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Ted Fio Rito, band leader, composer and pianist, under the radio pseudonym ‘Vincent Valsanti’, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist in a 1934 Cocoanut Grove radio transcription.
Since I’ve been playing radio transcriptions made in 1934 of ‘Valsanti’ from the Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles over the past three weeks, here’s a little about the Ted Fio Rito / Valsanti / Cocoanut Grove story along with videos from the era.
The Phantom Dancer – your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton.
Enjoy a whole library of Phantom Dancer mixes online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.
This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 13 September at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/
The Cocoanut Grove at Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel was a lavishly appointed club – part of the massive 23-acre Ambassador resort, which also included four restaurants, a bowling alley, a billiard room, a shopping plaza, and even a movie theater – decorated in Moroccan style and featured full-sized palm trees reportedly salvaged from Rudolph Valentino’s film “The Sheik.” In addition to the decor, which also offered a night sky filled with stars (thanks to about 1000 small light bulbs), an elevated stage, and both dining and dancing room for several hundred patrons, customers came for the smooth musical entertainment provided by a series of dance orchestras and popular vocalists – many of whom would later go on to star careers in radio, recordings, and the film industry.
In the 1980 book, “Are the Stars Out Tonight?”, former Ambassador PR Director, Margaret Tante Burk, recalls the Grove’s opening night:
“…on the night of April 21, 1921… the new club officially opened its Moroccan style, gold leaf and etched palm tree doors… The Cocoanut Grove was aptly named, guests agreed as they were escorted by the maître de and captains down the wide plush grand staircase… Overhead, soaring about the room were cocoanut trees of papier mache, cocoanuts and palm fronds which had been rescued from the sandy beaches of Oxnard where they had served as atmosphere of the 1921 classic, The Sheik. Swinging from their branches were stuffed monkeys blinking at the revelers with their electrified amber eyes. Stars twinkled in the blue ceiling sky, and on the southernmost wall hung a full Hawaiian moon presiding over a painted landscape and splashing waterfall.”
Ray West Orchestra in 1930…
Due to the foresight of Abe Frank, the manager of both the hotel and the Grove, in the mid-1920s the Ambassador had been equipped with a small radio studio, allowing the music of the various orchestras to be broadcast and enjoyed well outside the confines of the nightclub. From the late 1920s well into the 1960s, live “remote” programs broadcast from the Cocoanut Grove were a popular feature of nighttime radio, allowing millions of people to enjoy the music they would otherwise be unable to afford to hear in person. These broadcasts, aired live nightly for two full hours, only increased the reputation of the Grove as “the place to be” when it came to top notch West Coast entertainment.
From the beginning, the Cocoanut Grove’s glamorous atmosphere attracted the top names in Hollywood for dining, dancing, and mingling. This celebrity connection was always well-publicized by the Ambassador and for a very good reason, too: tourists coming to Los Angeles for a vacation wanted to see the stars and there was no place where the stars came out quite so regularly as the Ambassador Hotel. On an average evening, it was common to see such well-known celebrities as Joan Crawford, Jack Oakie, or Jean Harlow coming to see Bing Crosby or Russ Columbo sing with Gus Arnheim’s Orchestra or dance to Jimmie Grier’s band as they accompanied Loyce Whiteman, The Three Ambassadors (Martin Sperzel, Jack Smith, and Al Teeter), or popular tenor Donald Novis. Even though there was a nationwide depression, Hollywood stars and executives still needed to be entertained — and the Cocoanut Grove was often their first choice.
From 1930 to 1943, six Academy Awards ceremonies were hosted at the hotel. As many as seven U.S. presidents stayed at the Ambassador, from Hoover to Nixon, along with heads of state from around the world.
It was the place to be even in the 1960s…
In 1968, the Ambassador Hotel was the scene of the shooting of Bobby Kennedy.
Due to the decline of the hotel and the surrounding area, the Ambassador Hotel was closed to guests in 1989. In 2001, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) purchased the property with the intent of constructing three new schools within the area. After subsequent litigations to preserve the hotel as a historic site, a settlement allowed the Ambassador Hotel to be demolished in 2005.
Ted Fio Rito used the pseudonym ‘Valsanti’ for these Cocoanut Grove transcriptions because of an existing recording contract.
Fio Rito was a pianist, hammond organist and the composer of such classic tunes as, “I Never Knew,” “Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye,” “Laugh, Clown, Laugh,” “Roll Along, Prairie Moon” and “Alone at a Table for Two.”
He started his career as a pianist with a series of bands led by Harry Yerkes, then moved to Chicago in 1921 to join Dan Russo’s band. The following year, he joined with Russo to become the co-leader the Oriole Terrace Orchestra, which he eventually took over when Russo departed in 1928.
Before coming to the Cocoanut Grove in mid-1933, Fio Rito had spent a number of years touring the East Coast and Midwest, including many engagements in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and Cincinnati. An early radio enthusiast, Fio Rito’s band was frequently heard on the air from various nightspots – preparing him well for the regular broadcasts scheduled to emanate from the Grove during his stay.
Musically, the orchestra that Fio Rito brought to the Grove was sweet, smooth and clever, playing highly danceable music accented with temple blocks, rapid triplets, and even an occasional solo on the Hammond organ by its talented leader.
Due to an existing recording contract, Theodore Salvatore Fiorito’s singers also adopted pseudonyms for these transcriptions. Muzzy Marcellino, Fio Rito’s guitarist and primary vocalist, sings as Jack Howard. Howard Phillips sings under the name of Bill Thomas, and Fio Rito’s vocal trio The Debutants appear as The Three Keys.
Watch Ted Fio Rito from the Cocoanut Grove in this 1934 Paramount short ‘Star night atthe Cocoanut Grove’ also featuring Mary Pickford and Bing Crosby. You’ll hear the extreme high and low four octave voice of Jimmy Durante’s future comic foil Candy Candido in what is thought to be his earliest film performance….
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Play List – The Phantom Dancer
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107.3 2SER Tuesday 13 September 2022 |
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Set 1
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Swing Bands One Night Stand Radio | |
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Theme + Song of the Wanderer
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Buddy Morrow Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’
Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Mar 1946 |
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16:00 On The Clock
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Shep Field and His New Music
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‘One Night Stand’
Copacabana NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 9 Aug 1944 |
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Come Rain Come Shine + Close
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Hal McIntyre Orchestra (voc) Frankie Lester
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‘One Night Stand’
Century Room Hotel Commodore NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1946 |
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Set 2
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1950s-60s Jazz Radio | |
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Jazz Connoisseur
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Harry James Orchestra (dms) Buddy Rich
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Moonbowl Freedomland WNEW NYC 1962 |
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The Theme
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Miles Davis Sextet
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‘Treasury of Music’
Birdland WRCA NBC NY AFRTS Re-broadcast 25 Aug 1959 |
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Set 3
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Benny Goodman in Chicago | |
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Let’s Dance (theme) + Farewell Blues
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Benny Goodman Orchestra
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Joseph Urban Room
Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 Jan 1936 |
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Soft Spring
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Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest
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Panther Room
Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 10 Aug 1941 |
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King Porter Stomp + Goodbye (theme)
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Benny Goodman Orchestra |
Joseph Urban Room
Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 3 Feb 1936 |
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Set 4
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Vincent Valsanti (Ted Fio Rito) | |
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Serenade of Love (theme) + Flirtation Walk
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Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Jack Howard
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Cocoanut Radio Transcription
TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934 |
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When You’re in Love
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Vincent Valsanti Orchestra
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Cocoanut Radio Transcription
TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934 |
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Two Cigarettes in the Dark
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Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Phil Thomas
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Cocoanut Radio Transcription
TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934 |
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Were You Foolin’? + I’ll Take an Option on You + Serenade of Love (theme)
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Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Jack Howard and The Three Blue Keys
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Cocoanut Radio Transcription
TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934 |
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Set 5
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1930s German Swing | |
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Darf ich bitten?
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Die Goldene Sieben
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Comm Rec
Berlin Sep 1936 |
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Ja und nein
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Die Goldene Sieben
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Comm Rec
Berlin Aug 1939 |
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Aus lauter Liebe
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Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Peter Igelhoff
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Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1937 |
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Oh! Aha!
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Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Rudi Schuricke Terzett
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Comm Rec
Berlin Feb 1939 |
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Set 6
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Early Dorseys | |
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Theme + On The Beach at Bali Bali
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Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
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‘Ford V-8 Show’
Texas Centennial Exhibition KRLD CBS Dallas Tx 11 Aug 1936 |
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Sandman (theme) + Is That Religion?
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Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby
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Riviera
Fort Lee NJ WEAF NBC Red NY 20 Sep 1934 |
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Weary Blues
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Eddy Howard Orchestra
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‘Ford V-8 Show’
Texas Centennial Exhibition KRLD CBS Dallas Tx 4 Aug 1936 |
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Farewell Blues
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Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
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‘Chrysler Show’
Radio Transcription 1934 |
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Set 7
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Sweet Music | |
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Romance (theme) + We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye
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Ray Herbeck Music with Romance Orchestra (voc) Lorraine Benson
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Trianon Ballroom
WGN Mutual Chicago 24 Nov 1947 |
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For You
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King Sisters
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‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood Jun 1945 |
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Sweet Lorraine
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Frank Sinatra
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‘Frank Sinatra Show’
AFRS Re-broadcast 26 Nov 1946 |
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What is This Thing Called Love?
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Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) Eugenie Baird
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‘Forever Pops’
ABC Chicago 1947 |
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Set 8
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1930s Fats Waller | |
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Yacht Club Swing (theme) + Whatcha Know, Joe?
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Fats Waller
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Panther Room
Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 3 Dec 1940 |
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Pent Up in a Penthouse
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Fats Waller |
Yacht Club
WABC CBS NY 14 Oct 1938 |
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Sto Beating ‘Round The Mulberry Bush
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Fats Waller
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WEAF NBC Red NY
16 Jul 1938 |
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I Had To Do It
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Fats Waller
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Yacht Club
WABC CBS NY 18 Oct 1938 |
Ted Fio Rito, band leader, composer and pianist, under the radio pseudonym ‘Vincent Valsanti’, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist in a 1934 Cocoanut Grove radio transcription.
Since I’ve been playing radio transcriptions made in 1934 of ‘Valsanti’ from the Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles over the past three weeks, here’s a little about the Ted Fio Rito / Valsanti / Cocoanut Grove story along with videos from the era.
The Phantom Dancer – your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton.
Enjoy a whole library of Phantom Dancer mixes online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.
This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 24 May at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/
The Cocoanut Grove at Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel was a lavishly appointed club – part of the massive 23-acre Ambassador resort, which also included four restaurants, a bowling alley, a billiard room, a shopping plaza, and even a movie theater – decorated in Moroccan style and featured full-sized palm trees reportedly salvaged from Rudolph Valentino’s film “The Sheik.” In addition to the decor, which also offered a night sky filled with stars (thanks to about 1000 small light bulbs), an elevated stage, and both dining and dancing room for several hundred patrons, customers came for the smooth musical entertainment provided by a series of dance orchestras and popular vocalists – many of whom would later go on to star careers in radio, recordings, and the film industry.
In the 1980 book, “Are the Stars Out Tonight?”, former Ambassador PR Director, Margaret Tante Burk, recalls the Grove’s opening night:
“…on the night of April 21, 1921… the new club officially opened its Moroccan style, gold leaf and etched palm tree doors… The Cocoanut Grove was aptly named, guests agreed as they were escorted by the maître de and captains down the wide plush grand staircase… Overhead, soaring about the room were cocoanut trees of papier mache, cocoanuts and palm fronds which had been rescued from the sandy beaches of Oxnard where they had served as atmosphere of the 1921 classic, The Sheik. Swinging from their branches were stuffed monkeys blinking at the revelers with their electrified amber eyes. Stars twinkled in the blue ceiling sky, and on the southernmost wall hung a full Hawaiian moon presiding over a painted landscape and splashing waterfall.”
Ray West Orchestra in 1930…
Due to the foresight of Abe Frank, the manager of both the hotel and the Grove, in the mid-1920s the Ambassador had been equipped with a small radio studio, allowing the music of the various orchestras to be broadcast and enjoyed well outside the confines of the nightclub. From the late 1920s well into the 1960s, live “remote” programs broadcast from the Cocoanut Grove were a popular feature of nighttime radio, allowing millions of people to enjoy the music they would otherwise be unable to afford to hear in person. These broadcasts, aired live nightly for two full hours, only increased the reputation of the Grove as “the place to be” when it came to top notch West Coast entertainment.
From the beginning, the Cocoanut Grove’s glamorous atmosphere attracted the top names in Hollywood for dining, dancing, and mingling. This celebrity connection was always well-publicized by the Ambassador and for a very good reason, too: tourists coming to Los Angeles for a vacation wanted to see the stars and there was no place where the stars came out quite so regularly as the Ambassador Hotel. On an average evening, it was common to see such well-known celebrities as Joan Crawford, Jack Oakie, or Jean Harlow coming to see Bing Crosby or Russ Columbo sing with Gus Arnheim’s Orchestra or dance to Jimmie Grier’s band as they accompanied Loyce Whiteman, The Three Ambassadors (Martin Sperzel, Jack Smith, and Al Teeter), or popular tenor Donald Novis. Even though there was a nationwide depression, Hollywood stars and executives still needed to be entertained — and the Cocoanut Grove was often their first choice.
From 1930 to 1943, six Academy Awards ceremonies were hosted at the hotel. As many as seven U.S. presidents stayed at the Ambassador, from Hoover to Nixon, along with heads of state from around the world.
It was the place to be even in the 1960s…
In 1968, the Ambassador Hotel was the scene of the shooting of Bobby Kennedy.
Due to the decline of the hotel and the surrounding area, the Ambassador Hotel was closed to guests in 1989. In 2001, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) purchased the property with the intent of constructing three new schools within the area. After subsequent litigations to preserve the hotel as a historic site, a settlement allowed the Ambassador Hotel to be demolished in 2005.
Ted Fio Rito used the pseudonym ‘Valsanti’ for these Cocoanut Grove transcriptions because of an existing recording contract.
Fio Rito was a pianist, hammond organist and the composer of such classic tunes as, “I Never Knew,” “Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye,” “Laugh, Clown, Laugh,” “Roll Along, Prairie Moon” and “Alone at a Table for Two.”
He started his career as a pianist with a series of bands led by Harry Yerkes, then moved to Chicago in 1921 to join Dan Russo’s band. The following year, he joined with Russo to become the co-leader the Oriole Terrace Orchestra, which he eventually took over when Russo departed in 1928.
Before coming to the Cocoanut Grove in mid-1933, Fio Rito had spent a number of years touring the East Coast and Midwest, including many engagements in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and Cincinnati. An early radio enthusiast, Fio Rito’s band was frequently heard on the air from various nightspots – preparing him well for the regular broadcasts scheduled to emanate from the Grove during his stay.
Musically, the orchestra that Fio Rito brought to the Grove was sweet, smooth and clever, playing highly danceable music accented with temple blocks, rapid triplets, and even an occasional solo on the Hammond organ by its talented leader.
Due to an existing recording contract, Theodore Salvatore Fiorito’s singers also adopted pseudonyms for these transcriptions. Muzzy Marcellino, Fio Rito’s guitarist and primary vocalist, sings as Jack Howard. Howard Phillips sings under the name of Bill Thomas, and Fio Rito’s vocal trio The Debutants appear as The Three Keys.
Watch Ted Fio Rito from the Cocoanut Grove in this 1934 Paramount short ‘Star night atthe Cocoanut Grove’ also featuring Mary Pickford and Bing Crosby. You’ll hear the extreme high and low four octave voice of Jimmy Durante’s future comic foil Candy Candido in what is thought to be his earliest film performance….
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Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney
LISTEN ONLINECommunity Radio Network Show CRN #546 |
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107.3 2SER Tuesday 24 May 2022 |
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Set 1
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Swing Bands One Night Stand Radio | |
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Theme + Song of the Wanderer
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Buddy Morrow Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’
Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Mar 1946 |
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16:00 On The Clock
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Shep Field and His New Music
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‘One Night Stand’
Copacabana NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 9 Aug 1944 |
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Come Rain Come Shine + Close
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Hal McIntyre Orchestra (voc) Frankie Lester
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‘One Night Stand’
Century Room Hotel Commodore NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1946 |
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Set 2
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1950s-60s Jazz Radio | |
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Jazz Connoisseur
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Harry James Orchestra (dms) Buddy Rich
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Moonbowl Freedomland WNEW NYC 1962 |
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The Theme
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Miles Davis Sextet
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‘Treasury of Music’
Birdland WRCA NBC NY AFRTS Re-broadcast 25 Aug 1959 |
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Set 3
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Benny Goodman in Chicago | |
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Let’s Dance (theme) + Farewell Blues
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Benny Goodman Orchestra
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Joseph Urban Room
Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 Jan 1936 |
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Soft Spring
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Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest
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Panther Room
Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 10 Aug 1941 |
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King Porter Stomp + Goodbye (theme)
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Benny Goodman Orchestra |
Joseph Urban Room
Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 3 Feb 1936 |
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Set 4
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Vincent Valsanti (Ted Fio Rito) | |
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Serenade of Love (theme) + Flirtation Walk
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Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Jack Howard
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Cocoanut Radio Transcription
TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934 |
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When You’re in Love
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Vincent Valsanti Orchestra
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Cocoanut Radio Transcription
TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934 |
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Two Cigarettes in the Dark
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Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Phil Thomas
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Cocoanut Radio Transcription
TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934 |
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Were You Foolin’? + I’ll Take an Option on You + Serenade of Love (theme)
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Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Jack Howard and The Three Blue Keys
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Cocoanut Radio Transcription
TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934 |
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Set 5
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1930s German Swing | |
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Darf ich bitten?
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Die Goldene Sieben
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Comm Rec
Berlin Sep 1936 |
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Ja und nein
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Die Goldene Sieben
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Comm Rec
Berlin Aug 1939 |
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Aus lauter Liebe
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Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Peter Igelhoff
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Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1937 |
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Oh! Aha!
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Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Rudi Schuricke Terzett
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Comm Rec
Berlin Feb 1939 |
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Set 6
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Early Dorseys | |
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Theme + On The Beach at Bali Bali
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Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
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‘Ford V-8 Show’
Texas Centennial Exhibition KRLD CBS Dallas Tx 11 Aug 1936 |
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Sandman (theme) + Is That Religion?
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Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby
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Riviera
Fort Lee NJ WEAF NBC Red NY 20 Sep 1934 |
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Weary Blues
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Eddy Howard Orchestra
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‘Ford V-8 Show’
Texas Centennial Exhibition KRLD CBS Dallas Tx 4 Aug 1936 |
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Farewell Blues
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Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
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‘Chrysler Show’
Radio Transcription 1934 |
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Set 7
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Sweet Music | |
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Romance (theme) + We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye
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Ray Herbeck Music with Romance Orchestra (voc) Lorraine Benson
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Trianon Ballroom
WGN Mutual Chicago 24 Nov 1947 |
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For You
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King Sisters
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‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood Jun 1945 |
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Sweet Lorraine
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Frank Sinatra
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‘Frank Sinatra Show’
AFRS Re-broadcast 26 Nov 1946 |
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What is This Thing Called Love?
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Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) Eugenie Baird
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‘Forever Pops’
ABC Chicago 1947 |
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Set 8
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1930s Fats Waller | |
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Yacht Club Swing (theme) + Whatcha Know, Joe?
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Fats Waller
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Panther Room
Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 3 Dec 1940 |
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Pent Up in a Penthouse
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Fats Waller |
Yacht Club
WABC CBS NY 14 Oct 1938 |
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Sto Beating ‘Round The Mulberry Bush
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Fats Waller
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WEAF NBC Red NY
16 Jul 1938 |
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I Had To Do It
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Fats Waller
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Yacht Club
WABC CBS NY 18 Oct 1938 |
Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor, influential 1940s jump and 1950s rock tenor saxophonist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer non-stop swing jazz feature artist. You’ll hear him from two 1956 Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party broadcasts on this week’s mix.
Because of the current Sydney Covid lockdown I can’t mix live from the 2SER studios as I normally do on Tuesdays, so this is a ‘classic’ Phantom Dancer from ‘the vaults’ in a ‘repeat premier’ for your aural enjoyment. Make sure you donate to community radio 2SER to keep these Phantom Dancers going.
Greg Poppleton has been bringing you The Phantom Dancer, your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV, each week since 1985.
Hear The Phantom Dancer online from 12:04pm AEST Tuesday 26 April at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ where you can also hear two years of archived shows.
The finyl hour is vinyl.
Taylor was born in Lexington, Tennessee. He attended Alabama State University, where he played with the Bama State Collegians. He later worked with Scatman Crothers, Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Buddy Johnson, Louis Jordan and Big Joe Turner. Taylor was one of the most requested session saxophone players in New York recording studios in the 1950s. He also replaced Count Basie as the house bandleader on Alan Freed’s radio series, Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party, on CBS, from where this week’s Phantom Dancer Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor tracks originate.
Taylor played the saxophone solo on Turner’s “Shake, Rattle and Roll”. He also played on “Harlem Nocturne”; on “Money Honey”, recorded by Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters in 1953; and on “Sh-Boom” by the Chords.
During the 1960s, he led a five-piece band, the Blues Chasers. In the 1970s, he frequently played and recorded in Japan.
Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor’s hit 1955 recording on the 1930s jazz standard, Harlem Nocturne. The song was written by Earle Hagen when he was a teenager! He later gave us some of the greatest TV themes ever: “Andy Griffith Show”, “Dick Van Dyke Show”, “Gomer Pyle USMC”, “Danny Thomas Show”, “That Girl”, “I Spy”, “Mod Squad”
Make sure you come back to this blog, Greg Poppleton’s Radio Lounge, every Tuesday, for the newest Phantom Dancer play list and Video of the Week!
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Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
Community Radio Network Show CRN #542 |
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107.3 2SER Tuesday 26 April 2022 |
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Set 1
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Swing on 1930s Radio | |
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Open + Star Dust
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Eliot Lawrence Orchestra
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Meadowbrook Ballroom
Cedar Grove NJ WOR Mutual NY 1951 |
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Take the A Train (theme) + Koko
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Duke Ellington Orchestra
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Town Casino
NBC Cleveland OH 1952 |
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GI Jive + Close
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Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Collins
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‘The Raymond Scott Show’
AFRS Re-broadcast 1944 |
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Set 2
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Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band | |
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Open + Push It
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Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band
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‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’
WCBS CBS NY 4 Sep 1956 |
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Flag Waver
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Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band
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‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’
WCBS CBS NY 11 Sep 1956 |
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Taylor Made + Close
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Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band
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‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’
WCBS CBS NY 4 Sep 1956 |
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Set 3
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Hillbilly Radio | |
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Theme + Sugar Foot Rag
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Skip Skipper Quartet
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‘Stokely Hi Noon Roundup’
WMPS Memphis 1952 |
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I Found It In Mother’s Bible
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Skip Skipper Quartet (voc) Miss Sally Carter
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‘Stokely Hi Noon Roundup’
WMPS Memphis 1952 |
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I’ve Got A Gal Up On My Mind + Rainbows End + Close
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The Plainsmen
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‘Call of the Range’
KNX CBS Los Angeles 1946 |
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Set 4
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Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney | |
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Enchanted
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Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music
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‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’
CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962 |
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Shine On Harvest Moon
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Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music
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‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’
CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962 |
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Deed I Do
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Bing Crosby (voc) Buddy Cole Music
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‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’
CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962 |
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Baby, Baby + Close
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Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music
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‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’
CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962 |
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Set 5
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Louis Armstrong | |
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Open + I Never Knew
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Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong
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‘Spotlight Bands’
Dallas Tx Blue Network 17 Aug 1943 |
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You Rascal You
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Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong
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‘Guest Star’
Radio Transcription New York City 7 May 1950 |
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Basin Street Blues
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Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong
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‘Guest Star’
Radio Transcription New York City 12 Dec 1954 |
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Skeleton in the Closet + Close
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Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong
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‘Norge Program’
Radio Transcription New York City 1937 |
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Set 6
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1930s Australian Dance Orchestras | |
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Marmelade
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Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Band
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Comm Rec
Sydney 24 Jan 1938 |
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Cosmopolitan Blues
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Maurice Gilman Orchestra (voc) Noel Judd
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Comm Rec
Sydney 8 Jan 1935 |
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Annie Laurie
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Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Band (voc) Alice Smith
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Comm Rec
Sydney 24 Jan 1938 |
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Harlem Heat
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Dudley Cantrell and his Grace Grenadiers
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Comm Rec
Sydney 22 Nov 1937 |
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Set 7
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1940s Dance Band Singers | |
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I Dream of You
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Bob Allen (voc) Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
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‘For The Record’
Carnegie Hall WEAF NBC NY 17 Apr 1944 |
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Playmates
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Lorraine Benson (voc) Ray Herbeck and his Music with Romance Orchestra
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Trianon Ballroom
WGN Chicago 24 Nov 1947 |
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Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby?
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Betty Martin and Randy Ryan (voc) Bob Strong Orchestra
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Glen Island Casino
New Rochelle NY WOR Mutual NY 5 Aug 1944 |
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Old Fashioned Love
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Eddy Howard (voc) Eddy Howard Orchestra
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Aragon Ballroom
WGN Mutual Chicago 5 Dec 1948 |
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Set 8
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Charlie Parker’s 100th Birthday | |
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Repetition / Interview / They Can’t Take That Away From Me
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Charlie Parker and Strings
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‘Symphony Sid Show’
Birdland WJZ ABC NY 7 Apr 1951 |
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52nd Street Theme
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Charlie Parker and Miles Davis
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‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Sep 1948 |
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Night in Tunisia
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Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
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‘Symphony Sid Show’
WJZ ABC NY Birdland 31 Mar 1951 |
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Ornithology
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Charlie Parker and Kenny Dorham
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‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost WMCA NY 1 Jan 1949 |
Ted Fio Rito, band leader, composer and pianist, under the radio pseudonym ‘Vincent Valsanti’, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist in a 1934 Cocoanut Grove radio transcription.
As it’s the holiday season and I’m taking a day off, this is a repeat of The Phantom Dancer broadcast 11 May 2021
The Phantom Dancer – your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton.
Enjoy a whole library of Phantom Dancer mixes online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.
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The Cocoanut Grove at Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel was a lavishly appointed club – part of the massive 23-acre Ambassador resort, which also included four restaurants, a bowling alley, a billiard room, a shopping plaza, and even a movie theater – decorated in Moroccan style and featured full-sized palm trees reportedly salvaged from Rudolph Valentino’s film “The Sheik.” In addition to the decor, which also offered a night sky filled with stars (thanks to about 1000 small light bulbs), an elevated stage, and both dining and dancing room for several hundred patrons, customers came for the smooth musical entertainment provided by a series of dance orchestras and popular vocalists – many of whom would later go on to star careers in radio, recordings, and the film industry.
In the 1980 book, “Are the Stars Out Tonight?”, former Ambassador PR Director, Margaret Tante Burk, recalls the Grove’s opening night:
“…on the night of April 21, 1921… the new club officially opened its Moroccan style, gold leaf and etched palm tree doors… The Cocoanut Grove was aptly named, guests agreed as they were escorted by the maître de and captains down the wide plush grand staircase… Overhead, soaring about the room were cocoanut trees of papier mache, cocoanuts and palm fronds which had been rescued from the sandy beaches of Oxnard where they had served as atmosphere of the 1921 classic, The Sheik. Swinging from their branches were stuffed monkeys blinking at the revelers with their electrified amber eyes. Stars twinkled in the blue ceiling sky, and on the southernmost wall hung a full Hawaiian moon presiding over a painted landscape and splashing waterfall.”
Ray West Orchestra in 1930…
Due to the foresight of Abe Frank, the manager of both the hotel and the Grove, in the mid-1920s the Ambassador had been equipped with a small radio studio, allowing the music of the various orchestras to be broadcast and enjoyed well outside the confines of the nightclub. From the late 1920s well into the 1960s, live “remote” programs broadcast from the Cocoanut Grove were a popular feature of nighttime radio, allowing millions of people to enjoy the music they would otherwise be unable to afford to hear in person. These broadcasts, aired live nightly for two full hours, only increased the reputation of the Grove as “the place to be” when it came to top notch West Coast entertainment.
From the beginning, the Cocoanut Grove’s glamorous atmosphere attracted the top names in Hollywood for dining, dancing, and mingling. This celebrity connection was always well-publicized by the Ambassador and for a very good reason, too: tourists coming to Los Angeles for a vacation wanted to see the stars and there was no place where the stars came out quite so regularly as the Ambassador Hotel. On an average evening, it was common to see such well-known celebrities as Joan Crawford, Jack Oakie, or Jean Harlow coming to see Bing Crosby or Russ Columbo sing with Gus Arnheim’s Orchestra or dance to Jimmie Grier’s band as they accompanied Loyce Whiteman, The Three Ambassadors (Martin Sperzel, Jack Smith, and Al Teeter), or popular tenor Donald Novis. Even though there was a nationwide depression, Hollywood stars and executives still needed to be entertained — and the Cocoanut Grove was often their first choice.
From 1930 to 1943, six Academy Awards ceremonies were hosted at the hotel. As many as seven U.S. presidents stayed at the Ambassador, from Hoover to Nixon, along with heads of state from around the world.
It was the place to be seen even in the 1960s…
In 1968, the Ambassador Hotel was the scene of the shooting of Bobby Kennedy.
Due to the decline of the hotel and the surrounding area, the Ambassador Hotel was closed to guests in 1989. In 2001, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) purchased the property with the intent of constructing three new schools within the area. After subsequent litigations to preserve the hotel as a historic site, a settlement allowed the Ambassador Hotel to be demolished in 2005.
Ted Fio Rito used the pseudonym ‘Valsanti’ for these Cocoanut Grove transcriptions because of an existing recording contract.
Fio Rito was a pianist, hammond organist and the composer of such classic tunes as, “I Never Knew,” “Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye,” “Laugh, Clown, Laugh,” “Roll Along, Prairie Moon” and “Alone at a Table for Two.”
He started his career as a pianist with a series of bands led by Harry Yerkes, then moved to Chicago in 1921 to join Dan Russo’s band. The following year, he joined with Russo to become the co-leader the Oriole Terrace Orchestra, which he eventually took over when Russo departed in 1928.
Before coming to the Cocoanut Grove in mid-1933, Fio Rito had spent a number of years touring the East Coast and Midwest, including many engagements in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and Cincinnati. An early radio enthusiast, Fio Rito’s band was frequently heard on the air from various nightspots – preparing him well for the regular broadcasts scheduled to emanate from the Grove during his stay.
Musically, the orchestra that Fio Rito brought to the Grove was sweet, smooth and clever, playing highly danceable music accented with temple blocks, rapid triplets, and even an occasional solo on the Hammond organ by its talented leader.
Due to an existing recording contract, Theodore Salvatore Fiorito’s singers also adopted pseudonyms for these transcriptions. Muzzy Marcellino, Fio Rito’s guitarist and primary vocalist, sings as Jack Howard. Howard Phillips sings under the name of Bill Thomas, and Fio Rito’s vocal trio The Debutants appear as The Three Keys.
Watch Ted Fio Rito from the Cocoanut Grove in this 1934 Paramount short ‘Star night atthe Cocoanut Grove’ also featuring Mary Pickford and Bing Crosby. You’ll hear the extreme high and low four octave voice of Jimmy Durante’s future comic foil Candy Candido in what is thought to be his earliest film performance….
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Swing Bands One Night Stand Radio | |
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Theme + Song of the Wanderer
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Buddy Morrow Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’
Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Mar 1946 |
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16:00 On The Clock
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Shep Field and His New Music
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‘One Night Stand’
Copacabana NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 9 Aug 1944 |
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Come Rain Come Shine + Close
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Hal McIntyre Orchestra (voc) Frankie Lester
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‘One Night Stand’
Century Room Hotel Commodore NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1946 |
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1950s-60s Jazz Radio | |
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Jazz Connoisseur
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Harry James Orchestra (dms) Buddy Rich
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Moonbowl Freedomland WNEW NYC 1962 |
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The Theme
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Miles Davis Sextet
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‘Treasury of Music’
Birdland WRCA NBC NY AFRTS Re-broadcast 25 Aug 1959 |
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Set 3
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Benny Goodman in Chicago | |
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Let’s Dance (theme) + Farewell Blues
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Benny Goodman Orchestra
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Joseph Urban Room
Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 Jan 1936 |
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Soft Spring
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Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest
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Panther Room
Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 10 Aug 1941 |
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King Porter Stomp + Goodbye (theme)
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Benny Goodman Orchestra |
Joseph Urban Room
Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 3 Feb 1936 |
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Set 4
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Vincent Valsanti (Ted Fio Rito) | |
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Serenade of Love (theme) + Flirtation Walk
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Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Jack Howard
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Cocoanut Radio Transcription
TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934 |
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When You’re in Love
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Vincent Valsanti Orchestra
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Cocoanut Radio Transcription
TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934 |
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Two Cigarettes in the Dark
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Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Phil Thomas
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Cocoanut Radio Transcription
TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934 |
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Were You Foolin’? + I’ll Take an Option on You + Serenade of Love (theme)
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Vincent Valsanti Orchestra (voc) Jack Howard and The Three Blue Keys
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Cocoanut Radio Transcription
TRANSCO Los Angeles 1934 |
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Set 5
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1930s German Swing | |
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Darf ich bitten?
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Die Goldene Sieben
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Comm Rec
Berlin Sep 1936 |
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Ja und nein
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Die Goldene Sieben
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Comm Rec
Berlin Aug 1939 |
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Aus lauter Liebe
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Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Peter Igelhoff
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Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1937 |
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Oh! Aha!
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Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Rudi Schuricke Terzett
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Comm Rec
Berlin Feb 1939 |
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Set 6
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Early Dorseys | |
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Theme + On The Beach at Bali Bali
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Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
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‘Ford V-8 Show’
Texas Centennial Exhibition KRLD CBS Dallas Tx 11 Aug 1936 |
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Sandman (theme) + Is That Religion?
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Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby
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Riviera
Fort Lee NJ WEAF NBC Red NY 20 Sep 1934 |
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Weary Blues
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Eddy Howard Orchestra
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‘Ford V-8 Show’
Texas Centennial Exhibition KRLD CBS Dallas Tx 4 Aug 1936 |
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Farewell Blues
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Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
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‘Chrysler Show’
Radio Transcription 1934 |
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Set 7
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Sweet Music | |
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Romance (theme) + We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye
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Ray Herbeck Music with Romance Orchestra (voc) Lorraine Benson
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Trianon Ballroom
WGN Mutual Chicago 24 Nov 1947 |
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For You
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King Sisters
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‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood Jun 1945 |
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Sweet Lorraine
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Frank Sinatra
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‘Frank Sinatra Show’
AFRS Re-broadcast 26 Nov 1946 |
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What is This Thing Called Love?
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Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) Eugenie Baird
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‘Forever Pops’
ABC Chicago 1947 |
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1930s Fats Waller | |
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Yacht Club Swing (theme) + Whatcha Know, Joe?
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Fats Waller
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Panther Room
Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 3 Dec 1940 |
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Pent Up in a Penthouse
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Fats Waller |
Yacht Club
WABC CBS NY 14 Oct 1938 |
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Sto Beating ‘Round The Mulberry Bush
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Fats Waller
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WEAF NBC Red NY
16 Jul 1938 |
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I Had To Do It
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Fats Waller
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Yacht Club
WABC CBS NY 18 Oct 1938 |
1920s 1930s Jazz Swing Songs by Greg Poppleton. Enjoy this 53 minute YouTube mix of 1920s – 1930s jazz swing songs. It’s mixed from six albums by Australian 1920s-30s singer, Greg Poppleton.
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1920s – 1930s SONG MIX:
0:00 Tip Toe Through the Tulips
3:48 The Charleston (correct tempo, dancers!)
6:17 Sweet Sue
8:33 Carolina in the Morning
12:13 It’s Only a Paper Moon
14:34 My Gal Sal
17:39 San Antonio Rose
19:47 St James Infirmary
22:47 Singing the Bathtub
24:50 Love Me or Leave Me
28:50 Walkin’ My Baby Back Home
32:27 Exactly Like You
34:39 On The Sunny Side Of The Street
39:54 If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
42:43 Ain’t She Sweet (Grahame Conlon ukulele)
45:15 Cakewalkin’ Babies From Home
47:46 St Louis Blues
1920s 1930s Jazz Swing Songs by Greg Poppleton Band:
Greg Poppleton: 1920s – 1930s singer
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Matt Baker: piano
Peter Locke: piano
Grahame Conlon: guitar and banjo
Geoff Power: sousaphone
Rod Herbert: sousaphone
Darcy Wright: double bass
Mark Harris: double bass
Dieter Vogt: double bass
Lawrie Thompson: drums and washboard
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Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. It was a collective that was the top swing band before Benny Goodman. Loved for its complex, danceable arrangements, Coleman Hawkins named it as his favourite band.
HEAR this Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 16 November) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/
I’m Greg Poppleton and I’ve brought you The Phantom Dancer every week on 107.3 2SER radio Sydney since 1985.
Here’s a 1941 Warner Brothers short of the band featuring Lindy Hoppers, Dean Collins and Jewel McGowan. Key band soloists are also introduced in the fimal song…
The Casa Loma Orchestra began in 1927 as a unit of the Jean Goldkette organisation under the name ‘Orange Blossoms’. Orange Blossoms, in the early 20th century was the newspaper headline for reports on wedding receptions.
The name, Casa Loma, came in 1929 when they were booked to play at the Casa Loma in Toronto, which suddenly closed. Stranded in that city, the musicians formed a musical collective, first under the direction of violinist Hank Biagini. In 1933, saxophonist Glen Gray was voted to front the band as the ‘first among equals’.
In 1930, the Casa Loma Orchestra was incorporated in New York with the members becoming owners, shareholders and board members. The band members were hired on the grounds of musical and congenial competence and followed strict conduct and financial rules. Because the band operated as a collective group, as opposed to almost all other bands that had a leader for whom everyone worked, the band maintained a stable collection of personnel that varied little. Members who broke the rules could be summoned before the board, have their contract bought out, and be ejected from the band.
Even the orchestra’s talent arranger, Gene Gifford, who created the unique Casa Loma sound, fell victim to the band’s strict rules, being bought out in 1935 for alcohol-related infractions.
In 1943, Eugenie Baird became the first woman vocalist with the Casa Loma Orchestra.
Here she is being interviewed by Guy Lombardo on 1955 TV. She also sings, You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You…
The orchestra featured in the mid-1930s incarnation of the long-running ‘Camel Caravan’ series, which you’ll hear an excerpt from on this week’s Phantom Dancer. You’ll also hear a radio transcription of their famous sound made in 1934, and the orchestra live in 1943 and on the air with Eugenie Baird singing in 1944.
16 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST
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Ginny Simms Show | |
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Theme + Come To Baby
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Ginny Simms (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra
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‘The Ginny Simms Show’
WABC CBS NYC 11 Jan 1946 |
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I’ll Always Be With You
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Alton Williams (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra
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‘The Ginny Simms Show’
WABC CBS NYC 11 Jan 1946 |
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What a Deal
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Ginny Simms (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra
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‘The Ginny Simms Show’
WABC CBS NYC 11 Jan 1946 |
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Indian Love Song
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Ginny Simms and Gene Kelly (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra
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‘The Ginny Simms Show’
WABC CBS NYC 11 Jan 1946 |
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Set 2
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Cocoanut Grove | |
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Music in the Moonlight (theme) + Say That You Are Teasing Me
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Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo Delys
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‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1932 |
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Bon Voyage to Your Ship of Dreams
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Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Donald Novis
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‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’
Los Angeles 1932 |
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Dinah + Music in the Moonlight (theme)
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Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) The Three Cheers
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‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’
Los Angeles 1932 |
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Set 3
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Glen Gray 1945 Radio | |
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Smoke Rings (theme) + Begin the Beguine
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Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (cl) Fats Daniels
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‘One Night Stand’
Casino Gardens Ocan Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Oct 1945 |
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A Door Will Open
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Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Skip Nelson
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‘One Night Stand’
Casino Gardens Ocan Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Oct 1945 |
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Midnight
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Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra |
‘One Night Stand’
Casino Gardens Ocan Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Oct 1945 |
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What a Drag
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Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Fats Daniel |
‘One Night Stand’
Casino Gardens Ocan Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Oct 1945 |
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Set 4
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Glen Gray Vinyl | |
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Maniac’s Ball
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Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra
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Radio Transcription
1934 |
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Zonky
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Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra
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‘Camel Caravan’
WABC CBS NY 17 Dec 1935 |
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My Heart Tells Me
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Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Eugenie Baird
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Aircheck
Hotel New Yorker Aug 1944 |
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Blackberry Jam
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Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra
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‘Spotlight Bands’
Columbus OH AFRS Re-broadcast 19 Nov 1943 |
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Set 5
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1920s Orchestras | |
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My Mother Was a Lady + She May Have Seen Better Days
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Tonsorial Twitterbugs Quartet
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‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’
WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941 |
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I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem
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Paul Lavalle
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‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’
WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941 |
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The Booglie Wooglie Piggy
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Diane Courtney
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‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941 |
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Beyond the Moon
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Toots Mondello
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‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’
WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941 |
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Bugle Woogie + Close
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Henry Levine
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‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’
WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941 |
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Boogie Piano | |
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Original Boogie
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Lil Armstrong
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‘DuPont Show of the Week’
‘Chicago and All That Jazz’ NBC TV 26 Nov 1961 |
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Who Put The Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine?
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Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson
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Radio Transcription
8 Feb 1946 |
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Piano Boogie
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Dorothy Donegan
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Comm Rec
Chicago 1942 |
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What’s His Story?
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Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson
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Radio Transcription
8 Feb 1946 |
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Set 7
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Eddie Condon | |
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Blues + Riverboat Shuffle
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Eddie Condon Group
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‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’
WPIX TV NYC 1948 |
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St Louis Blues
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Eddie Condon Group
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‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’
WJZ Blue NYC 27 Jan 1945 |
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Davenport Blues
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Carl Kress and Tony Mottola guitar duet
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‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’
WJZ Blue NYC 22 Jul 1944 |
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Blues
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Eddie Condon Group with Charlie Barnet and Charlie Shavers
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‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’
WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948 |
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Set 8
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1940s Swing Radio | |
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Let’s Dance (theme) + Darktown Strutters’ Ball
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Benny Goodman Orchestra
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‘Jubilee’
AFRS NYC 21 Jul 1944 |
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Loose Wig
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Lionel Hampton Orchestra |
‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood 16 Oct 1944 |
| Honeydripper | Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Quartet |
‘Spotlight Bands’
Jefferson Barracks, Missouri Blue Network 23 Nov 1945 |
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Wham + Close
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Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra
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‘Spotlight Bands’
Jefferson Barracks, Missouri Blue Network 23 Nov 1945 |
Garwood Van is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Songwriter of ‘Time to Dream’ and dance band leader from 1936, Garwood Van also was an actor in ‘Love on Tap’ (1939).
Garwood Van held long residencies at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, the Trocadero, Ciro’s and Florentine Gardens in Los Angeles. The band’s theme song was Poinciana. Featured vocalists included Gail Storm, Wally Ruth and Maxine Conrad. After giving up the band scene, he operated a successful record shop and music store in Las Vegas.
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From the ‘Las Vegas Sun’, Wednesday, April 28, 1999
Headline: Former big-band leader, community activist Van dies
by Jace Radke
In the early 1940s and ’50s visitors to the Las Vegas Strip were dancing to the big-band sound, and many were tapping away to the orchestra of Garwood Van “the Music Man.”
Van, who worked with the likes of Sammy Davis Jr., Vic Damone, Andy Williams and Liberace, died at the age of 88 on Sunday. He gave Redd Foxx his first gig.
Van first played Las Vegas in 1942 at the Hotel El Rancho Vegas and later conducted orchestras at the Last Frontier, Flamingo, Thunderbird, Dunes and New Frontier hotels.
G. Barney Rawlings, a former Strip performer and singing emcee who logged more than 3,000 consecutive performances at the Thunderbird, remembers Van’s talents and his distinctive voice.
“He was one of the last big-band leaders in the old days, and he always had the top players,” Rawlings said. “I must have met him the first week after he moved to town, and I still remember his low, scratchy voice.
“He always talked like he had a sore throat, but he sure knew how to lead that band.”
In 1952 Van met his wife, Joan, in Lake Tahoe where she was working as a dancer. They were married and moved to Las Vegas the same year.
Joan Van saw her husband play his style of music for many, including President Ronald Reagan.
“His band just had a sweet dance sound,” Van said of her husband. “It was melodic and maybe a little like the sound of Lester Lannon’s band.”
In 1959 the Vans opened Garwood Van’s Musicland, and quickly built it into one of Nevada’s largest music stores.
Van took time away from his business and music to give to his community, Rawlings said.
“We were cut from the same pattern of becoming part of the community that we were performing in,” Rawlings said. “He didn’t just go to work and forget about the community when he was done performing.
“He didn’t just ride along. He was out supporting the city.”
In 1976 Van, a Republican, unsuccessfully ran for the County Commission. He had touted his business experience and sensitivity to issues.
“One promise I can make right now is to run an entirely open campaign and, if elected, serve my constituents with integrity and dedication,” Van said in an August 1979 Sun story.
Van held several administrative positions in various Las Vegas groups and organizations.
He served as a director and song leader for the Las Vegas Rotary Club, was a member of the Civilian Military Council, a president of the Merchants Bureau of Greater Las Vegas and a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
Van, who was an avid golfer, was a member of the Las Vegas Country Club and was vice president of the Desert Inn Country Club.
“He loved to golf and was out on the course as much as he could be,” Joan Van said. “He wasn’t able to get out as much after he had a hip operation a couple years ago, and he missed golf.”
Van was also a member of the Musicians Locals 47 and 369.
Van is survived by his wife and son, Gary Van, both of Las Vegas.
From a site called Audiokarma, a Musicland employee in 2019 wrote the following personal reminiscence about her employer, Garwood Van…
“I worked at Garwood Van’s Musicland in the late 60s/early 70s while attending college at what is now University of Nevada at Las Vegas but was then named Nevada Southern University. Musicland was a large record and stereo component shop located at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue, where the Bonanza Shopping Center is now.
This is back in the day when records were arranged in alphabetical order in waist-level bins according to genre.
Garwood was in his sixties when I knew him, but he had been a well-known band leader in Las Vegas since he started at the old El Rancho in 1942.
He and his ex-dancer wife Joan owned and managed the shop. Sometimes his son Gary Paul Van (also deceased) would work, too.
Garwood was a very nice man, and I would give him a ride home in my ’54 Pontiac when needed, and he would tell me stories about Las Vegas. Several entertainers would stop in and shop at his store when they were in town, including Paul Anka. I think I waited on George Harrison once, unfortunately trying to steer him to an album by Emerson, Lake and Palmer, when he had asked about the popularity of his own latest album, but I really loved “Lucky Man” more than “My Sweet Lord” — He had asked my preferences and each to their own?
I remember how eagerly anticipated new music was, and we used to play the newest tunes, which were piped outside, and one morally irate gentleman roared into the store to violently object to our first spin of Paul Simon’s “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover.”
It was an interesting time – Vietnam, civil rights, great music, various experimentations, etc., all in a town which was such a strange mixture of Mormons and mob.
Garwood was pretty conservative, but he also ran the Pussycat a Go-Go with his partner Joe Yip from 64-72, a popular club where I enjoyed seeing acts like Sly and the Family Stone – Hilarious to see them roll out of their bus in a cloud of smoke, patchouli, satins, and sparkles when it was time to get on stage. (Jim Morrison was arrested there when his cigarette was mistaken for a joint in 1968. I was tossed out in 1969 for dancing with a Black man who was a great dancer, but the temporary twosome was not culturally acceptable in Las Vegas back then.) The Pussycat was located on the Strip near where the Palazzo Casino is now.
2 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST
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107.3 2SER Tuesday 2 NOVEMBER 2021 |
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Set 1
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1940s One Night Stand Radio | |
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Girl of my Dreams
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Randy Brooks Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’
Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 17 Nov 1945 |
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I Love Yoy
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Jack Teagarden Orchestra (voc) Phyllis Lane
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‘One Night Stand’
Coral Gables Weymouth Mass. AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Aug 1944 |
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They Didn’t Believe Me + Blue Moon (close)
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Eliot Lawrence Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’
AFRS Re-broadcast 26 Jul 1945 |
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Set 2
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Stan Kenton | |
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Open + Taboo
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Stan Kenton Orchestra
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‘Concert in Miniature’ Lakeside Ballroom Dayton OH WLW NBC Cincinati 16 Sep 1952 |
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Impressionism
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Stan Kenton Orchestra
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‘Concert in Miniature’
Devine’s Million Dollar Ballroom WTMJ NBC Milwaukee 10 Jun 1952 |
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Limelight + Close
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Stan Kenton Orchestra
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‘Concert in Miniature’
Student Union Building Teachers’ College WBOW NBC Terre Haute 16 Jun 1953 |
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Set 3
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1950s Jazz Radio | |
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Route 66
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Bobby Troup Trio (voc) Bobby Troup
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‘All-Star Parade of Bands’
Cameo Club WRCA NBC NYC 1956 |
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The Goof and I
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Woody Herman’s Third Herd
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‘Monitor’
Basin Street WRCA NBC NYC 26 Jun 1955 |
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Sleep + Close
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Buddy Hamilton Quintet |
‘Jazz International’
AFRTS Hollywood 16 Jun 1960 |
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Set 4
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Garwood Van | |
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Theme: Poinciana. Medley: Rise and Sine / I Want To Be Happy
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Garwood Van Orchestra
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Starlight Room
Hotel Chase Mutual Network St Louis 9 Aug 1944 |
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Just a Memory
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Garwood Van Orchestra
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Starlight Room
Hotel Chase Mutual Network St Louis 9 Aug 1944 |
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Fine and Dandy
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Garwood Van Orchestra
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Starlight Room
Hotel Chase Mutual Network St Louis 9 Aug 1944 |
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Blue Caribean Sea
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Garwood Van Orchestra
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Starlight Room
Hotel Chase Mutual Network St Louis 9 Aug 1944 |
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Set 5
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1920s Orchestras | |
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I’m Just Wild About Animal Crackers
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Irving Aaronson and his Commanders (voc) Quartet
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Comm Rec
NYC 23 Jun 1926 |
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Pardon Me, Pretty Baby
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Sam Lanin Orchestra
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Hit of the Week Records
NYC 13 Aug 1931 |
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Nobody’s Sweetheart
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Irving Mills Hotsy Totsy Gang
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‘Brunswick Brevities’ Radio Transcription Oct 1929 |
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I Found a Million Dollar Baby
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Don Voorhees Orchestra
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Hit of the Week Records
NYC 10 Sep 1931 |
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Set 6
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1930s Cancer Stick Radio | |
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To You
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Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby
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Camel Caravan
WABC CBS NYC 11 Jul 1939 |
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Get On Board
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Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Johnny Mercer
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Camel Caravan
WABC CBS NYC 27 Jun 1939 |
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My Inspiration
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Bob Crosby Orchestra
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Camel Caravan
WABC CBS NYC 18 Jul 1939 |
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If I Didn’t Care
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Bob Crosby Orchestra
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Camel Caravan
WABC CBS NYC 4 Jul 1939 |
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Set 7
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Goodman Orchestra 1946 | |
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Somebody Stole My Gal
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Benny Goodman Orchestra
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‘Benny Goodman Show’
AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Jul 1946 |
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Swing Angel
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Benny Goodman Orchestra
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Meadowbrook Gardens
Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast
26 Jan 1946 |
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And The Angels Sing
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Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton
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‘Benny Goodman Show’
AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Jul 1946 |
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Clarinade + Sweet Lorraine
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Benny Goodman Orchestra
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Meadowbrook Gardens
Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast
26 Jan 1946 |
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Set 8
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Miles Davis | |
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Moose The Mooche
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Miles Davis
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Comm Rec
Hollywood 28 Mar 1946 |
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Groovin’ High
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Miles Davis |
‘Symphony Sid Show’
WMCA NYC Royal Roost 11 Dec 1948 |
| Bigfoot | Miles Davis |
‘Symphony Sid Show’
WMCA NYC Royal Roost 11 Dec 1948 |
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Ornitholgy
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Miles Davis
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‘Symphony Sid Show’
WMCA NYC Royal Roost 11 Dec 1948 |
Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, from 1925-29 radio and recordings, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. Started in 1918, as the Coon-Sanders Novelty Orchestra, this leading dancing orchestra and foundational member of the MCA agency was lead by drummer Carleton Coon and pianist Joe Sanders.
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The orchestra began broadcasting in 1922 on clear channel station WDAF, which could be received throughout the United States. They were broadcast in performance at the Muehlebach Hotel in Kansas City.
They took the name Nighthawks because they broadcast late at night (11:30pm to 1:00am). By 1924, their fan club had 37,000 members. Fans were encouraged to send in requests for songs by letter, telephone, or telegram. That move became so popular that Western Union set up a ticker tape between Sanders’s piano and Coon’s drums so the telegrams could be acknowledged during the broadcasts. Their song “Nighthawk Blues” includes the lines: “Tune right in on the radio/Grab a telegram and say ‘Hello’…”
The group left Kansas City for the first time in 1924 for a three-month engagement in a roadhouse in Chicago, Illinois. The orchestra moved to Chicago the same year, where Jules Stein used the profits from a tour he booked for them to establish the Music Corporation of America (MCA), with the orchestra as its first client.
In 1925, they recorded the Paul Whiteman and Fred Rose composition “Flamin’ Mamie” which you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer.
The orchestra moved into the Blackhawk in Chicago in 1926. The members of the orchestra at that time were Joe Richolson and Bob Pope, trumpets; Rex Downing, trombone; Harold Thiell, John Thiell and Floyd Estep, saxophones; Joe Sanders, piano; Russ Stout, banjo and guitar; “Pop” Estep, tuba; Carleton Coon, drums. Teddy Roy also played with the group in the late 1920s.
In the following years, the Nighthawks performed at the Blackhawk every winter, doing remote broadcasts over radio station WGN. Their reputation spread coast-to-coast through these broadcasts and the many records they made for Victor Records. They also undertook successful road tours.
Singer, and child prodigy, Mel Torme, first performed professionally at age four with the Coon-Sanders Orchestra, singing “You’re Driving Me Crazy” at Chicago’s Blackhawk restaurant.[
In 1931, the orchestra moved to New York City, for an 11-month broadcast engagement at the Hotel New Yorker arranged by William S. Paley, who needed a star attraction to induce radio stations to join the Columbia Broadcasting System.
At the peak of the band’s success, the musicians owned identical Cord automobiles, each in a different color with the name of the Orchestra and the owner embossed on the rear. The Orchestra’s popularity showed no signs of abating, and their contract with MCA had another 15 years to run in the spring of 1932 when Carleton Coon came down with a jaw infection and he died on May 4 that year.
Sanders attempted to keep the organization going; however, without Coon, the public did not support them. In 1935, he formed his own group and played until the early 1940s, when he became a part-time orchestra leader and studio musician.
26 OCTOBER PLAY LIST
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107.3 2SER Tuesday 26 OCTOBER 2021 |
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Set 1
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1940s One Night Stand Radio | |
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My First Love
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Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Paul Charlie
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‘One Night Stand’
Panther Room Hotel Sherman Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast Feb 1944 |
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Sackhouse Stomp
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Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’
Panther Room Hotel Sherman Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast Feb 1944 |
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No Love No Nothin’ + King Porter Stomp
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Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Gladys Tell
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‘One Night Stand’
Panther Room Hotel Sherman Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast Feb 1944 |
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Set 2
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Guest Star | |
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Open + With Every Breath I Take
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Buddy Clark
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‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription NYC 12 Jun 1949 |
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Far Away Places
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Margaret Whiting
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‘Guest Star’
Radio Transcription NYC 12 Jun 1949 |
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Running Off the Rails
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Ted Dale and the Contented Hour Orchestra
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‘Guest Star’
Radio Transcription NYC 12 Jun 1949 |
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Cheek to Cheek + Close
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Buddy Clark and Contented Hour Singers
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‘Guest Star’
Radio Transcription NYC 12 Jun 1949 |
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Set 3
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Chamber Music | |
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By Heck + Fletcher’s Folly
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Henry Levine
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‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’
WJZ NBC Blue NYC 30 Jun 1941 |
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In The Hush of the Night
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Diane Courtney
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‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’
WJZ NBC Blue NYC 30 Jun 1941 |
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Angie-Wangie Blues + Close
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Angie Watina |
‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’
WJZ NBC Blue NYC 30 Jun 1941 |
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Set 4
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Coon-Sanders Nighthawks | |
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Open + Harold Teen + Mississippi
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Coon-Sanders Nighthawks (voc) Joe Sanders
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‘Maytag Frolics’
Radio Transcription Chicago 1 Mar 1929 |
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Flamin’ Mamie
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Coon-Sanders Nighthawks (voc) Joe Sanders
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Comm Rec
Chicago 21 Dec 25 |
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Bless You Sister
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Coon-Sanders Nighthawks (voc) Joe Sanders
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‘Maytag Frolics’
Radio Transcription Chicago 1 Mar 1929 |
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Kansas City Kitty + What a Girl, What a Night!
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Coon-Sanders Nighthawks (voc) Joe Sanders
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‘Maytag Frolics’
Radio Transcription Chicago 1 Mar 1929 |
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Set 5
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Charlie Barnet Orchestra | |
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Open + The Sergeant Was Shy
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Charlie Barnet Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’
400 Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Apr 1945 |
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I Can’t Get Started
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Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) Kay Starr
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‘For The Record’
WEAF NBC NYC 11 Sep 1944 |
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Murder at Peyton Hall
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Charlie Barnet Orchestra
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Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 3 Jan 1947 |
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Keep the Home Fires Burning + Close
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Charlie Barnet Orchestra
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‘For The Record’
WEAF NBC NYC 11 Sep 1944 |
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Set 6
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Cotton Club | |
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Three Blind Mice
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Duke Ellington Cotton Club Orchestra
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Cotton Club
WABC CBS NYC 17 Apr 1938 |
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Downtown Uproar
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Duke Ellington Cotton Club Orchestra
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Cotton Club
WABC CBS NYC 17 Apr 1938 |
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If Dreams Come True
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Duke Ellington Cotton Club Orchestra (voc) Ivie Anderson
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Cotton Club
WABC CBS NYC 24 May 1938 |
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That Gal From Joes + Riding on a Blue Note
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Duke Ellington Cotton Club Orchestra
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Cotton Club
WABC CBS NYC 1 May 1938 |
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Set 7
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Gimmick Band Radio Transcriptions | |
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They Ought To Write a Book
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Shep Field and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin
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Radio Transcription
1940 |
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Moonlight Serenade
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Gray Gordon and his Tic Toc Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Cliff Grass
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Radio Transcription
1939 |
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Cecilia
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Shep Field and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin
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Radio Transcription
1940 |
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You Are My Dream
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Gray Gordon and his Tic Toc Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Cliff Grass
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Radio Transcription
1939 |
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Set 8
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Charlie Parker | |
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Half Nelson
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Charlie Parker
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‘Symphony Sid Show’
WMCA NYC Royal Roost 26 Feb 1949 |
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Night in Tunisia
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Charlie Parker |
‘Symphony Sid Show’
WMCA NYC Royal Roost 26 Feb 1949 |
| Theme + 52nd Street Theme | Charlie Parker |
‘Symphony Sid Show’
WMCA NYC Royal Roost 4 Sep 1948 |
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Ko-Ko
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Charlie Parker
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‘Symphony Sid Show’
WMCA NYC Royal Roost 4 Sep 1948 |
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19 and 23 OCTOBER PLAY LIST
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107.3 2SER Tuesday 19 OCTOBER & Saturday 23 OCTOBER 2021 National Program will differ during 2SER Radiothon |
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Set 1
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Robin Hood
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Louis Prima Orchestra (voc) Louis Prima
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‘One Night Stand’
Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Dec 1944 |
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Beloved
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Louis Prima Orchestra (voc) Lily Ann Carroll
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‘One Night Stand’
Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Dec 1944 |
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Calypso Joe
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Louis Prima Orchestra (voc) Al Porcino
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‘One Night Stand’
Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Dec 1944 |
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Set 2
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Music in the Moonlight (theme) + This Time It’s Love
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Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo Delys
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Radio Transcription Transco Hollywood 1931 |
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Lady Be Good
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Jimmy Grier Orchestra
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Radio Transcription
Transco Hollywood 1931 |
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Laying in the Hay + Music in the Moonlight (theme)
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Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Harry Foster
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Radio Transcription
Transco Hollywood 1931 |
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Set 3
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Theme + I Maybe Wrong
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Jo Stafford and The Satisfiers
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‘Supper Club’
WEAF NBC NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 10 Apr 1946 |
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I Don’t Know Enough About You + You Always Hurt The One You Love
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The Mills Brothers
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‘Supper Club’
WEAF NBC NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 10 Apr 1946 |
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Day by Day + Aren’t You Glad You’re You + Close
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Jo Stafford and The Satisfiers |
‘Supper Club’
WEAF NBC NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 10 Apr 1946 |
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Set 4
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Take the A Train Theme + Carnegie Blues
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Duke Ellington Orchestra
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‘A Date With The Duke’
ABC/AFRS 1945 |
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Otto, Make That Riff Staccato
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Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ray Nance
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‘A Date With The Duke’
ABC/AFRS 1945 |
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All At Once
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Duke Ellington Orchestra
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‘A Date With The Duke’
ABC/AFRS 1945 |
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Yesterdays + Blue Cellophane
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Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Kay Davis
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‘A Date With The Duke’
ABC/AFRS 1945 |
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Set 5
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Open + Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
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Perez Prado Orchestra
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‘All Star Parade of Bands’
Birdland WRCA NBC NYC 24 Jul 1953 |
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Bilo
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Perez Prado Orchestra
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‘All Star Parade of Bands’
Birdland WRCA NBC NYC 24 Jul 1953 |
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Whatever Lola Wants + Close
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Perez Prado Orchestra
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‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC NYC 24 Jul 1953 |
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Set 6
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Tin Roof Blues (theme) + That’s A’Plenty
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Pee Wee Erwin and his Dixieland 6
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‘One Night Stand’
Nick’s NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Dec 1950 |
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Wolverine Blues
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Pee Wee Erwin and his Dixieland 6
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‘One Night Stand’
Nick’s NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Dec 1950 |
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Beale Street Blues
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Pee Wee Erwin and his Dixieland 6
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‘One Night Stand’
Nick’s NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Dec 1950 |
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Set 7
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Picon Concerto for Licorice Stick
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Paul Lavalle Woodwinds
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‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’
WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941 |
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Long, Long Ago
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Diane Courtney
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‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’
WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941 |
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Good Night for a Murder
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George Barnes
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‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’
WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941 |
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Fletcher’s Folly + Close
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Henry Levine
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‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’
WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941 |
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Set 8
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I’m Gonna Love That Guy
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Joan Edwards
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‘Your Hit Parade’
AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Oct 1945 |
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I’ll Buy That Dream
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The Hit Paraders |
‘Your Hit Parade’
AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Oct 1945 |
| On The Atcheson, Topeka and the Santa Fe | Dick Todd |
‘Your Hit Parade’
AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Oct 1945 |
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Gotta Be This or That
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Joan Edwards
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‘Your Hit Parade’
AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Oct 1945 |
Actor - Singer - Voiceover 