Barbara James, Australian 1930s-60s Swing Singer – 18 May 2021 Phantom Dancer

Barbara James, Australian dance band singer features on this week’s Phantom Dancer with some of her broadcasts from the 1930s and 1940s. This is a repeat of a 2018 mix as I’ll be filming this Tuesday.

Presented every week by, Greg Poppleton, The Phantom Dancer, is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV.

It’s recorded live at 107.3 2SER Sydney, Tuesdays 12:04 – 2pm, and sent to 23 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online.

Hear this week’s Phantom Dancer (after 1 May), and plenty of past Phantom Dancers for your enjoyment, online at radio 2ser.com

In the mix this week, live 1930s-60s radio by Glenn Miller’s Army Air Forces Band, Lee Konitz, Charlie Parker in Boston, a Frank Sinatra aircheck from 1939 (singing his first record release), singer Loyce Whiteman (daughter of ‘King of Jazz’ Paul Whiteman), and Australian dance band singer, Barbara James.

See the full play list below.

BARBARA JAMES

Born in Sydney in 1907 (some sources say 1908), Barbara James was a jazz and swing singer. Her parents were entertainers Will James and Malvena Moore. Her father, Will, taught her to play the saxophone, xylophone and banjo. She also played violin and danced. She was married to musician and band leader, Reg Lewis, who we’ll also here on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

Over her career, James performed and recorded with numerous jazz bands in Australia such as Frank Coughlan’s Trocadero Orchestra, Dick Freeman and his Trocadero Orchestra and Johnny Tozer and his Swing Band.

From 1921, she was contracted by Harry George Musgrove to Musgrove’s Theatres, appearing at theatres in Sydney and Melbourne, including the Tivoli circuit and Trocadero, and on ABC radio.

She first appeared on the Tivoli theatre circuit billed as a ‘child wonder xylophonist’.

This week’s Phantom Dancer presents a selection of her radio broadcasts from 1937-45.

Barbara toured Hong Kong in 1946. From 1949 to 1955, Reg and Barbara Lewis toured Europe and Britain.

In London, they performed in the West End at Café Anglaise and the Windmill Theatre.

London variety shows featuring Reg and Barbara Lewis included, ‘Stars, Songs and Society’ Windmill Theatre London, 1950, ‘Nudes of the East’ 1951, ‘The Talk of the Town’ Tribe Bros Ltd London, 1950-1951 and ‘Midday Music Hall’, 1953.

They appeared on BBC radio and TV.

They had a regular 15 minute vocal and piano show on Sydney radio in the 1960s called, ‘Between You and Me’.

18 MAY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #491
107.3 2SER Tuesday 18 MAY 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 4RPH Brisbane Sunday 3 – 4am 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Swing Bands on 1943-44 Radio
Theme + The Carioca	Richard Himber Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Aniston, Alabama Blue Network 13 Nov 1943
I’m Beginning To See the Light (theme) + The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else	Enoch Light and the Light Brigade	‘One Night Stand’ New Park Casino Palisades Park NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
One Night Stand + Close	Denny Beckner Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Norfolk, Virginia AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Mar 1944
Set 2	Charlie Parker in Boston
Ornithology	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Hi-Hat Club WCOP Boston 18 Dec 1953
Laura	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Hi-Hat Club WCOP Boston 1954
Out of Nowhere + Jumping with Symphony Sid	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Hi-Hat Club WCOP Boston 24 Jan 1954
Set 3	Barbara James
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love	Barbara James (voc) Reg Lewis and his Trocadero Orchestra	Comm Rec Sydney 1941
It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing	Barbara James (voc) Frank Coughlan Trocadero Orchestra	Radio Transcription Sydney June 1937
Small Town Boogie	Barbara James (voc) Albert Fisher Orchestra	ABC Sydney 1944
Set 4	1950s Swing on Radio
It’s All In The Game	Ray Anthony Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1952
Disorder at the Border	Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Horace Silver	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 1952
Everything Happens To Me	Matt Denis Trio (MD voc)	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Chi Chi Club WRCA NBC NY 15 Jun 1955
Set 5	Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra 1943-44
Jeep Jockey Jump	Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra	‘Uncle Sam Presents’ AFRS Re-broadcast Oct 1943
Theme + Flying Home	Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra	‘I Sustain The Wings’ Chicago Theatre WMAQ NBC Chicago 10 Jun 1944
Don’t Be That Way	Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra	‘Uncle Sam Presents’ AFRS Re-broadcast Feb 1944
There Are Yanks + Close	Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra (voc) Ray McKinley and the Crew Chiefs	‘I Sustain The Wings’ WEAF NBC New York City 15 Apr 1944
Set 6	Early Harry James Orchestra
Cirribirribin (theme) + Tuxedo Junction	Harry James Orchestra	Southland Cafe WNAC NBC Red Boston 19 Mar 1940
FRom The Bottom Of My Heart	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra	‘America Dances’ WABC CBS NY and BBC London 19 Jul 1939
Andalucia (The Breeze and I)	Harry James Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS New York City 22 May 1941
Feet Draggin’ Blues + Close	Harry James Orchestra	Aircheck Chatterbox Club Mountainside NJ 1940
Set 7	Loyce Whiteman 1930s Cocoanut Grove
Sweet and Lovely (theme) + I’m Through With Love	Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman	‘Cocoanut Grove’ TRANSCO Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
Rain On The Roof	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman	‘Cocoanut Grove’ TRANSCO Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1932
Whistling in the Dark	Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman	‘Cocoanut Grove’ TRANSCO Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
You Could Have Been the One, Baby	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman	‘Cocoanut Grove’ TRANSCO Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1932
Set 8	Lee Konitz 1954 Radio
Open + Hi Beck	Lee Konitz	Storyville Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston 5 Jan 1954
Subconscious Lee	Lee Konitz	Storyville Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston 5 Jan 1954

Sweet Sue – 1928 Song – Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2

Sweet Sue – a happy song for a Happy New Year! It’s an upbeat 1920s song for you to celebrate the end of 2020. Sweet Sue soundtrack is from the 2020 album ‘Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2’

 

Video clips are from shows at Glen Street Theatre, Sydney Central Station, NSW Rail Museum, and the Camelot Lounge Marrickville with swing dancers – Sue Ann Yap, All About Swing, Sydney Swing Katz. 

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Band bookings

Band on Sweet Sue soundtrack: Greg Poppleton: 1920s – 1930s vocals Paul Furniss: clarinet Al Davey: trumpet Grahame Conlon: guitar Mark Harris: double bass Lawrie Thompson: drums and washboard

Band in film clips: Greg Poppleton: 1920s – 1930s vocals Damon Poppleton: alto sax Grahame Conlon: guitar and banjo Geoff Power: sousaphone Rod Herbert: sousaphone Adam Barnard: washboard Bob Gillespie: drums

Lee Wiley – Phantom Dancer 3 November 2020

Lee Wiley is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. You’ll hear the American jazz singer in broadcasts from the 1930s and 40s

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LEE WILEY

Wiley began her radio career at KVOO in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She left home at 15 to sing on New York City radio stations. Her career was interrupted by a fall while horseback riding. She suffered temporary blindness but recovered. At the age of 19 she was a member of the Leo Reisman Orchestra. In 1931 she recorded three songs with Reisman, ‘Take It from Me’, ‘Time On My Hands’, and her composition ‘Got the South in My Soul’.

She sang on the Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt program on NBC in 1932 and was featured on Victor Young’s radio show in 1933.

She rose to fame in the summer of 1934 on the Paul Whiteman Kraft Show. She was also heard on CBS with Willard Robison’s orchestra and then on her own 15 minute summer series in 1936, some of which we’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

ALBUMS

In 1939, Wiley recorded an album of eight Gershwin songs on 78s with a small group for Liberty Music Shop Records. The set sold well and was followed by albums of 78s dedicated to the music of Cole Porter (1940) and Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart (1940 and 1954), Harold Arlen (1943), and 10″ LPs dedicated to the music of Vincent Youmans and Irving Berlin (1951).

She was a favourite of Eddie Condon and sang on the later episodes of his 1944-45 Blue Network ‘Eddie Condon’s Jazz Concerts’ series which you’ll also hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

On October 11, 1963, Bob Hope Theater on NBC-TV presented ‘Something About Lee Wiley’. Piper Laurie portrayed Wiley in the episode. Wiley’s singing voice was provided by Joy Bryan.

MARRIAGE

Wiley married  jazz pianist Jess Stacy in 1943. The couple was described by their friend Deane Kincaide as being as “compatible as two cats, tails tied together, hanging over a clothesline”; they divorced in 1948. Her response to Stacy’s desire to get a divorce was, “What will Bing Crosby be thinking of you divorcing me?”, while Stacy said of Wiley, “They did not burn the last witch at Salem.”

VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Lee Wiley sings ‘Manhattan’

3 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream Community Radio Network Show CRN #439
107.3 2SER Tuesday 3 November 2020 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program  5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm  1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Women Singers on 1950s Radio
Open + I Woke Up Crying	Les and Larry Elgart Orchestra (voc) Joni James	‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription 1950s
Take Mine	Betty Madigan	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription 17 Feb 1957
You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To	Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) Lynn Franklyn	Salt-Air Ballroom KDYL Salt Lake City 5 Jun 1957
Set 2	Australian Radio
Over There	Wally Portingale Orchestra	‘All In Fun Revue’ 2CH AWA Sydney Sep 1943
Swingin’ the Blues	Wally Portingale Orchestra	‘The Army on Parade” 2CH AWA Sydney Sep 1943
Here’s Hooey	Ward Leopold	Comm Rec Sydney 1940
Set 3	Lee Wiley
Three Little Words	Lee Wiley	‘Lee Wiley Sings’ WABC CBS NY 12 Aug 1936
Song of the Wanderer	Eddie Condon Ensemble	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 10 Feb 1945
You’re a Sweetheart	Lee Wiley	KHJ Mutual LA 10 Mar 1938
Set 4	Chamber Music
Theme + Overture to the Marriage of Figaro	Paul Lavalle	’The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street ’  WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941
Ida	Diane Courtney	’The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street ’  WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941
Jazz Me Blues	George Barnes	’The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street ’  WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941
Shoo Fly, Don’t Bother Me	Henry Levine Octet	’The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street ’  WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941
Set 5	Movie Music
Double or Nothing Medley	Louis Levy and the Gaumont British Symphony	Comm Rec London 1937
Heigh-Ho	Bunny Berrigan (voc) Gail Reese	Paradise Restaurant WABC CBS NY 10 Apr 1938
Pennies From Heaven	The Mills Brothers	‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription NYC 1937
Swingin’ on a Star	Louis Armstrong (voc) Louis Armstrong Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Tuskagee Airfield Alabama AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Oct 1944
Set 6	Harry James
Theme + Joe Blow	Harry James Orchestra	The Click WCAU CBS Philadelphia 1943
I Can’t Begin To Tell You	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Ginny Powell	Meadowbrook Gardens Cedar Grove NJ WABC CBS NY 10 Feb 1946
Forgotton	Harry James Orchestra	‘Call for Music’ KFI NBC LA 1948
Two O’Clock Jump	Harry James Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof  WNBC NBC NYC 25 May 1953
Set 7	Mildred Bailey 1944-45 Radio
Rocking Chair (theme) + Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 1944
Stormy Weather	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 24 Nov 1944
From The Land of the Sky Blue Water	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 1944
Summertime	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jan 1945
Set 8	1940s Progressive Radio
I’d Rather Have a Memory Than a Dream	Sarah Vaughan	Comm Rec 25 May 1945
Hurry Home	Buddy Stewart	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 5 Mar 1949
Groovin’ The Blues	Miss Rhapsody (Viola Wells) (voc)	Comm Rec NYC 6 Jul 1944

Cabaret of 1920s – 30s Songs

An hour cabaret of 1920s – 1930s songs by Greg Poppleton (1920s-30s-style singer) and Grahame Conlon (banjo / guitar)

No microphone (the suspension mic is a prop) and no audio sweetening. The sound is Zoom via an inbuilt laptop mic. We’re sitting on a lounge so this could also be called Lounge Music.

Every year since 2006 we’ve played an annual concert in the historic Bondi Pavilion next to iconic Bondi Beach. This year the concert was online because of Covid and restoration work at the Pavilion.

Greg’s authenticity in 1920s – 30s singing comes from a lifetime of listening. He also trained in bel canto singing with Steve Ostrow of Continental Baths fame. Steve discovered Bette Midler and relaunched the career of Peter Allen. Cab Calloway, Margaret Whiting and Josephine Baker sang in his club.

Greg sings in an Australian accent, including when he sings in German, Spanish and Italian. He sometimes sings while eating a banana. The Jazz Police called during the show.

Songs in this spontaneous, energetic cabaret include The Charleston, Yes We Have No Bananas and Carolina in the Morning.

Bookings & Music Website: https://www.gregpoppletonmusic.com

Greg has put out 8 albums. His new album, released in July 2020, is ‘Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2’.
Read Dave J Doyle’s review of ‘Tin Pan Alley Vol. 2’ in the online US magazine, ‘The Syncopated Times’: https://syncopatedtimes.com/greg-poppleton-%E2%80%A2-tin-pan-alley-vol-2/

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Enjoy!

The Jazz Banana

The JAZZ BANANA is overlooked by writers on the music despite it requiring advanced vocal technique and it being tastier than vocalese. This is the alt. take of ‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’ (1928) for 1920s-30s Wednesdays Damon & I did last week. A different improvisiation by Damon Poppleton in the 2nd chorus. I think you’ll agree that jazz banana adds a mellow fruitiness to the 3rd. Bring out your vege!

I Can’t Give You Anything But Love with Banana, recorded Wednesday, 29 April 2020, music by Jimmy McHugh, lyrics by Dorothy Fields (1928).

More music at www.gregpoppletonmusic.com

This week’s Phantom Dancer swing jazz mix has Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson playing Bix Beidebecke piano pieces as feature artist. Tune in now.

Larry Clinton 1930s and 40s Radio – Phantom Dancer 21 January 2020

The Tuesday 21 January Phantom Dancer on radio and online – your two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio with Greg Poppleton – opens with Larry Clinton as feature artist from live 1930s-40s radio.

You can hear The Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

The last hour is all vinyl.

LARRY

The Phantom Dancer kicks off with 1930s-40s airchecks by The Dipsy Doodler, swing band leader Larry Clinton.

Larry Clinton was a trumpeter who became a prominent American bandleader and arranger in the late 1930s

He also played trombone and clarinet. In his twenties, he became a prolific arranger for the dance orchestras of Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Glen Gray, Louis Armstrong and Bunny Berigan.

His first stint as a bandleader was from 1937 to 1941, and he recorded a string of hits for Victor Records while broadcasting on air for such Clinton feature RCA Victor NBC programs as ‘Larry Clinton’s Campus Club’.

CLINTON

The Clinton band’s repertoire included pop tunes of the day and ambitious instrumentals penned by Clinton (the most popular, “A Study in Brown,” spawned four sequels in different colours).

His swing adaptations of classical compositions swept the industry, and orchestras everywhere were “swinging the classics” by adding pop lyrics to melodies by Debussy and Tchaikovsky. His version of Debussy’s “Reverie”, with vocalist Bea Wain, was particularly popular. Entitled “My Reverie”, his version peaked at #1 on Billboard’s Record Buying Guide in 1938.

SOUNDIES

Clinton’s band was predominantly a recording group that also played college proms and hotel ballrooms. On the strength of Clinton’s record hit “The Dipsy Doodle,” Vitaphone and Paramount Pictures signed the band to star in three 10-minute theatrical films. All were filmed in New York.

In 1941 Clinton and his band appeared in six short musical films designed for then-popular “movie jukeboxes.” (The films were ultimately released as Soundies in 1943.) This was one of his last jobs as a bandleader.

AIR FORCE

He quit the music business on the outbreak of World War II and joined the United States Army Air Forces. A rated pilot, he rose to the rank of captain, was stationed with the Air Transport Command in Calcutta and China during Hump airlift, and was a flight instructor with the 1343rd Base Unit.

He resumed his musical career and enjoyed new success as a bandleader from 1948 to 1950. He remained active in the music business – often leading a studio band for pop singers like Barry Frank – until 1961.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Larry Clinton and the Orchestra with Bea Wain singing the aforementioned ‘My Reverie’ in a 1941 ‘soundie’. 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.

21 JANUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #420
107.3 2SER Tuesday 21 January 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Larry Clinton ‘The Dipsy Doodler’ on 1938-48 Radio
The Dipsy Doodle (theme) + Zigzag	Larry Clinton Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WEAF NBC Red NY 1938
In A Mist	Larry Clinton Orchestra	Hotel Park Central WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jul 1939
Lonesome Road + Study In Brown (Close)	Larry Clinton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 18 Dec 1948
Set 2	‘Here’s To Veterans’ 1947-55 Radio Transcription Series
Manhattan (open) + Dark Dream	Georgie Auld	‘Here’s To Veterans’ Radio Transcription 1955
Bloop Bleep	Nat King Cole Trio (voc) Woody Herman	‘Here’s To Veterans’ Radio Transcription 5 Jul 1947
Cow Cow Boogie + Blacksmith Blues (close)	Ella Mae Morse	‘Here’s To Veterans’ Radio Transcription 1954
Set 3	1930s – 40s Mickey Mouse Bands on Radio
Feeling For Me Of You	Tommy Carlyn (voc) Gail Saunders	Bill Green’s Casino Pittsburgh NBC 1942
The Girl With The Light Blue Hair	Benny Krueger Orchestra	WOR Mutual NY 28 Apr 1940
The More I Know + Robins and Roses + Station Schedule (fades)	Clint Noble Orchestra (voc) Trio	WEAF NBC Red NY 3 Jul 1936
Set 4	Trad Bands on Live 1955-56 Radio
Theme + Royal Garden Blues	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 5 Feb 1955
The Boppinpoof Song	Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘All-Star Parade of Jazz’ Basin Street WRCA NBC NY 8 May 1955
Shine	Al Hirt Jazz Band	‘Jazz Band Ball’ WWL CBS New Orleans 18 Aug 1956
Set 5	1934 – 36 Radio Bands
Maniac’s Ball	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1934
There’s A Small Hotel	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Maxine Gray	‘Lady Ester Serenade’ WEAF NBC Red NY 26 Aug 1936
Sweet and Lowdown	Anson Weeks Orchestra	Radio Transcription Peacock Court Hotel Mark Hopkins San Francisco 1932
Love is Just Around The Corner + When Day Is Done	Henry Busse Orchestra (voc) Marion Holmes	Radio Transcription Hollywood 1935
Set 6	Harry James on the Air
The One I Love	Harry James Orchestra (voc) The Skylarks	‘Call For Music’ KFI NBC LA 1948
Two O’Clock Jump	Harry James Octet	Aircheck 1950
Jump Sauce	Harry James Orchestra	Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca KFI NBC LA 10 Feb 1946
It’s A Wonderful World	Harry James Orchestra	Southland Cafe WNAC NBC Boston 19 Mar 1940
Set 7	Modern Jazz Small Groups on 1940s-50s Radio
Tiny Grimes	Tiny Grimes Quartet	Comm Rec New York City 3 Nov 1944
O-Go-Mo	Charlie Ventura	Aircheck 1951
The 7-11 Jump	Erroll Garner Trio	Basin Street WRCA NBC NY May 1956
Somebody Loves Me + Goodbye	Benny Goodman Sextet (with Alistair Cooke)	‘Kings of Jazz’ BBC New York City 8 Dec 1945
Set 8	Charlie Parker on WMCA 1948-49
52nd Street Theme	Charlie Parker (as) Miles Davis (tp) Tadd Dameron (piano) Curley Russell (bass) Max Roach (d)	Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Sep 1948
Hot House	Charlie Parker (as) Kenny Dorham (tp) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Joe Harris (d)	Royal Roost WMCA NY 15 Jan 1949
Ornithology	Charlie Parker (as) Miles Davis (tp) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Max Roach (d)	Royal Roost WMCA NY 11 Dec 1948

Live: Air Drum Solo on 1920s Dinah Song

Greg Poppleton sings the 1925 hit, Dinah. Watch out for the Air Drum solo.

With Dave Clayton double bass and Air Drums, Grahame Conlon banjo, Damon Poppleton soprano sax.

Filmed live, Sat 18 January 2020.

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The Syncopated Times – New Album Review by Dave J Doyle

Thank you Dave Doyle for your write-up about the band and the new album ’20s 30s Tin Pan Alley’ in ‘The Syncopated Times‘.

20s 30s Tin Pan Alley Vol. 1 – “It’s a mix of the very familiar and the lesser-known. “My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes” is a particular pleasure, featuring the occasional comedy bird whistle and clearly sung with a big smile. In fact, Greg must have been sore from grinning throughout his studio sessions, if his unwaveringly upbeat tone is anything to go by.” Dave J Doyle, The Syncopated Times, Nov 2019.

Grab your copy of the album now from Apple https://music.apple.com/us/album/20s-30s-tin-pan-alley-vol-1/1477720009

Kid Ory Tailgate Trombone On Live 1949-55 Radio – The Phantom Dancer 22 October 2019

KID

On this week’s Phantom Dancer presented by myself, Greg Poppleton, the second 2SER Supporter Drive 2019 show,  I’ve put together a non-stop mix of some of my favourite and rare swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio. The feature artist this week is trad trombonist Kid Ory in broadcasts from 1949, 54 and 55.

ONLINE

This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online right after the 22 October 107.3 2SER Sydney live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney.

SUPPORT

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ORY

Edward ‘Kid’ Ory was a Louisiana French-speaking bandleader and one of the most influential trombonists of early jazz.

He started playing music with homemade instruments in his childhood. By his teens he was leading a well-regarded band in southeast Louisiana. He kept LaPlace, Louisiana, as his base of operations because of family obligations until his twenty-first birthday, when he moved his band to New Orleans.

TAILGATE

Ory was a banjo player during his youth. He said banjo skills helped him develop ‘tailgate’, his style of playing the trombone with a rhythmic line underneath the trumpets and cornets.

Ory had one of the best-known bands in New Orleans in the 1910s, hiring many of the great jazz musicians of the city, including the cornetists Joe ‘King’ Oliver, Louis Armstrong, who joined the band in 1919, and clarinetists Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone.

WEST

He moved to Los Angeles in 1919 and recorded there in 1921 with a band that included Mutt Carey, the clarinetist and pianist Dink Johnson, and the double bassist Ed Garland. Garland and Carey were longtime associates who would still be playing with Ory during his 1940s comeback which we’ll be hearing on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

NORTH

In 1925, Ory moved to Chicago to play record with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Oliver, Johnny Dodds, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. He mentored Benny Goodman and, later, Charles Mingus.

WEST AGAIN

During the Great Depression Ory retired from music. He did not play again until 1943. He ran a chicken farm in California. From 1944 to about 1961 he led one of the top New Orleans–style bands of the period. His sidemen during this period included Carey and Garland, the trumpeters Alvin Alcorn and Teddy Buckner; the clarinetists Darnell Howard, Jimmie Noone, Albert Nicholas, Barney Bigard, and George Probert, pianists Buster Wilson, Cedric Haywood, and Don Ewell, and drummer Minor Hall.

IMPORTANT

The Ory band was an important force in reviving interest in New Orleans jazz, making popular 1940s radio broadcasts—among them a number of slots on The Orson Welles Almanac program. In 1944–45 the group made a series of recordings for Crescent Records, which was founded by Nesuhi Ertegun for the express purpose of recording Ory’s band.

During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Ory and his group appeared at the Beverly Cavern in Los Angeles. In the mid-50s he played Club Hangover in San Francisco. Ory retired from music in 1966 and spent his last years in Hawaii.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is film of Kid Ory playing with Henry ‘Red’ Allen at the Salle Pleyel Paris in 1959.

22 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #410
107.3 2SER Tuesday 22 October 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Selling Cars in 1936
Open + It’s You I’m Talking About	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby	‘Ford V8 Revue’ Radio Transcription 1936
Open + On Your Toes	Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians (voc) Glee Club and Johnny Davis	‘Ford and Lincoln Program’ WABC CBS NY 14 Apr 1936
I’d Rather Lead a Band + Close	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby and The Freshman Trio	‘Ford V8 Revue’ Radio Transcription 1936
Set 2	Jazz from 1960 Radio
Open + Love Letters	Rodolfo Alchurron Quartet	‘Este es Jazz’ LR1 Radio Buenos Aires 28 Mat 1960
Get Out of Town	Patty MacGovern	‘Jazz International’ AFRTS Re-broadcast Los Angeles 16 Jun 1960
Rhythm-a-Ning	Thelonius Monk	‘World Jazz Series’ Connie Mack Park Hershey, Pennsylvania CBS 3 Mar 1960
Set 3	Earliest Radio
Open + I’m a Dreamer, Aren’t We All?	Leonard Joy Orchestra	‘Coca Cola Top Notchers’ WEAF NBC Red NY 19 Mar 1930
Call Of The Freaks	Red Nichols Orchestra	‘Heat’ Radio Transcription 1 Aug 1930
Medley (includes If I Can’t Have You + I’ll Close My Eyes To The Rest of the World	Colonial Club Orchestra	‘Brunswick Brevities’ WABC CBS NY Oct 1929
Set 4	Kid Ory
Theme + Royal Garden Blues	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 5 Feb 1955
Theme + Mississippi Mud	Kid Ory	Beverly Cavern Club KGFJ Los Angeles 28 Jun 1949
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate + Chinatown, My Chinatown	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 6 Nov 1954
Set 5	Breakfast Radio 1935-55
Open + Habanera	Unidentified Orchestra	WJSV CBS Washington DC 21 Sep 1939
Pick Yourself Up + A Fine Romance	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis	Morning Radio Oct 1935
I Never Knew	Rayond Scott’s Captivators	‘Morning Music’ WABC CBS NY 10 Jan 1943
Open+ Rain	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra	‘NBC Bandstand’ WRCA NBC NY 1956
Set 6	Women Singers on the Air
Oh Babe, Maybe Some Day	Ivie Anderson (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	Cotton Club WABC CBS NY 24 Mar 1938
They Can’t Take That Away from Me	Billie Holliday (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	Aircheck Savoy Ballroom, Harlem 30 Jul 1937
Mad About The Boy	Lena Horne (voc) Fletcher Henderson Orchestra	‘Jubille’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
There’ll Be A Jubilee	Dinah Washington (voc) Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Culver City CA AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jun 1944
Set 7	1943 – 45 Australian Swing
Jungle Jive	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Elsie Wardrope	Comm Rec Sydney
Johnny Zero	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Joan Blake	Comm Rec Sydney
Say a Prayer For the Boys Over There	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Joan Blake	Comm Rec Sydney
There, I’ve Said It Again	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Tassie Hamilton	Comm Rec Sydney
Set 8	Charlie Parker
Scrapple From The Apple	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 15 Jan 1949
What Is Bop?	Symphony Sid	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 19 Feb 1949
Oo-Bop-Sha-Bam	Charlie Parker (voc) Band	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 22 Jan 1949

Press Release – New Album ’20s 30s Tin Pan Alley Volume 1′

PRESS RELEASE
Greg Poppleton Releases Volume 1 in his Three Part Album Series,
‘20s 30s Tin Pan Alley Vol. 1’

Greg Poppleton has released the first volume in a three album series called, ‘20s 30s Tin Pan Alley’  as a limited edition CD and downloads.

Listen to ‘Happy Days Are Here Again’ in German and English as a thank you to the band’s may online fans in Germany…

Available now at
Bandcamp: https://gregpoppleton.bandcamp.com/album/20s-30s-tin-pan-alley-vol-1

CDBaby: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/gregpoppleton

Apple iTunes: https://music.apple.com/us/album/20s-30s-tin-pan-alley-vol-1/1477720009

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5CckWNaTr68d3Bdo0gH03G

Greg describes himself as an authentic 1920s – 30s singer. “While I wasn’t alive in the 20s and 30s,” Greg says, “I fulfil all the other qualities of authentic for this style of vocal jazz and swing.”

1. When he was 3, he saw Louis Armstrong on TV and fell in love with the music. He was hooked on 20s jazz and 30s swing from then on and is a rarity in that to get to this music he didn’t migrate from some ‘youth’ music genre. I’m totally uninfluenced by other music.
2. Vocalists in the 20s and 30s needed strong voices to be heard. Greg’s a classically trained singer. His coach had been taught by Tito Schipa and Lauritz Melchior.
3. He’s not a jazz instrumentalist holding a tune while putting on a megaphone voice.

The nine songs on the album include a special German and English version of ‘Happy Days Are Here Again’ as a thank you to the many fans Greg has in Germany.

• Website: https://www.gregpoppletonmusic.com
• Tour schedule:
  October 12 – One Enchanted Evening – magic & music show Sydney
  November 9 – Saturday Jazz – Penrith
  January 18 – Saturday Jazz – Penrith
  February 1 – Great Art Deco Ball – 1920s Festival Katoomba
  March 15 – Jazz At The Pines – Dural
  August 12 – Bondi Pavilion
  October 20 – Private Event
• Album release details:
  Greg Poppleton – 1920s – 30s vocals
  Al Davey – trumpet and trombone
  Paul Furniss – alto sax and clarinet
  Grahame Conlon – guitar, banjo and ukulele
  Geoff Power – sousaphone
  Rod Herbert – sousaphone (song 6)
  Adam Barnard – washboard and snare
  Lawrie Thompson – drums and washboard (songs 2, 6, 8)

  Recorded by Peter Gage, Paul Mirtschin and Peter O’Malley, Sydney.
  Phil Punch and Jem Hoppe, Electric Cave.
  Mixed by Phil Punch and Jem Hoppe, Electric Cave, Sydney.
  Mastered by Bob Scott, Bob Scott Audio Design and Recording, Sydney.
  Artwork by Michele Tenaglia, Turin.

• Discography:
  (2006) The Phantom Dancer
  (2012) Doin’ The Charleston
  (2013) Sweet Sue
  (2016) Back In Your Own Backyard
  (2019) 20s 30s Tin Pan Alley Vol. 1

BIO
Greg Poppleton has been leading bands singing the songs of the 1920s – 30s since 1994. He began his present band in 2002. Since then, Greg has played jazz festivals and venues in Australia and the Waiheke International Jazz Festival in New Zealand. Two of Greg’s albums have been played on Sydney commercial radio. Greg has also been an award-winning jazz broadcaster since 1985. His Phantom Dancer radio show is heard on over 20 radio stations across Australia and online.

“FIVE STARS. Poppleton’s vocals capture the essence of the 1920s- 1930s with uncanny accuracy.”
— John Gilbert, eJazzNews (U.S)

“Last year at the Melbourne Jazz Festival and the Thredbo Jazz Festival I saw some great acts. I made Greg Poppleton an offer [to play at the Waiheke International Jazz Festival] on the spot.”
— John Quigley, Director Waiheke International Jazz Festival

“Captures the 1920s – 1930s vocal style to perfection.”
— Kevin Jones 102.5 Fine Music FM

“Absolutely flooring. Greg Poppleton’s 1920s – 1930s jazz and swing always hits the spot.”
— Women’s Vintage Radio (U.S)

“Greg Poppleton was considered a little eccentric growing up in the mid-‘70s, rifling through the back shelves of music stores looking for recordings from the Swing Era”
— Sue Javes, Sydney Morning Herald

“Greg nails the 1920s vocal stylings.”
— Bill Lawson, Radio Adelaide

“Awesome. Totally fun.”
— Jesse Miner – ‘Hey, Mr Jesse’ Swing Podcast (US)

“Poppleton and company get inside each tune with their complete commitment to the style.”
— Budd Kopman, All About Jazz (U.S)

“Hi Greg. I “met” you (not in person) during your Friday evening performance at the Waiheke Jazz Festival. I live my life on purpose and in the moment, rarely missing a calling / opportunity. However, during your performance I totally froze when you made eye contact, and I could not bring myself to talk to you afterwards. I regret not telling you that your music has moved and inspired me. Thank you for giving of yourself so generously! With best wishes for your future,”
— W.T.  NZ

’20s 30s Tin Pan Alley Vol. 1′ available now at
Bandcamp: https://gregpoppleton.bandcamp.com/album/20s-30s-tin-pan-alley-vol-1

CDBaby: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/gregpoppleton

Apple iTunes: https://music.apple.com/us/album/20s-30s-tin-pan-alley-vol-1/1477720009

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5CckWNaTr68d3Bdo0gH03G