Fax Machines in 1938? Hear One Working – 30 April 2019 Phantom Dancer

Radio Stations used Fax Machines in 1938 just like radio uses the internet to complement its programming now. This blog being an example…

Faxes were sent over AM radio, not the phone line.

Hear one in operation on today’s Phantom Dancer – your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV (and with a whole hour of live 1930s swing radio today).

I bring you The Phantom Dancer every Tuesday after the midday news on 107.3 2SER and online at radio 2ser.com. Hear this week’s show online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 30 April.

A 1938 radio fax used to promote personalities on the radio station transmitting it. Three generations of John Gamblings broadcast on New York City radio between 1925 and September 2016.

1930s RADIO FAXES
On today’s Phantom Dancer, marvel at the ‘pump and wheeze’ sound of a 1930s fax machine taken from a recording made in 1938 to introduce WOR New York’s new radio fax service.

As the radio announcer and station engineer tell us, the fax service is a ‘new breakthrough’ in radio to transmit news and information overnight to subscribers with radio fax machine in their homes.

About a dozen US AM radio stations in the late 1930s transmitted a radio fax service, with news faxes sent between midnight and 6am when the stations were ordinarily shut down.

A WOR radio fax from 1938

Static was a problem. Static from a passing car or lightening could wipe out whole pages of information.

By the early 1940s shortwave and ultra short wave frequencies were set aside solely for the transmission of faxes.

When FM radio was introduced after WW2, some FM stations transmitted radio faxes on their broader bandwidth subcarriers. A page of news and pictures would take 15 minutes to be printed from an FM service.

So easy to use, even a child can operate it. A 1938 publicity photo shows a Finch home printer receiving a facsimile newspaper from WWJ in Detroit. (Detroit News Archives, The Radio Historian)

Lack of public interest in this expensive substitute newspaper technology killed the mass production of home radio fax machines.

However, radio facsimile was still in use for the transmission of weather maps by satellite in 2010.

See the full Phantom Dancer play list below, including the 1938 announcement of WOR’s radio fax service.

Internet source:
http://www.theradiohistorian.org/Radiofax/newspaper_of_the_air1.htm

Greg Poppleton is Australia’s only authentic 1920s – 30s singer. He is also a film and TV actor who has worked with Adrien Brody, Nicole Kidman, John Goodman and many others.
Band website: www.gregpoppletonmusic.com
Actor and Voiceover: www.gregpoppleton.com

PHANTOM DANCER PLAY LIST 30 APRIL

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #383
107.3 2SER Tuesday 30 April 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12noon – 1pm and early morning on 22 other stations.
Set 1	Raymond Scott on 1940-41 Radio
Pretty Little Petticoat (theme) + Wellesley High Jump	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 21 Oct 1940
Pretty Little Petticoat (theme) + A Symphony Under The Stars	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Bermuda Room Hotel Brunswick WBZ NBC Boston 6 Dec 1941
Huckleberry Duck + Pretty Little Petticoat (theme)	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 1 Nov 1940
Set 2	A New Radio Service
Il Pesce e l’Uccellina	EIAR Orchestra Moderna (voc) Silvana Fioresi and Trio Lescano	Comm Rec Rome 1938
Facsimile ‘Visual’ Radio	Interview	WOR Mutual NYC 9 Feb 1938
Set 3	1930s Local Radio Music
Theme + Sugar + On The Lone Prairie + When The Rest of the Crowd Goes Home + Heigh Ho + Theme	Our Orchestra	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1934
Set 4	1935-36 Radio
Open + Ad Music + I Got Rhythm	Freddy Rich Orchestra	’Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription New York City 1936
Sleep (theme) + On Your Toes	Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians (voc) Johnny Davis and Trio	’Ford Show’ WABC CBS NY 14 Apr 1936
Syncopated Love Song	Nathaniel Shilkret	KFI NBC LA 1935
Set 5	Swing on 1939 Radio
Top Hat Shuffle	Jan Savitt Top Hatters	Radio Transcription New York 1939
Basin Street Blues	Jack Teagarden and Benny Goodman	’Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 31 Jan 1939
You Can Count On Me	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ivie Anderson	Ritz Carlton Hotel WNAC NBC Boston 26 Jul 1939
Man From Mars + Nightmare (theme)	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WEAF NBC Red NY 21 Oct 1939
Set 6	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra on the Air
Theme + Little John	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Casa Mañana Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Sep 1945
Honey Dripper	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	’Spotlight Bands’ Jefferson Barracks, Missouri Blue Network 23 Nov 1945 Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Sep 1945
I Need a Lift	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Casa Mañana Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 4 May 1945
Wham + For Dancers Only	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Band	’Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1943
Set 7	The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra on 1955-56 Radio
Theme + Opus No. 1	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	Cafe Statler Hotel Pennsylvania WRCA NBC NY Dec 1955
Ridin’ Around in the Rain (voc) Dolly Houston	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	Cafe Statler Hotel Pennsylvania WRCA NBC NY Apr 1956
I’ll Always Be In Love With You	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Dolly Houston	Cafe Statler Hotel Pennsylvania WRCA NBC NY Mar 1956
Tender Trap	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Tommy Mercer	’NBC Bandstand’ NBC Radio and TV NY 1956
Set 8	Bop and Cool
Broadway	Charlie Parker	Birdland WJZ NYC 9 May 1953
Sugar Beat	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS Los Angeles 2 Dec 1947
I Remember Clifford	Oscar Pettiford Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jun 1957
Koko + Anthropology (theme)	Barry Ulanov All Star Metronome Jazzmen	WOR Mutual NY 8 Nov 1947

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

24 April 2018 Phantom Dancer – Bea Wain First To Record ‘Over The Rainbow’

You’ll hear some very loving and touching words on today’s Phantom Dancer.

The Phantom Dancer, presented every week by actor, Greg Poppleton, Australia’s only authentic 1920s-30s singer goes live from 107.3 2SER Sydney every Tuesday after the noon news.

It’s your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV sent to 22 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online.

Hear this week’s Phantom Dancer (after 24 April), and past Phantom Dancers, online at radio 2ser.com

In the mix this week, live 1930s-60s radio by Bob Crosby, Sammy Kaye, Al Trace, Larry Clinton and Bea Wain. See the full play list below.

THOSE TOUCHING WORDS?

“Beautiful, Bea Wain, beautiful.”

Who’s Bea Wain? She’s one of the greatest singers of the Swing Era and my absolute favourite.

Who said those words? You’ll hear them on today’s Phantom Dancer in the Bea Wain set, incidentally.

It was Andre Baruch, award-winning network radio announcer, who said them spontaneously as the announcer for the 1939 ‘Your Hit Parade’ after Bea Wain sang, ‘O, You Crazy Moon’.

They were married in 1938 and remained together until his death 53 years later. Bea Wain died last August aged 100.

THE UNSUNG SINGING GREAT

Bea Wain began singing on local radio at age six. She lived in the Bronx. Her accent disappeared when she sang. She had four No. 1 hits. And she never had a singing lesson.

She also had her name shortened from Beatrice to Bea by some unknown radio exec, to save space on record labels.

Quoting from her New York Times obituary,
“I never wanted anybody to teach me how to sing,” she said in an interview with Sara Fishko for the New York public radio station WNYC in 2013. “I had piano, elocution and dancing lessons, but never singing lessons.”

And she went on to sing professionally past the age of 90.

THE BIG BREAK

Was a big band arranger and in 1938 was forming a swing band with big RCA – NBC promotion. You’ll hear the band broadcasting ‘The RCA Campus Club’ from the Glen island Casino on today’s Phantom Dancer. The singer he hired to front this important band was Bea Wain.

How’d he find her.

She was in the chorus for the Kate Smith Radio Show. She stepped forward for an eight bar solo. That was enough for Clinton. She was hired. Again quoting from her NYT obit:

“The impeccable Wain never fails to captivate us as Clinton’s brassmen play natty little curlicues around her,” Will Friedwald wrote in his book “Jazz Singing: America’s Great Voices From Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond” (1990).

OVER THE RAINBOW

In 1939 Billboard magazine’s college poll voted her the most popular female vocalist. Ella Fitzgerald was second.

In 1938 she was the first to record ‘Over The Rainbow’ from the film, ‘The Wizard of Oz’. MGM, which owned the rights, stopped the record from being issued until after the film, and Judy Garland’s version (who sang it in the movie) was released.

Wain’s ‘Over The Rainbow’ is the Phantom Dancer Video of the Week. It’s interesting to hear the first-ever version, totally untouched by Garland’s version.

Wain said in a 1988 interview, that when Helen O’Connell, a fellow big band singer, was asked how it felt to be a part of music history, she replied, “If I knew it was history, we would have paid more attention.”

HIT RECORDS

In a short recording career of just a few years (she got tired of touring and the poor recording fees and rarely made records after 18 months with the Clinton band), Bea Wain had four hit records, all with Larry Clinton’s Orchestra .
1. Heart and Soul, which she introduced in the short ‘A Song is Born’ announced by Andre Baruch
2. Deep Purple
3. Cry, Baby, Cry
4. My Reverie, an up-tempo version of the Debussy piano piece ‘Reverie’ with lyrics by Larry Clinton.

‘My Reverie’ became Bea Wain’s theme song but, quoting from her New York Times obituary, “it was almost scrapped when Debussy’s heirs learned, to their horror, that the music had been adapted for a pop audience with a brisk tempo and lyrics.

But when Larry Clinton sent them his recording, Wain recalled, they replied, “If this girl sings it, O.K”

MR AND MRS MUSIC

After the World War Two, during which Bea Wain sung in Army Camps and her husband, Andre Baruch served overseas, the couple became ‘Mr and Mrs Music,’ a daily program on WMCA, New York, on which they doubled as disc jockeys and interviewers.

 

They continued on radio when they moved to Palm Springs in 1973 and retired from being DJs in 1980.

After that, Bea Wain sang on TV and in clubs, (there’s a 1983 TV medley of her 1938-39 hits on YouTube).

Quoting from the Wiki article on Wain, she told Christopher Popa in a 2004 interview, “Actually, I’ve had a wonderful life, a wonderful career. And I’m still singing, and I’m still singing pretty good. This past December, I did a series of shows in Palm Springs, California, and the review said, “Bea Wain is still a giant.” It’s something called Musical Chairs. I did six shows in six different venues, and I was a smash. And I really got a kick out of it.”

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week the first recording of ‘Over The Rainbow’ sung by Bea Wain in 1938 but not released until after the ‘Wizard of Oz’ (in which the song features) came out in 1939. Enjoy this original take wholly uninfluenced by Judy Garland…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #313 107.3 2SER Tuesday 24 April 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 and Sway with Sammy Kaye Theme + Elmers Tune Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) The Three Kaydettes ‘Spotlight Bands’ Washington DC Blue Network 31 Jan 1942 Ad + It’s a Great Feeling Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) The Kaydettes ‘Sammy Kaye Showreel’ Radio Transcription 1949 Medley: How Deep is the Ocean? + I’m In The Mood For Love + Avalon + Close Sammy Kaye Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Astor Roof New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Aug 1945 Set 2 Bob Crosby Open + Mama Why Don’t You Dance With Me Bob Crosby and The Modernaires (voc) Jerry Gray Orchestra ‘Club 15’ KNX CBS LA 25 Nov 1947 Don’t Forget Tonight Tomorrow Bob Crosby (voc) Bob Crosby Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Hollywood Palladium AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Aug 1945 Muskrat Ramble Bob Crosby Bobcats ‘Marine Corp Show’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1950 Set 3 WGN Parade of Bands Home Recordings Open + Isn’t It Romantic Al Trace and his Shuffle Rhythm ‘WGN Parade of Bands’ Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Chicago c 1950 Marie + Linger Awhile Ted Fio Rito Orchestra ‘WGN Parade of Bands’ Chez Paree WGN Chicago c 1950 Bella Bella Marie + Medley: In My Dreams + I Love You So Much It Hurts Jimmy Featherstone Orchestra (voc) JF and Peggy Murdoch ‘WGN Parade of Bands’ Walnut Room Bismarck Hotel WGN Chicago c 1950 Set 4 Bea Wain East of the Sun Bea Wain (voc) Larry Clinton Orchestra ‘RCA Campus Club’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 2 Jul 1938 Try, Try Again Bea Wain and Band (voc) Larry Clinton Orchestra ‘RCA Campus Club’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 2 Jul 1938 Oh, You Crazy Moon Bea Wain ‘Your Hit Parade’ WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Oct 1939 Set 5 Swing Trumpet Stars on Ballads Cirribirribin (theme) + You’re In Love With Someone Else Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest Hotel Astor Roof WABC CBS NY 28 Aug 1942 Oh What It Seemed To Be Erskine Hawkins Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Mitchell ‘One Night Stand’ Blue Room Hotel Lincoln NY AFRS Re-broadcast 1 May 1946 Goodnight, Good Neighbour Charlie Spivak Orchestra (voc) Irene Daye ‘One Night Stand’ Century Room Hotel Commodore NY AFRS Re-broadcast 25 Feb 1945 Clouds Henry Busse Orchestra (voc) Carl Grayson Radio Transcription Hollywood 1935 Set 6 Hal Kemp and Skinnay Ennis Sells Beauty Creme When Summer Is Gone (theme) + You’ve Got Me Crying Again Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis ‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934 Last Year’s Girl Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis ‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934 It’s Only A Paper Moon + Ad Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis ‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934 I Couldn’t Tell Them What To Do Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis ‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934 Set 7 1950s-60s Radio Swing Bands One O’Clock Jump + Blee Blop Blues Count Basie Orchestra ‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 14 Jan 1953 Cohn’s Alley Woody Herman’s Third Herd ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Peony park WOW NBC Omaha 1954 Song of India Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY Dec 1955 Flashback From The Future Duke Ellington Orchestra Aircheck 24 Oct 1965 Set 8 Mickey Mouse Bands Live and Transcribed Romance (theme) + We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye Ray Herbeck and his Music with Romance Orchestra (voc) Lorraine Benson Trianon Ballroom WGN Chicago 24 Nov 1947 I’ll See You In My dreams Jan Garber Orchestra Radio Transcription 1941 Would It Make Any Difference To You? Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) CR Radio Transcription 1943 Can’t We Be Friends? Johnny Mesner Orchestra Radio Transcription New York City 1939

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

HOW DISEASE EFFECTS LEGACY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #308 107.3 2SER Tuesday 20 March 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations. Set 1 Swing on 1940s Radio Theme + Girl of My Dreams Randy Brooks Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 17 Nov 1945 K.C. Caboose + Are You Happy? John Kirby Sextet ‘One Night Stand’ Aquarium Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 18 Jul 1944 They Didn’t Believe Me + Blue Moon (Close) Eliot Lawrence Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 26 Jul 1945 Set 2 Big Bands on 1950s Radio Theme + I’m Walking Johnny Richards Orchestra ‘ABC Dancing Party’ Birdland WABC ABC NYC 1957 If I Had You Ted Heath Orchestra ‘International Bandstand’ London NBC/BBC 2 Mar 1959 It’s All In The Game Ray Anthony Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania AFRS Re-broadcast 1952 Set 3 Bing Crosby Radio Open + Pistol Packin’ Mama Bing Crosby ‘Kraft Music Hall’ KFI NBC LA 16 Dec 1943 Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra Bing Crosby ’Philco Radio Time’ KECA ABC LA 19 Nov 1947 Ukulele Lady + Green Grow The Lilacs + Close Bing Crosby + Rosemary Clooney (2nd song) ’Bing Crosby-Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 19 Oct 1961 Set 4 Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street Open + Dixieland One-Step Henry Levine Octet ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941 O Sussanah Diane Courtney ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941 Cheery-Beery-Bee The Tune Toppers ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941 Dangerous Mood Paul Lavalle Woodwinds ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941 Set 5 Trombonist Jack Teagarden Announcer’s Blues Paul Whiteman Orchestra ‘Paul Whiteman’s Music Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 19 jan 1936 Mr Jessie Jack Teagarden Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 22 Nov 1941 You Took Advantage of Me + Tea For Two + Close The Three T’s (Jack and Charlie Teagarden and Frank Trambauer) Hickory House WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Dec 1936 (1936 Home Recording) Wolverine Blues + Close Jack Teagarden Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 27 Dec 1941 Set 6 Women Singers With Their Own Radio shows Somebody Loves Me Peggy Lee ‘Peggy Lee Show’ KNX CBS LA 1947 Beg Your Pardon Dinah Shore ‘Dinah Shore Show’ KNX CBS LA 4 May 1948 Too Good To Be True Lee Wiley ‘Lee Wiley Sings’ WABC CBS NY 1 Jul 1936 Summertime Mildred Bailey ‘Mildred Bailey Show’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jan 1945 Set 7 Bunny Berigan I Can’t Get Started (theme) + Organ Grinder’s Swing Bunny Berigan Orchestra ‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1937 I Can’t Get Started (theme) + Ay, Ay, Ay Bunny Berigan Orchestra Manhattan Centre WNEW NY 26 Sep 1939 Marie Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (Bunny Berigan tp feature) Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WABC CBS NY 9 Mar 1940 Runnin’ Wild + Chicken and Waffles Bunny Berigan Orchestra ‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 31 Oct 1936 Set 8 Dave Brubeck This Can’t Be Love Dave Brubeck Aircheck Jan 1954 The Song Is For You Dave Brubeck Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Mar 1957 Stardust Dave Brubeck ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY Dec 1953 All The Things You Are Dave Brubeck Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Feb 1956

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Happy New Year!

Doof-doof, rap-rap, yeah-yeah, oo-oo, plink-plonk and strum-strum is not my soundtrack for New Year’s Eve.

So I’ll be enjoying the spectacular New Year fireworks here in Sydney with family and friends to a different soundtrack! And you’re welcome to share.

These are swing and jazz soundtracks I’ve made for you myself:

1. New Year’s Phantom Dancer radio show: enjoy a two hour mix of swing and jazz from live 1930s-50s radio. You can stream it right now at 2ser.com.

2. Enjoy these popular mixes of 1920s – 1930s songs from my four albums. Enjoy!

1920s-1930s Jazz Swing Background Mix 1
Enjoy this perfect jazz set as you watch the fireworks. Hear the uninterrupted mix in Stereo at:
https://gregpoppleton.bandcamp.com

1920s-1930s Jazz Swing Background Mix 2
Enjoy this perfect jazz set as you watch the fireworks. Hear the uninterrupted mix in Stereo at:
https://gregpoppleton.bandcamp.com

1920s-1930s Jazz Swing Background Mix 3
Enjoy this perfect jazz set as you watch the fireworks. Hear the uninterrupted mix in Stereo at:
https://gregpoppleton.bandcamp.com

December Band Photos

Sydney Town Hall A packed dance floor swung to the music of the 1920s and 1930s by singer Greg Poppleton… See article » Art Gallery Xmas Party The Greg Poppleton 1920s – 30s trio never dreamt we’d one day meet royalty! To set the scene… See article »

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21 February 2017 Phantom Dancer Swing Jazz Mix – Why Is It So? (1960s TV)

The Phantom Dancer radio show is your two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985.

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

You can hear it archived online now at radio 2ser.com

In the Phantom Dancer mix this week: (in the last hour of vinyl) airchecks by the Benny Goodman Orchestra and alumni Gene Krupa, Helen Ward and Harry James plus a set of women bands on radio including Ella Fitzgerald and Ann Mae Winburn.

See the full play list below.

Your Phantom Dancer video of the Week is another educational ‘Why Is It So?’ from ABC TV Sydney in the 1960s. In this episode, Professor Julius Sumner Miller investigates the fascinating physics behind balance.

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 #252 107.3 2SER Tuesday 21 February 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: 2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12 ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations. Set 1 Woody Herman on 1944 – 46 Radio Blue Flame (theme) + Irresistible You Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Frances Wayne Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS New York City 21 Aug 1944 Bijou Woody Herman Orchestra Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS New York City 23 Jul 1945 Wild Root + Blue Flame (theme) Woody Herman Orchestra ‘Wild Root Creme Oil Show’ Eastwood Gardens ABC Detroit Mich. 26 Apr 1946 Set 2 1950s Novelty Songs on the Radio The Thing Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) PH and Band Aircheck Hollywood 1950 Wimoweh Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Band Starlite Roof Edgewater Hotel CBS Madison Wis. 4 Aug 1952 Old Piano Roll Rock Vincent Lopez Orchestra (voc) Johnny Messner ‘One Night Stand’ Grill Room Hotel Taft NYC AFRTS Re-broadcast 1959 Set 3 Piano Jazz and Dance on 1930s Radio If You Were Someone Else + You and I Know + Goodbye Jonah Fairchild and Carroll WEAF NBC Red NY 15 Sep 1937 The New York Boat Ramona ‘Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue 2 Feb 1936 Oceans of Time + Let’s Face The Music and Dance (close) Dick Carroll and his Music ‘The World Dances’ WJSV CBS Washington DC 21 Sep 1939 Set 4 Stank Kenton 1941-45 Radio Transcriptions Got A Penny, Jenny? Stan Kenton Orchestra (voc) June Christy Radio Transcription Los Angeles Dec 1945 Flamingo Stan Kenton Orchestra (voc) Red Dorris Radio Transcription Los Angeles 6 Jan 1942 I Haven’t Got The Heart + Artistry In Rhythm (theme) Stan Kenton Orchestra Radio Transcription Los Angeles Oct 1941 Set 5 Benny Goodman and alumni Intro + Sugarfoot Stmp Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ Springfield Mass Blue Network 29 Sep 1943 Theme + Amour Gene Krupa Orchestra (voc) Anita O’Day Aircheck 1941 My Funny Valentine Helen Ward ‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WNBT-TV NBC NY 29 Mar 1949 Feet Draggin’ Blues Harry James Orchestra Aircheck Chatterbox Mountainside NJ Feb 1940 Set 6 Early 1930s Radio and Film Music Gnädige Frau komm und spiel mit mir Hans Albers ‘Quick’ (film) Berlin 19 32 Wagon Wheels Dorsey Brothers Orchestra ‘Chrysler Show’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934 You’re My Everything Anson Weeks Orchestra (voc) Pete Fylling Peacock Court Hotel Mark Hopkins KGO NBC San Francisco 1932 Somebody Love Me Ben Selvin Orchestra ‘Davis Gelatine Show’ Radio Transcription New York City 1932 Set 7 Women Band Leaders on 1940s Radio Galvanising International Sweethearts of Rhythm ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945 The Boogie Woogie Girl Dorothy Chatman Orchestra (voc) Sammy Price Comm Rec New York City 6 Apr 1944 Central Avenue Boogie Anna Mae Winburn (voc) International Sweethearts of Rhythm ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945 Chewin’ Gum + I Wanna Be A Rug Cutter Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra (voc) EF Savoy Ballroom WEAF NBC Red NY 4 Mar 1940 Set 8 Jazz on 1950s Telly Them There Eyes Billie Holliday ‘Tonight Show’ NBC Hollywood 1958 Ellington Medley Duke Ellington (piano) Tommy Dorsey (tb) Jimmy Dorsey (as) Lee Castle (tp) Buddy Rich (d) and Orchestra ‘Dorsey Brothers’ Stage Show’ CBS-TV NY 1 Jan 1955 St Louis Blues Jam Session Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan, Gene Krupa, lionel Hampton and more ‘Second Timex All-Star Jazz Show’ CBS-TV NY 30 Apr 1958

29 March Phantom Dancer – Frances Carroll and the Coquettes Vitaphone Short (1939)

The 29 March Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1930s – 1950s radio and TV with Greg Poppleton on 107.3 2SER.

Today we’ve got the Blues from 1945 radio, Rock’n’Roll from 1956 radio, Swing from 1930s radio, Singers on 1940s radio and Dance Bands from 1933 radio.

The Johnny Otis Orchestra plays the blues in 1945. Otis claimed to have ‘invented’ rock’n’roll. So it’s no coincidence that the set following Otis’ features Downbeat’s No. 1 rock’n’roll dance band for 1956 – Count Basie. And the Count in turn is backing acts on the ‘King of Rock’n’Roll’s’ live 1956 CBS radio show, ‘Alan Freed’s Saturday Night Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’.

Listen NOW ONLINE at 2ser.com

The final hour of the mix is all vinyl.

The Phantom Dancer is also conveniently live-streamed as the show goes to air on Tuesdays 12 – 2pm EDST (1 – 3am GMT), http://www.2ser.com.

After the Tuesday broadcast, you can hear the show and past Phantom Dancers online at 2ser.com/Phantom_Dancer.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is a 1939 Vitaphone short featuring Frances Carroll and her Swing Orchestra with the stunning drumming of Viola Smith (one of her sisters plays clarinet in The Coquettes).

Smith penned an article in 1942 for Down Beat magazine titled “Give Girl Musicians a Break!”.

She argued that woman musicians could play just as well as men, writing, “In these times of national emergency, many of the star instrumentalists of the big name bands are being drafted. Instead of replacing them with what may be mediocre talent, why not let some of the great girl musicians of the country take their place?” Why is there still such a gender imbalance in popular music today?

Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #207 107.3 2SER Tuesday 29 March 2016 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: 2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12 2SER Sunday 2SER 5 – 6pm ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 20 other stations. Set 1 Woody Herman and the Band That Plays The Blues On Air Open + Chopping Wood Woody Herman Orchestra Famous Door WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jan 1940 Time Waits For No One Woody Herman and the First Herd (voc) Frances Wayne Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 17 Oct 1944 Early Autumn Woody Herman and the Third Herd ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Royal Grove Peony Park WOW NBC Omaha 1948 Set 2 Dance Bands On 1933 Radio Open + Moon Song Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) Lee Norton ‘Cocoanut Grove’ TRANSCO Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933 Stardust A&P Gypsies (voc) Frank Parker ‘A&P Gypsies’ WEAF NBC Red NY 1933 Dardenella + Caucasian March + Close (Two Guitars) A&P Gypsies ‘A&P Gypsies’ WEAF NBC Red NY 1933 Set 3 Claude Thornhill Piano-Playing Band Leader on 1930s – 40s Radio Classics in Jazz + Flight of the Bumble Bee Claude Thornhill (piano) Leith Stevens Orchestra ‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 12 June 1937 Walking Stick Claude Thornhill Orchestra Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ ABC NY 22 Sep 1947 At Sundown + Close Claude Thornhill Orchestra (voc) Gene Williams ‘One Night Stand’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY AFRS re-broadcast 23 Jun 1947 Set 4 Singers on AFRS Open + Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby Johnny Mercer (voc) Paul Weston Orchestra ‘Johnny Mercer’s Music Shop’ AFRS re-broadcast Jun 1944 Walk A Little Talk A Little Ginny Simms (voc) Cookie Fairchild Orchestra ‘Personal Album’ AFRS Hollywood 1945 Swingin’ On A Star + Just You Just Me (Close) The Smoothies ‘The Smoothie Song Shop’ AFRS Hollywood 1944 Set 5 Songs by Gershwin Mischa, Yascha, Tascha, Sacha Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) The Modernaires ‘Everybody’s Music Hour’ WABC CBS NY 10 Jun 1938 I’ve Got A Crush On You Eddie Condon Group (voc) Lee Wiley ‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue Network New York City 5 Aug 1944 George Gershwin Medley Eddie Condon Group (voc) Helen Ward ‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WNBT-TV NBC NY 9 Jul 1949 Set 6 Swing Bands on 1930s Radio One Night Stand Artie Shaw Orchestra Aircheck 10 Jun 1939 Every Tub + Song of the Wanderer Count Basie Orchestra ‘America Dances’ Famous Door WABC CBS NY / BBC London Jul 1938 Joseph Joseph Benny Goodman Quartet BG (cl) Lionel Hampton (vb) Teddy Wilson (piano) Dave Tough (d) Ritz Carlton Hotel CBS Boston 24 May 1938 Intro + Murdy Purdy Gene Krupa Orchestra Aircheck 28 Nov 1938 Set 7 Jazz Blues on 1945 Radio Empty Bed Blues / Love My Baby / Improvised Blues Johnny Otis Orchestra (voc) Ivie Anderson and Joe Turner ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1945 Set 8 ‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ 1956 – 57 Radio Let’s Face It Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band ‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ Paramount Theatre Brooklyn WCBS CBS NY 1957 I Almost Lost My Mind Ivory Joe Hunter with Count Basie’s Orchestra ‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ Paramount Theatre Brooklyn WCBS CBS NY 1956 I’ll Be True Faye Adams (voc) Count Basie Orchestra ‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ Paramount Theatre Brooklyn WCBS CBS NY 1956 You Ain’t Nothin’ But a Hound Dog Gene Vincent (voc) and The Blue Caps ‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ Paramount Theatre Brooklyn WCBS CBS NY 1956 Woe Is Me The Cadillacs (voc) Count Basie Orchestra ‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ Paramount Theatre Brooklyn WCBS CBS NY 1956 Be Bop A Lula + One O’Clock Jump Gene Vincent (voc) and the Blue Caps with Count Basie Orchestra ‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ Paramount Theatre Brooklyn WCBS CBS NY 1956

Julius Sumner Miller 42 Electric Currents. Phantom Dancer Radio Show 21 July 2015

Here is your Phantom Dancer play list for Tuesday 21 July 107.3 2SER Sydney 12noon – 2pm and online at http://www.2ser.com

LISTEN NOW ONLINE in the 2SER ARCHIVE

This week’s 2 hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s – 1960s radio has Miles Davis and John Coltrane live in 1957, Wild Bill Davison and the crew from ‘This is Jazz’ in 1947 and Sydney swing band leader Frank Coughlan from 1937. All very symmetrical. And of course there’s a whole 2 hours of non-stop live swing and jazz, including a set of the great woman jazz singers, with the last half of the show being ALL VINYL. See the play list below.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is Julius Sumner Miller giving Dramatic Demonstrations in Physics on the matter of The Properties and Effects of Electric Currents. This is program 42, recorded at ABC-TV in Sydney in 1969. Enjoy…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #167 107.3 2SER Tuesday 21 July 2015 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:03 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT)Repeat Sunday 2SER 5 – 6pm Set 1 It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing Frank Coughlan Trocadero Orchestra (voc) Barbara James Comm Rec Sydney Jul 1937 Open + Kentucky Bob Strong Orchestra (voc) Tony Fiola ‘One Night Stand’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Aug 1944 Sing a Song of Sixpence + Close Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler NY AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Apr 1949 Set 2 Intro + Sweet Georgia Brown Wild Bill Davison, George Brunies and others ‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 20 Apr 1947 Intro + Amapola Henry Levine and his Dixieland Octet ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue 11 Aug 1941 Lazybones + Close Jack Teagarden Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 30 Apr 1955 Set 3 Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries Carroll Gibbons and his Boyfriends Comm Rec London 17 Dec 1931 Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town The Dodge Orchestra ‘The Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription New York 1936 Two Guitars + Auf Wiedersehen George Shackley Ensemble ‘Nehi Program’ Radio Transcription New York 7 May 1932 Set 4 Tequila Ted Heath Orchestra ‘NBC International Bandstand’ London (BBC) 2 Mar 1959 Four Miles Davis and John Coltrane ‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NY 1957 Mambo The Most + Close Woody Herman’s Third Herd ‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Royal Grove Peony Park WOW NBC Omaha 1948 Set 5 Just As Long As The World Goes Around Claude Hopkins Orchestra Radio Transcription New York Oct 1935 King Porter Stomp Harry James Orchestra ‘America Dances’ BBC London via CBS New York 19 Jul 1939 Georgine Hans Rehmstedt Orchestra (voc) Rudi Schuricke Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1939 Prisoner’s Song Bunny Berrigan Orchestra Paradise Restaurant WABC CBS NY 10 Apr 1938 Set 6 Open + Fine & Mellow Billie Holliday ‘Art Ford Show’ New York 1956 Million Dollar Smile Dinah Washington (voc) Lionel Hampton Orchestra ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 16 Nov 1944 Deed I Do Lena Horne (voc) Fletcher Henderson Orchestra ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944 I Cover The Waterfront Sarah Vaughan ‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WPIX TV NY 13 Dec 1948 Set 7 K.C. Stride Count Basie Orchestra Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NY New York 21 Apr 1944 Wire Brush Stomp Gene Krupa Trio ‘Spotlight Bands’ Newport RI Blue Network 2 Oct 1944 Scuttlebutt Artie Shaw’s Gramercy 5 ‘Spotlight Bands’ Fort Ord Ca Blue Network 19 Sep 1945 Mr Chips + Blue’n’Boogie Billy Eckstine Orchestra ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Mar 1945 Set 8 BeBop Charlie Parker ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA New York 12 Feb 1949 Hoffnung Interview Gerard Hoffnung and Charles Richardson ‘Saturday Night on the Light’ BBC Light Programme London 1955 Dark Shadows Charlie Parker Quartet (inc Erroll Garner piano) Comm Rec Hollywood 19 Feb 1947 Sweet Lorraine Benny Goodman Trio Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca KNX CBS NY 26 Jan 1946

Julius Sumner Miller 33 Vibrating Bars And Strings. Phantom Dancer 2 H Swing Jazz Mix 19 May 2015

Here’s your play list for your non-stop 2 hour swing and jazz mix from live 1920s-60s radio with Greg Poppleton, The Phantom Dancer.

It’s now ONLINE for you to listen to at 2ser.com!

Streamed on http://www.2ser.com, and archived on the same site (2ser/program guide/phantom dancer)for you to listen to at your pleasure.

Today’s Tuesday 19 May play list includes a set of 1930s live swing and jazz airchecks, bop airchecks from the late 40s and early 1950s, dixie revival airchecks lots more. See the full play list below.

And your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is Julius Sumner Miller giving Dramatic Demonstrations in Physics on the matter of Vibrating Bars and Strings. This is program 33, recorded at ABC-TV in Sydney in 1969. Enjoy…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #158 2SER Tuesday 19 May 2015 12 noon – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) Set 1 Beethoven Wrote It But It Swings George Hall Orchestra (voc) Dolly Dawn Comm Rec New York 15 Feb 1939 Swingin’ The Blues Wally Portingale ‘All-in-Fun Revue’ Orchestra ‘Army On Parade’ 2CH AWA Network Sydney Oct 1943 Three Valve Jump Erskine Hawkins ‘Chamber Music Society Of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 21 Jul 1941 What Is This Thing Called Love + Nightmare (theme) Artie Shaw Orchestra Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 29 Nov 1938 Set 2 Andalousie Albert Ferreri et le Trio Ferret Comm Rec Paris 20 Oct 1938 Zum Gali Gali Yiddish Swingtette (voc) Barry Sisters ‘Yiddish Swing Time’ WHN NY 1950 Djangology Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grappelli ‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jun 1937 Moten Swing + Close Django Reinhardt and the ATC Band ‘AFN Bandstand’ AFN Paris 26 Oct 1945 Set 3 Dynamite (Dinah) The Seven Pearce Arrows Acetate Sydney Oct 1938 Tin Ear Philco Orchestra (tp) Bob Effros ‘Philco Hour’ WABC CBS NY 1931 Tin Roof Blues Wild Bill Davison with Joe Sullivan (p and voc) ‘This Is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 10 May 1947 Set 4 Son Belle Natalino Otto Comm Rec Turin 1948 Blue Lou Harry James Orchestra Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 27 Sep 1945 The Penny Arcade Gay Claridge Orchestra (voc) GC ‘One Night Stand’ Chez Paree Chicago AFRS Rebroadcast 15 Oct 1945 Set 5 I’m For It Too Count Basie Orchestra Radio Transcription Los Angeles Aug 1946 Rhapsody In Blue Les Brown Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NY AFRS Re-broadcast 28 Dec 1945 Intro + Save The American Way Harry James Orchestra ‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Radio Transcription Mar 1942 When A Congressman Meets A Senator Down South Coleman Hawkins Orchestra Savoy Ballroom Harlem Radio Aircheck 1944 Set 6 Royal Garden Blues Jimmy Dorsey ‘Dorseyland’ Band Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1950 Someday Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) LA Wintergarden Theatre WNBC NBC NY 19 Jun 1947 You’re Drivin’ Me Crazy Bob Crosby Bobcats ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 18 Jul 1939 Heebie Jeebies + Impromptu Ensemble Eddie Condon ‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ Ritz Theatre WJZ Blue Network NY 2 Sep 1944 Set 7 Blues Jay McShann Orchestra Radio Transcription KFBI Witchita Kansas 2 Dec 1940 Weary Blues Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ‘Ford V-8 Show’ Texas Centennial NBC Dallas Tx Aug 1936 Hold Tight Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘Camel Caravan’ WCAU CBS Philadelphia 14 Feb 1939 Hold Tight Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton and Band Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NY 18 Apr 1939 Set 8 Indiana Benny Goodman Sextet ‘One Night Stand’ The Click Philadelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948 The Happening + Got To Go Duke Ellington Orchestra Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WNBC NBC NY 8 Jun 1951 Hot House + Salt Peanuts Charlie Parker (as and voc) Miles Davis (tp) Tommy Potter (b) Al Haig (d) ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 12 Dec 1948

Greg Poppleton Chill Mix Glides Past 300,000 YouTube Views

THANK YOU, this popular chill mix of 1920s and 1930s hot jazz and small group swing from my 3 albums has now passed 300,000 YOUTUBE VIEWS.

“Captures the era’s vocal style to perfection.” — Kevin Jones 102.5 FM Fine Music Magazine 

Enjoy this perfect jazz set as you work online. Timed for the magic 53 minutes and 53 seconds.

Cover picture for the 1920s – 1930s Background Chill Mix by Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters. Available on Bandcamp.

The stereo version of the chill mix is available on Bandcamp.

Chill Mix Set List…

Song / Greg Poppleton Album
00’00 – Sweet Sue / Sweet Sue
02’14 – St James Infirmary (alt. take Paul Furniss soprano sax) / Doin’ The Charleston
05’27 – It’s Only A Paper Moon / The Phantom Dancer
07’50 -Tip Toe Through The Tulips / Doin’ The Charleston
11’39 – Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams / Sweet Sue
14’17 – I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter / Doin’ The Charleston
17’12 – South Of The Border / The Phantom Dancer
20’24 – Blue Skies / Sweet Sue
23’27 – Love Me Or Leave Me / The Phantom Dancer
27’28 – Walkin’ My Baby Back Home / Sweet Sue
31’05 – I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Sweet Sue
34’45 – Do, Do, Do / The Phantom Dancer
37’50 – Exactly Like You / Doin’ The Charleston
40’03 – Falling In Love Again / Doin’ The Charleston
43’21 – On The Sunny Side Of The Street / The Phantom Dancer
48’35 – If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) / The Phantom Dancer
51’25 – The Charleston / Doin’ The Charleston

Happy listening!
Credits

Mix songs are from the following Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters albums available on Bandcamp:

– The Phantom Dancer (2006)
– Doin’ The Charleston (2012)
– Sweet Sue (2013)

Cover art by Damon Poppleton (age 11).

In this mix you’ll hear:
Greg Poppleton (authentic 1920s – 1930s vocals)
Paul Furniss (soprano, alto, tenor saxes and clarinet)
Matt Baker (p)
Geoff Power (sousaphone)
Darcy Wright (double bass)
Al Davey (tp / tb)
Lawrie Thompson (d / washboard)
Grahame Conlon (g / bj)
Peter Locke (p)
Mark Harris (db)
Dieter Vogt (db)
Bob Henderson (tp)
Joel Davis (d)
Rod Herbert (sousaphone).