Rosemary Clooney Chain Smoking Singer – Phantom Dancer 27 July 2021

Rosemary Clooney was an American singer, actor and radio host. She’s this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist where you’ll hear her in radio broadcasts from the 1950s-60s. She’s also actor, George Clooney’s, aunt. Because of the current Covid lockdown in Sydney, this is a repeat of the 2 Feb 2021 show. Enjoy!

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 27 July at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

ROSEMARY CLOONEY

It’s incredible that she had the beautiful voice that she had despite the heavy smoking that eventually made the end of her life painful before killing her.

From ‘More Than a Girl Singer’, American Association for Cancer Research,

“A long-time smoker, Clooney was hospitalized in 1996 with acute respiratory failure. At that time, her doctors advised her to quit smoking, but Clooney struggled with her addiction. “Mama called me from the hospital and asked me to bring her cigarettes,” Ferrer (one of her sons)  remembers. “It was so hard for her to stop, though she finally did.”

Toward the end of 2001, Clooney was on the road performing when she began to find it hard to breathe. By the time she arrived home in Beverly Hills a few days before Christmas, she was exhausted. “She could hardly get up the stairs,” says Ferrer. “After two steps, she would have to stop and rest.” Less than a month later, Clooney was diagnosed with stage IIIA non–small cell lung cancer. She died six months later, on June 29, 2002, at her home in Beverly Hills with her family beside her. She was 74.”

TALENT SPOTTED

In 1945, Rosemary Clooney’s father went out one night with friends to celebrate the end of World War II. He never came back.

Clooney, 17, and her sister, 14, found themselves in a dire situation. They collected soft drink bottles and used what little money they had to buy lunch at school. The rent was overdue, the phone disconnected and the utilities about to be turned off when their luck changed. The teenagers, who had grown up performing at political rallies for their grandfather, the mayor of Maysville, won a singing competition at WLW Cincinnati, a local radio station. The station hired them for a regular late-night spot, with each sister earning $20 a week (almost US$290 in 2021 money).

They sing with Tony Pastor’s Orchestra, broadcasting and recording with the band until 1949 (as you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer mix).

In 1950–51, she was a regular on the radio and television versions of Songs For Sale on CBS. In 1951, her record of “Come On-a My House”, produced by Mitch Miller, became a hit. It was her first of many singles to hit the charts—despite the fact that Clooney hated the song passionately. She recorded several duets with Marlene Dietrich and appeared in the early 1950s on Faye Emerson’s Wonderful Town series on CBS. Clooney also did several guest appearances on the Arthur Godfrey radio show.

HOLLYWOOD

In 1954, she starred with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen in the movie White Christmas…

Two years later she had her own half-hour syndicated television musical-variety show, The Rosemary Clooney Show. NBC re-launched the show in a prime time slot on 1957 as The Lux Show Starring Rosemary Clooney. It lasted one season. In the late 50s and early 1960s, Clooney often appeared with Bing Crosby on television and radio. You’ll hear an excerpt from a 20-minute CBS radio program they did Monday to Friday for years that aired before the midday news.

Clooney left Columbia Records in 1958, doing a number of recordings for MGM Records and then some for Coral Records. Finally, toward the end of 1958, she signed with RCA Victor Records, where she stayed until 1963. In 1964, she went to Reprise Records, and in 1965 to Dot Records.

1970s – 2000s

After a hiatus of 11 years due to pills, alcohol and depression, Clooney signed to United Artists Records in 1976 for two albums. From 1977, she recorded an album every year for the Concord Jazz record label until her death. She was also singing on other people’s albums in 70s and 80s

In 1995, Clooney guest-starred in the NBC television medical drama ER (starring her nephew, George Clooney); for her performance, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.

She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.

Here’s Rosemary Clooney on ‘What’s My Line’,

27 JULY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINECommunity Radio Network Show CRN #502
107.3 2SER Tuesday 27 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 – 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	A Date With The Duke
Take The A-Train (theme) + Can’t You Read Between The Lines?	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Back Home Again in Indiana	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
The Wish I Wish	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Joya Sherill	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Cottontail	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Set 2	1950s Jazz Radio
Sugar Beat	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WOR Mutual NY 1951
At Sundown	Les Brown Orchestra	‘Treasury Bandstand’ Hershey Park Ballroom WLAN ABC Lancaster PA 1957
Give Me The Simple Life	Thelma Carpenter	‘Jazz Arts Concert’ WNBC NBC NY 4 Oct 1952
Set 3	Trad Jazz Radio
Bugle Call Rag	Red Nichols	Radio Transcription 1952
Open + South Rampart Street Parade	Preacher Rollo	‘Dixieland Club’ AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Apr 1952
Mama’s Gone, Goodbye + St Louis Blues	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 5 Feb 1955
Set 4	Rosemany Clooney
‘S Wonderful	Rosemary & Betty Clooney (voc) Tony Pastor Orchestra	Aircheck New York City Sep 1948
Tenderly (theme) + You Make Me Feel So Young	Rosemary Clooney	‘The Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 2 Nov 1954
Enchanted	Rosemary Clooney	‘Bing Crosby – Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 20 Mar 1962
It’s a Most Unusual Day + Something to Remember You By	Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby	‘The Bing Crosby Show’ KNX CBS LA 22 Nov 1953
Set 5	1920s Comm Records
Sunday	Jean Goldkette Orchestra (voc) Keller Sisters	Comm Rec Camden NJ 15 Oct 1926
Delirium	Red and Miff’s Stompers	Comm Rec New York City 11 Feb 1927
Flamin’ Mamie	Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra (voc) Joe Sanders	Comm Rec Camden NJ 21 Dec 1925
Blue Melody Blues	Tiny Praham and his Musicians	Comm Rec Chicago 1 Feb 1929
Set 6	Buddy Rich
Love Thy Neighbour (film preview)	Henny Youngman, Jack Benny, Tommy Dorsey & more	Paramount Theatre WOR Mutual NY 17 Dec 1940
Set 7	Mid 1940s Swing Radio
Theme + Hamp’s Got a Duke	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	Casa Manana Culver City Ca KFI NBC LA 20 Jul 1947
Temptation	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Ginny Powell	Meadowbrook Gardens KECA ABC LA 10 Feb 1946
Santa Catalina	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Collins	Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 16 Sep 1947
Andy’s Blues	Count Basie Orchestra	Avadon Ballroom Aircheck Los Angeles 1946
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

Sorcery and Swing Show – 12 June 2021

You are cordially invited to a very special evening of magic and music – or as we like to call it: Sorcery & Swing.

For one night only the original, ornate 1920s vintage Cellos Grand Dining Room in the historic 1920s Castlereagh Boutique Hotel will be transformed into the Sydney Solstice Speakeasy for Sorcery and Swing.

Come dressed to the nines in your finest Roaring Twenties fashion (girls in pearls, guys in ties). There’s even a small dance floor to swing, Charleston and balboa to.

You will be greeted with close-up magic, champagne & canapés before being seated for a delicious three-course dinner.

My quartet and I will serenade you with 1920s music for dining and dancing throughout the evening. On sousaphone and trumpet will be Geoff Power, guitar and banjo Grahame Conlon and Damon Poppleton will play alto and soprano saxophone. My friend, Bruce Glen will be making the magic.

https://www.thecastlereagh.com.au/events/unique-roaring-twenties-dinner-show

Bruce is known as The Gentleman Magician, “Charming and with impeccable manners…you’re almost unaware of the stunts he’s pulling off in front of you until they’ve actually happened,” Edinburgh International Magic Festival.

WHEN: 7:00PM Saturday 12th June

WHERE: The Castlereagh Boutique Hotel, 169 Castlereagh Street, Sydney

TICKETS: $125 includes welcome champagne and canapés, three course dinner, all entertainment. Cash bar available (but shhhh….this is the Prohibition Era).

BOOKINGS:
Phone: 02 9284 1006
Online: https://www.thecastlereagh.com.au/events/unique-roaring-twenties-dinner-show/

I look forward to greeting you at Sorcery and Swing in The Sydney Solstice Speakeasy.

Please keep this between us (and a few hundred of your closest friends) – we don’t want those pesky Feds shutting us down.

Just go to the secret door and tell ’em Greg sent ya.

Very Best Regards,
Greg

Greg Poppleton 1920s singer and The Gentleman Magician Bruce Glen – Sorcery & Magic Show

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

Max Roach Most Important Drummer – Phantom Dancer 20 April 2021

Max Roach was one of the most important drummers in history. The bebop pioneer was also a composer and 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 20 April at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

 

1940s

Max Roach began playing drums in his church at age 10. At 18, in 1942, Duke Ellington booked him to fill in for Ellington drummer, Sonny Greer, at the Paramount Theatre, NYC. He made his first professional recording backing Coleman Hawkins in 1943.

In 1945 he played on Charlie Parker’s pioneering bop records and he backed bop pioneers Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk and Bud Powell on radio and discs. Radio airchecks of these collaborations will be heard on this week’s show.

STUDY

In the late 1940s, Roach traveled to Hailti to study with the traditional drummer Ti Roro.

He studied classical percussion at the Manhattan School of Music from 1950 to 1953, working toward a Bachelor of Music degree. The school awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in 1990.

 

Long involved in jazz education, in 1972 Roach was recruited to the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He taught at the university until the mid-1990s.

 

1950s

In 1952, Roach co-founded Debut Records with bassist Charles Mingus. The label released a record of the 1953 Massey Hall Concert featuring Parker, Gillespie, Powell, Mingus, and Roach. The label also put out the groundbreaking bass-and-drum free improvisation, Percussion Discussion.

In 1954, Roach and trumpeter Clifford Brown formed a quintet that also featured tenor saxophonist Harold Land, pianist Richie Powell (brother of Bud Powell), and bassist George Morrow. Land left the quintet the following year and was replaced by Sonny Rollins. You’ll hear this band with Sonny Rollins on this week’s Phantom Dancer from a live radio broadcast.

In 1955, he played drums for vocalist Dinah Washington at several live appearances and recordings. He appeared with Washington at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958, which was filmed, and at the 1954 live studio audience recording of Dinah Jams, considered to be one of the best and most overlooked vocal jazz albums of its genre.

1960s-70s

In 1960 he composed and recorded the album We Insist! (subtitled Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite), with vocals by his then-wife Abbey Lincoln and lyrics by Oscar Brown Jr., after being invited to contribute to commemorations of the hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln‘s Emancipation Proclamation. In 1962, he recorded the album Money Jungle, a collaboration with Mingus and Duke Ellington. This is generally regarded as one of the finest trio albums ever recorded.

During the 1970s, Roach formed M’Boom, a percussion orchestra. Each member composed for the ensemble and performed on multiple percussion instruments. Personnel included Fred King, Joe Chambers, Warren Smith, Freddie Waits, Roy Brooks, Omar Clay, Ray Mantilla, Francisco Mora, and Eli Fountain.

1980s-90s

In the early 1980s, Roach presented solo concerts, demonstrating that multiple percussion instruments performed by one player could fulfill the demands of solo performance and be entirely satisfying to an audience. He created memorable compositions in these solo concerts.

Roach also embarked on a series of duet recordings. Departing from the style he was best known for, most of the music on these recordings is free improvisation, created with Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Archie Shepp, and Abdullah Ibrahim. Roach created duets with other performers, including: a recorded duet with oration of the “I Have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King Jr.; a duet with video artist Kit Fitzgerald, who improvised video imagery while Roach created the music; a duet with his lifelong friend and associate Gillespie; and a duet concert recording with Mal Waldron.

He also wrote music for theater, including plays by Sam Shepard. He was composer and musical director for a festival of Shepard plays, called “ShepardSets”, at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in 1984. The festival included productions of Back Bog Beast Bait, Angel City, and Suicide in B Flat. In 1985, George Ferencz directed “Max Roach Live at La MaMa: A Multimedia Collaboration”.

Roach found new contexts for performance, creating unique musical ensembles. One of these groups was “The Double Quartet”, featuring his regular performing quartet with the same personnel as above, except Tyrone Brown replaced Hill. This quartet joined “The Uptown String Quartet”, led by his daughter Maxine Roach and featuring Diane Monroe, Lesa Terry, and Eileen Folson.

Another ensemble was the “So What Brass Quintet”, a group comprising five brass instrumentalists and Roach, with no chordal instrument and no bass player. Much of the performance consisted of drums and horn duets. The ensemble consisted of two trumpets, trombone, French horn, and tuba. Personnel included Cecil Bridgewater, Frank Gordon, Eddie Henderson, Rod McGaha, Steve Turre, Delfeayo Marsalis, Robert Stewart, Tony Underwood, Marshall Sealy, Mark Taylor, and Dennis Jeter.

Not content to expand on the music he was already known for, Roach spent the 1980s and 1990s finding new forms of musical expression and performance. He performed a concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He wrote for and performed with the Walter White gospel choir and the John Motley Singers. He also performed with dance companies, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Dianne McIntyre Dance Company, and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. He surprised his fans by performing in a hip hop concert featuring the Fab Five Freddy and the New York Break Dancers. Roach expressed the insight that there was a strong kinship between the work of these young black artists and the art he had pursued all his life.

Though Roach played with many types of ensembles, he always continued to play jazz. He performed with the Beijing Trio, with pianist Jon Jang and erhu player Jeibing Chen. His final recording, Friendship, was with trumpeter Clark Terry. The two were longtime friends and collaborators in duet and quartet. Roach’s final performance was at the 50th anniversary celebration of the original Massey Hall concert, with Roach performing solo on the hi-hat.

In 1994, Roach appeared on Rush drummer Neil Peart‘s Burning For Buddy, performing “The Drum Also Waltzes” Parts 1 and 2 on Volume 1 of the 2-volume tribute album during the 1994 All-Star recording sessions.

In the early 2000s, Roach became less active due to the onset of hydrocephalus-related complications.

DRUMMING STYLE

Roach started as a traditional grip player but used matched grip as well as his career progressed.

Roach’s most significant innovations came in the 1940s, when he and Kenny Clarke devised a new concept of musical time. By playing the beat-by-beat pulse of standard 4/4 time on the ride cymbal instead of on the thudding bass drum, Roach and Clarke developed a flexible, flowing rhythmic pattern that allowed soloists to play freely. This also created space for the drummer to insert dramatic accents on the snare drum, crash cymbal, and other components of the trap set.

By matching his rhythmic attack with a tune’s melody, Roach brought a newfound subtlety of expression to the drums. He often shifted the dynamic emphasis from one part of his drum kit to another within a single phrase, creating a sense of tonal color and rhythmic surprise. Roach said of the drummer’s unique positioning, “In no other society do they have one person play with all four limbs.”

While this is common today, when Clarke and Roach introduced the concept in the 1940s it was revolutionary. “When Max Roach’s first records with Charlie Parker were released by Savoy in 1945”, jazz historian Burt Korall wrote in the Oxford Companion to Jazz, “drummers experienced awe and puzzlement and even fear.” One of those drummers, Stan Levey, summed up Roach’s importance: “I came to realize that, because of him, drumming no longer was just time, it was music.”

In 1966, with his album Drums Unlimited (which includes several tracks that are entirely drum solos) he demonstrated that drums can be a solo instrument able to play theme, variations, and rhythmically cohesive phrases. Roach described his approach to music as “the creation of organized sound.”

20 APRIL PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE   Community Radio Network Show CRN #486
107.3 2SER Tuesday 20 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
Theme + Kentucky	Bob Strong Orchestra (voc) Bob Fiola	‘One Night Stand’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Aug 1944
Blue Skies	Boyd Raeburn Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Roosevelt Hotel Washington DC AFRS Re-broadcast Feb 1944
Isle of Capri + Close	Gay Claridge Orchestra (g) Mary Osbourne	‘One Night Stand’ Chez Paree Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Aug 1944
Set 2	Vincent Valsanti (Ted Fio Rito)
Your Blase + Sophisticated Lady	Vincent Valsanti Orchestra	Cocoanut Radio Transcription TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934
Dreaming + Was It a Dream? + It’s June in January	Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Bill Thomas	Cocoanut Radio Transcription TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934
OK Toots + Close	Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Don 1, 2 and 3	Cocoanut Radio Transcription TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934
Set 3	Trad Radio and TV
Open + Sweet Georgia Brown	Al Hirt	‘Jazz Band Ball’ WWL CBS New Orleans 18 Aug 1956
Down Among The Sheltering Palms	Eddie Condon Group (voc) Johnny Mercer	‘Eddie Condon’s Floor Show’ WPIX TV NYC 1948
Blues	Eddie Condon Group (voc) Johnny Mercer (piano) Mary Lou Williams	‘Eddie Condon’s Floor Show’ WPIX TV NYC 1948
Set 4	Max Roach
Koko (theme) + Hot House	Barry Ulanov’s All-Star Modern Jazz Musicians (drums) Max Roach	‘Bands for Bonds’ WOR Mutual NYC 13 Sep 1947
Daahoud	Max Roach – Clifford Young Quintet	‘Basin Street’ WCBS CBS NY 6 May 1956
Oo Bop Sh’Bam	Charlie Parker Quintet (drums) Max Roach	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 22 Jan 1949
Scrapple From The Apple	Charlie Parker Quintet (drums) Max Roach	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 22 Jan 1949
Set 5	1930s Dance Bands
Open + Goody Goodbye	Ted Weems Orchestra	‘Beat the Band’ WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 1940
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans	Ray Noble Orchestra	‘Coty Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NY 13 Mar 1935
Alice Blue Gown	Ozzie Nelson Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 30 Mar 1940
White Star of Sigma Nu	Joe Haymes Orchestra	Grill Room Hotel McAlpen WABC CBS NY 29 Jan 1935
Set 6	Sydney Swing Singers 1938-44
Annie Laurie	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Orchestra (voc) Alice Smith	Comm Rec Sydney 2 Jun 1938
Say a Prayer for the Boys over There	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Joan Blake	Comm Rec Sydney 1943
A-Tisket A-Tasket	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Orchestra (voc) Alice Smith	Comm Rec Sydney 2 Jun 1938
Jungle Jive	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Elsie Wardrope	Comm Rec Sydney 1944
Set 7	Hal Kemp
When Summer is Gone (theme) + Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis	‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
There’s a Small Hotel	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Maxine Gray	‘Lady Esther Serenade’ WEAF NBC Red NY 26 Aug 1936
Penny Serenade	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Audience	Aircheck 1938
42nd Street + When Summer is Gone (theme)	Hal Kemp Orchestra	‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Set 8	Charlie Parker
S.K. Blues	Joe Turner	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1945
Empty Head Blues	Ivie Anderson	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1945
Love My Baby	Joe Turner	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1945
Improvised Blues	Johnny Otis and ‘Jubilee’ All-Stars Orchestras	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1945

Lester Young Genius Killed By Alcohol – 13 March 2021 Phantom Dancer

Lester Young, jazz tenor saxophonist called ‘The Prez’, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist from live 1940s-50s broadcasts. Young was one of the most influential saxophonists, playing “a free-floating style, wheeling and diving like a gull, banking with low, funky riffs that pleased dancers and listeners alike”. Alcohol killed him.

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 6 April at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

 

1920s-30s

Lester Young grew up in a musical family. His brother, Lee, was a drummer. (You’ll hear a broadcast by Lester and Lee on this week’s Phantom Dancer). His father lead the family band in which he played trumpet, alto sax, drums and violin.

Joining Walter Page’s Blue Devils Orchestra, Lester switched saxes from alto to tenor. He also doubled clarinet, until his clarinet was stolen at a gig in 1939. (He was given a replacement clarinet in 1957).

One of Young’s key influences was Frank Trumbauer, who was famous in the 1920s Paul Whiteman Orchestra and who played the C-melody saxophone (between the alto and tenor in pitch)

Young moved to Kansas City in 1933 to play in the Count Basie Orchestra. During the 1930s he also played in the bands of Andy Kirk and Fletcher Henderson. He also played in small groups that included pianist Teddy Wilson and singer Billie Holiday who gave him the nickname, Prez.

1940s

Young left the Basie band in late 1940. He played in small groups often with his brother, drummer Lee Young, including more studio sessions with Billie Holiday and Nat “King” Cole in June 1942. 

In December 1943 Young returned to the Basie Orchestra for a 10-month stint before he was drafted into the army during World War II.

PLASTIC REEDS

Lester Young was beginning to make much greater use of a plastic reed in the early 1940s. They gave his playing a heavier, breathier tone. He never abandoned the cane reed, but used the plastic reed a significant share of the time from 1943 until the end of his life. His tone also thickened from this time with a change in saxophone mouthpiece from a metal Otto Link to an ebonite Brilhart. In August 1944 Young appeared alongside drummer Jo Jones, trumpeter Harry “Sweets” Edison, and fellow tenor saxophonist Illinois Jacquet in Gjon Mili’s short film Jammin’ the Blues.

In 1946 Young joined Norman Granz’s Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP), touring regularly with them over the next 12 years. He made many studio recordings under Granz’s supervision, including more trio recordings with Nat King Cole. Young also recorded extensively in the late 1940s for Aladdin Records (1946-7) and for Savoy (1944, ’49 and ’50), some sessions of which included Basie on piano.

 

KILLED BY PLONK

The quality and consistency of Lester Young’s playing ebbed gradually in the latter half of the 1940s.

And from 1951, his playing declined precipitously as his drinking increased. 

He began to rely on a small number of clichéd phrases and reduced creativity and originality, despite his claims that he did not want to be a “repeater pencil” (Young coined this phrase to describe the act of repeating one’s own past ideas. Young also coined the hipster words, ‘cool’ for good and ‘bread’ for money). 

In November 1955 he was admited to hospital a ‘nervous breakdown’.

On December 8, 1957, Young appeared with Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, and Gerry Mulligan in the CBS television special ‘The Sound of Jazz’, performing, ‘Fine and Mellow’. You’ll hear this reunion with Holiday, with whom he had lost contact over the years, on this week’s Phantom Dancer. Young’s solo was brilliant, acclaimed by some observers as an unparalleled marvel of economy, phrasing and extraordinarily moving emotion. Nat Hentoff, one of the show’s producers, later commented, “Lester got up, and he played the purest blues I have ever heard…in the control room we were all crying.”

Young made his final studio recordings and live performances in Paris in March 1959 with drummer Kenny Clarke at the tail end of an abbreviated European tour during which he ate almost nothing and drank heavily. On a flight to New York City, he suffered from internal bleeding due to alcoholism and died in the early morning hours of 15 March, 1959, only hours after arriving back in New York. He was only 49.

13 APRIL PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE   Community Radio Network Show CRN #485
107.3 2SER Tuesday 13 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	ONS Swing Bands
Theme + Sunday	Charlie Spivak Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast Oct 1943
Every Time	Sonny Dunham Orchestra (voc) Mary Ann	‘One Night Stand’ Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jul 1945
All Or Nothing At All + Close	Boyd Raeburn Orchestra (voc) Ted Travers	‘One Night Stand’ Roosevelt Hotel Washington DC AFRS Re-broadcast Apr 1944
Set 2	Jimmy Grier
Tired	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
Time Alone Will Tell	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Donald Novis	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
What Did You Do With It? + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Margaret Lawrence	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
Set 3	Glenn Miller Radio
Wham Re Bop Boom Bam	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 7 Jan 1940
The Man With The Mandolin	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NY 5 Dec 1939
Tuxedo Junction	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 5 Apr 1940
Set 4	Lester Young
Benny’s Bugle	Lester and Lee Young Orchestra	Club Capri KHJ Mutual-Don Lee Los Angeles 2 Dec 1941
These Foolish Things	Lester Young with Nat King Cole Trio and Buddy Rich	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 20 Mar 1946
Be Bop Boogie	Lester Young	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Dec 1948
Intro + Fine and Mellow	Lester Young (voc) Billie Holiday	‘Seven Lively Arts’ The Sound of Jazz CBS TV 1957
Set 5	Swing Band Radio Transcriptions
I’ve Had This Feeling Before	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	Radio Transcription 1943
I’m Gonna Lock My Heart and Throw Away the Key	Dick Jurgens Orchestra (voc) Ron Kemper	Radio Transcription 1938
Sentimental Jorney	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Doris Day	Radio Transcription 1944
I’ll See You In My Dreams	Jan Garber Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1938
Set 6	Eddie Condon
Love Nest	Eddie Condon Group	‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 9 Sep 1944
Yesterdays	Eddie Condon Group	‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 21 Oct 1944
Keep Smiling at Trouble	Eddie Condon Group	‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 30 Sep 1944
Sister Kate	Eddie Condon Group	‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 10 Feb 1945
Set 7	Jubilee
Rockin’ in Rhythm	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Mister Beebe	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra (voc) June Richmond	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1943
Save Your Sorrows	Eddie Heywood Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Blues in the Night	Larry Adler	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1943
Set 8	Charlie Parker
Wahoo	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 30 Jun 1951
Groovin’ High	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 29 Jan 1949
Confirmation	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 12 Feb 1949
Fine and Dandy	Charlie Parker	‘Bands for Bonds’ WOR Mutual NY 13 Sep 1947

Rosemary Clooney Chain Smoking Singer – Phantom Dancer 2 February 2021

Rosemary Clooney was an American singer, actor and radio host. She’s this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist where you’ll hear her in radio broadcasts from the 1950s-60s. She’s also actor, George Clooney’s, aunt.

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 2 February at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

ROSEMARY CLOONEY

It’s incredible that she had the beautiful voice that she had despite the heavy smoking that eventually made the end of her life painful before killing her.

From ‘More Than a Girl Singer’, American Association for Cancer Research,

“A long-time smoker, Clooney was hospitalized in 1996 with acute respiratory failure. At that time, her doctors advised her to quit smoking, but Clooney struggled with her addiction. “Mama called me from the hospital and asked me to bring her cigarettes,” Ferrer (one of her sons)  remembers. “It was so hard for her to stop, though she finally did.”

Toward the end of 2001, Clooney was on the road performing when she began to find it hard to breathe. By the time she arrived home in Beverly Hills a few days before Christmas, she was exhausted. “She could hardly get up the stairs,” says Ferrer. “After two steps, she would have to stop and rest.” Less than a month later, Clooney was diagnosed with stage IIIA non–small cell lung cancer. She died six months later, on June 29, 2002, at her home in Beverly Hills with her family beside her. She was 74.”

TALENT SPOTTED

In 1945, Rosemary Clooney’s father went out one night with friends to celebrate the end of World War II. He never came back.

Clooney, 17, and her sister, 14, found themselves in a dire situation. They collected soft drink bottles and used what little money they had to buy lunch at school. The rent was overdue, the phone disconnected and the utilities about to be turned off when their luck changed. The teenagers, who had grown up performing at political rallies for their grandfather, the mayor of Maysville, won a singing competition at WLW Cincinnati, a local radio station. The station hired them for a regular late-night spot, with each sister earning $20 a week (almost US$290 in 2021 money).

They sing with Tony Pastor’s Orchestra, broadcasting and recording with the band until 1949 (as you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer mix).

In 1950–51, she was a regular on the radio and television versions of Songs For Sale on CBS. In 1951, her record of “Come On-a My House”, produced by Mitch Miller, became a hit. It was her first of many singles to hit the charts—despite the fact that Clooney hated the song passionately. She recorded several duets with Marlene Dietrich and appeared in the early 1950s on Faye Emerson’s Wonderful Town series on CBS. Clooney also did several guest appearances on the Arthur Godfrey radio show.

HOLLYWOOD

In 1954, she starred with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen in the movie White Christmas…

Two years later she had her own half-hour syndicated television musical-variety show, The Rosemary Clooney Show. NBC re-launched the show in a prime time slot on 1957 as The Lux Show Starring Rosemary Clooney. It lasted one season. In the late 50s and early 1960s, Clooney often appeared with Bing Crosby on television and radio. You’ll hear an excerpt from a 20-minute CBS radio program they did Monday to Friday for years that aired before the midday news.

Clooney left Columbia Records in 1958, doing a number of recordings for MGM Records and then some for Coral Records. Finally, toward the end of 1958, she signed with RCA Victor Records, where she stayed until 1963. In 1964, she went to Reprise Records, and in 1965 to Dot Records.

1970s – 2000s

After a hiatus of 11 years due to pills, alcohol and depression, Clooney signed to United Artists Records in 1976 for two albums. From 1977, she recorded an album every year for the Concord Jazz record label until her death. She was also singing on other people’s albums in 70s and 80s

In 1995, Clooney guest-starred in the NBC television medical drama ER (starring her nephew, George Clooney); for her performance, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.

She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.

Here’s Rosemary Clooney on ‘What’s My Line’,

2 FEBRUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINECommunity Radio Network Show CRN #473
107.3 2SER Tuesday 2 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	A Date With The Duke
Take The A-Train (theme) + Can’t You Read Between The Lines?	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Back Home Again in Indiana	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
The Wish I Wish	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Joya Sherill	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Cottontail	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Set 2	1950s Jazz Radio
Sugar Beat	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WOR Mutual NY 1951
At Sundown	Les Brown Orchestra	‘Treasury Bandstand’ Hershey Park Ballroom WLAN ABC Lancaster PA 1957
Give Me The Simple Life	Thelma Carpenter	‘Jazz Arts Concert’ WNBC NBC NY 4 Oct 1952
Set 3	Trad Jazz Radio
Bugle Call Rag	Red Nichols	Radio Transcription 1952
Open + South Rampart Street Parade	Preacher Rollo	‘Dixieland Club’ AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Apr 1952
Mama’s Gone, Goodbye + St Louis Blues	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 5 Feb 1955
Set 4	Rosemany Clooney
‘S Wonderful	Rosemary & Betty Clooney (voc) Tony Pastor Orchestra	Aircheck New York City Sep 1948
Tenderly (theme) + You Make Me Feel So Young	Rosemary Clooney	‘The Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 2 Nov 1954
Enchanted	Rosemary Clooney	‘Bing Crosby – Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 20 Mar 1962
It’s a Most Unusual Day + Something to Remember You By	Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby	‘The Bing Crosby Show’ KNX CBS LA 22 Nov 1953
Set 5	1920s Comm Records
Sunday	Jean Goldkette Orchestra (voc) Keller Sisters	Comm Rec Camden NJ 15 Oct 1926
Delirium	Red and Miff’s Stompers	Comm Rec New York City 11 Feb 1927
Flamin’ Mamie	Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra (voc) Joe Sanders	Comm Rec Camden NJ 21 Dec 1925
Blue Melody Blues	Tiny Praham and his Musicians	Comm Rec Chicago 1 Feb 1929
Set 6	Buddy Rich
Love Thy Neighbour (film preview)	Henny Youngman, Jack Benny, Tommy Dorsey & more	Paramount Theatre WOR Mutual NY 17 Dec 1940
Set 7	Mid 1940s Swing Radio
Theme + Hamp’s Got a Duke	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	Casa Manana Culver City Ca KFI NBC LA 20 Jul 1947
Temptation	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Ginny Powell	Meadowbrook Gardens KECA ABC LA 10 Feb 1946
Santa Catalina	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Collins	Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 16 Sep 1947
Andy’s Blues	Count Basie Orchestra	Avadon Ballroom Aircheck Los Angeles 1946
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

Sweet Sue – 1928 Song – Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2

Sweet Sue – a happy song for a Happy New Year! It’s an upbeat 1920s song for you to celebrate the end of 2020. Sweet Sue soundtrack is from the 2020 album ‘Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2’

 

Video clips are from shows at Glen Street Theatre, Sydney Central Station, NSW Rail Museum, and the Camelot Lounge Marrickville with swing dancers – Sue Ann Yap, All About Swing, Sydney Swing Katz. 

Support the band, download this song or the album from your favourite online music emporia, including,

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/1fWRX8EF00yiI9xYgYRVnA

APPLE MUSIC: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/152547010

AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Greg-Poppleton/e/B001LI794A

Band bookings

Band on Sweet Sue soundtrack: Greg Poppleton: 1920s – 1930s vocals Paul Furniss: clarinet Al Davey: trumpet Grahame Conlon: guitar Mark Harris: double bass Lawrie Thompson: drums and washboard

Band in film clips: Greg Poppleton: 1920s – 1930s vocals Damon Poppleton: alto sax Grahame Conlon: guitar and banjo Geoff Power: sousaphone Rod Herbert: sousaphone Adam Barnard: washboard Bob Gillespie: drums

Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor – Phantom Dancer 15 September 2020

Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor, influential 1940s jump and 1950s rock tenor saxophonist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer non-stop swing jazz feature artist. You’ll hear him from two 1956 Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party broadcasts on this week’s mix.

Greg Poppleton has been bringing you The Phantom Dancer, your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV, each week since 1985.

Hear The Phantom Dancer online from 12:04pm AEST Tuesday 15 September at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ where you can also hear two years of archived shows.

The finyl hour is vinyl.

SAM ‘THE MAN’ TAYLOR

Taylor was born in Lexington, Tennessee. He attended Alabama State University, where he played with the Bama State Collegians. He later worked with Scatman Crothers, Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Buddy Johnson, Louis Jordan and Big Joe Turner. Taylor was one of the most requested session saxophone players in New York recording studios in the 1950s. He also replaced Count Basie as the house bandleader on Alan Freed’s radio series, Camel Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party, on CBS, from where this week’s Phantom Dancer Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor tracks originate.

Taylor played the saxophone solo on Turner’s “Shake, Rattle and Roll”. He also played on “Harlem Nocturne”; on “Money Honey”, recorded by Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters in 1953; and on “Sh-Boom” by the Chords.

During the 1960s, he led a five-piece band, the Blues Chasers. In the 1970s, he frequently played and recorded in Japan.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor’s hit 1955 recording on the 1930s jazz standard, Harlem Nocturne. The song was written by Earle Hagen when he was a teenager! He later gave us some of the greatest TV themes ever: “Andy Griffith Show”, “Dick Van Dyke Show”, “Gomer Pyle USMC”, “Danny Thomas Show”, “That Girl”, “I Spy”, “Mod Squad”

Make sure you come back to this blog, Greg Poppleton’s Radio Lounge, every Tuesday, for the newest Phantom Dancer play list and Video of the Week!

15 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #430
107.3 2SER Tuesday 15 September 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	Swing on 1930s Radio
Open + Star Dust	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WOR Mutual NY 1951
Take the A Train (theme) + Koko	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Town Casino NBC Cleveland OH 1952
GI Jive + Close	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Collins	‘The Raymond Scott Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Set 2	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band
Open + Push It	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 4 Sep 1956
Flag Waver	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 11 Sep 1956
Taylor Made + Close	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 4 Sep 1956
Set 3	Hillbilly Radio
Theme + Sugar Foot Rag	Skip Skipper Quartet	‘Stokely Hi Noon Roundup’ WMPS Memphis 1952
I Found It In Mother’s Bible	Skip Skipper Quartet (voc) Miss Sally Carter	‘Stokely Hi Noon Roundup’ WMPS Memphis 1952
I’ve Got A Gal Up On My Mind + Rainbows End + Close	The Plainsmen	‘Call of the Range’ KNX CBS Los Angeles 1946
Set 4	Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney
Enchanted	Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’ CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962
Shine On Harvest Moon	Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’ CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962
Deed I Do	Bing Crosby (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’ CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962
Baby, Baby + Close	Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’ CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962
Set 5	Louis Armstrong
Open + I Never Knew	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Spotlight Bands’ Dallas Tx Blue Network 17 Aug 1943
You Rascal You	Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 7 May 1950
Basin Street Blues	Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 12 Dec 1954
Skeleton in the Closet + Close	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1937
Set 6	1930s Australian Dance Orchestras
Marmelade	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Band	Comm Rec Sydney 24 Jan 1938
Cosmopolitan Blues	Maurice Gilman Orchestra (voc) Noel Judd	Comm Rec Sydney 8 Jan 1935
Annie Laurie	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Band (voc) Alice Smith	Comm Rec Sydney 24 Jan 1938
Harlem Heat	Dudley Cantrell and his Grace Grenadiers	Comm Rec Sydney 22 Nov 1937
Set 7	1940s Dance Band Singers
I Dream of You	Bob Allen (voc) Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘For The Record’ Carnegie Hall WEAF NBC NY 17 Apr 1944
Playmates	Lorraine Benson (voc) Ray Herbeck and his Music with Romance Orchestra	Trianon Ballroom WGN Chicago 24 Nov 1947
Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby?	Betty Martin and Randy Ryan (voc) Bob Strong Orchestra	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WOR Mutual NY 5 Aug 1944
Old Fashioned Love	Eddy Howard (voc) Eddy Howard Orchestra	Aragon Ballroom WGN Mutual Chicago 5 Dec 1948
Set 8	Charlie Parker’s 100th Birthday
Repetition / Interview / They Can’t Take That Away From Me	Charlie Parker and Strings	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 7 Apr 1951
52nd Street Theme	Charlie Parker and Miles Davis	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Sep 1948
Night in Tunisia	Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NY Birdland 31 Mar 1951
Ornithology	Charlie Parker and Kenny Dorham	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 1 Jan 1949

Two New Videos – Carolina in the Morning and La Paloma (sung in German)

Carolina in the Morning and La Paloma are two great songs. Greg Poppleton, 1920s – 1930s-style singer and bandleader, has released a new album of songs, Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2. Enjoy these two videos, Carolina in the Morning and La Paloma, from the album…

His back catalogue of 7 albums has been played on commercial and college radio and has 1.3 million YouTube views.

Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2 is the second in a 3 album set of 1920s-30s songs by Greg Poppleton. Greg appears in the movies Moulin Rouge! and Chronicles of Narnia Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Download songs at
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/1fWRX8EF00yiI9xYgYRVnA
APPLE MUSIC: https://music.apple.com/us/album/tin-pan-alley-vol-2/1515196327
AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Greg-Poppleton/e/B001LI794A

Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2 Song List – songs in English, German & Spanish

1. San Antonio Rose 2’11
2. La Paloma (sung in German) 3’35
3. Corrine Corrina 2’03
4. Amapola (sung in Spanish & English) 3’16
5. St Louis Blues 5’34
6. Sweet Sue 2’20
7. You Are My Sunshine 3’34
8. Sugar 3’18
9. Carolina in the Morning 3’44

Download songs at
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/1fWRX8EF00yiI9xYgYRVnA
APPLE MUSIC: https://music.apple.com/us/album/tin-pan-alley-vol-2/1515196327
AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Greg-Poppleton/e/B001LI794A