Ladies and gentlemen, it’s the first week in the Festival of Giving. That’s the 2SER Supporter Drive. 2SER is 35 years old this year (1 October to be exact). And The Phantom Dancer has been on 2SER 107.3 Sydney every week, and for some years twice a week, for 29 of those years, since 1985.
The Phantom Dancer, swing and jazz from live 1920s – 1960s radio and TV can only stay on 2SER, and 2SER can only stay on air, through your support.
Once a year 2SER asks you to financially support the station so if you like what we do then this is your opportunity to help us keep doing what we do – tell a lover, a friend, a family member or your pet !!
As well as supporting 2SER’s cutting edge stories, music and ideas, there are plenty of prizes up for grabs and this year if you sign up with your lover or another, you will get a night in on 2SER. (see website for details)
This year Supporter Drive runs from October 13 – 25… It feels good to give, and we want to say thank you for listening.
And as this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, enjoy Part 7 in our 48 part series of ‘Demonstrations in Physics’. Filmed at ABC Sydney in 1969, the always entertaining Professor Julius Sumner Miller uses toys to excite us about The Simple Pendulum and Oscillating Things. Enjoy!
We are THE 1920s TRIO for the hottest 1920s ticket in town, The Gin Mill Social at Slide Cabaret on Oxford Street in Darlinghurst.
Here’s a review of the past year of Gin Mill Socials in photos for your enjoyment.
Have you and your friends got your tickets for the next Gin Mill Social on Friday 24 October?
Your ticket includes ALL the amazing live Gin Mill Social entertainment (including the opening hot set by Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters), full banquet service and a welcome drink courtesy of Hendricks Gin. See you there! Enjoy the photos…
JANUARY
Sydney’s only authentic 1920s singer at the Gin Mill SocialDancing the Charleston to Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters
FEBRUARY
Greg Poppleton doing the odd Charleston between songs
MARCH
Having a whale of a time at the Gin Mill Social
APRIL
Greg Poppleton, authentic 1920s singer, Chuck Morgan, banjo and geoff Power on sousaphone
MAY
Dancing the Charleston to Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters
JUNE
Geoff Power – Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters
JULY
Greg sings ‘Tea For Two’ with Geoff Power at the sousaphone and Paul Baker, banjo
AUGUST
Serenading guests with ‘Carolina In The Morning’
The next Gin Mill Social is Friday 24 October. Have you got your tickets, yet? Your ticket includes ALL the amazing live Gin Mill Social entertainment (including the opening hot set by Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters), full banquet service and a welcome drink courtesy of Hendricks Gin.
And there are more Gin Mill Socials scheduled for November and December. Stay tuned!
Growing up listening solely to jazz and swing from the 1920s and 1930s, Greg Poppleton’s powerful, melodic 3 octave voice is totally uninfluenced by contemporary music.
Greg Poppleton – singer and MC
Geoff Power – trumpet and sousaphone
Grahame Conlon – banjo and guitar
Jim Elliott – clarinet, alto and bass saxophones
00’00 – Ain’t Misbehavin’
03’47 – St Louis Blues
08’00 – Sweet Lorraine (vocal / guitar duo)
11’11 – Bye Bye Blues (clarinet feature)
14’05 – Makin’ Whoopee
19’10 – Sweet Sue
21’20 – Carolina In The Morning (parts sung through megaphone)
25’33 – Hindustan (trumpet feature)
29’21 – Phone call
30’32 – I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
34’12 – Goodbye
34’55 – My Blue Heaven (1st chorus sung through megaphone)
Broadcast and recorded by Radio16, 16 August 2014 Book the Band
Hear swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV by Dinah Washington, Count Basie, Chris Barber, Fats Waller and as many as we can fit into two hours of scintillating radio.
This week, enjoy Part 5 in our 48 part series of ‘Demonstrations in Physics’ as your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week. Filmed at ABC Sydney in 1969, the always entertaining Professor Julius Sumner Miller uses toys to excite us about Momentum and Energy. Enjoy!
Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN#124
This Tuesday’s Phantom Dancer raises the bar even higher than last Tuesday’s – and I could barely limbo under that! There’s a bracket of gal singers from live 1940s radio and a bracket of live 1930s-40s radio featuring Django Reinhardt.
This week, enjoy Part 4 in our 48 part series of ‘Demonstrations in Physics’ as your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week. Filmed at ABC Sydney in 1969, the always entertaining Professor Julius Sumner Miller uses toys to excite us about Newton’s Third Law of Motion. Enjoy!
Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
Community Radio Network Show CRN#123
This Tuesday’s show has a request for Bing from Nicholas. Therefore I’ll be playing Black Moonlight for both Nick and his co-worker who is a Bing Crosby fan. The lady baritone, Des Tooley, will also be heard from another commercial recording made in 1931 by Cliff Clarke and his Kookaburras.
Otherwise, it’s all swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV. Check out the play list below.
Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week?
For the next year I’ll be putting the Education back into 2SER, Sydney Educational Radio. I’ll be posting here the complete series of TV transcriptions recorded at the ABC in Sydney in the 1960s by Professor Julius Sumner Miller – Dramatic Demonstrations In Physics. Lesson 1: The Idea of The Centre Of Gravity.
Enjoy, learn, watch with the kids and be amazed!
Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN#119
Gosh, Phantom Dancers, will there be enough radio show time to fit in Shorty Rogers Giants from a 1950s Tonight Show? I’ve held it over from two weeks ago.
Certainly we’ll hear live swing and dance by Benny Goodman, Jimmy Joy and more. And commercial recordings by Australian singer/comedian Cyril Richards, who blazed a career in London theatre and Broadway; as well as Buenos Aires guitarist and friend of Django Reinhardt, Oscar Aleman.
John J Anthony will be back to dispense sound advice. He pulls it off well when you consider his background. This blog link, if true, makes an interesting read about the sanctimonious Mr A.
This week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is an extraordinary performance of ‘I Cried For You’. It’s sung by Helen Humes with Count Basie at the piano with his small orchestra including Wardell Gray. Brilliant…
Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
Community Radio Network Show CRN#118
On this Tuesday’s Phantom Dancer, 12 noon (+10 GMT) 12 Aug, 107.3 2SER and 2ser.com, we hear live swing, jazz and dance from 1930s – 1950s radio by the Crosby’s (Bob and Bing), Woody Herman, Charlie Barnet, Duke Ellington and more.
This Saturday Aug 16, Greg Poppleton will be singing the songs of the 1920s at the Dubbo Jazz Festival http://www.dubbojazz.com.au/apply-2014/ with his Bakelite Broadcasters. That’s Geoff Power, sousaphone and trumpet; Grahame Conlon, banjo and guitar; and Jim Elliot, clarinet, alto sax and bass sax.
There’ll be two shows.
– 7pm at in the Dubbo Golf Club.
– 10pm – 12 midnight at Club Dubbo (the West Dubbo Bowling Club).
Then on Sunday night, Greg will be joined by Tony Gardner at the grand piano for songs from the 1920s and 1930s at Sunday Carnival in the Victoria Room, Level 1 235 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst.
And for your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, check out these clips from late 1940s TV shows. Certainly, The Lone Ranger show was still being shown on Australian TV into the early 1970s at least!
Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
Community Radio Network Show CRN#117
The first show of the month and if last week’s show was anything to go by, this Phantom Dancer will be the best show ever. HEAR IT ARCHIVED ONLINE AT 2SER.COM
This Tuesday 5 Aug at 12 noon on 107.3 2SER and online at 2ser.com we listen to 1930s airchecks by Johnny Green the composer of Body and Soul amongst many other songs.
For the Old Fygges, there are 1940s radio broadcasts by Eddie Condon on the Blue Network, This Is Jazz and The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street featuring Henry ‘Hot Lips’ Levine.
The second hour, as always, goes vinyl, and we’ll be going way back to radio broadcasts by bandleaders Anson Weeks and Ray Miller then way forward to radio broadcasts by Dizzy Gillespie and Slim Gaillard.
See the full play list below.
The Phantom Dancer will be online at 2ser.com after the broadcast. Follow the Phantom Dancer links on the Program Guide at http://2ser.com
Hope you like the show, daddy-o. This week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week from the YoutTube vaults has a tragic ending.
Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
Community Radio Network Show CRN#116
On July 10, a beautifully sunny Wednesday afternoon in Sydney, Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters, played their jazz from the 1920s to a harbourside room brimming with Sydney Jazz Club members in the Sydney Flying Squadron club.
The dance floor was full.
In the band: Greg Poppleton Sydney only authentic 1920s – 1930s singer, Paul Furniss alto sax and clarinet, Al Davey trumpet and trombone, Geoff Power sousaphone, Grahame Conlon banjo, Lawrie Thompson drums and washboard.
Pictures tell a thousand words about the event. Motion pictures a thousand more. Here are two YouTube clips of Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters on 10 July playing St James Infirmary and Ain’t Misbehavin’. Enjoy and check out the band’s latest album, CD and download, on Bandcamp, Doin’ The Charleston
AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ – SYDNEY JAZZ CLUB CONCERT
The lyrics I sing on St James Infirmary are different from the lyrics usually trotted out. I chose them from a treasure trove of verses I found printed as part of a 1920s published arrangement. I chose verses that have the most relevance to me, and I hope, you. They’re about loss as distinct from blokes in box back coats with gold coins covering their eyes. Who’s worn a box back coat down the local pub any day since 1899?
ST JAMES INFIRMARY – SYDNEY JAZZ CLUB CONCERT
We’d love to play at your place, too, at your wedding, party or company function. Email me, Greg, bookings@bakelitejazz.com
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