Mary Osbourne – Woman Electric Guitar Pioneer – Phantom Dancer 3 March 2020

It’s International Women’s Day this month so this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist from live 1920s-60s radio is electric guitar pioneer, Mary Osbourne. There’s also a set of women singers from live 1930s-40s radio.

You’ll hear Mary’s guitar with Gay Claridge’s big band broadcasting from Chicago in 1944. You’ll also hear her sing from that same broadcast. Then a couple of commercial jazz sides for you spun by jazz critic Leonard Feather in a 1951 edition of his Voice of America series, ‘Jazz Club USA’.

The Phantom Dancer produced and presented by 1920s-30s singer and actot Greg Poppleton can be heard online from 12:05pm AESDT Tuesday 3 March at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

The last hour is all vinyl.

MARY

Mary Osborne was born into a musical family. Her mother played guitar and her father made violins.

Her earliest instruments were piano, ukulele, violin and banjo. She first played guitar at age nine.

At ten, she was playing banjo in her father’s ragtime band. She also had her own radio program, which she would continue to perform on twice weekly until she was fifteen.

At twelve she started her own trio of girls to perform in Bismarck, North Dakota. The music she was playing during this time period was largely “hillbilly”, in which the guitar was simply used to accompany her own vocals.

At the age of fifteen, Osborne joined a trio led by pianist Winifred McDonnell, for which she played guitar, double bass, and sang. During this time, she heard Charlie Christian play electric guitar in Al Trent’s band at a stop in Bismarck.

CHARLIE

She was enthralled by his sound, at first mistaking the electric guitar for a saxophone. She said, “What impressed everyone most of all was his sense of time. He had a relaxed, even beat that would sound modern even today.”

Osborne immediately bought her own electric guitar and had a friend build an amplifier.  She sat in with Christian, learning his style of guitar.  Later, McDonnell’s trio got absorbed into Buddy Rogers’s band, after Rogers heard them play in St. Louis. But within a year of the band moving to New York in 1940, the trio broke up and left Rogers’s band, having found husbands. Osborne married trumpeter Ralph Scaffidi, who encouraged her musical career.

PROGRESSIVE

In the 1940s, Osborne sat in on jam sessions on 52nd Street, where she played with some of the biggest names in jazz and quickly made a name for herself.

In 1941 she went on the road with jazz violinist Joe Venuti. In 1942 she was working freelance in Chicago when she made a recording with Stuff Smith. In 1944, as you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer, she sang and played her electric guitar in the Gay Claridge Orchestra. In 1945 Osborne headlined a performance with Dizzy Gillespie, Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins and Thelonious Monk in Philadelphia, to reviews and audiences that praised her specifically. She, Tatum, and Hawkins went on to record in concert in New Orleans.

In 1945 Osborne moved back to New York. There she recorded with Mary Lou Williams in 1945, Coleman Hawkins, Mercer Ellington, and Beryl Booker in 1946, and led her own swing trio. You’ll hear two of these sides played by jazz critic Leonard Feather on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

Her trio lasted from 1945–1948 and played in clubs on 52nd street, had a year-long engagement at Kelly’s Stables, and made several recordings. Throughout the 1950s, she played with Elliot Lawrence’s Quartet on The Jack Sterling Show, a daily morning CBS radio program, and appeared on the television show Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts.

In this week’s PHANTOM DANCER VIDEO, you’ll see her with a band of jazz greats backing Billie Holiday on an Art Ford Tv show.

The last few years of the decade she spent recording, both with Tyree Glenn and as a leader. Shortly after, Osborne felt that she had been doing the same thing musically for too long and wanted a change. In 1962 she started learning Spanish classical guitar under Alberto Valdez-Blaine. She used classical techniques, such as pick-less playing, in her jazz playing.

BUILDER

In 1968, Osborne moved and settled into Bakersfield, California, where she lived the rest of her life. With her husband, she started the Osborne Guitar Company. She taught music and continued to play jazz locally and in Los Angeles. She played in the Newport and Concord festivals in the early 1970s, and in the Kool Jazz Festival in New York in 1981. In 1989 and 1990, she played at the Los Angeles Classic Jazz Festival, and in 1990 also played at the Playboy Jazz Marathon. In 1991, in what would be her final performances, Osborne returned to The Village Vanguard in New York for a week-long engagement.

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!

3 MARCH PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #426
107.3 2SER Tuesday 3 March 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm 5GTR Mt Gambier Mon 2:30 – 3:30am 4NAG Keppel FM 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 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am
Set 1	A Date With The Duke
Take The A-Train (theme) + Carnegie Blues	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC/AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Otto, Play Thar Riff Staccato	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ray Nance	‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC/AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
All At Once + Yesterdays	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Kay Davis	‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC/AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Set 2	Australian Radio
Brown Slouch Hat	Joan Blake	‘Song of Australia’ ABC Radio 1942 4 Sep 1948
Sahara	Wally Portingale All-in-Fun Revue	‘Army on Parade’ 2CH Sydney 0ct 1943
Waltzing Matilda	116th Rhythm Ensemble (voc) Ron Williams	2UE Sydney 1944
Set 3	Trumpet Playing Band Leaders
Memories of You (theme) + The Wish I Wish Tonight	Sonny Donham Orchestra (voc) Tommy Randall	‘One Night Stand’ Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker NY AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jul 1945
Open + Blue Skies	Lee Castle Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Ice Terrace Room Newark NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Feb 1934
Eight Bar Riff + Rose Room	Harry James and his Music Makers	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Sep 1945
Set 4	Mary Osbourne – Pioneer Electric Guitarist
Apple Blossoms in the Rain + Kentucky	Mary Osbourne (voc and eg) Gay Claridge Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Chez Paree, Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Sep 1945
Mary’s Guitar Boogle	Mary Osbourne Trio	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America 1951
Low Ceiling	Mary Osbourne (eg) Beryl Booker Trio	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America 1951
I Love You	Mary Osbourne (eg) Gay Claridge Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Chez Paree, Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Sep 1945
Set 5	1944 Swing Radio
I Cover The Waterfront	Benny Carter Orchestra	Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca 1944
Minnie the Moocher (theme) The Very Thought of You	Cab Calloway Orchestra and voc.	‘One Night Stand’ Club Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Sep 1944
The Lion and the Mouse	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker NYC 1944
After You’ve Gone + Goodbye (theme)	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS New York City 21 Jul 1944
Set 6	Louis Armstrong Radio
The Blues	Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller	Aircheck New York City Oct 1938
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?	Louis Armstrong	Wintergarden Theatre WNBC NBC NY 19 Jun 1947
You’re Just In Love	Louis Armstrong and Velma Middleton	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription NYC 12 Dec 1954
Royal Garden Blues	Louis Armstrong	‘Damon Runyom Memorial Jazz Concert’ Blue Note WENR ABC Chicago 11 Dec 1948
Set 7	1930-40ss Women Singers
By The Light of the Silvery Moon	<div class=”style1″ align=”left”Ruth Etting	‘Ruth Etting Show’ WHN NYC 13 Jun 1947
It’s You, You, Darling	Marian Mann (voc) Bob Crosby Orchestra	Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker WOR Mutual NY 25 Mar 1940
Whistling in the Dark	Loyce Whiteman (voc) Gus Arnheim Orchestra	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Hollywood 1931
There’s a Small Hotel	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Maxine Gray	‘The Lady Esther Serenade’ WABC CBS NY 26 Aug 1936
Set 8	1940s Modern Jazz Radio
C-Jam Blues	International All-Stars	Aircheck Hollywood Dec 1947
Back Talk	Woody Herman Orchestra	‘Wild Root Show’ ABC 8 Feb 1946
Manteca	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Winter Palace Radio Sweden Stockholm 2 Feb 1948

Julius Sumner Miller and Toys – Phantom Dancer 27 August 2019

Another classic Phantom Dancer, this week, from 2015.

I can’t make it to the studio because I walk so much I have bursitis in one knee. I’m hoping that I can hobble to the studio with the long promised Dolly Dawn feature by next week. 

In the meantime, enjoy this PD from 2015.

See the play list and Video of the Week of your weekly non-stop 2 hour swing jazz mix, below.

Hear the show online at 2ser.com

And there’s more than a year of non-stop swing jazz mixes from live 1920s-60s radio and TV archived at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/  for you, too.

Cole Porter, Fats Waller, and Jan Savitt’s Orchestra at the opening of a radio station in 1937 feature on this week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton

As this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, recorded at ABC-TV in Sydney in 1969, Julius Sumner Miller investigates ‘The Physics of Toys’ Part 2. This is program 29 in the series, ‘Dramatic Demonstrations In Physics’. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #400
2SER Tuesday 27 Aug 2019 12 noon – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT)
Set 1
Open + Panamania	Leith Stevens Orchestra	‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jun 1937
T’ain’t What You Do It’s The Way How You Do It	Freddy Monroe (Frankie Masters) Orchestra	‘Streamlined Interview’ WJSV CBS Washington 21 Sep 1939
Ad + Flight of a Hay Bag	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 2 Feb 1936
Set 2
There’s a Small Hotel	Teddy Stauffer and his Original Teddies (voc) Billy Toffel	Comm Rec Berlin 30 Sep 1936
Ad + You’re The Top + Ad	Cole Porter	‘Fleischman Yeast Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NY 13 Dec 1934
Open + Hold Me + Idolising + Cuban Love Song	Larry Taylor (voc) with Orchestra	‘Melody Lane’ Radio Transcription 1936
Set 3
Cirribirribin (Open) + Noodlin’	Harry James Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom AFRTS Re-broadcast 27 Nov 1959
Instrumental	Ray Anthony Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NY 12 Aug 1950
Prelude to a Kiss + Things Ain’t What They Used To Be	Duke Ellington Orchestrs	Basin Street CBS NY KNX Los Angeles Aircheck 16 Apr 1956
Set 4
No. 10 Ritchie Drive	Gene Krupa Trio	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Astor Roof NY AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jan 1945
Joshua Fought The Battle of Jericho	Paul Laval’s Woodwinds	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue 28 Jul 1941
I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling	Wild Bill Davison	‘This Is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 24 May 1947
Set 5
Tenderly	Gene Krupa Quartet	London House WBBM CBS Chicago 13 Mar 1959
Open + Walkin’	Miles Davis All-Stars	‘Bandstand USA’ Birdland WOR Mutual New York 3 Jan 1959
Set 6
Nola	Claude Hopkins Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York 18 Oct 1935
It Had to Be You	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 25 Nov 1938
Open + Boogie Woogie Maxixe	Bob Crosby Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 25 Mar 1940
Rigmarole + Close	Jan Savitt Orchestra	KYW Studio Launch Philadelphia 14 Sep 1937
Set 7
You Go To My Head	Billie Holliday	Storyville Copley Square Hotel WMEX Boston Late 1953
Open + Bensonality	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jun 1952
Every Tub	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WRCA NBC NY 14 Jan 1953
Cherokee	Art Tatum (piano) Murray MacEachern Orchestra	Aircheck Los Angeles 1952
Set 8
Sheik of Araby	Benny Goodman Sextet	Aircheck Los Angeles 12 Aug 1940
Rachel’s Dream	Benny Goodman	Esquire Jazz Concert Metropolitan Opera House WJZ Blue Network 18 Jan 1944
Stop Beatin’ ‘Round The Mulberry Bush	Fats Waller	WEAF NBC Red NY 16 Jul 1938
I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me	Coleman Hawkins Orchestra	WABC CBS NY Savoy Ballroom, Harlem 1940

World’s First Electric Guitarist (1923) – Phantom Dancer Show 29 Jan 2018

FIRST ELECTRIC GUITARIST

On this week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton we hear from the world’s first electric guitarist, Alvino Rey, at the peak of his popularity in 1942. He invented the world’s first amplified guitar at age 15 in 1923.

There’s also a set of Claude Hopkins 1935 radio transcriptions, a Duke Ellington extended work from live 1945 radio and much more live 1920s-60s radio swing and jazz.

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.

Hear this week’s Phantom Dancer (after 18 Dec) and past Phantom Dancers at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney

ALVINO REY

Was the stage name of big band leader, electronica and electric guitar pioneer, Alvin McBurney.

Alvin adopted the stage name in 1929 at the start of the Latin music craze in the U.S.

He wanted to be an electronics engineer and was an electronic genius as a kid.

He built his first radio at age 8, in 1916.

In the 1910s he had one of the first, and was the youngest, ham radio broadcaster.

STRINGY

Alvino was given a banjo as a child and then learnt guitar from age 12 in 1920, listening to records by Roy Smeck. At age 15, in 1923, Rey invented an electrical amplifier for the guitar but didn’t have it patented. He patented several later improvements.
Big Band historian, Christopher Popa, wrote about Rey’s early career in an interview he conducted with the World’s first electric guitarist,

“In 1927, Rey landed a job playing banjo with Cleveland bandleader Ev Jones.
“Yes, I joined the Union when I was 16,” he told me. “I went to Lakewood High School and from there I went to New York and never did come back.”
To capitalize on the popularity of Latin music in New York City during 1929, he added an “o” to his first name and changed his last name to “Rey,” which meant “the King” in Spanish.
He replaced banjoist Eddie Peabody with violinist Phil Spitalny, whose band was appearing at the Pennsylvania Hotel and was heard coast-to-coast over the radio.
“I spent two years in New York with Phil Spitalny and then went to California,” he recalled. “I joined Horace Heidt in San Francisco . . . he had a stage band, sort of like Fred Waring.”
Between 1934 and 1939, Rey was often featured on steel guitar with Heidt and became one of the best-known (and best-paid) sidemen in the country, thanks to Heidt’s weekly radio program.
“And there I met the King Sisters, and I married Luise, one of the sisters,” he reminisced.
Alvino Rey was the first to amplify the guitar.
“Well, that came about around 1930, when I was at NBC in San Francisco,” he explained to me. “And I’ve always been an electronic nut and I’ve been a ham operator and studied electronics. In fact, that was going to be my ambition, to be an electronics engineer, and I just applied the amplification of that to the guitar and string instruments.”
It brought a whole new sound to music.
“That was . . . before it was ever done, I believe. As far as I know, it was the first application to a string instrument,” he noted.
Ironically, some link it to rock and roll.
“Well, it got out of hand with a lot of the big rock groups who make so much racket with it. I didn’t intend it to be used with such volume. I used the idea just to be heard in a band, where the guitar — up until that time — was a soft, romantic background accompanying a singer. And after that, it became sort of an integral part of an orchestra.”

BIG BAND

In August 1939, Rey formed his first swing band with his amplified pedal steel guitar as the featured instrument.

An off-stage vocal microphone plugged into it with a Sonovox made it seem as though the guitar could talk.

That’s ‘Stringy the Guitar’, which you can see below in this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week.

In 1942, Alvino was voted by music critics to be part of the Metronome All-Star Band as the top guitarist in the U.S.

He played in small groups from 1949, backing Elvis Presley in 1961 on Blue Hawaii.

He continued to perform on radio and TV and release albums into the 1980s.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is a 1940s soundy of ‘String the Guitar’ with Alvino Rey’s Orchestra.

29 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 29 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
Aukd Lang Syne (theme) + All My Love	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (voc) Bill Flanagan	‘One Night Stand’ Grill Room Hotel Roosevelt NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 25 Oct 1950
Full Moon and Empty Arms	Buddy Morrow Orchestra (voc) Carl Denny	‘One Night Stand’ Blue Room Hotel Lincoln NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 27 May 1946
The Blizzard	Louis Prima Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jul 1946
Set 2	Sammy Kaye
The Belmont Boogie	Sammy Kaye Orchestra	‘The Sammy Kaye Showroom’ Radio Transcription New York City 1950s
Remember Pearl Harbour	Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) Trio	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network Washington DC 31 Jan 1942
Sparking + Close	Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) The Four Kaydettes	‘The Sammy Kaye Showroom’ Radio Transcription New York City 1950s
Set 3	Alvino Rey
Open + Hindustan	Alvino Rey Orchestra (voc) Sparky the Guitar	‘Spotlight Bands’ Paramount Theatre WJZ NBC Blue New York City 28 Feb 1942
Cash For Your Trash	Alvino Rey Orchestra (voc) Bonnie Rae	‘Spotlight Bands’ Paramount Theatre WJZ NBC Blue New York City 28 Feb 1942
Deep in the Heart of Texas + Close	Alvino Rey Orchestra (voc) Band	‘Spotlight Bands’ Paramount Theatre WJZ NBC Blue New York City 28 Feb 1942
Set 4	Count Basie
Station ID and Ads	Station Announcers	KFWB Warner Brothers Los Angeles 1946
Ingin’ The Ooh	Count Basie Nonet	Comm Rec Boston 7 Sep 1954
Low Life	Count Basie Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC NY 2 Jul 1956
One O’Clock Jump + Kansas City Stride	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 27 May 1944
Set 5	Duke Ellington
Excerpts from Black, Brown and Beige: The Work Song + Come Sunday	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ 400 Restaurant WJZ ABC NY 28 Apr 1945
Candy	Duke Ellington Orchestra (vic) Ray Nance	‘A Date With The Duke’ 400 Restaurant WJZ ABC NY 28 Apr 1945
Set 6	Claude Hopkins
Chasing My Blues Away	Claude Hopkins Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 1935
The Traffic Was Terrific	Claude Hopkins Orchestra (voc) Fred Norman	Radio Transcription New York City 1935
You Stayed Away Too Long	Claude Hopkins Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 1935
Everybody Shuffle	Claude Hopkins Orchestra (voc) Ovie Alston	Radio Transcription New York City 1935
Set 7	Jubilee Small Acts
Trouble Trouble	Betty Roche (voc) Benny Carter Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Mad Monk	Eddie South Trio	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Daddy-O	Timmie Rogers	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Straighten Up and Fly Right	Golden Gate Quartet	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Set 8	Benny Goodman Small Groups
Honeysuckle Rose	Benny Goodman Quartet	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 18 Jan 1938
Three Little Words	Benny Goodman Quintet	‘Spotlight Bands’ Cornell University Blue Network 25 Sep 1943
Stomping at the Savoy	Benny Goodman Sextet	‘Kings of Jazz’ BBC NYC 8 Dec 1945

Personal Hygiene Film For Young Girls (c 1920) – Phantom Dancer 19 June

It’s Phantom Dancer time Tuesday on radio and online – your two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio with Greg Poppleton.

What’s on?

Well, there’s a set of ‘Sweet Bands’ from live 1930s-40s radio and some early late night Benny Goodman from 1935. The Velvet Fog, Mel Torme, sings two songs including one when aged 17 in front of Chico Marx’s Orchestra on a CBS Fitch Bandwagon and the last hour is all vinyl.

Hear the show after it’s broadcast 19 June online at 2ser.com

Tirelessly searching YouTube for a swingy, jazzy, instructive, or ‘weird and wonderful’ Video of the Week, I’ve found something curiously wonderful – a circa 1920s ‘Women’s Hygiene’ film. It actually is medically educational (and educational as a social history) though the shower scene does verge on the pseudo-educational sexploitation films of the 1950s-60s. 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!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #320
107.3 2SER Tuesday 19 June 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations.
Set 1	Swing on 1950s Radio
One O’Clock Jump + Sixteen Men Swinging	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Saturday Night Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn WCBS CBS NY 1956
Sitting In The Sun	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) JoAnn Greer	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Palladium Ballroom KFI NBC LA 12 Oct 1953
Capital Idea + (theme)	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Magnolia Room Hotel Claridge WMC NBC Memphis 19 Jun 1953
Set 2	Swing Dance Bands on 1942-44 Radio
Open + Abraham	Chico Marx Orchestra (voc) Mel Torme	‘Fitch Band Wagon’ Blackhawk Restaurant WBBM CBS Chicago 20 Dec 1942
Was It Like That?	Lionel Hampton Orchestra (voc) Dinah Washington	‘One Night Stand’ Civic Auditorium Oakland Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Jun 1944
One Night Stand + Close (Coca Cola Waltz in 4/4 Swing)	Denny Beckner Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Norfolk, Virginia AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Mar 1944
Set 3	Navy Star Time Singers 1952 Radio
Baby, That Ain’t Right	Frankie Laine (voc) Buzz Adlam Orchestra	‘Navy Star Time’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1952
I Hadn’t Anyone Till You	Mel Torme (voc) Buzz Adlam Orchestra	‘Navy Star Time’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1952
I’ll Get By + Close	Jo Stafford (voc) Buzz Adlam Orchestra	‘Navy Star Time’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1952
Set 4	1946 Radio Swing
Instrumental	Harry James Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands ‘ El Patio Playhouse KHJ Mutual LA 13 Apr 1946
Begin The Beguine	Bobby Sherwood Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Avadon Ballroom Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 3 jun 1946
Blue Moon + Summertime	Bob Crosby Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Dec 1946
Set 5	1934 – 36 Radio Bands
There’s Something In The Air	Red Nichols Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 1936
Robins and Roses	Lee Wiley (voc)	WABC CBS NY 17 Jun 1936
Christopher Columbus	Isham Jones Orchestra	WOR Mutual NY 13 Mar 1936
Goodbye	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red NY 2 Feb 1935
Set 6	Big Bands 1942-45 Radio
McGhee Special	Andy Kirk and his 12 Clouds of Joy	Comm Rec New York City 14 Jul 1942
Open + Smiles	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘For The Record’ WEAF NBC NY 11 Sep 1944
Slip Of The Lip	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Fourth War Loan Drive’ WEAF NBC NY 1 May 1943
One O’Clock Jump (open) + Unidentified Time	Johnny Otis Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1945
Set 7	Sweet Bands on 1930-40s Wireless
You Are My Dream	Gray Gordon and his Tic Toc Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Cliff Glass	Radio Transcription New York City 1939
It Was Just One Of Those Things	Russ Morgan Orchestra	Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles 13 May 1946
Words Of Love	Eddy Howard Orchestra	Aragon Ballroom WGN Mutual Chicago 5 Dec 1945
It’s A Whole New Thing	Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Charlie Fisher	Radio Transcription New York City 1938
Set 8	Bop Inspired Radio
Moppin’ The Blues	Pete Brown Quintette	Comm Rec New York City 11 Jul 1944
A Minor Thing + In Your Own Sweet Way	Dave Brubeck Quartet	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Feb 1956
Theme	Harold Rumsey Lighthouse Five	Hermosa Beach Ca ‘Monitor’ WRCA NBC NY 12 Jun 1955
High On An Open Mike	Fats Navarro (tp) Bill Harris (tb) Alen Eager, Charlie Ventura (ts) Ralph Burns (piano) Al Valente (g) Chubby Jackson (b) Buddy Rich (d)	‘Saturday Night Swing Session’ WNEW NY 12 Apr 1947
Fine and Dandy	Slim Gaillard Quintet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NY 2 Jun 1951