The Phantom Dancer radio show is a 2 hour mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s – 1960s radio & TV.
It’s heard live every Tuesday at 12 noon (+11GMT) on 107.3 2SER Sydney. It’s been presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985 and is now also heard online at http://www.2ser.com and on over 30 CRN stations across Australia.
This week, in the 2 hour radio mix, you’ll hear live swing and jazz by Clifford Brown and later Oscar Pettiford plays the tribute, I Remember Clifford. The swinging Bobby Sherwood plays his jitterbug jive from two airchecks and since 17 March is St Patrick’s Day, there is a set of jazz and dance broadcast on and for that special day.
See the play list below including a dance band interpretation of the 1894 Debussy piece credit as the birth piece of modern music – Afternoon of a Faun.
Programme to the Nijinski ballet based on Afternoon of a Faun
As this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, recorded at ABC-TV in Sydney in 1969, Julius Sumner Miller investigates Heat Energy Transfer By Radiation. This is program 24 in the series, ‘Dramatic Demonstrations In Physics.’ Enjoy!
Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #149
12 noon Tuesday 17 February is Phantom Dancer time on 107.3 2SER Sydney. Swing, jazz and dance from live 1920s-60s radio and TV presented by Greg Poppleton on 30 CRN stations across Australia.
This week, in the 2 hour radio mix, you’ll hear live swing and jazz by Buddy Rich, The Mills Brothers, Helen Forrest and more. Listen online at http://www.2ser.com.
See the play list below…
As this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, recorded at ABC-TV in Sydney in 1969, Julius Sumner Miller investigates Heat Energy Transfer By Conduction. Enjoy!
Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN#147
Your Tuesday 3 February Phantom Dancer features swing virtuosi aplenty. From live vintage radio broadcasts you’ll hear guitarist Les Paul, trumpeter Harry James, and clarinettist Benny Goodman live on-the-air in exciting performances.
Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, is Lesson 18 in the 48 part series of Dramatic Demonstrations in Physics with Professor Julius Sumner Miller. This week Prof Miler demonstrates ‘How To Produce Heat Energy’. These programs were made at ABC TV in Sydney in 1969.
Phantom Dancer
3 February 2015
CRN (Community Radio Network) Program #144
Tuesdays 12noon – 2pm. (+11 GMT)
107.3 2SER Sydney. Listen Online. Online Archive.
Set 1
Open + Button Up Your Overcoat
Dinah Shore
‘Showtime’
AFRS Hollywood
1945
This Can’t Be Love
Les Paul
‘Showtime’
AFRS Hollywood
1945
Heat Wave
Meredith Willson and the AFRS Orchestra
‘Showtime’
AFRS Hollywood
1945
Set 2
Sweet Georgia Brown
Harry James Orchestra
Comm Rec
20 Feb 1939
New York
Moonlight Serenade (theme) + Glen Island Special
Glenn Miller Orchestra
Café Rouge
Hotel Pennsylvania
WJZ NBC Blue NY
7 Jan 1940
Wabash Blues
Johnny Green Orchestra
‘Fitch Bandwagon’
WEAF NBC Red NY
9 Apr 1939
Set 3
Do You Ever Think Of Me?
Russ Morgan Orchestra
‘One Night Stand’
AFRS Re-broadcast
28 Apr 1944
Where Or When?
Benny Goodman Trio (voc) Audience
Madhattan Room
Hotel Pennsylvania
WABC CBS NY
23 Oct 1937
Medley: The Very Thought Of You / Love Is The Sweetest Thing / Cherokee / Goodnight Sweetheart / Close
Ray Noble Orchestra
‘By Request’
KNX CBS LA
13 Jun 1945
Set 4
Open + Shiny Stockings
Harry James and his Music Makers
‘New Year All-Star Parade of Bands’
Crystal Room
Desert Inn, Las Vegas
KFI NBC LA
31 Dec 1970
Open + Pretzel
Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band
‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party’
Paramount Theatre
Brooklyn NY
AFRTS Re-broadcast
1957
Solo For Alto
Lee Konitz (as) Stan Kenton Orchestra
‘Concert in Miniature’
KFSD NBC San Diego
10 Feb 1953
Set 5
What’ll I Do
Claude Hopkins Cotton Club Orchestra
Radio Transcription
New York
18 Oct 1935
Down By The Old Mill Stream
Bunny Berrigan Orchestra
‘Saturday Night Swing Club’
WABC CBS NY
31 Oct 1936
Open + Murdy Purdy
Gene Krupa Orchestra
Aircheck
28 Nov 1938
Chatanooga Choo Choo
Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Tex Beneke and The Modernaires
‘Sunset Serenade’
Cafe Rouge
Hotel Pennsylvania
WJZ NBC Blue NY
27 Dec 1941
Set 6
Cecilia
Horace Heidt Orchestra (voc) Gene Walsh
Radio Transcription
Los Angeles
1944
Perdido
Duke Ellington Orchestra
‘Date With The Duke’
ABC Detroit
19 May 1945
Lover Come Back To Me
Harry James Orchestra
‘Spotlight Bands’
Hollywood
KHJ Mutual-Don Lees
18 Oct 1946
Bugle Blues
Count Basie Orchestra
Savoy Ballroom Aircheck
Harlem NY
30 Jun 1937
Set 7
Foo A Little Ballyhoo
Cab Calloway Orchestra
Club Zanzibar
WOR Mutual NY
14 Aug 1945
Hi Beck
Lee Konitz
Storyville
Copley Square Hotel
WHDH Boston
4 Jan 1954
In the first half, re-broadcast to stations of the Community Radio Network across Australia in the final week of the year, it’s New Years broadcasts from 1940 – 1970 featuring Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, Kid Ory and more.
Then it’s Christmas on The Phantom Dancer for 107.3 2SER Sydney listeners alone. The Christmas cheer from live 1930s-60s radio and TV is brought to you by Charlie Parker, Glenn Miller, Fats Waller and more.
And as your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, part 16 in the ongoing series of Dramatic Demonstrations in Physics has Professor Julius Sumner Miller rousing your enthusiasm for Ideas of Heat and Temperature . These programs were made at ABC TV in Sydney in 1969.
Phantom Dancer
23 December 2014
CRN (Community Radio Network) Program #138
Tuesdays 12noon – 2pm. (+11 GMT)
107.3 2SER Sydney. Listen Online. Online Archive.
Set 1
New Years Eve Aboard An Ocean Liner
Raymond Scott Quintette
Comm Rec
New York
21 Jul 1939
In The Mood
Glenn Miller Orchestra
‘Chesterfield Show’
WABC CBS NY
27 Dec 1939
Never Should Have Told You + Predictions for 1937 + Chim Bomba + Close
Rudy Vallee and Wim the Astrologer
‘Royal Gelatin Show’
WEAF NBC Red NY
31 Dec 1936
Set 2
Open + Happy Holidays
Bing Crosby (voc) John Scott Trotter Orchestra
‘Kraft Music Hall’
KFI NBC LA
30 Dec 1943
Rhapsody In Blue (theme) + Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
Paul Whiteman Orchestra and Chorus
‘The Paul Whiteman Show’
WJZ ABC NY
1 Jan 1947
Poinciana + Close
Bing Crosby (voc) John Scott Trotter Orchestra
‘Kraft Music Hall’
KFI NBC LA
30 Dec 1943
Set 3
Deep Forest (theme) + Dippermouth Blues + When The Saints Go Marching In + Tiger Rag
Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines
Club Hangover
KCBS CBS San Francisco
1 Jan 1957
Set 4
Let’s Do It Again
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (voc) Trio
Grand Ballroom
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
WNBC NBC NY
1 Jan 1970
Flying Home / Dark Eyes
Gene Krupa Quartet
‘New Years Dancing Party’
Metropole Café
WNBC NBC NY
31 Dec 1965
Set 5
Swingin’ Them Jingle Bells
Fats Waller and his Rhythm
Comm Rec
New York
29 Nov 1936
Jingle Bells
Glenn Miller Orchestra
Café Rouge
Hotel Pennsylvania
WJZ NBC Blue NY
27 Dec 1941
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Harry Reser Orchestra (voc) Tom Stacks
Comm Rec
New York
24 Oct 1934
Drummin’ Man + Theme
Gene Krupa Orchestra (voc) Anita O’Day
Aircheck
25 Dec 1942
Set 6
Jingle Bells
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Birdland
WABC ABC NY
Jan 1954
Half Nelson / White Christmas / Little Willie Leaps
Charlie Parker (as) Kenny Dorham (tp) Al Haig (p) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d)
‘Symphony Side Show’
Royal Roost
WMCA NY
25 Dec 1948
Set 7
Open + March of the Toys
Phil Davis Orchestra
‘Fountain of Fun’
WLW Cincinnati
19 Dec 1943
My Silent Love
Lena Horne (voc) Count Basie Orchestra
‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood
25 Dec 1945
Embraceable You
The Pied Pipers (voc) Harry James and the Music Makers
‘Command Performance USA’
AFRS Hollywood
25 Dec 1945
Yesterdays
Art Tatum (p)
‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood
25 Dec 1947
Set 8
Open + 2 Latin American Christmas Songs
Chiquita
‘Chriquita’
AFRS Hollywood
Dec 1946
O Come All Ye Faithful / Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem / It Came Upon A Midnight Clear / Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Frank Sinatra
‘V-Disc Christmas Selections’
New York
1944
Good King Wenceslas
Carol Richards, Garry Crosby, The Mellow men (voc) Ray Noble Orchestra
‘The New Edgar Bergen Show’
KNX CBS LA
25 Dec 1955
NOW, it’s Week 2 in the Festival of Giving. That’s the 2SER Supporter Drive. 2SER is 35 years old this year! Happy Birthday, 2SER.
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, thanks to your financial support each year on Supporter Drive.
In fact, 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)
Support The Phantom Dancer on this Tuesday’s show October 21.
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 8 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 Fluid Dynamics. Enjoy!
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
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