Ladies and gentlemen, it’s the first week in the Festival of Giving. That’s the 2SER Supporter Drive. 2SER is 35 years old this year (1 October to be exact). And The Phantom Dancer has been on 2SER 107.3 Sydney every week, and for some years twice a week, for 29 of those years, since 1985.
The Phantom Dancer, swing and jazz from live 1920s – 1960s radio and TV can only stay on 2SER, and 2SER can only stay on air, through your support.
Once a year 2SER asks you to financially support the station so if you like what we do then this is your opportunity to help us keep doing what we do – tell a lover, a friend, a family member or your pet !!
As well as supporting 2SER’s cutting edge stories, music and ideas, there are plenty of prizes up for grabs and this year if you sign up with your lover or another, you will get a night in on 2SER. (see website for details)
This year Supporter Drive runs from October 13 – 25… It feels good to give, and we want to say thank you for listening.
And as this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, enjoy Part 7 in our 48 part series of ‘Demonstrations in Physics’. Filmed at ABC Sydney in 1969, the always entertaining Professor Julius Sumner Miller uses toys to excite us about The Simple Pendulum and Oscillating Things. Enjoy!
Sydney’s only 1920s Great Gatsby Dance Orchestra, The Lounge Bar Lotharios, played for dancers and fans of 1920s hotcha at Glenaeon on Sunday 21 September to a capacity crowd.
The Lounge Bar Lotharios is Sydney’s only authentic 1920s Dance Orchestra playing original 1920s arrangements of 1920s Hot Jazz and Dance Music…
The Lounge Bar Lotharios is Sydney’s only authentic 1920s Dance Orchestra. Geoff Power, middle back row with trumpet is the musical director. Singer, Greg Poppleton, in blue suit, conducts.
The Lounge Bar Lotharios play again, 2pm, Sunday 16 November in St Leonards Park, North Sydney for Spring Into Jazz. AND IT’S FREE!
Grab this opportunity to witness the spectacle of Sydney’s only authentic 1920s Dance Orchestra, The Lounge Bar Lotharios.
Bring a picnic, bring the bubbly, and enjoy Roaring 20s classics like ‘Crazy Words Crazy Tune’ and ‘Let’s Misbehave’, played just like they did in the Flapper Age and sung by Australia’s only authentic 1920s singer, Greg Poppleton, under the musical direction of ARIA nominee, Geoff Power.
It’ll also be one last opportunity for you to hear Geoff’s hot 1920s trumpet before he tours the US and Europe in late December and early January.
Brass and reeds section – The Lounge Bar Lotharios. Front row (l-r) Jim Elliott (alto sax / clarinet) Laura Power (alto sax / baritone sax / clarinet) Glenn Henrich (tenor sax / clarinet). Back Row (l-r) James Power (trumpet) Geoff Power (trumpet / musical director) Ben Gurton (trombone)Rhythm Section – The Lounge Bar Lotharios. (l-r) Bradley Newman (piano) Michael Brady (banjo) Alex Inman-Hislop (drums) Greg Chilcott (sousaphone)The Lounge Bar Lotharios play next at Spring Into Jazz, St Leonards Park, North Sydney. Sunday 16 November. 2 – 5pm. Bring a picnic!
Hire The Lounge Bar Lotharios for your wedding, corporate event and party. We can supply you with Sydney’s best 1920s dancers for your event, too. Just ask.
See you 16 November at St Leonards Park. Bring the bubbly,
Greg
Growing up listening solely to jazz and swing from the 1920s and 1930s, Greg Poppleton’s powerful, melodic 3 octave voice is totally uninfluenced by contemporary music.
Greg Poppleton – singer and MC
Geoff Power – trumpet and sousaphone
Grahame Conlon – banjo and guitar
Jim Elliott – clarinet, alto and bass saxophones
00’00 – Ain’t Misbehavin’
03’47 – St Louis Blues
08’00 – Sweet Lorraine (vocal / guitar duo)
11’11 – Bye Bye Blues (clarinet feature)
14’05 – Makin’ Whoopee
19’10 – Sweet Sue
21’20 – Carolina In The Morning (parts sung through megaphone)
25’33 – Hindustan (trumpet feature)
29’21 – Phone call
30’32 – I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
34’12 – Goodbye
34’55 – My Blue Heaven (1st chorus sung through megaphone)
Broadcast and recorded by Radio16, 16 August 2014 Book the Band
HUZZAH! Tues 7 October Phantom Dancer is NOW ONLINE till mid-November
“Ah, now what would be the highlight of today’s Phantom Dancer?” I ponder, stroking my exceedingly long chin.
“Could it be the bracket of Duke Ellington with a piano solo by the Duke himself as plays Variations On Mood Indigo on a Nat king Cole Show in 1948?”
“Or could it be the bracket of upbeat live 1940s radio swing mixing Lionel Hampton, Stan Kenton and Bobby Sherwood?”
Choose your own highlight from the play list below, then tune in to The Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton this Tuesday 30 September, 12noon – 2pm AEST (+10h GMT) on 107.3 2SER Sydney and online at www.2ser.com.
And as this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, enjoy Part 6 in our 48 part series of ‘Demonstrations in Physics’ as your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week. Filmed at ABC Sydney in 1969, the always entertaining Professor Julius Sumner Miller uses toys to excite us about Falling Bodies and Projectiles Enjoy!
Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
Community Radio Network Show CRN#124
Hear swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV by Dinah Washington, Count Basie, Chris Barber, Fats Waller and as many as we can fit into two hours of scintillating radio.
This week, enjoy Part 5 in our 48 part series of ‘Demonstrations in Physics’ as your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week. Filmed at ABC Sydney in 1969, the always entertaining Professor Julius Sumner Miller uses toys to excite us about Momentum and Energy. Enjoy!
Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN#124
The hottest 1920s ticket in Sydney is the monthly Gin Mill Social at Slide.
The next show is Friday 24th Oct. Have you and your friends got your tickets?
Authentic 1920s – 30s singer Greg Poppletonalways kick off proceedings with an exciting hour of hot Roaring 20s jazz…
Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters open the Gin Mill Social every month. Sydney’s hottest 1920s party ticket. Greg Poppleton 1920s singer, Geoff Power sousaphone and trumpet, Paul Baker banjo.“They fly through the air with the greatest of ease, Those daring young girls on the flying trapeze.”Paul Baker with his banjo on his knee.Mr Gorski juggling the booksMissy is the Lady With The Fan.Adding sparkle to your birthday at Gin Mill SocialGreg Poppleton has been described by music critics as ‘authentic’ and ‘uncanny’ as a 1920s singer.And as an actor, Greg makes a good fist of pretending to play the piano as the Bakelite Broadcasters tear into a hot 1920s instrumental.Geoff Power, trumpet and sousaphone with Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters. Geoff is an ARIA nominee.Following Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters are the world-touring Emma Hamilton trio. They’re signed to Universal.You can talk when Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters play.It’s the 1920s at the Gin Mill Social. It’s in the art deco former Commonwealth Bank building, 41 Oxford St Surry Hills.A celebration of cupcakes. Yum!Your Gin Mill Social hosts are always most genial. They make you so welcome.Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters. Geoff blowing into the big bass sousaphone, Paul Baker banjo, Greg Poppleton 1920s singer is out of frame.
This Tuesday’s Phantom Dancer raises the bar even higher than last Tuesday’s – and I could barely limbo under that! There’s a bracket of gal singers from live 1940s radio and a bracket of live 1930s-40s radio featuring Django Reinhardt.
This week, enjoy Part 4 in our 48 part series of ‘Demonstrations in Physics’ as your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week. Filmed at ABC Sydney in 1969, the always entertaining Professor Julius Sumner Miller uses toys to excite us about Newton’s Third Law of Motion. Enjoy!
Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
Community Radio Network Show CRN#123
“When we rec’d this from a good friend I immediately thought of you. The puppet actually bears an uncanny resemblance to YOU!!
And the first song on the soundtrack features Alix Combelle (my favourite swing tenor saxophonist) and Django Reinhardt…I wish my hair was still as read. Enjoy!
It’s always exciting to sing the songs of the 1920s and 1930s at the Sunday Carnival in the Victoria Room.
And accompanied by Tony Gardner at the grand piano, who also let loose on a couple of instrumental rags and boogies, we hit the ’20s hard between spectacular displays by dancers, ribbon aerialists and astounding magic acts.
We’d gladly play at your place, too, if you’d like us at your party. Talk to Tony at OzManagement. Photos by Rick Monk.
Singer Greg Poppleton dances with megaphone in hand as Tony Gardner gives a crazy, swinging, two-handed version of ‘Lady Be Good’.1920s-30s singer Greg Poppleton passes the birdcage mic to accompanist Tony Gardner, blowing a raspberry to punctuate a cheery performance of Tea For Two.Swaying while crooning the art deco whimsy of ‘Tip Toe Through The Tulips’. Pianist, Tony Gardner, toured three times with Tiny Tim.
On this Tuesday’s Phantom Dancer, swing and jazz from live 1920s – 1960s radio and TV, 12 – 2pm 107.3 2SER Sydney and online at 2ser.com, we get to turn on the vintage TV.
You’ll be hearing from Lester Young on a 1952 WCBS TV show, ‘Adventures In Jazz’ and the Eddie Smith Trio in a 1949 TV and radio simulcast over that same CBS New York station.
You’ll also hear a bracket of 1930s radio swing, 1940s radio swing and 1950s radio bop and post-bop including two excerpts from WOR NY’s ‘Bandstand USA’ featuring band leaders from opposite ends of the jazz spectrum, Henry ‘Red’ Allen and Miles Davis.
And for your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, program 2 in the 1960s TV series ‘Demonstrations In Physics’. This was made at ABC TV Sydney with Professor Julius Sumner Miller and I’ll be uploading the series for you over the next year – putting the Education back into 2 Sydney Educational Radio. On this week’s episode, Newton’s First Law. To quote Julius, “Watch, watch!”
Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
Community Radio Network Show CRN#120
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