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.

ONLINE

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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

Kay Starr First Nations Jazz Singer – Phantom Dancer 19 Nov 2019

INDIGENOUS

This week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton, is indigenous US jazz singer, Kay Starr. She began singing on radio as a child and we hear her this week aged 22 singing with Benny Goodman and Charlie Barnet’s orchestras.

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KAY

Katherine Laverne Starks, known professionally as Kay Starr, was a name jazz, pop, and country singer in the 1940s-50s. (She was the original singer of the Roy Acuff song, ‘Bonaparte’s Retreat. Her roots were in jazz and Billie Holiday called her ‘the only white woman who could sing the blues.’

CHICKENS

Her aunt Nora was impressed by her 7-year-old niece’s singing and arranged for her to sing on a Dallas radio station, WRR, vocal competition. Starr finishing 3rd one week in a talent contest and placed first every week thereafter. She was given a 15-minute radio show. She sang pop and country songs with a piano accompaniment. By age 10 she was making $3 a night, which was quite a salary during the Great Depression.

WESTERN

When Starr’s father changed jobs, the family moved to Memphis, where she continued performing on the radio. She sang Western swing music, still mostly a mix of country and pop. While working for Memphis radio station WMPS, misspellings in her fan mail inspired her and her parents to change her name to Kay Starr.

VENUTI

At 15, she was chosen to sing with the Joe Venuti orchestra. Venuti had a contract to play in the Peabody Hotel in Memphis which called for his band to feature a girl singer, a performer he did not have at the time. Venuti’s road manager heard Starr on the radio and recommended her although she was young and her parents insisted on a midnight curfew.

BIG BANDS

At 17, in 1939, she worked with Bob Crosby and Glenn Miller, who hired her to replace the ill Marion Hutton. With Miller she recorded ‘Baby Me’ and ‘Love with a Capital You’. They were not a great success, in part because the band played in a key that, while appropriate for Hutton, did not suit Kay’s vocal range.

After finishing high school, she moved to Los Angeles and signed with Wingy Manone’s band. From 1943 to 1945 she sang with Charlie Barnet’s ensemble, which we’ll hear on this week’s show, retiring for a year after contracting pneumonia and later developing nodes on her vocal cords as a result of fatigue and overwork.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is the 1952 hit song ‘Wheel of Fortune’ sung on the Your Hit Parade TV show.

19 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #414
107.3 2SER Tuesday 19 November 2019 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	Stan Kenton Transcriptions
Artistry in Rhythm + Memphis Lament	Stan Kenton Orchestra (voc) Red Dorris	Radio Transcription Hollywood Oct 1941
Underneath the Stars	Stan Kenton Orchestra	Radio Transcription Hollywood Nov 1941
I Haven’t Got the Heart + Artistry in Rhythm (theme)	Stan Kenton Orchestra	Radio Transcription Hollywood Oct 1941
Set 2	Women Singers on 1940s-50s Radio
I Enjoy Being a Girl	Vincent Lopez Orchestra (voc) Barbara Barry	‘One Night Stand’ Grill Room Hotel Taft NYC AFRTS Re-broadcast 1959
Open + The Trolley Song	Johnny Long Orchestra (voc) Jill Corey	‘Let’s Go With Music’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1955
Cirribirribin (theme) + In Times Like These	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Kitty Kallen	Hotel Astor Roof WOR Mutual NY 6 Jun 1944
Set 3	Dixieland Radio
Bugle Call Rag	Red Nichols	Radio Transcription 1953
Kansas City Man	Sidney Bechet and Bob Wilbur	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 19 Apr 1947
Silver Threads Among the Gold + Close	Henry Levine Octet	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue 6 Jan 1941
Set 4	Kay Starr
Share Croppin’ Blues	Kay Starr (voc) Charlie Barnet Orchestra	V-Disc 13 Jul 1944
Honeysuckle Rose	Kay Starr (voc) Benny Goodman Quintet	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1948
I Can’t Get Started	Kay Starr (voc) Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘For The Record’ WEAF NBC NY 11 Sep 1944
Them There Eyes	Kay Starr (voc) Benny Goodman Quintet	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1948
Set 5	One Night Stand
Embraceable You	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Jewel Hopkins	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Feb 1946
Come And Be My Honey	Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) Nancye Norman and Band	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Astor Roof NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Aug 1944
Unannounced + Take the A Train (close)	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Club Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Oct 1945
Set 6	Radio Transcriptions
Quaker City Jazz + And The Angels Sing	Jan Savitt Top Hatters (voc) Bon Bon	Radio Transcription 1939
Slow and Easy	Charlie Spivak Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1939
Masquerade Is Over	Jan Savitt Top Hatters (voc) Bon Bon	Radio Transcription 1939/div>
Charlie Horse	Charlie Spivak Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1939
Set 7	Swing Bands on 1940s Radio
Paradiddle Joe	Tony Pastor Orchestra	Aircheck 1944
Saturday Night	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Patti Thomas	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Feb 1945
Let’s Blow	Buddy Rich Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 27 Mar 1946
Sentimental Over You (theme) + You’re Driving Me Crazy	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) The Sentimentalists	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast 29 Jan 1945
Set 8	1940s-50s Moderne
Shoo Be Doo Be		Rex Theatre RFI Paris Feb 1953
B’s Flat	Shelly Manne Quintet	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Mar 1956
Confess		‘One Night Stand’ The Click Philadelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948
Little Girl Blue	Stan Getz Quartet	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Mar 1956

Bix Beidebecke First Hand – Phantom Dancer 15 Oct 2019

BIX

The first live jazz band I saw, many members of which I was later to sing with in my own band, played in front of a banner ‘Bix Lives’. Bix Beidebecke was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer.

This week’s 2SER Subscriber Drive Phantom Dancer presented by Greg Poppleton features music by this enourmous figure in jazz history and a 1941 reminiscence about Bix by someone who knew him personally.

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BIX AND PAUL

The Bix musical selections you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer comes from recordings he made as part of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra.

The Paul Whiteman Orchestra was the most popular and highest paid dance band of the day. In spite of Whiteman’s appellation “The King of Jazz”, his band was not a jazz ensemble as such, but a popular music outfit that drew from both jazz and classical music repertoires.

Idiotic jazz critics have derided the Whiteman band for not recording solo after solo by Bix. However, colleagues of Bix have testified that, far from feeling bound or stifled by the Whiteman orchestra, Bix often felt a sense of exhilaration. It was like attending a music school, learning and broadening.

Beiderbecke is featured on a number of Whiteman recordings, including two we’ll hear today with Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys as vocalists. These are, ‘You Took Advantage Of Me’ and ‘Changes’.

IMPRO

These two songs are specially written arrangements that emphasize Beiderbecke’s improvisational skills. Bill Challis, an arranger who had also worked in this capacity for Jean Goldkette, was particularly sympathetic in writing scores with Beiderbecke in mind, sometimes arranging entire ensemble passages based on solos that Bix played.

HOTEL ROOM TRASHING 40 YEARS AHEAD OF HIS TIME

On November 30, 1928, whilst on tour in Cleveland, Beiderbecke suffered ‘a severe nervous crisis’. “He cracked up, that’s all”, trombonist Bill Rank said. “Just went to pieces; broke up a roomful of furniture in the hotel.”

LAST RECORD

On his last recording session, in New York, on September 15, 1930, Beiderbecke played on the original recording of Hoagy Carmichael’s new song, ‘Georgia on My Mind’ with Carmichael doing the vocals, Eddie Lang on guitar, Joe Venuti on violin, Jimmy Dorsey on clarinet and alto saxophone, Jack Teagarden on trombone, and Bud Freeman on tenor saxophone. The song would go on to become a jazz and popular music standard.

STARDUST

Beiderbecke’s playing had an influence on Carmichael as a composer. One of his compositions, ‘Stardust’, was inspired by Beiderbecke’s improvisations, with a cornet phrase reworked by Carmichael into the song’s central theme.

Bing Crosby, who sang with Whiteman, also cited Beiderbecke as an important influence. “Bix and all the rest would play and exchange ideas on the piano”, he said. “With all the noise [of a New York pub] going on, I don’t know how they heard themselves, but they did. I didn’t contribute anything, but I listened and learned […] I was now being influenced by these musicians, particularly horn men. I could hum and sing all of the jazz choruses from the recordings made by Bix, Phil Napoleon, and the rest.”

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week shows Bix Beidebecke playing with the Whiteman Orchestra in a 1928 newsreel. Beidebecke, a self-taught cornetist, plays with puffed cheeks.

15 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #409
107.3 2SER Tuesday 15 October 2019 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	One Night Stand
Open + Three Little Words	Tony Pastor Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Jaentzen Beach Portland OR AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945
I Don’t Wanna Be Loved By Anyone Else But You + How Deep Is The Ocean?	Louis Prima Orchestra (voc) Lily Ann Polk	‘One Night Stand’ Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 28 Sep 1945
Perdido + Close	Randy Brooks Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Sep 1944
Set 2	Orrin Tucker
Because of You	Orrin Tucker Orchestra (voc) Orrin Tucker	Trocadero Ballroon Elitch’s Gardens Mutual Denver CO Jun 1951
Drifting and Dreaming	Orrin Tucker Orchestra (voc) The Bodyguards	Comm Rec Los Angeles 15 Dec 1939
Goodnight My Love + Drifting and Dreaming (theme)	Orrin Tucker Orchestra (voc) Orrin Tucker	Boulevarde Room Stevens Hotel ABC Chicago 1951
Set 3	Eddie Condon
Oh, By Jingo!	Eddie Condon	‘Doctor Jazz’ Eddie Condon’s WNEW NY 10 Dec 1951
I Found A New Baby	Eddie Condon	‘Eddie Condon’s Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 3 Mar 1945
Bad Habits + Somebody Loves Me + Close	Eddie Condon (voc) Lee Wiley	‘Chesterfield Presents Eddie Condon’ Date and place unknown
Set 4	Bix Beidebecke
Changes	Paul Whiteman Orchestra (Bix solo) (voc) Rhythm Boys	Comm Rec NYC 23 Nov 1927
Bix Reminiscence	Ralph Burton	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ Blue NY 6 Jan 1941
You Took Advantage of Me	Paul Whiteman Orchestra (Bix solo) (voc) Rhythm Boys	Comm Rec NYC 24 Apr 1928
Set 5	Swing Radio 1940-1941
Jug Music	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KFI NBC LA 20 Oct 1941
I’m Looking For A Guy Who Plays Alto And Baritone Doubles On A Clarinet And Wears A Size 37 Suit	Ozzie Nelson Orchestra (voc) Rose Ann Stevens	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 30 Mar 1940
Oh So Good	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue 27 Dec 1941
Tuxedo Junction	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke and the Modernaires	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue 27 Dec 1941
Set 6	Anita O’Day
Kick It	Anita O’Day (voc) Gene Krupa Orchestra	Aircheck 7 Jun 1941
I’ll Do It All Over Again	Anita O’Day (voc) Gene Krupa Orchestra	Astor Roof Hotel Astor WOR Mutual NY 15 Aug 1945
Open + Amour	Anita O’Day (voc) Gene Krupa Orchestra	Aircheck 1 Oct 1941
Drum Boogie	Anita O’Day (voc) Gene Krupa Orchestra	Aircheck 1 Oct 1941
Set 7	1930s Dance Band Radio Transcriptions
I’ll Do Anything For You	Seger Ellis and his Choirs of Brass	Radio Transcription 1937
Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride	Dick Jurgens Orchestra (voc) Eddie Howard	Radio Transcription 1938
Snuff Stuff	Seger Ellis and his Choirs of Brass	Radio Transcription 1937
There’s Silver on the Sage Tonight	Dick Jurgens Orchestra (voc) Eddie Howard	Radio Transcription 1939
Set 8	Charlie Parker
Scrapple From The Apple	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 15 Jan 1949
Ad for Face Powder	Symphony Sid	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 19 Feb 1949
Oo-Bop-Sha-Bam	Charlie Parker (voc) Band	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 22 Jan 1949

Sy Oliver – King Swing Arranger – Phantom Dancer 10 September 2019

SWING ARRANGER

This week’s Greg Poppleton Phantom Dancer features a set of 1940s swing bands from the Spotlight Bands series, a set of 1940s Nat King Cole and a set of the Dorsey Brothers on air, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey with a feature by their uptempo arranger, the influential musician and composer, Sy Oliver.

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OLIVER

Sy Oliver was a byword for swing in the 1940s. His musicianship skyrocketed the careers of big band leaders Jimmie Lunceford and Tommy Dorsey, both of whom you hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer. From wiki,

“Sy Oliver was born in Battle Creek, Michigan. His mother was a piano teacher and his father was a multi-instrumentalist who made a name for himself demonstrating saxophones at a time that instrument was little used outside of marching bands.

Oliver left home at 17 to play with Zack Whyte and his Chocolate Beau Brummels and later with Alphonse Trent. He sang and played trumpet with these bands, becoming known for his “growling” horn playing. He also began arranging with them.

He continued singing for the next 17 years, making many recordings when he was with Jimmie Lunceford and with his own band. With Lunceford, from 1934 to 1937, he recorded more than two dozen vocals. From 1949 to 1951, he recorded more than a dozen with his own band. With Tommy Dorsey, he only recorded two vocals, both in 1941 with Jo Stafford, on his own compositions “Yes Indeed” and “Swingin’ on Nothin'”.

Oliver arranged and conducted many songs for Ella Fitzgerald from her Decca years. As a composer, one of his most famous songs was “T’ain’t What You Do (It’s the Way That You Do It)”, which he co-wrote with Trummy Young.

 

LUNCEFORD

In 1933, Oliver joined Jimmie Lunceford’s band as a trumpet player, arranger and songwriter. He contributed many hit arrangements for the band, including “My Blue Heaven” and “Ain’t She Sweet”, as well as his original composition “For Dancers Only” which in time became the band’s theme song. He was co-arranger with pianist Ed Wilson; Oliver primarily taking the up-tempo numbers, Wilcox the ballads. Oliver’s arrangements “were a dashing parade of innovation that rivaled Ellington’s for consistency and originality.”

DORSEY

In 1939, when band leader Tommy Dorsey decided he wanted a swing band, his first step was to hire Oliver as an arranger away from Lunceford for $5,000 more a year. Oliver then became one of the first African Americans with a prominent role in a white band when he joined Tommy Dorsey. (Fletcher Henderson, another African American composer/arranger, had joined the Benny Goodman orchestra as the arranger some years earlier.) He led the transition of the Dorsey band from Dixieland to modern big band. His joining was instrumental in Dorsey luring several major jazz players, including Buddy Rich to his band.

With Dorsey, Oliver continued sharing arranging duties with another arranger, Axel Stordahl, Oliver doing up tempo tunes, Stordahl ballads. As James Kaplan puts it, “Tommy Dorsey’s band got a rocket boost in 1939 when Dorsey stole Lunceford’s great arranger Sy Oliver.”

His arrangement of “On the Sunny Side of the Street” was a big hit for Dorsey in 1946, as were his compositions “Yes, Indeed!” (a gospel-jazz tune that was later recorded by Ray Charles), “Opus One” (originally titled as “Opus No. 1”, but changed to suit the lyric that was added later), “The Minor Is Muggin'”, and “Well, Git It”.

Here’s a 1947 Downbeat review of the Sy Oliver band that you’ll hear from a live 1946 broadcast on this week’s Phantom Dancer…

 

APRES DORSEY

Oliver left Dorsey after seven years, in 1946, and began working as a freelance arranger and as music director for Decca Records.

One of his more successful efforts as an arranger was the Frank Sinatra album I Remember Tommy, a combined tribute to their former boss.

June 26, 1950, Sy Oliver and his Orchestra recorded the first American version of C’est si bon (Henri Betti, André Hornez, Jerry Seelen) and La Vie en rose (Louiguy, Édith Piaf, Mack David) for Louis Armstrong.

In 1974 he began a nightly gig with a small band at the Rainbow Room in New York. He continued that gig until 1984, with occasion time off to make festival or other dates, including at the Roseland Ballroom in New York. He retired in 1984.

Oliver died in New York City at the age of 77.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is a 1936 Vitaphone short of Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra with trumpet and arrangements by Sy Oliver
Enjoy!

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Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #403
107.3 2SER Tuesday 10 September 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT)
Set 1	Swing on the 1940s Spotlight Bands Radio Series
Blue Skies + You’re Too Beautiful	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Buddy DeVito	’Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast Aug 1946
Futurama	Gene Krupa Orchestra	’Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Dark Eyes + Temptation (theme)	Jimmy Joy Orchestra	’Spotlight Bands’ Harlingen Tx Blue Network 6 Jan 1945
Set 2	Nat King Cole Trio Time on 1947 – 59 Radio
Straighten Up And Fly Right (theme) + Sunday + Ad	Nat King Cole Trio (voc) NKC	’King Cole Trio Time’ KFI NBC LA 6 Mar 1948
Little Joe From Chicago + Boogie A La King	Nat King Cole Trio	’King Cole Trio Time’ Radio Transcription 1959
Tired	Pearl Bailey (voc) Nat King Cole Trio	’King Cole Trio Time’ WMAQ NBC Chicago 1 Mar 1947
Set 3	Those ‘Fabulous Dorseys’ on 1950s Radio and TV
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (theme) + Sentimental Baby	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Lynn Roberts	’All-Star Parade of Bands’ Claridge Hotel WMC NBC Memphis 1953
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (theme) + Smiles	Sy Oliver Orchestra	’Endorsed By Dorsey’ WOR Mutual NY 3 Mar 1946
When The Saints Go Marching In + I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (theme)	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Johnny Ray	’Stage Show’ CBS TV NY 1 Jan 1955
Set 4	Modern 1950s Sounds: RnB, Bop and Cool
Open + King Jacquet	Illinois Jacquet	’Sepia Swing Club’ WDIA Memphis 14 Dec 1951
Cool Blues	Charlie Parker	Hi-Hat Club WCOP Boston 1954
I’ve Got Rhythm	The Flexible Five	’California Melodies’ KHJ Mutual Los Angeles 1950
Set 5	Broadcasting From The Savoy
Round Midnight (theme) + 711	Cootie Williams Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Feb 1945
Body and Soul (theme) + Chant of the Groove	Coleman Hawkins Orchestra	Aircheck Savoy Ballroom NYC 1940
They Can’t Take That Away From Me	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Billie Holiday	Aircheck Savoy Ballroom NYC 30 Jun 1937
Floogie Boo + St Louis Blues	Cootie Williams Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Feb 1945
Set 6	Swing Bands on 1930s – 1940s Radio
Chatterbox	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	Radio Transcription Los Angeles Apr 1938
Are You Kidding?	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Band	’Spotlight Bands’ Jefferson Barracks Missouri Blue Network 23 Nov 1945
Benny’s Bugle	Lee and Lester Young Orchestra	Club Capri KHJ Mutual LA 2 Dec 1941
The Blizzard	Louis Prima Orchestra	’Spotlight Bands’ Mitchell Field NY Mutual Network 15 Jan 1945
Set 7	Pop Songs on 1930s Radio
The You And Me That Used To Be	George Hall Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 1937
When Summer Is Gone (theme) + You’ve Got Me Crying Again	Hal Kemp Orchestra	’Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Chlo-e	Benny Goodman Orchestra	’Camel Caravan’ KNX CBS LA 17 Aug 1937
The Little Man Who Wasn’t There	Johnny Messner Orchestra	’Radio Transcription’ New York City 1939
Set 8	Modern Improvised Jazz on 1950s Radio
The Cinch + I Don’t Want To Be Kissed	Buddy Rich Quintet	Birdland WABC ABC NY 8 Nov 1958
The 7-11 Jump	Erroll Garner Trio	Basin Street WCBS CBS New York City May 1956
All The Things You Are	Dave Brubeck Quartet	Basin Street WCBS CBS New York City Feb 1956

Paper Magnetic Tape for Tape Recorders – Phantom Dancer 30 July 2019

STRAIGHT FROM THE SOURCE

This week’s Greg Poppleton Phantom Dancer feature has been sent to The Phantom Dancer by Matt who lives in the USA. It’s a WBBM CBS Chicago aircheck of the Woody Herman Orchestra broadcasting from the Palladium Ballroom in Hollywood. Matt has transferred it from the original brittle paper reel-to-reel tape.

The aircheck includes a bop inspired swinger I’ve never heard before called ‘Non-Alcoholic’.

I had thought audio tape had always been ‘plastic’. So this paper tape Matt sent is a revelation to me. I found some information about paper audio tape on Wiki which I’ve edited into a few tantalising paragraphs below…

Thank you, Matt!

ONLINE

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PAPER RECORDING TAPE

Wax

The earliest known audio tape recorder was a non-magnetic, non-electric version invented by Alexander Graham Bell’s Volta Laboratory and patented in 1886. It employed a 3⁄16-inch-wide (4.8 mm) strip of wax-covered paper that was coated by dipping it in a solution of beeswax and paraffin and then had one side scraped clean, with the other side allowed to harden. It never went into commercial production largely due to the poor sound quality of the tape.

Photoelectric

In 1932, after six years of developmental work, Detroit radio engineer, Merle Dunstan, created a tape recorder that used chemically treated paper tape. During the recording process, the tape moved through a pair of electrodes which immediately imprinted the modulated sound signals as visible black stripes into the paper tape’s surface. The sound track could be immediately replayed from the same recorder unit, which also contained photoelectric sensors, somewhat similar to the various sound-on-film technologies of the era.

Iron Oxide

Magnetic tape recording as we know it today was developed in Germany during the 1930s at BASF and AEG in cooperation with the state radio RRG. This was based on Fritz Pfleumer’s 1928 invention of paper tape with oxide powder lacquered to it. The first practical tape recorder from AEG was the Magnetophon K1, demonstrated in Germany in 1935. Eduard Schüller of AEG built the recorders and developed a ring-shaped recording and playback head. It replaced the needle-shaped head which tended to shred the tape. Friedrich Matthias of IG Farben/BASF developed the recording tape, including the oxide, the binder, and the backing material. Walter Weber, working for Hans Joachim von Braunmühl at the RRG, discovered the AC biasing technique, which radically improved sound quality.

German WW2 Tape Recorder

End of Paper Tape

In 1938, S.J. Begun left Germany and joined the Brush Development Company in the United States, where work on magnetic tape recorders continued. This work attracted little attention until the late 1940s when the company released the very first consumer tape recorder in 1946: the Soundmirror BK 401.

Tapes were initially made of paper coated with magnetite powder. In 1947/48 Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company (3M) replaced the paper backing with plastic or polyester and coated it first with black oxide, and later, to improve overall sound quality, red iron oxide.

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!

30 JULY 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 30 July 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 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	One Night Stand Bands on 1945 Radio
Take The A-Train (theme) + Midriff	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Oct 1945
Music for Moderns (theme) + Lullaby of Broadway	Jan Savitt Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Sep 1945
Candy Kid’s Note to a Classy Chassie + Twilight Time (close)	Vaughan Monroe Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Feb 1945
Set 2	Swinging 60s Radio
Walkin’	Harry James Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Nov 1959
Alright OK You Win	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Joe Williams	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Zardi’s KFI NBC LA 14 May 1956
Black Magic + Close	Buddy DeFranco Group	‘The Navy Swings’ Radio Transcription 1959
Set 3	1935-41 Paris Radio
Radio Cite ID + Open + C’est Gentil	Ray Ventura et ses Collegiens	Poste Parisien 1935
Swing Festival ’41	Django Reinhardt, Aime Barelli, Alix Combelle and more	Radio Paris 26 Dec 1940
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes + All I Do The Whole Day Through Is Dream of You + Close	Guy Berry + Charlotte Duvier & Charles Trenet	‘Le Enfante Terrible’ Poste Parisien 1935
Set 4	Woody Herman on Paper Tape
Swing Low Sweet Clarinet	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Mary-Ann McCall	Palladium Ballroom Hollywood WBBM CBS Chicago 15 Feb 1947
Apple Honey	Woody Herman Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom Hollywood WBBM CBS Chicago 15 Feb 1947
Non-Alcoholic + Close	Woody Herman Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom Hollywood WBBM CBS Chicago 15 Feb 1947
Set 5	Teddy Wilson 1944-45
Tiger Rag	Teddy Wilson Sextet	‘Mildred Bailey Show’ WABC CBS NY 19 Jan 1945
Body and Soul	Teddy Wilson Sextet	‘Mildred Bailey Show’ WABC CBS NY 1944
Smiles	Teddy Wilson Sextet	‘Mildred Bailey Show’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jan 1945
Sweet Georgia Brown	Teddy Wilson Sextet	‘Mildred Bailey Show’ WABC CBS NY 8 Dec 1944
Set 6	Red Norvo Vibes
Rockin’ Chair	Esquire All-Stars with Red Norvo (vibes) Mildred Bailey (voc)	‘Spotlight Bands’ Metropolitan Opera House WJZ Blue NY 18 Jan 1944
Clarinet Marmalade	Red Norvo Octet	‘Paul Whiteman Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Mar 1936
Somebody Loves Me	Benny Goodman Sextet with Red Norvo	‘Alistair Cooke Concert’ BBC Transcription New York City 8 Dec 1945
I Never Knew	Red Norvo Octet	‘Paul Whiteman Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Mar 1936
Set 7	Hal Kemp
When Summer is Gone (theme) + Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis	‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Everything I Have is Yours	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Deane Janis	‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Thanks	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Deane Janis	‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea + When Summer is Gone (theme)	Hal Kemp Orchestra	‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Set 8	Jubilee Swing 1943 and 1945
Blue ‘n’ Boogie (theme) + Opus X	Billy Eckstine Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945
Love Me or Leave Me	Billy Eckstine Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945
Vine Street Boogie	Jay McShann Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS NYC 1943
Jump the Blues + One O’Clock Jump (theme)	Jay McShann Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS NYC 1943

Frances Langford – A Tonsillectomy Created A Career – Phantom Dancer 23 July 2019

FROM OPERA TO SWING

This week’s Greg Poppleton Phantom Dancer feature artist is Frances Langford. She trained as an opera singer. Then a tonsillectomy changed her soprano to contralto, so she changed musical styles from opera to swing.

Check out this week’s Phantom Dancer play list of swing and jazz mixed from live 1920s-60s radio below.

ONLINE

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FRANCES ON RADIO

Frances Langford was discovered in 1930 singing at a local dance by a merchant who put her on local radio to sing about his wares.

The next year she did a brief stint in the Broadway musical ‘Here Goes the Bride’. She then went to Hollywood to start a movie career, appearing on Louella Parsons’ radio show ‘Hollywood Hotel’.

Rudy Vallee heard her singing on the show and invited her to become a regular on his radio show. From 1935 to 1938 she was also a regular performer on Dick Powell’s radio show. From 1946 to 1951, she performed with Don Ameche in the role, Blanche, on The Bickersons radio series.

FRANCES IN FILMS

She introduced what became her theme song, ‘I’m in the Mood for Love’, in the 1935 film ‘Every Night at Eight’, which you can see in the Video of the Week below.

She appeared frequently on the silver screen in such films as ‘Broadway Melody of 1936’ in which she sang ‘Broadway Rhythm’ and ‘You Are My Lucky Star’, ‘Born to Dance’ (1936), ‘Too Many Girls’ (1940) and ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’ (1942) with James Cagney, in which she sung ‘Over There’.

WWII

Langford was a regular singer on Bob Hope’s ‘Pepsodent Show’ when he and the cast held his first military entertainment program at March Field in Riverside, California in 1941. The show was so positive, he continued broadcasting from training bases around the USA and asked Langford to join him. During World War II, she joined Hope, Jerry Colonna, guitarist Tony Romano and other performers on USO tours entertaining thousands of GIs in Europe, North Africa and the South Pacific.

Her association with Hope continued up till 1989 when she joined him for a USO tour to entertain troops in the Persian Gulf.

During the war, Langford wrote the weekly ‘Purple Heart Diary’ column for Hearst Newspapers, in which she described her visits to military hospitals to entertain wounded soldiers. She used the weekly column as a means of allowing the recovering troops to voice their complaints, and to ask for public support to make sure that wounded troops received all the supplies and comforts they needed.

TV

Frances worked for several years in the late 1940s on ‘The Spike Jones Show’ and starred in a short-lived DuMont variety show ‘Star Time’ (1950).

She teamed with Don Ameche for the ABC television program, ‘The Frances Langford – Don Ameche Show’ (1951), a spin-off of their successful radio series ‘The Bickersons’ in which the duo played a feuding married couple.

Langford was also the host of the NBC musical variety program ‘Frances Langford Presents’ (1959), which lasted one season, as did her ‘The Frances Langford Show’ (1960). Another notable appearance was in ‘The Honeymooners’ lost episode ‘Christmas Party. which first aired December 19, 1953.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is from 1935 – Frances Langford singing the song that became her theme tune, ‘I’m In The Mood For Love’. Wasn’t George Raft a cad!

23 JULY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #396
107.3 2SER Tuesday 23 July 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 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	1944 Radio Swing Bands
Open + The Two-Spot Hop	Dean Hudson Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Blue Room Hotel Lincoln NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Nov 1944
Blues Concerto	Jerry Wald Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS re-broadcast 28 Oct 1944
I’ve Got Rhythm + Sound Off	Lenny Conn Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Camp Shanks NY AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Set 2	Swinging 60s Radio
Theme + Re-stringing the Pearls	Jerry Gray and his Band of Today	Palladium Ballroom KFI NBC Los Angeles 20 Jan 1961
The Price is Right Boogie	Henry Red Allen Trio	London House WBBM CBS Chicago 30 Mar 1962
Cuckoo + Two O’Clock Jump	Harry James Orchestra	Moon Bowl Freedomland WNEW NY 1962
Set 3	Mod 1950s Radio
Open + How High The Moon	Pete Brown Quartet	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 2 Sep 1952
Madness and Great Ones	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Ravinia Festival WBBM CBS Chicago 1 Jul 1957
I Didn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night	Arthur Prysock	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 1952
Set 4	Frances Langford
Open + On the Sunny Side of the Street	Frances Langford	‘Swingtime’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Open + I Love You	Frances Langford	‘Mail Call’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Medley: After The Ball + Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah + Dancing in the Dark + Open The Door, Richard + Let Me Call You Sweetheart + Close	Frances Langford	‘Frances Langford Show’ KFI NBC LA 21 Aug 1947
Set 5	1944-45 Radio
Open + I’ll Walk Alone	Bob Strong Orchestra (voc) Ralph Hillworth	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WOR Mutual NY 2 Sep 1944
Open + Rockin’ in Rhythm	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945
Sleighride in July	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Bonnie Lou Williams	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network 29 Jan 1945
Bizet Has His Day + Leap Frog (theme)	Les Brown Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 7 Jul 1944
Set 6	1940s Frank Sinatra
Pistol Packin’ Mama	Frank Sinatra	‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1943
Sweet Lorraine	Frank Sinatra	‘Songs by Sinatra’ AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Feb 1946
Speak Low	Frank Sinatra	‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-broadcast 18 Dec 1943
All The Things You Are	Frank Sinatra	‘Songs by Sinatra’ KNX CBS LA 26 Nov 1946
Set 7	Gramercy 5
Summit Ridge Drive	Artie Shaw’s Gramercy 5	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast San Diego Ca 12 Sep 1945
The Sad Sack	Artie Shaw’s Gramercy 5	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast Santa Ana AFB Ca 3 Oct 1945
Hop, Skip and Jump	Artie Shaw’s Gramercy 5	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast San Luis Obispo Ca 26 Sep 1945
Scuttlebutt	Artie Shaw’s Gramercy 5	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast Fort Ord Ca 19 Sep 1945
Set 8	Die Goldene Sieben
Darf ich bitten	Die Goldene Sieben (The Golden Seven)	Comm Rec Berlin Sep 1936
Oh! Aha!	Die Goldene Sieben (The Golden Seven) (voc) Rudi Schuericke Terzette	Comm Rec Berlin Sep 1936
St Louis Blues	Die Goldene Sieben (The Golden Seven)	Comm Rec Berlin 1938
Ein kleines weisses Haus	Die Goldene Sieben (The Golden Seven) (voc) Rudi Schuericke Terzette	Comm Rec Berlin 1939

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.

PHANTOM DANCER

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop swing and jazz mix of live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week. I’ve been bringing you The Phantom Dancer on radio 2SER, and now online, since 1985.

Hear this week’s Phantom Dancer (after Nov 20) and past Phantom Dancers at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney

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

Old Father Time Guy Lombardo – Phantom Dancer 20 Nov 2018

OLD FATHER TIME

Guy Lombardo led the world’s leading ‘sweet’ band from 1924 – 1977. Guy became known as ‘Old Father Time’ because his band brought in New Years in the US on radio and later TV from 1929 to 1976. Guy Lombardo is November 20 Phantom Dancer feature artist. See the full swing playlist, Guy Lombardo video and story here.

PHANTOM DANCER

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop swing and jazz mix of live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week. I’ve been bringing you The Phantom Dancer on radio 2SER, and now online, since 1985.

Hear this week’s Phantom Dancer (after Nov 20) and past Phantom dancers at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney

CANADA

Guy Lombardo was born in London, Ontario, Canada. He and his brothers and one sister all learned musical instruments as children so they could accompany their father who was an amateur singer.

Guy Lombardo’s first public performance was with his brother Carmen at a church lawn party in London in 1914.

ROYAL

Guy formed his Royal Canadian band in 1924 with his brothers Carmen, Lebert and Victor, and other musicians from London.

Promoted as creating ‘the sweetest music this side of Heaven’, the Royal Canadians may have sold up to 300 million records in its lifetime.

HITS

The band made its first record in 1924 and recorded sporadically until signed to Columbia in 1927 when they had their first big hit. From then on they recorded prolifically for the top record companies including Brunswick and Decca.

Though the jazz and swing community ridiculed the band’s sweet style, Louis Armstrong called Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians his favourite band.

EVE

Guy Lombardo is most famous for 48 years of New Years Eve band broadcasts on radio and then TV.

Lombardo played his first New Years Eve broadcast in 1928.

The following year, his orchestra played US radio’s first national New Years broadcast from New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel. In fact, we hear Guy Lombardo broadcasting from the Grill Room of the Hotel Roosevelt in this week’s Phantom Dancer.

He played New Years in the Grill Room of the Hotel Roosevelt every year until 1959 when he switched to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. He played New Years there every year until 1976. His TV New Year shows began in 1956. As early as 1945, he was being familiarly introduced over New Years airwaves as ‘Old Father Time’. His radio theme, from 1929, was the traditional New Yeras Eve song, ‘Auld Lang Syne’.

Even after Lombardo’s death in 1977, the Royal Canadians’ New Years specials continued for two more years on CBS. The Royal Canadians’ recording of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ still plays as the first song of the new year in Times Square, New York City.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is Guy Lombardo’s New Years Eve TV special in New York City live from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 1976 – his last. It includes the Guy Lombardo version of the 1970s hit, ‘Feelings’ (at 7’35”).

20 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #342
107.3 2SER Tuesday 20 November 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	Hot 1930s Radio
I’m Gonna Lose My Gal + Shine on Harvest Moon + You’re Such a Comfort To Me	Ruth Etting (voc) Johnny Green Orchestra	‘Oldsmobile Program’ WABC CBS NY 16 Feb 1934
Shadows on the Swanee	Harry Foster (voc) Jimmie Grier Orchestra	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1932
The Merry Widow + So I Married The Girl	George Olsen Music (voc) Hotcha Gardiner	‘Lucky Strike Hour’ WEAF NBC Red New York City 1 Dec 1932
Set 2	Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street
Open + Magic Carpet	Paul Lavalle Woodwinds	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 25 Aug 1941
Flow Gently Sweet Afton	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 25 Aug 1941
Whirl Away	Lumel Morgan Trio	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 25 Aug 1941
Set 3	1950s Music Radio
Quiet Village (theme) + Happy Talk	Martin Denny	London House WBBM CBS Chicago 1959
Sound Off	Vaughan Monroe and the Moon Men	Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ ABC Jun 1951
Love Walked In + Close	Charlie Spivak Orchestra	‘Monitor’ Pleasure Beach Bridgeport Conn. WRCA NBC NY 26 Jun 1955
Set 4	Guy Lombardo
Auld Lang Syne (theme) + They Say It’s Wonderful	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (voc) Don Rodney	‘Guy Lombardo Show’ Radio Transcription New York City 1948
I Don’t Care Who Knows It + I’ll Buy That Dream	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (voc) Trio and Kenny Gardiner	‘Musical Autographs’ WJZ Blue NYC 11 Sep 1945
Polka	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians	‘One Night Stand’ Grill Room Hotel Roosevelt NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 25 Oct 1950
Set 5	Martha Tilton – Benny Goodman Camel Caravan 1939
Gotta Get Some Shuteye	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 7 Feb 1939
Hurry Home	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 3 Jan 1939
Sweet Little Headache	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 14 Feb 1939
I Have Eyes	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 10 Jan 1939
Set 6	Louis Armstrong 1940s-50s Radio
You Rascal You	Louis Armstrong	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 7 May 1950
I’m Confessing That I Love You	Louis Armstrong	‘Spotlight Bands’ Tuskagee AL AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Oct 1944
I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City	Louis Armstrong	‘Spotlight Bands’ Dallas TX AFRS Re-broadcast 17 Aug 1942
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love + Close	Louis Armstrong	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Apr 1943
Set 7	1930s-40s Western Swing Records
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home	Texas Rose	Comm Rec Dallas 15 May 1938
Shiner Song (in Czech)	Adolf Hofner Orchestra	Comm Rec San Antonio 1948
Get Hot	W. Lee O’Daniel	Comm Rec San Antonio 21 Nov 1936
Happy Go Lucky Polka (in Czech)	Adolf Hofner Orchestra	Comm Rec San Antonio 1949
Set 8	Jazz Moderne on 1940s-60s Radio
Afro Bossa	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRTS Re-broadcast 1964
The King	Count Basie Orchestra	Aircheck New York City Sep 1948
Open + Sweet Georgia Brown	Roy Eldridge	‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NY Mar 1957
What’s New?	Terry Gibbs All-Stars	Birdland WABC ABC NY Sep 1953

Claude Thornhill Piano Child Prodigy – Phantom Dancer 4 September Radio Show 2018

He was a piano playing child prodigy who entered the Con at age 16 after playing professionally in theatre for years. His name is Claude Thornhill and he is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.

THE PHANTOM DANCER

Swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio in a non-stop mix by Greg Poppleton.

Mixed live-to-air on radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney since 1985.

The Phantom Dancer is re-broadcast on 22 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online at 2ser.com. That’s where you can hear lots of past Phantom Dancers, too.

IN THIS WEEK’S PHANTOM DANCER MIX?

The Claude Thornhill feature and a whole mix of swing and jazz from live 1930s-50s radio. Read the full play list below.

The last hour of the mix is ALL VINYL.

CLAUDE THORNHILL

This week I’m quoting the wiki article on Claude Thornhill. Usually I write a bio based on different sources, but I’m short of time this week recording a new album for the Greg Poppleton band with the Billion Dollar Quartet.

“Claude Thornhill (August 10, 1908 – July 1, 1965) was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. He composed the jazz and pop standards “Snowfall” and “I Wish I Had You”.

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As a youth, he was recognized as an extraordinary talent and formed a traveling duo with Danny Polo, a musical prodigy on the clarinet and trumpet from nearby Clinton, Indiana. As a student at Garfield High School in Terre Haute, he played with several theater bands. Thornhill entered the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music at the age of 16.

That same year he and clarinetist Artie Shaw started their careers at the Golden Pheasant in Cleveland, Ohio, with the Austin Wylie Orchestra. Thornhill and Shaw went to New York together in 1931. Thornhill went to the West Coast in the late 1930s with the Bob Hope Radio Show and arranged for Judy Garland in Babes in Arms. In 1935, he played on sessions with Glenn Miller, including “Solo Hop”, which was released on Columbia Records. He also played with Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Ray Noble, and Billie Holiday. He arranged “Loch Lomond” and “Annie Laurie” for Maxine Sullivan.

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In 1939 he founded the Claude Thornhill Orchestra. Danny Polo was his lead clarinet player. Although the Thornhill band was a sophisticated dance band, it became known for its superior jazz musicians and for Thornhill’s and Gil Evans’s arrangements. The band played without vibrato so that the timbres of the instruments could be better appreciated. Thornhill encouraged the musicians to develop cool-sounding tones. The band was popular with both musicians and the public. Miles Davis’s Birth of the Cool nonet was modeled in part on Thornhill’s sound and unconventional instrumentation. The band’s most successful records were “Snowfall”, “A Sunday Kind of Love”, and “Love for Love”.

Thornhill was playing at the Paramount Theater in New York for $10,000 a week in 1942 when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. As chief musician, he performed shows across the Pacific Theater with Jackie Cooper as his drummer and Dennis Day as his vocalist.

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In 1946, he was discharged from the Navy and reunited his ensemble. Danny Polo, Gerry Mulligan, and Barry Galbraith returned with new members, Red Rodney, Lee Konitz, Joe Shulman, and Bill Barber. In the mid 1950s, Thornhill was briefly Tony Bennett’s musical director. He offered his big band library to Gerry Mulligan when Mulligan formed the Concert Jazz Band, but Gerry regretfully declined the gift, since his instrumentation was different. A large portion of his extensive library of music is currently held by Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.

Thornhill died of a heart attack in Caldwell, New Jersey, at the age of 56. In 1984, he was posthumously inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame.”

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

A tour-de-corn from 1942 with Claude Thornhill, his piano, and his orchestra. Vocals by the Snowflakes including future bop singer with Dave Lambert, Buddy Stewart. (You can hear Dave Lambert and Buddy Stewart bop duets live in 1949 with Charie Parker on the 21 August Phantom Dancer).

4 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #330
107.3 2SER Tuesday 4 September 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Pop Singers on
Open + Buttons and Bows	Jo Stafford	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 22 May 1949
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered	Margaret Whiting	‘Oxydol Show’ CBS 1950
The Birth of the Blues + Basin Street Blues + Close	Liz Tilton and Curt Massey	‘Alka-Seltzer Show’ CBS 17 Jun 1949
Set 2	1950s Radio Jazz Pop
Summertime (theme) + Them There Eyes	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby	‘Marine Corp Show’ Radio Transcription 1950
At Last	The Honey Dreamers	‘Airtime’ Radio Transcription 1945
‘S Wonderful + Sleepy Time Down South (theme)	Louis Armstrong	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Basin Street WRCA NBC NY 8 May 1955
Set 3	Philco Orchestra
Let a Little Pleasure Interfere with Business	Philco Orchestra	‘Philco Show’ WABC CBS NY 1930
Cinderella Brown	Philco Orchestra	‘Philco Show’ WABC CBS NY 1930
Egyptian Ella	Philco Orchestra	‘Philco Show’ WABC CBS NY 1931
Set 4	Jan Garber 1944-45
Snowfall (theme) + Where or When	Claude Thornhill Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY AFRS Re-Broadcast 23 Jun 1947
Classics in Jazz + Flight of the Bumble Bee	Claude Thornhill Orchestra	‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jun 1937
Let’s Go Home + Close	Claude Thornhill Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Pennsylvania WJZ ABC NY 22 Sep 1947
Set 5	Swinging 1940s Big Band Radio
Stealing Apples	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WABC CBS New York Jul 1943
Cottontail	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ WJZ ABC NY 10 Nov 1945
Swanee River	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 3 Dec 1945
Mr Chips + Blue and Boogie	Billy Eckstine Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945
Set 6	Women Singers 1939 Radio
Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me	Kay Doyle (voc) Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	Mutual Network Boston 20 Sep 1939
The Very Thought of You (theme) + And the Angels Sing	Liz Tilton (voc) Ray Noble Orchestra	Beverly-Wiltshire Hotel Beverly Hills Ca KFI NBC LA 22 Oct 1939
Little Sir Echo	Doris Day (voc) Barney Rapp Orchestra	Sign of the Drum NBC Cincinnati 17 Jun 1939
Yankee Doodle	Linda Keene (voc) Jack Teagarden Orchestra	‘Young Man with a Band’ WABC CBS NY Nov 1939
Set 7	1938-40 Sweet Band Radio Transcriptions
So You’re The One	Sterling Young Orchestra (voc) Bobbie Innes	Radio Transcription 1940
Heart and Soul	Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Russ Carlyle	Radio Transcription 1938
It Seems Like Old Times	Glen Gray Orchestra (voc) Cliff Grass	Radio Transcription 1939
Goodbye Now	Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) 3Ds	Radio Transcription 1940
Set 8	Bop Radio
Groovin’ The Blues	Miss Rhapsody	Comm Rec 6 Jul 1944
Hi Beck	Lee Konitz	Storyville Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston 5 Jan 1954
Bye Bye Blackbird + Straight No Chaser	Miles Davis	‘Bandstand USA’ Spotlight Mutual, Washington DC Feb 1959

Phantom Dancer 12 September – Final Episode ‘Radar Men From The Moon’

If the 5 September show is anything to go by, the 12 September Phantom Dancer is going to be the best show ever.

This week you’ll hear a ‘Night in Tunisia’ set, a set of live Latin rhythms by Prado Perez, Xavier Cugat and Enric Madreguera and Freddie Rich from 1932 radio with a band including Bob Effros, Bunny Berrigan, Manny Klein, the Dorsey Brothers, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang.

Your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV is presented by myself, Greg Poppleton, over radio station 107.3 2SER Sydney. I’ve been bringing you The Phantom Dancer since 1985.

You can now hear it live-streamed and online on Radio 2SER’s website.

See the full play list below.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is episode 11, the climactic end, 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 #279 107.3 2SER Tuesday 12 September 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 Swing Bands with Trumpet Band Leaders on One Night Stand, 1943-45 Theme + Blue Skies Lee Castle Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Ice Terrace Room Newark, New Jersey AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Aug 1944 Theme + Sunday Sonny Durham Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast Oct 1943 Disorder At The Border + Theme + Memories of You + Begin The Beguine Sonny Durham Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Ice Terrace Room Hotel New Yorker NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jul 1945 Set 2 Latin Jazz on Live 1945 – 55 Radio Theme + Oya Negra Enric Madreguera and his Music of the Americas (voc) Eddy Gomez ’One Night Stand’ Copacabana NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Jul 1945 Theme + Siboney Xavier Cugat Orchestra ’All-Star Parade of Bands’ Ramona Room Hotel Last Frontier NBC Las Vegas 30 Nov 1953 Whatever Lola Wants Lola Gets + Close Prado Perez ’All-Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC NY 24 Jul 1953 Set 3 Stan Kenton 1950s Radio Young Blood Stan Kenton Orchestra ’Concert in Miniature’ NBC Fort Sheridan Ill. 30 Sep 1952 Too Marvellous Stan Kenton Quintet ’Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America Washington DC 1952 Francesca + Artistry in Rhythm (theme) Stan Kenton Orchestra ’Concert in Miniature’ Hampton Beach Casino New Hampshire WBZ NBC Boston 21 Jul 1953 Set 4 Count Basie 1954-56 Ingin’ The Ooh Count Basie Nonet Comm Rec Boston 7 Sep 1954 You For Me Count Basie Orchestra Red Hill Inn Pennsauken NY WCBS CBS NY 1 Dec 1956 Bubbles Count Basie Orchestra ’Treasury Bandstand’ American Legion Park WLAN ABC Lancaster PA 2 Sep 1954 Set 5 Freddie Rich 1932 I’ve Got Five Dollars (theme) + Copenhagen Freddie Rich and the Friendly Five Orchestra ’Friendly Five Footnotes’ CBS Radio Transcription New York City 1932 Bend Down Sister Freddie Rich and the Friendly Five Orchestra ’Friendly Five Footnotes’ CBS Radio Transcription New York City 1932 Japanese Sandman Freddie Rich and the Friendly Five Orchestra ’Friendly Five Footnotes’ CBS Radio Transcription New York City 1932 You Try Somebody Else + Close Freddie Rich and the Friendly Five Orchestra ’Friendly Five Footnotes’ CBS Radio Transcription New York City 1932 Set 6 Harry James 1942-46 Ciribiribin (Theme) + You’re In Love With Someone Else Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest Roof Garden Hotel Astor WABC CBS NY 28 Aug 1942 Open + Joe Blow Harry James Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS Los Angeles 1943 Theme + Save The American Way Harry James Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest ’Treasury War Bond Show’ Radio Transcription NYC Mar 1942 All Of Me Harry James Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City CA AFRS Re-broadcast 10 Feb 1946 Set 7 Nawlins Jazz On The Air Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (Theme) + Sensation Rag Muggsy Spanier and group ’This Is Jazz’ WOR MBS NY 22 Mar 1947 Eh Las Bas Papa Celestin and his New Orleans Jazz Band (voc) Papa Celestin ’Dixieland Jamboree’ WDSU ABC New Orleans 1950 Jazz Me Blues Bob Crosby Bobcats Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Chicago 29 Apr 1940 Maryland, My Maryland George Lewis and his New Orleans Ragtime Jazz Band ’Dixieland Jamboree’ WDSU ABC New Orleans 29 Apr 1951 Set 8 A Night In Tunisia A Night In Tunisia Boyd Raeburn Orchestra Rose Room Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 19 Jun 1945 A Night In Tunisia Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jun 1956 A Night In Tunisia Charlie Parker – Dizzy Gillespie Quintet ’Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ NYC 31 Mar 1945