Rinso Radio – Phantom Dancer 3 December 2019

SOAP

This week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton, is a brand of laundry detergent. You’ll hear ‘Mrs Goodsort’ talk sternly about it on a 1938 Rinso Show, International Broadcasting Company, Radio Normandy.

ONLINE

This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online after the 3 December 107.3 2SER Sydney live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney.

RINSO

Rinso was one of the first mass-marketed soap powders. It was advertised widely with a boast that Rinso contained “Solium, the sunlight ingredient”. In 1936 the sponsored show Rinso Music Hall was recorded in London and broadcast on Radio Luxembourg and Radio Normandie, followed from 1937 to 1939 by the popular Rinso Radio Revue, which you’ll hear an excerpt of on this week’s PD.

A still from this week’s Video

The product’s claim to better rinsing was due to its incorporation of sodium silicate as a builder rather than, or in addition to, the more commonly used sodium carbonate. The hard water calcium precipitate formed with metasilicate tends to be finer and hence less likely to be trapped in cloth than the chalky calcium carbonate.

Rinso was replaced by another Unilever detergent brand, Surf, in its four major markets, including Australia. However, Rinso is still made by Unilever for the Turkish, Asian, and Central American markets. Rinso was launched in Indonesia as the nation’s first detergent brand. As of 2013 Rinso leads the Indonesian detergent market.[3]

Rinso was the sponsor of the 1957 Australian television series Leave It to the Girls.

Sir Edmund Hillary promotes Rinso in New Zealand

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is a 1943 Rinso ad which incorporates the wartime austerity message to save energy. It’s relevant today in the climate change emergency. Take note…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #416
107.3 2SER Tuesday 3 December 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: 1 ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Swing and Dance Bands on 1937 Radio
Let’s Dance (theme) + Minnie The Moocher’s Wedding Day	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WOR Mutual New York City 21 Oct 1937
Am I Blue?	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jun 1937
September In The Rain + Ad + Close	Jack Hylton Orchestra (voc) Dick Mertre + Ad by ‘Mrs Goodsort’	‘The Rinso Review’ International Broadcasting Company London Radio Normandy 26 Dec 1937
Set 2	Count Basie on 1954 – 56 Radio
One O’Clock Jump + You For Me	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Treasury Bandstand’ American Legion Park, Ephrata Pa WLAN ABC Lancaster Pa 2 Sep 1954
Sent For You Yesterday	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing	‘Fifth Anniversary of Birdland’ Birdland WRCA NBC NY 16 Dec 1954
All Right OK You Win	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Joe Williams	Birdland WCBS CBS NY 9 Dec 1956
Set 3	The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street WJZ NY 1941
Open + Ida	Henry Levine Dixieland Octet	‘The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC NY 30 Jun 1941
The Bullfrog and The Robin	Paul Lavalle Woodwinds	‘The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC NY 30 Jun 1941
Angie Wangie Blues + Close	Paul Lavalle Woodwinds	‘The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC NY 25 Aug 1941
Set 4	Jazz Radio in 1960
Intro + Love Letters	Rodolfo Alchourron Quartet	‘Esto Es Jazz’ LR1 Radio el Mundo, Buenos Aires 28 May 1960
Theme + Sweet and Lovely	Lee Konitz	‘Jazz International’ AFRTS Hollywood 16 Jun 1960
Rhythm A Ning	Thelonius Monk Quintet	‘The World Jazz Series’ Connie Mack Park WCAU CBS Philadelphia 3 Mar 1960
Set 5	Medium Tempo Swing On 1940s Radio
Bluebirds In The Moonlight	Dick Freeman and his Trocadero Orchestra (voc) Barbara James	Comm Rec Sydney Mar 1940
Together	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Frolics Club Miami AFRS Re-broadcast 18 Jul 1944
I Never Knew	Raymond Scott’s Captivators	‘Morning Music’ WABC CBS NY 10 Jan 1943
Shoo Shoo Baby	Charlie Spivak Orchestra (voc) Irene Day	‘One Night Stand’ Century Room Commodore Hotel NY AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Set 6	Small Groups from the Big Bands on the Radio
Sugar	Mel Powell Trio (from the Glenn Miller Orch.)	Comm Rec Paris 1945
The Sad Sack	Gramercy 5 (from the Artie Shaw Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Santa Ana Ca ABC Los Angeles 3 Oct 1945
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise	Benny Goodman Trio	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 3 jan 1939
Wire Brush Stomp	Gene Krupa Trio	‘Spotlight Bands’ Newport Rhode Island Blue Network 2 Oct 1944
Set 7	Swing From 1930s Germany
Musik! Musik! Musik!	Otto Stenzel von der Scala Berlin mit seinem Tanzorchester (voc) Wilfred Sommer	Comm Rec Berlin 7 Jun 1939
Aus Lauter Liebe	Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Peter Igelhoff	Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1937
Über die Dächer der großen Stadt	Hans Carste Orchestra (voc) Schuricke-Terzett	Comm Rec Berlin 1939
Wenn Wir Uns Einmal Wiederseh’n	Joop Carlquist und sein Hawaiian-Tanzorchester	Comm Rec Berlin 1938
Set 8	Mod Women Jazz Singers On The Air
Once In A While	Sarah Vaughan	‘Jazz Club USA’ Washington DC 25 Dec 1949
Just A’Sittin’ And A’Rockin’	Julie Christie	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom LA AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Nov 1945
Confess	Patti Page	‘One Night Stand’ Click, Philadelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948
My Baby Just Cares For Me + The Lady Is A Tramp	Jaye P. Morgan	‘Second Timex All-Star Jazz Show’ CBS TV 30 Apr 1958

Gypsies, Ipana and George Trevare’s 1943-45 Australians – 8 January Phantom Dancer

The Phantom Dancer, heard every week over radio 2SER 107. 3 Sydney, 23 Australian radio stations and online, is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV.

Presented by Greg Poppleton, you can hear Phantom Dancer episodes online at 2ser.com.

THIS WEEK’S PHANTOM DANCER MIX

– has sets of swing bands from 1940s radio, bop and hard bop from 1950s radio, 1943-45 commercial recordings by the Sydney swing orchestra of George Trevare, a set of women jazz singers on-air with the Duke Ellington Orchestra on 1930s-50s radio and more. See the play list below.

A and P GYPSIES

One of the curiosities on today’s Phantom Dancer is part of a weekly broadcast from 1933 of one of the last of the 1920s commercial brand orchestras. In this case, the orchestra is the AandP Gypsies.

AandP, otherwise known as the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, was a U.S chain of grocery stores that ceased supermarket operations in November 2015, after 156 years in business.

U.S radio historian Elizabeth McLeod writes about these commercial brand orchestras,

“The most popular program format of the late 1920s was the sponsored musical feature. It could be a large symphonic group, a dance orchestra, or a song-and-patter team—and it would usually carry the sponsor’s name. The AandP Gypsies, for example—a large, genre-crossing orchestra conducted by Harry Horlick. The Ipana Troubadors—a hot dance band directed by Sam Lanin. The Goodrich Zippers—a banjo-driven orchestra conducted by Harry Reser, when he wasn’t leading the same group under the name of The Clicquot Club Eskimos. Everyone remembers The Happiness Boys, Billy Jones and Ernie Hare—but what about Scrappy Lambert and Billy Hillpot, who performed exactly the same sort of material as Trade and Mark, The Smith Brothers. The list is endless: The Silvertown Cord Orchestra, featuring the Silver Masked Tenor. The Sylvania Foresters. The Flit Soldiers—yet another Harry Reser group. The Champion Sparkers. The Fox Fur Trappers. The Ingram Shavers, who were the Ipana Troubadours on alternate Wednesdays. The Yeast Foamers. The Planters Pickers. And, the magnificently named Freed-Eisemann Orchestradians. All playing pretty much the same sorts of music, all announced by Phillips Carlin or John S. Young or Alwyn Bach or Milton Cross in pretty much the same sort of stiffly formal style.”

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is a 1929 commercial recording by the AandP Gypsies, ‘Only The Girl’. Happy Listening…

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 #370
107.3 2SER Tuesday 8 January 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	Swing 1940-44 Radio
Theme + Chopping Wood	Woody Herman Orchestra	Famous Door WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jan 1940
It’s a Crying Shame	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Frances Wayne	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 21 Aug 1944
Flying Home	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Civic Auditorium Oakland Ca 4 Jun 1944
Set 2	Jazz Organ and Harpsichord
Sunrise Serenade (theme) + This Is The Missus	Rosa Rio	’Rosa Rio Time’ WJZ ABC NY 14 Jul 1947
Tea For Two	Johnny Saab	’Organ Interlude’ WJSV Washington DC CBS 21 Sep 1939
The Turkish March	Sylvia Marlowe (harpsichord)	’Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 17 Dec 1941
Set 3	Latin Strains On 1930s-40s Radio
Theme + Chiu Chiu	Desi Arnez Orchestra (voc) DA and Band	Ciro’s KECA ABC LA 1947
Habenero and Vacero	A and P Gypsies	’A and P Show’ WEAF NBC Red NY 1933
Night Must Fall + Nightingale + My Shawl (theme)	Xavier Cugat Orchestra	’All-Star Parade of Bands’ Last Frontier NBC Las Vegas 30 Nov 1953
Set 4	Bop and Hard Bop on 1950s Radio
Strike Up The Band	Pete Brown Quintet	’One Night Stand’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 2 Sep 1952
Happy Birthday + Body and Soul	Sarah Vaughan	’Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 26 Mar 1953
Out of Nowhere + Jumping With Symphony Sid	Charlie Parker	Hi-Hat Club WCOP Boston 24 Jan 1954
Set 5	Women Singers with the Duke Ellington Orchestra on 1930s-50s Radio
In A Mizz	Ivie Anderson (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	Ritz Carlton Hotel WNAC NBC Boston 26 Jul 1939
Riff Staccato	Joya Sherrill (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Club Zanzibar AFRS Re-broadcast 28 Oct 1945
Take The ‘A’ Train	Betty Roche (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Jan 1948
I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But The Blues	Kay Davis and Al Hibbler (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	’Date With The Duke’ Radio City WJZ ABC NY 10 Nov 1945
Set 6	Commercial Sides: George Trevare and His Australians
Don’t Sweetheart Me	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Joan Blake	Comm Rec Sydney 1943-45
Under The Trees	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Lawrence Brooks	Comm Rec Sydney 1943-45
No Love No Nothin’	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Al Royal	Comm Rec Sydney 1943-45
Let’s Have One For The Road	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Unknown	Comm Rec Sydney 1943-45
Set 7	Glenn Miller and his Orchestra 1939 – 41 Radio
Intro + Here We Go Again + White Cliffs of Dover	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Ray Eberle	’Sunset Serenade’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 27 Dec 1941
Georgia On My Mind	Glenn Miller Orchestra	’Sunset Serenade’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 30 Aug 1941
Blueberry Hill	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton	’Sunset Serenade’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 6 Nov 1940
My Blue Heaven + Close	Glenn Miller Orchestra	NBC Baltimore 5 Sep 1939
Set 8	Kings Of Jazz Trumpet on 1930s-50s Radio
Night Song	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	Manhattan Centre WNEW NY 26 Sep 1939
I’m Confessin’ That I Love You	Louis Armstrong	‘Jubilee’ AFRS LA Mar 1943
It Don’t Mean A Thing	Roy Eldridge (voc) Anita Love	Unissued Comm Rec Paris 9 Jun 1950
Down South Camp Meeting	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Anita Love	Hotel Astor Roof WCBS CBS NY 25 May 1953

27 March Phantom Dancer – Bunny Berigan and How Disease Effects Legacy

It never ceases to amaze me how disease can over-shadow the brilliant legacy of a person’s life. How much ‘expert’ blather was there about Stephen Hawking’s motor neurone disease as an excuse to avoid explaining and understanding his discoveries in physics? It’s belittling and disrespectful.

Louis Armstrong’s favourite trumpet player was Bunny Berigan. We’ll be hearing radio broadcasts by Bunny Berigan on this week’s The Phantom Dancer.

Even today, seventy years after his death, he is still considered to have been one of the top trumpet players in jazz.

But what I find additionally interesting is how his legacy has been marred by the alcoholism that affected the inventiveness of his playing in the latter part of his short thirty-three years and which ultimately killed him through cirrhosis of the liver.

On this week’s Phantom Dancer you’ll also hear a set of live vintage radio by Dave Brubeck, Jack Teagarden and women singers with their own radio shows – Lee Wiley, Peggy Lee, Dinah Show and Mildred Bailey.

 

THE PHANTOM DANCER is two hours of non-stop swing and jazz mixed from live 1920s – 1960s radio and TV by Greg Poppleton, Australia’s only authentic 1920s-1930s singer www.gregpoppletonmusic.com

Broadcast 12:04pm Tuesdays 107.3 2SER Sydney then over 22 radio stations and online.

HEAR The Phantom Dancer live-streamed and afterwards online on the Radio 2SER website. http://www.2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

HOW DISEASE EFFECTS LEGACY

When jazz musicians talk about Bunny Berigan, his alcoholism always comes up.

‘What might have been had he not drank?’, is usually the most positive musing. But to me, from a music perspective, his illness should have no bearing on his legacy. Surely it’s his trumpet playing and technique that’s important, the music played, the songs composed, the landmark recordings made. Louis Armstrong praised Bunny Berigan’s trumpet sound and jazz ideas both before and after Berigan’s death.

I have known jazz musicians, world-touring, who’ve died after long illnesses. They kept their illnesses private, performing to the very end. Even though everyone knew they were terminally ill, the particulars of their illnesses were never discussed. These musicians had the luxury and the determination to never be defined by their disease. Nowadays, when people talk about them, they talk about their music, the good times and their positive legacy. How they died, their disease, and their substance abuse (in one case) are irrelevancies.

However, other jazz musicians I have known, have had deaths after long, debilitating illnesses during which time it was impossible to perform. Others have died suddenly – a heart attack, an overdose, a bleed. Always, these musicians are discussed in terms of their deaths, their creative life work overshadowed by the fabula of their failing health or their fatal surprise.

I guess it’s easier to talk about sickness and death than music. The musical process is a specialist field. Feeling poorly and falling off the perch is something on which everyone has an expert opinion.

BUNNY BERIGAN…
…was the stage name of Roland Bernard Berigan.

He composed, sang, and most famously was a brilliant trumpet player. Of his compositions, we’ll hear a live recording of one, ‘Chicken and Waffles’, from a live 1936 radio broadcast on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

He was best known for his virtuoso jazz trumpeting. His 1937 classic recording of a song from a flop music, ‘I Can’t Get Started’ (which we’ll also hear in two live 1930s versions on this week’s Phantom Dancer) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1975. ‘I Can’t Get Started’ was Berigan’s radio theme when he launched his own band in 1937.

Bunny Berigan had learnt violin and trumpet and was playing in local bands by his mid-teens. In 1930 he joined the Hal Kemp Orchestra and soon came to notice. He became a sought-after studio musician in New York as well as playing in the orchestras of Freddy Rich, Freddy Martin, Ben Selvin, Paul Whiteman and Benny Goodman. In fact, Goodman’s manager only got ‘that ace drummer man’ Gene Krupa to join the band by telling him Berigan was already on board.

After leaving Goodman, Berigan began to record regularly under his own name and to back singers such as Bing Crosby, Mildred Bailey, and Billie Holiday. We’ll hear him this week with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in early 1937. His solo on ‘Marie’ became one of his signature performances. We’ll hear a 1940 radio version. And, of course, a critic describing Berigan’s trumpet on the 1940 show had to bring up his alcoholism.

After leaving Goodman, Berigan began to record regularly under his own name and to back singers such as Bing Crosby, Mildred Bailey, and Billie Holiday. We’ll hear him this week with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in early 1937. His solo on ‘Marie’ became one of his signature performances. We’ll hear a 1940 radio version. And, of course, a critic describing Berigan’s trumpet on the 1940 show had to bring up his alcoholism.

MUSICAL ADVICE FROM BERIGAN
And instrumentalists PLEASE TAKE NOTE. There’s nothing more irritating to a singer than an instrumentalist taking too much air during the singer’s solo, or cramping the singer’s freedom of expression by trying to steer the improvisation…

Your Phantom Dancer Bunny Berrigan singing and playing trumpet on ‘Until Today’ with Freddy Rich’s Orchestra in 1936 . Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #308 107.3 2SER Tuesday 20 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 Swing on 1940s Radio Theme + Girl of My Dreams Randy Brooks Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 17 Nov 1945 K.C. Caboose + Are You Happy? John Kirby Sextet ‘One Night Stand’ Aquarium Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 18 Jul 1944 They Didn’t Believe Me + Blue Moon (Close) Eliot Lawrence Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 26 Jul 1945 Set 2 Big Bands on 1950s Radio Theme + I’m Walking Johnny Richards Orchestra ‘ABC Dancing Party’ Birdland WABC ABC NYC 1957 If I Had You Ted Heath Orchestra ‘International Bandstand’ London NBC/BBC 2 Mar 1959 It’s All In The Game Ray Anthony Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania AFRS Re-broadcast 1952 Set 3 Bing Crosby Radio Open + Pistol Packin’ Mama Bing Crosby ‘Kraft Music Hall’ KFI NBC LA 16 Dec 1943 Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra Bing Crosby ’Philco Radio Time’ KECA ABC LA 19 Nov 1947 Ukulele Lady + Green Grow The Lilacs + Close Bing Crosby + Rosemary Clooney (2nd song) ’Bing Crosby-Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 19 Oct 1961 Set 4 Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street Open + Dixieland One-Step Henry Levine Octet ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941 O Sussanah Diane Courtney ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941 Cheery-Beery-Bee The Tune Toppers ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941 Dangerous Mood Paul Lavalle Woodwinds ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941 Set 5 Trombonist Jack Teagarden Announcer’s Blues Paul Whiteman Orchestra ‘Paul Whiteman’s Music Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 19 jan 1936 Mr Jessie Jack Teagarden Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 22 Nov 1941 You Took Advantage of Me + Tea For Two + Close The Three T’s (Jack and Charlie Teagarden and Frank Trambauer) Hickory House WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Dec 1936 (1936 Home Recording) Wolverine Blues + Close Jack Teagarden Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 27 Dec 1941 Set 6 Women Singers With Their Own Radio shows Somebody Loves Me Peggy Lee ‘Peggy Lee Show’ KNX CBS LA 1947 Beg Your Pardon Dinah Shore ‘Dinah Shore Show’ KNX CBS LA 4 May 1948 Too Good To Be True Lee Wiley ‘Lee Wiley Sings’ WABC CBS NY 1 Jul 1936 Summertime Mildred Bailey ‘Mildred Bailey Show’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jan 1945 Set 7 Bunny Berigan I Can’t Get Started (theme) + Organ Grinder’s Swing Bunny Berigan Orchestra ‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1937 I Can’t Get Started (theme) + Ay, Ay, Ay Bunny Berigan Orchestra Manhattan Centre WNEW NY 26 Sep 1939 Marie Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (Bunny Berigan tp feature) Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WABC CBS NY 9 Mar 1940 Runnin’ Wild + Chicken and Waffles Bunny Berigan Orchestra ‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 31 Oct 1936 Set 8 Dave Brubeck This Can’t Be Love Dave Brubeck Aircheck Jan 1954 The Song Is For You Dave Brubeck Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Mar 1957 Stardust Dave Brubeck ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY Dec 1953 All The Things You Are Dave Brubeck Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Feb 1956