February 1920s – 30s Band Newsletter

Are you coming to the Valentine’s Day
Deco Park Picnic?
Sunday 14 January
Cathy Freeman Park, Sydney Olympic Park

Greg Poppleton 1920s- 30s Trio plays from picnic to picnic between 11:30am – 1:30pm

Think Jazz on a Summer’s Day meets a Great Gatsby garden party
Inspired by summer picnics of the 1920s,
dining al fresco with friends and family is one of summer’s greatest pleasures.
Sydney Olympic Park’s Deco Park Picnic is chance to gather your friends, dress in your Sunday best and enjoy a long lunch on the lawn.

Picnic open 11am – 3pm
Sunday 14th February, 2021
Cathy Freeman Park, Sydney Olympic Park
Entry Free – All Ages

Covid Rules for Sydney Issued 29 Jan

Up to 30 visitors from any number of households may visit another household on any day. The total number of visitors includes adults and children. (A member of the hosting household is not counted as a visitor.)

No more than 50 people can gather outside in a public place which includes public parks, reserves, beaches, public gardens and spaces.

A maximum of 300 people may attend a wedding or a funeral subject to the square metres rule applicable at the venue.

Up to 25 people are allowed at hospitality venues before the one person per 4 square metres rule applies.

Find out more about the rules

Hear and Download Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2 on

Spotify, Apple iTunes and AMAZON

THE PHANTOM DANCER  Your non-stop mix of swing & jazz from live 1920s-60s radio every week Listen here any time  CBAA Best Music Show 2007. Finalist 2016 Live every week on these Radio Stations TUES 2 February 2021 SHOW Featuring ROSEMARY CLOONEY on live 1950s – 60s radio

Rosemary Clooney was an American singer, actor and radio host. She’s this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist where you’ll hear her in radio broadcasts from the 1950s-60s. She’s also actor, George Clooney’s, aunt. The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton. Hear past Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/. This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 2 February at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/. ROSEMARY CLOONEY It’s incredible that she had the beautiful voice that she had despite the heavy smoking that eventually made the end of her life painful before killing her. From ‘More Than a Girl Singer’, American Association for Cancer Research, “A long-time smoker, Clooney was hospitalized in 1996 with acute respiratory failure. At that time, her doctors advised her to quit smoking, but Clooney struggled with her addiction. “Mama called me from the hospital and asked me to bring her cigarettes,” Ferrer (one of her sons)  remembers. “It was so hard for her to stop, though she finally did.” Toward the end of 2001, Clooney was on the road performing when she began to find it hard to breathe. By the time she arrived home in Beverly Hills a few days before Christmas, she was exhausted. “She could hardly get up the stairs,” says Ferrer. “After two steps, she would have to stop and rest.” Less than a month later, Clooney was diagnosed with stage IIIA non–small cell lung cancer. She died six months later, on June 29, 2002, at her home in Beverly Hills with her family beside her. She was 74.” TALENT SPOTTED In 1945, Rosemary Clooney’s father went out one night with friends to celebrate the end of World War II. He never came back. Clooney, 17, and her sister, 14, found themselves in a dire situation. They collected soft drink bottles and used what little money they had to buy lunch at school. The rent was overdue, the phone disconnected and the utilities about to be turned off when their luck changed. The teenagers, who had grown up performing at political rallies for their grandfather, the mayor of Maysville, won a singing competition at WLW Cincinnati, a local radio station. The station hired them for a regular late-night spot, with each sister earning $20 a week (almost US$290 in 2021 money). They sing with Tony Pastor’s Orchestra, broadcasting and recording with the band until 1949 (as you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer mix). In 1950–51, she was a regular on the radio and television versions of Songs For Sale on CBS. In 1951, her record of “Come On-a My House”, produced by Mitch Miller, became a hit. It was her first of many singles to hit the charts—despite the fact that Clooney hated the song passionately. She recorded several duets with Marlene Dietrich and appeared in the early 1950s on Faye Emerson’s Wonderful Town series on CBS. Clooney also did several guest appearances on the Arthur Godfrey radio show. HOLLYWOOD In 1954, she starred with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen in the movie White Christmas… Two years later she had her own half-hour syndicated television musical-variety show, The Rosemary Clooney Show. NBC re-launched the show in a prime time slot on 1957 as The Lux Show Starring Rosemary Clooney. It lasted one season. In the late 50s and early 1960s, Clooney often appeared with Bing Crosby on television and radio. You’ll hear an excerpt from a 20-minute CBS radio program they did Monday to Friday for years that aired before the midday news. Clooney left Columbia Records in 1958, doing a number of recordings for MGM Records and then some for Coral Records. Finally, toward the end of 1958, she signed with RCA Victor Records, where she stayed until 1963. In 1964, she went to Reprise Records, and in 1965 to Dot Records. 1970s – 2000s After a hiatus of 11 years due to pills, alcohol and depression, Clooney signed to United Artists Records in 1976 for two albums. From 1977, she recorded an album every year for the Concord Jazz record label until her death. She was also singing on other people’s albums in 70s and 80s In 1995, Clooney guest-starred in the NBC television medical drama ER (starring her nephew, George Clooney); for her performance, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. 2 FEBRUARY PLAY LIST Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #472 107.3 2SER Tuesday 2 February 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 4RPH Brisbane Sunday 3 – 4am 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm Set 1 A Date With The Duke Take The A-Train (theme) + Can’t You Read Between The Lines? Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945 Back Home Again in Indiana Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945 The Wish I Wish Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Joya Sherill ‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945 Cottontail Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945 Set 2 1950s Jazz Radio Sugar Beat Eliot Lawrence Orchestra Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WOR Mutual NY 1951 At Sundown Les Brown Orchestra ‘Treasury Bandstand’ Hershey Park Ballroom WLAN ABC Lancaster PA 1957 Give Me The Simple Life Thelma Carpenter ‘Jazz Arts Concert’ WNBC NBC NY 4 Oct 1952 Set 3 Trad Jazz Radio Bugle Call Rag Red Nichols Radio Transcription 1952 Open + South Rampart Street Parade Preacher Rollo ‘Dixieland Club’ AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Apr 1952 Mama’s Gone, Goodbye + St Louis Blues Kid Ory Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 5 Feb 1955 Set 4 Rosemany Clooney ‘S Wonderful Rosemary & Betty Clooney (voc) Tony Pastor Orchestra Aircheck New York City Sep 1948 Tenderly (theme) + You Make Me Feel So Young Rosemary Clooney ‘The Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 2 Nov 1954 Enchanted Rosemary Clooney ‘Bing Crosby – Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 20 Mar 1962 It’s a Most Unusual Day + Something to Remember You By Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby ‘The Bing Crosby Show’ KNX CBS LA 22 Nov 1953 Set 5 1920s Comm Records Sunday Jean Goldkette Orchestra (voc) Keller Sisters Comm Rec Camden NJ 15 Oct 1926 Delirium Red and Miff’s Stompers Comm Rec New York City 11 Feb 1927 Flamin’ Mamie Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra (voc) Joe Sanders Comm Rec Camden NJ 21 Dec 1925 Blue Melody Blues Tiny Praham and his Musicians Comm Rec Chicago 1 Feb 1929 Set 6 Buddy Rich Love Thy Neighbour (film preview) Henny Youngman, Jack Benny, Tommy Dorsey & more Paramount Theatre WOR Mutual NY 17 Dec 1940 Set 7  Mid 1940s Swing Radio Theme + Hamp’s Got a Duke Lionel Hampton Orchestra Casa Manana Culver City Ca KFI NBC LA 20 Jul 1947 Temptation Harry James Orchestra (voc) Ginny Powell Meadowbrook Gardens KECA ABC LA 10 Feb 1946 Santa Catalina Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Collins Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 16 Sep 1947 Andy’s Blues Count Basie Orchestra Avadon Ballroom Aircheck Los Angeles 1946 Set 8 Women Radio Singers Manhattan Lee Wiley ‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 1950 Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen Kay Starr (voc) Charlie Barnett Orchestra ‘For the Record’ WEAF NBC NY 11 Sep 1944 Robin Hood Mildred Bailey ‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 12 Feb 1945 I Miss Your Kiss Joya Sherill (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘A Date with the Duke’ WJZ ABC NY 12 May 1945

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Wedding, corporate event and party bookings Contact Tony Jex now for your quote,  0407 941 263 or info@ozmanagement.com Posted on January 3, 2021January 4, 2021 January 2021 1920s-30s Band Newsletter Happy 2021! STOP PRESS Due to Covid, the 6 Feb show has been postponed 2 Band shows in February + Phantom Dancer Radio Show Every Tuesday & Saturday Listen to past shows here + New Video  Sweet Sue from the album Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2 Buy the album here Enjoy this uptempo version of Sweet Sue by Greg Poppleton from the album ‘Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2’. Live footage of Greg’s 1920s – 30s band with swing dancers at Glen Street Theatre, Sydney Central Station, Concrete Blonde Kings Cross and Django Bar BAND SHOWS Sat 6 Feb Great Art Deco Ball Historic Carrington Hotel Katoomba On Saturday 6 February from 7pm the Grand DIning Room will once more swing to the sounds of everyone’s favourite Greg Poppleton and his band. Your tickets also include a 3 course dinner and beverage package Due to COVID capacity restrictions tickets are limited so register your interest early! Ticket and accommodation packages will be available very soon. reservations@thecarrington.com.au  Sun 14 Feb Deco Park Picnic – Valentine’s Day Cathy Freeman Park Think Jazz on a Summer’s Day meets a Great Gatsby garden party. Inspired by summer picnics of the 1920’s, dining al fresco with friends and family is one of summer’s greatest pleasures. Sydney Olympic Park’s Deco Park Picnic is chance to gather your friends, dress in your Sunday best and enjoy a long lunch on the lawn. Let’s reimagine cultural experiences and take our creativity outdoors and connect to culture in the wide open, Covid Safe green spaces in Sydney Olympic Park. Our community style picnic event will feature installations, themed hosts, visual performers, kids games, immersive theatre and roving live music. Guests will delight in curious vintage characters, live jazz and a shared glamorous nostalgia. Date: Sunday 14th February, 2021 Location: Cathy Freeman Park, Sydney Olympic Park Time: 11am – 3pm Entry: Free – All Ages Greg Poppleton Trio plays 11:30am – 1:30pm Save the date and follow us for more updates, full entertainment program and event details which will be released soon! Want to Book the Band? These are the 3 Jan NSW Covid Rules that apply to the band Read regulations in full here SINGING Single singer with band  Nothing about one vocalist singing in front of a band such as myself. However, I will assume from the  official group singing advice that there must be 1.5m between performers and 5m between performers and the audience. The audience should not participate in singing or chanting indoors. There should be no dancefloors, except for weddings where the wedding party to a maximum of 20 are permitted. BAND INSTRUMENTS Players of non-reeded woodwind instruments (such as flutes and recorders) should maintain a physical distance of 3 metres from others in the direction of airflow, and 1.5 metres in all other directions. Since brass instruments like trumpets, trombones and sousaphones aren’t mentioned, I will assume the above paragraph also applies to brass. Players of all other musical instruments (including reeded woodwind instruments like saxophones and clarinets) should maintain a physical distance of 1.5 metres between each other and the audience. This would include other Greg Poppleton band instruments like banjo, guitar, washboard and drums. Ensembles and other musical groups should rehearse and perform outdoors or in large, well-ventilated indoor spaces. WEDDINGS Back to 100 guests From 3 January 2021, a maximum of 100 people may attend a wedding (or a gathering after the service) subject to the following, one person per 4 square metres in indoor areas one person per 2 square metres rule in outdoor areas. You must complete and register a COVID-19 Safety Plan for your event. People attending will be required to provide their name and contact details so that they can be used for contact tracing. Only the wedding party, to a maximum of 20 persons, is permitted on a dancefloor. There cannot be rotation of people on the dancefloor beyond this wedding party. FUNCTIONS & EVENTS A function centre is a building or place used for holding events, functions, conferences, and includes convention centres, exhibition centres and reception centres. Function centre operators must complete and register a COVID Safety Plan. If a trade show or exhibition is held in a function centre and open to the public, the maximum capacity is one person per 2 square metres outdoors or one person per 4 square metres in indoor areas. No more than 5 performers should sing indoors, with 1.5m between performers and 5m between performers and the audience. The audience should not participate in singing or chanting indoors. There should be no dancefloors. Hear and Download Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2 on Spotify, Apple iTunes and AMAZON THE PHANTOM DANCER Your non-stop mix of swing & jazz from live 1920s-60s radio every week Listen here any time CBAA Best Music Show 2007. Finalist 2016 Live every week on these Radio Stations TUES 5 January 2021 SHOW Featuring 1930s-40s Radio First Nighters First nighters for the first Phantom Dancer of 2021 – your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton. Hear excepts from the 1939 radio premier of Morton Gould’s ‘American Symphonette #2’, the first all African-American Variety show on NBC in 1948, and Duke Ellington introducing his Shakesphere suite over CBS from the 1957 Ravinia Festival You can hear The Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ FIRST NIGHTERS Every week The Phantom Dancer brings you a feature artist. This week, it’s first nighter feature programs. Excerpts from three historic first nighters with some explaination about why they are so important below… AMERICAN SYMPHONETTE No.3 RADIO PREMIER – WOR MBS New York City / CBC CANADA, 1939 Joseph Stevenson writes, “This 1939 composition is one of the most convincing classical attempts to create a jazz spirit. It succeeds in doing so without the presence of any jazz players or use of improvisation. Nevertheless, jazz devices of coloration are used, such as wire brushes on drums, glissandi and lip slurs, and chord voicings that are common to jazz arrangements of the time. In addition, the themes (and their scales and harmonies) are jazz- and blues-derived. So successful was Gould in devising “jazz” themes for this symphonette that the second movement, “Pavane” has been widely quoted in actual jazz performances by such masters as John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Glenn Miller. The outer two movements of this three-movement piece are marked “Moderately fast” and “Very fast–Racy,” respectively. Incidentally, you have heard and are quite familiar with the theme of the Pavane, whether you know it or not. Outstanding listening. Gould is notable for creating excellent music, perfectly crafted, seemingly almost commercial in intent and yet, when really listened to, revealing unusual breadth. I always conclude listening to this piece believing that it is a true masterpiece without even trying to be. Wonderfully ingratiating music.” ‘SWINGTIME AT THE SAVOY’ WNBC NBC NY, 28 Jul 1948 New York Times headline: “The News of Radio; All-Negro Variety Show, ‘Swingtime at the Savoy,’ Will Bow Tonight on NBC” “An all-Negro variety show, entitled “Swingtime at the Savoy,” will have its premiere at 8 o’clock tonight on NBC. The regular cast will include Lucky Millinder and his orchestra, Miller and Lee, comedians; Jackie (Moms) Pabley, comedienne, and the King Odem Quartet.” New York Times, 28 July 1948 RAVINIA FESTIVAL – DUKE ELLINGTON SHAKESPHERE SUITE PREMIER, CBS 1 JUL 1957 The Ravinia Festival is the oldest outdoor music festival in the United States, with a series of outdoor concerts and performances held every summer from June to September. In Ravinia Park’s first summer of 1905, it hosted the New York Philharmonic, and the prairie style Martin Theater dates from this time period. It has been the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) since 1936. Located in Highland Park, Illinois, the festival operates on the grounds of the 15 ha Ravinia Park, with a variety of outdoor and indoor performing arts facilities – Wiki “In 1957, Duke Ellington premiered the latest in what would become a series of suites based on various subjects and inspirations. This one, inspired by the plays of William Shakespeare, had its U.S. premier at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago and was broadcast (much, but not all of it) via CBS Radio on July 1st, with the performance already underway. An album of the suite was planned and recorded, slated for release in November of 1957, but apparently the stereo version was scrapped and only the mono version was available until 1999. The world premier of the piece was given at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where Ellington and his band were scheduled to play for two nights. It was there that Ellington got the idea to do a suite based on Shakespearean themes, and along with his co-writer Billy Strayhorn, worked on the suite to be premiered the following year at the festival. So the actual world premier of most of Such Sweet Thunder took place at Stratford around June 30 1957, but it wasn’t complete and no recording of it exists.” Gordon Skene. 5 JANUARY PLAY LIST Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream Community Radio Network Show CRN #469 107.3 2SER Tuesday 5 January 2020 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm Set 1 Swing on 1930s Radio Open + Panamania Leith Stevens Orchestra ‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jun 1937 Naila (Delibes) Arnold Johnson Orchestra Comm Rec (unissued) Variety Records New York City 26 May 1937 RCA Radio Ad + Wolverine Blues + Study In Brown (theme) Larry Clinton Orchestra ‘RCA Campus Club’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle WEAF NBC Red NY 2 Jul 1938 Set 2 Latin Sounds on 1946-53 Radio Open + Chiu Chiu Desi Arnez Orchestra Ciro’s KNX CBS LA 1946 Bolero Sergio Torres Orchestra (voc) unannounced woman singer ‘Chiclets Program’ XEW Mexico City 1949 Chi sas? Chi sas? Xavier Cugat Orchestra ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Hotel Last Frontier NBC Las Vegas 30 Nov 1953 Set 3 1943-44 Swing Radio Joshua Richard Himber Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ Aniston, Alabama Blue Network 13 Nov 1943 I’ve Got You Under My Skin Leo Reisman Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ National Press Club Washington DC Blue Network 23 Jan 1943 I Got Rhythm + Close Lenny Conn Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 1949 Set 4 Special Music Programs First Movement Morton Gould Orchestra ‘American Symphonette No. 3’ WOR MBS/CBC New York City 1939 Open + I’ve Got Rhythm + Money Money (calypso) Lucky Millinder Orchestra with Noble Sissle and the Hall Sisters ‘Swingtime At The Savoy’ WNBC NBC NY 28 Jul 1948 Circle of Fourths + Jam With Sam Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘Ravinia Festival’ WBBM CBS Chicago 1 Jul 1957 Set 5 1939 Radio Singers We Three Johnny Messner Orchestra (voc) Johnny Messner Radio Transcription New York City 1939 Stairway To The Stars Teddy Wilson Orchestra (voc) Thelma Carpenter ‘America Dances’ CBS NY / BBC London 1939 From The Bottom Of My Heart Harry James Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra ‘America Dances’ CBS NY / BBC London 19 Jul 1939 Chew, Chew Your Bubblegum Chick Webb Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald Southland Cafe WNAC NBC Boton 4 May 1939 Set 6 Traditional Jazz on 1939 – 1951 Radio Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (theme) + Maple Leaf Rag Wild Bill Davison ‘This Is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 19 Apr 1947 You’re Driving Me Crazy Bob Crosby Bobcats ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 18 Jul 1939 Snag It Henry ‘Red’ Allen Dixielanders ‘Doctor Jazz’ Stuyvesant Casino WMGM NY 1950 There’ll Be Some Changes Made + I Would Do Anything For You Eddie Condon Group (voc) Red McKenzie ‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ Town Hall WJZ Blue NY 16 Sep 1944 Set 7 Benny Goodman On The Air The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise Benny Goodman Quintet ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Re-broadcast Jan 1948 Clarinade Benny Goodman Orchestra Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca KECA ABC LA 26 Jan 1946 Sweet Georgia Brown Benny Goodman Quintet ‘Spotlight Bands’ Springfield Mass. Blue Network 29 Sep 1943 Jack Benny-Gary Cooper Skit + One O’Clock Jump Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘Jack Benny Show’ WEAF NBC NY 13 Dec 1942 Set 8 Modern Sounds on 1940s-50s Radio All of Me + VIP’s Boogie Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Bette Roche Town Casino NBC Cleveland 1952 Hot House Barry Ulanov’s All Star Modern Jazz Musicians ‘Bands For Bonds’ WOR MBS NY 13 Sep 1947 Painted Rhythm Stan Kenton Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 27 Nov 1945 Fine and Dandy Slim Gaillard Quintet ‘Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NY 2 Jun 1951 HAVING A 20s-30s PARTY? BOOK THE AUTHENTIC 1920s-30s SINGER & BAND Wedding, corporate event and party bookings Contact Tony Jex now for your quote,  0407 941 263 or info@ozmanagement.com Posted on November 2, 2020 November 2020 Newsletter WE’RE BACK Penrith RSL – Sat 21 Nov – FREE! Unfortunately dancing is not permitted Read the latest NSW Covid Rules for Weddings – Corporate Events – Clubs https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/what-you-can-and-cant-do-under-rules#recent-and-upcoming-changes   HOSPITALITY VENUES From Friday 23 October 2020, hospitality venues such as restaurants, cafes, pubs and clubs can take group bookings of up to 30 customers per booking and up to 30 customers per table. This excludes weddings, funerals and corporate events which have specific rules for the number of people who can attend.     WEDDINGS Weddings can include up to 300 guests from 1 December 2020 From 1 December 2020, the number of people who can attend a wedding increases to 300 people subject to the four square metre rule indoors and two square metre rule outdoors. Meanwhile, the maximum number of people who may attend a wedding or a gathering following a wedding service cannot be greater than 150 people subject to the 4 square metre rule and registration as a COVID-Safe business. Up to 20 people in the wedding party are permitted on the dance floor. There cannot be rotation of people on the dance floor beyond the official wedding party. People attending will be required to provide their name and contact details so that they can be used for contact tracing.   CORPORATE EVENTS A corporate event is an event, hospitality or social activity organised, held or funded by a business or other organisation for staff, clients or stakeholders and held at a function centre. The maximum number of people who can attend a corporate event cannot exceed 300 people or one person per 4 square metres, whichever is the lesser. Future bookings exceeding the maximum number can be taken, providing the organiser complies with the rules in force at the time of the event. Learn about the COVID-19 Safety Plan for conferences, functions and corporate events. We’re now available for your 1920s – 30s themed wedding, corporate event and party. Enquiries: Tony Jex, tony@ozmanagement.com, 0407 941 263 YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE VIDEO from the new Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2 album Download now at Spotify and Apple iTunes

Weddings – Great News! You Can Now Have 150 Guests in NSW

WEDDINGS – GREAT NEWS!
YOU NOW CAN HAVE
150 GUESTS…

Read the latest NSW Covid Rules for
Weddings – Corporate Events – Clubs
https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/what-you-can-and-cant-do-under-rules#recent-and-upcoming-changes

WEDDINGS

The maximum number of people who may attend a wedding or a gathering following a wedding service cannot be greater than 150 people subject to the 4 square metre rule and registration as a COVID-Safe business.

Up to 20 people in the wedding party are permitted on the dance floor. There cannot be rotation of people on the dance floor beyond the official wedding party.

People attending will be required to provide their name and contact details so that they can be used for contact tracing.

CORPORATE EVENTS

A corporate event is an event, hospitality or social activity organised, held or funded by a business or other organisation for staff, clients or stakeholders and held at a function centre.

The maximum number of people who can attend a corporate event cannot exceed 300 people or one person per 4 square metres, whichever is the lesser.

Future bookings exceeding the maximum number can be taken, providing the organiser complies with the rules in force at the time of the event.

Learn about the COVID-19 Safety Plan for conferences, functions and corporate events.

 

MUSIC EVENTS AND NIGHTCLUBS

Music festivals within the meaning of the Music Festivals Act 2019 and including a music festival attended by fewer than 2000 people are not permitted.

Premises are not currently able to operate as nightclubs.

We’re now available for your 1920s – 30s themed wedding, corporate event and party.
Enquiries: Tony Jex, tony@ozmanagement.com, 0407 941 263

SAN ANTONIO ROSE VIDEO
from the new Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2 album
Download now at Spotify and Apple iTunes

Hear and Download Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2 on

Spotify, Apple iTunes and AMAZON

THE PHANTOM DANCER 

Your non-stop mix of swing & jazz
from live 1920s-60s radio every week
Listen here any time 

CBAA Best Music Show 2007. Finalist 2016
Live every week on these Radio Stations
2SER Sydney Tuesday 12:04 – 2pm and Saturday 5 – 5:56pm
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

Have you heard The Phantom Dancer on a radio station not listed above? Let me know at info@ozmanagement.com

Each Phantom Dancer show has its own feature artist story and vintage video

HAPPY LISTENING!

HAVING A 20s-30s PARTY? BOOK THE AUTHENTIC 1920s-30s SINGER & BAND

Wedding, corporate event and party bookings

Contact Tony Jex now for your quote,  0407 941 263 or info@ozmanagement.com

Greg Poppleton ‘Swinging At The Speakeasy’ in Palmer & Co.

Wednesday night, 26 April, Greg Poppleton and band returned to Palmer & Co to play at the Wednesday night ‘Swinging At The Speakeasy’.

One couple at the bar, enjoying Greg Poppleton and band, told me that our energetic, swinging, 1920s performance made them think they were back in New York City.

With Greg Poppleton in the band were Paul Furniss clarinet, Paul Baker banjo and Greg Chilcott sousaphone.

Sydney swing dance school, All About Swing, headed by Siobhan and Matthew, dress up for Swinging at the Speakeasy and dance to live bands. Free!

Authentic 1920s singer Greg Poppleton with his 1920s-30s duo to full 1920s orchestra is also available for all your entertainment needs. Request a quote now.

Here are some photos from Greg Poppleton Swinging At The Speakeasy.
Photo credits: Pia, Siobhan, Tarsh and Katrina…

Greg Poppleton, authentic 1920s-30s singer and band (Paul Baker banjo, Greg Chilcott sousaphone, Paul Furniss clarinet (out of shot) Swinging At The Speakeasy.

The vibe at Swinging At The Speakeasy as Greg Poppleton played.

Greg Poppleton 1920s band with the All About Swing dancers

The dipsy doodle

Greg Poppleton singing to dancer Siobhan Ford

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Wedding Photos-Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters

Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters recently played in the perfect venue for our 1920s & 30s Hot Jazz & Swing – the Ballroom of the Carrington Hotel, Katoomba

We were playing for Caitlin & Stirling’s wedding – who had the most beautiful, warm reception in this classic Victorian hotel. Even the weather conspired to be mountains perfect, with an unusually thick fog for mid-Spring adding to the romance

As a band, we have always played at wonderful weddings, and here are some photos to prove it, taken by Janine Kaye, and passed onto me with Caitlin and Stirling’s generous permission

You can click on all the photos below to enlarge them…

Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters. In photo (l-r) Peter Locke (p) Greg Poppleton (voc) Bob Barnard (tp)

Caitlin & Stirling chose the 5-piece version of Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters

This band features Sydney’s only authentic 1920s & 1930s-style swing singer, trumpet, piano, double bass and drums

Greg Poppleton singing a song from the 1920s through a red megaphone with Bob Barnard (tp) & Dieter Vogt (double bass)

Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters can be hired as a vocal-instrumental duo to a 6-piece band from the band’s official website

The band draws on Sydney’s finest and most experienced swing and jazz musicians, all of whom have performed around the world

As the singer, I’m the only band member who has not toured the world, though my image has been worldwide on radio, TV and films including Moulin Rouge and Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

For Stirling and Caitlin’s wedding, the Bakelite Dance Band trumpeter was Bob Barnard

Bob Barnard - trumpet with Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite dance band at the Carrington, Katoomba

Bob Barnard is one of the most highly regarded jazz musicians ever to come from Australia. Barnard grew up in a musical family in Melbourne and started on cornet with a local brass band when he was twelve. His first professional job was with his mother’s band at fourteen. Introduced to jazz by his father, Bob was a founding member of brother Len’s South City Stompers in 1948. He moved to Sydney permanently in June 1962, as a member of the Graeme Bell All Stars, and remained with them until mid-1967. Bob formed his own jazz band in 1974, touring throughout Australia, Asia, Europe, and the US. The band held long residencies at some of Sydney’s popular hotels. Bob is a regularly featured guest at festivals and concerts in the US, Britain, and Europe, and has recorded with top American, European and English jazzmen

On piano with the Bakelite Broadcasters is Peter Locke

Peter Locke at the piano with Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Dance Band

Peter Locke started playing piano at 10 in his hometown of Port Macquarie and turned professional at 21. He is self-taught and is Sydney’s most in-demand classic Swing & Jazz pianist. Peter also plays in the band led by internationally renowned Australian trumpeter Bob Barnard (who also plays trumpet in Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters). Peter has toured the US twice, playing at the Bix Beidebecke Jazz Festival in Davenport Iowa and in many mid-west towns as well as Chicago and San Francisco

Dieter Vogt played double bass with Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters at Stirling & Caitlin’s wedding

Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters with Dieter Vogt, double bass

Dieter Vogt has played double bass all over the world. Dieter was born in Basel, Switzerland, and began his musical career at the age of 12 playing the trumpet. At 17 he took up the double bass and played with the Oscar Klein Quartet. (Oscar Klein played with Lionel Hampton & Joe Zawinul.) He migrated to Sydney and became a foundation member of the Daly-Wilson Big Band. Dieter went to the USA, playing for a year with the Allan Pennay Trio. On his return he joined Winnifred Attwell for eight months touring Australia. Dieter toured China and South East Asia with the Nolan-Buddle Quartet. He also toured with Ricky May and Georgie Fame, and again toured Australia with British jazz stars, Humphrey Lyttleton and Alex Welsh in their Salute to Satchmo. Dieter toured with Graeme Bell’s All-Stars around Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Germany, China, Hong Kong, the Phillipines, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and Japan

And finally, on drums at the Carrington was Laurie Bennett

Laurie Bennett, drums, Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Dance Band

Laurie Bennett comes from a musical Sydney family. He has played in the bands of Don Burrows, Johnny Nicol and Judy Bailey to name a few. He was a long time member of Geoff Harvey’s TCN Channel 9 Midday Show Band. Laurie has played on many tours throughout Asia, New Zealand, Great BritainEurope and has performed throughout Australia. He has backed many international Jazz artists such as Richie Cole, The Toshiko Akyoshi Orchestra, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Buddy Tate, Eddie ‘Lockjaw Davis, Joe Newman and has played for many local and international cabaret performers including Buddy Greco, Harry Secombe and Liza Minnelli

So that’s the star-studded biography of the musicians in Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters who played at Stirling & Caitlin’s wedding. And now, here’s a Janine Kaye photo of the stars of the evening, Stirling & Caitlin:

Caitlin & Stirling - the bride & groom

And we’d love to play for your reception. We even have a small acoustic band with Greg singing through his red 1929 megaphone that’s popular at garden ceremonies. To find out more including how to book the band, visit the official website of Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters: www.bakelitejazz.com

Thank you for reading. And we hope you enjoyed the photos by Janine Kaye