Jazz Piano Billy Maxted – Phantom Dancer 8 Nov 2022

Billy Maxted, U.S jazz arranger, and pianist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He wrote for Benny Goodman, Red Nichols and Claude Thornhill and led his own Dixieland band in the 1950s which we’ll hear live on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

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, Tuesday 8 November) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

BILLY

Maxted began his career in 1937 as a member of the Red Nichols big band, for which he wrote arrangements.

From 1940 he played with Teddy Powell, Ben Pollack and Will Bradley (1941-42).

After serving in the U.S. Navy he wrote arrangements for the big bands of Claude Thornhill and Benny Goodman.

He led a band with Ray Eberle (1947-48) and soon after led his own Manhattan Jazz Band, which played Dixieland with Bob Zurke on boogie-woogie piano.

He was house pianist at Nick’s club in Greenwich Village from 1949-1960 from where he did a weekly broadcast over NBC.

In the 1950s he recorded for MGM, Brunswick, Cadence, and Seeco.

In 1958, British bandleader Reg Owen had a major hit on the American charts with Maxted’s upbeat instrumental composition, “Manhattan Spiritual”, released on the Palette label.

His sidemen included trumpeter Chuck Forsyth, trombonist Lee Gifford, either Sol Pace or Dan Tracey on clarinet, and (by 1958) bass saxophonist Johnny Dengler.

In the 1960s, he recorded for K&H and Liberty and as a sideman for Bob Crosby, Pee Wee Erwin, and Red Nichols.

8 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #550
107.3 2SER Tuesday 8 November 2022 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 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	Selling Bonds
Open + Trumpeter’s Lullaby	Ralph Marterie Orchestra	‘Treasury Show’ WBBM CBS Chicago 26 Dec 1954
Two Sleepy People	Ralph Marterie Orchestra	‘Treasury Show’ WBBM CBS Chicago 26 Dec 1954
Babysitter	Ralph Marterie Orchestra	‘Treasury Show’ WBBM CBS Chicago 26 Dec 1954
The Gal That Got Away	Ralph Marterie Orchestra (voc) Bill Walters	‘Treasury Show’ WBBM CBS Chicago 26 Dec 1954
Set 2	Coleman Hawkins
It’s the Talk of the Town	Coleman Hawkins Quartet	London House WBBM CBS Chicago 19 Jun 1963
Honeysuckle Rose + Close	Coleman Hawkins Quartet	London House WBBM CBS Chicago 19 Jun 1963
Set 3	Art Lowrey
Open + Almost Like Being in Love	Art Lowrey Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Chase AFRS Re-broadcast KMOX CBS St Louis 1957
The Girl Without a Name	Art Lowrey Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Chase AFRS Re-broadcast KMOX CBS St Louis 1957
Monterey + Begin the Beguine	Art Lowrey Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Chase AFRS Re-broadcast KMOX CBS St Louis 1957
April Love + Say No More	Art Lowrey Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Chase AFRS Re-broadcast KMOX CBS St Louis 1957
Set 4	Billy Maxted
Open + Tin Roof Blues (theme) + Tailgate Ramble	Billy Maxted and his Manhattan Jazz Band	‘One Night Stand’ Nick’s AFRS Re-broadcast WRCA-FM NBC NYC 1957
When the Saints Go Marching In	Billy Maxted and his Manhattan Jazz Band	‘One Night Stand’ Nick’s AFRS Re-broadcast WRCA-FM NBC NYC 1957
Set 5	1930s-40s German Dance Orks
Guter Mond	Hans Carste Orchestra (voc) Rudi Schuericke	Comm Rec Berlin 1940
Ich mache alles mit Musik	Kurt Wege Soloists	Comm Rec Berlin 1940
Bei dir war es immer so schön	Kurt Wege Soloists	Comm Rec Berlin 1938
Über die Dächer der großen Stadt	Hans Carste Orchestra (voc) Rudi Schuericke Terzett	Comm Rec Berlin 1939
Set 6	1930s Dance Bands
Down T’uncle Bill’s	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis	Radio Transcription NYC 14 Dec 1934
Stompin’ at the Savoy	Isham Jones Orchestra	WOR Mutual NYC 24 Jan 1936
Babs	The Inkspots	WEAF NBC Red NYC 9 Aug 1935
Whistling in the Dark	Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
Set 7	1940s Women Singers
Blue Rain	Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Connie Morgan	‘Spotlight Bands’ Columbus OH Blue Network 19 Nov 1943
I Cover the Waterfront	Sarah Vaughn	‘Eddie Condon Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948
Love Me or Leave Me	Sarah Vaughn	‘Eddie Condon Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948
It Had to Be You + Rocking Chair (theme)	Mildred Bailey	‘Music till Midnight’ WABC CBS NYC 1944
Set 8	1960s Radio and TV Jazz
Chicago	Benny Goodman Trio	WNBC NBC TV NYC 21 Aug 1967
Sometimes I’m Happy	Tony Bennett (voc) Gene Krupa Trio	Radio Transcription 1963
I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles + Rose Room	Charlie Shavers Quartet	London House WBBM CBS  Chicago May 1962

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

Kid Ory Tailgate Trombone On Live 1949-55 Radio – The Phantom Dancer 22 October 2019

KID

On this week’s Phantom Dancer presented by myself, Greg Poppleton, the second 2SER Supporter Drive 2019 show,  I’ve put together a non-stop mix of some of my favourite and rare swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio. The feature artist this week is trad trombonist Kid Ory in broadcasts from 1949, 54 and 55.

ONLINE

This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online right after the 22 October 107.3 2SER Sydney live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney.

SUPPORT

Join thousands of others to keep community radio on air by supporting to 2SER now https://2ser.com/featurealbum/supporter-drive-2019/

ORY

Edward ‘Kid’ Ory was a Louisiana French-speaking bandleader and one of the most influential trombonists of early jazz.

He started playing music with homemade instruments in his childhood. By his teens he was leading a well-regarded band in southeast Louisiana. He kept LaPlace, Louisiana, as his base of operations because of family obligations until his twenty-first birthday, when he moved his band to New Orleans.

TAILGATE

Ory was a banjo player during his youth. He said banjo skills helped him develop ‘tailgate’, his style of playing the trombone with a rhythmic line underneath the trumpets and cornets.

Ory had one of the best-known bands in New Orleans in the 1910s, hiring many of the great jazz musicians of the city, including the cornetists Joe ‘King’ Oliver, Louis Armstrong, who joined the band in 1919, and clarinetists Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone.

WEST

He moved to Los Angeles in 1919 and recorded there in 1921 with a band that included Mutt Carey, the clarinetist and pianist Dink Johnson, and the double bassist Ed Garland. Garland and Carey were longtime associates who would still be playing with Ory during his 1940s comeback which we’ll be hearing on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

NORTH

In 1925, Ory moved to Chicago to play record with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Oliver, Johnny Dodds, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. He mentored Benny Goodman and, later, Charles Mingus.

WEST AGAIN

During the Great Depression Ory retired from music. He did not play again until 1943. He ran a chicken farm in California. From 1944 to about 1961 he led one of the top New Orleans–style bands of the period. His sidemen during this period included Carey and Garland, the trumpeters Alvin Alcorn and Teddy Buckner; the clarinetists Darnell Howard, Jimmie Noone, Albert Nicholas, Barney Bigard, and George Probert, pianists Buster Wilson, Cedric Haywood, and Don Ewell, and drummer Minor Hall.

IMPORTANT

The Ory band was an important force in reviving interest in New Orleans jazz, making popular 1940s radio broadcasts—among them a number of slots on The Orson Welles Almanac program. In 1944–45 the group made a series of recordings for Crescent Records, which was founded by Nesuhi Ertegun for the express purpose of recording Ory’s band.

During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Ory and his group appeared at the Beverly Cavern in Los Angeles. In the mid-50s he played Club Hangover in San Francisco. Ory retired from music in 1966 and spent his last years in Hawaii.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is film of Kid Ory playing with Henry ‘Red’ Allen at the Salle Pleyel Paris in 1959.

22 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #410
107.3 2SER Tuesday 22 October 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Selling Cars in 1936
Open + It’s You I’m Talking About	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby	‘Ford V8 Revue’ Radio Transcription 1936
Open + On Your Toes	Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians (voc) Glee Club and Johnny Davis	‘Ford and Lincoln Program’ WABC CBS NY 14 Apr 1936
I’d Rather Lead a Band + Close	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby and The Freshman Trio	‘Ford V8 Revue’ Radio Transcription 1936
Set 2	Jazz from 1960 Radio
Open + Love Letters	Rodolfo Alchurron Quartet	‘Este es Jazz’ LR1 Radio Buenos Aires 28 Mat 1960
Get Out of Town	Patty MacGovern	‘Jazz International’ AFRTS Re-broadcast Los Angeles 16 Jun 1960
Rhythm-a-Ning	Thelonius Monk	‘World Jazz Series’ Connie Mack Park Hershey, Pennsylvania CBS 3 Mar 1960
Set 3	Earliest Radio
Open + I’m a Dreamer, Aren’t We All?	Leonard Joy Orchestra	‘Coca Cola Top Notchers’ WEAF NBC Red NY 19 Mar 1930
Call Of The Freaks	Red Nichols Orchestra	‘Heat’ Radio Transcription 1 Aug 1930
Medley (includes If I Can’t Have You + I’ll Close My Eyes To The Rest of the World	Colonial Club Orchestra	‘Brunswick Brevities’ WABC CBS NY Oct 1929
Set 4	Kid Ory
Theme + Royal Garden Blues	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 5 Feb 1955
Theme + Mississippi Mud	Kid Ory	Beverly Cavern Club KGFJ Los Angeles 28 Jun 1949
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate + Chinatown, My Chinatown	Kid Ory	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 6 Nov 1954
Set 5	Breakfast Radio 1935-55
Open + Habanera	Unidentified Orchestra	WJSV CBS Washington DC 21 Sep 1939
Pick Yourself Up + A Fine Romance	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis	Morning Radio Oct 1935
I Never Knew	Rayond Scott’s Captivators	‘Morning Music’ WABC CBS NY 10 Jan 1943
Open+ Rain	Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra	‘NBC Bandstand’ WRCA NBC NY 1956
Set 6	Women Singers on the Air
Oh Babe, Maybe Some Day	Ivie Anderson (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra	Cotton Club WABC CBS NY 24 Mar 1938
They Can’t Take That Away from Me	Billie Holliday (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	Aircheck Savoy Ballroom, Harlem 30 Jul 1937
Mad About The Boy	Lena Horne (voc) Fletcher Henderson Orchestra	‘Jubille’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
There’ll Be A Jubilee	Dinah Washington (voc) Lionel Hampton Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Culver City CA AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jun 1944
Set 7	1943 – 45 Australian Swing
Jungle Jive	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Elsie Wardrope	Comm Rec Sydney
Johnny Zero	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Joan Blake	Comm Rec Sydney
Say a Prayer For the Boys Over There	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Joan Blake	Comm Rec Sydney
There, I’ve Said It Again	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Tassie Hamilton	Comm Rec Sydney
Set 8	Charlie Parker
Scrapple From The Apple	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 15 Jan 1949
What Is Bop?	Symphony Sid	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 19 Feb 1949
Oo-Bop-Sha-Bam	Charlie Parker (voc) Band	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 22 Jan 1949

Hit of the Week – Phantom Dancer Show 6 August 2019

CARDBOARD RECORDS

This week’s Greg Poppleton Phantom Dancer feature is a set of famous cardboard records from 1931. These are Hit of the Week cardboard records.

ONLINE

The Phantom Dancer will be online right after the 6 August 107.3 2SER Sydney live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm and Saturday 5 – 5:55pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney

ONE SIDED

Hit of the Week was a US record label founded in 1930 that sold low-priced records made of resin coated cardboard rather than the usual shellac.

After August 1931 they were extended play discs advertised with ‘up to twice the playing time of the average record’.

They also used two long outdated industry practices not used since before 1910:

1. some of the records had the songs announced or contained advertising about ‘Hit of the Week’ records. (The company that brought out Hit of the Week records also produced low cost advertising discs).

2. All of the records were recorded on one side only.

The playing side of the cardboard records was coated with Durium, a lightweight synthetic resin. The unrecorded side was uncoated and the unprotected cardboard absorbed moisture from the air. Therefore the discs have a propensity to curl. They now often require the use of a clip or weight around the turntable spindle to keep them flat during play.

Apart from some low-frequency rumble due to their texture, Hit of the Week audio fidelity was equal to or better than most ordinary shellac records., as you’ll hear in Set 4 of this week’s Phantom Dancer.

A few releases had the performer’s portrait printed on the uncoated paper side, or were imprinted there with advertising matter. They were issued in flimsy rice paper sleeves, few of which have survived.

A new issue featuring a current hit song was released every week. They were sold at newsstands. Previous issues could be obtained by mail order. Retailing for 15 cents each, later raised to 20 cents, Hit of the Week records were by far the lowest-priced records in the US at that time.

BOOM AND BUST

The first regular issue was released in February 1930.

By mid 1930, up to half a million copies of each week’s issue were produced. But sales quickly slumped as the Depression worsened.

In March 1931 the company went into receivership and in May it was purchased by the Erwin, Wasey & Company advertising agency. They debuted a new format debuted in August, featuring two songs or dance tunes on each single-sided disc and a total playing time of about five minutes, but the label remained unprofitable.

The final Hit of the Week issue was released in June 1932.

After the demise of the label, some limited use was made of smaller (often only four inches in diameter) records made of the same material, mostly for giveaway advertising novelties. Specimens of one of the most common advertising records, which invited the recipient to come see the new 1932 Chevrolet automobile, are usually found with a mailing label and postage on the uncoated back side.

Musicians who recorded for Hit of the Week included Gene Austin, Duke Ellington (under the pseudonym “Harlem Hot Chocolates”), Ben Pollack, Eddie Cantor (on a special 25 cent “Durium De Luxe” issue), Morton Downey, and Rudy Vallée. Most of the arrangements were performed by studio musicians in New York, led by Adrian Schubert, Bert Hirsch, Vincent Lopez, Don Voorhees and Phil Spitalny.

Jazz solos by instrumental stars including Bunny Berrigan, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang enlivened some recordings.

Two of the recordings on this week’s Phantom Dancer are tailed with football songs, trying to appeal to the young, male university market.

The vocalists who recorded with the studio bands included several popular radio singers of the day including Ralph Kirbery and Helen Rowland.

In the UK, a similar series was issued on the Durium label with songs by Al Bowlly and more.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is from the late 1940s, an unidentified woman reading to paper tape. Enjoy her story!

6 AUGUST PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #397
107.3 2SER Tuesday 6 August 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 1ART ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm 7LTN CityPark FM Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	1945 – 46 Radio Spotlight Bands
Nightmare (theme) + Bedford Drive	Artie Shaw Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Santa Ana AFB Ca Mutual Network 3 Oct 1945
Chickery Chick	Gene Krupa Orchestra (voc) Anita O’Day	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1946
This Love of Mine + Close	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network 17 Jan 1942
Set 2	Cocoanut Grove 1932-34 Radio
Theme + You’re Blase + Sophisticated Lady	Vincent Valsanti aka Ted Fio Rito Orchestra	‘Cocoanut Grove’ TRANSCO Radio Transcription Hollywood 1934
The Vamp	Phil Harris Orchestra	‘Cocoanut Grove’ TRANSCO Radio Transcription Hollywood 1933
Gooby Gear + Music in the Moonlight (theme)	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Donald Novis	‘Cocoanut Grove’ TRANSCO Radio Transcription Hollywood 1932
Set 3	1941 Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street
Open + Magic Carpet	Paul Lavalle’s Woodwind 10	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC NY 14 Aug 1941
Flow Gently Sweet Afton	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC NY 14 Aug 1941
Twirl Away	Lumel Morgan Trio	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC NY 14 Aug 1941
Home Town Blues	Henry Levine’s Dixieland Octet	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC NY 14 Aug 1941
Set 4	Hit of the Week Records
Me + Football Song	Sam Lanin Orchestra with vocals	Hit of the Week Record 1931
Love Letters in the Sand + Football Song	Sam Lanin Orchestra with vocals	Hit of the Week Record 1931
Pardon Me, Pretty Baby	Sam Lanin Orchestra (voc) Paul Small	Hit of the Week Record 13 Aug 1931
Set 5	Louis Armstrong Big Swing Band on 1940s Radio
Open + I Never Knew	Louis Armstrong Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network Dalls TX 17 Aug 1943
I’ve Got Plenty of Nothing	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Ada Brown	‘Jubilee’ AFRS NYC 1943
Lazy River	Louis Armstrong Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network Dalls TX 17 Aug 1943
It Had To Be You + Close	Louis Armstrong Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Tuskagee Alabama AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Oct 1944
Set 6	Trad Bands on 1940s Radio
Open + Medley	Bud Freeman Summa cum Laude Orchestra	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 May 1940
That’s a Plenty + Relaxin’ at the Trouro	Muggsy Spanier	Home Recording Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 18 Oct 1953
Big Butter and Egg Man	Miff Mole and the Nixieland 6	‘For The Record’ WEAF NBC NYC 30 Oct 1944
Set 7	Chuck Foster 1938-40 Radio Transcriptions
Oh, You Beautiful Doll (theme)	Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) CF	Radio Transcription 1940
I Found My Yellow Basket	Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Brandon, CF and The 3 Ds	Radio Transcription 1938
Listen to My Heart	Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Brandon	Radio Transcription 1940
How Srrange	Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Brandon	Radio Transcription 1939
Set 8	Early Charlie Parker on 1940 and 45 Radio
Honeysuckle Rose	Jay McShann Orchestra (alto sax Charlie Parker)	Radio Transcription KFBI Witchita Kansas 2 Dec 1940
Floogie Boo + St Louis Blues	Cootie Williams Orchestra (with Charlie Parker)	‘One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom Harlem AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Feb 1945
I Found a New Baby	Jay McShann Orchestra (alto sax Charlie Parker)	Radio Transcription KFBI Witchita Kansas 30 Nov 1940

Chris Barber Beat Boom – Phantom Dancer 12 May 2019

BEAT BOOM

This week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton features a 1950s radio broadcast and commercial release by a significant figure in the British rhythm and blues and ‘beat boom’ of the 1960s, trad jazz trombonist and band leader, Chris Barber.

See the full Phantom Dancer play list of swing and jazz mixed by Greg Poppleton from live 1920s-60s radio below.

PHANTOM DANCER

This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online right after the 14 May 2SER live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney

Chris Barber jazz band 1953

BARBER

English trad bandleader and trombonist, who apart from recording UK top 20 trad jazz records, helped the careers of many musicians. These include blues singer Ottilie Patterson who we’ll hear live on the BBC in 1955, Lonnie Donegan, whose appearances with Barber triggered the skiffle craze of the mid-1950s and, later, Alexis Korner.

SUNSHINE

Barber and Monty Sunshine (clarinet) formed a band in 1953, calling it Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen to capitalise on their trumpeter’s recent trip to New Orleans.

This band included Donegan, Jim Bray (bass), Ron Bowden (drums) and Barber on trombone. The band played Dixieland jazz, and later ragtime, swing, blues and R&B. Pat Halcox took over on trumpet in 1954 when Colyer moved on after musical differences and the band became “The Chris Barber Band”.

In 1959 the band’s version of Sidney Bechet’s ‘Petite Fleur’, a clarinet solo by Monty Sunshine with Barber on string bass, spent twenty-four weeks in the UK Singles Charts, making it to No. 3 and selling over one million copies. It was awarded a gold disc. After 1959 he toured the United States many times where ‘Petite Fleur’ charted at #5.

Ottile Patterson

BLUES

In the late 1950s and early 1960s Barber was mainly responsible for arranging the first UK tours of blues artists Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee and Muddy Waters, sparking young musicians such as Peter Green, Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones. British rhythm and blues powered the British invasion of the USA charts in the 1960s.

Barber stunned traditionalists in 1964 by introducing blues guitarist John Slaughter into the line up.

A recording of the Lennon–McCartney composition “Catswalk” can be heard, retitled “Cat Call”, on The Songs Lennon and McCartney Gave Away. Written by Paul McCartney the song was recorded in late July 1967 and released as a single in the UK on 20 October 1967.

RECENT

In 2014, Barber published his autobiography Jazz Me Blues with co-author Alyn Shipton. Now, at age 89, Chris Barber continues to perform.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is a half-hout TV show of Chris Barber and band on French TV in 1972. Enjoy!

14 MAY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #386
107.3 2SER Tuesday 14 May 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Big Bands on 1942-45 Radio
Open + Hallelujah! + The Song is You	Jerry Ward Orchestra (voc) Dick Merrick	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network 28 Oct 1944
Open + Instrumental	Benny Carter Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 16 Apr 1945
This Love of Mine + Close	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network 1942
Set 2	Miles Davis and John Coltrane
Four	Miles Davis and John Coltrane	‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NY 17 May 1958
Bye Bye Blackbird	Miles Davis and John Coltrane	‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NY 17 May 1958
Walkin’ + Two Bass Hit	Miles Davis and John Coltrane	‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NY 17 May 1958
Set 3	Duke Ellington
Take The A-Train + Strollin’	Duke Ellington Orchestra	El Patio Ballroom KLZ CBS Denver 15 Jul 1942
Waiting For The Evening Train	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Zanzibar New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Oct 1945
Take the A-Train + Lullaby of Birdland	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Bette Roche	Birdland WNBC NBC NY 24 Nov 1952
Set 4	Chris Barber 1950s
You Don’t Understand + Everybody Loves My Baby	Chris Barber Jazz Band	BBC Light Programme London 9 May 1955
Double Check Stomp	Chris Barber Jazz Band	Comm Rec London 1959
See See Rider	Chris Barber Jazz Band (voc) Ottile Patterson	BBC Light Programme London 9 May 1955
Set 5	Herman and James in New Orleans
Blue Flame (theme) + Nice Work If You Can Get It	Woody Herman Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Roosevelt WWJ CBS New Orleans 10 Nov 1951
Honeysuckle Rose	Harry James New Jazz Group	Blue Room Hotel Roosevelt WWJ CBS New Orleans 1951
Bijou	Woody Herman Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Roosevelt WWJ CBS New Orleans 20 Oct 1951
Moonlight Fiesta	Harry James New Jazz Group	Blue Room Hotel Roosevelt WWJ CBS New Orleans 1951
Set 6	1931 Jack Hylton Records
Mausie	Jack Hylton Orchestra	Comm Rec London 1931
Nevertheless	Jack Hylton Orchestra	Comm Rec London 1931
Today I Feel So Happy	Jack Hylton Orchestra (voc)	Comm Rec London 1931
Heartaches	Jack Hylton Orchestra	Comm Rec London 1931
Set 7	Vocal Dexterity on 1930s Radio
Honeysuckle Rose	Leo Watson	‘Rudy Vallee Show’ WEAF NBC Red NY 24 Mar 1939
Swinging on the Strings	The Inkspots	WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Aug 1935
Nagasaki + The Sheik of Araby	Les and Scotty	‘Shell Chateau’ KFI NBC Red LA 1937
Tiger Rag	The Inkspots	WFIL NBC Red Philadelphia 12 Jul 1939
Set 8	Dizzy Gillespie
Shaw Nuff	Dizzy Gillespie and more	Comm Rec New York City 11 May 1945
Koko (theme) + Hot House	Dizzy Gillespie and more	‘Bands for Bonds’ WOR Mutual NY 13 Sep 1947
Intro + Blue and Boogie	Dizzy Gillespie and more	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 31 Mar 1951

7 May Phantom Dancer – What is Trad Jazz, Dad?

IT’S TRAD, DAD!

This week’s feature artist on The Phantom Dancer, your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio by Greg Poppleton, is actually a feature style. The style is designated by a term a lot of its fans use without being too precise about its actual meaning. It’s Trad jazz, Dad.

See the full Phantom Dancer play list below.

PHANTOM DANCER

This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online right after this 7 May 2SER live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney. See other stations and times in the play list below.

FRONTLINE

Trad Jazz is short for traditional jazz. It’s the Dixieland and ragtime jazz styles of the early 20th century which typically used a front line of trumpet, clarinet, and trombone.

REVIVAL

A Dixieland revival began in the United States on the West Coast in the late 1930s as a backlash to the Chicago style, which was close to swing. Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, and trombonist Turk Murphy, adopted the repertoire of Joe “King” Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and W. C. Handy: bands included banjo and tuba in the rhythm sections. A New Orleans-based traditional revival began with the later recordings of Jelly-Roll Morton and the rediscovery of Bunk Johnson in 1942, leading to the founding of Preservation Hall in the French Quarter during the 1960s.

Early King Oliver pieces exemplify this style of hot jazz; however, as individual performers began stepping to the front as soloists, a new form of music emerged. One of the ensemble players in King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Louis Armstrong, was by far the most influential of the soloists, creating, in his wake, a demand for this “new” style of jazz, in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Other influential stylists who are still revered in traditional jazz circles today include Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, Wingy Manone and Muggsy Spanier. Many artists of the big band era, including Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa and Benny Goodman, had their beginnings in trad jazz.

On this week’s Phantom Dancer, you’ll hear Trad and Chicago style is Set 4 by the Bob Crosby Bobcats, Eddie Condon and Red Nichols direct from 1929 radio

The last hour is all vinyl.

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is: Westend Blues featuring Bob Barnard on trumpet and Lawrie Thompson, drums. I mention these two particular musicians out of the band in this 1980s telecast because I have had the huge pleasure of them both playing in my own Greg Poppleton band.

Enjoy!

Make sure you come back to this blog, Greg Poppleton’s Radio Lounge, every Tuesday, for the newest Phantom Dancer play list and Video of the Week!

Thank you.

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #384
107.3 2SER 12:04pm Tuesday 7 May 2019 5pm Saturday 11 May 2019  (+10 hours GMT) National Program: Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Big Bands on 1940s Radio
Theme + The Moon Is Low	Ray McKinley Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Century Room Hotel Commodore AFRS Re-broadcast 1946
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah	Jack Barrow Orchestra (voc) Dolores Crane	‘One Night Stand’ Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast Jul 1945
I Can’t Get Started + Theme	Jack Jenney (tb) Frank DeVol Orchestra	’Music Depreciation Revue’ KHJ Mutual – Don Lees Los Angeles 4 Feb 1945
Set 2	Smooth On 1950s Radio
Open + It’s A Good Day	Perry Como and the Ray Charles Singer (voc) Mitchell Ayres Orchestra	’Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954
Champagne Music (theme) + Red Petticoats	Lawrence Welk Orchestra	Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 1958
Medley: How Deep Is The Ocean? + I’m In The Mood For Love + Avalon + Close	Sammy Kaye Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Hotel Astor Roof NY AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Aug 1945
Set 3	Dixie on 1920s-50s Radio
Muskrat Ramble	Bob Crosby Bobcats	’Bob Crosby Show’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1955
I Want To Be Happy	Eddie Condon	’Dr Jazz’ Eddie Condon’s WMGM NY 10 Dec 1951
Jazz Me Blues	Little Buster and the Corn Poppers (Red Nichols)	’Dickenson Program’ Radio Transcription New York City Nov 1929
Set 4	1930 Radio Jazz
Tin Ear	Bob Effros and The Philco Orchestra	’Philco Program’ WABC CBS NY 1930
Singing River	Boswell Sisters	Continental Broadcasting Corporation Radio Transcription Hollywood 1930
I Don’t Need Atmosphere To Fall In Love With You + Close	Little Jack Little	’Little Jack Little Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1930
Set 5	Doris Day on 1939-45 Radio
I’m Happy About The Whole Thing	Doris Day (voc) Barney Rapp and his New Englanders	NBC Cincinatti 17 Jun 1939
Blue Music	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Peacock Room Baker Hotel CBS Dallas 9 Aug 1945
Long Ago and Far Away	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 7 Jul 1944
I Wish I Knew	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS Hollywood 16 Aug 1945
Set 6	Fats Waller 23 Sep 1943 in Story and Song
Reefer Song	Fats Waller	Comm Rec New York City 23 Sep 1943
Ain’t Misbehavin’ + There’s a Girl in my Life + Honeysuckle Rose	Fats Waller	’Personally, It’s Off The Record’ WABC CBS NY 23 Sep 1943
Set 7	1934 Radio Jazz and Dance
Maniacs’ Ball	Glen Gary and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Intro + It Don’t Mean A Thing	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	’Chrysler Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Song of the Vipers	Louis Armstrong	Comm Rec Paris Oct 1934
Swingy Little Thingy	Hal Kemp Orchestra	’Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Set 8	Bop on 1940s-50s Radio
A Night In Tunisia	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 12 Mar 1949
Now’s The Time	Howard McGee	Birdland WJZ ABC NY Oct 1951
I’m Glad There’s You	Charlie Ventura (voc) Jackie Kain and Roy Kral	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 1949

Vincent Lopez and 1938 Cotton Club – Phantom Dancer 9 April 2019

‘Lopez Speaking.’ Band leader Vincent Lopez is your feature artist on this week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton.

One of the early stars of radio, you’ll hear the piano playing, wisecracking band leader from live 1945-59 radio.

See the full Phantom Dancer play list below of swing and jazz mixed by Greg Poppleton from live 1920s-60s radio below.

PHANTOM DANCER

This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online right after the 9 April 2SER live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney

LOPEZ

Vincent Lopez was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents who had immigrated from Portugal. At age 22 in 1917 he was leading his own dance band in New York City.

RADIO

On November 27, 1921 The Lopez band began broadcasting on radio. The band’s weekly 90-minute show on the Newark, New Jersey, station WJZ boosted the popularity of both himself and of radio. He became one of America’s most popular bandleaders, and would retain that status through the 1940s.

He began his radio programs by announcing “Lopez speaking!”. His theme song was “Nola”, Felix Arndt’s novelty ragtime piece of 1915, and Lopez became so identified with it that he occasionally satirized it. (His 1939 movie short for Vitaphone, Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra, features the entire band singing “Down with Nola”.)

Lopez worked occasionally in feature films, notably The Big Broadcast (1932) and as a live-action feature in the Max Fleischer cartoon “I Don’t Want to Make History” (1936). In 1940, he was one of the very first bandleaders to work in Soundies movie musicals. He made additional Soundies in 1944.

INFLUENCED

Noted musicians who played in his band included Artie Shaw, Xavier Cugat, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Mike Mosiello, Fred Lowery, and Glenn Miller. He also featured singers Keller Sisters and Lynch, Betty Hutton, and Marion Hutton. Lopez’s longtime drummer was the irreverent Mike Riley, who popularized the novelty hit “The Music Goes Round and Round”.

Lopez’s flamboyant style of piano playing influenced such later musicians as Eddy Duchin and Liberace.

In 1941 Lopez’s Orchestra began a residency at the Taft Hotel in Manhattan that would last 20 years.

In the early 1950s, Lopez along with Gloria Parker hosted a radio program broadcast from the Taft Hotel called Shake the Maracas in which audience members competed for small prizes by playing maracas with the orchestra.

TV

He also broadcast the TV show “Dinner Date” from the Hotel Taft in 1950.

The Vincent Lopez Show was a popular TV series which ran from 1949 to 1957.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is from 1932 – the Lopez Orchestra in a Paramount short, “Those Blues”. The song is WC Handy’s St Louis Blues.

9 APRIL PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #380
107.3 2SER Tuesday 9 April 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12:04 – 1pm and early morning on 24 other stations.
Set 1	Big Bands on 1944-46 Radio
Brahm’s Hungarian Dance No.5	Shep Fields and his New Music	‘One Night Stand’ Copacabana NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 9 Aug 1944
These Foolish Things (ts) Charlie Ventura	Gene Krupa Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca. AFRS Re-broadcast 31 Mar 1946
Elks Parade + Close	Bobby Sherwood Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Avadon Ballroom LA AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1946
Set 2	Band Singers on the Radio
Come Rain, Come Shine	Jo Stafford	‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954
Exactly Like You	Andy Russell	‘Double Feature’ AFRS Re-broadcast Hollywood 15 Oct 1944
It Happened in Monterey + Close	Perry Como	‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954
Set 3	1935-36 Radio
Syncopated Love Song	Nathaniel Shilkret	WEAF NBC Red NY 1935
O Miss Hannah + The Way You Look Tonight + I’m An Old Cowhand + Close	The Revellers	‘The Magic Key’ WJZ NBC Blue 11 Nov 1936
Instrumental + I Love A Parade	Freddy Rich Orchestra	‘Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription New York City 13 Feb 1936
Set 4	Vincent Lopez
Nola	Vincent Lopez Orchestra	Comm Rec Hollywood 8 Jan 1940
Open + Song of the Islands + My First, My Last, My Only Love	Vincent Lopez Orchestra (voc) Bruce Hayes	‘Luncheon with Lopez’ Grill Room Hotel Taft WOR Mutual NYC 10 Aug 1945
My Melancholy Baby + Muskrat Ramble	Vincent Lopez Orchestra (voc) Texas Teddy Norman	‘One Night Stand’ AFRS Re-broadcast Grill Room Hotel Taft 1959
Set 5	Cotton Club 1938 Radio
Intro + Jig Walk	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Cotton Club WABC CBS NY 22 May 1938
Downtown Uproar	Duke Ellington Orchestra (featuring Cottie Williams)	Cotton Club WABC CBS NY 17 Apr 1938
Slappin’ on Seventh Avenue	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Cotton Club WABC CBS NY 22 May 1938
Oh Babe, Maybe Some Day + I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ivie Anderson	Cotton Club WABC CBS NY 22 May 1938
Set 6	Duke Ellington Alumni
Round Midnight (theme) + 711	Cootie Williams Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom Harlem NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Feb 1945
Tutti for Cootie	Duke Ellington Orchestra (featuring Cottie Williams)	‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City AFRTS Re-broadcast Jul 1964
I Ain’t Got Nothing But The Blues	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Kay Davis, (ts) Al Sears	‘Date With The Duke’ Cafe Zanzibar WJZ ABC NY 10 Nov 1945
Right Now, Right Now	Alan Freed Big Band (ts) Al Sears	Comm Rec New York City 1956
Set 7	Nan Wynn on Radio
All This And Heaven Too	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Nan Wynn	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 1940
And So Do I	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Nan Wynn	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 1940
Blueberry Hill	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Nan Wynn	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 1940
A Million Dreams Ago	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Nan Wynn	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 1940
Set 8	Trad Radio
Wailing Blues	The Cellar Boys	Comm Rec New York City 30 Jan 1930
Black and Blue	Muggsy Spanier	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 22 Mar 1947
Didn’t He Ramble	The Southern Jazz Group	5AD Adelaide 18 Jun 1949
That’s A’Plenty + Close	Muggsy Spanier	Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 18 Jun 1953

Egyptian Ella – New Greg Poppleton Video

Huzzah!

The new video by Greg Poppleton …

Egyptian Ella by Walter Doyle (1930) – from the album Back In Your Own Backyard

Greg Poppleton and his 1920s-30s swing and jazz band come from Way Down South –
so far south, in fact, that the next stop is Antarctica!

Enjoy…

We love playing 1920s – 1930s jazz and swing

And we believe in sharing this music at free shows and uploads

But we still have to eat

We believe that for artists to survive and create, audiences need to step up and directly support them…

Buy and download at
BANDCAMP
CDBABY
iTUNES

 

If you’re broke,
add this to your play list.
Kick in later when you have the money

If you’re rich,
think of the good karma your support will bring you

We ask for only $1

That’s 1/3 the price of a coffee

And this song will last you forever

Thank you.

DOWNLOAD at…

BANDCAMP
CDBABY
iTUNES

Egyptian Ella
Vocals: Greg Poppleton
Soprano Sax: Paul Furniss
Sousaphone: Geoff Power
Guitar: Grahame Conlon
Drums: Lawrie Thompson

7 February Phantom Dancer – Julius Sumner Miller ‘Why Is It So?’

Where has the year gone?

7 February already? It’s almost Christmas!

Well, it feels like Christmas now because today’s Phantom Dancer is ONLINE at Radio 2SER

Never mind, here’s your The Phantom Dancer play list for 7 February, your two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV.

Non-stop swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio presented by Greg Poppleton over 107.3 2SER Sydney every Tuesday from 12 noon since 1985.

And now live-streamed, archived online at 2ser.com and heard on over 22 radio stations.

In the Phantom Dancer mix this week: Australia swing on 1930s – 40s radio, Trad Jazz on the air with Kid Ory, Louis Armstrong and more plus a mix of women big bands on live 1940s radio.

See the full play list below.

Your Phantom Dancer video of the Week is Professor Julius Sumner Miller examining reflected images on glass slabs from the 1960s ABC TV series, ‘Why Is It So?’

Enjoy!

Make sure you come back to this blog, Greg Poppleton’s Radio Lounge, every Tuesday, for the newest Phantom Dancer play list and Video of the Week!

Thank you.

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #250 107.3 2SER Tuesday 7 February 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: 2RRR Gladesville Thurs 11am – 12 ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations. Set 1 Post Swing Era Swing on 1948 – 53 Radio Open + Blue Flame + Woodchoppers’ Ball Woody Herman Third Herd ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Royal Grove Peony Park WOW NBC Omaha Nebraska 1948 Grieg’s Grotto Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra (voc) Frances Caldwell ‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Hotel Claridge WMC NBC Memphis Tenn. 19 Jun 1953 Blue Velvet + Close Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Alan Copeland and The Modernaires ‘Bob Crosby Show’ Television Centre Hollywood AFRTS Re-broadcast 1955 Set 2 1930s-1940s Australian Radio Mortein Commercial Rex ‘Wacka’ Dawe ‘Yes, What?’ 5AD Adelaide 1938 Minnie’s In The Money Barbara James (voc) Reg Lewis Orchestra ‘Hit Parade’ 2UE Sydney 1945 My Song Goes Around The World + With A Sweet Melody + Sweet Lucy Brown Frank Coughlan Trocadero Orchestra Radio Transcription Featuradio Sydney Apr 1936 Set 3 1943 – 45 Swing Bands Open + Swingin’ The Blues Clyde McCoy Fort Huachuca Band ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1943 Open + Whispering Gene Krupa Orchestra ‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network 11 Nov 1944 On The Sunny Side of the Street + Close Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) The Sentimentalists ‘GI Jive’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1945 Set 4 1930s Radio Dance Orchestra In The Mood Russ Morgan Orchestra Radio Transcription New York City 1939 Sugar Foot Stomp Benny Goodman Orchestra Madhattan Room WOR Mutual NY 21 Oct 1937 Hold Tight Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red 20 Jun 1939 Set 5 1938-39 Radio Mickey Mouse Bands I’ll See You In My Dreams Jan Garber Orchestra Radio Transcription New York City 1939 The Man I Love Del Courtney Orchestra Aircheck Rainbow Room New Kenmore Hotel Albany NY 31 Oct 1938 Annabelle Gray Gordon and his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra Radio Transcription New York City 1939 You’re The Only Star In My Blue Heaven Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Russ Carlyle and The Glee Club Radio Trancription New York City 1939 Set 6 Trad Bands On The Air Wailing Blues The Cellar Boys Comm Rec Chicago 24 Jan 1930 Bay City (theme) + Down Home Rag Turk Murphy’s San Francisco Jazz Band Easy Street KCBS San Francisco 2 Dec 1958 Singing The Blues Jack Parnell’s Jazzmen ‘Swing Session’ BBC London 13 Feb 1945 Basin Street Blues Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden (voc) ‘Spotlight Bands’ Metropolitan Opera House WJZ NBC Blue NY 18 Jan 1944 Set 7 Women Swing Singers on 1940s Radio Blueberry Hill Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Nan Wynn Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 1940 Every Time We Say Goodbye Charlie Spivak Orchestra (voc) Irene Day Spotlight Bands Jamestown NY Blue Network 19 Jan 1945 Long Ago And Far Away Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Doris Day Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 7 Jul 1944 Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) Kay Starr ‘For The Record’ WEAF NBC NY 11 Sep 1944 Set 8 Moderne Sounds on the Radio Apparatus I Keep Rollin’ On Hot Lips Page Hot 7 Comm Rec New York City 14 Jun 1944 Slipped Disc Benny Goodman Sextet ‘Kings of Jazz’ BBC NY 8 Dec 1945 Love For Sale Stan Kenton Orchestra ‘Concert In Miniature’ Fort Sheridan, Illinois NBC 2 Sep 1952 Elevation Elliot Lawrence Orchestra Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 5 Dec 1947

Looking For Jazz In Sydney Thursday 19 January?

Will you be in Sydney 8:30pm Thursday 19 January?

Are you into 1920s – 1930s Jazz – that’s Jazz Age and Swing Era?

Would you like to see a live 1920s – 30s singer and band at Sydney’s premier jazz club?

Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters invite you…

…To the Foundry 616 jazz club 1920s-30s show in the heart of Sydney, Thursday 19 JANUARY 8:30pm. TICKETS

I’m reminding you because with tickets to the Great Art Deco Ball sold out months ago, we don’t want you to miss out on this rare inner city Sydney show, too

We’re very excited to be invited to play at Foundry 616 jazz club with its cosy atmosphere, bar and excellent food.

If you’re celebrating a birthday or having a work social, why not have it here with friends at Foundry 616?

Catch the show at 8:30pm

Or come earlier for dinner from 7 or 8pm

There’s a dinner menu, bar and cosy atmosphere. Foundry 616 is centrally located.

And you’ll get to hear world-toured classic jazz musicians with Australia’s only authentic 1920s – 1930s singer in a night fun, swinging, upbeat music.

We promise you an evening you’ll totally enjoy.

We’ll be doing our Charleston, 1920s jazz cabaret and classic New Orleans show people just love.

These are the shows we do in our regular Gin Mill Social cabaret appearances and at the Sydney Festival many years ago. Most recently we played the show at the Waiheke International Jazz Festival in New Zealand and for five years headlining the sell-out annual Great Art Deco Ball.

Bob Rogers will be talking about the show on 1170 2CH this Saturday night at 9pm. He’ll also be playing a few tracks from the band’s latest Back In Your Own Backyard album.

Jono Coleman will also be talking about the show on 99.3 2NSB Northside Radio, 5:45pm, next Monday 16 January. And he’ll be playing some Greg Poppleton tracks

107.3 2SER have just put the show up on the front page of their website. Take a look…

Don’t miss out! Get your TICKETS

Tip: Booking a dinner/show option guarantees you a table for the night

On stage, Sydney’s out-standing classic jazz musicians with Australia’s only authentic 1920s-30s singer…

Greg Poppleton – 1920s-30s vocals
Paul Furniss – clarinet, soprano sax and alto sax
Geoff Power – trumpet, trombone and sousaphone
Grahame Conlon – guitar and banjo
Adam Barnard – drums and washboard

When?
Soon. Book now 8:30pm Thursday 19 January

Where?
Foundry 616
616 Harris St Ultimo (near Broadway)

Tickets?
You can book online TICKETS
Phone: 02 9211 9442
Email: foundry616@gmail.com

TICKETS

Where is Foundry 616?
616 Harris Street near Broadway. See the red pointer on the map…

See you at Foundry 616, 8:30pm Thursday 19 January for a night of 1920s – 1930s Jazz!
TICKETS