Johnny Ace: The Tear Beat on the Blue Note – Phantom Dancer 20 September 2022

Johnny Ace, R’n’B star from the early 1950s, known as ‘The Tear Beat on the Blue Note’, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature.

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton.

Enjoy a whole library of Phantom Dancer mixes online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 20 September at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

JOHNNY

John Marshall Alexander Jr., known by the stage name Johnny Ace, was an American rhythm-and-blues singer and musician. He had a string of hit singles in the mid 1950s. Ace died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound playing silly-buggers backstage at a concert, aged 25 and had two children.

Born the son of a baptist preacher who allowed no blues in the house. Ace dropped out of high school to join the US Navy. He was reported AWOL for much of his time there.

On discharge he joined Adolph Duncan’s Band as a pianist, playing around Beale Street in Memphis. The network of local musicians became known as the Beale Streeters, which included B. B. King, Bobby Bland, Junior Parker, Earl Forest, and Roscoe Gordon. Initially, they weren’t an official band, but at times there was a leader and they played on each other’s records.

In 1951 Ike Turner, who was a talent scout and producer for Modern Records, arranged for Ace and other Beale Streeters to record for Turner’s label. Alexander played piano on some of King’s records for RPM Records and backed King during broadcasts on WDIA in Memphis. When King departed for Los Angeles and Bland left the group, Ace took over both Bland’s vocal duties and King’s radio show on WDIA.

David James Mattis, program director at WDIA and founder of Duke Records, claimed that he created the stage name of Johnny Ace: “Johnny” for Johnny Ray and “Ace” for the Four Aces. 

ACE

Ace signed to Duke in 1952 and released his first recording, “My Song”, an urbane “heart ballad” which topped the R&B chart for nine weeks beginning in September. He began heavy touring, often with Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton. In the next two years, Ace had eight hits in a row, including “Cross My Heart”, “Please Forgive Me”, “The Clock”, “Yes, Baby”, “Saving My Love for You” and “Never Let Me Go”.

In November 1954, Ace ranked No. 16 on the Billboard 1954 Disk Jockey Poll for R&B Favorite Artists.

In December 1954, he was named the Most Programmed Artist of 1954, according to the results of a national poll of disc jockeys conducted by the U.S. trade weekly Cash Box.

Early in 1955, Duke Records announced that three of his 1954 recordings, along with Thornton’s “Hound Dog“, had sold more than 1,750,000 copies.

“Pledging My Love” was a posthumous R&B number 1 hit for ten weeks beginning February 12, 1955. As Billboard bluntly put it, Ace’s death “created one of the biggest demands for a record that has occurred since the death of Hank Williams just over two years ago.”

Soon after Ace’s death, in early 1955, Varetta Dillard recorded ‘Johnny Has Gone’ for Savoy Records. She incorporated many of Ace’s song titles in the lyrics. This was the first of the many teen tragedy records that were to follow in the later 50s and early 1960s

20 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #564
107.3 2SER Tuesday 20 September 2022 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 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 2RDJ Burwood Wednesday 12 – 1pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am -12 noon 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	Les Brown
Leap Frog (theme) + Long Ago and Far Away	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Doris Day	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC WABC CBS NYC 7 Jul 1944
Straighten Up and Fly Right	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Butch Stone	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC WABC CBS NYC 7 Jul 1944
Going My Way	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Gordon Drake	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC WABC CBS NYC 7 Jul 1944
Bizet Has His Day + Leap Frog (theme)	Les Brown Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC WABC CBS NYC 7 Jul 1944
Set 2	Woody Herman
Blue Flame (theme) + The Magpie	Woody Herman Orchestra	‘World Jazz Series’ Madison Square Garden WCBS CBS NYC 5 Jun 1960
Apple Honey	Woody Herman Orchestra	‘World Jazz Series’ Madison Square Garden WCBS CBS NYC 5 Jun 1960
Caldonia	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Woody Herman	‘World Jazz Series’ Madison Square Garden WCBS CBS NYC 5 Jun 1960
Set 3	Stan Daugherty
Blue Days (theme) + Just Anybody	Stan Daugherty Orchestra	KXOK St Louis 5 Feb 1942
Half a Love	Stan Daugherty Orchestra	KXOK St Louis 5 Feb 1942
A1 in the Army and A1 in my Heart + Few and Far Between	Stan Daugherty Orchestra	KXOK St Louis 5 Feb 1942
A Heavenly Hideaway + Blue Days (theme)	Stan Daugherty Orchestra	KXOK St Louis 5 Feb 1942
Set 4	Johnny Ace 1954 R’n’B
Don’t You Know	Johnny Ace	‘Musty Dusties’ AFRTS Hollywood 5 Jan 1968
Never Let Me Go	Johnny Ace	‘Musty Dusties’ AFRTS Hollywood 5 Jan 1968
No Money	Johnny Ace	‘Musty Dusties’ AFRTS Hollywood 5 Jan 1968
Pledging My Love + Let’s Go (close)	Johnny Ace + The Routers (on Let’s Go, 1962)	‘Musty Dusties’ AFRTS Hollywood 5 Jan 1968
Set 5	Women Singers on 1940s Radio
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah	Ginny Simms	‘Your Hit Parade’ WEAF NBC NYC 1 Mar 1947
There’s a Small Hotel	Ella Logan	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Long Ago and Far Away	Elizabeth Rogers (voc) Russ Morgan Orchestra	Garden Court Hotel Claremont San Francisco 11 Jul 1945
Santa Catalina	Dorothy Collins (voc) Raymond Scott Orchestra	Rose Room Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 16 Sep 1947
Set 6	1930s – 40s Australian Swing
Pink Elephants	Jim Davidson and his Palais Royale Orchestra	Comm Rec Sydney 6 Jun 1933
Jungle Jive	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Elsie Wardrope	Comm Rec Sydney 1943
Hang Your Heart on a Hickory Limb	Jim Davidson and his Australian Broadcasting Commission Dance Orchestra	Comm Rec Sydney 24 Jul 1939
There Goes That Song Again	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Elsie Wardrope	Comm Rec Sydney 1943
Set 7	Radio Trad Jazz
Strut Miss Lizzie	Graeme Bell and his Dixieland Jazz Band (voc) Roger Bell	3AW Melbourne 1949
St Louis Blues	Louis Armstrong All-Stars	Blue Note WLS ABC Chicago 11 Dec 1948
Royal Garden Blues	Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Band	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1950
Hindustan	Bob Crosby Bobcats	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NYC 4 Jul 1939
Set 8	1930s Dance Bands
The Very Thought of You (theme) + Flowers for Madame	Ray Noble Orchestra (voc) Al Bowlly	‘Coty Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NYC 13 Mar 1935
The Continental	Henry Busse Orchestra	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1935
When Gimbal Hits the Cymbal	Joe Haymes Orchestra	Grill Room Hotel Alpen WABC CBS NYC 29 Jan 1935
Tea for Two + Close	George Hall Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 1937

Dinah Washington Forged Her Own Path – Phantom Dancer 6 September 2022

Dinah Washington, The Queen of the Blues, the most popular black female recording artist of the 1950s, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature.

As an artist, she was one of the most beloved and controversial singers of the mid-20th century.

• Beloved, because she had a great voice.
• Controversial, because she didn’t seek approval from ‘the gatekeepers’. And as you’ll hear in her Birdland radio broadcast on this week’s Phantom Dancer, she didn’t hold back from telling radio announcers to shut up or stop being corny.

The Phantom Dancer – your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton.

Enjoy a whole library of Phantom Dancer mixes online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 6 September at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/. This episode is a Phantom Dancer Classic which first went to air on 30 March 2021.

DINAH

Dinah Washington was the stage name of Ruth Lee Jones.

She was a jazz singer but also sang blues, R&B, and pop music.

As a child she sang gospel music in church and played piano, directing her church choir in her teens and sang lead with the first female gospel singers formed by Sallie Martin, co-founder of the Gospel Singers Convention. She joined the gospel choir after she won an amateur contest at Chicago’s Regal Theater, singing, ‘I Can’t Face the Music’.

HAMPTON

At 15, she started singing in clubs. By 1941–42 she was performing at the Sherman Hotel in Chicago with Fats Waller.

She was playing at the Three Deuces, a jazz club, when a friend took her to hear Billie Holiday at the Garrick Stage Bar. Club owner Joe Sherman was so impressed with her singing of “I Understand”, backed by the Cats and the Fiddle, who were appearing in the Garrick’s upstairs room, that he hired her. During her year at the Garrick, she sang upstairs while Holiday performed downstairs room. Sherman gave her her stage name.

Lionel Hampton came to hear Dinah at the Garrick and invited her to join his orchestra

She made her recording debut singing Evil Gal Blues, written by Leonard Feather (who wrote Blow Top Blues you’ll hear Dinah sing in this week’s show, live on 1952 radio) and backed by Hampton and musicians from his band. Both that record and its follow-up, ‘Salty Papa Blues’, made the Billboard “Harlem Hit Parade” in 1944.

In December 1945 she made a series of twelve recordings for Apollo Records, 10 of which were issued, featuring the Lucky Thompson All Stars.

She stayed with Lionel Hampton’s orchestra until 1946.

SOLO

Her first solo recording, Fats Waller’s ‘Ain’t Misbehavin”, was another hit. Between 1948 and 1955, she had 27 R&B top-10 hits, making her one of the most popular and successful singers of the period.

‘Am I Asking Too Much?’ (1948) and ‘Baby Get Lost’ (1949) reached Number 1 on the R&B chart. Her version of Johnny Green’s 1930s hit, ‘I Wanna Be Loved’ (1950) crossed over to reach Number 22 on the US pop chart.

Her hit recordings included blues, standards, novelties, pop covers, and even a version of Hank Williams’ ‘Cold, Cold Heart’ (R&B Number 3, 1951). At the same time as her biggest popular success, she also recorded sessions with many leading jazz musicians, including last week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist, Clifford Brown, Clark Terry, Cannonball Adderley and Ben Webster.

In 1950, Dinah Washington performed at the sixth avalcade of Jazz concert held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles. Also featured on the same day were Lionel Hampton, PeeWee Crayton’s Orchestra, Roy Milton and his Orchestra plus Tiny Davis and Her Hell Divers. 16,000 were reported to be in attendance and the concert ended early because of a fracas while Lionel Hampton played ‘Flying High’.

Washington returned to perform at the twelfth Cavalcade of Jazz also at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles in 1956. Performing that day were Little Richard, The Mel Williams Dots, Julie Stevens, Chuck Higgin’s Orchestra, Bo Rhambo, Willie Hayden & Five Black Birds, The Premiers, Gerald Wilson and His 20-Piece Recording Orchestra and Jerry Gray and his Orchestra.

In 1959, she had her first top ten pop hit, with a version of ‘What a Diff’rence a Day Makes’. She followed it up with a version of Irving Gordon’s ‘Unforgettable’ and then two highly successful duets in 1960 with Brook Benton, ‘Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)’, which you’ll hear on this week’s show from a 1960 aircheck and ‘A Rockin’ Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love)’. Her last big hit was ‘September in the Rain’, in 1961.

She won the Grammy for Best Rhythm and Blues Performance, 1959, for ‘What a Diff’rence a Day Makes’.

6 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #562
107.3 2SER Tuesday 6 September 2022 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 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 2RDJ Burwood Wednesday 12 – 1pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am -12 noon 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	One Night Stand Radio
Artistry in Rhythm (theme) + I Know That You Know	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Sep 1945
I’m In Love With Someone	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Glagys Tell	‘One Night Stand’ Panther Room Hotel Sherman Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast Mar 1944
Poinciana	Jan Savitt Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Oct 1945
Set 2	Jimmy Grier
Music in the Moonlight (theme) + Just Friends	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Dick Webster	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
Save The Last Dance For Me	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Donald Novis	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
The More You Hurt Me The More You Make Me Care + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Margaret Lawrence	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
Set 3	1950s Jazz Radio
Open + Without a Word of Warning	Arnett Cobb	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 2 Jul 1952
Open + Small Hotel / All The Things You Are / Rose Room	Larry Green	Starlight Roof Hotel Chase KMOX CBS St Louis 1958
Open + Too Marvelous	Erroll Garner	Basin Street WCBS CBS NYC 6 May 1956
Set 4	Dinah Washington
No Love, No Nothin’	Dinah Washington (voc) Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Traianon Ballroom Southgate Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jun 1944
Mixed Emotions + Blow Top Blues	Dinah Washington	‘The Birdland Show’ WJZ ABC NYC 21 Jun 1952
You’ve Got What It Takes	Dinah Washington and Brook Benton	Aircheck WKBW Buffalo NY 1960
Set 5	Erskine Hawkins Commercial Discs
Rockin’ Rollers’ Jubilee	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 12 Sep 1938
No Soap	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 14 May 1939
A Study in Brown	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 20 Oct 1938
I Hadn’t Anyone Till You	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra (voc) Dolores Brown	Comm Rec New York City 20 Dec 1939
Set 6	1930s Swing Radio
Dixieland Band	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	Palomar Ballroom KFI NBC Red 22 Aug 1935
You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	Paradise Restaurant WABC CBS NY 10 Apr 1938
Kiss Me Again	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra (voc) Gail Reese	Paradise Restaurant WABC CBS NY 10 Apr 1938
You Do The Darndest Things, Baby	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing	Chatterbox Hotel William Penn WCAE NBC Red Pittsburgh 10 Jan 1937
Set 7	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra 1956
Intro + Song of India	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Ridin’ Around in the Rain	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Dolly Houston	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Sunny Side of the Street	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Lynn Roberts	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Just For Taking Bows	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Set 8	Carson Robinson Buckaroos
Careless Love (theme) + Home on the Range	Carson Robinson Buckaroos	‘Ford RandG Used Cars’ Radio Transcription 1939
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie + Down on the Levee	Carson Robinson Buckaroos	‘Ford RandG Used Cars’ Radio Transcription 1939
Goin’ Back to my Good Ol’ Texas Home + Golden Slippers	Carson Robinson Buckaroos	‘Ford RandG Used Cars’ Radio Transcription 1939
Wabash Moon + Boots and Saddles + Close	Carson Robinson Buckaroos	‘Ford RandG Used Cars’ Radio Transcription 1939

Dinah Washington Forged Her Own Path – Phantom Dancer 25 January 2022

Dinah Washington, The Queen of the Blues, the most popular black female recording artist of the 1950s, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature.

As an artist, she was one of the most beloved and controversial singers of the mid-20th century.

• Beloved, because she had a great voice.
• Controversial, because she didn’t seek approval from ‘the gatekeepers’. And as you’ll hear in her Birdland radio broadcast on this week’s Phantom Dancer, she didn’t hold back from telling radio announcers to shut up or stop being corny.

The Phantom Dancer – your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton.

Enjoy a whole library of Phantom Dancer mixes online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 25 January at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/. This episode is a Phantom Dancer Classic which first went to air on 30 March 2021.

 

DINAH

Dinah Washington was the stage name of Ruth Lee Jones.

She was a jazz singer but also sang blues, R&B, and pop music.

As a child she sang gospel music in church and played piano, directing her church choir in her teens and sang lead with the first female gospel singers formed by Sallie Martin, co-founder of the Gospel Singers Convention. She joined the gospel choir after she won an amateur contest at Chicago’s Regal Theater, singing, ‘I Can’t Face the Music’.

HAMPTON

At 15, she started singing in clubs. By 1941–42 she was performing at the Sherman Hotel in Chicago with Fats Waller.

She was playing at the Three Deuces, a jazz club, when a friend took her to hear Billie Holiday at the Garrick Stage Bar. Club owner Joe Sherman was so impressed with her singing of “I Understand”, backed by the Cats and the Fiddle, who were appearing in the Garrick’s upstairs room, that he hired her. During her year at the Garrick, she sang upstairs while Holiday performed downstairs room. Sherman gave her her stage name.

Lionel Hampton came to hear Dinah at the Garrick and invited her to join his orchestra

She made her recording debut singing Evil Gal Blues, written by Leonard Feather (who wrote Blow Top Blues you’ll hear Dinah sing in this week’s show, live on 1952 radio) and backed by Hampton and musicians from his band. Both that record and its follow-up, ‘Salty Papa Blues’, made the Billboard “Harlem Hit Parade” in 1944.

In December 1945 she made a series of twelve recordings for Apollo Records, 10 of which were issued, featuring the Lucky Thompson All Stars.

She stayed with Lionel Hampton’s orchestra until 1946.

SOLO

Her first solo recording, Fats Waller’s ‘Ain’t Misbehavin”, was another hit. Between 1948 and 1955, she had 27 R&B top-10 hits, making her one of the most popular and successful singers of the period.

‘Am I Asking Too Much?’ (1948) and ‘Baby Get Lost’ (1949) reached Number 1 on the R&B chart. Her version of Johnny Green’s 1930s hit, ‘I Wanna Be Loved’ (1950) crossed over to reach Number 22 on the US pop chart.

Her hit recordings included blues, standards, novelties, pop covers, and even a version of Hank Williams’ ‘Cold, Cold Heart’ (R&B Number 3, 1951). At the same time as her biggest popular success, she also recorded sessions with many leading jazz musicians, including last week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist, Clifford Brown, Clark Terry, Cannonball Adderley and Ben Webster.

In 1950, Dinah Washington performed at the sixth avalcade of Jazz concert held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles. Also featured on the same day were Lionel Hampton, PeeWee Crayton’s Orchestra, Roy Milton and his Orchestra plus Tiny Davis and Her Hell Divers. 16,000 were reported to be in attendance and the concert ended early because of a fracas while Lionel Hampton played ‘Flying High’.

Washington returned to perform at the twelfth Cavalcade of Jazz also at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles in 1956. Performing that day were Little Richard, The Mel Williams Dots, Julie Stevens, Chuck Higgin’s Orchestra, Bo Rhambo, Willie Hayden & Five Black Birds, The Premiers, Gerald Wilson and His 20-Piece Recording Orchestra and Jerry Gray and his Orchestra.

In 1959, she had her first top ten pop hit, with a version of ‘What a Diff’rence a Day Makes’. She followed it up with a version of Irving Gordon’s ‘Unforgettable’ and then two highly successful duets in 1960 with Brook Benton, ‘Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)’, which you’ll hear on this week’s show from a 1960 aircheck and ‘A Rockin’ Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love)’. Her last big hit was ‘September in the Rain’, in 1961.

She won the Grammy for Best Rhythm & Blues Performance, 1959, for ‘What a Diff’rence a Day Makes’.

25 JANUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE
Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINECommunity Radio Network Show CRN #528
107.3 2SER Tuesday 25 January 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 2SEA Eden 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 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	One Night Stand Radio
Artistry in Rhythm (theme) + I Know That You Know	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Sep 1945
I’m In Love With Someone	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Glagys Tell	‘One Night Stand’ Panther Room Hotel Sherman Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast Mar 1944
Poinciana	Jan Savitt Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Oct 1945
Set 2	Jimmy Grier
Music in the Moonlight (theme) + Just Friends	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Dick Webster	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
Save The Last Dance For Me	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Donald Novis	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
The More You Hurt Me The More You Make Me Care + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Margaret Lawrence	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
Set 3	1950s Jazz Radio
Open + Without a Word of Warning	Arnett Cobb	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 2 Jul 1952
Open + Small Hotel / All The Things You Are / Rose Room	Larry Green	Starlight Roof Hotel Chase KMOX CBS St Louis 1958
Open + Too Marvelous	Erroll Garner	Basin Street WCBS CBS NYC 6 May 1956
Set 4	Dinah Washington
No Love, No Nothin’	Dinah Washington (voc) Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Traianon Ballroom Southgate Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jun 1944
Mixed Emotions + Blow Top Blues	Dinah Washington	‘The Birdland Show’ WJZ ABC NYC 21 Jun 1952
You’ve Got What It Takes	Dinah Washington and Brook Benton	Aircheck WKBW Buffalo NY 1960
Set 5	Erskine Hawkins Commercial Discs
Rockin’ Rollers’ Jubilee	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 12 Sep 1938
No Soap	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 14 May 1939
A Study in Brown	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 20 Oct 1938
I Hadn’t Anyone Till You	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra (voc) Dolores Brown	Comm Rec New York City 20 Dec 1939
Set 6	1930s Swing Radio
Dixieland Band	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	Palomar Ballroom KFI NBC Red 22 Aug 1935
You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	Paradise Restaurant WABC CBS NY 10 Apr 1938
Kiss Me Again	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra (voc) Gail Reese	Paradise Restaurant WABC CBS NY 10 Apr 1938
You Do The Darndest Things, Baby	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing	Chatterbox Hotel William Penn WCAE NBC Red Pittsburgh 10 Jan 1937
Set 7	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra 1956
Intro + Song of India	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Ridin’ Around in the Rain	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Dolly Houston	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Sunny Side of the Street	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Lynn Roberts	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Just For Taking Bows	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Set 8	Carson Robinson Buckaroos
Careless Love (theme) + Home on the Range	Carson Robinson Buckaroos	‘Ford RandG Used Cars’ Radio Transcription 1939
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie + Down on the Levee	Carson Robinson Buckaroos	‘Ford RandG Used Cars’ Radio Transcription 1939
Goin’ Back to my Good Ol’ Texas Home + Golden Slippers	Carson Robinson Buckaroos	‘Ford RandG Used Cars’ Radio Transcription 1939
Wabash Moon + Boots and Saddles + Close	Carson Robinson Buckaroos	‘Ford RandG Used Cars’ Radio Transcription 1939

Dinah Washington Forged Her Own Path – Phantom Dancer 21 September 2021

Dinah Washington, The Queen of the Blues, the most popular black female recording artist of the 1950s, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. This is a repeat Phantom Dancer because of the current Covid lockdown in Sydney.

As an artist, she was one of the most beloved and controversial singers of the mid-20th century.

• Beloved, because she had a great voice.
• Controversial, because she didn’t seek approval from ‘the gatekeepers’. And as you’ll hear in her Birdland radio broadcast on this week’s Phantom Dancer, she didn’t hold back from telling radio announcers to shut up or stop being corny.

The Phantom Dancer – your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton.

Enjoy a whole library of Phantom Dancer mixes online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

LISTEN HERE – This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 21 September at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

DINAH

Dinah Washington was the stage name of Ruth Lee Jones.

She was a jazz singer but also sang blues, R&B, and pop music.

As a child she sang gospel music in church and played piano, directing her church choir in her teens and sang lead with the first female gospel singers formed by Sallie Martin, co-founder of the Gospel Singers Convention. She joined the gospel choir after she won an amateur contest at Chicago’s Regal Theater, singing, ‘I Can’t Face the Music’.

HAMPTON

At 15, she started singing in clubs. By 1941–42 she was performing at the Sherman Hotel in Chicago with Fats Waller.

She was playing at the Three Deuces, a jazz club, when a friend took her to hear Billie Holiday at the Garrick Stage Bar. Club owner Joe Sherman was so impressed with her singing of “I Understand”, backed by the Cats and the Fiddle, who were appearing in the Garrick’s upstairs room, that he hired her. During her year at the Garrick, she sang upstairs while Holiday performed downstairs room. Sherman gave her her stage name.

Lionel Hampton came to hear Dinah at the Garrick and invited her to join his orchestra

She made her recording debut singing Evil Gal Blues, written by Leonard Feather (who wrote Blow Top Blues you’ll hear Dinah sing in this week’s show, live on 1952 radio) and backed by Hampton and musicians from his band. Both that record and its follow-up, ‘Salty Papa Blues’, made the Billboard “Harlem Hit Parade” in 1944.

In December 1945 she made a series of twelve recordings for Apollo Records, 10 of which were issued, featuring the Lucky Thompson All Stars.

She stayed with Lionel Hampton’s orchestra until 1946.

SOLO

Her first solo recording, Fats Waller’s ‘Ain’t Misbehavin”, was another hit. Between 1948 and 1955, she had 27 R&B top-10 hits, making her one of the most popular and successful singers of the period.

‘Am I Asking Too Much?’ (1948) and ‘Baby Get Lost’ (1949) reached Number 1 on the R&B chart. Her version of Johnny Green’s 1930s hit, ‘I Wanna Be Loved’ (1950) crossed over to reach Number 22 on the US pop chart.

Her hit recordings included blues, standards, novelties, pop covers, and even a version of Hank Williams’ ‘Cold, Cold Heart’ (R&B Number 3, 1951). At the same time as her biggest popular success, she also recorded sessions with many leading jazz musicians, including last week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist, Clifford Brown, Clark Terry, Cannonball Adderley and Ben Webster.

In 1950, Dinah Washington performed at the sixth avalcade of Jazz concert held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles. Also featured on the same day were Lionel Hampton, PeeWee Crayton’s Orchestra, Roy Milton and his Orchestra plus Tiny Davis and Her Hell Divers. 16,000 were reported to be in attendance and the concert ended early because of a fracas while Lionel Hampton played ‘Flying High’.

Washington returned to perform at the twelfth Cavalcade of Jazz also at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles in 1956. Performing that day were Little Richard, The Mel Williams Dots, Julie Stevens, Chuck Higgin’s Orchestra, Bo Rhambo, Willie Hayden & Five Black Birds, The Premiers, Gerald Wilson and His 20-Piece Recording Orchestra and Jerry Gray and his Orchestra.

In 1959, she had her first top ten pop hit, with a version of ‘What a Diff’rence a Day Makes’. She followed it up with a version of Irving Gordon’s ‘Unforgettable’ and then two highly successful duets in 1960 with Brook Benton, ‘Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)’, which you’ll hear on this week’s show from a 1960 aircheck and ‘A Rockin’ Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love)’. Her last big hit was ‘September in the Rain’, in 1961.

She won the Grammy for Best Rhythm & Blues Performance, 1959, for ‘What a Diff’rence a Day Makes’.

30 MARCH PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #510
107.3 2SER Tuesday 21 September 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+9 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	One Night Stand Radio
Artistry in Rhythm (theme) + I Know That You Know	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Sep 1945
I’m In Love With Someone	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Glagys Tell	‘One Night Stand’ Panther Room Hotel Sherman Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast Mar 1944
Poinciana	Jan Savitt Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Oct 1945
Set 2	Jimmy Grier
Music in the Moonlight (theme) + Just Friends	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Dick Webster	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
Save The Last Dance For Me	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Donald Novis	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
The More You Hurt Me The More You Make Me Care + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Margaret Lawrence	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
Set 3	1950s Jazz Radio
Open + Without a Word of Warning	Arnett Cobb	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 2 Jul 1952
Open + Small Hotel / All The Things You Are / Rose Room	Larry Green	Starlight Roof Hotel Chase KMOX CBS St Louis 1958
Open + Too Marvelous	Erroll Garner	Basin Street WCBS CBS NYC 6 May 1956
Set 4	Dinah Washington
No Love, No Nothin’	Dinah Washington (voc) Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jun 1944
Mixed Emotions + Blow Top Blues	Dinah Washington	‘The Birdland Show’ WJZ ABC NYC 21 Jun 1952
You’ve Got What It Takes	Dinah Washington and Brook Benton	Aircheck WKBW Buffalo NY 1960
Set 5	Erskine Hawkins Commercial Discs
Rockin’ Rollers’ Jubilee	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 12 Sep 1938
No Soap	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 14 May 1939
A Study in Brown	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 20 Oct 1938
I Hadn’t Anyone Till You	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra (voc) Dolores Brown	Comm Rec New York City 20 Dec 1939
Set 6	1930s Swing Radio
Dixieland Band	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	Palomar Ballroom KFI NBC Red 22 Aug 1935
You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	Paradise Restaurant WABC CBS NY 10 Apr 1938
Kiss Me Again	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra (voc) Gail Reese	Paradise Restaurant WABC CBS NY 10 Apr 1938
You Do The Darndest Things, Baby	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing	Chatterbox Hotel William Penn WCAE NBC Red Pittsburgh 10 Jan 1937
Set 7	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra 1956
Intro + Song of India	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Ridin’ Around in the Rain	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Dolly Houston	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Sunny Side of the Street	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Lynn Roberts	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Just For Taking Bows	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Set 8	Carson Robinson Buckaroos
Careless Love (theme) + Home on the Range	Carson Robinson Buckaroos	‘Ford RandG Used Cars’ Radio Transcription 1939
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie + Down on the Levee	Carson Robinson Buckaroos	‘Ford RandG Used Cars’ Radio Transcription 1939
Goin’ Back to my Good Ol’ Texas Home + Golden Slippers	Carson Robinson Buckaroos	‘Ford RandG Used Cars’ Radio Transcription 1939
Wabash Moon + Boots and Saddles + Close	Carson Robinson Buckaroos	‘Ford RandG Used Cars’ Radio Transcription 1939

Dinah Washington Forged Her Own Path – Phantom Dancer 30 March 2021

Dinah Washington, The Queen of the Blues, the most popular black female recording artist of the 1950s, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature.

As an artist, she was one of the most beloved and controversial singers of the mid-20th century.

• Beloved, because she had a great voice.
• Controversial, because she didn’t seek approval from ‘the gatekeepers’. And as you’ll hear in her Birdland radio broadcast on this week’s Phantom Dancer, she didn’t hold back from telling radio announcers to shut up or stop being corny.

The Phantom Dancer – your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton.

Enjoy a whole library of Phantom Dancer mixes online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/.

This show will be online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 30 March at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

DINAH

Dinah Washington was the stage name of Ruth Lee Jones.

She was a jazz singer but also sang blues, R&B, and pop music.

As a child she sang gospel music in church and played piano, directing her church choir in her teens and sang lead with the first female gospel singers formed by Sallie Martin, co-founder of the Gospel Singers Convention. She joined the gospel choir after she won an amateur contest at Chicago’s Regal Theater, singing, ‘I Can’t Face the Music’.

HAMPTON

At 15, she started singing in clubs. By 1941–42 she was performing at the Sherman Hotel in Chicago with Fats Waller.

She was playing at the Three Deuces, a jazz club, when a friend took her to hear Billie Holiday at the Garrick Stage Bar. Club owner Joe Sherman was so impressed with her singing of “I Understand”, backed by the Cats and the Fiddle, who were appearing in the Garrick’s upstairs room, that he hired her. During her year at the Garrick, she sang upstairs while Holiday performed downstairs room. Sherman gave her her stage name.

Lionel Hampton came to hear Dinah at the Garrick and invited her to join his orchestra

She made her recording debut singing Evil Gal Blues, written by Leonard Feather (who wrote Blow Top Blues you’ll hear Dinah sing in this week’s show, live on 1952 radio) and backed by Hampton and musicians from his band. Both that record and its follow-up, ‘Salty Papa Blues’, made the Billboard “Harlem Hit Parade” in 1944.

In December 1945 she made a series of twelve recordings for Apollo Records, 10 of which were issued, featuring the Lucky Thompson All Stars.

She stayed with Lionel Hampton’s orchestra until 1946.

SOLO

Her first solo recording, Fats Waller’s ‘Ain’t Misbehavin”, was another hit. Between 1948 and 1955, she had 27 R&B top-10 hits, making her one of the most popular and successful singers of the period.

‘Am I Asking Too Much?’ (1948) and ‘Baby Get Lost’ (1949) reached Number 1 on the R&B chart. Her version of Johnny Green’s 1930s hit, ‘I Wanna Be Loved’ (1950) crossed over to reach Number 22 on the US pop chart.

Her hit recordings included blues, standards, novelties, pop covers, and even a version of Hank Williams’ ‘Cold, Cold Heart’ (R&B Number 3, 1951). At the same time as her biggest popular success, she also recorded sessions with many leading jazz musicians, including last week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist, Clifford Brown, Clark Terry, Cannonball Adderley and Ben Webster.

In 1950, Dinah Washington performed at the sixth avalcade of Jazz concert held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles. Also featured on the same day were Lionel Hampton, PeeWee Crayton’s Orchestra, Roy Milton and his Orchestra plus Tiny Davis and Her Hell Divers. 16,000 were reported to be in attendance and the concert ended early because of a fracas while Lionel Hampton played ‘Flying High’.

Washington returned to perform at the twelfth Cavalcade of Jazz also at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles in 1956. Performing that day were Little Richard, The Mel Williams Dots, Julie Stevens, Chuck Higgin’s Orchestra, Bo Rhambo, Willie Hayden & Five Black Birds, The Premiers, Gerald Wilson and His 20-Piece Recording Orchestra and Jerry Gray and his Orchestra.

In 1959, she had her first top ten pop hit, with a version of ‘What a Diff’rence a Day Makes’. She followed it up with a version of Irving Gordon’s ‘Unforgettable’ and then two highly successful duets in 1960 with Brook Benton, ‘Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)’, which you’ll hear on this week’s show from a 1960 aircheck and ‘A Rockin’ Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love)’. Her last big hit was ‘September in the Rain’, in 1961.

She won the Grammy for Best Rhythm & Blues Performance, 1959, for ‘What a Diff’rence a Day Makes’.

30 MARCH PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #483
107.3 2SER Tuesday 30 March 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	One Night Stand Radio
Artistry in Rhythm (theme) + I Know That You Know	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Sep 1945
I’m In Love With Someone	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Glagys Tell	‘One Night Stand’ Panther Room Hotel Sherman Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast Mar 1944
Poinciana	Jan Savitt Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Oct 1945
Set 2	Jimmy Grier
Music in the Moonlight (theme) + Just Friends	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Dick Webster	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
Save The Last Dance For Me	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Donald Novis	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
The More You Hurt Me The More You Make Me Care + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Margaret Lawrence	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel TRANSCO Radio Transcription 1932
Set 3	1950s Jazz Radio
Open + Without a Word of Warning	Arnett Cobb	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 2 Jul 1952
Open + Small Hotel / All The Things You Are / Rose Room	Larry Green	Starlight Roof Hotel Chase KMOX CBS St Louis 1958
Open + Too Marvelous	Erroll Garner	Basin Street WCBS CBS NYC 6 May 1956
Set 4	Dinah Washington
No Love, No Nothin’	Dinah Washington (voc) Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Traianon Ballroom Southgate Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jun 1944
Mixed Emotions + Blow Top Blues	Dinah Washington	‘The Birdland Show’ WJZ ABC NYC 21 Jun 1952
You’ve Got What It Takes	Dinah Washington and Brook Benton	Aircheck WKBW Buffalo NY 1960
Set 5	Erskine Hawkins Commercial Discs
Rockin’ Rollers’ Jubilee	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 12 Sep 1938
No Soap	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 14 May 1939
A Study in Brown	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 20 Oct 1938
I Hadn’t Anyone Till You	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra (voc) Dolores Brown	Comm Rec New York City 20 Dec 1939
Set 6	1930s Swing Radio
Dixieland Band	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	Palomar Ballroom KFI NBC Red 22 Aug 1935
You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	Paradise Restaurant WABC CBS NY 10 Apr 1938
Kiss Me Again	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra (voc) Gail Reese	Paradise Restaurant WABC CBS NY 10 Apr 1938
You Do The Darndest Things, Baby	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing	Chatterbox Hotel William Penn WCAE NBC Red Pittsburgh 10 Jan 1937
Set 7	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra 1956
Intro + Song of India	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Ridin’ Around in the Rain	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Dolly Houston	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Sunny Side of the Street	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Lynn Roberts	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Just For Taking Bows	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY 1956
Set 8	Carson Robinson Buckaroos
Careless Love (theme) + Home on the Range	Carson Robinson Buckaroos	‘Ford RandG Used Cars’ Radio Transcription 1939
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie + Down on the Levee	Carson Robinson Buckaroos	‘Ford RandG Used Cars’ Radio Transcription 1939
Goin’ Back to my Good Ol’ Texas Home + Golden Slippers	Carson Robinson Buckaroos	‘Ford RandG Used Cars’ Radio Transcription 1939
Wabash Moon + Boots and Saddles + Close	Carson Robinson Buckaroos	‘Ford RandG Used Cars’ Radio Transcription 1939