Christmas Phantom Dancer Part 1 – 14 December 2021

Christmas songs and Christmas themed 1930s-50s radio features in the first (nationally networked) part of this week’s Phantom Dancer.

LISTEN to this Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 14 December) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

I’m Greg Poppleton, The Phantom Dancer producer and presenter every week on 107.3 2SER radio Sydney since 1985.

First, 1952 TV Christmas greetings from your local, neighbourhood drug dealer…

XMAS MUSIC

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

POPULAR

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

1930s-50s CHRISTMAS SONGS

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

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

14 DECEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #522
107.3 2SER Tuesday 14 DECEMBER 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1
Let’s Dance (theme) + Jingle Bells	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Joseph Urban Room Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 25 Dec 1935
Open + It Had To Be You + The Fairy On The Christmas Tree	Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra (voc) The 3 Sisters	BBC Regional Service London 25 Dec 1936
Set 2
Open + Maple Leaf Rag	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 25 Dec 1954
Theme + Blue Christmas	Jan Garber Orchestra (voc) Ray Cordell	Melody Mill WGN Chicago 1950
Weary Blues + Ad	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 25 Dec 1954
Set 3
Jingle Bells (open) + The Morning After	Chico Hamilton Quartet	‘Stars In Jazz’ AFRTS Re-broadcast New York 25 Dec 1958
Wrap your Troubles In Dreams	Chico Hamilton Quartet (voc) Georgia Carr	‘Stars In Jazz’ AFRTS Re-broadcast New York 25 Dec 1958
Blee Blop Blues + One O’Clock Jump (theme)	Count Basie Orchestra	Birdland WRCA NBC NY 16 Dec 1956
Set 4
Happy Holidays + Here We Come a’Caroling + Silent Night	Bing Crosby and the Norman Luboff Choir (voc) Paul Weston Orchestra	‘Christmas Sing With Bing’ KNX CBS LA 24 Dec 1957
Description of Ballarat’s Carols By Candlelight + Joseph Mine, Help Me Cradle The Child Divine	Ted Furlong (station manager 3BA Ballarat) + The Ballarat YWCA Choir	Christmas Sing With Bing’ KNX CBS LA via 3BA Ballarat 24 Dec 1957
Set 5
Personality	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra (voc) Cozine Stewart	‘One Night Stand’ Blue Room Hotel Lincoln AFRS re-broadcast 1 May 1946
It’s Dawn Again	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Blue Room Hotel Lincoln AFRS re-broadcast 1 May 1946
Eelibuj Boogle	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1943
Mister Beebe	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra (voc) June Richmond	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1943
Set 6
Let’s Dance (theme) + That Naughty Waltz	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS New York 6 Nov 1937
Once in a While	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS New York 6 Nov 1937
Satan Takes a Holiday	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ KNX CBS LA 17 Aug 1937
So Rare	Benny Goodman Trio	‘Camel Caravan’ KNX CBS LA 17 Aug 1937
Set 7
Right as Rain	Charlie Spivak Orchestra (voc) Irene Day	‘Spotlight Bands’ Jamestown NY Blue Network 19 Jan 1945
Even Stevens	Charlie Spivak Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Jamestown NY Blue Network 19 Jan 1945
I’d Rather Sleep in a Hollow Log	Gene Krupa Orchestra (voc) Roy Eldridge	Aircheck CBS 25 Dec 1942
Drummin’ Man + Close	Gene Krupa Orchestra (voc) Anita O’Day	Aircheck CBS 25 Dec 1942
Set 8
Stella by Starlight	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY 1956
Doodlin’	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY 1956
Manteca	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Winter Palace Stockholm Radio Sweden 2 Feb 1948

Little Jack Little – Phantom Dancer 7 December 2021

Little Jack Little is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Born John Leonard
in London, he was a British-born American composer, singer, pianist, actor and songwriter.

His compositions include “Jealous”, “I Promise You”, “A Shanty in Old Shanty Town” and “You’re a Heavenly Thing”.

LISTEN to this Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 7 December) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

I’m Greg Poppleton, The Phantom Dancer producer and presenter every week on 107.3 2SER radio Sydney since 1985.

LITTLE

Little Jack Little, his stage name derived from his birth name and height, started as a piano player and singer in vaudeville in 1917 aged 17 or 18.

In an article in the New York Times it was explained that, “he would introduce his songs in a soft, almost whispering voice, while executing a series of little arpeggios and other piano embellishments. His radio approach was reminiscent of the arrival of a cheerful songbird.”

JACK

In 1930, Little Jack Little recorded a series of piano/vocal radio transcriptions titled, “Yors Very Truly, Little Jack Little” which evoked the atmosphere of a genial host at home trying out the latest sheet music on the piano.
He continued with this style on radio throughout his career which spanned WW2 (when he also toured USO shows with Jack Bolger) and into the 1950s on TV.

Here’s a list of his 1930s transcriptions, one of which you can enjoy on this week’s Phantom Dancer:
42300 A “ST. LOUIS BLUES”  10-06-30 :12:25

42300 B “LET THEM BE THEIR OWN JUDGES”  10-09-30 :13:35

42300 C “DIZZY FINGERS”  10-11-30 :13:14

42300 D “LOVE YOUR MAGIC SPELL IS  10-13-30 :13:14
EVERYWHERE”

42300 E “INDIAN LOVE CALL”  10-16-30 :13:27

42301 A “THE VOICE OF THE PUBLIC”  10-18-30 :13:21

42301 B “WHEN THE LITTLE RED ROSES GET 10-20-30 :13:16
THE BLUES FOR YOU”

42301 C “TELLING IT TO THE DAISIES” 10-23-30 :13:15

42301 D “LITTLE GYPSY SWEETHEART” 10-25-30 :13:20

53144 A “SWEEPING THE CLOUDS AWAY” 11-03-30 :13:02

53144 B “LUCKY LITTLE DEVIL”  11-06-30 :13:27

53144 C “I’M SAILING ON A SUMBEAM” 11-08-30 :13:15

53144 D “THE MAN FROM THE SOUTH” 11-10-30 :13:27

In 1933 he started his own orchestra (which you can see in the soundie above), playing hotels in New York City, Atlantic City, Miami, Los Angeles and Chicago

His wife died in 1948, by the mid-50s he was being treated for hepatitis and was depressed.

In 1956, Little was found dead in bed by a maid. An autopsy revealed that traces of chloral hydrate or barbiturates in his stomach.

He left farewell notes to various people, including, “I know I’m dying and I’m afraid of the suffering I’ll have to go through,” and “All My Friends, Thanks for all the wonderful friendships and good times together. A little advice-take it easy, you’ll last longer. Always, Jack.”

7 DECEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #521
107.3 2SER Tuesday7 DECEMBER 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Horace Heidt
Open + Margie	Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca. AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Jan 1945
Star Dust	Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights (voc) Gene Walsh	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca. AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Jan 1945
One of These Days	Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca. AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Jan 1945
Brazil + Begin the Beguine	Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca. AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Jan 1945
Set 2	Bell Sisters
Theme + Do It Again	The Bell Sisters	‘Stand By For Music’ Radio Transcription 12 Jan 1955
A Fool Such As I	The Bell Sisters	‘Stand By For Music’ Radio Transcription 12 Jan 1955
Glowworm	Frank deVol Orchestra	‘Stand By For Music’ Radio Transcription 12 Jan 1955
Take Back Your Gold + Close	The Bell Sisters	‘Stand By For Music’ Radio Transcription 12 Jan 1955
Set 3	JImmy Dorsey Trad Band
Open + Georgia On My Mind	Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Jazz Band	‘Marine Corp Show’ Radio Transcription 1950
Instrumental	Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Jazz Band	‘Marine Corp Show’ Radio Transcription 1950
It’s a Long Way to Tipperary	Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Jazz Band	‘Marine Corp Show’ Radio Transcription 1950
Deep in the Heart of Texas + Close	Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Jazz Band	‘Marine Corp Show’ Radio Transcription 1950
Set 4	Little Jack Little
I’m Sailing on a Sunbeam	Little Jack Little	‘Yours Very Truly, Little Jack Little’ Radio Transcription’ New York City 11 Aug 1930
Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love	Little Jack Little	‘Yours Very Truly, Little Jack Little’ Radio Transcription’ New York City 11 Aug 1930
My Wild Irish Rose + I Don’t Need Atmosphere To Fall In Love With You + Close	Little Jack Little	‘Yours Very Truly, Little Jack Little’ Radio Transcription’ New York City 11 Aug 1930
Set 5	Fats Waller
Frenesi	Fats Waller	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 3 Dec 1940
You’re The One	Fats Waller (voc) Kay Perry	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 3 Dec 1940
Flat Foot Floogie	Fats Waller	Aircheck Yacht Club NYC 14 Oct 1938
After You’ve Gone	Fats Waller	Aircheck Yacht Club NYC 14 Oct 1938
Set 6	Eddie Condon
Rosetta	Eddie Condon	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 16 Sep 1944
Memphis Blues	Eddie Condon	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 16 Sep 1944
There’ll Be Some Changes Made	Eddie Condon (voc) Red McKenzie	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 16 Sep 1944
I Would Do Anything For You	Eddie Condon	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 16 Sep 1944
Set 7	Miles
Open + Sid’s Ahead	Miles Davis	The Spotlight Washington DC Mutual Feb 1959
Set 8	1940s Swing Radio
I’m Always Chasing Rainbows	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Jan 1946
Swanee	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 3 Dec 1945
Hitsum Kitsum	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Quartet	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mitchell Field Long Is NY Blue Network 15 Jan 1945
Even Stevens	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mitchell Field Long Is NY Blue Network 15 Jan 1945

Gogo DeLys – Phantom Dancer 30 November 2021

Gogo DeLys Canadian band singer in the US and actor, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.

LISTEN to this Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 30 November) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

I’m Greg Poppleton, The Phantom Dancer producer and presenter every week on 107.3 2SER radio Sydney since 1985.

GOGO

Gogo DeLys was born on August 17, 1908 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada as Marie Gabrielle Belanger. She was an actress, known for Northern Exposure (1933), No Sale (1938) and Television Highlights (1936). She was married to Robert L. Redd. She died on February 19, 2003 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

The film, Television Highlights, was a Mentone Brevity short that featured an early-day Henny Youngman (billed as Henry Youngman). Gogo DeLys (the correct version of her name), old-timer Lew Hearn and Powers’ Prom Girls. Youngman is the emcee at the Yacht Club nightclub who is trying to get Lew Hearn to buy a television set on which unbooked vaudeville acts are performing.

DELYS

DeLys performed in a talent show while she was a law student at the University of Southern California. A talent scout saw her and turned her career plans from law to singing.

Dubbed “the Canadian Canary” by newspaper columnist Walter Winchell, DeLys was active professionally from the 1920s into the 1940s. In 1928, she performed in vaudeville shows headed by Eddie Peabody and Paul Ash.

Before January 1931, DeLys had moved from Vancouver to Los Angeles, singing on radio station KHJ, where Radio Digest magazine said, “she promptly became an instantaneous hit”. By June 1931, DeLys had become the female vocalist with Georgie Stoll and his orchestra. The following year she sang with Jimmy Grier’s orchestra.

She appeared alongside Fred Astaire and Dick Powell in the big stage shows of Fanchon and Marco.

On radio, DeLys sang with Jerry Joyce’s Boys. She also sang on the radio shows, Little Ol’ Hollywood, Your Hit Parade, and Carefree Carnival. She also had her own show on NBC, “Gogo DeLys Sings.”

In 1936, she had her own twice-weekly program on CBS, and in 1937 she was featured with The Norsemen, James Melton, and Don Voorhees’ orchestra in a series of transcribed programs sponsored by Rexall. In July 1937, Mid-Summer Night’s Serenade debuted on CBS with DeLys as its star. A review in the trade publication Radio Daily described the program as “a well-balanced 15 minutes of evening music.”

Gogo DeLys on radio in 1940…

Gogo DeLys recorded several hits with the Grier band for Brunswick Records, including “Moonstruck,” “Sugar Plum” and “Secondhand Heart for Sale.” You’ll hear her on this week’s Phantom Dancer with the Jimmy Grier Ambassador Hotel Cocoanut Grove Orchestra.

During her radio days, she met future husband, NBC executive Robert L. Redd. As Mrs. Redd, she devoted much of her time to the owning and racing of thoroughbred horses and working for various charity groups. She was a charter member of the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters and a recipient of the group’s Golden Canary Award.

She is survived by a daughter.

30 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #520
107.3 2SER Tuesday 30 NOVEMBER 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Tony Pastor
Saturday Night  is the Lonliest Night of the Week	Tony Pastor Orchestra (voc) Ruth MacKellar	‘One Night Stand’ Jantzen Beach Portland OR AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945
Sunday in Savannah	Tony Pastor Orchestra (voc) Tony Pastor	‘One Night Stand’ Jantzen Beach Portland OR AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945
Bell Bottom Trousers	Tony Pastor Orchestra (voc) Tony Pastor and Ruth MacKellar	‘One Night Stand’ Jantzen Beach Portland OR AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945
I Got Rhythm + Close (Temptation)	Tony Pastor Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Jantzen Beach Portland OR AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945
Set 2	Jack Smith and Martha Tilton
This Is It	Jack Smith	‘Jack Smith Show’ WABC CBS NYC 19 Jun 1947
I’ll Be Yours (Komm Zurueck)	Jack Smith	‘Jack Smith Show’ WABC CBS NYC 19 Jun 1947
I’ll Walk Alone + It Might As Well Be Spring	Martha Tilton	‘Jack Smith Show’ WABC CBS NYC 19 Jun 1947
One More Dream + The Same Time, The Same Place (theme)	Jack Smith	‘Jack Smith Show’ WABC CBS NYC 19 Jun 1947
Set 3	Date with the Duke
Take the A Train (theme) + Bluetopia	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ 400 Restauarnt New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Jun 1945
Sentimental Journey	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ 400 Restauarnt New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Jun 1945
Passion Flower	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ 400 Restauarnt New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Jun 1945
Air Conditioned Jungle	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ 400 Restauarnt New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Jun 1945
Set 4	GoGo DeLys
Music in the Moonlight (theme) + It’s Time To Love	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo DeLys	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1932
Too Many Tears	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo DeLys	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1932
Tomorrow + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo DeLys	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1932
Set 5	1930s German Swing
Dieses Leid hat keinen Text	Evelyn Kuennecke (voc) Peter Igelhoff Orch	Comm Rec Berlin
Ueber die Daecher der grossen Stadt	Rudi Schuericke Terzett (voc) Hans Carste Orch	Comm Rec Berlin
Ti Pi Tin	Erwin Hartung (voc) Scala Orchestra	Comm Rec Berlin
Qui Madame	Peter Igelhoff (voc) and his Ensemble	Comm Rec Berlin
Set 6	Count Basie
Moten Swing (theme) + One Oclock Jump	Count Basie	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ Nov 1937
I’ll Always Be In Love With You	Count Basie	Savoy Ballroom NYC Aircheck 30 Jun 1937
Every Tub + Song of the Wanderer	Count Basie	‘America Dances’ Famous Door WABC CBS NYC BBC London Jul 1938
Bugle Blues + Moten Swing (theme)	Count Basie	Savoy Ballroom NYC Aircheck 30 Jun 1937
Set 7	Miles
Open + Walkin’	Miles Davis	‘Bandstand USA’ Birdland WOR Mutual NYC 3 Jan 1959
Set 8	1940s Swing Radio
Lucky	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Jan 1946
Swanee	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 3 Dec 1945
Hitsum Kitsum	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Quartet	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mitchell Field Long Is NY Blue Network 15 Jan 1945
Even Stevens	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mitchell Field Long Is NY Blue Network 15 Jan 1945

Hotel Astor 1910s-60s Gay Bar & Hate Crimes – Phantom Dancer 23 November 2021

Hotel Astor in New York City, the source of many a big band broadcast on The Phantom Dancer is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. The Astor was a hotel located in the Times Square area of Manhattan, New York City. It was open from 1904 until its demolition in 1967, the same year Sydney lost its home for name dance bands, The Trocadero. Starting in the 1910s, the Astor Bar acquired a reputation as a gay meeting place, where gay patrons were both accepted and extorted.

LISTEN to this Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 23 November) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

I’m Greg Poppleton, The Phantom Dancer producer and presenter every week on 107.3 2SER radio Sydney since 1985.

Here’s some exterior Hotel Astor footage from 1961…

SAFE GAY BAR

Beginning in the 1910s, the Astor Bar acquired a reputation as a gay meeting place. During World War II, the Astor Bar was one of three American hotel bars “world famous for their wartime ambience”, alongside the Top of the Mark at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco, and the men’s bar at the Los Angeles Biltmore.

Gay patrons at the Astor Bar were welcomed, allotted an entire side of the oval bar, and expected to be discreet (by the standards of the time). Thus “the Astor maintained its public reputation as an eminently respectable Times Square rendezvous, while its reputation as a gay rendezvous and pickup bar assumed legendary proportions.” The bar was further immortalized in Cole Porter’s song “Well, Did You Evah!”, which includes the line, “Have you heard that Mimsie Starr / Just got pinched in the Astor Bar?”

Here is Tommy Dorsey & Bunny Berrigan broadcasting from The Hotel Astor Roof in 1940…

GAY EXTORTION

In the 1960s, prominent gay men at the Astor ran the risk of extortion. The extortion racked was busted by the NYPD and FBI, the first case law enforcement in the US, worked to bring justice to gay victims of crime.

The following story is from Slate. You can read the full story here: https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/07/the-chickens-and-the-bulls-the-rise-and-incredible-fall-of-a-vicious-extortion-ring-that-preyed-on-prominent-gay-men-in-the-1960s.html

The NYPD and the FBI, working in parallel (and sometimes at odds), would uncover and break a massive gay extortion ring whose viciousness and criminal flair was without precedent.

The Astor Hotel in Times Square, notorious for the young men who lounged on the “meat rack” outside it, and for the circular bar in the Orangerie which was popular with theatre people, was one of the main venues across the US where this extortion occurred, labeled ‘Chicken and Bulls’.

Impersonating corrupt vice-squad detectives, members of this ring, known in police parlance as bulls, used young, often underage men known as chickens to successfully blackmail closeted pillars of the establishment. The chickens employed by the ring had an exceptionally sharp sense of what we now call gaydar.”

In almost every case, after making contact, the chicken would accompany the mark up to his room, or suggest another hotel where they could go. Once in the room, one of two scenarios would follow…

In some cases, the bulls would wait until the two men had gotten themselves into a compromising position before bursting into the room and identifying themselves as vice squad detectives, capitalizing on the fear, panic and surprise they induced in the victim to then extort the victim.

Among the prominent men extorted by the ring were a navy admiral, two generals, a U.S. congressman, a prominent surgeon, an Ivy League professor, a prep school headmaster, and several well-known actors, singers, and television personalities.

The ring operated for almost a decade, victimized thousands, and took in at least $2 million. When he announced in 1966 that the ring had been broken up, Manhattan DA Frank Hogan said the victims had all been shaken down “on the threat that their homosexual proclivities would be exposed unless they paid for silence.”

In almost every case, after making contact, the chicken would accompany the mark up to his room, or suggest another hotel where they could go instead. Once in the room, one of two scenarios would follow…

EXTORTION SCENARIO 1

The bulls would wait until the two men had gotten themselves into a compromising position before bursting into the room and identifying themselves as vice squad detectives, capitalizing on the fear, panic, and surprise they induced in the victim as they initiated what they referred to as the play.

The bulls would explain the penalties for violating sodomy laws or corrupting a minor, then demand an outright bribe, or as they did to the Princeton professor, suggest that the victim pay “bail money” as a way of avoiding making his arrest public, or prison. In some cases the bulls might induce a payoff by putting a victim together in a room with another man they pretended to have arrested for the same thing elsewhere in the hotel. That other man might say something like: “Hey, I can’t afford to be arrested. I’m going to offer them money, what about you?” Having the victim induce the payoff, rather than demand the money outright, lowered the criminals’ exposure in court.

In some instances after an “arrest,” the bogus cops would park their “unmarked” vehicle outside a police station, ostensibly to check whether the duty captain might OK dropping the charges if a payment was arranged, which tended to encourage the victim to comply. In other more resistant cases, the blackmailers would bring their victims right into night court in lower Manhattan, with one of the bulls sitting the victim down in the back of the courtroom while another argued at the rail with the calendar clerk about the arraignment schedule or a mutual friend “On the Job.”

In at least one case, the phony cops bluffed a sleepy desk sergeant into putting a victim into a holding cell overnight when the bogus detectives, who said they were from another precinct, told the sergeant they had another call to handle.

After the victim broke, everyone would return to the hotel to wait until the banks opened. As the victim squirmed or sat in shock, the bulls might blithely pass the time playing cards. At 9 a.m., they would be standing in line with the mark, in case the teller asked any suspicious questions or the victim signaled for help. Often the sums were so large, the teller would have to bring a supervisor over for authorization, heightening the tension. Sometimes they took everything the victim had. They wiped people out.

SCENARIO 2

In this scenario the chicken would simply rob the mark in the hotel room, making off with his wallet. The hustler would keep any cash, but his handlers would then use the victim’s driver’s license, credit cards, or employment ID to run a background check, often with the assistance of the crooked cops in police intelligence or clerical units on their payroll. This was how they determined who they had entrapped and whether they were worth targeting. They were looking for people who really had something to lose, people who were vulnerable and had the resources to pay them what they wanted.

Full story at https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/07/the-chickens-and-the-bulls-the-rise-and-incredible-fall-of-a-vicious-extortion-ring-that-preyed-on-prominent-gay-men-in-the-1960s.html

Hotel Astor in the 1910s…

23 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #519
107.3 2SER Tuesday 23 NOVEMBER 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Vaughan Monroe
Dardenella	Vaughan Monroe Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Commodore New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Feb 1945
Twilight Time	Vaughan Monroe Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Commodore New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Feb 1945
I Walked In	Vaughan Monroe Orchestra (voc) Vaughan Monroe	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Commodore New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Feb 1945
Candy Kid’s Note to a Classy Chassis + Close	Vaughan Monroe Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Commodore New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Feb 1945
Set 2	Now and Then Time
Stumbling	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Georgia Gibbs – Paul Whiteman Show’ Blue Network 22 Jul 1945
You’re Driving Me Crazy	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Paul Whiteman Show’ ABC 1950
Everybody Step	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 24 Jun 1945
Set 3	Date with the Duke
Daydream	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ Toledo OH AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
One O’Clock Jump	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ Toledo OH AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Otto, Play That Riff Staccato	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ Toledo OH AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Meditation	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ Toledo OH AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Set 4	Hotel Astor
Theme + Someday I’ll Meet You Again	Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) Sammy Kaye	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Astor Roof New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Aug 1944
Stompin’ at the Savoy	Gene Krupa Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WOR Mutual NY 15 Aug 1945
Feet Draggin’ Blues	Harry James Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WABC CBS NY 28 Aug 1942
Crazy Rhythm	Harry James Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WABC CBS NY 28 Aug 1942
Set 5	Harry Richman
Open + It’s Dangerous To Love Like This	Harry Richman and the Dodge Orchestra (voc) Frank Parker	‘Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription 1936
Susannah	Harry Richman and the Dodge Orchestra (voc) Harry Richman	‘Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription 1936
Alone	Harry Richman and the Dodge Orchestra (voc) Frank Parker	‘Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription 1936
There’s Something About a Soldier	The Dodge Orchestra	‘Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription 1936
Set 6	Louis Arnstrong
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans	Louis Armstrong	Wintergarden Theatre WNBC NBC NY 19 Jun 1947
Swinging on a Star	Louis Armstrong	‘Spotlight Bands’ Tuskagee AL Blue Network 5 Oct 1944
I Never Knew	Louis Armstrong	‘Spotlight Bands’ Dallas TX Blue Network 17 Aug 1945
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love + Close	Louis Armstrong	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1943
Set 7	Eddie Condon
Gershwin Medley	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 1948
Blues Round My Head	Eddie Condon Group (voc) Woody Herman	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 27 Jan 1945
I’m Coming Virginia	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 29 Jul 1944
Love Me or Leave Me	Eddie Condon Group (voc) Sarah Vaughan	‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948
Set 8	1940s Swing Radio
Rattle and Roll	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Jan 1946
Lady Be Good	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 16 Oct 1944
Hitsum Kitsum	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Quartet	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mitchell Field Long Is NY Blue Network 15 Jan 1945
Even Stevens	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mitchell Field Long Is NY Blue Network 15 Jan 1945

Casa Loma 1920s-40s Ork Collective – Phantom Dancer 16 November 2021

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…

COLLECTIVE

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…

RADIO

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

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #518
107.3 2SER Tuesday 16 NOVEMBER 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Ginny Simms Show
Theme + Come To Baby	Ginny Simms (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra	‘The Ginny Simms Show’ WABC CBS NYC 11 Jan 1946
I’ll Always Be With You	Alton Williams (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra	‘The Ginny Simms Show’ WABC CBS NYC 11 Jan 1946
What a Deal	Ginny Simms (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra	‘The Ginny Simms Show’ WABC CBS NYC 11 Jan 1946
Indian Love Song	Ginny Simms and Gene Kelly (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra	‘The Ginny Simms Show’ WABC CBS NYC 11 Jan 1946
Set 2	Cocoanut Grove
Music in the Moonlight (theme) + Say That You Are Teasing Me	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo Delys	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1932
Bon Voyage to Your Ship of Dreams	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Donald Novis	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1932
Dinah + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) The Three Cheers	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1932
Set 3	Glen Gray 1945 Radio
Smoke Rings (theme) + Begin the Beguine	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (cl) Fats Daniels	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocan Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Oct 1945
A Door Will Open	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Skip Nelson	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocan Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Oct 1945
Midnight	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocan Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Oct 1945
What a Drag	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Fats Daniel	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocan Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Oct 1945
Set 4	Glen Gray Vinyl
Maniac’s Ball	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1934
Zonky	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 17 Dec 1935
My Heart Tells Me	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Eugenie Baird	Aircheck Hotel New Yorker Aug 1944
Blackberry Jam	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Columbus OH AFRS Re-broadcast 19 Nov 1943
Set 5	1920s Orchestras
My Mother Was a  Lady + She May Have Seen Better Days	Tonsorial Twitterbugs Quartet	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem	Paul Lavalle	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
The Booglie Wooglie Piggy	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Beyond the Moon	Toots Mondello	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Bugle Woogie + Close	Henry Levine	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Set 6	Boogie Piano
Original Boogie	Lil Armstrong	‘DuPont Show of the Week’ ‘Chicago and All That Jazz’ NBC TV 26 Nov 1961
Who Put The Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine?	Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson	Radio Transcription 8 Feb 1946
Piano Boogie	Dorothy Donegan	Comm Rec Chicago 1942
What’s His Story?	Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson	Radio Transcription 8 Feb 1946
Set 7	Eddie Condon
Blues + Riverboat Shuffle	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 1948
St Louis Blues	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 27 Jan 1945
Davenport Blues	Carl Kress and Tony Mottola guitar duet	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 22 Jul 1944
Blues	Eddie Condon Group with Charlie Barnet and Charlie Shavers	‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948
Set 8	1940s Swing Radio
Let’s Dance (theme) + Darktown Strutters’ Ball	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS NYC 21 Jul 1944
Loose Wig	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
Wham + Close	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Jefferson Barracks, Missouri Blue Network 23 Nov 1945

Garwood Van, Band Leader, Politician – Phantom Dancer 2 November 2021

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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GARWOOD VAN

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.

A PERSONAL STORY

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

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #516
107.3 2SER Tuesday 2 NOVEMBER 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	1940s One Night Stand Radio
Girl of my Dreams	Randy Brooks Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 17 Nov 1945
I Love Yoy	Jack Teagarden Orchestra (voc) Phyllis Lane	‘One Night Stand’ Coral Gables Weymouth Mass. AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Aug 1944
They Didn’t Believe Me + Blue Moon (close)	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast 26 Jul 1945
Set 2	Stan Kenton
Open + Taboo	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Lakeside Ballroom Dayton OH WLW NBC Cincinati 16 Sep 1952
Impressionism	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Devine’s Million Dollar Ballroom WTMJ NBC Milwaukee 10 Jun 1952
Limelight + Close	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Student Union Building Teachers’ College WBOW NBC Terre Haute 16 Jun 1953
Set 3	1950s Jazz Radio
Route 66	Bobby Troup Trio (voc) Bobby Troup	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Cameo Club WRCA NBC NYC 1956
The Goof and I	Woody Herman’s Third Herd	‘Monitor’ Basin Street WRCA NBC NYC 26 Jun 1955
Sleep + Close	Buddy Hamilton Quintet	‘Jazz International’ AFRTS Hollywood 16 Jun 1960
Set 4	Garwood Van
Theme: Poinciana. Medley: Rise and Sine / I Want To Be Happy	Garwood Van Orchestra	Starlight Room Hotel Chase Mutual Network St Louis 9 Aug 1944
Just a Memory	Garwood Van Orchestra	Starlight Room Hotel Chase Mutual Network St Louis 9 Aug 1944
Fine and Dandy	Garwood Van Orchestra	Starlight Room Hotel Chase Mutual Network St Louis 9 Aug 1944
Blue Caribean Sea	Garwood Van Orchestra	Starlight Room Hotel Chase Mutual Network St Louis 9 Aug 1944
Set 5	1920s Orchestras
I’m Just Wild About Animal Crackers	Irving Aaronson and his Commanders (voc) Quartet	Comm Rec NYC 23 Jun 1926
Pardon Me, Pretty Baby	Sam Lanin Orchestra	Hit of the Week Records NYC 13 Aug 1931
Nobody’s Sweetheart	Irving Mills Hotsy Totsy Gang	‘Brunswick Brevities’ Radio Transcription Oct 1929
I Found a Million Dollar Baby	Don Voorhees Orchestra	Hit of the Week Records NYC 10 Sep 1931
Set 6	1930s Cancer Stick Radio
To You	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby	Camel Caravan WABC CBS NYC 11 Jul 1939
Get On Board	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Johnny Mercer	Camel Caravan WABC CBS NYC 27 Jun 1939
My Inspiration	Bob Crosby Orchestra	Camel Caravan WABC CBS NYC 18 Jul 1939
If I Didn’t Care	Bob Crosby Orchestra	Camel Caravan WABC CBS NYC 4 Jul 1939
Set 7	Goodman Orchestra 1946
Somebody Stole My Gal	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Benny Goodman Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Jul 1946
Swing Angel	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 26 Jan 1946
And The Angels Sing	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton	‘Benny Goodman Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Jul 1946
Clarinade + Sweet Lorraine	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 26 Jan 1946
Set 8	Miles Davis
Moose The Mooche	Miles Davis	Comm Rec Hollywood 28 Mar 1946
Groovin’ High	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
Ornitholgy	Miles Davis	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WMCA NYC Royal Roost 11 Dec 1948

Dorsey Brothers – 17 December 2019 Phantom Dancer

LAST SHOW OF THE DECADE

Kinda. This week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton is the last mix before the annual Christmas and New Year Phantom Dancer specials. Your feature artist – the fabulous Dorsey’s, Tommy and Jimmy.

LISTEN

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DORSEY

The Dorsey Brothers were an American studio jazz band, led by Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. They started recording in 1928 for OKeh Records.

BROTHERS

They signed to Decca in 1934, formed a more traditional band and performed live until a falling out in May 1935. Glenn Miller, trombonist with the band in 1934-35, composed four songs for the Dorsey Brothers – “Annie’s Cousin Fannie”, “Dese Dem Dose”, “Harlem Chapel Chimes”, and “Tomorrow’s Another Day”.

In 1935, the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra had two No. 1 recordings on Decca, including “Lullaby of Broadway” with Bob Crosby on vocals, topping the charts for two weeks and No. 1 for three weeks.

Tommy Dorsey left the orchestra in 1935, ending the group as most band members either followed him or left.

MARK 2

The Dorseys reunited on March 15 1945 to record a V-Disc at Liederkranz Hall in New York City. Released in June 1945, the disc contained “More Than You Know” and “Brotherly Jump”. The songs were performed by the combined orchestras of Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey. They reunited again in 1947 for the film The Fabulous Dorseys. In the 1950s, they had a network TV series, Stage Show.

VIDEO

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, the Dorsey Brothers and silent movie with their recording of ‘Is It a Dream?’ from 1928…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #418
107.3 2SER Tuesday 17 December 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: 1 ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	1944 Swing Bands
Open + Jeep Jockey Jump	Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra	‘Uncle Sam Presents’ NBC 12 Feb 1945
Speak Low	Bob Chester Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Panther Room Hotel Sherman, Chicago AFRS Re-broadcastY 8 Oct 1944
How Do I Say I Love You?	Richard Himber Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Aniston, Alabama AFRTS Re-broadcast 1944
Set 2	Live Rock’n’Roll on 1950s Radio
Open + The Dripper	Louis Jordan and the Tympani 5	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Zardi’s KFI NBC LA 9 Jul 1956
Cry Baby	Bonnie Sisters (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party’ Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn WCBS CBS NY 1956
Ad + One O’Clock Jump+ Close	King Porter Band	‘Burgie Big Beat’ KNX Los Angeles 1956
Set 3	Swing on 1938 Radio
I Want To Be Happy	Frank Coughlan’s Band	Comm Rec Sydney Dec 1938
Open + Heart and Soul	Larry Clinton Orchestra (voc) Bea Wain	International Casino WEAF NBC Red NY 15 Nov 1938
Indistinct Title shouted out by the Audience	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WBBM CBS Chicago 6 Sep 1938
Set 4	1950s All-Star Parade of Bands on NBC Radio
Cheek To Cheek	Billy Taylor Trio	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Composers Club WRCA NBC NY 7 May 1956
Love Is Just Around The Corner	George Shearing	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 11 Jul 1953
That Old Devil Me	Sarah Vaughan	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Zardi’s Hollywood KFI NBC LA 21 May 1956
Set 5	Jazz and Pop on 1945 Radio
Is There A Story	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Joan Blake	Comm Rec Sydney 1945
Open + Back In Your Own Backyard	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Fort Devons Mass. Blue Network 15 Oct 1945
I Wish I Knew	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Doris Day	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 16 Aug 1945
Stompin’ At The Savoy	Gene Krupa Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WOR Mutual NY 15 Aug 1945
Set 6	Swing Radio from 1938
Blues in D Flat	Seven Pearce Arrows	Demo Rec Sydney Sep 1938
Monday Morning	Jan Savitt Top Hatters (voc) Carlotta Dale	KYW NBC Red Philadelphia 17 Oct 1938
The Gal From Joe’s	Duke Elligton Orchestra	Cotton Club WOR Mutual NY 1 May 1938
The Dipsy Doodle	Glenn Miller Orchestra (pre-famous sound)	Paradise Restaurant WJZ NBC Blue NY 18 Jun 1938
Set 7	Tommy Dorsey on Radio 1934 – 1955
Open + Is That Religion?	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby	Ben Mardin’s Riviera Fort Lee NJ WEAF NBC Red NY 20 Sep 1934
Open + Losers Weepers	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘America Dances’ WABC CBS NY and BBC London 28 May 1940
Buster’s Gang Comes On	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network 29 Jan 1945
Tangerine + Close	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Tommy Mercer and Dolly Houston	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY Dec 1955
Set 8	Bebop Reeds from 1948-49 Radio
Sax of a Kind	Lee Konitz (as)	‘Bandstand USA’ Carnegie Hall Voice of America 25 Dec 1949
Indiana	Benny Goodman (cl) Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ The Click Philadelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948
Just You Just Me	Lester Young Sextet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 27 Nov 1948

Dolly Dawn – Inspiration for Ella Fitzgerald – Phantom Dancer 1 October 2019

DOLLY DAWN

When you listen to Ella Fitzgerald you hear Dolly Dawn? Why? Because Dolly Dawn was a big influence on Ella Fitzgerald’s singing style. Dolly Dawn is this week’s Phantom Dancer presented by Greg Poppleton.

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FOCUS

Dolly Dawn was one of the first vocalists to become the sole focus of a band. When Walter Winchell coined the term ‘canary’ for female singers, he was referring to her.

She sang with George Hall and his Orchestra from age 16. Though born Theresa Maria Stabile, (she was a cousin of band leader Dick Stabile) she had already given herself the stage name Billie Starr after winning a singing contest at age 14.

George Hall and Harriet Mencken, a writer on The New York Journal-American, came up with the name, Dolly Dawn, for her.

‘She’s as fresh as the dawn and as dimpled as a doll,’ the newspaperwoman said, according to an article in Radio Guide in 1937. Miss Dawn never stopped hating the name, which she thought made her sound like a stripper.

DAWN PATROL

Nevertheless, her relationship with Hall and his wife was so close that they formally adopted her when she was 19. In a ceremony on 4 July 1941, at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, George Hall officially turned the band over to her and became her manager.

NEW YORK – JANUARY 28: Big Band singer Dolly Dawn and orchestra leader George Hall. Dolly models hat fashions. Image dated January 28, 1936. New York, NY. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

The band was renamed ‘Dolly Dawn and Her Dawn Patrol’ and on this week’s Phantom Dancer we hear her introduce herself as a band leader on NBC’s ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’.

The WW2 draft took most of her band, so from 1942 she continued without the band, appearing in engagements across the US. She continued to record into the 1950s.

She developed a cult following that saw her in scattered club appearances in the 1970s and 80s, particularly in response to the release of a double album of her records with George Hall on the RCA Bluebird label in 1976.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is Dolly Dawn singing with George Hall’s Orchestra in the 1938 short, ‘Hall’s Holliday’. Enjoy!

1 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #407
107.3 2SER Tuesday 1 October 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	1939 – 40 Radio Remotes
Theme + Choppin’ Wood	Woody Herman Orchestra	The Famous Door WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jan 1940
Dardenella	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Chesterfield Show’ WABC CBS NY 25 Oct 1939
The Chinese Lullaby + Close	Teddy Powell Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Blair	The Famous Door WJSV Washington DC via WABC CBS NY 21 Sep 1939
Set 2	This Is Jazz 1947 Radio
Theme + St Louis Blues + Tin Roof Blues	Wild Bill Davison and more (voc) George Brunies	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 10 May 1947
Chocolate Bar	James P Johnson	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 17 May 1947
Blue Turning Gray Over You + I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling	Wild Bill Davison and more	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 17 May 1947
Set 3	Glenn Miller in German 1944
Long Ago and Far Away	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Johnny Desmond	ABSIE American Broadcasting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 30 Oct 1944
Body and Soul	Glenn Miller Orchestra	ABSIE American Broadcasting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 27 Nov 1944
Poinciana	Glenn Miller Orchestra	ABSIE American Broadcasting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 6 Nov 1944
Set 4	Dolly Dawn
The You and Me That Used To Be	George Hall Orchestra (voc) Dolly Dawn	‘Easy to Remember’ WABC CBS NY 1937
Dolly Dawn Speaks	Dolly Dawn	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 25 Aug 1941
Beethoven Wrote But It Swings	Dolly Dawn and her Dawn Patrol	Comm Rec 15 Feb 1939
52nd Street	George Hall Orchestra (voc) Dolly Dawn	‘Easy to Remember’ WABC CBS NY 1937
Set 5	Novelty Songs on 1930s-40s Radio
The Music Goes Round and Round	Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) Jack Teagarden	‘Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 12 Jan 1936
Open The Door Richard	The Hit Paraders	‘Your Hit Parade’ WNBC NBC NY 1 Mar 1947
Swingin’ On A Star	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA	‘Spotlight Bands’ Tuskagee Alabama AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Oct 1944
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah	Ginny Simms	‘Your Hit Parade’ WNBC NBC NY 1 Mar 1947
Set 6	Trad Bands on 1940s Radio
Ollie Outs In Free	Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) Carl Ravazza and Band	Radio Transcription 1942
Tain’t Me	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Collins	Radio Transcription 1944
Cancel the Flowers	Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) Carl Ravazza	Radio Transcription 1941
The Beard	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1944
Set 7	Cocoanut Grove 1931 – 32 Radio Transcriptions
Do The New York	Gus Arnheim Orchestra	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1931
Down Among the Sleepy Pines	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Jean Shark and the Three Ambassadors	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1932
Out of Nowhere	Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Bing Crosby	‘MJB Coffee Revue’ KFI NBC Orange Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1931
I Know You’re Lying But I Love It	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo DeLys and the Four Cheers	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1932
Set 8	Jazz Piano on Radio
Budo	Bud Powell	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NY 7 Mar 1953
All The Things You Are	Thelonius Monk	Aircheck 1948
Cherokee	Art Tatum	Radio Transcription late 1940s
I’ll Remember April	Erroll Garner	Peacock Lane KFI NBC LA Mar 1957

7 May Phantom Dancer – What is Trad Jazz, Dad?

IT’S TRAD, DAD!

This week’s feature artist on The Phantom Dancer, your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio by Greg Poppleton, is actually a feature style. The style is designated by a term a lot of its fans use without being too precise about its actual meaning. It’s Trad jazz, Dad.

See the full Phantom Dancer play list below.

PHANTOM DANCER

This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online right after this 7 May 2SER live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney. See other stations and times in the play list below.

FRONTLINE

Trad Jazz is short for traditional jazz. It’s the Dixieland and ragtime jazz styles of the early 20th century which typically used a front line of trumpet, clarinet, and trombone.

REVIVAL

A Dixieland revival began in the United States on the West Coast in the late 1930s as a backlash to the Chicago style, which was close to swing. Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, and trombonist Turk Murphy, adopted the repertoire of Joe “King” Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and W. C. Handy: bands included banjo and tuba in the rhythm sections. A New Orleans-based traditional revival began with the later recordings of Jelly-Roll Morton and the rediscovery of Bunk Johnson in 1942, leading to the founding of Preservation Hall in the French Quarter during the 1960s.

Early King Oliver pieces exemplify this style of hot jazz; however, as individual performers began stepping to the front as soloists, a new form of music emerged. One of the ensemble players in King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Louis Armstrong, was by far the most influential of the soloists, creating, in his wake, a demand for this “new” style of jazz, in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Other influential stylists who are still revered in traditional jazz circles today include Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, Wingy Manone and Muggsy Spanier. Many artists of the big band era, including Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa and Benny Goodman, had their beginnings in trad jazz.

On this week’s Phantom Dancer, you’ll hear Trad and Chicago style is Set 4 by the Bob Crosby Bobcats, Eddie Condon and Red Nichols direct from 1929 radio

The last hour is all vinyl.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is: Westend Blues featuring Bob Barnard on trumpet and Lawrie Thompson, drums. I mention these two particular musicians out of the band in this 1980s telecast because I have had the huge pleasure of them both playing in my own Greg Poppleton band.

Enjoy!

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

Thank you.

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #384
107.3 2SER 12:04pm Tuesday 7 May 2019 5pm Saturday 11 May 2019  (+10 hours GMT) National Program: Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Big Bands on 1940s Radio
Theme + The Moon Is Low	Ray McKinley Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Century Room Hotel Commodore AFRS Re-broadcast 1946
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah	Jack Barrow Orchestra (voc) Dolores Crane	‘One Night Stand’ Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast Jul 1945
I Can’t Get Started + Theme	Jack Jenney (tb) Frank DeVol Orchestra	’Music Depreciation Revue’ KHJ Mutual – Don Lees Los Angeles 4 Feb 1945
Set 2	Smooth On 1950s Radio
Open + It’s A Good Day	Perry Como and the Ray Charles Singer (voc) Mitchell Ayres Orchestra	’Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954
Champagne Music (theme) + Red Petticoats	Lawrence Welk Orchestra	Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 1958
Medley: How Deep Is The Ocean? + I’m In The Mood For Love + Avalon + Close	Sammy Kaye Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Hotel Astor Roof NY AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Aug 1945
Set 3	Dixie on 1920s-50s Radio
Muskrat Ramble	Bob Crosby Bobcats	’Bob Crosby Show’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1955
I Want To Be Happy	Eddie Condon	’Dr Jazz’ Eddie Condon’s WMGM NY 10 Dec 1951
Jazz Me Blues	Little Buster and the Corn Poppers (Red Nichols)	’Dickenson Program’ Radio Transcription New York City Nov 1929
Set 4	1930 Radio Jazz
Tin Ear	Bob Effros and The Philco Orchestra	’Philco Program’ WABC CBS NY 1930
Singing River	Boswell Sisters	Continental Broadcasting Corporation Radio Transcription Hollywood 1930
I Don’t Need Atmosphere To Fall In Love With You + Close	Little Jack Little	’Little Jack Little Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1930
Set 5	Doris Day on 1939-45 Radio
I’m Happy About The Whole Thing	Doris Day (voc) Barney Rapp and his New Englanders	NBC Cincinatti 17 Jun 1939
Blue Music	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Peacock Room Baker Hotel CBS Dallas 9 Aug 1945
Long Ago and Far Away	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 7 Jul 1944
I Wish I Knew	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS Hollywood 16 Aug 1945
Set 6	Fats Waller 23 Sep 1943 in Story and Song
Reefer Song	Fats Waller	Comm Rec New York City 23 Sep 1943
Ain’t Misbehavin’ + There’s a Girl in my Life + Honeysuckle Rose	Fats Waller	’Personally, It’s Off The Record’ WABC CBS NY 23 Sep 1943
Set 7	1934 Radio Jazz and Dance
Maniacs’ Ball	Glen Gary and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Intro + It Don’t Mean A Thing	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	’Chrysler Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Song of the Vipers	Louis Armstrong	Comm Rec Paris Oct 1934
Swingy Little Thingy	Hal Kemp Orchestra	’Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Set 8	Bop on 1940s-50s Radio
A Night In Tunisia	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 12 Mar 1949
Now’s The Time	Howard McGee	Birdland WJZ ABC NY Oct 1951
I’m Glad There’s You	Charlie Ventura (voc) Jackie Kain and Roy Kral	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 1949

Fax Machines in 1938? Hear One Working – 30 April 2019 Phantom Dancer

Radio Stations used Fax Machines in 1938 just like radio uses the internet to complement its programming now. This blog being an example…

Faxes were sent over AM radio, not the phone line.

Hear one in operation on today’s Phantom Dancer – your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV (and with a whole hour of live 1930s swing radio today).

I bring you The Phantom Dancer every Tuesday after the midday news on 107.3 2SER and online at radio 2ser.com. Hear this week’s show online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 30 April.

A 1938 radio fax used to promote personalities on the radio station transmitting it. Three generations of John Gamblings broadcast on New York City radio between 1925 and September 2016.

1930s RADIO FAXES
On today’s Phantom Dancer, marvel at the ‘pump and wheeze’ sound of a 1930s fax machine taken from a recording made in 1938 to introduce WOR New York’s new radio fax service.

As the radio announcer and station engineer tell us, the fax service is a ‘new breakthrough’ in radio to transmit news and information overnight to subscribers with radio fax machine in their homes.

About a dozen US AM radio stations in the late 1930s transmitted a radio fax service, with news faxes sent between midnight and 6am when the stations were ordinarily shut down.

A WOR radio fax from 1938

Static was a problem. Static from a passing car or lightening could wipe out whole pages of information.

By the early 1940s shortwave and ultra short wave frequencies were set aside solely for the transmission of faxes.

When FM radio was introduced after WW2, some FM stations transmitted radio faxes on their broader bandwidth subcarriers. A page of news and pictures would take 15 minutes to be printed from an FM service.

So easy to use, even a child can operate it. A 1938 publicity photo shows a Finch home printer receiving a facsimile newspaper from WWJ in Detroit. (Detroit News Archives, The Radio Historian)

Lack of public interest in this expensive substitute newspaper technology killed the mass production of home radio fax machines.

However, radio facsimile was still in use for the transmission of weather maps by satellite in 2010.

See the full Phantom Dancer play list below, including the 1938 announcement of WOR’s radio fax service.

Internet source:
http://www.theradiohistorian.org/Radiofax/newspaper_of_the_air1.htm

Greg Poppleton is Australia’s only authentic 1920s – 30s singer. He is also a film and TV actor who has worked with Adrien Brody, Nicole Kidman, John Goodman and many others.
Band website: www.gregpoppletonmusic.com
Actor and Voiceover: www.gregpoppleton.com

PHANTOM DANCER PLAY LIST 30 APRIL

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #383
107.3 2SER Tuesday 30 April 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12noon – 1pm and early morning on 22 other stations.
Set 1	Raymond Scott on 1940-41 Radio
Pretty Little Petticoat (theme) + Wellesley High Jump	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 21 Oct 1940
Pretty Little Petticoat (theme) + A Symphony Under The Stars	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Bermuda Room Hotel Brunswick WBZ NBC Boston 6 Dec 1941
Huckleberry Duck + Pretty Little Petticoat (theme)	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 1 Nov 1940
Set 2	A New Radio Service
Il Pesce e l’Uccellina	EIAR Orchestra Moderna (voc) Silvana Fioresi and Trio Lescano	Comm Rec Rome 1938
Facsimile ‘Visual’ Radio	Interview	WOR Mutual NYC 9 Feb 1938
Set 3	1930s Local Radio Music
Theme + Sugar + On The Lone Prairie + When The Rest of the Crowd Goes Home + Heigh Ho + Theme	Our Orchestra	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1934
Set 4	1935-36 Radio
Open + Ad Music + I Got Rhythm	Freddy Rich Orchestra	’Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription New York City 1936
Sleep (theme) + On Your Toes	Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians (voc) Johnny Davis and Trio	’Ford Show’ WABC CBS NY 14 Apr 1936
Syncopated Love Song	Nathaniel Shilkret	KFI NBC LA 1935
Set 5	Swing on 1939 Radio
Top Hat Shuffle	Jan Savitt Top Hatters	Radio Transcription New York 1939
Basin Street Blues	Jack Teagarden and Benny Goodman	’Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 31 Jan 1939
You Can Count On Me	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ivie Anderson	Ritz Carlton Hotel WNAC NBC Boston 26 Jul 1939
Man From Mars + Nightmare (theme)	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WEAF NBC Red NY 21 Oct 1939
Set 6	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra on the Air
Theme + Little John	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Casa Mañana Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Sep 1945
Honey Dripper	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	’Spotlight Bands’ Jefferson Barracks, Missouri Blue Network 23 Nov 1945 Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Sep 1945
I Need a Lift	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Casa Mañana Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 4 May 1945
Wham + For Dancers Only	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Band	’Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1943
Set 7	The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra on 1955-56 Radio
Theme + Opus No. 1	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	Cafe Statler Hotel Pennsylvania WRCA NBC NY Dec 1955
Ridin’ Around in the Rain (voc) Dolly Houston	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	Cafe Statler Hotel Pennsylvania WRCA NBC NY Apr 1956
I’ll Always Be In Love With You	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Dolly Houston	Cafe Statler Hotel Pennsylvania WRCA NBC NY Mar 1956
Tender Trap	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Tommy Mercer	’NBC Bandstand’ NBC Radio and TV NY 1956
Set 8	Bop and Cool
Broadway	Charlie Parker	Birdland WJZ NYC 9 May 1953
Sugar Beat	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS Los Angeles 2 Dec 1947
I Remember Clifford	Oscar Pettiford Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jun 1957
Koko + Anthropology (theme)	Barry Ulanov All Star Metronome Jazzmen	WOR Mutual NY 8 Nov 1947