2SER Supporter Drive 2018 – Week 1 Phantom Dancer

SUPPORT

This is the first week of the annual 2SER Supporter Drive.

The Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week. It’s been on 2SER since 1985, thanks to your financial support in 33 subscriber drives.

And over those years, Greg Poppleton and The Phantom Dancer have inspired musicians, painters, film, TV and theatre creatives.

On-air Tuesdays 12:04-2:00pm AEST (+11 GMT) and online

COMMUNITY

2SER is community radio with a wide range of specialist music, like The Phantom Dancer, plus independent news and current affairs unavailable on any other station.

2SER runs on your financial support. Give any amount you want this year and you’ll be in the running for some great prizes in the daily prize draw.

Standard annual subscriptions are:
$40 concession
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$160 passionate
$600 life member

Support 2SER now.
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FAVOURITE

Over the next fortnight, I’ll be sharing with you some of my favourite 2ser Phantom Dancer musical moments mixed from shows recorded ten years ago.

I’ve got some of my kids on-air moments to share with you, moments from when they were aged 4 and 6. And I’ve got some of your great listener stories to share with you, too!

Check out more 2SER listener stories on the 2SER home page, or read quotes from our listeners on this page.

You can hear lots of past Phantom Dancers, too, at 2ser.com.

LOVE

At 2SER, we’re really lucky to air such a wide range of specialist music shows, in depth news programs, and plenty of local and alternative stories from our community every day.

Listeners like yourself truly shape that content, sending us comments, letting us know about your events and businesses, and giving us all feedback too. And of course, being able to send all this into your earlobes wouldn’t be possible without your support!

STORIES

“I love your radio show! ” Harri
“Will keep listening for sure. I really love your show” Michelle, Melbourne
“Love your program. We tape it each week” Trish
“Your program is wonderful,” Tim
“Loving it! ” Nathan
“Knocked out by your show. We’ll be regular listeners from now on” Trevor & Betty
“Your show rocks!” Sonja
“Love your show” Tara

GIVE

Support 2SER now
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VIDEO

Inside the Phantom Dancer 2SER study filmed just last month…

16 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #337
107.3 2SER Tuesday 16 October 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 24 other stations.
Set 1	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
Swing That Music	Louis Armstrong (voc) Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	Comm Rec Los Angeles Aug 1936
You Old Son of a Gun	Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Stars for Defense’ Radio Transcription Nov 1959
Sherlock Holmes & Wine Ad	Nigel Bruce	‘Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ KHJ Mutual LA Sep 1945
Wabash Blues	Jerry Thomas Quintet	Comm Rec Zurich, Switzerland 1942
Set 2	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 95000
Open + Bridegroom Special	Yiddish Swing Orchestra	‘Yiddish Melodies in Swing’ WHN NY 1940
China Boy	Sidney Bechet (sop sax)	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue Network NYC Feb 1945
Stage Coach	Wally Portingale Orchestra	‘Army on Parade’ 2CH AWA Sydney Oct 1943
That’s Love	Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) The Three Ambassadors	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
Set 3	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
Unidentified	Jan Garber Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca AFRS Re-broadcast Mar 1945
Easter Parade	Martha Mears	’10-2-4 Time’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles Mar 1948
Don’t Blame Me	Dinah Shore	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City Dec 1948
Set 4	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
Isn’t It Romantic?	Chet Baker Quartet	Storyville Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston 16 Mar 1954
Good Evening (theme) + April Showers	Del Courtney Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Rose Room Palace Hotel San Francisco AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Jan 1948
Drifting and Dreaming (theme) + Cheek to Cheek	Orrin Tucker Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cocoanut Grove Wiltshire Centre Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 1955
Pretending + Hold My Hand + Theme	Griff Williams Orchestra	Empire Room Palmer House WGN Chicago 5 Mar 1947
Set 5	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
Love, Nuts and Noodles	Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) Jack Smith	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
I’d Rather Lead A Band + Farewell Blues + Theme	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby and The Four Freshman	‘Ford V-8 Revue’ Radio Transcription 1936
Arabian Lover	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 3 May 1929
These Foolish Things	Count Basie Nonet	Boston 7 Sep 1954
Set 6	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
Levee Blues	Jimmy Dorsey’s Dorseyland Band (voc) Charlie Teagarden	Radio Transcription Hollywood 1950
Till The End of Time	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Frances Wayne	‘Woody Herman Show’ ABC 1 Dec 1946
Margie	Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights	‘Trianon Time’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca KECA ABC LA 1945
I’ve Got Five Dollars (theme) + Ooh! That Kiss!	Freddy Rich Orchestra	‘Friendly Five Footnotes’ Radio Transcription 1932
You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It	Harry James Orchestra	Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca KECA ABC LA Dec 1945
Section A + Theme	Raymond Scott Orchestra	‘Raymond Scott Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast
Set 7	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
When My Dreamboat Comes Home	Jimmy Rushing (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	Aircheck Savoy Ballroom New York City 30 Jun 1937
The Glider	Artie Shaw Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Santa Barbara Ca 10 Oct 1945
Artistry in Rhythm (theme) + Eager Beaver	Stan Kenton Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 28 Nov 1944
Savoy Blues	George Lewis	‘Dixieland Jamboree’ WDSU ABC New Orleans 7 Oct 1950
Get Out Of Town	Leah Matthews (voc) Woody Herman’s Third Herd	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Peony Park WOW NBC Omaha 1954
Tangerine	Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberle (voc) Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	Aircheck
Chicago	Benny Goodman	NBC TV 1967

I Can’t Give You Anything But Love – Phantom Dancer 9 Oct 2018

‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’ was a 1928 hit for composer Jimmy McHugh and lyricist Dorothy Fields. This week’s Phantom Dancer, presented by authentic 1920s-30s singer Greg Poppleton, features an ‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’-a-thon.

SHOW

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1929 – 65 radio.

Mixed live-to-air by 1920s – 1930s singer and actor, Greg Poppleton, on radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney since 1985, The Phantom Dancer is re-broadcast on 23 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online at 2ser.com.

You can hear lots of past Phantom Dancers, too, at 2ser.com.

PLAYLIST

A countdown of Australian Jazz from recordings made in 1930, 1940, 1950 and 1960, the ‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’ feature feature and a whole mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-50s radio. Read the full play list below.

And remember the ALL VINYL FINYL HOUR.

Lyricist Dorothy Fields

I

‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’is now a jazz standard. Music by Jimmy McHugh, lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Introduced in Januray 1928 by Adelaide Hall at Les Ambassadeurs Club in New York for Lew Leslie’s Blackbird Revue.

CAN’T

The revue opened later in 1928 on Broadway and was a hit with 518 performances.

GIVE

‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby’ is 24th in the 100-most recorded songs from 1890 to 1954.

YOU

Producer Lew Leslie wanted a hit tune for his Blackbirds revue. McHugh and Fields had already written the revue’s score. They were scratching their heads about coming up with a hit song.

ANYTHING

The story goes that Fields and McHugh were strolling along Fifth Avenue in New York City when they saw a young couple window-shopping at Tiffany’s. They heard the man say to his girlfriend, “Gee, honey I’d like to get you a sparkler like that, but right now, I can’t give you nothin’ but love!”

BUT

On hearing this, Fields and McHugh, came up with lyrics and music for Lew Leslie’s requested hit within an hour while as they sat on a train.

LOVE

Fats Waller’s son reported that his composer, piano playing father would always angrily switch off the song when he heard it on the radio. Waller believed that he had sold the melody to McHugh in 1926.

SONG

Here’s a link to my own version of the song from the album ‘Sweet Sue’ on Bandcamp, CDBaby and iTunes https://gregpoppleton.bandcamp.com/track/i-cant-give-you-anything-but-love

Sweet Sue digital download album, including ‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, at Bandcamp

9 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #336
107.3 2SER Tuesday 9 October 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 24 other stations.
Set 1	Spotlight Bands 1945-46 Radio
Open + Cool Breeze	Buddy Rich Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Phoenixville PA AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Dec 1945
I’ll Never Be The Same	Charlie Venyura (ts) Gene Krupa Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 1946
Dark Eyes + Close	George Olsen Music (voc) Judith Blair, Sherman Hayes and Chorus	‘Spotlight Bands’ Waukegan, Ill. Blue Network 17 Mar 1945
Set 2	Your Hit Parade
Open + So Long As You’re Not In Love With Anyone Else + Brazil	Mark Warnow Orchestra (voc) Barry Woods and The Hit Paraders	‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Jan 1943
I’m Gonna Love That Guy	Mark Warnow Orchestra (voc) The Hit Paraders	‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-broadcast 29 Sep 1945
I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams + Close	Al Goodman Orchestra	‘Your Hit Parade’ WABC CBS NY 22 Oct 1938
Set 3	Stan Kenton 1952 Radio
Artistry in Rhythm + Francesca	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ CBC Canada / NBC Palace Pier Toronto ON 3 Jun 1952
Opus in Pastels	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Devine’s Million Dollar Ballroom WTMJ NBC Milwaukee WI 10 Jun 1952
Jump For Joe + Close	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Club Harlem KYW NBC Philadelphia 30 May 1952
Set 4	Miles Davis 1950s Radio
Move	Miles Davis	Birdland WJZ ABC NY 16 May 1953
Deep Sea Blues	Herbie Fields & Miles Davis	Comm Rec New York City 24 Apr 1945
Nature Boys + Anthropology	Miles Davis	‘ABC Dancing Party’ Birdland WABC ABC NY 30 Oct 1957
Set 5	Australian Jazz Through the Decades
I’m Sailing on a Sunbeam	Des Tooley (voc) Frank Coughlan (tb) Beryl Newell (piano)	Comm Rec Sydney Mar 1930
Cuckoo in the Clock	Trocadero Dance Orchestra (voc) Olive Lester	Comm Rec Sydney 10 Jan 1940
Katzenjammers Ball	Jack Allen’s Original Katzenjammerd	Comm Rec Sydney 23 Feb 1950
Dream Lover	Graeme Bell (voc) Kerrie Neilson	Comm Rec Sylvania Hotel Sydneu Jan 1960
Set 6	I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love	Joe Turner (voc) Joe Sullivan and his Cafe Society Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 9 Feb 1940
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love + Close	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA	‘Jubilee’ AFRS NYC 1943
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love	POrt Jackson Jazz Band (voc) Marie Harriot	Comm Rec Sydney 25 Jun 1947
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love	Claude Thornhill Orchestra (voc) Gene Williams	‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Aug 1956
Set 7	1940s Radio ‘Jubilee’ Swing Bands
Jeep Rhythm	Fletcher Henderson Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Vine Street Boogie	Jay McShann Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Benny’s Original	Benny Carter Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS NYC 1943
Cuban Jam	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Set 8	1940s-1950s Mod Radio
C-Jam Blues/div>	Stan Hasselgard	AFRS Hollywood 1948
Koko + Hot House	Barry Ulanov’s All-Stars	‘Bands for Bonds’ WOR Mutual NY 9 Mar 1947
Bebop Boogie	Lester Young	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal roost WMCA NY 4 Dec 1948

Night and Day – Very Serious Live Concert Performance

Jazz is very serious and difficult. When it kicked off in the brothels of New Orleans, everyone had to listen carefully and critique, or else they’d be forcefully ejected from the bordello. Today, the Jazz Police continue a century old tradition of making jazz inaccessible. Fortunately, on the day this low-life jazz trio and singer were recording their ‘selfie-musicale’, the Jazz Police were patrolling a nearby empty concert hall where grant recipients and worthy jazz school graduates were carefully trudging through a stunning original in 11/16 and 22/8. The Jazz Society Improvised Collective Association Workshop Co-Op Newsletter write-up of their efforts was praiseworthy.

Night and Day – Cole Porter (1932) Singer – Greg Poppleton,
Guitar – Grahame Conlon, Double Bass – Dave Clayton, Drums – Bob Gillespie

Greg Poppleton makes 1920s-30s Pop.

Albums: https://gregpoppleton.bandcamp.com/
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/au/artist/greg-poppleton-and-the-bakelite-broadcasters/574671719
Band Website: https://www.gregpoppletonmusic.com

10 Years Ago

The first video recorded of the band. Filmed in 2008 on a 10MP camera. The last gasp in pocket camera high tech. Enjoy!

Website: www.gregpoppletonmusic.com
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/au/artist/

Greg Poppleton 1920s-30s vocals, Al Davey trumpet, Tony Esterman piano, Darcy Wright double bass, Andrew Dickeson drums

Shep Fields Rippling Rhythm – Phantom Dancer Swing Radio Mix 14 Aug 2018

Keys to success in popular music include a compelling back story that informs the music preferably with a rags to riches theme, a catchy name and/or a gimmick.

Shep Fields found fame almost as soon as he found the latter. And changing his name from Saul Feldman to the catchier Shep Fields also would have helped.

Shep Field is the feature artist on today’s Phantom Dancer. He was so popular and internationally famous even the Australian swing band of Wally Portingale included him in a song for their ‘All In Fun Revue’.

WHAT’S THE PHANTOM DANCER?

Excellent question young Harry. It’s your non-stop mixtape of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio. And it’s been live-to-air on 107.3 2SER Sydney, Tuesdays 12:04 – 2pm, since 1985.

The Phantom Dancer is then re-broadcast on 22 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online.

In fact, you’ll be able to hear this week’s Phantom Dancer on 2ser.com online after the show. And there’s a stack of past Phantom Dancer swing jazz mix tapes for you to enjoy there as well.

THIS WEEK’S PHANTOM DANCER MIX

– has a set of ‘Women in Jazz’ introduced by jazz writer Leonard Feather for the Voice of America in 1951, we go free form with John Coltrane over WCBS-FM in 1965 and there’s the Shep Fields feature.

See the full play list below….

SHEP FIELDS

was a Swing Era U.S musician and band leader. He found fame by incorporating a simple idea into his music.

This week’s Phantom Dancer video, below, is a 1930s dramatisation of the eureka moment the idea struck. But here’s how the story goes for those of you not into film.

UP THE LADDER

Shep played clarinet and tenor saxophone in bands while at university. He played in a band at the prestigious Roseland Ballroom in 1931. In 1933 he was leading a band in that great proving ground for New York musicians and comedians in the 1930s and 1940s – the Borscht Belt. Next year he replaced the Jack Denny Orchestra in a residency at Hotel Pierre in New York City. He left that gig to back the dancers Veloz and Yolanda on a tour. 1936 found him in Chicago, with a contract to play at the Palmer House with radio broadcasts from that same spot included.

EUREKA!

Now he had come this far, the question was, how could he distinguish himself sufficiently from all the other dance band on the air and on stage to move to the next level of ‘name band’.

The inspiration came when he and his wife were sitting in a milk bar. Mrs Fields was blowing bubbles into her soft drink through a straw.

Eureka! Shep decided there and then that bubbling sound was what would introduce his band over the air. This moment was dramatised in a short film for cinema release in the late 1930s.

A BRAND IS BORN

Fields staged a contest amongst his fans in Chicago to suggest a new name for his band with the new sound.

The word ‘rippling’ came up in a number of entries. Fields himself came up with ‘Rippling Rhythm.’ And so a brand was born.

IDENTITY

That same year, 1936, with brand in place and signature sound, Shep Fields landed a record deal with the popular Bluebird label. His hits for this famous jazz record company included ‘Cathedral in the Pines’, ‘Did I Remember?’ and ‘Thanks for the Memory’.

In 1937 Fields had his own radio show, ‘The Rippling Rhythm Revue’ with comedian Bob Hope, whose theme song was ‘Thanks for the Memory’ as announcer.

In 1938, Fields and Hope were featured together in the comedian’s first feature movie, The Big Broadcast of 1938.

Today’s Phantom Dancer will feature 1930s radio transcriptions of Shep Field’s Rippling Rhythm Orchestra in the final vinyl hour. In a 1940 radio transcription you’ll hear singer Hal Derwin who later became a band leader in his own right.

ALL REEDS

Shep Fields dropped his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra in 1941 for a bold experiment, an all-reeds orchestra with rhythm section and no brass called Shep Fields and His New Music.

We’ll hear his New Music in a radio transcription from 1942.

Though the critics liked it, the public wanted Rippling Rhythm.

And with the popularity of the big bands declining after World War Two, Fields bowed to the public pressure of declining New Music ticket sales. In 1947 he re-launched his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra.

He had already brought his own venue to guarentee bookings and radio airtime, the prestigious Glen Island casino in New Rochelle, New York, which is where the opening track in this week’s Shep Field set originates.

The Rippling Rhythm Orchestra lasted until 1963. That year, Shep Fields quit band leading to be a radio disc jockey in Houston. When that ended, he worked at Creative Management Associates with his brother Freddie Fields in Los Angeles.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

It’s Shep Fields and his New Music with the ‘soundie’ The Whistler’s Mother-in-Law. Happy viewing!

31 JULY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #327
107.3 2SER Tuesday 14 August 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 23 other stations.
Set 1	1944 Swing Bands
It’s Mellow	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Tune Town Ballroom AFRS Re-broadcast St Louis 5 Apr 1944
Swinging on a Star	Bob Chester Orchestra (voc) Betty Bradley and David Allyn	‘One Night Stand’ Panther Room Hotel Sherman, Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Oct 1944
When I Get It + Blue Lou	Harry James Orchestra lead by Tommy Dorsey	Casino Garden Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 12 Aug 1944
Set 2	Coltrane
My Favourite Things	John Coltrane	Half Note Club WCBS-FM CBS NY 26 Mar 1965
Set 3	Famous Singers
Eleg Volt Nekem Magabol (I’ve Had Enough of You)	Karady Katalin	Comm Rec Budapest 1943
Song of the Wanderer	Helen Humes (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	Aircheck 1939
Taking a Chance on Love	Ethel Waters	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 17 Jul 1945
Set 4	Women in Jazz 1951
Boogie Mysterioso	Mary Lou Williams with Mary Osbourne (elec g)	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America New York City 1951
Mary’s Guitar Boogie	Mary Osbourne	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America New York City 1951
Low Ceiling	Beryl Booker with Mary Osbourne (elec g)	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America New York City 1951
Set 5	Shep Fields Feature
Rippling Rhythm (theme) + My Future Just Passed	Shep Fields Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Toni Arden	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY Aircheck 1947
Heavenly, Isn’t It?	Shep Fields and his New Music	Radio Transcription New York City 1943
One Never One, Does One?	Shep Fields Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Robert Goday	Radio Transcription New York City 1937
Let There Be Love	Shep Fields Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin	Radio Transcription New York City 1940
Set 6	Sweet Bands on 1960s Radio
Open	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians	New York World’s Fair WCBS CBS NY 1964
Auld Lang Syne + Let’s Do It Again	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians	Grill Room Hotel Taft WNBC NBC NY 1 Jan 1970
Blue, Blue My Heart Is Blue	Russ Morgan Orchestra	Top of the Strip Dunes Hotel KLAV Las Vegas NV 19 Jul 1969
Medley	Jan Garber Orchestra	Lady Luck Lounge Desert Inn KLAC Las Vegas NV 4 Jul 1965
Set 7	Ray Noble’s American Orchestra
The Very Thought of You (theme) + Flowers for Madame	Ray Noble’s American Orchestra	‘Coty Hour’ Radio City WEAF NBC Red NY 13 Mar 1935
Irving Berlin Songs	Ray Noble’s American Orchestra	‘The Magic Key of RCA’ Radio City WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Feb 1936
Set 8	New Jazz on 1949 – 51 Radio
Perdido + Tiny’s Blues	Terry Gibbs All-Stars	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 1951
Move	Stan Getz	‘Modern Jazz Concert’ Carnegie Hall NY Voice of America 25 Dec 1949

You’re Never Too Old! Anita O’Day – Phantom Dancer 10 July 2018 Radio Mix

Anita O’Day is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. 

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV.

Greg Poppleton, 1920s-30s singer, brings you The Phantom Dancer every week.

It’s live every Tuesday on 107.3 2SER Sydney from 12:04-2pm, during which time it’s recorded for re-broadcast over 23 radio stations and online.

You can hear all Phantom Dancer episodes online now at 2ser.com.

THIS WEEK

The Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton has a set of John Coltrane for you, a set of Stan Kenton 1940s radio transcriptions, a set of ‘Dixieland Swing’ from live 1930s radio, and this week’s Phantom Dancer feature, Anita O’Day, from 1944-1960 radio and TV.

See the full play list below…

FEATURED ARTIST – ANITA O’DAY

Anita O’Day left an unhappy childhood to dance in danceathons where she’d sometime sing for tips. She said her influences were Martha Raye, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.

A botched tonsilectomy as a child during which her uvula was removed meant she couldn’t hold long notes. So she developed a rhythmic, staccato approach to singing that was perfect for uptempo swing songs.

A call from Gene Krupa to join his band in 1941 was her entre to popularity. She was with Krupa for a year. Sick of the travel and one night stands she left the band to strike out on her own. She returned to Krupa in 1945 then joined the Stan Kenton Orchestra.

TABBY THE CAT

In the Stan Kenton band she had her two big hits. We’ll hear these on today’s Phantom Dancer as radio transcriptrions, ‘Tabby The Cat’ and ‘I’m Going Mad For A Pad’.

These two hits cemented her repuation as a unique jazz singer with a swingingly rhythmic style.

Her jazz reputation grew in the 1950s with albums and festivals. She appeared on TV on one of the Timex Jazz Specials heard on previous Phantom Dancers.

RONALD REAGAN

In 1960 she was introduced by Ronald Reagan opening a ‘Ford Star Time’ TV show backed by Gene Krupa. We’ll hear this appearance on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

Anita O’Day had a hiatus during the ’60s resuming her career to critical acclaim in 1970. She appeared in movies and on TV and was still performing into the 21st century.

Her final album, released when she was in her eighties, was the aptly named ‘Indestructible’.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Hear Anita O’Day at the height of her powers in this week’s Phantom Dancer feature video with Gene Krupa and Roy Eldridge:

10 JULY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #322
107.3 2SER Tuesday 10 July 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 23 other stations.
Set 1	Women Band Sings on 1945-47 Radio
The Best Man	Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) Betty Perry	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jan 1947
Snap Your Fingers	Buddy Morrow Orchestra (voc) Helen Leigh	‘One Night Stand’ Blue Room Hotel Lincoln NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 12 May 1946
I’m Not Having It	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Frances Wayne	‘One Night Stand’ Blue Room Hotel Lincoln NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1946
Set 2	John Coltrane on Radio
Open + Song of Praise	John Coltrane Quartet	‘Portraits in Jazz’ Half Note WABC-FM NY 7 May 1965
Set 3	1930s European Dance Bands
Pot Pourri aus dem Film ‘Frauen im Metropol’	Adolf Steimel Organum Tanz-Orchester	Comm Rec Berlin 5 Sep 1940
Flat Foot Floogie	Teddy Stauffer Orchestra (voc) Billy Toffel	Comm Rec Berlin 24 Nov 1938
Vous Avez un Beau Chapeau, Madame	Ernst van’t Hoff Orchestra (voc) Band	Comm Rec Hilversum 1939
Set 4	Stan Kenton Radio Transcriptions
Memphis Lament	Stan Kenton Orchestra (voc) Red Dorris	Radio Transcription Los Angeles Oct 1941
Flamingo	Stan Kenton Orchestra (voc) Red Dorris	Radio Transcription Los Angeles Oct 1941
Night	Stan Kenton Orchestra (voc) Red Dorris	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 20 Sep 1941
Set 5	Anita O’Day
Open + Drum Boogie	Anita O’Day (voc) Gene Krupa Orchestra	‘Ford Star Time’ CBS TV 9 Feb 1960
Tabby The Cat	Anita O’Day (voc) Stan Kenton Orchestra	Radio Transcription Los Angeles Dec 1944
Open + I’d Do It All Over Again	Anita O’Day (voc) Gene Krupa Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WOR Mutual NYC 15 Aug 1945
I’m Going Mad For A Pad	Anita O’Day (voc) Stan Kenton Orchestra	Radio Transcription Los Angeles Dec 1945
Set 6	1930s Dixieland Swing
Will You Won’t You Be My Baby	Louis Armstrong	Comm Rec Paris Oct 1934
Intro + In A Minor Mood + Dogtown Blues	Bob Crosby Bobcats	‘Swing Concert’ Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 18 May 1937
Honeysuckle Rose + Basin Street Blues (close)	Bunny Berrigan	Aircheck New York City 12 Mar 1936
Set 7	Count Basie Blue Room 1944-45
Harvard Blues	Count Basie Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NY 27 May 1944
Bangs	Count Basie Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NY 14 Apr 1944
Jumpin’ At The Woodside	Count Basie Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NY 5 May 1944
Avenue C	Count Basie Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NY 31 Jan 1945
Set 8	Charlie Parker
Dark Shadows	Charlie Parker as, Errol Garner piano, Red Callender bass, Doc West drums voc Earl Coleman	Comm Rec Los Angeles 19 Feb 1947
Moose The Mooch + Lullaby of Birdland	Charlie Parker as, John Lewis piano, Curley Russell bass, Kenny Clarke drums	Birdland WABC ABC NY 9 May 1953
Hot House	Charlie Parker as, Miles Davis tp, Al Haig piano, Tommy Potter bass, Al Haig drums	‘Art Ford Show’ Birdland WMCA NY 12 Dec 1948

12 June Phantom Dancer A&P Gypsies

The Phantom Dancer, heard every week over radio 2SER 107. 3 Sydney, 23 Australian radio stations and online, is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV.

Presented by Greg Poppleton, you can hear Phantom Dancer episodes online at 2ser.com.

THIS WEEK’S PHANTOM DANCER MIX
– has sets of swing bands from 1940s radio, bop and hard bop from 1950s radio, 1943-45 commercial recordings by the Sydney swing orchestra of George Trevare, a set of women jazz singers on-air with the Duke Ellington Orchestra on 1930s-50s radio and more. See the play list below.

A & P GYPSIES
One of the curiosities on today’s Phantom Dancer is part of a weekly broadcast from 1933 of one of the last of the 1920s commercial brand orchestras. In this case, the orchestra is the A&P Gypsies.

A&P, otherwise known as the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, was a U.S chain of grocery stores that ceased supermarket operations in November 2015, after 156 years in business.

U.S radio historian Elizabeth McLeod writes about these commercial brand orchestras,

“The most popular program format of the late 1920s was the sponsored musical feature. It could be a large symphonic group, a dance orchestra, or a song-and-patter team—and it would usually carry the sponsor’s name. The A&P Gypsies, for example—a large, genre-crossing orchestra conducted by Harry Horlick. The Ipana Troubadors—a hot dance band directed by Sam Lanin. The Goodrich Zippers—a banjo-driven orchestra conducted by Harry Reser, when he wasn’t leading the same group under the name of The Clicquot Club Eskimos. Everyone remembers The Happiness Boys, Billy Jones and Ernie Hare—but what about Scrappy Lambert and Billy Hillpot, who performed exactly the same sort of material as Trade and Mark, The Smith Brothers. The list is endless: The Silvertown Cord Orchestra, featuring the Silver Masked Tenor. The Sylvania Foresters. The Flit Soldiers—yet another Harry Reser group. The Champion Sparkers. The Fox Fur Trappers. The Ingram Shavers, who were the Ipana Troubadours on alternate Wednesdays. The Yeast Foamers. The Planters Pickers. And, the magnificently named Freed-Eisemann Orchestradians. All playing pretty much the same sorts of music, all announced by Phillips Carlin or John S. Young or Alwyn Bach or Milton Cross in pretty much the same sort of stiffly formal style.”

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is a 1929 commercial recording by the A&P Gypsies, ‘Only The Girl’. Happy Listening…

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Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #322
107.3 2SER Tuesday 12 June 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: 2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12 ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations.
Set 1	Swing 1940-44 Radio
Theme + Chopping Wood	Woody Herman Orchestra	Famous Door WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jan 1940
It’s a Crying Shame	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Frances Wayne	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 21 Aug 1944
Flying Home	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Civic Auditorium Oakland Ca 4 Jun 1944
Set 2	Jazz Organ and Harpsichord
Sunrise Serenade (theme) + This Is The Missus	Rosa Rio	’Rosa Rio Time’ WJZ ABC NY 14 Jul 1947
Tea For Two	Johnny Saab	’Organ Interlude’ WJSV Washington DC CBS 21 Sep 1939
The Turkish March	Sylvia Marlowe (harpsichord)	’Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 17 Dec 1941
Set 3	Latin Strains On 1930s-40s Radio
Theme + Chiu Chiu	Desi Arnez Orchestra (voc) DA and Band	Ciro’s KECA ABC LA 1947
Habenero and Vacero	A and P Gypsies	’A and P Show’ WEAF NBC Red NY 1933
Night Must Fall + Nightingale + My Shawl (theme)	Xavier Cugat Orchestra	’All-Star Parade of Bands’ Last Frontier NBC Las Vegas 30 Nov 1953
Set 4	Bop and Hard Bop on 1950s Radio
Strike Up The Band	Pete Brown Quintet	’One Night Stand’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 2 Sep 1952
Happy Birthday + Body and Soul	Sarah Vaughan	’Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 26 Mar 1953
Out of Nowhere + Jumping With Symphony Sid	Charlie Parker	Hi-Hat Club WCOP Boston 24 Jan 1954
Set 5	Women Singers with the Duke Ellington Orchestra on 1930s-50s Radio
In A Mizz	Ivie Anderson (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	Ritz Carlton Hotel WNAC NBC Boston 26 Jul 1939
Riff Staccato	Joya Sherrill (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Club Zanzibar AFRS Re-broadcast 28 Oct 1945
Take The ‘A’ Train	Betty Roche (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Jan 1948
I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But The Blues	Kay Davis and Al Hibbler (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	’Date With The Duke’ Radio City WJZ ABC NY 10 Nov 1945
Set 6	Commercial Sides: George Trevare and His Australians
Don’t Sweetheart Me	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Joan Blake	Comm Rec Sydney 1943-45
Under The Trees	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Lawrence Brooks	Comm Rec Sydney 1943-45
No Love No Nothin’	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Al Royal	Comm Rec Sydney 1943-45
Let’s Have One For The Road	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Unknown	Comm Rec Sydney 1943-45
Set 7	Glenn Miller and his Orchestra 1939 – 41 Radio
Intro + Here We Go Again + White Cliffs of Dover	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Ray Eberle	’Sunset Serenade’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 27 Dec 1941
Georgia On My Mind	Glenn Miller Orchestra	’Sunset Serenade’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 30 Aug 1941
Blueberry Hill	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton	’Sunset Serenade’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 6 Nov 1940
My Blue Heaven + Close	Glenn Miller Orchestra	NBC Baltimore 5 Sep 1939
Set 8	Kings Of Jazz Trumpet on 1930s-50s Radio
Night Song	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	Manhattan Centre WNEW NY 26 Sep 1939
I’m Confessin’ That I Love You	Louis Armstrong	‘Jubilee’ AFRS LA Mar 1943
It Don’t Mean A Thing	Roy Eldridge (voc) Anita Love	Unissued Comm Rec Paris 9 Jun 1950
Down South Camp Meeting	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Anita Love	Hotel Astor Roof WCBS CBS NY 25 May 1953

One Red Rose

A fresh Greg Poppleton Jazz Deco band line-up played today at Sydney’s Edwardian Central Station Concourse for the annual Transport Heritage Expo.

Did you see the Transport Heritage Expo story on Saturday’s evening news?
https://www.facebook.com/7newssydney/videos/2151746698182785/

With Greg Poppleton, authentic 1920s-1930s singer was,
– Damon Poppleton alto sax
– Paul Baker banjo
– Dave Clayton double bass.

A woman rushed up to my megaphone and placed a long-stemmed red rose in it while we were playing.

Damon Poppleton holding the red rose the band was given.

We’re at the Transport Heritage Expo Monday 11 June, too. Playing from 10am – 2pm with sousaphone doubling trumpet, guitar doubling banjo and washboard doubling snare.

Here’s some more photos from today. Though there must be thousands more out in the wide blue internet from all the clicks and film taken today.

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Greg Poppleton, authentic 1920s-30s singer with his 1920s microphone and the wonderful audience.

 

Dave Clayton – double bass with Greg Poppleton‘s Jazz Deco band

 

The Greg Poppleton band playing jazz and swing from the 1920s – 1930s. Damon Poppleton alto sax, Paul Baker banjo, Dave Clayton double bass.

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We Were Swing Dance Bombed!

Greg Poppleton‘s jazz deco swing quartet played the songs of the 1920s – 1930s today at Sydney’s Central Station.

We’re playing at Central all June Long Weekend (June 9, 10 and 11) for the Transport Heritage Expo.

I just realised as I write this that today is the 34th anniversary of my first radio broadcast. But that’s by-the-by.

Today, we were ‘Swing Dancer Bombed’ with dancers from Swing Patrol, Swingtime – Dance School, Shagaroo Collegiate Shag and Harbour City Hoppers!! At Central this Sun & Mon, too 10am-2pm.

Check out the video! Enjoy…

Herbie Fields Child Prodigy – Phantom Dancer 29 May Radio Swing Jazz Mix

Herbie Fields is a musician I’ve long wanted to play a set of. Now the time has come.

I’m Greg Poppleton, 1920s-30s singer and your Phantom Dancer.

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV.

On air every Tuesday, live from 107.3 2SER Sydney from 12:04-2pm, the Phantom Dancer is recorded for re-broadcast over 23 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online at 2ser.com.

THIS WEEK’S PHANTOM DANCER MIX
– opens with a set of dance bands live on the 1940s ‘One Night Stand’ radio series,
– hear a set of Sarah Vaughan from live 1950s radio,
– a set of early radio dance bands from rare 1920s-30s radio,
– a set of the daddies of boogie woogie pianists from live 1930s radio,
– a set of today’s feature artist, Herbie Fields, including Miles Davis’s recording debut. See the full play list below for more…

HERBIE FIELDS
Herbie Fields was a child prodigy clarinet and sax player whose meteoric career in the mid-1940s faltered in the 1950s, making him increasing disgruntled until he couldn’t take it any more.

A student at the famous Juilliard School of Music, he began recording and broadcasting in 1944 after a two year stint in the U.S Army.

On this week’s Phantom Dancer we’ll hear his first orchestra live from 1944 radio on its own national network band remote. It was coveted radio exposure mostly given to more seasoned bands. We’ll also hear a song from his first recording session made for the prestigious Savoy record label.

The 1945 Savoy record we’ll hear on today’s show features singer Rubberlegs Williams. Rubberlegs, sounding very Fats Waller, calls out Herbie Fields by name on the record – more evidence of the meteoric rise of Herbie Field as a swing name.

This was also the first recording by teenage Miles Davis on trumpet. Miles sounds like Miles even then, though some players on the session complained that the teenager wasn’t good enough – another story for another Phantom Dancer.

Herbie Fields and his 3 year old daughter, Sandra

 

UP-AND-COMING
His star rising in just twelve short months, Fields also won Esquire magazine’s New Star Award on alto sax in 1945.

In 1946, RCA Victor signed Fields as leader of his own big band. Despite including musicians of the calibre of Neal Hefti, Bill Evans, Marty Napoleon and Serge Chaloff, the band was a commercial failure. Big bands were out of fashion.

He went from big band to septet in 1949. We’ll hear that septet on this week’s Phantom Dancer in a 1951 radio broadcast.

In the septet was Frank Rosolino trombone, Jimmy Nottingham trumpet, Jim Aton double bass, Bill Evans piano and Tiny Kahn drums. The group backed Billie Holiday on a successful U.S east coat tour. You’ll hear in this septet broadcast how Fields could play in swing, bop and r’n’b styles all on the one song (‘How High The Moon’).

R’N’B
In the 1950s, Fields moved into rhythm and blues. He became a sax ‘honker’.

You’ll hear him mix honk with bop and swing on ‘How High the Moon’ with his septet on what the 1951 announcer calls a ‘rock’n’roll’ number.

But his decreasing popularity after such a promising career start in 1944 made him increasing disgruntled.

Bill Evans said of Field’s r’n’b style, “In some ways he had been a forerunner of rock ‘n’ roll. He was wiggling, jerking. Rock ‘n’ roll came, brought millions of dollars, but nothing for Herbie Fields.”

Field’s recorded sporadically as an r’n’b artist, bop player and big band leader.

He was leading a trio in his own Miami restaurant in 1958 when is suddenly had enough at age 39.

PHANTOM DANCER VIDEO OF THE WEEK
It’s Herbie Fields on clarinet with the Lionel Hampton sextet on a Decca recording of ‘Ribs and Hot Sauce’.

29 MAY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #318
107.3 2SER Tuesday 29 May 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 Bands on ‘One Night Stand’
Theme + Kentucky	Gay Claridge Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Chez Paree, Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Aug 1945
You’re Driving Me Crazy	Jan Savitt Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Sep 1945
9:20 Special + Pavanne (close)	Sonny Dunham Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Apr 1944
Set 2	Sarah Vaughan Sings Jazz on 1953-56 Radio
Tenderly	Sarah Vaughan	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 31 Mar 1953
I Get a Kick Out of You	Sarah Vaughan	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 31 Mar 1953
Linger Awhile + ‘S Wonderful + Tenderly	Sarah Vaughan	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Zardi’s KFI NBC LA 21 May 1956
Set 3	Herbie Fields Feature
That’s The Stuff You Got To Watch	Herbie Fields, Miles Davis’s first recording, Rubberlegs Williams (voc)	WOR Studios New York City 25 Apr 1945
Theme + Don’t Take Your Love From Me	Herbie Fields Orchestra (voc) Carol Kaye	Glen Island Casinu New Rochelle NY WOR MBS NY 9 Aug 1944
How High The Moon + Close	Herbie Fields Septet	‘Stars on Parade’ Radio Transcription 1951
Set 4	1920s-30s Radio Bands
I’m Just A Vagabond Lover	Eskimo Pie Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1929
I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo Delys	Radio Transcription 1932
I Following You + Coca Cola Waltz	Leonard Joy Coca-Cola Orchestra	‘Coca-Cola Top Notchers’ WEAF NBC Red NY 19 Mar 1930
Set 5	Duke Ellington on 1950s Radio
Open + Tulip or Turnip	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ray Nance	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 13 Aug 1952
Things Ain’t What They Used To Be	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WNBC NBC NY 11 Jun 1951
The Hawk Talks	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jul 1952
Great Times	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York 11 Feb 1951
Set 6	Eddie Condon
Open + At The Jazz Band Ball	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 30 Sep 1944
I’m a Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 16 Jul 1944
Easter Parade	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 23 Sep 1944
Ensemble Blues	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 29 Jul 1944
Set 7	Boogie Woogie
Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie	Pine Tops Smith	Comm Rec Chicago 29 Dec 1928
Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie	Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis (voc) Johnny Mercer	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 11 Apr 1939
Honky Tonk Train Blues	Meade Lux Lewis	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 3 Jan 1939
Roll ‘Em	Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 3 Jan 1939
Set 8	Farewell
Boompsie	Chubby Jackson Orchestra	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 5 Mar 1949