The 1929-45 Teenager – Phantom Dancer 25 February 2020

This week’s Phantom Dancer 25 February mix feature artist from live 1920s-60s radio is The Teenager.

Specifically, we’ll hear three examples from 1929 – 45 radio of music and spoken word aimed at the teenager. You’ll even hear the massed voices of teenagers in a Frank Sinatra broadcast.

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

The last hour is all vinyl.

HAROLD TEEN

‘Harold Teen’ is a 1929 song celebrating the popular comic book character of the same name first published in 1919, written and drawn by Carl Ed (pronounced “eed”).

Asked in the late 1930s why he had started the strip, Ed answered, “Twenty years ago, there was no comic strip on adolescence. I thought every well-balanced comic sheet should have one.”

Harold Teen 1928 movie poster

The success of the strip led to toys, figurines, pins and other products.

Carl Ed received writing credit for both film adaptations of Harold Teen. Tap dancer Hal Le Roy had the title role in the 1934 movie musical Harold Teen. In the 1928 silent version, Harold was portrayed by Arthur Lake, best known for his many performances as Dagwood Bumstead.

There was also a Harold Teen radio show mid-day on Saturdays on the Tribune radio station WGN in Chicago. It was mostly a DJ show with Harold and his buddy Shad spinning the latest hits.

Kansas City jazz band pianist Joe Sanders wrote a song about the “Don Juan of comic strip fame”, describing him as a “human love machine” and as “romance personified”. A performance by the Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra can be heard in the March 1, 1929, episode of the Maytag Frolics radio program on this week’s Phantom Dancer

BOBBY SOXERS

Bobby soxer is term for a very zealous fan of 1940s traditional pop music, in particular that of singer Frank Sinatra. We’ll hear them screaming after a Frank song in this week’s Phantom Dancer.

Bobby soxers were usually teenage girls in high schools and colleges, who got their name from the bobby socks that they wore.

Teenage actress Shirley Temple played a stereotypical Bobby socker in the film The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947).

Bobby soxers

SEVENTEEN

Turns out, as you’ll hear announced on this week’s Phantom Dancer, that Eddie Condon’s dxieland jazz was ‘OK with teenage USA’.  This reported wisdom came from a newly published magazine, Seventeen, the first magazine aimed at 13-17 year old girls that treated them like adults so they could be sold to.

Helen Valentine (1893-1986) was the founder and editor in chief of Seventeen.

April 1945 Seventeen cover

In 1944, while serving as promotion director for Mademoiselle magazine at Walter Annenberg’s Triangle Publications, she was asked by Annenberg to help revive a movie magazine.

Although the concept of “teenager” as a distinct demographic segment of the population was a relatively new idea at that time, Valentine instead proposed a magazine for teen-age girls. Noticing the wide popularity of a King Features Syndicate comic strip by cartoonist Hilda Terry that focused on the trials and tribulations of a typical teenager’s life entitled Teena which began running in July 1944, Valentine convinced Annenberg that teenage girls needed a magazine of their own and that the then unserved demographic had the potential to become an important and lucrative new consumer market segment stating that “It was time to treat children as adults.”

The magazine was launched in September 1944 and within a year, Seventeen had a circulation of a million. Seventeen is credited with creating a teen market for clothing manufacturers and other industries.

VIDEO

The Phantom Dancer Video of the Week  is a short clip from the documentary, Teenage, featuring Bobby Soxers. Enjoy!

Make sure you come back to this blog, Greg Poppleton’s Radio Lounge, every Tuesday, for the newest Phantom Dancer play list and Video of the Week!

25 FEBRUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #425
107.3 2SER Tuesday 25 February 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm 5GTR Mt Gambier Mon 2:30 – 3:30am 4NAG Keppel FM 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am
Set 1	Sweet Music
Open + On the Sunny Side of the Street	Frances Langford	‘Swingtime’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Open + Old Shanty Town	Owen Bradley and the Anita Kerr Singers (voc) Lion Oil Orchestra	‘Sunday Down South’ Lion Network. 25 Jul 1954
Sheik of Araby + Time To Say Goodbye (theme)	Russ Morgan Orchestra (voc) Russ Morgan	Club Del Mar Santa Monica Ca 22 Aug 1959
Set 2	Modern Music Radio
Open + Move	Miles Davis Nonet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Sep 1948
Open + Lady Be Good	Coleman Hawkins	‘Jazz Art Concert’ Theatre DeLys WNBC NBC NY 4 Oct 1952
Boogie Mysterioso	Mary Lou Williams Quintet	‘Jazz Club USA’ Voice of America 1951
Set 3	Selling Oldsmobiles
Open + Roll Out of Bed with a Smile	Johnny Green Orchestra	‘Oldsmobile Program’ WABC CBS NY 20 Feb 1934
Everything I Have Is Yours + After Sundown	Ruth Etting	‘Oldsmobile Program’ WABC CBS NY 20 Feb 1934
Temptation + I Wanna Be Loved (theme)	Johnny Green Orchestra	‘Oldsmobile Program’ WABC CBS NY 20 Feb 1934
Set 4	Aimed at Teenagers
Open + I Found a New Baby	Eddie Condon	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ Ritz Theatre WJZ Blue NY 3 Mar 1945
Open + Harold Teen	Coon-Sanders Nighthawks (voc) Joe Sanders	‘Maytag Frolics’ Radio Transcription 28 Feb 1929
I Love You	Frank Sinatra	‘Your Hit Parade’ WABC CBS NY 6 May 1944
Set 5	Trad Jazz on Radio
Royal Garden Blues	Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Band	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1950
Eh, La Bas!	Papa Celestin	‘Dixieland Jamboree’ WDSU ABC New Orleans 1950
Jazz Me Blues	Bob Crosby Bobcats	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 25 Mar 1940
Copenhagen	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 30 Dec 1939
Set 6	Swing Radio
Take The A-Train (theme) + Way Low	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Hurricane Restaurant Aircheck NYC 28 Aug 1943
Open + Sugarfoot Stomp	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Springfield Ma. Blue Network 29 Sep 1943
Frantic in the Atlantic	Cab Calloway Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Club Zanzibar AFRS re-broadcast 16 Jul 1946
Your Father’s Moustache	Woody Herman Orchestra	‘Wild Root Creme Oil Show’ ABC 1 Dec 1946
Set 7	1930s French Swing
Got a Date in Louisiana	Philippe Brun Swing Band	Comm Rec Paris 8 Mar 1938
Avalon	Michel Warlop Orchestra	Comm Rec Paris 2 Mar 1935
What’ll I Do	Fletcher Allen Orchestra	Comm Rec Paris 15 Mar 1938
Popcorn Man	Ray Ventura Orchestra (voc) Betty Allen	Comm Rec Paris 1938
Set 8	1940s-50s Moderne
BeBop	Howard McGee Sextet	Aircheck Hollywood 29 Apr 1947
Imagination	Slim Gaillard	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland 2 Jun 1951
Oo-Ba-Ba-Re-Ba	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	400 Restaurant New York City Aircheck 1945
Mulligantawny	Woody Herman Third Hers	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Peony Park WOW NBC Omaha 1954

First Nighters Feature – Latest From 3MGB Radio Mallacoota – Phantom Dancer 7 Jan 2020

First nighters for the first Phantom Dancer of 2020 – your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV hosted by me, Greg Poppleton.

Hear excepts from the 1939 radio premier of Morton Gould’s ‘American Symphonette #2’, the first all African-American Variety show on NBC in 1948, and Duke Ellington introducing his Shakesphere suite over CBS from the 1957 Ravinia Festival

3MGB Radio Mallacoota plays The Phantom Dancer every week. Mallacoota has faced some of the worst of the 2019 – 2020 bushfires where the sky turned red and the Navy is now in the process of evacuating people from the town.

Map showing warning areas near bushfires in Victoria, Australia. The areas with a black line and grey fill are designated for evacuation. The red lines indicate “emergency warning”. The arrow points toward Mallacoota, Victoria. The width of the largest emergency warning area is approximately 204km (110 miles), east to west. Map by Vic Emergency, Dec. 31, 2019

The ABC (the Australian national broadcaster) has just posted news from 3MGB volunteer, Francesca Winterson, 2 Jan…

“Francesca Winterson is a volunteer at Mallacoota’s community radio station 3MGB, and plenty of you were concerned about her safety earlier in the week. We’ve been able to have a long chat with her this morning.

She said misinformation had been spreading on Facebook.

“I think people are starting to get incredibly anxious because they have been isolated for so long but they have to accept that right at the moment there’s absolutely nothing we can do,” she told ABC Gippsland.

“Some people have been able to get back into their homes. I was one person fortunate enough that at the moment my house is standing.”
Ms Winterson said water supplies had been restored but power was still out and the only road out of town was still closed.

Paramedics had been brought in by police helicopter and only people with acute medical emergencies were being airlifted out, she said, as the town waits for a navy ship docked nearby to start evacuating people.

But amid the chaos people were doing what they could to help.

“There’s a lot of smiles, a lot of waves,” she said.

“Yes there are some people who are incredibly anxious but basically the community is pulling together and that’s what we’ve got to do. We all have to pull together, reach out to other people, offer them accommodation, offer them a shower.

“We’re a strong little town and most of the people that come here have been coming here for a long time and they love Mallacoota so they’ll help us.”

Source – ABC Blog

You can hear The Phantom Dancer online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

FIRST NIGHTERS

Every week The Phantom Dancer brings you a feature artist. This week, it’s feature programs. Excerpts from three historic first nighters with some explaination about why they are so important below…

AMERICAN SYMPHONETTE No.3 RADIO PREMIER – WOR MBS New York City / CBC CANADA, 1939

Joseph Stevenson writes,
“This 1939 composition is one of the most convincing classical attempts to create a jazz spirit. It succeeds in doing so without the presence of any jazz players or use of improvisation. Nevertheless, jazz devices of coloration are used, such as wire brushes on drums, glissandi and lip slurs, and chord voicings that are common to jazz arrangements of the time. In addition, the themes (and their scales and harmonies) are jazz- and blues-derived. So successful was Gould in devising “jazz” themes for this symphonette that the second movement, “Pavane” has been widely quoted in actual jazz performances by such masters as John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Glenn Miller. The outer two movements of this three-movement piece are marked “Moderately fast” and “Very fast–Racy,” respectively. Incidentally, you have heard and are quite familiar with the theme of the Pavane, whether you know it or not. Outstanding listening. Gould is notable for creating excellent music, perfectly crafted, seemingly almost commercial in intent and yet, when really listened to, revealing unusual breadth. I always conclude listening to this piece believing that it is a true masterpiece without even trying to be. Wonderfully ingratiating music.”

‘SWINGTIME AT THE SAVOY’ WNBC NBC NY, 28 Jul 1948

New York Times headline: “The News of Radio; All-Negro Variety Show, ‘Swingtime at the Savoy,’ Will Bow Tonight on NBC”

“An all-Negro variety show, entitled “Swingtime at the Savoy,” will have its premiere at 8 o’clock tonight on NBC. The regular cast will include Lucky Millinder and his orchestra, Miller and Lee, comedians; Jackie (Moms) Pabley, comedienne, and the King Odem Quartet.” New York Times, 28 July 1948

RAVINIA FESTIVAL – DUKE ELLINGTON SHAKESPHERE SUITE PREMIER, CBS 1 JUL 1957

The Ravinia Festival is the oldest outdoor music festival in the United States, with a series of outdoor concerts and performances held every summer from June to September. In Ravinia Park’s first summer of 1905, it hosted the New York Philharmonic, and the prairie style Martin Theater dates from this time period. It has been the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) since 1936. Located in Highland Park, Illinois, the festival operates on the grounds of the 15 ha Ravinia Park, with a variety of outdoor and indoor performing arts facilities – Wiki

“In 1957, Duke Ellington premiered the latest in what would become a series of suites based on various subjects and inspirations. This one, inspired by the plays of William Shakespeare, had its U.S. premier at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago and was broadcast (much, but not all of it) via CBS Radio on July 1st, with the performance already underway. An album of the suite was planned and recorded, slated for release in November of 1957, but apparently the stereo version was scrapped and only the mono version was available until 1999. The world premier of the piece was given at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where Ellington and his band were scheduled to play for two nights. It was there that Ellington got the idea to do a suite based on Shakespearean themes, and along with his co-writer Billy Strayhorn, worked on the suite to be premiered the following year at the festival. So the actual world premier of most of Such Sweet Thunder took place at Stratford around June 30 1957, but it wasn’t complete and no recording of it exists.” Gordon Skene.

Now, tirelessly searching YouTube for a swingy, jazzy, instructive, or ‘weird and wonderful’ Video of the Week, I’ve found this for your ocular delectation, a whole set of soundies by the 1940s all-women swing orchestra, International Sweethearts of Rhythm, recently featured on your Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton. Enjoy!

Make sure you come back to this blog, Greg Poppleton’s Radio Lounge, every Tuesday, for the newest Phantom Dancer play list and Video of the Week!

Thank you.

7 JANUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #418
107.3 2SER Tuesday 7 January 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Swing on 1930s Radio
Open + Panamania	Leith Stevens Orchestra	‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jun 1937
Naila (Delibes)	Arnold Johnson Orchestra	Comm Rec (unissued) Variety Records New York City 26 May 1937
RCA Radio Ad + Wolverine Blues + Study In Brown (theme)	Larry Clinton Orchestra	‘RCA Campus Club’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle WEAF NBC Red NY 2 Jul 1938
Set 2	Latin Sounds on 1946-53 Radio
Open + Chiu Chiu	Desi Arnez Orchestra	Ciro’s KNX CBS LA 1946
Bolero	Sergio Torres Orchestra (voc) unannounced woman singer	‘Chiclets Program’ XEW Mexico City 1949
Chi sas? Chi sas?	Xavier Cugat Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Hotel Last Frontier NBC Las Vegas 30 Nov 1953
Set 3	1943-44 Swing Radio
Joshua	Richard Himber Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Aniston, Alabama Blue Network 13 Nov 1943
I’ve Got You Under My Skin	Leo Reisman Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ National Press Club Washington DC Blue Network 23 Jan 1943
I Got Rhythm + Close	Lenny Conn Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 1949
Set 4	Special Music Programs
First Movement	Morton Gould Orchestra	‘American Symphonette No. 3’ WOR MBS/CBC New York City 1939
Open + I’ve Got Rhythm + Money Money (calypso)	Lucky Millinder Orchestra with Noble Sissle and the Hall Sisters	‘Swingtime At The Savoy’ WNBC NBC NY 28 Jul 1948
Circle of Fourths + Jam With Sam	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Ravinia Festival’ WBBM CBS Chicago 1 Jul 1957
Set 5	1939 Radio Singers
We Three	Johnny Messner Orchestra (voc) Johnny Messner	Radio Transcription New York City 1939
Stairway To The Stars	Teddy Wilson Orchestra (voc) Thelma Carpenter	‘America Dances’ CBS NY / BBC London 1939
From The Bottom Of My Heart	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra	‘America Dances’ CBS NY / BBC London 19 Jul 1939
Chew, Chew Your Bubblegum	Chick Webb Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald	Southland Cafe WNAC NBC Boton 4 May 1939
Set 6	Traditional Jazz on 1939 – 1951 Radio
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (theme) + Maple Leaf Rag	Wild Bill Davison	‘This Is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 19 Apr 1947
You’re Driving Me Crazy	Bob Crosby Bobcats	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 18 Jul 1939
Snag It	Henry ‘Red’ Allen Dixielanders	‘Doctor Jazz’ Stuyvesant Casino WMGM NY 1950
There’ll Be Some Changes Made + I Would Do Anything For You	Eddie Condon Group (voc) Red McKenzie	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ Town Hall WJZ Blue NY 16 Sep 1944
Set 7	Benny Goodman On The Air
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise	Benny Goodman Quintet	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Re-broadcast Jan 1948
Clarinade	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca KECA ABC LA 26 Jan 1946
Sweet Georgia Brown	Benny Goodman Quintet	‘Spotlight Bands’ Springfield Mass. Blue Network 29 Sep 1943
Jack Benny-Gary Cooper Skit + One O’Clock Jump	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Jack Benny Show’ WEAF NBC NY 13 Dec 1942
Set 8	Modern Sounds on 1940s-50s Radio
All of Me + VIP’s Boogie	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Bette Roche	Town Casino NBC Cleveland 1952
Hot House	Barry Ulanov’s All Star Modern Jazz Musicians	‘Bands For Bonds’ WOR MBS NY 13 Sep 1947
Painted Rhythm	Stan Kenton Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 27 Nov 1945
Fine and Dandy	Slim Gaillard Quintet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NY 2 Jun 1951

Sammy Kaye Swing and Sway – Phantom Dancer 9 July 2019

SWING AND SWAY

Sammy Kaye, the band leader who went by the memorable tag-line ‘Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye’ is this week’s Greg Poppleton Phantom Dancer feature artist in radio excerpts from 1945 and 1949.

Check out the full Phantom Dancer play list of swing and jazz mixed from live 1920s-60s radio below.

ONLINE

This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online right after the 9 July 2SER live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney

KAYE

Samuel Zarnocay was a Swing Era band leader and composer whose musical style could at times be described as ambient, through in the 1940s-50s was described as ‘sweet’.

GIMMICK

Kaye had a very personable style on stage and was apt to engage in quick conversations with his audience during radio band remotes.

He had an audience participation gimmick called ‘So You Want to Lead a Band?’ where audience members would be called onto stage in an attempt to conduct the orchestra, with the possibility of winning batons.

Kaye was also known for his use of ‘singing of song titles’, which was emulated by Kay Kyser and Blue Barron.

Band members sometimes sang backing vocals on songs as the ‘Kaydettes’.

TV

Sammy Kaye was one of the few Swing Era band leaders who became a fixture on US TV in the 1950s. His TV shows include:

The Sammy Kaye Show CBS (1951–52)
The Sammy Kaye Show NBC (summer 1953)
So You Want to Lead a Band ABC (1954–55)
Sammy Kaye’s Music From Manhattan ABC (1958–59)

SEND UP

In October 1939, Kaye’s sweet band sound was sent-up by Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra with the song ‘The Wrong Idea (Swing and Sweat with Charlie Barnet)’ written by Barnet and Billy May.

FIRE

Sammy Kaye was among hundreds of artists whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week we Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye for the original 1937 record. Swing and Sway!

9 JULY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #394
107.3 2SER Tuesday 9 July 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) 5pm Saturdays National Program: Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Swing Bands on 1946 Radio
Open + Tea For Two	Gene Krupa (voc) Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Palladium Ballroom LA AFRS Re-broadcast 1946
As Long As I Live	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) BC	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom LA AFRS re-broadcast 1946
Brooklyn Boogie	Louis Prima Orchestra (voc)FM	‘Spotlight Bands’ Camp Shanks NY AFRS Re-broadcast 1946
Set 2	Corny Cowboys
Sweet Lucy Brown	Frank Coughlan Orchestra	Sydney Apr 1936
The Girl on the Police Gazette	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Orchestra	Comm Rec Sydney 1936
Darktown Strutters’ Ball	Frank Coughlan Orchestra (voc) FS	Sydney 25 May 1937
Set 3	1930s Radio Dance Bands
Open + I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm	Joe Sanders Nighthawks (voc) JS	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 25 Mar 1937
Open + You’re My Everything	Anson Weeks Orchestra (voc) Pete Fylling	Radio Transcription 1932
I Don’t Want To Get Well + Like The Wind You Are Gone + Close	Kay Kyser Orchestra	Trianon Ballroom WGN Mutual Chicago 6 Feb 1937
Set 4	Sammy Kaye
Open + Kiss Me Sweet	Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) Laurel Lesley and Don Cornell	‘Chrysler Showroom’ Radio Transcription 1949
Open + Just a Prayer Away	Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) Billy Williams and Choir	‘Sunday Serenade’ WJZ Blue NY 15 Apr 1945
My Gal Sal + Close	Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc)	‘Chrysler Showroom’ Radio Transcription 1949
Set 5	February 1945 Radio
Harvard Blues	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Dickie Wells	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NY 24 Feb 1945
Contrasts (theme) + King Porter Stomp	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Feb 1945
Wake Up!	Andy Kirk Orchestra	Aircheck Apollo Theatre Harlem NYC 21 Feb 1945
Save Your Sorrows	Eddie Heywood Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945
Set 6	Lee Wiley 1936-38
Robins and Roses	Lee Wiley	WABC CBS NY 17 Jun 1936
Sugar	Lee Wiley	Jam Session St Regis Hotel New York City BBC London 5 Nov 1938
On The Sentimental Side	Lee Wiley	KNX CBS LA 10 Mar 1938
Once In a While	Lee Wiley	KNX CBS LA 10 Mar 1938
Set 7	Radio Transcriptions
The Cradle Song	Les Elgart Orchestra	Radio Transcriptions 1946
Sepulveda	Jimmie Grier Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1946
Dream, Dream, Dream	Les Elgart Orchestra (voc) Terry Parker and the Tune Tellers	Radio Transcription 1946
Coyote Canyon	Jimmie Grier Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1946
Set 8	1950s-60s Jazz
Flat Foot Floogie	Slim Gaillard	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ NY 20 May 1951
I Want a Little Girl	Charlie Shavers Quartet	London House WBBM CBS Chicago May 1962
Dizzy’s Business	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jun 1956

Doris Day – Phantom Dancer 18 May 2019

DORIS DAY

The Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton this week is big band singer and movie star, Doris Day.

In this week’s non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s – 1960s radio and TV, you’ll hear Doris Day in 1939 on Ohio radio and later in the 1940s as the star singer with international favourite Les Brown and his Band of Renown.

You can s the full Phantom Dancer play list of swing and jazz mixed by Greg Poppleton from live 1920s-60s radio below.

ONLINE

This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online right after the 21 May 2SER live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney

Doris Day

DAY TIME RADIO

Doris Day was born Doris Mary Kappelhoff in 1922.

She began her career as a big band singer with Barney Rapp and his New Englanders in 1939, which is where we’ll first hear her in a broadcast over NBC from Cincinnati.

She reached commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, ‘Sentimental Journey’ and ‘My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time’ with Les Brown and his Band of Renown. We’ll also hear from live airchecks with Les Brown from that period.

She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.

In 2011 at age 89, she released her 29th studio album My Heart which contained new material and became a UK Top 10 album and #12 on the Amazon bestseller list.

Doris Day and dance act partner Jerry, 1937

DAY TIME MOVIES

Day’s film career began with the film Romance on the High Seas (1948), leading to a 20-year career as a motion picture actress.

She starred in film musicals, comedies and dramas.

She played the title role in Calamity Jane (1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with James Stewart. Her best-known films are those in which she co-starred with Rock Hudson including 1959’s Pillow Talk, for which she was nominated an Academy Award for Best Actress.

She worked with James Garner on both Move Over, Darling (1963) and The Thrill of It All (1963), and also starred with Clark Gable, Cary Grant, James Cagney, David Niven, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Richard Widmark, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall and Rod Taylor.

DAY TIME TV

She became one of the biggest film stars in the early 1960s and ended her movie career in 1968. She then moved to TV, starring in the sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968–1973) during and after which she starred in TV specials.

AWARDS DAY

She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 1960, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures in 1989. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom; this was followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s Career Achievement Award.

ACTIVIST DAY

In 1971, Doris Day co-founded Actors and Others for Animals, and appeared in a series of newspaper advertisements denouncing the wearing of fur, alongside Mary Tyler Moore, Angie Dickinson and Jayne Meadows.

In 1978, Day founded the Doris Day Pet Foundation, now the Doris Day Animal Foundation (DDAF). A non-profit charity, DDAF funds other non-profit causes throughout the US that share DDAF’s mission of helping animals and the people who love them.

To complement the Doris Day Animal Foundation, Day formed the Doris Day Animal League (DDAL) in 1987, a national non-profit citizen’s lobbying organisation whose mission is to reduce pain and suffering and protect animals through legislative initiatives.

Day actively lobbied the United States Congress in support of legislation designed to safeguard animal welfare on a number of occasions and in 1995 she originated the annual Spay Day USA. The DDAL merged into The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) in 2006. The HSUS now manages World Spay Day, the annual one-day spay/neuter event that Day originated.

A facility bearing her name, the Doris Day Horse Rescue and Adoption Center, which helps abused and neglected horses, opened in 2011 in Murchison, Texas, on the grounds of an animal sanctuary started by her late friend, author Cleveland Amory. Day contributed $250,000 towards the founding of the center.

Day was a vegetarian.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is a 1964 interview with Doris Day by Lucille Ball. Enjoy!

21 MAY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #387
107.3 2SER Tuesday 21 May 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Big Bands on 1950s Radio
Cirribirribin (theme) + Musicmakers	Harry James Orchestra	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel KFI NBC Los Angeles 7 Jan 1953
Too Close for Comfort	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Joe Williams	‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 16 Jun 1956
South	Chuck Cabot Orchestra	Empire Room Rice Hotel CBS Houston Apr 1953
Set 2	Trad on 1940s – 50s Radio
Open + Everybody Loves My Baby	Wild Bill Davison	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 3 May 1947
Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now	Ralph Sutton	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 24 Jul 1954
‘S Wonderful	Louis Armstrong	‘All Star Parade of Jazz’ WRCA NBC NY 8 May 1955
Set 3	Slim Gaillard
Open + How High The Moon	Slim Gaillard	Birdland WNBC NBC NY 9 Sep 1952
Ba-Ba-Doo	Slim Gaillard	Birdland WNBC NBC NY 9 Sep 1952
How High The Moon + Jumping with Symphony Sid	Slim Gaillard	Birdland WNBC NBC NY 9 Sep 1952
Set 4	Doris Day
Blue Music	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Peacock Room Baker Hotel CBS Dallas 9 Aug 1945
Little Sir Echo	Doris Day (voc) Barney Rapp and his New Englanders	Sign of the Drum NBC Cincinnati OH 17 Jun 1939
I Wish I Knew	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 16 Aug 1945
I’m Happy About the Whole Thing	Doris Day (voc) Barney Rapp and his New Englanders	Sign of the Drum NBC Cincinnati OH 17 Jun 1939
Set 5	Modern Sounds on 1940s-50s Radio
Open + Casual Jazz	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Hampton Casino Hampton Beach NH WBZ NBC Boston 21 Jul 1953
Open + Carambola	Machito	‘Symphony Sid Show’ BIrdland WJZ ABC NY 1951
Don’t Take Your Love From Me	Maynard Fergusson Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Birdland AFRS Re-broadcast 1958
Set 6	1930s-40s Sweet Band Radio Transcriptions
Vieni Su (theme)	Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) CR	Radio Transcription 1941
So You’re The One	Sterling Young Orchestra (voc) Bobbie Ennis	Radio Transcription 1939
Would It Make Any Difference To You?	Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) CR	Radio Transcription 1942
Cherokee	Sterling Young Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1940
Set 7	Buddy Rich Big Band on Radio
Rain on the Riff (theme) + Cool Breeze	Buddy Rich Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Phoenixville PA Mutual Network 24 Dec 1945
Nellie’s Nightmare	Buddy Rich Orchestra	Hollywood Palladium KNX CBS LA Mar 1946
Day by Day	Buddy Rich Orchestra (voc) Dottie Reid	Hollywood Palladium KNX CBS LA 27 Mar 1946
Quiet Riot	Buddy Rich Orchestra	Post Lodge Larchmont NY Aircheck Apr 1947
Set 8	Buddy Rich Quintet
Four + If It Were a Bell	Buddy Rich Quintet	Birdland WABC ABC NY 7 Nov 1958

She Was Almost Sold To A Brothel – The Zhou Xuan Story – Phantom Dancer 23 April 2019

CHINESE

Zhou Xuan singing jazz influenced ‘Mandopop’ is your feature artist on this week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton.

The best of China’s ‘Seven Great Singers’, you’ll hear her in three Pathe recordings she made in Hong Kong in 1994 and 1946, including the song that became Shanghai’s unofficial anthem before 1949, ‘Ye Shanghai’.

See the full Phantom Dancer play list below of swing and jazz mixed by Greg Poppleton from live 1920s-60s radio below.

PHANTOM DANCER

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ZHOU XUAN

whose name is also romanised as Chow Hsien was an international diva popular from Shanghai to Singapore.
She was China’s top singing movie star with a life full of professional triumphs and personal tragedies. She was in over 40 movies and recorded more than 200 songs.

She was the illegitimate and abandoned child of a Buddhist nun and raised by an opium addicted foster father who was about to sell her to a brothel at age 13 when fate led her to join Li Jinhui’s Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe.

GOLDEN VOICE

When she was fourteen, she won second prize in a singing contest in Shanghai and was given the nickname “Golden Voice” (金嗓子) for her effortless high-pitched melodies.

ANGELS OF THE STREETS

The 1920s-1930s were a time of change in Chinese music when traditional opera and folk music melded with jazz and Western rhythms to create the first generation of Mandopop.

Zhou began her film career in 1935. She achieved stardom in 1937 when director Yuan Muzhi cast her as one of the leads as a singing girl in Angels of the Streets. In that 1937 movie she sang in traditional Chinese song a song still popular in China today, The Wandering Songstress.

1940s

Zhou rapidly became the most famous and marketable popular singer in the gramophone era up to her death, singing many famous tunes from her own movies. You’ll hear three of her most famous Mandopop movie songs on today’s Phantom Dancer. These songs incorporate Latin rhythms, Western opera and jazz dance music into traditional Chinese forms. There’s even a snatch of Mrs Hills’ 1936 ‘Happy Birthday to You’.

Between 1946 and 1950, she often went to Hong Kong to make films such as “All-Consuming Love” (長相思), “Hua wai liu ying” (花外流鶯), “Sorrows of the Forbidden City”, and “Rainbow Song” (彩虹曲). After introducing “Shanghai Nights” (夜上海) in 1949, Zhou returned to Shanghai. She spent the next few years in and out of a mental institutions owing to frequent breakdowns. Through the years, Zhou led a complicated and unhappy life marked by her failed marriages, illegitimate children, and suicide attempts. Zhou’s first husband was the composer Yan Hua (严华, 1912-1992), who wrote and sometimes also performed songs with her. She died in a mental institution aged 39 in 1957.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is from 1947 – Zhou Xuan’s waltz, “Goodnight Serenade”. It was used as a station closer by Rediffusion TV Hong Kong in the early 1960s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCqfJKKzNB0

You can also see the video of Zhou Xuan’s most famous song, Ye Shanghai (Shanghai Nights) in a 2017 post on this blog at https://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2017/03/29/18-april-phantom-dancer-1946-%E5%91%A8%E7%92%87-zhou-xuan-%E5%A4%9C%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7-ye-shang-hai-nightlife-in-shanghai/

16 APRIL PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #382
107.3 2SER Tuesday 23 April 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12:04 – 1pm and early morning on 24 other stations.
Set 1	Big Bands on 1946-51 Radio
Open + Star Dust	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WOR Mutual NY 1951
Open + The Best Things in Life are Free	Buzz Adlam Orchestra (voc) Kay Starr	‘Music by Adlam’ KECA ABC LA 27 Dec 1947
El Greco + Let’s Dance (theme)	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Hollywood Palladium AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Mar 1949
Set 2	Thrasher Sisters on the Radio
Shoo Shoo Baby	Thrasher Sisters	‘Fountain of Fun ‘ WLW Cincinati 21 Nov 1943
Massachusetts	Thrasher Sisters	‘Fountain of Fun ‘ WLW Cincinati 1 Nov 1942
Tuesday at Ten	Thrasher Sisters	‘Fountain of Fun ‘ WLW Cincinati 28 Nov 1943
Set 3	1935-36 Radio
Open + By The Sea	Spike Jones and his City Slickers (voc) Trio	‘Corn’s A-Poppin” Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 21 May 1949
The Barber of Seville	Spike Jones and his City Slickers (voc) Sir Frederick Gas	‘Corn’s A-Poppin” New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 1948
Carolina Moon + Close	Spike Jones and his City Slickers (voc) Prof. Beetlebaum	‘Corn’s A-Poppin” Charlotte NC AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Feb 1949
Set 4	Zhou Xuan 1944-46
Ye Shanghai	Zhou Xuan	Comm Rec Hong Kong 1946
The Blossom Youth	Zhou Xuan	Comm Rec Hong Kong 1944
Stop Singing	Zhou Xuan	Comm Rec Hong Kong 1946
Set 5	Artie Shaw
Nightmare (theme) + Out of Nowhere	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WEAF NBC Red NY 19 Oct 1939
I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 25 Nov 1938
My Heart Stood Still	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WEAF NBC Red NY 21 Oct 1939
I Won’t Tell a Soul + Nightmare (theme)	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 2 Dec 1938
Set 6	Fats Waller
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (theme) + Hold My Hand	Fats Waller	WEAF NBC Red NY 16 Jul 1938
My Best Wishes	Fats Waller	WEAF NBC Red NY 5 Jul 1938
What’s The Matter With You?	Fats Waller	WEAF NBC Red NY 16 Jul 1938
Sheik of Araby + Ain’t Misbehavin’ (theme)	Fats Waller	WEAF NBC Red NY 5 Jul 1938
Set 7	1930s Australian Dance Bands
Forty-Second Street	Jim Davidson and his Palais Royal Orchestra (voc) Cantrell Brothers	Comm Rec Sydney 6 Jun 1933
Harlem Heat	Dudley Cantrell and his Grace Grenadiers	Comm Rec Sydney 22 Nov 1937
Says My Heart	Jim Davidson and his ABC Orchestra	Comm Rec Sydney 17 Aug 1938
Cosmopolitan Blues	Maurice Gilmore Orchestra (voc) Jack Davey	Comm Rec Sydney 8 Jan 1935
Set 8	Slim Gaillard
Tutti Frutti + Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen	Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart (Slim and Slam)	‘Rudy Vallee Show’ WEAF NBC NY 14 Jul 1938
Slim’s Jam	Slim Gaillard Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 14 Dec 1945
Sabroso	Slim gaillard Quintet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 7 Jul 1951