‘Behind the Scenes’ 20s Clip: The Phantom Dancer Live

How The Phantom Dancer looks in the studio.

Filmed for Radio 2SER. I’m introducing the 18 September Phantom Dancer feature set of Lester Young from live 1940s-50s radio.

Hear the full 18 September show and a whole year of past Phantom Dancers, presented by me, Greg Poppleton, since 1985. Australia’s longest-running swing DJ show.

26 April Phantom Dancer – Miss US TV (Dumont – 1950)

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop 2 hour mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio. On-air with Greg Poppleton since 1985.

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Your 26 April Phantom Dancer includes a set of swing bands and then a set of pop bands on live 1939 radio and lots more. Tune in.

There’s also a set of 1929 radio. And we venture into 1962 radio with Buddy Cole’s music and Bing Crosby discussing those new-fangled answering machines with Rosemary Clooney.

You’ll even hear Harry James’ farewell performance with Benny Goodman’s Orchestra. That was on 10 January 1939 Camel Caravan radio show.

The final hour of the mix is all vinyl.

The Phantom Dancer is live-streamed as the show goes to air on 107.3 2SER Sydney, Tuesdays 12 – 2pm (12 – 2am GMT) and repeated 5 – 6pm Sundays, http://www.2ser.com

The show is then archived at 2ser.com/Phantom_Dancer for you to listen to online at any time.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is the inaugural and the only Miss US Television Pageant (1950 – Dumont TV), won by Edie Adams who went on to have a brilliant TV career. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #211 107.3 2SER Tuesday 26 April 2016 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: 2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12 2SER Sunday 2SER 5 – 6pm ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 30 other stations. Set 1 1930s Swing Goona Goo Frank Coughlan Orchestra (voc) FC Prestophone Sydney 1937 The Dipsy Doodle (theme) + The One Rose + RCA Victrola Ad Larry Clinton Orchestra (voc) Bea Wain ‘RCA Campus Club’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 2 Jul 1938 More Than You Know Benny Goodman Orchestra Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WOR Mutual NY 21 Oct 1937 Set 2 Jazz Pianoforte on 1950s Radio Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Ralph Sutton Quintet Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 11 Sep 1946 If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight Erroll Garner (piano) Woody Herman’s Third Herd (voc) WH ‘Monitor’ Basin Street NY WRCA NBC NY 26 Jun 1955 Carnegie Horizons + Close George Shearing ‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 3 Jul 1952 Set 3 Jump and Jive from 1949 – 62 Radio Do The Hucklebuck Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Band Surf Beach Club Virginia Beach, Virginia 27 Aug 1949 Don’t Worry About The Mule Going Blind Louis Jordan and the Tympani 5 (voc) LJ ‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Zardi’s Hollywood KFI NBC LA 9 Jul 1956 Nobody Boogie (Twist) + Talk about new-fangled Answering Machines Buddy Cole’s Music ‘Bing Crosby Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 2 Aug 1962 Set 4 1929 Radio Kansas City Kitty + What a Girl What a Night Coon Sanders Nighthawks (voc) Joe Sanders ‘Maytag Washing Machines Program’ Radio Transcription Chicago 1 Mar 1929 I’m In The Seventh Heaven Al Jolson Comm Rec New York 7 Apr 1929 That’s A Plenty + Say It With Music (close) Red Nicols and his Five Pennies ‘Brunswick Brevities’ Radio Transcription Chicago 27 Aug 1929 Set 5 1939 Swing Bands on Radio Little Jazz (theme) + Mahogany Hall Stomp Roy Eldridge Orchestra Broadcast Arcadia Ballroom New York City 1939 Many Dreams Ago Artie Shaw Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvnia WEAF NBC Red NY 19 Oct 1939 Ciribiribin Benny Goodman Orchestra (tp) Harry James ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS New York 10 Jan 1939 Pagan Love Song + Close Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WEAF NBC Red NY 5 Oct 1939 Set 6 1939 Pop Bands on the Radio Theme + And The Angels Sing Ray Noble Orchestra (voc) Liz Tilton Beverly – Wiltshire Hotel Beverly Hills Ca KECA NBC Blue LA 22 Oct 1939 Cherokee Sterling Young Orchestra Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1939 White Sails Lanny Ross (voc) Al Goodman Orchestra ‘Your Hit Parade’ WEAF NBC Red NY 15 Jul 1939 Penny Serenade Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Saxie Dowell and Orchestra Broadcast 1939 Set 7 Early 1930s Radio Dance Bands 42nd Street Medley Jack Hylton Orchestra (voc) Pat O’Malley Comm Rec London 5 Jul 1933 Open + Let’s Put Our Heads Together Rudy Vallee (voc) and Orchestra with Electric Banjo ‘Fleishman Yeast Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NY 1933 Out Of Nowhere + What Is It? Bing Crosby (voc) Gus Arnheim Orchestra Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel KECA NBC Gold LA 1931 Egyptian Shimmy Anson Weeks Orchestra Peacock Court Hotel Mark Hopkins San Francisco 1932 Set 8 Charlie Parker on WMCA NY How High The Moon Charlie Parker (as) Flip Phillips, Charlie Ventura (ts) Conte Condoli (tp) Benny Green (tb) Al Haig (piano) Jimmy Potter (b) Ed Shaughnessy (d) ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 1 Jan 1949 52nd Street Theme Charlie Parker (as) Miles Davis (tp) Tadd Dameron (piano) Curley Russell (b) Max Roach (d) ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Sep 1948 Cosmetics Ad Symphony Sid ‘Symphony Sid Show’ WMCA NY 4 Sep 1948 Scrapple From The Apple Charlie Parker (as) Kenny Dorham (tp) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d) ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 5 Feb 1949

6 October Phantom Dancer Swing Jazz Mix. Julius Sumner Miller Convection

Hello Phantom Dancers!

Today’s Phantom Dancer, your 2 hour swing, jazz and dance mix from live 1930s – 60s radio and TV (listen online at http://www.2ser.com), presented by Greg Poppleton, has a ‘hidden track’! It’s in the final hour that’s non-stop vinyl, of course!

Not on the play list is a whole 15 Minutes of Chuck Foster and his Orchestra broadcasting in 1950 from WREC in Memphis. Enjoy!

HEAR THE SHOW ONLINE AT 2SER

Still from Broadway Melody of 1936 featuring old NYC radio station callsign WHN.

See the play list for lots more live otr goodies including brackets of early 1929-31 radio bands, Glenn Miller, hot swing, dixie and modernists.

As this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, recorded at ABC-TV in Sydney in 1969, Julius Sumner Miller investigates the Heat Energy Transfer By Convection. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network 2SER Tuesday 6 Oct 2015 12 noon – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) Set 1 Moonlight Serenade (theme) + Little Brown Jug Glenn Miller Orchestra Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 23 Nov 1940 Tiger Rag Glenn Miller Orchestra Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NY 5 Dec 1939 Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 10 Aug 1939 Set 2 Open + Running Wild Paul Lavalle Woodwinds ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 19 Nov 1941 St Louis Blues Sidney Bechet ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 28 Jul 1940 Aunt Hagar’s Children Blues + Basin St Blues (theme) Henry Levine Dixieland Octet ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 16 Jun 1940 Set 3 Easy To Remember Billie Holiday ‘Art Ford Jazz Party’ WNTA TV NY 18 Jul 1958 Magic Is The Moonlight Lena Romay ‘Personal Album’ AFRS Hollywood 1945 Suddenly It’s Spring Glen Gray and the Casa Lona Orchestra (voc) Eugenie Baird ‘One Night Stand’ Tune Town Ballroom St Louis AFRS re-broadcast 5 Apr 1944 You’re The Cream In My Coffee + I Know That You Know Nat King Cole Trio ‘King Cole Trio Time’ Cincinnati AFRS re-broadcast 6 Dec 1947 Set 4 No Love no Nothing Shep Fields New Music (voc) Meredith Blake ‘One Night Stand’ AFRS re-broadcast 1943 Blue Moon Stan Kenton Orchestra (featuring) Lee Konitz (as) ‘Concert Encores’ NBC 30 Sep 1952 Redskin Rhumba (theme) + Skyliner Charlie Barnet Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KFI NBC LA 12 Sep 1959 Set 5 Mr Basie Goes To Washington Raymond Scott Orchestra Aircheck New York 28 Apr 1944 The Elk’s Parade Bobby Sherwood Orchestra Aircheck Terrace Room NJ 17 Feb 1945 Let’s Blow Buddy Rich Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 27 Mar 1946 A Night In Tunisia Boyd Raeburn Orchestra Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 19 Jul 1945 Set 6 Reaching For The Moon Sam Lanin Orchestra (voc) Scrappy Lambert Hit of the Week Records New York Mar 1931 Turn On The Heat (theme) + Strike Up The Band + Alexander’s Ragtime Band Red Nichols Orchestra (voc) Dick Robertson ‘Heat’ New York 3 Aug 1930 You’re The Cream In My Coffee Ray Miller Orchestra ‘Sunny Meadows’ Chicago 18 Jan 1929 You Said It Earl Burtnett Orchestra Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931 Set 7 History of Music Horace Heidt Orchestra (narr.) HH Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1943 Henry Busse Orchestra Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 28 Dec 1944 The Little Man Who Wasn’t There Johnny Messner Orchestra Radio Transcription New York 1939 Copenhagen + Close Artie Shaw Orchestra Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 25 Nov 1938 Set 8 Confirmation Ben Webster Concert 1962 Undecided (theme) + Pennies From Heaven Charlie Shavers Quartet London House WBBM CBS Chicago May 1962 Two French Fries Oscar Pettiford Birdland WABC ABC NY 26 May 1957 Lover Come Back To Me Stan Getz Basin Street WRCA NBC NY 1956

Electromagnetism By Julius Sumner Miller. 28 July Phantom Dancer 2 Hour Live Swing Jazz Mix By Greg Poppleton

Here is your Phantom Dancer play list for Tuesday 28 July 107.3 2SER Sydney 12noon – 2pm and NOW STREAMING ONLINE at http://www.2ser.com

This week’s 2 hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s – 1960s radio has a set of swing from live 1936 radio, a set of 1950s swing from Hollywood Palladium broadcasts including the theme from Dragnet played live by the original orchestra, Ray Anthony. Plus, hear live radio performances by Bunny Berrigan, Arthur Prysock, Harry James, Woody Herman and more in a whole 2 hours of non-stop live swing and jazz with the last half of the show being ALL VINYL. See the play list below.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is Julius Sumner Miller giving Dramatic Demonstrations in Physics on the matter of electromagnetism. This is program 43, recorded at ABC-TV in Sydney in 1969. Enjoy…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #168 107.3 2SER Tuesday 28 July 2015 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:03 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT)Repeat Sunday 2SER 5 – 6pm Set 1 Slumber Song (theme) + Daisy Mae Glenn Miller Orchestra Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY Dec 1940 These Foolish Things Gene Krupa Orchestra (ts) Charlie Ventura ‘One Night Stand’ Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 31 Mar 1946 More Moon + Woodchopper’s Ball (theme) Woody Herman Orchestra ‘Woodchopper’s Music Shop’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 29 Sep 1950 Set 2 Bei Dir War Es Immer So Schoen Helmut Zacharias und seine Solisten. Ernesto Romanoni (harpsichord and celeste) Comm Rec Berlin 29 Nov 1941 The Girl With The Light Blue Hair Benny Krueger Orchestra WOR MBS NY 28 Apr 1940 Medley: Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries + Did You Ever See A Dream Walking? + Close Leon Kellner Orchestra Blue Room Roosevelt Hotel WWL CBS New Orleans 1964 Set 3 Open + The Trolley Song Frank Sinatra ‘Command Performance USA’ AFRS Hollywood 1945 Open + Blue Velvet Arthur Prysock ‘The All-Star Parade of Bands’ Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 9 Sep 1952 Come Rain or Come Shine + Dancing in the Dark + Close Jo Stafford (voc) Paul Weston’s Rhythm ‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954/div> Set 4 Walkin’ Harry James Orchestra ‘Palladium Ballroom’ KNX CBS LA 27 Nov 1959 Ad + Dragnet Ray Anthony Orchestra ‘All Star Parade Of Bands’ Palladium Ballroom KFI NBC LA 23 Nov 1953 It Took Ten Days Blues+ Close Jerry Gray and his Band of Today ‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRTS Rebroadcast 20 Jan 1961 Set 5 Let’s Put Our Heads Together Red Allen Orchestra (voc) RA Comm Rec New York 29 Dec 1936 Dardenella Bunny Berrigan Orchestra ‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS New York 31 Oct 1936 Stomping At The Savoy Isham Jones Orchestra WOR Mutual NY 24 Jan 1936 Honeysuckle Rose Bunny Berrigan, Bud Freeman, Joe Marsala, Teddy Wilson, Stan King ‘A Demonstration of a Modern Phase of Music’ WNEW NY 1936 Set 6 Melodien in Dur end Moll Teil 1 Adolf Steimel Orchestra Comm Rec Berlin 12 Jan 1940 You Can’t Stop Me From Dreaming Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters (voc) Bon Bon ‘Studio Launch’ KYW NBC Red Phiadelphia 14 Sep 1937 Announcers’ Blues/div> Jack Teagarden (tb) Paul Whiteman Orchestra ‘Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 19 Jan 1936 Happy As The Day Is Long Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ‘Ford V8 Show’ Texas Centennial Fair NBC Blue Dallas Aug 1936 Set 7 Lazy River Harry James Orchestra Aircheck 1948 Prelude To A Kiss Woody Herman Orchestra Blue Room Roosevelt Hotel WWL CBS New Orleans 10 Nov 1951 Solid Old Man Duke Ellington Orchestra Empire Hotel Hollywood Aircheck Feb 1949 Too Young To Go Steady Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Dolly Houston Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WCBS CBS NY 1955 Set 8 Pet My Pup Jimmie Grier Orchestra Radio Transcription Hollywood late 1940s It Was Just One Of Those Things Russ Morgan Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Biltmore Bowl Biltmore Hotel LA AFRS Rebroadcast 13 May 1946 Little Sir Echo Doris Day (voc) Barney Rapp and his New Englanders ‘The Sign of the Drum’ NBC Cincinnati 17 Jun 1939 Dixie Girl Chuck Foster and his Orchestra Radio Transcription Chicago 1940

April Newsletter – Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters

HELLO Bakelite Broadcasters and Lounge Bar Lotharios,

NEW WEBSITE

We’re very pleased to have launched the new Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters website. Please visit. We’ve put in more pictures and more music for you…

YOUTUBE VIDEO ALMOST AT 300,000 VIEWS

– The band’s YouTube video is now at 295 840 views.
– Up from 255 158 on 1st March,
– Get your stereo copy at BANDCAMP…

THREDBO JAZZ FESTIVAL

Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters are excited to be swinging hot 1920s jazz at the 2015 Thredbo Jazz Festival, Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May.

In the band, a mix of world-touring plus hot, up-and-coming, classic jazz stylists,
– Greg Poppleton (1920s vocals and megaphone)
– Chuck Morgan (banjo and uke)
– Greg Chilcott (sousaphone and trombone)
– Alex Inman-Hislop (drums).

We’ll entertain you:
Sat 2 May – 12-2pm – Village Square
Sat 2 May – 11pm-1am – Lounge Bar, Thredbo Alpine Hotel
Sun 3 May – 1- 3pm – Cascades Restaurant
TICKETS

APRIL GIG GUIDE

Sun 5 Apr: 12:30 – 3:30pm, Cronulla RSL, 38 Gerrale St Cronulla. FREE
Come dance and support the Bakelite’s Cronulla RSL debut. Greg Poppleton (1920s voc) Geoff Power (trumpet and trombone) Grahame Conlon (guitar) Darcy Wright (double bass)

Tues 7 Apr: 12 – 2pm, Phantom Dancer, 107.3 2SER. Non-stop 2 hour swing and jazz mix from 1920s-60s radio. Play List

Tues 14 Apr: Wedding at beautiful Whale Beach.  Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters: Greg Poppleton (1920s voc) Geoff Power (trumpet and sousaphone) Paul Furniss (soprano and alto saxes and clarinet) Grahame Conlon (banjo and guitar) and Lawrie Thompson (drums). We love adding Roaring 20s musical magic to stylish wedding receptions.

Tues 14 Apr: 12 – 2pm, Phantom Dancer, 107.3 2SER. Non-stop 2 hour swing and jazz mix from 1920s-60s radio. Play List

Tues 21 Apr: 12 – 2pm, Phantom Dancer, 107.3 2SER. Non-stop 2 hour swing and jazz mix from 1920s-60s radio. Play List

Wed 22 Apr: 1:30 – 2:30pm, Bondi Pavilion.  Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters: Greg Poppleton (1920s voc) Grahame Conlon (guitar) – a free lunch time concert of songs from the 1920s and 1930s.

Fri 24 Apr: 7pm, Gin Mill Social, Slide Cabaret, Oxford St Surry Hills. Book early, the 20 Feb show sold out a week ahead. Tickets

If you’ve never attended a Gin Mill Social at Slide, you’re missing out on Sydney’s biggest 1920s night!  Gangsters, flappers, acrobats, all dance to the music of Greg Poppleton’s Bakelite Broadcasters followed by another more modern band! Greg Poppleton (1920s voc) Geoff Power (trumpet and sousaphone) Paul Baker (banjo)

Tues 28 Apr: 12 – 2pm, Phantom Dancer, 107.3 2SER. Non-stop 2 hour swing and jazz mix from 1920s-60s radio. Hear past shows

Sat 2 May: 12 – 2pm, Thredbo Jazz Festival, Village Square. Festival Tickets

Sat 2 May: 11pm – 1am, Thredbo Jazz Festival, Lounge Bar Thredbo Alpine Hotel. Festival Tickets

Sun 3 May: 1 – 3pm, Thredbo Jazz Festival, Cascades Restaurant. Festival Tickets

Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters at Amalia and Jacob’s wedding in the Golden Age Cinema. (l-r) Grahame Conlon (banjo) Greg Poppleton (1920s vocal and megaphone) Greg Chicott (sousaphone and trombone).

CANBERRA, Tune in to The Phantom Dancer radio show 7pm every Sunday night on ArtSoundFM

Check the Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters website for more Gin Mill Social shows in May and June and a return to Penrith RSL in June.

WE CAN PLAY FOR YOU…

We add 1920s – 1930s glamour to wedding receptions, birthday parties and corporate events. Trio to orchestra available.

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Julius Sumner Miller Extraordinarily Cold Stuff – Phantom Dancer Radio Show 7 April 2015

Your weekly non-stop 2 hour swing jazz mix is on the air over 107.3 2SER again, 12 noon (+ 11 GMT). It’s The Phantom Dancer, presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985.

You can NOW hear it ONLINE for a month at 2SER.com

This week, in the 2 hour radio mix, you’ll hear swing and jazz from live 1920s – 60s radio by Louis Armstrong, Claude Thornhill, Arnett Cobb, Stan Getz and more. Listen online at http://www.2ser.com.

See the play list below…

As this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, recorded at ABC-TV in Sydney in 1969, Julius Sumner Miller investigates Extraordinarily Cold Stuff. This is program 27 in the series, ‘Dramatic Demonstrations In Physics.’ Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #152 2SER Tuesday 7 Apr 2015 12 noon – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) Set 1 Opus in Pastels Stan Kenton Orchestra Radio Transcription Los Angeles Oct 1941 Open + Without a Word of Warning Arnett Cobb ‘Stars in Jazz’ WNBC NBC New York 3 Jul 1952 Ornithology + 52nd Street Theme Charlie Parker ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Hi-Hat Club WCOP Boston 1954 Set 2 Now You’ve Got Me Doin’ It Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) CR Comm Rec New York 16 Sep 1935 Lights Out Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward Joseph Urban Room Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 3 Feb 1936 Odds and Ends of an Old Love Affair + I Wanna Be Loved (theme) Ruth Etting (voc) Johnny Green Orchestra ‘Oldsmobile Show’ WABC CBS NY 6 Mar 1934 Set 3 The Song of the Wanderer Helen Humes (voc) Count Basie Orchestra ‘America Dances’ WABC ABC NY 1940 More Than You Know Frank Sinatra ‘The Frank Sinatra Show’ KNX CBS LA 14 Mar 1945 Serenade in Blue + Perdido Sarah Vaughan ‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 21 Apr 1953 Set 4 The Lambeth Walk Jim Davidson and his Australian Broadcasting Commission Dance Orchestra (voc) Alice Smith, Gordon Rawlinson & Dick Cranburn Comm Rec Sydney 2 Nov 1938 I Just Got A Letter Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue 7 Dec 1939 St Louis Blues Wally Portingale and his ‘All in Fun Revue’ Orchestra (cl) Keith Atcheson ‘Army on Parade’ 2CH AWA Network Sydney Oct 1943 Set 5 Star Dust Benny Carter Orchestra Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca KFI NBC LA 1944 Open + There Must Be a Way Boyd Raeburn Orchestra (voc) David Allen and Margie Wood Rose Room Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 19 Jun 1945 Creepy Weepy Raymond Scott Orchestra ‘Music Depreciation Revue’ KHJ Don Lees-Mutual Los Angeles 940 Tiger Rag Louis Arnstrong ‘High Society Film Opening’ Wintergarden Theatre WNBC NBC NY 19 Jun 1947 Set 6 Sorta Kinda Clyde Hart All-Stars (voc) Trummy Young Comm Rec New York Jan 1945 Moose the Mooche Charlie Parker Storyville Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston 10 Mar 1953 All God’s Children Got Rhythm Bud Powell Trio ‘Jazz Club USA’ Carnegie Hall NY Voice of America 25 Dec 1949 Lover Come Back To Me Stan Getz Quartet Basin Street WRCA NBC NY 1956 Set 7 Let’s Have One For The Road George Trevare and his Australians (voc) Al Royal Comm Rec Sydney 1945 Who’s Sorry Now? Harry James Orchestra (voc) Willie Smith Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca KNX CBS LA 10 Feb 1946 Poor Little Rich Girl Claude Thornhill Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 19 Jun 1955 Octopus + I’m Getting Sentimental Over You Dorsey Brothers Orchestra Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WRCA NBC NY May 1956 Set 8 Low Down Dirty Shame Joe Sullivan and his Cafe Society Orchestra Comm Rec New York 9 Nov 1940 Lazy Lady Blues Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing Avadon Ballroom KHJ Mutual Los Angeles Jun 1946 Come Sunday + Light (Worksong) Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC Battle Creek, Michigan 2 Jun 1945

Phantom Dancer Special 31 Jan. 35 DJs In 35 Hours On 2SER Radio.

Good Morning Phantom Dancers,

Celebrating 35 years of 2SER Radio, 2SER presents 35 DJs in 35 hours with your Phantom Dancer on the air from 9 – 10am Saturday 31 Jan. Swing, jazz and musical curios from live 1920s-60s radio and TV.

HEAR the mix online NOW until 28 February at http://www.2ser.com.

Check out the play list below (there are some extras I played live, too, that are not on the play list)

This year, 2015, also marks 30 years of the Phantom Dancer on 2SER. Greg Poppleton is Australia’s longest-running swing DJ and broadcaster. The Phantom Dancer goes to air every week over 2SER and online, Tuesdays, 12 noon (+11 GMT).

And here’s a pic of your Phantom Dancer (that’s me, Greg Poppleton)…

The Phantom Dancer, Greg Poppleton on 107.3 2SER Radio

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Special 35 DJs in 35 Hours Show for 35 Years of 2SER. 2SER Saturday 31 Jan 2015 9 – 10am (+11 hours GMT) Set 1 Rose Room (theme) + Take Me In Your Arms Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) Lee Norton Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription TRANSCO LA 1934 Syncopated Love Song Nathaniel Shilkret Orchestra NBC 1935 I Don’t Mind Walking In The Rain Philco Orchestra ‘Philco Hour’ WABC CBS NY 1930 Set 2 Indian Love Call Charlie and his Orchestra Radio Transcription RRG Berlin Mar 1941 Kissa Viekoon Bruno Laakko ja Orkesta Lepakot (The Bats) Comm Rec Helsinki 1939 Goodbye Sha Sha Bai Hung Comm Rec Pathe Shanghai 1947 Set 3 Anything For You Henry Red Allen All-Stars w Claude Hopkins (organ) ‘Bandstand USA’ WOR Mutual NY 11 Jan 1958 Any Old Time + Closing Ensemble Eddie Condon Group (voc) Lee Wiley ‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ Ritz Theatre WJZ ABC Blue NY 24 Feb 1945 Set 4 Theme + Let’s Dance Ray Anthony Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler NY AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Dec 1950 I’m Gonna Love That Guy Joan Edwards ‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-broadcast Tzena, Tzena, Tzena + Close Ralph Flanagan Orchestra (voc) Band ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler NY AFRS Re-broadcast 28 Sep 1950 Set 5 Blues in Asia Minor Stan Kenton Orchestra Radio Transcription Los Angeles 20 Sep 1941 Things Ain’t What They Used to Be Duke Ellington Orchestra Birdland WNBC NBC NY 20 Nov 1942

Phantom Dancer 10 Feb. 1930s, 1940s, 1950s Radio. Julius Sumner Miller – The Strange Behaviour Of Ice And Water

Hello Phantom Dancers,

There’s 2 hours of swing, jazz and dance from live 1930s – 60s radio and TV (listen online at http://www.2ser.com) for you on this Tuesday’s 10 Feb 2015 Phantom Dancer, presented by Greg Poppleton.

LISTEN. SHOW ONLINE TILL MARCH

There’s a set of Count Basie, a set of 1930s swing, hot big band swing from the 1940s and plenty more. See the play list.

1943 Count Basie Ad

As this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, recorded at ABC-TV in Sydney in 1969, Julius Sumner Miller investigates the Strange Behaviour of Ice and Water. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN#144 2SER Tuesday 10 Feb 2015 12 noon – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) Set 1 Pot Pourri from the film ‘Frauen im Metropol’ Adolf Steimel Organum-Tanz-Orchester Comm Rec Berlin 5 Sep 1940 Komennoi Ostrow Lawrence Welk Champagne Music Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park KECA ABC LA 1955 Hello Dolly Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRTS re-broadcast Jul 1964 Set 2 That Da Da Strain Bobby Hackett ct, Edmond Hall cl. Vic Dickenson tb. Joe Sullivan p. Eddie Condon g. Geo. Wettling d. Private Concert Commodore Hotel NYC 17 Mar 1953 The Turkish March Sylvia Marlowe (harpsichord) ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 17 Dec 1941 A Rainy Day Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) PH and Leah Ray Cocoanut Grove TRANSCO Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933 Set 3 Naina Paivina (Some of these Days) Erik Lindstrom Kvintetti (voc) Helena Siltale Comm Rec Helsinki 13 Dec 1955 Ornithology Charlie Parker ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Hi-Hat Club WCOP Boston 18 Dec 1953 Set 4 Variations on I’ve Got Rhythm Count Basie Orchestra V-Disc New York 27 May 1944 Open + Bread Count Basie Orchestra Birdland WNBC NBC NY 1 Jan 1953 Two For The Blues Count Basie Orchestra Red Hill Inn Pennsauken NJ Mutual Network 30 Dec 1956 Set 5 Cincinnati Charlie Spivak Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS Los Angeles 4 Apr 1948 Drop Me Off Charlie Barnet Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ Ft Devons Mass. ABC 15 Oct 1945 Hawaiian War Chant Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 26 Nov 1940 I Can’t Give You Anything But Love Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1943 Set 6 Backslider’s Ball Lucky Millinder Orchestra Comm Rec New York 15 Jun 1952 Interview Gerard Hoffnung and Cyril Richardson ‘Saturday Night on the Light’ BBC Light Programme London 1955 Before Midnight Gladys Bentley Quartet Comm Rec Los Angeles early 1950s Barrelhouse Illinois Jacquette ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1943 Set 7 Liza Gene Krupa Trio V-Disc New York 4 May 1944 Limehouse Blues Benny Goodman Sextet ‘One Night Stand’ The Click Philadelphia AFRS re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948 Love Me Or Leave Me Sarah Vaughan ‘Eddie Condon Floor Show’ WNBT TV NY 13 Dec 1948 Bebop Boogie Lester Young Sextet ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Dec 1948 Set 8 Harmony In Harlem Duke Ellington Orchestra Cotton Club WABC CBS NY 1 May 1938 Let’s Stop The Clock Artie Shaw Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 20 Dec 1938 Just An Angel In Disguise + I Hear Blue Birds Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Janet Blair Aircheck Cedar Point, OH 3 Jul 1940 Livery Stable Blues Bunny Berrigan Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago Jul 1939

Julius Sumner Miller 18 – How To Make Heat. Phantom Dancer 3 Feb 2015

Your Tuesday 3 February Phantom Dancer features swing virtuosi aplenty. From live vintage radio broadcasts you’ll hear guitarist Les Paul, trumpeter Harry James, and clarinettist Benny Goodman live on-the-air in exciting performances.

The play list tells the full story. SO DOES HEARING THE SHOW – NOW ONLINE UNTIL MARCH

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, is Lesson 18 in the 48 part series of Dramatic Demonstrations in Physics with Professor Julius Sumner Miller. This week Prof Miler demonstrates ‘How To Produce Heat Energy’. These programs were made at ABC TV in Sydney in 1969.

Phantom Dancer 3 February 2015 CRN (Community Radio Network) Program #144 Tuesdays 12noon – 2pm. (+11 GMT) 107.3 2SER Sydney. Listen Online. Online Archive.
Set 1
Open + Button Up Your Overcoat	Dinah Shore	‘Showtime’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
This Can’t Be Love	Les Paul	‘Showtime’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Heat Wave	Meredith Willson and the AFRS Orchestra	‘Showtime’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Set 2
Sweet Georgia Brown	Harry James Orchestra	Comm Rec 20 Feb 1939 New York
Moonlight Serenade (theme) + Glen Island Special	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Café Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 7 Jan 1940
Wabash Blues	Johnny Green Orchestra	‘Fitch Bandwagon’ WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Apr 1939
Set 3
Do You Ever Think Of Me?	Russ Morgan Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast 28 Apr 1944
Where Or When?	Benny Goodman Trio (voc) Audience	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 23 Oct 1937
Medley: The Very Thought Of You / Love Is The Sweetest Thing / Cherokee / Goodnight Sweetheart / Close	Ray Noble Orchestra	‘By Request’ KNX CBS LA 13 Jun 1945
Set 4
Open + Shiny Stockings	Harry James and his Music Makers	‘New Year All-Star Parade of Bands’ Crystal Room Desert Inn, Las Vegas KFI NBC LA 31 Dec 1970
Open + Pretzel	Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor Big Band	‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party’ Paramount Theatre Brooklyn NY AFRTS Re-broadcast 1957
Solo For Alto	Lee Konitz (as) Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ KFSD NBC San Diego 10 Feb 1953
Set 5
What’ll I Do	Claude Hopkins Cotton Club Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York 18 Oct 1935
Down By The Old Mill Stream	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 31 Oct 1936
Open + Murdy Purdy	Gene Krupa Orchestra	Aircheck 28 Nov 1938
Chatanooga Choo Choo	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Tex Beneke and The Modernaires	‘Sunset Serenade’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 27 Dec 1941
Set 6
Cecilia	Horace Heidt Orchestra (voc) Gene Walsh	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1944
Perdido	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ ABC Detroit 19 May 1945
Lover Come Back To Me	Harry James Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Hollywood KHJ Mutual-Don Lees 18 Oct 1946
Bugle Blues	Count Basie Orchestra	Savoy Ballroom Aircheck Harlem NY 30 Jun 1937
Set 7
Foo A Little Ballyhoo	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Club Zanzibar WOR Mutual NY 14 Aug 1945
Hi Beck	Lee Konitz	Storyville Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston 4 Jan 1954
Spring is Here / Stardust	Dave Brubeck	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NY Dec 1953
I Guess I’ll Have To Dream The Rest	Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Brown	Radio Transcription 1946
Set 8
Do I Love You?/ It’s A Blue World	Ozzie Nelson Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Chicago 30 Mar 1940
The Starlit Hour / Sugar Foot Stomp + Close	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Chicago 30 Mar 1940

January Newsletter – Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters

HELLO Bakelite Broadcasters and Lounge Bar Lotharios,
December was a frantic end to a busy year of 1920s and 1930s music making for both Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters. I’ve posted some action pics for you below…

REVIEW

A review from an American writer / director who saw Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters at The Rocks Village Bizarre Gin Mill Social shows in November…

“Damn, I wish I had known you when we had a theatre. We would have called you over to perform with us in a minute! The thing that got both Lynn and me, besides your great voice was your ability to “sell a song” and your particular energy and pronunciation which came across as completely American! Not sure an Australian would see that as a compliment, but you were singing what amounts to virtual American “folk” music. And that trio, which I mentioned at the time, was an absolute knockout. And the kid of the tuba, he is ready for New Orleans if he cares to go try it. ” Lance Belville, Writer / Director, San Francisco (USA)

BANDCAMPThe Band YouTube Video is now at 187 660 views, up from 150 660 on 2nd December when the November newsletter was sent to your inbox.

Listeners have left some really nice comments about the video on YouTube. And the stereo version of the 53’53” YouTube 1920s-1930s Band Chill Mix soundtrack has been downloaded plenty (for just a few dollars) from BANDCAMP. The download cover artwork is by my 11 year old son, Damon…

JANUARY GIG GUIDE

Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters and the 1920s Orchestra, The Lounge Bar Lotharios, are available for bookings in January.

Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters has a private birthday party booking on 25^th January.

Greg is also busy hosting The Phantom Dancer radio show on 2SER Sydney every Tuesday 12noon – 2pm, swing and jazz from live 1920s-1960s radio and TV heard over 30 stations of the Community Radio Network.

THE PHANTOM DANCER RADIO SHOW

The Phantom Danceris now in its 30^th year on 107.3 2SER Sydney, presented all that time by your Phantom Dancer, Greg Poppleton

The Phantom Dancer plays swing and jazz from live 1920s-1960s radio and TV.

Over the Christmas-New Years period I was very honoured to hear from Barbara Effros, who heard her trumpeter / composer grandfather,Bob Effros on 1930 The Philco Hour over The Phantom Dancer, and from Jayme Harding who heard her mother Eleanor Russel singing with Jimmy Dorsey’s Orchestra from The Edgewater, Madison, Wi over CBS in 1950, again over The Phantom Dancer.

2SER 35 HOUR DJ MARATHON

To celebrate 35 Years of 2SER, Greg Poppleton as The Phantom Dancer, will mixing an hour of live swing and jazz from live 1920s-1960s radio and TV in the 2SER 35 Hour DJ Marathon, Saturday 31 January, 9-10am.

6 Jan: 12 – 2pm, Phantom Dancer, 107.3 2SER. Swing and jazz from 1920s-60s radio. Hear past shows

13 Jan: 12 – 2pm, Phantom Dancer, 107.3 2SER. Swing and jazz from 1920s-60s radio. Hear past shows

20 Jan:12 – 2pm, Phantom Dancer, 107.3 2SER. Swing and jazz from 1920s-60s radio. Hear past shows

25 Jan: 11am – 2pm, 50^th Birthday Party, Surry Hills

27 Jan: 12 – 2pm, Phantom Dancer, 107.3 2SER. Swing and jazz from 1920s-60s radio. Hear past shows

31 Jan: 9am – 10am, Phantom Dancer 2SER 35 Hour DJ Marathon, 107.3 2SER. Swing and jazz from 1920s-60s radio. Hear past shows

CANBERRA,Tune in to The Phantom Dancer radio show 7pm every Sunday night on ArtSoundFM

Check the Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters website for lots more shows coming in February and March.

WHAT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER?

What was Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters and Sydney’s only 1920s Orchestra, The Lounge Bar Lotharios up to in December?

6 DEC – FAIRFIELD MUSEUM – CHRISTMAS IN THE GARDEN

It was raining, so it became Christmas in the Machine Shed, which was even better with a really relaxed country feel. In the band: Greg Poppleton (1920s singer) Geoff Power (sousaphone and trumpet) Grahame Conlon (banjo) Bob Gillespie (drums)

14 DEC – ST GEORGE LEAGUES CLUB – SUNDAY JAZZ
A fun Sunday afternoon of 1920s hotcha, withGreg Poppleton (1920s singer) Geoff Power (sousaphone and trumpet) Grahame Conlon (banjo) Lawrie Thompson (drums)

15, 18, 19, 24 DEC – HOUSE PARTIES
No pictures of these for privacy, just an hour of entertaining interactive 1920s and 1930s jazz with Greg Poppleton singing and Grahame Conlon on guitar and ukelele.

18 DEC – GIN MILL SOCIAL – SLIDE CABARET
The next Gin Mill Social is Friday 20 February. It’s Sydney’s hottest 1920s show. Tickets.

20 DEC – WEDDING – SURRY HILLS
The 1920s hot jazz Bakelite trio played: Greg Poppleton (1920s vocals), Greg Chilcott (sousaphone and trombone) Grahame Conlon (banjo)

28 DEC – SYDNEY ROWERS CLUB – JAZZ ON THE DECK
Afternoon swing by the Parramatta river: Greg Poppleton (1920s-1930s vocals), Grahame Conlon (guitar) Darcy Wright (double bass) Lawrie Thompson (drums).

CALL US…

Would you like us to play beautiful 1920s-1930s hot jazz and swing music for your wedding reception, birthday party, club or corporate event? Trio to orchestra.

Talk to the debonair Mr Tony Jex for your free quote,
T: 02 9567 7171
M: 0407 941 263
E: bookings@bakelitejazz.com

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We look forward to seeing you at a show soon…

Kindest Regards
Greg

 

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PRESS

“Damn, I wish I had known you when we had a theatre. We would have called you over to perform with us in a minute! The thing that got both Lynn and me, besides your great voice was your ability to “sell a song” and your particular energy and pronunciation which came across as completely American! Not sure an Australian would see that as a compliment, but you were singing what amounts to virtual American “folk” music. And that trio, which I mentioned at the time, was an absolute knockout. And the kid of the tuba, he is ready for New Orleans if he cares to go try it. ”  Lance Belville, Writer / Director, San Francisco (USA)

““Awesome. Totally fun,””  Jesse Miner, Manu Smith, ‘Hey Mr Jesse’ podcast (USA)

“There’s nothing like stumbling across an artist who is fresh, original, filled with musical integrity, and especially one that has a unique perspective on the familiar. Australian Jazz vocalist extraordinaire Greg Poppleton is such an artist…”  Gerald H. Beulah, Jr., JazzReview.com (USA)