Rosemary Clooney Chain Smoking Singer – Phantom Dancer 1 March 2022

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 1 March 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’,

1 MARCH PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #534
107.3 2SER Tuesday 1 March 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	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	Henny Youngman
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

All Day Practice Makes Outstanding Trumpeter – Phantom Dancer 8 February 2022

Clifford Brown is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. Clifford Brown was an outstanding jazz trumpeter who in a career spanning only a few years became a jazz sensation . He composed the jazz standards Sandu, Joy Spring (his nickname for his wife) and Daahoud.

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton. This week’s Phantom Dancer is a ‘classic’from March last year. I can’t go into the studio because I have caught COVID.

Hear past Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 8 February at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

CLIFFORD

Brown came from a musical family. His father organized his four sons, including Clifford, into a vocal quartet. He started playing trumpet at school at ten and began private lessons at age thirteen.

He first went to university as a maths major, but music took over. He played in the fourteen-piece, jazz-oriented Maryland State Band. In June 1950, he was injured in a car accident after a performance. While in the hospital, he was visited by Dizzy Gillespie. Dizzy encouraged him to pursue a career in music. He got back into music despite his severe injuries by playing piano while recuperating.

BROWN

Brown was influenced and encouraged by trumpeter, Fats Navarro. He played for a week with Charlie Parker who was amazed by Brown’s trumpet ideas.

Clifford’s first recordings were with R&B bandleader Chris Powell. He worked with Art Blakey, Tadd Dameron, Lionel Hampton, J. J. Johnson.a

He formed a band with Max Roach. Sonny Rollins joined the band and remained a member of the group for the rest of its existence. You’ll hear the Max Roach-Clifford Brown Quintet with Sonny Rollins on live 1956 radio in this week’s Phantom Dancer.

Brown stayed away from drugs and didn’t like alcohol. Rollins, who was recovering from heroin addiction, said that “Clifford was a profound influence on my personal life. He showed me that it was possible to live a good, clean life and still be a good jazz musician.”

Brown also had the habit of practicing all day off-stage, starting from 6am on the band bus. This gave him phenomenal stamina, clarity and tone on the bandstand.

8 FEBRUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #531
107.3 2SER Tuesday 8 February 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 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	Big Bands on 1946 Radio
Intro + There’s Good Blues Tonight	Hal McIntyre Orchestra (voc) Johnny Turnbull	‘One Night Stand’ Century Rook Hotel Commodore NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1946
Without You	Leighton Noble Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Starlight Roof Waldorf-Astoria Hotel NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Jun 1946
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes + Perdido (close)	Buddy Morrow Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Mar 1946
Set 2	Phil Harris
Music in the Moonlight (theme) + Just Friends	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Dick Webster	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
Save The Last Dance For Me	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Donald Novis	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
The More You Hurt Me The More You Make Me Care + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Margaret Lawrence	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
Set 3	West Coast Trad 1949-59 Radio
I Cover The Waterfront (theme) + Struttin’ With Some BBQ	Estuary Jazz Band	Pier 23 KGO San Francisco 1959
Open + Mississippi Mud	Kid Ory’s Creole Jazz Band	Beverly Cavern Club KGFJ Los Angeles 28 Jun 1949
March of the Bobcats + Honeysuckle Rose + I’ve Got a Right To Sing The Blues (theme)	Jack Teagarden	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 24 Apr 1954
Set 4	Clifford Brown
Sweet Georgia Brown + What’s New?	Clifford Brown – Max Roach Quintet	Basin Street WCBS CBS NYC 6 May 1956
Interview	Clifford Brown interviewed by Willis Connover	‘Jazz Hour’ Voice of America 1956
I Remember Clifford	Oscar Pettiford	Birdland WABC ABC NY 1957
Set 5	Extended Works by Duke Ellington
Diminuendo in Blue	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Birdland WNBC NBC NY 30 Jun 1951
Crescendo in Blue	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Birdland WNBC NBC NY 30 Jun 1951
Black, Brown and Beige Work Song	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date with the Duke’ 400 Club WJZ Blue NYC 28 Apr 1945
Black, Brown and Beige Spiritual	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date with the Duke’ 400 Club WJZ Blue NYC 28 Apr 1945
Set 6	Harry James Radio Transcriptions
Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	Radio Transcription 1943
Caxton Hall Swing	Harry James Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1954
Honeysuckle Rose	Harry James Orchestra (g) Allen Reuss	Radio Transcription 1943
In The Still of the Night	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Paula Gilbert	Radio Transcription 1954
Set 7	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra 1956
Intro + Song of India	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Ridin’ Around in the Rain	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Dolly Houston	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Sunny Side of the Street	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Lynn Roberts	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Just For Taking Bows	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Set 8	Progressive Jazz Radio
A Foggy Day	Carmen McRae	‘Timex All Star Jazz Show’ CBS TV 30 Dec 1957
They All Laughed	Carmen McRae	‘Timex All Star Jazz Show’ CBS TV 30 Dec 1957
Lester Leaps In	Lester Young	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 27 Nov 1948
Moose The Mooche + Lullaby of Broadway	Charlie Parker	Birdland WABC ABC NY 9 May 1953

Cocoanut Grove Radio 1934 – Phantom Dancer 4 January 2022

Ted Fio Rito, band leader, composer and pianist, under the radio pseudonym ‘Vincent Valsanti’, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist in a 1934 Cocoanut Grove radio transcription.

As it’s the holiday season and I’m taking a day off, this is a repeat of The Phantom Dancer broadcast 11 May 2021

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 4 Jan 2022 at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

 

COCOANUT GROVE

The Cocoanut Grove at Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel was a lavishly appointed club – part of the massive 23-acre Ambassador resort, which also included four restaurants, a bowling alley, a billiard room, a shopping plaza, and even a movie theater – decorated in Moroccan style and featured full-sized palm trees reportedly salvaged from Rudolph Valentino’s film “The Sheik.” In addition to the decor, which also offered a night sky filled with stars (thanks to about 1000 small light bulbs), an elevated stage, and both dining and dancing room for several hundred patrons, customers came for the smooth musical entertainment provided by a series of dance orchestras and popular vocalists – many of whom would later go on to star careers in radio, recordings, and the film industry.

In the 1980 book, “Are the Stars Out Tonight?”, former Ambassador PR Director, Margaret Tante Burk, recalls the Grove’s opening night:

“…on the night of April 21, 1921… the new club officially opened its Moroccan style, gold leaf and etched palm tree doors… The Cocoanut Grove was aptly named, guests agreed as they were escorted by the maître de and captains down the wide plush grand staircase… Overhead, soaring about the room were cocoanut trees of papier mache, cocoanuts and palm fronds which had been rescued from the sandy beaches of Oxnard where they had served as atmosphere of the 1921 classic, The Sheik. Swinging from their branches were stuffed monkeys blinking at the revelers with their electrified amber eyes. Stars twinkled in the blue ceiling sky, and on the southernmost wall hung a full Hawaiian moon presiding over a painted landscape and splashing waterfall.”

Ray West Orchestra in 1930…

Due to the foresight of Abe Frank, the manager of both the hotel and the Grove, in the mid-1920s the Ambassador had been equipped with a small radio studio, allowing the music of the various orchestras to be broadcast and enjoyed well outside the confines of the nightclub. From the late 1920s well into the 1960s, live “remote” programs broadcast from the Cocoanut Grove were a popular feature of nighttime radio, allowing millions of people to enjoy the music they would otherwise be unable to afford to hear in person. These broadcasts, aired live nightly for two full hours, only increased the reputation of the Grove as “the place to be” when it came to top notch West Coast entertainment.

From the beginning, the Cocoanut Grove’s glamorous atmosphere attracted the top names in Hollywood for dining, dancing, and mingling. This celebrity connection was always well-publicized by the Ambassador and for a very good reason, too: tourists coming to Los Angeles for a vacation wanted to see the stars and there was no place where the stars came out quite so regularly as the Ambassador Hotel. On an average evening, it was common to see such well-known celebrities as Joan Crawford, Jack Oakie, or Jean Harlow coming to see Bing Crosby or Russ Columbo sing with Gus Arnheim’s Orchestra or dance to Jimmie Grier’s band as they accompanied Loyce Whiteman, The Three Ambassadors (Martin Sperzel, Jack Smith, and Al Teeter), or popular tenor Donald Novis. Even though there was a nationwide depression, Hollywood stars and executives still needed to be entertained — and the Cocoanut Grove was often their first choice.

From 1930 to 1943, six Academy Awards ceremonies were hosted at the hotel. As many as seven U.S. presidents stayed at the Ambassador, from Hoover to Nixon, along with heads of state from around the world.

It was the place to be seen even in the 1960s…

In 1968, the Ambassador Hotel was the scene of the shooting of Bobby Kennedy.

Due to the decline of the hotel and the surrounding area, the Ambassador Hotel was closed to guests in 1989. In 2001, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) purchased the property with the intent of constructing three new schools within the area. After subsequent litigations to preserve the hotel as a historic site, a settlement allowed the Ambassador Hotel to be demolished in 2005.

VALSANTI

Ted Fio Rito used the pseudonym ‘Valsanti’ for these Cocoanut Grove transcriptions because of an existing recording contract.

Fio Rito was a pianist, hammond organist and the composer of such classic tunes as, “I Never Knew,” “Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye,” “Laugh, Clown, Laugh,” “Roll Along, Prairie Moon” and “Alone at a Table for Two.”

He started his career as a pianist with a series of bands led by Harry Yerkes, then moved to Chicago in 1921 to join Dan Russo’s band. The following year, he joined with Russo to become the co-leader the Oriole Terrace Orchestra, which he eventually took over when Russo departed in 1928.

Before coming to the Cocoanut Grove in mid-1933, Fio Rito had spent a number of years touring the East Coast and Midwest, including many engagements in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and Cincinnati. An early radio enthusiast, Fio Rito’s band was frequently heard on the air from various nightspots – preparing him well for the regular broadcasts scheduled to emanate from the Grove during his stay.

Musically, the orchestra that Fio Rito brought to the Grove was sweet, smooth and clever, playing highly danceable music accented with temple blocks, rapid triplets, and even an occasional solo on the Hammond organ by its talented leader.

Due to an existing recording contract, Theodore Salvatore Fiorito’s singers also adopted pseudonyms for these transcriptions. Muzzy Marcellino, Fio Rito’s guitarist and primary vocalist, sings as Jack Howard. Howard Phillips sings under the name of Bill Thomas, and Fio Rito’s vocal trio The Debutants appear as The Three Keys. 

Watch Ted Fio Rito from the Cocoanut Grove in this 1934 Paramount short ‘Star night atthe Cocoanut Grove’ also featuring Mary Pickford and Bing Crosby. You’ll hear the extreme high and low four octave voice of Jimmy Durante’s future comic foil Candy Candido in what is thought to be his earliest film performance….

 

 

4 JANUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE   Community Radio Network Show CRN #525
107.3 2SER Tuesday 4 JANUARY 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 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, Sunday 11 – 11:56pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am, Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Swing Bands One Night Stand Radio
Theme + Song of the Wanderer	Buddy Morrow Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Mar 1946
16:00 On The Clock	Shep Field and His New Music	‘One Night Stand’ Copacabana NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 9 Aug 1944
Come Rain Come Shine + Close	Hal McIntyre Orchestra (voc) Frankie Lester	‘One Night Stand’ Century Room Hotel Commodore NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1946
Set 2	1950s-60s Jazz Radio
Jazz Connoisseur	Harry James Orchestra (dms) Buddy Rich	Moonbowl Freedomland WNEW NYC 1962
The Theme	Miles Davis Sextet	‘Treasury of Music’ Birdland WRCA NBC NY AFRTS Re-broadcast 25 Aug 1959
Set 3	Benny Goodman in Chicago
Let’s Dance (theme) + Farewell Blues	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Joseph Urban Room Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 Jan 1936
Soft Spring	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 10 Aug 1941
King Porter Stomp + Goodbye (theme)	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Joseph Urban Room Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 3 Feb 1936
Set 4	Vincent Valsanti (Ted Fio Rito)
Serenade of Love (theme) + Flirtation Walk	Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Jack Howard	Cocoanut Radio Transcription TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934
When You’re in Love	Vincent Valsanti Orchestra	Cocoanut Radio Transcription TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934
Two Cigarettes in the Dark	Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Phil Thomas	Cocoanut Radio Transcription TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934
Were You Foolin’? + I’ll Take an Option on You + Serenade of Love (theme)	Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Jack Howard and The Three Blue Keys	Cocoanut Radio Transcription TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934
Set 5	1930s German Swing
Darf ich bitten?	Die Goldene Sieben	Comm Rec Berlin Sep 1936
Ja und nein	Die Goldene Sieben	Comm Rec Berlin Aug 1939
Aus lauter Liebe	Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Peter Igelhoff	Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1937
Oh! Aha!	Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Rudi Schuricke Terzett	Comm Rec Berlin Feb 1939
Set 6	Early Dorseys
Theme + On The Beach at Bali Bali	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘Ford V-8 Show’ Texas Centennial Exhibition KRLD CBS Dallas Tx 11 Aug 1936
Sandman (theme) + Is That Religion?	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby	Riviera Fort Lee NJ WEAF NBC Red NY 20 Sep 1934
Weary Blues	Eddy Howard Orchestra	‘Ford V-8 Show’ Texas Centennial Exhibition KRLD CBS Dallas Tx 4 Aug 1936
Farewell Blues	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	‘Chrysler Show’ Radio Transcription 1934
Set 7	Sweet Music
Romance (theme) + We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye	Ray Herbeck Music with Romance Orchestra (voc) Lorraine Benson	Trianon Ballroom WGN Mutual Chicago 24 Nov 1947
For You	King Sisters	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Jun 1945
Sweet Lorraine	Frank Sinatra	‘Frank Sinatra Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast 26 Nov 1946
What is This Thing Called Love?	Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) Eugenie Baird	‘Forever Pops’ ABC Chicago 1947
Set 8	1930s Fats Waller
Yacht Club Swing (theme) + Whatcha Know, Joe?	Fats Waller	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 3 Dec 1940
Pent Up in a Penthouse	Fats Waller	Yacht Club WABC CBS NY 14 Oct 1938
Sto Beating ‘Round The Mulberry Bush	Fats Waller	WEAF NBC Red NY 16 Jul 1938
I Had To Do It	Fats Waller	Yacht Club WABC CBS NY 18 Oct 1938

1920s 1930s Jazz Swing Songs by Greg Poppleton – New Album Mix

1920s 1930s Jazz Swing Songs by Greg Poppleton. Enjoy this 53 minute YouTube mix of 1920s – 1930s jazz swing songs. It’s mixed from six albums by Australian 1920s-30s singer, Greg Poppleton.

Greg’s newest album, ’20s 30s Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2′ , is now on
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1920s – 1930s SONG MIX:
0:00 Tip Toe Through the Tulips
3:48 The Charleston (correct tempo, dancers!)
6:17 Sweet Sue
8:33 Carolina in the Morning
12:13 It’s Only a Paper Moon
14:34 My Gal Sal
17:39 San Antonio Rose
19:47 St James Infirmary
22:47 Singing the Bathtub
24:50 Love Me or Leave Me
28:50 Walkin’ My Baby Back Home
32:27 Exactly Like You
34:39 On The Sunny Side Of The Street
39:54 If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
42:43 Ain’t She Sweet (Grahame Conlon ukulele)
45:15 Cakewalkin’ Babies From Home
47:46 St Louis Blues

1920s 1930s Jazz Swing Songs by Greg Poppleton Band:
Greg Poppleton: 1920s – 1930s singer
Paul Furniss: soprano, alto, tenor saxes and clarinet
Al Davey: trumpet and trombone
Bob Henderson: trumpet
Matt Baker: piano
Peter Locke: piano
Grahame Conlon: guitar and banjo
Geoff Power: sousaphone
Rod Herbert: sousaphone
Darcy Wright: double bass
Mark Harris: double bass
Dieter Vogt: double bass
Lawrie Thompson: drums and washboard
Joel Davis: drums

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1920s-30s Jazz & Dance Afternoon – Greg Poppleton

What are you doing this Saturday? We’ll be having fun with songs from the 1920s-30s at Penrith RSL. It’s free and you’re invited. 2-5pm, this Saturday 11 December. First 5,000 at door get in FREE.

• Dance floor
• Bar
• Bistro
• Free car parking
• 10 min walk from Penrith Station
• Child friendly.

Just 10 minutes walk from Penrith train station and bus interchange.

With me as I sing the songs of the 1920s and 1930s are, Dave Clayton on double bass.

Guitarist for Ricky May, Grahame Conlon, swings on Spanish guitar and banjo.

Damon Poppleton, will be joining us on alto saxophone.

https://www.gregpoppletonmusic.com

Penrith is a suburb in New South Wales, Australia, located west of Sydney. It is located in Greater Western Sydney, 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of the Sydney central business district on the banks of the Nepean River, on the outskirts of the Cumberland Plain.

Penrith is the administrative centre of the local government area of the City of Penrith. It is also acknowledged on the register of the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales as one of only four cities within the Greater Sydney metropolitan area.

Penrith has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

34-40 Borec Road: Craithes House
26 Coombes Drive: Torin Building
Great Western railway: Penrith railway station, Sydney
Nepean River, Great Western Highway: Victoria Bridge
Off Bruce Neale Dr, Steel Trusses 1.3 km past station: Emu Plains Underbridge
1 Museum Drive: Penrith Museum of Fire, including the following:
Fire and Rescue NSW Heritage Fleet
NSW Fire Brigades No 10 Vehicle Number Plates
1869 Shand Mason 7 inch Manual Fire Engine
1891 Shand Mason Fire Engine
1898 Shand Mason Curricle Ladders
1909 Edward Smith Headquarters Switchboard
1929 Ahrens Fox PS2 Fire Engine
1939 Dennis Big 6 Fire Engine
1942 Ford 21W Fire Brigade Mobile Canteen

Ray Miller Top 1920s Band Leader Disappears – 9 November 2021

Ray Miller, popular 1920s band leader and trombonist, whose jazz band was the first to play at the White House (in 1924) is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. This is a ‘classic’ Phantom Dancer from May of this year. I won’t be in the studio due to a film commitment.

Check out this scholarly article about that first White House encounter with jazz which included Ray Miller and his Orchestra, Al Jolson and a host of New York City showbiz stars
http://vjm.biz/white_house.pdf

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV which I’ve had the plaesure of producing and presenting for you since 1985.

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

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

 

RAY

Not much is known about Ray Miller outside of his performance career which stretched from 1916 until he disappeared off the scene in 1930.

In 1916, he worked as a singing waiter at the Casino Gardens in Chicago, home of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB).

Miller followed the ODJB to New York City, where he formed a band, the Black and White Melody Boys, featuring himself on drums and New Orleans native Tom Brown on trombone. The band performed in vaudeville and featured in musical productions before disbanding.

Around 1920s, Miller formed a dance band. At different times, its members included Ward Archer (drums); Charlie Rocco (trumpet); Miff Mole (trombone); Danny Yates (violin); Roy Johnston (trumpet); Rube Bloom and Tommy Satterfield (piano); Louie Chasone (tuba); Frank Trumbauer, Andy Sannella, Billy Richards and Andy Sandolar (saxophones); and Frank O. Prima (banjo).

The orchestra recorded for  Columbia and OKeh before signing an exclusive contract with Brunswick Records in late 1923.

MILLER

The Ray Miller Orchestra played more  jazz-influenced music after Mole and Trumbauer joined in 1924.  Late, in thart year, after performing for President Coolldge at the White House on 17 October, they recorded  Irving Berlin‘s song “All Alone” with Al Jolson singing. The band had residencies at the New York Hippodrome and Arcadia Ballroom in New York City as well as in Atlantic City. 

Their most successful recordings included “The Sheik of Araby” (OKeh, 1922), “I’ll See You In My Dreams” (Brunswick, 1925), and “When It’s Springtime in the Rockies” (Brunswick, 1930). 

After Mole and Trumbauer left, Miller moved his base to the Hotel Gibson in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1927, and performed regularly for the powerful radio station WLW. He left Cincinnati and formed a new band in Chicago in 1928, which for a few months included trumpeter Muggsy Spanier and clarinetist Volly De Faut. Miller and his orchestra recorded regularly for Brunswick in Chicago until 1930.

On this week’s Phantom Dancer you’ll hear the Miller Band on radio transcriptions recorded to advertise Sunny Meadows washing machines recorded on five minute 78 rpm radio discs between December 1928 and February 1929.

His last Brunswick recording, ‘Kiss Me With Your Eyes’ with ‘When It’s Springtime in the Rockies’, was recorded in Chicago in March 1930.

He disbanded in 1930 afterwhich he disappeared from the record. It is guessed that he died in 1974.

 

 

9 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE   Community Radio Network Show CRN #517
107.3 2SER Tuesday 9 NOVEMBER 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 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 3 – 4am + 6 -7pm 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 4am – 5am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am + Sunday 11pm – 12am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturday 10 – 11am + Wednesday 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Swing Bands One Night Stand Radio
Tin Roof Blues (theme) + That’s A’Plenty	Pee Wee Erwin	‘One Night Stand’ Nick’s Restaurant AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Dec 1950
Tampico	Stan Kenton Orchestra (voc) June Christy and Band	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC 27 Sep 1945
I Get a Kick Out of You + Close	Ray Anthony Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Jan 1952
Set 2	Vincent Valsanti (Ted Fio Rito)
Stay As Sweet As You Are	Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Bill Thomas	Cocoanut Radio Transcription TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934
Two Hearts	Vincent Valsanti Orchestra	Cocoanut Radio Transcription TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934
Miss Otis Regrets + What a Difference a Day Makes + Close	Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Spooky Dickinson	Cocoanut Radio Transcription TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934
Set 3	Trad  Radio
Open + Mississippi Mud	Jimmy Dorsey ‘Dorseyland’ Band	‘The Jimmy Dorsey Show’ Radio Transcription 1950s
The Clock Watcher’s Show	The Clock Watcher	KTSP St Paul-Minneapolis 1949
San Francisco Bay Blues	Jessie Fuller	Pier 23 KGO San Francisco 1959
Set 4	Ray Miller
No Place Like Home (theme) + Angry	Ray Miller Orchestra + Vocal	Sunny Meadows Radio Show Radio Transcription Chicago 18 Jan 1929
I Ain’t Got Nobody	Ray Miller Orchestra (voc) Mary Williams	Sunny Meadows Radio Show Radio Transcription Chicago 25 Jan 1929
Caressing You	Ray Miller Orchestra + Vocal	Sunny Meadows Radio Show Radio Transcription Chicago 14 Dec 1928
Royal Garden Blues + No Place Like Home (theme)	Ray Miller Orchestra	Sunny Meadows Radio Show Radio Transcription Chicago 14 Dec 1928
Set 5	Benny Goodman 1930s Radio
Let’s Dance + Hunkadola	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red NY 20 Apr 1935
Where or When	Benny Goodman Trio (voc) Audience	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania NYC WABC CBS NY 23 Oct 1937
Walk, Jenny, Walk	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red NY 4 May 1935
Swingtime in the Rockies	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania NYC WABC CBS NY 27 Oct 1937
Set 6	1940s Radio Transcriptions
A Little Bit Independent	Eddy Howard Orchestra (voc) Eddy Howard	Radio Transcription New York 1948
The Answer is Love	Sterling Young Orchestra (voc) Bobbie Ennis and Alan Simms	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1940
Cherokee	Eddy Howard Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York 1948
It Had To Be You	Sterling Young Orchestra (voc) Bobbie Ennis	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1940
Set 7	Esquire Jazz Concert
Blues	Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden	‘First Esquire All Star Jazz Concert’ Metropolitan Opera House WJZ Blue NYC 18 Jan 1944
Esquire Bounce	Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden	‘First Esquire All Star Jazz Concert’ Metropolitan Opera House WJZ Blue NYC 18 Jan 1944
Ol’ Rockin’ Chair	Mildred Bailey	‘First Esquire All Star Jazz Concert’ Metropolitan Opera House WJZ Blue NYC 18 Jan 1944
Basin Street Blues	Jack Teagarden and Coleman Hawkins	‘First Esquire All Star Jazz Concert’ Metropolitan Opera House WJZ Blue NYC 18 Jan 1944
Set 8	1950s Jazz TV
When the Saints Go Marching In	Dorsey Brothers	‘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

All Day Practice, No Drugs Or Alcohol For Outstanding Trumpeter – Phantom Dancer 14 September 2021

Clifford Brown is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. Clifford Brown was an outstanding jazz trumpeter who in a career spanning only a few years became a jazz sensation . He composed the jazz standards Sandu, Joy Spring (his nickname for his wife) and Daahoud. The Covid situation in Sydney is getting worse. Hear the latest from 2SER’s Anthony Dockrill. However, I hope to get back to mixing new, live Phantom Dancers for you soon. 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 14 September at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

CLIFFORD

Brown came from a musical family. His father organized his four sons, including Clifford, into a vocal quartet. He started playing trumpet at school at ten and began private lessons at age thirteen. He first went to university as a maths major, but music took over. He played in the fourteen-piece, jazz-oriented Maryland State Band. In June 1950, he was injured in a car accident after a performance. While in the hospital, he was visited by Dizzy Gillespie. Dizzy encouraged him to pursue a career in music. He got back into music despite his severe injuries by playing piano while recuperating.

BROWN

Brown was influenced and encouraged by trumpeter, Fats Navarro. He played for a week with Charlie Parker who was amazed by Brown’s trumpet ideas. Clifford’s first recordings were with R&B bandleader Chris Powell. He worked with Art Blakey, Tadd Dameron, Lionel Hampton, J. J. Johnson.a He formed a band with Max Roach. Sonny Rollins joined the band and remained a member of the group for the rest of its existence. You’ll hear the Max Roach-Clifford Brown Quintet with Sonny Rollins on live 1956 radio in this week’s Phantom Dancer. Brown stayed away from drugs and didn’t like alcohol. Rollins, who was recovering from heroin addiction, said that “Clifford was a profound influence on my personal life. He showed me that it was possible to live a good, clean life and still be a good jazz musician.” Brown also had the habit of practicing all day off-stage, starting from 6am on the band bus. This gave him phenomenal stamina, clarity and tone on the bandstand.

14 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #509
107.3 2SER Tuesday 14 September 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	Big Bands on 1946 Radio
Intro + There’s Good Blues Tonight	Hal McIntyre Orchestra (voc) Johnny Turnbull	‘One Night Stand’ Century Rook Hotel Commodore NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1946
Without You	Leighton Noble Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Starlight Roof Waldorf-Astoria Hotel NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Jun 1946
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes + Perdido (close)	Buddy Morrow Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Mar 1946
Set 2	Phil Harris
Music in the Moonlight (theme) + Just Friends	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Dick Webster	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
Save The Last Dance For Me	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Donald Novis	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
The More You Hurt Me The More You Make Me Care + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Margaret Lawrence	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
Set 3	West Coast Trad 1949-59 Radio
I Cover The Waterfront (theme) + Struttin’ With Some BBQ	Estuary Jazz Band	Pier 23 KGO San Francisco 1959
Open + Mississippi Mud	Kid Ory’s Creole Jazz Band	Beverly Cavern Club KGFJ Los Angeles 28 Jun 1949
March of the Bobcats + Honeysuckle Rose + I’ve Got a Right To Sing The Blues (theme)	Jack Teagarden	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 24 Apr 1954
Set 4	Clifford Brown
Sweet Georgia Brown + What’s New?	Clifford Brown – Max Roach Quintet	Basin Street WCBS CBS NYC 6 May 1956
Interview	Clifford Brown interviewed by Willis Connover	‘Jazz Hour’ Voice of America 1956
I Remember Clifford	Oscar Pettiford	Birdland WABC ABC NY 1957
Set 5	Extended Works by Duke Ellington
Diminuendo in Blue	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Birdland WNBC NBC NY 30 Jun 1951
Crescendo in Blue	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Birdland WNBC NBC NY 30 Jun 1951
Black, Brown and Beige Work Song	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date with the Duke’ 400 Club WJZ Blue NYC 28 Apr 1945
Black, Brown and Beige Spiritual	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date with the Duke’ 400 Club WJZ Blue NYC 28 Apr 1945
Set 6	Harry James Radio Transcriptions
Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	Radio Transcription 1943
Caxton Hall Swing	Harry James Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1954
Honeysuckle Rose	Harry James Orchestra (g) Allen Reuss	Radio Transcription 1943
In The Still of the Night	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Paula Gilbert	Radio Transcription 1954
Set 7	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra 1956
Intro + Song of India	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Ridin’ Around in the Rain	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Dolly Houston	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Sunny Side of the Street	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Lynn Roberts	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Just For Taking Bows	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Set 8	Progressive Jazz Radio
A Foggy Day	Carmen McRae	‘Timex All Star Jazz Show’ CBS TV 30 Dec 1957
They All Laughed	Carmen McRae	‘Timex All Star Jazz Show’ CBS TV 30 Dec 1957
Lester Leaps In	Lester Young	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 27 Nov 1948
Moose The Mooche + Lullaby of Broadway	Charlie Parker	Birdland WABC ABC NY 9 May 1953

Benny Goodman Goes Bop, Re-Learns Clarinet – Phantom Dancer 24 August 2021

Benny Goodman goes Bop from live 1948-49 radio is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.

The Sydney Covid Lockdown worsens, so again, unfortunately, I must premier a Phantom Dancer classic. I’m itching to make new mixes and write new bios for you live in the studio soon.

The Phantom Dancer – your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV – is hosted by me, Greg Poppleton and heard online and over 20 radio stations.

Hear past Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 24 August at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

BENNY

By the late 1940s, as you’ll hear on today’s Phantom Dancer, Goodman had moved from swing to bop, gaining praise from jazz critics for his recordings.

Goodman had broken up his swing orchestra in 1947, although he continued to assemble big bands and small groups for touring and recording throughout the remainder of his career.

He halfheartedly embraced the bebop movement and in the late 1940s made several recordings with noted bop musicians. Although Goodman’s solos were firmly in the old school, the blend of the two styles was effective.

BOP

His orchestra and his small groups became bop oriented. He hired many from the bop second wave to create the right sound, including Buddy Greco (who also sang), Zoot Sims and Wardell Gray.

For bop clarinet, Goodman was much influenced by Swedish clarinetist Stan Hasselgard. For some arrangements and bebop advice, he went to pianist Mary Lou Williams.

Interestingly, during this time, Goodman changed his clarinet technique,
“In 1949, when he was 40, Goodman decided to study with Reginald Kell, one of the world’s leading classical clarinetists. To do so, he had to change his entire technique: instead of holding the mouthpiece between his front teeth and lower lip, as he had done since he first took a clarinet in hand 30 years earlier, Goodman learned to adjust his embouchure to the use of both lips and even to use new fingering techniques. He had his old finger calluses removed and started to learn how to play his clarinet again—almost from scratch.”

Initially, he enjoyed the humour in bop, saying about a Thelonius Monk piece, “I like it, I like that very much. I like the piece and I like the way he played it. I think he’s got a sense of humour and he’s got some good things there.”

But within eighteen months bop frustrated Goodman and he returned to swing. In fact, he had changed his mind so completely about bop that in 1953 he was quoted, “Maybe bop has done more to set music back for years than anything. Basically it’s all wrong. It’s not even knowing the scales. Bop was mostly publicity and people figuring angles.”

Read trumpeter Al Stewart’s first hand account of playing in Benny Goodman’s bop band

24 AUGUST PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE   Community Radio Network Show CRN #507
107.3 2SER Tuesday 24 August 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	1940s Radio Big Bands
Open + Memories of You (theme) + Begin the Beguine	Sonny Dunham Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Apr 1944
That’s My Type	Bob Crosby Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Feb 1946
Candy Kid’s Note To A Classy Chassis + Close	Vaughn Monroe Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Commodore Hotel NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Feb 1945
Set 2	Latin Music
Open + Tico Tico	Lena Romay	‘Personal Album’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Open + Amor Amor + Besume Mucho	Xavier Cugat (voc) Del Campo	‘One Night Stand’ Trocadero Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 18 Feb 1945
Cabando Canha + + The Moon is in My Heart + Close	Enric Madreguera and his Music of the Americas (voc) Eddie Gomez	‘One Night Stand’ Copacabana NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1949
Set 3	Chamber Music Society
Open + Carry Me Back To Old Virginny	Henry Levine	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue 21 Jul 1941
Blow The Man Down	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue 21 Jul 1941
Three Valve Jump	Erskine Hawkins	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue 21 Jul 1941
Clarinet in a Haunted House	Paul Lavalle Woodwinds	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue 21 Jul 1941
Set 4	Benny Goodman Bop Radio
Undercurrent Blues	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 1949
Limehouse Blues	Benny Goodman Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ The Click Philadelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948
Blue Lou	Benny Goodman Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 1949
Body and Soul	Benny Goodman Trio	‘One Night Stand’ The Click Philadelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948
Set 5	Artie Shaw
Nightmare (theme) + Rose Room	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Summer Terrace Ritz Carlton Room WNAC NBC Red Boston 19 Sep 1939
The Lamp is Low	Artie Shaw Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	‘Melody and Madness’ WABC CBS NY 22 Aug 1939
Jungle Drums	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 18 Jan 1939
St Louis Blues + Nightmare (theme)	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WEAF NBC Red NY 19 Oct 1939
Set 6	1930s Radio
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave To Me	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines (voc) Sully Mason and Band	Aircheck 12 Jun 1934
Here Comes Cookie	Henry Busse Orchestra (voc) Marion Holmes	Radio Transcription 1935
Thanks	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Deane Janis	Radio Transcription 1934
Fine and Dandy	Anson Weeks Orchestra (voc) The Rhythmsters	Radio Transcription 1932
Set 7	1920s Radio
What a Day!	Eskimo Pie Orchestra (voc) Kay Parker	‘The Eskimo Pie Program’ Jul 1929
The Man From the South	Ted Weems Orchestra (voc) Arthur Jarrett and Parker Gibbs	Comm Rec Chicago 2 Dec 1929
1927 Radio Routine	Bing Crosby and Judy Garland	‘Bing Crosby Show’ KECA ABC LA 5 Oct 1947
Set 8	Women Singers on the Air
The Starlit Hour	Ella Fitzgerald (voc) Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra	Savoy Ballroom WEAF NBC Red NY 26 Feb 1940
Mean To Me	Sarah Vaughan (voc) Billy Eckstine Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945
Mad About The Boy	Lena Horne (voc) Fletcher Henderson Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
No Love, No Nothin’	Dinah Washington (voc) Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jun 1944

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

Baby Rose Marie 91 Years in Showbiz – Phantom Dancer 20 July 2021

Baby Rose Marie is this week’s Phantom Dancer non-stop swing jazz feature artist. She was an American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer with a career spanning nine decades in film, radio, records, theatre, night clubs and television.

Due to the current Sydney Covid lockdown I can’t mix live from the 2SER studios as I normally do on Tuesdays, so this is a ‘classic’ Phantom Dancer from ‘the 2016 vaults’ in a ‘repeat premier’ for your aural enjoyment.

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 20 July at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ where you can also hear two years of archived shows.

The finyl hour is vinyl.

Rose Marie, billed as ‘Baby Rose Marie’ when a child, and ‘Rose Marie’ as an adult, (one of the first major stars to be known simply by her given names) began her showbiz career at age 3.

Her mother would take her to see local vaudeville shows and afterwards Rose Marie would sing what she had heard for the neighbours. The neighbours eventually entered her in a talent contest at age 3, which she won, and so began her career as Baby Rose Marie. At five, she had her own NBC radio show. The Vitaphone Varieties film clip above was made to prove to skeptical radio listeners that Baby Rose Marie was indeed a child.

At the height of Baby Rose Marie’s fame from late 1929 to 1934, she made 17 records, (on her first disc she was backed by Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra) and was featured in Paramount films and shorts. She made one feature film, International House (1933), with W. C. Fields.

In this long, lost and recently restored short, skip through to 7’38 to catch Baby Rose Marie…

Her record of “Say That You Were Teasing Me” (backed with “Take a Picture of the Moon”, Victor 22960) also featured Henderson’s orchestra and was a national hit in 1932. She was the last surviving entertainer to have charted a hit before World War II. She died, aged 94 in 2017.

Rose Marie was widely known for her role on the CBS situation comedy The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966), as television comedy writer Sally Rogers, “who went toe-to-toe in a man’s world”. Later she portrayed Myrna Gibbons on The Doris Day Show and was a 14-year panelist on The Hollywood Squares.

She is the subject of a 2017 documentary film, Wait for Your Laugh, which includes interviews with her and her co-stars including Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke, Peter Marshall, and Tim Conway.

Rose Marie performed on three 1966 and 1967 episodes of The Dean Martin Show on NBC and also twice (1964 and 1968) on The Hollywood Palace on ABC.

In the mid-1970s, she appeared in the recurring role of Hilda on the police drama S.W.A.T.. Hilda brought fresh doughnuts, made coffee for the team, and provided some comic relief.

In the early 1990s, she had a recurring role as Frank Fontana’s mother on Murphy Brown. She appeared as Roy Biggins’ domineering mother Eleanor “Bluto” Biggins in an episode of Wings. Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam appeared together in an October 1993 episode of Herman’s Head and guest-starred in a February 1996 episode of Caroline in the City, shortly before Amsterdam’s death in October of that same year.

Rose Marie appeared opposite Phil Silvers in the hit Broadway Musical Top Banana in 1951, also appearing in the well-received 1954 film adaptation.

She later claimed that her musical numbers were cut from the film in retaliation for her publicly refusing the producer’s sexual advances. Near the end of her life, she testified that it was the only time she had ever experienced sexual harassment in the entertainment industry in her 90-year career.

In 1965, she appeared in the Dallas production of Bye Bye Birdie as Mae Peterson, the mother of the character played by Dick Van Dyke on Broadway and in the film.

From 1977 to 1985, Rose Marie co-starred with Rosemary Clooney, Helen O’Connell, and Margaret Whiting in the musical revue 4 Girls 4, which toured the United States and appeared on television several times.

Rose Marie was married to trumpeter Bobby Guy from 1946 until his death in 1964. The couple had one daughter, television producer Georgiana Guy-Rodrigues, who was born in 1947.

She was active on social media, particularly developing a following on Twitter, where she offered support for women who, like her, had suffered from sexual harassment.

Her contemporaries and modern performers offered their remembrances and condolences on the same platform; Nell Scovell called her “the patron saint of female comedy writers”.

20 JULY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #501
107.3 2SER Tuesday 20 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	Big Bands on 1946 ‘One Night Stand’ Broadcasts
Open + Song of the Wanderer	Buddy Morrow Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Mar 1946
As If I Didn’t Have Enough On My Mind + June Is Busting Out All Over	Leighton Noble Orchestra (voc) Helen Lynn	‘One Night Stand’ Starlight Roof Waldorf-Astoria Hotel NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Jun 1946
Come Rain Come Shine	Hal McIntyre Orchestra (voc) Frankie Lester	‘One Night Stand’ Century Room Commodore Hotel NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1946
Set 2	Jazz on 1948 – 52 TV
Now’s The Time	Charlie Parker (as) Chubby Jackson (b) + rhythm section	WPIX TV NYC 21 Feb 1949
Down Among The Sheltering Palms + Blues	Johnny Mercer	‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WPIX TV 1948
Billie’s Other Bounce	Bop vs Dixieland (musicians announced)	‘Adventures in Jazz’ WCBS TV NYC 4 Mar 1952
Set 3	Allen Freed’s Rock’n’Roll Dance Party with Count Basie
Mambo Inn	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party’ Paramount Brooklyn WCBS CBS NY AFRTS Re-broadcast 1956
I Love Paris	The Robins (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party’ KFWB CBS Hollywood AFRTS Re-broadcast 1956
Basie Land + One O’Clock Jump	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party’ KFWB CBS Hollywood AFRTS Re-broadcast 1956
Set 4	1950s Radio Singers of Songs
Open + Money Honey	Ella Mae Morse	‘Here’s To Veterans’ Radio Transcription 1954
Open + I Woke Up Crying	Joni James (voc) Les and Larry Orchestra	‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription 1955
Too Close For Comfort + Close	Giselle MacKenzie and The Honeydreamers (voc) Skitch Henderson Orchestra	‘Airtime’ Radio Transcription New York 1950
Set 5	Swinging Big Bands 1944 – 46 Radio
Tostiadoes	Bobby Sherwood Orchestra	Aircheck Nov 1944
Open + Tea For Two	Bob Strong Orchestra	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle WOR Mutual NY 5 Aug 1944
Cottontail	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Apr 1945
Floogie Boo + St Louis Blues	Cootie Williams Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Feb 1944
Set 6	Swing Bands on 1937-39 Radio
Toy Piano Jump	Johnny Messner Orchestra (toy piano) Professor Koleslaw	Radio Transcription New York 1939
Popcorn Man	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 6 nov 1937
I Can’t Get Started With You + In A Mist	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	WABC CBS NY 19 Nov 1938
Farewell Blues + Moonlight Serenade (theme)	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NY 25 Nov 1939
Set 7	The Magic Key Celebrates Irving Berlin
Let Yourself Go + I Saw The Sea and other songs from ‘Follow The Fleet’	Ray Noble Orchestra (voc) Al Bowlly	‘The Magic Key of RCA’ WEAF NBC Red NY New York City 9 Feb 1936
Set 8	Jazzy 1950s Radio
VIPs Boogie + Jam With Sam	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jul 1952
Groovin’ For Nat	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS NY Jun 1956
Blues in G	Lester Young Quintet	Birdland WABC ABC NY 7 Aug 1956