Hit of the Week – Phantom Dancer Show 6 August 2019

CARDBOARD RECORDS

This week’s Greg Poppleton Phantom Dancer feature is a set of famous cardboard records from 1931. These are Hit of the Week cardboard records.

ONLINE

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ONE SIDED

Hit of the Week was a US record label founded in 1930 that sold low-priced records made of resin coated cardboard rather than the usual shellac.

After August 1931 they were extended play discs advertised with ‘up to twice the playing time of the average record’.

They also used two long outdated industry practices not used since before 1910:

1. some of the records had the songs announced or contained advertising about ‘Hit of the Week’ records. (The company that brought out Hit of the Week records also produced low cost advertising discs).

2. All of the records were recorded on one side only.

The playing side of the cardboard records was coated with Durium, a lightweight synthetic resin. The unrecorded side was uncoated and the unprotected cardboard absorbed moisture from the air. Therefore the discs have a propensity to curl. They now often require the use of a clip or weight around the turntable spindle to keep them flat during play.

Apart from some low-frequency rumble due to their texture, Hit of the Week audio fidelity was equal to or better than most ordinary shellac records., as you’ll hear in Set 4 of this week’s Phantom Dancer.

A few releases had the performer’s portrait printed on the uncoated paper side, or were imprinted there with advertising matter. They were issued in flimsy rice paper sleeves, few of which have survived.

A new issue featuring a current hit song was released every week. They were sold at newsstands. Previous issues could be obtained by mail order. Retailing for 15 cents each, later raised to 20 cents, Hit of the Week records were by far the lowest-priced records in the US at that time.

BOOM AND BUST

The first regular issue was released in February 1930.

By mid 1930, up to half a million copies of each week’s issue were produced. But sales quickly slumped as the Depression worsened.

In March 1931 the company went into receivership and in May it was purchased by the Erwin, Wasey & Company advertising agency. They debuted a new format debuted in August, featuring two songs or dance tunes on each single-sided disc and a total playing time of about five minutes, but the label remained unprofitable.

The final Hit of the Week issue was released in June 1932.

After the demise of the label, some limited use was made of smaller (often only four inches in diameter) records made of the same material, mostly for giveaway advertising novelties. Specimens of one of the most common advertising records, which invited the recipient to come see the new 1932 Chevrolet automobile, are usually found with a mailing label and postage on the uncoated back side.

Musicians who recorded for Hit of the Week included Gene Austin, Duke Ellington (under the pseudonym “Harlem Hot Chocolates”), Ben Pollack, Eddie Cantor (on a special 25 cent “Durium De Luxe” issue), Morton Downey, and Rudy Vallée. Most of the arrangements were performed by studio musicians in New York, led by Adrian Schubert, Bert Hirsch, Vincent Lopez, Don Voorhees and Phil Spitalny.

Jazz solos by instrumental stars including Bunny Berrigan, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang enlivened some recordings.

Two of the recordings on this week’s Phantom Dancer are tailed with football songs, trying to appeal to the young, male university market.

The vocalists who recorded with the studio bands included several popular radio singers of the day including Ralph Kirbery and Helen Rowland.

In the UK, a similar series was issued on the Durium label with songs by Al Bowlly and more.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is from the late 1940s, an unidentified woman reading to paper tape. Enjoy her story!

6 AUGUST PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #397
107.3 2SER Tuesday 6 August 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 1ART ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm 7LTN CityPark FM Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	1945 – 46 Radio Spotlight Bands
Nightmare (theme) + Bedford Drive	Artie Shaw Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Santa Ana AFB Ca Mutual Network 3 Oct 1945
Chickery Chick	Gene Krupa Orchestra (voc) Anita O’Day	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1946
This Love of Mine + Close	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network 17 Jan 1942
Set 2	Cocoanut Grove 1932-34 Radio
Theme + You’re Blase + Sophisticated Lady	Vincent Valsanti aka Ted Fio Rito Orchestra	‘Cocoanut Grove’ TRANSCO Radio Transcription Hollywood 1934
The Vamp	Phil Harris Orchestra	‘Cocoanut Grove’ TRANSCO Radio Transcription Hollywood 1933
Gooby Gear + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Donald Novis	‘Cocoanut Grove’ TRANSCO Radio Transcription Hollywood 1932
Set 3	1941 Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street
Open + Magic Carpet	Paul Lavalle’s Woodwind 10	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC NY 14 Aug 1941
Flow Gently Sweet Afton	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC NY 14 Aug 1941
Twirl Away	Lumel Morgan Trio	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC NY 14 Aug 1941
Home Town Blues	Henry Levine’s Dixieland Octet	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC NY 14 Aug 1941
Set 4	Hit of the Week Records
Me + Football Song	Sam Lanin Orchestra with vocals	Hit of the Week Record 1931
Love Letters in the Sand + Football Song	Sam Lanin Orchestra with vocals	Hit of the Week Record 1931
Pardon Me, Pretty Baby	Sam Lanin Orchestra (voc) Paul Small	Hit of the Week Record 13 Aug 1931
Set 5	Louis Armstrong Big Swing Band on 1940s Radio
Open + I Never Knew	Louis Armstrong Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network Dalls TX 17 Aug 1943
I’ve Got Plenty of Nothing	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Ada Brown	‘Jubilee’ AFRS NYC 1943
Lazy River	Louis Armstrong Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network Dalls TX 17 Aug 1943
It Had To Be You + Close	Louis Armstrong Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Tuskagee Alabama AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Oct 1944
Set 6	Trad Bands on 1940s Radio
Open + Medley	Bud Freeman Summa cum Laude Orchestra	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 May 1940
That’s a Plenty + Relaxin’ at the Trouro	Muggsy Spanier	Home Recording Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 18 Oct 1953
Big Butter and Egg Man	Miff Mole and the Nixieland 6	‘For The Record’ WEAF NBC NYC 30 Oct 1944
Set 7	Chuck Foster 1938-40 Radio Transcriptions
Oh, You Beautiful Doll (theme)	Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) CF	Radio Transcription 1940
I Found My Yellow Basket	Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Brandon, CF and The 3 Ds	Radio Transcription 1938
Listen to My Heart	Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Brandon	Radio Transcription 1940
How Srrange	Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Brandon	Radio Transcription 1939
Set 8	Early Charlie Parker on 1940 and 45 Radio
Honeysuckle Rose	Jay McShann Orchestra (alto sax Charlie Parker)	Radio Transcription KFBI Witchita Kansas 2 Dec 1940
Floogie Boo + St Louis Blues	Cootie Williams Orchestra (with Charlie Parker)	‘One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom Harlem AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Feb 1945
I Found a New Baby	Jay McShann Orchestra (alto sax Charlie Parker)	Radio Transcription KFBI Witchita Kansas 30 Nov 1940

7 May Phantom Dancer – What is Trad Jazz, Dad?

IT’S TRAD, DAD!

This week’s feature artist on The Phantom Dancer, your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio by Greg Poppleton, is actually a feature style. The style is designated by a term a lot of its fans use without being too precise about its actual meaning. It’s Trad jazz, Dad.

See the full Phantom Dancer play list below.

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Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney. See other stations and times in the play list below.

FRONTLINE

Trad Jazz is short for traditional jazz. It’s the Dixieland and ragtime jazz styles of the early 20th century which typically used a front line of trumpet, clarinet, and trombone.

REVIVAL

A Dixieland revival began in the United States on the West Coast in the late 1930s as a backlash to the Chicago style, which was close to swing. Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, and trombonist Turk Murphy, adopted the repertoire of Joe “King” Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and W. C. Handy: bands included banjo and tuba in the rhythm sections. A New Orleans-based traditional revival began with the later recordings of Jelly-Roll Morton and the rediscovery of Bunk Johnson in 1942, leading to the founding of Preservation Hall in the French Quarter during the 1960s.

Early King Oliver pieces exemplify this style of hot jazz; however, as individual performers began stepping to the front as soloists, a new form of music emerged. One of the ensemble players in King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Louis Armstrong, was by far the most influential of the soloists, creating, in his wake, a demand for this “new” style of jazz, in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Other influential stylists who are still revered in traditional jazz circles today include Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, Wingy Manone and Muggsy Spanier. Many artists of the big band era, including Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa and Benny Goodman, had their beginnings in trad jazz.

On this week’s Phantom Dancer, you’ll hear Trad and Chicago style is Set 4 by the Bob Crosby Bobcats, Eddie Condon and Red Nichols direct from 1929 radio

The last hour is all vinyl.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is: Westend Blues featuring Bob Barnard on trumpet and Lawrie Thompson, drums. I mention these two particular musicians out of the band in this 1980s telecast because I have had the huge pleasure of them both playing in my own Greg Poppleton band.

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.

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #384
107.3 2SER 12:04pm Tuesday 7 May 2019 5pm Saturday 11 May 2019  (+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 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Big Bands on 1940s Radio
Theme + The Moon Is Low	Ray McKinley Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Century Room Hotel Commodore AFRS Re-broadcast 1946
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah	Jack Barrow Orchestra (voc) Dolores Crane	‘One Night Stand’ Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast Jul 1945
I Can’t Get Started + Theme	Jack Jenney (tb) Frank DeVol Orchestra	’Music Depreciation Revue’ KHJ Mutual – Don Lees Los Angeles 4 Feb 1945
Set 2	Smooth On 1950s Radio
Open + It’s A Good Day	Perry Como and the Ray Charles Singer (voc) Mitchell Ayres Orchestra	’Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954
Champagne Music (theme) + Red Petticoats	Lawrence Welk Orchestra	Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 1958
Medley: How Deep Is The Ocean? + I’m In The Mood For Love + Avalon + Close	Sammy Kaye Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Hotel Astor Roof NY AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Aug 1945
Set 3	Dixie on 1920s-50s Radio
Muskrat Ramble	Bob Crosby Bobcats	’Bob Crosby Show’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1955
I Want To Be Happy	Eddie Condon	’Dr Jazz’ Eddie Condon’s WMGM NY 10 Dec 1951
Jazz Me Blues	Little Buster and the Corn Poppers (Red Nichols)	’Dickenson Program’ Radio Transcription New York City Nov 1929
Set 4	1930 Radio Jazz
Tin Ear	Bob Effros and The Philco Orchestra	’Philco Program’ WABC CBS NY 1930
Singing River	Boswell Sisters	Continental Broadcasting Corporation Radio Transcription Hollywood 1930
I Don’t Need Atmosphere To Fall In Love With You + Close	Little Jack Little	’Little Jack Little Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1930
Set 5	Doris Day on 1939-45 Radio
I’m Happy About The Whole Thing	Doris Day (voc) Barney Rapp and his New Englanders	NBC Cincinatti 17 Jun 1939
Blue Music	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Peacock Room Baker Hotel CBS Dallas 9 Aug 1945
Long Ago and Far Away	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 7 Jul 1944
I Wish I Knew	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS Hollywood 16 Aug 1945
Set 6	Fats Waller 23 Sep 1943 in Story and Song
Reefer Song	Fats Waller	Comm Rec New York City 23 Sep 1943
Ain’t Misbehavin’ + There’s a Girl in my Life + Honeysuckle Rose	Fats Waller	’Personally, It’s Off The Record’ WABC CBS NY 23 Sep 1943
Set 7	1934 Radio Jazz and Dance
Maniacs’ Ball	Glen Gary and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Intro + It Don’t Mean A Thing	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	’Chrysler Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Song of the Vipers	Louis Armstrong	Comm Rec Paris Oct 1934
Swingy Little Thingy	Hal Kemp Orchestra	’Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Set 8	Bop on 1940s-50s Radio
A Night In Tunisia	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 12 Mar 1949
Now’s The Time	Howard McGee	Birdland WJZ ABC NY Oct 1951
I’m Glad There’s You	Charlie Ventura (voc) Jackie Kain and Roy Kral	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 1949

The Magic Key – Phantom Dancer 4 December 2018

HIGH ART AND PARODY

One of the more ambitious US radio shows of the 1930s was NBC Blue Network’s ‘The Magic Key of RCA’, ‘unlocking a world of entertainment’, as announcer Milton J Cross would intone. It was a show that featured opera, symphony, critique, comedy, swing and hillbilly and was ‘Hi-Brow’. Parodying that show from 1940 was NBC Blue’s ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’, ‘showcasing the 3 B’s – barrelhouse, boogie woogie and the blues’. It was ‘Lo-Brow’. For a short time in 1944, it too was narrated by Milton J Cross. We hear these shows side-by-side on this week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton.

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MAGIC KEY

The Magic Key of RCA ran on NBC’s Blue Network from 29 September 29 1935 till 18 September 1939.

NBC used this quality program to demonstrate the cultural contribution radio could make. This is made clear in Milton Cross’s script on the Magic Key mix from 1937 and 1938 I’m presenting for you this week.

From 1938, they also used the show to promote RCA TV.

It is also made clear from the shows’s content I’m presenting to you this week – a recitation by one of the great Shakespearean actors, Eva Le Gallienne, an announcement for a Magic Key Eugene Goosens concert and two selections by RCA Victor recording artist, Fats Waller.

PRE-INTERNET CALLOUT

We’ll also hear a curious and successful proto-internet reach-out over radio for a rare magazine by literary critic, Alexander Woolcott.

We hear the story of this pre-Facebook call-out, it’s success and his thank you. Fascinating.

STARS

Performers who appeared on The Magic Key include Fats Waller, Benny Goodman, Ray Noble, Ruth Etting, Rudolf Ganz, Casper Reardon, Paul Robeson, Eddie Green, Jane Froman, Rudy Vallée, Irving Berlin, Darryl Zanuck, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Paul Whiteman, Efrem Zimbalist, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vienna Boys’ Choir, Gladys Swarthout, Guy Lombardo, Richard Himber, Eugene Ormandy, Lauritz Melchior, Fred MacMurray, Walt Disney and the Pickens Sisters.

CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LOWER BASIN STREET

The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street was something of a parody on The Magic Key and started on the Blue Network in 1940. It ran until 1944 but was revived on NBC from 1950-52 including one half-hour TV show. A broadcast from 1952 is your Phantom Dancer video of the week.

Radio Life magazine described The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street as ‘one of radio’s strangest offsprings… a wacky, strictly hep tongue-in-cheek burlesque of opera and symphony.’

It made an unknown regular vocalist named Dinah Shore a national recording and radio star.

Two resident bands provided the jazz and swing music. They were,
– Henry Levine (a former member of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band) and His Dixieland Octet offered traditional ‘readings’ of jazz standards;
– Paul Laval and His Woodwind Ten played the same type of music on more symphonic instruments, showing that such instruments as oboe, bassoon and celeste were equally capable of producing hot jazz. In 1943, Laval changed his surname to ‘Lavalle’ to avoid association with French fascist leader, Pierre Laval.

Each week the show would feature a notable guest from the jazz world. There were appearances by W.C. Handy, Eddie Condon, Lionel Hampton, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Bobby Hackett, Count Basie, Benny Carter and this week, Stuff Smith.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week a transcripton of the 19 April 1952 show with host Orson Bean.

4 DECEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #343
107.3 2SER Tuesday 4 December 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 24 other stations.
Set 1	Radio in 1930
Open + Sweeter Than Sweet	Studio Orchestra	WENR and W9XF Chicago 1930
Dancing to Save Your Sole	Philco Orchestra	‘Philco Hour’ WABC CBS NY 1930
Blue Skies + Bye Bye Blues + My Future Just Passed + I Love You So Much	Philco Orchestra (voc) Kent Sisters	‘Philco Hour’ WABC CBS NY 1930
Set 2	Magic Key 1937-38
Open + The Merchant of Venice, Portia’s Scene Act 1	Eva La Gallion	‘The Magic Key of RCA’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 17 Apr 1938
Rare Book Call-Out Story	Alexander Woolcott	‘The Magic Key of RCA’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 17 Apr 1938
Hallelujah + A Thousand Dreams of You + Close	Fats Waller and his Victor Recording Orchestra	‘The Magic Key of RCA’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 7 Jan 1937
Set 3	Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street
Open + Running Wild	Paul Laval Woodwinds	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 19 Nov 1941
Lanterns on the Levee	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 19 Nov 1941
My Blue Heaven	Stuff Smith	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 19 Nov 1941
Set 4	Rock’n’Roll Dance Party
Pushin’ + Taylor Made	sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Orchestra	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 4 Sep 1956
Ring Ding Dilly + Candy	Big Maybelle	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 4 Sep 1956
See Saw + Close	The Moonglows	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 4 Sep 1956
Set 5	Dance Bands on 1930s Radio
Goody Goodbye	Sterling Young Orchestra (voc) Bobbie Ennis	Radio Transcription Chicago 1939
Us on a Bus	Guy Lombardo Orchestra (voc) Trio	‘Esso Boulevarde’ WABC CBS NY 13 Mar 1936
Open + Amour	Isham Jones Orchestra	WOR Mutual NYC 13 Mar 1936
42nd Street + When Summer Is Gone (theme)	Hal Kemp Orchestra	‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Set 6	Glenn Miller Broadcasting in German 1944
In The Mood (theme) + Star Dust	Glenn Miller Orchestra	‘Wehrmacht Hour’ ABSIE (American Broadcasting Station in Europe) London Nov 1944
Begin the Beguine	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Irene Manning	‘Wehrmacht Hour’ ABSIE (American Broadcasting Station in Europe) London Nov 1944
Long Ago and Far Away	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Johnny Desmond	‘Wehrmacht Hour’ ABSIE (American Broadcasting Station in Europe) London Nov 1944
Little Brown Jug + Cherokee (close)	Glenn Miller Orchestra	‘Wehrmacht Hour’ ABSIE (American Broadcasting Station in Europe) London Nov 1944
Set 7	Tommy Dorsey on 1940s Radio
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (theme) + On The Sunnyside of the Street	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ 400 Club New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Sep 1945
You’re Driving Me Crazy	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) The Sentimentalists	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network 29 Jan 1945
Just As Though You Were Here	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘Raleigh-Kool Show’ Washington DC 18 Aug 1942
Well Get It	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mutual Network 5 Dec 1945
Set 8	Charlie Parker 1940s Bop Records
Max is Making Wax	Charlie Parker	Comm Rec Los Angeles 29 Jul 1946
Shaw Nuff	Charlie Parker	Comm Rec NYC 11 May 1945
Dark Shadows	Charlie Parker	Comm Rec Hollywood 19 Feb 1947
Barbados	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 1949

2SER Supporter Drive 2018 – Week 1 Phantom Dancer

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FAVOURITE

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

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

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LOVE

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STORIES

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VIDEO

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

16 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #337
107.3 2SER Tuesday 16 October 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 24 other stations.
Set 1	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
Swing That Music	Louis Armstrong (voc) Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	Comm Rec Los Angeles Aug 1936
You Old Son of a Gun	Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Stars for Defense’ Radio Transcription Nov 1959
Sherlock Holmes & Wine Ad	Nigel Bruce	‘Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ KHJ Mutual LA Sep 1945
Wabash Blues	Jerry Thomas Quintet	Comm Rec Zurich, Switzerland 1942
Set 2	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 95000
Open + Bridegroom Special	Yiddish Swing Orchestra	‘Yiddish Melodies in Swing’ WHN NY 1940
China Boy	Sidney Bechet (sop sax)	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue Network NYC Feb 1945
Stage Coach	Wally Portingale Orchestra	‘Army on Parade’ 2CH AWA Sydney Oct 1943
That’s Love	Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) The Three Ambassadors	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
Set 3	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
Unidentified	Jan Garber Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca AFRS Re-broadcast Mar 1945
Easter Parade	Martha Mears	’10-2-4 Time’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles Mar 1948
Don’t Blame Me	Dinah Shore	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City Dec 1948
Set 4	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
Isn’t It Romantic?	Chet Baker Quartet	Storyville Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston 16 Mar 1954
Good Evening (theme) + April Showers	Del Courtney Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Rose Room Palace Hotel San Francisco AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Jan 1948
Drifting and Dreaming (theme) + Cheek to Cheek	Orrin Tucker Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cocoanut Grove Wiltshire Centre Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 1955
Pretending + Hold My Hand + Theme	Griff Williams Orchestra	Empire Room Palmer House WGN Chicago 5 Mar 1947
Set 5	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
Love, Nuts and Noodles	Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) Jack Smith	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
I’d Rather Lead A Band + Farewell Blues + Theme	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby and The Four Freshman	‘Ford V-8 Revue’ Radio Transcription 1936
Arabian Lover	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 3 May 1929
These Foolish Things	Count Basie Nonet	Boston 7 Sep 1954
Set 6	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
Levee Blues	Jimmy Dorsey’s Dorseyland Band (voc) Charlie Teagarden	Radio Transcription Hollywood 1950
Till The End of Time	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Frances Wayne	‘Woody Herman Show’ ABC 1 Dec 1946
Margie	Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights	‘Trianon Time’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca KECA ABC LA 1945
I’ve Got Five Dollars (theme) + Ooh! That Kiss!	Freddy Rich Orchestra	‘Friendly Five Footnotes’ Radio Transcription 1932
You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It	Harry James Orchestra	Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca KECA ABC LA Dec 1945
Section A + Theme	Raymond Scott Orchestra	‘Raymond Scott Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast
Set 7	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
When My Dreamboat Comes Home	Jimmy Rushing (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	Aircheck Savoy Ballroom New York City 30 Jun 1937
The Glider	Artie Shaw Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Santa Barbara Ca 10 Oct 1945
Artistry in Rhythm (theme) + Eager Beaver	Stan Kenton Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 28 Nov 1944
Savoy Blues	George Lewis	‘Dixieland Jamboree’ WDSU ABC New Orleans 7 Oct 1950
Get Out Of Town	Leah Matthews (voc) Woody Herman’s Third Herd	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Peony Park WOW NBC Omaha 1954
Tangerine	Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberle (voc) Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	Aircheck
Chicago	Benny Goodman	NBC TV 1967

Spike Jones and his City Slickers – Phantom Dancer 24 July

The Phantom Dancer – a weekly radio mixtape of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV produced and presented by authentic 1920s-30s singer, Greg Poppleton.

Greg has presented the multi-award winning Phantom Dancer on 107.3 2SER Sydney since 1985. It is now heard on 23 radio stations and online.

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See the play list for this week’s Phantom Dancer below. This week’s mixtape has a special broadcast recording by Spike Jones and his City Slickers of ‘F-B-Aida’ a send-up of Verdi’s famous opera.

SPIKE JONES

Was a U.S drummer, percussionist and bandleader most famous for his parodies of popular tunes on record, radio and TV in the 1940s and 1950s.

These parodies were performed by his City Slickers. He also ran a serious orchestra playing lush arrangements of pop songs called the ‘Other Orchestra’.

Spike Jones took up drums at age 11. A railway restaurant chef taught him how to use objects like pots and pans as percussion. This skill got him onto popular radio shows in the 1930s as a comic percussionist. But he was also a dance band drummer and studio musician.

In fact, he was the drummer on the original version of the biggest selling record of all time, ‘White Christmas’ sung by Bing Crosby.

BORED

Tired of playing the same music every night for radio orchestras, Jones and like-minded musicians got together playing send-ups of popular ditties which they recorded to amuse their wives. One recording found its way to the offices of RCA Victor which offered the parody band a contract.

Their first record was Der Fuehrer’s Face which became a huge hit.

They starred in their own radio show between 1945 and 1949, and in their own NBC and CBS television shows from 1954 to 1961.

On this week’s Phantom Dancer, we hear Spike Jones and his City Slickers live on 1949 radio.

And for your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, marvel at the City Slickers live on 1950s TV sending up ‘That Ol’ Black Magic’.

Bill Barty, who performed in film and TV up until his death in 2000, sings in the style of James Cagney, Jimmy Durante and finishes with Johnny Ray.

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #323
107.3 2SER Tuesday 24 July 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT)
Set 1
Theme + Manhattan Spiritual	Jerry Gray and his Band of Today	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom AFRTS Re-broadcast 30 Oct 1959
Redskin Rhumba (theme) + Murder at Peyton Hall	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jan 1947
Dancing Tambourine + Close	Henry Russell Orchestra	‘Let’s Dance’ KFI NBC LA 1948
Set 2
Rollin’ Home	Ray Anthony Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler NY AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Jan 1952
Daahoud	Max Roach – Clifford Brown Quartet	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY 6 May 1956
Lover Come Back To Me + Close	Stan Getz Quartet	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY 21 Apr 1956
Set 3
Goodbye Sue	Perry Como (voc) Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘For The Record’ WEAF NBC NY 1944
Love Is A Simple Thing	Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra (voc) Andy Roberts and Sally Sweetland	‘The All-Star Parade of Bands’ Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 12 Sep 1953
I Get a Kick Out of You + Close	Sarah Vaughan	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 21 Apr 1952
Set 4
I Found a New Baby	Ralph Sutton All-Stars	Club Hangover KCBS CBS SF 7 Sep 1954
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love + Close	Harry Sosnick and the Savings Bonds Orchestra	‘Guest Star – Dixieland Clambake’ Radio Transcription New York 1951
Runnin’ Wild + Close	Chris Barber Jazz Band	‘Traditional Jazz’ BBC Light Programme London AFRTS Rebroadcast 9 May 1955
Set 5
Forgotten	Harry James Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 1949
Oh! What a Beautiful Morning	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 19 Sep 1946
I’ll Get By	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) WH	‘Woody Herman Show’ Jun 1946
Daily Double	Buddy Rich Orchestra	Aircheck Los Angeles Mar 1946
Set 6
‘Buck Benny Rides Again’	Jack Benny	‘Hollywood is on the Air’ Buck Benny Rides Again Trailer Radio Transcription Hollywood 1940
F-B-Aida	Spike Jones and the City Slickers	‘The Spike Jones Show’ CBS 25 Jun 1949
Set 7
Jeepers Creepers	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Paul Whiteman Show’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 7 Dec 1938
Open + Huckleberry Duck	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red NY 1940
Diga Diga Doo	Bob Crosby Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 18 Jul 1939
Day In Day Out + Merry-Go-Round	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Southland Cafe WNAC NBC Boston 9 Jan 1940
Set 8
Manteca	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Winter Palace Stockholm Radio Sweden 2 Feb 1948
Be Bop Boogie	Lester Young Quintet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Dec 1948
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

27 March Phantom Dancer – Bunny Berigan and How Disease Effects Legacy

It never ceases to amaze me how disease can over-shadow the brilliant legacy of a person’s life. How much ‘expert’ blather was there about Stephen Hawking’s motor neurone disease as an excuse to avoid explaining and understanding his discoveries in physics? It’s belittling and disrespectful.

Louis Armstrong’s favourite trumpet player was Bunny Berigan. We’ll be hearing radio broadcasts by Bunny Berigan on this week’s The Phantom Dancer.

Even today, seventy years after his death, he is still considered to have been one of the top trumpet players in jazz.

But what I find additionally interesting is how his legacy has been marred by the alcoholism that affected the inventiveness of his playing in the latter part of his short thirty-three years and which ultimately killed him through cirrhosis of the liver.

On this week’s Phantom Dancer you’ll also hear a set of live vintage radio by Dave Brubeck, Jack Teagarden and women singers with their own radio shows – Lee Wiley, Peggy Lee, Dinah Show and Mildred Bailey.

 

THE PHANTOM DANCER is two hours of non-stop swing and jazz mixed from live 1920s – 1960s radio and TV by Greg Poppleton, Australia’s only authentic 1920s-1930s singer www.gregpoppletonmusic.com

Broadcast 12:04pm Tuesdays 107.3 2SER Sydney then over 22 radio stations and online.

HEAR The Phantom Dancer live-streamed and afterwards online on the Radio 2SER website. http://www.2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

HOW DISEASE EFFECTS LEGACY

When jazz musicians talk about Bunny Berigan, his alcoholism always comes up.

‘What might have been had he not drank?’, is usually the most positive musing. But to me, from a music perspective, his illness should have no bearing on his legacy. Surely it’s his trumpet playing and technique that’s important, the music played, the songs composed, the landmark recordings made. Louis Armstrong praised Bunny Berigan’s trumpet sound and jazz ideas both before and after Berigan’s death.

I have known jazz musicians, world-touring, who’ve died after long illnesses. They kept their illnesses private, performing to the very end. Even though everyone knew they were terminally ill, the particulars of their illnesses were never discussed. These musicians had the luxury and the determination to never be defined by their disease. Nowadays, when people talk about them, they talk about their music, the good times and their positive legacy. How they died, their disease, and their substance abuse (in one case) are irrelevancies.

However, other jazz musicians I have known, have had deaths after long, debilitating illnesses during which time it was impossible to perform. Others have died suddenly – a heart attack, an overdose, a bleed. Always, these musicians are discussed in terms of their deaths, their creative life work overshadowed by the fabula of their failing health or their fatal surprise.

I guess it’s easier to talk about sickness and death than music. The musical process is a specialist field. Feeling poorly and falling off the perch is something on which everyone has an expert opinion.

BUNNY BERIGAN…
…was the stage name of Roland Bernard Berigan.

He composed, sang, and most famously was a brilliant trumpet player. Of his compositions, we’ll hear a live recording of one, ‘Chicken and Waffles’, from a live 1936 radio broadcast on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

He was best known for his virtuoso jazz trumpeting. His 1937 classic recording of a song from a flop music, ‘I Can’t Get Started’ (which we’ll also hear in two live 1930s versions on this week’s Phantom Dancer) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1975. ‘I Can’t Get Started’ was Berigan’s radio theme when he launched his own band in 1937.

Bunny Berigan had learnt violin and trumpet and was playing in local bands by his mid-teens. In 1930 he joined the Hal Kemp Orchestra and soon came to notice. He became a sought-after studio musician in New York as well as playing in the orchestras of Freddy Rich, Freddy Martin, Ben Selvin, Paul Whiteman and Benny Goodman. In fact, Goodman’s manager only got ‘that ace drummer man’ Gene Krupa to join the band by telling him Berigan was already on board.

After leaving Goodman, Berigan began to record regularly under his own name and to back singers such as Bing Crosby, Mildred Bailey, and Billie Holiday. We’ll hear him this week with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in early 1937. His solo on ‘Marie’ became one of his signature performances. We’ll hear a 1940 radio version. And, of course, a critic describing Berigan’s trumpet on the 1940 show had to bring up his alcoholism.

After leaving Goodman, Berigan began to record regularly under his own name and to back singers such as Bing Crosby, Mildred Bailey, and Billie Holiday. We’ll hear him this week with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in early 1937. His solo on ‘Marie’ became one of his signature performances. We’ll hear a 1940 radio version. And, of course, a critic describing Berigan’s trumpet on the 1940 show had to bring up his alcoholism.

MUSICAL ADVICE FROM BERIGAN
And instrumentalists PLEASE TAKE NOTE. There’s nothing more irritating to a singer than an instrumentalist taking too much air during the singer’s solo, or cramping the singer’s freedom of expression by trying to steer the improvisation…

Your Phantom Dancer Bunny Berrigan singing and playing trumpet on ‘Until Today’ with Freddy Rich’s Orchestra in 1936 . Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #308 107.3 2SER Tuesday 20 March 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations. Set 1 Swing on 1940s Radio Theme + Girl of My Dreams Randy Brooks Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 17 Nov 1945 K.C. Caboose + Are You Happy? John Kirby Sextet ‘One Night Stand’ Aquarium Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 18 Jul 1944 They Didn’t Believe Me + Blue Moon (Close) Eliot Lawrence Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 26 Jul 1945 Set 2 Big Bands on 1950s Radio Theme + I’m Walking Johnny Richards Orchestra ‘ABC Dancing Party’ Birdland WABC ABC NYC 1957 If I Had You Ted Heath Orchestra ‘International Bandstand’ London NBC/BBC 2 Mar 1959 It’s All In The Game Ray Anthony Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania AFRS Re-broadcast 1952 Set 3 Bing Crosby Radio Open + Pistol Packin’ Mama Bing Crosby ‘Kraft Music Hall’ KFI NBC LA 16 Dec 1943 Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra Bing Crosby ’Philco Radio Time’ KECA ABC LA 19 Nov 1947 Ukulele Lady + Green Grow The Lilacs + Close Bing Crosby + Rosemary Clooney (2nd song) ’Bing Crosby-Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 19 Oct 1961 Set 4 Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street Open + Dixieland One-Step Henry Levine Octet ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941 O Sussanah Diane Courtney ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941 Cheery-Beery-Bee The Tune Toppers ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941 Dangerous Mood Paul Lavalle Woodwinds ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941 Set 5 Trombonist Jack Teagarden Announcer’s Blues Paul Whiteman Orchestra ‘Paul Whiteman’s Music Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 19 jan 1936 Mr Jessie Jack Teagarden Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 22 Nov 1941 You Took Advantage of Me + Tea For Two + Close The Three T’s (Jack and Charlie Teagarden and Frank Trambauer) Hickory House WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Dec 1936 (1936 Home Recording) Wolverine Blues + Close Jack Teagarden Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 27 Dec 1941 Set 6 Women Singers With Their Own Radio shows Somebody Loves Me Peggy Lee ‘Peggy Lee Show’ KNX CBS LA 1947 Beg Your Pardon Dinah Shore ‘Dinah Shore Show’ KNX CBS LA 4 May 1948 Too Good To Be True Lee Wiley ‘Lee Wiley Sings’ WABC CBS NY 1 Jul 1936 Summertime Mildred Bailey ‘Mildred Bailey Show’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jan 1945 Set 7 Bunny Berigan I Can’t Get Started (theme) + Organ Grinder’s Swing Bunny Berigan Orchestra ‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1937 I Can’t Get Started (theme) + Ay, Ay, Ay Bunny Berigan Orchestra Manhattan Centre WNEW NY 26 Sep 1939 Marie Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (Bunny Berigan tp feature) Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WABC CBS NY 9 Mar 1940 Runnin’ Wild + Chicken and Waffles Bunny Berigan Orchestra ‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 31 Oct 1936 Set 8 Dave Brubeck This Can’t Be Love Dave Brubeck Aircheck Jan 1954 The Song Is For You Dave Brubeck Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Mar 1957 Stardust Dave Brubeck ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY Dec 1953 All The Things You Are Dave Brubeck Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Feb 1956

6 February 2018 Phantom Dancer – Yes! Serious Music Can Be Entertaining. Proof.

The Phantom Dancer, presented by 1920s-1930s singer and band leader, Greg Poppleton, since 1985, is your non-stop two hour mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s – 1960s radio and TV.

This week, you’ll hear 8 sets including folk singer Susan Reed, dixieland by Kid Ory and Turk Murphy, a set of vocal harmonists including The King Sisters, a set hit songs by Woody Herman and Count Basie from the Avadon Ballroom – all from live radio broadcasts, of course.

You can hear this show online for the next 4 weeks after the 6 Feb broadcast at radio 2ser.com

BLACK, BROWN AND BEIGE

Duke Ellington’s longest and most ambitious orchestral work is heard in part on today’s Phantom Dancer.

From an April 1945 WJZ NYC ‘Date With The Duke’ broadcast out of the 400 Club in New York City we’ll hear live, Work Song and Spiritual.

Duke Ellington introduced it in his first concert at Carnegie Hall, January 23, 1943. He wrote it as “a parallel to the history of the Negro in America.”

It was first performed as a preview at Rye High School in Westchester County, New York, the day before its premiere at Carnegie Hall.

Another performance at Boston’s Symphony Hall on January 28 are the only known performances of the complete work.

Thereafter, Duke Ellington only performed pieces of it, as we’ll hear on today’s Phantom Dancer.

Following ‘Black, Brown and Beige’ on the Armed Forces Radio Service re-broadcast disc, Joya Sherill singing the pop ditty, ‘Accentuate The Positive’. Something of a statement by the AFRS editor, I’m suspect.

The first movement, ‘Black’, is divided into three parts, the Work Song, the spiritual Come Sunday , and Light.

‘Brown’ has three parts, West Indian Dance or Influence; Emancipation Celebration, and The Blues.

‘Beige’ covers “the Afro-American of the 1920s, 30s and World War II,” wrote Leonard Feather in the liner notes of the 1977 release of the original 1943 performance.

Duke Ellington mentions his Carnegie Hall performance of ‘Black, Brown and Beige’ in an interview with Frank Sinatra before playing Solitude at the piano on this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week. A scratchy ‘Songs By Sinatra’ radio broadcast from 1943. He’s then joined by Raymond Scott and the CBS Radio Orchestra.

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #302 107.3 2SER Tuesday 6 February 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations. Set 1 Dance Bands on One Night Stand Theme + Kentucky Gay Claridge Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Chez Paree Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Aug 1944 Laura Tony Pastor Orchestra (voc) Dick Dyer ‘One Night Stand’ Hollywood Palladium CBS/AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945 Saturday Night Is The Lonliest Night Of The Week + Sweet Dreams Sweetheart Freddy Martin Orchestra (voc) The Martin Men and Artie Wayne ‘One Night Stand’ Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel LA AFRS Re-broadcast 3 January 1945 Set 2 Susan Reed Folk Singer The Continental Harry Sosnik and the Savings Bonds Orchestra ‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription NYC 7 Dec 1947 The Soldier and the Lady / Turtle Dove / Danny Boy Susan Reed – Zither, Irish Harp, ‘the Everloving’ ‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription NYC 7 Dec 1947 Two Guitars + Close Harry Sosnik and the Savings Bonds Orchestra ’’Guest Star’ Radio Transcription NYC 7 Dec 1947 Set 3 A Date With The Duke Working Song ‘Black, Brown and Beige’ Suite Duke Ellington Orchestra ’A Date With The Duke’ 400 Restaurant WJZ Blue NYC 30 Apr 1945 Spiritual ‘Black, Brown and Beige’ Suite Duke Ellington Orchestra ’A Date With The Duke’ 400 Restaurant WJZ Blue NYC 30 Apr 1945 Accentuate The Positive Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Joya Sherill ’A Date With The Duke’ 400 Restaurant WJZ Blue NYC 30 Apr 1945 Set 4 Stars For Defence Theme + You ‘Ol Son-of-a-Gun + Love Look Away Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music ‘Stars for Defence’ Radio Transcription 8 Feb 1959 Civil Defence Leo A Hoig ‘Stars for Defence’ Radio Transcription 8 Feb 1959 Two Little Girls + Always Together + Close Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music ‘Stars for Defence’ Radio Transcription 8 Feb 1959 Set 5 Harmony on 1930s-40s Radio People Will Say We’re In Love Nillsen Twins (voc) Spike Jones City Slickers Aircheck 1944 A Stairway To The Stars The Inkspots WFIL NBC Red Philadelphia 12 Jul 1939 Everybody Loves My Baby King Sisters Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1947 Chi-Baba Chi-Baba Herman McCoy and The Hamp Tones (voc) Lionel Hampton Orchestra Casa Mañana Culver City CA KFI NBC LA 20 Jul 1947 Set 6 Woody Herman Hits Open + Apple Honey Woody Herman Orchestra (Gene Krupa opens) ‘Timex All-Star Jazz Show’ NBC TV New York City 30 Dec 1957 Woodchoppers’ Ball Woody Herman’s Third Herd ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ WOW NBC Omaha 1954 Four Brothers Woody Herman Orchestra Blue Room Roosevelt Hotel WWL CBS New Orleans 10 Nov 1951 Golden Wedding Woody Herman Orchestra (drums) Dave Tough ‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast Oct 1944 Set 7 Turk Murphy and Kid Try On KCBS Radio Bay City (theme) + Down Home Rag Turk Murphy Easy Street KCBS San Francisco 2 Dec 1958 St James Infirmary Kid Ory Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 10 Oct 1954 Sadie Green, The Vamp of New Orleans Turk Murphy Easy Street KCBS San Francisco 9 Dec 1958 Milneburg Joys + Close Kid Ory Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 30 Oct 1954 Set 8 Count Basie at the Avadon Hobnail Boogie Count Basie Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Avadon Ballroom Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 1946 Lazy Lady Blues Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmie Rushing ‘One Night Stand’ Avadon Ballroom Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 1946 Andy’s Blues Count Basie Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Avadon Ballroom Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 1946

8 August Phantom Dancer – Ep 6 Radar Men From the Moon

If the 1 August show is anything to go by, the 8 August Phantom Dancer is going to be the best show ever.

Your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV has been presented by myself, Greg Poppleton, over radio station 107.3 2SER Sydney, and now online, since 1985.

See the 8 August play list below.

Hear the show post-broadcast! It’s now online FREE for four weeks at radio 2ser.com

You’ll hear that set of jazz greats on 1950s-60s Tonight Shows I didn’t get to play after running out of time last week and the week before. There’s also a set of Connie Boswell on 1930-36 radio, and three songs by Benny Goodman from the famous 1935 ‘Let’s Dance’ programs that introduced swing to the world.

There’s also a set of Peter Igelhoff singing with and leading Berlin dance bands between 1937 and 1941.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is episode 6 of the 1952 Republic serial, Radar Men From The Moon.
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.

 

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #274 107.3 2SER Tuesday 8 August 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: 2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12 ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations. Set 1 Benny Goodman on the 1935 Let’s Dance Program Let’s Dance (theme) + Hunkadola Benny Goodman Orchestra ’Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red NY 20 Apr 1935 Makin’ Whoopee Benny Goodman Quartet ’Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red NY 23 Feb 1935 Walk, Jenny, Walk Benny Goodman Orchestra ’Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red NY 4 May 1935 Set 2 Swinging The Classics Beethoven Riffs On John Kirby Orchestra Comm Rec New York City 15 Jan 1941 Intro + Rachmaninoff Prelude in C#m Wally Portingale Orchestra ’Army on Parade’ 2CH AWA Network Sydney Oct 1943 Caprice XXIV Paganini Benny Goodman Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 10 Aug 1941 Set 3 Big Bands on 1950s Radio Spoken Intro + Night and Day Ted Heath Orchestra ’NBC International Bandstand’ NBC and BBC London 2 Mar 1959 Just Squeeze Me Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ray Nance Birdland WNBC NBC NY 24 Nov 1956 Caribbean Clipper + Close Glenn Miller Orchestra conducted by Ray McKinley ’Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 30 Jun 1957 Set 4 Connie Boswell on 1930-36 Radio Sweeping the Clouds Away Connie Boswell Radio Transcription Continental Broadcasting System Hollywood 1930 I Can’t Give You Anything But Love Connie Boswell (voc) Freddy Rich Orchestra ’Dodge Program’ WABC CBS NY 1935 Ad + I’ve Got A Feeling You’re Fooling Connie Boswell (voc) B. A. Rolfe Orchestra ’Goodrich Silvertown Time’ Radio Transcription New York City 1936 Set 5 Swing Bands Live on 1937 Radio Moten Swing (theme) + Shout and Feel It Count Basie Orchestra Aircheck Savoy Ballroom New York City 30 June 1957 Theme + Mr Ghost Goes To Town Tommy Dorsey Orchestra WEAF NBC Red NYC 31 Jan 1937 One, Two Button Your Shoes Duke Ellington (voc) Ivie Anderson Cotton Club WABC CBS NYC 18 Mar 1937 Mother Goose Marches On Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Meyer Alexander Chorus ’Camel Caravan’ KNX CBS LA 10 Aug 1937 Set 6 Muggsy Spanier on 1940s-50s Radio Relaxin’ at the Trouro Muggsy Spanier ’Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue New York 23 Sep 1944 Dippermouth Blues Muggsy Spanier Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 25 Oct 1953 Buddy Bolden’s Blues Muggsy Spanier ’This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual New York City 22 Mar 1947 That’s A’Plenty + Theme Muggsy Spanier Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 18 Apr 1953 Set 7 Peter Igelhoff German Dance Music 1937-41 Spatzenkonzert Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Peter Igelhoff Comm Rec Berlin Jun 1938 Capriolen Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Peter Igelhoff Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1937 Dieses Leid hat keinen Text Peter Igelhoff piano and ensemble (voc) Evelyn Kuenneke Comm Rec Berlin 1940 Schade, dass wir auseinandergehn Peter Igelhoff und sein Ensemble Rec Comm Berlin 1941 Set 8 Jazz on the Tonight Show Them There Eyes Billie Holiday Tonight Show NBC Hollywood 1958 My Heart Stood Still Shorty Rogers Giants Tonight Show NBC Hollywood 1958 After You’ve Gone Roy Eldridge Tonight Show NBC Hollywood 1958 Sing, Sing, Sing Benny Goodman Tonight Show NBC NYC 1958

18 July Phantom Dancer – Ep3 Radar Men From the Moon

STOP PRESS! Your Phantom Dancer radio show play list and Video of the Week for Tuesday 18 July.

Your two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV.

Presented by Greg Poppleton on Radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney since 1985.

Today’s show has been broadcast. But you can now hear it over and over again online at radio 2ser.com

In this week’s Phantom Dancer mix listen to a set of strange radio from 1947 – 1960s including real singing canaries and a puffing tuba version of the Sound of Music. There’s also a set of women jazz singers from 1950s radio and TV including Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughan, Betty Roche and Ella Fitzgerald.

The last hour is all vinyl.

Live-streamed and archived online at 2ser.com, your Phantom Dancer is heard on over 22 radio stations.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is Episode 3 of the 1940s Republic Serial, Radar Men From the Moon:
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.

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #270 107.3 2SER Tuesday 18 July 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: 2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12 ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations. Set 1 Big Bands on Air From The Palladium Ballroom 1949-61 Let’s Dance Benny Goodman Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom LA AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Mar 1949 Walkin’ Harry James Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom LA AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Nov 1959 It Took Ten Days Blues Jerry Gary and His Band of Today ’One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom LA AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Jan 1961 Set 2 Strange and Wonderful 1938 – 1960 Radio Transcriptions Theme + The Sound of Music Felicia Saunders with Harry Sosnik and the Savings Bonds Orchestra ’Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 3 Apr 1960 Theme + In A Little Spanish Town The Master Radio Canaries ’Hartz Mountain Pet Food Canaries’ Radio Transcription Chicago 1949 I’m Wild About Horns on Automobiles Hoosier Hot Shots ’Alka-Seltzer Radio Spot’ NBC Transcriptions, Chicago 1938 Set 3 1920s-30s Women Pop Singers He’s So Unusual Helen Kane Comm Rec New York City 14 Jun 1929 I Can’t Write The Words Mildred Hunt (voc) Philco Orchestra ’Philco Hour’ WABC CBS NY 1931 After You’ve Gone + Got A Bran’ New Suit Kay Thompson (voc) Dodge Orchestra ’Dodge Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1935 Set 4 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye on 1940s Radio Theme + Kiss Me Sweet, Kiss Me Simple Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) Laura Leslie and Don Cornell ’Chrysler Showroom’ Radio Transcription 1949 Swanee River Sammy Kaye Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Hotel Astor Roof New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Aug 1945 So In Love + My Gal Sal + Theme Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) Tony Alamo ’Chrysler Showroom’ Radio Transcription 1949 Set 5 Women Jazz Singers 1950s Radio & TV Intro + Fine & Mellow Billie Holliday ’The Sound of Jazz’ WCBS CBS TV NY 8 Dec 1957 My Gentleman Friend Sarah Vaughan ’Concert Recording’ Apollo Theatre NY 17 Aug 1950 All Of Me Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Betty Roche Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jul 1952 Ridin’ High Ella Fitzgerald (voc) Benny Goodman Orchestra ’Texaco Swing Into Spring’ WRCA TV NBC NY 9 Apr 1958 Set 6 Cab Calloway on Live 1940s Radio From Cafe Zanzibar NYC Do I Care? No, No Cab Calloway Orchestra (voc) CC Comm Rec New York City 18 Mar 1940 Minnie The Moocher (theme) + The Very Thought Of You Cab Calloway Orchestra (voc) CC ’One Night Stand’ Cafe Zanzibar New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Sep 1944 The More I See You Cab Calloway Orchestra (voc) CC ’One Night Stand’ Cafe Zanzibar New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 10 Jul 1945 Lammar’s Boogie + Coastin’ With JC Cab Calloway Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Cafe Zanzibar New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 16 July 1946 Set 7 Early Radio Jazz and Dance Blue Melody Blues Tiny Parham and his Musicians Comm Rec Chicago 1 Feb 1929 Me Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman and Dave Marshall ’Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription 1931 Happy Feet Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys, Brox Sisters ’King of Jazz’ Film Soundtrack 1929 Is It Spain + A Most Remarkable Girl The Dixie Two-Steppers (voc) The Dixie Tenor ’Sunny Meadows Program’ Radio Transcription 1929 Set 8 Glenn Miller Broadcasting to Germany 1944 Intro + Here We Go Again Glenn Miller AEF Orchestra Radio Transcription American Broadcasting Station in Europe (ABSIE) Abbey Road Studios London Oct-Nov 1944 Now I Know Glenn Miller AEF Orchestra (voc) Johnny Desmond Radio Transcription New York City 1939 Begin the Beguine Glenn Miller AEF Orchestra (voc) Irene Manning Radio Transcription American Broadcasting Station in Europe (ABSIE) Abbey Road Studios London Oct-Nov 1944 Great Day + Close Glenn Miller AEF Orchestra Radio Transcription American Broadcasting Station in Europe (ABSIE) Abbey Road Studios London Oct-Nov 1944

11 July Phantom Dancer – 7 Year Old Sugar Chile Robinson Boogie Prodigy

Huzzah! Your Phantom Dancer radio show play list and Video of the Week for Tuesday 11 July.

Your two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV.

Presented by Greg Poppleton on Radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney since 1985.

Today’s show can now be heard ONLINE on the website of Radio 2SER

In this week’s Phantom Dancer mix listen to a set of Woody Herman from 1944-45 radio, swing from live 1930s radio and progressive jazz including a radio broadcast by the Miles Davis Nonet in 1948.

The last hour is all vinyl.

Live-streamed and archived online at 2ser.com, your Phantom Dancer is heard on over 22 radio stations.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is a child piano prodigy who has is also on today’s Phantom Dancer broadcasting with Lionel Hampton, Sugar Chile Robinson! 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.

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #269
107.3 2SER Tuesday 4 July 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: 2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12 ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations.
Set 1	That Ace Drummer Man Gene Krupa on 1945-46 Radio
Whispering	Gene Krupa Orchestra	’Spotlight Bands’ MBS 1946
Bugle Call Rag	Gene Krupa Orchestra	Pacific Square San Diego MBS 2 Mar 1945
Yes, Yes, Honey	Gene Krupa Orchestra (voc) Carolyn Gray	’One Night Stand’ The Click, Phildelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Jan 1945
Set 2	Rock’n’Roll Live on 1950s Radio
Theme + I Was Born To Rock	Smilin’ Smokey Lynn	’Midnite Matinee’ Olympic Auditorium KFVD Los Angeles 28 Sep 1951
Tender Trap	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Joe Williams	’Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 12 May 1956
Baby Please Don’t Go		’Sepia Swing Club’ WDIA Memphis 14 Dec 1951
Set 3	Progressive Jazz on 1948-62 Radio and TV
Theme + Move	Miles Davis Nonet	’Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA New York 4 Sep 1948
Strike Up the Band	Pete Brown	’All-Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC NY 2 Sep 1952
Oleo + Theme	Phineas Newborn Jr	’Jazz Scene USA’ TV Series Los Angeles 15 Oct 1962
Set 4	Woody Herman on Live 1944-45 Radio
Flying Home	Woody Herman Orchestra	’Old Gold Show’ Rehearsal WABC CBS NY 2 Aug 1944
Goosey Gander	Woody Herman Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 21 Jul 1945
Apple Honey + Blue Flame (theme)	Woody Herman Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 6 Aug 1945
Set 5	Raymond Scott Orchestra 1940
Pretty Little Petticoat (theme) + Huckleberry Duck	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 1940
Creepy Weepy	Raymond Scott Orchestra	’Music Depreciation’ KHJ Mutual-Don Lees LA 1940
Blueberry Hill	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Nan Wynn	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 1940
Caterpillar Creep	Raymond Scott Orchestra	’Music Depreciation’ KHJ Mutual-Don Lees LA 1940
Set 6	1930s Swing Bands on Radio
I Let a Song Go Out of my Heart	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1938
The Chant	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Aircheck 28 May 1939
Satan Takes a Holiday	Benny Goodman Orchestra	’Camel Caravan’ KNX CBS LA 17 Aug 1937
Bugle Blues	Count Basie Orchestra	Savoy Ballroom Harlem NYC 30 June 1937
Set 7	Tommy Dorsey on 1945 Radip
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (theme) + Instrumental	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ 400 Restaurant AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Sep 1945
I’m Beginning To See The Light	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Sentimentalists	Aircheck Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ 3 Feb 1945
Song of India	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	Aircheck Ocean Park Ca 19 Aug 1945
The Minor Goes Muggin’	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	Aircheck Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ 3 Feb 1945
Set 8	Pianists on 1940s-50s Radio
Caldonia Boogie	Sugar Chile Robinson with Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1946
Theme + I’m In a Dancing Mood	Dave Brubeck	Basin Street WCBS CBS New York City Mar 1957
When Your Lover Has Gone	Erroll Garner	‘Storyville’ WHDH Boston Dec 1953