Kay Starr First Nations Jazz Singer – Phantom Dancer 19 Nov 2019

INDIGENOUS

This week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton, is indigenous US jazz singer, Kay Starr. She began singing on radio as a child and we hear her this week aged 22 singing with Benny Goodman and Charlie Barnet’s orchestras.

ONLINE

This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online after the 19 November 107.3 2SER Sydney live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney.

KAY

Katherine Laverne Starks, known professionally as Kay Starr, was a name jazz, pop, and country singer in the 1940s-50s. (She was the original singer of the Roy Acuff song, ‘Bonaparte’s Retreat. Her roots were in jazz and Billie Holiday called her ‘the only white woman who could sing the blues.’

CHICKENS

Her aunt Nora was impressed by her 7-year-old niece’s singing and arranged for her to sing on a Dallas radio station, WRR, vocal competition. Starr finishing 3rd one week in a talent contest and placed first every week thereafter. She was given a 15-minute radio show. She sang pop and country songs with a piano accompaniment. By age 10 she was making $3 a night, which was quite a salary during the Great Depression.

WESTERN

When Starr’s father changed jobs, the family moved to Memphis, where she continued performing on the radio. She sang Western swing music, still mostly a mix of country and pop. While working for Memphis radio station WMPS, misspellings in her fan mail inspired her and her parents to change her name to Kay Starr.

VENUTI

At 15, she was chosen to sing with the Joe Venuti orchestra. Venuti had a contract to play in the Peabody Hotel in Memphis which called for his band to feature a girl singer, a performer he did not have at the time. Venuti’s road manager heard Starr on the radio and recommended her although she was young and her parents insisted on a midnight curfew.

BIG BANDS

At 17, in 1939, she worked with Bob Crosby and Glenn Miller, who hired her to replace the ill Marion Hutton. With Miller she recorded ‘Baby Me’ and ‘Love with a Capital You’. They were not a great success, in part because the band played in a key that, while appropriate for Hutton, did not suit Kay’s vocal range.

After finishing high school, she moved to Los Angeles and signed with Wingy Manone’s band. From 1943 to 1945 she sang with Charlie Barnet’s ensemble, which we’ll hear on this week’s show, retiring for a year after contracting pneumonia and later developing nodes on her vocal cords as a result of fatigue and overwork.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is the 1952 hit song ‘Wheel of Fortune’ sung on the Your Hit Parade TV show.

19 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #414
107.3 2SER Tuesday 19 November 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	Stan Kenton Transcriptions
Artistry in Rhythm + Memphis Lament	Stan Kenton Orchestra (voc) Red Dorris	Radio Transcription Hollywood Oct 1941
Underneath the Stars	Stan Kenton Orchestra	Radio Transcription Hollywood Nov 1941
I Haven’t Got the Heart + Artistry in Rhythm (theme)	Stan Kenton Orchestra	Radio Transcription Hollywood Oct 1941
Set 2	Women Singers on 1940s-50s Radio
I Enjoy Being a Girl	Vincent Lopez Orchestra (voc) Barbara Barry	‘One Night Stand’ Grill Room Hotel Taft NYC AFRTS Re-broadcast 1959
Open + The Trolley Song	Johnny Long Orchestra (voc) Jill Corey	‘Let’s Go With Music’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1955
Cirribirribin (theme) + In Times Like These	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Kitty Kallen	Hotel Astor Roof WOR Mutual NY 6 Jun 1944
Set 3	Dixieland Radio
Bugle Call Rag	Red Nichols	Radio Transcription 1953
Kansas City Man	Sidney Bechet and Bob Wilbur	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 19 Apr 1947
Silver Threads Among the Gold + Close	Henry Levine Octet	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue 6 Jan 1941
Set 4	Kay Starr
Share Croppin’ Blues	Kay Starr (voc) Charlie Barnet Orchestra	V-Disc 13 Jul 1944
Honeysuckle Rose	Kay Starr (voc) Benny Goodman Quintet	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1948
I Can’t Get Started	Kay Starr (voc) Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘For The Record’ WEAF NBC NY 11 Sep 1944
Them There Eyes	Kay Starr (voc) Benny Goodman Quintet	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1948
Set 5	One Night Stand
Embraceable You	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Jewel Hopkins	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Feb 1946
Come And Be My Honey	Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) Nancye Norman and Band	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Astor Roof NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Aug 1944
Unannounced + Take the A Train (close)	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Club Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Oct 1945
Set 6	Radio Transcriptions
Quaker City Jazz + And The Angels Sing	Jan Savitt Top Hatters (voc) Bon Bon	Radio Transcription 1939
Slow and Easy	Charlie Spivak Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1939
Masquerade Is Over	Jan Savitt Top Hatters (voc) Bon Bon	Radio Transcription 1939/div>
Charlie Horse	Charlie Spivak Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1939
Set 7	Swing Bands on 1940s Radio
Paradiddle Joe	Tony Pastor Orchestra	Aircheck 1944
Saturday Night	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Patti Thomas	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Feb 1945
Let’s Blow	Buddy Rich Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 27 Mar 1946
Sentimental Over You (theme) + You’re Driving Me Crazy	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) The Sentimentalists	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast 29 Jan 1945
Set 8	1940s-50s Moderne
Shoo Be Doo Be		Rex Theatre RFI Paris Feb 1953
B’s Flat	Shelly Manne Quintet	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Mar 1956
Confess		‘One Night Stand’ The Click Philadelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948
Little Girl Blue	Stan Getz Quartet	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Mar 1956

Top Women Stars on 1940s Radio – Phantom Dancer 12 March 2019

TOP WOMEN STARS

They were some of the biggest stars in the business from the 1940s onwards. They are this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artists with Greg Poppleton. Read on to discover one unusual fact about each of these three great singers, Jo Stafford, Georgia Gibbs and Dinah Shore.

Plus, Fletcher Henderson shows us how to write a swing band arrangement with the Benny Goodman Orchestra on a 1938 Camel Caravan.

PHANTOM DANCER

This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online immediately after the 12 March 2SER live mix at 2ser.com.
You can hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney

JO STAFFORD

In 1950, Stafford began working for Voice of America (VOA), the U.S. government broadcaster transmitting programmes overseas to undermine the influence of communism. She presented a weekly show that aired in Eastern Europe, and Collier’s magazine published an article about the program in its April 21, 1951 issue that discussed her worldwide popularity, including in countries behind the Iron Curtain. The article, titled “Jo Stafford: Her Songs Upset Joe Stalin”, earned her the wrath of the U.S. Communist Daily Worker newspaper, which published a column critical of Stafford and VOA.

GEORGIA GIBBS

Her key attribute was tremendous versatility and an uncommon stylistic range from melancholy ballad to uptempo swinging jazz and rock and roll.

In her 2006 book, ‘Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair With 50s Pop Music’, Newsweek music critic Karen Schoemer wrote: “What really turned me around, though, were her R&B covers … Georgia was the rare fifties canary with a genuine flair for rock and roll … by the time I was through listening … I had a healthy new respect for Georgia, and a sense of indignation over her neglect by critics.”

DINAH SHORE

After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman, and both Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own to become the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo success. She had a string of 80 charted popular hits, spanning 1940–1957, and after appearing in a handful of feature films, she went on to a four-decade career in American television, starring in her own music and variety shows from 1951 through 1963 and hosting two talk shows in the 1970s.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is an hour Dinah Shore TV Show from 1960 featuring Ella Fitzgerald, Prado Perez and Al Hirt. Happy televiewing!

12 MARCH PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #376
107.3 2SER Tuesday 12 March 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12:04 – 1pm and early morning on 24 other stations.
Set 1	1940s Dance Bands on 1940s Radio
Flying Home (theme) + Star Dust	Lionel Hampton (vibraharp) and Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Civic Auditorium Oakland Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Jun 1944
Major and a Minor	Tiny Bradshaw Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 16 Apr 1945
Old Man River + Close	Benny Carter Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 21 Aug 1944
Set 2	Benny Goodman 1935-38 Radio
Makin’ Whoopee	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red NY 23 Feb 1935
One O’Clock Jump	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Madhattan Room WABC CBS NY 20 Oct 1937
Blue Skies	Benny Goodman Orchestra (Fletcher Henderson gives a lesson on arranging)	‘Camel Caravan’ WBBM CBS Chicago 13 Sep 1938
Set 3	McKinney’s Cotton Pickers
I’d Love It	McKinney’s Cotton Pickers	Comm Rec 6 Nov 1929
Rocky Road	McKinney’s Cotton Pickers (voc) Don Redman	Comm Rec 6 Nov 1929
Miss Hannah	McKinney’s Cotton Pickers (voc) Don Redman	Comm Rec 6 Nov 1929
Set 4	1940s Women Vocal Stars
Open + I May Be Wrong	Jo Stafford	‘Supper Club’ AFRS Re-broadcast
Good, Good, Good + My Baby Said Yes	Georgia Gibbs	‘Georgia Gibbs – Paul Whiteman Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Jul 1945
Medley + Close	Dinah Shore	‘Showtime’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Set 5	Glen Gray 1934-36 Radio
Old Man River	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
Black Jack	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1934
Truckin’ + Weary Blues	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 2 Jan 1936
Set 6	Louis Armstrong 1937 – 44 Radio
St Louis Blues	Louis Armstrong Orchestra	‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription 1937
Theme + If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1943
On The Sunny Side of the Street	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA	‘Spotlight Bands’ Dallas TV AFRS Re-broadcast 17 Aug 1943
Swinging on a Star	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA	‘Spotlight Bands’ Tuskagee Alabama AFRS Re-broadcast 9 Oct 1944
Set 7	Duke Ellington 1950s Radio
All of Me	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Bette Roche	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jul 1952
Boy Meets Horn	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Birdland WNBC NBC NY 30 Jun 1951
Take The A-Train	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Bette Roche	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 13 Aug 1952
The Happening + Got To Go	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WNBC NBC NY 8 Jun 1951
Set 8	Hip Savoy Sides from 1945
Seventh Avenue	Clyde Hart’s All-Stars	Comm Rec NYC Jan 1945
The Street Beat	Sir Charles Thompson All-Stars	Comm Rec NYC 4 Sep 1945
That’s The Blues	Rubberlegs Williams	Comm Rec NYC Jan 1945
Poppity Pop	Slim Gaillard	Comm Rec NYC Dec 1945

Phil Harris Academy Award Winner and Band Leader – Phantom Dancer 26 Feb 19

ACADEMY AWARD

Phil Harris was an American jazz musician, singer, actor and comedian. He also made the best live action short Academy Award winner for 1934, ‘So This is Harris!’. He is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist presented by 1920s – 1930s singer, Greg Poppleton.

PHANTOM DANCER

Hear this week’s Phantom Dancer (after 26 Feb) and past Phantom Dancers at 2ser.com.
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PHIL HARRIS

Harris began is career in entertainment as a 16 year old drummer in San Francisco forming the Lofner-Harris Orchestra with Carol Lofner. The orchestra had a residency in the prestigious Hotel St Francis, San Francisco, until 1932 and also toured overseas.

One country the Lofner-Harris Orchestra visted was Australia. In 1927, Harris married actor Marcia Ralston in Sydney.

COCOANUT GROVE

In 1932 – 33, Harris’ orchestra was resident at Los Angeles’ Cocoanut Grove ‘where all the stars come to dance,’ and features in his 1933 short, ‘So This Is Harris!’.

This week’s Phantom Dancer features a radio transcription made by the Harris Orchestra in 1933, simulating their live Cocoanut Grove broadcasts. The transcription demonstrates Harris’ friendly singing style and his debonair wit.

JACK BENNY

It was that warm style and wit that got the Harris band the job of providing the music for the Jack Benny radio show in 1936. Harris soon became a cast member, remaining with the show except for a stint with the US Navy during WW2 until 1952 .

He married Alice Faye in 1941 and together they hosted the popular Phil Harris-Alice Faye music and comedy radio show until 1954.

In the 1970s-80s he lead on orchestra in Las Vegas, mostly on the same bill as Harry James.

TV

Harris guested on many TV shows into the 1980s including F-Troop and the Dean Martin Show. He was a close friend of Bing Crosby and after Bing died in 1977, Harris replaced him as commentator for the annual Bing Crosby Pro-Am Golf Tournament.

He was also a voice actor for animated films including Jungle Book (1967) (as Baloo the Bear), The Aristocats (1970), Robin Hood (1973), Tailspin (1989). His last film role was in Rock-a-Doodle (1991).

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is the 1934 Academy Award short film winner, ‘So This Is Harris! which includes Phil singing ‘Lazy River’ just like in this week’s 1933 radio transcription –

26 FEBRUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #375
107.3 2SER Tuesday 26 February 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12:04 – 1pm and early morning on 24 other stations.
Set 1	1940s Swing Bands
Theme + Octave Jump	Bob Chester Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Blackhawk Restaurant Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Oct 1944
Theme + Lady in Red	Henry Russell Hollywood Radio City Orchestra	‘Let’s Dance’ KFI NBC LA 1945
Dispatch From Dogpatch	Henry Busse Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Paladium Ballroom Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Sep 1944
Set 2	Phil Harris Cocoanut Grove
Theme + Mimi	Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) The Three Ambassadors	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
Lazy River	Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) Phil Harris	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
Long About Sundown	Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) Leah Ray	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
You + Theme	Phil Harris Orchestra	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
Set 3	Ray Anthony 1950s Radio
Open + Sweet and Gentle	Ray Anthony Orchestra (voc) June Vallee	‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954
Martin Kane Theme	Ray Anthony Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Palladium Ballroom KFI NBC LA 23 Nov 1953
DC7 + Close	Ray Anthony Orchestra	‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954
Set 4	1930s Australian Dance Bands
This Year’s Kisses	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Orchestra (voc) Alice Smith	Comm Rec Sydney 1936
Jamboree	Frank Coughlan Orchestra (voc) Frank Coughlan	Radio Transcription Sydney Jun 1937
The Girl on the Police Gazette	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Orchestra (voc)	Comm Rec Sydney 1936
Set 5	Tommy Dorsey
I’ll Never Smile Again	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra and The Pied Pipers	‘America Dances’ BBC London via CBS NYC 28 May 1940
I’ll Never Smile Again	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Stuart Foster and The Sentimentalists	Radio Transcription Hollywood 24 Jun 1945
Tico Tico	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	Radio Transcription Hollywood 24 Jun 1945
Bingo Bango Boffo	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 6 Dec 1947
Set 6	Crooners
Where The Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day	Bing Crosby	Comm Rec New York City 23 Nov 1931
The Song is You	Les Allen (voc) BBC Dance Orchestra	Comm Rec London 4 Apr 1933
My Song	Chick Bullock (voc) Phil Spitany Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 18 Sep 1931
Who?	Orlando Roberson (voc) Claude Hopkins Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 19 Sep 1934
Set 7	Radio Trad
Muskrat Ramble	Louis Armstrong All-Stars	‘Second Timex All-Star Jazz Show’ CBS TV 30 Apr 1958
Charlie, My Boy	Jimmy Dorsey ‘Dorseyland’ Orchestra (voc) Pat O’Connor/Charlie Teagarden	Radio Transcription New York City 1950
Kansas City Man	Sidney Bechet and Bob Wilbur	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 22 Mar 1947
Shake It and Break It	Graeme Bell Band	3AW Melbourne 1949
Set 8	Dizzy Gillespie
Intro + Blue ‘n’ Boogie	Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 31 Mar 1951
More Than You Know	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Winter Palace Stockholm Radio Sweden 2 Feb 1948
Night in Tunisia	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jul 1956
Jam Session	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Rex Theatre Paris Radio Feb 1953

Bordas – 22 Jan Phantom Dancer Radio Mix

SHORT WAVE CHANSON

From the early 1930s there were many claims made by radio stations about the clarity of international short wave broadcasts. A show from AWA’s Sydney station VK2ME to NBC’s WGY Schenectedy NY was hailed as coming through crystal clear. Special programs broadcasting shortwave on AM continued through the 1930s. We hear parts of one such broadcast on this week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton.

PHANTOM DANCER

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop swing and jazz mix of live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week. I’ve been bringing you The Phantom Dancer on Radio 2SER, and now online, since 1985.

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PARIS BY NIGHT

On 21 March 1939, NBC Blue New York City and Radio-diffusion PTT Paris transmitted a short wave variety show from Paris to New York called ‘Paris By Night’.

The short wave signal became too staticky part way through the broadcast, so in New York City, the orchestra of Norman Clouthier stepped in with a medley of Cole Porter tunes as the techs at RCA Communications worked on getting a clearer signal. They did. And so the broadcast ended with two songs by French ‘Music Hall’ singer Marcelle Bordas.

BORDAS

Marcelle Bordas, simply known as Bordas in French theatrical tradition, was a theatre milliner whose voice was discovered by French pop singer, Mistinguett.

She made her debut in 1933 at the Casino de Cabourg, went to the Folies Bergère with Jean Sablon, and records her first discs for DISCUM in November 1934.

The period 1935-1945 was her heyday making records, playing nightclubs and cabaret, broadcasting over Paris radio PTT and appearing in the 1937 film Radio Maurice Cloche alongside Damia, Marie Dubas and Fréhel.

During the phoney war she made many tours to French troops on the Maginot Line. She also took part in the great Franco-British gala of 16/04/1940 at the Paris Opera with Grace Field and Jack Hylton.

In 1941 she took over the cabaret, The Marquee, from her friend O’Dett, and lived above that cabaret for 20 years.

She continued singing in Parisan cabaret during the war, but after 1945 her star waned. Her repertoire in the 50s and 60s focused on party songs releasing albums of these songs on the Barclay label. She appeared on TV, toured with Gilbert Bécaud in 1956 and played the Olympia with Charles Aznavour and Dalida

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is a 1935 commercial recording of Bordas singing the Rodgers-Hart song, Blue Moon.

22 JANUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #372
107.3 2SER Tuesday 22 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	1944-45 Radio Swing Bands
One O’Clock Jump (theme) + Jump	Benny Carter Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 16 Apr 1945
Time Waits For No-one	Herbie Fields Orchestra (voc) Carol Kay	‘One Night Stand’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY AFRS Re-broadcast 9 Aug 1944
Flying Home	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Civic Auditorium Oakland Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Aug 1944
Set 2	Wacky Radio
Open + The Sound of Music	Felicia Saunders	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 3 Apr 60
Open + In A Little Spanish Town	Singing Canaries	Radio Transcription 1947
I’m Wild About Horns on Autos + Close	Hoosier Hot Shots	‘Alka-Seltzer Show’ WLS NBC Blue Chicago 1938
Set 3	Paris By 1939 Short Wave
I’ve Got You Under My Skin + Easy To Love + I’ve Got You Under My Skin	Norman Clouthier Orchestra	‘Paris By Night’ NBC Blue, Paris Mondiale, PTT Paris and New York 21 Mar 1939
Tango de Bley + La Madelon	Marcelle Bordas (voc) Wal Berg Orchestra	‘Paris By Night’ NBC Blue, Paris Mondiale, PTT Paris and New York 21 Mar 1939
Set 4	1950s Birdland Singers
I’m In The Mood For Love	Arthur Prysock	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 9 Sep 1952
I Didn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night	Arthur Prysock	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 9 Sep 1952
Serenade in Blue + Perdido + Close	Sarah Vaughan (voc) Dizzy Gillespie	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 21 Apr 1953
Set 5	Jimmy Lunceford
Open + Little John	Jimmy Lunceford Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Casa Manana Culver City Ca. AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Sep 1945
Are You Kidding?	Jimmy Lunceford Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Jefferson Barracks Mi Mutual Network 23 Nov 1945
Holiday For Strings	Jimmy Lunceford Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Wham + For Dancers Only	Jimmy Lunceford Orchestra	‘Maytag Frolics’ Radio Transcription Chicago 1 Mar 1929
Set 6	1930s British Dance Bands
Begin the Beguine	Joe Loss Orchestra (voc) Chick Henderson	Comm Rec London 1938
Young and Healthy	Billy Cotton Orchestra (voc) Alan Breeze	Comm Rec London 11 Mar 19334
I Cover The Waterfrobt	Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra (voc) Peggy Mann	Comm Rec London 1933
Some of These Days	Jack Hylton Orchestra	Comm Rec London 27 Sep 1932
Set 7	Women Singers with Benny Goodman
I Hate To Talk About Myself	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	Palomar Ballroom KFI NBC Red LA 22 Aug 1935
Gotta Get Some Shuteye	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 7 Feb 1939
Let’s Dance (theme) + My Guy’s Come Back	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Lisa Morrow	Meadowbrook Gardens KHJ Mutual-Don Lee LA 14 Jan 1946
Confess	Benny Goodman Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ The Click Philadelphia AFRS re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948
Set 8	Crazy, Man, Crazy
Bellevue For You	Pete Brown Quintet	Comm Rec New York City 11 Jul 1944
Indiana	Gene Krupa Quartet	London House WBBM CBS Chicago 13 Mar 1959
Never on Sunday	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRTS Re-broadcast Jul 1964
Open + Jordu	Stan Getz Quartet	Red Hill Inn Pennsauken NJ WCBS CBS NY 18 May 1957

Peter Kreuder German Swing Composer – Phantom Dancer 30 October

THANK YOU

This week’s Phantom Dancer has a set of 1930s-40s swing by request of Jonathan, a supporter who called during last week’s 2SER Supporter Drive.

I’ve chosen four commercial releases of stage and film songs written by the prolific German composer and child prodigy, Peter Kreuder.

Thank you to everyone who called and went online to become 2SER financial supporters during this year’s 2SER Phantom Dancer Supporter Drive.

You keep The Phantom Dancer going.

PHANTOM DANCER

The Phantom Dancer, with Greg Poppleton, is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week. It’s been on 2SER since 1985, thanks to your financial support in 33 subscriber drives.

And over those years, Greg Poppleton and The Phantom Dancer have inspired musicians, painters, film, TV and theatre creatives.

Listen on-air every Tuesday 12:04-2:00pm AEST (+11 GMT) and online

See this week’s full play list and video of the week below.

PETER KREUDER

Peter Kreuder was a German pianist, composer and conductor. He was a child prodigy who enrolled as a piano student in the Cologne Conservatorium at age four and gave his first concert at age five.

He wrote popular and art songs, operettas, musicals, a piano concerto and two operas.

Most importantly for today’s Phantom Dancer he also wrote stage and film music with a lot of swing style.

Beginning by helping arrange the musical score to Marlene Dietrich’s breakthrough film, The Blue Angel, in 1930, he went on to write music for around 150 movies.

He became Germany’s most in-demand film composer in the 1930s and 40s. All his songs in this week’s Phantom Dancer come from this period.

He was so important to the German film industry that he was forced to return to Germany from Sweden (to where he had emigrated in 1939) after Nazi threats to his relatives in Germany. Kreuder had been a Nazi Party member from 1932-34 when he resigned.

After the war he took Austrian citizenship. He conducted radio orchestras in Argentina and Brazil in the 1940s, writing again for German film in the 1950s and writing two memoirs.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week features Peter Kreuder’s music in the 1939 German western, ‘Wasser für Canitoga’.

30 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #339
107.3 2SER Tuesday 30 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	1940s Swing Era Drummers
Stomping at the Savoy	Gene Krupa Trio	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom AFRS Re-broadcast 1946
Indiana	Eddie Condon Group (drums) George Wettling	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 10 Feb 1945
Desperate Desmond + Close	Buddy Rich Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Phoenixville Pa AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Dec 1945
Set 2	Early 1930s Radio
Open + What Is This Thing Called Love?	Ambassadors of Melodyland	‘Dr Scholls Program’ Radio Transcription 1931
Open + Rain on the Roof	George Shackley Ensemble	‘Nehi Program’ Radio Transcription 1932
Redman Rhythm + Close	Don Redman Orchestra	Casino de Paris WABC CBS NY 22 Dec 1933
Set 3	1950s Pop Singers on the Air
Blacksmith’s Hop (theme) + Money, Honey	Ella Mae Morse	‘Here’s To Veterans’ Radio Transcription 1954
It Might As Well Be Spring	Margaret Whiting	‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription 1954
What a Difference a Day Makes + Pavanne (Close)	Andy Russel (voc) Toots Cammerata Orchestra	‘Double Feature’ AFRS Re-broadcast 15 Oct 1944
Set 4	Latin Sounds 1940s-50s Radio
Theme + Oya Negra	Enric Madraguera and his Music of the Americas (voc) Eddie Gomez	‘One Night Stand’ Copacobana New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Jul 1945
You Two	Xavier Cugat Orchestra (voc) Juan Manuel	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Ramona Room Hotel Last Frontier NBC Las Vegas 30 Nov 1953
Open + Carambola	Machito	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 17 Nov 1951
Set 5	Swing Bands 1940 Chicago Radio
Pretty Little Petticoat (theme) + Huckleberry Duck	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 1940
Ooh, What You Said!	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Marian Mann	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 29 Apr 1940
There I Go	Fats Waller Rhythm (voc) Kay Perry	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 10 Dec 1940
Make Believe Dance Land	Ozzie Nelson Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 24 Mar 1940
Set 6	1930s English Dance Bands
Let’s Put Out The Lights and Go To Sleep	Ambrose Orchestra (voc) Sam Browne and Elsie Carlisle	Comm Rec London 26 Oct 1932
How Am I To Know?	Johnny Claes and his Claepigeons (tp) Nat Gonella	Comm Rec London 1941
Five Fifteen	Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra	Comm Rec London 1933
My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean	Johnny Claes and his Claepigeons (voc) Irene King	Comm Rec London 1941
Set 7	Set of Peter Kreuder German Swing Songs for Johnathan who Supported 2SER in the Supporter Drive
Wenn zwei wie du and ich	Hans Rehmstedt Orchester (voc) Rudi Schuericke	Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1939
6 Minuten Peter Kreuder Pot Pourri	Bernhard Ette mit seinem grossen Buehnenschau-Orchester	Comm Rec Berlin 1937
Eine Insel aus Traeumen geboren	Hans Rehmstedt Orchester (voc) Rudi Schuericke	Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1939
Aus lauter Liebe	Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Peter Igelhoff	Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1937
Set 8	Night in Tunisia-a-thon
Night in Tunisia	Charlie Parker (as) Fats Navarro (tp) Bud Powell (piano) Curley Russell (b) Art Blakey (d)	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 30 Jun 1950
Night in Tunisia	Boyd Raeburn Orchestra	Rose Room Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 19 Jun 1945
Night in Tunisia	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jun 1956
Night in Tunisia	Charlie Parker (as) Kenny Dorham (tp) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d) Milt Jackson (vibes)	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 26 Feb 1949

18 April Phantom Dancer – 1946 周璇 Zhou Xuan – 夜上海 Ye Shang Hai (Nightlife in Shanghai)

Here’s your Phantom Dancer radio show play list and Video of the Week for Tuesday 18 April.

Hear the show online now at Radio 2SER.com

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.

In this week’s mix hear Jo Stafford and a set of women pop singers on 1930s-50s radio, a set of Dizzy Gillespie radio and a set of 1940s radio swing bands lead by trumpet players Barzizza, Spivak and Randy Brooks.

The last hour is all vinyl.

Live-streamed and archived online at 2ser.com, your Phantom Dancer is heard on over 22 radio stations.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is ‘Shanghai Nightlife’ filmed in 1946 and sung by Zhou Xuan one of China’s seven great singing stars.
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 #260 107.3 2SER Tuesday 18 April 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: 2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12 ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations. Set 1 Swing Bands of Trumpet Playing Leaders on 1940s Radio Non Hai Piu La Veste A Fiori Blu Alberto Rabagliati e Quartetto Vocale Hot (voc) Pippo Barzizza Orchestra Comm Rec Cetra, Rome 1946 Open + Stomping Room Only Charlie Spivak Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 1947 Perdido + Theme Randy Brooks Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Jul 1945 Set 2 Mickey Mouse Bands On 1950s – 60s Radio Open + Tea For Two Leon Kellner Orchestra Blue Room Roosevelt Hotel WWL CBS New Orleans 1964 Mississippi Mud Dick Jurgens Orchestra (voc) Al Galante and Band Aragon Ballroom Aragon Ballroom WBBM CBS Chicago Dec 1950 Little Girl + Goodnight My Love + Drifting and Dreaming (Close) Orrin Tucker Orchestra (voc) OT Boulevarde Room Stevens Hotel ABC Chicago 1951 Set 3 Women Pop Singers on 1930s-50s Radio More Than You Know Jo Stafford (voc) Victor Young Orchestra ’Your Melody Hour’ KFI NBC Los Angeles 5 Aug 1951 If This Is Love, I Don’t Want Love Kay Thompson ’Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription New York City 1935 Brahm’s Lullaby + Close Ginny Simms + Chorus (voc) Cookie Fairchild Orchestra ’Personal Album’ AFRS Hollywood 1944 Set 4 Crooners on 1940s Radio Open + Careless Hands Frank Sinatra and The Hit Paraders (voc) Alex Stordahl Orchestra ’Your Hit Parade’ KFI NBC LA 30 Apr 1949 Open + Let’s Have Another Cup Of Coffee + Rise and Shine Gordon MacRae ’The Railroad Hour’ KFI NBC Los Angeles 7 Aug 1950 Lucky Ol’ Sun Dick Haymes and The Andrew Sisters (voc) Jerry Gary Orchestra ’Club 15’ KNX CBS Los Angeles 23 Sep 1949 Set 5 Dizzy Gillespie on 1940s-50s Radio Lady Byrd Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra Aircheck Apollo Ballroom Harlem NY 22 Jan 1947 Manteca Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra Winter Palace Stockholm Radio Sweden 2 Feb 1948 Doodlin’ Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jul 1956 Jam Session Dizzy Gillespie with Orchestra Rex Theatre RTF Paris Feb 1953 Set 6 Piano Playing Band Leaders on the Air If You Can’t Smile and Say Yes Nat King Cole Trio Trocadero KHJ Mutual LA 26 Apr 1945 Body and Soul Teddy Wilson Orchestra ’America Dances’ BBC London via WABC CBS NY 1939 Every Tub Count Basie Orchestra ’Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 14 Jan 1953 Flying Home Duke Ellington Orchestra Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 13 Aug 1952 Set 7 1930s Radio Jazz and Dance Bands Black and Blue Rhythm Jack Hylton Orchestra Comm Rec London 26 Sep 1933 Crazy Rhythm Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward ’Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red New York City 8 Dec 1934 Dardenella Bunny Berrigan Orchestra ’Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 31 Oct 1936 Haunting Me Henry Busse Orchestra Radio Transcription Hollywood 1935 Set 8 Trad Bands on Radio Beale Street Blues Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Band Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1950 Heebie Jeebies Eddie Condon Group ’Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 9 Sep 1944 I’m Confessin’ Hot Lips Page ’Doctor Jazz’ Stuyvesant Casino WMGM New York City 1950 That’s A Plenty Muggsy Spanier Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 18 Apr 1953