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

IT’S TRAD, DAD!

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

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PHANTOM DANCER

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

FRONTLINE

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

REVIVAL

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

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

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

The last hour is all vinyl.

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

Enjoy!

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

Thank you.

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

‘Behind the Scenes’ 20s Clip: The Phantom Dancer Live

How The Phantom Dancer looks in the studio.

Filmed for Radio 2SER. I’m introducing the 18 September Phantom Dancer feature set of Lester Young from live 1940s-50s radio.

Hear the full 18 September show and a whole year of past Phantom Dancers, presented by me, Greg Poppleton, since 1985. Australia’s longest-running swing DJ show.

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.

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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

Harry James and Arban’s – 3 October Phantom Dancer + ‘Leave It To Harry’ (1954)

If the 26 September show is anything to go by, the 3 October Phantom Dancer, one week before the annual 2SER Subscriber Drive, is going to be the best show ever.

This week you’ll Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye and tune in for Part 5 of the Harry James aircheck series 1953-54. Indeed, the entire Vinyl Hour of The Phantom Dancer is devoted to trumpet band leaders on live radio: Louis Armstrong, Harry James, Erskine Hawkins and Dizzy Gillespie.

Your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV is presented by myself, Greg Poppleton, over radio station 107.3 2SER Sydney. I’ve been bringing you The Phantom Dancer since 1985.

You can now hear it live-streamed and online on Radio 2SER’s website: http://www.2ser.com/phantomdancer.

HARRY JAMES
Since we are up to Part 5 in our chronological review of radio airchecks by trumpeter Harry James, it is worth noting here that just like Fats Waller, discussed in last week’s Phantom Dancer play list notes, Harry James also had a classical background when learning his instrument.

Harry James was none for his great facility on the trumpet and his wonderful tone. Harry’s father was a circus band leader. He started teaching Harry trumpet when Harry was aged 10.  The lesson regime was that each day, he had to learn a page from the Arban’s book.

What’s the Arban’s book? It’s the instruction book for cornet, flugelhorn and trumpet written by the famous Joseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban  before 1859.

Arban was a cornetist, conductor, composer, teacher and the first famed virtuoso of the cornet. He was influenced by Niccolò Paganini’s virtuosic technique on the violin and successfully proved that the cornet was a true solo instrument by developing virtuoso technique it.

Arban’s book consists of:  Introduction / First Studies / Playing Methods: Slurring or Legato Playing /  Scales / Ornaments / Advanced Studies / Tonguing / Phrasing: 150 Classic and Popular Melodies / 68 Duets for Two Cornets / 14 Characteristic Studies / Celebrated Fantasies and Airs Varies

See the full Phantom Dancer play list below.

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

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #281 107.3 2SER Tuesday 3 October 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 Dance Bands on 1944-1950 Radio Small Town Boogie Barbara James (voc) Albert Fisher Orchestra Aircheck Sydney 1944 Sunrise Serenade (theme) + Let’s Do It Again Frankie Carle Orchestra (voc) Band ’Your Saturday Dance Date’ Marine Dining Room Edgewater Beach Hotel WMAQ NBC Chicago 12 Aug 1950 On The Beach At Waikiki + Aloha Oe Harry Owens Orchestra (voc) Prince Kawuhi and Chorus ’Sweet Leihani’ Mural Room Hotel St Francis KPO NBC San Francisco 1940s Set 2 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye Theme + Just A Prayer Away Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) Billy Williams ’Sunday Serenade’ WJZ Blue Network NYC 15 Apr 1945 It’s A Great Feeling Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) The Kaydettes and Kaye Choir ’Sammy Kaye’s Showroom’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1949 How Deep Is The Ocean? + I’m In The Mood For Love + Avalon + Close Sammy Kaye Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Hotel Astor Roof AFRS re-broadcast 27 Aug 1945 Set 3 Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street 1941 Open + Ballin’ The Jack Henry Levine Dixieland Octet ’Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 18 Aug 1941 Peter and the Wolf Paul Laval Woodwinds ’Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 23 Jun 1941 Gone With What Wind + Close Paul Laval Woodwinds ’Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 4 Aug 1941 Set 4 Swing Bands on 1943-46 Radio I’ve Got You Under My Skin Leo Reisman Orchestra ’Spotlight Bands’ National Press Club Washington DC Blue Network 23 Jun 1943 Open + Look For The Silver Lining Andy Russell (voc) Toots Cammerata Orchestra ’Double Feature’ AFRS Re-broadcast 2 Oct 1944 Tuesday at Ten + Close Ray McKinley Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Century Room Commodore Hotel AFRS Re-broadcast 1946 Set 5 Louis Armstrong Theme + If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight Louis Armstrong Orchestra ’Jubilee’ AFRS New York City Mar 1943 Super Tiger Rag Louis Armstrong and French Orchestra Comm Rec Paris 1934 Lazy River Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA ’Spotlight Bands’ Dallas TX Blue Network 17 Aug 1943 Royal Garden Blues Louis Armstrong All-Stars ’Damon Runyon Memorial Jazz Concert’ Blue Note ABC Chicago 11 Dec 1948 Set 6 Harry James on 1953-54 Radio Stomp and Whistle Harry James Orchestra (voc) Buddy Rich Aircheck Superior WI 29 May 1954 Down South Camp Meeting Harry James Orchestra Aircheck Hotel Astor Roof NYC 25 May 1953 Open + Stealin’ Apples Harry James Orchestra Aircheck Aragon Ballroom Chicago 18 Jun 1954 Back Beat Boogie Harry James Orchestra Aircheck Aragon Ballroom Chicago 20 Jun 1954 Set 7 Erskine Hawkins What Do You Know About Love? Erskine Hawkins Orchestra (voc) Ida James Comm Rec New York City 20 Oct 1938 Open + Eelibuj Boogie Erskine Hawkins Orchestra Paradise Restaurant WOR MBS NY 3 May 1938 Holiday For Strings + Trinidad Erskine Hawkins Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Blue Room Hotel Lincoln New York City 1 May 1946 Set 8 Dizzy Gillespie Intro + Blue ’n’ Boogie Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker ’Symphony Sid Show’ Bordland WJZ NYC 31 Mar 1951 Minor Walk Dizzy Gillespie with Tony Proteau Orchestra Rex Theatre RTF Paris Feb 1953 Doodlin’ Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jun 1956 Ool-Ya-Koo Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra Winter Palace Radio Sweden Stockholm 2 Feb 1948

28 March 2017 Phantom Dancer – I’ll See You In My Dreams Video

On this week’s Phantom Dancer radio show – your two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985:
– a set of Billie Holliday on 1950s radio, 1930s radio dance bands, Latin rhythms on 1940s-60s radio and a set of ground-breaking jazz saxophonists. See the play list below.

Listen archived online now at radio 2ser.com.

Your Phantom Dancer is heard on over 22 radio stations.

In the Phantom Dancer mix this week: airchecks by Red Nichols from 1929 radio, the early Benny Goodman swing band on 1934-37 radio and star women singers on 1940s-50s radio.

Your Phantom Dancer video of the Week is a reflective piece I filmed at Waiheke in New Zealand last year. Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters were playing at the Waiheke International Jazz Festival. The music is from the latest Greg Poppleton album ‘ Back In Your Own Backyard’ available now on CD and Mp3 at Bandcamp. 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 #257 107.3 2SER Tuesday 28 March 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 Dance Bands On 1930s Radio Theme (My Time Is Your Time) + Sweet Music Rudy Vallee ‘Fleischman Yeast Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NY 13 Dec 1934 Weather + Never In A Million Years Unidentified Orchestra ‘Sunrise’ WJSV CBS Washington DC 21 Sep 1939 Day In Day Out + Address Unknown + Running Through My Mind + South of the Border Jerry Livingstone and his Young Men Of Manhattan (voc) Ann Stuart and Paul Dylam Miami Room NYC WJSV CBS Washington DC 21 Sep 1939 Set 2 Seminal Jazz Sax On 1940s-50s Radio Theme + Look Out Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor (ts) Big Band ‘Saturday Night Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ Paramount Theatre Brooklyn WCBS CBS NY 1957 These Foolish Things Lester Young (ts) Nat King Cole Trio and Buddy Rich ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 20 Mar 1946 Dizzy Atmosphere Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker (as) with Milt Jackson, Al Haig, Tommy Potter and Stan Levey ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 29 Dec 1945 Set 3 Traditional Jazz on 1947 – 56 Radio With You Anywhere You Are Al Hirt Band ‘Jazz Band Ball’ WWL CBS New Orleans 18 Aug 1956 Yellow Dog Blues Wild Bill Davison, Albert Nicholas (voc) Coot Grant ‘This Is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 3 May 1947 Fidgety Feet + I’ve Got A Right To Sing The Blues (theme) Jack Teagarden and Band Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 7 May 1955 Set 4 Latin Rhythms On 1940s-60s Radio Cuban Love Song (theme) + A Banda Edmundo Ros Orchestra ‘Edmundo Ros Programme’ BBC London 1969 Gatto Noche Un Amor Xavier Cugat Orchestra (voc) del Campo ‘Xavier Cugat Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast Los Angeles 1944 Peanut Vendor Cha cha Stan Kenton Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 1958 Set 5 Swing Bands on 1940 Radio East St Louis Toodle-Oo (theme) + Grievin’ Duke Ellington Orchestra Southland Cafe WNAC NBC Red Boston 9 Jan 1940 Reminiscing Time Bob Crosby Orchestra Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 29 Apr 1940 Sioux Sue Ray Noble Orchestra Beverley-Wiltshire Hotel KFI NBC Red LA 4 Feb 1940 All The Things You Are + Make Believe Dance Land Ozzie Nelson Orchestra Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago WMCA NY 24 Mar 1940 Set 6 1930s Radio Dance Bands The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down Dick Jurgens Orchestra (voc) Eddy Howard Radio Transcription Chicago 1938 Solitude Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians ‘Esso Boulevarde’ WABC CBS NY 22 Aug 1935 Scattin’ At The Kit Kat George Hall Orchestra Radio Transcription New York City 1937 Siberian Sleighride Hal Kemp Orchestra ‘Chesterfield Show’ WABC CBS New York City 1937 Set 7 1940s Radio Swing Bands Frantic in the Atlantic Cab Calloway Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Zanzibar New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Sep 1944 Swanee River Lionel Hampton Orchestra ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 3 Dec 1945 Memphis Blues Harry James Orchestra Roof Garden Astor Hotel WABC CBS New York City 28 Aug 1942 I’ve Found A New Baby + Close Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ Cornell University Blue Network Ithaca New York 25 Sep 1943 Set 8 Billie Holiday On Radio It’s Like Reaching For The Moon Billie Holiday (voc) Teddy Wilson Orchestra Comm Rec New York City 30 Jun 1936 You Go To My Head Billie Holiday Storyville Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston Oct 1953 Billie’s Blues Billie Holliday ‘Storyville Copley Square Hotel WMEX Boston Apr 1959 Andy’s Blues Count Basie Orchestra Storyville Copley Square Hotel WMEX Boston 29 Oct 1951

11 August 2015 Phantom Dancer Non-Stop Swing Mix. Last Julius Sumner Miller Episode

Here is your Phantom Dancer play list for Tuesday 11 August 107.3 2SER Sydney 12noon – 2pm and online at http://www.2ser.com, follow the program guide, Phantom Dancer links where the show will also be archived for streaming.

This week’s 2 hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s – 1960s radio has a set of 1940s-50s big bands to open, a set of 1950s progressive jazz, a traditional jazz set from 1950s radio, comedy from Jack Benny and Spike Jones, and more. Plus, the last half of the show is, as always, ALL VINYL. See the play list below.

Spike Jones ponders the two-headed man

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is Julius Sumner Miller giving Dramatic Demonstrations in Physics on the matter of Miscellaneous and Wondrous Things in Electricity & Magnetism. This is sadly the last show in the series, program 45, recorded at ABC-TV in Sydney in 1969. Enjoy…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #170 107.3 2SER Tuesday 11 August 2015 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT)Repeat Sunday 2SER 5 – 6pm 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

Julius Sumner Miller 22 – Heat Energy Transfer By Conduction. Phantom Dancer Swing Jazz Radio 3 Mar 2015

Dear Phantom Dancers,

12 noon Tuesday 17 February is Phantom Dancer time on 107.3 2SER Sydney. Swing, jazz and dance from live 1920s-60s radio and TV presented by Greg Poppleton on 30 CRN stations across Australia.

HEAR THE SHOW AT 2SER ONLINE FOR THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS

This week, in the 2 hour radio mix, you’ll hear live swing and jazz by Buddy Rich, The Mills Brothers, Helen Forrest and more. Listen online at http://www.2ser.com.

See the play list below…

As this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, recorded at ABC-TV in Sydney in 1969, Julius Sumner Miller investigates Heat Energy Transfer By Conduction. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN#147 2SER Tuesday 3 Mar 2015 12 noon – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) Set 1 Should I? Eddie Condon Group ‘Eddie Condon’s Town Hall Jazz Concert’ Ritz Theatre WJZ Blue Network NY 10 Feb 1945 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Buddy Morrow Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Blue Room Hotel Lincoln NY AFRS re-broadcast 27 May 1945 I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But The Blues + Blue Flame (theme) Woody Herman Orchestra Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 21 Aug 1944 Set 2 A Setting In Motion Stan Kenton Orchestra (feat. Howard Rumsey) Radio Transcription Los Angeles 20 Oct 1941 Instrumental + Fab TV Ad (1955) Stan Kenton Orchestra (feat. Frank Russolino and Lee Konitz) ‘Concert in Miniature’ Rustic Cabin NJ WNBC NBC NY 1953 To Each His Own + Body and Soul + Mood Indigo Larry Green Orchestra Starlight Roof Hotel Chase KMOX CBS St Louis 1958 Set 3 Now You’ve Got Me Doing It Phil Harris Orchestra  (voc) PH Comm Rec New York 16 Sep 1935 I Can’t Give You Anything But Love Connie Boswell ‘Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription New York 13 Feb 1936 Break ‘Em Down + Let’s Get Together (theme) Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra Savoy Ballroom Harlem WEAF NBC Red NY 25 Jan 1940 Set 4 Open + You’re Driving Me Crazy + Easy Street Billy May Orchestra ‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1954 Let’s Be Sweethearts Again Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) BC and Margaret Whiting Club 15 KNX CBS LA 25 Nov 1949 Rock Island Flagstaff + Close Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra ‘Yank Swing Session’ AFRS Hollywood 1940s Set 5 Jealousy Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Billy Eckstine Radio Transcription Hollywood Sep 1949 Lazy River Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA ‘Spotlight Bands’ Dallas Tx Blue Network 17 Aug 1943 It’s Dawn Again Erskine Hawkins Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Blue Room Hotel Lincoln AFRS Re-broadcast 1 May 1946 Jenny Duke Ellington Orchestra Aquarium Restaurant WABC CBS NY 25 Oct 1946 Set 6 Starburst (theme) + Blue Moon Gene Krupa Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ Newport, RI Blue Network 2 Oct 1944 Swanee River Lionel Hampton Orchestra ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 3 Dec 1945 Come To Baby Do Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) Lena Horne ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1945 That’s it! Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ ABC 5 Nov 1945 Set 7 Fraulein, kleines Fraulein (Cheek to Cheek) Die Goldene Sieben Comm Rec Berlin Feb 1936 Nightmare (theme) + Yesterdays Artie Shaw Orchestra Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WEAF NBC Red NY 20 Oct 1939 Pennies From Heaven Mills Brothers ‘Norge Program’ New York 1937 When My Dream Boat Comes Home Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing Savoy Ballroom Harlem NY 30 Jun 1937 Set 8 Flat Foot Floogie Slim Gaillard ‘Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NY 26 May 1951 Walkin’ Miles Davis (tp) John Coltrane (ts) Cannonball Adderley (as) Red Garland (p) Paul Chanbers (b) Philly joe Jones (d) ‘Bandstand USA’ Birdland WOR Mutual NY 3 Jan 1959

Tragedy Over Niagara in a Barrel (1955). Phantom Dancer 5 Aug 2014

August greetings to you, Phantom Dancers,

The first show of the month and if last week’s show was anything to go by, this Phantom Dancer will be the best show ever. HEAR IT ARCHIVED ONLINE AT 2SER.COM

This Tuesday 5 Aug at 12 noon on 107.3 2SER and online at 2ser.com we listen to 1930s airchecks by Johnny Green the composer of Body and Soul amongst many other songs.

For the Old Fygges, there are 1940s radio broadcasts by Eddie Condon on the Blue Network, This Is Jazz and The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street featuring Henry ‘Hot Lips’ Levine.

The second hour, as always, goes vinyl, and we’ll be going way back to radio broadcasts by bandleaders Anson Weeks and Ray Miller then way forward to radio broadcasts by Dizzy Gillespie and Slim Gaillard.

See the full play list below.

The Phantom Dancer will be online at 2ser.com after the broadcast. Follow the Phantom Dancer links on the Program Guide at http://2ser.com

Hope you like the show, daddy-o. This week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week from the YoutTube vaults has a tragic ending.

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN#116

2SER Tuesday 5 August 2014 12 noon – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT)

Set 1

My Little Suede Shoes Charlie Parker ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Hi Hat Club WCOP Boston 24 Jan 1954 Open + Blue Skies Stan Kenton Orchestra ‘Concert In Miniature’ Russ Auditorium KFSD NBC San Diego 10 Feb 1953 Set 2     Open + Sweet Little Headache Johnny Green and his Sliding Strings Orchestra ‘Fitch Bandwagon’ WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Apr 1939 Open + Weep No More My Baby Johnny Green Orchestra ‘Oldsmobile Program’ WABC CBS NY 6 Mar 1934 The Name Of This Song Is Dinah Johnny Green Orchestra (voc) Ray Bloch’s Swing 14 ‘Rhymo’ WABC CBS NY 26 May 1940 Set 3     It Was Just One Of Those Things Buddy Clark ‘Treasury Dept Show’ Los Angeles 22 Mar 1948 Again Vic Damone ‘Guest Star’ New York 10 July 1949 In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening Art Wayner Orchestra (voc) Andy Pearce ‘One Night Stand’ The Latin Quarter New York AFRS Re-broadcast 31 Jul 1945 Set 4     Open + I’m Crazy About My Baby Wild Bill Davison et al. (voc) George Brunies ‘This Is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 24 May 1947 Ain’t Misbehavin’ Eddie Condon et al ‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ Ritz Theatre WJZ Blue NY 17 Feb 1945 Angie Wangie Henry Levine Octet ‘Chamber Music Society Of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 25 Aug 1941 Set 5     Wenn es draussen dunkel ist Kurt Widmann Orchestra (voc) Rudi Schuericke Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1940 It’s A Long Way To Tipperary Bob Crosby Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network 3 Dec 1942 Dallas Blues George Hall Orchestra Radio Transcription New York 1937 Blues In The Night Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Trio ‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network Jefferson Barracks Missouri Blue Network 23 Nov 1945 Set 6     Come On, Baby! Ted Weems Orchestra (voc) Parker Gibbs Comm Rec Camden NJ 21 Sep 1928 Sweet And Lowdown Anson Weeks Orchestra Peacock Court Hotel Mark Hopkins San Francisco Radio Transcription 1932 Painting The Clouds With Sunshine / Lonesome Little Doll Eddie Miller Orchestra ‘Sunny Meadows Program’ Radio Transcription Chicago Jan 1929 You’re Driving Me Crazy (2 versions) Paul Whiteman Orchestra ‘Forever Pops’ ABC Chicago 1950 Set 7     Avenue C Count Basie Orchestra Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NY 31 Jan 1945 Swing High Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (d) Buddy Rich Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WABC CBS NY 3 Feb 1945 St Louis Blues Benny Goodman Sextet ‘Benny Goodman Show’ KNX CBS LA 7 Oct 1946 What Am I Here For Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘Date With The Duke’ ABC Evansville Indiana Jun 1945 Set 8     I Waited For You (theme) + Our Delight Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra Winter Palace Stockholm Radio Sweden 2 Feb 1948 Sabroso Slim Gaillard ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 7 Jul 1951 My Heart Stood Still Shorty Rogers Giants ‘Tonight Show’ Jul 1955

Phantom Dancer CD and Greg Poppleton Voiceovers

Hello Radio Loungers,

I’m nearing the end of rebuilding my website www.gregpoppleton.com, home of Greg Poppleton and his Bakelite Dance Band – 1920s & 1930s Hot Jazz & Swing

Lots of new pics and film clips still to go up, but here are two newies I’d like to share with you

This first one is a slide show of mostly recent live band photos taken by professional photographers. Most are by the stunningly talented photogapher, Janine Kaye

The white background shots are by Robert Stow, Hornsby Arts, for a music mag shoot

The soundtrack to the clip is from the Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Dance Band album “The Phantom Dancer: 14 Swing Era Songs of 1926 – 1939 in Radio Review” available at CDBaby for US $9.99 (mp3) and US $12.97 (CD with 8-page glossy booklet of song facts and historic 1920s & 30s photos from my archives)

The second clip is a voice reel of commercial radio ads I’ve been doing for a major radio network. I hope you enjoy them. And that’s my current actor headshot in the mix. While I freelance as a voiceover, my film & TV agent is Woodburn-Sweitzer Management

Cheers
Greg