Rosemary Clooney Chain Smoking Singer – Phantom Dancer 1 March 2022

Rosemary Clooney was an American singer, actor and radio host. She’s this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist where you’ll hear her in radio broadcasts from the 1950s-60s. She’s also actor, George Clooney’s, aunt.

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton. Hear past Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 1 March at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

ROSEMARY CLOONEY

It’s incredible that she had the beautiful voice that she had despite the heavy smoking that eventually made the end of her life painful before killing her.

From ‘More Than a Girl Singer’, American Association for Cancer Research,

“A long-time smoker, Clooney was hospitalized in 1996 with acute respiratory failure. At that time, her doctors advised her to quit smoking, but Clooney struggled with her addiction. “Mama called me from the hospital and asked me to bring her cigarettes,” Ferrer (one of her sons)  remembers. “It was so hard for her to stop, though she finally did.”

Toward the end of 2001, Clooney was on the road performing when she began to find it hard to breathe. By the time she arrived home in Beverly Hills a few days before Christmas, she was exhausted. “She could hardly get up the stairs,” says Ferrer. “After two steps, she would have to stop and rest.” Less than a month later, Clooney was diagnosed with stage IIIA non–small cell lung cancer. She died six months later, on June 29, 2002, at her home in Beverly Hills with her family beside her. She was 74.”

TALENT SPOTTED

In 1945, Rosemary Clooney’s father went out one night with friends to celebrate the end of World War II. He never came back.

Clooney, 17, and her sister, 14, found themselves in a dire situation. They collected soft drink bottles and used what little money they had to buy lunch at school. The rent was overdue, the phone disconnected and the utilities about to be turned off when their luck changed. The teenagers, who had grown up performing at political rallies for their grandfather, the mayor of Maysville, won a singing competition at WLW Cincinnati, a local radio station. The station hired them for a regular late-night spot, with each sister earning $20 a week (almost US$290 in 2021 money).

They sing with Tony Pastor’s Orchestra, broadcasting and recording with the band until 1949 (as you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer mix).

In 1950–51, she was a regular on the radio and television versions of Songs For Sale on CBS. In 1951, her record of “Come On-a My House”, produced by Mitch Miller, became a hit. It was her first of many singles to hit the charts—despite the fact that Clooney hated the song passionately. She recorded several duets with Marlene Dietrich and appeared in the early 1950s on Faye Emerson’s Wonderful Town series on CBS. Clooney also did several guest appearances on the Arthur Godfrey radio show.

HOLLYWOOD

In 1954, she starred with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen in the movie White Christmas…

Two years later she had her own half-hour syndicated television musical-variety show, The Rosemary Clooney Show. NBC re-launched the show in a prime time slot on 1957 as The Lux Show Starring Rosemary Clooney. It lasted one season. In the late 50s and early 1960s, Clooney often appeared with Bing Crosby on television and radio. You’ll hear an excerpt from a 20-minute CBS radio program they did Monday to Friday for years that aired before the midday news.

Clooney left Columbia Records in 1958, doing a number of recordings for MGM Records and then some for Coral Records. Finally, toward the end of 1958, she signed with RCA Victor Records, where she stayed until 1963. In 1964, she went to Reprise Records, and in 1965 to Dot Records.

1970s – 2000s

After a hiatus of 11 years due to pills, alcohol and depression, Clooney signed to United Artists Records in 1976 for two albums. From 1977, she recorded an album every year for the Concord Jazz record label until her death. She was also singing on other people’s albums in 70s and 80s

In 1995, Clooney guest-starred in the NBC television medical drama ER (starring her nephew, George Clooney); for her performance, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.

She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.

Here’s Rosemary Clooney on ‘What’s My Line’,

1 MARCH PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #534
107.3 2SER Tuesday 1 March 2022 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	A Date With The Duke
Take The A-Train (theme) + Can’t You Read Between The Lines?	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Back Home Again in Indiana	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
The Wish I Wish	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Joya Sherill	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Cottontail	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Set 2	1950s Jazz Radio
Sugar Beat	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WOR Mutual NY 1951
At Sundown	Les Brown Orchestra	‘Treasury Bandstand’ Hershey Park Ballroom WLAN ABC Lancaster PA 1957
Give Me The Simple Life	Thelma Carpenter	‘Jazz Arts Concert’ WNBC NBC NY 4 Oct 1952
Set 3	Trad Jazz Radio
Bugle Call Rag	Red Nichols	Radio Transcription 1952
Open + South Rampart Street Parade	Preacher Rollo	‘Dixieland Club’ AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Apr 1952
Mama’s Gone, Goodbye + St Louis Blues	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 5 Feb 1955
Set 4	Rosemany Clooney
‘S Wonderful	Rosemary & Betty Clooney (voc) Tony Pastor Orchestra	Aircheck New York City Sep 1948
Tenderly (theme) + You Make Me Feel So Young	Rosemary Clooney	‘The Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 2 Nov 1954
Enchanted	Rosemary Clooney	‘Bing Crosby – Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 20 Mar 1962
It’s a Most Unusual Day + Something to Remember You By	Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby	‘The Bing Crosby Show’ KNX CBS LA 22 Nov 1953
Set 5	1920s Comm Records
Sunday	Jean Goldkette Orchestra (voc) Keller Sisters	Comm Rec Camden NJ 15 Oct 1926
Delirium	Red and Miff’s Stompers	Comm Rec New York City 11 Feb 1927
Flamin’ Mamie	Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra (voc) Joe Sanders	Comm Rec Camden NJ 21 Dec 1925
Blue Melody Blues	Tiny Praham and his Musicians	Comm Rec Chicago 1 Feb 1929
Set 6	Henny Youngman
Love Thy Neighbour (film preview)	Henny Youngman, Jack Benny, Tommy Dorsey & more	Paramount Theatre WOR Mutual NY 17 Dec 1940
Set 7	Mid 1940s Swing Radio
Theme + Hamp’s Got a Duke	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	Casa Manana Culver City Ca KFI NBC LA 20 Jul 1947
Temptation	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Ginny Powell	Meadowbrook Gardens KECA ABC LA 10 Feb 1946
Santa Catalina	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Collins	Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 16 Sep 1947
Andy’s Blues	Count Basie Orchestra	Avadon Ballroom Aircheck Los Angeles 1946
Set 8	Women Radio Singers
Manhattan	Lee Wiley	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 1950
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen	Kay Starr (voc) Charlie Barnett Orchestra	‘For the Record’ WEAF NBC NY 11 Sep 1944
Robin Hood	Mildred Bailey	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 12 Feb 1945
I Miss Your Kiss	Joya Sherill (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date with the Duke’ WJZ ABC NY 12 May 1945

Rosemary Clooney Chain Smoking Singer – Phantom Dancer 27 July 2021

Rosemary Clooney was an American singer, actor and radio host. She’s this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist where you’ll hear her in radio broadcasts from the 1950s-60s. She’s also actor, George Clooney’s, aunt. Because of the current Covid lockdown in Sydney, this is a repeat of the 2 Feb 2021 show. Enjoy!

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton. Hear past Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 27 July at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

ROSEMARY CLOONEY

It’s incredible that she had the beautiful voice that she had despite the heavy smoking that eventually made the end of her life painful before killing her.

From ‘More Than a Girl Singer’, American Association for Cancer Research,

“A long-time smoker, Clooney was hospitalized in 1996 with acute respiratory failure. At that time, her doctors advised her to quit smoking, but Clooney struggled with her addiction. “Mama called me from the hospital and asked me to bring her cigarettes,” Ferrer (one of her sons)  remembers. “It was so hard for her to stop, though she finally did.”

Toward the end of 2001, Clooney was on the road performing when she began to find it hard to breathe. By the time she arrived home in Beverly Hills a few days before Christmas, she was exhausted. “She could hardly get up the stairs,” says Ferrer. “After two steps, she would have to stop and rest.” Less than a month later, Clooney was diagnosed with stage IIIA non–small cell lung cancer. She died six months later, on June 29, 2002, at her home in Beverly Hills with her family beside her. She was 74.”

TALENT SPOTTED

In 1945, Rosemary Clooney’s father went out one night with friends to celebrate the end of World War II. He never came back.

Clooney, 17, and her sister, 14, found themselves in a dire situation. They collected soft drink bottles and used what little money they had to buy lunch at school. The rent was overdue, the phone disconnected and the utilities about to be turned off when their luck changed. The teenagers, who had grown up performing at political rallies for their grandfather, the mayor of Maysville, won a singing competition at WLW Cincinnati, a local radio station. The station hired them for a regular late-night spot, with each sister earning $20 a week (almost US$290 in 2021 money).

They sing with Tony Pastor’s Orchestra, broadcasting and recording with the band until 1949 (as you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer mix).

In 1950–51, she was a regular on the radio and television versions of Songs For Sale on CBS. In 1951, her record of “Come On-a My House”, produced by Mitch Miller, became a hit. It was her first of many singles to hit the charts—despite the fact that Clooney hated the song passionately. She recorded several duets with Marlene Dietrich and appeared in the early 1950s on Faye Emerson’s Wonderful Town series on CBS. Clooney also did several guest appearances on the Arthur Godfrey radio show.

HOLLYWOOD

In 1954, she starred with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen in the movie White Christmas…

Two years later she had her own half-hour syndicated television musical-variety show, The Rosemary Clooney Show. NBC re-launched the show in a prime time slot on 1957 as The Lux Show Starring Rosemary Clooney. It lasted one season. In the late 50s and early 1960s, Clooney often appeared with Bing Crosby on television and radio. You’ll hear an excerpt from a 20-minute CBS radio program they did Monday to Friday for years that aired before the midday news.

Clooney left Columbia Records in 1958, doing a number of recordings for MGM Records and then some for Coral Records. Finally, toward the end of 1958, she signed with RCA Victor Records, where she stayed until 1963. In 1964, she went to Reprise Records, and in 1965 to Dot Records.

1970s – 2000s

After a hiatus of 11 years due to pills, alcohol and depression, Clooney signed to United Artists Records in 1976 for two albums. From 1977, she recorded an album every year for the Concord Jazz record label until her death. She was also singing on other people’s albums in 70s and 80s

In 1995, Clooney guest-starred in the NBC television medical drama ER (starring her nephew, George Clooney); for her performance, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.

She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.

Here’s Rosemary Clooney on ‘What’s My Line’,

27 JULY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINECommunity Radio Network Show CRN #502
107.3 2SER Tuesday 27 July 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 4RPH Brisbane Sunday 3 – 4am 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	A Date With The Duke
Take The A-Train (theme) + Can’t You Read Between The Lines?	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Back Home Again in Indiana	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
The Wish I Wish	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Joya Sherill	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Cottontail	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Set 2	1950s Jazz Radio
Sugar Beat	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WOR Mutual NY 1951
At Sundown	Les Brown Orchestra	‘Treasury Bandstand’ Hershey Park Ballroom WLAN ABC Lancaster PA 1957
Give Me The Simple Life	Thelma Carpenter	‘Jazz Arts Concert’ WNBC NBC NY 4 Oct 1952
Set 3	Trad Jazz Radio
Bugle Call Rag	Red Nichols	Radio Transcription 1952
Open + South Rampart Street Parade	Preacher Rollo	‘Dixieland Club’ AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Apr 1952
Mama’s Gone, Goodbye + St Louis Blues	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 5 Feb 1955
Set 4	Rosemany Clooney
‘S Wonderful	Rosemary & Betty Clooney (voc) Tony Pastor Orchestra	Aircheck New York City Sep 1948
Tenderly (theme) + You Make Me Feel So Young	Rosemary Clooney	‘The Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 2 Nov 1954
Enchanted	Rosemary Clooney	‘Bing Crosby – Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 20 Mar 1962
It’s a Most Unusual Day + Something to Remember You By	Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby	‘The Bing Crosby Show’ KNX CBS LA 22 Nov 1953
Set 5	1920s Comm Records
Sunday	Jean Goldkette Orchestra (voc) Keller Sisters	Comm Rec Camden NJ 15 Oct 1926
Delirium	Red and Miff’s Stompers	Comm Rec New York City 11 Feb 1927
Flamin’ Mamie	Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra (voc) Joe Sanders	Comm Rec Camden NJ 21 Dec 1925
Blue Melody Blues	Tiny Praham and his Musicians	Comm Rec Chicago 1 Feb 1929
Set 6	Buddy Rich
Love Thy Neighbour (film preview)	Henny Youngman, Jack Benny, Tommy Dorsey & more	Paramount Theatre WOR Mutual NY 17 Dec 1940
Set 7	Mid 1940s Swing Radio
Theme + Hamp’s Got a Duke	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	Casa Manana Culver City Ca KFI NBC LA 20 Jul 1947
Temptation	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Ginny Powell	Meadowbrook Gardens KECA ABC LA 10 Feb 1946
Santa Catalina	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Collins	Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 16 Sep 1947
Andy’s Blues	Count Basie Orchestra	Avadon Ballroom Aircheck Los Angeles 1946
Set 8	Women Radio Singers
Manhattan	Lee Wiley	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 1950
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen	Kay Starr (voc) Charlie Barnett Orchestra	‘For the Record’ WEAF NBC NY 11 Sep 1944
Robin Hood	Mildred Bailey	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 12 Feb 1945
I Miss Your Kiss	Joya Sherill (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date with the Duke’ WJZ ABC NY 12 May 1945

Rosemary Clooney Chain Smoking Singer – Phantom Dancer 2 February 2021

Rosemary Clooney was an American singer, actor and radio host. She’s this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist where you’ll hear her in radio broadcasts from the 1950s-60s. She’s also actor, George Clooney’s, aunt.

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton. Hear past Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 2 February at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

ROSEMARY CLOONEY

It’s incredible that she had the beautiful voice that she had despite the heavy smoking that eventually made the end of her life painful before killing her.

From ‘More Than a Girl Singer’, American Association for Cancer Research,

“A long-time smoker, Clooney was hospitalized in 1996 with acute respiratory failure. At that time, her doctors advised her to quit smoking, but Clooney struggled with her addiction. “Mama called me from the hospital and asked me to bring her cigarettes,” Ferrer (one of her sons)  remembers. “It was so hard for her to stop, though she finally did.”

Toward the end of 2001, Clooney was on the road performing when she began to find it hard to breathe. By the time she arrived home in Beverly Hills a few days before Christmas, she was exhausted. “She could hardly get up the stairs,” says Ferrer. “After two steps, she would have to stop and rest.” Less than a month later, Clooney was diagnosed with stage IIIA non–small cell lung cancer. She died six months later, on June 29, 2002, at her home in Beverly Hills with her family beside her. She was 74.”

TALENT SPOTTED

In 1945, Rosemary Clooney’s father went out one night with friends to celebrate the end of World War II. He never came back.

Clooney, 17, and her sister, 14, found themselves in a dire situation. They collected soft drink bottles and used what little money they had to buy lunch at school. The rent was overdue, the phone disconnected and the utilities about to be turned off when their luck changed. The teenagers, who had grown up performing at political rallies for their grandfather, the mayor of Maysville, won a singing competition at WLW Cincinnati, a local radio station. The station hired them for a regular late-night spot, with each sister earning $20 a week (almost US$290 in 2021 money).

They sing with Tony Pastor’s Orchestra, broadcasting and recording with the band until 1949 (as you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer mix).

In 1950–51, she was a regular on the radio and television versions of Songs For Sale on CBS. In 1951, her record of “Come On-a My House”, produced by Mitch Miller, became a hit. It was her first of many singles to hit the charts—despite the fact that Clooney hated the song passionately. She recorded several duets with Marlene Dietrich and appeared in the early 1950s on Faye Emerson’s Wonderful Town series on CBS. Clooney also did several guest appearances on the Arthur Godfrey radio show.

HOLLYWOOD

In 1954, she starred with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen in the movie White Christmas…

Two years later she had her own half-hour syndicated television musical-variety show, The Rosemary Clooney Show. NBC re-launched the show in a prime time slot on 1957 as The Lux Show Starring Rosemary Clooney. It lasted one season. In the late 50s and early 1960s, Clooney often appeared with Bing Crosby on television and radio. You’ll hear an excerpt from a 20-minute CBS radio program they did Monday to Friday for years that aired before the midday news.

Clooney left Columbia Records in 1958, doing a number of recordings for MGM Records and then some for Coral Records. Finally, toward the end of 1958, she signed with RCA Victor Records, where she stayed until 1963. In 1964, she went to Reprise Records, and in 1965 to Dot Records.

1970s – 2000s

After a hiatus of 11 years due to pills, alcohol and depression, Clooney signed to United Artists Records in 1976 for two albums. From 1977, she recorded an album every year for the Concord Jazz record label until her death. She was also singing on other people’s albums in 70s and 80s

In 1995, Clooney guest-starred in the NBC television medical drama ER (starring her nephew, George Clooney); for her performance, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.

She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.

Here’s Rosemary Clooney on ‘What’s My Line’,

2 FEBRUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINECommunity Radio Network Show CRN #473
107.3 2SER Tuesday 2 February 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 4RPH Brisbane Sunday 3 – 4am 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	A Date With The Duke
Take The A-Train (theme) + Can’t You Read Between The Lines?	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Back Home Again in Indiana	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
The Wish I Wish	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Joya Sherill	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Cottontail	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Set 2	1950s Jazz Radio
Sugar Beat	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WOR Mutual NY 1951
At Sundown	Les Brown Orchestra	‘Treasury Bandstand’ Hershey Park Ballroom WLAN ABC Lancaster PA 1957
Give Me The Simple Life	Thelma Carpenter	‘Jazz Arts Concert’ WNBC NBC NY 4 Oct 1952
Set 3	Trad Jazz Radio
Bugle Call Rag	Red Nichols	Radio Transcription 1952
Open + South Rampart Street Parade	Preacher Rollo	‘Dixieland Club’ AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Apr 1952
Mama’s Gone, Goodbye + St Louis Blues	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 5 Feb 1955
Set 4	Rosemany Clooney
‘S Wonderful	Rosemary & Betty Clooney (voc) Tony Pastor Orchestra	Aircheck New York City Sep 1948
Tenderly (theme) + You Make Me Feel So Young	Rosemary Clooney	‘The Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 2 Nov 1954
Enchanted	Rosemary Clooney	‘Bing Crosby – Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 20 Mar 1962
It’s a Most Unusual Day + Something to Remember You By	Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby	‘The Bing Crosby Show’ KNX CBS LA 22 Nov 1953
Set 5	1920s Comm Records
Sunday	Jean Goldkette Orchestra (voc) Keller Sisters	Comm Rec Camden NJ 15 Oct 1926
Delirium	Red and Miff’s Stompers	Comm Rec New York City 11 Feb 1927
Flamin’ Mamie	Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra (voc) Joe Sanders	Comm Rec Camden NJ 21 Dec 1925
Blue Melody Blues	Tiny Praham and his Musicians	Comm Rec Chicago 1 Feb 1929
Set 6	Buddy Rich
Love Thy Neighbour (film preview)	Henny Youngman, Jack Benny, Tommy Dorsey & more	Paramount Theatre WOR Mutual NY 17 Dec 1940
Set 7	Mid 1940s Swing Radio
Theme + Hamp’s Got a Duke	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	Casa Manana Culver City Ca KFI NBC LA 20 Jul 1947
Temptation	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Ginny Powell	Meadowbrook Gardens KECA ABC LA 10 Feb 1946
Santa Catalina	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Collins	Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 16 Sep 1947
Andy’s Blues	Count Basie Orchestra	Avadon Ballroom Aircheck Los Angeles 1946
Set 8	Women Radio Singers
Manhattan	Lee Wiley	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 1950
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen	Kay Starr (voc) Charlie Barnett Orchestra	‘For the Record’ WEAF NBC NY 11 Sep 1944
Robin Hood	Mildred Bailey	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 12 Feb 1945
I Miss Your Kiss	Joya Sherill (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date with the Duke’ WJZ ABC NY 12 May 1945

The Thrasher Sisters – Phantom Dancer Radio 24 March 2020

The Thrasher Sisters, Trio Lescano and The Andrew Sisters, three women harmony vocal trios from the 1940s, are this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artists for your self-isolating pleasure.

The Phantom Dancer produced and presented by 1920s-30s singer and actor Greg Poppleton can be heard online from 12:05pm AEDST Tuesday 17 March at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

More on the Andrew Sisters and Trio Lescano in future Phantom Dancers – your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-50s radio with Greg Poppleton. Today’s story, read on, is about The Thrasher Sisters.

Well, it’s short and sweet and comes from a Billboard record review, 23 March 1946. Here it is…

In this week’s mix you’ll also hear a set of Women Singers and Headliners on 1930s-40s Radio and dance bands from live 1937 radio.

Mary Jane Thrasher’s obit is quoted here for the LA Times. It tells Mary’s story and the story of the sisters,

“January 22, 1924 – February 23, 2014 Mary Jane, a loving big sister and Auntie, as well as a talented singer and painter, passed away peacefully in Monterey Park on February 23, 2014, at the age of 90. Mary Jane’s vitality and positive attitude was truly an inspiration, and her hearty laughter and warm, loving personality will be missed by all who knew her. Challenged with macular degeneration and severe hearing loss, she never complained or let her physical limitations darken her mood or her enjoyment of life. Separated from her two younger sisters and parents due to the challenges of the Depression, Mary Jane was raised by her father’s mother on the plains of South Dakota, along with her younger sister, Betty. Grandma Thrasher instilled the foundation for both Mary Jane and Betty’s inner strength and determination as single women throughout their entire lives. As Mary Jane approached her teen years, the family was reunited, and the Thrasher sisters, including youngest sister, Dee, discovered early on that they had a talent for singing, harmonizing together in the style of their favorite radio vocalists, the Boswell Sisters. In 1938, the Thrasher Sisters were hired by Cincinnati radio station WLW to perform on their very own Sunday morning radio program. For the next four years, Mary Jane, Betty, and Dee appeared on the show every weekend. A sample of the Thrasher Sisters’ exquisite harmonies can be found on YouTube.com (“Fountains of Fun” WLW 1942). In 1942, the family moved to Los Angeles, and the Thrasher Sisters were booked on a number of popular radio and TV programs. In 1949, noted band leader Jerry Fielding offered to mentor them and guide their career. He promptly changed their name to the Morgan Sisters, and booked them for a six-month engagement at the Pearl City Tavern near Honolulu, Hawaii. While on the island, the Morgan Sisters also participated in a number of recording sessions. Two of the songs they recorded in Hawaii can also be heard today on YouTube.com – “My Waikiki Girl” and “Fish and Poi.” In 1954, the Morgan Sisters broke up when youngest sister Dee left the group to marry Danny Barcelona, a young Hawaiian drummer she had met in Honolulu, and who later became a member of Louis Armstrong’s All Stars. In the late 1950’s, Mary Jane and Betty began working at the Los Angeles Times, where they continued to perform over the years at company events until their retirement in 1988. Mary Jane leaves behind her sister, Betty…”

The last hour is all vinyl

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens. The double bass player is brilliant, using the instrument chordally and percussively at once. 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.

24 MARCH PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #429
107.3 2SER Tuesday 24 March 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm 5GTR Mt Gambier Mon 2:30 – 3:30am 4NAG Keppel FM 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 7LTN Launceston 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am
Set 1	Swing Bands on mid-1940s Radio
Poinciana (Open) + Rise and Shine/I Want To Be Happy	Garwood Van Orchestra	Starlight Room Hotel Chase St Louis Mutual Network 9 Aug 1944
Walking Stick	Claude Thornhill Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ ABC NYC 22 Sep 1947
I Hear You Screaming + Moonlight Serenade (close)	Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS Los Angeles 2 Oct 1946
Set 2	Swing Bands on 1959-1961 Radio
It Took Ten Days Blues	Jerry Gary and his Band of Today	Palladium Ballroom KFI NBC Los Angeles 30 Oct 1959
Redskin Rhumba (Open) + Skyliner	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KFI NBC Los Angeles 12 Sep 1959
Two O’Clock Jump	Harry James Orchestra	El Patio Ballroom KCBS CBS San Francisco 20 May 1961
Set 3	Early Radio Music
All Muggled Up	Blue Steele Orchestra	Comm Rec Memphis 15 May 1930
Ooh That Kiss	The Nehi Quartet	’Nehi Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1931
Land of Sunset Dreams + Melancholy Moon + It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More (theme)	Wendall Hall	’The Pineapple Picador’ KTSP NBC Minneapolis 2 Apr 1931
Set 4	Women Singers in 1938-39 New York City Swing Bands
Bluebirds in the Moonlight	Marion Hutton (voc) Glenn Miller Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue 7 Dec 1939
East of the Sun	Bea Wain (voc) Larry Clinton Orchestra	’RCA Campus Club’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 13 Feb 1940
When I Go A-Dreaming	Helen Forrest (voc) Artie Shaw Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 1 Dec 1938
Set 4	Women Vocal Trios On Air
Il Pinguino Innimorato	Trio Lescano and Silvana Fires (voc) Pippo Barzizza Orchestra	Cetra, Rome 1940
I’ve Got No Strings	Andrew Sisters (voc) Glenn Miller Orchestra	’Chesterfield Show’ WABC CBS NY 13 Feb 1940
Shoo Shoo Baby	Thrasher Sisters (voc) Phil Davis Orchestra	’Fountain Of Fun’ WLW Cincinnati 21 Nov 1943
Set 5	Women Singers and Headliners on 1930s-40s Radio
I Wish I Were Twins	Valaida Snow (voc) Billy Mason Orchestra	Comm Rec London 18 Jan 1935
From The Land of the Sky Blue Water	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	’Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 1944
It’s Funny To Everyone But Me	Helen Ward (voc) Bob Crosby Orchestra	’Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 18 Jul 1939
My Baby Said Yes	Irene Day (voc) Charlie Spivak Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Century Room Commodore Hotel AFRS Re-broadcast 25 Feb 1945
Set 6	Swing on 1937 Radio
Cosmic Rhythm	Seger Ellis and his Choirs of Brass	Radio Transcription New York City 1937
Russian Swing	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Marek Windheim and Alexander Chorus	’Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 17 Aug 1937
St Louis Blues	Louis Armstrong Orchestra	’Norge Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1937
Swing It, Brother, Swing	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Billie Holliday	Savoy Ballroom Aircheck NYC 30 Jun 1937
Set 7	Early 1930s Radio Jazz and Dance Bands
Cheer Up and Ballyhoo	Eddie Cantor (voc) Phil Spitalny’s Music, Bob Effros (tp) Joe Venuty (violin)	Hit of the Week Record New York City Oct 1931
Dinah	Freddy Rich Orchestra (voc) Bob Effros (tp)?	’Friendly Five Footnotes’ Radio Transcription New York City 1932
Do The New York	Gus Arnheim Orchestra	’Cocoanut Grove’ TRANSCO Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
You’re Driving Me Crazy	Paul Whiteman Orchestra (1920s and 1940s version)	’Forever Pops’ ABC Chicago 1950
Set 8	Bop on Radio
Katzenjammer’s Ball	Jack Allen’s Original Katzenjammers	Comm Rec Sydney 23 Feb 1950
Lullaby of Birdland (theme) + Three Little Words	Lester Young Quintet	Birdland WABC ABC NY 5 Sep 1956
Cheryl	Charlie Parker Quintet	’Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 1 Jan 1949

Richard Himber Unusual Arrangements 1936-38 Radio – Phantom Dancer 18 February 2020

This week’s 18 February Phantom Dancer mix of swing of jazz feature artist from live 1920s-60s radio, on radio and online, is composer, band leader, violinist, and magician, Richard Himber.

Richard Himber was a gimmicks man. He had the first vanity phone number back in 1932, R-HIMBER, and he came up with the idea of bands playing on the back of flatbed trucks for promotions. Hear him on 1936-38 radio on this week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton.

The Phantom Dancer with actor and 1920s-30s singer Greg Poppleton can be heard online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

The last hour is all vinyl.

 

From his Wiki entry…

Richard Himber Orchestra

TUCKER

He was born as Herbert Richard Imber in Newark, New Jersey to the owner of a chain of meat stores. His parents gave him violin lessons but when they found him performing in a seedy Newark dive, they took the instrument away from him and sent him to military school. In 1915, he stole away into New York City, where Sophie Tucker heard him play and hired him as a novelty act to play with her and the Five Kings of Syncopation where Himber was the highlight of the cabaret act.

He worked his way through Vaudeville and down Tin Pan Alley. He managed Rudy Vallee’s orchestra service, which sent out bands for private parties and society functions. A suave salesman and irrepressible idea man, he soon had his own band booking agency. In 1932, he acquired the first known “vanity” telephone number, R-HIMBER, answered 24 hours a day. Later that year, Himber finally formed an orchestra of his own, parlaying a gig at New York’s Essex House Hotel into national NBC radio exposure. Among the top-notch professionals in its ranks were Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw and many other future stars of the music world.

CAREER

In 1933 Richard Himber made his first records, for Vocalion under the name “Dick Himber,” which intimates always called him. Among the selections was his own theme song, “It Isn’t Fair,” a song he wrote which became a hit. In 1934 after a single session for Victor’s budget label Bluebird, he began recording for the full-priced Victor label until 1939. He led one of the most sophisticated “sweet” dance bands of the era, featuring Joey Nash as his vocalist (1933–1935), who was replaced by Stuart Allen (1935–1939). We hear Stuart Allen on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

Himber was also a skilled magician, and invented many magic tricks including “The Himber Wallet,” “The Himber Ring,” and the “Himber Milk Pitcher.” In later years, his band act often included an interlude of magic and he conjured on many television shows as well.

An amazing Richard Himber magic trick – with comedy patter!

Himber was the publisher of the R-H Log, a weekly survey of the most popular tunes on radio and television. To the annoyance of most music publishers, he refused to accept payola. He once ordered his secretary to phone every major publisher and tell them he had a stroke, to which many of them joyfully replied, “It’s about time.”

Other popular tunes that Himber composed were “Moments in the Moonlight,” “After the Rain,” “Monday in Manhattan,” “Haunting Memories,” “Time Will Tell,” “Am I Asking Too Much,” and “I’m Getting Nowhere Fast with You.” In 1957 he wrote a TV theme for NBC’s Tonight! America After Dark when Jack Lescoulie was the interim host—before Jack Paar took over.

In the late 1930s Himber’s band was featured in short-subject films produced in New York by Paramount Pictures and Himber was also the maestro for New York’s annual Harvest Moon Ball.

FLATBED TRUCK

Among Himber’s novel promotions was a traveling bandstand on a flatbed truck, sponsored by Pepsi-Cola. The orchestra used it for free outdoor concerts in the New York City area in the 1960s. It was during one of these concerts in 1966 that Himber suffered a heart attack, dying several hours later.

VIDEO

Here is The Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, the Richard Himber 1937 soundie, ‘Richard Himber Plays For You’.

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!

18 FEBRUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #424
107.3 2SER Tuesday 18 February 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm 5GTR Mt Gambier Mon 2:30 – 3:30am 4NAG Keppel FM 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am
Set 1	1938 – 40 Glenn Miller
Moonlight Serenade (theme) + I Never Knew	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Paradise Restaurant WEAF NBC Red NY 30 Dec 1938
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Andrew Sisters	‘Chesterfield Show’ WABC CBS NY 27 Dec 1939
My My + Close	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NYC 15 Apr 1940
Set 2	Modern Radio
Prez’s Mood	Lester Young	1958 recording
I Got It Bad	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Mary Ann McCall	‘Excursions in Modern Music’ Rendezvous Ballroom KHJ Mutual LA 30 Jul 1949
My Lady + Bill’s Blues	Stan Kenton Orchestra (alto sax Lee Konitz)	‘Concert Encores’ Palladium Balroom KFI NBC LA 15 Jan 1953
Set 3	Benny Goodman and Fletcher Henderson
Some of These Days	Benny Goodman Quartet	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 13 Sep 1938
Pic-a-Rib	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WEAF NBC Red NY 14 Oct 1939
Blue Skies	Benny Goodman Orchestra and Fletcher Henderson	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 13 Sep 1938
Set 4	Richard Himber
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen	Lucky Strike Orchestra directed by Richard Himber (voc) Buddy Clark	‘Your Hit Parade’ WEAF NBC Red NY 15 Jan 1938
Yesterdays	Richard Himber and his Studebaker Champions	‘Magic Key’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 27 Dec 1936
Through the Courtesy of Love + It’s DeLovely	Richard Himber and his Studebaker Champions (voc) Stuart Allen	‘Magic Key’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 27 Dec 1936
Set 5	Women Big Band Singers  1937 – 40
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (theme) + I’ll Those In Favour of Swing Say Aye	Edythe Wright (voc) Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 14 Sep 1939
It’s a Blue World	Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra (voc) EF	Savoy Ballroom Harlem WEAF NBC Red NY 4 Mar 1940
Darn That Dream	Helen Humes (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	Southland Cafe WNAC NBC Red Boston 20 Feb 1940
One, Two Button Your Shoes	Ivie Anderson (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	Cotton Club WABC CBS NY 18 Mar 1937
Set 6	1940s Swing Bands on Radio
Combination Solid	Charlie Spivak Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1941
Nightmares (theme) + Bedford Drive	Artie Shaw Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Santa Ana Ca. Mutual Network 3 Oct 1945
Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby?	Bob Strong Orchestra (voc) Betty Martin and Randy Ryan	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WOR Mutual NY 5 Aug 1944
Minding My Business	Buddy Rich Orchestra (voc) Dottie Reid	‘Spotlight Bands’ Phoenixville PA 24 Dec 1945
Set 7	Cab Calloway Commercial Sides
A Minor Breakdown	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec 10 Dec 1937
Vuelva	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec 17 Dec 1939
I Like Music	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec 26 Jan 1938
Do I Care? No. No.	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec 18 Mar 1940
Set 8	Harry James on 1954 Radio
Caxton Hall Swing	Harry James Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 23 Jan 1954
Cherry	Harry James Orchestra	NBC Superior WI 29 May 1954
Woodchopper’s Ball	Harry James Orchestra	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ WOW NBC Omaha 1954
Roll ‘Em + Cirribirribin (theme)	Harry James Orchestra	Aragon Ballroom WBBM CBS Chicago 20 Jun 1954

Fletcher Henderson – 11 February 2020 Phantom Dancer

This week’s 11 February Phantom Dancer mix of swing of jazz from live 1920s-60s radio, on radio and online, has Fletcher Henderson from 1940s-50s radio as feature artist.

Fletcher Henderson studied chemistry and maths. When he turned to music he changed jazz forever, introducing swing arrangements in the 1920s, bringing Louis Armstrong to NYC and making music literacy popular. Hear him on 1935-50 radio on this week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton.

The Phantom Dancer with actor and 1920s-30s singer Greg Poppleton can be heard online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

The last hour is all vinyl.

SWING

A gifted pianist from the age of 6, whose father made him practice for hours every day, Fletcher Henderson, studied chemistry and mathematics and worked in a laboratory before turning to music.

Henderson, along with Don Redman, established the formula for swing music. The two broke the orchestra into sections (woodwind section, brass section, rhythm section). These sections worked together to create a unique sound. Sometimes, the sections would play in call-and-response style. At other times one section would play supporting riffs behind the other. Swing, its popularity spanning over a decade, was the most fashionable form of jazz ever in the United States.

The immaculately dressed Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in 1936, while Henderson was also arranging for Benny Goodman

ARMSTRONG

Henderson was also responsible for bringing Louis Armstrong from Chicago to New York in October 1924, thus flipping the focal point of jazz in the history of the United States. Armstrong left the band in November 1925 and returned to Chicago.

Henderson also played a key role in bringing improvisatory jazz styles from New Orleans and other areas of the country to New York, where they merged with a dance-band tradition that relied heavily on arrangements written out in musical notation.

Fletcher Henderson Orch. in 1925 with Louis Armstrong

HOW’S STUDYING?

Henderson differed from other musicians in his time. He made the idea of playing jazz popular to ambitious, young, black musicians. He made it financially stable and a way to seize cultural power during the time.

Henderson cared for the appearance of the band. He was all for making an impact on the era. Henderson would see to it that each member had a clean-shaven face, a tuxedo, and polished shoes. It was recorded that he would do this before every performance, especially ones in predominantly white communities.

Henderson created a band that was capable of playing dance music and complex arrangements. Louis Metcalf said, “The sight of Fletcher Henderson’s men playing behind music stands brought on a learning-to-read-music kick in Harlem which hadn’t cared before it. There were two years of real concentration. Everybody greeted you with ‘How’s studying?’

Here is The Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, the Fletcher Henderson Ork playing ‘You Go To My Head’ live over WLS NBC Blue, Grand Terrace Ballroom, Chicago, in 1938. 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!

11 FEBRUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #423
107.3 2SER Tuesday 11 February 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	So-A-Tone
Sleep (theme) + On Your Toes	Fred Waring Orchestra (voc) Chorus + Johnny Davis	‘Fred Waring Show’ WABC CBS NYC 14 Apr 1936
Deep Forest (theme) + Limehouse Blues	Earl Hines Orchestra	Grand Terrance Cafe WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 3 Aug 1938
Ad + The Broken Record + Rhapsody in Blue (theme)	Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc and piano) Ramona	‘Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 12 Jan 1936
Set 2	1960s Radio
Open + There’ll Never Be Another You	Billy Taylor and Wes Montgomery	‘The Navy Swings’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1964
I’ve Got a Crush on You	Jerry Gray and his Band of Today (voc) Bobby Clark	Palladium Ballrom KFI NBC LA 20 Jan 1961
One Note Samba	Bola Sete	‘The Navy Swings’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1965
Set 3	Dixieland on Radio
Blues in Bb	Opie Cates	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 10 Jan 1948
Mamie’s Blues	Louis Armstrong	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 26 Apr 1947
I’ve Got The World on a String + Close	Hazel Scott	‘Jazz Club USA’ VOA Washington DC 1951
Set 4	Fletcher Henderson
Jeep Rhythm	Fletcher Henderson Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Alexander’s Ragtime Band	Fletcher Henderson arr. Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Magic Key’ WLS NBC Blue Chicago 29 Dec 1935
Christopher Columbus (theme) + Royal Garden Blues	Fletcher Henderson Orchestra	Cafe Society Downtown WMGM New York 9 Dec 1950
Set 5	Dorsey Brothers 1955
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You + Sentimental Baby	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Lynn Roberts	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Magnolia Room Hotel Claridge WMC NBC Memphis 19 Jun 1955
Open + My Brother is the Leader of the Band	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	‘Stage Show’ CBS TV New York City 1 Jan 1955
Capital Idea + Close	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Magnolia Room Hotel Claridge WMC NBC Memphis 19 Jun 1955
Set 6	1937 Benny Goodman Orchestra
Let’s Dance (theme) + Naughty Waltz	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 6 Nov 1937
Satan Takes a Holiday	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 17 Aug 1937
Popcorn Man	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 6 Nov 1937
Sing, Sing, Sing	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 10 Aug 1937
Set 7	Fats Waller
Your Feets Too Big	Fats Waller	‘Command Performance USA’ AFRS Hollywood 1943
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter + Christopher Columbus	Fats Waller	‘The Magic Key’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 24 May 1936
The Joint is Jumpin’ + Summertime + Stompin’ at the Savoy	Fats Waller	‘This Is New York’ WABC CBS NY 11 Dec 1938
Set 8	Stan Kenton
Limelight	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Moonlight Gardens Coney Island NBC Cincinnati OH 26 Aug 1952
Painted Rhythm	Stan Kenton Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 27 Nov 1945
Bags and Barrage	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ NBC Fort Sheridan IL 2 Sep 1952
Eager Beaver	Stan Kenton Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 27 Nov 1945

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.

ONLINE

This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online after the 19 November 107.3 2SER Sydney live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney.

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

Count Basie 1956 and Rock’n’Roll – Phantom Dancer 8 October 2019

COUNT BASIE

The American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader and composer led his orchestra for almost 50 years from 1935, creating innovations like the use of two split tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a big band and using arrangers to broaden their sound. This week’s Phantom Dancer presented by Greg Poppleton features a set of Count Basie from 1956, the year he was voted America’s No. 1 rock’n’roll band.

ONLINE

This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online right after the  107.3 2SER Sydney live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney

ROCK’N’ROLL

When did rock begin and what is rock is a debate that still continues. On the one hand, writers will point to nineteenth century songs using the words rock and roll and day, “there!”.

Today, if a singer uses a different chord in the usual pentatonic scale of rock, or dresses differently, it becomes a whole new genre.

However, as a defined commercial musical type, the mid-1950s is generally agreed to be the time it hatched from the egg in which it was laid.

And ‘what was rock then’, can generally be defined through surviving records and radio broadcasts as whatever influential DJ, Al Freed, spotlighted.

SWING CAN BE ROCK?

Well, not really. Swing gets its momentum by accenting beats 2 and 4. Rock plods along on beats 1 and 3.

So hearing Count Basie’s big swing orchestra backing 4-piece rock acts and taking up much of Al Freed’s weekly radio ‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ on CBS will sound alien to the average tatooed ‘alternative’ type, happily cocooned in their privileged mainstream bubble created by big music.

KING OF ROCK’N’ROLL

But Count Basie was touted as, and awarded as, the ‘number one rock’n’roll band’ in 1956.

Basie himself said that the CBS Rock’n’Roll dance experience was the worst of his career.

While his swing band were kicking goals across the US in 1956 creating new sounds by continuing to innovate, with regular radio exposure from nightclubs, lugging behind the likes of Little Richard or Bill Haley was both boring and humiliating.

Further, Basie reported, when the rock bands stopped and it was just the Basie band playing, the kids headed out to the foyer.

An experience I have personally had when my 1920s-30s band was used as intermission in a big Sydney venue between rock acts.

So, you’ll hear Count Basie today broadcasting live from jazz clubs in 1956 and from the CBS ‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ show.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is Count Basie on TV from Birdland from 22 July 1956 on a ‘Steve Allen Show’. You’ll see Birdland as it was in 1956, Birdland’s famous MC ‘Pee Wee’ and the Count playing ‘April in Paris’. Enjoy!

8 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #408
107.3 2SER Tuesday 8 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 – 4pm7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6amand early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	1939 – 40 Radio Remotes
Open + I’ll Get By	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Connie Haines	‘Spotlight Bands’ WOR Mutual NY 17 Jan 1942
Cherokee	Henry Busse Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Sep 1944
The Chinese Lullaby + Close	Teddy Powell Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Blair	The Famous Door WJSV Washington DC via WABC CBS NY 21 Sep 1939
Set 2	Sweet Bands on Radio
I’m Grateful to You + Crosspatch	Clint Noble Orchestra (voc) Judy Land	WENR NBC Blue Chicago 1936
Meliana E	Harry Owens Orchestra (voc) Eddie Bush	Mural Room Hotel St Francis KPO NBC San Francisco 1940s
I Don’t Know Why I Love You Like I Do + Easy Street + You Ought To Be In Pictures + Theme	Tommy Carlyn Orchestra	Bill Green’s Casino NBC Pittsburgh 1941
Set 3	Raymond Scott
Pretty Little Petticoat (theme) + Four Beat Shuffle	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 1 Nov 1940
Humpty Dumpty Heart	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Roberta Louise	Bermuda Room Brunswick Hotel WBZ NBC Blue Boston 6 Dec 1941
Runnin’ Wild + Pretty Little Petticoat (theme)	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 21 Oct 1940
Set 4	Count Basie 1956
Open + Sixteen Men Swinging	Count Basie Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC NY 2 Jul 1956
Open + Blee Blop Blues + Shake a Hand	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Faye Adams	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 21 Apr 1956
The Comeback	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Joe Williams	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Zardi’s KFI NBC LA 14 May 1956
One O’Clock Jump	Count Basie Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Zardi’s KFI NBC LA 14 May 1956
Set 5	Swing from 1930s French and German Records
College Stomp	Philippe Brun and his Swing Band	Comm Rec Paris 28 Dec 1937
Georgina	Hans Rehmstedt Orchestra (voc) Rudi Schuericke	Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1939
Got a Date in Louisiana	Philippe Brun and his Jam Band	Comm Rec Paris 8 Mar 1938
Tanzpueppchen (My Dancing Lady)	Goldene Sieben (voc) Marita Gruendgens	Comm Rec Berlin Nov 1934
Set 6	1930s Helen Forrest
The Lamp is Low	Helen Forrest (voc) Artie Shaw Orchestra	‘Melody and Madness’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 22 Aug 1939
This Can’t Be Love	Helen Forrest (voc) Artie Shaw Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Licoln WEAF NBC Red NY 18 Jan 1939
Lilacs in the Rain	Helen Forrest (voc) Artie Shaw Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WEAF NBC Red NY 21 Oct 1939
Where Do I Go From You? + Goodbye (theme)	Helen Forrest (voc) Benny Goodman Orchestra	Peacock Court Hotel Mark Hopkins KFRC Don Lee – Mutual San Francisco 28 May 1940
Set 7	Coffee Songs
Java Jive	The Inkspots	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
You’re The Cream in my Coffee	Ray Miller Orchestra (voc)	‘Sunny Meadows’ Radio Transcription New York 18 Jan 1929
The Coffee Song	Frank Sinatra	‘Command Performance’ AFRS Hollywood 10 Nov 1946
Set 8	A Date with the Duke
New World A-Coming (extended work)	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date with the Duke’ Evansville In. ABC Network 10 Jun 1945
Fickle Fling	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date with the Duke’ Apollo Theatre WJZ ABC NY 30 Jun 1945

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

DOLLY DAWN

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

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FOCUS

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

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

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

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

DAWN PATROL

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

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

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

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

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

VIDEO

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

1 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

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

Phil Harris Academy Award Winner and Band Leader – Phantom Dancer 26 Feb 19

ACADEMY AWARD

Phil Harris was an American jazz musician, singer, actor and comedian. He also made the best live action short Academy Award winner for 1934, ‘So This is Harris!’. He is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist presented by 1920s – 1930s singer, Greg Poppleton.

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PHIL HARRIS

Harris began is career in entertainment as a 16 year old drummer in San Francisco forming the Lofner-Harris Orchestra with Carol Lofner. The orchestra had a residency in the prestigious Hotel St Francis, San Francisco, until 1932 and also toured overseas.

One country the Lofner-Harris Orchestra visted was Australia. In 1927, Harris married actor Marcia Ralston in Sydney.

COCOANUT GROVE

In 1932 – 33, Harris’ orchestra was resident at Los Angeles’ Cocoanut Grove ‘where all the stars come to dance,’ and features in his 1933 short, ‘So This Is Harris!’.

This week’s Phantom Dancer features a radio transcription made by the Harris Orchestra in 1933, simulating their live Cocoanut Grove broadcasts. The transcription demonstrates Harris’ friendly singing style and his debonair wit.

JACK BENNY

It was that warm style and wit that got the Harris band the job of providing the music for the Jack Benny radio show in 1936. Harris soon became a cast member, remaining with the show except for a stint with the US Navy during WW2 until 1952 .

He married Alice Faye in 1941 and together they hosted the popular Phil Harris-Alice Faye music and comedy radio show until 1954.

In the 1970s-80s he lead on orchestra in Las Vegas, mostly on the same bill as Harry James.

TV

Harris guested on many TV shows into the 1980s including F-Troop and the Dean Martin Show. He was a close friend of Bing Crosby and after Bing died in 1977, Harris replaced him as commentator for the annual Bing Crosby Pro-Am Golf Tournament.

He was also a voice actor for animated films including Jungle Book (1967) (as Baloo the Bear), The Aristocats (1970), Robin Hood (1973), Tailspin (1989). His last film role was in Rock-a-Doodle (1991).

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is the 1934 Academy Award short film winner, ‘So This Is Harris! which includes Phil singing ‘Lazy River’ just like in this week’s 1933 radio transcription –

26 FEBRUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #375
107.3 2SER Tuesday 26 February 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12:04 – 1pm and early morning on 24 other stations.
Set 1	1940s Swing Bands
Theme + Octave Jump	Bob Chester Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Blackhawk Restaurant Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Oct 1944
Theme + Lady in Red	Henry Russell Hollywood Radio City Orchestra	‘Let’s Dance’ KFI NBC LA 1945
Dispatch From Dogpatch	Henry Busse Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Paladium Ballroom Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Sep 1944
Set 2	Phil Harris Cocoanut Grove
Theme + Mimi	Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) The Three Ambassadors	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
Lazy River	Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) Phil Harris	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
Long About Sundown	Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) Leah Ray	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
You + Theme	Phil Harris Orchestra	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
Set 3	Ray Anthony 1950s Radio
Open + Sweet and Gentle	Ray Anthony Orchestra (voc) June Vallee	‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954
Martin Kane Theme	Ray Anthony Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Palladium Ballroom KFI NBC LA 23 Nov 1953
DC7 + Close	Ray Anthony Orchestra	‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954
Set 4	1930s Australian Dance Bands
This Year’s Kisses	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Orchestra (voc) Alice Smith	Comm Rec Sydney 1936
Jamboree	Frank Coughlan Orchestra (voc) Frank Coughlan	Radio Transcription Sydney Jun 1937
The Girl on the Police Gazette	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Orchestra (voc)	Comm Rec Sydney 1936
Set 5	Tommy Dorsey
I’ll Never Smile Again	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra and The Pied Pipers	‘America Dances’ BBC London via CBS NYC 28 May 1940
I’ll Never Smile Again	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Stuart Foster and The Sentimentalists	Radio Transcription Hollywood 24 Jun 1945
Tico Tico	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	Radio Transcription Hollywood 24 Jun 1945
Bingo Bango Boffo	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 6 Dec 1947
Set 6	Crooners
Where The Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day	Bing Crosby	Comm Rec New York City 23 Nov 1931
The Song is You	Les Allen (voc) BBC Dance Orchestra	Comm Rec London 4 Apr 1933
My Song	Chick Bullock (voc) Phil Spitany Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 18 Sep 1931
Who?	Orlando Roberson (voc) Claude Hopkins Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 19 Sep 1934
Set 7	Radio Trad
Muskrat Ramble	Louis Armstrong All-Stars	‘Second Timex All-Star Jazz Show’ CBS TV 30 Apr 1958
Charlie, My Boy	Jimmy Dorsey ‘Dorseyland’ Orchestra (voc) Pat O’Connor/Charlie Teagarden	Radio Transcription New York City 1950
Kansas City Man	Sidney Bechet and Bob Wilbur	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 22 Mar 1947
Shake It and Break It	Graeme Bell Band	3AW Melbourne 1949
Set 8	Dizzy Gillespie
Intro + Blue ‘n’ Boogie	Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 31 Mar 1951
More Than You Know	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Winter Palace Stockholm Radio Sweden 2 Feb 1948
Night in Tunisia	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jul 1956
Jam Session	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Rex Theatre Paris Radio Feb 1953