Little Jack Little – Phantom Dancer 7 December 2021

Little Jack Little is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Born John Leonard
in London, he was a British-born American composer, singer, pianist, actor and songwriter.

His compositions include “Jealous”, “I Promise You”, “A Shanty in Old Shanty Town” and “You’re a Heavenly Thing”.

LISTEN to this Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 7 December) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

I’m Greg Poppleton, The Phantom Dancer producer and presenter every week on 107.3 2SER radio Sydney since 1985.

LITTLE

Little Jack Little, his stage name derived from his birth name and height, started as a piano player and singer in vaudeville in 1917 aged 17 or 18.

In an article in the New York Times it was explained that, “he would introduce his songs in a soft, almost whispering voice, while executing a series of little arpeggios and other piano embellishments. His radio approach was reminiscent of the arrival of a cheerful songbird.”

JACK

In 1930, Little Jack Little recorded a series of piano/vocal radio transcriptions titled, “Yors Very Truly, Little Jack Little” which evoked the atmosphere of a genial host at home trying out the latest sheet music on the piano.
He continued with this style on radio throughout his career which spanned WW2 (when he also toured USO shows with Jack Bolger) and into the 1950s on TV.

Here’s a list of his 1930s transcriptions, one of which you can enjoy on this week’s Phantom Dancer:
42300 A “ST. LOUIS BLUES”  10-06-30 :12:25

42300 B “LET THEM BE THEIR OWN JUDGES”  10-09-30 :13:35

42300 C “DIZZY FINGERS”  10-11-30 :13:14

42300 D “LOVE YOUR MAGIC SPELL IS  10-13-30 :13:14
EVERYWHERE”

42300 E “INDIAN LOVE CALL”  10-16-30 :13:27

42301 A “THE VOICE OF THE PUBLIC”  10-18-30 :13:21

42301 B “WHEN THE LITTLE RED ROSES GET 10-20-30 :13:16
THE BLUES FOR YOU”

42301 C “TELLING IT TO THE DAISIES” 10-23-30 :13:15

42301 D “LITTLE GYPSY SWEETHEART” 10-25-30 :13:20

53144 A “SWEEPING THE CLOUDS AWAY” 11-03-30 :13:02

53144 B “LUCKY LITTLE DEVIL”  11-06-30 :13:27

53144 C “I’M SAILING ON A SUMBEAM” 11-08-30 :13:15

53144 D “THE MAN FROM THE SOUTH” 11-10-30 :13:27

In 1933 he started his own orchestra (which you can see in the soundie above), playing hotels in New York City, Atlantic City, Miami, Los Angeles and Chicago

His wife died in 1948, by the mid-50s he was being treated for hepatitis and was depressed.

In 1956, Little was found dead in bed by a maid. An autopsy revealed that traces of chloral hydrate or barbiturates in his stomach.

He left farewell notes to various people, including, “I know I’m dying and I’m afraid of the suffering I’ll have to go through,” and “All My Friends, Thanks for all the wonderful friendships and good times together. A little advice-take it easy, you’ll last longer. Always, Jack.”

7 DECEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #521
107.3 2SER Tuesday7 DECEMBER 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Horace Heidt
Open + Margie	Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca. AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Jan 1945
Star Dust	Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights (voc) Gene Walsh	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca. AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Jan 1945
One of These Days	Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca. AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Jan 1945
Brazil + Begin the Beguine	Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca. AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Jan 1945
Set 2	Bell Sisters
Theme + Do It Again	The Bell Sisters	‘Stand By For Music’ Radio Transcription 12 Jan 1955
A Fool Such As I	The Bell Sisters	‘Stand By For Music’ Radio Transcription 12 Jan 1955
Glowworm	Frank deVol Orchestra	‘Stand By For Music’ Radio Transcription 12 Jan 1955
Take Back Your Gold + Close	The Bell Sisters	‘Stand By For Music’ Radio Transcription 12 Jan 1955
Set 3	JImmy Dorsey Trad Band
Open + Georgia On My Mind	Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Jazz Band	‘Marine Corp Show’ Radio Transcription 1950
Instrumental	Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Jazz Band	‘Marine Corp Show’ Radio Transcription 1950
It’s a Long Way to Tipperary	Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Jazz Band	‘Marine Corp Show’ Radio Transcription 1950
Deep in the Heart of Texas + Close	Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Jazz Band	‘Marine Corp Show’ Radio Transcription 1950
Set 4	Little Jack Little
I’m Sailing on a Sunbeam	Little Jack Little	‘Yours Very Truly, Little Jack Little’ Radio Transcription’ New York City 11 Aug 1930
Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love	Little Jack Little	‘Yours Very Truly, Little Jack Little’ Radio Transcription’ New York City 11 Aug 1930
My Wild Irish Rose + I Don’t Need Atmosphere To Fall In Love With You + Close	Little Jack Little	‘Yours Very Truly, Little Jack Little’ Radio Transcription’ New York City 11 Aug 1930
Set 5	Fats Waller
Frenesi	Fats Waller	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 3 Dec 1940
You’re The One	Fats Waller (voc) Kay Perry	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 3 Dec 1940
Flat Foot Floogie	Fats Waller	Aircheck Yacht Club NYC 14 Oct 1938
After You’ve Gone	Fats Waller	Aircheck Yacht Club NYC 14 Oct 1938
Set 6	Eddie Condon
Rosetta	Eddie Condon	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 16 Sep 1944
Memphis Blues	Eddie Condon	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 16 Sep 1944
There’ll Be Some Changes Made	Eddie Condon (voc) Red McKenzie	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 16 Sep 1944
I Would Do Anything For You	Eddie Condon	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 16 Sep 1944
Set 7	Miles
Open + Sid’s Ahead	Miles Davis	The Spotlight Washington DC Mutual Feb 1959
Set 8	1940s Swing Radio
I’m Always Chasing Rainbows	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Jan 1946
Swanee	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 3 Dec 1945
Hitsum Kitsum	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Quartet	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mitchell Field Long Is NY Blue Network 15 Jan 1945
Even Stevens	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mitchell Field Long Is NY Blue Network 15 Jan 1945

Gogo DeLys – Phantom Dancer 30 November 2021

Gogo DeLys Canadian band singer in the US and actor, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.

LISTEN to this Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 30 November) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

I’m Greg Poppleton, The Phantom Dancer producer and presenter every week on 107.3 2SER radio Sydney since 1985.

GOGO

Gogo DeLys was born on August 17, 1908 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada as Marie Gabrielle Belanger. She was an actress, known for Northern Exposure (1933), No Sale (1938) and Television Highlights (1936). She was married to Robert L. Redd. She died on February 19, 2003 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

The film, Television Highlights, was a Mentone Brevity short that featured an early-day Henny Youngman (billed as Henry Youngman). Gogo DeLys (the correct version of her name), old-timer Lew Hearn and Powers’ Prom Girls. Youngman is the emcee at the Yacht Club nightclub who is trying to get Lew Hearn to buy a television set on which unbooked vaudeville acts are performing.

DELYS

DeLys performed in a talent show while she was a law student at the University of Southern California. A talent scout saw her and turned her career plans from law to singing.

Dubbed “the Canadian Canary” by newspaper columnist Walter Winchell, DeLys was active professionally from the 1920s into the 1940s. In 1928, she performed in vaudeville shows headed by Eddie Peabody and Paul Ash.

Before January 1931, DeLys had moved from Vancouver to Los Angeles, singing on radio station KHJ, where Radio Digest magazine said, “she promptly became an instantaneous hit”. By June 1931, DeLys had become the female vocalist with Georgie Stoll and his orchestra. The following year she sang with Jimmy Grier’s orchestra.

She appeared alongside Fred Astaire and Dick Powell in the big stage shows of Fanchon and Marco.

On radio, DeLys sang with Jerry Joyce’s Boys. She also sang on the radio shows, Little Ol’ Hollywood, Your Hit Parade, and Carefree Carnival. She also had her own show on NBC, “Gogo DeLys Sings.”

In 1936, she had her own twice-weekly program on CBS, and in 1937 she was featured with The Norsemen, James Melton, and Don Voorhees’ orchestra in a series of transcribed programs sponsored by Rexall. In July 1937, Mid-Summer Night’s Serenade debuted on CBS with DeLys as its star. A review in the trade publication Radio Daily described the program as “a well-balanced 15 minutes of evening music.”

Gogo DeLys on radio in 1940…

Gogo DeLys recorded several hits with the Grier band for Brunswick Records, including “Moonstruck,” “Sugar Plum” and “Secondhand Heart for Sale.” You’ll hear her on this week’s Phantom Dancer with the Jimmy Grier Ambassador Hotel Cocoanut Grove Orchestra.

During her radio days, she met future husband, NBC executive Robert L. Redd. As Mrs. Redd, she devoted much of her time to the owning and racing of thoroughbred horses and working for various charity groups. She was a charter member of the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters and a recipient of the group’s Golden Canary Award.

She is survived by a daughter.

30 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #520
107.3 2SER Tuesday 30 NOVEMBER 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Tony Pastor
Saturday Night  is the Lonliest Night of the Week	Tony Pastor Orchestra (voc) Ruth MacKellar	‘One Night Stand’ Jantzen Beach Portland OR AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945
Sunday in Savannah	Tony Pastor Orchestra (voc) Tony Pastor	‘One Night Stand’ Jantzen Beach Portland OR AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945
Bell Bottom Trousers	Tony Pastor Orchestra (voc) Tony Pastor and Ruth MacKellar	‘One Night Stand’ Jantzen Beach Portland OR AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945
I Got Rhythm + Close (Temptation)	Tony Pastor Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Jantzen Beach Portland OR AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945
Set 2	Jack Smith and Martha Tilton
This Is It	Jack Smith	‘Jack Smith Show’ WABC CBS NYC 19 Jun 1947
I’ll Be Yours (Komm Zurueck)	Jack Smith	‘Jack Smith Show’ WABC CBS NYC 19 Jun 1947
I’ll Walk Alone + It Might As Well Be Spring	Martha Tilton	‘Jack Smith Show’ WABC CBS NYC 19 Jun 1947
One More Dream + The Same Time, The Same Place (theme)	Jack Smith	‘Jack Smith Show’ WABC CBS NYC 19 Jun 1947
Set 3	Date with the Duke
Take the A Train (theme) + Bluetopia	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ 400 Restauarnt New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Jun 1945
Sentimental Journey	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ 400 Restauarnt New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Jun 1945
Passion Flower	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ 400 Restauarnt New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Jun 1945
Air Conditioned Jungle	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ 400 Restauarnt New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 30 Jun 1945
Set 4	GoGo DeLys
Music in the Moonlight (theme) + It’s Time To Love	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo DeLys	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1932
Too Many Tears	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo DeLys	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1932
Tomorrow + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo DeLys	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1932
Set 5	1930s German Swing
Dieses Leid hat keinen Text	Evelyn Kuennecke (voc) Peter Igelhoff Orch	Comm Rec Berlin
Ueber die Daecher der grossen Stadt	Rudi Schuericke Terzett (voc) Hans Carste Orch	Comm Rec Berlin
Ti Pi Tin	Erwin Hartung (voc) Scala Orchestra	Comm Rec Berlin
Qui Madame	Peter Igelhoff (voc) and his Ensemble	Comm Rec Berlin
Set 6	Count Basie
Moten Swing (theme) + One Oclock Jump	Count Basie	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ Nov 1937
I’ll Always Be In Love With You	Count Basie	Savoy Ballroom NYC Aircheck 30 Jun 1937
Every Tub + Song of the Wanderer	Count Basie	‘America Dances’ Famous Door WABC CBS NYC BBC London Jul 1938
Bugle Blues + Moten Swing (theme)	Count Basie	Savoy Ballroom NYC Aircheck 30 Jun 1937
Set 7	Miles
Open + Walkin’	Miles Davis	‘Bandstand USA’ Birdland WOR Mutual NYC 3 Jan 1959
Set 8	1940s Swing Radio
Lucky	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Jan 1946
Swanee	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 3 Dec 1945
Hitsum Kitsum	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Quartet	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mitchell Field Long Is NY Blue Network 15 Jan 1945
Even Stevens	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mitchell Field Long Is NY Blue Network 15 Jan 1945

Hotel Astor 1910s-60s Gay Bar & Hate Crimes – Phantom Dancer 23 November 2021

Hotel Astor in New York City, the source of many a big band broadcast on The Phantom Dancer is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. The Astor was a hotel located in the Times Square area of Manhattan, New York City. It was open from 1904 until its demolition in 1967, the same year Sydney lost its home for name dance bands, The Trocadero. Starting in the 1910s, the Astor Bar acquired a reputation as a gay meeting place, where gay patrons were both accepted and extorted.

LISTEN to this Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 23 November) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

I’m Greg Poppleton, The Phantom Dancer producer and presenter every week on 107.3 2SER radio Sydney since 1985.

Here’s some exterior Hotel Astor footage from 1961…

SAFE GAY BAR

Beginning in the 1910s, the Astor Bar acquired a reputation as a gay meeting place. During World War II, the Astor Bar was one of three American hotel bars “world famous for their wartime ambience”, alongside the Top of the Mark at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco, and the men’s bar at the Los Angeles Biltmore.

Gay patrons at the Astor Bar were welcomed, allotted an entire side of the oval bar, and expected to be discreet (by the standards of the time). Thus “the Astor maintained its public reputation as an eminently respectable Times Square rendezvous, while its reputation as a gay rendezvous and pickup bar assumed legendary proportions.” The bar was further immortalized in Cole Porter’s song “Well, Did You Evah!”, which includes the line, “Have you heard that Mimsie Starr / Just got pinched in the Astor Bar?”

Here is Tommy Dorsey & Bunny Berrigan broadcasting from The Hotel Astor Roof in 1940…

GAY EXTORTION

In the 1960s, prominent gay men at the Astor ran the risk of extortion. The extortion racked was busted by the NYPD and FBI, the first case law enforcement in the US, worked to bring justice to gay victims of crime.

The following story is from Slate. You can read the full story here: https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/07/the-chickens-and-the-bulls-the-rise-and-incredible-fall-of-a-vicious-extortion-ring-that-preyed-on-prominent-gay-men-in-the-1960s.html

The NYPD and the FBI, working in parallel (and sometimes at odds), would uncover and break a massive gay extortion ring whose viciousness and criminal flair was without precedent.

The Astor Hotel in Times Square, notorious for the young men who lounged on the “meat rack” outside it, and for the circular bar in the Orangerie which was popular with theatre people, was one of the main venues across the US where this extortion occurred, labeled ‘Chicken and Bulls’.

Impersonating corrupt vice-squad detectives, members of this ring, known in police parlance as bulls, used young, often underage men known as chickens to successfully blackmail closeted pillars of the establishment. The chickens employed by the ring had an exceptionally sharp sense of what we now call gaydar.”

In almost every case, after making contact, the chicken would accompany the mark up to his room, or suggest another hotel where they could go. Once in the room, one of two scenarios would follow…

In some cases, the bulls would wait until the two men had gotten themselves into a compromising position before bursting into the room and identifying themselves as vice squad detectives, capitalizing on the fear, panic and surprise they induced in the victim to then extort the victim.

Among the prominent men extorted by the ring were a navy admiral, two generals, a U.S. congressman, a prominent surgeon, an Ivy League professor, a prep school headmaster, and several well-known actors, singers, and television personalities.

The ring operated for almost a decade, victimized thousands, and took in at least $2 million. When he announced in 1966 that the ring had been broken up, Manhattan DA Frank Hogan said the victims had all been shaken down “on the threat that their homosexual proclivities would be exposed unless they paid for silence.”

In almost every case, after making contact, the chicken would accompany the mark up to his room, or suggest another hotel where they could go instead. Once in the room, one of two scenarios would follow…

EXTORTION SCENARIO 1

The bulls would wait until the two men had gotten themselves into a compromising position before bursting into the room and identifying themselves as vice squad detectives, capitalizing on the fear, panic, and surprise they induced in the victim as they initiated what they referred to as the play.

The bulls would explain the penalties for violating sodomy laws or corrupting a minor, then demand an outright bribe, or as they did to the Princeton professor, suggest that the victim pay “bail money” as a way of avoiding making his arrest public, or prison. In some cases the bulls might induce a payoff by putting a victim together in a room with another man they pretended to have arrested for the same thing elsewhere in the hotel. That other man might say something like: “Hey, I can’t afford to be arrested. I’m going to offer them money, what about you?” Having the victim induce the payoff, rather than demand the money outright, lowered the criminals’ exposure in court.

In some instances after an “arrest,” the bogus cops would park their “unmarked” vehicle outside a police station, ostensibly to check whether the duty captain might OK dropping the charges if a payment was arranged, which tended to encourage the victim to comply. In other more resistant cases, the blackmailers would bring their victims right into night court in lower Manhattan, with one of the bulls sitting the victim down in the back of the courtroom while another argued at the rail with the calendar clerk about the arraignment schedule or a mutual friend “On the Job.”

In at least one case, the phony cops bluffed a sleepy desk sergeant into putting a victim into a holding cell overnight when the bogus detectives, who said they were from another precinct, told the sergeant they had another call to handle.

After the victim broke, everyone would return to the hotel to wait until the banks opened. As the victim squirmed or sat in shock, the bulls might blithely pass the time playing cards. At 9 a.m., they would be standing in line with the mark, in case the teller asked any suspicious questions or the victim signaled for help. Often the sums were so large, the teller would have to bring a supervisor over for authorization, heightening the tension. Sometimes they took everything the victim had. They wiped people out.

SCENARIO 2

In this scenario the chicken would simply rob the mark in the hotel room, making off with his wallet. The hustler would keep any cash, but his handlers would then use the victim’s driver’s license, credit cards, or employment ID to run a background check, often with the assistance of the crooked cops in police intelligence or clerical units on their payroll. This was how they determined who they had entrapped and whether they were worth targeting. They were looking for people who really had something to lose, people who were vulnerable and had the resources to pay them what they wanted.

Full story at https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/07/the-chickens-and-the-bulls-the-rise-and-incredible-fall-of-a-vicious-extortion-ring-that-preyed-on-prominent-gay-men-in-the-1960s.html

Hotel Astor in the 1910s…

23 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #519
107.3 2SER Tuesday 23 NOVEMBER 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Vaughan Monroe
Dardenella	Vaughan Monroe Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Commodore New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Feb 1945
Twilight Time	Vaughan Monroe Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Commodore New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Feb 1945
I Walked In	Vaughan Monroe Orchestra (voc) Vaughan Monroe	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Commodore New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Feb 1945
Candy Kid’s Note to a Classy Chassis + Close	Vaughan Monroe Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Commodore New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Feb 1945
Set 2	Now and Then Time
Stumbling	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Georgia Gibbs – Paul Whiteman Show’ Blue Network 22 Jul 1945
You’re Driving Me Crazy	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Paul Whiteman Show’ ABC 1950
Everybody Step	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 24 Jun 1945
Set 3	Date with the Duke
Daydream	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ Toledo OH AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
One O’Clock Jump	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ Toledo OH AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Otto, Play That Riff Staccato	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ Toledo OH AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Meditation	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘Date With The Duke’ Toledo OH AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
Set 4	Hotel Astor
Theme + Someday I’ll Meet You Again	Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) Sammy Kaye	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Astor Roof New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Aug 1944
Stompin’ at the Savoy	Gene Krupa Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WOR Mutual NY 15 Aug 1945
Feet Draggin’ Blues	Harry James Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WABC CBS NY 28 Aug 1942
Crazy Rhythm	Harry James Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WABC CBS NY 28 Aug 1942
Set 5	Harry Richman
Open + It’s Dangerous To Love Like This	Harry Richman and the Dodge Orchestra (voc) Frank Parker	‘Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription 1936
Susannah	Harry Richman and the Dodge Orchestra (voc) Harry Richman	‘Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription 1936
Alone	Harry Richman and the Dodge Orchestra (voc) Frank Parker	‘Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription 1936
There’s Something About a Soldier	The Dodge Orchestra	‘Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription 1936
Set 6	Louis Arnstrong
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans	Louis Armstrong	Wintergarden Theatre WNBC NBC NY 19 Jun 1947
Swinging on a Star	Louis Armstrong	‘Spotlight Bands’ Tuskagee AL Blue Network 5 Oct 1944
I Never Knew	Louis Armstrong	‘Spotlight Bands’ Dallas TX Blue Network 17 Aug 1945
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love + Close	Louis Armstrong	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1943
Set 7	Eddie Condon
Gershwin Medley	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 1948
Blues Round My Head	Eddie Condon Group (voc) Woody Herman	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 27 Jan 1945
I’m Coming Virginia	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 29 Jul 1944
Love Me or Leave Me	Eddie Condon Group (voc) Sarah Vaughan	‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948
Set 8	1940s Swing Radio
Rattle and Roll	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Jan 1946
Lady Be Good	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 16 Oct 1944
Hitsum Kitsum	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Quartet	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mitchell Field Long Is NY Blue Network 15 Jan 1945
Even Stevens	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Mitchell Field Long Is NY Blue Network 15 Jan 1945

Casa Loma 1920s-40s Ork Collective – Phantom Dancer 16 November 2021

Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. It was a collective that was the top swing band before Benny Goodman. Loved for its complex, danceable arrangements, Coleman Hawkins named it as his favourite band.

HEAR this Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 16 November) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

I’m Greg Poppleton and I’ve brought you The Phantom Dancer every week on 107.3 2SER radio Sydney since 1985.

Here’s a 1941 Warner Brothers short of the band featuring Lindy Hoppers, Dean Collins and Jewel McGowan. Key band soloists are also introduced in the fimal song…

COLLECTIVE

The Casa Loma Orchestra began in 1927 as a unit of the Jean Goldkette organisation under the name ‘Orange Blossoms’. Orange Blossoms, in the early 20th century was the newspaper headline for reports on wedding receptions.

The name, Casa Loma, came in 1929 when they were booked to play at the Casa Loma in Toronto, which suddenly closed. Stranded in that city, the musicians formed a musical collective, first under the direction of violinist Hank Biagini. In 1933, saxophonist Glen Gray was voted to front the band as the ‘first among equals’.

In 1930, the Casa Loma Orchestra was incorporated in New York with the members becoming owners, shareholders and board members. The band members were hired on the grounds of musical and congenial competence and followed strict conduct and financial rules. Because the band operated as a collective group, as opposed to almost all other bands that had a leader for whom everyone worked, the band maintained a stable collection of personnel that varied little. Members who broke the rules could be summoned before the board, have their contract bought out, and be ejected from the band.

Even the orchestra’s talent arranger, Gene Gifford, who created the unique Casa Loma sound, fell victim to the band’s strict rules, being bought out in 1935 for alcohol-related infractions.

In 1943, Eugenie Baird became the first woman vocalist with the Casa Loma Orchestra.

Here she is being interviewed by Guy Lombardo on 1955 TV. She also sings, You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You…

RADIO

The orchestra featured in the mid-1930s incarnation of the long-running ‘Camel Caravan’ series, which you’ll hear an excerpt from on this week’s Phantom Dancer. You’ll also hear a radio transcription of their famous sound made in 1934, and the orchestra live in 1943 and on the air with Eugenie Baird singing in 1944.

16 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #518
107.3 2SER Tuesday 16 NOVEMBER 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Ginny Simms Show
Theme + Come To Baby	Ginny Simms (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra	‘The Ginny Simms Show’ WABC CBS NYC 11 Jan 1946
I’ll Always Be With You	Alton Williams (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra	‘The Ginny Simms Show’ WABC CBS NYC 11 Jan 1946
What a Deal	Ginny Simms (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra	‘The Ginny Simms Show’ WABC CBS NYC 11 Jan 1946
Indian Love Song	Ginny Simms and Gene Kelly (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra	‘The Ginny Simms Show’ WABC CBS NYC 11 Jan 1946
Set 2	Cocoanut Grove
Music in the Moonlight (theme) + Say That You Are Teasing Me	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo Delys	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1932
Bon Voyage to Your Ship of Dreams	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Donald Novis	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1932
Dinah + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) The Three Cheers	‘Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1932
Set 3	Glen Gray 1945 Radio
Smoke Rings (theme) + Begin the Beguine	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (cl) Fats Daniels	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocan Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Oct 1945
A Door Will Open	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Skip Nelson	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocan Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Oct 1945
Midnight	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocan Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Oct 1945
What a Drag	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Fats Daniel	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocan Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Oct 1945
Set 4	Glen Gray Vinyl
Maniac’s Ball	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1934
Zonky	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 17 Dec 1935
My Heart Tells Me	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Eugenie Baird	Aircheck Hotel New Yorker Aug 1944
Blackberry Jam	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Columbus OH AFRS Re-broadcast 19 Nov 1943
Set 5	1920s Orchestras
My Mother Was a  Lady + She May Have Seen Better Days	Tonsorial Twitterbugs Quartet	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem	Paul Lavalle	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
The Booglie Wooglie Piggy	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Beyond the Moon	Toots Mondello	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Bugle Woogie + Close	Henry Levine	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1941
Set 6	Boogie Piano
Original Boogie	Lil Armstrong	‘DuPont Show of the Week’ ‘Chicago and All That Jazz’ NBC TV 26 Nov 1961
Who Put The Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine?	Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson	Radio Transcription 8 Feb 1946
Piano Boogie	Dorothy Donegan	Comm Rec Chicago 1942
What’s His Story?	Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson	Radio Transcription 8 Feb 1946
Set 7	Eddie Condon
Blues + Riverboat Shuffle	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 1948
St Louis Blues	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 27 Jan 1945
Davenport Blues	Carl Kress and Tony Mottola guitar duet	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 22 Jul 1944
Blues	Eddie Condon Group with Charlie Barnet and Charlie Shavers	‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948
Set 8	1940s Swing Radio
Let’s Dance (theme) + Darktown Strutters’ Ball	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS NYC 21 Jul 1944
Loose Wig	Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 16 Oct 1944
Honeydripper	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Quartet	‘Spotlight Bands’ Jefferson Barracks, Missouri Blue Network 23 Nov 1945
Wham + Close	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Jefferson Barracks, Missouri Blue Network 23 Nov 1945

Garwood Van, Band Leader, Politician – Phantom Dancer 2 November 2021

Garwood Van is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. Songwriter of ‘Time to Dream’ and dance band leader from 1936, Garwood Van also was an actor in ‘Love on Tap’ (1939).

Garwood Van held long residencies at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, the Trocadero, Ciro’s and Florentine Gardens in Los Angeles. The band’s theme song was Poinciana. Featured vocalists included Gail Storm, Wally Ruth and Maxine Conrad. After giving up the band scene, he operated a successful record shop and music store in Las Vegas.

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GARWOOD VAN

From the ‘Las Vegas Sun’, Wednesday, April 28, 1999

Headline: Former big-band leader, community activist Van dies
by Jace Radke

In the early 1940s and ’50s visitors to the Las Vegas Strip were dancing to the big-band sound, and many were tapping away to the orchestra of Garwood Van “the Music Man.”

Van, who worked with the likes of Sammy Davis Jr., Vic Damone, Andy Williams and Liberace, died at the age of 88 on Sunday. He gave Redd Foxx his first gig.

Van first played Las Vegas in 1942 at the Hotel El Rancho Vegas and later conducted orchestras at the Last Frontier, Flamingo, Thunderbird, Dunes and New Frontier hotels.

G. Barney Rawlings, a former Strip performer and singing emcee who logged more than 3,000 consecutive performances at the Thunderbird, remembers Van’s talents and his distinctive voice.

“He was one of the last big-band leaders in the old days, and he always had the top players,” Rawlings said. “I must have met him the first week after he moved to town, and I still remember his low, scratchy voice.

“He always talked like he had a sore throat, but he sure knew how to lead that band.”

In 1952 Van met his wife, Joan, in Lake Tahoe where she was working as a dancer. They were married and moved to Las Vegas the same year.

Joan Van saw her husband play his style of music for many, including President Ronald Reagan.

“His band just had a sweet dance sound,” Van said of her husband. “It was melodic and maybe a little like the sound of Lester Lannon’s band.”

In 1959 the Vans opened Garwood Van’s Musicland, and quickly built it into one of Nevada’s largest music stores.

Van took time away from his business and music to give to his community, Rawlings said.

“We were cut from the same pattern of becoming part of the community that we were performing in,” Rawlings said. “He didn’t just go to work and forget about the community when he was done performing.

“He didn’t just ride along. He was out supporting the city.”

In 1976 Van, a Republican, unsuccessfully ran for the County Commission. He had touted his business experience and sensitivity to issues.

“One promise I can make right now is to run an entirely open campaign and, if elected, serve my constituents with integrity and dedication,” Van said in an August 1979 Sun story.

Van held several administrative positions in various Las Vegas groups and organizations.

He served as a director and song leader for the Las Vegas Rotary Club, was a member of the Civilian Military Council, a president of the Merchants Bureau of Greater Las Vegas and a member of the Chamber of Commerce.

Van, who was an avid golfer, was a member of the Las Vegas Country Club and was vice president of the Desert Inn Country Club.

“He loved to golf and was out on the course as much as he could be,” Joan Van said. “He wasn’t able to get out as much after he had a hip operation a couple years ago, and he missed golf.”

Van was also a member of the Musicians Locals 47 and 369.

Van is survived by his wife and son, Gary Van, both of Las Vegas.

A PERSONAL STORY

From a site called Audiokarma, a Musicland employee in 2019 wrote the following personal reminiscence about her employer, Garwood Van…

“I worked at Garwood Van’s Musicland in the late 60s/early 70s while attending college at what is now University of Nevada at Las Vegas but was then named Nevada Southern University. Musicland was a large record and stereo component shop located at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue, where the Bonanza Shopping Center is now.

This is back in the day when records were arranged in alphabetical order in waist-level bins according to genre.

Garwood was in his sixties when I knew him, but he had been a well-known band leader in Las Vegas since he started at the old El Rancho in 1942.

He and his ex-dancer wife Joan owned and managed the shop. Sometimes his son Gary Paul Van (also deceased) would work, too.

Garwood was a very nice man, and I would give him a ride home in my ’54 Pontiac when needed, and he would tell me stories about Las Vegas. Several entertainers would stop in and shop at his store when they were in town, including Paul Anka. I think I waited on George Harrison once, unfortunately trying to steer him to an album by Emerson, Lake and Palmer, when he had asked about the popularity of his own latest album, but I really loved “Lucky Man” more than “My Sweet Lord” — He had asked my preferences and each to their own?

I remember how eagerly anticipated new music was, and we used to play the newest tunes, which were piped outside, and one morally irate gentleman roared into the store to violently object to our first spin of Paul Simon’s “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover.”

It was an interesting time – Vietnam, civil rights, great music, various experimentations, etc., all in a town which was such a strange mixture of Mormons and mob.

Garwood was pretty conservative, but he also ran the Pussycat a Go-Go with his partner Joe Yip from 64-72, a popular club where I enjoyed seeing acts like Sly and the Family Stone – Hilarious to see them roll out of their bus in a cloud of smoke, patchouli, satins, and sparkles when it was time to get on stage. (Jim Morrison was arrested there when his cigarette was mistaken for a joint in 1968. I was tossed out in 1969 for dancing with a Black man who was a great dancer, but the temporary twosome was not culturally acceptable in Las Vegas back then.) The Pussycat was located on the Strip near where the Palazzo Casino is now.

2 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #516
107.3 2SER Tuesday 2 NOVEMBER 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	1940s One Night Stand Radio
Girl of my Dreams	Randy Brooks Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 17 Nov 1945
I Love Yoy	Jack Teagarden Orchestra (voc) Phyllis Lane	‘One Night Stand’ Coral Gables Weymouth Mass. AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Aug 1944
They Didn’t Believe Me + Blue Moon (close)	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast 26 Jul 1945
Set 2	Stan Kenton
Open + Taboo	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Lakeside Ballroom Dayton OH WLW NBC Cincinati 16 Sep 1952
Impressionism	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Devine’s Million Dollar Ballroom WTMJ NBC Milwaukee 10 Jun 1952
Limelight + Close	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Student Union Building Teachers’ College WBOW NBC Terre Haute 16 Jun 1953
Set 3	1950s Jazz Radio
Route 66	Bobby Troup Trio (voc) Bobby Troup	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Cameo Club WRCA NBC NYC 1956
The Goof and I	Woody Herman’s Third Herd	‘Monitor’ Basin Street WRCA NBC NYC 26 Jun 1955
Sleep + Close	Buddy Hamilton Quintet	‘Jazz International’ AFRTS Hollywood 16 Jun 1960
Set 4	Garwood Van
Theme: Poinciana. Medley: Rise and Sine / I Want To Be Happy	Garwood Van Orchestra	Starlight Room Hotel Chase Mutual Network St Louis 9 Aug 1944
Just a Memory	Garwood Van Orchestra	Starlight Room Hotel Chase Mutual Network St Louis 9 Aug 1944
Fine and Dandy	Garwood Van Orchestra	Starlight Room Hotel Chase Mutual Network St Louis 9 Aug 1944
Blue Caribean Sea	Garwood Van Orchestra	Starlight Room Hotel Chase Mutual Network St Louis 9 Aug 1944
Set 5	1920s Orchestras
I’m Just Wild About Animal Crackers	Irving Aaronson and his Commanders (voc) Quartet	Comm Rec NYC 23 Jun 1926
Pardon Me, Pretty Baby	Sam Lanin Orchestra	Hit of the Week Records NYC 13 Aug 1931
Nobody’s Sweetheart	Irving Mills Hotsy Totsy Gang	‘Brunswick Brevities’ Radio Transcription Oct 1929
I Found a Million Dollar Baby	Don Voorhees Orchestra	Hit of the Week Records NYC 10 Sep 1931
Set 6	1930s Cancer Stick Radio
To You	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby	Camel Caravan WABC CBS NYC 11 Jul 1939
Get On Board	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Johnny Mercer	Camel Caravan WABC CBS NYC 27 Jun 1939
My Inspiration	Bob Crosby Orchestra	Camel Caravan WABC CBS NYC 18 Jul 1939
If I Didn’t Care	Bob Crosby Orchestra	Camel Caravan WABC CBS NYC 4 Jul 1939
Set 7	Goodman Orchestra 1946
Somebody Stole My Gal	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Benny Goodman Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Jul 1946
Swing Angel	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 26 Jan 1946
And The Angels Sing	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton	‘Benny Goodman Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Jul 1946
Clarinade + Sweet Lorraine	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 26 Jan 1946
Set 8	Miles Davis
Moose The Mooche	Miles Davis	Comm Rec Hollywood 28 Mar 1946
Groovin’ High	Miles Davis	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WMCA NYC Royal Roost 11 Dec 1948
Bigfoot	Miles Davis	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WMCA NYC Royal Roost 11 Dec 1948
Ornitholgy	Miles Davis	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WMCA NYC Royal Roost 11 Dec 1948

Coon-Sanders Nighthawks – Phantom Dancer 26 Oct 2021

Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, from 1925-29 radio and recordings, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature. Started in 1918, as the Coon-Sanders Novelty Orchestra, this leading dancing orchestra and foundational member of the MCA agency was lead by drummer Carleton Coon and pianist Joe Sanders.

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TICKER TAPE MACHINE

The orchestra began broadcasting in 1922 on clear channel station WDAF, which could be received throughout the United States. They were broadcast in performance at the Muehlebach Hotel in Kansas City.

They took the name Nighthawks because they broadcast late at night (11:30pm to 1:00am). By 1924, their fan club had 37,000 members. Fans were encouraged to send in requests for songs by letter, telephone, or telegram. That move became so popular that Western Union set up a ticker tape between Sanders’s piano and Coon’s drums so the telegrams could be acknowledged during the broadcasts. Their song “Nighthawk Blues” includes the lines: “Tune right in on the radio/Grab a telegram and say ‘Hello’…”

BLACKHAWK

The group left Kansas City for the first time in 1924 for a three-month engagement in a roadhouse in Chicago, Illinois. The orchestra moved to Chicago the same year, where Jules Stein used the profits from a tour he booked for them to establish the Music Corporation of America (MCA), with the orchestra as its first client.

In 1925, they recorded the Paul Whiteman and Fred Rose composition “Flamin’ Mamie” which you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

The orchestra moved into the Blackhawk in Chicago in 1926. The members of the orchestra at that time were Joe Richolson and Bob Pope, trumpets; Rex Downing, trombone; Harold Thiell, John Thiell and Floyd Estep, saxophones; Joe Sanders, piano; Russ Stout, banjo and guitar; “Pop” Estep, tuba; Carleton Coon, drums. Teddy Roy also played with the group in the late 1920s.

In the following years, the Nighthawks performed at the Blackhawk every winter, doing remote broadcasts over radio station WGN. Their reputation spread coast-to-coast through these broadcasts and the many records they made for Victor Records. They also undertook successful road tours.

MEL TORME

Singer, and child prodigy, Mel Torme, first performed professionally at age four with the Coon-Sanders Orchestra, singing “You’re Driving Me Crazy” at Chicago’s Blackhawk restaurant.^[

In 1931, the orchestra moved to New York City, for an 11-month broadcast engagement at the Hotel New Yorker arranged by William S. Paley, who needed a star attraction to induce radio stations to join the Columbia Broadcasting System.

At the peak of the band’s success, the musicians owned identical Cord automobiles, each in a different color with the name of the Orchestra and the owner embossed on the rear. The Orchestra’s popularity showed no signs of abating, and their contract with MCA had another 15 years to run in the spring of 1932 when Carleton Coon came down with a jaw infection and he died on May 4 that year.

Sanders attempted to keep the organization going; however, without Coon, the public did not support them. In 1935, he formed his own group and played until the early 1940s, when he became a part-time orchestra leader and studio musician.

26 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #515
107.3 2SER Tuesday 26 OCTOBER 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	1940s One Night Stand Radio
My First Love	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Paul Charlie	‘One Night Stand’ Panther Room Hotel Sherman Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast Feb 1944
Sackhouse Stomp	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Panther Room Hotel Sherman Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast Feb 1944
No Love No Nothin’ + King Porter Stomp	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Gladys Tell	‘One Night Stand’ Panther Room Hotel Sherman Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast Feb 1944
Set 2	Guest Star
Open + With Every Breath I Take	Buddy Clark	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription NYC 12 Jun 1949
Far Away Places	Margaret Whiting	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription NYC 12 Jun 1949
Running Off the Rails	Ted Dale and the Contented Hour Orchestra	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription NYC 12 Jun 1949
Cheek to Cheek + Close	Buddy Clark and Contented Hour Singers	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription NYC 12 Jun 1949
Set 3	Chamber Music
By Heck + Fletcher’s Folly	Henry Levine	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 30 Jun 1941
In The Hush of the Night	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 30 Jun 1941
Angie-Wangie Blues + Close	Angie Watina	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 30 Jun 1941
Set 4	Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
Open + Harold Teen + Mississippi	Coon-Sanders Nighthawks (voc) Joe Sanders	‘Maytag Frolics’ Radio Transcription Chicago 1 Mar 1929
Flamin’ Mamie	Coon-Sanders Nighthawks (voc) Joe Sanders	Comm Rec Chicago 21 Dec 25
Bless You Sister	Coon-Sanders Nighthawks (voc) Joe Sanders	‘Maytag Frolics’ Radio Transcription Chicago 1 Mar 1929
Kansas City Kitty + What a Girl, What a Night!	Coon-Sanders Nighthawks (voc) Joe Sanders	‘Maytag Frolics’ Radio Transcription Chicago 1 Mar 1929
Set 5	Charlie Barnet Orchestra
Open + The Sergeant Was Shy	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ 400 Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Apr 1945
I Can’t Get Started	Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) Kay Starr	‘For The Record’ WEAF NBC NYC 11 Sep 1944
Murder at Peyton Hall	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 3 Jan 1947
Keep the Home Fires Burning + Close	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘For The Record’ WEAF NBC NYC 11 Sep 1944
Set 6	Cotton Club
Three Blind Mice	Duke Ellington Cotton Club Orchestra	Cotton Club WABC CBS NYC 17 Apr 1938
Downtown Uproar	Duke Ellington Cotton Club Orchestra	Cotton Club WABC CBS NYC 17 Apr 1938
If Dreams Come True	Duke Ellington Cotton Club Orchestra (voc) Ivie Anderson	Cotton Club WABC CBS NYC 24 May 1938
That Gal From Joes + Riding on a Blue Note	Duke Ellington Cotton Club Orchestra	Cotton Club WABC CBS NYC 1 May 1938
Set 7	Gimmick Band Radio Transcriptions
They Ought To Write a Book	Shep Field and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin	Radio Transcription 1940
Moonlight Serenade	Gray Gordon and his Tic Toc Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Cliff Grass	Radio Transcription 1939
Cecilia	Shep Field and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin	Radio Transcription 1940
You Are My Dream	Gray Gordon and his Tic Toc Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Cliff Grass	Radio Transcription 1939
Set 8	Charlie Parker
Half Nelson	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WMCA NYC Royal Roost 26 Feb 1949
Night in Tunisia	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WMCA NYC Royal Roost 26 Feb 1949
Theme + 52nd Street Theme	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WMCA NYC Royal Roost 4 Sep 1948
Ko-Ko	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WMCA NYC Royal Roost 4 Sep 1948

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107.3 2SER Tuesday 19 OCTOBER  & Saturday 23 OCTOBER 2021 Tuesday 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturday 5 – 6pm National Program will differ during 2SER Radiothon 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Subscribe online or call 9514 9500
Robin Hood	Louis Prima Orchestra (voc) Louis Prima	‘One Night Stand’ Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Dec 1944
Beloved	Louis Prima Orchestra (voc) Lily Ann Carroll	‘One Night Stand’ Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Dec 1944
Calypso Joe	Louis Prima Orchestra (voc) Al Porcino	‘One Night Stand’ Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 23 Dec 1944
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Music in the Moonlight (theme) + This Time It’s Love	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo Delys	Radio Transcription Transco Hollywood 1931
Lady Be Good	Jimmy Grier Orchestra	Radio Transcription Transco Hollywood 1931
Laying in the Hay + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Harry Foster	Radio Transcription Transco Hollywood 1931
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Theme + I Maybe Wrong	Jo Stafford and The Satisfiers	‘Supper Club’ WEAF NBC NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 10 Apr 1946
I Don’t Know Enough About You + You Always Hurt The One You Love	The Mills Brothers	‘Supper Club’ WEAF NBC NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 10 Apr 1946
Day by Day + Aren’t You Glad You’re You + Close	Jo Stafford and The Satisfiers	‘Supper Club’ WEAF NBC NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 10 Apr 1946
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Take the A Train Theme + Carnegie Blues	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC/AFRS 1945
Otto, Make That Riff Staccato	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ray Nance	‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC/AFRS 1945
All At Once	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC/AFRS 1945
Yesterdays + Blue Cellophane	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Kay Davis	‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC/AFRS 1945
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Open + Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White	Perez Prado Orchestra	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC NYC 24 Jul 1953
Bilo	Perez Prado Orchestra	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC NYC 24 Jul 1953
Whatever Lola Wants + Close	Perez Prado Orchestra	‘All Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC NYC 24 Jul 1953
Set 6	Subscribe online or call 9514 9500
Tin Roof Blues (theme) + That’s A’Plenty	Pee Wee Erwin and his Dixieland 6	‘One Night Stand’ Nick’s NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Dec 1950
Wolverine Blues	Pee Wee Erwin and his Dixieland 6	‘One Night Stand’ Nick’s NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Dec 1950
Beale Street Blues	Pee Wee Erwin and his Dixieland 6	‘One Night Stand’ Nick’s NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Dec 1950
Set 7	Subscribe online or call 9514 9500
Picon Concerto for Licorice Stick	Paul Lavalle Woodwinds	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941
Long, Long Ago	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941
Good Night for a Murder	George Barnes	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941
Fletcher’s Folly + Close	Henry Levine	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941
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I’m Gonna Love That Guy	Joan Edwards	‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Oct 1945
I’ll Buy That Dream	The Hit Paraders	‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Oct 1945
On The Atcheson, Topeka and the Santa Fe	Dick Todd	‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Oct 1945
Gotta Be This or That	Joan Edwards	‘Your Hit Parade’ AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Oct 1945

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12 and 16 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

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107.3 2SER Tuesday 12 OCTOBER  & Saturday 16 OCTOBER 2021 Tuesday 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturday 5 – 6pm National Program will differ during 2SER Radiothon 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Subscribe online or call 9514 9500
Three Little Words	Tony Pastor Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Jantzen Beach Portland Oregon AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945
Laura	Tony Pastor Orchestra (voc) Dick Dyer	‘One Night Stand’ Jantzen Beach Portland Oregon AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945
I’ve Got You Under My Skin	Tony Pastor Orchestra (voc) Tony Pastor	‘One Night Stand’ Hollywood Palladium AFRS Re-broadcast 15 May 1945
Set 2	Subscribe online or call 9514 9500
Music in the Moonlight (theme) + Fresh as a Daisy	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo Delys	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
Casa Loma Stomp	Jimmy Grier Orchestra	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
Trees + Music in the Moonlight (theme))	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Harry Foster	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
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Open + You Belong to My Heart	Helen Forrest (voc) Gordon Jenkins Orchestra	‘Music for Millions’ Radio Transcription New York City 1945
After You’ve Gone + Baia	Helen Forrest (voc) Gordon Jenkins Orchestra	‘Music for Millions’ Radio Transcription New York City 1945
It’s the Least You Can Do + Close	Helen Forrest (voc) Gordon Jenkins Orchestra	‘Music for Millions’ Radio Transcription New York City 1945
Set 4	Subscribe online or call 9514 9500
Take The A-Train (theme) + Blues on the Double	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ Toledo Ohio ABC/AFRS 1945
The Kissing Bug	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Joya Sherrill	‘A Date With The Duke’ Toledo Ohio ABC/AFRS 1945
I Ain’t Got Nothing But The Blues	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Kay Davis and Al Hibbler	‘A Date With The Duke’ Toledo Ohio ABC/AFRS 1945
Teardrops in the Rain + My Little Brown Book	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Al Hibbler	‘A Date With The Duke’ Toledo Ohio ABC/AFRS 1945
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Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid (theme) + Carambula	Machito (voc) Machito	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 1951
Cambia	Machito	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 1951
Cao Cao	Machito (voc) Graziella	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 1951
No, No, Chi, Chi	Machito (voc) Graziella	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 1951
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Theme + Desert Night	John Kirby Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ Aquarium Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Jun 1944
I’ll Be Seeing You	John Kirby Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ Aquarium Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Jun 1944
Andyology	John Kirby Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ Aquarium Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Jun 1944
I Learned a Lesson	John Kirby Sextet (voc) Rosetta Williams	‘One Night Stand’ Aquarium Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Jun 1944
Set 7	Subscribe online or call 9514 9500
Limehouse Blues	Paul Lavalle Woodwinds	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 17 Dec 1941
You’re 1-A in the Army and A-1 in my Heart	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 17 Dec 1941
Pinetop’s Boogie	Sylvia Marlowe	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 17 Dec 1941
You Are My Sunshine + Close	Henry Levine	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 17 Dec 1941
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Open + If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight	Peggy Lee	‘The Peggy Lee Show’ KNX CBS LA 15 Jul 1951
Too Young	Peggy Lee	‘The Peggy Lee Show’ KNX CBS LA 15 Jul 1951
It’s Time	Benny Goodman	‘The Peggy Lee Show’ KNX CBS LA 15 Jul 1951
Make the Man Happy	Peggy Lee	‘The Peggy Lee Show’ KNX CBS LA 15 Jul 1951

Steel Guitar in 1930s German Pop – 5 Oct 2021

Steel Guitar in 1930s-40s German Pop music, off radio and recordings, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature.

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This week, Steel Guitar in Nazi Germany…

HAWAIIAN GUITAR

The steel guitar was invented by Hawaiian 11 year old, Joseph Kekuku, in the late 1880s. He later toured the world as a Hawaiian guitar soloist.

Quoting The Smithsonian magazine, “According to one of the most popular origin myths, Kekuku picked up a railway spike as he was walking along railroad tracks and put it in his pocket. When he returned to his dormitory later that day and was playing the guitar, he had a moment of inspiration—Kekuku pulled out the steel railroad tie, ran it along the guitar strings as he strummed, and noticed the unique sound the steel made.”

Kekuku modified his guitar to raise the strings higher off the fretboard and created a smooth metal cylinder to run over it as he played. He had modified an existing instrument into something entirely new.

Steel guitar is played on the lap, and the guitarist plucks the chords instead of strumming them while running a steel bar over the neck.

The steel guitar made a huge impact on different styles of American music. Hawaiian music was the most popular music genre by record sales in 1916. In Australia, Hawaiian music had a huge fan base in the 1940s into the 1960s.

In 1931, an electric Hawaiian guitar hit the market – the frying pan guitar – and it launched Hawaiian music back into the mainstream. The breakthrough song was the big hit of 1933, My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua.

In Europe, strangely, Nazi Germany, was the country that made the most steel guitar recordings, incorporating the instrument into its dance bands and on radio. You’ll hear one 1940 radio selection and two Berlin dance band recordings featuring steel guitar with dance orchestra.

5 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #512
107.3 2SER Tuesday 5 OCTOBER 2021 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 – 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
Set 1	1940s One Night Stand Radio
In a Moment of Madness	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Kitty Kallen	‘One Night Stand’ Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 29 Jun 1944
Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee	Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) The 3 Kaydettes	‘Spotlight Bands’ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 31 Jan 1942
Annie Laurie + Memories of You (theme)	Sonny Durham Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Hollywood Palladium AFRS Re-broadcast 1 Aug 1944
Set 2	Rock’n’Roll Dance Party
One O’Clock Jump (theme) + You For Me	Count Basie Orchestra	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NYC 7 Apr 1956
Play it Fair	LaVerne Baker (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NYC 7 Apr 1956
Ev’ry Day + Cherry Point + One O’Clock Jump (theme)	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Joe Williams	‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NYC 7 Apr 1956
Set 3	Jimmy Grier
Music in the Moonlight (theme) + After All is Said and Done	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Dick Webster	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
A Secret Love	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) Kenny Allen	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
Kiss By Kiss + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmy Grier Orchestra (voc) The 3 Cheers	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
Set 4	Steel Guitar in German Dance Bands
Heimat deine Sterne	Wilhelm Strienz	‘Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht’ RRG Berlin 1940
Wenn wir uns einmal wiederseh’n	Joop Carlquist und sein Hawaiian-Tanzorchester	Comm Rec Berlin 1939
Eine Insel aus Traumen geboren	Hans Rehmstedt Orchestra (voc) Rudi Schuricke	Comm Rec Berlin Dec 1938
Set 5	Chicago Style Jazz
Open + At The Jazz Band Ball	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ Town Hall NYC WJZ Blue NYC 30 Sep 1944
Relaxin’ at the Trouro + Royal Garden Blues	Muggsy Spanier	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 18 Oct 1953
Impromptu Ensemble	Eddie Condon Group	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ Town Hall NYC WJZ Blue NYC 9 Sep 1944
Set 6	1910s New Orleans Jazz Stars
Livery Stable Blues	Original Dixieland Jazz Band	‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NYC 31 Oct 1936
Winnin’ Boy	Jelly Roll Morton	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1940
King Porter Stomp	Jelly Roll Morton	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 14 Jul 1940
Nick LaRocca Interview + Tiger Rag	Original Dixieland Jazz Band	‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NYC 31 Oct 1936
Set 7	1930s Swing Bands
All Those in Favour of Swing Say Aye	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Edythe Wright	Roof Hotel Astor WABC CBS NYC 14 Sep 1939
Deep Night	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Jack Leonard	Roof Hotel Astor WABC CBS NYC 14 Sep 1939
Cotton Pickers’ Congregation	Russ Morgan Orchestra	Paradise Restaurant WEAF NBC Red NYC 14 Oct 1938
Down South Camp Meeting	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NYC 20 Nov 1937
Set 8	1950s Progressive Jazz
Jeepers Creepers	Dave Brubeck	Birdland WJZ ABC NYC Dec 1953
Some Blues + Polka Dots and Moonbeams	Stan Getz	Red Hill Inn Pennsauken NJ WRCA NBC NY 16 Feb 1957
Congo Square	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Aircheck 27 Aug 1960
A Gem From Tiffany	Shelly Manne	Basin Street WCBS CBS NYC 1956

Dixieland Revival – Phantom Dancer 21 April 2020

Your feature artists on this week’s Greg Poppleton Phantom Dancer are all (but one) broadcasting from San Francisco in the 1950s. They are Jimmy Dorsey (in a radio transcription), Muggsy Spanier, Kid Ory and Turk Murphy – all part of the Dixieland revival that went worldwide from the late 1930s into the 1960s (in Australia).

The Phantom Dancer, your non-stop 2 hour mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio, is produced and presented by 1920s-30s singer and actor Greg Poppleton can be heard online from 12:04pm AEST Tuesday 21 April at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

The last hour is all vinyl.

DIXIELAND REVIVAL

Was a movement of the late 1930s to the 1950s (in the US) reviving earlier improvisational jazz. It was a reaction to the arranged music of swing orchestras. The traditional front lines consisting of trumpets, trombones, and clarinets, and ensemble improvisation over a two-beat rhythm.

The term “Dixieland” was applied to early jazz by traditional jazz revivalists, starting in the 1940s and 1950s. The name is a reference to the “Old South”, specifically anything south of the Mason-Dixon line. The term encompasses earlier brass band marches, French Quadrilles, biguine, ragtime, and blues with collective, polyphonic improvisation. While instrumentation and size of bands varied, the “standard” band consisted of of a “front line” of trumpet (or cornet), trombone, and clarinet, with a “rhythm section” of at least two of the following instruments: guitar or banjo, string bass or tuba, piano, and drums. Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars was the band most popularly identified with Dixieland during the 1940s, although Armstrong’s own influence during the 1920s was to move the music beyond the traditional New Orleans style.

The definitive Dixieland sound is created when one instrument (usually the trumpet) plays the melody or a recognizable paraphrase or variation on it and the other instruments of the “front line” improvise around that melody. This creates a more polyphonic sound than the arranged ensemble playing of the big band sound or the straight “head” melodies of bebop.

During the 1930s and 1940s, the earlier group-improvisation style fell out of favor with the majority of younger black players, while some older players of both races continued on in the older style. Though younger musicians developed new forms, many beboppers revered Armstrong and quoted fragments of his recorded music in their own improvisations.

The Dixieland revival in the late 1940s and 1950s brought many semi-retired musicians a measure of fame late in their lives as well as bringing retired musicians back onto the jazz circuit after years of not playing (e.g., Kid Ory and Red Nichols). Many Dixieland groups of the revival era consciously imitated the recordings and bands of decades earlier. Other musicians continued to create innovative performances and new tunes. For example, in the 1950s a style called “Progressive Dixieland” sought to blend polyphonic improvisation with bebop-style rhythm. Spike Jones and His New Band and Steve Lacy played with such bands. This style is sometimes called “Dixie-bop”. Lacy went on to apply that approach to the music of Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, and Herbie Nichols.

Muggsy Spanier

CHICAGO STYLE

“Chicago style” is often applied to the sound of Chicagoans such as Jimmy McPartland, Eddie Condon, Muggsy Spanier, and Bud Freeman. The rhythm sections of these bands substitute the string bass for the tuba and the guitar for the banjo. Musically, the Chicagoans play in more of a swing-style 4-to-the-bar manner. The New Orleanian preference for an ensemble sound is deemphasized in favor of solos. Chicago-style Dixieland also differs from its southern origin by being faster paced, resembling the hustle-bustle of city life. Chicago-style bands play a wide variety of tunes, including most of those of the more traditional bands plus many of the Great American Songbook selections from the 1930s by George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin. Non-Chicagoans such as Pee Wee Russell and Bobby Hackett are often thought of as playing in this style. This modernized style came to be called Nicksieland, after Nick’s Greenwich Village night club, where it was popular, though the term was not limited to that club.

Turk Murphy at Club Hangover

WEST COAST REVIVAL

The “West Coast revival” is a movement that was begun in the late 1930s by Lu Watters and his Yerba Buena Jazz Band in San Francisco and extended by trombonist Turk Murphy. It started out as a backlash to the Chicago style, which is closer in development towards swing. The repertoire of these bands is based on the music of Joe “King” Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and W.C. Handy. Bands playing in the West Coast style use banjo and tuba in the rhythm sections, which play in a two-to-the-bar rhythmic style.

Much performed traditional Dixieland tunes include: “When the Saints Go Marching In”, “Muskrat Ramble”, “Struttin’ with Some Barbecue”, “Tiger Rag”, “Dippermouth Blues”, “Milenberg Joys”, “Basin Street Blues”, “Tin Roof Blues”, “At the Jazz Band Ball”, “Panama”, “I Found a New Baby”, “Royal Garden Blues” and many others. All of these tunes were widely played by jazz bands of the pre-WWII era, especially Louis Armstrong. They came to be grouped as Dixieland standards beginning in the 1950s.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is ‘Yes Suh!’ 26/Jul/32 NYC., THE RHYTHMAKERS: Red Allen (t) Jimmy Lord (cl) Pee Wee Russell (ts) Fats Waller (p,v) Eddie Condon (bj) Jack Bland (g) Pops Foster (b) Zutty Singleton (d) Billy Banks(v). Enjoy!

21 APRIL PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #433
107.3 2SER Tuesday 21 April 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 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 7LTN Launceston 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am
Set 1	Prehistoric Stan Kenton from 1941 Radio
Artistry in Rhythm	Stan Kenton Orchestra	Radio Transcription C. P. MacGregor Studios Los Angeles Nov 1941
A Setting In Motion	Stan Kenton Orchestra	Radio Transcription C. P. MacGregor Studios Los Angeles 20 Sep 1941
Blues in F Minor	Stan Kenton Orchestra	Radio Transcription C. P. MacGregor Studios Los Angeles 6 Jan 1942
El Choclo	Stan Kenton Orchestra	Radio Transcription C. P. MacGregor Studios Los Angeles Oct 1941
Set 2	Swing Band Leaders Speak on the Radio
Sunrise Serenade	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 15 Nov 1938
When I Get It + Blue Lou + Close	Harry James Orchestra lead by Tommy Dorsey	Casino Gardens Ocean Park KECA ABC LA 12 Aug 1944
Hallelujah	Benny Goodman Quartet	‘For The Record’ WEAF NBC NY 1944
Set 3	Lounge Music on 1920s – 1950s Radio
Sugarloaf Mambo	Bernard ‘Whitey’ Berquist’ and the Chicago NBC Symphony Orchestra	‘Monitor’ WRCA NBC NY 19 Jun 1956
On The Wood Pile	Harry Bruer (xylophone) with the Colonial Club Orchestra	‘Brunswick Brevities’ WABC CBS NY 1929
White Sails + Time On My Hands	Johnny Saab (organ)	‘Musical Interlude’ WJSV CBS Washington DC 21 Sep 1939
Set 4	From Birdland over WNBC in 1952
Stuffy	Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge Orchestra	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 1952
Stardust + Lady Be Good	Kai Winding Group	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 2 Sep 1952
Set 5	The 1950s Dixie Revival on Radio
Chicago	Jimmy Dorsey ‘Dorseyland Band’	‘Marine Corp Show’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1950
Squeeze Me	Muggsy Spanier and his Dixieland All-Stars	‘Club Hangover’ KCBS San Francisco 11 Apr 1953
St James Infirmary	Kid Ory’s Creole Jazz Band	‘Club Hangover’ KCBS San Francisco 10 Oct 1954
Memphis Blues + Bay City (close)	Turk Murphy’s San Francisco Jazz Band	‘Easy Street’ KCBS San Francisco 9 Dec 1958
Set 6	Early Radio Appearances By Famous Singers
Shine	The Hoboken Four (Frank Sinatra’s first radio appearance)	‘Major Bowes’ Original Amateur Hour’ WABC CBS NY 1935
From The Bottom Of My Heart	Frank Sinatra (voc) Harry James Orchestra	‘America Dances’ Famous Door WABC CBS NY / BBC London Jul 1938
I’m Happy About The Whole Thing	Doris Day (voc) Barney Rapp and his New Englanders	Sign of the Drum Cincinnati Ohio NBC 17 Jun 1939
I Cried For You	Bing Crosby	WABC CBS NY 7 Nov 1931
Set 7	Harmony Singers on 1930s – 1940s Radio
When My Dreamboat Goes Home	The King Sisters with Frank DeVol	‘Radio Transcription’ Los Angeles 1949
Chi Baba, Chi Baba	Lionel Hampton Orchestra (voc) Herman McCoy and the Hamp-Tones	Casa Manana Culver City Ca KFI NBC LA 20 Jul 1947
That Sly Ol’ Gentleman	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton and the Quintones	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 4 Apr 1939
Tiger Rag	The Inkspots	WFIL NBC Red Philadelphia 12 Jul 1939
Set 8	Swinging on 1940s Radio
Open + Tea For Two	Bob Strong Orchestra	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WOR Mutual NY 5 Aug 1944
Theme + Quiet Riot	Buddy Rich Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Quonset Naval Air Station Rhode Island Blue Network 25 Jan 1946
The Elks’ Parade	Bobby Sherwood Orchestra	Terrace Room New Jersey WCBS CBS NY 17 Feb 1945
Cottontail	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘A Date With The Duke’ Evansville Indiana ABC 16 Jun 1945