Ernest Hutcheson – Australian Pianist & Julliard President – Phantom Dancer 31 January 2023


Ernest Hutcheson is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist in a broadcast from 1936. He was an internationally renowned concert pianist born in Australia and was president of Juilliard, the prestigious Arts school in New York City.

The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week.

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ERNEST

From his bio on the Steinway pianos’ website…

Ernest Hutcheson (1871-1951) was an Australian pianist, composer and teacher. Born in Melbourne, he toured as a child prodigy at the age of five. He later traveled to Leipzig and entered the Leipzig Conservatory at the age of fourteen to study with Carl Reinecke, Bernhard Stavenhagen, and Bruno Zwintscher. Prior to the outbreak of World War I he taught at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, but in 1914 he settled in New York, where he made his U.S. debut.

He is believed to have been the first pianist to play three concertos of Ludwig van Beethoven in a single concert: his performances of Beethoven’s third, fourth and fifth with the New York Symphony Orchestra in the Aeolian Hall in 1919.

JUILLIARD

Hutcheson had studied under Carl Reinecke (who studied with Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt), Bernhard Stavenhagen (a pupil of Liszt) and Bruno Zwintscher (who studied under Moscheles, among others). He would become Dean and then President of the Juilliard School, teaching eminent pianists that included Bruce Hungerford and Abram Chasins. He wrote two important books, “The Literature of the Piano” and “The Elements of Piano Technique,” and it is thanks to Hutcheson’s support that Gershwin was able to have the seclusion he required at Chautauqua Institution in order to meet the deadline to finish his Piano Concerto in F.

He became a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School, and successively Dean (1926–1937) and President (1937–1945) of the school. At Juilliard, he championed the use of radio musical broadcasts in education.

Hutcheson was also associated with the Chautauqua School of Music in Western New York State. Hutcheson provided a much needed refuge for George Gershwin at Chautauqua while composing and refining the Piano Concerto in F. Thanks to Ernest Hutcheson’s kind offer of seclusion for Gershwin at Chautauqua where his quarters were declared off limits to everyone until 4 p.m. daily, Gershwin was able to successfully complete his piano concerto on time.

You’ll hear him broadcasting from Chautauqua in the clip above. (I prefer his piano interpretation of the Emporer Piano Concerto to Walter Gieseking in 1944)

Ernest Hutcheson wrote concertos for piano; 2 pianos; and violin, and many solo piano works, such as a transcription of Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries. His music has been little heard in concert or on recordings, but his Australian compatriot Ian Munro has recorded some of his piano pieces.

Hutcheson wrote important books The Literature of the Piano, The Elements of Piano Technique, and Elektra, by Richard Strauss: a Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score, among others.

24 JANUARY PLAY LIST

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107.3 2SER-FM Sydney
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Community Radio Network Show CRN #582

107.3 2SER Tuesday 31 January 2023
12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm
National Program
5UV Adelaide Monday 2:30 – 3:30am
5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am
3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am
4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am
2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am
2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am
2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am
2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am
3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm
7MID Oatlands Monday 3am – 4 and 6 -7pm
2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am
1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am
and Sunday 11pm
Reading Radio (QLD) Friday 1am – 2
2RRR Ryde Friday 11am – 12
2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm
5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm
6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Saturday 4am – 5am
Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturday 10 – 11am
Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm
7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am
3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am
3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
2SEA Sapphire Coast Eden Sunday 9 – 10pm

Set 1
Les Brown
Mexican Hat Dance
Les Brown Orchestra
‘Spotlight Bands’
Bowman Field KY
AFRS Re-broadcast
7 Oct 1945
This I Love Above All
Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Gordon Drakes
‘Spotlight Bands’
Bowman Field KY
AFRS Re-broadcast
7 Oct 1945
Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby
Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Butch Stone
‘Spotlight Bands’
Bowman Field KY
AFRS Re-broadcast
7 Oct 1945
It Had to Be You + Mush Head Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Doris Day
‘Spotlight Bands’
Bowman Field KY
AFRS Re-broadcast
7 Oct 1945
Set 2
Charlie Barnet
Redskin Rhumba (theme)  + Charleston Alley
Charlie Barnet Orchestra
‘One Night Stand’
Palladium Ballroom
Los Angeles
AFRS Re-broadcast
4 Dec 1959
But Beautiful
Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) Lynn Franklyn
‘One Night Stand’
Palladium Ballroom
Los Angeles
AFRS Re-broadcast
4 Dec 1959
Moonglow
Charlie Barnet Orchestra
‘One Night Stand’
Palladium Ballroom
Los Angeles
AFRS Re-broadcast
4 Dec 1959
Fair and Warmer
Charlie Barnet Orchestra
‘One Night Stand’
Palladium Ballroom
Los Angeles
AFRS Re-broadcast
4 Dec 1959
Set 3
Duke Ellington Orchestra
Take the A-Train (theme) + Love Letters
Duke Ellington Orchestra (tb) Lawrence Brown
‘One Night Stand’
New Zanzibar NYC
AFRS Re-broadcast
1944
Main Stem
Duke Ellington Orchestra
‘One Night Stand’
New Zanzibar NYC
AFRS Re-broadcast
1944
Fishing for the Moon + Riff’n’Drill
Duke Ellington Orchestra (tp) Rex Stewart
‘One Night Stand’
New Zanzibar NYC
AFRS Re-broadcast
1944
The Kissing Bug + Close
Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Joya Sherill
‘One Night Stand’
New Zanzibar NYC
AFRS Re-broadcast
1944
Set 4
Ernest Hutcheson
Finale Mendelsohn Concerto in Gm
Ernest Hutcheson (piano) NBC Symphony Orchestra
‘The Magic Key’
WJZ NBC Blue NYC
18 Oct 1936
Spinning Song
Ernest Hutcheson (piano)
‘The Magic Key’
WJZ NBC Blue NYC
18 Oct 1936
Set 5
Bob Crosby
Summertime (theme) + Boogie Woogie Maxixe
Bob Crosby Orchestra
Blackhawk Restaurant
WGN Mutual Chicago
29 Apr 1940
Oh, You Crazy Moon
Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward
‘Camel Caravan’
WABC CBS NYC
11 Jul 1939
Reminiscin’ Time
Bob Crosby Orchestra
Blackhawk Restaurant
WGN Mutual Chicago
29 Apr 1940
You Turned the Tables on Me + But None Like You
Charlie Spivak Orchestra (voc) Irene Day & Tommy Mercer
Palladium Ballroom
KNX CBS LA
7 Apr 1948
Set 6
Miff Mole Trombone
Big Butter and Egg Man
Miff Mole and his Nixieland Six
‘For the Record’
WEAF NBC NYC

Keep Smilin’ at Trouble
Eddie Condon Group (tb) Miff Mole
‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’
WJZ Blue NYC
20 Sep 1944
Peg o’ my Heart
Miff Mole and his Nixieland Six
Comm Rec
Chicago
26 Jun 1928
Impromptu Ensemble
Eddie Condon Group (tb) Miff Mole
‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’
WJZ Blue NYC
9 Sep 1944
Set 7
Cab Calloway Records
A Minor Breakdown
Cab Calloway Orchestra
Comm Rec
NYC
10 Dec 1937
Vuelva
Cab Calloway Orchestra Comm Rec
NYC
17 Oct 1939
Azure
Cab Calloway Orchestra
Comm Rec
NYC
23 Mar 1938
Fifteen Minutes Intermission
Cab Calloway Orchestra
Comm Rec
NYC
27 Jun 1940
Set 8
Modern Jazz on 1959 Radio
Open +Sid’s Ahead
Miles Davis
‘Bandstand USA’
The Spotlight
Washington DC
Mutual Network
Feb 1959
In a Prescribed Manner Buddy Rich Birdland
WABC ABC NYV
7 Nov 1959

Flip Philips Sax from Swing to Stravinsky – Phantom Dancer 10 January 2023


Flip Philips is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist in a broadcast from 1953 with Hank Jones (p/org) and Buddy Rich (d).

Joseph Edward Filippelli aka Flip Philips was a jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinettist who played swing, big band and Stravinsky.

The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week.

You’ll also hear Louis Armstrong this week with a set from 1945 radio and a set of his 1920s small groups.

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FLIP

During the 1930s, Phillips played clarinet in a restaurant in Brooklyn. After that he was a member of bands led by Frankie Newton, Red Norvo, Benny Goodman, and Wingy Manone. He changed to tenor sax in his late 20s.
He was a regular soloist for the Woody Herman band in the middle 1940s and for the next ten years performed with Jazz at the Philharmonic.
Flip retired to Florida, but after fifteen years he returned to music, recording again and performing into his 80s.

He never lost the knack. On his final recording, made as the new millennium approached, he easily held his own alongside two of today’s big names, with a rounded, breathy tone that never weakened.

PHILIPS

Between 1944-46 he starred in Herman’s First Herd.

Headhunted by Herman, he became known for his contributions to the songs, The Good Earth, Apple Honey, Northwest Passage and many more.

Few musicians in the band were influenced by the new bebop sounds, but Herman’s knack of commissioning such talented young composer/ arrangers as Neal Hefti and Ralph Burns got the First Herd recognised as being in step with postwar progress.

Igor Stravinsky was impressed enough to write his Ebony Concerto specifically for the Herd; the story goes that, at a rehearsal, Phillips, apparently not the quickest of sight-readers, was told by Stravinsky, “What you are playing is very nice, but what I have written is much better.”

When the pressure of being continuously on the road caused Herman to disband at the end of 1946, Phillips worked with small groups, often featuring another ex-Herman star in trombonist Bill Harris, and joined Norman Granz’s JATP for concerts and tours.

During much of the next decade, he toured with Jazz At The Philharmonic (JATP), then at its peak as a high-profile roadshow, in which big-toned tenors were expected to egg the crowd on by indulging the instrument’s capacity to emit honks, squeals and earthshaking belches. One of the tunes used to bring the entertainment to a climax was Perdido, and a suitably rabble-rousing solo by Phillips, recorded at a JATP concert, linked the piece to him long after the event.

During this period, he often shared the stage with other top tenors, notably Lester Young and Ben Webster. They might have inspired his lighter touch on, respectively, blues and ballads, though Phillips was always able to adapt to his surroundings – with both Herman and JATP, he probably felt the need to blow at full throttle much of the time.

Here’s Flip Philips blowing at age 80

LATER

After joining Benny Goodman for a European tour in 1959, he decided to give up full-time playing. With his wife Sophia, he settled in Florida, making a living from non-musical jobs. He managed a beachside housing development and indulged his hobbies of golf and wood work. He also took up the bass clarinet.

But, by 1970, the jazz climate had altered in his favour. Bands were increasingly being formed by players of the past, and Phillips rejoined Herman for a gig at the Newport festival. He was a natural attraction at jazz parties run by wealthy aficionados.

The arrival of musicians whose styles harked back beyond bebop, let alone beyond John Coltrane, found Phillips joining Scott Hamilton on two-tenor dates. He often teamed up with guitarist Howard Alden, a fixture on the neo-swing scene.

Phillips thrived musically, showing he had lost nothing over the years, while adding the ease of expression that comes when you don’t have to prove yourself to anyone. On his last record, made at the age of 84, he sounds ultra-relaxed in the company of Joe Lovano, himself a poll-winning tenor, and James Carter. (From All About Jazz).

Highly recommend this thoroughly researched history of Flip Philips http://www.jazzarcheology.com/artists/flip_phillips.pdf

10 JANUARY PLAY LIST

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107.3 2SER-FM Sydney
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Community Radio Network Show CRN #579

107.3 2SER Tuesday 10 January 2023
12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm
National Program
5UV Adelaide Monday 2:30 – 3:30am
5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am
3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am
4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am
2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am
2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am
2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am
2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am
3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm
7MID Oatlands Monday 3am – 4 and 6 -7pm
2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am
1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am
and Sunday 11pm
Reading Radio (QLD) Friday 1am – 2
2RRR Ryde Friday 11am – 12
2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm
5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm
6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Saturday 4am – 5am
Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturday 10 – 11am
Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm
7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am
3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am
3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
2SEA Sapphire Coast Eden Sunday 9 – 10pm

Set 1
Louis Armstrong
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong
‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood
1945
Barrelhouse Bessie from Basin Street
Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong
‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood
1945
Peanut Vendor
Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong
‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood
1945
Coquette Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong
‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood
1945
Set 2
Tito Puente Mambo King
Esy
Tito Puente Orchestra
Birdland
WABC NYC
1953
Babarabatiri
Tito Puente Orchestra (voc) Vincent Chico Valdes
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Birdland
WJZ ABC NYC
1953
Ron Kan Kan
Tito Puente Orchestra
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Birdland
WJZ ABC NYC
1953
Set 3
Eddie Condon
I Found a New Baby
Eddie Condon Jazz Group
‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’
AFRS Re-broadcast
1944
What Is There to Say?
Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith
‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’
AFRS Re-broadcast
1944
Jazz Me Blues
Eddie Condon Jazz Group
‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’
AFRS Re-broadcast
1944
Set 4
Flip Philips
Three Little Words
Flip Philips (ts) Hank Jones (p/org) Buddy Rich (d)
Bandbox
WMGM NYC (?)
19 Jan 1953
Carioca
Flip Philips (ts) Hank Jones (p/org) Buddy Rich (d)
Bandbox
WMGM NYC (?)
19 Jan 1953
Sweet Lorraine
Flip Philips (ts) Hank Jones (p/org) Buddy Rich (d)
Bandbox
WMGM NYC (?)
19 Jan 1953
Bugle Call Rag
Flip Philips (ts) Charlie Shavers (tp) Hank Jones (p/org) Buddy Rich (d)
Bandbox
WMGM NYC (?)
19 Jan 1953
Set 5
1940s Women Swing Singers
Baby Boogie
Eliot Lawrence Orchestra (voc) Rosalind Patton
Palladium Ballroom
KNX CBS LA
2 Dec 1947
Hollywood Bowl
Tony Pastor Orchestra (voc) Rosemay & Betty Clooney, Tony Pastor
Palladium Ballroom
KNX CBS LA
Jun 1946
Beg Your Pardon
Harry James Orchestra (voc) Dinah Shore
‘Dinah Shore Show’
KNX CBS LA
4 May 1948
You Turned the Tables on Me + But None Like You
Charlie Spivak Orchestra (voc) Irene Day & Tommy Mercer
Palladium Ballroom
KNX CBS LA
7 Apr 1948
Set 6
Louis Armstrong 1920s
That’s When I’ll Come Back To You
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven (voc) Louis Armstrong & Lil Hardin
Comm Rec
Chicago
13 May 1927
Savoyages’ Stomp
Caroll Dickenson’s Savoyagers
Comm Rec
Chicago
5 Jul 1928
Too Busy
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Four (voc) Lillie Delk Christian
Comm Rec
Chicago
26 Jun 1928
Basin Street Blues
Louis Armstrong and his Savoy Ballroom Five (voc) Earl Hines & Mancy Cara
Comm Rec
Chicago
4 Dec 1928
Set 7
Ella Fitzgerald
Open + Who Ya’ Hunchin’?
Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra
Savoy Ballroom
WJZ NBC Blue NYC
26 Feb 1940
You Hit The Spot
Chick Webb Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald Radio Transcription
1936
It’s a Blue World
Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald
Savoy Ballroom
WJZ NBC Blue NYC
4 Mar 1940
Rhythm & Romance
Chick Webb Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald
Radio Transcription
1936
Set 8
1950s Big Band Radio
Open + Dream a Little Dream of Me
Claude Thornhill Orchestra (voc) Patty Ryan
‘One Night Stand’
Steel Pier
Atlantic City NJ
AFRS Re-broadcast
24 Aug 1955
Limelight Stan Kenton Orchestra
‘Concert in Miniature’
Moonlight Gardens
WLW NBC Cincinnati
26 Aug 1952
Two O’Clock Jump
Harry James Orchestra
Hotel Astor Roof
WCBS CBS NYC
25 May 1953

Tony Bennett – Phantom Dancer 22 November 2022


Tony Bennett, singer, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. You’ll hear him and his music in a 1955 interview. Bennett has released over 70 albums during his career. The biggest selling of these in the U.S. have been I Left My Heart in San FranciscoMTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett, and Duets: An American Classic, all of which went platinum for shipping one million copies. Eight other albums of his have gone gold in the U.S. Bennett also charted over 30 singles during his career.

The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week.

LISTEN to this week’s Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday22 November) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

EARLY YEARS & WAR

At age 10, Tony Bennett sang at the opening of the Triborough Bridge in New York City, standing next to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia who patted him on the head.

He began singing for money at age 13, performing as a singing waiter in several Italian restaurants around his native Queens.

Drawing was another early passion and he saw himself having a career in commercial art. He attended New York’s School of Industrial Art studying painting and music . He later appreciated their emphasis on proper technique.

He dropped out at age 16 to help support his family and worked as a copy boy and runner for the Associated Press in Manhattan

He then set his sights on a professional singing career, returning to performing as a singing waiter, playing and winning amateur nights all around the city, and having a successful engagement at a Paramus, New Jersey, nightclub

As an infantryman in the US Army from 1944 during World War 2 in Germany, Tony Bennett narrowly escaped death in combat several times. The experience made him a pacifist. He later wrote, “Anybody who thinks that war is romantic obviously hasn’t gone through one…It was a nightmare that’s permanent. I just said, ‘This is not life. This is not life.'” At the war’s end he was part of the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp near Landsberg.

Upon his discharge from the Army and return to the States in 1946, Tony Bennett studied at the American Theatre Wing on the GI Bill. He was taught bel canto singing which has kept his voice in good shape for his entire career.

NEW AUDIENCE

Around 1990, Tony’s son, Danny Bennett, (who you will hear as a 17 month old in the 1955 Tony Bennett interview in this week’s Phantom Dancer) felt that younger audiences who were unfamiliar with his father would respond to his music if given a chance. No changes to Tony’s formal appearance, singing style, musical accompaniment or song choice (generally the Great American Songbook) were necessary or desirable.

Danny began regularly to book his father on Late Night with David Letterman, a show with a younger, “hip” audience. This was subsequently followed by appearances on Late Night with Conan O’BrienThe SimpsonsMuppets Tonight, and various MTV programs.

In 1993, Bennett played a series of benefit concerts organized by alternative rock radio stations around the country. The plan worked; as Tony later remembered, “I realized that young people had never heard those songs. Cole Porter, Gershwin – they were like, ‘Who wrote that?’ To them, it was different. If you’re different, you stand out.”

Bennett was seen at MTV Video Music Awards shows side by side with the likes of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Flavor Flav, and as his “Steppin’ Out with My Baby” video received MTV airplay, it was clear that, as The New York Times said, “Tony Bennett has not just bridged the generation gap, he has demolished it. He has solidly connected with a younger crowd weaned on rock. And there have been no compromises.”

His 1994 MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett album went platinum and, besides taking the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance Grammy award for the third straight year, also won the top Grammy prize of Album of the Year.

TECHNIQUE

Bennett had no intention of retiring until his announcement on stage in 2021, saying that he had to retire due to health reasons. He was 95.

Refering to artists like Pablo PicassoJack Benny, and Fred Astaire, Bennett said “right up to the day they died, they were performing. If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.”

Regarding his choices in music, Bennett stated his artistic stance in a 2010 interview:

“I’m not staying contemporary for the big record companies, I don’t follow the latest fashions. I never sing a song that’s badly written. In the 1920s and ’30s, there was a renaissance in music that was the equivalent of the artistic Renaissance. Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and others just created the best songs that had ever been written. These are classics, and finally they’re not being treated as light entertainment. This is classical music.”

22 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

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Community Radio Network Show CRN #570

107.3 2SER Tuesday 22 November 2022
12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 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
2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am
2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am
2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am
2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am
3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm
7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm
6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am – 1am
2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 – 7pm
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
Ben Burnie – Music While You Work
It’s a Lonesome Old Town (theme) + The Army Air Corp
Ben Bernie Orchestra
‘War Workers’ Program’
relayed to CFRB Toronto Canada
31 Aug 1942
The Singing Sands
Ben Bernie Orchestra (voc) Jack Fulton
‘War Workers’ Program’
relayed to CFRB Toronto Canada
31 Aug 1942
Put-Put-Put-Put-Put Your Arms Around Me
Ben Bernie Orchestra (voc) The King’s Jesters
‘War Workers’ Program’
relayed to CFRB Toronto Canada
31 Aug 1942
Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry + Rosalie + Close Ben Bernie Orchestra (voc) Gail Robbins
‘War Workers’ Program’
relayed to CFRB Toronto Canada
31 Aug 1942
Set 2
Sauter-Finnegan
Open + Liza
The Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra
‘Guest Star’
Radio Transcription
New York City
9 Jun 1957
Midnight Sleighride
The Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra
‘Guest Star’
Radio Transcription
New York City
9 Jun 1957
April in Paris
The Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra (voc) Anita Darian
‘Guest Star’
Radio Transcription
New York City
9 Jun 1957
Doodle Town Fifers + Close
The Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra
‘Guest Star’
Radio Transcription
New York City
9 Jun 1957
Set 3
Smooth Music
Song of the West  (theme) + Hooray for Love
Caesar Petrillo and the CBS Orchestra  (voc) Elaine Rodgers
‘The Chicagoans’
WBBM CBS Chicago
10 Apr 1950
Dancing in the Dark + Old Pal
Caesar Petrillo and the CBS Orchestra
‘The Chicagoans’
WBBM CBS Chicago
10 Apr 1950
Black Lace
Caesar Petrillo and the CBS Orchestra  (voc) Lon Saxon
‘The Chicagoans’
WBBM CBS Chicago
10 Apr 1950
Happy Times + Song of the West (theme)
Caesar Petrillo and the CBS Orchestra  (voc) Elaine Rodgers
‘The Chicagoans’
WBBM CBS Chicago
10 Apr 1950
Set 4
Tony Bennett
Who Wants My Bublinsky? (theme) + Open
Howard Miller
‘Howard Miller Show’
WBBM Chicago
30 Aug 1955
Because of You
Tony Bennett
‘Howard Miller Show’
WBBM Chicago
30 Aug 1955
Interview
Tony, Sandy & Danny Bennett
‘Howard Miller Show’
WBBM Chicago
30 Aug 1955
May I Never Love Again + Close
Tony Bennett
‘Howard Miller Show’
WBBM Chicago
30 Aug 1955
Set 5
1930s-40s Swing
Cotton Pickers’ Congregation
Russ Morgan Orchestra
Paradise Restaurant NYC
14 Oct 1938
Down South Camp Meeting
Benny Goodman Orchestra
Madhattan Room
Hotel Pennsylvania NYC
20 Nov 1937
Boogie Woogie Lullaby
Ted Fio Rito Orchestra (voc) Madeline Mahoney
Naval Air Station
Banana River FL
12 Aug 1945
Flying Home
Will Bradley Orchestra
Famous Door
New York
City
21 Feb 1941
Set 6
Harmonists
For You
King Sisters
Radio Transcription
Los Angeles
1947
Blues in the Night
Trio (voc) Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra
‘Spotlight Bands’
Jefferson Barracks MI
Mutual Network
23 Nov 1945
Just Squeeze Me
King Sisters
Radio Transcription
Los Angeles
1947
Heebie Geebie Blues
Boswell Sisters
‘Woodbury Program’
KNX CBS LA
18 Sep 1934
Set 7
Jimmy Dorsey
Contrasts (theme) + Jug Music
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
Aircheck
20 Oct 1941
Hit the Note
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra Palladium Ballroom
KNX CBS LA
5 Sep 1943
Dixieland Detour
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
Meadowbrook Ballroom
Cedar Grove NJ
WABC CBS NY
5 Oct 1939
Saturday Night
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Patti Thomas
‘Spotlight Bands’
11 Feb 1945
Set 8
Bop 1949
Tiny’s Blues
Chubby Jackson Orchestra
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost
WMCA NYC
5 Mar 1949
Esy
Tito Puente Orchestra
‘Birdland Show’
WABC ABC NYC
1951