Right now the band and I would have been playing the songs of the 1920s-30s at Penrith RSL. We look foward to the return of Saturday Swing afternoons when this emergency is over. Meanwhile, right now, at a Penrith RSL in a parallel, Covid19-free universe…
Sydney Festival 2020 – ‘The Rivoli’ – Greg Poppleton and Dance Makers Collective
Sydney Festival 2020, Dance Makers Collective present the world premiere of ‘The Rivoli‘ in the beautiful, late Victorian Granville Town Hall with Greg Poppleton’s 1920s -30s Sydney Festival trio, Grahame Conlon guitar and banjo with Cazzbo Johns on sousaphone.
Come to the show: 8pm, Tues 22 Jan – Sat 25 January 2020. Granville Town Hall. TICKETS
‘The Rivoli’ is a celebration of social life before social media, when to meet was to talk, laugh and move to music together.
From the early 1930s to the late 1960s, the Rivoli Dance Palace on Church St, Parramatta was Western Sydney’s favourite dance hall. It was demolished in 1973 to make way for an office development. Now nothing remains of ‘The Riv’ except the stories of the people who danced there.
Dance Makers Collective brings those stories to life in a tribute to the rituals of social dance and the human drive toward belonging and togetherness.
Staged in the heritage-listed Granville Town Hall, The Rivoli invites you and your favourite dance partner to be swept into an immersive exploration of mid-century nightlife, desire and social connection.
The show includes performances by the Greg Poppleton Trio: Greg Poppleton (vocals) Cazzbo Johns (sousaphone) Grahame Conlon (guitar and banjo)
SYDNEY FESTIVAL
Sydney Festival is a major arts festival in Australia’s largest city, Sydney that runs for three weeks every January, since it was established in 1977. The festival program features in excess of 100 events from local and international artists and includes contemporary and classical music, dance, circus, drama, visual arts and artist talks. The festival attracts approximately 500,000 people to its large-scale free outdoor events and 150,000 to its ticketed events, and contributes more than A$55 million to the economy of New South Wales.
The Festival has a history of presenting Australian premieres and many of Australia’s most memorable productions such as Cloudstreet have resulted from Sydney Festival’s commitment to nurture local artists. It has brought many of the world’s great artists to Sydney for the first time including: Ariane Mnouchkine and Thèâtre du Soleil (Flood Drummers), Robert Wilson (The Black Rider), Robert Lepage (Far Side of the Moon, The Andersen Project, Lipsynch), George Piper Dances, Netherlands Dance Theatre, James Thiérrée (Junebug Symphony, Au Revoir Parapluie), Philip Glass, Ian McKellen (Dance of Death), Batsheva Dance Company, National Theatre of Scotland (Black Watch, Aalst), Christopher Wheeldon Company, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Al Green, Katona Jozsef Theatre, Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear, The National, Sufjan Stevens and Joanna Newsom.
Come to the show: 8pm, Tues 22 Jan – Sat 25 January 2020. Granville Town Hall. TICKETS
Penrith Jazz Show Photos 30 March 2019
A fun afternoon at Penrith RSL.
Songs from the 1920s and 30s by Australia’s only authentic 1920s-30s singer.
Backed by a swinging trio of Grahame Conlon (guitar and banjo), Dave Clayton (double bass), and Bob Gillespie (drums)
We’ll be back at Penrith RSL, Saturday 27 July, 2-5pm. Free.
Here’s a trio of photos from today’s 30 March gig.
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Victory Belles All-Women 1940s Radio Show – Phantom Dancer 19 March 2019
VICTORY BELLES
This week I’m thrilled to find for you on The Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton, a 1942 all-woman jazz show I played on the Phantom Dancer over ten years ago. The tape has re-surfaced. This week, enjoy the Victory Belles as your Phantom Dancer featured artists with the Bea Turpin Orchestra and singer Martha Mears (who sang White Christmas with Bing Crosby in the movie, Holiday Inn). See the full play list below.
PHANTOM DANCER
This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online immediately after the 12 March 2SER live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney
BACKGROUND
Billboard, 13 Feb 1943 page 7 wrote,
“KNX-CBS is the only net here having an all-girl show. ‘Victory Belles’ uses an all girl ork and comedienne, with Mabel Todd filling the latter spot. Show is produced by Ona Munson. Billy Gould, sound effects, the only man on the program is forced to don Mother Hubbard wig – and cigar – to hold his job on this show.”
STORY
Jeannie Gayle Pool in her book, ‘Peggy Gilbert and Her All-Girl Band’ quotes Peggy Gilbert talking about the Victory Belle broadcasts,
“Ona Munson, who was a movie star, she was in Gone With The Wind, you remember? And she had quite a little reputation at that time as a star and she had her own show on CBS. She wanted an all-girl jazz orchestra on it and so we got together…There was actually no leader. A bunch of us just got together and said, “Here we are and this is it.” I was one of them and we were on that for a year. We had a weekly program. 1942, I think, right after the war started. We were at CBS in Hollywood. And what terrific audiences…they would bring fellows in from all over the place around here, in uniform, And it was just a terrific show. I loved it. The girls were such fine musicians. they would cut the stuff. They’d put the arrangements in front of us just before we went on. We’d be lucky if we had time to go through it before the show started. we’d talk through it, usually, and maybe go through a couple of parts of it. And then, away we’d go. Accompanying acts and doing our own thing.”
Side note: Munson introduced the song ‘You’re the Cream in My Coffee’ in the 1927 Broadway musical ‘Hold Everything’.
EIGHT JILLS OF JIVE
“We had some fine musicians. we had Jane Sager on trumpet; and we had Pee Wee [Naomi Preble] on trombone;…Katherine Cruise on first alto: I was on first tenor, clarinet and vibes; Dody Jeshke on drums and Bea Turpin on piano.”
There would have been a double bass player and singer.
VIDEO
This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is not the Victory Belles, but a breathtaking climb up the radio 2UW tower in Sydney, 1944. Happy clambering!
19 MARCH PLAY LIST
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107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
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Mod 1950s Radio | |
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Lover Come Back To Me
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Bud Powell
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Birdland
WJZ ABC NY 7 Feb 1953 |
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Cool Blues
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Charlie Parker
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‘Symphony Sid Show’
Hi Hat Club WCOP Boston |
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Indiana
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Lester Young
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‘Bandstand USA’
Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NY 22 Dec 1956 |
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Set 2
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Duke Ellington 1942-47 Radio | |
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Feeling A Little Tomorrow Like I Feel Today
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Duke Ellington Orchestra
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‘Spotlight Bands’
Ciro’s Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 25 Jul 1947 |
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I Wonder Why?
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Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Bette Roche
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‘Spotlight Bands’
Buffalo NY Blue Network 27 Nov 1943 |
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Poco + Take The A Train (theme)
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Duke Ellington Orchestra
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El Patio Ballroom
Lakeside KLZ CBS Denver CO 15 Jul 1942 |
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Set 3
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Singin’ Sam | |
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Open + Ol’ King Cole
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Singing Sam
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Radio Transcription
New York City 1940 |
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What’s It Gonna Get Ya? + Hortence
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Singing Sam
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Radio Transcription
New York City 1940 |
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A Brownbird Singing + Close (Coca Cola Waltz)
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Singing Sam
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Radio Transcription
New York City 1940 |
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Set 4
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Women’s Radio ‘Victory Belles’ | |
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Open + Ten Little Soldiers
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Bea Turpin Eight Jills of Jive (voc) The Music Maids
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‘Victory Belles’
KNX CBS LA 12 Dec 1942 |
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When You And I Were Young, Maggie
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Bea Turpin Orchestra
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‘Victory Belles’
KNX CBS LA 12 Dec 1942 |
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When You And I Were Young, Maggie (voc) Mabel Todd
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Bea Turpin Orchestra
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‘Victory Belles’
KNX CBS LA 12 Dec 1942 |
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I Came Here To Talk For Joe
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Bea Turpin Orchestra (voc) Martha Mears
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‘Victory Belles’
KNX CBS LA 12 Dec 1942 |
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Set 5
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Bunny Berrigan 1934-36 Radio | |
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I Can’t Get Started (theme) + My Melancholy Baby
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Bunny Berrigan Orchestra
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Broadcast
mid-1939 |
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Moonshine over Kentucky and Heigh Ho
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Bunny Berrigan Orchestra
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Paradise Restaurant
WOR Mutual NY 3 May 1938 |
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Familiar Moe
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Bunny Berrigan Orchestra
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Trianon Ballroom
WCLE Cleveland OH 9 Apr 1939 |
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Deed I Do
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Bunny Berrigan Orchestra (voc) Bunny Berrigan
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Mutual Network
Boston 20 Sep 1939 |
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Set 6
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Billie HolidayRadio | |
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You Better Go Now
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Billie Holiday (voc) Percy Faith Orchestra
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‘Woolworth Hour’
KNX CBS LA 1954 |
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I Cover The Waterfront
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Billie Holiday
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Storyville
Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston 29 Oct 1951 |
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I’ll Get By
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Billie Holiday
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‘Spotlight Bands’
Metropolitan Opera House WJZ Blue NY 18 Jan 1944 |
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You’re Driving Me Crazy
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Billie Holiday
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Storyville
Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston Oct 1953 |
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Set 7
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1930s Radio Transcriptions | |
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I’ve Got You Under My Skin
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Red Nichols Orchestra (voc) The Songcopators
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Radio Transcription
NYC 30 Nov 1936 |
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Panama
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Hal Kemp Orchestra
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Radio Transcription
NYC 14 Dec 1934 |
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Never Should Have Told You
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Red Nichols Orchestra (voc) The Songcopators
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Radio Transcription
NYC 30 Nov 1936 |
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Blue Moon
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Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Bob Allen
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Radio Transcription
NYC 14 Dec 1934 |
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Set 8
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Dorsey Brothers 1956 Radio | |
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You Are My First Love
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Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Tommy Mercer
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Cafe Rouge
Hotel Statler WCBS CBS NY 1956 |
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I Could Have Danced All Night
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Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Dolly Houston
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Cafe Rouge
Hotel Statler WCBS CBS NY 1956 |
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Too Close For Comfort
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Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Tommy Mercer
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Cafe Rouge
Hotel Statler WCBS CBS NY 1956 |
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Too Young To Go Steady
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Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Dolly Houston
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Cafe Rouge
Hotel Stadtler WCBS CBS NY 1956 |
Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson – 12 Feb 2019 Phantom Dancer
THE HIPSTER
Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton. The stride and boogie pianist claimed to have invented the word ‘hipster’. His stellar career nosedived in 1946 after he released the drug song ‘Who Put The Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine?’. That same song brought him out of obscurity when ‘discovered’ by Dr Demento in 1985 after which he released three albums.
PHANTOM DANCER
Hear this week’s Phantom Dancer (after 12 Feb) and past Phantom Dancers at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney
HARRY ‘THE HIPSTER’ GIBSON
was a jazz songwriter, stride and boogie woogie pianist, who sang in a large style that pitched the story out to his audience.
Born Harry Raab, he began his musical career in the late 1920s playing stride piano in Dixieland jazz bands in Harlem. He added barrelhouse boogie to his repertoire in the 1930s, and was discovered by Fats Waller in 1939. Waller brought him down to 52nd Street Manhattan jazz clubs where he became famous and changed his surname to Gibson.
AHEAD
Gibson’s songwriting was considered ahead of its time in the early 1940s. His singing and piano was also unique, his piano in particular taking on a ‘frantic’ quality.
CLASSICAL
At the same time as playing in 52nd Swing Street clubs, Gibson attended the strictly classical Juilliard School of music where he excelled.
We missed out last week, but on this week’s Phantom Dancer Gibson will play live on a 1944 Blue Network Eddie Condon jazz concert, Bix Beidebeck’s difficult piano pieces ‘Candlelight’ and ‘In a Mist’.
HIPSTER
Gibson grew up near Harlem, New York City. So his use of black jive talk was not an affectation but his uptown New York dialect. In his autobiography, Gibson claimed he coined the term hipster between 1939 and 1945 when he was performing on Swing Street when he started using “Harry the Hipster” as his stage name.
NAUGHTY
On this week’s Phantom Dancer we hear the 1946 Musicraft recording that sent his career plunging – ‘Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine’. His own drug use didn’t help.
BEATLES
In the 1960s Gibson saw the huge success of the Beatles and switched to rock and roll. By the 1970s, he was playing hard rock, blues, bop, novelty songs and a few songs that mixed ragtime with rock and roll. His hipster act became a hippie act. His old records were revived on the Dr. Demento radio show, particularly ‘Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine’, which was included on the 1975 compilation album Dr. Demento’s Delights.
His comeback resulted in three more albums: Harry the Hipster Digs Christmas, Everybody’s Crazy but Me, and Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine (Delmark, 1989). Those two include some jazz, blues, ragtime, and rock and roll songs about reefer, nude bathing, hippie communes, strip clubs, male chauvinists, “rocking the 88s”, and Shirley MacLaine.
In 1991, shortly before his death, Gibson’s family made a biographical movie short on his life and music called Boogie in Blue, published as a VHS video that year.
VIDEO
This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week has Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson give a school music lesson about how to ‘Keep the Beat’ in this 1944 soundie. Pay attention!
12 FEBRUARY PLAY LIST
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107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
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107.3 2SER Tuesday 12 February 2019 |
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Set 1
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1944-46 Radio Big Bands | |
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Racing with the Moon (theme) + Candy Hop
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Vaughan Monroe Orchestra (voc) VM
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‘One Night Stand’
Blackhawk Restaurant Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 6 Feb 1945 |
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Accentuate the Positive
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Frankie Masters Orchestra (voc) Frankie Masters, Phyllis Miles and the Girl Quartet
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‘Spotlight Bands’
Cedar Rapids, Iowa Blue Network 1945 |
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Rachmaninov Piano Concerto #2
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Freddy Martin Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’
Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Jan 1946 |
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Set 2
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Count Basie Rock’n’Roll | |
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(Theme and close) One O’Clock Jump + Little Pony + Why Not? + The Moon is Green + Tpp Close For Comfort (voc) Joe Williams
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Count Basie Orchestra
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‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’
WCBS CBS NY 16 Jun 1956 |
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Heading Home + As Long As I’m Moving
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Shirley Gunter
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‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’
WCBS CBS NY 16 Jun 1956 |
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In Self-Defence
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The Flairs
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‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’
WCBS CBS NY 16 Jun 1956 |
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Set 3
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Woody Herman 1947 – 50s Radio | |
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Open + I’ve Got News For You
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Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) WH
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‘Just Jazz’
Shrine Auditorium Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 1947 |
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Ad + The Goof and I
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Woody Herman Third Herd
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‘Monitor’
Basin Street WRCA NBC NY 26 Jun 1955 |
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Mambo the Most
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Woody Herman Third Herd
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‘All-Star Parade of Bands’
Peony Park WOW NBC Omaha Nebraska 1948 |
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Set 4
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Jazz Inspired Arabic Music | |
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(Open and Close) Coca Cola Ad
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Unknown
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Cairo 1950
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Rhumba
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Hanan and Fairouz
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Comm Rec
Beirut 1950s |
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Swing
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Hanan and Fairouz
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Comm Rec
Beirut 1950s |
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Set 5
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Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson 1944 – 46 | |
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Who Put The Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine?
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Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson
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Radio Transcription
Los Angeles 8 Feb 1946 |
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Candlelight + In a Mist
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Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson
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‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’
WJZ Blue NY 10 Jul 1944 |
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Who’s Goin’ Steady With Who?
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Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson
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Radio Transcription
Los Angeles 8 Feb 1946 |
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Set 6
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Eddie Condon 1944 Blue Network | |
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Rosetta
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Eddie Condon group with Muggsy Spanier and Miff Mole
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‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’
WJZ Blue NY 16 Sep 1944 |
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Memphis Blues
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Eddie Condon group with Muggsy Spanier and Miff Mole
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‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’
WJZ Blue NY 16 Sep 1944 |
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There’ll Be Some Changes Made
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Eddie Condon group with Muggsy Spanier and Miff Mole (voc) Red McKenzie
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‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’
WJZ Blue NY 16 Sep 1944 |
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I’d Do Anything For You
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Eddie Condon group with Muggsy Spanier and Miff Mole
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‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’
WJZ Blue NY 16 Sep 1944 |
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Set 7
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1930s Count Basie | |
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Texas Shuffle
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Count Basie Orchestra
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Comm Rec
New York City 22 Aug 1938 |
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Swing It, Brother, Swing
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Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Billie Holliday
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Aircheck
Savoy Ballroom Harlem NYC 30 Jun 1937 |
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Darn That Dream
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Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Helen Humes
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Southland Cafe
WNAC NBC Red Boston 20 Feb 1940 |
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St Louis Blues
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Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing
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Chatterbox
Hotel William Penn WCAE NBC Red Pittsburgh 8 Feb 1937 |
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Set 8
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1932 Dance Music | |
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Gnaedige Frau, komm und spiel mit mir
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Hans Albers
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Movie
‘Quick’ Berlin 1932 |
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Try Getting a Good Night’s Sleep
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Don Redman Orchestra (voc) DR
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Comm Rec
New York City 26 Feb 1932 |
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Linda
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earl Burtnett Orchestra (voc) Jess Kirkpatrick
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Radio Transcription
Los Angeles 1932 |
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On the Alamo / My Ideal / I’ll Get By + Egyptian Shimmy
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Anson Weekes Orchestra
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Radio Transcription
San Francisco 1932 |
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
$80 standard
$160 passionate
$600 life member
Support 2SER now.
Any money amount enters you into the daily prize draw.
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
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Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
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Set 1
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Swing That Music
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Louis Armstrong (voc) Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
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Comm Rec
Los Angeles Aug 1936 |
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You Old Son of a Gun
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Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music
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‘Stars for Defense’
Radio Transcription Nov 1959 |
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Sherlock Holmes & Wine Ad
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Nigel Bruce
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‘Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’
KHJ Mutual LA Sep 1945 |
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Wabash Blues
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Jerry Thomas Quintet
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Comm Rec
Zurich, Switzerland 1942 |
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Set 2
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Open + Bridegroom Special
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Yiddish Swing Orchestra
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‘Yiddish Melodies in Swing’
WHN NY 1940 |
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China Boy
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Sidney Bechet (sop sax)
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‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’
WJZ Blue Network NYC Feb 1945 |
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Stage Coach
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Wally Portingale Orchestra
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‘Army on Parade’
2CH AWA Sydney Oct 1943 |
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That’s Love
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Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) The Three Ambassadors
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‘Cocoanut Grove’
Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933 |
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Set 3
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Unidentified
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Jan Garber Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’
Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca AFRS Re-broadcast Mar 1945 |
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Easter Parade
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Martha Mears
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’10-2-4 Time’
Radio Transcription Los Angeles Mar 1948 |
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Don’t Blame Me
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Dinah Shore
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‘Guest Star’
Radio Transcription New York City Dec 1948 |
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Set 4
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Isn’t It Romantic?
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Chet Baker Quartet
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Storyville
Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston 16 Mar 1954 |
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Good Evening (theme) + April Showers
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Del Courtney Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’
Rose Room Palace Hotel San Francisco AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Jan 1948 |
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Drifting and Dreaming (theme) + Cheek to Cheek
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Orrin Tucker Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’
Cocoanut Grove Wiltshire Centre Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 1955 |
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Pretending + Hold My Hand + Theme
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Griff Williams Orchestra
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Empire Room
Palmer House WGN Chicago 5 Mar 1947 |
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Set 5
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Love, Nuts and Noodles
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Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) Jack Smith
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‘Cocoanut Grove’
Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933 |
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I’d Rather Lead A Band + Farewell Blues + Theme
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Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby and The Four Freshman
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‘Ford V-8 Revue’
Radio Transcription 1936 |
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Arabian Lover
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Duke Ellington Orchestra
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Comm Rec
New York City 3 May 1929 |
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These Foolish Things
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Count Basie Nonet
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Boston
7 Sep 1954 |
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Set 6
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Levee Blues
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Jimmy Dorsey’s Dorseyland Band (voc) Charlie Teagarden
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Radio Transcription
Hollywood 1950 |
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Till The End of Time
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Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Frances Wayne
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‘Woody Herman Show’
ABC 1 Dec 1946 |
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Margie
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Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights
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‘Trianon Time’
Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca KECA ABC LA 1945 |
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I’ve Got Five Dollars (theme) + Ooh! That Kiss!
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Freddy Rich Orchestra
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‘Friendly Five Footnotes’
Radio Transcription 1932 |
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You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It
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Harry James Orchestra
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Trianon Ballroom
Southgate Ca KECA ABC LA Dec 1945 |
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Section A + Theme
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Raymond Scott Orchestra
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‘Raymond Scott Show’
AFRS Re-broadcast |
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Set 7
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When My Dreamboat Comes Home
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Jimmy Rushing (voc) Count Basie Orchestra
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Aircheck
Savoy Ballroom New York City 30 Jun 1937 |
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The Glider
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Artie Shaw Orchestra
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‘Spotlight Bands’
Santa Barbara Ca 10 Oct 1945 |
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Artistry in Rhythm (theme) + Eager Beaver
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Stan Kenton Orchestra
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Palladium Ballroom
KNX CBS LA 28 Nov 1944 |
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Savoy Blues
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George Lewis
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‘Dixieland Jamboree’
WDSU ABC New Orleans 7 Oct 1950 |
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Get Out Of Town
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Leah Matthews (voc) Woody Herman’s Third Herd
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‘All-Star Parade of Bands’
Peony Park WOW NBC Omaha 1954 |
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Tangerine
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Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberle (voc) Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
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Aircheck
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Chicago
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Benny Goodman
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NBC TV
1967 |
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
Santo Grasso Jazz Photos
Last Sunday, I took my 1920s – 1930s Jazz Deco band to Sydney Rowing Club, overlooking the Parramatta River to play an afternoon of music, fun and dancing.
And there was lots of dancing and lots of fun. It’s an inspiration to play to dancers. It’s a joy to play to such a warm and appreciative audience.
MOVIE
At Sydney Rowers the gig before, in April, someone took this film of the Jazz Deco band and I, then through a third party, generously sent it on to me to share with you…
SANTO GRASSO JAZZ PHOTOS
What a wonderful surprise then, just before downbeat on the first set, to see my favourite photographer, Santo Grasso. He’d come along to take photos of the band.
Now he’s generously sharing them with us here.
Please check out Santo’s wonderfully evocative photos of Sydney on his instagram page. Start following him! https://www.instagram.com/explore__sydney/
Contact Greg Poppleton now for real 1920s – 30s fun at your occasion
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.
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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Book Greg and the band: gregpoppletonmusic/contact
5 June Phantom Dancer – Harry Breuer 1920s Xylophone Magic
The 5 June Phantom Dancer is, like every Tuesday and online, your non-stop mix with Greg Poppleton of swing and jazz from live 1930s – 1950s radio and TV.
For example, in the second set, the big swing band leaders speak briefly. That’s Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey (leading Harry James’ band) and Benny Goodman.
The final hour of the mix is all vinyl and in that you’ll hear a set of famous singers in their very early radio days, Bing Crosby, Doris Day and Frank Sinatra.
Johnny Saab plays the BC Hammond Organ with oil reverb over CBS in 1939.
The Phantom Dancer is also conveniently live-streamed as the show goes to air on Tuesdays 12 – 2pm (1 – 3am GMT), http://www.2ser.com.
After the Tuesday broadcast, you can then hear the show, and past Phantom Dancers archived, at 2ser.com/Phantom_Dancer as well.
HARRY BREUER
Breuer, who you’ll hear playing his xylophone in a 1929 broadcast with the Colonial Club Orchestra on this week’s Phantom Dancer was one of the first musical stars of radio.
To quote his bio in the Percussive Arts Society webpage,
“Harry Breuer, one of the great mallet players and composer of highly original xylophone solos such as “Back Talk,” “On the Woodpile” and “Bit O’ Rhythm,” achieved fame in the 1920s when he was a soloist in the big United States movie houses. He broadcasted [sic] from New York’s Roxy Theater, played the major radio shows during the 1920s and ’30s, recorded for Warner Bros. and Fox Movietone, and finally joined the NBC radio staff where he played for such conductors as Robert Russell Bennett and Skitch Henderson. In the 1940s and 1950s Breuer was featured in several films, and during the 1950s he recorded four feature record albums including Mallet Magic. Leaving broadcasting in the 1960s, he continued as a freelance artist and joined Carroll Sound in New York as a consultant.”
You’ll hear Harry Breuer playing “On The Wood Pile” in a 1929 “Brunswick Brevities” show on this week’s Phantom Dancer. See the play list below.
In the 1960s, he collaborated with Jacques Perrey to compose and record electronic music. Together, they recorded The Happy Moog for Pickwick. He was working with a Kurzweil synthesizer at the age of 86 on an album titled, Mallets in Wonderland.
Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is Stan Kenton in Berlin in 1953 from a film called “Schlagerparade” (Hit Parade). What a stage set up! Beautiful. Enjoy!
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