Shuffle Rhythm – Phantom Dancer 22 February 2022

Shuffle Rhythm features in this week’s Phantom Dancer with a set of 1930s shuffle rhythm by the exponents of the style, Jan Savitt and Henry Busse

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton. Hear past Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 22 February at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

 

SHUFFLE

Is one of three varieties of quaver (or eighth note) rhythms musicians use. The others are straight and swing.

It’s based on triplet subdivisions of the beat and it’s easiest to understand it by hearing it, hence the shuffle rhythm videos and set featuring Jan Savitt and Henry Busse.

Shuffle quavers alternate a long note and a short note. The long note falls on the beat and the short one in-between on the upbeat.

It’s a quaver triplet without playing the middle note of the triplet. Think of the first two notes of the triplet being tied together or even missing the middle note of the triplet.

NOTATION

Mostly if a song uses shuffle it does it all through the song. To make it easier to read the notation the notes are written as straight quavers. At the start of the music there’ll be a note to read the quavers as shuffle quavers.

A common marking for shuffle is a little equation written at the beginning expressing 2 quavers are to be played like a triplet with the first two notes tied. Or, the first two quavers of the triplet are written as a crochet.

Another way to indicating shuffle is to simply write the word shuffle at the top of the music.

22 FEBRUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #532
107.3 2SER Tuesday 22 February 2022 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Glenn Miller in German
Spoken Intro + Here We Go Again	Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra	‘Wehrmacht Stunde’ ABSIE American Broadcsting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 30 Oct 1944
Begin the Beguine	Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra (voc) Irene Manning	‘Wehrmacht Stunde’ ABSIE American Broadcsting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 27 Nov 1944
Long Ago and Far Away	Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra (voc) Johnny Desmond	‘Wehrmacht Stunde’ ABSIE American Broadcsting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 6 Nov 1944
Set 2	Mickey Mouse Bands on 1940s Radio
Open + Sing a Song About Susie	Gay Claridge Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Chez Paree Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Aug 1944
As If I Didn’t Have Enough on my Mind	Leighton Noble Orchestra (voc) Helen Lind	‘One Night Stand’ Starlight Room Waldorf-Astoria Hotel NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Aug 1946
Riff Raff + Close	Bob Strong Orchestra (voc) Band	‘One Night Stand’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Aug 1944
Set 3	Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street
Open + The March of the Goons	Paul Lavalle	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Long, Long Ago	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Dark Eyes	Toots Mondelo	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Swanee River	Henry Levine	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Set 4	Shuffle Rhythm
Hot Lips (theme)+ Hurry Home	Henry Busse Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Sep 1944
You’re Driving Me Crazy	Jan Savitt Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Sep 1945
Cherokee	Henry Busse Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Sep 1944
Set 5	Swing Musicians Play Rock
Come A’Runnin’	Big Al Sears (voc) Jessie Stone	Comm Rec NYC 22 Apr 1955
Open + Why Do Fools Fall In Love	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 1956
Let’s Face It	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Orchestra	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 1956
I Almost Lost My Mind	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Ivory Joe Hunter	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 1956
Set 6	Harry James Sells Bonds
Intro + Save The American Way	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Transcribed Mar 1942
This is Worth Fighting For	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Jimmie Saunders	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Transcribed Mar 1942
My Beloved is Rugged	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Transcribed Mar 1942
Back Beat Boogie + Close	Harry James Orchestra	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Transcribed Mar 1942
Set 7	Gimmick Band Radio Transcriptions
Snuff Stuff	Seger Ellis and his Choirs of Brass	Radio Transcription 1937
Let There Be Love	Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin	Radio Transcription 1940
Walkin’ the Dog	Seger Ellis and his Choirs of Brass	Radio Transcription 1937
It Never Entered My Mind	Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin	Radio Transcription 1940
Set 8	Progressive Jazz Radio
Open + Sweet Georgia Brown	Roy Eldridge	‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NY Mar 1957
Perdido + Tiny’s Blues	Terry Gibbs All-Stars	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 1948
I Remember Clifford	Oscar Pettiford	Birdland WABC ABC NY 1957
Not So Sleepy	Oscar Pettiford	Birdland WABC ABC NY 1957

Shuffle Rhythm – Phantom Dancer 7 September 2021

Shuffle Rhythm features in this week’s Phantom Dancer with a set of 1930s shuffle rhythm by the exponents of the style, Jan Savitt and Henry Busse

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton. Hear past Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

LISTEN ONLINE. This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 7 September at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

 

SHUFFLE

Is one of three varieties of quaver (or eighth note) rhythms musicians use. The others are straight and swing.

It’s based on triplet subdivisions of the beat and it’s easiest to understand it by hearing it, hence the shuffle rhythm videos and set featuring Jan Savitt and Henry Busse.

Shuffle quavers alternate a long note and a short note. The long note falls on the beat and the short one in-between on the upbeat.

It’s a quaver triplet without playing the middle note of the triplet. Think of the first two notes of the triplet being tied together or even missing the middle note of the triplet.

 

NOTATION

Mostly if a song uses shuffle it does it all through the song. To make it easier to read the notation the notes are written as straight quavers. At the start of the music there’ll be a note to read the quavers as shuffle quavers.

A common marking for shuffle is a little equation written at the beginning expressing 2 quavers are to be played like a triplet with the first two notes tied. Or, the first two quavers of the triplet are written as a crochet.

Another way to indicating shuffle is to simply write the word shuffle at the top of the music.

7 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE   Community Radio Network Show CRN #508
107.3 2SER Tuesday 7 SEPTEMBER 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Glenn Miller in German
Spoken Intro + Here We Go Again	Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra	‘Wehrmacht Stunde’ ABSIE American Broadcsting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 30 Oct 1944
Begin the Beguine	Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra (voc) Irene Manning	‘Wehrmacht Stunde’ ABSIE American Broadcsting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 27 Nov 1944
Long Ago and Far Away	Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra (voc) Johnny Desmond	‘Wehrmacht Stunde’ ABSIE American Broadcsting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 6 Nov 1944
Set 2	Mickey Mouse Bands on 1940s Radio
Open + Sing a Song About Susie	Gay Claridge Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Chez Paree Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Aug 1944
As If I Didn’t Have Enough on my Mind	Leighton Noble Orchestra (voc) Helen Lind	‘One Night Stand’ Starlight Room Waldorf-Astoria Hotel NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Aug 1946
Riff Raff + Close	Bob Strong Orchestra (voc) Band	‘One Night Stand’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Aug 1944
Set 3	Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street
Open + The March of the Goons	Paul Lavalle	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Long, Long Ago	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Dark Eyes	Toots Mondelo	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Swanee River	Henry Levine	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Set 4	Shuffle Rhythm
Hot Lips (theme)+ Hurry Home	Henry Busse Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Sep 1944
You’re Driving Me Crazy	Jan Savitt Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Sep 1945
Cherokee	Henry Busse Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Sep 1944
Set 5	Swing Musicians Play Rock
Come A’Runnin’	Big Al Sears (voc) Jessie Stone	Comm Rec NYC 22 Apr 1955
Open + Why Do Fools Fall In Love	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 1956
Let’s Face It	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Orchestra	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 1956
I Almost Lost My Mind	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Ivory Joe Hunter	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 1956
Set 6	Harry James Sells Bonds
Intro + Save The American Way	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Transcribed Mar 1942
This is Worth Fighting For	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Jimmie Saunders	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Transcribed Mar 1942
My Beloved is Rugged	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Transcribed Mar 1942
Back Beat Boogie + Close	Harry James Orchestra	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Transcribed Mar 1942
Set 7	Gimmick Band Radio Transcriptions
Snuff Stuff	Seger Ellis and his Choirs of Brass	Radio Transcription 1937
Let There Be Love	Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin	Radio Transcription 1940
Walkin’ the Dog	Seger Ellis and his Choirs of Brass	Radio Transcription 1937
It Never Entered My Mind	Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin	Radio Transcription 1940
Set 8	Progressive Jazz Radio
Open + Sweet Georgia Brown	Roy Eldridge	‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NY Mar 1957
Perdido + Tiny’s Blues	Terry Gibbs All-Stars	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 1948
I Remember Clifford	Oscar Pettiford	Birdland WABC ABC NY 1957
Not So Sleepy	Oscar Pettiford	Birdland WABC ABC NY 1957

Linda Keene: The Singer Who Should Have Made It – Phantom Dancer 8 June 2021

Linda Keene, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. You’ll hear three songs by Linda singing with Jack Teagarden’s Orchestra in an aircheck from 1939.

She’s the singer that should have made it in the Big Band Era. Though she sang with many of the top name bands in the 1940s, her career never gained momentum, despite her huge vocal talent. Discover her story below. It’s one of the rare stories of those with all that it takes not making it for reasons unknown.

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted presented by myself, Greg Poppleton.

There’s a whole library of Phantom Dancer mixes online now for you to enjoy at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

This Phantom Dancer mix will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 8 June, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

Here’s a photo of Linda Keene, with Pee Wee Russell on clarinet and Eddie Condon, guitar

THE LINDA KEENE STORY 

For the full Linda Keene big band singer story, compiled through extensive research by The False Ducks Blahgger, check these links. Each article is a chronology of Linda’s career painstakingly sorted with newspaper clippings, photos and audio. The False Ducks Blahg is a rich source of archival material about bands from the 1930s and 40s. Happy reading!

http://falseducks.com/theblahg/?p=1668

http://falseducks.com/theblahg/?p=1815

http://falseducks.com/theblahg/?p=2111

http://falseducks.com/theblahg/?p=3317

8 JUNE PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #494
107.3 2SER Tuesday 8 JUNE 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	1940s One Night Stand Radio
Cirribirribin (theme) + Loveless Love	Harry James Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 29 Jun 1944
All of Me	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Claire Hogan	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Apr 1949
Annie Laurie + Memories of You (theme)	Sonny Donham Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Aug 1944
Set 2	1932 Jimmy Grier Radio
Music in the Moonlight (theme) + Shadows on the Swannee	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Frank Foster	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1932
I Couldn’t Tell Them What To Do	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo Delys	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1932
My Love + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Dick Webster	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1932
Set 3	1920s Commercial Sides
Hot Town	Fess Williams and the Royal Flush Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 17 Apr 1929
If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight	Mound City Blues Blowers (tb) Glenn Miller	Comm Rec NYC 14 Nov 1929
All Muggled Up	Blue Steele and his Orchestra	Comm Rec Memphis 15 May 1930
Set 4	Linda Keene
The Sheik of Araby	Jack Teagarden Orchestra (voc) Linda Keene and Jack Teagarden	‘Young Man with a Band’ WEAF NBC Red NYC Nov 1939
Tears From My Inkwell	Jack Teagarden Orchestra (voc) Linda Keene	‘Young Man with a Band’ WEAF NBC Red NYC Nov 1939
The Lady’s in Love with You	Jack Teagarden Orchestra	‘Young Man with a Band’ WEAF NBC Red NYC Nov 1939
Yankee Doodle + Close	Jack Teagarden Orchestra (voc) Linda Keene	‘Young Man with a Band’ WEAF NBC Red NYC Nov 1939
Set 5	1950s – 60s Radio Dance Bands
Theme + Tea for Two	Leon Kellner Orchestra	‘Treasury Bandstand’ Blue Room Roosevelt Hotel WWL CBS New Orleans 1964
Muskrat Ramble	Jimmy Dorsey ‘Dorseyland’ Jazz Band	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Magnolia Roof Hotel Claridge WMC NBC Memphis 1956
Whatever Lola Wants + Close	Prado Perez Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WNBC NBC NYC 24 Jul 1953
Set 6	Trad Radio
Salty Dog	Southern Jazz Group	5AD Adelaide 18 Jun 1949
Bay City + New Orleans Shuffle	Turk Murphy	Easy Street KCBS San Francisco 7 Nov 1958
The World is Waiting for the Sunrise	Vic Lewis	‘Swing Session’ BBC London 13 Feb 1945
Shine + Close	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 10 Oct 1954
Set 7	Radio Jazz Stars
Theme + Coversation While Dancing	Johnny Mercer and Jo Stafford	‘Johnny Mercer’s Music Shop’ WEAF NBC NY 1943
Theme + Pennsylvania 6-5000	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Aircheck 20 Apr 1940
Sweet Georgia Brown	Nat King Cole Trio	Trocadero KHJ Mutual Los Angeles 26 Apr 1945
Cherokee	Harry James Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NYC 20 May 1941
Set 8	Breakout Radio
She’s the Ginchiest	Lee Gordon	Comm Rec Sydney 1959
Brown Betty	Elliot Lawrence Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 2 Dec 1947
Mel’s Idea	Benny Goodman Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ The Click Phildelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948
Sound Lee	Lee Konitz	Storyville Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston 5 Jan 1954

Shuffle Rhythm – Phantom Dancer 16 March 2021

Shuffle Rhythm features in this week’s Phantom Dancer with a set of 1930s shuffle rhythm by the exponents of the style, Jan Savitt and Henry Busse

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton. Hear past Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 16 March at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

 

SHUFFLE

Is one of three varieties of quaver (or eighth note) rhythms musicians use. The others are straight and swing.

It’s based on triplet subdivisions of the beat and it’s easiest to understand it by hearing it, hence the shuffle rhythm videos and set featuring Jan Savitt and Henry Busse.

Shuffle quavers alternate a long note and a short note. The long note falls on the beat and the short one in-between on the upbeat.

It’s a quaver triplet without playing the middle note of the triplet. Think of the first two notes of the triplet being tied together or even missing the middle note of the triplet.

NOTATION

Mostly if a song uses shuffle it does it all through the song. To make it easier to read the notation the notes are written as straight quavers. At the start of the music there’ll be a note to read the quavers as shuffle quavers.

A common marking for shuffle is a little equation written at the beginning expressing 2 quavers are to be played like a triplet with the first two notes tied. Or, the first two quavers of the triplet are written as a crochet.

Another way to indicating shuffle is to simply write the word shuffle at the top of the music.

16 MARCH PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #480
107.3 2SER Tuesday 16 March 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 4RPH Brisbane Sunday 3 – 4am 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Glenn Miller in German
Spoken Intro + Here We Go Again	Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra	‘Wehrmacht Stunde’ ABSIE American Broadcsting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 30 Oct 1944
Begin the Beguine	Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra (voc) Irene Manning	‘Wehrmacht Stunde’ ABSIE American Broadcsting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 27 Nov 1944
Long Ago and Far Away	Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra (voc) Johnny Desmond	‘Wehrmacht Stunde’ ABSIE American Broadcsting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 6 Nov 1944
Set 2	Mickey Mouse Bands on 1940s Radio
Open + Sing a Song About Susie	Gay Claridge Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Chez Paree Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Aug 1944
As If I Didn’t Have Enough on my Mind	Leighton Noble Orchestra (voc) Helen Lind	‘One Night Stand’ Starlight Room Waldorf-Astoria Hotel NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Aug 1946
Riff Raff + Close	Bob Strong Orchestra (voc) Band	‘One Night Stand’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Aug 1944
Set 3	Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street
Open + The March of the Goons	Paul Lavalle	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Long, Long Ago	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Dark Eyes	Toots Mondelo	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Swanee River	Henry Levine	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Set 4	Shuffle Rhythm
Hot Lips (theme)+ Hurry Home	Henry Busse Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Sep 1944
You’re Driving Me Crazy	Jan Savitt Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Sep 1945
Cherokee	Henry Busse Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Sep 1944
Set 5	Swing Musicians Play Rock
Come A’Runnin’	Big Al Sears (voc) Jessie Stone	Comm Rec NYC 22 Apr 1955
Open + Why Do Fools Fall In Love	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 1956
Let’s Face It	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Orchestra	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 1956
I Almost Lost My Mind	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Ivory Joe Hunter	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 1956
Set 6	Harry James Sells Bonds
Intro + Save The American Way	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Transcribed Mar 1942
This is Worth Fighting For	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Jimmie Saunders	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Transcribed Mar 1942
My Beloved is Rugged	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Transcribed Mar 1942
Back Beat Boogie + Close	Harry James Orchestra	‘Treasury War Bond Show’ Transcribed Mar 1942
Set 7	Gimmick Band Radio Transcriptions
Snuff Stuff	Seger Ellis and his Choirs of Brass	Radio Transcription 1937
Let There Be Love	Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin	Radio Transcription 1940
Walkin’ the Dog	Seger Ellis and his Choirs of Brass	Radio Transcription 1937
It Never Entered My Mind	Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin	Radio Transcription 1940
Set 8	Progressive Jazz Radio
Open + Sweet Georgia Brown	Roy Eldridge	‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NY Mar 1957
Perdido + Tiny’s Blues	Terry Gibbs All-Stars	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 1948
I Remember Clifford	Oscar Pettiford	Birdland WABC ABC NY 1957
Not So Sleepy	Oscar Pettiford	Birdland WABC ABC NY 1957

Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters – Phantom Dancer 1 Dec 2020

Jan Savitt, child prodigy classical violinist and popular dance band leader is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. You’ll Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters in broadcasts from 1937-39.

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From his IMDB Bio and other sources,
“Jacob Sarvetnick was a child prodigy on the violin, destined to become Jan Savitt, leader of a popular swing band. Of Russian-Jewish ancestry, his father had variously worked as a motor mechanic and as a drummer in Tsar Nicholas II‘s Imperial Regimental Orchestra. In the U.S. from the age of fifteen, Jan became the youngest musician to play in the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, and, from there, he advanced to concert master for the great Leopold Stokowski.

In the wake of multiple scholarships and being recipient of the Philharmonic Society’s Gold Medal Award, he was soon leading his own string quartet.

In 1935, after graduating from the Curtis Institute of Music with a B.A., Jan suddenly decided to forsake classical for popular music and organise a dance band. He was eventually engaged by Philadelphia radio station KYW as musical director.

In 1938, Jan Savitt & His Top Hatters broadcast from 5–5:30 pm every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday as the KYW staff orchestra at KYW/NBC in Philadelphia. Saturday’s weekly broadcast was one hour, coast-to-coast. The group also played at the Earl Theatre and performed with The Andrews Sisters and The Three Stooges.

The resulting national broadcasts proved popular with audiences and ‘Jan Savitt & His Top Hatters’ (so named, because their ensemble uniform consisted of white tie, tails and top hat) soon became one of the most highly rated big bands in America, playing the swank hotels, theatres and ballrooms. The band featured a unique beat called ‘shuffle rhythm’ (which may, or may not, have been originated by another bandleader, Henry Busse).

The ‘Top Hatters’ comprised between fifteen and eighteen musicians, plus vocalists. Famous sidemen included trombonist and future television composer Earle Hagen, drummer Nick Fatool and trombonist Urbie Green. Among the vocalists were Carlotta Dale, future movie actress Gloria DeHaven and Bon Bon (aka George Tunnell), the first black musician to work long-term in a white orchestra.

Jan’s theme song was “Quaker City Jazz”. Other unique compositions for the band included the swinging “720 In the Books” (by arranger Johnny Watson), “Meadowbrook Shuffle”, “It’s a Wonderful World” and “Now and Forever”. Jan also had noteworthy hits with his interpretation of “Tuxedo Junction” and “Make Believe Island”.

By the early 1940’s, he added swing versions of classical compositions (mostly arranged by Jack Pleis), such as “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”, “Prelude to Carmen” and Claude Debussy‘s “Afternoon of a Faun” to his repertoire. The band was featured in several B-movies, released by Warner Brothers and Columbia.

After World War II, Jan was forced to reduce the size of his band (now based on the West Coast) to eight musicians, due to tax debts. In 1948, on his way to a one-nighter in Sacramento, he suffered a cerebral haemorrhage and later died in a local hospital at the age of just thirty-six.

Savitt was married to model Barbara Ann Stillwell from 1940 until his death in 1948, and had two daughters with her, Devi Marilyn and Jo Ann. Jo Ann was married to Joel Douglas, son of Kirk, from 2004 until her death in 2013.

Credits on IMDB

Soundtrack (5 credits) 

2015Stalker (TV Series) (writer – 1 episode) – Love Hurts (2015) … (writer: “It’s a Wonderful World” – uncredited) 
1995The Immortals (“It’s a Wonderful World”)
1995The Bridges of Madison County (writer: “It’s A Wonderful World”)
1947That’s My Gal (music: “720 in the Books”)
1946Jan Savitt and His Band (Short) (performer: “I’ll Always Love You”, “Some Sunday Morning”, “Too Marvelous for Words”, “Dearest Darling”, “Avalon” – uncredited) 

Actor (4 credits) 
1947That’s My Gal Jan Savitt (uncredited) 
1946Betty Co-Ed Orchestra Leader Jan Savitt (as Jan Savitt and His Orchestra) 
1946High School Hero Jan Savitt 
1942Jan Savitt’s Serenade in Swing (Short) Orchestra Leader

Music department (2 credits) 
1946King of the Forest Rangers (composer: stock music – uncredited)
1945Rough Riders of Cheyenne (composer: stock music – uncredited)

Self (2 credits) 
1946Jan Savitt and His Band (Short) Self – Band Leader 
1946Swing High, Swing Sweet (Short) Self- Orchestra Leader

1 DECEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream Community Radio Network Show CRN #444
107.3 2SER Tuesday 1 December 2020 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program  5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm  1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Women on 1940s Radio
Theme + Down By The Riverside	Sister Rosetta Tharpe (voc) Lucky Millinder Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 2 Aug 1943
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love	Rose Murphy ‘The Chi-Chi Girl’	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 18 Jan 1945
Sweet Georgia Brown	The International Sweethearts of Rhythm	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Prelude in C#m + One O’Clock Jump (close)	Dorothy Donnegan	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 5 Jun 1944
Set 2	Paul Whiteman 1936
Theme + Cosi Cosa	Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) The King’s Men	‘Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 12 Jan 1936
The Music Goes Around	Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc + tb) Jack Teagarden	‘Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 12 Jan 1936
More Than You Know	Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) Morton Downey	‘Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 12 Jan 1936
Soap Ad and Station ID	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 12 Jan 1936
Set 3	Midday Music 1945
News + My Dog Has Fleas	Dave Rose Orchestra	WOR Mutual NY 10 Aug 1945
Lady of the Evening	Dave Rose Orchestra	WOR Mutual NY 10 Aug 1945
Holiday for Strings	Dave Rose Orchestra	WOR Mutual NY 10 Aug 1945
Fascinating Rhythm	Piano Duo	WOR Mutual NY 10 Aug 1945
Time On My Hands + Close	Unidentified Orchestra	WOR Mutual NY 10 Aug 1945
Set 4	Jan Savitt
Quaker City Jazz	Jan Savitt and the Top Hatters	Arcadia Restaurant KYW NBC Philadelphia 2 Dec 1938
Monday Morning	Jan Savitt and the Top Hatters (voc) Carlotta Dale	KYW NBC Philadelphia Studios 17 Oct 1938
On The Road to Mandalay	Jan Savitt and the Top Hatters (voc) Bon Bon	Radio Transcription New York City 1939
Old Man Moon + Rigamarole + Close	Jan Savitt and the Top Hatters	KYW NBC Philadelphia New Studio Opening 14 Sep 1937
Set 5	Spotlight Bands
Open + Hallelujah	Ina Ray Hutton Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network Fort Monroe Va 13 Apr 1943
Taboo	Tommy Tucker Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network Biloxi Miss. 15 Feb 1945
Rose of the Rio Grande	Hal McIntyre Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network Miami Beach Fl 20 Nov 1943
Dark Eyes + Close	Jimmy Joy Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network Harlingen Tx 6 Jan 1945
Set 6	Trad Jazz Radio
Basin Street Blues	Jimmy Dorsey’s Dorseyland Band	Radio Transcription Los Angesles 1950
Riverside Blues	Muggsy Spanier	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 18 Apr 1953
Maryland, My Maryland	George Lewis Jazz Band	‘Dixieland Jambake’ WDSU ABC New Orleans 20 Apr 1951
Set 7	1930s-40s British Dance Bands
Ellingtonia Medley	Jack Hylton Orchestra	London 18 Nov 1933
My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean	Johnny Claes Claepigeons (voc) Irene King	London 1941
Here Lies Love	Ambrose Orchestra (voc) Sam Browne	London 8 Nov 1932
It’s a Pair of Wings for Me	Nat Gonella Orchestra (voc) Nat Gonella	London 1940
Set 8	1950s Mod Radio
The Duke	Dave Brubeck	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Feb 1956
Move	Miles Davis	‘Stars of Modern Jazz Concert’ Carnegie Hall Voice of America 25 Dec 1949
Night in Tunisia	Dizzy Gillespie	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ NY 31 Mar 1951

Lee Wiley – Phantom Dancer 3 November 2020

Lee Wiley is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. You’ll hear the American jazz singer in broadcasts from the 1930s and 40s

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LEE WILEY

Wiley began her radio career at KVOO in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She left home at 15 to sing on New York City radio stations. Her career was interrupted by a fall while horseback riding. She suffered temporary blindness but recovered. At the age of 19 she was a member of the Leo Reisman Orchestra. In 1931 she recorded three songs with Reisman, ‘Take It from Me’, ‘Time On My Hands’, and her composition ‘Got the South in My Soul’.

She sang on the Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt program on NBC in 1932 and was featured on Victor Young’s radio show in 1933.

She rose to fame in the summer of 1934 on the Paul Whiteman Kraft Show. She was also heard on CBS with Willard Robison’s orchestra and then on her own 15 minute summer series in 1936, some of which we’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

ALBUMS

In 1939, Wiley recorded an album of eight Gershwin songs on 78s with a small group for Liberty Music Shop Records. The set sold well and was followed by albums of 78s dedicated to the music of Cole Porter (1940) and Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart (1940 and 1954), Harold Arlen (1943), and 10″ LPs dedicated to the music of Vincent Youmans and Irving Berlin (1951).

She was a favourite of Eddie Condon and sang on the later episodes of his 1944-45 Blue Network ‘Eddie Condon’s Jazz Concerts’ series which you’ll also hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

On October 11, 1963, Bob Hope Theater on NBC-TV presented ‘Something About Lee Wiley’. Piper Laurie portrayed Wiley in the episode. Wiley’s singing voice was provided by Joy Bryan.

MARRIAGE

Wiley married  jazz pianist Jess Stacy in 1943. The couple was described by their friend Deane Kincaide as being as “compatible as two cats, tails tied together, hanging over a clothesline”; they divorced in 1948. Her response to Stacy’s desire to get a divorce was, “What will Bing Crosby be thinking of you divorcing me?”, while Stacy said of Wiley, “They did not burn the last witch at Salem.”

VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Lee Wiley sings ‘Manhattan’

3 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream Community Radio Network Show CRN #439
107.3 2SER Tuesday 3 November 2020 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program  5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm  1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Women Singers on 1950s Radio
Open + I Woke Up Crying	Les and Larry Elgart Orchestra (voc) Joni James	‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription 1950s
Take Mine	Betty Madigan	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription 17 Feb 1957
You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To	Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) Lynn Franklyn	Salt-Air Ballroom KDYL Salt Lake City 5 Jun 1957
Set 2	Australian Radio
Over There	Wally Portingale Orchestra	‘All In Fun Revue’ 2CH AWA Sydney Sep 1943
Swingin’ the Blues	Wally Portingale Orchestra	‘The Army on Parade” 2CH AWA Sydney Sep 1943
Here’s Hooey	Ward Leopold	Comm Rec Sydney 1940
Set 3	Lee Wiley
Three Little Words	Lee Wiley	‘Lee Wiley Sings’ WABC CBS NY 12 Aug 1936
Song of the Wanderer	Eddie Condon Ensemble	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 10 Feb 1945
You’re a Sweetheart	Lee Wiley	KHJ Mutual LA 10 Mar 1938
Set 4	Chamber Music
Theme + Overture to the Marriage of Figaro	Paul Lavalle	’The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street ’  WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941
Ida	Diane Courtney	’The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street ’  WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941
Jazz Me Blues	George Barnes	’The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street ’  WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941
Shoo Fly, Don’t Bother Me	Henry Levine Octet	’The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street ’  WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941
Set 5	Movie Music
Double or Nothing Medley	Louis Levy and the Gaumont British Symphony	Comm Rec London 1937
Heigh-Ho	Bunny Berrigan (voc) Gail Reese	Paradise Restaurant WABC CBS NY 10 Apr 1938
Pennies From Heaven	The Mills Brothers	‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription NYC 1937
Swingin’ on a Star	Louis Armstrong (voc) Louis Armstrong Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Tuskagee Airfield Alabama AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Oct 1944
Set 6	Harry James
Theme + Joe Blow	Harry James Orchestra	The Click WCAU CBS Philadelphia 1943
I Can’t Begin To Tell You	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Ginny Powell	Meadowbrook Gardens Cedar Grove NJ WABC CBS NY 10 Feb 1946
Forgotton	Harry James Orchestra	‘Call for Music’ KFI NBC LA 1948
Two O’Clock Jump	Harry James Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof  WNBC NBC NYC 25 May 1953
Set 7	Mildred Bailey 1944-45 Radio
Rocking Chair (theme) + Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 1944
Stormy Weather	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 24 Nov 1944
From The Land of the Sky Blue Water	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 1944
Summertime	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jan 1945
Set 8	1940s Progressive Radio
I’d Rather Have a Memory Than a Dream	Sarah Vaughan	Comm Rec 25 May 1945
Hurry Home	Buddy Stewart	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 5 Mar 1949
Groovin’ The Blues	Miss Rhapsody (Viola Wells) (voc)	Comm Rec NYC 6 Jul 1944

Bing Crosby, Russ Colombo, Rudy Vallee Crooners – Phantom Dancer 18 June 2019

CROONERS

A crooner is a male singer of jazz standards singing in a soft, sentimental side using a microphone to carry the voice. The three most famous crooners of the early 30s, when the style was popular, were Russ Colombo, Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee. You’ll hear them on this week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton from live 1930s radio broadcasts.

The three crooners were the subject of the 1932 Looney Tunes cartoon ‘Crosby, Columbo and Vallee’.

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RUSS COLOMBO

Russ Colombo began performing professionally as a violinist at age 13. He would later in his short life (he died in a gun accident at age 26) be a composer, actor, and most famously – crooner.

He wrote his own radio theme song ‘You Call It Madness but I Call It Love’ as well as the standards ‘Prisoner of Love’ and ‘Too Beautiful For Words’.

At the time of his death in 1934, Columbo had just completed work on the film ‘Wake Up and Dream’ and he was on his way to stardom. Other Columbo films were: ‘Woman to Woman’ (with Betty Compton), ‘Wolf Song’ (with Lupe Vélez), ‘The Texan’ (with Gary Cooper) and ‘Broadway Thru a Keyhole’.

The type of singing that was popularized by the likes of Columbo, Rudy Vallee, and Bing Crosby is crooning. Columbo disliked the label but it caught on with the general public. It gained popular credence, despite its initial use as a term of derision for the singers employing their low, soothing voices in romantic songs. Similarly, to reinforce his romantic appeal, Colombo was called ‘Radio’s Valentino’ and ‘The Romeo of Song’.

Columbo’s mother was hospitalized by a heart attack at the time of the Russ’ death. The news was withheld from her by his brothers and sisters for the remaining ten years of her life. Due to her heart condition, it was feared that the news would prove fatal to her (she died in 1944). They used all manner of subterfuges to give the impression that Columbo was still alive, including faked letters from him and records used to simulate his radio program.

BING CROSBY

Crosby was he first multimedia star and a leader in record sales, radio ratings and movie grosses from 1931 to 1954.

His early career coincided with recording innovations that allowed him to develop the crooning style that influenced many male singers who followed him.

In 1948, American polls declared him the “most admired man alive”. That same year, Music Digest estimated that his recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music.

Crosby won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Father Chuck O’Malley in the 1944 feature movie ‘Going My Way’ and was nominated for his reprise of the role in The ‘Bells of St. Mary’s’ opposite Ingrid Bergman the next year, becoming the first of six actors to be nominated twice for playing the same character.

In 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. He is one of 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the categories of motion pictures, radio, and audio recording.

Crosby influenced the development of the postwar recording industry. After seeing a demonstration of a German broadcast quality reel-to-reel tape recorder brought to America by John T. Mullin, he invested $50,000 in a California electronics company called Ampex to build copies. He then convinced ABC to allow him to tape his shows. He became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. Through the medium of recording, he constructed his radio programs with the same directorial tools and craftsmanship (editing, retaking, rehearsal, time shifting) used in motion picture production, a practice that became an industry standard.

In addition to his work with early audio tape recording, he helped to finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses and co-owned a baseball team.

RUDY VALLEE

His given first name was Hubert. He named himself Rudy after saxophonist Rudy Wiedoeft. After enlisting in WW1 then being discharged for only being 15, he continued high school where he played drums. He then took up clarinet and saxophone, playing in bands around New England.

From 1924 to 1925 he played with the Savoy Havana Band at the Savoy Hotel in London, where band members discouraged his attempts to become a vocalist.

He returned to the United States, attending the University of Maine for a degree in philosophy from Yale University.

After graduation he formed Rudy Vallée and the Connecticut Yankees. With this band of two violins, two saxophones, a piano, a banjo and drums, he started singing. He had a thin, wavering tenor voice and seemed more at home singing sweet ballads than jazz songs. But his singing, suave manner, and boyish good looks attracted attention, especially from young women. Vallée was given a recording contract, and in 1928 he started performing on the radio.

He became one of the first crooners. Singers needed strong voices to fill theaters in the days before microphones. Crooners had soft voices that were suited to the intimacy of radio. Vallée’s trombone-like vocal phrasing on ‘Deep Night’ would inspire Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Perry Como to model their voices on jazz instruments.

Vallée was one of the first celebrity pop stars. Flappers pursued him wherever he went. His live appearances were usually sold out. Among screaming female fans, his voice failed to project in venues without microphones and amplification, so he often sang through a megaphone.

He was a fan of electronic instruments. He had a theremin in his band at one stage. He introduced the elctric banjo. He was instrumental in developing PA for singers.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is the very dated 1932 Looney Tunes cartoon Crosby, Colombo and Vallee’. Enjoy!

18 JUNE PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #391
107.3 2SER Tuesday 18 June 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Dance Bands on 1939 Radio
Open + Change Partners + Say It Isn’t So + Back to Back	Jerry Livingstone and his Young Men of Manhattan	Miami Room New York City via WJSV CBS Washington DC 21 Sep 1939
Strange Enchantment	Joan Edwards (voc) Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Chesterfield Show’ WABC CBS NY 9 Aug 1939
Sweet and Lowdown + Close	Jimmy Walsh Orchestra	Sweets Oakland KQW San Franscisco 1939
Set 2	1950s Jazz on Radio
My Sweet Baby (theme) + Land of the Sky Blue Waters	Billy May Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Palladium Ballroom KFI NBC LA 21 Dec 1953
Open + Without a Word of Warning	Arnett Cobb Orchestra	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 3 Jul 1952
Bohemia After Dark + Close	Marian McPartland	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Composers’ Club WRCA NBC NY 23 Apr 1956
Set 3	This is Jazz
Open + Everybody Loves My Baby	Wild Bill Davison	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 3 May 1947
Memphis Blues	George Brunies	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 17 May 1947
Tiger Rag + Close	Albert Nicholas	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 10 May 1947
Set 4	Crooners
Your Time Is My Time (theme) + Sweet Music	Rudy Vallee	‘Fleischmann Yeast Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NY 13 Dec 1934
Kissable Baby + I Cried For You	Bing Crosby	WABC CBS NY 7 Nov 1931
Rolling in Love + I’ve Had My Moments + I’m Dreaming	Russ Colombo	‘Hollywood on the Air’ KECA Los Angeles 15 Jul 1934
Set 5	Mod Women Singers on 1940s-50s Radio
Who Started Love?	Barbara Jane (voc) Boyd Raeburn Orchestra	Palace Hotel San Francisco KQW CBS SF 7 Aug 1945
Confess	Patti Page (voc) Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ The Click Philadelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948
I’m Glad There’s You	Jackie Cain	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 1949
The Echo Said No	Rosalind Patton (voc) Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 5 Dec 1947
Set 6	Ben Selvin Orchestra
Open + This Is The Missus	Ben Selvin Orchestra	‘Davis Musical Moments’ Radio Transcription New York City 1932
Too Many Tears	Ben Selvin Orchestra	‘Davis Musical Moments’ Radio Transcription New York City 1932
Cheers Up	Ben Selvin Orchestra	‘Davis Musical Moments’ Radio Transcription New York City 1932
Somebody Loves You + Close	Ben Selvin Orchestra	‘Davis Musical Moments’ Radio Transcription New York City 1932
Set 7	1930s – 40s Sweet Band Radio Transcriptions
Doodle Doo Doo (theme) + Candy	Art Kassel Orchestra (voc) Gloria Hart	Radio Transcription 1945
Heart and Soul	Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Russ Carlisle	Radio Transcription 1938
All I Do Is Wantcha	Art Kassel Orchestra (voc) Gloria Hart and Trio	Radio Transcription 1945
You’re The Only Star in My Blue Heaven	Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Russ Carlisle	Radio Transcription 1939
Set 8	1956-57 Rock’n’Roll Radio
Let’s Face It	Sam the Man Taylor Orchestra	‘Rock’n’Roll Party’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1957
Maybeline	Chuck Berry	‘Rock’n’Roll Party’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1956
I Almost Lost My Mind	Ivory Joe Hunter	‘Rock’n’Roll Party’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1957

7 May Phantom Dancer – What is Trad Jazz, Dad?

IT’S TRAD, DAD!

This week’s feature artist on The Phantom Dancer, your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio by Greg Poppleton, is actually a feature style. The style is designated by a term a lot of its fans use without being too precise about its actual meaning. It’s Trad jazz, Dad.

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FRONTLINE

Trad Jazz is short for traditional jazz. It’s the Dixieland and ragtime jazz styles of the early 20th century which typically used a front line of trumpet, clarinet, and trombone.

REVIVAL

A Dixieland revival began in the United States on the West Coast in the late 1930s as a backlash to the Chicago style, which was close to swing. Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, and trombonist Turk Murphy, adopted the repertoire of Joe “King” Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and W. C. Handy: bands included banjo and tuba in the rhythm sections. A New Orleans-based traditional revival began with the later recordings of Jelly-Roll Morton and the rediscovery of Bunk Johnson in 1942, leading to the founding of Preservation Hall in the French Quarter during the 1960s.

Early King Oliver pieces exemplify this style of hot jazz; however, as individual performers began stepping to the front as soloists, a new form of music emerged. One of the ensemble players in King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Louis Armstrong, was by far the most influential of the soloists, creating, in his wake, a demand for this “new” style of jazz, in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Other influential stylists who are still revered in traditional jazz circles today include Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, Wingy Manone and Muggsy Spanier. Many artists of the big band era, including Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa and Benny Goodman, had their beginnings in trad jazz.

On this week’s Phantom Dancer, you’ll hear Trad and Chicago style is Set 4 by the Bob Crosby Bobcats, Eddie Condon and Red Nichols direct from 1929 radio

The last hour is all vinyl.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is: Westend Blues featuring Bob Barnard on trumpet and Lawrie Thompson, drums. I mention these two particular musicians out of the band in this 1980s telecast because I have had the huge pleasure of them both playing in my own Greg Poppleton band.

Enjoy!

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Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #384
107.3 2SER 12:04pm Tuesday 7 May 2019 5pm Saturday 11 May 2019  (+10 hours GMT) National Program: Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Big Bands on 1940s Radio
Theme + The Moon Is Low	Ray McKinley Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Century Room Hotel Commodore AFRS Re-broadcast 1946
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah	Jack Barrow Orchestra (voc) Dolores Crane	‘One Night Stand’ Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast Jul 1945
I Can’t Get Started + Theme	Jack Jenney (tb) Frank DeVol Orchestra	’Music Depreciation Revue’ KHJ Mutual – Don Lees Los Angeles 4 Feb 1945
Set 2	Smooth On 1950s Radio
Open + It’s A Good Day	Perry Como and the Ray Charles Singer (voc) Mitchell Ayres Orchestra	’Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954
Champagne Music (theme) + Red Petticoats	Lawrence Welk Orchestra	Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 1958
Medley: How Deep Is The Ocean? + I’m In The Mood For Love + Avalon + Close	Sammy Kaye Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Hotel Astor Roof NY AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Aug 1945
Set 3	Dixie on 1920s-50s Radio
Muskrat Ramble	Bob Crosby Bobcats	’Bob Crosby Show’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1955
I Want To Be Happy	Eddie Condon	’Dr Jazz’ Eddie Condon’s WMGM NY 10 Dec 1951
Jazz Me Blues	Little Buster and the Corn Poppers (Red Nichols)	’Dickenson Program’ Radio Transcription New York City Nov 1929
Set 4	1930 Radio Jazz
Tin Ear	Bob Effros and The Philco Orchestra	’Philco Program’ WABC CBS NY 1930
Singing River	Boswell Sisters	Continental Broadcasting Corporation Radio Transcription Hollywood 1930
I Don’t Need Atmosphere To Fall In Love With You + Close	Little Jack Little	’Little Jack Little Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1930
Set 5	Doris Day on 1939-45 Radio
I’m Happy About The Whole Thing	Doris Day (voc) Barney Rapp and his New Englanders	NBC Cincinatti 17 Jun 1939
Blue Music	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Peacock Room Baker Hotel CBS Dallas 9 Aug 1945
Long Ago and Far Away	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 7 Jul 1944
I Wish I Knew	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS Hollywood 16 Aug 1945
Set 6	Fats Waller 23 Sep 1943 in Story and Song
Reefer Song	Fats Waller	Comm Rec New York City 23 Sep 1943
Ain’t Misbehavin’ + There’s a Girl in my Life + Honeysuckle Rose	Fats Waller	’Personally, It’s Off The Record’ WABC CBS NY 23 Sep 1943
Set 7	1934 Radio Jazz and Dance
Maniacs’ Ball	Glen Gary and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Intro + It Don’t Mean A Thing	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	’Chrysler Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Song of the Vipers	Louis Armstrong	Comm Rec Paris Oct 1934
Swingy Little Thingy	Hal Kemp Orchestra	’Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Set 8	Bop on 1940s-50s Radio
A Night In Tunisia	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 12 Mar 1949
Now’s The Time	Howard McGee	Birdland WJZ ABC NY Oct 1951
I’m Glad There’s You	Charlie Ventura (voc) Jackie Kain and Roy Kral	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 1949

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.

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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

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