Bob Effros 1920s-30s Trumpet Star – 28 July Phantom Dancer

Bob Effros, jazz trumpeter and composer, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. His recording career began in the 1920s and he made over 200 recordings.

His granddaughter, Barbara Effros is writing a book about this 1920s jazz trumpet great.

Her book is titled, ‘Bob Effros: The Laughing Trumpeter’.

Barbara writes, “He is known for his ‘maniacal laughter’ in Fleischer cartoons and songs recorded with Ben Selvin like, ‘Sing You Sinners’ and other Selvin and Harry Reser hits; ‘Ice Scream, You Scream, (We All Scream For Ice Cream)’ and others.”

Barbara adds some important background to this week’s blog about her grandfather whose trumpet you’ve heard probably hundreds of times maybe without even knowing.

You’ll definitely know when you hear his trumpet on this week’s Phantom Dancer mix. It’s in a 1930 cardboard Hit of the Week recording in which he takes a solo. And it’s in an extended solo on his own composition, ‘Tin Ear’, backed by Arthur Schutt on piano, recorded in 1929. It’s your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week.

Listen to The Phantom Dancer non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week. Presented and produced by 1920s-30s singer and actor Greg Poppleton, The Phantom Dancer’s been on-air over 107.3 2SER Sydney since 1985.

You can enjoy The Phantom Dancer online from 12:04pm AEST Tuesday 28 July at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ where you can also hear two years of archived shows.

The finyl hour is vinyl.

BOB BOOK

Bob Effros’ granddaughter, Barbara, is writing a book about her jazz trumpeter grandfather, ‘Bob Effros: The Laughing Trumpeter’.

Maybe you can help her fill in the gaps about his tours of Australia and South America?

Barbara wrote to me about where the book is at right now, “Still working on book – it’s a labor of love. I’ve become immersed in jazz history, personalities, Black/White cultural issues in USA/UK. I’ve yet to fully research Grandpa’s performances in Australia and South America. I have passports, ship manifestos galore. Perhaps you can direct me regarding Australian music magazines of the 1930s and 40s?”

If you have any info about Bob Effros, please contact Barbara for her book at EffrosMusic@gmail.com.

Read more about Bob Effros at,
https://www.facebook.com/BobEffros
www.BobEffros.blogspot.com

BOB BEGINNINGS

Barbara wrote a short biography of Bob Effros published in The Syncopated Times, 1 January 2017 https://syncopatedtimes.com/jazz-trumpeter-bob-effros-a-granddaughters-appreciation/

She writes that Bob was born in London in 1900 and moved with his parents to Memphis when aged three. He ran away from home at 11 and worked on the riverboats where he heard jazz and picked up the cornet, listening to Joe ‘King’ Oliver. From 1917-19 he was a bugler in the US Army.

“After the war ended, he settled down in Baltimore playing in a band led by dancer and vocalist Bee Palmer. When Bob Effros arrived in New York, his only friend was from Memphis: W.C. Handy, ‘Father of The Blues.’ Mr. Handy sent the young trumpeter to Sam Lanin for his first gig, and was hired to play at the Roseland Ballroom.”

1920s

Bob soon became in-demand trumpeter on the New York scene. He was in the Vincent Lopez Orchestra from 1921-27, being paid the huge weekly salary of $500-$1000 over this period. “That’s why grandpa stayed with Lopez,” writes Barbara Effros. “Paul Whiteman couldn’t match that amount.”

Bob was playing for the Whiteman band in 1929 and sat in for Bix Beidebecke (more on that further on). That same year, 1929, he was also leading his own orchestra.

In the meantime he toured Europe frequently with Lopez with whom he remained a life-long friend.

Bob Effros recorded about 20 sides with Annette Hanshaw (my favourite singer) in NY on hits like ‘You’re the Cream in My Coffee’.

Other famous singers on whose recordings he played in the 1920s include Bessie Smith, the Boswell Sisters, Libby Holman, Ruth Etting, Ethel Waters, Mae Questal and Fanny Brice.

He played with Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Sam Lanin, Vincent Lopez, Red Nichols, Harry Reser and Ben Selvin.

He made recordings alongside such famous sidemen as Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Cab Calloway, Xavier Cugat, Al Jolson, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, Jimmy Durante, Washboard Sam, W.C. Handy, Scrappy Lambert, Red Nichols, and Fats Waller.

Paul Whiteman chose Bob effros to fill in for the legendary trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke. Beidebecke had left the Whiteman Orchestra in 1929 because of health issues due to alchoholism. While he was away, Whiteman famously kept Bix’s chair open in Beiderbecke’s honour, in the hope that he would occupy it again. However, when he returned to New York at the end of January 1930, Beiderbecke did not rejoin Whiteman and performed only sparingly.

About this, Barbara adds,

“Paul Whiteman chose Bob Effros to fill in for legendary trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke during one of Bix’s final radio performances. Whiteman was known to leave an empty seat hoping Bix could return. However, Whiteman did need a trumpeter for the show and designated a separate seat for Bob Effros to fill in for Bix.”

COMPOSER

Bob wrote over a dozen hit songs including ‘Why The Twenties Roared,’ ‘Tin Ear’ (this week’s Phantom Dancer video), ‘Cornfed’, and ‘Why Don’t You Get Lost?’. ‘Sweet and Hot’ was his ode to Chinese soup.

1930s AND BEYOND

According to German wiki, in 1929, Bob started a family and got steady employment as a studio musician for Vitaphone, recording music for the Betty Boop, Popeye and Felix the Cat cartoons.

He also worked in radio orchestras, including the orchestra (where he was featured trumpeter) put together for the 1930 and 1931 season of ‘The Philco Hour’ recorded at WABC (CBS) NY.

On 27 August 1929 he recorded, under his own name for Brunswick (#4620), his own composition ‘Tin Ear’ (this recording is this week’s video, below) and ‘Sweet and Hot’, which was composed by his friend, the trumpeter, Mike Mosiello.

Bob remained active in the studios into the 1940s.

Barbara writes, “[He also] Spent a couple years in Los Angeles with Max Roach Studios recording for Little Rascals Shows, Buster Keaton, Marx Brothers, and more.” You hear Bob on those great Little Rascals and Laurel and Hardy comedy short soundtracks.

Photos from: https://www.facebook.com/BobEffros
Read more: www.BobEffros.blogspot.com

If you have any info about Bob Effros, please contact Barbara for her book at EffrosMusic@gmail.com.

MYSTERY SOLVED

On my LP copy of ‘If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight’ the liner notes query whether the trumpet solo is by Bob Effros or Red Nichols.

When I asked Barbara about this, she wrote back,

“Hi Greg, yes indeed. This is my Grandpa Bob Effros with Dick Robertson on vocals. He recorded over 50 sides on HOW Discs including songs with Rudy Vallee , Eddie Cantor and others. Am building the HOW discography. Grandpa recorded over 200 recordings and composed 13 songs. ‘Tin Ear’, ‘Cornfed’ and ‘Why Don’t You Get Lost’ are most popular from the 1920s. In 1942 he composed ‘Memr’y of this Dance’ with Ben Selvin. Also ‘A Million Reasons to Smile’ with Al Sherman recorded by Abe Lyman.”

VIDEO

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is a beautiful trumpet solo by Bob Effros on his own composition, Tin Ear, with piano accompaniment by Arthur Schutt and recorded in 1929. The YouTube uploader puts the date as October 1929. The actual recording date is 27 August 1929. Enjoy!

When the 2SER studio opens again for live Phantom Dancer shows, I’ll play a special Bob Effros set. Stay tuned!

28 JULY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #447
107.3 2SER Tuesday 28 July 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2MCE Bathurst / Orange / Central West NSW Wednesday 9 – 10am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am
Set 1	Rhythms by the Big Bands on 1945 Radio
Open + Out Of This World	Boyd Raeburn Orchestra (voc) David Allen	Rose Room Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 27 Jul 1945
Take The A Train + Suddenly It Jumped	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Jan 1945
Riding To Glory On A Trumpet + Body and Soul + Close	Horace Heidt Orchestra + Close	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Jan 1945
Set 2	1930s – 1940s Variety Shows
Open + Goody Goody	Texaco Orchestra and Chorus	‘Texaco Star Theatre’ KFI NBC Red LA 31 Mar 1936
Open (Wintergreen for President) + Change Partners + Thanks For The Memory	Bob Hope, Skinnay Ennis Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis	‘Pepsodent Show’ WEAF NBC Red NY 27 Sep 1938
Again + Close	Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Dick Stabile Orchestra	‘Martin and Lewis Show’ WNBC NBC NY 8 May 1949
Set 3	Modern Jazz On 1950s Radio
Jet Propulsion	Illinois Jacquet	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 1952
Well You Needn’t + It Never Entered My Mind	Miles Davis	‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NY 15 Sep 1956
Set 4	Traditional Jazz Sounds on 1940s-50s Radio
Open + Kerry Dance	Henry Levine Octet	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 21 Jul 1941
Rocking Chair	Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong + Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Basin Street WRCA NBC NY 14 May 1955
Clarinet Marmalade + Close	Wild Bill Davison	‘This Is Jazz’ WOR Mutual New York 3 May 1947
Set 5	Hit Of The Week Cardboard Records – Bob Effros plays on ‘If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight’.
Reaching For The Moon	Sam Lanin’s Dance Orchestra (voc) Scrappy Lambert	Hit of the Week Record New York City Mar 1931
I’m Keeping Company	Hit of the Week Orchestra (voc) Scrappy Lambert	Hit of the Week Record New York City Aug 1931
Pardon Me Pretty Baby	Sam Lanin’s Dance Orchestra (voc) Paul Small	Hit of the Week Record New York City Jan 1932
If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight	Hit of the Week Orchestra (voc) Dick Robertson (tp solo Bob Effros)	Hit of the Week Record New York City Dec 1930
Set 6	Swing Bands on ‘Spotlight Bands’
Open + Sugarfoot Stomp	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Springfield Mass Blue Network 29 Sep 1943
Open + Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall	Charlie Spivak Orchestra (voc) Irene Day	Spotlight Bands’ Jamestown NY Blue Network 19 Jan 1945
It Happened In Monterey	Gene Krupa Orchestra (voc) G-Noters	‘Spotlight Bands’ Newport Rhode Island Blue Network 2 Oct 1944
The Minor Goes A Muggin’	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mutual Network 5 Nov 1945
Set 7	‘Mickey Mouse Bands’ on 1935 – 1940 Radio
Open + Isn’t Love The Grandest Thing	Guy Lombardo Orchestra (voc) Lombardo Trio	‘Esso Boulevarde’ WABC CBS NY 7 Oct 1935
Tumbling Tumbleweeds	Jan Garber Orchestra (voc) Lee Bennett	Radio Transcription New York City 1939
The Yam	Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Charlie Fisher	Radio Transcription New York City 1938
Sunshine Of My Heart	Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Brandon	Radio Transcription Chicago 1940
Set 8	Duke Ellington’s Extended Works on ‘A Date With The Duke’ (ABC)
Diminuendo In Blue / Rocks In My Bed / Crescendo In Blue	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Joya Sherill	‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC Toledo OH 9 Jun 1945
Blue Bells Of Harlem	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ WJZ ABC Radio City NY 7 Jul 1945

Personal Hygiene Film For Young Girls (c 1920) – Phantom Dancer 19 June

It’s Phantom Dancer time Tuesday on radio and online – your two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio with Greg Poppleton.

What’s on?

Well, there’s a set of ‘Sweet Bands’ from live 1930s-40s radio and some early late night Benny Goodman from 1935. The Velvet Fog, Mel Torme, sings two songs including one when aged 17 in front of Chico Marx’s Orchestra on a CBS Fitch Bandwagon and the last hour is all vinyl.

Hear the show after it’s broadcast 19 June online at 2ser.com

Tirelessly searching YouTube for a swingy, jazzy, instructive, or ‘weird and wonderful’ Video of the Week, I’ve found something curiously wonderful – a circa 1920s ‘Women’s Hygiene’ film. It actually is medically educational (and educational as a social history) though the shower scene does verge on the pseudo-educational sexploitation films of the 1950s-60s. 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!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #320
107.3 2SER Tuesday 19 June 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations.
Set 1	Swing on 1950s Radio
One O’Clock Jump + Sixteen Men Swinging	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Saturday Night Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn WCBS CBS NY 1956
Sitting In The Sun	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) JoAnn Greer	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Palladium Ballroom KFI NBC LA 12 Oct 1953
Capital Idea + (theme)	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Magnolia Room Hotel Claridge WMC NBC Memphis 19 Jun 1953
Set 2	Swing Dance Bands on 1942-44 Radio
Open + Abraham	Chico Marx Orchestra (voc) Mel Torme	‘Fitch Band Wagon’ Blackhawk Restaurant WBBM CBS Chicago 20 Dec 1942
Was It Like That?	Lionel Hampton Orchestra (voc) Dinah Washington	‘One Night Stand’ Civic Auditorium Oakland Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Jun 1944
One Night Stand + Close (Coca Cola Waltz in 4/4 Swing)	Denny Beckner Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Norfolk, Virginia AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Mar 1944
Set 3	Navy Star Time Singers 1952 Radio
Baby, That Ain’t Right	Frankie Laine (voc) Buzz Adlam Orchestra	‘Navy Star Time’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1952
I Hadn’t Anyone Till You	Mel Torme (voc) Buzz Adlam Orchestra	‘Navy Star Time’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1952
I’ll Get By + Close	Jo Stafford (voc) Buzz Adlam Orchestra	‘Navy Star Time’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1952
Set 4	1946 Radio Swing
Instrumental	Harry James Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands ‘ El Patio Playhouse KHJ Mutual LA 13 Apr 1946
Begin The Beguine	Bobby Sherwood Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Avadon Ballroom Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 3 jun 1946
Blue Moon + Summertime	Bob Crosby Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Dec 1946
Set 5	1934 – 36 Radio Bands
There’s Something In The Air	Red Nichols Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 1936
Robins and Roses	Lee Wiley (voc)	WABC CBS NY 17 Jun 1936
Christopher Columbus	Isham Jones Orchestra	WOR Mutual NY 13 Mar 1936
Goodbye	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red NY 2 Feb 1935
Set 6	Big Bands 1942-45 Radio
McGhee Special	Andy Kirk and his 12 Clouds of Joy	Comm Rec New York City 14 Jul 1942
Open + Smiles	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘For The Record’ WEAF NBC NY 11 Sep 1944
Slip Of The Lip	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Fourth War Loan Drive’ WEAF NBC NY 1 May 1943
One O’Clock Jump (open) + Unidentified Time	Johnny Otis Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1945
Set 7	Sweet Bands on 1930-40s Wireless
You Are My Dream	Gray Gordon and his Tic Toc Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Cliff Glass	Radio Transcription New York City 1939
It Was Just One Of Those Things	Russ Morgan Orchestra	Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles 13 May 1946
Words Of Love	Eddy Howard Orchestra	Aragon Ballroom WGN Mutual Chicago 5 Dec 1945
It’s A Whole New Thing	Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Charlie Fisher	Radio Transcription New York City 1938
Set 8	Bop Inspired Radio
Moppin’ The Blues	Pete Brown Quintette	Comm Rec New York City 11 Jul 1944
A Minor Thing + In Your Own Sweet Way	Dave Brubeck Quartet	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Feb 1956
Theme	Harold Rumsey Lighthouse Five	Hermosa Beach Ca ‘Monitor’ WRCA NBC NY 12 Jun 1955
High On An Open Mike	Fats Navarro (tp) Bill Harris (tb) Alen Eager, Charlie Ventura (ts) Ralph Burns (piano) Al Valente (g) Chubby Jackson (b) Buddy Rich (d)	‘Saturday Night Swing Session’ WNEW NY 12 Apr 1947
Fine and Dandy	Slim Gaillard Quintet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NY 2 Jun 1951

27 March Phantom Dancer – Bunny Berigan and How Disease Effects Legacy

It never ceases to amaze me how disease can over-shadow the brilliant legacy of a person’s life. How much ‘expert’ blather was there about Stephen Hawking’s motor neurone disease as an excuse to avoid explaining and understanding his discoveries in physics? It’s belittling and disrespectful.

Louis Armstrong’s favourite trumpet player was Bunny Berigan. We’ll be hearing radio broadcasts by Bunny Berigan on this week’s The Phantom Dancer.

Even today, seventy years after his death, he is still considered to have been one of the top trumpet players in jazz.

But what I find additionally interesting is how his legacy has been marred by the alcoholism that affected the inventiveness of his playing in the latter part of his short thirty-three years and which ultimately killed him through cirrhosis of the liver.

On this week’s Phantom Dancer you’ll also hear a set of live vintage radio by Dave Brubeck, Jack Teagarden and women singers with their own radio shows – Lee Wiley, Peggy Lee, Dinah Show and Mildred Bailey.

 

THE PHANTOM DANCER is two hours of non-stop swing and jazz mixed from live 1920s – 1960s radio and TV by Greg Poppleton, Australia’s only authentic 1920s-1930s singer www.gregpoppletonmusic.com

Broadcast 12:04pm Tuesdays 107.3 2SER Sydney then over 22 radio stations and online.

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HOW DISEASE EFFECTS LEGACY

When jazz musicians talk about Bunny Berigan, his alcoholism always comes up.

‘What might have been had he not drank?’, is usually the most positive musing. But to me, from a music perspective, his illness should have no bearing on his legacy. Surely it’s his trumpet playing and technique that’s important, the music played, the songs composed, the landmark recordings made. Louis Armstrong praised Bunny Berigan’s trumpet sound and jazz ideas both before and after Berigan’s death.

I have known jazz musicians, world-touring, who’ve died after long illnesses. They kept their illnesses private, performing to the very end. Even though everyone knew they were terminally ill, the particulars of their illnesses were never discussed. These musicians had the luxury and the determination to never be defined by their disease. Nowadays, when people talk about them, they talk about their music, the good times and their positive legacy. How they died, their disease, and their substance abuse (in one case) are irrelevancies.

However, other jazz musicians I have known, have had deaths after long, debilitating illnesses during which time it was impossible to perform. Others have died suddenly – a heart attack, an overdose, a bleed. Always, these musicians are discussed in terms of their deaths, their creative life work overshadowed by the fabula of their failing health or their fatal surprise.

I guess it’s easier to talk about sickness and death than music. The musical process is a specialist field. Feeling poorly and falling off the perch is something on which everyone has an expert opinion.

BUNNY BERIGAN…
…was the stage name of Roland Bernard Berigan.

He composed, sang, and most famously was a brilliant trumpet player. Of his compositions, we’ll hear a live recording of one, ‘Chicken and Waffles’, from a live 1936 radio broadcast on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

He was best known for his virtuoso jazz trumpeting. His 1937 classic recording of a song from a flop music, ‘I Can’t Get Started’ (which we’ll also hear in two live 1930s versions on this week’s Phantom Dancer) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1975. ‘I Can’t Get Started’ was Berigan’s radio theme when he launched his own band in 1937.

Bunny Berigan had learnt violin and trumpet and was playing in local bands by his mid-teens. In 1930 he joined the Hal Kemp Orchestra and soon came to notice. He became a sought-after studio musician in New York as well as playing in the orchestras of Freddy Rich, Freddy Martin, Ben Selvin, Paul Whiteman and Benny Goodman. In fact, Goodman’s manager only got ‘that ace drummer man’ Gene Krupa to join the band by telling him Berigan was already on board.

After leaving Goodman, Berigan began to record regularly under his own name and to back singers such as Bing Crosby, Mildred Bailey, and Billie Holiday. We’ll hear him this week with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in early 1937. His solo on ‘Marie’ became one of his signature performances. We’ll hear a 1940 radio version. And, of course, a critic describing Berigan’s trumpet on the 1940 show had to bring up his alcoholism.

After leaving Goodman, Berigan began to record regularly under his own name and to back singers such as Bing Crosby, Mildred Bailey, and Billie Holiday. We’ll hear him this week with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in early 1937. His solo on ‘Marie’ became one of his signature performances. We’ll hear a 1940 radio version. And, of course, a critic describing Berigan’s trumpet on the 1940 show had to bring up his alcoholism.

MUSICAL ADVICE FROM BERIGAN
And instrumentalists PLEASE TAKE NOTE. There’s nothing more irritating to a singer than an instrumentalist taking too much air during the singer’s solo, or cramping the singer’s freedom of expression by trying to steer the improvisation…

Your Phantom Dancer Bunny Berrigan singing and playing trumpet on ‘Until Today’ with Freddy Rich’s Orchestra in 1936 . Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #308 107.3 2SER Tuesday 20 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 Swing on 1940s Radio Theme + Girl of My Dreams Randy Brooks Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 17 Nov 1945 K.C. Caboose + Are You Happy? John Kirby Sextet ‘One Night Stand’ Aquarium Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 18 Jul 1944 They Didn’t Believe Me + Blue Moon (Close) Eliot Lawrence Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 26 Jul 1945 Set 2 Big Bands on 1950s Radio Theme + I’m Walking Johnny Richards Orchestra ‘ABC Dancing Party’ Birdland WABC ABC NYC 1957 If I Had You Ted Heath Orchestra ‘International Bandstand’ London NBC/BBC 2 Mar 1959 It’s All In The Game Ray Anthony Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania AFRS Re-broadcast 1952 Set 3 Bing Crosby Radio Open + Pistol Packin’ Mama Bing Crosby ‘Kraft Music Hall’ KFI NBC LA 16 Dec 1943 Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra Bing Crosby ’Philco Radio Time’ KECA ABC LA 19 Nov 1947 Ukulele Lady + Green Grow The Lilacs + Close Bing Crosby + Rosemary Clooney (2nd song) ’Bing Crosby-Rosemary Clooney Show’ KNX CBS LA 19 Oct 1961 Set 4 Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street Open + Dixieland One-Step Henry Levine Octet ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941 O Sussanah Diane Courtney ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941 Cheery-Beery-Bee The Tune Toppers ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941 Dangerous Mood Paul Lavalle Woodwinds ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 1 Sep 1941 Set 5 Trombonist Jack Teagarden Announcer’s Blues Paul Whiteman Orchestra ‘Paul Whiteman’s Music Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 19 jan 1936 Mr Jessie Jack Teagarden Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 22 Nov 1941 You Took Advantage of Me + Tea For Two + Close The Three T’s (Jack and Charlie Teagarden and Frank Trambauer) Hickory House WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Dec 1936 (1936 Home Recording) Wolverine Blues + Close Jack Teagarden Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 27 Dec 1941 Set 6 Women Singers With Their Own Radio shows Somebody Loves Me Peggy Lee ‘Peggy Lee Show’ KNX CBS LA 1947 Beg Your Pardon Dinah Shore ‘Dinah Shore Show’ KNX CBS LA 4 May 1948 Too Good To Be True Lee Wiley ‘Lee Wiley Sings’ WABC CBS NY 1 Jul 1936 Summertime Mildred Bailey ‘Mildred Bailey Show’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jan 1945 Set 7 Bunny Berigan I Can’t Get Started (theme) + Organ Grinder’s Swing Bunny Berigan Orchestra ‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1937 I Can’t Get Started (theme) + Ay, Ay, Ay Bunny Berigan Orchestra Manhattan Centre WNEW NY 26 Sep 1939 Marie Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (Bunny Berigan tp feature) Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WABC CBS NY 9 Mar 1940 Runnin’ Wild + Chicken and Waffles Bunny Berigan Orchestra ‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 31 Oct 1936 Set 8 Dave Brubeck This Can’t Be Love Dave Brubeck Aircheck Jan 1954 The Song Is For You Dave Brubeck Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Mar 1957 Stardust Dave Brubeck ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY Dec 1953 All The Things You Are Dave Brubeck Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Feb 1956

8 August Phantom Dancer – Ep 6 Radar Men From the Moon

If the 1 August show is anything to go by, the 8 August Phantom Dancer is going to be the best show ever.

Your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV has been presented by myself, Greg Poppleton, over radio station 107.3 2SER Sydney, and now online, since 1985.

See the 8 August play list below.

Hear the show post-broadcast! It’s now online FREE for four weeks at radio 2ser.com

You’ll hear that set of jazz greats on 1950s-60s Tonight Shows I didn’t get to play after running out of time last week and the week before. There’s also a set of Connie Boswell on 1930-36 radio, and three songs by Benny Goodman from the famous 1935 ‘Let’s Dance’ programs that introduced swing to the world.

There’s also a set of Peter Igelhoff singing with and leading Berlin dance bands between 1937 and 1941.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is episode 6 of the 1952 Republic serial, Radar Men From The Moon.
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 #274 107.3 2SER Tuesday 8 August 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 Benny Goodman on the 1935 Let’s Dance Program Let’s Dance (theme) + Hunkadola Benny Goodman Orchestra ’Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red NY 20 Apr 1935 Makin’ Whoopee Benny Goodman Quartet ’Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red NY 23 Feb 1935 Walk, Jenny, Walk Benny Goodman Orchestra ’Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red NY 4 May 1935 Set 2 Swinging The Classics Beethoven Riffs On John Kirby Orchestra Comm Rec New York City 15 Jan 1941 Intro + Rachmaninoff Prelude in C#m Wally Portingale Orchestra ’Army on Parade’ 2CH AWA Network Sydney Oct 1943 Caprice XXIV Paganini Benny Goodman Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 10 Aug 1941 Set 3 Big Bands on 1950s Radio Spoken Intro + Night and Day Ted Heath Orchestra ’NBC International Bandstand’ NBC and BBC London 2 Mar 1959 Just Squeeze Me Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ray Nance Birdland WNBC NBC NY 24 Nov 1956 Caribbean Clipper + Close Glenn Miller Orchestra conducted by Ray McKinley ’Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 30 Jun 1957 Set 4 Connie Boswell on 1930-36 Radio Sweeping the Clouds Away Connie Boswell Radio Transcription Continental Broadcasting System Hollywood 1930 I Can’t Give You Anything But Love Connie Boswell (voc) Freddy Rich Orchestra ’Dodge Program’ WABC CBS NY 1935 Ad + I’ve Got A Feeling You’re Fooling Connie Boswell (voc) B. A. Rolfe Orchestra ’Goodrich Silvertown Time’ Radio Transcription New York City 1936 Set 5 Swing Bands Live on 1937 Radio Moten Swing (theme) + Shout and Feel It Count Basie Orchestra Aircheck Savoy Ballroom New York City 30 June 1957 Theme + Mr Ghost Goes To Town Tommy Dorsey Orchestra WEAF NBC Red NYC 31 Jan 1937 One, Two Button Your Shoes Duke Ellington (voc) Ivie Anderson Cotton Club WABC CBS NYC 18 Mar 1937 Mother Goose Marches On Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Meyer Alexander Chorus ’Camel Caravan’ KNX CBS LA 10 Aug 1937 Set 6 Muggsy Spanier on 1940s-50s Radio Relaxin’ at the Trouro Muggsy Spanier ’Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue New York 23 Sep 1944 Dippermouth Blues Muggsy Spanier Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 25 Oct 1953 Buddy Bolden’s Blues Muggsy Spanier ’This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual New York City 22 Mar 1947 That’s A’Plenty + Theme Muggsy Spanier Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 18 Apr 1953 Set 7 Peter Igelhoff German Dance Music 1937-41 Spatzenkonzert Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Peter Igelhoff Comm Rec Berlin Jun 1938 Capriolen Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Peter Igelhoff Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1937 Dieses Leid hat keinen Text Peter Igelhoff piano and ensemble (voc) Evelyn Kuenneke Comm Rec Berlin 1940 Schade, dass wir auseinandergehn Peter Igelhoff und sein Ensemble Rec Comm Berlin 1941 Set 8 Jazz on the Tonight Show Them There Eyes Billie Holiday Tonight Show NBC Hollywood 1958 My Heart Stood Still Shorty Rogers Giants Tonight Show NBC Hollywood 1958 After You’ve Gone Roy Eldridge Tonight Show NBC Hollywood 1958 Sing, Sing, Sing Benny Goodman Tonight Show NBC NYC 1958

16 Feb 2016 Phantom Dancer Radio Swing Mix – Julius Sumner Miller Electric Currents

Here is your Phantom Dancer play list for Tuesday 16 February 107.3 2SER Sydney 12noon – 2pm and online at http://www.2ser.com

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This week’s 2 hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s – 1960s radio has Miles Davis and John Coltrane live in 1957, Wild Bill Davison and the crew from ‘This is Jazz’ in 1947 and Sydney swing band leader Frank Coughlan from 1937. All very symmetrical. And of course there’s a whole 2 hours of non-stop live swing and jazz, including a set of the great woman jazz singers, with the last half of the show being ALL VINYL. See the play list below.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is Julius Sumner Miller giving Dramatic Demonstrations in Physics on the matter of The Properties and Effects of Electric Currents. This is program 42, recorded at ABC-TV in Sydney in 1969. Enjoy…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #202 107.3 2SER Tuesday 16 February 2016 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) Repeat Sunday 2SER 5 – 6pm Set 1 It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing Frank Coughlan Trocadero Orchestra (voc) Barbara James Comm Rec Sydney Jul 1937 Open + Kentucky Bob Strong Orchestra (voc) Tony Fiola ‘One Night Stand’ Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Aug 1944 Sing a Song of Sixpence + Close Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler NY AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Apr 1949 Set 2 Intro + Sweet Georgia Brown Wild Bill Davison, George Brunies and others ‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 20 Apr 1947 Intro + Amapola Henry Levine and his Dixieland Octet ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue 11 Aug 1941 Lazybones + Close Jack Teagarden Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 30 Apr 1955 Set 3 Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries Carroll Gibbons and his Boyfriends Comm Rec London 17 Dec 1931 Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town The Dodge Orchestra ‘The Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription New York 1936 Two Guitars + Auf Wiedersehen George Shackley Ensemble ‘Nehi Program’ Radio Transcription New York 7 May 1932 Set 4 Tequila Ted Heath Orchestra ‘NBC International Bandstand’ London (BBC) 2 Mar 1959 Four Miles Davis and John Coltrane ‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NY 1957 Mambo The Most + Close Woody Herman’s Third Herd ‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Royal Grove Peony Park WOW NBC Omaha 1948 Set 5 Just As Long As The World Goes Around Claude Hopkins Orchestra Radio Transcription New York Oct 1935 King Porter Stomp Harry James Orchestra ‘America Dances’ BBC London via CBS New York 19 Jul 1939 Georgine Hans Rehmstedt Orchestra (voc) Rudi Schuricke Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1939 Prisoner’s Song Bunny Berrigan Orchestra Paradise Restaurant WABC CBS NY 10 Apr 1938 Set 6 Open + Fine & Mellow Billie Holliday ‘Art Ford Show’ New York 1956 Million Dollar Smile Dinah Washington (voc) Lionel Hampton Orchestra ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 16 Nov 1944 Deed I Do Lena Horne (voc) Fletcher Henderson Orchestra ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944 I Cover The Waterfront Sarah Vaughan ‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WPIX TV NY 13 Dec 1948 Set 7 K.C. Stride Count Basie Orchestra Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NY New York 21 Apr 1944 Wire Brush Stomp Gene Krupa Trio ‘Spotlight Bands’ Newport RI Blue Network 2 Oct 1944 Scuttlebutt Artie Shaw’s Gramercy 5 ‘Spotlight Bands’ Fort Ord Ca Blue Network 19 Sep 1945 Mr Chips + Blue’n’Boogie Billy Eckstine Orchestra ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Mar 1945 Set 8 BeBop Charlie Parker ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA New York 12 Feb 1949 Hoffnung Interview Gerard Hoffnung and Charles Richardson ‘Saturday Night on the Light’ BBC Light Programme London 1955 Dark Shadows Charlie Parker Quartet (inc Erroll Garner piano) Comm Rec Hollywood 19 Feb 1947 Sweet Lorraine Benny Goodman Trio Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca KNX CBS NY 26 Jan 1946

Julius Sumner Miller ‘Physics of Toys’ Part 2. Phantom Dancer Radio Swing Mix, 21 April 2015.

Hear today’s 2 hour non-stop swing mix for the next month live-streamed at 2SER.com/phantomdancer. (Scroll down to the bottom of the 21 April Phantom Dancer blog entry at 2ser.com to hear it.)

This is where I post for you the play list and Video of the Week of your weekly non-stop 2 hour swing jazz mix, The Phantom Dancer.

Presented by my good self, Greg Poppleton, The Phantom Dancer is live every Tuesday on 107.3 2SER from 12 noon (+ 10 GMT). The Phantom Dancer is also streamed online at http://www.2ser.com. where you’ll also find an archive of past shows for you to enjoy.

This week, in the 2 hour radio mix, you’ll hear swing and jazz from live 1920s – 60s radio by Bilie Holliday, Miles Davis, Art Tatum, Benny Goodman with Charlie Christian and more.

See the play list below…

As this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, recorded at ABC-TV in Sydney in 1969, Julius Sumner Miller investigates ‘The Physics of Toys’ Part 2. This is program 29 in the series, ‘Dramatic Demonstrations In Physics’. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #154 2SER Tuesday 21 Apr 2015 12 noon – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) Set 1 Open + Panamania Leith Stevens Orchestra ‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jun 1937 T’ain’t What You Do It’s The Way How You Do It Freddy Monroe (Frankie Masters) Orchestra ‘Streamlined Interview’ WJSV CBS Washington 21 Sep 1939 Ad + Flight of a Hay Bag Paul Whiteman Orchestra ‘Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 2 Feb 1936 Set 2 There’s a Small Hotel Teddy Stauffer and his Original Teddies (voc) Billy Toffel Comm Rec Berlin 30 Sep 1936 Ad + You’re The Top + Ad Cole Porter ‘Fleischman Yeast Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NY 13 Dec 1934 Open + Hold Me + Idolising + Cuban Love Song Larry Taylor (voc) with Orchestra ‘Melody Lane’ Radio Transcription 1936 Set 3 Cirribirribin (Open) + Noodlin’ Harry James Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom AFRTS Re-broadcast 27 Nov 1959 Instrumental Ray Anthony Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania NY 12 Aug 1950 Prelude to a Kiss + Things Ain’t What They Used To Be Duke Ellington Orchestrs Basin Street CBS NY KNX Los Angeles Aircheck 16 Apr 1956 Set 4 No. 10 Ritchie Drive Gene Krupa Trio ‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Astor Roof NY AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jan 1945 Joshua Fought The Battle of Jericho Paul Laval’s Woodwinds ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue 28 Jul 1941 I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling Wild Bill Davison ‘This Is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 24 May 1947 Set 5 Tenderly Gene Krupa Quartet London House WBBM CBS Chicago 13 Mar 1959 Open + Walkin’ Miles Davis All-Stars ‘Bandstand USA’ Birdland WOR Mutual New York 3 Jan 1959 Set 6 Nola Claude Hopkins Orchestra Radio Transcription New York 18 Oct 1935 It Had to Be You Artie Shaw Orchestra Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 25 Nov 1938 Open + Boogie Woogie Maxixe Bob Crosby Orchestra Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 25 Mar 1940 Rigmarole + Close Jan Savitt Orchestra KYW Studio Launch Philadelphia 14 Sep 1937 Set 7 You Go To My Head Billie Holliday Storyville Copley Square Hotel WMEX Boston Late 1953 Open + Bensonality Duke Ellington Orchestra Blackhawk Restaurant WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jun 1952/div> Every Tub Count Basie Orchestra ‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WRCA NBC NY 14 Jan 1953 Cherokee Art Tatum ℗ Murray MacEachern Orchestra Aircheck Los Angeles 1952 Set 8 Sheik of Araby Benny Goodman Sextet Aircheck Los Angeles 12 Aug 1940 Rachel’s Dream Benny Goodman Esquire Jazz Concert Metropolitan Opera House WJZ Blue Network 18 Jan 1944 Stop Beatin’ ‘Round The Mulberry Bush Fats Waller WEAF NBC Red NY 16 Jul 1938 I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me Coleman Hawkins Orchestra WABC CBS NY Savoy Ballroom, Harlem 1940