Presented by Australia’s only authentic 1920s-1930s singer, this week’s Phantom Dancer also has a set of shuffle from 1940s radio, Les Paul and Mary Ford from their 1950 radio series, and Charlie Parker from live January – February 1949 ‘Symphony Sid Show’ broadcasts
UKELELE
Synonymous with Hawaii and the 1920s Jazz Age, the ukulele harks back to the 1880s as a Hawaiian adaptation of the Portuguese machete. The name roughly translates as ‘jumping flea’.
Its popularity in Hawaiian music and culture came mainly through the royal patronage of King Kalākaua. He added it to the music played at Hawaiian royal gatherings.
A lute-like instrument, the uke commonly has four nylon strings. It can also have six or eight strings with strings paired.
Ukes come in four sizes: soprano, concert, tenor, and baritone. Sopranino and contrabass ukes are also played.
WORLDWIDE
The 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco is credited with having introduced the ukulele to the wider world (even though the ukulele was mentioned in print in New York in 1907 and related Hawaiian guitar duos were already recording for HMV London in 1914).
The Hawaiian Pavilion at the 1915 Exposition had a guitar and ukulele ensemble plus George E. K. Awai and his Royal Hawaiian Quartet and ukulele maker and player Jonah Kumalae.
The popularity of the ensembles with visitors launched a fad for Hawaiian-themed songs among Tin Pan Alley songwriters. These made the uke as big a hallmark of 1920s America as The Charleston and the Raccoon coat.
In fact, Tin Pan Alley sheet music up to the swing era often had ukulele tablature printed on top of the vocal and piano lead sheet for the home ukeist.
Japan is the second home for the uke. It was introduced to Japan in 1929 by Hawaiian-born Yukihiko Haida. The country still has big ukulele clubs.
In the UK, the ukulele is synonymous with 1930s comedian, George Formby, even though, Formby often played the banjolele.
The banjolele is a hybrid instrument consisting of an extended ukulele neck with a banjo resonator body. Bertie Wooster tried to learn banjolele much to the chagrin of his personal gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, in the P. G. Wodehouse novels.
RESURGENCE
Today, the ukulele has had a resurgence in popularity. The Jazz Age revival, the ukulele’s ease of play, its portability and its low cost has made it as popular today with amateur players as it was in the 1920s. There are even electric ukuleles.
In the Greg Poppleton 1920s-30s band, the ukulele is played by Chuck Morgan (playing the uke of a famous 1920s Hollywood star) and Grahame Conlon on Roaring ’20s songs like Tip Toe Through the Tulips and Singing in the Rain. Greg Poppleton band website
Your Phantom Dancer ukulele Video of the Week. It’s a June 1926 Vitaphone short featuring ‘The Wizard of the Strings’, Roy Smeck. He plays Hawaiian guitar, ukulele, then banjo in this pre-‘The Jazz Singer’ sound-on-disc short film. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y3f9CWCTes
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107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #307
107.3 2SER Tuesday 13 March 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT)
National Program:
ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm
and early morning on 22 other stations.
Set 1
The Lesser Known 1940s Dance Bands
Poor Bubber
Rex Stewart Orchestra
Comm Rec
Hollywood
3 Jul 1941
Open + Smoke Rings (theme) A Sure Thing
Glen Grey and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Eugenie Baird
‘One Night Stand’
Tune Town Ballroom
St Louis
AFRS Re-broadcast
5 Apr 1944
I Got Rhythm + Close
Lenny Conn Orchestra
‘One Night Stand’
AFRS Re-broadcast
1944
Set 2
Count Basie 1956 Radio
One O’Clock Jump (Theme) + Sixteen Men Swinging
Count Basie Orchestra
‘All-Star Parade of Bands’
Birdland
WRCA NBC NY
2 Jul 1956
Shiny Stockings
Count Basie Orchestra
‘All-Star Parade of Bands’
Birdland
WRCA NBC NY
9 Jan 1956
One O’Clock Jump
Count Basie Orchestra
‘All-Star Parade of Bands’
Zardi’s
KFI NBC LA
14 May 1956
Set 3
Hint of Ukulele
Ukulele Lady
Harry Reser Orchestra
Comm Rec
New York City
1 Jun 1925
Lonely Lane + Land of My Sunset Dreams + Melancholy Moon + It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More + Aloha Oe
Wendall Hall
’The Pineapple Picadour’
WMAQ NBC Chicago
2 Apr 1931
Set 4
Les Paul and Mary Ford
Open + Brazil
Les Paul and Mary Ford
‘Les Paul and Mary Ford Show’
NBC
12 May 1950
Dry My Tears
Les Paul and Mary Ford
‘Les Paul and Mary Ford Show’
NBC
30 Jun 1950
The Rustic Dance + Looking For The Bully of the Town + If A Nightingale Could Sing Like You (theme)
Les Paul and Mary Ford
‘Les Paul and Mary Ford Show’
NBC
30 Jun 1950
Set 5
1940s Swing Bands on the Wireless
Cape Horn
Bobby Sherwood Orchestra
Aircheck
1944
Lover
Joe Marsala Orchestra
Aircheck
Log Cabin Farm
Armouk NY
30 Oct 1942
Mister Pastor Goes To Town
Tony Pastor Orchestra
Aircheck
New York City
Feb 1942
In a Russian Foxhole
Bob Strong Orchestra
Glen Island Casino
New Rochelle
WOR Mutual NYC
5 Aug 1944
Set 6
1940s Trad Style Big Bands
Back To Croajingalong
George Trevare Orchestra
Comm Rec
Sydney
1945
Intro + I Ain’t Gonna Give No One None Of My Jelly Roll + Secrets in the Moonlight + Shake Down the Stars + Out of this World + Yours is My Heart Alone + I Love You Much Too Much
Bud Freeman Summa Cum Laude Orchestra
Panther Room
Hotel Sherman
WMAQ NBC Red Chicago
20 May 1940
Complainin’
Bob Crosby Orchestra Orchestra
Terrace Room
Hotel New Yorker
WOR Mutual NYC
25 Mar 1940
It Had To Be You (request)
Artie Shaw Orchestra
Blue Room
Hotel Lincoln
WABC CBS NY
25 Nov 1938
Set 7
Shuffle Rhythm
Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar
Ted Weems Orchestra (voc) Red Ingle
‘Beat The Band’
WMAQ NBC Red Chicago
1940
Good Morning
Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters
Radio Transcription
New York City
1939
Quaker City Jazz
Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters
Arcadia Restaurant
KYW NBC Red Philadelphia
2 Dec 1938
Sidewalks of Cuba + When Day is Done (theme)
Henry Busse Orchestra
Radio Transcription
Hollywood
1935
Set 8
Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost jan-Feb 1949
Scrapple From The Apple
Charlie Parker
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost
WMCA NYC
15 Jan 1949
Barbados
Charlie Parker
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost
WMCA NYC
12 Feb 1949
Oo Bop Sh’bam
Charlie Parker (voc) CP and Band
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost
WMCA NYC
22 Jan 1949
Salt Peanuts
Charlie Parker (voc) CP
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost
WMCA NYC
19 Feb 1949
On this week’s Phantom Dancer, the first all-vinyl set (top of the second hour) is dedicated to band leader, Horace Heidt and his Trianon Ballroom.
Horace Heidt and the Musical Knights produced some of the best-known tunes of the Big Band Era including the 1941 international hit, The Hut-Sut Song.
The Phantom Dancer, presented every week by authentic 1920s-30s singer and band leader, Greg Poppleton, is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV. It’s broadcast from 107.3 2SER Sydney to 22 radio stations across Australia and online.
Listen to the past four Phantom Dancers at radio 2ser.com
POT OF GOLD
Horace Heidt was a showman. He hit the big time after fifteen years of running a band by producing and presenting a radio show the US broadcasting regulator, the Federal Communications Commission, called ‘a thinly disguised lottery’ and then forced off air.
“Pot of Gold” featured Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights with singing quartet, The King Sisters, playing popular songs while operators during the broadcast placed three calls to random phone numbers across the U.S.
When someone answered, announcer Ben Grauer shouted “Hold it, Horace, stop the music.” The phone answerer would automatically win $1000 – a huge amount in the late 1930s – whether they had been listening to the show or not.
The show was so popular that cinema operators complained of low movie attendances while Pot of Gold was on air. Some offered $1,000 to anyone who was called while attending their films. How you proved you got the call would have been time consuming and difficult.
NATION OF ISLAM
Heidt’s fame as a band leader came through his promotions. Before “Pot of Gold” he produced “Answers by the Dancers,” in which dancers at the Hotel Drake in Chicago were interviewed between rumbas and fox trots.
On his “Treasure Chest” show, married couples celebrating anniversaries would compete for prizes.
In the late 1940 and early 50s, as the big band era wound down and other bands couldn’t book gigs, Heidt’s band continued touring the U.S with his “Youth Opportunity” radio show.
Talented violinist and later Nation of Islam bigwig Louis Farrakhan (formerly Eugene Walcott) was a successful contestant.
BELL-RINGING DOG
Famed Jazz musicians Alvino Rey, Bobby Hackett and Jess Stacy played in the Heidt band at various times.
The band even accompanied a trained dog. “We would play ‘The Bells of St. Mary’s’ and the dog would ring the bells,” Heidt recalled at a 1982 party celebrating seven decades in show business.
Heidt’s smart showbiz sense meant his big band were still playing ballrooms while other bands were shutting down as the Swing Era came to a close after WW2.
HIGH STAKES
Heidt bought the popular Trianon Ballroom in South Gate Ca in the early 40s as a base for his band. On today’s Phantom Dancer you’ll hear air checks by Benny Carter and Lionel Hampton broadcasting from this now long demolished ballroom.
He started a trend for big band leaders to own their own ballrooms after Billboard reported, 10 Jan 1942, that not only had Heidt recouped his $100,000 investment, but he made $40,000 profit through the ballroom in only its first year.
Billboard 3 Feb 1945 reported that Heidt had ‘expanded his outside business holdings’ by buying an exclusive Beverley Hills steak house and renaming it “Horace Heidt’s”, though he didn’t book any live music in the room.
He later went into housing development.
STAMMERER
Billboard 3 Feb 1945 also reported that Heidt had set up a school in Los Angeles for stammerers. Horace used to stammer himself and he announced that he had developed a foolproof way to stop stammering. He put Leo Neibaur, trombonist and vocal instructor with Heidt’s band, in charge of the school.
REMOTES
By 1946, having bands broadcasting from Horace Heidt’s Trianon, and other ‘danceries’ was getting ‘exsy’, as Billboard, 24 Aug 1946, reported. Another reason Heidt moved from big bands to real estate.
OVER THE RAINBOW
Now enjoy Horace Heidt’s 1939 version of “Over The Rainbow”. You’ve heard this commercial version on an earlier Phantom Dancer mix, spun by Arthur Godfrey as WJSV Washington DC breakfast announcer on 21 September 1939.
It’s your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week –
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107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #291
107.3 2SER Tuesday 5 December 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT)
National Program:
ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm
and early morning on 22 other stations.
Set 1
Bop Influenced Swing on live 1940s Radio
Open + Nola (theme) + Two Hearts
Vincent Lopez Orchestra
’One Night Stand’
Grill Room
Hotel Taft NYC
AFRTS Re-broadcast
1959
Ruby
Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Johnny Amoroso
’All-Star Parade of Bands’
Magnolia Room
Hotel Claridge
WMC NBC Memphis
1956
Boo Hoo
Woody Herman’s Third Herd
Starlite Roof
Edgewater Hotel
CBS Madison WI
12 Jul 1950
Set 2
Vocal Groups on the Air
Three Minutes of Music
Allanovy Sestry
Comm Rec
Prague
1945
I’m Lucky I Have You
The Inkspots
’Guest Star’
Radio Transcription
New York City
1952
Say Si, Si
Andrew Sisters (voc) Glenn Miller Orchestra
’Chesterfield Show’
WABC CBS NY
3 Jan 1940
Set 3
Glenn Miller Radio 1938-39
Moonlight Serenade (theme) + I Never Knew
Glenn Miller Orchestra
Paradise Restaurant
WEAF NBC Red NY
30 Dec 1938
Moon Love
Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Ray Eberle
Glen Island Casino
New Rochelle NY
WEAF NBC Red
20 Jun 1939
We Can Live On Love
Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton
Glen Island Casino
New Rochelle NY
WEAF NBC Red
20 Jun 1939
Set 4
Chamber Music Society on NBC 1940-41
Intro + Beale Street Blues
Henry Levine Dixieland Octet
’Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’
WJZ NBC Blue New York City
16 Jun 1940
Monday Night Special
Eddie Condon
’Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’
WJZ NBC Blue New York City
5 Jan 1941
Honeysuckle Rose + Farewell Blues + Basin Street Blues(theme)
Benny Carter (as) + Paul Lavalle’s Woodwinds
’Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’
WJZ NBC Blue New York City
5 May 1940
Set 5
Horace Heidt and the Trianon Ballroom
History of Music
Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights
Radio Transcription
Los Angeles
19430
Melancholy Lullaby (theme) + Old Man River
Benny Carter Orchestra
Trianon Ballroom
South Gate Ca
KNX CBS LA
1944
Moonglow + Swanee River
Lionel Hampton Orchestra
’One Night Stand’
Trianon Ballroom
South Gate Ca
AFRS Re-broadcast
16 Jun 1944
Now is the Hour
Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights
Radio Transcription
Los Angeles
1945
Set 6
Drummer Gene Krupa on Radio
Intro + Murdy Purdy
Gene Krupa Orchestra
Aircheck
26 Nov 1938
Wire Brush Stomp
Gene Krupa Trio
’Spotlight Bands’
Newport RI
Blue Network
2 Oct 1944
Indiana
Gene Krupa Quartet
London House
WBBM CBS Chicago
13 Mar 1959
Caravan
Gene Krupa Quartet
’Guard Sessions’
Radio Transcription
Los Angeles
1963
Set 7
Guy Lombardo 1935-36
Open + Isn’t Love The Grandest Thing?
Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians (voc) Trio
’Esso Boulevard’
WABC CBS NY
7 Oct 1935
When My Dreamboat Comes Home
Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians (voc) Lebert Lombardo
Comm Rec
New York City
17 Sep 1936
Isn’t This a Lovely Day?
Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians (voc) Carmen Lombardo
’Esso Boulevard’
WABC CBS NY
26 Aug 1935
Sweethearts on Parade
Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians (voc) Carmen Lombardo
Thank you to everyone who supported 2SER and The Phantom Dancer during this October’s Subscriber Drive.
I’m looking forward to presenting another year of Phantom Dancer shows for you. The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV broadcasts.
In December, The Phantom Dancer will have been on air in various forms for 32 years.
Hear The Phantom Dancer live on 107.3 2SER Sydney every Tuesday after the midday news and online at radio 2ser.com
See today’s play list below. It includes a 1956 ‘Rock’n’Roll Party’ WCBS NYC aircheck from 1956 of the swinging Count Basie Orchestra, Joe Williams and Big Al Sears. There’s also a RARE Don Redman aircheck from the same radio station when it was known as WABC and from 1933.
PROGRAM NOTES – DON REDMAN 1920s SWING PIONEER
My favourite 1930s singer and composer of witty songs, Don Redman talked-sung his way through many of his own compositions exceptional charisma.
Songs written by Don Redman include the jazz standard, Cherry, I Heard, Try Getting a Good Night’s Sleep,
Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You and today’s Phantom Dancer rarity, Watching the Knife and Fork Spoon.
It’s a rarity because extant Don Redman radio broadcasts are rare. In fact, I heard they were long lost. But the 1933 Don Redman radio broadcast on today’s Phantom Dancer sound like it comes from a home recording with all the crackle, surface noice and static. But though all the noise, the classic Redman charm shines through.
Don Redman had musical parents. He started learning trumpet at 3, joined his first band at 6, and could play all wind instruments by 12. He polished his musical knowledge at a conservatory, then began work as a professional jazz musician in New York City in the early 1920s.
In 1923 he joined the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra playing reeds and arrangements. His arrangements contributed hugely to the development of what become Swing. In 1927 he was invited to join McKinney’s Cotton Pickers as their musical director and leader and made it a huge success.
Don Redman then formed his own band in 1931, signed to Brunswick Records and also did a series of those now rare radio broadcasts, part of one of which we’ll hear today.
You can hear Don Redman online in the Betty Boop cartoon ‘I Heard’ for which he wrote the music and this Vitaphone musical short which has been a Phantom Dancer Video of the Week.
In 1940 he turned to freelance arranging, writing hits for Jimmy Dorsey, Count Basie and Harry James.
Don Redman is was the great-uncle of saxophonist Joshua Redman.
Now as your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, here is the much faster tempo commercial recording made by Don Redman in 1933 of his song, Watching the Knife and Fork Spoon. You can hear the live 1933 radio version on today’s Phantom Dancer. Enjoy!
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107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #284
107.3 2SER Tuesday 24 October 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT)
National Program:
ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm
and early morning on 22 other stations.
Set 1
Dance Bands on 1941-45 Radio
Come Out Where Ever You Are
Harry James Music Makers (voc) Buddy DiVito
Casino Gardens
Ocean Park Ca
KFI NBC LA
1944
Paxtonia
George Paxton Orchestra
’One Night Stand’
Cafe Rouge
Hotel Pennsylvania
New York City
AFRS re-broadcast
19 Jul 1945
War Dance For Wooden Indians + Pretty Little Petticoat (theme)
Raymond Scott Orchestra
Bermuda Room
Hotel Brunswick
WBZ NBC Boston
6 Dec 1941
If the 19 September Phantom Dancer radio show is anything to go by, the 26 September non-stop mix of swing and dance from live 1920s – 1960s radio and TV is going to be the best show ever.
This week you’ll hear Fats Waller, Benny Goodman and news on the European Crisis over WABC NY in 1938 which we didn’t get to hear on last week’s show. We ran out of time with so much good music.
There’s also a set of women bop singers including Sarah Vaughan and Jackie Kane, and tune in for Part 4 in the Harry James aircheck series 1948-51.
Your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV is presented by myself, Greg Poppleton, over radio station 107.3 2SER Sydney. I’ve been bringing you The Phantom Dancer since 1985.
Fats Waller was a composer, pianist and entertainer. He wrote such jazz standards as Keeping Out of Mischief Now, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Honeysuckle Rose. You’ll hear him play his popular tune, The Joint is Jumpin’, on today’s Phantom Dancer on a live WABC NYC broadcast from 1938.
What’s little known about Fats Waller is the classic background that informed his unique jazz stride piano style.
Waller’s grandfather was an accomplished violinist. His mother, Adeline, was a church organist. She taught him to play organ, gave him his first lessons in classical music, and hired a tutor for him. His church musical director introduced him to the works of J.S. Bach.
1920s stride piano stars James P. Johnson and Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith later mentored Fats, teaching him stride piano style and introducing him to the works of impressionistic composers of the nineteenth century.
Enjoy!
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107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #280
107.3 2SER Tuesday 26 September 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT)
National Program:
ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm
and early morning on 22 other stations.
Set 1
Tunes on 1936 Radio
On The Beach At Bali Bali
Teddy Stauffer and his Original Teddies
Comm Rec
Berlin
19 Sep 1936
The Way You Look Tonight
Freddy Rich Orchestra (voc) Freddy Rich
’Your Hit Parade’
WEAF NBC Red NYC
21 Oct 1936
Fix It Easy + Ro-Ro-Rolling Along (theme)
Bob Crosby’s Bobcats (theme voc: The Freshmen)
’Ford V8 Revue’
Radio Transcription
NBC NYC
1936
Set 2
1947 Swing Radio
Spring Isn’t Everything
Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Stuart Foster
Casino Gardens
Ocean Park Ca
KECA ABC LA
1947
Naughty Angeline
Nat King Cole Trio (voc) Nat King Cole
’King Cole Trio Time’
KFI NBC Hollywood
5 Jul 1947
Come To The Mardi Gras + Close
Ray Eberle Orchestra
’All-Star Parade of Bands’
Birdland
WNBC NBC NY
9 Sep 1952
Set 3
1950s Big Bands
One O’Clock Jump (theme) + Little Pony
Count Basie Orchestra
’Stars in Jazz’
WNBC NBC NY
31 Jul 1952
I’ll Take Romance
Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) June Christy
’The Charlie Barnet Show’
Radio Transcription
Hollywood
20 Jan 1957
Limelight + Close
Stan Kenton Orchestra
’Concert in Miniature’
WBOW NBC Terre Haute IN
16 Jun 1953
Set 4
Swing Bands on 1945 Radio
Theme + No Can Do
Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) Judy Tremain
’One Night Stand’
Terrace Room
Hotel New Yorker NYC
AFRS Re-broadcast
8 Sep 1945
Caldonia (theme) + You Was Right, Baby
Louis Jordan Tympani 5 (voc) LJ
Zanzibar Cafe
WOR Mutual NYC
15 Oct 1945
Taco Tico + Close
Clyde Lucas Orchestra
’Spotlight Bands’
Blue Network
12 Jan 1945
Set 5
Women Bop Singers
What More Can A Woman Do?
Dizzy Gillespie Septet (voc) Sarah Vaughan
Comm Rec
New York City
25 May 1945
I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles
Jackie Kain and Roy Kral (voc) Charlie Ventura Group
’Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost
WMCA NY
1948
The Man I Love
Benny Goodman Sextet (voc) Patti Page
’One Night Stand’
The Click
Philadelphia
3 Jun 1948
I’m Glad There’s You
Jackie Kain (voc) Charlie Ventura Group
’Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost
WMCA NY
1948
Set 6
Harry James on 1948-51 Radio
Open + How High The Moon
Harry James Orchestra
Aircheck
1948
Ciribiribin (theme) + Don’t Be That Way
Harry James Jazz Octet
Blue Room
Roosevelt Hotel
WWJ CBS New Orleans
1950
Open + New York Blues
Harry James Orchestra
Aircheck
1949
Two O’Clock Jump
Harry James Jazz Octet
Blue Room
Roosevelt Hotel
WWJ CBS New Orleans
1950
Set 7
1930s Radio Dance Bands
You Stayed Away To Long
Claude Hopkins Orchestra
Radio Transcription
New York City
1935
Moonshine Over Kentucky + Heigh Ho
Bunny Berrigan Orchestra
Paradise Restaurant
WOR MBS NY
3 May 1938
St Louis Blues
Paul Whiteman Orchestra (tb) Jack Teagarden
’Paul Whiteman’s Varieties’
WJZ NBC Blue
New York City
16 Feb 1936
My Melancholy Baby + The White Star of Sigma Nu
Joe Haymes Orchestra
Grill Room
Hotel McAlfin
WABC CBS NYC
29 Jan 1935
Set 8
1938 Radio, WABC New York
The Joint is Jumping / Summertime / Stomping At The Savoy
Here’s your Phantom Dancer radio show play list and Video of the Week for Tuesday 9 May.
Two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV presented by Greg Poppleton on radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney since 1985.
In this week’s mix hear a set of Women Singers and Headliners on 1930s-40s Radio and dance bands from love 1937 radio.
The last hour is all vinyl.
Live-streamed and archived online at 2ser.com, your Phantom Dancer is heard on over 22 radio stations.
Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens. Forget the clown who titled this clip with ‘Hilarious’, watch the double bass player, he is brilliant.
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.
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107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #262
107.3 2SER Tuesday 9 May 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT)
National Program:
2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12
ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm
and early morning on 22 other stations.
Set 1
Swing Bands on mid-1940s Radio
Poinciana (Open) + Rise and Shine/I Want To Be Happy
Garwood Van Orchestra
Starlight Room
Hotel Chase
St Louis
Mutual Network
9 Aug 1944
Walking Stick
Claude Thornhill Orchestra
Cafe Rouge
Hotel Pennsylvania
WJZ ABC NYC
22 Sep 1947
I Hear You Screaming + Moonlight Serenade (close)
Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra
Palladium Ballroom
KNX CBS Los Angeles
2 Oct 1946
Set 2
Swing Bands on 1959-1961 Radio
It Took Ten Days Blues
Jerry Gary and his Band of Today
Palladium Ballroom
KFI NBC Los Angeles
30 Oct 1959
Redskin Rhumba (Open) + Skyliner
Charlie Barnet Orchestra
Palladium Ballroom
KFI NBC Los Angeles
12 Sep 1959
Two O’Clock Jump
Harry James Orchestra
El Patio Ballroom
KCBS CBS San Francisco
20 May 1961
Set 3
Early Radio Music
All Muggled Up
Blue Steele Orchestra
Comm Rec
Memphis
15 May 1930
Ooh That Kiss
The Nehi Quartet
’Nehi Program’
Radio Transcription
New York City
1931
Land of Sunset Dreams + Melancholy Moon + It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More (theme)
The Phantom Dancer, which I’ve been presenting on 107.3 2SER Sydney since 1985, is your non-stop 2 hour swing and jazz mix from live 1920s-60s radio and TV.
Today’s Phantom Dancer includes:
– a set of Duke Ellington trombonist’s Juan Tizol compositions,
– a set of Cuban rhythms by Xavier Cugat and Desi Arnez,
– 2 sets of rare mid-1930s swing and more from live 1920s-60s radio and TV broadcasts.
Live-streamed and archived online at 2ser.com, your Phantom Dancer is heard on over 22 radio stations.
Your Phantom Dancer video of the Week: Les Brown and his Band of Renown with the Dance of Renown
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.
Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #256
107.3 2SER Tuesday 21 March 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT)
National Program:
2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12
ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm
and early morning on 22 other stations.
Set 1
Dance Bands From Late 1930s Radio
Twilight In Turkey
Tommy Dorsey’s Clambake Seven
Comm Rec
New York City
15 Apr 1937
The Lamp Is Low + Ads
The King’s Men
‘Sunrise’
WJSV CBS Washington DC
21 Sep 1939
Like The Wind You Are Gone + Thinking of You (theme)
Kay Kyser Orchestra
Trianon Ballroom
WGN MBS Chicago
21 Sep 1939
Set 2
Jazz Piano Stars On 1950s-60s Radio
Too Young (piano) + After All It’s Spring
Frankie Carle Orchestra (piano) Frankie Carle (voc) Joan House
‘One Night Stand’
Cocoanut Grove
Ambassador Hotel LA
AFRS Re-broadcast
1951
Instrumental
Thelonius Monk (piano) Quintet
Connie Mack Park
WCAU CBS Philadelphia
3 Mar 1960
Walkin’ + Close
Andre Previn (piano) Trio
‘One Night Stand’
London House
WBBM CBS Chicago
AFRTS Re-broadcast
1959
Set 3
The Original Phantom Dancer Radio Show
A Boy and a Girl Were Dancing + The Song of Surrender (from Moulin Rouge) + One Morning In May + The Carioca + I’ll String Along With You + Will You Be Hating Me Tomorrow For Loving You Tonight + A Boy and a Girl Were Dancing
Uncredited Singers and Orchestra
‘The Phantom Dancer Program’
Radio Transcription
New York City
1934
Set 4
Women Bandleaders On 1943-45 Radio
Down By The Riverside
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood
2 Aug 1943
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
Rose Murphy
‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood
18 Jan 1945
Sweet Georgia Brown
International Sweethearts of Rhythm
‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood
5 Jun 1944
Prelude In C# Minor + Close
Dorothy Donnegan
‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood
5 Jun 1944
Set 5
Swing Bands on 1944-45 Radio
Dancing Room Only
Tony Pastor Orchestra
Aircheck
New York City
May 1945
My What A Fry + Jumpin’ At The Woodside
Count Basie Orchestra
Blue Room
Hotel Lincoln
WABC CBS NY
5 May 1944
Blue Bells of Harlem + I’m Beginning To See The Light
Duke Ellington Orchestra
‘A Date With The Duke’
Radio City
WJZ ABC NY
7 Jul 1945
Set 6
Dance Bands On 1936 Radio
Organ Grinders Swing
Red Nichols Orchestra
Radio Transcription
New York City
30 Nov 1936
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter + Christopher Columbus
Fats Waller and his Rhythm
‘Magic Key’
WEAF NBC Red NY
24 May 1936
Three Little Words
Lee Wiley
WABC CBS NY
12 Aug 1936
Walking The Dog
Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra
‘Camel Caravan’
WABC CBS New York City
9 Jan 1936
Set 7
Les Brown and his Orchestra 1938 – 45 Radio
Dance of the Blue Devils (theme) + Spain
Les Brown and his Blue Devils
Green Room
Hotel Edison
New York City
22 Nov 1938
Rhapsody in Blue
Les Brown and his Band of Renown
‘One Night Stand’
Cafe Rouge
Hotel Pennsylvania
AFRS Re-broadcast
28 Dec 1945
A Red Kiss On A Blue Letter
Les Brown and his Band of Renown
Peacock Room
Baker Hotel
CBS Dallas
9 Aug 1945
Bizet Has His Day + Leap Frog (theme)
Les Brown and his Band of Renown
Cafe Rouge
Hotel Pennsylvania
WABC CBS NY
28 Dec 1945
Set 8
Bop and Hop On 1940s-50s Radio
A Night In Tunisia
Charlie Parker
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost
WMCA NY
12 Mar 1949
The Phantom Dancer radio show is your two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985.
Live-streamed and archived online at 2ser.com. The Phantom Dancer is heard on over 22 radio stations.
You can hear it archived online now at radio 2ser.com
In the Phantom Dancer mix this week: (in the last hour of vinyl) airchecks by the Benny Goodman Orchestra and alumni Gene Krupa, Helen Ward and Harry James plus a set of women bands on radio including Ella Fitzgerald and Ann Mae Winburn.
See the full play list below.
Your Phantom Dancer video of the Week is another educational ‘Why Is It So?’ from ABC TV Sydney in the 1960s. In this episode, Professor Julius Sumner Miller investigates the fascinating physics behind balance.
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.
Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #252
107.3 2SER Tuesday 21 February 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT)
National Program:
2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12
ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm
and early morning on 22 other stations.
Set 1
Woody Herman on 1944 – 46 Radio
Blue Flame (theme) + Irresistible You
Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Frances Wayne
Cafe Rouge
Hotel Pennsylvania
WABC CBS New York City
21 Aug 1944
Bijou
Woody Herman Orchestra
Cafe Rouge
Hotel Pennsylvania
WABC CBS New York City
23 Jul 1945
Well, it feels like Christmas now because today’s Phantom Dancer is ONLINE at Radio 2SER
Never mind, here’s your The Phantom Dancer play list for 7 February, your two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV.
Non-stop swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio presented by Greg Poppleton over 107.3 2SER Sydney every Tuesday from 12 noon since 1985.
And now live-streamed, archived online at 2ser.com and heard on over 22 radio stations.
In the Phantom Dancer mix this week: Australia swing on 1930s – 40s radio, Trad Jazz on the air with Kid Ory, Louis Armstrong and more plus a mix of women big bands on live 1940s radio.
See the full play list below.
Your Phantom Dancer video of the Week is Professor Julius Sumner Miller examining reflected images on glass slabs from the 1960s ABC TV series, ‘Why Is It So?’
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.
Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #250
107.3 2SER Tuesday 7 February 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT)
National Program:
2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12
ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm
and early morning on 22 other stations.
Set 1
Post Swing Era Swing on 1948 – 53 Radio
Open + Blue Flame + Woodchoppers’ Ball
Woody Herman Third Herd
‘All-Star Parade of Bands’
Royal Grove
Peony Park
WOW NBC Omaha Nebraska
1948
Grieg’s Grotto
Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Frances Caldwell
‘All-Star Parade of Bands’
Hotel Claridge
WMC NBC Memphis Tenn.
19 Jun 1953
Blue Velvet + Close
Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Alan Copeland and The Modernaires
‘Bob Crosby Show’
Television Centre Hollywood
AFRTS Re-broadcast
1955
Set 2
1930s-1940s Australian Radio
Mortein Commercial
Rex ‘Wacka’ Dawe
‘Yes, What?’
5AD Adelaide
1938
Minnie’s In The Money
Barbara James (voc) Reg Lewis Orchestra
‘Hit Parade’
2UE
Sydney
1945
My Song Goes Around The World + With A Sweet Melody + Sweet Lucy Brown
Frank Coughlan Trocadero Orchestra
Radio Transcription
Featuradio
Sydney
Apr 1936
Set 3
1943 – 45 Swing Bands
Open + Swingin’ The Blues
Clyde McCoy Fort Huachuca Band
‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood
Oct 1943
Open + Whispering
Gene Krupa Orchestra
‘Spotlight Bands’
Blue Network
11 Nov 1944
On The Sunny Side of the Street + Close
Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) The Sentimentalists
‘GI Jive’
AFRS Re-broadcast
1945
Set 4
1930s Radio Dance Orchestra
In The Mood
Russ Morgan Orchestra
Radio Transcription
New York City
1939
Sugar Foot Stomp
Benny Goodman Orchestra
Madhattan Room
WOR Mutual NY
21 Oct 1937
Hold Tight
Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton
Glen Island Casino
New Rochelle NY
WEAF NBC Red
20 Jun 1939
Set 5
1938-39 Radio Mickey Mouse Bands
I’ll See You In My Dreams
Jan Garber Orchestra
Radio Transcription
New York City
1939
The Man I Love
Del Courtney Orchestra
Aircheck
Rainbow Room
New Kenmore Hotel
Albany NY
31 Oct 1938
Annabelle
Gray Gordon and his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra
Radio Transcription
New York City
1939
You’re The Only Star In My Blue Heaven
Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Russ Carlyle and The Glee Club
Radio Trancription
New York City
1939
Set 6
Trad Bands On The Air
Wailing Blues
The Cellar Boys
Comm Rec
Chicago
24 Jan 1930
Bay City (theme) + Down Home Rag
Turk Murphy’s San Francisco Jazz Band
Easy Street
KCBS San Francisco
2 Dec 1958
Singing The Blues
Jack Parnell’s Jazzmen
‘Swing Session’
BBC London
13 Feb 1945
Basin Street Blues
Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden (voc)
‘Spotlight Bands’
Metropolitan Opera House
WJZ NBC Blue NY
18 Jan 1944
Set 7
Women Swing Singers on 1940s Radio
Blueberry Hill
Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Nan Wynn
Panther Room
Hotel Sherman
WMAQ NBC Red Chicago
1940
Every Time We Say Goodbye
Charlie Spivak Orchestra (voc) Irene Day
Spotlight Bands
Jamestown NY
Blue Network
19 Jan 1945
Long Ago And Far Away
Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Doris Day
Cafe Rouge
Hotel Pennsylvania
WABC CBS NY
7 Jul 1944
Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen
Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) Kay Starr
‘For The Record’
WEAF NBC NY
11 Sep 1944
Set 8
Moderne Sounds on the Radio Apparatus
I Keep Rollin’ On
Hot Lips Page Hot 7
Comm Rec
New York City
14 Jun 1944
Slipped Disc
Benny Goodman Sextet
‘Kings of Jazz’
BBC NY
8 Dec 1945
Love For Sale
Stan Kenton Orchestra
‘Concert In Miniature’
Fort Sheridan, Illinois
NBC
2 Sep 1952
On this week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton, your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s – 60s radio, you’ll hear a set of Louis Armstrong live on 1930s-40s radio, including a radio recording he made with Fats Waller and his Rhythm. We hear from singers Patti Page, Ginny Simms and Frank Sinatra on their own radio features. Julie London also makes a rare 1956 radio appearance. And we’ll finish with a Charlie Parker set from WMCA NY radio in 1949.
The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop 2 hour mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio every week online and on 2SER radio.
The final hour of the mix is all vinyl.
The Phantom Dancer is live-streamed as the show goes to air on 107.3 2SER Sydney, Tuesdays 12 – 2pm (12 – 2am GMT) and repeated 5 – 6pm Sundays, http://www.2ser.com
Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is the Laurel and Hardy (with Anita Garvin) classic, Blotto (1930)
Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #225
107.3 2SER Tuesday 2 August 2016 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT)
National Program:
2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12
2SER Sunday 2SER 5 – 6pm
ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm
and early morning on 30 other stations.
Set 1
1940s Swing Bands Re-Broadcast by Armed Forces Radio
Open + Song of India
Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
‘Tommy Dorsey Show’
AFRS Re-broadcast
23 Jun 1943
Open + Wherever There’s Me There’s You
Bobby Sherwood Orchestra (voc) Jay Johnson and Frances Glenn
‘One Night Stand’
Avodon Ballroom
Los Angeles
AFRS Re-broadcast
3 Jun 1946
Mabel Mabel + Yerxa
Boyd Raeburn Orchestra (voc) Jackie Suerrel
‘One Night Stand’
Club Morocco
Los Angeles
AFRS Re-broadcast
19 Aug 1946
Set 2
Singing for your Supper
Ad + s’Wonderful + A Girl To Love
Jack Smith then Ginny Simms(voc) Frank deVol Orchestra
‘Tide Show’
KNX CBS LA
11 Feb 1951
Station ID + Theme + I’m Crazy ‘Bout My Baby
Dinah Shore (voc)
‘The Dinah Shore Show’
WRCA NBC NY
1954
Goin’ Home + Close
Frank Sinatra (voc) Dave Rose Orchestra
‘Guest Star’
Radio Transcription
New York City
20 Dec 1947
Set 3
NBC’s All-Star Parade of Bands
Cool Water
Billy May Orchestra (voc) Bob Moore
‘All-Star Parade of Bands’
Hollywood Palladium
KFI NBC LA
21 Dec 1953
Rain
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra
‘All-Star Parade’
Blue Note
WMAQ NBC Chicago
9 Dec 1953
Cry Me A River
Julie London
‘All-Star Parade of Bands’
The Cameo
WRCA NBC NY
1956
Set 4
Harry James on 1943 – 1961 Radio
My Old Flame
Harry James Orchestra (voc) Judy Williams
‘Chesterfield Show’
WABC CBS NY
14 Dec 1943
Open + Ultra
Harry James Orchestra
‘Guest Star’
Radio Transcription
New York City
1951
Two O’Clock Jump
Harry James Orchestra
El Patio Ballroom
KCBS CBS San Francisco
20 May 1961
Set 5
Louis Armstrong on Radio
On The Sunny Side of the Street
Fats Waller and his Rhythm with Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden
Aircheck
New York City
Oct 1938
I’ve Got Plenty of Nothin’
Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Ada Brown
‘Jubilee’
AFRS NY
Mar 1943
I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City
Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA
‘Spotlight Bands’
Dallas Tx
Blue Network
17 Aug 1943
It Had To Be You + Theme
Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA
‘Spotlight Bands’
Tuskagee Airfield, Alabama
Blue Network
5 Oct 1944
Set 6
Swing Bands on 1937-38 Radio
Sugar Foot Stomp
Fud Candrix Orchestra
Comm Rec
Blankenberghe Casino, Belgium
27 Jun 1938
One, Two Button Your Shoe
Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ivie Anderson
Cotton Club
WABC CBS NY
18 Mar 1937
I’ll Always Be In Love With You
Count Basie Orchestra
Savoy Ballroom
Aircheck NY
30 Jun 1937
There’s a Small Hotel + Close
Bunny Berrigan Orchestra
‘Norge Programme’
Radio Transcription
New York City
1937
Set 7
Earliest Recorded Radio from 1929-34
Intro + It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing + Ad
Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
‘Chrysler Show’
New York City
1934
I May Be Wrong
Red Nichols and his Five Pennies (voc) Scrappy Lambert
‘Brunswick Brevities’
Radio Transcription
New York City
27 Aug 1929
Intro + This Is The Missus
Ben Selvin Orchestra
‘Davis Musical Moments’
Radio Transcription
New York City
1932
What A Day
Eskimo Pie Orchesra
‘Eskimo Pie Orchestra’
Radio Transcription
Chicago
Jul 1929
Set 8
Charlie Parker from Royal Roost on the Symphony Sid Show
How High The Moon
Charlie Parker (as) Flip Philips, Charlie Ventura (ts) Conte Condoli (tp) Bennie Green (tp) Al Haig (piano) Curley Russell, Tommy Potter (b) Ed Shaugnessy(d)
‘Symphony Sid Show’
WMCA NY
1 Jan 1949
Groovin’ High
Charlie Parker (as) Kenny Dorham (tp) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d)
‘Symphony Sid Show’
WMCA NY
19 Feb 1949
Oo Bop Sh’Bam
Charlie Parker (as) Kenny Dorham (tp) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d) Band (voc)
‘Symphony Sid Show’
WMCA NY
22 Jan 1949
Barbados
Charlie Parker (as) Kenny Dorham (tp) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d)
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