Shortwave Broadcasting 1940 | Phantom Dancer 14 May 2024

Shortwave broadcasting by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra from New York to Latin America in 1940 is your Phantom Dancer Feature this week. And below are some relevant paragraphs on shortwave broadcasting taken from a 1942 article in ‘RCA Review’.

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SHORT

From ‘RCA Review’, 1942…

“AN EXPANDING horizon of steel towers, tall wooden poles, and networks of elevated antenna wires attests to the growing international broadcasting activities of NBC stations WRCA and WNBI at Bound Brook, New Jersey.

NBC has provided this service for many years. International activities have been stimulated in recent years, first, ih point of time, through the action of the Fed­eral Communications Commission authorizing commercial operation, and second, by the more important contribution this service brings to National Defence.

The Bound Brook plant contains NBC’s international transmit­ting facilities plus the WJZ transmitting facilities. The original property was purchased for these combined facilities in 1925 when RCA built its first short-wave broadcast transmitter, the predecessor of the present busy stations.

The original site consisted of 54 acres. Recently the expanding scope of NBC’s international activities resulted in the purchase of an additional 16 acres, making a total of 70 acres, most of it devoted exclusively to international transmitting antennas.”

WAVE

“It has been the writer’s privilege to be associated with radio for 26 years and with broadcasting for 20 years.

Rarely has there been an opportunity in those eventful times for any form of communication to demonstrate such unique feats as are now becoming accepted common­ places in international broadcasting.

Barely 16 years ago the first rebroadcast from across the seas took place. Scheduled rebroadcasts from the far corners of the earth have since become matters of but casual interest.

But only in recent months has the bewildered victim of catastrophe, propaganda, and censorship so fully appreciated the modern miracle of radio which enables him to listen, perhaps secretly, at night.

The following is an example of the technical character of the WRCA 9670-kc signal received in Rio de Janeiro from the steerable antenna.

It covers from 6.00 to 7.45 P.M. E.D.S.T. on May 15, 1941. Reception was on a common receiver with six feet of wire for an antenna.

Carrier strength …  Very Strong
Fading-Depth … Very slight to slight
Rate of fading … Very slow to slow
Interference from other stations … None
Static ….Very weak
Background noise … None
Quality Overall rating … Excellent.”

14 May PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #653
107.3 2SER Tuesday 14 May 2024 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) 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 7RPH Hobart Monday 3 – 4pm 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	Tommy Dorsey
Daydreams Come Teue at Night (theme) + Why Fall in Love witha Stranger? + Dime a Dozen	Dick Jurgens  Orchestra (voc) Al Galetti	‘The Treasury Show’ Garden Room Hotel Claremont Berkeley Ca ABC 9 Oct 1949
Wedding Day	Dick Jurgens Orchestra Vocals – Lee Castle	‘The Treasury Show’ Garden Room Hotel Claremont Berkeley Ca ABC 9 Oct 1949
That Old Black Magic	Dick Jurgens Orchestra	‘The Treasury Show’ Garden Room Hotel Claremont Berkeley Ca ABC 9 Oct 1949
Medley: Miss You  |  Was That the Human Thing to Do?  |  My Blue Heaven  |  Them There Eyes  |  Makin’ Whoopee + Close	Dick Jurgens Orchestra (voc) Lee Castle	‘The Treasury Show’ Garden Room Hotel Claremont Berkeley Ca ABC 9 Oct 1949
Set 2	Tommy Dorsey on Shortwave in Spanish
I’m Gettin’ Sentimental Over You (theme) + Dark Eyes	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘Carnival of Broadway’ Hotel Astor Roof WNBI/WRCA NBC Shortwave NYC 19 Jun 1940
Polkadots and Moonbeams	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra	‘Carnival of Broadway’ Hotel Astor Roof WNBI/WRCA NBC Shortwave NYC 19 Jun 1940
March of the Toys	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘Carnival of Broadway’ Hotel Astor Roof WNBI/WRCA NBC Shortwave NYC 19 Jun 1940
Deep Night + I’m Gettin’ Sentimental Over You (theme)	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra	‘Carnival of Broadway’ Hotel Astor Roof WNBI/WRCA NBC Shortwave NYC 19 Jun 1940
Set 3	Jazz TV
I Left My Baby	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing	Seven Lively Arts ‘Sound of Jazz’ WCBS TV NYC 8 Dec 1957
Dickie’s Dream	Count Basie Orchestra	Seven Lively Arts ‘Sound of Jazz’ WCBS TV NYC 8 Dec 1957
The Train and the River	Pee Wee Russel (cl) Jimmy Giuffre (cl)  Danny Barker (g) Milt Hinton (db) Jo Jones (d)	Seven Lively Arts ‘Sound of Jazz’ WCBS TV NYC 8 Dec 1957
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me	Pee Wee Russel (cl) Jimmy Giuffre (cl)  Danny Barker (g) Milt Hinton (db) Jo Jones (d)	Seven Lively Arts ‘Sound of Jazz’ WCBS TV NYC 8 Dec 1957
Set 4
Set 5	Les Brown Orchestra
How High The Moon	Les Brown Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 16 Aug 1945
Coastin’ Along	Les Brown Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 16 Aug 1945
I Wish I Knew	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Doris Day	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 16 Aug 1945
Show Me The Way To Go Home	Les Brown Orchestra (vov) Butch Stone	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 16 Aug 1945
Set 6	Cootie Williams
Round Midnight (theme) + 711	Cootie Williams Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom Harlem AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Feb 1945
Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me	Cootie Williams Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom Harlem AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Feb 1945
Don’t Blame Me	Cootie Williams Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom Harlem AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Feb 1945
Perdido	Cootie Williams Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom Harlem AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Feb 1945
Set 7	Duke Ellington Orchestra
Take the A-Train (theme) + Bensonality	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jul 1952
All of Me	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Bette Roche	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jul 1952
Bakiff	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jul 1952
The Hawk Talks	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jul 1952
Set 8	Trad Jazz
Theme + Maple Leaf Rag	Wild Bill Davison	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NYC 19 Apr 1947
Basin Street Blues	George Brunis & Albert Nicholas	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NYC 19 Apr 1947
Mahoganny Hall Stomp	Louis Armstrong All-Stars	‘All-Star Jazz Show’ NBC TV 30 Dec 1957

George Olsen | Phantom Dancer 2 January 2024

George Olsen, was a U.S musician and bandleader. He was most popular in the years 1924-35, beginning with his recording of ‘The Hottest Man in Town’ becoming a hit. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.

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GEORGE

The George Olsen Orchestra first played at the Multnomah Hotel, Portland. He then headed to Broadway, as musical director for the shows Kid Boots (1923), the Ziegfeld Follies of 1924, Ziegfeld Follies of 1925, and Good News (1927).

George Olsen and his orchestra were in Eddie Cantor’s 1928 Broadway hit Whoopee!, and in the 1930 movie version.

In the Follies George met his first wife, singer, Ethel Shutta, pronounced Shoot-tay. Olsen and Shutta were heard on the Oldsmobile Program on CBS radio in 1933. Olsen was also orchestra leader for the first season of The Jack Benny Program in 1932.

OLSEN

Olsen signed with Victor in 1924 and remained as one of Victor’s most popular bands until 1933 when he signed with Columbia. He stayed with Columbia till January, 1934. He recorded a single session in 1938 for Decca, and one final date for the Varsity label in 1940.

Singer-saxophonist Fred MacMurray was in the Olsen Orchestra in 1930 on his way to eventual movie stardom, recording a vocal on I’m in the Market for You.

Olsen’s long-time alto saxist and singer, Fran Frey, with his distinctive, reedy bass-baritone, was perhaps the best known Olsenite until he left in 1933 for a career as a music director in radio.

In 1936, Olsen became leader of Orville Knapp’s band after Knapp died in a plane crash. Olsen was chosen to lead the band by Knapp’s widow. He called it ‘The Orchestra of Tomorrow’. Morale problems plagued the group. In 1938, after many musicians had already left, the group disbanded.

In the 1960s Olsen ran a popular local restaurant in Paramus NJ  called “George Olsen’s”. A reviewer wrote, “Olsen is there every day greeting guests at lunch and dinner… In the background, the original George Olsen records of the Twenties play softly.”

2 January PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #634
107.3 2SER Tuesday 2 January 2024 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) 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 7RPH Hobart Monday 3 – 4pm 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	Stars in Jazz
Theme + Disorder at the Border	Coleman Hawkins – Roy Eldridge	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NYC 1952
Stuffy	Coleman Hawkins – Roy Eldridge	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NYC 1952
I Only Have Eyes For You	Arthur Prysock	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NYC 1952
Set 2	Early Rock
Three O’Clock in the Morning	King Porter Orchestra	‘Burgie Big Beat’ KNX CBS LA 1956
Poor Butterfly	King Porter Orchestra	‘Burgie Big Beat’ KNX CBS LA 1956
The Magic Touch	The Platters	‘Burgie Big Beat’ KNX CBS LA 1956
One O’Clock Jump	King Porter Orchestra	‘Burgie Big Beat’ KNX CBS LA 1956
Set 3	George Olsen
Theme + Two Cigarettes	George Olsen Orchestra (voc) Sherman Hayes	‘One Night Stand’ Copacabana NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Feb 1945
This Heart of Mine	George Olsen Orchestra (voc) Judith Blair	‘One Night Stand’ Copacabana NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Feb 1945
There Goes That Song Again	George Olsen Orchestra (voc) Sherman Hayes	‘One Night Stand’ Copacabana NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Feb 1945
Bell Bottom Trousers	George Olsen Orchestra (voc) Judith Blair and Sherman Hayes and Band	‘One Night Stand’ Copacabana NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Feb 1945
Set 4	Johnny Pineapple
Theme + Little Grass Shack	Johnny Pineapple	‘New Years Dancing Party’ Polynesian Village Edgewater Beach Hotel WGN Chicago 1 Jan 1958
Jingle Bells + Hawaiian New Years	Johnny Pineapple and the Polynesian Sweethearts	‘New Years Dancing Party’ Polynesian Village Edgewater Beach Hotel WGN Chicago 1 Jan 1958
My Blooming Flower	Johnny Pineapple	‘New Years Dancing Party’ Polynesian Village Edgewater Beach Hotel WGN Chicago 1 Jan 1958
Set 5	Charlie Barnet
Redskin Rhumba (theme) + Cotton Tail	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	Aircheck Los Angeles Mar 1945
Strolling	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	Aircheck Dec 1945
Everything But You	Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) Fran Warren	Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA Jan 1946
Poor Little Rich Girl	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	Aircheck Dec 1945
Set 6	Glenn Miller
Moonlight Serenade (theme) + The Lady’s in Love with You	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Tex Beneke and Glenn Miller	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 18 Apr 1939
Wishing	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Ray Eberle	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 18 Apr 1939
Dear Arabella	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke and The Modernaires	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NYC 27 Dec 1941
Elmer’s Tune + Keep ’em Flying + Close	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Ray Eberle and The Modernaires	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NYC 27 Dec 1941
Set 7	Blue Barron
The Yam	Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Charlie Fisher	Radio Transcription 1938
At Long Last Love	Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Russ Carlyle	Radio Transcription 1940
Love of My Life	Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Russ Carlyle	Radio Transcription 1939
You’re the Only Star in My Blue Heaven	Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Russ Carlyle and The Glee Club	Radio Transcription 1940
Set 8	Dave Brubeck
Spring is Here	Dave Brubeck	Birdland WJZ ABC NY Dec 1953
A Minor Thing	Dave Brubeck	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Feb 1956
In Your Own Sweet Way	Dave Brubeck	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY Feb 1956

New Year’s Eve Radio | Phantom Dancer 26 December 2023

Happy New Year! Enjoy this New Year’s mix of swing and jazz from 1930s-50s New Year Radio. And marvel at how Wynn the Astrologer on his live-to-air 1936 radio predictions got 1937 so wrong.

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OOGIE BOOGIE

This week’s featured ‘artist’ is Wynn the Astrologer…

SEER

This famous 1930s astrologer gives his prognostications for 1937 on this week’s Phantom Dancer. In fact, get ready for disappointment at the end of Set 1, where I play Wynn’s ‘wise words’ (and some musical excerpts) from the 1936 New Year’s Eve Rudy Vallee show.

You’ll hear most of what Wynn had to say about the year ahead. I cut it short for time. Think of the audience for the 1936 radio broadcast, they never got that time Wynn wasted back.

Wynn, born Sidney Kimball Bennett, wrote the stars for the New York Daily News. It seems he didn’t do it for a laugh. He was pompously serious about himself, as you’ll hear.

SPOOKY

His claim to fame was a prediction he made in the NY Daily News in 1932. He ‘foresaw’ financial turmoil for early March of 1933. That’s when President Roosevelt closed the banks for a week as the US struggled with the Great Depression.

UNCANNY

Wynn’s predictions for 1937 are typically vague, and, well, predictable. More interesting is just a short list of what actually happened in 1937 out of the trillions of things Wynn’s charts failed to predict…

• Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in Great Britain
• Bradman scores 270 Aust v England at the MCG, incl 110 singles
• 2nd of Stalin’s purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death
• DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers
• Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman’s Arrowbile
• Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket v England in 223 minutes
• Mexico nationalizes oil
• Pope Pius XI publishes anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge
• Astronomer Fritz Zwicky publishes his research on stellar explosion in which he coins the term “supernova” and hypothesizes that they were the origin of cosmic rays
• Spinach growers of Crystal City, Texas, erect statue of Popeye
• Debut of cartoon characters Daffy Duck, Elmer J Fudd & Petunia Pig
• German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
• 1st commercial flight across Pacific operated by Pan Am
• The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% voted yes
• San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge opens
• Spam, the luncheon meat, is first introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation
• Japanese & Chinese troops clash at the Marco Polo Bridge, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War
• Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens
• Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
• 1st FM radio construction permit issued (W1X0J (WGTR) in Boston MA)
• Date celebrated as the first International Hobbit Day and the birthdays of Bibo and Frodo Baggins
• 1st Santa Claus Training School opens (Albion NY)
• Balinese Tiger declared extinct
• Dmitri Shostakovitch’s 5th Symphony premieres
• Clifford Odets’ “Golden Boy” premieres in NYC
• Japanese troops conquer and plunder Nanjing (Nanjing Massacre)
• Bill O’Reilly takes 9-41 for NSW against South Australia
• Constitution of Ireland (Irish: Bunreacht na hÉireann) is enacted and Irish free state is named Eire
• Pan Am starts service between San Francisco and Auckland, New Zealand

Here’s some footage of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman’s Arrowbile. How did Wynn miss this one? Probably the same way he missed foretelling his own 1926 car accident…(gosh, on today’s Phantom Dancer he warns Rudy Vallee to be ‘careful of cars’, spooky!)

31 DECEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #633
107.3 2SER Tuesday 26 December 2023 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) 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 7RPH Hobart Monday 3 – 4pm 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
New Years Eve Aboard An Ocean Liner	Raymond Scott Quintette	Comm Rec New York 21 Jul 1939
In The Mood	Glenn Miller Orchestra	‘Chesterfield Show’ WABC CBS NY 27 Dec 1939
Never Should Have Told You + Predictions for 1937 + Chim Bomba + Close	Rudy Vallee and Wynn the Astrologer	‘Royal Gelatin Show’ WEAF NBC Red NY 31 Dec 1936
Set 2
Open + Happy Holidays	Bing Crosby (voc) John Scott Trotter Orchestra	‘Kraft Music Hall’ KFI NBC LA 30 Dec 1943
Rhapsody In Blue (theme) + Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah	Paul Whiteman Orchestra and Chorus	‘The Paul Whiteman Show’ WJZ ABC NY 1 Jan 1947
Poinciana + Close	Bing Crosby (voc) John Scott Trotter Orchestra	‘Kraft Music Hall’ KFI NBC LA 30 Dec 1943
Set 3
Deep Forest (theme) + Dippermouth Blues + When The Saints Go Marching In + Tiger Rag	Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines	Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 1 Jan 1957
Set 4
Auld Lang Syne + Newport Up + Together + Macarena + You Better Know It	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Grissom and Ozzie Bailey	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 1 Jan 1958
Set 5
Sad Sack	Harry James Orchestra (Hollywood)	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
One O’Clock Jump	Count Basie Orchestra (New York)	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
Warsaw Concerto	Freddy Martin Orchestra (Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles)	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
Woodchopper’s Ball	Woody Herman Orchestra (Meadowbrook Ballroom, Cedar Grove NJ)	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
Set 6
Open + Stompin’ At The Savoy + Tea For Two	Teddy Wilson Trio	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ The Embers WRCA NBC NY 31 Dec 1957
Stompin’ Down Broadway + Opus 1 (close)	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WCBS CBS NY 1 Jan 1956
Set 7
Afterthoughts + Canadian Sunset + Soft Summer Breeze + The Man I Love + Begin The Beguine	Eddie Haywood Trio	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ The Embers WRCA NBC NY 31 Dec 1957
Set 8
Robin Hood	Louis Prima Orchestra (voc) LP	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
Gotta Be This Or That	Benny Goodman Orchestra (with Slam Stewart b, Red Norvo vibes, Boston)	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
Let The Zoomers Drool	Duke Ellington Orchestra (Evansville, Indiana)	‘New Year’s Dancing Party’ AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945

Christmas on 1930s-60s Radio | Phantom Dancer 19 December 2023

Christmas Music from 1930s-60s Christmas radio on this week’s Phantom Dancer. Hear Kid Ory, Charlie Parker, Patti Page and more. Listen…your Phantom Dancer feature this week.

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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AUSTRALIAN CHRISTMAS #1

AUSTRALIAN CHRISTMAS #2

19 December PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #632
107.3 2SER Tuesday 19 December 2023 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) 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 7RPH Hobart Monday 3 – 4pm 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	Henry Hall
Theme + It Had to Be You	Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra	‘Henry Hall Show’ BBC London 21 Dec 1936
The Fairy on the Christmas Tree	Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra (voc) Molly, Marie and Mary	‘Henry Hall Show’ BBC London 21 Dec 1936
Sing Me a Swing Song	Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra (voc) Don Donovan	‘Henry Hall Show’ BBC London 21 Dec 1936
Set 2	Bing Crosby
Open + We Wish You a Merry Christmas + Jingle Bells	Bing Crosby and Chorus (voc) Paul Weston Orchestra	‘Christmas Sing with Bing’ Radio Transcription CBS LA 24 Dec 1962
We Wish You a Merry Christmas + Here Comes Santa Claus	Rosemary Clooney and Johnny Mercer (voc) Paul Weston Orchestra	‘Christmas Sing with Bing’ Radio Transcription CBS LA 24 Dec 1962
The Holly and the Ivy + Deck the Halls + Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer	Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney and Chorus (voc) Paul Weston Orchestra	‘Christmas Sing with Bing’ Radio Transcription CBS LA 24 Dec 1962
Joy to the World + Happy Holidays (theme)	Bing Crosby and Chorus (voc) Paul Weston Orchestra	‘Christmas Sing with Bing’ Radio Transcription CBS LA 24 Dec 1962
Set 3	Organ and Piano
Deep Purple (theme) + Santa Claus is Coming to Town + Joy to the World	Grace Caldwell (hammond organ) Bill Pollard (piano)	‘Keyboard Melodies’ Lobby Northern Hotel KGHL NBC Billings Montana Dec 1954
In the Mood	Grace Caldwell (hammond organ) Bill Pollard (piano)	‘Keyboard Melodies’ Lobby Northern Hotel KGHL NBC Billings Montana Dec 1954
Always	Grace Caldwell (hammond organ) Bill Pollard (piano)	‘Keyboard Melodies’ Lobby Northern Hotel KGHL NBC Billings Montana Dec 1954
Angry + Close	Grace Caldwell (hammond organ) Bill Pollard (piano)	‘Keyboard Melodies’ Lobby Northern Hotel KGHL NBC Billings Montana Dec 1954
Set 4	Count Basie
Open + Let’s Put Our Heads Together + Come To Me	Rudy Vallee and the Connecticut Yankees (elec bj) Sleepy Hall (voc) Rudy Vallee	‘Royal Gelatin Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NYC 17 Dec 1936
Little Old Lady	Rudy Vallee and the Connecticut Yankees (voc) Rudy Vallee	‘Royal Gelatin Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NYC 17 Dec 1936
Riding High	Rudy Vallee and the Connecticut Yankees (voc) Swing Kids Quartet	‘Royal Gelatin Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NYC 17 Dec 1936
Come To Me + Let’s Put Our Heads Together (theme)	Rudy Vallee and the Connecticut Yankees (elec bj) Sleepy Hall (voc) Rudy Vallee	‘Royal Gelatin Hour’ WEAF NBC Red NYC 17 Dec 1936
Set 5	Kid Ory
Theme + Maple Leaf Rag	Kid Ory and his San Francisco Jazz Band	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 25 Dec 1954
Basin Street Blues	Kid Ory and his San Francisco Jazz Band	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 25 Dec 1954
That’s a’Plenty	Kid Ory and his San Francisco Jazz Band	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 25 Dec 1954
Set 6	Dinah Shore
Open + Let It Snow	Dinah Shore	‘The Dinah Shore Show’ WRCA NBC NYC 24 Dec 1954
Happy Christmas, Little Friend	Dinah Shore	‘The Dinah Shore Show’ WRCA NBC NYC 24 Dec 1954
Walkin’ Down the Road	Dinah Shore	‘The Dinah Shore Show’ WRCA NBC NYC 24 Dec 1954
Teach Me Tonight + Close	Dinah Shore	‘The Dinah Shore Show’ WRCA NBC NYC 24 Dec 1954
Set 7	Jingle Bells
Let’s Dance (theme) + Jingle Bells	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘NBC Rhythm Thesaurus’ Radio Transcription 6 Jun 1935
Jingle Bells	Mel Blanc and The Sportsmen	‘Mail Call’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Jingle Bells	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Tex Beneke and The Modernaires	‘Sunset Serenade’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NYC 27 Dec 1941
Jingle Bells	Dave Brubeck Quartet	Birdland WJZ ABC NYC Jan 1954
Set 8	Charlie Parker
Jumping with Symphony Sid/Jingle Bells (theme) + Half Nelson	Charlie Parker	Royal Roost WMCA NYC 25 Dec 1948
White Christmas	Charlie Parker	Royal Roost WMCA NYC 25 Dec 1948
Little Willie Leaps	Charlie Parker	Royal Roost WMCA NYC 25 Dec 1948

Freddy Rich – Academy Award Winning Band Leader | Phantom Dancer 12 December 2023

Freddy Rich, born in Poland, was a US pianist and band leader who lead dance bands then jazz bands in the 1920s, radio bands in the 1930s, and movie studio bands in the 1940s-50s.  Freddy Rich was co-writer of the song ‘I’m Just Wild About Animal Crackers’. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.

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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FRED

Among the musicians in Freddy Rich’s 1920s bands were the Dorsey Brothers, Joe Venuti, Bunny Berrigan and Benny Goodman

He studied at the Damrosch Conservatory of Music and led an orchestra at the Hotel Astor from the earley 1920s..

His theme songs were “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows” and “So Beats My Heart for You.”

Hee toured Europe from 1925-28 and enjoyed a long band residency at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.

In the late 1920s he started leading a studio band.

He recorded for Okeh, Columbia, Paramount, Camden, and Vocalion, often under the names Fred Richards, the Astorites, and the Hotel Astor Band. He recorded piano rolls.

Rich also lead network radio bands and made radio transcriptions including ‘Friendly Five Footnotes’ for Jarman Shoes under the name of ‘Friendly Fred’.

In the late 1930s, he became musical director for radio stations.

RICH

In 1942, he moved to a staff position with United Artists Studios in Hollywood, where he remained for most of his career.

He was nominated for two Academy Awards:

• 1943 – Nominated for Academy Award for Original Music Score (Scoring of a Musical Picture) for Stage Door Canteen
• 1944 – Nominated for Academy Award for Original Music Score (Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) for Jack London

12 December PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #631
107.3 2SER Tuesday 12 December 2023 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) 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 7RPH Hobart Monday 3 – 4pm 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	Duke Ellington
Take the A-Train (theme) + Midriff	Duke Ellington  Orchestra	‘Date with the Duke’ 400 Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Jun 1945
Candy	Duke Ellington  Orchestra (voc) Ray Nance	‘Date with the Duke’ 400 Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Jun 1945
Black, Brown & Beige Suite: Worksong	Duke Ellington  Orchestra	‘Date with the Duke’ 400 Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Jun 1945
Black, Brown & Beige Suite: Spiritual + Worksong and Spiritual	Duke Ellington  Orchestra	‘Date with the Duke’ 400 Restaurant NYC AFRS Re-broadcast Jun 1945
Set 2	Les Paul & Mary Ford
Theme + Tiger Rag	Les Paul & Mary Ford	‘The Les Paul Show’ Radio Transcription NBC Radio City LA 30 Jun 1950
Dry My Tears	Les Paul & Mary Ford	‘The Les Paul Show’ Radio Transcription NBC Radio City LA 30 Jun 1950
Up the Lazy River	Les Paul & Mary Ford	‘The Les Paul Show’ Radio Transcription NBC Radio City LA 30 Jun 1950
Some of these Days + If a Nightinggale Could Sing Like You (theme)	Les Paul & Mary Ford	‘The Les Paul Show’ Radio Transcription NBC Radio City LA 30 Jun 1950
Set 3	Fred Rich
At Your Command	Fred Rich Orchestra (voc & tp) Bunny Berrigan	Comm Rec NYC 15 Jun 1931
I’ve Got Five Dollars (theme) + Copenhagen	Fred Rich Orchestra	‘Friendly Five Footnotes’ Radio Transcription 1932
Hiding in the Shadows of the Moon	Fred Rich Orchestra	‘Friendly Five Footnotes’ Radio Transcription 1932
Some of These Days	Fred Rich Orchestra	‘Friendly Five Footnotes’ Radio Transcription 1932
Set 4	Count Basie
April in Paris	Count Basie Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Zardi’s KFI NBC LA 1956
Two Franks	Count Basie Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Zardi’s KFI NBC LA 1956
The Comeback	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Joe Williams	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Zardi’s KFI NBC LA 1956
One O’Clock Jump	Count Basie Orchestra	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Zardi’s KFI NBC LA 1956
Set 5	Delta Rhythm Boys
Theme + Buying Alone	Harry Sosnick and the Savings Bonds Orchestra	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription 24 Apr 1949
How High the Moon	Delta Rhythm Boys	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription 24 Apr 1949
East of the Sun	Delta Rhythm Boys	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription 24 Apr 1949
Why Do I Love You? + Close	Harry Sosnick and the Savings Bonds Orchestra	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription 24 Apr 1949
Set 6	Buddy Rich
Rain on the Riff (theme) + Cool Breeze	Buddy Rich Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Phoenixville Pa Blue Network 24 Dec 1945
Nellie’s Nightmare	Buddy Rich Orchestra	Aircheck NYC Apr 1947
Minding My Business	Buddy Rich Orchestra (voc) Dottie Reid	‘Spotlight Bands’ Phoenixville Pa Blue Network 24 Dec 1945
Great Moments	Buddy Rich Orchestra	Radio Transcription Los Angeles Mar 1946
Set 7	Dance Band Radio Trancriptions
I Wish I Had a Sweetheart	Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) Carl Ravazza and Band	Radio Transcription 1941
Make With the Kisses	Sterling Young Orchestra (voc) Bobbie Ennis	Radio Transcription 1940
Violets For Your Furs	Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) Carl Ravazza	Radio Transcription 1941
It Had to Be You	Sterling Young Orchestra (voc) Bobbie Ennis	Radio Transcription 1940
Set 8	Jazz Mod
Two French Fries	Oscar Pettiford	Birdland WABC ABC NY Jun 1957
He’s My Guy	Oscar Pettiford	Birdland WABC ABC NY Jun 1957
Scrapple from the Apple	Charlie Parker	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NYC 5 Feb 1949

Shortwave Broadcasting 1940 | Phantom Dancer 5 December 2023

Shortwave broadcasting by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra from New York to Latin America in 1940 is your Phantom Dancer Feature this week. And below are some relevant paragraphs on shortwave broadcasting taken from a 1942 article in ‘RCA Review’.

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SHORT

From ‘RCA Review’, 1942…

“AN EXPANDING horizon of steel towers, tall wooden poles, and networks of elevated antenna wires attests to the growing international broadcasting activities of NBC stations WRCA and WNBI at Bound Brook, New Jersey.

NBC has provided this service for many years. International activities have been stimulated in recent years, first, ih point of time, through the action of the Fed­eral Communications Commission authorizing commercial operation, and second, by the more important contribution this service brings to National Defence.

The Bound Brook plant contains NBC’s international transmit­ting facilities plus the WJZ transmitting facilities. The original property was purchased for these combined facilities in 1925 when RCA built its first short-wave broadcast transmitter, the predecessor of the present busy stations.

The original site consisted of 54 acres. Recently the expanding scope of NBC’s international activities resulted in the purchase of an additional 16 acres, making a total of 70 acres, most of it devoted exclusively to international transmitting antennas.”

WAVE

“It has been the writer’s privilege to be associated with radio for 26 years and with broadcasting for 20 years.

Rarely has there been an opportunity in those eventful times for any form of communication to demonstrate such unique feats as are now becoming accepted common­ places in international broadcasting.

Barely 16 years ago the first rebroadcast from across the seas took place. Scheduled rebroadcasts from the far corners of the earth have since become matters of but casual interest.

But only in recent months has the bewildered victim of catastrophe, propaganda, and censorship so fully appreciated the modern miracle of radio which enables him to listen, perhaps secretly, at night.

The following is an example of the technical character of the WRCA 9670-kc signal received in Rio de Janeiro from the steerable antenna.

It covers from 6.00 to 7.45 P.M. E.D.S.T. on May 15, 1941. Reception was on a common receiver with six feet of wire for an antenna.

Carrier strength …  Very Strong
Fading-Depth … Very slight to slight
Rate of fading … Very slow to slow
Interference from other stations … None
Static ….Very weak
Background noise … None
Quality Overall rating … Excellent.”

5 December PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #630
107.3 2SER Tuesday 5 December 2023 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) 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 7RPH Hobart Monday 3 – 4pm 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	Tommy Dorsey
Daydreams Come Teue at Night (theme) + Why Fall in Love witha Stranger? + Dime a Dozen	Dick Jurgens  Orchestra (voc) Al Galetti	‘The Treasury Show’ Garden Room Hotel Claremont Berkeley Ca ABC 9 Oct 1949
Wedding Day	Dick Jurgens Orchestra Vocals – Lee Castle	‘The Treasury Show’ Garden Room Hotel Claremont Berkeley Ca ABC 9 Oct 1949
That Old Black Magic	Dick Jurgens Orchestra	‘The Treasury Show’ Garden Room Hotel Claremont Berkeley Ca ABC 9 Oct 1949
Medley: Miss You  |  Was That the Human Thing to Do?  |  My Blue Heaven  |  Them There Eyes  |  Makin’ Whoopee + Close	Dick Jurgens Orchestra (voc) Lee Castle	‘The Treasury Show’ Garden Room Hotel Claremont Berkeley Ca ABC 9 Oct 1949
Set 2	Tommy Dorsey on Shortwave in Spanish
I’m Gettin’ Sentimental Over You (theme) + Dark Eyes	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘Carnival of Broadway’ Hotel Astor Roof WNBI/WRCA NBC Shortwave NYC 19 Jun 1940
Polkadots and Moonbeams	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra	‘Carnival of Broadway’ Hotel Astor Roof WNBI/WRCA NBC Shortwave NYC 19 Jun 1940
March of the Toys	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘Carnival of Broadway’ Hotel Astor Roof WNBI/WRCA NBC Shortwave NYC 19 Jun 1940
Deep Night + I’m Gettin’ Sentimental Over You (theme)	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra	‘Carnival of Broadway’ Hotel Astor Roof WNBI/WRCA NBC Shortwave NYC 19 Jun 1940
Set 3	Jazz TV
I Left My Baby	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Rushing	Seven Lively Arts ‘Sound of Jazz’ WCBS TV NYC 8 Dec 1957
Dickie’s Dream	Count Basie Orchestra	Seven Lively Arts ‘Sound of Jazz’ WCBS TV NYC 8 Dec 1957
The Train and the River	Pee Wee Russel (cl) Jimmy Giuffre (cl)  Danny Barker (g) Milt Hinton (db) Jo Jones (d)	Seven Lively Arts ‘Sound of Jazz’ WCBS TV NYC 8 Dec 1957
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me	Pee Wee Russel (cl) Jimmy Giuffre (cl)  Danny Barker (g) Milt Hinton (db) Jo Jones (d)	Seven Lively Arts ‘Sound of Jazz’ WCBS TV NYC 8 Dec 1957
Set 4
Set 5	Les Brown Orchestra
How High The Moon	Les Brown Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 16 Aug 1945
Coastin’ Along	Les Brown Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 16 Aug 1945
I Wish I Knew	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Doris Day	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 16 Aug 1945
Show Me The Way To Go Home	Les Brown Orchestra (vov) Butch Stone	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 16 Aug 1945
Set 6	Cootie Williams
Round Midnight (theme) + 711	Cootie Williams Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom Harlem AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Feb 1945
Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me	Cootie Williams Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom Harlem AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Feb 1945
Don’t Blame Me	Cootie Williams Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom Harlem AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Feb 1945
Perdido	Cootie Williams Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Savoy Ballroom Harlem AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Feb 1945
Set 7	Duke Ellington Orchestra
Take the A-Train (theme) + Bensonality	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jul 1952
All of Me	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Bette Roche	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jul 1952
Bakiff	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jul 1952
The Hawk Talks	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 30 Jul 1952
Set 8	Trad Jazz
Theme + Maple Leaf Rag	Wild Bill Davison	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NYC 19 Apr 1947
Basin Street Blues	George Brunis & Albert Nicholas	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NYC 19 Apr 1947
Mahoganny Hall Stomp	Louis Armstrong All-Stars	‘All-Star Jazz Show’ NBC TV 30 Dec 1957