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

Tony Bennett – Phantom Dancer 22 November 2022

Tony Bennett, singer, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. You’ll hear him and his music in a 1955 interview. Bennett has released over 70 albums during his career. The biggest selling of these in the U.S. have been I Left My Heart in San Francisco, MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett, and Duets: An American Classic, all of which went platinum for shipping one million copies. Eight other albums of his have gone gold in the U.S. Bennett also charted over 30 singles during his career.

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

LISTEN to this week’s Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday22 November) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

EARLY YEARS & WAR

At age 10, Tony Bennett sang at the opening of the Triborough Bridge in New York City, standing next to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia who patted him on the head.

He began singing for money at age 13, performing as a singing waiter in several Italian restaurants around his native Queens.

Drawing was another early passion and he saw himself having a career in commercial art. He attended New York’s School of Industrial Art studying painting and music . He later appreciated their emphasis on proper technique.

He dropped out at age 16 to help support his family and worked as a copy boy and runner for the Associated Press in Manhattan

He then set his sights on a professional singing career, returning to performing as a singing waiter, playing and winning amateur nights all around the city, and having a successful engagement at a Paramus, New Jersey, nightclub

As an infantryman in the US Army from 1944 during World War 2 in Germany, Tony Bennett narrowly escaped death in combat several times. The experience made him a pacifist. He later wrote, “Anybody who thinks that war is romantic obviously hasn’t gone through one…It was a nightmare that’s permanent. I just said, ‘This is not life. This is not life.'” At the war’s end he was part of the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp near Landsberg.

Upon his discharge from the Army and return to the States in 1946, Tony Bennett studied at the American Theatre Wing on the GI Bill. He was taught bel canto singing which has kept his voice in good shape for his entire career.

NEW AUDIENCE

Around 1990, Tony’s son, Danny Bennett, (who you will hear as a 17 month old in the 1955 Tony Bennett interview in this week’s Phantom Dancer) felt that younger audiences who were unfamiliar with his father would respond to his music if given a chance. No changes to Tony’s formal appearance, singing style, musical accompaniment or song choice (generally the Great American Songbook) were necessary or desirable.

Danny began regularly to book his father on Late Night with David Letterman, a show with a younger, “hip” audience. This was subsequently followed by appearances on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Simpsons, Muppets Tonight, and various MTV programs.

In 1993, Bennett played a series of benefit concerts organized by alternative rock radio stations around the country. The plan worked; as Tony later remembered, “I realized that young people had never heard those songs. Cole Porter, Gershwin – they were like, ‘Who wrote that?’ To them, it was different. If you’re different, you stand out.”

Bennett was seen at MTV Video Music Awards shows side by side with the likes of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Flavor Flav, and as his “Steppin’ Out with My Baby” video received MTV airplay, it was clear that, as The New York Times said, “Tony Bennett has not just bridged the generation gap, he has demolished it. He has solidly connected with a younger crowd weaned on rock. And there have been no compromises.”

His 1994 MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett album went platinum and, besides taking the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance Grammy award for the third straight year, also won the top Grammy prize of Album of the Year.

TECHNIQUE

Bennett had no intention of retiring until his announcement on stage in 2021, saying that he had to retire due to health reasons. He was 95.

Refering to artists like Pablo Picasso, Jack Benny, and Fred Astaire, Bennett said “right up to the day they died, they were performing. If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.”

Regarding his choices in music, Bennett stated his artistic stance in a 2010 interview:

“I’m not staying contemporary for the big record companies, I don’t follow the latest fashions. I never sing a song that’s badly written. In the 1920s and ’30s, there was a renaissance in music that was the equivalent of the artistic Renaissance. Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and others just created the best songs that had ever been written. These are classics, and finally they’re not being treated as light entertainment. This is classical music.”

22 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #570
107.3 2SER Tuesday 22 November 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	Ben Burnie – Music While You Work
It’s a Lonesome Old Town (theme) + The Army Air Corp	Ben Bernie Orchestra	‘War Workers’ Program’ relayed to CFRB Toronto Canada 31 Aug 1942
The Singing Sands	Ben Bernie Orchestra (voc) Jack Fulton	‘War Workers’ Program’ relayed to CFRB Toronto Canada 31 Aug 1942
Put-Put-Put-Put-Put Your Arms Around Me	Ben Bernie Orchestra (voc) The King’s Jesters	‘War Workers’ Program’ relayed to CFRB Toronto Canada 31 Aug 1942
Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry + Rosalie + Close	Ben Bernie Orchestra (voc) Gail Robbins	‘War Workers’ Program’ relayed to CFRB Toronto Canada 31 Aug 1942
Set 2	Sauter-Finnegan
Open + Liza	The Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 9 Jun 1957
Midnight Sleighride	The Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 9 Jun 1957
April in Paris	The Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra (voc) Anita Darian	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 9 Jun 1957
Doodle Town Fifers + Close	The Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 9 Jun 1957
Set 3	Smooth Music
Song of the West  (theme) + Hooray for Love	Caesar Petrillo and the CBS Orchestra  (voc) Elaine Rodgers	‘The Chicagoans’ WBBM CBS Chicago 10 Apr 1950
Dancing in the Dark + Old Pal	Caesar Petrillo and the CBS Orchestra	‘The Chicagoans’ WBBM CBS Chicago 10 Apr 1950
Black Lace	Caesar Petrillo and the CBS Orchestra  (voc) Lon Saxon	‘The Chicagoans’ WBBM CBS Chicago 10 Apr 1950
Happy Times + Song of the West (theme)	Caesar Petrillo and the CBS Orchestra  (voc) Elaine Rodgers	‘The Chicagoans’ WBBM CBS Chicago 10 Apr 1950
Set 4	Tony Bennett
Who Wants My Bublinsky? (theme) + Open	Howard Miller	‘Howard Miller Show’ WBBM Chicago 30 Aug 1955
Because of You	Tony Bennett	‘Howard Miller Show’ WBBM Chicago 30 Aug 1955
Interview	Tony, Sandy & Danny Bennett	‘Howard Miller Show’ WBBM Chicago 30 Aug 1955
May I Never Love Again + Close	Tony Bennett	‘Howard Miller Show’ WBBM Chicago 30 Aug 1955
Set 5	1930s-40s Swing
Cotton Pickers’ Congregation	Russ Morgan Orchestra	Paradise Restaurant NYC 14 Oct 1938
Down South Camp Meeting	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania NYC 20 Nov 1937
Boogie Woogie Lullaby	Ted Fio Rito Orchestra (voc) Madeline Mahoney	Naval Air Station Banana River FL 12 Aug 1945
Flying Home	Will Bradley Orchestra	Famous Door New York City 21 Feb 1941
Set 6	Harmonists
For You	King Sisters	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1947
Blues in the Night	Trio (voc) Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Jefferson Barracks MI Mutual Network 23 Nov 1945
Just Squeeze Me	King Sisters	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1947
Heebie Geebie Blues	Boswell Sisters	‘Woodbury Program’ KNX CBS LA 18 Sep 1934
Set 7	Jimmy Dorsey
Contrasts (theme) + Jug Music	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	Aircheck 20 Oct 1941
Hit the Note	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 5 Sep 1943
Dixieland Detour	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WABC CBS NY 5 Oct 1939
Saturday Night	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Patti Thomas	‘Spotlight Bands’ 11 Feb 1945
Set 8	Bop 1949
Tiny’s Blues	Chubby Jackson Orchestra	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 5 Mar 1949
Esy	Tito Puente Orchestra	‘Birdland Show’ WABC ABC NYC 1951

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.

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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

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #374
107.3 2SER Tuesday 12 February 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 24 other stations.
Set 1	1944-46 Radio Big Bands
Racing with the Moon (theme) + Candy Hop	Vaughan Monroe Orchestra (voc) VM	‘One Night Stand’ Blackhawk Restaurant Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 6 Feb 1945
Accentuate the Positive	Frankie Masters Orchestra (voc) Frankie Masters, Phyllis Miles and the Girl Quartet	‘Spotlight Bands’ Cedar Rapids, Iowa Blue Network 1945
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto #2	Freddy Martin Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Jan 1946
Set 2	Count Basie Rock’n’Roll
(Theme and close) One O’Clock Jump + Little Pony + Why Not? + The Moon is Green + Tpp Close For Comfort (voc) Joe Williams	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 16 Jun 1956
Heading Home + As Long As I’m Moving	Shirley Gunter	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 16 Jun 1956
In Self-Defence	The Flairs	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 16 Jun 1956
Set 3	Woody Herman 1947 – 50s Radio
Open + I’ve Got News For You	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) WH	‘Just Jazz’ Shrine Auditorium Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 1947
Ad + The Goof and I	Woody Herman Third Herd	‘Monitor’ Basin Street WRCA NBC NY 26 Jun 1955
Mambo the Most	Woody Herman Third Herd	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Peony Park WOW NBC Omaha Nebraska 1948
Set 4	Jazz Inspired Arabic Music
(Open and Close) Coca Cola Ad	Unknown	Cairo 1950
Rhumba	Hanan and Fairouz	Comm Rec Beirut 1950s
Swing	Hanan and Fairouz	Comm Rec Beirut 1950s
Set 5	Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson 1944 – 46
Who Put The Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine?	Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 8 Feb 1946
Candlelight + In a Mist	Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 10 Jul 1944
Who’s Goin’ Steady With Who?	Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 8 Feb 1946
Set 6	Eddie Condon 1944 Blue Network
Rosetta	Eddie Condon group with Muggsy Spanier and Miff Mole	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 16 Sep 1944
Memphis Blues	Eddie Condon group with Muggsy Spanier and Miff Mole	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 16 Sep 1944
There’ll Be Some Changes Made	Eddie Condon group with Muggsy Spanier and Miff Mole (voc) Red McKenzie	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 16 Sep 1944
I’d Do Anything For You	Eddie Condon group with Muggsy Spanier and Miff Mole	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 16 Sep 1944
Set 7	1930s Count Basie
Texas Shuffle	Count Basie Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 22 Aug 1938
Swing It, Brother, Swing	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Billie Holliday	Aircheck Savoy Ballroom Harlem NYC 30 Jun 1937
Darn That Dream	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Helen Humes	Southland Cafe WNAC NBC Red Boston 20 Feb 1940
St Louis Blues	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing	Chatterbox Hotel William Penn WCAE NBC Red Pittsburgh 8 Feb 1937
Set 8	1932 Dance Music
Gnaedige Frau, komm und spiel mit mir	Hans Albers	Movie ‘Quick’ Berlin 1932
Try Getting a Good Night’s Sleep	Don Redman Orchestra (voc) DR	Comm Rec New York City 26 Feb 1932
Linda	earl Burtnett Orchestra (voc) Jess Kirkpatrick	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1932
On the Alamo / My Ideal / I’ll Get By + Egyptian Shimmy	Anson Weekes Orchestra	Radio Transcription San Francisco 1932