Tadd Dameron – Phantom Dancer 1 Nov 2022

Tadd Dameron, U.S jazz composer, arranger, and pianist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He was the most influential arranger of the bebop era. He also wrote charts for swing and hard bop players.

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

LISTEN to this week’s Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 1 November) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

TADD

Tadd Dameron arranged for Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Jimmie Lunceford, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughan.  His greatest influences were George Gershwin and Duke Ellington.

In 1940-41 he was the piano player and arranger for the Kansas City band Harlan Leonard and his Rockets. With lyricist Carl Sigman he wrote “If You Could See Me Now” for Sarah Vaughan and it became one of her first signature songs.

In the late 1940s, Dameron wrote arrangements for Gillespie’s big band, who gave the première of his large-scale orchestral piece Soulphony in Three Hearts at Carnegie Hall in 1948.

That same year, as you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer, Dameron led his own group in New York, which included Fats Navarro.

In 1949 he was at the Paris Jazz Festival playing piano for  Miles Davis.

From 1961 he scored recordings by Milt Jackson, Sonny Stitt, and Blue Mitchell.

He arranged and played for rhythm and blues musician Bull Moose Jackson. Playing for Jackson at that same time was Benny Golson, who was to become a jazz composer in his own right. Golson has said that Dameron was the most important influence on his writing.

DAMERON

Dameron composed several bop and swing standards, including “Hot House”, “If You Could See Me Now”, “Our Delight”, “Good Bait” (composed for Count Basie) and “Lady Bird”.

His bands from the late 1940s and early 1950s featured leading players such as Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, Wardell Gray, and Clifford Brown. 

LATER

In 1956 he led two sessions based on his compositions, released as the 1956 album “Fontainebleau” and the 1957 album “Mating Call”. The latter featured John Coltrane.

Dameron developed a drug addiction by the end of his career. He was arrested on drug charges in 1957 and 1958, and served time (1959–60) in a federal prison hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.

After his release, Dameron recorded a single notable project as a leader, The Magic Touch, but was sidelined by health problems. He had several heart attacks before dying of cancer in 1965, at the age of 48. 

1 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #568
107.3 2SER Tuesday 1 November 2022 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 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Count Basie
Open + One O’Clock Jump (theme) + Dinah	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 2 Oct 1945
Baby, Won’t You Pleae Come Home?	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 2 Oct 1945
Basie Boogie	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 2 Oct 1945
Rock-a-Bye Basie	Count Basie Orchestra (ts) Illinois Jacquet	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 2 Oct 1945
Set 2	Selling Soft Drink
Coca Cola Waltz (theme) + Instrumental	Walter Blaufuss and the The Refreshment Club Orchestra	‘The Refreshment Club’ Radio Transcription Chicago 23 Nov 1936
Running a Temperature + Stepping Out to the Opera	Joan and The Escorts	‘The Refreshment Club’ Radio Transcription Chicago 23 Nov 1936
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love	Helen Jane Balke	‘The Refreshment Club’ Radio Transcription Chicago 23 Nov 1936
Tom Tom’s Drum + Sing, Baby, Sing + Close	Walter Blaufuss and the The Refreshment Club Orchestra	‘The Refreshment Club’ Radio Transcription Chicago 23 Nov 1936
Set 3	Benny Goodman
So In Love	Benny Goodman Orchestra  (voc) Terri Swopes	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Mar 1949
Blue Lou	Benny Goodman Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Mar 1949
Don’t Worry About Me	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Buddy Greco	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Mar 1949
El Greco + Let’s Dance (theme)	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Mar 1949
Set 4	Tadd Dameron
Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid (theme) + The Squirrel	Tadd Dameron Quintet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 28 Aug 1948
Good Bait + Anthropology	Tadd Dameron Quintet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 28 Aug 1948
Kitchenette Across the Hall	Tadd Dameron Quintet (voc) Pancho Kenny Hagood	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 28 Aug 1948
Rifftide (Lady Be Good) + Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid (theme)	Tadd Dameron Quintet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 28 Aug 1948
Set 5	Trad Jazz
These Foolish Things	Joe Bushkin (piano) Benny Morton (tb)	‘Eddie Condon Floor Show’ WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948
Someday	Louis Armstrong	Wintergarden Theatre WNBC NBC NYC 19 Jun 1947
Indiana	Billy Butterfield	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ Blue Network 27 Jan 1945
Riverside Blues	Muggsy Spanier	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 11 Apr 1953
Set 6	The Golden Seven
Darf ich bitten	Die Goldene Sieben	Comm Rec Berlin Apr 1936
Granada (In a Little Spanish Town)	Die Goldene Sieben	Comm Rec Berlin May 1938
Oh! Aha!	Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Rudi Schuericke Terzett	Comm Rec Berlin Feb 1939
Die Uhr Schlaegt 8	Die Goldene Sieben	Comm Rec Berlin Apr 1938
Set 7	1930s Swing
Do the New York	Gus Arnheim Orchestra	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1931
The Music Goes Round and Round	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 19 Jan 1936
Moten Swing + King Poeter Stomp	Count Basie Orchestra	Chatterbox Hotel William Penn WCAE NBC Red Pittsburgh 10 Jan 1937
You Turned the Tables on Me + Song is Ended (theme)	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription NYC 1937
Set 8	Modern Jazz
Four in a Bar	Paul Baron Sextet	‘Music til Midnight’ WABC CBS NYC 1944
Ridin’ High	Benny Goodman orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald	‘Texaco Show’ NBC TV 9 Apr 1957
Undecided (theme) + st Louis Blues	Charlie Shavers Quartet	‘London House’ WBBM CBS Chicago May 1962

Diligent Practice Creates New Style – Phantom Dancer 10 May 2022

Charlie Parker is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Charlie Parker was an influential alto sax soloist and key in the development of bebop. He said that he spent three to four years practicing up to 15 hours a day in the mid-1930s. And it was while practicing and experimenting on his alto sax in 1939 that he created his unique sound.

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

LISTEN to this week’s Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 10 May) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

TAKING THE KNOCKS

Parker said that he spent three to four years practicing up to 15 hours a day in the mid 1930s

Bands led by Count Basie and Bennie Moten certainly influenced Parker. He played with local bands in jazz clubs around Kansas City, Missouri, where he perfected his technique, with the assistance of Buster Smith, whose dynamic transitions to double and triple time influenced Parker’s developing style.

In late spring 1936, Parker played at a jam session at the Reno Club in Kansas City. His attempt to improvise failed when he lost track of the chord changes. This prompted Jo Jones, the drummer for Count Basie’s Orchestra, to contemptuously take a cymbal off of his drum set and throw it at his feet as a signal to leave the stage.

Rather than discouraging Parker, the incident caused him to vow to practice harder, and turned out to be a seminal moment in the young musician’s career.

BEBOP

One night in 1939, Charlie Parker was playing “Cherokee” in a practice session with guitarist William “Biddy” Fleet when he hit upon a method for developing his solos that enabled one of his main musical innovations.

He realized that the 12 semitones of the chromatic scale can lead melodically to any key, breaking some of the confines of simpler jazz soloing.

He recalled: “I was jamming in a chili house on Seventh Avenue between 139th and 140th. It was December 1939. Now I’d been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used all the time at the time, and I kept thinking there’s bound to be something else. I could hear it sometimes but I couldn’t play it … Well, that night I was working over ‘Cherokee’ and, as I did, I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes, I could play the thing I’d been hearing. I came alive.”

STYLE

Parker’s style of composition involved interpolation of original melodies over existing jazz forms and standards, a practice known as contrafact and still common in jazz today. Examples include “Ornithology” (which borrows the chord progression of jazz standard “How High the Moon” and is said to be co-written with trumpet player Little Benny Harris), and “Moose The Mooche” (one of many Parker compositions based on the chord progression of “I Got Rhythm“).

The practice was not uncommon prior to bebop, but it became a signature of the movement as artists began to move away from arranging popular standards and toward composing their own material. Perhaps Parker’s most well-known contrafact is “Koko,” which is based on the chord changes of the popular bebop tune “Cherokee,” written by Ray Noble.

While tunes such as “Now’s The Time”, “Billie’s Bounce“, “Au Privave“, “Barbados”, “Relaxin’ at Camarillo”, “Bloomdido“, and “Cool Blues” were based on conventional 12-bar blues changes, Parker also created a unique version of the 12-bar blues for tunes such as “Blues for Alice“, “Laird Baird”, and “Si Si.” These unique chords are known popularly as “Bird Changes“. Like his solos, some of his compositions are characterized by long, complex melodic lines and a minimum of repetition, although he did employ the use of repetition in some tunes, most notably “Now’s The Time”.

Parker contributed greatly to the modern jazz solo, one in which triplets and pick-up notes were used in unorthodox ways to lead into chord tones, affording the soloist more freedom to use passing tones, which soloists previously avoided. Parker was admired for his unique style of phrasing and innovative use of rhythm.

Other well-known Parker compositions include “Ah-Leu-Cha“, “Anthropology”, co-written with Gillespie, “Confirmation”, “Constellation”, “Moose the Mooche“, “Scrapple from the Apple” and “Yardbird Suite“, the vocal version of which is called “What Price Love”, with lyrics by Parker.

Miles Davis once said, “You can tell the history of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong. Charlie Parker”.

10 MAY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #544
107.3 2SER Tuesday 10 May 2022 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 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	1930s Swing Radio
Sugar Foot Stomp	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Madhattan Room Pennsylvania Hotel WOR Mutual NYC 21 Oct 1937
They Say	Artie Shaw Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NYC 1 Dec 1938
Study in Blue	Larry Clinton Orchestra	Coconut Grove Hotel Park Central WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jul 1939
Shine on Harvest Moon	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NYC 1 Dec 1938
Set 2	Ted Fio Rito
Theme + The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers	Vincent Valsanti aka Ted Fio Rito Orchestra	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1934
Blue Danube Waltz	Vincent Valsanti aka Ted Fio Rito Orchestra	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1934
Your Head on My Shoulders	Vincent Valsanti aka Ted Fio Rito Orchestra (voc) Jack Howard	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1934
Carioca + Theme	Vincent Valsanti aka Ted Fio Rito Orchestra	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1934
Set 3	1935-41 Paris Radio
Radio Cite ID + Open + C’est Gentil	Ray Ventura et ses Collegiens	Poste Parisien 1935
Swing Festival ’41	Django Reinhardt, Aime Barelli, Alix Combelle and more	Radio Paris 26 Dec 1940
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes + All I Do The Whole Day Through Is Dream of You + Close	Guy Berry + Charlotte Duvier & Charles Trenet	‘Le Enfante Terrible’ Poste Parisien 1935
Set 4	Charlie Parker
Cool Blues	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WCOP Boston 1954
Interview	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Hi Hat Club WCOP Boston 1954
Scrapple From the Apple	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WCOP Boston 1954
Interview + Out of Nowhere + Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Hi Hat Club WCOP Boston 1954
Set 5	1950s Swing
Open + Opus #1	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Statler Hotel WRCA NBC NYC Dec 1955
Moonlight in Vermont	Claude Thornhill Orchestra (voc) Patty Ryan	‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 19 Jun 1955
Jackpot	Harry James Orchestra	Aragon Ballroom WMAQ NBC Chicago 20 Jun 1954
Four Brothers	Woody Herman Octet	Blue Room Hotel Roosevelt WWL CBS New Orleans 10 Dec 1951
Set 6	1939 -1943 Radio Transcriptions
History of Music	Horace Heidt Orchestra (voc) Horace Heidt	Radio Transcription 1943
It’s a Hundred to One	Johnny Messner Orchestra (voc) Jeanne D’arcy and Trio	Radio Transcription 1939
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now?	Horace Heidt Orchestra (voc) Horace Heidt	Radio Transcription 1943
Day In, Day Out + Can’t We Be Friends (theme)	Johnny Messner Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1939
Set 7	1929 Radio
Blue Melody Blues	Tiny Praham Orchestra	Comm Rec Chicago 1 Feb 1929
Am I Blue + Liza	Dixie Two-Steppers	Radio Transcription 1929
Harvey	Hoagy Carmichael and The Hotsy Totsy Gang	‘Brunswick Brevities’ Radio Transcription Oct 1929
Royal Garden Blues + Close	Ray Miller Orchestra	‘Sunny Meadows’ Radio Transcription Chicago Jan 1929
Set 8	1950s-60s Jazz radio
High Falutin’	Gene Krupa Trio	London House WBBM CBS Chicago 13 Mar 1959
Seventh Heaven	Oscar Pettiford	Birdland WABC ABC NYC 26 May 1957
I Want a Little Girl + Bernie’s Tune	Charlie Shavers	London House WBBM CBS Chicago May 1962

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

I Can’t Give You Anything But Love – Phantom Dancer 9 Oct 2018

‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’ was a 1928 hit for composer Jimmy McHugh and lyricist Dorothy Fields. This week’s Phantom Dancer, presented by authentic 1920s-30s singer Greg Poppleton, features an ‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’-a-thon.

SHOW

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1929 – 65 radio.

Mixed live-to-air by 1920s – 1930s singer and actor, Greg Poppleton, on radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney since 1985, The Phantom Dancer is re-broadcast on 23 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online at 2ser.com.

You can hear lots of past Phantom Dancers, too, at 2ser.com.

PLAYLIST

A countdown of Australian Jazz from recordings made in 1930, 1940, 1950 and 1960, the ‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’ feature feature and a whole mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-50s radio. Read the full play list below.

And remember the ALL VINYL FINYL HOUR.

Lyricist Dorothy Fields

I

‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’is now a jazz standard. Music by Jimmy McHugh, lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Introduced in Januray 1928 by Adelaide Hall at Les Ambassadeurs Club in New York for Lew Leslie’s Blackbird Revue.

CAN’T

The revue opened later in 1928 on Broadway and was a hit with 518 performances.

GIVE

‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby’ is 24th in the 100-most recorded songs from 1890 to 1954.

YOU

Producer Lew Leslie wanted a hit tune for his Blackbirds revue. McHugh and Fields had already written the revue’s score. They were scratching their heads about coming up with a hit song.

ANYTHING

The story goes that Fields and McHugh were strolling along Fifth Avenue in New York City when they saw a young couple window-shopping at Tiffany’s. They heard the man say to his girlfriend, “Gee, honey I’d like to get you a sparkler like that, but right now, I can’t give you nothin’ but love!”

BUT

On hearing this, Fields and McHugh, came up with lyrics and music for Lew Leslie’s requested hit within an hour while as they sat on a train.

LOVE

Fats Waller’s son reported that his composer, piano playing father would always angrily switch off the song when he heard it on the radio. Waller believed that he had sold the melody to McHugh in 1926.

SONG

Here’s a link to my own version of the song from the album ‘Sweet Sue’ on Bandcamp, CDBaby and iTunes https://gregpoppleton.bandcamp.com/track/i-cant-give-you-anything-but-love

Sweet Sue digital download album, including ‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, at Bandcamp

9 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #336
107.3 2SER Tuesday 9 October 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 24 other stations.
Set 1	Spotlight Bands 1945-46 Radio
Open + Cool Breeze	Buddy Rich Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Phoenixville PA AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Dec 1945
I’ll Never Be The Same	Charlie Venyura (ts) Gene Krupa Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 1946
Dark Eyes + Close	George Olsen Music (voc) Judith Blair, Sherman Hayes and Chorus	‘Spotlight Bands’ Waukegan, Ill. Blue Network 17 Mar 1945
Set 2	Your Hit Parade
Open + So Long As You’re Not In Love With Anyone Else + Brazil	Mark Warnow Orchestra (voc) Barry Woods and The Hit Paraders	‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Jan 1943
I’m Gonna Love That Guy	Mark Warnow Orchestra (voc) The Hit Paraders	‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-broadcast 29 Sep 1945
I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams + Close	Al Goodman Orchestra	‘Your Hit Parade’ WABC CBS NY 22 Oct 1938
Set 3	Stan Kenton 1952 Radio
Artistry in Rhythm + Francesca	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ CBC Canada / NBC Palace Pier Toronto ON 3 Jun 1952
Opus in Pastels	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Devine’s Million Dollar Ballroom WTMJ NBC Milwaukee WI 10 Jun 1952
Jump For Joe + Close	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Club Harlem KYW NBC Philadelphia 30 May 1952
Set 4	Miles Davis 1950s Radio
Move	Miles Davis	Birdland WJZ ABC NY 16 May 1953
Deep Sea Blues	Herbie Fields & Miles Davis	Comm Rec New York City 24 Apr 1945
Nature Boys + Anthropology	Miles Davis	‘ABC Dancing Party’ Birdland WABC ABC NY 30 Oct 1957
Set 5	Australian Jazz Through the Decades
I’m Sailing on a Sunbeam	Des Tooley (voc) Frank Coughlan (tb) Beryl Newell (piano)	Comm Rec Sydney Mar 1930
Cuckoo in the Clock	Trocadero Dance Orchestra (voc) Olive Lester	Comm Rec Sydney 10 Jan 1940
Katzenjammers Ball	Jack Allen’s Original Katzenjammerd	Comm Rec Sydney 23 Feb 1950
Dream Lover	Graeme Bell (voc) Kerrie Neilson	Comm Rec Sylvania Hotel Sydneu Jan 1960
Set 6	I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love	Joe Turner (voc) Joe Sullivan and his Cafe Society Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 9 Feb 1940
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love + Close	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA	‘Jubilee’ AFRS NYC 1943
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love	POrt Jackson Jazz Band (voc) Marie Harriot	Comm Rec Sydney 25 Jun 1947
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love	Claude Thornhill Orchestra (voc) Gene Williams	‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Aug 1956
Set 7	1940s Radio ‘Jubilee’ Swing Bands
Jeep Rhythm	Fletcher Henderson Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Vine Street Boogie	Jay McShann Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Benny’s Original	Benny Carter Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS NYC 1943
Cuban Jam	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Set 8	1940s-1950s Mod Radio
C-Jam Blues/div>	Stan Hasselgard	AFRS Hollywood 1948
Koko + Hot House	Barry Ulanov’s All-Stars	‘Bands for Bonds’ WOR Mutual NY 9 Mar 1947
Bebop Boogie	Lester Young	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal roost WMCA NY 4 Dec 1948

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

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

THE PHANTOM DANCER

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

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

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

IN THIS WEEK’S PHANTOM DANCER MIX?

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

The last hour of the mix is ALL VINYL.

CLAUDE THORNHILL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

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

4 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST

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

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

8 May 2018 Phantom Dancer – He Knew He Wanted To Be A Professional Musician By Age 16

Tenor sax man Charlie Barnet knew what he wanted from a very early age. In fact, he was playing professionally by the age of 16. Then at 18 he went to New York to talk the CBS Artist Bureau into booking him as an orchestra leader. We hear some of this determined teenager’s orchestras from 1930s-40s airchecks on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

The Phantom Dancer is produced and presented every Tuesday by authentic 1920s-30s-style singer and actor, Greg Poppleton .

It’s your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV. On air since 1985!

The Phantom Dancer is recorded live-to-air at 107.3 2SER Sydney, Tuesdays 12:04 – 2pm. It’s re-broadcast on 22 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online.

Online, this week’s Phantom Dancer will be available for your listening pleasure after the 2SER broadcast, Tuesday 8 May. Go to 2ser.com to listen.

You’ll also find plenty of past Phantom Dancers to enjoy online, too.

THIS WEEK’S PHANTOM DANCER MIX

– includes two Australian dance bands – Jim Davidson and his New Palais Royal Orchestra and Frank Coughlan’s Trocadero Orchestra .There are also sets by Lee Konitz in 1954 from WHDH Boston, live jazz from 1962 radio on WNEW NY and WBBM Chicago, a set of trad from WMGM New York’s 1950-51 ‘Doctor Jazz’ series (after being asked for a version of Doctor Jazz during last week’s show) and, of course, the Charle Barnet set. See the full play list below.

CHARLIE BARNET

Born Charles Daly Barnet, Charlie Barnet was a U.S orchestra leader, sax player and composer. Important to his overall ‘fun’ band leading attitude was that he was a person of means. He was heir to his grandfather’s fortune, the New York Central Railway vice-president and banker, Charles Frederick Daly. His family wanted him to be a lawyer. He chose music.

Barnet had worked for one of the many franchise bands of the Jean Goldkette Orchestra, on of the most famous U.S bands of the late 1920s by the age of 16. He then left for New York to play tenor sax in Frank Winegar’s Pennsylvania Boys before trying his luck as an extra in Hollywood films.

Late in 1932 at the age of 18 he returned to New York City and talked a contact at the CBS artist’s bureau to book him as an orchestra leader.

INFATUATION

His 1930s orchestras were numerous and short-lived. But they were also musically interesting as you can hear in the 1934 recording below, ‘Infatuation’, which is your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week.

Barnet got his first recording contract in 1933 during an engagement at New York’s Park Central Hotel.

He was always into ‘hot music’ and he was an early adapter of Swing.

RAN OUT OF TOWN

While playing swing at New Orlean’s Roosevelt Hotel in 1935, he earned the ire of conservative governor Huey Long who hated the new sound. Long set up a sting, luring the band to a brothel then having it raided so the band could be ‘run out of town’.

Barnet got a number of his now unemployed band members into Joe Haymes Orchestra (soon to be taken over by Tommy Dorsey) and then headed off for a jaunt in Havana escorting a well off, older woman.

His 1936 orchestra included the new vocal harmony quartet, ‘The Modernaires’ though that band soon shut up shop, too. ‘The Modernaires’ were later and famously associated with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. At this time, Charlie Barnet was one of the first to integrate his band.

He was a big fan of Duke Ellington and Count Basie. He championed Duke Ellington tunes in his orchestra and Ellington recorded Barnet’s ‘In A Mizz’.

GO TO BLAZES

When Charlie Barnet lost all his band charts in the 1938 Los Angeles Palomar Ballroom fire, Count Basie lent him charts.

His 1939 band was catapaulted into the big time with the release of his recording of the Ray Noble song (from his Indian Suite), Cherokee.

He had a second big hit on 1944 with ‘Skyliner’. ‘Skyliner’ was used as the theme music for the late 1940s US Armed Forces Network program ‘Midnight In Munich’ broadcast from AFN Munich.

Other major recordings include ‘Scotch and Soda’, ‘In a Mizz’, ‘The Right Idea’, ‘The Wrong Idea’ and Southland Shuffle’.

STARS

Barnet switched from Swing to Bop in 1947. Barnet’s swing band included such names as Buddy DeFranco, Roy Eldridge, Billy May, Neal Hefti, Lena Horne, Barney Kessel, Dodo Marmorosa and Oscar Pettiford.

His later bands had Maynard Ferguson, Doc Severinsen and Clark Terry.

He ‘retired’ in 1949, claiming to have lost interest in music, though he continued to lead an orchestra and was broadcast on radio into the 1960s.

Charlie Barnet was married 11 times. His last marriage lasted 33 years.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

As your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, an early Charlie Barney record from his short-lived 1934 band, the weird ‘Infatuation’

8 MAY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #316 107.3 2SER Tuesday 8 May 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 Bands on ‘One Night Stand’ Theme + Murder at Peyton Hall Charlie Barnet Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jan 1947 Tea For Two (voc) Carolyn Gray Gene Krupa Orchestra (voc) Carolyn Gray ‘One Night Stand’ Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 31 Mar 1946 9:20 Special + Minnie the Moocher (theme) Cab Calloway Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ New Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Jul 1945 Set 2 Jazz on Live 1962 Radio Algiers Bounce + Lady Be Good Henry ‘Red’ Allen London House WBBM CBS Chicago 30 Mar 1962 Cuckoo + Two O’Clock Jump Harry James Orchestra Moon Bowl Freedomland WNEW NY Mar 1962 The Price Is Right Henry ‘Red’ Allen London House WBBM CBS Chicago 30 Mar 1962 Set 3 1937 Theme + Hey, Hey Your Cares Away Kay Kyser Orchestra (voc) Sully Mason Trianon Ballroom MBS Chicago 25 Mar 1937 Jamboree Frank Coughlan Trocadero Orchestra (voc) Frank Coughlan Featuradio Transcription Sydney June 1937 Time Out For Love Joe Sanders Orchestra (voc) Joe Sanders Blackhawk Restaurant MBS Chicago 25 Mar 1937 Set 4 Doctor Jazz Struttin’ With Some Barbeque Hot Lips Page ‘Doctor Jazz’ Stuyvesant Casino WMGM NY 1951 Sheik of Araby Eddie Condon Group ‘Doctor Jazz’ Eddie Condon’s WMGM NY 1951 Ride, Red, Ride Red Allen ‘Dixielanders’ ‘Doctor Jazz’ Stuyvesant Casino WMGM NY 1951 Set 5 1940 Mickey Mouse Band Radio Transcriptions Let There Be Love Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin Radio Transcription New York City 1940 These Things You Left Me Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Brandon Radio Transcription Hollywood 1940 At Long Last Love Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Charlie Fisher Radio Transcription New York City 1940 Pinch Me Sterling Young Orchestra (voc) Bobbie Ennis Radio Transcription Hollywood 1940 Set 6 Charlie Barnet Orchestra Ya Got Me Charlie Barnet Orchestra Comm Rec New York City oct 1938 Theme + Back In Your Own Backyard Charlie Barnet Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ Fort Devon Mass Mutual Network 15 Oct 1945 The Victory Walk Charlie Barnet Orchestra Aircheck New York City 1942 In There Charlie Barnet Orchestra ‘Downbeat’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1944 Set 7 Early 1930s dance Bands Forty-Second Street Jim Davidson New Palais Orchestra Comm Rec Sydney 6 Jun 1933 Theme + is That Religion? Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby Riviera Fort Lee NJ WEAF NBC Red NY 20 Sep 1934 Dancing With Tears In My Eyes Ruth Etting (voc) Ben Selvin Orchestra ‘Columbia Tele-Focal Show’ Radio Transcription New York City 1930 Somebody Loves You + Close Ben Selvin Orchestra ‘Davis Musical Moments Show’ Radio Transcription New York City 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

13 March Phantom Dancer – Ukuleles

A hint of ukuleles takes a set on this week’s The Phantom Dancer with Harry Reser and Wendall Hall from 1925 and 1931.

The Phantom Dancer is your two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s – 1960s radio and TV.

Hear the show and past Phantom Dancers at the Radio 2SER website.

Presented by Australia’s only authentic 1920s-1930s singer, this week’s Phantom Dancer also has a set of shuffle from 1940s radio, Les Paul and Mary Ford from their 1950 radio series, and Charlie Parker from live January – February 1949 ‘Symphony Sid Show’ broadcasts

 

UKELELE

Synonymous with Hawaii and the 1920s Jazz Age, the ukulele harks back to the 1880s as a Hawaiian adaptation of the Portuguese machete. The name roughly translates as ‘jumping flea’.

Its popularity in Hawaiian music and culture came mainly through the royal patronage of King Kalākaua. He added it to the music played at Hawaiian royal gatherings.

A lute-like instrument, the uke commonly has four nylon strings. It can also have six or eight strings with strings paired.

Ukes come in four sizes: soprano, concert, tenor, and baritone. Sopranino and contrabass ukes are also played.

 

WORLDWIDE

The 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco is credited with having introduced the ukulele to the wider world (even though the ukulele was mentioned in print in New York in 1907 and related Hawaiian guitar duos were already recording for HMV London in 1914).

The Hawaiian Pavilion at the 1915 Exposition had a guitar and ukulele ensemble plus George E. K. Awai and his Royal Hawaiian Quartet and ukulele maker and player Jonah Kumalae.

The popularity of the ensembles with visitors launched a fad for Hawaiian-themed songs among Tin Pan Alley songwriters. These made the uke as big a hallmark of 1920s America as The Charleston and the Raccoon coat.

In fact, Tin Pan Alley sheet music up to the swing era often had ukulele tablature printed on top of the vocal and piano lead sheet for the home ukeist.

Japan is the second home for the uke. It was introduced to Japan in 1929 by Hawaiian-born Yukihiko Haida. The country still has big ukulele clubs.

In the UK, the ukulele is synonymous with 1930s comedian, George Formby, even though, Formby often played the banjolele.

The banjolele is a hybrid instrument consisting of an extended ukulele neck with a banjo resonator body. Bertie Wooster tried to learn banjolele much to the chagrin of his personal gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, in the P. G. Wodehouse novels.

RESURGENCE

Today, the ukulele has had a resurgence in popularity. The Jazz Age revival, the ukulele’s ease of play, its portability and its low cost has made it as popular today with amateur players as it was in the 1920s. There are even electric ukuleles.

In the Greg Poppleton 1920s-30s band, the ukulele is played by Chuck Morgan (playing the uke of a famous 1920s Hollywood star) and Grahame Conlon on Roaring ’20s songs like Tip Toe Through the Tulips and Singing in the Rain. Greg Poppleton band website

Your Phantom Dancer ukulele Video of the Week. It’s a June 1926 Vitaphone short featuring ‘The Wizard of the Strings’, Roy Smeck. He plays Hawaiian guitar, ukulele, then banjo in this pre-‘The Jazz Singer’ sound-on-disc short film. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y3f9CWCTes

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #307 107.3 2SER Tuesday 13 March 2018 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 The Lesser Known 1940s Dance Bands Poor Bubber Rex Stewart Orchestra Comm Rec Hollywood 3 Jul 1941 Open + Smoke Rings (theme) A Sure Thing Glen Grey and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Eugenie Baird ‘One Night Stand’ Tune Town Ballroom St Louis AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Apr 1944 I Got Rhythm + Close Lenny Conn Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1944 Set 2 Count Basie 1956 Radio One O’Clock Jump (Theme) + Sixteen Men Swinging Count Basie Orchestra ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC NY 2 Jul 1956 Shiny Stockings Count Basie Orchestra ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC NY 9 Jan 1956 One O’Clock Jump Count Basie Orchestra ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Zardi’s KFI NBC LA 14 May 1956 Set 3 Hint of Ukulele Ukulele Lady Harry Reser Orchestra Comm Rec New York City 1 Jun 1925 Lonely Lane + Land of My Sunset Dreams + Melancholy Moon + It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More + Aloha Oe Wendall Hall ’The Pineapple Picadour’ WMAQ NBC Chicago 2 Apr 1931 Set 4 Les Paul and Mary Ford Open + Brazil Les Paul and Mary Ford ‘Les Paul and Mary Ford Show’ NBC 12 May 1950 Dry My Tears Les Paul and Mary Ford ‘Les Paul and Mary Ford Show’ NBC 30 Jun 1950 The Rustic Dance + Looking For The Bully of the Town + If A Nightingale Could Sing Like You (theme) Les Paul and Mary Ford ‘Les Paul and Mary Ford Show’ NBC 30 Jun 1950 Set 5 1940s Swing Bands on the Wireless Cape Horn Bobby Sherwood Orchestra Aircheck 1944 Lover Joe Marsala Orchestra Aircheck Log Cabin Farm Armouk NY 30 Oct 1942 Mister Pastor Goes To Town Tony Pastor Orchestra Aircheck New York City Feb 1942 In a Russian Foxhole Bob Strong Orchestra Glen Island Casino New Rochelle WOR Mutual NYC 5 Aug 1944 Set 6 1940s Trad Style Big Bands Back To Croajingalong George Trevare Orchestra Comm Rec Sydney 1945 Intro + I Ain’t Gonna Give No One None Of My Jelly Roll + Secrets in the Moonlight + Shake Down the Stars + Out of this World + Yours is My Heart Alone + I Love You Much Too Much Bud Freeman Summa Cum Laude Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 May 1940 Complainin’ Bob Crosby Orchestra Orchestra Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker WOR Mutual NYC 25 Mar 1940 It Had To Be You (request) Artie Shaw Orchestra Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NY 25 Nov 1938 Set 7 Shuffle Rhythm Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar Ted Weems Orchestra (voc) Red Ingle ‘Beat The Band’ WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 1940 Good Morning Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters Radio Transcription New York City 1939 Quaker City Jazz Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters Arcadia Restaurant KYW NBC Red Philadelphia 2 Dec 1938 Sidewalks of Cuba + When Day is Done (theme) Henry Busse Orchestra Radio Transcription Hollywood 1935 Set 8 Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost jan-Feb 1949 Scrapple From The Apple Charlie Parker ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 15 Jan 1949 Barbados Charlie Parker ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 12 Feb 1949 Oo Bop Sh’bam Charlie Parker (voc) CP and Band ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 22 Jan 1949 Salt Peanuts Charlie Parker (voc) CP ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 19 Feb 1949

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

Phantom Dancer 12 September – Final Episode ‘Radar Men From The Moon’

If the 5 September show is anything to go by, the 12 September Phantom Dancer is going to be the best show ever.

This week you’ll hear a ‘Night in Tunisia’ set, a set of live Latin rhythms by Prado Perez, Xavier Cugat and Enric Madreguera and Freddie Rich from 1932 radio with a band including Bob Effros, Bunny Berrigan, Manny Klein, the Dorsey Brothers, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang.

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.

See the full play list below.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is episode 11, the climactic end, of the 1952 Republic serial, Radar Men From The Moon.
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 #279 107.3 2SER Tuesday 12 September 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: 2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12 ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations. Set 1 Swing Bands with Trumpet Band Leaders on One Night Stand, 1943-45 Theme + Blue Skies Lee Castle Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Ice Terrace Room Newark, New Jersey AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Aug 1944 Theme + Sunday Sonny Durham Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast Oct 1943 Disorder At The Border + Theme + Memories of You + Begin The Beguine Sonny Durham Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Ice Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jul 1945 Set 2 Latin Jazz on Live 1945 – 55 Radio Theme + Oya Negra Enric Madreguera and his Music of the Americas (voc) Eddy Gomez ’One Night Stand’ Copacabana NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Jul 1945 Theme + Siboney Xavier Cugat Orchestra ’All-Star Parade of Bands’ Ramona Room Hotel Last Frontier NBC Las Vegas 30 Nov 1953 Whatever Lola Wants Lola Gets + Close Prado Perez ’All-Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC NY 24 Jul 1953 Set 3 Stan Kenton 1950s Radio Young Blood Stan Kenton Orchestra ’Concert in Miniature’ NBC Fort Sheridan Ill. 30 Sep 1952 Too Marvellous Stan Kenton Quintet ’Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America Washington DC 1952 Francesca + Artistry in Rhythm (theme) Stan Kenton Orchestra ’Concert in Miniature’ Hampton Beach Casino New Hampshire WBZ NBC Boston 21 Jul 1953 Set 4 Count Basie 1954-56 Ingin’ The Ooh Count Basie Nonet Comm Rec Boston 7 Sep 1954 You For Me Count Basie Orchestra Red Hill Inn Pennsauken NY WCBS CBS NY 1 Dec 1956 Bubbles Count Basie Orchestra ’Treasury Bandstand’ American Legion Park WLAN ABC Lancaster PA 2 Sep 1954 Set 5 Freddie Rich 1932 I’ve Got Five Dollars (theme) + Copenhagen Freddie Rich and the Friendly Five Orchestra ’Friendly Five Footnotes’ CBS Radio Transcription New York City 1932 Bend Down Sister Freddie Rich and the Friendly Five Orchestra ’Friendly Five Footnotes’ CBS Radio Transcription New York City 1932 Japanese Sandman Freddie Rich and the Friendly Five Orchestra ’Friendly Five Footnotes’ CBS Radio Transcription New York City 1932 You Try Somebody Else + Close Freddie Rich and the Friendly Five Orchestra ’Friendly Five Footnotes’ CBS Radio Transcription New York City 1932 Set 6 Harry James 1942-46 Ciribiribin (Theme) + You’re In Love With Someone Else Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest Roof Garden Hotel Astor WABC CBS NY 28 Aug 1942 Open + Joe Blow Harry James Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS Los Angeles 1943 Theme + Save The American Way Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest ’Treasury War Bond Show’ Radio Transcription NYC Mar 1942 All Of Me Harry James Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City CA AFRS Re-broadcast 10 Feb 1946 Set 7 Nawlins Jazz On The Air Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (Theme) + Sensation Rag Muggsy Spanier and group ’This Is Jazz’ WOR MBS NY 22 Mar 1947 Eh Las Bas Papa Celestin and his New Orleans Jazz Band (voc) Papa Celestin ’Dixieland Jamboree’ WDSU ABC New Orleans 1950 Jazz Me Blues Bob Crosby Bobcats Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Chicago 29 Apr 1940 Maryland, My Maryland George Lewis and his New Orleans Ragtime Jazz Band ’Dixieland Jamboree’ WDSU ABC New Orleans 29 Apr 1951 Set 8 A Night In Tunisia A Night In Tunisia Boyd Raeburn Orchestra Rose Room Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 19 Jun 1945 A Night In Tunisia Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jun 1956 A Night In Tunisia Charlie Parker – Dizzy Gillespie Quintet ’Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ NYC 31 Mar 1945