Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Rock’n’Roll Sax – Phantom Dancer 4 April 2023

Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor, influential 1940s jump and 1950s rock tenor saxophonist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer non-stop swing jazz feature artist. You’ll hear him from two 1956 Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party broadcasts on this week’s mix.

Greg Poppleton has been bringing you The Phantom Dancer, your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV, each week since 1985.

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The finyl hour is vinyl.

SAM ‘THE MAN’ TAYLOR

Taylor was born in Lexington, Tennessee. He attended Alabama State University, where he played with the Bama State Collegians. He later worked with Scatman Crothers, Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Buddy Johnson, Louis Jordan and Big Joe Turner. Taylor was one of the most requested session saxophone players in New York recording studios in the 1950s. He also replaced Count Basie as the house bandleader on Alan Freed’s radio series, Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party, on CBS, from where this week’s Phantom Dancer Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor tracks originate.

Taylor played the saxophone solo on Turner’s “Shake, Rattle and Roll”. He also played on “Harlem Nocturne”; on “Money Honey”, recorded by Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters in 1953; and on “Sh-Boom” by the Chords.

During the 1960s, he led a five-piece band, the Blues Chasers. In the 1970s, he frequently played and recorded in Japan.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor’s hit 1955 recording on the 1930s jazz standard, Harlem Nocturne. The song was written by Earle Hagen when he was a teenager! He later gave us some of the greatest TV themes ever: “Andy Griffith Show”, “Dick Van Dyke Show”, “Gomer Pyle USMC”, “Danny Thomas Show”, “That Girl”, “I Spy”, “Mod Squad”

Make sure you come back to this blog, Greg Poppleton’s Radio Lounge, every Tuesday, for the newest Phantom Dancer play list and Video of the Week!

4 April PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #593
107.3 2SER Tuesday 4 April 2023 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5UV Adelaide Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 3am – 4 and 6 -7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am and Sunday 11pm Reading Radio (QLD) Friday 1am – 2 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am – 12 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Saturday 4am – 5am Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturday 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm 2SEA Sapphire Coast Eden Sunday 9 – 10pm
Set 1	Swing on 1930s Radio
Open + Star Dust	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WOR Mutual NY 1951
Take the A Train (theme) + Koko	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Town Casino NBC Cleveland OH 1952
Tall Timbers (theme) + Loaded Pistol Loaded Dice	Gene Autry	‘Dude Martin Sunrise’ KGO ABC San Francisco 11 Feb 1949
Set 2	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band
Open + Push It	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 4 Sep 1956
Flag Waver	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 11 Sep 1956
Taylor Made + Close	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 4 Sep 1956
Set 3	Hillbilly Radio
Theme + Sugar Foot Rag	Skip Skipper Quartet	‘Stokely Hi Noon Roundup’ WMPS Memphis 1952
I Found It In Mother’s Bible	Skip Skipper Quartet (voc) Miss Sally Carter	‘Stokely Hi Noon Roundup’ WMPS Memphis 1952
I’ve Got A Gal Up On My Mind + Rainbows End + Close	The Plainsmen	‘Call of the Range’ KNX CBS Los Angeles 1946
Set 4	Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney
Enchanted	Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’ CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962
Shine On Harvest Moon	Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’ CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962
Deed I Do	Bing Crosby (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’ CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962
Baby, Baby + Close	Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’ CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962
Set 5	Louis Armstrong
Open + I Never Knew	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Spotlight Bands’ Dallas Tx Blue Network 17 Aug 1943
You Rascal You	Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 7 May 1950
Basin Street Blues	Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 12 Dec 1954
Skeleton in the Closet + Close	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1937
Set 6	1930s Australian Dance Orchestras
Marmelade	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Band	Comm Rec Sydney 24 Jan 1938
Cosmopolitan Blues	Maurice Gilman Orchestra (voc) Noel Judd	Comm Rec Sydney 8 Jan 1935
Annie Laurie	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Band (voc) Alice Smith	Comm Rec Sydney 24 Jan 1938
Harlem Heat	Dudley Cantrell and his Grace Grenadiers	Comm Rec Sydney 22 Nov 1937
Set 7	1940s Dance Band Singers
I Dream of You	Bob Allen (voc) Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘For The Record’ Carnegie Hall WEAF NBC NY 17 Apr 1944
Playmates	Lorraine Benson (voc) Ray Herbeck and his Music with Romance Orchestra	Trianon Ballroom WGN Chicago 24 Nov 1947
Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby?	Betty Martin and Randy Ryan (voc) Bob Strong Orchestra	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WOR Mutual NY 5 Aug 1944
Old Fashioned Love	Eddy Howard (voc) Eddy Howard Orchestra	Aragon Ballroom WGN Mutual Chicago 5 Dec 1948
Set 8	Charlie Parker’s 100th Birthday
Repetition / Interview / They Can’t Take That Away From Me	Charlie Parker and Strings	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 7 Apr 1951
52nd Street Theme	Charlie Parker and Miles Davis	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Sep 1948
Night in Tunisia	Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NY Birdland 31 Mar 1951
Ornithology	Charlie Parker and Kenny Dorham	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 1 Jan 1949

Ernest Hutcheson – Australian Pianist & Julliard President – Phantom Dancer 31 January 2023

Ernest Hutcheson is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist in a broadcast from 1936. He was an internationally renowned concert pianist born in Australia and was president of Juilliard, the prestigious Arts school in New York City.

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

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ERNEST

From his bio on the Steinway pianos’ website…

Ernest Hutcheson (1871-1951) was an Australian pianist, composer and teacher. Born in Melbourne, he toured as a child prodigy at the age of five. He later traveled to Leipzig and entered the Leipzig Conservatory at the age of fourteen to study with Carl Reinecke, Bernhard Stavenhagen, and Bruno Zwintscher. Prior to the outbreak of World War I he taught at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, but in 1914 he settled in New York, where he made his U.S. debut.

He is believed to have been the first pianist to play three concertos of Ludwig van Beethoven in a single concert: his performances of Beethoven’s third, fourth and fifth with the New York Symphony Orchestra in the Aeolian Hall in 1919.

JUILLIARD

Hutcheson had studied under Carl Reinecke (who studied with Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt), Bernhard Stavenhagen (a pupil of Liszt) and Bruno Zwintscher (who studied under Moscheles, among others). He would become Dean and then President of the Juilliard School, teaching eminent pianists that included Bruce Hungerford and Abram Chasins. He wrote two important books, “The Literature of the Piano” and “The Elements of Piano Technique,” and it is thanks to Hutcheson’s support that Gershwin was able to have the seclusion he required at Chautauqua Institution in order to meet the deadline to finish his Piano Concerto in F.

He became a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School, and successively Dean (1926–1937) and President (1937–1945) of the school. At Juilliard, he championed the use of radio musical broadcasts in education.

Hutcheson was also associated with the Chautauqua School of Music in Western New York State. Hutcheson provided a much needed refuge for George Gershwin at Chautauqua while composing and refining the Piano Concerto in F. Thanks to Ernest Hutcheson’s kind offer of seclusion for Gershwin at Chautauqua where his quarters were declared off limits to everyone until 4 p.m. daily, Gershwin was able to successfully complete his piano concerto on time.

You’ll hear him broadcasting from Chautauqua in the clip above. (I prefer his piano interpretation of the Emporer Piano Concerto to Walter Gieseking in 1944)

Ernest Hutcheson wrote concertos for piano; 2 pianos; and violin, and many solo piano works, such as a transcription of Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries. His music has been little heard in concert or on recordings, but his Australian compatriot Ian Munro has recorded some of his piano pieces.

Hutcheson wrote important books The Literature of the Piano, The Elements of Piano Technique, and Elektra, by Richard Strauss: a Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score, among others.

24 JANUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #582
107.3 2SER Tuesday 31 January 2023 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5UV Adelaide Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 3am – 4 and 6 -7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am and Sunday 11pm Reading Radio (QLD) Friday 1am – 2 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am – 12 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Saturday 4am – 5am Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturday 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm 2SEA Sapphire Coast Eden Sunday 9 – 10pm
Set 1	Les Brown
Mexican Hat Dance	Les Brown Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Bowman Field KY AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Oct 1945
This I Love Above All	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Gordon Drakes	‘Spotlight Bands’ Bowman Field KY AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Oct 1945
Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Butch Stone	‘Spotlight Bands’ Bowman Field KY AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Oct 1945
It Had to Be You + Mush Head	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Doris Day	‘Spotlight Bands’ Bowman Field KY AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Oct 1945
Set 2	Charlie Barnet
Redskin Rhumba (theme)  + Charleston Alley	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Dec 1959
But Beautiful	Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) Lynn Franklyn	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Dec 1959
Moonglow	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Dec 1959
Fair and Warmer	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Dec 1959
Set 3	Duke Ellington Orchestra
Take the A-Train (theme) + Love Letters	Duke Ellington Orchestra (tb) Lawrence Brown	‘One Night Stand’ New Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Main Stem	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ New Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Fishing for the Moon + Riff’n’Drill	Duke Ellington Orchestra (tp) Rex Stewart	‘One Night Stand’ New Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
The Kissing Bug + Close	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Joya Sherill	‘One Night Stand’ New Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Set 4	Ernest Hutcheson
Finale Mendelsohn Concerto in Gm	Ernest Hutcheson (piano) NBC Symphony Orchestra	‘The Magic Key’ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 18 Oct 1936
Spinning Song	Ernest Hutcheson (piano)	‘The Magic Key’ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 18 Oct 1936
Set 5	Bob Crosby
Summertime (theme) + Boogie Woogie Maxixe	Bob Crosby Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 29 Apr 1940
Oh, You Crazy Moon	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NYC 11 Jul 1939
Reminiscin’ Time	Bob Crosby Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 29 Apr 1940
You Turned the Tables on Me + But None Like You	Charlie Spivak Orchestra (voc) Irene Day & Tommy Mercer	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 7 Apr 1948
Set 6	Miff Mole Trombone
Big Butter and Egg Man	Miff Mole and his Nixieland Six	‘For the Record’ WEAF NBC NYC
Keep Smilin’ at Trouble	Eddie Condon Group (tb) Miff Mole	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 20 Sep 1944
Peg o’ my Heart	Miff Mole and his Nixieland Six	Comm Rec Chicago 26 Jun 1928
Impromptu Ensemble	Eddie Condon Group (tb) Miff Mole	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 9 Sep 1944
Set 7	Cab Calloway Records
A Minor Breakdown	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec NYC 10 Dec 1937
Vuelva	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec NYC 17 Oct 1939
Azure	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec NYC 23 Mar 1938
Fifteen Minutes Intermission	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec NYC 27 Jun 1940
Set 8	Modern Jazz on 1959 Radio
Open +Sid’s Ahead	Miles Davis	‘Bandstand USA’ The Spotlight Washington DC Mutual Network Feb 1959
In a Prescribed Manner	Buddy Rich	Birdland WABC ABC NYV 7 Nov 1959

Flip Philips Sax from Swing to Stravinsky – Phantom Dancer 10 January 2023

Flip Philips is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist in a broadcast from 1953 with Hank Jones (p/org) and Buddy Rich (d).

Joseph Edward Filippelli aka Flip Philips was a jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinettist who played swing, big band and Stravinsky.

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

You’ll also hear Louis Armstrong this week with a set from 1945 radio and a set of his 1920s small groups.

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FLIP

During the 1930s, Phillips played clarinet in a restaurant in Brooklyn. After that he was a member of bands led by Frankie Newton, Red Norvo, Benny Goodman, and Wingy Manone. He changed to tenor sax in his late 20s.

He was a regular soloist for the Woody Herman band in the middle 1940s and for the next ten years performed with Jazz at the Philharmonic.

Flip retired to Florida, but after fifteen years he returned to music, recording again and performing into his 80s.

He never lost the knack. On his final recording, made as the new millennium approached, he easily held his own alongside two of today’s big names, with a rounded, breathy tone that never weakened.

PHILIPS

Between 1944-46 he starred in Herman’s First Herd.

Headhunted by Herman, he became known for his contributions to the songs, The Good Earth, Apple Honey, Northwest Passage and many more.

Few musicians in the band were influenced by the new bebop sounds, but Herman’s knack of commissioning such talented young composer/ arrangers as Neal Hefti and Ralph Burns got the First Herd recognised as being in step with postwar progress.

Igor Stravinsky was impressed enough to write his Ebony Concerto specifically for the Herd; the story goes that, at a rehearsal, Phillips, apparently not the quickest of sight-readers, was told by Stravinsky, “What you are playing is very nice, but what I have written is much better.”

When the pressure of being continuously on the road caused Herman to disband at the end of 1946, Phillips worked with small groups, often featuring another ex-Herman star in trombonist Bill Harris, and joined Norman Granz’s JATP for concerts and tours.

During much of the next decade, he toured with Jazz At The Philharmonic (JATP), then at its peak as a high-profile roadshow, in which big-toned tenors were expected to egg the crowd on by indulging the instrument’s capacity to emit honks, squeals and earthshaking belches. One of the tunes used to bring the entertainment to a climax was Perdido, and a suitably rabble-rousing solo by Phillips, recorded at a JATP concert, linked the piece to him long after the event.

During this period, he often shared the stage with other top tenors, notably Lester Young and Ben Webster. They might have inspired his lighter touch on, respectively, blues and ballads, though Phillips was always able to adapt to his surroundings – with both Herman and JATP, he probably felt the need to blow at full throttle much of the time.

Here’s Flip Philips blowing at age 80

LATER

After joining Benny Goodman for a European tour in 1959, he decided to give up full-time playing. With his wife Sophia, he settled in Florida, making a living from non-musical jobs. He managed a beachside housing development and indulged his hobbies of golf and wood work. He also took up the bass clarinet.

But, by 1970, the jazz climate had altered in his favour. Bands were increasingly being formed by players of the past, and Phillips rejoined Herman for a gig at the Newport festival. He was a natural attraction at jazz parties run by wealthy aficionados.

The arrival of musicians whose styles harked back beyond bebop, let alone beyond John Coltrane, found Phillips joining Scott Hamilton on two-tenor dates. He often teamed up with guitarist Howard Alden, a fixture on the neo-swing scene.

Phillips thrived musically, showing he had lost nothing over the years, while adding the ease of expression that comes when you don’t have to prove yourself to anyone. On his last record, made at the age of 84, he sounds ultra-relaxed in the company of Joe Lovano, himself a poll-winning tenor, and James Carter. (From All About Jazz).

Highly recommend this thoroughly researched history of Flip Philips http://www.jazzarcheology.com/artists/flip_phillips.pdf

10 JANUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #579
107.3 2SER Tuesday 10 January 2023 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5UV Adelaide Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 3am – 4 and 6 -7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am and Sunday 11pm Reading Radio (QLD) Friday 1am – 2 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am – 12 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Saturday 4am – 5am Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturday 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm 2SEA Sapphire Coast Eden Sunday 9 – 10pm
Set 1	Louis Armstrong
Ain’t Misbehavin’	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Barrelhouse Bessie from Basin Street	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Peanut Vendor	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Coquette	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Set 2	Tito Puente Mambo King
Esy	Tito Puente Orchestra	Birdland WABC NYC 1953
Babarabatiri	Tito Puente Orchestra (voc) Vincent Chico Valdes	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 1953
Ron Kan Kan	Tito Puente Orchestra	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 1953
Set 3	Eddie Condon
I Found a New Baby	Eddie Condon Jazz Group	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
What Is There to Say?	Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Jazz Me Blues	Eddie Condon Jazz Group	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Set 4	Flip Philips
Three Little Words	Flip Philips (ts) Hank Jones (p/org) Buddy Rich (d)	Bandbox WMGM NYC (?) 19 Jan 1953
Carioca	Flip Philips (ts) Hank Jones (p/org) Buddy Rich (d)	Bandbox WMGM NYC (?) 19 Jan 1953
Sweet Lorraine	Flip Philips (ts) Hank Jones (p/org) Buddy Rich (d)	Bandbox WMGM NYC (?) 19 Jan 1953
Bugle Call Rag	Flip Philips (ts) Charlie Shavers (tp) Hank Jones (p/org) Buddy Rich (d)	Bandbox WMGM NYC (?) 19 Jan 1953
Set 5	1940s Women Swing Singers
Baby Boogie	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra (voc) Rosalind Patton	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 2 Dec 1947
Hollywood Bowl	Tony Pastor Orchestra (voc) Rosemay & Betty Clooney, Tony Pastor	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA Jun 1946
Beg Your Pardon	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Dinah Shore	‘Dinah Shore Show’ KNX CBS LA 4 May 1948
You Turned the Tables on Me + But None Like You	Charlie Spivak Orchestra (voc) Irene Day & Tommy Mercer	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 7 Apr 1948
Set 6	Louis Armstrong 1920s
That’s When I’ll Come Back To You	Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven (voc) Louis Armstrong & Lil Hardin	Comm Rec Chicago 13 May 1927
Savoyages’ Stomp	Caroll Dickenson’s Savoyagers	Comm Rec Chicago 5 Jul 1928
Too Busy	Louis Armstrong and his Hot Four (voc) Lillie Delk Christian	Comm Rec Chicago 26 Jun 1928
Basin Street Blues	Louis Armstrong and his Savoy Ballroom Five (voc) Earl Hines & Mancy Cara	Comm Rec Chicago 4 Dec 1928
Set 7	Ella Fitzgerald
Open + Who Ya’ Hunchin’?	Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra	Savoy Ballroom WJZ NBC Blue NYC 26 Feb 1940
You Hit The Spot	Chick Webb Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald	Radio Transcription 1936
It’s a Blue World	Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald	Savoy Ballroom WJZ NBC Blue NYC 4 Mar 1940
Rhythm & Romance	Chick Webb Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald	Radio Transcription 1936
Set 8	1950s Big Band Radio
Open + Dream a Little Dream of Me	Claude Thornhill Orchestra (voc) Patty Ryan	‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Aug 1955
Limelight	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Moonlight Gardens WLW NBC Cincinnati 26 Aug 1952
Two O’Clock Jump	Harry James Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WCBS CBS NYC 25 May 1953

Lionel Hampton – Phantom Dancer 31 May 2022

Lionel Hampton, this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist, was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. He worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich, to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. Lionel Hampton was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996.

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

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DRUMS

Lionel Hampton began his career playing drums for the Chicago Defender Newsboys’ Band (led by Major N. Clark Smith) while still a teenager in Chicago.

He moved to California in 1927 or 1928, playing drums for the Dixieland Blues-Blowers.

While he lived in Chicago, Hampton saw Louis Armstrong at the Vendome, remembering that the entire audience went crazy after his first solo.

He made his recording debut with The Quality Serenaders led by Paul Howard (which you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer), then left for Culver City and drummed for the Les Hite band at Sebastian’s Cotton Club.

One of his trademarks as a drummer was his ability to do stunts with multiple pairs of sticks such as twirling and juggling without missing a beat.

VIBRAPHONE

During this period, he began practicing on the vibraphone.

In 1930 Louis Armstrong came to California and hired the Les Hite band for performances and recordings. Armstrong was impressed with Hampton’s playing after Hampton reproduced Armstrong’s solo on the vibraphone and asked him to play behind him like that during vocal choruses.

So began his career as a vibraphonist, popularizing the use of the instrument in the process. Invented ten years earlier, the vibraphone is essentially a xylophone with metal bars, a sustain pedal, and resonators equipped with electric-powered fans that add tremolo.

While working with the Les Hite band, Hampton also occasionally did some performing with Nat Shilkret and his orchestra. During the early 1930s, he studied music at the University of Southern California. In 1934 he led his own orchestra, and then appeared in the Bing Crosby film Pennies From Heaven (1936) alongside Louis Armstrong (wearing a mask in a scene while playing drums).

In November 1936, the Benny Goodman Orchestra came to Los Angeles to play the Palomar Ballroom. When John Hammond brought Goodman to see Hampton perform, Goodman invited him to join his trio, which soon became the Benny Goodman Quartet with Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa completing the lineup.

The Trio and Quartet (which you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer) were among the first racially integrated jazz groups to perform before audiences and were a leading small-group of the day.

ORCHESTRA

In 1940 Hampton left the Goodman organization under amicable circumstances to form his own big band which you’ll hear in this week’s Phantom Dancer from two 1944 airchecks.

Hampton’s orchestra developed a high-profile during the 1940s and early 1950s.

His third recording with them in 1942 produced the version of “Flying Home”, featuring a solo by Illinois Jacquet that anticipated rhythm & blues.

Hampton was a featured artist at numerous Cavalcade of Jazz concerts held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles and produced by Leon Hefflin Sr.

The sixth Cavalcade of Jazz, June 25, 1950, precipitated the closest thing to a riot in the show’s eventful history. Lionel and his band paraded around the ball park’s infield playing ‘Flying High’. The huge crowd, around 14,000 went berserk, tossed cushions, coats, hats, programs, and just about anything else they could lay hands on and swarmed on the field.

Around 1945 or 1946, he handed a pair of vibraphone mallets to then-five year old Roy Ayers. Roy Ayres, composer and vibraphonist was seminal in the development of ‘acid jazz’ and is the Godfather of Neo Soul.

CHARITY

Hampton was deeply involved in the construction of various public housing projects, and founded the Lionel Hampton Development Corporation. Construction began with the Lionel Hampton Houses in Harlem, New York, in the 1960s, with the help of then Republican governor Nelson Rockefeller.

Hampton’s wife, Gladys Hampton, also was involved in construction of a housing project in her name, the Gladys Hampton Houses. Gladys died in 1971. In the 1980s, Hampton built another housing project called Hampton Hills in Newark, New Jersey.

In this final clip from the late 1940s, note the fender bass…

31 MAY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINECommunity Radio Network Show CRN #547
107.3 2SER Tuesday 31 May 2022 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	1940s-50s Swing Radio
Theme + Who’s Sorry Now	Ray Anthony Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1952
Blue Lou	Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra	Savoy Ballroom WEAF NBC Red NY 22 Jan 1940
Blue Moon + The Whistler	Bob Crosby Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Oct 1946
Set 2	Rudy Vallee
Open + Sweet Music Version 1	Rudy Vallee (voc) his Connecticut Yankees	‘The Fleischman Yeast Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NY 13 Dec 1934
Your Time is My Time (theme) + Fun To Be Fooled + That Woman of Mine + Close	Rudy Vallee (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra	‘Drene Program’ KFI NBC LA 11 Jan 1945
Sweet Music Version 2 + Close	Rudy Vallee (voc) his Connecticut Yankees	‘The Fleischman Yeast Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NY 13 Dec 1934
Set 3	Count Basie
One O’Clock Jump (theme) + April in Paris	Count Basie Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC NYC 1956
Big Red	Count Basie Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC NYC 1956
Two for the Blues	Count Basie Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC NYC 1956
Set 4	Lionel Hampton
Quality Shout	Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders (d) Lionel Hampton	Comm Rec Los Angeles 29 Apr 1929
Liza	Benny Goodman Quartet (vibes) Lionel Hampton	‘Camel Caravan’ KNX CBS LA 17 Aug 1937
Lady Be Good	Lionel Hampton Orchestra (d) Lionel Hampton	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 16 Oct 1944
Moonglow + Swanee River	Lionel Hampton Orchestra (vibes) Lionel Hampton	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jun 1944
Set 5	Philco Orchestra
Let a Little Pleasure Interfere with Business	Philco Orchestra (tp) Bob Effros	Radio Transcription WABC CBS NYC 1930
Boy! Oh! Boy! I’ve Got it Bad	Philco Orchestra (tp) Bob Effros (voc) Boswell Sisters	Radio Transcription WABC CBS NYC 1931
I Don’t Mind Walking in the Rain	Philco Orchestra (tp) Bob Effros	Radio Transcription WABC CBS NYC 1930
Set 6	Trad Jazz Radio
Beale Street Blues	Jimmy Dorsey ‘Dorseyland’ Band	Radio Transcription 1950
St Louis Blues	Eddie Condon	‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 27 Jan 1945
Hindustan	Bob Crosby Bobcats	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NYC 4 Jul 1939
Someday + Tiger Rag	Louis Armstrong	Wintergarden Theatre WNBC NBC NYC 19 Jun 1947
Set 7	Chuck Foster
Broadcast	Art Kassels and his Kassels-in-the-Air Orchestra (voc) Gloria Hart and Bob Johnson	‘Treasury Bandstand’ WWL CBS New Orleans 13 Jun 1950
Set 8	Artie Shaw
Nightmare (theme) + Sobbin’ Blues	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 25 Nov 1938
Any Old Time	Artie Shaw Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	Birdland WABC ABC NYC 18 Jan 1939
Thanks for Everything + Copenhagen + Close	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 30 Dec 1938

Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Rock’n’Roll Sax – Phantom Dancer 26 April 2022

Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor, influential 1940s jump and 1950s rock tenor saxophonist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer non-stop swing jazz feature artist. You’ll hear him from two 1956 Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party broadcasts on this week’s mix.

Because of the current Sydney Covid lockdown I can’t mix live from the 2SER studios as I normally do on Tuesdays, so this is a ‘classic’ Phantom Dancer from ‘the vaults’ in a ‘repeat premier’ for your aural enjoyment. Make sure you donate to community radio 2SER to keep these Phantom Dancers going.

Greg Poppleton has been bringing you The Phantom Dancer, your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV, each week since 1985.

Hear The Phantom Dancer online from 12:04pm AEST Tuesday 26 April at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ where you can also hear two years of archived shows.

The finyl hour is vinyl.

SAM ‘THE MAN’ TAYLOR

Taylor was born in Lexington, Tennessee. He attended Alabama State University, where he played with the Bama State Collegians. He later worked with Scatman Crothers, Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Buddy Johnson, Louis Jordan and Big Joe Turner. Taylor was one of the most requested session saxophone players in New York recording studios in the 1950s. He also replaced Count Basie as the house bandleader on Alan Freed’s radio series, Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party, on CBS, from where this week’s Phantom Dancer Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor tracks originate.

Taylor played the saxophone solo on Turner’s “Shake, Rattle and Roll”. He also played on “Harlem Nocturne”; on “Money Honey”, recorded by Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters in 1953; and on “Sh-Boom” by the Chords.

During the 1960s, he led a five-piece band, the Blues Chasers. In the 1970s, he frequently played and recorded in Japan.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor’s hit 1955 recording on the 1930s jazz standard, Harlem Nocturne. The song was written by Earle Hagen when he was a teenager! He later gave us some of the greatest TV themes ever: “Andy Griffith Show”, “Dick Van Dyke Show”, “Gomer Pyle USMC”, “Danny Thomas Show”, “That Girl”, “I Spy”, “Mod Squad”

Make sure you come back to this blog, Greg Poppleton’s Radio Lounge, every Tuesday, for the newest Phantom Dancer play list and Video of the Week!

26 APRIL PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #542
107.3 2SER Tuesday 26 April 2022 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Swing on 1930s Radio
Open + Star Dust	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WOR Mutual NY 1951
Take the A Train (theme) + Koko	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Town Casino NBC Cleveland OH 1952
GI Jive + Close	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Collins	‘The Raymond Scott Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Set 2	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band
Open + Push It	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 4 Sep 1956
Flag Waver	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 11 Sep 1956
Taylor Made + Close	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 4 Sep 1956
Set 3	Hillbilly Radio
Theme + Sugar Foot Rag	Skip Skipper Quartet	‘Stokely Hi Noon Roundup’ WMPS Memphis 1952
I Found It In Mother’s Bible	Skip Skipper Quartet (voc) Miss Sally Carter	‘Stokely Hi Noon Roundup’ WMPS Memphis 1952
I’ve Got A Gal Up On My Mind + Rainbows End + Close	The Plainsmen	‘Call of the Range’ KNX CBS Los Angeles 1946
Set 4	Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney
Enchanted	Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’ CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962
Shine On Harvest Moon	Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’ CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962
Deed I Do	Bing Crosby (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’ CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962
Baby, Baby + Close	Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’ CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962
Set 5	Louis Armstrong
Open + I Never Knew	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Spotlight Bands’ Dallas Tx Blue Network 17 Aug 1943
You Rascal You	Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 7 May 1950
Basin Street Blues	Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 12 Dec 1954
Skeleton in the Closet + Close	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1937
Set 6	1930s Australian Dance Orchestras
Marmelade	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Band	Comm Rec Sydney 24 Jan 1938
Cosmopolitan Blues	Maurice Gilman Orchestra (voc) Noel Judd	Comm Rec Sydney 8 Jan 1935
Annie Laurie	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Band (voc) Alice Smith	Comm Rec Sydney 24 Jan 1938
Harlem Heat	Dudley Cantrell and his Grace Grenadiers	Comm Rec Sydney 22 Nov 1937
Set 7	1940s Dance Band Singers
I Dream of You	Bob Allen (voc) Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘For The Record’ Carnegie Hall WEAF NBC NY 17 Apr 1944
Playmates	Lorraine Benson (voc) Ray Herbeck and his Music with Romance Orchestra	Trianon Ballroom WGN Chicago 24 Nov 1947
Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby?	Betty Martin and Randy Ryan (voc) Bob Strong Orchestra	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WOR Mutual NY 5 Aug 1944
Old Fashioned Love	Eddy Howard (voc) Eddy Howard Orchestra	Aragon Ballroom WGN Mutual Chicago 5 Dec 1948
Set 8	Charlie Parker’s 100th Birthday
Repetition / Interview / They Can’t Take That Away From Me	Charlie Parker and Strings	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 7 Apr 1951
52nd Street Theme	Charlie Parker and Miles Davis	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Sep 1948
Night in Tunisia	Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NY Birdland 31 Mar 1951
Ornithology	Charlie Parker and Kenny Dorham	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 1 Jan 1949

Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Rock’n’Roll Sax – Phantom Dancer 6 July 2021

Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor, influential 1940s jump and 1950s rock tenor saxophonist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer non-stop swing jazz feature artist. You’ll hear him from two 1956 Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party broadcasts on this week’s mix.

Because of the current Sydney Covid lockdown I can’t mix live from the 2SER studios as I normally do on Tuesdays, so this is a ‘classic’ Phantom Dancer from ‘the vaults’ in a ‘repeat premier’ for your aural enjoyment. Make sure you donate to community radio 2SER to keep these Phantom Dancers going.

Greg Poppleton has been bringing you The Phantom Dancer, your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV, each week since 1985.

Hear The Phantom Dancer online from 12:04pm AEST Tuesday 6 July at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ where you can also hear two years of archived shows.

The finyl hour is vinyl.

SAM ‘THE MAN’ TAYLOR

Taylor was born in Lexington, Tennessee. He attended Alabama State University, where he played with the Bama State Collegians. He later worked with Scatman Crothers, Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Buddy Johnson, Louis Jordan and Big Joe Turner. Taylor was one of the most requested session saxophone players in New York recording studios in the 1950s. He also replaced Count Basie as the house bandleader on Alan Freed’s radio series, Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party, on CBS, from where this week’s Phantom Dancer Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor tracks originate.

Taylor played the saxophone solo on Turner’s “Shake, Rattle and Roll”. He also played on “Harlem Nocturne”; on “Money Honey”, recorded by Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters in 1953; and on “Sh-Boom” by the Chords.

During the 1960s, he led a five-piece band, the Blues Chasers. In the 1970s, he frequently played and recorded in Japan.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor’s hit 1955 recording on the 1930s jazz standard, Harlem Nocturne. The song was written by Earle Hagen when he was a teenager! He later gave us some of the greatest TV themes ever: “Andy Griffith Show”, “Dick Van Dyke Show”, “Gomer Pyle USMC”, “Danny Thomas Show”, “That Girl”, “I Spy”, “Mod Squad”

Make sure you come back to this blog, Greg Poppleton’s Radio Lounge, every Tuesday, for the newest Phantom Dancer play list and Video of the Week!

6 JULY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #499
107.3 2SER Tuesday 6 JULY 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Swing on 1930s Radio
Open + Star Dust	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WOR Mutual NY 1951
Take the A Train (theme) + Koko	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Town Casino NBC Cleveland OH 1952
GI Jive + Close	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Collins	‘The Raymond Scott Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Set 2	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band
Open + Push It	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 4 Sep 1956
Flag Waver	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 11 Sep 1956
Taylor Made + Close	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 4 Sep 1956
Set 3	Hillbilly Radio
Theme + Sugar Foot Rag	Skip Skipper Quartet	‘Stokely Hi Noon Roundup’ WMPS Memphis 1952
I Found It In Mother’s Bible	Skip Skipper Quartet (voc) Miss Sally Carter	‘Stokely Hi Noon Roundup’ WMPS Memphis 1952
I’ve Got A Gal Up On My Mind + Rainbows End + Close	The Plainsmen	‘Call of the Range’ KNX CBS Los Angeles 1946
Set 4	Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney
Enchanted	Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’ CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962
Shine On Harvest Moon	Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’ CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962
Deed I Do	Bing Crosby (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’ CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962
Baby, Baby + Close	Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney Show’ CBS Hollywood 20 Mar 1962
Set 5	Louis Armstrong
Open + I Never Knew	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Spotlight Bands’ Dallas Tx Blue Network 17 Aug 1943
You Rascal You	Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 7 May 1950
Basin Street Blues	Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 12 Dec 1954
Skeleton in the Closet + Close	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1937
Set 6	1930s Australian Dance Orchestras
Marmelade	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Band	Comm Rec Sydney 24 Jan 1938
Cosmopolitan Blues	Maurice Gilman Orchestra (voc) Noel Judd	Comm Rec Sydney 8 Jan 1935
Annie Laurie	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Band (voc) Alice Smith	Comm Rec Sydney 24 Jan 1938
Harlem Heat	Dudley Cantrell and his Grace Grenadiers	Comm Rec Sydney 22 Nov 1937
Set 7	1940s Dance Band Singers
I Dream of You	Bob Allen (voc) Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘For The Record’ Carnegie Hall WEAF NBC NY 17 Apr 1944
Playmates	Lorraine Benson (voc) Ray Herbeck and his Music with Romance Orchestra	Trianon Ballroom WGN Chicago 24 Nov 1947
Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby?	Betty Martin and Randy Ryan (voc) Bob Strong Orchestra	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WOR Mutual NY 5 Aug 1944
Old Fashioned Love	Eddy Howard (voc) Eddy Howard Orchestra	Aragon Ballroom WGN Mutual Chicago 5 Dec 1948
Set 8	Charlie Parker’s 100th Birthday
Repetition / Interview / They Can’t Take That Away From Me	Charlie Parker and Strings	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 7 Apr 1951
52nd Street Theme	Charlie Parker and Miles Davis	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Sep 1948
Night in Tunisia	Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NY Birdland 31 Mar 1951
Ornithology	Charlie Parker and Kenny Dorham	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 1 Jan 1949

Lord Invader 1940s Calypso – Phantom Dancer 7 April 2020

Lord Invader is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He was a Calypso singer and composer who began performing in the 1930s and recorded in the US from 1941 to 1959. We hear one of his 1941 sides today, introduced by actor Vincent Price. He composed ‘Rum and Coca Cola’, a hit for The Andrew Sisters.

The Phantom Dancer produced and presented by 1920s-30s singer and actor Greg Poppleton can be heard online from 12:05pm AEST Tuesday 7 April at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

The final hour of the mix is all vinyl.

LORD INVADER

Lord Invader was born in Trinidad. He first came to notice in 1937 when he began performing in the capital, Port of Spain.

He competed in the very first  Calypso King competition and recorded for Bluebird records.

The Decca label invited him to New York City in 1941 to record.

He wrote many calypso lyrics, his most famous ‘Rum and Coca-Cola‘, was plagiarised by Morey Amsterdam and became a hit for the Andrews Sisters.

The melody had been previously published as the work of Venezuelan calypso composer Lionel Belasco on a song titled “L’Année Passée,” which was in turn based on a folk song from Martinique. Invader wrote lyrics to the tune.

The song became a local hit and was at the peak of its popularity when Amsterdam visited the island in September 1943 as part of a U.S.O. tour.

In 1948, after years of litigation, both plaintiffs won their cases, with Lord Invader receiving an award of $150,000 in owed royalties. However, Morey Amsterdam was allowed to retain copyright to the song. Lord Invader wrote a follow-up song to “Rum and Coca-Cola”, titled “Yankee Dollar”.

In the early 1940s, radio stations in the USA refused to play Lord Invader’s original version on the grounds of its using the trademarked name, and its references to prostitution and alcohol.

Invader later opened a calypso club in Trinidada and toured the U.S, Britain and Europe.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Birdsong had a place on US radio from the mid-1920s into the 1950s.

The show that started it all was American Radio Warblers, a program selling birdseed.

Organist Preston Sellers performed with TEN canaries.

The show ran for almost 30 years, finishing on the Mutual Network from Chicago.

Trill, I mean thrill, to Preston and ‘The Original Feathered Stars of the Air’ in this commercial 78 recording…

7 APRIL PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #431
107.3 2SER Tuesday 7 April 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm 5GTR Mt Gambier Mon 2:30 – 3:30am 4NAG Keppel FM 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 7LTN Launceston 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am
Set 1	Live 1950s Big Band Swing Radio
Theme + Dancing in the Dark	Jerry Gray and his Band of Today	Edgewater Beach Hotel WMAQ NBC Chicago 8 Jun 1951
The Song is You	Buddy Morrow Orchestra	‘Let’s Go With Music’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954
Jam with Sam + Caravan	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Town Casino NBC Cleveland OH 17 Sep 1952
Set 2	1930s Calypso, Turkish and Persian Music announced by Vincent Price
New York Subway	Lord Invader	‘The World in Music’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Shake Around	Lord Beginner	‘The World in Music’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Odalisque and Zara	Unknown Turkish then Persian Orchestra	‘The World in Music’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Set 3	1944 Jump and Swing On The Air
That’s The Stuff You Gotta Watch	Buddy Johnson Orchestra (voc) Ella Johnson and Band	Comm Rec New York City 4 Oct 1944
Accentuate the Positive	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘One Night Stand’ New Zanzibar Cafe NY AFRS Re-broadcast 18 Mar 44
To Me You Are Beautiful + Flying Home	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Civic Auditorium Oakland Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Jun 44
Set 4	Dance Bands on ‘One Night Stand’
Oh You Beautiful Doll (theme) + Lullaby of Broadway	Music in the Foster Fashion (voc) Chuck Foster	‘One Night Stand’ Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker NY AFRS Re-broadcast 13 Aug 1945
Let’s Take It Slow	Shep Fields and his New Music	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1943
Medley: A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody / Mandy / All By Myself	Frankie Carle (piano and rhythm)	‘One Night Stand’ Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel LA AFRS Re-brodcast 1951
Set 5	Crooners on 1930s Radio
I’ll Follow You	Bing Crosby	Comm Recording New York City 28 Oct 1932
Under The Palms	Donald Novis (voc) Gus Arnheim Orchestra	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription TRANSCO Hollywood 1932
TBA	Rudy Vallee	‘Fleishman Yeast Hour’ WEAF NBC Red New York 1934
I’ve Had My Moments + I’m Not Lazy I’m Dreaming	Russ Columbo	‘Hollywood on the Air’ KECA NBC Blue LA 15 Jul 1934
Set 6	Famous Name Bands on 1940s Radio
Mister Pastor Goes To Town	Tony Pastor Orchestra	Aircheck New York City Feb 1942
Blue Cellophane	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Downbeat Awards’ Chicago Opera House Blue Network Chicago 25 Mar 1945
Body and Soul (theme) + Chant of the Groove	Coleman Hawkins Orchestra	Savoy Ballroom Aircheck NYC 1940
Paducah + Clarinet a la King	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Benny Goodman	‘Spotlight Bands’ Springfield Mass Blue Network 29 Sep 1943
Set 7	Forgotten Singers from 1939-40 Radio
“I” The Living “I” (Gilbert and Sullivan)	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra (voc) Ida James	Comm Rec New York City 8 Apr 1939
Oh, You Crazy Moon	Bea wain (voc) Your Hit Parade Orchestra	‘Your Hit Parade’ WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Oct 1939
Looking For Yesterdays	Artie Shaw Orchestra (voc) Anita Boyer	Broadcast New York City 26 Oct 1940
I Cried For You	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra (voc) Kitty Lane	Trianon Ballroom WCLE Cleveland OH 9 Apr 1939
Set 8	Radio Bands Inspired by BeBop
Elevation + Heart to Heart (theme)	Elliot Lawrence Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 5 Dec 1947
God Child	Chubby Jackson Orchestra	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 12 Mar 1949
How High The Moon	Allen Eager	Birdland WJZ ABC NY Jun 1953
Bye Bye Blues	Benny Goodman Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ The Click Philadelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948

Larry Clinton 1930s and 40s Radio – Phantom Dancer 21 January 2020

The Tuesday 21 January Phantom Dancer on radio and online – your two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio with Greg Poppleton – opens with Larry Clinton as feature artist from live 1930s-40s radio.

You can hear The Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

The last hour is all vinyl.

LARRY

The Phantom Dancer kicks off with 1930s-40s airchecks by The Dipsy Doodler, swing band leader Larry Clinton.

Larry Clinton was a trumpeter who became a prominent American bandleader and arranger in the late 1930s

He also played trombone and clarinet. In his twenties, he became a prolific arranger for the dance orchestras of Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Glen Gray, Louis Armstrong and Bunny Berigan.

His first stint as a bandleader was from 1937 to 1941, and he recorded a string of hits for Victor Records while broadcasting on air for such Clinton feature RCA Victor NBC programs as ‘Larry Clinton’s Campus Club’.

CLINTON

The Clinton band’s repertoire included pop tunes of the day and ambitious instrumentals penned by Clinton (the most popular, “A Study in Brown,” spawned four sequels in different colours).

His swing adaptations of classical compositions swept the industry, and orchestras everywhere were “swinging the classics” by adding pop lyrics to melodies by Debussy and Tchaikovsky. His version of Debussy’s “Reverie”, with vocalist Bea Wain, was particularly popular. Entitled “My Reverie”, his version peaked at #1 on Billboard’s Record Buying Guide in 1938.

SOUNDIES

Clinton’s band was predominantly a recording group that also played college proms and hotel ballrooms. On the strength of Clinton’s record hit “The Dipsy Doodle,” Vitaphone and Paramount Pictures signed the band to star in three 10-minute theatrical films. All were filmed in New York.

In 1941 Clinton and his band appeared in six short musical films designed for then-popular “movie jukeboxes.” (The films were ultimately released as Soundies in 1943.) This was one of his last jobs as a bandleader.

AIR FORCE

He quit the music business on the outbreak of World War II and joined the United States Army Air Forces. A rated pilot, he rose to the rank of captain, was stationed with the Air Transport Command in Calcutta and China during Hump airlift, and was a flight instructor with the 1343rd Base Unit.

He resumed his musical career and enjoyed new success as a bandleader from 1948 to 1950. He remained active in the music business – often leading a studio band for pop singers like Barry Frank – until 1961.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Larry Clinton and the Orchestra with Bea Wain singing the aforementioned ‘My Reverie’ in a 1941 ‘soundie’. Enjoy!

Make sure you come back to this blog, Greg Poppleton’s Radio Lounge, every Tuesday, for the newest Phantom Dancer play list and Video of the Week!

Thank you.

21 JANUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #420
107.3 2SER Tuesday 21 January 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Larry Clinton ‘The Dipsy Doodler’ on 1938-48 Radio
The Dipsy Doodle (theme) + Zigzag	Larry Clinton Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WEAF NBC Red NY 1938
In A Mist	Larry Clinton Orchestra	Hotel Park Central WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jul 1939
Lonesome Road + Study In Brown (Close)	Larry Clinton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 18 Dec 1948
Set 2	‘Here’s To Veterans’ 1947-55 Radio Transcription Series
Manhattan (open) + Dark Dream	Georgie Auld	‘Here’s To Veterans’ Radio Transcription 1955
Bloop Bleep	Nat King Cole Trio (voc) Woody Herman	‘Here’s To Veterans’ Radio Transcription 5 Jul 1947
Cow Cow Boogie + Blacksmith Blues (close)	Ella Mae Morse	‘Here’s To Veterans’ Radio Transcription 1954
Set 3	1930s – 40s Mickey Mouse Bands on Radio
Feeling For Me Of You	Tommy Carlyn (voc) Gail Saunders	Bill Green’s Casino Pittsburgh NBC 1942
The Girl With The Light Blue Hair	Benny Krueger Orchestra	WOR Mutual NY 28 Apr 1940
The More I Know + Robins and Roses + Station Schedule (fades)	Clint Noble Orchestra (voc) Trio	WEAF NBC Red NY 3 Jul 1936
Set 4	Trad Bands on Live 1955-56 Radio
Theme + Royal Garden Blues	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 5 Feb 1955
The Boppinpoof Song	Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘All-Star Parade of Jazz’ Basin Street WRCA NBC NY 8 May 1955
Shine	Al Hirt Jazz Band	‘Jazz Band Ball’ WWL CBS New Orleans 18 Aug 1956
Set 5	1934 – 36 Radio Bands
Maniac’s Ball	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1934
There’s A Small Hotel	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Maxine Gray	‘Lady Ester Serenade’ WEAF NBC Red NY 26 Aug 1936
Sweet and Lowdown	Anson Weeks Orchestra	Radio Transcription Peacock Court Hotel Mark Hopkins San Francisco 1932
Love is Just Around The Corner + When Day Is Done	Henry Busse Orchestra (voc) Marion Holmes	Radio Transcription Hollywood 1935
Set 6	Harry James on the Air
The One I Love	Harry James Orchestra (voc) The Skylarks	‘Call For Music’ KFI NBC LA 1948
Two O’Clock Jump	Harry James Octet	Aircheck 1950
Jump Sauce	Harry James Orchestra	Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca KFI NBC LA 10 Feb 1946
It’s A Wonderful World	Harry James Orchestra	Southland Cafe WNAC NBC Boston 19 Mar 1940
Set 7	Modern Jazz Small Groups on 1940s-50s Radio
Tiny Grimes	Tiny Grimes Quartet	Comm Rec New York City 3 Nov 1944
O-Go-Mo	Charlie Ventura	Aircheck 1951
The 7-11 Jump	Erroll Garner Trio	Basin Street WRCA NBC NY May 1956
Somebody Loves Me + Goodbye	Benny Goodman Sextet (with Alistair Cooke)	‘Kings of Jazz’ BBC New York City 8 Dec 1945
Set 8	Charlie Parker on WMCA 1948-49
52nd Street Theme	Charlie Parker (as) Miles Davis (tp) Tadd Dameron (piano) Curley Russell (bass) Max Roach (d)	Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Sep 1948
Hot House	Charlie Parker (as) Kenny Dorham (tp) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Joe Harris (d)	Royal Roost WMCA NY 15 Jan 1949
Ornithology	Charlie Parker (as) Miles Davis (tp) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Max Roach (d)	Royal Roost WMCA NY 11 Dec 1948

First Radio Wedding 1924 – Phantom Dancer 12 December 2019

WEDDING OF THE YEAR

This week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton, is ‘the Red-Headed Music Maker’, Wendall Hall. Wendall was an early radio star and was the first to be married live on radio on 4 June 1924 to Marion Martin over WEAF New York.

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WENDALL

This week’s Phantom Dancer goes back to the earliest radio of the 1920s – 39s for its feature artist. Wendall Hall was an American country singer, vaudeville artist, songwriter, pioneer radio performer, Victor recording artist and ukulele player.

RAIN

In 1923, Hall released the song “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No Mo’,” which sold over two million copies in the United States. It was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. The song is also considered the first musical hit on radio. He wrote “Underneath the Mellow Moon” and “Carolina Rose”. Hall also wrote songs with Carson Robison and Art Gillham.

1920s RADIO STAR

Hall began his career in 1922 Chicago as a song plugger for Forster Music. He traveled around the US and stopped in towns to play in music stores, theaters, and radio. In vaudeville he began singing and playing the xylophone. He found the ukulele to be more portable and quickly became an expert with that instrument. In January, 1924 he signed with the National Carbon Company to host the Eveready Hour a pioneer commercially sponsored variety program on WEAF in New York. On November 4, 1924 the program was on a pre-network 18 station “hook-up” to broadcast election returns with entertainers Will Rogers, Carson Robison, Art Gillham, and the Waldorf Astoria Orchestra. Eveready even painted their batteries with a red top to cash in on Hall’s popularity. In 1929 Wendell Hall hosted the Majestic Music Hour and a few years later Gillette’s Community Sing. He made a few musical short films.

On a 1925 European tour he was broadcast over a 21 station hook-up, the largest ever attempted up to that time.

After his radio days were over, Wendell Hall wrote commercials for radio.

TAROPATCH

Hall performed on a variety of stringed instruments, including the standard ukulele, the taropatch ukulele, banjo, and the hybrid banjolele, as well as the tiple. Like so many of the other performers during the era, Hall was a big fan of the instruments created by the C.F. Martin & Company, particularly their Taropatch. Like other performers, he was unsuccessful in obtaining an endorsement deal with Martin, but in response to his letter offering to endorse their product, Martin offered their 20% discount for professional performers and to inlay his name in the head of the instrument.

UKULELE

He published an instruction book, Wendell Hall’s Ukulele Method, with Forster Music in 1925, that was edited by May Singhi Breen. He also marketed a series of custom ukuleles through the Regal Musical Instrument Company of Chicago, with his picture on the head of The Red Head Ukulele and banjolele with red tuning pegs that became collectors’ items for several generations afterward

With the resurgence of the uke’s popularity in the 1950s, Hall was able to land a radio show on WBKB five days a week, the home of the Griff Williams Show which is your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #417
107.3 2SER Tuesday 10 December 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: 1 ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Modernistic 1950s Dance Bands
Artistry in Rhythm (theme) + A Melody To The Trees	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Lakeside Ballroom Dayton OH WLW NBC Cincinnati 16 Sep 1952
Savings Bonds Ad + The Stars and Stripes Forever	Ralph Flanagan Orchestra	‘Treasury Bandstand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WCBS CBS NY 1950
Wending My May Back Home + Close	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	‘Jazz Is My Beat’ New York City AFRTS Re-broadcast 1958
Set 2	Early Live 1930s Ragio
Open + Music In My Fingers	George Shackley Ensemble (voc) Veronica Wiggins	‘Nihi Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1931
Margie + Do You Ever Think Of Me? + Sweet Sue	Jimmie Grier Orchestra	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel KFI NBC Gold Network LA 1932
Melancholy Moon + Pineapple Ad + It Gonna Rain No More + Aloha Oe	Wendall Hall	‘The Pineapple Picadour’ WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 2 Apr 1931
Set 3	Super Jive From 1937 – 38 Radio
Dark Forest (theme) + Limehouse Blues	Earl Hines Orchestra	Grand Terrace Room WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 3 Aug 1938
A Study in Blue	Larry Clinton Orchestra	Hotel Park Central WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jul 1939
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South + Camel Hop	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 20 Oct 1937
Set 4	1940s Dance Bands
Voglio Fischiettiare (I Like To Whistle)	Nuccia Natali and Vocal Trio with Orchestra	Comm Rec Cetra Turin 1940
The Sheik of Araby	Russ Morgan Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast 28 Apr 1944
Medley	Art Kassels and his Kassels-in-the-Air Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Chicago 1947
Set 5	Jazz and Pop on 1940 Radio
It Never Entered My Head	Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin	Radio Transcription New York City 1940
Open + Down For The Count	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 6 Nov 1940
St Louis Blues	Roy Eldridge	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 21 Apr 1940
Four Beat Shuffle + Pretty Little Petticoat (theme)	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 1940
Set 6	New Orleans Jazz on Radio
Open + Way Down Yonder in New Orleans	Louis Armstrong All-Stars	‘New Orleans Movie Opening’ Wintergarden Theatre WNBC NBC NY 19 Jun 1947
Open + At The Jazz Band Ball	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ Town Hall WJZ Blue NY 30 Sep 1944
I Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody None Of My Jelly Roll	Bud Freeman Summa Cum Laude Orchestra	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 May 1940
That’s A’Plenty + Relaxin’ At The Touro (theme)	Muggsy Spanier Dixieland All-Stars	Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 18 Apr 1953
Set 7	Big Bands on 1947 Radio
Who’s Got The Ball?	Harry James Orchestra	The Click WFIL Philadelphia 22 Dec 1947
Kate	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) The Town Criers	Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 6 Dec 1947
Everybody Eats When They Come To My House	Cab Calloway’s Caballiers (voc) CC	‘Guest Star’ New York City 1947
Passion Flower	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Ciro’s Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast Jul 1947
Set 8	Charlie Parker on WMCA NY 1949
Chasin’ The Bird	Charlie Parker Sextet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 12 Mar 1949
Confirmation	Charlie Parker Quintet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 19 Feb 1949
Scrapple From The Apple	Charlie Parker Quintet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 22 Jan 1949

Dolly Dawn – Inspiration for Ella Fitzgerald – Phantom Dancer 1 October 2019

DOLLY DAWN

When you listen to Ella Fitzgerald you hear Dolly Dawn? Why? Because Dolly Dawn was a big influence on Ella Fitzgerald’s singing style. Dolly Dawn is this week’s Phantom Dancer presented by Greg Poppleton.

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FOCUS

Dolly Dawn was one of the first vocalists to become the sole focus of a band. When Walter Winchell coined the term ‘canary’ for female singers, he was referring to her.

She sang with George Hall and his Orchestra from age 16. Though born Theresa Maria Stabile, (she was a cousin of band leader Dick Stabile) she had already given herself the stage name Billie Starr after winning a singing contest at age 14.

George Hall and Harriet Mencken, a writer on The New York Journal-American, came up with the name, Dolly Dawn, for her.

‘She’s as fresh as the dawn and as dimpled as a doll,’ the newspaperwoman said, according to an article in Radio Guide in 1937. Miss Dawn never stopped hating the name, which she thought made her sound like a stripper.

DAWN PATROL

Nevertheless, her relationship with Hall and his wife was so close that they formally adopted her when she was 19. In a ceremony on 4 July 1941, at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, George Hall officially turned the band over to her and became her manager.

NEW YORK – JANUARY 28: Big Band singer Dolly Dawn and orchestra leader George Hall. Dolly models hat fashions. Image dated January 28, 1936. New York, NY. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

The band was renamed ‘Dolly Dawn and Her Dawn Patrol’ and on this week’s Phantom Dancer we hear her introduce herself as a band leader on NBC’s ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’.

The WW2 draft took most of her band, so from 1942 she continued without the band, appearing in engagements across the US. She continued to record into the 1950s.

She developed a cult following that saw her in scattered club appearances in the 1970s and 80s, particularly in response to the release of a double album of her records with George Hall on the RCA Bluebird label in 1976.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is Dolly Dawn singing with George Hall’s Orchestra in the 1938 short, ‘Hall’s Holliday’. Enjoy!

1 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #407
107.3 2SER Tuesday 1 October 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	1939 – 40 Radio Remotes
Theme + Choppin’ Wood	Woody Herman Orchestra	The Famous Door WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jan 1940
Dardenella	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Chesterfield Show’ WABC CBS NY 25 Oct 1939
The Chinese Lullaby + Close	Teddy Powell Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Blair	The Famous Door WJSV Washington DC via WABC CBS NY 21 Sep 1939
Set 2	This Is Jazz 1947 Radio
Theme + St Louis Blues + Tin Roof Blues	Wild Bill Davison and more (voc) George Brunies	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 10 May 1947
Chocolate Bar	James P Johnson	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 17 May 1947
Blue Turning Gray Over You + I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling	Wild Bill Davison and more	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 17 May 1947
Set 3	Glenn Miller in German 1944
Long Ago and Far Away	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Johnny Desmond	ABSIE American Broadcasting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 30 Oct 1944
Body and Soul	Glenn Miller Orchestra	ABSIE American Broadcasting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 27 Nov 1944
Poinciana	Glenn Miller Orchestra	ABSIE American Broadcasting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 6 Nov 1944
Set 4	Dolly Dawn
The You and Me That Used To Be	George Hall Orchestra (voc) Dolly Dawn	‘Easy to Remember’ WABC CBS NY 1937
Dolly Dawn Speaks	Dolly Dawn	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 25 Aug 1941
Beethoven Wrote But It Swings	Dolly Dawn and her Dawn Patrol	Comm Rec 15 Feb 1939
52nd Street	George Hall Orchestra (voc) Dolly Dawn	‘Easy to Remember’ WABC CBS NY 1937
Set 5	Novelty Songs on 1930s-40s Radio
The Music Goes Round and Round	Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) Jack Teagarden	‘Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 12 Jan 1936
Open The Door Richard	The Hit Paraders	‘Your Hit Parade’ WNBC NBC NY 1 Mar 1947
Swingin’ On A Star	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA	‘Spotlight Bands’ Tuskagee Alabama AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Oct 1944
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah	Ginny Simms	‘Your Hit Parade’ WNBC NBC NY 1 Mar 1947
Set 6	Trad Bands on 1940s Radio
Ollie Outs In Free	Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) Carl Ravazza and Band	Radio Transcription 1942
Tain’t Me	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Collins	Radio Transcription 1944
Cancel the Flowers	Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) Carl Ravazza	Radio Transcription 1941
The Beard	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1944
Set 7	Cocoanut Grove 1931 – 32 Radio Transcriptions
Do The New York	Gus Arnheim Orchestra	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1931
Down Among the Sleepy Pines	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Jean Shark and the Three Ambassadors	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1932
Out of Nowhere	Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Bing Crosby	‘MJB Coffee Revue’ KFI NBC Orange Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1931
I Know You’re Lying But I Love It	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo DeLys and the Four Cheers	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1932
Set 8	Jazz Piano on Radio
Budo	Bud Powell	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NY 7 Mar 1953
All The Things You Are	Thelonius Monk	Aircheck 1948
Cherokee	Art Tatum	Radio Transcription late 1940s
I’ll Remember April	Erroll Garner	Peacock Lane KFI NBC LA Mar 1957