Ray Noble – English and U.S Dance Band Leader – Phantom Dancer 16 April 2024

Raymond Stanley ‘Ray’ Noble was a swing band leader, composer, arranger, radio host, television and film comedian and actor in both this native England and the United States. He is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.

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ENGLAND

Ray Noble wrote lyrics and music for many popular songs during the Golden Age of British Dance Bands, notably for his longtime friend and singer, Al Bowlly, including “Love Is the Sweetest Thing”, “Cherokee”, “The Touch of Your Lips”, “I Hadn’t Anyone Till You”.

Noble studied at the Royal Academy of Music.

In 1927 he won a competition for the best British dance band orchestrator.

In 1929, he became leader of the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, an HMV Records studio band that featured members of many of the top hotel orchestras of the day.

Ray Noble recorded prolifically during this time and US Victor released several of his HMV recordings, including “Butterflies in the Rain”, “Mademoiselle”, “My Hat’s on the Side of My Head” and “The Very Thought of You”.

The most popular vocalist with Noble’s studio band was Al Bowlly, who joined in 1930.

During this time, Noble co-wrote “Turkish Delight”, “By the Fireside” and “Goodnight, Sweetheart”. The latter song was a number one hit for Guy Lombardo in the American charts. It was also used (with vocals by Al Bowlly) on the original Star Trek television series episode “The City on the Edge of Forever”.

US CAREER

Ray Noble moved to New York City in 1934 on the success of his New Mayfair Dance Orchestra records.

Noble took Al Bowlly and his drummer Bill Harty to the US and asked trombonist Glenn Miller to recruit American musicians to complete the band.

Miller played trombone in the Ray Noble orchestra. The American Ray Noble band had a successful run at the Rainbow Room in New York City with Bowlly as principal vocalist.

Although Noble was not a singer, he did appear twice as an upper-class Englishman on two of his more popular New York records, 1935’s “Top Hat” and 1937’s “Slumming on Park Avenue”.

Noble was also an arranger who scored many record hits in the 1930s: “Mad About the Boy” (1932), “Paris in the Spring” (1935) and “Easy to Love” (1936),

Noble and his orchestra appeared in the 1937 film A Damsel in Distress with Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns and Gracie Allen.

Noble played a somewhat “dense” character who was in love with Gracie Allen. Bowlly returned to England in 1938, but Noble continued to lead bands in America, moving into an acting career portraying a stereotypical upper-class English idiot.

Noble played the piano, but seldom did so with his orchestra. In a movie short from the 1940s featuring Ray Noble and Buddy Clark (one of his most popular band singers), Ray Noble is asked by the announcer to play one of his most popular hits. He sits down at the piano and plays “Goodnight, Sweetheart”.

Ray Noble provided music for many radio shows such as The Chase and Sanborn Hour, The Charlie McCarthy Show, Burns and Allen and On Stage with Cathy and Elliott Lewis and also guest-appeared in some of their films.

He worked with Bergen for nearly fifteen years, playing the foil to McCarthy and the slow-witted Mortimer Snerd, and his orchestra appeared with Edgar Bergen in the 1942 film Here We Go Again.

He also provided the orchestration for the 1942 Lou Gehrig biopic The Pride of the Yankees starring Gary Cooper. Noble’s last major successes as a bandleader came with Buddy Clark in the late 1940s.

16 April PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #649
107.3 2SER Tuesday 16 April 2024 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program 5UV Adelaide Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am 7RPH Hobart Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 3am – 4 and 6 -7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am and Sunday 11pm Reading Radio (QLD) Friday 1am – 2 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am – 12 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Saturday 4am – 5am Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturday 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm 2SEA Sapphire Coast Eden Sunday 9 – 10pm
Set 1	Stan Kenton
Open + Swing House	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Glen Echo Park Ballroom WRC NBC Washington DC 12 May 1953
These Foolish Things	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Glen Echo Park Ballroom WRC NBC Washington DC 12 May 1953
Frank Speaking	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Glen Echo Park Ballroom WRC NBC Washington DC 12 May 1953
Everything Happens to Me	Stan Kenton Orchestra (voc) Chris Connors	‘Concert in Miniature’ Glen Echo Park Ballroom WRC NBC Washington DC 12 May 1953
Set 2	Fred Waring
Paris in the Spring	Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians (voc) Thomas and Rosemary	‘Fred Waring Show’ CBS 14 Apr 1936
Omaha – ha – ha and Idaho – ho – ho	Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians (voc) Band	‘Fred Waring Show’ CBS 14 Apr 1936
Summertime	Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians (voc) Glee Club with Stella and the Fellas	‘Fred Waring Show’ CBS 14 Apr 1936
Sleep (theme)	Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians	‘Fred Waring Show’ CBS 14 Apr 1936
Set 3	Ray Noble
The Very Thought of You (theme) + And the Angels Sing	Ray Noble Orchestra (voc) Liz Tilton	Beverley-Wiltshire Hotel KFI NBC Red LA 22 Oct 1939
Open + The Very Thought of You	Ray Noble Orchestra	‘Coty Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NYC 13 Mar 1935
Flowers for Madame	Ray Noble Orchestra (voc) Al Bowlly	‘Coty Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NYC 13 Mar 1935
Commanche War Dance + Close	Ray Noble Orchestra	Beverley-Wiltshire Hotel KFI NBC Red LA 4 Apr 1940
Set 4	Ted Fio Rito
Open + Hungarian Jump	Ted Fio Rito Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Feb 1945
Accentuate the Positive	Ted Fio Rito Orchestra (voc) Madeleine Mahoney	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Feb 1945
Begin the Beguine	Ted Fio Rito (piano) and Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Feb 1945
Idaho	Ted Fio Rito Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast 21 Feb 1945
Set 5	Trad Jazz
I Can’t Get Started	Fats B Shawn (piano and voc)	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 13 Feb 1954
Bugle Blues	Earl Hines and his Esquire All-Stars	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 13 Feb 1954
Rosetta	Earl Hines and his Esquire All-Stars	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 13 Feb 1954
Deep Forest (theme)	Earl Hines and his Esquire All-Stars	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 13 Feb 1954
Set 6	Dance Band Radio Transcriptions
Don’t Be That Way	Chick Webb Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1936
Washington Squabble	Claude Hopkins Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1935
Nit Wit Serenade	Chick Webb Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1936
Farewell Blues	Claude Hopkins Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1935
Set 7	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra
Open + Holiday for Strings	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Molly Malone	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Maxine Sullivan	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Honey Dripper	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Band	‘Spotlight Bands’ Jefferson Barracks Missouri Mutual Network 23 Nov 1945
Wham! + Close	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Jimmie Lunceford	‘Spotlight Bands’ Jefferson Barracks Missouri Mutual Network 23 Nov 1945
Set 8	Charlie Parker and Miles Davis
Groovin’ High	Miles Davis (tpt); Charlie Parker (as); Al Haig (p); Tommy Potter (b); Max Roach (d)	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 11 Dec 1948
Big Foot	Miles Davis (tpt); Charlie Parker (as); Al Haig (p); Tommy Potter (b); Max Roach (d)	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 11 Dec 1948

Ray Noble – Phantom Dancer 22 September 2020

Ray Noble, English band leader and composer who found a career as a band leader and actor in the US, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.

Greg Poppleton brings you The Phantom Dancer, your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week. On-air since 1985.

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The finyl hour is vinyl.

RAY NOBLE

Raymond Stanley Noble was an English bandleader, composer, arranger, radio comedian, and actor.

Noble wrote lyrics and music for many popular songs during the British dance band era, notably for his longtime friend and associate Al Bowlly. These include “Love Is the Sweetest Thing”, “Cherokee”, “The Touch of Your Lips”, “I Hadn’t Anyone Till You”, and his signature tune, “The Very Thought of You”.

Noble also played a radio comedian opposite American ventriloquist Edgar Bergen’s stage act of Mortimer Snerd and Charlie McCarthy, and American comedy duo Burns and Allen, later transferring these roles from radio to TV and popular films.

ENGLISH ORCHESTRA

Noble studied at the Royal Academy of Music and in 1927 won a competition for the best British dance band orchestrator that was advertised in Melody Maker. In 1929, he became leader of the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, an HMV Records studio band that featured members of many of the top hotel orchestras of the day.

The most popular vocalist with Noble’s studio band was Al Bowlly, who joined in 1930. During this time Noble co-wrote “Turkish Delight”, “By the Fireside” and “Goodnight, Sweetheart”. The latter song was a number one hit for Guy Lombardo in the United States charts. It was also used (with vocals by Al Bowlly) on the original television series Star Trek episode The City on the Edge of Forever.

U.S ORCHESTRA

Noble moved to New York City in 1934. The Bowlly/Noble recordings with the British New Mayfair Dance Orchestra on HMV had achieved popularity in the United States and Noble had several number one hits on the US pop singles charts:

“Love is the Sweetest Thing”, 1933, #1 for five weeks;
“Old Spinning Wheel”, 1934, #1 for three weeks;
“The Very Thought of You”, 1934, #1 for five weeks;
“Isle of Capri”, 1935, #1 for seven weeks;

and with the American band:

“Paris in the Spring”, 1935, #1 for 1 week.

Noble took Al Bowlly and his drummer Bill Harty to the US. The myth is he asked Glenn Miller to recruit American musicians to complete the band. The truth is, Noble has already booked his orchestra members from London before he left for the U.S. Miller played the trombone in the Ray Noble orchestra which included many other future US band leaders including Claude Thornhill, Bud Freeman and Will Bradley.

Noble and his orchestra appeared in the 1937 film A Damsel in Distress with Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns and Gracie Allen. Noble played a somewhat “dense” character who was in love with Gracie Allen. Al Bowlly returned to England in 1938 but Noble continued to lead bands in America, moving into an acting career portraying a stereotypical upper-class English idiot.

Ray Noble provided music for many radio shows such as The Chase and Sanborn Hour, The Charlie McCarthy Show, Burns and Allen and On Stage with Cathy and Elliott Lewis and also guest-appeared in some of their films. He worked with Bergen for nearly fifteen years, playing the foil to McCarthy and the slow-witted Mortimer Snerd, and his orchestra appeared with Edgar Bergen in the 1942 film Here We Go Again. He also provided the orchestration for the 1942 Lou Gehrig biopic The Pride of the Yankees starring Gary Cooper. Noble’s last major successes as a bandleader came with Buddy Clark in the late 1940s.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Linda, sung by Buddy Calrk with Ray Noble’s Orchestra. Linda was written about 6-year old Linda Eastman who famously married Paul McCartney

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!

29 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #432
107.3 2SER Tuesday 29 September 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm 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 2MCE Bathurst / Orange / Central West NSW Wednesday 9 – 10am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am
Set 1	Swinging Big Bands on 1940s One Night Stand Radio
The Good Earth	Woody Herman Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Aug 1945
I Was Here Where you Left Me	Louis Prima Orchestra (voc) Lily Ann Carroll	‘Spotlight Bands’ Camp Shanks Blue Network NY 1945
Angelina + Brooklyn Boogie	Louis Prima Orchestra (voc) Louis Prima and Band	‘Spotlight Bands’ Camp Shanks Blue Network NY 1945
Set 2	Jazz on 1960s Radio
Open + The Lamp Is Low	Oscar Peterson Trio	Montreal Jazz Festival CBC Canada 1968
Just Lucky	Harry James Orchestra	El Patio Ballroom KCBS CBS San Francisco 20 May 1961
Set 3	Early 1930s Music Radio
Cool Water	RCA Victor Concert Orchestra	‘His Master’s Voice of the Air’ Radio Transcription Nov 1932
Shake Hands With A Million	Harry Richman	‘Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription 1934
Dinah	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) The Three Cheers	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel NBC Orange Los Angeles 1932
Set 4	Women Jazz Singers on the Air
Rockin’ Chair	Mildred Bailey	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription NY 1951
Thank Your Stars	Ella Fitzgerald with her Orchestra	Savoy Ballroom WEAF NBC Red NY 25 Jan 1940
Open + Just A Moment More	Sarah Vaughan	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 21 Apr 1953
Set 5	Ray Noble on American Radio
The Very Thought Of You (theme) + And The Angels Sing	Ray Noble Orchestra (voc) Liz Tilton	Beverley-Wiltshire Hotel KFI NBC LA 22 Oct 1939
I Never Had A Chance	Ray Noble Orchestra (voc) Al Bowlly	‘Coty Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NY 13 Mar 1935
A Fountain in Havana	Ray Noble Orchestra (piano) Claude Thornhill	‘Coty Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NY 17 Apr 1935
Comanche War Dance + Theme (Goodnight Sweetheart)	Ray Noble Orchestra	Beverley-Wiltshire Hotel KFI NBC LA 6 April 1940
Set 6	Swing Bands on 1944 Radio
Sleep	Benny Carter Orchestra	Aircheck Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca 1944
No Love, No Nothin’	Lionel Hampton Orchestra (voc) Dinah Washington	Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca KFI NBC LA 16 Jun 1944
Three Little Words	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KECA Blue LA Oct 1944
Frantic in the Atlantic	Cab Calloway Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Club Zanzibar New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Sep 1944
Set 7	Hal Kemp’s Tripling Trumpets on 1934 Radio
When Summer Is Gone (theme) + It’s Winter Again	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis	‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Boulevarde of Broken Dreams	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Deane Janis	‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Last Year’s Girl	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis	‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea + When summer is Gone (theme)	Hal Kemp Orchestra	‘Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Set 8	Jazz on 1940s-50s TV
Soft Winds + Perdido	Roy Eldridge All-Stars	‘The Today Show’ WNBC TV NBC NY 18 Jan 1957
My Funny Valentine	Helen Ward (voc)	‘Eddie Condon’s Floor Show’ WNBC TV NBC NY 26 Mar 1949
Ridin’ High	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald	‘Texaco Show’ WNBC TV NBC NY 9 Apr 1958
Intro + Drum Boogie	Ronald Reagan MC, Gene Krupa Orchestra (voc) Anita O’Day	‘Ford Star Time’ NBC TV LA 9 Feb 1960

Shep Fields Rippling Rhythm – Phantom Dancer Swing Radio Mix 14 Aug 2018

Keys to success in popular music include a compelling back story that informs the music preferably with a rags to riches theme, a catchy name and/or a gimmick.

Shep Fields found fame almost as soon as he found the latter. And changing his name from Saul Feldman to the catchier Shep Fields also would have helped.

Shep Field is the feature artist on today’s Phantom Dancer. He was so popular and internationally famous even the Australian swing band of Wally Portingale included him in a song for their ‘All In Fun Revue’.

WHAT’S THE PHANTOM DANCER?

Excellent question young Harry. It’s your non-stop mixtape of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio. And it’s been live-to-air on 107.3 2SER Sydney, Tuesdays 12:04 – 2pm, since 1985.

The Phantom Dancer is then re-broadcast on 22 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online.

In fact, you’ll be able to hear this week’s Phantom Dancer on 2ser.com online after the show. And there’s a stack of past Phantom Dancer swing jazz mix tapes for you to enjoy there as well.

THIS WEEK’S PHANTOM DANCER MIX

– has a set of ‘Women in Jazz’ introduced by jazz writer Leonard Feather for the Voice of America in 1951, we go free form with John Coltrane over WCBS-FM in 1965 and there’s the Shep Fields feature.

See the full play list below….

SHEP FIELDS

was a Swing Era U.S musician and band leader. He found fame by incorporating a simple idea into his music.

This week’s Phantom Dancer video, below, is a 1930s dramatisation of the eureka moment the idea struck. But here’s how the story goes for those of you not into film.

UP THE LADDER

Shep played clarinet and tenor saxophone in bands while at university. He played in a band at the prestigious Roseland Ballroom in 1931. In 1933 he was leading a band in that great proving ground for New York musicians and comedians in the 1930s and 1940s – the Borscht Belt. Next year he replaced the Jack Denny Orchestra in a residency at Hotel Pierre in New York City. He left that gig to back the dancers Veloz and Yolanda on a tour. 1936 found him in Chicago, with a contract to play at the Palmer House with radio broadcasts from that same spot included.

EUREKA!

Now he had come this far, the question was, how could he distinguish himself sufficiently from all the other dance band on the air and on stage to move to the next level of ‘name band’.

The inspiration came when he and his wife were sitting in a milk bar. Mrs Fields was blowing bubbles into her soft drink through a straw.

Eureka! Shep decided there and then that bubbling sound was what would introduce his band over the air. This moment was dramatised in a short film for cinema release in the late 1930s.

A BRAND IS BORN

Fields staged a contest amongst his fans in Chicago to suggest a new name for his band with the new sound.

The word ‘rippling’ came up in a number of entries. Fields himself came up with ‘Rippling Rhythm.’ And so a brand was born.

IDENTITY

That same year, 1936, with brand in place and signature sound, Shep Fields landed a record deal with the popular Bluebird label. His hits for this famous jazz record company included ‘Cathedral in the Pines’, ‘Did I Remember?’ and ‘Thanks for the Memory’.

In 1937 Fields had his own radio show, ‘The Rippling Rhythm Revue’ with comedian Bob Hope, whose theme song was ‘Thanks for the Memory’ as announcer.

In 1938, Fields and Hope were featured together in the comedian’s first feature movie, The Big Broadcast of 1938.

Today’s Phantom Dancer will feature 1930s radio transcriptions of Shep Field’s Rippling Rhythm Orchestra in the final vinyl hour. In a 1940 radio transcription you’ll hear singer Hal Derwin who later became a band leader in his own right.

ALL REEDS

Shep Fields dropped his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra in 1941 for a bold experiment, an all-reeds orchestra with rhythm section and no brass called Shep Fields and His New Music.

We’ll hear his New Music in a radio transcription from 1942.

Though the critics liked it, the public wanted Rippling Rhythm.

And with the popularity of the big bands declining after World War Two, Fields bowed to the public pressure of declining New Music ticket sales. In 1947 he re-launched his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra.

He had already brought his own venue to guarentee bookings and radio airtime, the prestigious Glen Island casino in New Rochelle, New York, which is where the opening track in this week’s Shep Field set originates.

The Rippling Rhythm Orchestra lasted until 1963. That year, Shep Fields quit band leading to be a radio disc jockey in Houston. When that ended, he worked at Creative Management Associates with his brother Freddie Fields in Los Angeles.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

It’s Shep Fields and his New Music with the ‘soundie’ The Whistler’s Mother-in-Law. Happy viewing!

31 JULY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #327
107.3 2SER Tuesday 14 August 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	1944 Swing Bands
It’s Mellow	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Tune Town Ballroom AFRS Re-broadcast St Louis 5 Apr 1944
Swinging on a Star	Bob Chester Orchestra (voc) Betty Bradley and David Allyn	‘One Night Stand’ Panther Room Hotel Sherman, Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Oct 1944
When I Get It + Blue Lou	Harry James Orchestra lead by Tommy Dorsey	Casino Garden Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 12 Aug 1944
Set 2	Coltrane
My Favourite Things	John Coltrane	Half Note Club WCBS-FM CBS NY 26 Mar 1965
Set 3	Famous Singers
Eleg Volt Nekem Magabol (I’ve Had Enough of You)	Karady Katalin	Comm Rec Budapest 1943
Song of the Wanderer	Helen Humes (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	Aircheck 1939
Taking a Chance on Love	Ethel Waters	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 17 Jul 1945
Set 4	Women in Jazz 1951
Boogie Mysterioso	Mary Lou Williams with Mary Osbourne (elec g)	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America New York City 1951
Mary’s Guitar Boogie	Mary Osbourne	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America New York City 1951
Low Ceiling	Beryl Booker with Mary Osbourne (elec g)	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America New York City 1951
Set 5	Shep Fields Feature
Rippling Rhythm (theme) + My Future Just Passed	Shep Fields Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Toni Arden	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY Aircheck 1947
Heavenly, Isn’t It?	Shep Fields and his New Music	Radio Transcription New York City 1943
One Never One, Does One?	Shep Fields Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Robert Goday	Radio Transcription New York City 1937
Let There Be Love	Shep Fields Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin	Radio Transcription New York City 1940
Set 6	Sweet Bands on 1960s Radio
Open	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians	New York World’s Fair WCBS CBS NY 1964
Auld Lang Syne + Let’s Do It Again	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians	Grill Room Hotel Taft WNBC NBC NY 1 Jan 1970
Blue, Blue My Heart Is Blue	Russ Morgan Orchestra	Top of the Strip Dunes Hotel KLAV Las Vegas NV 19 Jul 1969
Medley	Jan Garber Orchestra	Lady Luck Lounge Desert Inn KLAC Las Vegas NV 4 Jul 1965
Set 7	Ray Noble’s American Orchestra
The Very Thought of You (theme) + Flowers for Madame	Ray Noble’s American Orchestra	‘Coty Hour’ Radio City WEAF NBC Red NY 13 Mar 1935
Irving Berlin Songs	Ray Noble’s American Orchestra	‘The Magic Key of RCA’ Radio City WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Feb 1936
Set 8	New Jazz on 1949 – 51 Radio
Perdido + Tiny’s Blues	Terry Gibbs All-Stars	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 1951
Move	Stan Getz	‘Modern Jazz Concert’ Carnegie Hall NY Voice of America 25 Dec 1949