Waltzing Matilda – Phantom Dancer 3 January 2023

Waltzing Matilda in swing from World War 2 is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature.

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

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WALTZING

Waltzing Matilda is a bush ballad described as Australia’s unofficial national anthem.

The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing, from German ‘auf der Walz’) with one’s belongings in a “matilda” (swag) slung over one’s back.

The song tells the story of an itinerant worker, or “swagman”, making a drink of billy tea (the lyrics sung today come from a 1903 re-writing of the original 1895 lyric, to sell Billy Tea) at a bush camp and capturing a stray jumbuck (sheep) to eat.

When the jumbuck’s owner, a squatter (grazier who stole the land from the Aboriginal people and colonial governments), and three troopers (mounted policemen) pursue the swagman for theft, he declares “You’ll never catch me alive!” and commits suicide by drowning himself in a nearby billabong (watering hole), after which his ghost haunts the site.

The original lyrics were composed in 1895 by Australian poet, Banjo Paterson, to suit a tune played by Christina Macpherson. In 1903, Marie Cowan changed some of the lyrics, wrote a completely new variation of the tune and published this as sheet music.

The song was first recorded in 1926 as performed by John Collinson and Russell Callow. There are more recordings of “Waltzing Matilda” than any other Australian song.

MATILDA

The song was first performed on 6 April 1895 by Sir Herbert Ramsay, 5th Bart., at the North Gregory Hotel in Winton, Queensland.

The occasion was a banquet for the Premier of Queensland.

A search of hundreds of Australian newspaper titles between 1895 and 1901 reveals only one report of it being sung. However, the cultural critic, A.A. Phillips, born in 1900, recalled being taught it in his childhood.

COPYRIGHT

Paterson sold the rights to Waltzing Matilda and some other pieces to Angus & Robertson for five pounds. In 1903, tea trader James Inglis hired Marie Cowan, who was married to Inglis’s accountant, to alter the song lyrics for use as an advertising jingle for the Billy Tea company, making it nationally famous.

Although no copyright applied to the song in Australia and many other countries, the Australian Olympic organisers had to pay royalties to an American publisher, Carl Fischer Music, following the song being played at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta.

According to some reports, the song was copyrighted by Carl Fischer Music in 1941 as an original composition.

However, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Carl Fischer Music had collected the royalties on behalf of Messrs Allan & Co, an Australian publisher that claimed to have bought the original copyright, though Allan’s claim “remains unclear”.

Arrangements such as those claimed by Richard D. Magoffin remain in copyright in America. Here’s Johnny Cash singing it…

3 JANUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #578
107.3 2SER Tuesday 3 January 2023 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5UV Adelaide Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 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 3am – 4 and 6 -7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am and Sunday 11pm Reading Radio (QLD) Friday 1am – 2 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am – 12 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Saturday 4am – 5am Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturday 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm 2SEA Sapphire Coast Eden Sunday 9 – 10pm
Set 1	Jan Garber
Silver Bells	Jan Garber Orchestra (voc) Roy Cordell	Melody Mill WGN Chicago Dec 1950
Stardust	Jan Garber Orchestra	Melody Mill WGN Chicago Dec 1950
Once You Find Your Guy	Jan Garber Orchestra (voc) Gloria Allen	Melody Mill WGN Chicago Dec 1950
You’re Just in Love + The Night is Young and You’re So Beautiful + Theme	Jan Garber Orchestra (voc) Roy Cordell & Gloria Allen	Melody Mill WGN Chicago Dec 1950
Set 2	Chicago Jazz
Come On, Get Happy (theme) + You’re Driving Me Crazy	Whitey Berquist and the NBC Orchestra	‘Chicago Jazz’ WMAQ NBC Chicago 12 Jun 1952
I Know That You Know	Art van Damme Quartet	‘Chicago Jazz’ WMAQ NBC Chicago 12 Jun 1952
Stompin’ at the Savoy	The Chicago Wolverines	‘Chicago Jazz’ WMAQ NBC Chicago 12 Jun 1952
St Louis Blues + Johnson Rag + Come On, Get Happy (theme)	Lucille Reid + Whitey Berquist and the NBC Orchestra	‘Chicago Jazz’ WMAQ NBC Chicago 12 Jun 1952
Set 3	Frankie Masters
Theme + The Lady’s in Love With You	Frankie Masters Orchestra	‘ABC Dancing Party’ Boulevarde Room Conrad Hilton Hotel WMAQ NBC Chicago 2 Feb 1957
Somebody Somewhere	Frankie Masters Orchestra (voc) Ray MacIntosh	‘ABC Dancing Party’ Boulevarde Room Conrad Hilton Hotel WMAQ NBC Chicago 2 Feb 1957
Gad About + Namely Me	Frankie Masters Orchestra (voc) Frankie Masters	‘ABC Dancing Party’ Boulevarde Room Conrad Hilton Hotel WMAQ NBC Chicago 2 Feb 1957
Medley: It Might as Well Be Spring / Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year / Paris in the Spring + What a Heavenly Night for Love + Close	Frankie Masters Orchestra (voc) The Swing Masters	‘ABC Dancing Party’ Boulevarde Room Conrad Hilton Hotel WMAQ NBC Chicago 2 Feb 1957
Set 4	Waltzing Matilda
Waltzing Matilda	Mart Kenney and his Western Gentlemen (voc) Judy Richards & the Trio	Comm Rec Montreal 29 Dec 1941
Waltzing Matilda	116th Rhythm Ensemble (voc) Gordon Andrews	Aircheck Sydney 1944
Waltzing Matilda	Jack White and his Band (voc) jack White and Chorus	Comm Rec London 27 Feb 1941
Set 5	Australian 1930s Swing
Forty-Second Street	Jim Dividson Palais Royale Orchestra (voc) Cantrell Brothers	Comm Rec Sydney 6 Jun 1933
Darktown Strutters’ Ball	Frank Coughlin Trocadero Orchestra	Comm Rec Sydney 25 May 1937
Says My Heart	Jim Dividson Australian Broadcasting Commission Dance  Orchestra (voc) Alice Smith	Comm Rec Sydney 17 Aug 1938
Harlem Heat	Dudley Cantrell and the Grace Grenadiers	Comm Rec Sydney 22 Nov 1937
Set 6	Artie Shaw 1939
Nightmare (theme) + Rose Room	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Summer Terrace Ritz Carlton Hotel WNAC NBC Red Boston 19 Aug 1939
You’re a Lucky Guy	Artie Shaw Orchestra (voc) Tony Pastor	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WEAF NBC Red NYC 20 Oct 1939
Day In, Day Out	Artie Shaw Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WEAF NBC Red NYC 19 Oct 1939
Man from Mars + Nightmare (theme)	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WEAF NBC Red NYC 21 Oct 1939
Set 7	Early Rock
Let’s Face It	Stan ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band	Rock’n’Roll Dance Party WCBS CBS NY 1956
Tweedlee Dee	La Verne Baker (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	Rock’n’Roll Dance Party WCBS CBS NY 1956
Dance with Me, Henry	Etta James (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	Rock’n’Roll Dance Party WCBS CBS NY 1956
Woe is Me	Cadillacs (voc) Stan ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band	Rock’n’Roll Dance Party WCBS CBS NY 1956
Set 8	Jazz Moderne
Three Little Words	Gene Krupa Quartet	London House WBBM CBS Chicago 13 Mar 1959
Woodyn You	Bud Powell	Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 21 Mar 1953
Tiger Rag + 52nd Street theme	Charlie Parker	‘Bands for Bonds’ WOR Mutual NYC 20 Sep 1947

New Year Radio Pt 2 – Phantom Dancer 27 December 2022

New Year radio from 1945-71 swing and jazz broadcasts is the play list for this week’s Phantom Dancer.

Happy New Year!

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 27 December) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

NEW

Each major city in Australia holds New Year’s Eve celebrations, usually accompanied by a fireworks display.

The most prominent celebration in the country is Sydney Harbour New Year’s Eve of two fireworks shows — the evening “Family Fireworks” at 9:00 p.m., and the main fireworks at midnight.

Sydney Harbour Bridge is a focal point of the show, via pyrotechnics launched from the bridge, as well as lighting displays that illuminate it during the show. Fireworks are set off from multiple other pints along the middle of the harbour from barges.

Local Sydney councils also hold firework displays. The northern hill at Sydney Park, 5 km south of the CBD, was a good vantage point, always crowded by thousands of people, to see many of them.

Over the years, local councils have invaded these spontaneous public gatherings by moulding them into uncreative, organised events flattened by mind-numbing, doof-doof, washing-machine rumble. Commercial conformity killing community creativity for “consoomers” to herd in and graze.

Musically, Sydney is a very uncreative place.

It embraces the safe and commercial. The music scene is largely funded by gambling. For rock, doof-doof and rap audiences it’s a race to get drugged or drunk to keep vital against swirling strident soundscapes dead-deafened by deludedly curatorial drones.

YEAR’S

In 1976, the Sydney Committee decided to repackage the failing Waratah Festival into the Festival of Sydney. They agreed that New Year’s Eve should launch the new festival as a ‘big bang affair’. This made New Year’s Eve official in Sydney for the first time.

EVE

Gloucester Park, a racecourse in central Perth, is the largest and most recognized display in the Western Australian city. In Brisbane events are held at Southbank. At night, 50,000 Australians gather at sites around the Brisbane River to watch a fireworks display. In Melbourne, hundreds of thousands of Australians come to the Central Business District to see the fireworks.  In the South Australian capital of Adelaide, events are held at both Rymill Park in the city, Semaphore and at Glenelg beach.

Here’s TV coverage of the Sydney New Year fireworks in 2021. TV coverage of the Sydney fireworks has two embarrassing traditions,

1. Struggling hosts (with the exception of Lawrence Mooney),
2. Cringey muzak smothering the exciting atmosphere of the fireworks going off and the cheering of millions.

Millions of dollars are spent on the fireworks. The talent and craft of the pyrotechnicians is extraordinary as you’ll see in the clip. The insta-music soundtrack is like putting a butterfly decal over the Mona Lisa. “Here’s the butterfly decal, everybody! Yay!”

The video is best watched with the sound off…

27 DECEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #577
107.3 2SER Tuesday 27 December 2022 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5UV Adelaide Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 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 3am – 4 and 6 -7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am and Sunday 11pm Reading Radio (QLD) Friday 1am – 2 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am – 12 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Saturday 4am – 5am Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturday 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm 2SEA Sapphire Coast Eden Sunday 9 – 10pm
Set 1	Count Basie 1960
One O’Clock Jump (theme) + Jingle Bells	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Monitor’ Birdland WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1960
Alright, Okay, You Win	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Joe Williams	‘Monitor’ Birdland WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1960
Jumpin’ at the Woodside	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Monitor’ Birdland WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1960
One O’Clock Jump (extended theme)	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Monitor’ Birdland WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1960
Set 2	Woody Herman 1954
Blue Flame + Third Herd	Woody Herman’s Third Herd	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 31 Dec 1954
Sleepy Serenade	Woody Herman’s Third Herd	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 31 Dec 1954
Get Outta Town	Woody Herman’s Third Herd (voc) Leah Matthews	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 31 Dec 1954
Apple Honey	Woody Herman’s Third Herd	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 31 Dec 1954
Set 3	Dorsey Brothers 1954
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (theme) + Lover	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NYC 31 Dec 1954
Do it Yourself	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NYC 31 Dec 1954
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight + Happy Days Are Here Again + Well Get It	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (d) Buddy Rich	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NYC 1 Jan 1955
It Happens to Be Me + Stomping Down Broadway	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Lynn Roberts	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NYC 1 Jan 1955
Set 4	Sy Oliver & Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines
Theme + Rumble	Sy Oliver Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ The Riverboat WNBC NBC NYC 1 Jan 1971
Deep Forest (theme) + Dippermouth Blues	Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 1 Jan 1957
When the Saints Go Marching In	Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 1 Jan 1957
Tiger Rag	Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 1 Jan 1957
Set 5	New Years Eve 1945
Robin Hood	Louis Prima Orchestra (voc) LP	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ Salt Lake City AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
Gotta Be This or That	Benny Goodman Orchestra with Red Norvo & Slam Stewart	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ Boston AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
Let the Zoomers’ Drool	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ Evansville IN AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
Auld Lang Syne	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ Gril Room Hotel Roosevelt NYC AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
Set 6	Gene Krupa
Open + Flying Home	Gene Krupa Quartet	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Metropole Cafe WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1965
Dark Eyes	Gene Krupa Quartet	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Metropole Cafe WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1965
Set 7	Dorsey Brothers
Green Eyes	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Jilla Webb & Tommy Mercer	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WCBS CBS NY 1 Jan 1956
Flagler’s Drive	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WCBS CBS NY 1 Jan 1956
Your Daddy’s Got the Gleeks	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Charlie Shavers	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WCBS CBS NY 1 Jan 1956
Stomping Down Broadway	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WCBS CBS NY 1 Jan 1956
Set 8	Charlie Parker
Jumping with Symphony Sid (theme) + Be Bop	Charlie Parker	Royal Roost WMCA NYC 1 Jan 1949
Slow Boat to China	Charlie Parker	Royal Roost WMCA NYC 1 Jan 1949
Ornithology	Charlie Parker	Royal Roost WMCA NYC 1 Jan 1949

New Year Radio Pt 1 Xmas Radio Pt 2- Phantom Dancer 20 December 2022

New Year radio from NBC’s ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ 1965-66 and 1970-71 radio plus Swing and jazz programming from the Christmas season is the focus for the first part of this week’s Phantom Dancer.

And a song never before played on The Phantom Dancer gets two live radio airings on this week’s show, ‘Teach Me Tonight’, from live 1954 and 65 radio.

The first part of the Phantom Dancer is nationally networked and will be on radio across Australia from 26 November.

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 20 December) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

1966

I remember waking up New Year morning, 1 January 1966, watching the sun rise next to the neighbour’s camphor laurel from my bed on the back verandah of the house I grew up in.

It was a beautiful yellow orp in a cloudless lapis blue sky. I made a note to my 5 year old self to remember the joy of the moment forever. It was a year of optimism. Then within a few short months, in April of that year, I was fighting for my life.

1969

New Years Eve night 31 December 1969 was what I recall to be a three hour special on a local commercial station (Channel 9) covering the momentous decade that was the 1960s.

I thought at the time the same thing would happen in 1979, 1989 and so on. But no decade has been so optimistically radical since.

Australia did have a bright three years with the progressive Whitlam government 1972-75.

And, since you’ll be hearing Tuxedo Junction live from 1970 radio on this week’s show, it reminds me that in the early 70s, Sydney ABC station 2BL always played Tuxedo Junction sung by a blues singer as its open song after the station came on the air for the morning at 5:45am.

However, by 1979 the country was in the doldrums under the ‘austerity’ of a wealthy farmer prime minister and a suburban lawyer treasurer.

20 DECEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #576
107.3 2SER Tuesday 20 December 2022 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5UV Adelaide Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 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 3am – 4 and 6 -7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am and Sunday 11pm Reading Radio (QLD) Friday 1am – 2 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am – 12 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Saturday 4am – 5am Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturday 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm 2SEA Sapphire Coast Eden Sunday 9 – 10pm
Set 1	Glenn Miller 1965
Open + Moonlight Serenade (theme) + St Louis Blues March	Ray McKinley and the Glenn Miller Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ The Riverboat WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1965
Teach Me Tonight	Ray McKinley and the Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Joan Shephard	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ The Riverboat WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1965
Hallelujah, I Love Her So	Ray McKinley and the Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Ray McKinley	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ The Riverboat WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1965
Moonlight Serenade (extended theme)	Ray McKinley and the Glenn Miller Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ The Riverboat WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1965
Set 2	Glenn Miller 1970
Moonlight Serenade + Tuxedo Junction	Buddy de Franco and the Glenn Miller Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Gull Golden Mile Hotel Fort Laudedale FL 1 Jan 1970
Set 3	Count Basie 1965
One O’clock Jump (theme) + Splanky	Count Basie Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Pick Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Chicago 31 Dec 1965
Auld Lang Syne	Count Basie Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Pick Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Chicago 1 Jan 1966
Chestnut Street Ramble + One O’Clock Jump (theme)	Count Basie Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Pick Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Chicago 1 Jan 1966
Set 4	World’s Greatest Jazz Band
My Inspiration (Theme) Son of a Preacher Man	World’s Greatest Jazz Band (Bobby Hackett, Yank Lawson, Bud Freeman, Ralph Sutton, Carl Fontana, Bob Wilber, Lou McGarity, Billy Butterfield, Wes Johnson Jnr)	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Roosevelt Grill WNBC NBC NYC 1 Jan 1970
Mercy, Mercy	World’s Greatest Jazz Band	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Roosevelt Grill WNBC NBC NYC 1 Jan 1970
Spinning Wheel	World’s Greatest Jazz Band	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Roosevelt Grill WNBC NBC NYC 1 Jan 1970
South Rampart Street Parade	World’s Greatest Jazz Band	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Roosevelt Grill WNBC NBC NYC 1 Jan 1970
Set 5	Dizzy Gillespie & Jonah Jones
Theme + Soul Kiss	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ London House WMAQ NBC Chicago 31 Dec 1969
On the Street Where You Live (theme) + Baubles, Bangles and Beads	Jonah Jones Quartet	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Rainbow Grill WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1969
Mack the Knife	Jonah Jones Quartet (voc) Jonah Jones	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Rainbow Grill WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1969
Set 6	Dinah Shore
Open + Let It Snow	Dinah Shore	‘The Dinah Shore Show’ WRCA NBC NYC 24 Dec 1954
Happy Christmas, Little Friend	Dinah Shore	‘The Dinah Shore Show’ WRCA NBC NYC 24 Dec 1954
Walkin’ Down the Road	Dinah Shore	‘The Dinah Shore Show’ WRCA NBC NYC 24 Dec 1954
Teach Me Tonight + Close	Dinah Shore	‘The Dinah Shore Show’ WRCA NBC NYC 24 Dec 1954
Set 7	Jingle Bells
Let’s Dance (theme) + Jingle Bells	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Joseph Urban Room Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 1936
Jingle Bells	Mel Blanc and The Sportsmen	‘Mail Call’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Jingle Bells	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Tex Beneke and The Modernaires	‘Sunset Serenade’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NYC 27 Dec 1941
Jingle Bells	Dave Brubeck Quartet	Birdland WJZ ABC NYC Jan 1954
Set 8	Charlie Parker
Jumping with Symphony Sid/Jingle Bells (theme) + Half Nelson	Charlie Parker	Royal Roost WMCA NYC 25 Dec 1948
White Christmas	Charlie Parker	Royal Roost WMCA NYC 25 Dec 1948
Little Willie Leaps	Charlie Parker	Royal Roost WMCA NYC 25 Dec 1948

Christmas Radio Part 1 – Phantom Dancer 13 December 2022

Christmas radio carols from 1930s – 50s radio plus pop music programming from the season is the focus for the first part of this week’s Phantom Dancer. The first part of the Phantom Dancer is nationally networked and will be on radio across Australia from 19 November.

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 13 December) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

MERRY

According to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in 2016, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”, written by Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie in 1934, is the most played Christmas song of the last 50 years.

It was first performed live by Eddie Cantor on his Christmas radio show in November 1934. Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded their version in 1935, followed later by a range of artists including Frank Sinatra in 1948.

Long-time Christmas classics still dominate the Christmas charts – such as “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”, “Winter Wonderland”, “Sleigh Ride” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”.

The most popular set of these titles—heard over airwaves, on the internet, in shopping malls, in elevators and lobbies, and on the street during the Christmas season—have been composed and performed from the 1930s onward.

CHRISTMAS TOP 5

The most performed Christmas songs in 2015 according to ASCAP…

Rank	Song	Composers	Year
1	Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town	J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie	1934
2	Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas	Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin	1944
3	Winter Wonderland	Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith	1934
4	Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!	Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne	1945
5	The Christmas Song	Mel Tormé, Robert Wells	1944

13 DECEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #575
107.3 2SER Tuesday 13 December 2022 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5UV Adelaide Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 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 3am – 4 and 6 -7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am and Sunday 11pm Reading Radio (QLD) Friday 1am – 2 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am – 12 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Saturday 4am – 5am Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturday 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm 2SEA Sapphire Coast Eden Sunday 9 – 10pm
Set 1	Kid Ory
Theme + Maple Leaf Rag	Kid Ory and his San Francisco Jazz Band	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 25 Dec 1954
Basin Street Blues	Kid Ory and his San Francisco Jazz Band	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 25 Dec 1954
That’s a’Plenty	Kid Ory and his San Francisco Jazz Band	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 25 Dec 1954
Set 2	Jubilee 1944
Jingle Bells (intro) + One O’Clock Jump + Jumping at Ten	Delta Rhythm Boys (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1944
Just a-Sittin’ and a Rockin’	Delta Rhythm Boys (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1944
My Silent Love	Lena Horne	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1944
Set 3	Henry Hall Christmas
Theme + It Had to Be You	Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra (MC: Oliver Wakefield)	‘Henry Hall Program’ BBC London 21 Nov 1936
The Fairy on the Christmas Tree	Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra (voc) Molly, Marie and Mary	‘Henry Hall Program’ BBC London 21 Nov 1936
Serenade in the Night	Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra (voc) Don Donovan	‘Henry Hall Program’ BBC London 21 Nov 1936
Set 4	Jubilee 1947
Jack Armstrong Blues	Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1947
Rock-a-Bye River + Ring Dem Bells	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1947
The Christmas Song	King Cole Trio	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1947
Jingle Bells + Close	Paul Baron Orchestra + Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1947
Set 5	Bunny Berrigan
Theme + Mr Ghost Goes To Town	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	WEAF NBC Red NYC 31 Jan 1937
Moonshine Over Kentucky + Heigh Ho	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra (voc) Ruth Gaylor	Paradise Restaurant WEAF NBC Red NYC 3 May 1938
Swinging & Jumping	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	Manhattan Centre WNEW NYC 24 Sep 1939
Little Gate Special + I Can’t Get Started (theme)	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	Manhattan Centre WNEW NYC 24 Sep 1939
Set 6	1930s-40s English Dance Bands
On The Air	Carroll Gibbons and The Savoy Hotel Orpheans (voc) Dorothy Stedeford	Comm Rec London 7 Nov 1932
The Man Who Comes Around	Nat Gonella and his New Georgians (voc) Nat Gonella, Stella Moya, Jack Wallace	Comm Rec London 1940
Tony’s Wife	Carroll Gibbons and The Savoy Hotel Orpheans	Comm Rec London 28 Jun 1933
Oh Buddy, I’m in Love	Nat Gonella and his New Georgians (voc) Stella Moya	Comm Rec London 1941
Set 7	Paper Records
Pardon Me Pretty Baby	Sam Lanin Orchestra (voc) Paul Small	‘Hit of the Week Records’ NYC Aug 1931
I Found a Million Dollar Baby	Don Voorhees Orchestra	‘Hit of the Week Records’ NYC 10 Sep 1931
Home	Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees (voc) Rudy Vallee	‘Hit of the Week Records’ NYC Jan 1932
I’m Keeping Company	Hit of the Week Orchestra (voc) Scrappy Lambert	‘Hit of the Week Records’ NYC Aug 1931
Set 8	Jazz Moderne
I’ll Remember April	Erroll Garner Trio	Peacock Lane KNX CBS LA Mar 1957
Dreamin’	Erroll Garner Trio	Peacock Lane KNX CBS LA Mar 1957
Flat Foot Floogie	Slim Gaillard	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 28 May 1951

Chiemi Eri and 1950s Japanese Jazz – Phantom Dancer 27 Sept 2022

Chiemi Eri was a Japanese actor and singer of folk songs and jazz. She is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist, on which she even sings a Turkish folk song.

Japanese Jazz TV from 1960 with vocal duo, The Peanut Sisters…

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 27 September) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

Chiemi Eri sings Come On To My House from a Japanese movie…

ERI

Chiemi Eri (江利 チエミ, Eri Chiemi, was born as Chiemi Kubo (久保 智恵美, Kubo Chiemi) in Tokyo.

In 1951 she started her singing career at the age of 14 with her recording of “Tennessee Waltz.”

She sang mostly traditional Japanese songs and some American songs such as “Jambalaya” and “Come on-a My House” backed by saxophonist Nobuo Hara’s Orchestra. She sang the latter in three movies.

NHK TV Variety Show from Feb 1965, ‘Let’s Meet in a Dream’…

CHIEMI

Chiemi was one of Japan’s best-known singers in the 1950s-60s-70s and also appeared in numerous television shows from the early 1950s until just before her accidental death in 1984.

She sang with the Count Basie Orchestra and you’ll hear in concert recordings of two songs she sang with Basie, ‘Our Love is Here to Stay’ and ‘The Carioca’.

27 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #564
107.3 2SER Tuesday 27 September 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 2RDJ Burwood Wednesday 12 – 1pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am -12 noon 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	Tommy Tucker
My Heart Sings	Tommy Tucker Orchestra (voc) Don Brown and the Three Two-Timers	‘Spotlight Bands’ North Chicago Blue Network 11 Jan 1945
Comin’ Round the Corner	Tommy Tucker Orchestra (voc) Don Brown and the Three Two-Timers	‘Spotlight Bands’ North Chicago Blue Network 11 Jan 1945
There Goes That Song Again	Tommy Tucker Orchestra (voc) Don Brown	‘Spotlight Bands’ North Chicago Blue Network 11 Jan 1945
Brass Hat + I Love You (theme)	Tommy Tucker Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ North Chicago Blue Network 11 Jan 1945
Set 2	World Jazz Series
Intro + Drum Boogie	Louis Armstrong + Gene Krupa Trio	‘World Jazz Series’ Madison Square Garden WCBS CBS NYC 5 Jun 1960
Record Rap	Louis Armstrong	‘World Jazz Series’ Madison Square Garden WCBS CBS NYC 5 Jun 1960
Unnannounced	Dizzy Gillespie	‘World Jazz Series’ Madison Square Garden WCBS CBS NYC 5 Jun 1960
Set 3	Meredith Willson conducts
Who’s Dream Are You? (theme) + Ain’t Misbehavin’	Armed Forces Radio Orchestra	AFRS Hollywood 1944
Nagasaki + Ta-Ra-Ra-Bomm-De-Ay + Zing Went the Strings of My Heart	Armed Forces Radio Orchestra	AFRS Hollywood 1944
I’ll Never Be The Same + Rosalita + Talk of the Town	Armed Forces Radio Orchestra	AFRS Hollywood 1944
Melancholy Baby + Tea for Two + Wildflower + Through the Years	Armed Forces Radio Orchestra	AFRS Hollywood 1944
Set 4	Chiemi Eri
Stardust	Chiemi Eri (voc) Hiroshi Watanabe and his Star Dusters	‘Sunday  Jazz Concert’ Sankei Hall, Tokyo 15 Apr 1956
Walking My Baby Back Home	Chiemi Eri (voc) Nobuo Hara and Sharps & Flats	Comm Rec Tokyo 1953
Uskudara	Chiemi Eri (voc) Nobuo Hara and Sharps & Flats	Comm Rec Tokyo 1954
Our Love is Here to Stay + Carioca	Chiemi Eri (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	Comm Rec Tokyo 8 Jun 1963
Set 5	1940s Swing
Gin Mill Special	International Sweethearts of Rhythm	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945
Bonne-Intermezzo	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 3 Jan 1947
Jean	Russ Morgan Orchestra	Hotel Claremont San Francisco 11 Jul 1945
Dinah + Gypsy Love Song	Cab Calloway Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS re-broadcast Cafe Zanzibar New York City 16 Jul 1945
Set 6	Eddie Condon
I Got Rhythm	Eddie Condon Group	‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 5 Aug 1944
Blues Round My Head	Eddie Condon Group (voc and cl) Woody Herman	‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 27 Jan 1945
Back Home Again in Indiana	Eddie Condon Group (tp) Billy Butterfield	‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 27 Jan 1945
Wolverine Blues + Ensemble Blues	Eddie Condon Group	‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 15 Jul 1944
Set 7	Artie Shaw
Non-Stop Flight	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 27 Sep 1938
Snug As a Bug in a Rug	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 17 Mar 1939
This Is It	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 31 Jan 1939
Serenade to a Savage	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Comm Rec Hollywood 22 Jun 1939
Set 8	Blues & Cool
S.K Blues	Joe Turner (voc) Johnny Otis Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1945
Empty Bed Blues + Love My Baby + Improvised Blues + Theme	Johnny Otis Orchestra and Jubilee All-Stars (voc) Ivie Anderson + Joe Turner	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1945
I’ll Remember April	Dave Brubeck Quartet	Aircheck Jan 1954

Med School Dropout Leads Famous Orchestra – Phantom Dancer 11 January 2022

Med School dropout Eddy Howard, singer, band leader and composer of ‘Careless’ (his theme song), ‘If I Knew Then’, ‘My Last Goodbye’, and ‘A Million Years Ago’, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.

LISTEN to this week’s Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 11 January) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

I’m Greg Poppleton, The Phantom Dancer producer and presenter every week on 107.3 2SER radio Sydney since 1985.

Eddy Howard singing with Dick Jurgens Orchestra. How different is the radio transcription of Ragtime Cowboy Joe (19120 played on this week’s Phantom Dancer to this 1939 commercial waxing…

TROMBONE THEN SINGER

Edy Howard studied medicine at Stanford University before dropping out to become a singer of romantic ballads on Los Angeles radio. Later he sang with bands led by Ben Bernie and Dick Jurgens.

He first auditioned for, and then joined the Jurgens Orchestra, as a trombonist. With a limited knowledge of music, he committed the audition charts to memory and got the job.

By the time Jurgens discovered that Howard had not enough sight-reading skills to hold down the trombone chair, he had also discovered Howard’s ability as a vocalist. Jurgens hired someone else to play trombone. He gave Eddy Howard a guitar and made him band vocalist.

Jurgens said that it didn’t matter how well Howard played guitar, his vocals made the band.

Eddy Howard singing with his vocal trio and Orchestra in 1949…

ORCHESTRA

In 1939, Howard started his own band, and he was the regular vocalist on It Can Be Done, Edgar A. Guest‘s 1941 radio programme on the Blue Network, from Wednesday to Friday.

The first No. 1 single for Howard and his Orchestra, “To Each His Own“, spent five non-consecutive weeks at the top of the U.S. pop chart in 1946. The song was a tie-in with the 1946 Paramount film, To Each His Own, which brought Academy Awards for Olivia de Havilland and screenwriter Charles Brackett. The recording by Howard was released by Majestic Records and reached the Billboard chart on July 11, 1946, spending a total of 19 weeks on the chart. It sold over two million copies by 1957 and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA.

Howard’s orchestra was heard on The Gay Mrs. Featherstone on NBC (April 18 – October 10, 1945) and on NBC’s The Sheaffer Parade, sponsored by Sheaffer Pens (September 14, 1947 – September 5, 1948).

In 1949, Howard signed to Mercury Records. His popularity continued into the 1950s with tracks such as “Maybe It’s Because”, and “(It’s No) Sin“, which became Howard’s second No. 1 tune, sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.

Howard’s last hit was “The Teen-Ager’s Waltz”, which peaked at No. 90 on the Billboard Top 100 chart in 1955.

In 1952–1953 he was heard on CBS on Thursday nights at 10:45pm, with further broadcasts on Tuesdays at 10pm in 1955–1956. The rise of rock music led to a decline in Howard’s popularity.

In a change of roles, Howard was the host on Just for You, an hour-long variety program on NBC in 1954. The staff orchestra of WMAQ Chicago provided the music.

Howard’s star rose again during the 1960s, as part of the revival of interest in Big Band music and old-time radio.

He went into semi-retirement and his some-time saxophonist, vocalist-bandleader Norman Lee, procured the rights to use the Eddy Howard Orchestra name and the band’s arrangements. Lee and the Orchestra became a dance-band staple throughout the U.S. midwest. Based out of Wichita, Kansas, they toured extensively and recorded on their own label, Marian Records.

By the late 1960s, Lee dropped the Eddy Howard name and led the orchestra under his own name, though several Howard standards remained featured in their repertoire. The organization dissolved in the wake of the murder of Lee and his wife by one of the band’s former trumpet players on 6 December 1978.

Here’s Eddy Howard’s theme, which he co-wrote with Dick Jurgens…

11 JANUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #526
107.3 2SER Tuesday 11 January 2022 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 2YYY Young 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	1940s Swing Radio
Open + Hallelujah + The Song is You	Jerry Wald Orchestra (voc) dick Merrick	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast 28 Oct 1944
Bugle Call Rag	Gene Krupa Orchestra	Pacific Square KFSD Mutual San Diego 3 Mar 1945
Desperate Desmond + Close	Buddy Rich Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Dec 1945
Set 2	Count Basie Rock’n’Roll
One O’Clock Jump (theme) + Blee Blop Blues	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 21 Apr 1956
Shake a Hand + I’ll Be True To You	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Faye Adams	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 21 Apr 1956
All Right, OK, You Win	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Joe Williams	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 21 Apr 1956
Basie Land + One O’Clock Jump (theme)	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 21 Apr 1956
Set 3	Early Recorded Radio
Open + My Sweeter Than Sweet + She’s So Unusual	Studio Orchestra	Opening WNER and W9XF Chicago 1930 (9XF Chicago was a shortwave and mechnaical TV station)
Dancing to Save Your Sole	Philco Orchestra (tp) Bob Effros	‘Philco Hour’ Radio Transcription New York City 1930
Blues Skies + Bye Bye Blues + My Future Just Passed + I Love You So Much	Philco Orchestra (voc) Ruth Glenn & Catherine Kent	‘Philco Hour’ Radio Transcription New York City 1930
Boy! Oh! Boy! I’ve Got It Bad	Philco Orchestra (voc) Boswell Sisters	‘Philco Hour’ Radio Transcription New York City 1931
Set 4	Eddy Howard
Careless (theme) + Thou Swell + Homesick, That’s All	Eddy Howard Orchestra (voc) Eddy Howard	Aragon Ballroom WGN Chicago 5 Dec 1945
The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down	Dick Jurgens Orchestra (voc) Eddy Howard	Comm Rec NYC 1938
Martha	Dick Jurgens Orchestra (voc) Eddy Howard	Comm Rec NYC 1938
Medley + So Long For Now	Eddy Howard Orchestra (voc) Eddy Howard	Aragon Ballroom WGN Chicago 5 Dec 1945
Set 5	European Dance Bands
Musik, Musik, Musik	Marika Roekk (voc and tap dancing)	From the film, ‘Hallo Janine’ Berlin 1939
Son Belle	Natalino Otto	Comm Rec Turin 1948
Hallo, Dobra Vece	Unknown	Comm Rec Prague 1930s
Set 6	1940s Harry James
Joe Blow	Harry James Orchestra	Aircheck 1943
Cherokee	Harry James Orchestra	Southland Cafe WNAC NBC Red Boston 19 Mar 1940
But Not For Me	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	Hotel Astor Roof WABC CBS NY 28 Aug 1942
Jeffries’ Blues	Harry James Orchestra	Aircheck Blue Room Hotel Lincoln NYC 22 May 1941
Set 7	Mildred  Bailey
I’ll Get By	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NYC 1944
She’s Funny That Me	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NYC 19 Jan 1945
I Dream of You	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NYC 1944
T’aint Me	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NYC 24 Nov 1944
Set 8	Modern Jazz
Bebop	Howard McGee Sextet	Aircheck Los Angeles 29 Apr 47
Three Little Words	Gene Krupa Quartet	London House WBBM CBS Chicago 13 Mar 1959
Hot House	Charlie Parker (as); Miles Davis (tpt); Al Haig (p); Tommy Potter (b); Max Roach (d)	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 12 Dec 1948
Salt Peanuts	Charlie Parker (as); Miles Davis (tpt); Al Haig (p); Tommy Potter (b); Max Roach (d) (voc) Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 12 Dec 1948

Yao Lee and 1940s-60s New Years Eve! – 28 December 2021

Yao Lee, Hong Kong’s Patti Page is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Her most famous song opens this week’s Phantom Dancer. The first hour for the national show then continues with a mix of swing by Harry James, vocals by Giselle McKenzie, Rhythm and Blues from a 1951 radio aircheck, and live radio hard bop by Miles Davis and John Coltrane aired in 1958.

For the last hour broadcast, live to 2SER Sydney listeners, then available online, you’ll hear New Years Eve radio from the 1940s and 1960s.

(The short weather report that opens this week’s Phantom Dancer comes from a shortwave English language broadcast by Reichrundfunk Berlin in 1938).

LISTEN to this Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 28 December) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

I’m Greg Poppleton, The Phantom Dancer producer and presenter every week on 107.3 2SER radio Sydney since 1985.

News Years Eve 1930s-40s Cinema ads…

ROSE, ROSE I LOVE YOU

is the most famous song by singer Yao Lee. A 1940 Mandarin popular song composed by Chen Gexin and first recorded by Yao Lee. It became something of a Lili Marlene equivalent for Allied soldiers in the Asia-Pacific during World War 2.

The song was brought back to England by broadcaster Wilfrid Thomas in 1951 after doing commentary on the war in Malaya. When he played it on his BBC program he received a barrage of requests for a repeat and he played it again in several more programs.

An English-language version whose lyrics by Wilfred Thomas that have little in common with the original Mandarin was first recorded by Frankie Laine in 1951. David Bowie used the song in a film about him in Hong Kong.

1930 New Years Eve record, KHJ Los Angeles…

YAO LEE

Also known as Yao Li, Yiu Lei and Hue Lee, was one of the Seven Great Singing Stars of Shanghai in the 1940s.

Raised in Shanghai, Yao began performing on the radio in 1935 at the age of 13. When she was 14, she recorded her first single with Yàn Húa (嚴華) called “New Little Cowherd” (新小放牛, Xin xiao fang niu). After being introduced by singers Zhou Xuan and Yan Hua, she was signed to Pathé Records when she was 16 in 1937, and the first record she released with the label was “Yearning for Sale” (賣相思, Mai Xiang Si).

She married Wong Po Lo (黃保羅) in 1947 and stopped performing to devote time to her family. Following the Communist seizure of power in China in 1949, popular music was considered ideologically suspect and Yao fled to Hong Kong in 1950 but continued her singing career with Pathé Records (EMI).

In addition to releasing hit records, beginning in 1955 with the film 桃花江 (Peach Blossom River), she was also a playback singer for movie actresses. Many of her featured songs became popular hits. She stepped down from her singing career in 1967 after the death of her brother, Yao Min. In 1969, she accepted the invitation to become the General Manager and Producer at EMI Music Hong Kong. Yao produced records for many artists during her time as a producer and retired from this position in 1977.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Yao Lee’s high, soft singing style was typical of Chinese popular music of the time (influenced by her superstar idol, Zhou Xuan). She performed numerous popular standards, such as Wishing You Happiness and Prosperity (恭喜恭喜), “I Can’t Have Your Love” (得不到你的愛情), and “By the Suzhou River” (蘇州河邊) with her brother Yao Min, arguably the best-known Chinese pop songwriter of the shidaiqu era.^[3] She is famous for her 1940 version of Rose, Rose, I Love You (玫瑰玫瑰我愛你), later recorded by Frankie Laine in the United States with English lyrics. Her version was also released in the U.S. and the United Kingdom credited to “Miss Hue Lee.” Yao was known as “the Silver Voice” (銀嗓子), alluding to fellow Shanghai singer Zhou Xuan, who was known as “the Golden Voice” (金嗓子).

With increasing Western influence in the region after World War II and her move to Hong Kong, Yao Lee’s singing style changed. She was introduced to more Western popular music and became an admirer of American singer Patti Page, whom she emulated by lowering her voice and incorporating some similar vocal mannerisms. As a result, Yao is sometimes called “Hong Kong’s Patti Page.” One of her biggest ’50s records was “The Spring Breeze Kisses My Face” (春風吻上我的臉).

Yao was extremely prolific with over 400 records attributed to her. Her 1959 song, “Rén Shēng Jìu Shì Xì”/”Life Is a Performance” (人生就是戲), is featured in the 2018 film, Crazy Rich Asians, in the scene when the matriarch grandmother, played by veteran Chinese American actor Lisa Lu, first appears.

Welcome in the New Year with this mix of 1920s-30s songs from six albums I’ve released …

28 DECEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #524
107.3 2SER Tuesday 28 DECEMBER 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
Rose, Rose, I Love You	Yao Lee	From the film ‘Singing Girl’ 1940
Blue Skies	Harry James Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mutual Network 1946
Zanzibar	Harry James Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mutual Network 1946
All The Things You Are + Opus #1	Harry James Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mutual Network 1946
Set 2
Theme + The Poor People of Paris (La goualante du pauvre Jean)	Giselle McKenzie (voc) Skitch Henderson Orchestra	‘Airtime’ NBC Radio Transcription New York City 1955
Dancing with the Deb	Skitch Henderson Orchestra	‘Airtime’ NBC Radio Transcription New York City 1955
S’Wonderful	Skitch Henderson Orchestra	‘Airtime’ NBC Radio Transcription New York City 1955
Juke Box Baby + Too Close For Comfort + Close	Skitch Henderson Orchestra (voc) The Honey Dreamers and Giselle McKenzie (ts) Herbie Fields	‘Airtime’ NBC Radio Transcription New York City 1955
Set 3
Theme + Shake It All Around	King Jughead	‘Sepia Swing Club’ WDAI Memphis 14 Dec 1951
Shine On	Ruth Brown	‘Sepia Swing Club’ WDAI Memphis 14 Dec 1951
Baby, Please Don’t Go	Billy Wright	‘Sepia Swing Club’ WDAI Memphis 14 Dec 1951
Let Your Tears Fall, Baby	Big Mama Thornton	‘Sepia Swing Club’ WDAI Memphis 14 Dec 1951
Set 4
Open + Four	Miles Davis Quintet	‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NYC 17 May 1958
Bye, Bye, Blackbird	Miles Davis Quintet	‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NYC 17 May 1958
Walkin’ + Two Bass Hit	Miles Davis Quintet	‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NYC 17 May 1958
Set 5
Deep Forest (theme) + Dippermouth Blues	Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines	‘New Year Dancing Party’ KCBS CBS San Francisco 1 Jan 1957
When The Saints Go Marchin’ In	Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines	‘New Year Dancing Party’ KCBS CBS San Francisco 1 Jan 1957
Tiger Rag + Close	Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines	‘New Year Dancing Party’ KCBS CBS San Francisco 1 Jan 1957
Set 6
Open + Bebop	Charlie Parker, Kenny Dorham, Al Haig, Tommy Potter, Joe Harris	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 1 Jan 1949
Flying Home	Gene Krupa Quartet	Metropole Cafe WRC NBC Washington DC 31 Dec 1965
Dark Eyes	Gene Krupa Quartet	Metropole Cafe WRC NBC Washington DC 31 Dec 1965
Set 7
Slow Boat to China	Charlie Parker, Kenny Dorham, Al Haig, Tommy Potter, Joe Harris	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 1 Jan 1949
Ornithology	Charlie Parker, Kenny Dorham, Al Haig, Tommy Potter, Joe Harris	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 1 Jan 1949
Set 8
Robin Hood	Louis Prima Orchestra	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ Salt Lake City AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
Gotta Be This or That	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ Boston AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
Let The Zoomers Drool	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ Evansville IN AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
Auld Lang Syne	Guy Lombardo Orchestra	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ New York City AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945

1958 New Years Eve Radio and TV! – 21 December 2021

1958 New Years Eve radio and TV features in the first (nationally networked) part of this week’s Phantom Dancer. In the final hour of this week’s show you’ll hear Part 2 of Phantom dancer 1930s-50s Christmas music.

1958 New Years Eve TV in videos from New York, London and Bucharest.  1958 New Years radio from New York and Chicago, including New Years countdowns.

LISTEN to this Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 21 December) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

I’m Greg Poppleton, The Phantom Dancer producer and presenter every week on 107.3 2SER radio Sydney since 1985.

First, Guy Lombardo’s New Years Eve TV show on WCBS TV New York, 31 Dec 1957…

EVENTS OF 1957

• The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
• American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the “Frisbee”.
• The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
• The International Geophysical Year begins.
• The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
• Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches ‘Sputnik 2’. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
• Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
• The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.

Dancing the New Year in. Albert Hall, London, New Year’s Eve 1957-58

EVENTS OF 1958

• The European Economic Community is established.
• ‘Sputnik 1’ falls to Earth from orbit.
• The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
• The peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
• Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
• Vertigo (film) named Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
• U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the NASA e.g National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
• Art Kane photographs 57 notable jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait “A Great Day in Harlem” in front of a Brownstone in New York City.
• Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
• The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the Pole of inaccessibility Southern pole of inaccessibility e.g southern pole of inaccessibility.

Welcoming 1958 on Bucharest TV Romania…

21 DECEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #523
107.3 2SER Tuesday 21 DECEMBER 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
Open + Stomping at the Savoy	Teddy Wilson Trio	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ The Embers WRCA NBC New York City 31 Dec 1957
Tea for Two	Teddy Wilson Trio	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ The Embers WRCA NBC New York City 31 Dec 1957
Afterthoughts	Eddie Heywood Trio	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ The Embers WRCA NBC New York City 31 Dec 1957
Begin the Beguine (which the announcer mis-names ‘Moonglow’	Eddie Heywood Trio	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ The Embers WRCA NBC New York City 31 Dec 1957
Set 2
So In Love	Ben Arden Orchestra (voc) Ben Arden	‘New Year Dancing Party’ Palmer House WGN Chicago 31 Dec 1957
Asia Minor + Theme + Chicago 1958 New Year Countdown	Frank Yaw Orchestra	‘New Year Dancing Party’ Porter House Room Hotel Sherman WGN Chicago 31 Dec 1957
Auld Lang Syne + Down by the River Side	David LaWinter Orchestra (voc) The Four Lads	‘New Year Dancing Party’ Pump Room Ambassador East Hotel WGN Chicago 1 Jan 1958
Set 3
Theme + From This Moment On	Jimmy Blade Orchestra	‘New Year Dancing Party’ Camelia House Drake Hotel WGN Chicago 1 Jan 1958
New York 1958 New Year Countdown + One O’Clock Jump + Whirlibird	Ben Grauer in Times Square + Count Basie Orchestra	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC New York City 1 Jan 1958
Blues in Frankie’s Flat	Count Basie Orchestra	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC New York City 1 Jan 1958
Set 4
Auld Lang Syne + Take the A-Train + Chicago 1958 Countdown	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 1 Jan 1958
Newport Up	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 1 Jan 1958
Star-crossed Lovers	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 1 Jan 1958
Set 5
Say It Isn’t The Night	Jimmy Blade Orchestra	‘New Year Dancing Party’ Camelia House Drake Hotel WGN Chicago 1 Jan 1958
Tea For Two	Jimmy Blade Orchestra	‘New Year Dancing Party’ Camelia House Drake Hotel WGN Chicago 1 Jan 1958
Oya Negra + Theme + Meditation + Station Close	Jimmy Blade Orchestra	‘New Year Dancing Party’ Camelia House Drake Hotel WGN Chicago 1 Jan 1958
Set 6
Jingle Bells	Thrasher Sisters	‘Fountain of Fun’ WLW Cincinnati 19 Dec 1943
Jingle Bells	Mel Blanc and The Sportsmen	‘Mail Call’ AFRS Hollywood
Jingle Bells	Glenn Miller Orchestra	‘Chesterfield Show’ WABC CBS NY 24 Dec 1941
Jingle Bells	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Tex Beneke and The Modernaires)	‘Sunset Serenade’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 27 Dec 1941
Set 7
12th Street Rag	Tiny Crump	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 25 Dec 1954
Weary Blues	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 25 Dec 1954
Set 8
Jingle Bells (theme) + Half Nelson	Charlie Parker, Kenny Dorham, Al Haig, Tommy Potter, Max Roach	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 25 Dec 1948
White Christmas	Charlie Parker, Kenny Dorham, Al Haig, Tommy Potter, Max Roach	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 25 Dec 1948
Little Willie Leaps	Charlie Parker, Kenny Dorham, Al Haig, Tommy Potter, Max Roach	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 25 Dec 1948

Big Maybelle – Phantom Dancer 6 October 2020

Big Maybelle, r’n’b singer, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. You’ll hear her from a 1956 Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party radio show. You’ll also hear from the bands she sang with before her solo singing career: The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Christine Chatman and Tiny Bradshaw.

Greg Poppleton brings you The Phantom Dancer, your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV. On-air every week since 1985.

Hear The Phantom Dancer online from 12:04pm AEST Tuesday 6 October at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ where you can also hear two years of archived shows.

The finyl hour is vinyl.

BIG MAYBELLE

Mabel Louise Smith, stage name Big Maybelle, was an American R&B singer. She sang gospel as a child. In her teens she switched to rhythm and blues. She began her professional career with Dave Clark’s Memphis Band in 1936, and also toured with the all-female International Sweethearts of Rhythm. She then joined Christine Chatman‘s Orchestra with which she made her first recordings with Chatman in 1944. She recorded with Tiny Bradshaw‘s Orchestra from 1947 to 1950.

Her debut solo recordings, recorded as Mabel Smith, were for King Records in 1947. She was accompanied by Oran “Hot Lips” Page but had little commercial success.

OKEH

Okeh Records signed her up in 1952. Okeh producer Fred Mendelsohn gave her the stage name ‘Big Maybelle’ because of her loud yet well-toned voice. Her first recording for Okeh, “Gabbin’ Blues”, which you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer, was hit number 3 on the Billboard R&B chart, and was followed up by “Way Back Home” and “My Country Man” in 1953.

In 1955, she recorded the song “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On“, which you’ll also hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer, produced by up-and-coming producer Quincy Jones. Jerry Lee Lewis credited Smith’s record as being the inspiration for his cover.

SAVOY

Savoy Records signed Big Maybelle in 1955. Her cover of “Candy” (1956) was one of her biggest sellers.

She appeared on stage at the Apollo Theater in New York City in 1957, and at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival where she sang “All Night Long/I Ain’t Mad at You”, (video of the week). She left savoy in 1959 and recorded for a few other labels in the 1960s, making her last hit single in 1967.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Big Maybelle at Newport Jazz Festival with jazz band in 1958. Oh, what a difference a jazz band makes!

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!

6 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #433
107.3 2SER Tuesday 6 October 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2MCE Bathurst / Orange / Central West NSW Wednesday 9 – 10am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am
Set 1	Dorsey Brothers
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (theme) + Sentimental Baby	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Lynn Roberts	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Magnolia Room Hotel Claridge WMC NBC Memphis 19 Jun 1953
When the Saints Come Marching Home	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Johnny Ray	‘Stage Show’ WCBS TV CBS NY 1 Jan 1955
Capital Idea + Close	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Magnolia Room Hotel Claridge WMC NBC Memphis 19 Jun 1953
Set 2	Woodchoppers’ Ball
Woodchoppers’ Ball	Woody Herman’s First Herd	‘Old Gold Show’ WABC CBS NY 2 Aug 1944
Blue Flame (theme) + Woodchoppers’ Ball	Woody Herman’s Third Herd	Starlite Roof Edgewater Hotel Madison, WI, CBS 12 Jul 1950
Woodchoppers’ Ball	Woody Herman’s First Herd	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 17 Oct 1944
Set 3	Big Maybelle Pre-Solo Bands
The Boogie-Woogie Girl	Christine Chatman Orchestra (voc) Big Maybelle (as Mabel Smith)	Comm Rec 6 Apr 1944
One O’Clock Jump	International Sweethearts of Rhythm + AFRS Orchestra (36 piece band)	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945
Ready, Set, Jump + Close	Tiny Bradshaw Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 21 Aug 1944
Set 4	Big Maybelle
Gabbin’ Blues	Big Maybelle (voc) Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor	Comm Rec 8 Oct 1952
Ring Ding Dilly + Candy	Big Maybelle (voc) Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor	‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 4 Sep 1956
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On	Big Maybelle (voc) arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones	Comm Rec 21 Mar 1956
Set 5	A Date With The Duke
Chelsea Bridge	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date with the Duke’ Apollo Theatre WJZ ABC NY 30 Jun 1945
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date with the Duke’ Regal Theatre WENR ABC Chicago 26 May 1945
Blue Bells of Harlem	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date with the Duke’ Radio City WJZ ABC NY 7 Jul 1945
Ring Dem Bells + Im Beginning to See the Light	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date with the Duke’ 400 Restaurant WJZ ABC NY 28 Apr 1945
Set 6	1930s Benny Goodman Quartets
Shine	Benny Goodman Quartet	‘Camel Caravan’ KNX CBS LA 10 Aug 1937
I Found a New Baby	Benny Goodman Quartet	‘Camel Caravan’ State Theatre WDRC CBS Hartford Conn. 7 Feb 1939
Liza	Benny Goodman Quartet	‘Camel Caravan’ KNX CBS LA 17 Aug 1937
Deep Purple	Benny Goodman Quartet	‘Camel Caravan’ Earle Theatre WCAU  CBS Phildelphia 14 Feb 1939
Set 7	MJB Demi-Tasse Revues
The Sun’s in my Heart	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) The 3 Cheers	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription TRANSCO LA 1932
Me	Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Dave Marshall and Loyce Whiteman	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription TRANSCO LA 1931
When We’re Alone	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman and Donald novis	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription TRANSCO LA 1932
Sing a Little Jingle	Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Jack Smith	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription TRANSCO LA 1931
Set 8	Count Basie & Billy Eckstine
Blue ‘n’ Boogie (theme) + Airmail Special	Billy Eckstine Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Mar 1945
How High the Moon + Hob Nail Boogie	Count Basie Orchestra	Birdland WNBC NBC NY 31 Aug 1952
Mr Chips	Billy Eckstine Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Mar 1945
Paradise Squat + Lullaby of Birdland (theme)	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 14 Jan 1953

Christmas Music on 1930s-50s Radio – Phantom Dancer 24 December

CHRISTMAS

This week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton, is Christmas songs and Christmas broadcasts in a non-stop mix from live 1930s-50s radio.

ONLINE

This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online after the 24 December 107.3 2SER Sydney live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney.

XMAS MUSIC

Music associated with Christmas is thought to have its origins in 4th-century Rome, in Latin-language hymns such as Veni redemptor gentium. By the 13th century, under the influence of Francis of Assisi, the tradition of popular Christmas songs in regional native languages developed. Christmas carols in the English language first appear in a 1426 work of John Awdlay, an English chaplain, who lists twenty five “caroles of Cristemas”, probably sung by groups of ‘wassailers’ who would travel from house to house. In the 16th century, various Christmas carols still sung to this day, including “The 12 Days of Christmas”, “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen”, and “O Christmas Tree”, first emerged.

POPULAR

Of the top 30 most performed Christmas songs in 2015, 13 (43%) were written in the 1930s or 1940s and 12 (40%) were written in the 1950s and 1960s.

1930s-50s CHRISTMAS SONGS

“Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie 1934
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin 1944
“Winter Wonderland” Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith 1934
“Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! “Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne 1945
“The Christmas Song” Mel Tormé, Robert Wells 1944
“Sleigh Ride” Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish 1948
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Johnny Marks 1939/1949
“It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” Meredith Willson 1951
“White Christmas” Irving Berlin 1940
“Carol of the Bells” Peter J. Wilhousky 1936
“Frosty the Snowman” Steve Nelson, Walter E. Rollins 1950
“Blue Christmas” Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson 1957
“The Little Drummer Boy” Katherine K. Davis, Henry V. Onorati, Harry Simeone 1941
“Silver Bells” Jay Livingston, Ray Evans 1950
“I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” Tommie Connor 1952
“Santa Baby” Joan Ellen Javits, Philip Springer, Tony Springer, and Fred Ebb 1953
“Happy Holiday” Irving Berlin 1948

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is the 24 Dec 1955 Christmas edition of the TV show ‘Your Hit Parade’…

24 DECEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #416
107.3 2SER Tuesday 24 December 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1
Let’s Dance (theme) + Jingle Bells	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Joseph Urban Room Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 25 Dec 1935
Open + It Had To Be You + The Fairy On The Christmas Tree	Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra (voc) The 3 Sisters	BBC Regional Service London 25 Dec 1936
Set 2
Open + Maple Leaf Rag	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 25 Dec 1954
Theme + Blue Christmas	Jan Garber Orchestra (voc) Ray Cordell	Melody Mill WGN Chicago 1950
Weary Blues + Ad	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 25 Dec 1954
Set 3
Jingle Bells (open) + The Morning After	Chico Hamilton Quartet	‘Stars In Jazz’ AFRTS Re-broadcast New York 25 Dec 1958
Wrap your Troubles In Dreams	Chico Hamilton Quartet (voc) Georgia Carr	‘Stars In Jazz’ AFRTS Re-broadcast New York 25 Dec 1958
Blee Blop Blues + One O’Clock Jump (theme)	Count Basie Orchestra	Birdland WRCA NBC NY 16 Dec 1956
Set 4
Happy Holidays + Here We Come a’Caroling + Silent Night	Bing Crosby and the Norman Luboff Choir (voc) Paul Weston Orchestra	‘Christmas Sing With Bing’ KNX CBS LA 24 Dec 1957
Description of Ballarat’s Carols By Candlelight + Joseph Mine, Help Me Cradle The Child Divine	Ted Furlong (station manager 3BA Ballarat) + The Ballarat YWCA Choir	Christmas Sing With Bing’ KNX CBS LA via 3BA Ballarat 24 Dec 1957
Champagne Cocktail + Close (When Summer Is Gone)	Hal Kemp Orchestra	‘Chesterfield Time’ KNX CBS LA 24 Dec 1937
Set 5
Open + March of the Toy Soldiers	Phil Davis Orchestra	‘Fountain of Fun’ WLW Cinncinnati 19 Dec 1943
Jingle Bells	Thrasher Sisters	‘Fountain of Fun’ WLW Cinncinnati 19 Dec 1943
Jack-Armstrong Blues	Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1947
Embraceable You	The Pied Pipers (voc) Harry James Orchestra	‘Command Performance USA’ AFRS 25 Dec 1945
Set 6
Swingin’ Them Jingle Bells	Fats Waller and his Rhythm	Comm Rec New York 29 Nov 1936
Jingle Bells	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Café Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 27 Dec 1941
Jingle Bells	Dave Brubeck	Birdland WABC ABC NY Jan 1954
Jingle Bells (theme) / Half Nelson / White Christmas / Little Willie Leaps	Charlie Parker (as) Kenny Dorham (tp) Al Haig (p) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d)	‘Symphony Side Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 25 Dec 1948
Set 7
Open + March of the Toys	Phil Davis Orchestra	‘Fountain of Fun’ WLW Cincinnati 19 Dec 1943
My Silent Love	Lena Horne (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1945
Embraceable You	The Pied Pipers (voc) Harry James and the Music Makers	‘Command Performance USA’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1945
Yesterdays	Art Tatum (p)	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1947
Set 8
Open + 2 Latin American Christmas Songs	Chiquita	‘Chiquita’ AFRS Hollywood Dec 1946
O Come All Ye Faithful / Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem / It Came Upon A Midnight Clear / Santa Claus Is Coming To Town	Frank Sinatra	‘V-Disc Christmas Selections’ New York 1944
Open + Let It Snow + Happy Christmas, Little Friend	Dinah Shore (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra	‘Dinah Shore Show’ WRCA NBC NY 22 Dec 1954

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.