam Session (voc) Ella Fitzgerald	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WMCA NYC 27 Nov 1948
Set 8	Blues & Cool
Empty Bed Blues + Love My Baby + Improvised Blues + Theme	Johnny Otis Orchestra and Jubilee All-Stars (voc) Ivie Anderson + Joe Turner	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1945
I’ll Remember April	Dave Brubeck Quartet	Aircheck Jan 1954

Chiemi Eri and 1950s Japanese Jazz – Phantom Dancer 27 Sept 2022

Chiemi Eri was a Japanese actor and singer of folk songs and jazz. She is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist, on which she even sings a Turkish folk song.

Japanese Jazz TV from 1960 with vocal duo, The Peanut Sisters…

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Chiemi Eri sings Come On To My House from a Japanese movie…

ERI

Chiemi Eri (江利 チエミ, Eri Chiemi, was born as Chiemi Kubo (久保 智恵美, Kubo Chiemi) in Tokyo.

In 1951 she started her singing career at the age of 14 with her recording of “Tennessee Waltz.”

She sang mostly traditional Japanese songs and some American songs such as “Jambalaya” and “Come on-a My House” backed by saxophonist Nobuo Hara’s Orchestra. She sang the latter in three movies.

NHK TV Variety Show from Feb 1965, ‘Let’s Meet in a Dream’…

CHIEMI

Chiemi was one of Japan’s best-known singers in the 1950s-60s-70s and also appeared in numerous television shows from the early 1950s until just before her accidental death in 1984.

She sang with the Count Basie Orchestra and you’ll hear in concert recordings of two songs she sang with Basie, ‘Our Love is Here to Stay’ and ‘The Carioca’.

27 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #564
107.3 2SER Tuesday 27 September 2022 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 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 2RDJ Burwood Wednesday 12 – 1pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am -12 noon 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Tommy Tucker
My Heart Sings	Tommy Tucker Orchestra (voc) Don Brown and the Three Two-Timers	‘Spotlight Bands’ North Chicago Blue Network 11 Jan 1945
Comin’ Round the Corner	Tommy Tucker Orchestra (voc) Don Brown and the Three Two-Timers	‘Spotlight Bands’ North Chicago Blue Network 11 Jan 1945
There Goes That Song Again	Tommy Tucker Orchestra (voc) Don Brown	‘Spotlight Bands’ North Chicago Blue Network 11 Jan 1945
Brass Hat + I Love You (theme)	Tommy Tucker Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ North Chicago Blue Network 11 Jan 1945
Set 2	World Jazz Series
Intro + Drum Boogie	Louis Armstrong + Gene Krupa Trio	‘World Jazz Series’ Madison Square Garden WCBS CBS NYC 5 Jun 1960
Record Rap	Louis Armstrong	‘World Jazz Series’ Madison Square Garden WCBS CBS NYC 5 Jun 1960
Unnannounced	Dizzy Gillespie	‘World Jazz Series’ Madison Square Garden WCBS CBS NYC 5 Jun 1960
Set 3	Meredith Willson conducts
Who’s Dream Are You? (theme) + Ain’t Misbehavin’	Armed Forces Radio Orchestra	AFRS Hollywood 1944
Nagasaki + Ta-Ra-Ra-Bomm-De-Ay + Zing Went the Strings of My Heart	Armed Forces Radio Orchestra	AFRS Hollywood 1944
I’ll Never Be The Same + Rosalita + Talk of the Town	Armed Forces Radio Orchestra	AFRS Hollywood 1944
Melancholy Baby + Tea for Two + Wildflower + Through the Years	Armed Forces Radio Orchestra	AFRS Hollywood 1944
Set 4	Chiemi Eri
Stardust	Chiemi Eri (voc) Hiroshi Watanabe and his Star Dusters	‘Sunday  Jazz Concert’ Sankei Hall, Tokyo 15 Apr 1956
Walking My Baby Back Home	Chiemi Eri (voc) Nobuo Hara and Sharps & Flats	Comm Rec Tokyo 1953
Uskudara	Chiemi Eri (voc) Nobuo Hara and Sharps & Flats	Comm Rec Tokyo 1954
Our Love is Here to Stay + Carioca	Chiemi Eri (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	Comm Rec Tokyo 8 Jun 1963
Set 5	1940s Swing
Gin Mill Special	International Sweethearts of Rhythm	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945
Bonne-Intermezzo	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 3 Jan 1947
Jean	Russ Morgan Orchestra	Hotel Claremont San Francisco 11 Jul 1945
Dinah + Gypsy Love Song	Cab Calloway Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS re-broadcast Cafe Zanzibar New York City 16 Jul 1945
Set 6	Eddie Condon
I Got Rhythm	Eddie Condon Group	‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 5 Aug 1944
Blues Round My Head	Eddie Condon Group (voc and cl) Woody Herman	‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 27 Jan 1945
Back Home Again in Indiana	Eddie Condon Group (tp) Billy Butterfield	‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 27 Jan 1945
Wolverine Blues + Ensemble Blues	Eddie Condon Group	‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 15 Jul 1944
Set 7	Artie Shaw
Non-Stop Flight	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 27 Sep 1938
Snug As a Bug in a Rug	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 17 Mar 1939
This Is It	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 31 Jan 1939
Serenade to a Savage	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Comm Rec Hollywood 22 Jun 1939
Set 8	Blues & Cool
S.K Blues	Joe Turner (voc) Johnny Otis Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1945
Empty Bed Blues + Love My Baby + Improvised Blues + Theme	Johnny Otis Orchestra and Jubilee All-Stars (voc) Ivie Anderson + Joe Turner	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1945
I’ll Remember April	Dave Brubeck Quartet	Aircheck Jan 1954

Charlie Shavers Teenage Prodigy – Phantom Dancer 16 Aug 2022

Charlie Shavers was an American jazz trumpeter. He played with Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, Sidney Bechet, Midge Williams, Tommy Dorsey. and Billie Holiday. He was also an arranger and composer. One of his songs, “Undecided”, is a jazz standard.

Charlie Shavers and his trumpet on radio in the 1960s…

The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week.

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Charlie Shavers on the 1967 WCBS CBS TV NYC show, “Dail M for Music”…

YOUNG SHAVER

Charlie Shavers palyed piano and banjo before switching to trumpet.

Before the age of 16, in the mid-1930s, he was playing in the orchestras of Tiny Bradshaw and Lucky Millinder.

Aged 15, in 1935, he played in the trumpet section of Frankie Fairfax’s Campus Club Orchestra with Dizzy Gillespie and Carl (Bama) Warwick.

In 1936, he joined John Kirby’s Sextet as trumpet soloist and arranger. He was only 16, but gave his birth date as 1917 (he was born in 1920) to avoid child labor laws.

Shavers’s arrangements and solos helped make Kirby’s band one of the most commercially successful and imitated of its day. In 1937, he performed with Midge Williams and her Jazz Jesters.

Charlie Shavers on a 1950s Dorsey Brothers Stage Show…

YOUNG BLADE

In 1944, Shavers was playing sessions in Raymond Scott’s CBS staff orchestra, which you’ll here on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

He left John Kirby’s band in 1945 to join Tommy Dorsey’s Orchestra, with whom he toured and recorded, off and on, until Dorsey died in 1956.

In 1949, he sang and played the hit “The Hucklebuck” with the Dorsey Orchestra. You’ll hear him sing “Mt Daddy’s Got The Gleeks” with the Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra in 1956 on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

He played with the Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra on all “Stage Show” telecasts for CBS in the 1950s.

During this time he also appeared with the Metronome All-Stars and made a number of recordings as trumpet soloist with Billie Holiday.

From 1953 to 1954, he worked with Benny Goodman and toured Europe with Norman Granz’s popular Jazz at the Philharmonic series, where he was a crowd favorite. He formed his own band with Terry Gibbs and Louie Bellson.

Shavers died from throat cancer in New York in 1971 at the age of 50. His friend Louis Armstrong died while Shavers was on his deathbed, and his last request was that his trumpet mouthpiece be buried with Armstrong.

Charlie Shavers with the Benny Goodman Orchestra playing Sing, Sing, Sing on the Sid Caesar TV Show, 1 Nov 1954…

16 AUGUST PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #559
107.3 2SER Tuesday 16 August 2022 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 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 2RDJ Burwood Wednesday 12 – 1pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am -12 noon 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Larry Clinton
Dipsy Doodle (theme) + Shh! Don’t Look Now	Larry Clinton Orchestra (voc) Bea Wain and Ford Leery	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 9 Feb 1939
Night Shades	Larry Clinton Orchestra (voc) Bea Wain	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 9 Feb 1939
Strictly for the Persians	Larry Clinton Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 9 Feb 1939
Get Outta Town + half time announcement	Larry Clinton Orchestra (voc) Bea Wain	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 9 Feb 1939
Set 2	Johnny Messner
Can’t We Be Friends (theme) + Moonlight Masquerade	Johnny Messner Orchestra (voc) Jack Ryan	Marine Grill Hotel McAlpin WOR Mutual NYC 7 Dec 1941
Mamma Maria	Johnny Messner Orchestra (voc) The 3 Jacks	Marine Grill Hotel McAlpin WOR Mutual NYC 7 Dec 1941
Madeleine	Johnny Messner Orchestra (voc) Jack Ryan	Marine Grill Hotel McAlpin WOR Mutual NYC 7 Dec 1941
Pearl Harbour Attack News	WOR News Room	Marine Grill Hotel McAlpin WOR Mutual NYC 7 Dec 1941
Set 3	Kay Kyser
I’m Sitting on Top of the World	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines	Radio Transcription 1934
Going Home	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines (voc) Glee Club	Radio Transcription 1934
Jungle Drums	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines	Radio Transcription 1934
Who’s Going to Take Me Home?	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines (voc) Kay Kyser,  Mohan Boag, Sully Mason and Band	Radio Transcription 1934
Set 4	Charlie Shavers
Theme + I Never Knew	Raymond Scott’s Capitivators	‘Morning Music’ WABC CBS NYC 10 Jan 1943
What is this Thing Called Love	Charlie Shavers Quartet	London House WBBM CBS Chicago May 1962
Your Daddy’s Got the Gleeks	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc and tp) Charlie Shavers	Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 May 1940
I Want a Little Girl + Bernie’s Tune	Charlie Shavers Quartet	London House WBBM CBS Chicago May 1962
Set 5	Phil Napoleon
Medley including Ballin’ the Jack	Phil Napoleon and his Memphis Five	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS re-broadcast Nick’s New York City 20 Jul 1949
Runnin’ Wild	Phil Napoleon and his Memphis Five	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS re-broadcast Nick’s New York City 20 Jul 1949
The Alligator Crawl	Hank Duncan (piano)	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS re-broadcast Nick’s New York City 20 Jul 1949
Up a Lazy River + Close	Phil Napoleon and his Memphis Five	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS re-broadcast Nick’s New York City 20 Jul 1949
Set 6	1938-39 Artie Shaw
Nightmare – opening theme + You’re Mine You	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NYC 20 Oct 1939
Nightmare – mid program theme + My Reverie	Artie Shaw Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WJZ NBC Blue NYC 25 Nov 1938
Moonray	Artie Shaw Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NYC 22 Oct 1939
Jungle Drums	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WJZ NBC Blue NYC 30 Dec 1938
Set 7	Big Stars
You’re Just in Love	Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong, Thelma Middleton	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription 12 Dec 1954
Two O’Clock Jump	Harry James Octet	Aircheck 1950s
Clarinet a la King	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Aircheck Virginia Beach 3 Sep 1949
Not Really the Blues	Woody Herman Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Roosevelt WWL CBS New Orleans 20 Oct 1951
Set 8	1950s Jazz
Theme + Sweet Georgia Brown	Roy Eldridge Quintet	‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NYC Mar 1957
When Your Lover Has Gone + Theme	Erroll Garner Trio	Storyville WHDH Boston Dec 1953
Little Girl Blue	Shelly Manne Quartet	Basin street WCBS CBS NYC 1956

Bud Freeman Schoolboy Jazz Star – Phantom Dancer 9 Aug 2022

Bud Freeman was an American jazz musician, bandleader and composer. He is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Bud Freeman was one of the first tenor saxophonists in jazz along with Coleman Hawkins.

The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week.

LISTEN to this week’s Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 9 August) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

SCHOOL

Freeman was one of the young musicians inspired by New Orleans ensembles and the innovations of Louis Armstrong to synthesize the Chicago style in the late 1920s.

He was one of the ‘Austin High Gang’.

One hundred years ago, in 1922, five kids from Austin High School in Chicago, Illinois formed a little band: Jim Lanigan on piano, Jimmy McPartland on cornet, his older brother Dick McPartland on banjo and guitar, Frank Teschemacher on alto saxophone, and Bud Freeman on C-melody tenor saxophone.

Bud was the greenhorn of the group and the only one who did not also play the violin. At the time, their ages ranged from Jimmy McPartland, who was fourteen, to Jim Lanigan and Dick McPartland, seventeen. Teschemacher was sixteen and Freeman was slightly younger.

The boys, like many other students from their high school, frequented an ice cream parlor across the street known as “The Spoon and the Straw.” One of them would feed a nickel to the automatic phonograph and one day they discovered a record by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. They were so enthralled by the sound of such authentic jazz that they played the record over and over. Then and there, they named their band “The Blue Friars,” after The Friar’s Inn on the Chicago Loop where the Rhythm Kings played.

They went and heard King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band live, rounding off their identity with New Orleans jazz.

Sometimes the Austin High Gang played at Lewis Institute, which Dave Tough attended, and he added his drums to the little band. Later, Jim Lanigan picked up the bass through Chink Martin’s playing and soon became the band’s bassist; Teschemacher also began practicing the clarinet, his style showing traces of the glissandi from violin playing. Dave found Floyd O’Brien playing trombone at a University of Chicago jam session. Then, recruiting him and pianist Dave North, they named themselves Husk O’Hare’s Wolverines and were ready to play professionally. They got a job at White City, a large dance hall of Chicago’s south side amusement park, where they played until their disbandment at the end of the White City engagement.

In 1927, Eddie Condon recorded the Austin High Gang as the “Mackenzie-Condon Chicagoans”. These recordings catapulted the young musicians into the spotlight and they all subsequently developed acclaimed careers in New York, playing and recording with established musicians like Jack Teagarden, Pee Wee Russell, Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey. Of the original Austin High Gang, Jimmy McPartland and Bud Freeman sustained the longest careers in jazz

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By the 1930s, Bud Freeman was working in New York City, typically in the company of ex-Chicagoans, especially Eddie Condon, in whose band Freeman recorded a noted solo, “The Eel” (1933).

By then he had developed a fluent, romantic style featuring sinuous legato melodies. His tenor saxophone sound was especially distinctive—full and smooth, with a rough edge and a large vibrato—and he played with a robust, at times almost violent swing.

Along with a Chicago friend, drummer Dave Tough, Freeman played in the big bands of Tommy Dorsey (1936–38) and Benny Goodman (1938) before embarking on a freelance career as bandleader and soloist.

He formed the Summa Cum Laude Orchestra (1939–1940) which you’ll hear live from Chicago on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

Freeman led a U.S. Army dance band based in the Aleutian Islands during World War II, then lived in New York and Chile.

He often reunited with Condon and other former Chicagoans in concert. Among his notable albums are The Bud Freeman All-Stars and the 1957 Cootie Williams–Rex Stewart album, The Big Challenge, which brought together Freeman and his great tenor saxophone rival, Coleman Hawkins.

After touring with the World’s Greatest Jazz Band (1969–71), Freeman lived in England (1974–80) and performed there and in Europe; thereafter he was based in Chicago.

He wrote two short volumes of reminiscences, You Don’t Look Like a Musician (1974) and If You Know of a Better Life, Please Tell Me (1976), and an autobiography, Crazeology (with Robert Wolf, 1989).

The Eel…

9 AUGUST PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #558
107.3 2SER Tuesday 9 August 2022 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 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 2RDJ Burwood Wednesday 12 – 1pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am -12 noon 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Glenn Miller
Moonlight Serenade (theme) + Ain’t You Coming Out?	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton + Tex Beneke	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 15 Aug 1939
The Lamp is Low	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Ray Eberle	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 15 Aug 1939
The Isle of Golden Dreams	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 15 Aug 1939
The Pagan Love Song + Moonlight Serenade (theme)	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc)	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 15 Aug 1939
Set 2	Kay Kyser
Hallelujah	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines (voc) Band	Radio Transcription 1934
Swing Low Sweet Chariot	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines (voc) Glee Club	Radio Transcription 1934
How Do I Know It’s Sunday?	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines (voc) Art Wilson and Band	Radio Transcription 1934
Simple Symphony	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines	Radio Transcription 1934
Set 3	Selling Scholls
Open + What is This Thing Called Love?	Melodyland Orchestra	‘Ambassadors of Melodyland’ Radio Transcription 1931
Fallen Arch Story	Announcer	‘Ambassadors of Melodyland’ Radio Transcription 1931
Where the Golden Daffodils Grow + Close	Melodyland Orchestra	‘Ambassadors of Melodyland’ Radio Transcription 1931
Set 4	Bud Freeman
Theme + I Ain’t Gonna Give You None Of My Jelly Roll	Bud Freeman’s Summa cum Laude Orchestra	Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 May 1940
Secrets in the Moonlight	Bud Freeman’s Summa cum Laude Orchestra	Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 May 1940
Shake Down the Stars + Medley + Sierra Sue	Bud Freeman’s Summa cum Laude Orchestra	Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 May 1940
The Long Blues	Bud Freeman and Roy Eldridge	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 1957
Set 5	Dance Bands
Open + It Was Just One of Those Things	Russ Morgan Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 13 May 1946
In a Magic Garden	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Garden Room Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco Apr 1944
Monday Morning	Jan Savitt’s Top Hatters (voc) Carlotta Dale	KYW NBC Red Philadelphia 17 Oct 1938
Creepy Weepy	Raymond Scott Orchestra	‘Music Depreciation’ KHJ Don Lee Mutual Los Angeles 1940
Set 6	Muggsy Spanier 1953
Relaxin’ at the Trouro (theme) + Royal Garden Blues	Muggsy Spanier	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 18 Oct 1953
Riverside Blues	Muggsy Spanier	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 18 Apr 1953
I Ain’t Got Nobody	Muggsy Spanier	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 25 Oct 1953
That’s a’Plenty + Close	Muggsy Spanier	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 18 Apr 1953
Set 7	Dutch and Belgian Swing
A Strange Fact	De Ramblers with Coleman Hawkins	Comm Rec Hilversum Holland 26 Apr 1937
Washington Squabble	Fud Candrix Orchestra	Comm Rec Blankenberghe Belgium 27 Jun 1938
Crazy Rhythm	De Ramblers with Coleman Hawkins	Comm Rec Hilversum Holland 28 Apr 1937
The Oldest Swinger in Harlem	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Comm Rec Brussels Belgium 22 Nov 1940
Set 8	1950s Swing
Theme + Dizzy’s Blues	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NYC Jun 1956
Two Handed Blues	Erroll Garner Trio	Storyville WHDH Boston Dec 1953
Tangerine + Close	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Tommy Mercer and Dolly Houston	Cafe Rouge Hotel pennsylvania WRCA NBC NYC Dec 1955

Sonic Journey ABC Radio – Obscure 1920s-50s Women Jazz Singers

Sonic Journey with Simon Marnie, ABC Radio Sydney, Saturday 3 September, has myself chatting to Simon about obscure women swing and jazz singers who broadcast live on 1920s-50s radio. In between, you’ll hear their songs from those live vintage radio shows. That’s happening 11am – 12 noon, Saturday 3 September, on ‘Weekend Mornings’ over 702 ABC Radio Sydney.

Sonic Journey is a Saturday morning radio institution in Sydney. A journey through music into a guest’s life or a specialist topic on ABC Weekend Mornings.

From 11am – 12 noon on 702 ABC Radio Sydney and across New South Wales, broadcaster Simon Marnie invites guests to bring in the music that influences them. Together they take a conversational Sonic Journey.

ABC is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the national radio and TV network.

Simon Marnie…

https://www.abc.net.au/sydney/programs/weekendmornings

Past Sonic Jouney guests have included musicians, politicians, actors, directors, journalists, scientists, and people in the news.

I’ll be in on Saturday 3 September with a stack of swing and jazz records under one arm. Every record – a radio transcription from 1920s-50s radio.

For the 3 September Sonic Journey, Simon has invited me to talk about women jazz and swing singers who broadcast on 1920s – 50s radio.

In particular, he’s interested in the obscure singers. So be surprised to hear some great female vocalists you may never have heard of.

I last went on a Sonic Journey with Simon on Saturday 7 May with a mix of swing and jazz from live 1929-1940 radio recordings.

On that Sonic Journey you would have heard radio broadcasts and transcriptions by Red Nichols, Ray Miller, Anson Weekes, Ella Fitzgerald, Dolly Dawn, Artie Shaw and more.

Sonic Journey is on the air during the last hour of Simon Marnie’s Saturday ABC Weekend show.

Simon says he loves ABC Radio Saturday Weekends, adding, “Sydney weekends are about leisure, relaxing and fun and this city is one of the best in Australia – we cover as many events as possible to show the diversity of cultures, people and regions that make up the Greater Sydney Region.”

Choon in online, or on your wireless, to 702 AM ABC Radio Sydney, for Sonic Journey hosted by Simon Marnie, with myself bringing in the platters that matter, after the 11am news, Saturday 3 September.

Sonic Journey – Weekends with Simon Marnie, 702 ABC Radio Sydney, 11am-12 noon, Saturday 3 September.

Greg Poppleton and some of his 1920s-30s swing jazz band…