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

24 April 2018 Phantom Dancer – Bea Wain First To Record ‘Over The Rainbow’

You’ll hear some very loving and touching words on today’s Phantom Dancer.

The Phantom Dancer, presented every week by actor, Greg Poppleton, Australia’s only authentic 1920s-30s singer goes live from 107.3 2SER Sydney every Tuesday after the noon news.

It’s your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV sent to 22 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online.

Hear this week’s Phantom Dancer (after 24 April), and past Phantom Dancers, online at radio 2ser.com

In the mix this week, live 1930s-60s radio by Bob Crosby, Sammy Kaye, Al Trace, Larry Clinton and Bea Wain. See the full play list below.

THOSE TOUCHING WORDS?

“Beautiful, Bea Wain, beautiful.”

Who’s Bea Wain? She’s one of the greatest singers of the Swing Era and my absolute favourite.

Who said those words? You’ll hear them on today’s Phantom Dancer in the Bea Wain set, incidentally.

It was Andre Baruch, award-winning network radio announcer, who said them spontaneously as the announcer for the 1939 ‘Your Hit Parade’ after Bea Wain sang, ‘O, You Crazy Moon’.

They were married in 1938 and remained together until his death 53 years later. Bea Wain died last August aged 100.

THE UNSUNG SINGING GREAT

Bea Wain began singing on local radio at age six. She lived in the Bronx. Her accent disappeared when she sang. She had four No. 1 hits. And she never had a singing lesson.

She also had her name shortened from Beatrice to Bea by some unknown radio exec, to save space on record labels.

Quoting from her New York Times obituary,
“I never wanted anybody to teach me how to sing,” she said in an interview with Sara Fishko for the New York public radio station WNYC in 2013. “I had piano, elocution and dancing lessons, but never singing lessons.”

And she went on to sing professionally past the age of 90.

THE BIG BREAK

Was a big band arranger and in 1938 was forming a swing band with big RCA – NBC promotion. You’ll hear the band broadcasting ‘The RCA Campus Club’ from the Glen island Casino on today’s Phantom Dancer. The singer he hired to front this important band was Bea Wain.

How’d he find her.

She was in the chorus for the Kate Smith Radio Show. She stepped forward for an eight bar solo. That was enough for Clinton. She was hired. Again quoting from her NYT obit:

“The impeccable Wain never fails to captivate us as Clinton’s brassmen play natty little curlicues around her,” Will Friedwald wrote in his book “Jazz Singing: America’s Great Voices From Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond” (1990).

OVER THE RAINBOW

In 1939 Billboard magazine’s college poll voted her the most popular female vocalist. Ella Fitzgerald was second.

In 1938 she was the first to record ‘Over The Rainbow’ from the film, ‘The Wizard of Oz’. MGM, which owned the rights, stopped the record from being issued until after the film, and Judy Garland’s version (who sang it in the movie) was released.

Wain’s ‘Over The Rainbow’ is the Phantom Dancer Video of the Week. It’s interesting to hear the first-ever version, totally untouched by Garland’s version.

Wain said in a 1988 interview, that when Helen O’Connell, a fellow big band singer, was asked how it felt to be a part of music history, she replied, “If I knew it was history, we would have paid more attention.”

HIT RECORDS

In a short recording career of just a few years (she got tired of touring and the poor recording fees and rarely made records after 18 months with the Clinton band), Bea Wain had four hit records, all with Larry Clinton’s Orchestra .
1. Heart and Soul, which she introduced in the short ‘A Song is Born’ announced by Andre Baruch
2. Deep Purple
3. Cry, Baby, Cry
4. My Reverie, an up-tempo version of the Debussy piano piece ‘Reverie’ with lyrics by Larry Clinton.

‘My Reverie’ became Bea Wain’s theme song but, quoting from her New York Times obituary, “it was almost scrapped when Debussy’s heirs learned, to their horror, that the music had been adapted for a pop audience with a brisk tempo and lyrics.

But when Larry Clinton sent them his recording, Wain recalled, they replied, “If this girl sings it, O.K”

MR AND MRS MUSIC

After the World War Two, during which Bea Wain sung in Army Camps and her husband, Andre Baruch served overseas, the couple became ‘Mr and Mrs Music,’ a daily program on WMCA, New York, on which they doubled as disc jockeys and interviewers.

 

They continued on radio when they moved to Palm Springs in 1973 and retired from being DJs in 1980.

After that, Bea Wain sang on TV and in clubs, (there’s a 1983 TV medley of her 1938-39 hits on YouTube).

Quoting from the Wiki article on Wain, she told Christopher Popa in a 2004 interview, “Actually, I’ve had a wonderful life, a wonderful career. And I’m still singing, and I’m still singing pretty good. This past December, I did a series of shows in Palm Springs, California, and the review said, “Bea Wain is still a giant.” It’s something called Musical Chairs. I did six shows in six different venues, and I was a smash. And I really got a kick out of it.”

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week the first recording of ‘Over The Rainbow’ sung by Bea Wain in 1938 but not released until after the ‘Wizard of Oz’ (in which the song features) came out in 1939. Enjoy this original take wholly uninfluenced by Judy Garland…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #313 107.3 2SER Tuesday 24 April 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 22 other stations. Set 1 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye Theme + Elmers Tune Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) The Three Kaydettes ‘Spotlight Bands’ Washington DC Blue Network 31 Jan 1942 Ad + It’s a Great Feeling Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) The Kaydettes ‘Sammy Kaye Showreel’ Radio Transcription 1949 Medley: How Deep is the Ocean? + I’m In The Mood For Love + Avalon + Close Sammy Kaye Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Astor Roof New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Aug 1945 Set 2 Bob Crosby Open + Mama Why Don’t You Dance With Me Bob Crosby and The Modernaires (voc) Jerry Gray Orchestra ‘Club 15’ KNX CBS LA 25 Nov 1947 Don’t Forget Tonight Tomorrow Bob Crosby (voc) Bob Crosby Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Hollywood Palladium AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Aug 1945 Muskrat Ramble Bob Crosby Bobcats ‘Marine Corp Show’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1950 Set 3 WGN Parade of Bands Home Recordings Open + Isn’t It Romantic Al Trace and his Shuffle Rhythm ‘WGN Parade of Bands’ Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Chicago c 1950 Marie + Linger Awhile Ted Fio Rito Orchestra ‘WGN Parade of Bands’ Chez Paree WGN Chicago c 1950 Bella Bella Marie + Medley: In My Dreams + I Love You So Much It Hurts Jimmy Featherstone Orchestra (voc) JF and Peggy Murdoch ‘WGN Parade of Bands’ Walnut Room Bismarck Hotel WGN Chicago c 1950 Set 4 Bea Wain East of the Sun Bea Wain (voc) Larry Clinton Orchestra ‘RCA Campus Club’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 2 Jul 1938 Try, Try Again Bea Wain and Band (voc) Larry Clinton Orchestra ‘RCA Campus Club’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 2 Jul 1938 Oh, You Crazy Moon Bea Wain ‘Your Hit Parade’ WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Oct 1939 Set 5 Swing Trumpet Stars on Ballads Cirribirribin (theme) + You’re In Love With Someone Else Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest Hotel Astor Roof WABC CBS NY 28 Aug 1942 Oh What It Seemed To Be Erskine Hawkins Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Mitchell ‘One Night Stand’ Blue Room Hotel Lincoln NY AFRS Re-broadcast 1 May 1946 Goodnight, Good Neighbour Charlie Spivak Orchestra (voc) Irene Daye ‘One Night Stand’ Century Room Hotel Commodore NY AFRS Re-broadcast 25 Feb 1945 Clouds Henry Busse Orchestra (voc) Carl Grayson Radio Transcription Hollywood 1935 Set 6 Hal Kemp and Skinnay Ennis Sells Beauty Creme When Summer Is Gone (theme) + You’ve Got Me Crying Again Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis ‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934 Last Year’s Girl Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis ‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934 It’s Only A Paper Moon + Ad Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis ‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934 I Couldn’t Tell Them What To Do Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis ‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934 Set 7 1950s-60s Radio Swing Bands One O’Clock Jump + Blee Blop Blues Count Basie Orchestra ‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 14 Jan 1953 Cohn’s Alley Woody Herman’s Third Herd ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Peony park WOW NBC Omaha 1954 Song of India Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY Dec 1955 Flashback From The Future Duke Ellington Orchestra Aircheck 24 Oct 1965 Set 8 Mickey Mouse Bands Live and Transcribed Romance (theme) + We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye Ray Herbeck and his Music with Romance Orchestra (voc) Lorraine Benson Trianon Ballroom WGN Chicago 24 Nov 1947 I’ll See You In My dreams Jan Garber Orchestra Radio Transcription 1941 Would It Make Any Difference To You? Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) CR Radio Transcription 1943 Can’t We Be Friends? Johnny Mesner Orchestra Radio Transcription New York City 1939

Do Song Covers Violate Copyright? 21 Nov Phantom Dancer

Thirty-two years on air, heard on 23 radio stations and online, Greg Poppleton is Australia’s longest running swing DJ and Australia’s only authentic 1920s – 1930s singer.

Every week he brings you The Phantom Dancer, a live, multi-award-winning non-stop mix of swing and jazz sourced from real 1920s-1960s radio broadcasts.

In Greg’s eight Phantom Dancer sets this week we hear Bop takes of old songs on live 1947-51 radio, Duke Ellington from his 1945 ABC ‘Date with the Duke’ series, 1930s German dance bands playing the hits from the movies, and a set of R’n’B singers live over CBS radio’s Al Freed Rock’n’Roll Dance Party in 1956.

And the R’n’B set brings me to this question…

DO SONG COVERS VIOLATE COPYRIGHT?

Why does the R’n’B set bring me to this question? Because two of the singers we’ll be hearing on today’s Phantom Dancer from live 1956 radio had copyright run-ins with a big band/pop singer who also happened to be on today’s show (in Set 2), Georgia Gibbs.

The first R’n’B singer you’ll hear on today’s Phantom Dancer (and all the singers were backed in these ‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ radio broadcasts by the Count Basie Orchestra) is LaVerne Baker.

LAVERN BAKER – TWEEDLEE DEE RIP OFF
Born Delores LaVern Baker, LaVern Baker had several hit records in the 1950s. Her most successful disc was “Tweedlee Dee” (1955) which you’ll here her sing live today. This latin tempo song was LaVern’s first hit. It got to 4 on the R&B chart and 14 on the national US pop chart. Meanwhile, singer Georgia Gibbs recorded a note-for-note cover of the song that reached number 1. A real kick in the guts that made LaVern ask the question,

“Does this Song Cover violate my copyright?”

She made an unsuccessful attempt to sue Gibbs. She unsuccessfully petitioned the US Government to consider such covers copyright violations.

ETTA JAMES – DANCE WITH ME HENRY GRAB
Born Jamesetta Hawkins, Etta started learning to sing at age five. Her singing teacher used to punch her in the chest while she sang to force her voice to come from her diaphragm. She developed an unusually strong voice.

Los Angeles big band leader, Johnny Otis, saw 14 year old Etta singing with a Doo-wop group and booked her to sing his “answer song” to Hank Ballard’s “Work with Me, Annie”. He even gave her co-credit as lyricist. The song was “Dance with Me, Henry”, which and you’ll hear Etta singing it live on today’s Phantom Dancer. But again, Georgia Gibbs recorded a cover that took a lot of the thunder. It was a version called “The Wallflower” and it reached number one on the Billboard Top 100. This made Etta very angry.
Her intellectual property had been appropriated.

FAYE ADAMS
Faye Adams’ father was a gospel singer and at age five she joined her sisters to sing spirituals, regularly performing on local radio shows. She, too, had a big voice, billed as, “Atomic Adams’.

Her first hit, “Shake a Hand”, topped the US Billboard R’n’B chart for ten weeks in 1953 and hit 22 on the US pop chart, selling one million copies and receiving a gold disc.

In 1954, Adams had two more R&B chart toppers. The one she sings on today’s Phantom Dancer, live over CBS in 1956, is “I’ll Be True”. This song was then covered by Bill Haley and later by Jackie DeShannon.
Covering a song is much different to appropriating a song. All cool, because the original composer/lyricist is acknowledged and compensated. I’ll explain about the legalities of song covers below.

IVORY JOE HUNTER

He’s the final R’n’B singer in today’s Phantom Dancer set of 1956 rock’n’roll radio. He’d had hits on the R’n’B charts since the mid 1940s and was billed as The Baron of the Boogie and The Happiest Man Alive. Maybe he was happy because no-one was copying his songs while they were still climbing the charts. On today’s Phantom Dancer he sings his 1950 R’n’B chart-topper, “I Almost Lost My Mind”, live, of course, and with the Count Basie Orchestra.

Now, to the legalities of covering a song, quoted directly from the Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA) website…

A BAND IS PERFORMING MY SONGS. CAN THEY DO THIS WITHOUT MY PERMISSION?
Yes, in most cases they can. The venue in which the band plays must hold an APRA licence; it is not the responsibility of the individual bands. The APRA licence gives the venue a blanket licence to authorise the performance of all copyright music.

DO I NEED A LICENCE?
Yes. You may need to obtain an AMCOS licence if you want to make a recording of a song composed by another writer.

WHAT ABOUT UPLOADING COVER VERSIONS TO DIGITAL SERVICE PROVIDERS?
If you are recording a cover version of a work and wish to make it available on a US-based digital service provider (iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify etc), you are required to take out a licence with the Harry Fox Agency (AMCOS equivalent in the USA). Go to www.harryfox.com/license_music/ and head to their Songfile Mechanical Licensing tool. In cases where the Harry Fox Agency do not represent the work, you may be able to obtain a compulsory licence via RightsFlow – see www.rightsflow.com and head to the Limelight licensing area.

IN AUSTRALIA?
As long as you’ve first obtained a manufacturing licence from AMCOS, you can supply your recording to a digital service provider (DSP) such as iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify etc. APRA AMCOS licenses DSPs directly, and so royalties for downloads will be collected by APRA AMCOS on behalf of the rights holders.

I hope this has been of help to you, with a bit of R’n’B history thrown in. Oh, and for more R’n’B history, check out this YouTube footage of LaVern Baker as your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #289 107.3 2SER Tuesday 21 November 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations. Set 1 Swing Bands on One Night STand Theme + Lady Be Good Lucky Millinder Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 10 Jul 1945 Cherry Sonny Durham Orchestra (voc) Howard Walters ’One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Apr 1944 Texas Polka + Isle of Capri Gay Claridge Orchestra (eg) Mary Osbourne ’One Night Stand’ Chez Parée Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Aug 1945 Set 2 Popular Radio Singers Choo Choo Polka Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) Georgia Gibbs and Merry Macs ’Georgia Gibbs Show’ Blue Network 22 Jul 1945 Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered Margaret Whiting ’Oxydol Show’ CBS 1950 Basin Street Blues + Close Martha Tilton and Curt Massey ’Alka-Seltzer Show’ CBS 17 Jun 1949 Set 3 A Date With The Duke Take The A-Train (theme) + Chelsea Bridge Duke Ellington Orchestra ’A Date With The Duke’ WJZ ABC NYC Re-broadcast 30 Jul 1945 Frustration Duke Ellington Orchestra (bari sax) Harry Carney ’A Date With The Duke’ WJZ ABC NYC Re-broadcast 30 Jul 1945 Take The A-Train (theme) + Blues on the Double Duke Ellington Orchestra ’A Date With The Duke’ Toledo OH ABC/AFRS Re-broadcast 1945 Set 4 1931 – 32 Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcriptions Music in the Moonlight (theme) + Say You Are Teasing Me Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo Delys Radio Transcription Hollywood 1931 Any Corner Is A Cosy Corner Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman Radio Transcription Hollywood 1932 Tomorrow + Music in the Moonlight (theme) Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo Delys Radio Transcription Hollywood 1931 Set 5 1930s-40s Dance Band Songs From The Movies Eine Insel aus Traumen geboren Hans Rehmstedt Orchestra Comm Rec from the film, “Eine Nacht in Mai” Berlin Dec 1938 Bei dir war es immer so schoen Kurt Were met seine Solisten Comm Rec from the film, “Anita und der Teufel” Berlin 1941 Aus lauter Liebe Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Peter Igelhoff Comm Rec from the film, “Capriolen” Berlin Jul 1937 Went Du einmal win Maedel magst Die Goldene Sieben Comm Rec from the film, “Sensationsprozess Casilla” Berlin Aug 1939 Set 6 Songs From The Early 1930s Gnaedige Frau, comma’ und spiel’ mit mir Hans Albers Comm Rec from the film, “Quick” 1932 Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave To Me Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines Aircheck 12 Jun 1934 Maniac’s Ball Glen Gary and the Casa Loma Orchestra Radio Transcription 1934 Fine and Dandy Anson Weeks Orchestra Radio Transcription 1932 Set 7 R’n’B Singers on 1956 Radio with the Count Basie Orchestra One O’Clock Jump (theme) + Tweedlee Dee LaVerne Baker ’Saturday Night Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 1956 I’ll Be True Faye Adams ’Saturday Night Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 1956 Dance With Me, Henry Etta James ’Saturday Night Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 1956 I Almost Lost My Mind Ivory Joe Hunter ’Saturday Night Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 1956 Set 8 Bop Takes on Old Songs Fine and Dandy Barry Ulanov’s All-Star Modern Jazz Musicians incl. Dizzy Gillespie ’Bands For Bonds’ WOR Mutual NYC 13 Sep 1947 What Is This Thing Called Love? Charlie Parker and strings Apollo Theatre NYC 17 Aug 1950 Out of Nowhere Miles Davis and Charlie Parker ’Symphony Sid Show’ WMCA NYC 18 Dec 1948 This Time The Dream’s On Me Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell ’Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NYC 30 Jun 1950

21 February 2017 Phantom Dancer Swing Jazz Mix – Why Is It So? (1960s TV)

The Phantom Dancer radio show is your two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985.

Live-streamed and archived online at 2ser.com. The Phantom Dancer is heard on over 22 radio stations.

You can hear it archived online now at radio 2ser.com

In the Phantom Dancer mix this week: (in the last hour of vinyl) airchecks by the Benny Goodman Orchestra and alumni Gene Krupa, Helen Ward and Harry James plus a set of women bands on radio including Ella Fitzgerald and Ann Mae Winburn.

See the full play list below.

Your Phantom Dancer video of the Week is another educational ‘Why Is It So?’ from ABC TV Sydney in the 1960s. In this episode, Professor Julius Sumner Miller investigates the fascinating physics behind balance.

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 #252 107.3 2SER Tuesday 21 February 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: 2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12 ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations. Set 1 Woody Herman on 1944 – 46 Radio Blue Flame (theme) + Irresistible You Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Frances Wayne Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS New York City 21 Aug 1944 Bijou Woody Herman Orchestra Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS New York City 23 Jul 1945 Wild Root + Blue Flame (theme) Woody Herman Orchestra ‘Wild Root Creme Oil Show’ Eastwood Gardens ABC Detroit Mich. 26 Apr 1946 Set 2 1950s Novelty Songs on the Radio The Thing Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) PH and Band Aircheck Hollywood 1950 Wimoweh Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Band Starlite Roof Edgewater Hotel CBS Madison Wis. 4 Aug 1952 Old Piano Roll Rock Vincent Lopez Orchestra (voc) Johnny Messner ‘One Night Stand’ Grill Room Hotel Taft NYC AFRTS Re-broadcast 1959 Set 3 Piano Jazz and Dance on 1930s Radio If You Were Someone Else + You and I Know + Goodbye Jonah Fairchild and Carroll WEAF NBC Red NY 15 Sep 1937 The New York Boat Ramona ‘Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue 2 Feb 1936 Oceans of Time + Let’s Face The Music and Dance (close) Dick Carroll and his Music ‘The World Dances’ WJSV CBS Washington DC 21 Sep 1939 Set 4 Stank Kenton 1941-45 Radio Transcriptions Got A Penny, Jenny? Stan Kenton Orchestra (voc) June Christy Radio Transcription Los Angeles Dec 1945 Flamingo Stan Kenton Orchestra (voc) Red Dorris Radio Transcription Los Angeles 6 Jan 1942 I Haven’t Got The Heart + Artistry In Rhythm (theme) Stan Kenton Orchestra Radio Transcription Los Angeles Oct 1941 Set 5 Benny Goodman and alumni Intro + Sugarfoot Stmp Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ Springfield Mass Blue Network 29 Sep 1943 Theme + Amour Gene Krupa Orchestra (voc) Anita O’Day Aircheck 1941 My Funny Valentine Helen Ward ‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WNBT-TV NBC NY 29 Mar 1949 Feet Draggin’ Blues Harry James Orchestra Aircheck Chatterbox Mountainside NJ Feb 1940 Set 6 Early 1930s Radio and Film Music Gnädige Frau komm und spiel mit mir Hans Albers ‘Quick’ (film) Berlin 19 32 Wagon Wheels Dorsey Brothers Orchestra ‘Chrysler Show’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934 You’re My Everything Anson Weeks Orchestra (voc) Pete Fylling Peacock Court Hotel Mark Hopkins KGO NBC San Francisco 1932 Somebody Love Me Ben Selvin Orchestra ‘Davis Gelatine Show’ Radio Transcription New York City 1932 Set 7 Women Band Leaders on 1940s Radio Galvanising International Sweethearts of Rhythm ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945 The Boogie Woogie Girl Dorothy Chatman Orchestra (voc) Sammy Price Comm Rec New York City 6 Apr 1944 Central Avenue Boogie Anna Mae Winburn (voc) International Sweethearts of Rhythm ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945 Chewin’ Gum + I Wanna Be A Rug Cutter Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra (voc) EF Savoy Ballroom WEAF NBC Red NY 4 Mar 1940 Set 8 Jazz on 1950s Telly Them There Eyes Billie Holliday ‘Tonight Show’ NBC Hollywood 1958 Ellington Medley Duke Ellington (piano) Tommy Dorsey (tb) Jimmy Dorsey (as) Lee Castle (tp) Buddy Rich (d) and Orchestra ‘Dorsey Brothers’ Stage Show’ CBS-TV NY 1 Jan 1955 St Louis Blues Jam Session Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan, Gene Krupa, lionel Hampton and more ‘Second Timex All-Star Jazz Show’ CBS-TV NY 30 Apr 1958