Paul Lavalle ‘Symphonic Rhumba’ – Phantom Dancer 30 June 2020

Paul Lavalle composer, arranger, clarinettist and saxophonist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist with two recordings from NBC’s ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ radio series.

The Phantom Dancer is produced and presented by 1920s-30s singer and actor Greg Poppleton. The show has been on-air over 107.3 2SER Sydney since 1985.

You can hear it online from 12:04pm AEST Tuesday 30 June at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

The finyl hour is vinyl.

USIFER

Paul Laval from 1938 and Paul Lavalle after the 1940s was the stagename of Joseph Usifer. He made one record in 1938, a sophisticated swing arrangement in the style of Raymond Scott in 1938.

Lavalle won a scholarship to Juilliard and was a student of composition of Joseph Schillinger. He played in many 1930s bands, including one in Havana, Cuba. In 1933 he became an arranger and clarinetist in the NBC house orchestra. His composition Symphonic Rhumba (1939), was broadcast by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski, on December 6, 1942.

On this week’s Phantom Dancer you’ll hear two Lavalle originals,’The Bullfrog and the Finch’ and ‘The Angie Wangie Blues’ broadcast over NBC’s Blue Network.

RADIO

Lavalle worked on The Dinah Shore Show (1939–40), The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street (1940–44), Plays for Americans (1942), Highways in Melody, The Stradivari Orchestra (1943), Strictly Business (1940), The Ted Steele Show (1942), and Dough Re Mi (1942-1943).

On radio he collaborated with Victor Borge, Mario Lanza, Robert Merrill and Dinah Shore. In November 1944, his jazz composition ‘Always’ made it to number 29 on the top 40 charts.

Lavalle was selected over several applicants to become the conductor of the Band of America in 1948. They performed on the weekly radio program Cities Service Concerts on NBC Radio for eight years and almost 400 programs. Each program began with the introduction: “Forty-eight states… 48 stars… 48 men marching down the main street of everybody’s hometown! Here comes the Cities Service Band of America, conducted by Paul Lavalle!”

TV

In 1949, Lavalle and the band became one of the first musical groups to appear weekly on television.

On May 18, 1961, Paul Lavalle and the Greatest Band in America joined singer Kay Armen in a 30-minute episode of the ABC-TV series ‘Music For a Spring Night’ entitled ‘Concert in the Park.’ Beginning in 1964, the Band of America toured extensively and also became the official band of the 1964 New York World’s Fair, an engagement that lasted into 1965.

In 1967, he was instrumental in forming the 100-member All-American High School Band (by 1968 known as McDonald’s All-American High School Band) which participated in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and Tournament of Roses Parade

Lavalle guest conducted many orchestras, including the ABC Symphony, CBS Symphony, NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1966 he became the conductor for the Radio City Music Hall Symphony Orchestra, and he returned two years later to serve as director of music and as principal conductor until 1975. In 1981 he began conducting the Wilton, Connecticut, Chamber Orchestra.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is Paul Lavalle’s Symphonic Rhumba (1939), broadcast by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski, on December 6, 1942…

30 JUNE PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #443
107.3 2SER Tuesday 30 June 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 and Dance Bands on 1937 Radio
Let’s Dance (theme) + Minnie The Moocher’s Wedding Day	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WOR Mutual New York City 21 Oct 1937
Am I Blue?	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jun 1937
September In The Rain + Ad + Close	Jack Hylton Orchestra (voc) Dick Mertre + Ad by ‘Mrs Goodsort’	‘The Rinso Review’ International Broadcasting Company London Radio Normandy 26 Dec 1937
Set 2	Count Basie on 1954 – 56 Radio
One O’Clock Jump + You For Me	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Treasury Bandstand’ American Legion Park, Ephrata Pa WLAN ABC Lancaster Pa 2 Sep 1954
Sent For You Yesterday	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing	‘Fifth Anniversary of Birdland’ Birdland WRCA NBC NY 16 Dec 1954
All Right OK You Win	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Joe Williams	Birdland WCBS CBS NY 9 Dec 1956
Set 3	The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street WJZ NY 1941
Open + Ida	Henry Levine Dixieland Octet	‘The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC NY 30 Jun 1941
The Bullfrog and The Robin	Paul Lavalle Woodwinds	‘The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC NY 30 Jun 1941
Angie Wangie Blues + Close	Paul Lavalle Woodwinds	‘The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC NY 25 Aug 1941
Set 4	Jazz Radio in 1960
Intro + Love Letters	Rodolfo Alchourron Quartet	‘Esto Es Jazz’ LR1 Radio el Mundo, Buenos Aires 28 May 1960
Theme + Sweet and Lovely	Lee Konitz	‘Jazz International’ AFRTS Hollywood 16 Jun 1960
Rhythm A Ning	Thelonius Monk Quintet	‘The World Jazz Series’ Connie Mack Park WCAU CBS Philadelphia 3 Mar 1960
Set 5	Medium Tempo Swing On 1940s Radio
Bluebirds In The Moonlight	Dick Freeman and his Trocadero Orchestra (voc) Barbara James	Comm Rec Sydney Mar 1940
Together	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Frolics Club Miami AFRS Re-broadcast 18 Jul 1944
I Never Knew	Raymond Scott’s Captivators	‘Morning Music’ WABC CBS NY 10 Jan 1943
Shoo Shoo Baby	Charlie Spivak Orchestra (voc) Irene Day	‘One Night Stand’ Century Room Commodore Hotel NY AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Set 6	Small Groups from the Big Bands on the Radio
Sugar	Mel Powell Trio (from the Glenn Miller Orch.)	Comm Rec Paris 1945
The Sad Sack	Gramercy 5 (from the Artie Shaw Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Santa Ana Ca ABC Los Angeles 3 Oct 1945
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise	Benny Goodman Trio	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 3 jan 1939
Wire Brush Stomp	Gene Krupa Trio	‘Spotlight Bands’ Newport Rhode Island Blue Network 2 Oct 1944
Set 7	Swing From 1930s Germany
Musik! Musik! Musik!	Otto Stenzel von der Scala Berlin mit seinem Tanzorchester (voc) Wilfred Sommer	Comm Rec Berlin 7 Jun 1939
Aus Lauter Liebe	Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Peter Igelhoff	Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1937
Über die Dächer der großen Stadt	Hans Carste Orchestra (voc) Schuricke-Terzett	Comm Rec Berlin 1939
Wenn Wir Uns Einmal Wiederseh’n	Joop Carlquist und sein Hawaiian-Tanzorchester	Comm Rec Berlin 1938
Set 8	Mod Women Jazz Singers On The Air
Once In A While	Sarah Vaughan	‘Jazz Club USA’ Washington DC 25 Dec 1949
Just A’Sittin’ And A’Rockin’	Julie Christie	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom LA AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Nov 1945
Confess	Patti Page	‘One Night Stand’ Click, Philadelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948
My Baby Just Cares For Me + The Lady Is A Tramp	Jaye P. Morgan	‘Second Timex All-Star Jazz Show’ CBS TV 30 Apr 1958

Kai Winding 1st Recorded ‘Time Is On My Side’ – Phantom Dancer 19 May

Kai Winding, jazz trombonist, the first to record, ‘Time Is On My Side’ with vocals by the Gospelaires (later covered by Rolling Scones), is your feature artist on this week’s Greg Poppleton Phantom Dancer.

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop 2 hour mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio.

It has been produced and presented continually by 1920s-30s singer and actor Greg Poppleton since 1985. It can be heard online from 12:04pm AEST Tuesday 19 May at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

The last hour is all vinyl.

Kai Winding and J J Johnson

START

Kai Chresten Winding was a Danish-born American trombonist and jazz composer. He is known for his collaborations with pioneer bop trombonist, J. J. Johnson.

He began his career as a professional trombonist with Shorty Allen’s band. He then played with Sonny Dunham and Alvino Rey until he entered the United States Coast Guard during World War II.

After the war, Winding was a member of Benny Goodman’s orchestra, then Stan Kenton’s. He participated in Birth of the Cool sessions in 1949, appearing on four of the twelve tracks, while J. J. Johnson appeared on the other eight.

1950s

In 1954, at the urging of producer Ozzie Cadena, Winding began a long association with Johnson, recording trombone duets for Savoy Records and Columbia. He experimented with instruments in brass ensembles. The album Jay & Kai + 6 (1956) featured a trombone octet and the trombonium. He composed and arranged many of the works he and Johnson recorded.

Kai Winding with Stan Kenton

TIME IS ON MY SIDE

During the 1960s, Winding began an association with Verve Records and producer Creed Taylor. He released the first version of ‘Time Is On My Side’ in 1963 before it was covered by Irma Thomas and The Rolling Scones. His best selling recording from this period is ‘More’, the theme from the movie Mondo Cane. Arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman, ‘More’ featured what is probably the first appearance of the French electronic music instrument the Ondioline on an American recording. Although Winding was credited with playing the ondioline, guitarist Vinnie Bell, who worked on the session, claimed that it was played by Jean-Jacques Perrey, a pioneer of electronic music. Winding experimented with ensembles again, recorded solo albums, and one album of country music with the Anita Kerr Singers. He followed Creed Taylor to A&M/CTI and made more albums with J. J. Johnson. He was a member of the all-star jazz group Giants of Jazz in 1971.

His son, Jai Winding, is a keyboardist who has worked as a session musician, writer and producer in Los Angeles.

VIDEO

Here is the ORIGINAL ‘Time Is On My Side’ with Kai Winding, later covered by The Rolling Scones

19 MAY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #437
107.3 2SER Tuesday 19 May 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2MCE Bathurst / Orange / Central West NSW Wednesday 9 – 10am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am
Set 1
Stardust On The Moon	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 20 Oct 1937
I Want To Be Happy	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 25 Dec 1936
Elks’ Parade + Close	Bobby Sherwood Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Avadon Ballroom Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1946
Set 2
Always	Kai Winding Group	‘Stars In Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 2 Sep 1952
Anthropology	Claude Thornhill Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ ABC NY 22 Sep 1947
Set 3
Peace Pipe	Count Basie Orchestra	‘All Star Parade Of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC New York 9 jan 1956
Got To Travel On	Jerry Gray and his Band of Today (voc) Jerry Gray	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 30 Oct 1959
Ad + The Shiniest Mouth in Town	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Butch Stone	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ KFI NBC LA 12 Oct 1953
Set 4
Tin Roof Blues	Jack Teagarden	Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 30 Apr 1955
You’re Just In Love	Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong and Thelma Middleton	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Basin Street WRCA NBC NY 8 May 1955
Set 5
Nit Wit Serenade	Chick Webb Orchestra	Comm Rec New York 1936
Chicago	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red NY 2 Feb 1935
Song of India	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘Ford V-8 Show’ Texas Centennial Exposition CBS Dallas Tx Aug 1936
I May Be Wrong	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 16 Jan 1936
Set 6
Mister Beebe	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra (voc) June Richmond	‘Jubilee’ AFRS New York 1943
The Wonder Of You	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Joy Sherrill	Club Zanzibar WJZ ABC NY 10 Nov 1945
Star Eyes	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Roberta Lee	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA Nov 1943
Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen	Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) Kay Starr	‘For The Record’ WEAF NBC NY 11 Sep 1944
Set 7
Bessie Couldn’t Help It	Hoagy Carmichael Orchestra (voc) HC	Comm Rec New York 15 Sep 1930
Harvey	Irving Mills’ Hotsy Totsy Gang (voc) Hoagy Carmichael	‘Brunswick Brevities’ Radio Transcription New York Oct 1929
Can’t We be Friends? + Moanin’ Low	The Dixie Two-Steppers	Radio Transcription New York 1929
Turn On The Heat (theme) + Milenberg Joys	ARC-Brunswick Studio Band inc. Bob Effros (tp) Tommy Dorsey (tb) Jimmy Dorsey (cl) Joe Venuti (vln)	‘Heat’ Radio Transcription New York 3 Nov 1930
Set 8
Back to Croajingalong	George Trevare and his Australians	Comm Rec Sydney 1945
Kansas City Man	Featuring Sidney Bechet and Bob Wilbur	‘This Is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 19 Apr 1947
Love Nest	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ Ritz Theatre WJZ Blue NY 9 Sep 1944
If I Had You	Muggsy Spanier	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 18 Apr 1953

Lord Invader 1940s Calypso – Phantom Dancer 7 April 2020

Lord Invader is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He was a Calypso singer and composer who began performing in the 1930s and recorded in the US from 1941 to 1959. We hear one of his 1941 sides today, introduced by actor Vincent Price. He composed ‘Rum and Coca Cola’, a hit for The Andrew Sisters.

The Phantom Dancer produced and presented by 1920s-30s singer and actor Greg Poppleton can be heard online from 12:05pm AEST Tuesday 7 April at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

The final hour of the mix is all vinyl.

LORD INVADER

Lord Invader was born in Trinidad. He first came to notice in 1937 when he began performing in the capital, Port of Spain.

He competed in the very first  Calypso King competition and recorded for Bluebird records.

The Decca label invited him to New York City in 1941 to record.

He wrote many calypso lyrics, his most famous ‘Rum and Coca-Cola‘, was plagiarised by Morey Amsterdam and became a hit for the Andrews Sisters.

The melody had been previously published as the work of Venezuelan calypso composer Lionel Belasco on a song titled “L’Année Passée,” which was in turn based on a folk song from Martinique. Invader wrote lyrics to the tune.

The song became a local hit and was at the peak of its popularity when Amsterdam visited the island in September 1943 as part of a U.S.O. tour.

In 1948, after years of litigation, both plaintiffs won their cases, with Lord Invader receiving an award of $150,000 in owed royalties. However, Morey Amsterdam was allowed to retain copyright to the song. Lord Invader wrote a follow-up song to “Rum and Coca-Cola”, titled “Yankee Dollar”.

In the early 1940s, radio stations in the USA refused to play Lord Invader’s original version on the grounds of its using the trademarked name, and its references to prostitution and alcohol.

Invader later opened a calypso club in Trinidada and toured the U.S, Britain and Europe.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Birdsong had a place on US radio from the mid-1920s into the 1950s.

The show that started it all was American Radio Warblers, a program selling birdseed.

Organist Preston Sellers performed with TEN canaries.

The show ran for almost 30 years, finishing on the Mutual Network from Chicago.

Trill, I mean thrill, to Preston and ‘The Original Feathered Stars of the Air’ in this commercial 78 recording…

7 APRIL PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #431
107.3 2SER Tuesday 7 April 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 Mon 2:30 – 3:30am 4NAG Keppel FM 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 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 7LTN Launceston 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am
Set 1	Live 1950s Big Band Swing Radio
Theme + Dancing in the Dark	Jerry Gray and his Band of Today	Edgewater Beach Hotel WMAQ NBC Chicago 8 Jun 1951
The Song is You	Buddy Morrow Orchestra	‘Let’s Go With Music’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954
Jam with Sam + Caravan	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Town Casino NBC Cleveland OH 17 Sep 1952
Set 2	1930s Calypso, Turkish and Persian Music announced by Vincent Price
New York Subway	Lord Invader	‘The World in Music’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Shake Around	Lord Beginner	‘The World in Music’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Odalisque and Zara	Unknown Turkish then Persian Orchestra	‘The World in Music’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Set 3	1944 Jump and Swing On The Air
That’s The Stuff You Gotta Watch	Buddy Johnson Orchestra (voc) Ella Johnson and Band	Comm Rec New York City 4 Oct 1944
Accentuate the Positive	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘One Night Stand’ New Zanzibar Cafe NY AFRS Re-broadcast 18 Mar 44
To Me You Are Beautiful + Flying Home	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Civic Auditorium Oakland Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Jun 44
Set 4	Dance Bands on ‘One Night Stand’
Oh You Beautiful Doll (theme) + Lullaby of Broadway	Music in the Foster Fashion (voc) Chuck Foster	‘One Night Stand’ Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker NY AFRS Re-broadcast 13 Aug 1945
Let’s Take It Slow	Shep Fields and his New Music	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1943
Medley: A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody / Mandy / All By Myself	Frankie Carle (piano and rhythm)	‘One Night Stand’ Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel LA AFRS Re-brodcast 1951
Set 5	Crooners on 1930s Radio
I’ll Follow You	Bing Crosby	Comm Recording New York City 28 Oct 1932
Under The Palms	Donald Novis (voc) Gus Arnheim Orchestra	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription TRANSCO Hollywood 1932
TBA	Rudy Vallee	‘Fleishman Yeast Hour’ WEAF NBC Red New York 1934
I’ve Had My Moments + I’m Not Lazy I’m Dreaming	Russ Columbo	‘Hollywood on the Air’ KECA NBC Blue LA 15 Jul 1934
Set 6	Famous Name Bands on 1940s Radio
Mister Pastor Goes To Town	Tony Pastor Orchestra	Aircheck New York City Feb 1942
Blue Cellophane	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Downbeat Awards’ Chicago Opera House Blue Network Chicago 25 Mar 1945
Body and Soul (theme) + Chant of the Groove	Coleman Hawkins Orchestra	Savoy Ballroom Aircheck NYC 1940
Paducah + Clarinet a la King	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Benny Goodman	‘Spotlight Bands’ Springfield Mass Blue Network 29 Sep 1943
Set 7	Forgotten Singers from 1939-40 Radio
“I” The Living “I” (Gilbert and Sullivan)	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra (voc) Ida James	Comm Rec New York City 8 Apr 1939
Oh, You Crazy Moon	Bea wain (voc) Your Hit Parade Orchestra	‘Your Hit Parade’ WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Oct 1939
Looking For Yesterdays	Artie Shaw Orchestra (voc) Anita Boyer	Broadcast New York City 26 Oct 1940
I Cried For You	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra (voc) Kitty Lane	Trianon Ballroom WCLE Cleveland OH 9 Apr 1939
Set 8	Radio Bands Inspired by BeBop
Elevation + Heart to Heart (theme)	Elliot Lawrence Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 5 Dec 1947
God Child	Chubby Jackson Orchestra	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 12 Mar 1949
How High The Moon	Allen Eager	Birdland WJZ ABC NY Jun 1953
Bye Bye Blues	Benny Goodman Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ The Click Philadelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948

1940s Trumpet Players – Phantom Dancer 28 March 2020

1940s trumpet player band leaders: Pippo Barzizza, Charlie Spivak and Randy Brooks, are the Phantom Dancer feature artists kicking off this week’s non-stop live radio mix.

The Phantom Dancer produced and presented by 1920s-30s singer and actor Greg Poppleton can be heard online from 12:05pm AEDST Tuesday 31 March at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

Two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV presented by Greg Poppleton on radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney since 1985.

In this week’s mix hear Jo Stafford and a set of women pop singers on 1930s-50s radio, a set of Dizzy Gillespie radio and a set of 1940s radio swing bands lead by trumpet players Barzizza, Spivak and Randy Brooks.

The last hour is all vinyl.

PIPPO BARZIZZA

With his friend and rival Cinico Angelini, Pippo Barzizz became the pre-eminent Italian swing and jazz band leader in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.

Beginning with his Blue Star Orchestra, then with Orchestra Cetra in the 1930s (which recorded 7,000 sides), and his Orchestra Moderna in the 1950s (which included a young Ennio Morricone), Barzizza broadcast regularly on EAIR, the national Italian radio, and then its post-war successor, RAI, intil 1954.

He composed songs and film soundtracks. His treatise on musical exercises, “Barzizza’s method” was published in 1952.

Pippo composed songs such as “Domani”, “Sera”, (a beautiful piece “with a harmony almost too high for that period”) and solo orchestra songs as “Do sol la si do” and his extraordinary “Adagio”.

CHARLIE SPIVAK

Spivak’s band was one of the most successful in the 1940s and survived until 1959.

Spivak’s experience playing with jazz musicians had little effect on his own band’s style, which was straight dance music, made up mainly of ballads and popular tunes. Spivak himself (known as “Cheery, Chubby Charlie”) had been noted for his trumpet’s sweet tone and his strength for playing lead parts, rather than for any improvisational ability. He was also known as “The Man Who Plays The Sweetest Trumpet In The World”.

RANDY BROOKS

Brooks began on trumpet at age six, and by eleven was touring with Rudy Vallee. He then worked with Claude Thornhill, Bob Allen, Bernie Cummins, Art Jarrett, and Les Brown before founding his own band in 1944. John Benson Brooks (no relation) contributed arrangements to the ensemble, and Stan Getz played in it in 1946. Among his hits for Decca Records were “Tenderly”, “Harlem Nocturne” and “The Man With The Horn”, but his swing-based style and large ensemble were out of step with the times, and his success eroded toward the end of the decade.
He was married to singer and band leader, Ina Ray Hutton.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is Pippo Barzizza leading and conducting the RAI TV Orchestra on his compositions “Il Boscaiolo” and “Sera” on the 60th Anniversary RAI TV broadcast of 1986.
Enjoy!

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!

31 MARCH 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 31 March 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm 5GTR Mt Gambier Mon 2:30 – 3:30am 4NAG Keppel FM 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 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 7LTN Launceston 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am
Set 1	Swing Bands of Trumpet Playing Leaders on 1940s Radio
Non Hai Piu La Veste A Fiori Blu	Alberto Rabagliati e Quartetto Vocale Hot (voc) Pippo Barzizza Orchestra	Comm Rec Cetra, Rome 1946
Open + Stomping Room Only	Charlie Spivak Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 1947
Perdido + Theme	Randy Brooks Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Jul 1945
Set 2	Mickey Mouse Bands On 1950s – 60s Radio
Open + Tea For Two	Leon Kellner Orchestra	Blue Room Roosevelt Hotel WWL CBS New Orleans 1964
Mississippi Mud	Dick Jurgens Orchestra (voc) Al Galante and Band	Aragon Ballroom Aragon Ballroom WBBM CBS Chicago Dec 1950
Little Girl + Goodnight My Love + Drifting and Dreaming (Close)	Orrin Tucker Orchestra (voc) OT	Boulevarde Room Stevens Hotel ABC Chicago 1951
Set 3	Women Pop Singers on 1930s-50s Radio
More Than You Know	Jo Stafford (voc) Victor Young Orchestra	’Your Melody Hour’ KFI NBC Los Angeles 5 Aug 1951
If This Is Love, I Don’t Want Love	Kay Thompson	’Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription New York City 1935
Brahm’s Lullaby + Close	Ginny Simms + Chorus (voc) Cookie Fairchild Orchestra	’Personal Album’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Set 4	Crooners on 1940s Radio
Open + Careless Hands	Frank Sinatra and The Hit Paraders (voc) Alex Stordahl Orchestra	’Your Hit Parade’ KFI NBC LA 30 Apr 1949
Open + Let’s Have Another Cup Of Coffee + Rise and Shine	Gordon MacRae	’The Railroad Hour’ KFI NBC Los Angeles 7 Aug 1950
Lucky Ol’ Sun	Dick Haymes and The Andrew Sisters (voc) Jerry Gary Orchestra	’Club 15’ KNX CBS Los Angeles 23 Sep 1949
Set 5	Dizzy Gillespie on 1940s-50s Radio
Lady Byrd	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Aircheck Apollo Ballroom Harlem NY 22 Jan 1947
Manteca	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Winter Palace Stockholm Radio Sweden 2 Feb 1948
Doodlin’	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jul 1956
Jam Session	Dizzy Gillespie with Orchestra	Rex Theatre RTF Paris Feb 1953
Set 6	Piano Playing Band Leaders on the Air
If You Can’t Smile and Say Yes	Nat King Cole Trio	Trocadero KHJ Mutual LA 26 Apr 1945
Body and Soul	Teddy Wilson Orchestra	’America Dances’ BBC London via WABC CBS NY 1939
Every Tub	Count Basie Orchestra	’Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 14 Jan 1953
Flying Home	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 13 Aug 1952
Set 7	1930s Radio Jazz and Dance Bands
Black and Blue Rhythm	Jack Hylton Orchestra	Comm Rec London 26 Sep 1933
Crazy Rhythm	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	’Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red New York City 8 Dec 1934
Dardenella	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	’Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 31 Oct 1936
Haunting Me	Henry Busse Orchestra	Radio Transcription Hollywood 1935
Set 8	Trad Bands on Radio
Beale Street Blues	Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Band	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1950
Heebie Jeebies	Eddie Condon Group	’Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 9 Sep 1944
I’m Confessin’	Hot Lips Page	’Doctor Jazz’ Stuyvesant Casino WMGM New York City 1950
That’s A Plenty	Muggsy Spanier	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 18 Apr 1953

George Wallace 1910s-50s Comedian – Phantom Dancer 10 March 2020

George Wallace, Australian comedian, composer, dancer and singer, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist from live 1940s-50s radio.

Of interest in the comedy selections of George Wallace from 1940s-50s radio is his early 20th century working class Australian accent and WW1 vintage vaudeville stage delivery.

In a 1949 interview, Wallace admitted that he found it hard to adapt his comedic techniques to radio. “The hardest thing, is keeping [my voice] down. After years on the stage where you have to raise your voice to make a point, I found in radio that this only made the mike blast and it took me a long time to break the habit of wanting to shout at it.”

Nonethesless, Wallace’s delivery hasn’t dated and is still funny, in my opinio. The commercial radio actors he’s working with are very much of their time.

The Phantom Dancer produced and presented by 1920s-30s singer and actor Greg Poppleton can be heard online from 12:05pm AESDT Tuesday 10 March at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

The last hour is all vinyl.

GEORGE

George Stephenson “Onkus” Wallace died the day I was born.

He was an Australian comedian, vaudevillian, radio personality and film star. During the early to mid-20th century, he was one of the most famous and successful Australian comedians on both stage and screen, with screen, song and revue sketch writing amongst his repertoire.

His father toured in minstrel shows and George junior appeared at age three in a Sydney pantomime. He was in his parents’ song-and-dance act until they divorced. He later busked in Pyrmont, New South Waleswaterfront, worked in his stepfather’s ink factory, and was a farm-hand and canecutter in North Queensland. He then joined a road show at age sixteen.

MOVIES

The 1930s saw George turn his talents to film. He starred in five films, all comedies and was the biggest, if not the biggest, Australian star. Three of these, His Royal Highness (1932), Harmony Row (1933) and A Ticket in Tatts (1934), were directed by F. W. Thring for Thring’s company, Efftee Film Productions.

He said in 1933 that he turned down an offer from Universal to film in the US.

The other two, Let George Do It (1938) and Gone to the Dogs (1939), were directed by Ken G. Hall for Cinesound Productions. Wallace’s contributions to these films extended beyond his performances. He developed the concepts for His Royal Highness, Harmony Row and A Ticket in Tatts by drawing on his stage revues, and co-wrote Let George Do It and Gone to the Dogs. Wallace’s other film work included a 1932 short film, “Oh! What a Night!”, which he is said to have directed unofficially.[8] In later years, he was seen in supporting roles in two dramatic films, The Rats of Tobruk (Charles Chauvel, 1944, Australia) and Wherever She Goes (Michael Gordon, 1953, USA/Australia).

STYLE

In his physical presentation as well as his performance style, George Wallace differed from international stars of slapstick comedy. For instance, his clothing and speech allude to an Australian working-class type and contrast with Charles Chaplin’s mock-dapper Tramp persona. The fact that Wallace’s performances combine tap-dancing with pratfalls makes him unusual among film comedians anywhere. Moreover, Wallace’s films prefigure developments in Hollywood comedy. An example is the fictional country of Betonia in His Royal Highness, which predates satirical depictions of fictional nations in such celebrated films as The Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup (1933) and Charles Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (1940). Other aspects of Wallace’s films that are relatively unusual for the period are the comedic treatment of haunted houses in Harmony Row and Gone to the Dogs and scientific experimentation in Gone to the Dogs, which emphasize the resourcefulness of Australian filmmaking in the face of Hollywood’s international dominance.

JUNIOR

George Wallace had one child, George Leonard Wallace (George Wallace Jnr.), who became a famous comedian in his own right. At age two he debuted on stage in his father’s and mother’s vaudeville act joining them in acrobatic poses. He had success on TV in the late 1950s and 1960s. George Wallace Jnr’s television show, Theatre Royal, which originated in Brisbane, won a Logie Award in 1962 and 1963.

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10 MARCH PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #427
107.3 2SER Tuesday 10 March 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm 5GTR Mt Gambier Mon 2:30 – 3:30am 4NAG Keppel FM 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 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am
Set 1	Special Shows
Open + Somebody Loves Me	Irving Miller Orchestra	‘Mirth and Madness’ WEAF NBC NYC Jun 1944
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (theme) + Smiles	Sy Oliver Orchestra	‘Endorsed by Dorsey’ WOR Mutual NYC 3 Mar 1946
Lady Be Good + Close	Ella Fitzgerald (voc) Ray Brown Trio	‘Swingtime at Savoy’ WNBC NBC NY 28 Jul 1948
Set 2	1950s Progressive Jazz Radio
Open + So What?	Miles Davis	‘Your Treasury of Music’ Birdland WRCA NBC NYC 25 Aug 1959
Set 3	Benny Goodman 1937 Radio
One O’Clock Jump	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NYC 20 Oct 1937
Open + Blue Skies	Benny Goodman Trio (voc) Audience	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NYC 23 Oct 1937
Dixieland Band + Goodbye (theme)	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WOR Mutual NYC 21 Oct 1937
Set 4	George Wallace
Open + Three Little Words + Skit	Edwin Duff (singer) George Wallace Comedian	‘The George Wallace Show’ 2GB Macquarie Network Sydney 1950
Brown Slouch Hat	Joan Blake	‘Song of Australia’ ABC Radio 1942
Sophie, The Sort On The Bus	George Wallace	Live on The Tivoli Theatre, Sydney 1940s
Wacko! We’ve Got a Date	George Wallace (voc) Billy O’Flynn’s Legionaire Orchestra and Chorus	Comm Rec Melbourne 1940
Set 5	Pee Wee Russell
D.A. Blues	Pee Wee Russell (cl) Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon’s Town Hall Jazz Concerts’ WJZ Blue NYC 1944
The Blues By Pee Wee Russell	Pee Wee Russell (cl) Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon’s Town Hall Jazz Concerts’ WJZ Blue NYC 9 Sep 1944
Pee Wee’s Town Hall Stomp	Pee Wee Russell (cl) Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon’s Town Hall Jazz Concerts’ WJZ Blue NYC 1944
Impromptu Ensemble	Pee Wee Russell (cl) Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon’s Town Hall Jazz Concerts’ WJZ Blue NYC 9 Sep 1944
Set 6	Eugenie Baird
Suddenly It’s Spring	Eugenie Baird (voc) Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Aircheck Hotel New Yorker May 1944
My Buddy	Eugenie Baird (voc) Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Forever Pops’ KECA ABC LA 1946
My Heart Tells Me	Eugenie Baird (voc) Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Aircheck Hotel New Yorker May 1944
What Is This Thing Called Love	Eugenie Baird (voc) Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Forever Pops’ KECA ABC LA 1946
Set 7	1940s Swing Radio
Sleep	Benny Carter Orchestra	‘Trianon Time’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca Aircheck 1944
Blackberry Jam	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Columbus OH Blue Network 19 Nov 1943
Let’s Dance (theme) + My Guy’s Come Back	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Lisa Morrow	Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca KHJ Mutual LA 14 Jan 1946
Smokey Mary + Close	Bob Crosby Orchestra	CBS Aircheck 23 May 1942
Set 8	Shep Fields
Country Garden	Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1940
Basin St Blues	Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Robert Goday	Radio Transcription 1938
From Another World	Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1940

Mary Osbourne – Woman Electric Guitar Pioneer – Phantom Dancer 3 March 2020

It’s International Women’s Day this month so this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist from live 1920s-60s radio is electric guitar pioneer, Mary Osbourne. There’s also a set of women singers from live 1930s-40s radio.

You’ll hear Mary’s guitar with Gay Claridge’s big band broadcasting from Chicago in 1944. You’ll also hear her sing from that same broadcast. Then a couple of commercial jazz sides for you spun by jazz critic Leonard Feather in a 1951 edition of his Voice of America series, ‘Jazz Club USA’.

The Phantom Dancer produced and presented by 1920s-30s singer and actot Greg Poppleton can be heard online from 12:05pm AESDT Tuesday 3 March at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

The last hour is all vinyl.

MARY

Mary Osborne was born into a musical family. Her mother played guitar and her father made violins.

Her earliest instruments were piano, ukulele, violin and banjo. She first played guitar at age nine.

At ten, she was playing banjo in her father’s ragtime band. She also had her own radio program, which she would continue to perform on twice weekly until she was fifteen.

At twelve she started her own trio of girls to perform in Bismarck, North Dakota. The music she was playing during this time period was largely “hillbilly”, in which the guitar was simply used to accompany her own vocals.

At the age of fifteen, Osborne joined a trio led by pianist Winifred McDonnell, for which she played guitar, double bass, and sang. During this time, she heard Charlie Christian play electric guitar in Al Trent’s band at a stop in Bismarck.

CHARLIE

She was enthralled by his sound, at first mistaking the electric guitar for a saxophone. She said, “What impressed everyone most of all was his sense of time. He had a relaxed, even beat that would sound modern even today.”

Osborne immediately bought her own electric guitar and had a friend build an amplifier.  She sat in with Christian, learning his style of guitar.  Later, McDonnell’s trio got absorbed into Buddy Rogers’s band, after Rogers heard them play in St. Louis. But within a year of the band moving to New York in 1940, the trio broke up and left Rogers’s band, having found husbands. Osborne married trumpeter Ralph Scaffidi, who encouraged her musical career.

PROGRESSIVE

In the 1940s, Osborne sat in on jam sessions on 52nd Street, where she played with some of the biggest names in jazz and quickly made a name for herself.

In 1941 she went on the road with jazz violinist Joe Venuti. In 1942 she was working freelance in Chicago when she made a recording with Stuff Smith. In 1944, as you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer, she sang and played her electric guitar in the Gay Claridge Orchestra. In 1945 Osborne headlined a performance with Dizzy Gillespie, Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins and Thelonious Monk in Philadelphia, to reviews and audiences that praised her specifically. She, Tatum, and Hawkins went on to record in concert in New Orleans.

In 1945 Osborne moved back to New York. There she recorded with Mary Lou Williams in 1945, Coleman Hawkins, Mercer Ellington, and Beryl Booker in 1946, and led her own swing trio. You’ll hear two of these sides played by jazz critic Leonard Feather on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

Her trio lasted from 1945–1948 and played in clubs on 52nd street, had a year-long engagement at Kelly’s Stables, and made several recordings. Throughout the 1950s, she played with Elliot Lawrence’s Quartet on The Jack Sterling Show, a daily morning CBS radio program, and appeared on the television show Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts.

In this week’s PHANTOM DANCER VIDEO, you’ll see her with a band of jazz greats backing Billie Holiday on an Art Ford Tv show.

The last few years of the decade she spent recording, both with Tyree Glenn and as a leader. Shortly after, Osborne felt that she had been doing the same thing musically for too long and wanted a change. In 1962 she started learning Spanish classical guitar under Alberto Valdez-Blaine. She used classical techniques, such as pick-less playing, in her jazz playing.

BUILDER

In 1968, Osborne moved and settled into Bakersfield, California, where she lived the rest of her life. With her husband, she started the Osborne Guitar Company. She taught music and continued to play jazz locally and in Los Angeles. She played in the Newport and Concord festivals in the early 1970s, and in the Kool Jazz Festival in New York in 1981. In 1989 and 1990, she played at the Los Angeles Classic Jazz Festival, and in 1990 also played at the Playboy Jazz Marathon. In 1991, in what would be her final performances, Osborne returned to The Village Vanguard in New York for a week-long engagement.

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!

3 MARCH PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #426
107.3 2SER Tuesday 3 March 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm 5GTR Mt Gambier Mon 2:30 – 3:30am 4NAG Keppel FM 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 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am
Set 1	A Date With The Duke
Take The A-Train (theme) + Carnegie Blues	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC/AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Otto, Play Thar Riff Staccato	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ray Nance	‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC/AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
All At Once + Yesterdays	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Kay Davis	‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC/AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Set 2	Australian Radio
Brown Slouch Hat	Joan Blake	‘Song of Australia’ ABC Radio 1942 4 Sep 1948
Sahara	Wally Portingale All-in-Fun Revue	‘Army on Parade’ 2CH Sydney 0ct 1943
Waltzing Matilda	116th Rhythm Ensemble (voc) Ron Williams	2UE Sydney 1944
Set 3	Trumpet Playing Band Leaders
Memories of You (theme) + The Wish I Wish Tonight	Sonny Donham Orchestra (voc) Tommy Randall	‘One Night Stand’ Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker NY AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jul 1945
Open + Blue Skies	Lee Castle Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Ice Terrace Room Newark NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Feb 1934
Eight Bar Riff + Rose Room	Harry James and his Music Makers	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Sep 1945
Set 4	Mary Osbourne – Pioneer Electric Guitarist
Apple Blossoms in the Rain + Kentucky	Mary Osbourne (voc and eg) Gay Claridge Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Chez Paree, Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Sep 1945
Mary’s Guitar Boogle	Mary Osbourne Trio	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America 1951
Low Ceiling	Mary Osbourne (eg) Beryl Booker Trio	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America 1951
I Love You	Mary Osbourne (eg) Gay Claridge Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Chez Paree, Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Sep 1945
Set 5	1944 Swing Radio
I Cover The Waterfront	Benny Carter Orchestra	Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca 1944
Minnie the Moocher (theme) The Very Thought of You	Cab Calloway Orchestra and voc.	‘One Night Stand’ Club Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Sep 1944
The Lion and the Mouse	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker NYC 1944
After You’ve Gone + Goodbye (theme)	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS New York City 21 Jul 1944
Set 6	Louis Armstrong Radio
The Blues	Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller	Aircheck New York City Oct 1938
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?	Louis Armstrong	Wintergarden Theatre WNBC NBC NY 19 Jun 1947
You’re Just In Love	Louis Armstrong and Velma Middleton	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription NYC 12 Dec 1954
Royal Garden Blues	Louis Armstrong	‘Damon Runyom Memorial Jazz Concert’ Blue Note WENR ABC Chicago 11 Dec 1948
Set 7	1930-40ss Women Singers
By The Light of the Silvery Moon	<div class=”style1″ align=”left”Ruth Etting	‘Ruth Etting Show’ WHN NYC 13 Jun 1947
It’s You, You, Darling	Marian Mann (voc) Bob Crosby Orchestra	Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker WOR Mutual NY 25 Mar 1940
Whistling in the Dark	Loyce Whiteman (voc) Gus Arnheim Orchestra	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Hollywood 1931
There’s a Small Hotel	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Maxine Gray	‘The Lady Esther Serenade’ WABC CBS NY 26 Aug 1936
Set 8	1940s Modern Jazz Radio
C-Jam Blues	International All-Stars	Aircheck Hollywood Dec 1947
Back Talk	Woody Herman Orchestra	‘Wild Root Show’ ABC 8 Feb 1946
Manteca	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Winter Palace Radio Sweden Stockholm 2 Feb 1948

Richard Himber Unusual Arrangements 1936-38 Radio – Phantom Dancer 18 February 2020

This week’s 18 February Phantom Dancer mix of swing of jazz feature artist from live 1920s-60s radio, on radio and online, is composer, band leader, violinist, and magician, Richard Himber.

Richard Himber was a gimmicks man. He had the first vanity phone number back in 1932, R-HIMBER, and he came up with the idea of bands playing on the back of flatbed trucks for promotions. Hear him on 1936-38 radio on this week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton.

The Phantom Dancer with actor and 1920s-30s singer Greg Poppleton can be heard online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

The last hour is all vinyl.

 

From his Wiki entry…

Richard Himber Orchestra

TUCKER

He was born as Herbert Richard Imber in Newark, New Jersey to the owner of a chain of meat stores. His parents gave him violin lessons but when they found him performing in a seedy Newark dive, they took the instrument away from him and sent him to military school. In 1915, he stole away into New York City, where Sophie Tucker heard him play and hired him as a novelty act to play with her and the Five Kings of Syncopation where Himber was the highlight of the cabaret act.

He worked his way through Vaudeville and down Tin Pan Alley. He managed Rudy Vallee’s orchestra service, which sent out bands for private parties and society functions. A suave salesman and irrepressible idea man, he soon had his own band booking agency. In 1932, he acquired the first known “vanity” telephone number, R-HIMBER, answered 24 hours a day. Later that year, Himber finally formed an orchestra of his own, parlaying a gig at New York’s Essex House Hotel into national NBC radio exposure. Among the top-notch professionals in its ranks were Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw and many other future stars of the music world.

CAREER

In 1933 Richard Himber made his first records, for Vocalion under the name “Dick Himber,” which intimates always called him. Among the selections was his own theme song, “It Isn’t Fair,” a song he wrote which became a hit. In 1934 after a single session for Victor’s budget label Bluebird, he began recording for the full-priced Victor label until 1939. He led one of the most sophisticated “sweet” dance bands of the era, featuring Joey Nash as his vocalist (1933–1935), who was replaced by Stuart Allen (1935–1939). We hear Stuart Allen on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

Himber was also a skilled magician, and invented many magic tricks including “The Himber Wallet,” “The Himber Ring,” and the “Himber Milk Pitcher.” In later years, his band act often included an interlude of magic and he conjured on many television shows as well.

An amazing Richard Himber magic trick – with comedy patter!

Himber was the publisher of the R-H Log, a weekly survey of the most popular tunes on radio and television. To the annoyance of most music publishers, he refused to accept payola. He once ordered his secretary to phone every major publisher and tell them he had a stroke, to which many of them joyfully replied, “It’s about time.”

Other popular tunes that Himber composed were “Moments in the Moonlight,” “After the Rain,” “Monday in Manhattan,” “Haunting Memories,” “Time Will Tell,” “Am I Asking Too Much,” and “I’m Getting Nowhere Fast with You.” In 1957 he wrote a TV theme for NBC’s Tonight! America After Dark when Jack Lescoulie was the interim host—before Jack Paar took over.

In the late 1930s Himber’s band was featured in short-subject films produced in New York by Paramount Pictures and Himber was also the maestro for New York’s annual Harvest Moon Ball.

FLATBED TRUCK

Among Himber’s novel promotions was a traveling bandstand on a flatbed truck, sponsored by Pepsi-Cola. The orchestra used it for free outdoor concerts in the New York City area in the 1960s. It was during one of these concerts in 1966 that Himber suffered a heart attack, dying several hours later.

VIDEO

Here is The Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, the Richard Himber 1937 soundie, ‘Richard Himber Plays For You’.

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!

18 FEBRUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #424
107.3 2SER Tuesday 18 February 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm 5GTR Mt Gambier Mon 2:30 – 3:30am 4NAG Keppel FM 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 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am
Set 1	1938 – 40 Glenn Miller
Moonlight Serenade (theme) + I Never Knew	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Paradise Restaurant WEAF NBC Red NY 30 Dec 1938
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Andrew Sisters	‘Chesterfield Show’ WABC CBS NY 27 Dec 1939
My My + Close	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NYC 15 Apr 1940
Set 2	Modern Radio
Prez’s Mood	Lester Young	1958 recording
I Got It Bad	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Mary Ann McCall	‘Excursions in Modern Music’ Rendezvous Ballroom KHJ Mutual LA 30 Jul 1949
My Lady + Bill’s Blues	Stan Kenton Orchestra (alto sax Lee Konitz)	‘Concert Encores’ Palladium Balroom KFI NBC LA 15 Jan 1953
Set 3	Benny Goodman and Fletcher Henderson
Some of These Days	Benny Goodman Quartet	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 13 Sep 1938
Pic-a-Rib	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WEAF NBC Red NY 14 Oct 1939
Blue Skies	Benny Goodman Orchestra and Fletcher Henderson	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 13 Sep 1938
Set 4	Richard Himber
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen	Lucky Strike Orchestra directed by Richard Himber (voc) Buddy Clark	‘Your Hit Parade’ WEAF NBC Red NY 15 Jan 1938
Yesterdays	Richard Himber and his Studebaker Champions	‘Magic Key’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 27 Dec 1936
Through the Courtesy of Love + It’s DeLovely	Richard Himber and his Studebaker Champions (voc) Stuart Allen	‘Magic Key’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 27 Dec 1936
Set 5	Women Big Band Singers  1937 – 40
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (theme) + I’ll Those In Favour of Swing Say Aye	Edythe Wright (voc) Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 14 Sep 1939
It’s a Blue World	Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra (voc) EF	Savoy Ballroom Harlem WEAF NBC Red NY 4 Mar 1940
Darn That Dream	Helen Humes (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	Southland Cafe WNAC NBC Red Boston 20 Feb 1940
One, Two Button Your Shoes	Ivie Anderson (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	Cotton Club WABC CBS NY 18 Mar 1937
Set 6	1940s Swing Bands on Radio
Combination Solid	Charlie Spivak Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1941
Nightmares (theme) + Bedford Drive	Artie Shaw Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Santa Ana Ca. Mutual Network 3 Oct 1945
Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby?	Bob Strong Orchestra (voc) Betty Martin and Randy Ryan	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WOR Mutual NY 5 Aug 1944
Minding My Business	Buddy Rich Orchestra (voc) Dottie Reid	‘Spotlight Bands’ Phoenixville PA 24 Dec 1945
Set 7	Cab Calloway Commercial Sides
A Minor Breakdown	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec 10 Dec 1937
Vuelva	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec 17 Dec 1939
I Like Music	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec 26 Jan 1938
Do I Care? No. No.	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec 18 Mar 1940
Set 8	Harry James on 1954 Radio
Caxton Hall Swing	Harry James Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 23 Jan 1954
Cherry	Harry James Orchestra	NBC Superior WI 29 May 1954
Woodchopper’s Ball	Harry James Orchestra	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ WOW NBC Omaha 1954
Roll ‘Em + Cirribirribin (theme)	Harry James Orchestra	Aragon Ballroom WBBM CBS Chicago 20 Jun 1954

Great Art Deco Ball 2020

Great Art Deco Ball 2020. Greg Poppleton’s and his 1920s-30s music has been playing the Great Art Deco Ball at Katoomba’s Carrington Hotel since 2012. It’s the highlight of the annual Blue Mountains 1920s Festival.

In that time, the Ball has grown in audience size so that the Grand Dining Room now is always full. Tickets sell out months in advance. That’s despite the fact that the only way to get a ticket is to be in the know and ring hotel reception.

The Grand Dining Room ready for the Great Art Deco Ball

The Ball has grown in large part because, as Australia’s only authentic 1920s-30s singer, people who book tickets to enjoy a 1920s experience at the Ball get exactly that.

The Grand Dining Room doors of The Carrington Hotel. Photo by Suzanne.

In 2019, the Carrington decided to book another band. There were so many complaints we were called back. It’s very humbling to receive such strong support from Great Art Deco Ball fans. So in 2020 the dance floor was full most of the night, the band gave two encores, and many happy guests continued enjoying the atmosphere in the Grand Dining Room one hour after the show had concluded.

1920s-30s singer Greg Poppleton and a full dance floor

It’s a lesson that if you want a successful 1920s-30s themed event, you book a 1920s-30s band. Jazz bands, DJs, covers band that do a bit of ‘jazz dinner music and then rock music for dancing’ are not appropriate for a 1920s, 30s, Gatsby event.

Greg Poppleton from the dance floor. Geoff Power is playing sousaphone.

I’ve played large 1920s themed events where other jazz bands and big bands, rock bands and DJs have played in other sections of the party. Either guests ask ‘why are they here?’ or they simply get angry. We get re-booked.

Enquire about Greg Poppleton for your wedding, event and party

Greg Poppleton singing through a 1920s megaphone. Paul Baker is on banjo and Geoff Power’s trumpet can be seen.

Meet the band Greg put together for the 2020 Great Art Deco Ball…

Geoff Power in Greg Poppleton 1920s-30s Band playing sousaphone as well as trumpet.

 

Greg Poppleton with Richelle Booth on bass sax. She also played clarinet.

 

Paul Baker playing banjo in Greg Poppleton’s band at the 2020 Great Art Deco Ball

To enquire about having Greg Poppleton’s 1920s-30s experience at your party, wedding or event, contact Tony Jex via this  website’s booking page.

Larry Clinton 1930s and 40s Radio – Phantom Dancer 21 January 2020

The Tuesday 21 January Phantom Dancer on radio and online – your two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio with Greg Poppleton – opens with Larry Clinton as feature artist from live 1930s-40s radio.

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

The last hour is all vinyl.

LARRY

The Phantom Dancer kicks off with 1930s-40s airchecks by The Dipsy Doodler, swing band leader Larry Clinton.

Larry Clinton was a trumpeter who became a prominent American bandleader and arranger in the late 1930s

He also played trombone and clarinet. In his twenties, he became a prolific arranger for the dance orchestras of Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Glen Gray, Louis Armstrong and Bunny Berigan.

His first stint as a bandleader was from 1937 to 1941, and he recorded a string of hits for Victor Records while broadcasting on air for such Clinton feature RCA Victor NBC programs as ‘Larry Clinton’s Campus Club’.

CLINTON

The Clinton band’s repertoire included pop tunes of the day and ambitious instrumentals penned by Clinton (the most popular, “A Study in Brown,” spawned four sequels in different colours).

His swing adaptations of classical compositions swept the industry, and orchestras everywhere were “swinging the classics” by adding pop lyrics to melodies by Debussy and Tchaikovsky. His version of Debussy’s “Reverie”, with vocalist Bea Wain, was particularly popular. Entitled “My Reverie”, his version peaked at #1 on Billboard’s Record Buying Guide in 1938.

SOUNDIES

Clinton’s band was predominantly a recording group that also played college proms and hotel ballrooms. On the strength of Clinton’s record hit “The Dipsy Doodle,” Vitaphone and Paramount Pictures signed the band to star in three 10-minute theatrical films. All were filmed in New York.

In 1941 Clinton and his band appeared in six short musical films designed for then-popular “movie jukeboxes.” (The films were ultimately released as Soundies in 1943.) This was one of his last jobs as a bandleader.

AIR FORCE

He quit the music business on the outbreak of World War II and joined the United States Army Air Forces. A rated pilot, he rose to the rank of captain, was stationed with the Air Transport Command in Calcutta and China during Hump airlift, and was a flight instructor with the 1343rd Base Unit.

He resumed his musical career and enjoyed new success as a bandleader from 1948 to 1950. He remained active in the music business – often leading a studio band for pop singers like Barry Frank – until 1961.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Larry Clinton and the Orchestra with Bea Wain singing the aforementioned ‘My Reverie’ in a 1941 ‘soundie’. Enjoy!

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!

Thank you.

21 JANUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #420
107.3 2SER Tuesday 21 January 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Larry Clinton ‘The Dipsy Doodler’ on 1938-48 Radio
The Dipsy Doodle (theme) + Zigzag	Larry Clinton Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WEAF NBC Red NY 1938
In A Mist	Larry Clinton Orchestra	Hotel Park Central WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jul 1939
Lonesome Road + Study In Brown (Close)	Larry Clinton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 18 Dec 1948
Set 2	‘Here’s To Veterans’ 1947-55 Radio Transcription Series
Manhattan (open) + Dark Dream	Georgie Auld	‘Here’s To Veterans’ Radio Transcription 1955
Bloop Bleep	Nat King Cole Trio (voc) Woody Herman	‘Here’s To Veterans’ Radio Transcription 5 Jul 1947
Cow Cow Boogie + Blacksmith Blues (close)	Ella Mae Morse	‘Here’s To Veterans’ Radio Transcription 1954
Set 3	1930s – 40s Mickey Mouse Bands on Radio
Feeling For Me Of You	Tommy Carlyn (voc) Gail Saunders	Bill Green’s Casino Pittsburgh NBC 1942
The Girl With The Light Blue Hair	Benny Krueger Orchestra	WOR Mutual NY 28 Apr 1940
The More I Know + Robins and Roses + Station Schedule (fades)	Clint Noble Orchestra (voc) Trio	WEAF NBC Red NY 3 Jul 1936
Set 4	Trad Bands on Live 1955-56 Radio
Theme + Royal Garden Blues	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 5 Feb 1955
The Boppinpoof Song	Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘All-Star Parade of Jazz’ Basin Street WRCA NBC NY 8 May 1955
Shine	Al Hirt Jazz Band	‘Jazz Band Ball’ WWL CBS New Orleans 18 Aug 1956
Set 5	1934 – 36 Radio Bands
Maniac’s Ball	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1934
There’s A Small Hotel	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Maxine Gray	‘Lady Ester Serenade’ WEAF NBC Red NY 26 Aug 1936
Sweet and Lowdown	Anson Weeks Orchestra	Radio Transcription Peacock Court Hotel Mark Hopkins San Francisco 1932
Love is Just Around The Corner + When Day Is Done	Henry Busse Orchestra (voc) Marion Holmes	Radio Transcription Hollywood 1935
Set 6	Harry James on the Air
The One I Love	Harry James Orchestra (voc) The Skylarks	‘Call For Music’ KFI NBC LA 1948
Two O’Clock Jump	Harry James Octet	Aircheck 1950
Jump Sauce	Harry James Orchestra	Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca KFI NBC LA 10 Feb 1946
It’s A Wonderful World	Harry James Orchestra	Southland Cafe WNAC NBC Boston 19 Mar 1940
Set 7	Modern Jazz Small Groups on 1940s-50s Radio
Tiny Grimes	Tiny Grimes Quartet	Comm Rec New York City 3 Nov 1944
O-Go-Mo	Charlie Ventura	Aircheck 1951
The 7-11 Jump	Erroll Garner Trio	Basin Street WRCA NBC NY May 1956
Somebody Loves Me + Goodbye	Benny Goodman Sextet (with Alistair Cooke)	‘Kings of Jazz’ BBC New York City 8 Dec 1945
Set 8	Charlie Parker on WMCA 1948-49
52nd Street Theme	Charlie Parker (as) Miles Davis (tp) Tadd Dameron (piano) Curley Russell (bass) Max Roach (d)	Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Sep 1948
Hot House	Charlie Parker (as) Kenny Dorham (tp) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Joe Harris (d)	Royal Roost WMCA NY 15 Jan 1949
Ornithology	Charlie Parker (as) Miles Davis (tp) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Max Roach (d)	Royal Roost WMCA NY 11 Dec 1948

Christmas Music on 1930s-50s Radio – Phantom Dancer 24 December

CHRISTMAS

This week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton, is Christmas songs and Christmas broadcasts in a non-stop mix from live 1930s-50s radio.

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This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online after the 24 December 107.3 2SER Sydney live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney.

XMAS MUSIC

Music associated with Christmas is thought to have its origins in 4th-century Rome, in Latin-language hymns such as Veni redemptor gentium. By the 13th century, under the influence of Francis of Assisi, the tradition of popular Christmas songs in regional native languages developed. Christmas carols in the English language first appear in a 1426 work of John Awdlay, an English chaplain, who lists twenty five “caroles of Cristemas”, probably sung by groups of ‘wassailers’ who would travel from house to house. In the 16th century, various Christmas carols still sung to this day, including “The 12 Days of Christmas”, “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen”, and “O Christmas Tree”, first emerged.

POPULAR

Of the top 30 most performed Christmas songs in 2015, 13 (43%) were written in the 1930s or 1940s and 12 (40%) were written in the 1950s and 1960s.

1930s-50s CHRISTMAS SONGS

“Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie 1934
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin 1944
“Winter Wonderland” Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith 1934
“Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! “Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne 1945
“The Christmas Song” Mel Tormé, Robert Wells 1944
“Sleigh Ride” Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish 1948
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Johnny Marks 1939/1949
“It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” Meredith Willson 1951
“White Christmas” Irving Berlin 1940
“Carol of the Bells” Peter J. Wilhousky 1936
“Frosty the Snowman” Steve Nelson, Walter E. Rollins 1950
“Blue Christmas” Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson 1957
“The Little Drummer Boy” Katherine K. Davis, Henry V. Onorati, Harry Simeone 1941
“Silver Bells” Jay Livingston, Ray Evans 1950
“I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” Tommie Connor 1952
“Santa Baby” Joan Ellen Javits, Philip Springer, Tony Springer, and Fred Ebb 1953
“Happy Holiday” Irving Berlin 1948

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is the 24 Dec 1955 Christmas edition of the TV show ‘Your Hit Parade’…

24 DECEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #416
107.3 2SER Tuesday 24 December 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1
Let’s Dance (theme) + Jingle Bells	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Joseph Urban Room Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 25 Dec 1935
Open + It Had To Be You + The Fairy On The Christmas Tree	Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra (voc) The 3 Sisters	BBC Regional Service London 25 Dec 1936
Set 2
Open + Maple Leaf Rag	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 25 Dec 1954
Theme + Blue Christmas	Jan Garber Orchestra (voc) Ray Cordell	Melody Mill WGN Chicago 1950
Weary Blues + Ad	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 25 Dec 1954
Set 3
Jingle Bells (open) + The Morning After	Chico Hamilton Quartet	‘Stars In Jazz’ AFRTS Re-broadcast New York 25 Dec 1958
Wrap your Troubles In Dreams	Chico Hamilton Quartet (voc) Georgia Carr	‘Stars In Jazz’ AFRTS Re-broadcast New York 25 Dec 1958
Blee Blop Blues + One O’Clock Jump (theme)	Count Basie Orchestra	Birdland WRCA NBC NY 16 Dec 1956
Set 4
Happy Holidays + Here We Come a’Caroling + Silent Night	Bing Crosby and the Norman Luboff Choir (voc) Paul Weston Orchestra	‘Christmas Sing With Bing’ KNX CBS LA 24 Dec 1957
Description of Ballarat’s Carols By Candlelight + Joseph Mine, Help Me Cradle The Child Divine	Ted Furlong (station manager 3BA Ballarat) + The Ballarat YWCA Choir	Christmas Sing With Bing’ KNX CBS LA via 3BA Ballarat 24 Dec 1957
Champagne Cocktail + Close (When Summer Is Gone)	Hal Kemp Orchestra	‘Chesterfield Time’ KNX CBS LA 24 Dec 1937
Set 5
Open + March of the Toy Soldiers	Phil Davis Orchestra	‘Fountain of Fun’ WLW Cinncinnati 19 Dec 1943
Jingle Bells	Thrasher Sisters	‘Fountain of Fun’ WLW Cinncinnati 19 Dec 1943
Jack-Armstrong Blues	Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1947
Embraceable You	The Pied Pipers (voc) Harry James Orchestra	‘Command Performance USA’ AFRS 25 Dec 1945
Set 6
Swingin’ Them Jingle Bells	Fats Waller and his Rhythm	Comm Rec New York 29 Nov 1936
Jingle Bells	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Café Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 27 Dec 1941
Jingle Bells	Dave Brubeck	Birdland WABC ABC NY Jan 1954
Jingle Bells (theme) / Half Nelson / White Christmas / Little Willie Leaps	Charlie Parker (as) Kenny Dorham (tp) Al Haig (p) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d)	‘Symphony Side Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 25 Dec 1948
Set 7
Open + March of the Toys	Phil Davis Orchestra	‘Fountain of Fun’ WLW Cincinnati 19 Dec 1943
My Silent Love	Lena Horne (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1945
Embraceable You	The Pied Pipers (voc) Harry James and the Music Makers	‘Command Performance USA’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1945
Yesterdays	Art Tatum (p)	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1947
Set 8
Open + 2 Latin American Christmas Songs	Chiquita	‘Chiquita’ AFRS Hollywood Dec 1946
O Come All Ye Faithful / Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem / It Came Upon A Midnight Clear / Santa Claus Is Coming To Town	Frank Sinatra	‘V-Disc Christmas Selections’ New York 1944
Open + Let It Snow + Happy Christmas, Little Friend	Dinah Shore (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra	‘Dinah Shore Show’ WRCA NBC NY 22 Dec 1954

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