Casa Loma 1920s-40s Ork Collective – Phantom Dancer 16 November 2021

Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. It was a collective that was the top swing band before Benny Goodman. Loved for its complex, danceable arrangements, Coleman Hawkins named it as his favourite band.

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I’m Greg Poppleton and I’ve brought you The Phantom Dancer every week on 107.3 2SER radio Sydney since 1985.

Here’s a 1941 Warner Brothers short of the band featuring Lindy Hoppers, Dean Collins and Jewel McGowan. Key band soloists are also introduced in the fimal song…

COLLECTIVE

The Casa Loma Orchestra began in 1927 as a unit of the Jean Goldkette organisation under the name ‘Orange Blossoms’. Orange Blossoms, in the early 20th century was the newspaper headline for reports on wedding receptions.

The name, Casa Loma, came in 1929 when they were booked to play at the Casa Loma in Toronto, which suddenly closed. Stranded in that city, the musicians formed a musical collective, first under the direction of violinist Hank Biagini. In 1933, saxophonist Glen Gray was voted to front the band as the ‘first among equals’.

In 1930, the Casa Loma Orchestra was incorporated in New York with the members becoming owners, shareholders and board members. The band members were hired on the grounds of musical and congenial competence and followed strict conduct and financial rules. Because the band operated as a collective group, as opposed to almost all other bands that had a leader for whom everyone worked, the band maintained a stable collection of personnel that varied little. Members who broke the rules could be summoned before the board, have their contract bought out, and be ejected from the band.

Even the orchestra’s talent arranger, Gene Gifford, who created the unique Casa Loma sound, fell victim to the band’s strict rules, being bought out in 1935 for alcohol-related infractions.

In 1943, Eugenie Baird became the first woman vocalist with the Casa Loma Orchestra.

Here she is being interviewed by Guy Lombardo on 1955 TV. She also sings, You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You…

RADIO

The orchestra featured in the mid-1930s incarnation of the long-running ‘Camel Caravan’ series, which you’ll hear an excerpt from on this week’s Phantom Dancer. You’ll also hear a radio transcription of their famous sound made in 1934, and the orchestra live in 1943 and on the air with Eugenie Baird singing in 1944.

16 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #518
107.3 2SER Tuesday 16 NOVEMBER 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 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	Ginny Simms Show
Theme + Come To Baby	Ginny Simms (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra	‘The Ginny Simms Show’ WABC CBS NYC 11 Jan 1946
I’ll Always Be With You	Alton Williams (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra	‘The Ginny Simms Show’ WABC CBS NYC 11 Jan 1946
What a Deal	Ginny Simms (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra	‘The Ginny Simms Show’ WABC CBS NYC 11 Jan 1946
Indian Love Song	Ginny Simms and Gene Kelly (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra	‘The Ginny Simms Show’ WABC CBS NYC 11 Jan 1946
Set 2	Cocoanut Grove
Music in the Moonlight (theme) + Say That You Are Teasing Me	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo Delys	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1932
Bon Voyage to Your Ship of Dreams	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Donald Novis	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1932
Dinah + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) The Three Cheers	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1932
Set 3	Glen Gray 1945 Radio
Smoke Rings (theme) + Begin the Beguine	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (cl) Fats Daniels	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocan Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Oct 1945
A Door Will Open	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Skip Nelson	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocan Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Oct 1945
Midnight	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocan Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Oct 1945
What a Drag	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Fats Daniel	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocan Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Oct 1945
Set 4	Glen Gray Vinyl
Maniac’s Ball	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1934
Zonky	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 17 Dec 1935
My Heart Tells Me	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Eugenie Baird	Aircheck Hotel New Yorker Aug 1944
Blackberry Jam	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Columbus OH AFRS Re-broadcast 19 Nov 1943
Set 5	1920s Orchestras
My Mother Was a  Lady + She May Have Seen Better Days	Tonsorial Twitterbugs Quartet	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem	Paul Lavalle	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
The Booglie Wooglie Piggy	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Beyond the Moon	Toots Mondello	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Bugle Woogie + Close	Henry Levine	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Set 6	Boogie Piano
Original Boogie	Lil Armstrong	‘DuPont Show of the Week’ ‘Chicago and All That Jazz’ NBC TV 26 Nov 1961
Who Put The Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine?	Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson	Radio Transcription 8 Feb 1946
Piano Boogie	Dorothy Donegan	Comm Rec Chicago 1942
What’s His Story?	Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson	Radio Transcription 8 Feb 1946
Set 7	Eddie Condon
Blues + Riverboat Shuffle	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 1948
St Louis Blues	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 27 Jan 1945
Davenport Blues	Carl Kress and Tony Mottola guitar duet	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 22 Jul 1944
Blues	Eddie Condon Group with Charlie Barnet and Charlie Shavers	‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948
Set 8	1940s Swing Radio
Let’s Dance (theme) + Darktown Strutters’ Ball	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS NYC 21 Jul 1944
Loose Wig	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 16 Oct 1944
Honeydripper	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Quartet	‘Spotlight Bands’ Jefferson Barracks, Missouri Blue Network 23 Nov 1945
Wham + Close	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Jefferson Barracks, Missouri Blue Network 23 Nov 1945

Child Prodigy Jazz Pianist – Phantom Dancer 24 September 2019

A child prodigy on this week’s Phantom Dancer radio show with Greg Poppleton – Frank ‘Sugar Chile Robinson’. He played a White House dinner in 1946 aged 7, then played again at the White House in 2016 to a standing ovation aged 77.

The Phantom Dancer is your two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV, presented by Greg Poppleton on Radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney since 1985. Hear the show online from 12:04pm Tuesday 24 September at 2ser.com

The last hour is all vinyl.

SUGAR CHILE

Fom Wiki,
Frank Isaac Robinson (born December 28, 1938), known in his early musical career as Sugar Chile Robinson, is an American jazz pianist and singer who became famous as a child prodigy.

PIANO

Robinson was born in Detroit, Michigan. At an early age he showed unusual gifts singing the blues and accompanying himself on the piano. According to contemporary newsreels, he was self-taught and managed to use techniques including slapping the keys with elbows and fists.

AGE 3

He won a talent show at the Paradise Theatre in Detroit at the age of three, and in 1945 played guest spots at the theatre with Lionel Hampton, who was prevented by child protection legislation from taking Robinson on tour with him. However, Robinson performed on radio with Hampton and Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson and also appeared as himself in the Hollywood film No Leave, No Love, starring Van Johnson and Keenan Wynn.

CATCH PHRASE

In 1946, he played for President Harry S. Truman at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, shouting out “How’m I Doin’, Mr. President?” – which became his catchphrase – during his performance of “Caldonia”. He was the first African American performer to appear at the annual WHCA dinner. He began touring major theaters, setting box office records in Detroit and California. In 1949 he was given special permission to join the American Federation of Musicians and record his first releases on Capitol Records, “Numbers Boogie” and “Caldonia”, both reaching the Billboard R&B chart. In 1950, he toured and appeared on television with Count Basie and in a short film ‘Sugar Chile’ Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet. The following year, he toured the UK, appearing at the London Palladium. He stopped recording in 1952, later explaining,

“I wanted to go to school… I wanted some school background in me and I asked my Dad if I could stop, and I went to school because I honestly wanted my college diploma.”

UNI AND TV

Until 1956 he continued to make occasional appearances as a jazz musician, billed as Frank Robinson, and performed on one occasion with Gerry Mulligan, but then gave up his musical career entirely. Continuing his academic studies, he earned a degree in history from Olivet College and one in psychology from the Detroit Institute of Technology. In the 1960s, he worked for WGPR-TV, and also helped set up small record labels in Detroit and opened a recording studio.

LATELY

In the 21st Century he has made a comeback as a musician with the help of the American Music Research Foundation. In 2002, he appeared at a special concert celebrating Detroit music, and in 2007 he traveled to Britain to appear at a rock and roll weekend festival. In the last Dr Boogie show of 2013, Sugar Chile Robinson was the featured artist, with four of his classic hits showcasing amid biographical sketches of his early career. On April 30, 2016, he attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on the 70th anniversary of his appearance at the 1946 dinner. He met President Obama and was saluted during the dinner, receiving a standing ovation as the picture of him as a child appeared on the video screens. In 2016 he was inducted into the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is Sugar Chile Robinson! 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 #406
107.3 2SER Tuesday 24 September 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT)
Set 1	That Ace Drummer Man Gene Krupa on 1945-46 Radio
Whispering	Gene Krupa Orchestra	’Spotlight Bands’ MBS 1946
Bugle Call Rag	Gene Krupa Orchestra	Pacific Square San Diego MBS 2 Mar 1945
Yes, Yes, Honey	Gene Krupa Orchestra (voc) Carolyn Gray	’One Night Stand’ The Click, Phildelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Jan 1945
Set 2	Rock’n’Roll Live on 1950s Radio
Theme + I Was Born To Rock	Smilin’ Smokey Lynn	’Midnite Matinee’ Olympic Auditorium KFVD Los Angeles 28 Sep 1951
Tender Trap	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Joe Williams	’Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 12 May 1956
Baby Please Don’t Go		’Sepia Swing Club’ WDIA Memphis 14 Dec 1951
Set 3	Progressive Jazz on 1948-62 Radio and TV
Theme + Move	Miles Davis Nonet	’Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA New York 4 Sep 1948
Strike Up the Band	Pete Brown	’All-Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC NY 2 Sep 1952
Oleo + Theme	Phineas Newborn Jr	’Jazz Scene USA’ TV Series Los Angeles 15 Oct 1962
Set 4	Woody Herman on Live 1944-45 Radio
Flying Home	Woody Herman Orchestra	’Old Gold Show’ Rehearsal WABC CBS NY 2 Aug 1944
Goosey Gander	Woody Herman Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 21 Jul 1945
Apple Honey + Blue Flame (theme)	Woody Herman Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 6 Aug 1945
Set 5	Raymond Scott Orchestra 1940
Pretty Little Petticoat (theme) + Huckleberry Duck	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 1940
Creepy Weepy	Raymond Scott Orchestra	’Music Depreciation’ KHJ Mutual-Don Lees LA 1940
Blueberry Hill	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Nan Wynn	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 1940
Caterpillar Creep	Raymond Scott Orchestra	’Music Depreciation’ KHJ Mutual-Don Lees LA 1940
Set 6	1930s Swing Bands on Radio
I Let a Song Go Out of my Heart	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1938
The Chant	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Aircheck 28 May 1939
Satan Takes a Holiday	Benny Goodman Orchestra	’Camel Caravan’ KNX CBS LA 17 Aug 1937
Bugle Blues	Count Basie Orchestra	Savoy Ballroom Harlem NYC 30 June 1937
Set 7	Tommy Dorsey on 1945 Radip
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (theme) + Instrumental	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ 400 Restaurant AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Sep 1945
I’m Beginning To See The Light	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Sentimentalists	Aircheck Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ 3 Feb 1945
Song of India	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	Aircheck Ocean Park Ca 19 Aug 1945
The Minor Goes Muggin’	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	Aircheck Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ 3 Feb 1945
Set 8	Pianists on 1940s-50s Radio
Caldonia Boogie	Sugar Chile Robinson with Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1946
Theme + I’m In a Dancing Mood	Dave Brubeck	Basin Street WCBS CBS New York City Mar 1957
When Your Lover Has Gone	Erroll Garner	‘Storyville’ WHDH Boston Dec 1953

Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson – 12 Feb 2019 Phantom Dancer

THE HIPSTER

Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton. The stride and boogie pianist claimed to have invented the word ‘hipster’. His stellar career nosedived in 1946 after he released the drug song ‘Who Put The Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine?’. That same song brought him out of obscurity when ‘discovered’ by Dr Demento in 1985 after which he released three albums.

PHANTOM DANCER

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HARRY ‘THE HIPSTER’ GIBSON

was a jazz songwriter, stride and boogie woogie pianist, who sang in a large style that pitched the story out to his audience.

Born Harry Raab, he began his musical career in the late 1920s playing stride piano in Dixieland jazz bands in Harlem. He added barrelhouse boogie to his repertoire in the 1930s, and was discovered by Fats Waller in 1939. Waller brought him down to 52nd Street Manhattan jazz clubs where he became famous and changed his surname to Gibson.

AHEAD

Gibson’s songwriting was considered ahead of its time in the early 1940s. His singing and piano was also unique, his piano in particular taking on a ‘frantic’ quality.

CLASSICAL

At the same time as playing in 52nd Swing Street clubs, Gibson attended the strictly classical Juilliard School of music where he excelled.

We missed out last week, but on this week’s Phantom Dancer Gibson will play live on a 1944 Blue Network Eddie Condon jazz concert, Bix Beidebeck’s difficult piano pieces ‘Candlelight’ and ‘In a Mist’.

HIPSTER

Gibson grew up near Harlem, New York City. So his use of black jive talk was not an affectation but his uptown New York dialect. In his autobiography, Gibson claimed he coined the term hipster between 1939 and 1945 when he was performing on Swing Street when he started using “Harry the Hipster” as his stage name.

NAUGHTY

On this week’s Phantom Dancer we hear the 1946 Musicraft recording that sent his career plunging – ‘Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine’. His own drug use didn’t help.

BEATLES

In the 1960s Gibson saw the huge success of the Beatles and switched to rock and roll. By the 1970s, he was playing hard rock, blues, bop, novelty songs and a few songs that mixed ragtime with rock and roll. His hipster act became a hippie act. His old records were revived on the Dr. Demento radio show, particularly ‘Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine’, which was included on the 1975 compilation album Dr. Demento’s Delights.

His comeback resulted in three more albums: Harry the Hipster Digs Christmas, Everybody’s Crazy but Me, and Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine (Delmark, 1989). Those two include some jazz, blues, ragtime, and rock and roll songs about reefer, nude bathing, hippie communes, strip clubs, male chauvinists, “rocking the 88s”, and Shirley MacLaine.

In 1991, shortly before his death, Gibson’s family made a biographical movie short on his life and music called Boogie in Blue, published as a VHS video that year.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week has Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson give a school music lesson about how to ‘Keep the Beat’ in this 1944 soundie. Pay attention!

12 FEBRUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #374
107.3 2SER Tuesday 12 February 2019 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	1944-46 Radio Big Bands
Racing with the Moon (theme) + Candy Hop	Vaughan Monroe Orchestra (voc) VM	‘One Night Stand’ Blackhawk Restaurant Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 6 Feb 1945
Accentuate the Positive	Frankie Masters Orchestra (voc) Frankie Masters, Phyllis Miles and the Girl Quartet	‘Spotlight Bands’ Cedar Rapids, Iowa Blue Network 1945
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto #2	Freddy Martin Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Jan 1946
Set 2	Count Basie Rock’n’Roll
(Theme and close) One O’Clock Jump + Little Pony + Why Not? + The Moon is Green + Tpp Close For Comfort (voc) Joe Williams	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 16 Jun 1956
Heading Home + As Long As I’m Moving	Shirley Gunter	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 16 Jun 1956
In Self-Defence	The Flairs	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 16 Jun 1956
Set 3	Woody Herman 1947 – 50s Radio
Open + I’ve Got News For You	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) WH	‘Just Jazz’ Shrine Auditorium Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 1947
Ad + The Goof and I	Woody Herman Third Herd	‘Monitor’ Basin Street WRCA NBC NY 26 Jun 1955
Mambo the Most	Woody Herman Third Herd	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Peony Park WOW NBC Omaha Nebraska 1948
Set 4	Jazz Inspired Arabic Music
(Open and Close) Coca Cola Ad	Unknown	Cairo 1950
Rhumba	Hanan and Fairouz	Comm Rec Beirut 1950s
Swing	Hanan and Fairouz	Comm Rec Beirut 1950s
Set 5	Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson 1944 – 46
Who Put The Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine?	Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 8 Feb 1946
Candlelight + In a Mist	Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 10 Jul 1944
Who’s Goin’ Steady With Who?	Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 8 Feb 1946
Set 6	Eddie Condon 1944 Blue Network
Rosetta	Eddie Condon group with Muggsy Spanier and Miff Mole	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 16 Sep 1944
Memphis Blues	Eddie Condon group with Muggsy Spanier and Miff Mole	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 16 Sep 1944
There’ll Be Some Changes Made	Eddie Condon group with Muggsy Spanier and Miff Mole (voc) Red McKenzie	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 16 Sep 1944
I’d Do Anything For You	Eddie Condon group with Muggsy Spanier and Miff Mole	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 16 Sep 1944
Set 7	1930s Count Basie
Texas Shuffle	Count Basie Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 22 Aug 1938
Swing It, Brother, Swing	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Billie Holliday	Aircheck Savoy Ballroom Harlem NYC 30 Jun 1937
Darn That Dream	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Helen Humes	Southland Cafe WNAC NBC Red Boston 20 Feb 1940
St Louis Blues	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing	Chatterbox Hotel William Penn WCAE NBC Red Pittsburgh 8 Feb 1937
Set 8	1932 Dance Music
Gnaedige Frau, komm und spiel mit mir	Hans Albers	Movie ‘Quick’ Berlin 1932
Try Getting a Good Night’s Sleep	Don Redman Orchestra (voc) DR	Comm Rec New York City 26 Feb 1932
Linda	earl Burtnett Orchestra (voc) Jess Kirkpatrick	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1932
On the Alamo / My Ideal / I’ll Get By + Egyptian Shimmy	Anson Weekes Orchestra	Radio Transcription San Francisco 1932

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

Phantom Dancer 10 Feb. 1930s, 1940s, 1950s Radio. Julius Sumner Miller – The Strange Behaviour Of Ice And Water

Hello Phantom Dancers,

There’s 2 hours of swing, jazz and dance from live 1930s – 60s radio and TV (listen online at http://www.2ser.com) for you on this Tuesday’s 10 Feb 2015 Phantom Dancer, presented by Greg Poppleton.

LISTEN. SHOW ONLINE TILL MARCH

There’s a set of Count Basie, a set of 1930s swing, hot big band swing from the 1940s and plenty more. See the play list.

1943 Count Basie Ad

As this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, recorded at ABC-TV in Sydney in 1969, Julius Sumner Miller investigates the Strange Behaviour of Ice and Water. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN#144 2SER Tuesday 10 Feb 2015 12 noon – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) Set 1 Pot Pourri from the film ‘Frauen im Metropol’ Adolf Steimel Organum-Tanz-Orchester Comm Rec Berlin 5 Sep 1940 Komennoi Ostrow Lawrence Welk Champagne Music Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park KECA ABC LA 1955 Hello Dolly Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRTS re-broadcast Jul 1964 Set 2 That Da Da Strain Bobby Hackett ct, Edmond Hall cl. Vic Dickenson tb. Joe Sullivan p. Eddie Condon g. Geo. Wettling d. Private Concert Commodore Hotel NYC 17 Mar 1953 The Turkish March Sylvia Marlowe (harpsichord) ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 17 Dec 1941 A Rainy Day Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) PH and Leah Ray Cocoanut Grove TRANSCO Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933 Set 3 Naina Paivina (Some of these Days) Erik Lindstrom Kvintetti (voc) Helena Siltale Comm Rec Helsinki 13 Dec 1955 Ornithology Charlie Parker ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Hi-Hat Club WCOP Boston 18 Dec 1953 Set 4 Variations on I’ve Got Rhythm Count Basie Orchestra V-Disc New York 27 May 1944 Open + Bread Count Basie Orchestra Birdland WNBC NBC NY 1 Jan 1953 Two For The Blues Count Basie Orchestra Red Hill Inn Pennsauken NJ Mutual Network 30 Dec 1956 Set 5 Cincinnati Charlie Spivak Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS Los Angeles 4 Apr 1948 Drop Me Off Charlie Barnet Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ Ft Devons Mass. ABC 15 Oct 1945 Hawaiian War Chant Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 26 Nov 1940 I Can’t Give You Anything But Love Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1943 Set 6 Backslider’s Ball Lucky Millinder Orchestra Comm Rec New York 15 Jun 1952 Interview Gerard Hoffnung and Cyril Richardson ‘Saturday Night on the Light’ BBC Light Programme London 1955 Before Midnight Gladys Bentley Quartet Comm Rec Los Angeles early 1950s Barrelhouse Illinois Jacquette ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1943 Set 7 Liza Gene Krupa Trio V-Disc New York 4 May 1944 Limehouse Blues Benny Goodman Sextet ‘One Night Stand’ The Click Philadelphia AFRS re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948 Love Me Or Leave Me Sarah Vaughan ‘Eddie Condon Floor Show’ WNBT TV NY 13 Dec 1948 Bebop Boogie Lester Young Sextet ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Dec 1948 Set 8 Harmony In Harlem Duke Ellington Orchestra Cotton Club WABC CBS NY 1 May 1938 Let’s Stop The Clock Artie Shaw Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 20 Dec 1938 Just An Angel In Disguise + I Hear Blue Birds Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Janet Blair Aircheck Cedar Point, OH 3 Jul 1940 Livery Stable Blues Bunny Berrigan Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago Jul 1939