Cool June Christy – Phantom Dancer Radio Show 11 Sep 2018

June Christy started singing professionally at 13. In the 1950s, her album ‘Something Cool’, which she re-recorded three times, launched the ‘cool’ vocal genre in jazz. She is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.

THE PHANTOM DANCER

Swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio in a non-stop mix by Greg Poppleton.

Mixed live-to-air on radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney since 1985.

The Phantom Dancer is re-broadcast on 22 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online at 2ser.com. That’s where you can hear lots of past Phantom Dancers, too.

IN THIS WEEK’S PHANTOM DANCER MIX?

The June Christy feature and a whole mix of swing and jazz from live 1930s-50s radio. Read the full play list below.

The last hour of the mix is ALL VINYL.

JUNE CHRISTY

was the stage name of cool jazz singer, June Christy. She was described in a 1998 New Statesman article as “one of the finest and most neglected singers of her time.”

THIRTEEN

Her professional singing career began at age 13, singing in the Decatur, Illinois based Bill Oetzel Society Orchestra at thirteen. After high school, changing her name to Sharon Leslie she sang with various bands including a group led by A-list band leader Boyd Raeburn.

FORTY-FIVE

Her big break came in 1945. She’d heard Stan Kenton was auditioning for a female singer to replace Anita O’Day. She won the audition.

Changing her name to June Christy, she sung on Kenton’s biggest selling and million selling record, his 1945 hit Tampico which we’ll hear live from ’45 on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

When Kenton broke up his band in 1948, June spent two years as a solo in nightclubs before joining the new Stan Kenton Orchestra in 1950.

FORTY-SEVEN

She had also, from 1947, started to work on her own records

She released her ‘Something Cool’ album in 1954. In the orchestra for the album was her multi-instrumentalist husband, Bob Cooper. The album was a Top 20 hit and was important in launching the vocal cool movement of the 1950s.

The New York Times quoted Christy as saying that ‘Somethng Cool’ was “the only thing I’ve recorded that I’m not unhappy with.”

She released a second edition of the album in 1955 with extra tracks.

SIXTY

Christy re-recorded ‘Something Cool’ in 1960 in stereo and with a slightly different musical line-up.

TV showcased Christy’s talents in the 1940s-50s-60s.

We’ll hear two of her TV performances on this week’s Phantom Dancer. The first is from a 1949 ‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ telecast. The second is from the first sponsored jazz concert on television, The Timex All-Star Jazz Show, in 1957.

She toured Australia in the 1950s.

SEVENTY

Alcoholism reduced the number of performances she gave post-1969. Notable was her appearance with the Kenton orchestra at the 1972 Newport Jazz Festival with which she also recorded again in 1977.

EIGHTY

She continued to sing at festivals in the 1980s, making her final appearance sharing the stage with Chet Baker in 1988.

“Christy’s wholesome but particularly sensuous voice is less an improviser’s vehicle than an instrument for long, controlled lines and the shading of a fine vibrato. Her greatest moments—the heartbreaking ‘Something Cool’ itself, ‘Midnight Sun,’ ‘I Should Care’—are as close to creating definitive interpretations as any singer can come.”- The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

June Christy singing with Stan Kenton’s Orchestra in a 1945 soundie

11 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #331
107.3 2SER Tuesday 11 September 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Swing Bands on 1940s Radio
Dipsy Doodle (theme) + Study in Brown	Larry Clinton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ AFRS Re-Broadcast 18 Dec 1948
Paxtonia	George Paxton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NY AFRS Re-Broadcast 19 Jul 1945
Don’t Take Your Love From Me + Beautiful Love + Vieni Su (theme)	Carl Ravazza Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Blackhawk Restaurant Chicago AFRS Re-Broadcast 6 Aug 1944
Set 2	Glenn Miller 1940-41 Radio
Moonlight Serenade (theme) + I’m in a Sentimental Mood	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 22 Nov 1941
Limehouse Blues	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 23 Nov 1940
I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem + Slumber Song (theme)	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania Dec 1940
Set 3	Bing Crosby 1933-34 Radio
Black Moonlight	Bing Crosby	Comm Rec Los Angeles 27 Aug 1933
Love in Bloom	Bing Crosby	‘Woodbury Show’ KNX CBS LA 17 Sep 1934
Ad + The Very Thought of You	Bing Crosby	‘Woodbury Show’ KNX CBS LA 18 Sep 1934
Set 4	Latin-American Band Leaders on U.S Radio
Theme + I Concentrate on You	Chuck Cabot Orchestra	Empire Room Rice Hotel KTRH CBS Houston Apr 1953
Theme + I’m Walkin’	Charlie Richards Orchestra	‘ABC Dancing Party’ Birdland WABC ABC NY 1958
Bugle Call Rag + Close	Vincent Lopez Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Grill Room Hotel Taft NY AFRS Re-Broadcast 1959
Set 5	1937-38 Camel Caravan Radio
Two Buck Stew	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS New York 9 Nov 1938
Satan Takes A Holiday	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ KNX CBS LA 17 Aug 1937
If It’s The Last Thing I Do	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton	‘Camel Caravan’ KNX CBS LA 16 Nov 1937
Sing, Sing, Sing (Part 2)	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ KNX CBS LA 10 Aug 1937
Set 6	ABC Radio Rock’n’Roll Dance Party
See Saw	The Moonglows with Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Orchestra	Rock’n’Roll Dance Party WCBS CBS NY 1957
Mr Sandman	The Chordettes with Count Basie Orchestra	Rock’n’Roll Dance Party WCBS CBS NY 1956
Eddie, My Love	The Chordettes with Count Basie Orchestra	Rock’n’Roll Dance Party WCBS CBS NY 1956
You Mean Everything to Me	Ivory Joe Hunter with Count Basie Orchestra	Rock’n’Roll Dance Party WCBS CBS NY 1957
Set 7	June Christy on 1940s-50s Radio and TV
Tampico	June Christy (voc) Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘New Year Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
I Want To Be Happy	June Christy (voc) Woody Herman Orchestra	‘Timex All-Star Jazz Show’ WNBT NBC TV NY 30 Dec 1957
I Don’t Want To Be Loved	June Christy (voc) Stan Kenton Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 27 Nov 1945
Look At Me Now	June Christy	Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WNBT NBC TV NY 23 May 1949
Set 8	1960s Jazz
Chicago	Benny Goodman Quartet	WNBC NBC TV NY 21 Aug 1967
Dark Eyes + Have I Told You Lately	Gene Krupa Quartet (voc) Tony Bennet	‘Guard Session’ Radio Transcription 1963
Satin Doll + Night Train	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRS Re-Broadcast Jul 1964

Claude Thornhill Piano Child Prodigy – Phantom Dancer 4 September Radio Show 2018

He was a piano playing child prodigy who entered the Con at age 16 after playing professionally in theatre for years. His name is Claude Thornhill and he is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.

THE PHANTOM DANCER

Swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio in a non-stop mix by Greg Poppleton.

Mixed live-to-air on radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney since 1985.

The Phantom Dancer is re-broadcast on 22 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online at 2ser.com. That’s where you can hear lots of past Phantom Dancers, too.

IN THIS WEEK’S PHANTOM DANCER MIX?

The Claude Thornhill feature and a whole mix of swing and jazz from live 1930s-50s radio. Read the full play list below.

The last hour of the mix is ALL VINYL.

CLAUDE THORNHILL

This week I’m quoting the wiki article on Claude Thornhill. Usually I write a bio based on different sources, but I’m short of time this week recording a new album for the Greg Poppleton band with the Billion Dollar Quartet.

“Claude Thornhill (August 10, 1908 – July 1, 1965) was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. He composed the jazz and pop standards “Snowfall” and “I Wish I Had You”.

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As a youth, he was recognized as an extraordinary talent and formed a traveling duo with Danny Polo, a musical prodigy on the clarinet and trumpet from nearby Clinton, Indiana. As a student at Garfield High School in Terre Haute, he played with several theater bands. Thornhill entered the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music at the age of 16.

That same year he and clarinetist Artie Shaw started their careers at the Golden Pheasant in Cleveland, Ohio, with the Austin Wylie Orchestra. Thornhill and Shaw went to New York together in 1931. Thornhill went to the West Coast in the late 1930s with the Bob Hope Radio Show and arranged for Judy Garland in Babes in Arms. In 1935, he played on sessions with Glenn Miller, including “Solo Hop”, which was released on Columbia Records. He also played with Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Ray Noble, and Billie Holiday. He arranged “Loch Lomond” and “Annie Laurie” for Maxine Sullivan.

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In 1939 he founded the Claude Thornhill Orchestra. Danny Polo was his lead clarinet player. Although the Thornhill band was a sophisticated dance band, it became known for its superior jazz musicians and for Thornhill’s and Gil Evans’s arrangements. The band played without vibrato so that the timbres of the instruments could be better appreciated. Thornhill encouraged the musicians to develop cool-sounding tones. The band was popular with both musicians and the public. Miles Davis’s Birth of the Cool nonet was modeled in part on Thornhill’s sound and unconventional instrumentation. The band’s most successful records were “Snowfall”, “A Sunday Kind of Love”, and “Love for Love”.

Thornhill was playing at the Paramount Theater in New York for $10,000 a week in 1942 when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. As chief musician, he performed shows across the Pacific Theater with Jackie Cooper as his drummer and Dennis Day as his vocalist.

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In 1946, he was discharged from the Navy and reunited his ensemble. Danny Polo, Gerry Mulligan, and Barry Galbraith returned with new members, Red Rodney, Lee Konitz, Joe Shulman, and Bill Barber. In the mid 1950s, Thornhill was briefly Tony Bennett’s musical director. He offered his big band library to Gerry Mulligan when Mulligan formed the Concert Jazz Band, but Gerry regretfully declined the gift, since his instrumentation was different. A large portion of his extensive library of music is currently held by Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.

Thornhill died of a heart attack in Caldwell, New Jersey, at the age of 56. In 1984, he was posthumously inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame.”

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

A tour-de-corn from 1942 with Claude Thornhill, his piano, and his orchestra. Vocals by the Snowflakes including future bop singer with Dave Lambert, Buddy Stewart. (You can hear Dave Lambert and Buddy Stewart bop duets live in 1949 with Charie Parker on the 21 August Phantom Dancer).

4 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #330
107.3 2SER Tuesday 4 September 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Pop Singers on
Open + Buttons and Bows	Jo Stafford	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 22 May 1949
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered	Margaret Whiting	‘Oxydol Show’ CBS 1950
The Birth of the Blues + Basin Street Blues + Close	Liz Tilton and Curt Massey	‘Alka-Seltzer Show’ CBS 17 Jun 1949
Set 2	1950s Radio Jazz Pop
Summertime (theme) + Them There Eyes	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby	‘Marine Corp Show’ Radio Transcription 1950
At Last	The Honey Dreamers	‘Airtime’ Radio Transcription 1945
‘S Wonderful + Sleepy Time Down South (theme)	Louis Armstrong	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Basin Street WRCA NBC NY 8 May 1955
Set 3	Philco Orchestra
Let a Little Pleasure Interfere with Business	Philco Orchestra	‘Philco Show’ WABC CBS NY 1930
Cinderella Brown	Philco Orchestra	‘Philco Show’ WABC CBS NY 1930
Egyptian Ella	Philco Orchestra	‘Philco Show’ WABC CBS NY 1931
Set 4	Jan Garber 1944-45
Snowfall (theme) + Where or When	Claude Thornhill Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY AFRS Re-Broadcast 23 Jun 1947
Classics in Jazz + Flight of the Bumble Bee	Claude Thornhill Orchestra	‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jun 1937
Let’s Go Home + Close	Claude Thornhill Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Pennsylvania WJZ ABC NY 22 Sep 1947
Set 5	Swinging 1940s Big Band Radio
Stealing Apples	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WABC CBS New York Jul 1943
Cottontail	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ WJZ ABC NY 10 Nov 1945
Swanee River	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 3 Dec 1945
Mr Chips + Blue and Boogie	Billy Eckstine Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945
Set 6	Women Singers 1939 Radio
Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me	Kay Doyle (voc) Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	Mutual Network Boston 20 Sep 1939
The Very Thought of You (theme) + And the Angels Sing	Liz Tilton (voc) Ray Noble Orchestra	Beverly-Wiltshire Hotel Beverly Hills Ca KFI NBC LA 22 Oct 1939
Little Sir Echo	Doris Day (voc) Barney Rapp Orchestra	Sign of the Drum NBC Cincinnati 17 Jun 1939
Yankee Doodle	Linda Keene (voc) Jack Teagarden Orchestra	‘Young Man with a Band’ WABC CBS NY Nov 1939
Set 7	1938-40 Sweet Band Radio Transcriptions
So You’re The One	Sterling Young Orchestra (voc) Bobbie Innes	Radio Transcription 1940
Heart and Soul	Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Russ Carlyle	Radio Transcription 1938
It Seems Like Old Times	Glen Gray Orchestra (voc) Cliff Grass	Radio Transcription 1939
Goodbye Now	Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) 3Ds	Radio Transcription 1940
Set 8	Bop Radio
Groovin’ The Blues	Miss Rhapsody	Comm Rec 6 Jul 1944
Hi Beck	Lee Konitz	Storyville Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston 5 Jan 1954
Bye Bye Blackbird + Straight No Chaser	Miles Davis	‘Bandstand USA’ Spotlight Mutual, Washington DC Feb 1959

Australian Trad Jazz on 1949 Radio – Phantom Dancer Show 21 August 2018

Trad jazz became the leading jazz style in Australia after World War Two. On this week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton, we hear 1949 radio broadcasts by two of the leading exponents of the style – Dave Dallwitz and Graeme Bell.

THE PHANTOM DANCER

Your non-stop mixtape of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio. Produced and presented by Australia’s only authentic 1920s – 1930s singer, Greg Poppleton, since 1985.

The Phantom Dancer is mixed live-to-air on 107.3 2SER Sydney, Tuesdays 12:04 – 2pm.

It’s then re-broadcast on 22 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online at 2ser.com.

THIS WEEK’S PHANTOM DANCER MIX

– has a set of ‘Limehouse Blues’ on-air between 1934 and 1946, there’s a set of live radio dance bands from 1939, and there’s the Australian trad jazz on 1949 radio feature. The last hour of the mix is ALL VINYL.

See the full play list below….

AUSTRALIAN TRAD JAZZ

This week’s feature – a set of 1949 trad radio broadcasts from Adelaide and Melbourne and a commercial side from 1929.

JOE WATSON

Trumpeter Joe Watson came to Australia from the USA with the visiting Ray Tellier band and decided to stay. He lead Melbourne’s Green Mill Dance Hall Orchestra. This commercial record was made for ‘Coles’ stores on their ‘Embassy’ label.

DAVE DALLWITZ – SOUTHERN JAZZ GROUP

Jazz pianist, band leader, ragtime, jazz, revue, symphonic and chamber music composer, classical cellist and bassoon player. He lead the Adelaide-based Southern Jazz Group from 1945 to 1951, which we hear in a South Australian radio broadcast from 1949. He was also an artist and associate member of the Royal South Australian Society of Arts.

GRAEME BELL

Dixieland and classical jazz pianist, composer and band leader. He famously toured Czechoslovakia in 1947, and later toured Germany and the UK in the early 50s. He was the first Westerner to lead a jazz band to China.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Australian band, Graeme Bell, cut this on tour in Czechoslovakia in 1947.

21 AUGUST PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #328
107.3 2SER Tuesday 21 August 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	1940s Swing Bands on One Night Stand
Theme + Wherever There’s Me There’s You	Bobby Sherwood Orchestra (voc) Frances Glenn and Jay Johnson	‘One Night Stand’ Avadon Ballroom LA AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1946
I Don’t Want To Love You Like I Do	Lee Castle Orchestra (voc) Natalie Kaye	‘One Night Stand’ Terrace Room Newark NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Aug 1944
All Or Nothing At All + I Got Rhythm	Boyd Raeburn Orchestra (voc) Ted Travers	‘One Night Stand’ Roosevelt Hotel Washington DC AFRS Re-broadcast Feb 1944
Set 2	Friendly Five Footnotes
I’ve Got Five Dollars (theme) + Ooh That Kiss! + Goodnight Sweetheart + I Wouldn’t Change You For The World + Alabamy Bound + I’ve Got Five Dollars (theme)	Freddy Rich Orchestra (voc) FR	‘Friendly Five Footnotes’ Radio Transcription 1932
Set 3	Concerts in Miniature
Open + Young Blood	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Rustic Cabin NJ NBC 1952
Intermission Riff	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ WSOC NBC Charlotte NC 1952
Artistry in Bolero	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Bowling Field WRC NBC Washington DC 15 Jul 1952
Set 4	Your Hit Parade
Happy Days Are Here Again (theme) + Stop Beating Around The Mulberry Bush	Al Goodman Orchestra (voc) Bea Wain and The Hit Paraders	‘Your Hit Parade’ WABC CBS NY 22 Oct 1938
Gotta Be This Or That	Mark Warnow Orchestra (voc) Joan Edwards	‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-Broadcast 27 Oct 1945
Moonlight Becomes You + Love Me Or Leave Me (close)	Mark Warnow (voc) Barry Wood	‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-Broadcast 23 Jan 1943
Set 5	Limehouse Blues
Limehouse Blues	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1934
Limehouse Blues	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 6 Nov 1940
Limehouse Blues	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra	Aircheck New York City Jun 1942
Limehouse Blues	Benny Goodman Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ The Click Philadelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Jul 1946
Set 6	Australian Trad Jazz Radio
Alabama Stomp	Joe Watson Green Mill Orchestra	Comm Rec Melbourne 17 Oct 1929
Strut Miss Lizzy	Graeme Bell Dixieland Band (voc) Roger Bell	3AW Melbourne 1949
Emu Strut	Southern Jazz Group	5AD Adelaide 18 Jun 1949
Georgia Bo Bo	Graeme Bell Dixieland Band (voc) Ade Monsborough	3AW Melbourne 1949
Set 7	1939 Radio Dance Bands
Lady Be Good	Barney Rapp and his New Englanders	The Sign of the Drum Cincinnati NBC Red NY 17 Jun 1939
This is No Dream	Bob Crosby Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 18 Jul 1939
White Sails	Harry James Orch (voc) Connie Haines	‘America Dances’ WABC CBS NY and BBC London 19 Jul 1939
Last Two Weeks in July	Artie Shaw Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WEAF NBC Red NY 21 Oct 1939
Set 8	New Sounds in Jazz Radio
My Heart Stood Still	Shorty Rogers’ Giants	‘The Tonight Show’ Jul 1955
Royal Roost Bop	Dave Lambert and Buddy Stewart (voc)	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 5 Mar 1949
Budo	Bud Powell Trio	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 7 Mar 1953

Shep Fields Rippling Rhythm – Phantom Dancer Swing Radio Mix 14 Aug 2018

Keys to success in popular music include a compelling back story that informs the music preferably with a rags to riches theme, a catchy name and/or a gimmick.

Shep Fields found fame almost as soon as he found the latter. And changing his name from Saul Feldman to the catchier Shep Fields also would have helped.

Shep Field is the feature artist on today’s Phantom Dancer. He was so popular and internationally famous even the Australian swing band of Wally Portingale included him in a song for their ‘All In Fun Revue’.

WHAT’S THE PHANTOM DANCER?

Excellent question young Harry. It’s your non-stop mixtape of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio. And it’s been live-to-air on 107.3 2SER Sydney, Tuesdays 12:04 – 2pm, since 1985.

The Phantom Dancer is then re-broadcast on 22 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online.

In fact, you’ll be able to hear this week’s Phantom Dancer on 2ser.com online after the show. And there’s a stack of past Phantom Dancer swing jazz mix tapes for you to enjoy there as well.

THIS WEEK’S PHANTOM DANCER MIX

– has a set of ‘Women in Jazz’ introduced by jazz writer Leonard Feather for the Voice of America in 1951, we go free form with John Coltrane over WCBS-FM in 1965 and there’s the Shep Fields feature.

See the full play list below….

SHEP FIELDS

was a Swing Era U.S musician and band leader. He found fame by incorporating a simple idea into his music.

This week’s Phantom Dancer video, below, is a 1930s dramatisation of the eureka moment the idea struck. But here’s how the story goes for those of you not into film.

UP THE LADDER

Shep played clarinet and tenor saxophone in bands while at university. He played in a band at the prestigious Roseland Ballroom in 1931. In 1933 he was leading a band in that great proving ground for New York musicians and comedians in the 1930s and 1940s – the Borscht Belt. Next year he replaced the Jack Denny Orchestra in a residency at Hotel Pierre in New York City. He left that gig to back the dancers Veloz and Yolanda on a tour. 1936 found him in Chicago, with a contract to play at the Palmer House with radio broadcasts from that same spot included.

EUREKA!

Now he had come this far, the question was, how could he distinguish himself sufficiently from all the other dance band on the air and on stage to move to the next level of ‘name band’.

The inspiration came when he and his wife were sitting in a milk bar. Mrs Fields was blowing bubbles into her soft drink through a straw.

Eureka! Shep decided there and then that bubbling sound was what would introduce his band over the air. This moment was dramatised in a short film for cinema release in the late 1930s.

A BRAND IS BORN

Fields staged a contest amongst his fans in Chicago to suggest a new name for his band with the new sound.

The word ‘rippling’ came up in a number of entries. Fields himself came up with ‘Rippling Rhythm.’ And so a brand was born.

IDENTITY

That same year, 1936, with brand in place and signature sound, Shep Fields landed a record deal with the popular Bluebird label. His hits for this famous jazz record company included ‘Cathedral in the Pines’, ‘Did I Remember?’ and ‘Thanks for the Memory’.

In 1937 Fields had his own radio show, ‘The Rippling Rhythm Revue’ with comedian Bob Hope, whose theme song was ‘Thanks for the Memory’ as announcer.

In 1938, Fields and Hope were featured together in the comedian’s first feature movie, The Big Broadcast of 1938.

Today’s Phantom Dancer will feature 1930s radio transcriptions of Shep Field’s Rippling Rhythm Orchestra in the final vinyl hour. In a 1940 radio transcription you’ll hear singer Hal Derwin who later became a band leader in his own right.

ALL REEDS

Shep Fields dropped his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra in 1941 for a bold experiment, an all-reeds orchestra with rhythm section and no brass called Shep Fields and His New Music.

We’ll hear his New Music in a radio transcription from 1942.

Though the critics liked it, the public wanted Rippling Rhythm.

And with the popularity of the big bands declining after World War Two, Fields bowed to the public pressure of declining New Music ticket sales. In 1947 he re-launched his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra.

He had already brought his own venue to guarentee bookings and radio airtime, the prestigious Glen Island casino in New Rochelle, New York, which is where the opening track in this week’s Shep Field set originates.

The Rippling Rhythm Orchestra lasted until 1963. That year, Shep Fields quit band leading to be a radio disc jockey in Houston. When that ended, he worked at Creative Management Associates with his brother Freddie Fields in Los Angeles.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

It’s Shep Fields and his New Music with the ‘soundie’ The Whistler’s Mother-in-Law. Happy viewing!

31 JULY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #327
107.3 2SER Tuesday 14 August 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	1944 Swing Bands
It’s Mellow	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Tune Town Ballroom AFRS Re-broadcast St Louis 5 Apr 1944
Swinging on a Star	Bob Chester Orchestra (voc) Betty Bradley and David Allyn	‘One Night Stand’ Panther Room Hotel Sherman, Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Oct 1944
When I Get It + Blue Lou	Harry James Orchestra lead by Tommy Dorsey	Casino Garden Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 12 Aug 1944
Set 2	Coltrane
My Favourite Things	John Coltrane	Half Note Club WCBS-FM CBS NY 26 Mar 1965
Set 3	Famous Singers
Eleg Volt Nekem Magabol (I’ve Had Enough of You)	Karady Katalin	Comm Rec Budapest 1943
Song of the Wanderer	Helen Humes (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	Aircheck 1939
Taking a Chance on Love	Ethel Waters	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 17 Jul 1945
Set 4	Women in Jazz 1951
Boogie Mysterioso	Mary Lou Williams with Mary Osbourne (elec g)	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America New York City 1951
Mary’s Guitar Boogie	Mary Osbourne	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America New York City 1951
Low Ceiling	Beryl Booker with Mary Osbourne (elec g)	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America New York City 1951
Set 5	Shep Fields Feature
Rippling Rhythm (theme) + My Future Just Passed	Shep Fields Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Toni Arden	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY Aircheck 1947
Heavenly, Isn’t It?	Shep Fields and his New Music	Radio Transcription New York City 1943
One Never One, Does One?	Shep Fields Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Robert Goday	Radio Transcription New York City 1937
Let There Be Love	Shep Fields Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin	Radio Transcription New York City 1940
Set 6	Sweet Bands on 1960s Radio
Open	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians	New York World’s Fair WCBS CBS NY 1964
Auld Lang Syne + Let’s Do It Again	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians	Grill Room Hotel Taft WNBC NBC NY 1 Jan 1970
Blue, Blue My Heart Is Blue	Russ Morgan Orchestra	Top of the Strip Dunes Hotel KLAV Las Vegas NV 19 Jul 1969
Medley	Jan Garber Orchestra	Lady Luck Lounge Desert Inn KLAC Las Vegas NV 4 Jul 1965
Set 7	Ray Noble’s American Orchestra
The Very Thought of You (theme) + Flowers for Madame	Ray Noble’s American Orchestra	‘Coty Hour’ Radio City WEAF NBC Red NY 13 Mar 1935
Irving Berlin Songs	Ray Noble’s American Orchestra	‘The Magic Key of RCA’ Radio City WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Feb 1936
Set 8	New Jazz on 1949 – 51 Radio
Perdido + Tiny’s Blues	Terry Gibbs All-Stars	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 1951
Move	Stan Getz	‘Modern Jazz Concert’ Carnegie Hall NY Voice of America 25 Dec 1949

Hear The Mother of Modern Pop Singing – Phantom Dancer Radio 7 August 2018

When you hear a woman pop singer in any genre singing ‘naturally’ today, blame 1930s big band singer, Helen Ward. She blazed the trail.

You’ll hear a Helen Ward set of live 1930s-40s broadcasts on this week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton.

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mixtape of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio, recorded live-to-air at 107.3 2SER Sydney, Tuesdays 12:04 – 2pm, and presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985.

It is heard on 22 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online.

If you can’t catch this week’s Phantom Dancer mix live on 107.3 2SER, you can hear it immediately after 2ser.com online.

That’s the place where you’ll also find lots of past Phantom Dancer swing jazz mix tapes.

THIS WEEK’S PHANTOM DANCER MIX

– visits the Cocoanut Grove 1932-34, dives in Hank Williams on 1952 Hillbilly radio, listens to some of Duke Ellington’s extended works on his ‘Date with the Duke’ 1945 radio series and then there’s the Helen Ward feature. See the play list below….

HELEN WARD

Helen Ward was one of the first swing band ‘girl singers’, as they were known whatever their age, to become a ‘name’.

She was crucial in establishing the natural, untrained voice style of female pop singing that continues to this day with Gaga, Beyoncemore.

Ward came to commercial prominence in 1934 as the singer with Benny Goodman’s Orchestra when it made its breakthough broadcasts on the NBC ‘Let’s Dance’ radio show.

She stayed with the Benny Goodman Orchestra until 1936, just before it became hugely popular.

The ‘girl singer’ who took Helen Ward’s place in the Goodman Orchestra, Martha Tilton, borrowed heavily from the Ward style.

Despite the fact that the Goodman Orchestra had a long and distinguished career into the 1970s, and had female singers like Martha Tilton, Patti Page, Peggy Lee and even Ella Fitzgerald, Ward remained the singer synonymous with the Benny Goodman Band.

THE MOTHER OF MODERN POP SINGING

This is important to note because the Ward style also became the basis of female pop singing that continues to this day.

Her style, which was significant in the Goodman band’s 1934 success is unaffected and untrained. It’s technical waeknesses were overcome by an assured style, creating the illusion of a ‘natural’ voice.

And like so many ‘natural’ singers today, who play ‘natural’ guitar accompanying themselves on ‘natural’ songs about their ‘natural’ lives, Ward, too, learnt an instrument as a child. In her case it was the piano, taught to her by her father, naturally.

She took up singing as a teenager as half of a duo with songwriter and pianist, Burton Lane. That exposure with such a high-profile pop writer brought her to the notice of a number of New York band leaders, with whom she sang over the radio.

Between 1934 and 1936, Ward waxed several records with Goodman. Her version of ‘These Foolish Things’ sold over a million copies and cemented her professional reputation.

She left Goodman in 1936 for both personal and professional reasons. She was engaged to marry Goodman, but after a few months he back out. She also had had enough of the gruelling band road trips.

After singing with Goodman and touring, she stuck to the studios. She recorded for Goodman alumni Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson (standing in for Billie Holiday), Joe Sullivan and Harry James.

On this week’s Phantom Dancer you’ll also hear her on the radio with Bob Crosby in 1939 and Peanuts Hucko.

For a short while in 1943, she returned to performing with a band led by Hal McIntyre.

She went into semi-retirement from singing to be a radio producer in 1946-7 for station WMGM, New York.

From then on, she swapped long periods away from bands with recording and touring including returns to Benny Goodman in 1953, 57 and 58.

Around 1960 she retired from the public eye, but returned in 1979 following the hoopla surrounding the 40th anniversary of the 1938 Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall concert, which she was instrumental in having recorded.

She launched into a string of club gigs in New York City and in 1981 released the album, ‘The Helen Ward Song Book’. Now hear her on The Phantom Dancer.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Helen Ward sings ‘Oh, Sweet Susannah!’ with the Benny Goodman in a 1936 broadcast from the Congress Hotel, Chicago, over NBC. Happy Listening!

7 AUGUST  PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #326
107.3 2SER Tuesday 7 August 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	1930s Radio Dance Bands
Open + Rockin’ the Town	Hal Kemp Orchestra	‘Chesterfield Show’ KNX CBS LA 25 Dec 1937
Dancing in the Dark	Bob Chester Orchestra	Mayfair Room Hotel van Cleve Dayton OH CBS 21 Sep 1939
St Louis Blues + Cavernism (close)	Earl Hines Orchestra	Grand Terrace WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 3 Aug 1938
Set 2	Jazz Moderne on the Wireless
All of Me	Miles Davis	Birdland WCBS CBS NY 17 Oct 1957
Ornitholgy + Fifty-Second Street Theme	Charlie Parker	Hi-Hat Club WCOP Boston 1954
Set 3	Radio Variety
Al Jolson Story	Al Jolson	‘Rinso Show’ KNX CBS LA 6 Apr 1937
Open + Change Partners	Bob Hope + Skinnay Ennis Orchestra	‘Bob Hope Show’ KNX CBS LA 27 Sep 1938 18 Feb 1945
Abdiction News + Love Marches On + Close	Eddie Cantor	‘Texaco Town’ WABC CBS NY 6 Dec 1936
Set 4	Coconut Grove Radio 1932-34
Theme + Too Beautiful For Words	Jack, Mae and Dee Howard (voc) Vincent Valsanti Orch	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1934
How’s About It?	Phil Harris and Leah Ray (voc) Phil Harris Orchestra	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1933
Gooby Gear + Music in the Moonlight (close)	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Donald Novis	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1932
Set 5	Helen Ward Feature
Anything Goes	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	WJZ Blue Network NY 27 Mar 1935
It’s Funny To Everyone But Me	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 18 Jul 1939
I Guess I’ll Have To Change My Plans	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	‘Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red NY 26 Jan 1935
My Funny Valentine	Peanuts Hucko (voc) Helen Ward	‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WNBT TV NYC 26 Mar 1949
Set 6	Benny Goodman 1940-46 Radio
Let’s Dance + Big John Special	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Peacock Court Hotel Mark Hopkins KFRC Don Lee-Mutual San Francisco 28 May 1940
Swing Angel	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City CA KNX CBS LA 26 Jan 1946
Idaho	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Bond Wagon Radio Show’ Chicago Theatre Chicago 10 aug 1942
Benny Rides Again	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WABC CBS NY 20 Sep 1941
Set 7	Hillbilly Radio
Various	Hank Williams and Miss Audrey	‘Health and Happiness Show’ Radio Transcription 1952
Set 8	Duke Ellington’s Extended Works 1945 Radio
Frankie and Johnny	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date with the Duke’ Regal Theatre ABC Chicago 19 May 1945
Diminuendo in Blue / Rocks in My Bed/ Crescendo in Blue	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Joya Sherrill	‘Date with the Duke’ ABC Toledo OH 9 June 1945

Savoy Ballroom Broadcasts – Phantom Dancer Radio Show 31 July 2018

A set of 1930s-40s live radio swing from ‘The Home of Happy Feet’, the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, New York City is the feature on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

Every Tuesday, authentic jazz deco singer and actor, Greg Poppleton, brings you The Phantom Dancer.

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mixtape of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio, recorded live-to-air at 107.3 2SER Sydney, Tuesdays 12:04 – 2pm.

It’s re-broadcast on 22 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online.

You can hear this week’s Phantom Dancer immediately after the 31 July broadcast online at 2ser.com. That’s the place where you’ll also find lots of past Phantom Dancer swing jazz mix tapes.

THIS WEEK’S PHANTOM DANCER MIX

– has a set Charlie Barnet from live 1957-59 radio, a set of jazz from the humorous 1940-41 ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ radio series, a set of 1935 Claude Hopkins Orchestra radio transcriptions and the Savoy Ballroom feature. See the play list below….

SAVOY BALLROOM

‘The Home of Happy Feet’ was described by poet Langston Hughes in his ‘Juke Box Love Song’ as the ‘Heartbeat of Harlem’ – Harlem being the centre of the African-America community in New York City.

On this week’s Phantom Dancer, the 1938 CBS broadcast of ‘This is New York’, Fats Waller names it as the Harlem go-to place ‘where everyone’s hip to the jive’. He then launches into the 1934 song that has since become a jazz standard, ‘Stomping at the Savoy’.

Being in Harlem, and as the ‘soul of the neighbourhood’, the dance hall, billed at its opening as the ‘World’s Finest Ballroom’, had a largely black clientele and band roster. However, the club had a no-discrimination policy, the important thing was that patrons knew how to dance and could swing.

10,000 SQUARE FEET

The ballroom at the Savoy, on the second floor of the building accessed by a marble staircase, was 10,000 square feet in area and could hold 4,000 people.

The ballroom walls were painted pink and lined with mirrors. Coloured lights shone on the sprung dance floor. The floor was replaced every three years because of the amount of dancing that took place.

On opening night, 20 March 1926, the New York Age reported, “Savoy Turns 2,000 Away On Opening Night – Crowds Pack Ball Room All Week”.

LINDY HOPPERS

Herbert White was a bouncer turned floor manager at the Savoy in the early 1930s. He kept an eye out for the best dancers to form his own dance troupe. This made the Savoy unique in that it came to house the best Lindy Hoppers.

Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, as the cohort came to be known, turned professional in 1935 appearing on Broadway and in Hollywood including the 1937 Marx Brothers’ movie, ‘A Day at the Races’.

“The Savoy held a yearly dancing festival called the Harvest Moon Ball featuring lindy dancers. The first Ball was held in 1935, and the contestants introduced the Lindy Hop to Europe the next year.” (wiki)

As well as The Lindy Hop, other dances born in the Savoy dance hot house were The Flying Charleston, Jive, Snakehips, Rhumboogie, and variations of the Shimmy and Mambo.

‘The Evolution of Negro Dance’ was the Savoy’s contribution to the 1939 New York World Fair.

BANDS

The Savoy had a double bandstand so the music could be continuous for dancers with two bands playing alternatively each night. This also allowed the famous Savoy swing band cutting contests of the late 1930s.

Swing bands synonymous with the Savoy include the orchestras of Chick Webb, Erskine Hawkins, Lucky Millinder, Buddy Johnson and Cootie Williams who you’ll hear with Charlie Parker on this week’s Phantom Dancer mix.

The NYPD and Army shut the Savoy down in April 1943 on vice charges, despite the place having been run by gangsters since its 1926 opening. The ridiculous closure was reversed by mid-October that year.

TORN DOWN

The Savoy continued to operate until October 1958. Despite a big campaign to save it, the building was demolished for a housing complex.

“On 26 May 2002, Frankie Manning and Norma Miller, surviving members of Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, unveiled a commemorative plaque for the Savoy Ballroom.” (wiki)

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Dancing at the Savoy c 1950s

31 JULY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #324
107.3 2SER Tuesday 31 July 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Charlie Barnet
Redskin Rhumba (theme) + Lumby	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘Charlie Barnet Show’ Radio Transcription 1957
Along The Santa Fe Trail	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	Salt Air Ballroom KDYL Salt Lake City UT 5 Jun 1957
Moten Swing + Redskin Rhumba	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom AFRS Re-broadcast 1959
Set 2	Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street
Open + Beale St Blues	Henry Levine Dixieland Octet	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 16 Jun 1940
Flying Home	Lionel Hampton	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 19 Aug 1940
I Dreamt I Dwelled in Harlem + Close	Paul Lavalle Woodwinds	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941
Set 3	The Blooz
Pointless Mama Blues	Herbie Fields and Miles Davis (voc) Rubberlegs Williams	Comm Rec New York City 24 Apr 1945
Chubby’s Blues	Woody Herman’s First Herd (voc) Woody Herman	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WABC CBS NY 18 Feb 1945
Rocky Mountain Blues	Fletcher Henderson Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 21 Jan 1927
Set 4	Latin Sounds
Agata	Nino Taranto	Comm Rec Turin 1937
Pim Pam Pum	Nita Rosa (voc) Xavier Cugat Orchestra	‘Xavier Cugat Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Instrumental + Close	Enric Madriguera and his Music of the Americas	‘One Night Stand’ Copacabana New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Jul 1945
Set 5	Trad Jazz on Radio
Back To Coajingalong	George Trevare Orchestra	Comm Rec Sydney 1945
Bay City (theme) + Ragtime Dance	Turk Murphy San Francisco Jazz Band	Easy Street KCBS CBS San Francisco 9 Dec 1958
Indiana	Kid Ory Jazz Band	Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 10 Oct 1954
Farewell Blues + Close	Muggsy Spanier	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NYC 22 Mar 1947
Set 6	Claude Hopkins Radio Transcriptions
I’d Do Anything For You	Claude Hopkins Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 18 Oct 1935
Chasing the Blues Away	Claude Hopkins Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 1935
Singin’ in the Rain	Claude Hopkins Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 1935
Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet	Claude Hopkins Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 1935
Set 7	Stompin’ at the Savoy
Stompin’ at the Savoy	Fats Waller	‘This is New York’ WABC CBS NY 11 Dec 1938
Body and Soul (theme) + Chicago	Coleman Hawkins Orchestra	Savoy Ballroom Aircheck 4 Aug 1940
The Count Steps In	Count Basie Orchestra	Savoy Ballroom Aircheck 30 Jun 1937
Floogie Boo + Close	Cootie Williams Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Feb 1945
Set 8	Progessive Jazz on the Air
The Gentle Art of Love (theme) + Aw, C’mon	Oscar Pettiford	Birdland WABC ABC NY Jun 1957
Little Girl Blue	Stan Getz	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY 1956
Cement Mixer	Slim Gaillard	Birdland WJZ ABC NY 20 May 1951

Spike Jones and his City Slickers – Phantom Dancer 24 July

The Phantom Dancer – a weekly radio mixtape of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV produced and presented by authentic 1920s-30s singer, Greg Poppleton.

Greg has presented the multi-award winning Phantom Dancer on 107.3 2SER Sydney since 1985. It is now heard on 23 radio stations and online.

Check it out https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

See the play list for this week’s Phantom Dancer below. This week’s mixtape has a special broadcast recording by Spike Jones and his City Slickers of ‘F-B-Aida’ a send-up of Verdi’s famous opera.

SPIKE JONES

Was a U.S drummer, percussionist and bandleader most famous for his parodies of popular tunes on record, radio and TV in the 1940s and 1950s.

These parodies were performed by his City Slickers. He also ran a serious orchestra playing lush arrangements of pop songs called the ‘Other Orchestra’.

Spike Jones took up drums at age 11. A railway restaurant chef taught him how to use objects like pots and pans as percussion. This skill got him onto popular radio shows in the 1930s as a comic percussionist. But he was also a dance band drummer and studio musician.

In fact, he was the drummer on the original version of the biggest selling record of all time, ‘White Christmas’ sung by Bing Crosby.

BORED

Tired of playing the same music every night for radio orchestras, Jones and like-minded musicians got together playing send-ups of popular ditties which they recorded to amuse their wives. One recording found its way to the offices of RCA Victor which offered the parody band a contract.

Their first record was Der Fuehrer’s Face which became a huge hit.

They starred in their own radio show between 1945 and 1949, and in their own NBC and CBS television shows from 1954 to 1961.

On this week’s Phantom Dancer, we hear Spike Jones and his City Slickers live on 1949 radio.

And for your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, marvel at the City Slickers live on 1950s TV sending up ‘That Ol’ Black Magic’.

Bill Barty, who performed in film and TV up until his death in 2000, sings in the style of James Cagney, Jimmy Durante and finishes with Johnny Ray.

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #323
107.3 2SER Tuesday 24 July 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT)
Set 1
Theme + Manhattan Spiritual	Jerry Gray and his Band of Today	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom AFRTS Re-broadcast 30 Oct 1959
Redskin Rhumba (theme) + Murder at Peyton Hall	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jan 1947
Dancing Tambourine + Close	Henry Russell Orchestra	‘Let’s Dance’ KFI NBC LA 1948
Set 2
Rollin’ Home	Ray Anthony Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler NY AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Jan 1952
Daahoud	Max Roach – Clifford Brown Quartet	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY 6 May 1956
Lover Come Back To Me + Close	Stan Getz Quartet	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY 21 Apr 1956
Set 3
Goodbye Sue	Perry Como (voc) Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘For The Record’ WEAF NBC NY 1944
Love Is A Simple Thing	Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra (voc) Andy Roberts and Sally Sweetland	‘The All-Star Parade of Bands’ Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 12 Sep 1953
I Get a Kick Out of You + Close	Sarah Vaughan	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 21 Apr 1952
Set 4
I Found a New Baby	Ralph Sutton All-Stars	Club Hangover KCBS CBS SF 7 Sep 1954
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love + Close	Harry Sosnick and the Savings Bonds Orchestra	‘Guest Star – Dixieland Clambake’ Radio Transcription New York 1951
Runnin’ Wild + Close	Chris Barber Jazz Band	‘Traditional Jazz’ BBC Light Programme London AFRTS Rebroadcast 9 May 1955
Set 5
Forgotten	Harry James Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 1949
Oh! What a Beautiful Morning	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 19 Sep 1946
I’ll Get By	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) WH	‘Woody Herman Show’ Jun 1946
Daily Double	Buddy Rich Orchestra	Aircheck Los Angeles Mar 1946
Set 6
‘Buck Benny Rides Again’	Jack Benny	‘Hollywood is on the Air’ Buck Benny Rides Again Trailer Radio Transcription Hollywood 1940
F-B-Aida	Spike Jones and the City Slickers	‘The Spike Jones Show’ CBS 25 Jun 1949
Set 7
Jeepers Creepers	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Paul Whiteman Show’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 7 Dec 1938
Open + Huckleberry Duck	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red NY 1940
Diga Diga Doo	Bob Crosby Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 18 Jul 1939
Day In Day Out + Merry-Go-Round	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Southland Cafe WNAC NBC Boston 9 Jan 1940
Set 8
Manteca	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Winter Palace Stockholm Radio Sweden 2 Feb 1948
Be Bop Boogie	Lester Young Quintet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Dec 1948
How High The Moon	Allen Eager	Birdland WJZ ABC NY Jun 1953
Bye Bye Blues	Benny Goodman Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ The Click Philadelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948

Women In Jazz on Live 1940s-50s Radio and TV – Phantom Dancer Radio Mix 17 July

Women instrumentalists in jazz from live 1940s-50s radio feature in a set on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

Every Tuesday The Phantom Dancer non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio is brought to you by authentic jazz deco singer and actor, Greg Poppleton

The Phantom Dancer is recorded live-to-air at 107.3 2SER Sydney, Tuesdays 12:04 – 2pm. It’s re-broadcast on 23 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online.

You can hear this week’s Phantom Dancer online at 2ser.com after the show. And that’s where you’ll find lots of past Phantom Dancer swing jazz mixes, too.

THIS WEEK’S PHANTOM DANCER MIX

– has 8 sets including live swing and jazz by Lucky Millinder, The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Loyce Whiteman, Louis Prima, Miles Davis and more. See the full play list below…

WOMEN IN JAZZ

In fact, this week’s Phantom Dancer has a set of women jazz instrumentalists on live 1940s-50s radio. You’ll hear:

VIVIEN GARRY

Jazz double bassist and band leader

ANNA MAE WINBURN

Singer and bandleader of the all-women International Sweethearts of Rhythm

HAZEL SCOTT

Trinidad-born child prodigy jazz and classical pianist and singer with her own 1950s TV and radio shows.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Hazel Scott, Charlie Mingus and Rudy Nichols sing and play ‘Foggy Day’ and ‘Autumn Leaves’ for a 1955 TV spot for the March of Dimes raising money to find a vaccine/cure for polios.

17 JULY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #322
107.3 2SER Tuesday 17 July 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Swing on the 1945 ‘One Night Stand’ Radio Series
Open + St Louis Breakdaown	Lucky Millinder Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 17 Jul 1945
How Deep Is The Ocean?	Louis Prima Orchestra (voc) Lily Ann Carol	‘One Night Stand’ Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Sep 1945
I Got Rhythm + Temptation	Tony Pastor Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Jantzen Beach Portland OR AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945
Set 2	Modern Jazz on 1950s Radio
Open + From the Land of the Sky Blue Waters	Billy May Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood KFI NBC LA 21 Dec 1953
Black Velvet	Illinois Jacquet	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 1952
Nature Boy + Ornitholgy	Miles Davis Quintet	‘ABC Dancing Party’ Birdland WABC ABC NY 30 Oct 1957
Set 3	1920s-30s Style
T’ain’t No Sin To Take Off Your Skin and dance Around In Your Bones	Lee Morse	Comm Rec New York City 1929
Moanin’ Low	Libby Holman	‘Brunswick Brevities’ Radio Transcription New York City 1929
Procession of the Sardar + Two Guitars (close)	A and P Gypsies	‘A and P Gypsies’ WEAF NBC Red NY 1933
Set 4	Women in Jazz on Radio
Open + A Woman’s Place is in the Groove	Vivien Garry	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America 1951
Diggin’ Dyke	International Sweethearts of Rhythm	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Los Angeles 17 Jul 1945
I’ve Got The World on a String	Hazel Scott (piano)	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America 1951
Set 5	Duke Ellington ‘A Date with the Duke’
C Jam Blues	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date with the Duke’ Paradise Theatre Detroit ABC 19 May 1945
Chelsea Bridge	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date with the Duke’ Apollo Theatre NYC WJZ ABC NYC 30 Jun 1945
Hollywood Hangover	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date with the Duke’ Regal Theatre Chicago ABC 26 May 1945
I’m Beginning To See The Light	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date with the Duke’ Radio City WJZ ABC NYC 7 Jul 1945
Set 6	1931-32 Cocoanut Grove
Take It From Me	Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) The Three Ambassadors	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove LA 1931
Stardust	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Donald Novis	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove LA 1932
It’s Love	Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove LA 1931
The Sun’s In My Heart	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) The Three Cheers	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove LA 1932
Set 7	1938 Swing Radio Bands
Love Me or Leave Me	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 23 Aug 1938
Open + Murdy Purdy	Gene Krupa Orchestra	Aircheck 28 May 1938
One O’Clock Jump	Count Basie Orchestra	Famous Door WABC CBS NY Jul 1938
Love Nest	Les Brown Orchestra	Green Room Hotel Edison 22 Nov 1938
Set 8	Bop Records 1944-45
The Street Beat	Sir Charles Thompson All-Stars	Comm Rec New York City 4 Sep 1945
Twilight in Teheran	Buck Ram All-Stars	Comm Rec New York City 18 Sep 1945
Dizzy Boogie	Slim Gaillard	Comm Rec Hollywood Dec 1945
Nuts to Notes	Herbie Fields	Comm Rec New York City 4 May 1945

You’re Never Too Old! Anita O’Day – Phantom Dancer 10 July 2018 Radio Mix

Anita O’Day is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. 

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

Greg Poppleton, 1920s-30s singer, brings you The Phantom Dancer every week.

It’s live every Tuesday on 107.3 2SER Sydney from 12:04-2pm, during which time it’s recorded for re-broadcast over 23 radio stations and online.

You can hear all Phantom Dancer episodes online now at 2ser.com.

THIS WEEK

The Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton has a set of John Coltrane for you, a set of Stan Kenton 1940s radio transcriptions, a set of ‘Dixieland Swing’ from live 1930s radio, and this week’s Phantom Dancer feature, Anita O’Day, from 1944-1960 radio and TV.

See the full play list below…

FEATURED ARTIST – ANITA O’DAY

Anita O’Day left an unhappy childhood to dance in danceathons where she’d sometime sing for tips. She said her influences were Martha Raye, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.

A botched tonsilectomy as a child during which her uvula was removed meant she couldn’t hold long notes. So she developed a rhythmic, staccato approach to singing that was perfect for uptempo swing songs.

A call from Gene Krupa to join his band in 1941 was her entre to popularity. She was with Krupa for a year. Sick of the travel and one night stands she left the band to strike out on her own. She returned to Krupa in 1945 then joined the Stan Kenton Orchestra.

TABBY THE CAT

In the Stan Kenton band she had her two big hits. We’ll hear these on today’s Phantom Dancer as radio transcriptrions, ‘Tabby The Cat’ and ‘I’m Going Mad For A Pad’.

These two hits cemented her repuation as a unique jazz singer with a swingingly rhythmic style.

Her jazz reputation grew in the 1950s with albums and festivals. She appeared on TV on one of the Timex Jazz Specials heard on previous Phantom Dancers.

RONALD REAGAN

In 1960 she was introduced by Ronald Reagan opening a ‘Ford Star Time’ TV show backed by Gene Krupa. We’ll hear this appearance on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

Anita O’Day had a hiatus during the ’60s resuming her career to critical acclaim in 1970. She appeared in movies and on TV and was still performing into the 21st century.

Her final album, released when she was in her eighties, was the aptly named ‘Indestructible’.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Hear Anita O’Day at the height of her powers in this week’s Phantom Dancer feature video with Gene Krupa and Roy Eldridge:

10 JULY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #322
107.3 2SER Tuesday 10 July 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Women Band Sings on 1945-47 Radio
The Best Man	Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) Betty Perry	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jan 1947
Snap Your Fingers	Buddy Morrow Orchestra (voc) Helen Leigh	‘One Night Stand’ Blue Room Hotel Lincoln NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 12 May 1946
I’m Not Having It	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Frances Wayne	‘One Night Stand’ Blue Room Hotel Lincoln NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1946
Set 2	John Coltrane on Radio
Open + Song of Praise	John Coltrane Quartet	‘Portraits in Jazz’ Half Note WABC-FM NY 7 May 1965
Set 3	1930s European Dance Bands
Pot Pourri aus dem Film ‘Frauen im Metropol’	Adolf Steimel Organum Tanz-Orchester	Comm Rec Berlin 5 Sep 1940
Flat Foot Floogie	Teddy Stauffer Orchestra (voc) Billy Toffel	Comm Rec Berlin 24 Nov 1938
Vous Avez un Beau Chapeau, Madame	Ernst van’t Hoff Orchestra (voc) Band	Comm Rec Hilversum 1939
Set 4	Stan Kenton Radio Transcriptions
Memphis Lament	Stan Kenton Orchestra (voc) Red Dorris	Radio Transcription Los Angeles Oct 1941
Flamingo	Stan Kenton Orchestra (voc) Red Dorris	Radio Transcription Los Angeles Oct 1941
Night	Stan Kenton Orchestra (voc) Red Dorris	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 20 Sep 1941
Set 5	Anita O’Day
Open + Drum Boogie	Anita O’Day (voc) Gene Krupa Orchestra	‘Ford Star Time’ CBS TV 9 Feb 1960
Tabby The Cat	Anita O’Day (voc) Stan Kenton Orchestra	Radio Transcription Los Angeles Dec 1944
Open + I’d Do It All Over Again	Anita O’Day (voc) Gene Krupa Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WOR Mutual NYC 15 Aug 1945
I’m Going Mad For A Pad	Anita O’Day (voc) Stan Kenton Orchestra	Radio Transcription Los Angeles Dec 1945
Set 6	1930s Dixieland Swing
Will You Won’t You Be My Baby	Louis Armstrong	Comm Rec Paris Oct 1934
Intro + In A Minor Mood + Dogtown Blues	Bob Crosby Bobcats	‘Swing Concert’ Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 18 May 1937
Honeysuckle Rose + Basin Street Blues (close)	Bunny Berrigan	Aircheck New York City 12 Mar 1936
Set 7	Count Basie Blue Room 1944-45
Harvard Blues	Count Basie Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NY 27 May 1944
Bangs	Count Basie Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NY 14 Apr 1944
Jumpin’ At The Woodside	Count Basie Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NY 5 May 1944
Avenue C	Count Basie Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NY 31 Jan 1945
Set 8	Charlie Parker
Dark Shadows	Charlie Parker as, Errol Garner piano, Red Callender bass, Doc West drums voc Earl Coleman	Comm Rec Los Angeles 19 Feb 1947
Moose The Mooch + Lullaby of Birdland	Charlie Parker as, John Lewis piano, Curley Russell bass, Kenny Clarke drums	Birdland WABC ABC NY 9 May 1953
Hot House	Charlie Parker as, Miles Davis tp, Al Haig piano, Tommy Potter bass, Al Haig drums	‘Art Ford Show’ Birdland WMCA NY 12 Dec 1948

Jim Davidson, 1939-57 Electric Guitar, Non-Stop Swing Mix – 26 June Phantom Dancer

Jim Davidson was an Australian swing band leader and second-in-charge of light entertainment at the BBC in the 1950s. He also worked in the same soap factory I did.

And that electric guitar scene in one of those Back To The Future movies sounds embarrassingly lame and pig-ignorant compared to the real electric guitar breaks played on live 1930s-50s radio you’ll hear this week by Charlie Christian, Mary Osbourne, Tal Farlow and Les Paul.

I’m Greg Poppleton, 1920s-30s singer, band-leader and your Phantom Dancer every week over radio 2SER 107. 3 Sydney, 23 Australian radio stations, and online.

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

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THIS WEEK’S PHANTOM DANCER MIX

– has a set of Benny Goodman from 1939 radio including the sextet with Charlie Christian on electric guitar. There’s also a set of electric guitar from live 1940s-50s radio including some 1945 hot guitar work by Mary Osbourne who later in this week’s Phantom Dancer mix inaudibly backs Billie Holiday singing on 1958 TV. And this week’s feature, a set of 1930s commercial recordings by Sydney swing maestro Jim Davidson. See the full mix play list below…

Jim Davidson with the ABC Dance Band and Wireless Chorus presenting ‘Colour Canvas’ from the Studios at 96 Market Street, Sydney, October, 1939

JIM DAVIDSON
Quoting from Jeff Brownrigg’s article, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, (MUP), 2007

“James Hutchinson (Jim) Davidson (1902-1982), band leader, was born on 6 August 1902 at Balmain, Sydney, second son of Alexander Davidson, a restaurant cook from New Zealand, and his English-born wife Mabel, née Walker. Jim described his father, of Scottish descent, as hard, stern and unsmiling. His maternal grandfather encouraged his interest in music, taking him to hear the American bandmaster John Philip Sousa on his Australian tour of 1911. Davidson took up the cornet, joining his school cadet band and a local church band. After leaving school at 14, he found work with the soap manufacturer Lever Bros Pty Ltd. His days, however, were a means to an end and nights were given over to music. Replacing his cornet with a drum kit, he played in dance band and cinema pit ensembles.

On 8 February 1928 Davidson married Gertrude Madeline Kitching at St Thomas’s Church of England, Rozelle; they were to be divorced in 1935. He had joined Jimmy Elkins’s dance orchestra in the mid-1920s and after it disbanded in 1928 he played at the Ambassadors restaurant until it was destroyed by fire in 1931. Following engagements at the Ginger Jar and a significant concert at Hillier’s Café in August 1932—sometimes described as the first jazz concert in Sydney—Davidson opened the winter season of 1933 at Sydney’s Palais Royal dance hall, which drew crowds of 10,000 a week. Further successful seasons followed in 1934 and 1936. A regular Thursday evening 2UE live radio broadcast from the Royal augmented his audience. The Columbia recording company made sound recordings of his most popular pieces; Davidson claimed that a 78-rpm disc of `Shuffle Off to Buffalo’ and `Forty Second Street’ sold 95,000 copies. He and his orchestra also played a six-month season at the Palais de Danse at St Kilda, Melbourne, in 1933. At a formal `Dress Night’, when patrons were encouraged to dress as elegantly as the musicians, who routinely wore evening dress, Davidson met Marjorie McFarlane, an artist. They were married with Presbyterian forms at Scots Church, Melbourne, on 7 June 1935.

While in Melbourne, having signed a contract with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Davidson enlarged his orchestra and performed over the national network to all States. Broadcasting from Sydney from 1936, Jim Davidson’s ABC Dance Band, with the trumpeter Jim Gussey, the vocalist Alice Smith and the trombonist and arranger George Trevare, became the most popular in the country. It presented dance programs on Friday and Saturday evenings and played for other ABC shows including `Out of the Bag’ and `A.B.C. Parade’. In 1937-39 the band made three interstate tours, with a variety of artists including Bob Dyer, Tex Morton and Gladys Moncrieff. Davidson was a strict but encouraging leader who inspired great loyalty in his players.

On 30 May 1941 Davidson was appointed an honorary lieutenant in the Australian Imperial Force. He produced, directed and led the orchestra in variety shows staged for troops in the Middle East and the South-West Pacific Area. From 1943 he was in charge of the AIF’s concert parties. Rising to temporary lieutenant colonel, he transferred to the Reserve of Officers in October 1947. He applied for the position of director of light entertainment at the ABC but was unsuccessful. Stung by his rejection, he made use of management skills developed in his military command, taking up an offer of work as director of productions for the Tivoli circuit and, soon after, for Harry Wren Enterprises. He managed Australian tours for performers such as Will Mahoney and Evie Hayes and for the British comedian Tommy Trinder.

In 1947 Davidson joined the British Broadcasting Corporation. He arrived in London with his wife the following January. Starting as assistant-head of variety (music), he rapidly advanced to become the second-in-charge of the light entertainment unit. His most important contributions included support for what became the `Goon Show’, which went to air against some resistance on 28 May 1951. Davidson estimated that he had produced 3500 live shows on radio, among them a historic Beatles concert at the Royal Albert Hall in April 1963. He was given a farewell concert there before his retirement in September.

Returning to Australia in 1964, Davidson was disappointed that although Australians remembered his success as a band leader, they were unaware of his achievements in England. He served briefly as a consultant to the ABC but found that old `ghosts’ continued to haunt its corridors. The Davidsons turned to house renovation and gardening, first in Sydney and then in the southern highlands of New South Wales. Survived by his wife, Jim Davidson died on 10 April 1982 at Bowral and was cremated. His memoir, A Showman’s Story (1983), was published posthumously.”

And your Phantom Dancer Vid of the Week?

Jim Davidson and his Australian Broadcasting Commission Dance Orchestra with his 1938 record ‘So Little Time’. Vocals by Alice Smith and Johnny Warren. Jim Davidson broadcast late night over national stations of the ABC.

26 JUNE PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #321
107.3 2SER Tuesday 26 June 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Benny Goodman on 1939 ‘Camel Caravan’
Let’s Dance (theme) + Down By The Old Mill Stream	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WEAF NBC Red NY 4 Nov 1939
Flying Home	Benny Goodman Sextet (g Charles Christian)	‘Camel Caravan’ WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Sep 1939
Sing, Sing, Sing + Goodbye (theme)	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WEAF NBC Red NY 18 Nov 1939
Set 2	Latin Rhythms
Nachts am Kongo	Teddy Stauffer (voc) Eric Helgar	Comm Rec Berlin 24 Oct 1938
Dilo	Prado Perez	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 24 Jul 1953
Tanga	Machito with Zoot Sims tenor sax	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 1951
Set 3	Electric Guitarists on live 1940s-50s Radio
Open + I’ve Got Plenty of Nothin’	Les Paul Trio	‘Les Paul Show’ AFRS Hollywood 27 May 1945
They Can’t Take That Away From Me	Tal Farlow	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Composer Club WRCA NBC NYC 23 Apr 1957
Texas Polka + Isle of Capri + Close	Gay Claridge Orchestra (elec g) Mary Osbourne	‘One Night Stand’ Chez Paree Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Aug 1945
Set 4	Jim Davidson Australian Swing
Fair and Warmer	Jim Davidson and his Palais Royal Orchestra (voc) Austral Sisters	Comm Rec Sydney 7 Sep 1934
She Changed Her Hi-De-Ho For His Yodel-O-Dee-Ay	Jim Davidson and his Palais Royal Orchestra (voc) Male Trio	Comm Rec Sydney 2 Mar 1934
Marmelade	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Orchestra	Comm Rec Sydney 2 Jun 1938
Set 5	1930s Fats Waller
Christopher Columbus	Fats Waller	ComM Rec New York City 1936
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (theme) + I Simply Adore You	Fats Waller	WEAF NBC Red NY 5 Jul 1938
You Can’t Be Min and Someone Else’s Too	Fats Waller	Aircheck Yacht Club New York City 18 Oct 1938
Watcha Know, Joe?	Fats Waller	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 10 Dec 1940
Set 6	1930s-50s French Swing on Record
Frenchie’s Blues	Freddy Johnson Orchestra	Comm Rec Paris 28 Jun 1939
Week-End Stomp	Alix Combelle Orchestra	Comm Rec Paris 20 Feb 1940
Le Boogie de Paris	Jacques Helian Orchestra	Comm Rec Paris 1946
Mambo Zero	Ruben Calzado	Comm Rec Paris 1953
Set 7	Billie Holiday on Rdaio
You Better Go Now	Billie Holiday (voc) Percy Faith Orchestra	‘Woolworth Hour’ KNX CBS LA 1956
Billie’s Blues	Billie Holiday	Storyville Copley Square Hotel WMEX Boston Apr 1959
Interview + Fine and Mellow	Billie Holiday	‘Studio 58 The Sound of Jazz’ WCBS TV CBS NY 8 Dec 1957
You Go To My Head	Billie Holiday	Storyville Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston Oct 1953
Set 8	1940s Big Band Radio
Tangerine	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jun 1956
Artistry in Rhythm (theme) + Artistry Jumps	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom LA AFRS Hollywood 27 Nov 1945
Bommpsie	Chubby Jackson Orchestra	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 5 mar 1949