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GEORGE TREVARE
The first curiosity on this week’s Phantom Dancer is a vinyl set of the excellent 1940s Sydney dance band led by George Trevare.
George was a trombonist and arranger with his own sound incorporating swing, strings and harp, all very well recorded.
In 1945, his band included Wally Norman (trumpet), George Trevare (trombone), Rolph Pommer (saxophone), Pat Lynch (piano), Morgan McGree (guitar), Horrie Bissell (bass), Al Vincer (drums, vibraphone) and a young Don Burrows playing clarinet.
Singer Lawrence Brooks on one of the Trevare sides is the father of Pulitzer Prize winning author, Geraldine Brooks.
In the 1950s and 60s he produced two TV music shows, The Magic of Music (1961) and Look Who’s Dropped In, a four part series about jazz (1957).
Here’s the 1945 group playing Waltzing Matilda…
A and P GYPSIES
The second curiosity on today’s Phantom Dancer is part of a weekly broadcast from 1933 of one of the last of the 1920s commercial brand orchestras. In this case, the orchestra is the AandP Gypsies.
AandP, otherwise known as the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, was a U.S chain of grocery stores that ceased supermarket operations in November 2015, after 156 years in business.
U.S radio historian Elizabeth McLeod writes about these commercial brand orchestras,
“The most popular program format of the late 1920s was the sponsored musical feature. It could be a large symphonic group, a dance orchestra, or a song-and-patter team—and it would usually carry the sponsor’s name. The AandP Gypsies, for example—a large, genre-crossing orchestra conducted by Harry Horlick. The Ipana Troubadors—a hot dance band directed by Sam Lanin. The Goodrich Zippers—a banjo-driven orchestra conducted by Harry Reser, when he wasn’t leading the same group under the name of The Clicquot Club Eskimos. Everyone remembers The Happiness Boys, Billy Jones and Ernie Hare—but what about Scrappy Lambert and Billy Hillpot, who performed exactly the same sort of material as Trade and Mark, The Smith Brothers. The list is endless: The Silvertown Cord Orchestra, featuring the Silver Masked Tenor. The Sylvania Foresters. The Flit Soldiers—yet another Harry Reser group. The Champion Sparkers. The Fox Fur Trappers. The Ingram Shavers, who were the Ipana Troubadours on alternate Wednesdays. The Yeast Foamers. The Planters Pickers. And, the magnificently named Freed-Eisemann Orchestradians. All playing pretty much the same sorts of music, all announced by Phillips Carlin or John S. Young or Alwyn Bach or Milton Cross in pretty much the same sort of stiffly formal style.”
Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is a 1929 commercial recording by the AandP Gypsies, ‘Only The Girl’. Happy Listening…
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Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
Community Radio Network Show CRN #377 |
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107.3 2SER Tuesday 26 March 2019 |
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Set 1
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Swing 1940-44 Radio | |
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Theme + Chopping Wood
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Woody Herman Orchestra
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Famous Door
WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jan 1940 |
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It’s a Crying Shame
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Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Frances Wayne
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Cafe Rouge
Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 21 Aug 1944 |
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Flying Home
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Lionel Hampton Orchestra
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’One Night Stand’
Civic Auditorium Oakland Ca 4 Jun 1944 |
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Set 2
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Jazz Organ and Harpsichord | |
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Sunrise Serenade (theme) + This Is The Missus
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Rosa Rio
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’Rosa Rio Time’
WJZ ABC NY 14 Jul 1947 |
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Tea For Two
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Johnny Saab
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’Organ Interlude’
WJSV Washington DC CBS 21 Sep 1939 |
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The Turkish March
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Sylvia Marlowe (harpsichord)
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’Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’
WJZ NBC Blue NY 17 Dec 1941 |
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Set 3
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Latin Strains On 1930s-40s Radio | |
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Theme + Chiu Chiu
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Desi Arnez Orchestra (voc) DA and Band
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Ciro’s
KECA ABC LA 1947 |
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Habenero and Vacero
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A and P Gypsies
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’A and P Show’
WEAF NBC Red NY 1933 |
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Night Must Fall + Nightingale + My Shawl (theme)
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Xavier Cugat Orchestra
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’All-Star Parade of Bands’
Last Frontier NBC Las Vegas 30 Nov 1953 |
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Set 4
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Bop and Hard Bop on 1950s Radio | |
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Strike Up The Band
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Pete Brown Quintet
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’One Night Stand’
Birdland WNBC NBC NY 2 Sep 1952 |
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Happy Birthday + Body and Soul
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Sarah Vaughan
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’Stars in Jazz’
Birdland WNBC NBC NY 26 Mar 1953 |
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Out of Nowhere + Jumping With Symphony Sid
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Charlie Parker
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Hi-Hat Club
WCOP Boston 24 Jan 1954 |
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Set 5
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Women Singers with the Duke Ellington Orchestra on 1930s-50s Radio | |
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In A Mizz
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Ivie Anderson (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra
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Ritz Carlton Hotel
WNAC NBC Boston 26 Jul 1939 |
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Riff Staccato
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Joya Sherrill (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra
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’One Night Stand’
Club Zanzibar AFRS Re-broadcast 28 Oct 1945 |
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Take The ‘A’ Train
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Betty Roche (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra
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‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood Jan 1948 |
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I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But The Blues
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Kay Davis and Al Hibbler (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra
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’Date With The Duke’
Radio City WJZ ABC NY 10 Nov 1945 |
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Set 6
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Commercial Sides: George Trevare and His Australians | |
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Don’t Sweetheart Me
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George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Joan Blake
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Comm Rec
Sydney 1943-45 |
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Under The Trees
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George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Lawrence Brooks
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Comm Rec
Sydney 1943-45 |
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No Love No Nothin’
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George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Al Royal
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Comm Rec
Sydney 1943-45 |
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Let’s Have One For The Road
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George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Unknown
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Comm Rec
Sydney 1943-45 |
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Set 7
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Glenn Miller and his Orchestra 1939 – 41 Radio | |
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Intro + Here We Go Again + White Cliffs of Dover
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Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Ray Eberle
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’Sunset Serenade’
Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 27 Dec 1941 |
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Georgia On My Mind
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Glenn Miller Orchestra
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’Sunset Serenade’
Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 30 Aug 1941 |
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Blueberry Hill
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Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton
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’Sunset Serenade’
Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 6 Nov 1940 |
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My Blue Heaven + Close
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Glenn Miller Orchestra
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NBC Baltimore
5 Sep 1939 |
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Set 8
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Kings Of Jazz Trumpet on 1930s-50s Radio | |
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Night Song
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Bunny Berrigan Orchestra
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Manhattan Centre
WNEW NY 26 Sep 1939 |
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I’m Confessin’ That I Love You
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Louis Armstrong
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‘Jubilee’
AFRS LA Mar 1943 |
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It Don’t Mean A Thing
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Roy Eldridge (voc) Anita Love
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Unissued Comm Rec
Paris 9 Jun 1950 |
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Down South Camp Meeting
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Harry James Orchestra (voc) Anita Love
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Hotel Astor Roof
WCBS CBS NY 25 May 1953 |
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