15 March Phantom Dancer – How To Improve Immigrants’ English (1940)

Your 15 March Phantom Dancer non-stop mix with Greg Poppleton on 107.3 2SER is all taken from live 1930s – 1950s radio and TV.

The show is NOW ONLINE. Have a listen at 2ser.com!

We switch on 1958 telly to hear Gerry Mulligan, there’s a set of Gershwin songs we ran out of time playing on an earlier Phantom Dancer, a set of dance bands from 1940 Chicago radio and lots more. See the play list below…

The final hour of the mix is all vinyl.

The Phantom Dancer is also conveniently live-streamed for your enjoyment Tuesdays 12 – 2pm (1 – 3am GMT), http://www.2ser.com.

After the Tuesday broadcast, you can hear past Phantom Dancers archived at 2ser.com/Phantom_Dancer as well. Scroll down for the show you want to hear.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is a 1940 British instructional video, “How To Improve Immigrants’ English” (1940). Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #206 107.3 2SER Tuesday 15 March 2016 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: 2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12 2SER Sunday 2SER 5 – 6pm ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 30 other stations. Set 1 1930s Dance Bands Live on the Air Sugarfoot Stomp Benny Goodman Orchestra Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WOR Mutual NY 21 Oct 1937 Dipsy Doodle (theme) + Sunday Larry Clinton Orchestra Coconut Grove Hotel Park Central WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jul 1939 Rendezvous Time In Paree Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Ray Eberle Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 20 Jul 1939 Set 2 A Date With The Duke – Ellington Soloists – ABC 1945-46 Series Take The A Train (theme) + Mood To Be Wooed Duke Ellington Orchestra (alto sax) Johnny Hodges ‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC / AFRS Re-broadcast 1945-46 Teardrops In The Rain Duke Ellington Orchestra (tp) Bill Anderson ‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC / AFRS Re-broadcast 1945-46 Instrumental + Rocking In Rhythm (close) Duke Ellington Orchestra (violin) Ray Nance (piano) Duke Ellington ‘A Date With The Duke’ ABC / AFRS Re-broadcast 1945-46 Set 3 Big Bands on ‘One Night Stand’ Open + 9:20 Special Boyd Raeburn Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom NY AFRS re-broadcast Feb 1944 When Your GI Guy Comes Marching Home Vaughan Monroe Orchestra (voc) Norton Sisters ‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Balroom Hollywood AFRS re-broadcast 8 Feb 1945 It Had To Be You Lee Castle Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Ice Terrace Room Newark NJ AFRS re-broadcast 30 Aug 1944 Set 4 Hip 50s Jazz on the Radio Open + The Dart Game Shelly Manne Quintet Basin Street WCBS CBS New York 21 Apr 1956 Begin The Beguine + The Man I Love Eddie Heywood ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ The Composers Club WRCA NBC NY 7 May 1956 Backbeat Boogle + Cirribirribin Harry James Orchestra (alto sax) Willie Smith Palladium Ballroom Hollywood WRCA NBC NY 26 Jun 1955 Set 5 Dance Bands from 1940 Chicago Radio Sunshine of my Heart Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Brandon Radio Transcription Chicago 1940 Do I Love You? Ozzie Nelson Orchestra Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 24 Mar 1940 Pretty Little Petticoat (theme) + Huckleberry Duck Raymond Scott Orchestra Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 1940 Frenesi Fats Waller and his Rhythm Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 3 Dec 1940 Set 6 Cool 1950s Radio Jazz and Swing One O’Clock Jump (theme) + Why Not? Count Basie Orchestra Birdland WNBC NBC NY 31 Aug 1952 Night Walk Gerry Mulligan Quartet ‘2nd Timex All-Star Jazz Show’ WCBS TV CBS NY 30 Apr 1958 High Falutin’ Gene Krupa Quartet London House WBBM CBS Chicago 13 Mar 1959 Woodchoppers’ Ball Woody Herman’s Third Herd ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Peony Park WOW NBC Omaha 1954 Set 7 Swing Bands 1937 – 1939 The Chant Artie Shaw Orchestra Aircheck 28 May 1939 Quaker City Jazz (theme) + Have You Got Any Castles Baby? Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters Opening KYW Studios KYW NBC Red Philadelphia 14 Sep 1937 Comes Love Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Helen O’Connell Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NY WJZ NBC Blue NY 5 Oct 1939 Gin Mill Blues + Close Bob Crosby Orchestra SWing Concert Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 18 May 1937 Set 8 Songs by Gershwin Mischa, Yascha, Tascha, Sacha Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) The Modernaires ‘Everybody’s Music Hour’ WCBS CBS NY 10 Jun 1938 I’ve Got A Crush On You Eddie Condon Group (vocal) Lee Wiley ‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue Network New York City 5 Aug 1944 George Gershwin Medley Eddie Condon Group (voc) Helen Ward ‘Eddie Condon’s Floorshow’ WNBT-TV NBC NY 9 Jul 1949

Electromagnetism By Julius Sumner Miller. 28 July Phantom Dancer 2 Hour Live Swing Jazz Mix By Greg Poppleton

Here is your Phantom Dancer play list for Tuesday 28 July 107.3 2SER Sydney 12noon – 2pm and NOW STREAMING ONLINE at http://www.2ser.com

This week’s 2 hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s – 1960s radio has a set of swing from live 1936 radio, a set of 1950s swing from Hollywood Palladium broadcasts including the theme from Dragnet played live by the original orchestra, Ray Anthony. Plus, hear live radio performances by Bunny Berrigan, Arthur Prysock, Harry James, Woody Herman and more in a whole 2 hours of non-stop live swing and jazz 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 electromagnetism. This is program 43, 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 #168 107.3 2SER Tuesday 28 July 2015 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:03 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT)Repeat Sunday 2SER 5 – 6pm Set 1 Slumber Song (theme) + Daisy Mae Glenn Miller Orchestra Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY Dec 1940 These Foolish Things Gene Krupa Orchestra (ts) Charlie Ventura ‘One Night Stand’ Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 31 Mar 1946 More Moon + Woodchopper’s Ball (theme) Woody Herman Orchestra ‘Woodchopper’s Music Shop’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 29 Sep 1950 Set 2 Bei Dir War Es Immer So Schoen Helmut Zacharias und seine Solisten. Ernesto Romanoni (harpsichord and celeste) Comm Rec Berlin 29 Nov 1941 The Girl With The Light Blue Hair Benny Krueger Orchestra WOR MBS NY 28 Apr 1940 Medley: Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries + Did You Ever See A Dream Walking? + Close Leon Kellner Orchestra Blue Room Roosevelt Hotel WWL CBS New Orleans 1964 Set 3 Open + The Trolley Song Frank Sinatra ‘Command Performance USA’ AFRS Hollywood 1945 Open + Blue Velvet Arthur Prysock ‘The All-Star Parade of Bands’ Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 9 Sep 1952 Come Rain or Come Shine + Dancing in the Dark + Close Jo Stafford (voc) Paul Weston’s Rhythm ‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954/div> Set 4 Walkin’ Harry James Orchestra ‘Palladium Ballroom’ KNX CBS LA 27 Nov 1959 Ad + Dragnet Ray Anthony Orchestra ‘All Star Parade Of Bands’ Palladium Ballroom KFI NBC LA 23 Nov 1953 It Took Ten Days Blues+ Close Jerry Gray and his Band of Today ‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Hollywood AFRTS Rebroadcast 20 Jan 1961 Set 5 Let’s Put Our Heads Together Red Allen Orchestra (voc) RA Comm Rec New York 29 Dec 1936 Dardenella Bunny Berrigan Orchestra ‘Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS New York 31 Oct 1936 Stomping At The Savoy Isham Jones Orchestra WOR Mutual NY 24 Jan 1936 Honeysuckle Rose Bunny Berrigan, Bud Freeman, Joe Marsala, Teddy Wilson, Stan King ‘A Demonstration of a Modern Phase of Music’ WNEW NY 1936 Set 6 Melodien in Dur end Moll Teil 1 Adolf Steimel Orchestra Comm Rec Berlin 12 Jan 1940 You Can’t Stop Me From Dreaming Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters (voc) Bon Bon ‘Studio Launch’ KYW NBC Red Phiadelphia 14 Sep 1937 Announcers’ Blues/div> Jack Teagarden (tb) Paul Whiteman Orchestra ‘Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 19 Jan 1936 Happy As The Day Is Long Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ‘Ford V8 Show’ Texas Centennial Fair NBC Blue Dallas Aug 1936 Set 7 Lazy River Harry James Orchestra Aircheck 1948 Prelude To A Kiss Woody Herman Orchestra Blue Room Roosevelt Hotel WWL CBS New Orleans 10 Nov 1951 Solid Old Man Duke Ellington Orchestra Empire Hotel Hollywood Aircheck Feb 1949 Too Young To Go Steady Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Dolly Houston Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WCBS CBS NY 1955 Set 8 Pet My Pup Jimmie Grier Orchestra Radio Transcription Hollywood late 1940s It Was Just One Of Those Things Russ Morgan Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Biltmore Bowl Biltmore Hotel LA AFRS Rebroadcast 13 May 1946 Little Sir Echo Doris Day (voc) Barney Rapp and his New Englanders ‘The Sign of the Drum’ NBC Cincinnati 17 Jun 1939 Dixie Girl Chuck Foster and his Orchestra Radio Transcription Chicago 1940