1950s – Actor – Singer

December 12, 2019December 17, 2019

Dorsey Brothers – 17 December 2019 Phantom Dancer

LAST SHOW OF THE DECADE

Kinda. This week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton is the last mix before the annual Christmas and New Year Phantom Dancer specials. Your feature artist – the fabulous Dorsey’s, Tommy and Jimmy.

LISTEN

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Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney.

DORSEY

The Dorsey Brothers were an American studio jazz band, led by Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. They started recording in 1928 for OKeh Records.

BROTHERS

They signed to Decca in 1934, formed a more traditional band and performed live until a falling out in May 1935. Glenn Miller, trombonist with the band in 1934-35, composed four songs for the Dorsey Brothers – “Annie’s Cousin Fannie”, “Dese Dem Dose”, “Harlem Chapel Chimes”, and “Tomorrow’s Another Day”.

In 1935, the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra had two No. 1 recordings on Decca, including “Lullaby of Broadway” with Bob Crosby on vocals, topping the charts for two weeks and No. 1 for three weeks.

Tommy Dorsey left the orchestra in 1935, ending the group as most band members either followed him or left.

MARK 2

The Dorseys reunited on March 15 1945 to record a V-Disc at Liederkranz Hall in New York City. Released in June 1945, the disc contained “More Than You Know” and “Brotherly Jump”. The songs were performed by the combined orchestras of Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey. They reunited again in 1947 for the film The Fabulous Dorseys. In the 1950s, they had a network TV series, Stage Show.

VIDEO

Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, the Dorsey Brothers and silent movie with their recording of ‘Is It a Dream?’ from 1928…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #418
107.3 2SER Tuesday 17 December 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: 1 ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio 6 – 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	1944 Swing Bands
Open + Jeep Jockey Jump	Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra	‘Uncle Sam Presents’ NBC 12 Feb 1945
Speak Low	Bob Chester Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Panther Room Hotel Sherman, Chicago AFRS Re-broadcastY 8 Oct 1944
How Do I Say I Love You?	Richard Himber Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Aniston, Alabama AFRTS Re-broadcast 1944
Set 2	Live Rock’n’Roll on 1950s Radio
Open + The Dripper	Louis Jordan and the Tympani 5	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Zardi’s KFI NBC LA 9 Jul 1956
Cry Baby	Bonnie Sisters (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party’ Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn WCBS CBS NY 1956
Ad + One O’Clock Jump+ Close	King Porter Band	‘Burgie Big Beat’ KNX Los Angeles 1956
Set 3	Swing on 1938 Radio
I Want To Be Happy	Frank Coughlan’s Band	Comm Rec Sydney Dec 1938
Open + Heart and Soul	Larry Clinton Orchestra (voc) Bea Wain	International Casino WEAF NBC Red NY 15 Nov 1938
Indistinct Title shouted out by the Audience	Benny Goodman Orchestra	‘Camel Caravan’ WBBM CBS Chicago 6 Sep 1938
Set 4	1950s All-Star Parade of Bands on NBC Radio
Cheek To Cheek	Billy Taylor Trio	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Composers Club WRCA NBC NY 7 May 1956
Love Is Just Around The Corner	George Shearing	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 11 Jul 1953
That Old Devil Me	Sarah Vaughan	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Zardi’s Hollywood KFI NBC LA 21 May 1956
Set 5	Jazz and Pop on 1945 Radio
Is There A Story	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Joan Blake	Comm Rec Sydney 1945
Open + Back In Your Own Backyard	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Fort Devons Mass. Blue Network 15 Oct 1945
I Wish I Knew	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Doris Day	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 16 Aug 1945
Stompin’ At The Savoy	Gene Krupa Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WOR Mutual NY 15 Aug 1945
Set 6	Swing Radio from 1938
Blues in D Flat	Seven Pearce Arrows	Demo Rec Sydney Sep 1938
Monday Morning	Jan Savitt Top Hatters (voc) Carlotta Dale	KYW NBC Red Philadelphia 17 Oct 1938
The Gal From Joe’s	Duke Elligton Orchestra	Cotton Club WOR Mutual NY 1 May 1938
The Dipsy Doodle	Glenn Miller Orchestra (pre-famous sound)	Paradise Restaurant WJZ NBC Blue NY 18 Jun 1938
Set 7	Tommy Dorsey on Radio 1934 – 1955
Open + Is That Religion?	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby	Ben Mardin’s Riviera Fort Lee NJ WEAF NBC Red NY 20 Sep 1934
Open + Losers Weepers	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘America Dances’ WABC CBS NY and BBC London 28 May 1940
Buster’s Gang Comes On	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Blue Network 29 Jan 1945
Tangerine + Close	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Tommy Mercer and Dolly Houston	Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NY Dec 1955
Set 8	Bebop Reeds from 1948-49 Radio
Sax of a Kind	Lee Konitz (as)	‘Bandstand USA’ Carnegie Hall Voice of America 25 Dec 1949
Indiana	Benny Goodman (cl) Sextet	‘One Night Stand’ The Click Philadelphia AFRS Re-broadcast 3 Jun 1948
Just You Just Me	Lester Young Sextet	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 27 Nov 1948

September 28, 2019September 29, 2019

Dolly Dawn – Inspiration for Ella Fitzgerald – Phantom Dancer 1 October 2019

DOLLY DAWN

When you listen to Ella Fitzgerald you hear Dolly Dawn? Why? Because Dolly Dawn was a big influence on Ella Fitzgerald’s singing style. Dolly Dawn is this week’s Phantom Dancer presented by Greg Poppleton.

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FOCUS

Dolly Dawn was one of the first vocalists to become the sole focus of a band. When Walter Winchell coined the term ‘canary’ for female singers, he was referring to her.

She sang with George Hall and his Orchestra from age 16. Though born Theresa Maria Stabile, (she was a cousin of band leader Dick Stabile) she had already given herself the stage name Billie Starr after winning a singing contest at age 14.

George Hall and Harriet Mencken, a writer on The New York Journal-American, came up with the name, Dolly Dawn, for her.

‘She’s as fresh as the dawn and as dimpled as a doll,’ the newspaperwoman said, according to an article in Radio Guide in 1937. Miss Dawn never stopped hating the name, which she thought made her sound like a stripper.

DAWN PATROL

Nevertheless, her relationship with Hall and his wife was so close that they formally adopted her when she was 19. In a ceremony on 4 July 1941, at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, George Hall officially turned the band over to her and became her manager.

NEW YORK – JANUARY 28: Big Band singer Dolly Dawn and orchestra leader George Hall. Dolly models hat fashions. Image dated January 28, 1936. New York, NY. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

The band was renamed ‘Dolly Dawn and Her Dawn Patrol’ and on this week’s Phantom Dancer we hear her introduce herself as a band leader on NBC’s ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’.

The WW2 draft took most of her band, so from 1942 she continued without the band, appearing in engagements across the US. She continued to record into the 1950s.

She developed a cult following that saw her in scattered club appearances in the 1970s and 80s, particularly in response to the release of a double album of her records with George Hall on the RCA Bluebird label in 1976.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is Dolly Dawn singing with George Hall’s Orchestra in the 1938 short, ‘Hall’s Holliday’. Enjoy!

1 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #407
107.3 2SER Tuesday 1 October 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 10 – 11pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	1939 – 40 Radio Remotes
Theme + Choppin’ Wood	Woody Herman Orchestra	The Famous Door WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jan 1940
Dardenella	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	‘Chesterfield Show’ WABC CBS NY 25 Oct 1939
The Chinese Lullaby + Close	Teddy Powell Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Blair	The Famous Door WJSV Washington DC via WABC CBS NY 21 Sep 1939
Set 2	This Is Jazz 1947 Radio
Theme + St Louis Blues + Tin Roof Blues	Wild Bill Davison and more (voc) George Brunies	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 10 May 1947
Chocolate Bar	James P Johnson	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 17 May 1947
Blue Turning Gray Over You + I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling	Wild Bill Davison and more	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 17 May 1947
Set 3	Glenn Miller in German 1944
Long Ago and Far Away	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Johnny Desmond	ABSIE American Broadcasting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 30 Oct 1944
Body and Soul	Glenn Miller Orchestra	ABSIE American Broadcasting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 27 Nov 1944
Poinciana	Glenn Miller Orchestra	ABSIE American Broadcasting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 6 Nov 1944
Set 4	Dolly Dawn
The You and Me That Used To Be	George Hall Orchestra (voc) Dolly Dawn	‘Easy to Remember’ WABC CBS NY 1937
Dolly Dawn Speaks	Dolly Dawn	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 25 Aug 1941
Beethoven Wrote But It Swings	Dolly Dawn and her Dawn Patrol	Comm Rec 15 Feb 1939
52nd Street	George Hall Orchestra (voc) Dolly Dawn	‘Easy to Remember’ WABC CBS NY 1937
Set 5	Novelty Songs on 1930s-40s Radio
The Music Goes Round and Round	Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) Jack Teagarden	‘Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varieties’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 12 Jan 1936
Open The Door Richard	The Hit Paraders	‘Your Hit Parade’ WNBC NBC NY 1 Mar 1947
Swingin’ On A Star	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA	‘Spotlight Bands’ Tuskagee Alabama AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Oct 1944
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah	Ginny Simms	‘Your Hit Parade’ WNBC NBC NY 1 Mar 1947
Set 6	Trad Bands on 1940s Radio
Ollie Outs In Free	Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) Carl Ravazza and Band	Radio Transcription 1942
Tain’t Me	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Collins	Radio Transcription 1944
Cancel the Flowers	Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) Carl Ravazza	Radio Transcription 1941
The Beard	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1944
Set 7	Cocoanut Grove 1931 – 32 Radio Transcriptions
Do The New York	Gus Arnheim Orchestra	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1931
Down Among the Sleepy Pines	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Jean Shark and the Three Ambassadors	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1932
Out of Nowhere	Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Bing Crosby	‘MJB Coffee Revue’ KFI NBC Orange Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1931
I Know You’re Lying But I Love It	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo DeLys and the Four Cheers	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1932
Set 8	Jazz Piano on Radio
Budo	Bud Powell	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NY 7 Mar 1953
All The Things You Are	Thelonius Monk	Aircheck 1948
Cherokee	Art Tatum	Radio Transcription late 1940s
I’ll Remember April	Erroll Garner	Peacock Lane KFI NBC LA Mar 1957

April 24, 2019April 24, 2019

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.

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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

April 16, 2019April 16, 2019

Fax Machines in 1938? Hear One Working – 30 April 2019 Phantom Dancer

Radio Stations used Fax Machines in 1938 just like radio uses the internet to complement its programming now. This blog being an example…

Faxes were sent over AM radio, not the phone line.

Hear one in operation on today’s Phantom Dancer – your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV (and with a whole hour of live 1930s swing radio today).

I bring you The Phantom Dancer every Tuesday after the midday news on 107.3 2SER and online at radio 2ser.com. Hear this week’s show online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 30 April.

A 1938 radio fax used to promote personalities on the radio station transmitting it. Three generations of John Gamblings broadcast on New York City radio between 1925 and September 2016.

1930s RADIO FAXES
On today’s Phantom Dancer, marvel at the ‘pump and wheeze’ sound of a 1930s fax machine taken from a recording made in 1938 to introduce WOR New York’s new radio fax service.

As the radio announcer and station engineer tell us, the fax service is a ‘new breakthrough’ in radio to transmit news and information overnight to subscribers with radio fax machine in their homes.

About a dozen US AM radio stations in the late 1930s transmitted a radio fax service, with news faxes sent between midnight and 6am when the stations were ordinarily shut down.

Static was a problem. Static from a passing car or lightening could wipe out whole pages of information.

By the early 1940s shortwave and ultra short wave frequencies were set aside solely for the transmission of faxes.

When FM radio was introduced after WW2, some FM stations transmitted radio faxes on their broader bandwidth subcarriers. A page of news and pictures would take 15 minutes to be printed from an FM service.

So easy to use, even a child can operate it. A 1938 publicity photo shows a Finch home printer receiving a facsimile newspaper from WWJ in Detroit. (Detroit News Archives) — So easy to use, even a child can operate it. A 1938 publicity photo shows a Finch home printer receiving a facsimile newspaper from WWJ in Detroit. (Detroit News Archives, The Radio Historian)

Lack of public interest in this expensive substitute newspaper technology killed the mass production of home radio fax machines.

However, radio facsimile was still in use for the transmission of weather maps by satellite in 2010.

See the full Phantom Dancer play list below, including the 1938 announcement of WOR’s radio fax service.

Internet source:
http://www.theradiohistorian.org/Radiofax/newspaper_of_the_air1.htm

Greg Poppleton is Australia’s only authentic 1920s – 30s singer. He is also a film and TV actor who has worked with Adrien Brody, Nicole Kidman, John Goodman and many others.
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PHANTOM DANCER PLAY LIST 30 APRIL

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #383
107.3 2SER Tuesday 30 April 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12noon – 1pm and early morning on 22 other stations.
Set 1	Raymond Scott on 1940-41 Radio
Pretty Little Petticoat (theme) + Wellesley High Jump	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 21 Oct 1940
Pretty Little Petticoat (theme) + A Symphony Under The Stars	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Bermuda Room Hotel Brunswick WBZ NBC Boston 6 Dec 1941
Huckleberry Duck + Pretty Little Petticoat (theme)	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 1 Nov 1940
Set 2	A New Radio Service
Il Pesce e l’Uccellina	EIAR Orchestra Moderna (voc) Silvana Fioresi and Trio Lescano	Comm Rec Rome 1938
Facsimile ‘Visual’ Radio	Interview	WOR Mutual NYC 9 Feb 1938
Set 3	1930s Local Radio Music
Theme + Sugar + On The Lone Prairie + When The Rest of the Crowd Goes Home + Heigh Ho + Theme	Our Orchestra	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1934
Set 4	1935-36 Radio
Open + Ad Music + I Got Rhythm	Freddy Rich Orchestra	’Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription New York City 1936
Sleep (theme) + On Your Toes	Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians (voc) Johnny Davis and Trio	’Ford Show’ WABC CBS NY 14 Apr 1936
Syncopated Love Song	Nathaniel Shilkret	KFI NBC LA 1935
Set 5	Swing on 1939 Radio
Top Hat Shuffle	Jan Savitt Top Hatters	Radio Transcription New York 1939
Basin Street Blues	Jack Teagarden and Benny Goodman	’Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 31 Jan 1939
You Can Count On Me	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ivie Anderson	Ritz Carlton Hotel WNAC NBC Boston 26 Jul 1939
Man From Mars + Nightmare (theme)	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WEAF NBC Red NY 21 Oct 1939
Set 6	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra on the Air
Theme + Little John	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Casa Mañana Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Sep 1945
Honey Dripper	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	’Spotlight Bands’ Jefferson Barracks, Missouri Blue Network 23 Nov 1945 Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 8 Sep 1945
I Need a Lift	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra	’One Night Stand’ Casa Mañana Culver City Ca AFRS Re-broadcast 4 May 1945
Wham + For Dancers Only	Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (voc) Band	’Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1943
Set 7	The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra on 1955-56 Radio
Theme + Opus No. 1	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	Cafe Statler Hotel Pennsylvania WRCA NBC NY Dec 1955
Ridin’ Around in the Rain (voc) Dolly Houston	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	Cafe Statler Hotel Pennsylvania WRCA NBC NY Apr 1956
I’ll Always Be In Love With You	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Dolly Houston	Cafe Statler Hotel Pennsylvania WRCA NBC NY Mar 1956
Tender Trap	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Tommy Mercer	’NBC Bandstand’ NBC Radio and TV NY 1956
Set 8	Bop and Cool
Broadway	Charlie Parker	Birdland WJZ NYC 9 May 1953
Sugar Beat	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS Los Angeles 2 Dec 1947
I Remember Clifford	Oscar Pettiford Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jun 1957
Koko + Anthropology (theme)	Barry Ulanov All Star Metronome Jazzmen	WOR Mutual NY 8 Nov 1947

April 6, 2019

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.

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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

November 14, 2018November 19, 2018

Old Father Time Guy Lombardo – Phantom Dancer 20 Nov 2018

OLD FATHER TIME

Guy Lombardo led the world’s leading ‘sweet’ band from 1924 – 1977. Guy became known as ‘Old Father Time’ because his band brought in New Years in the US on radio and later TV from 1929 to 1976. Guy Lombardo is November 20 Phantom Dancer feature artist. See the full swing playlist, Guy Lombardo video and story here.

PHANTOM DANCER

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop swing and jazz mix of live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week. I’ve been bringing you The Phantom Dancer on radio 2SER, and now online, since 1985.

Hear this week’s Phantom Dancer (after Nov 20) and past Phantom dancers at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney

CANADA

Guy Lombardo was born in London, Ontario, Canada. He and his brothers and one sister all learned musical instruments as children so they could accompany their father who was an amateur singer.

Guy Lombardo’s first public performance was with his brother Carmen at a church lawn party in London in 1914.

ROYAL

Guy formed his Royal Canadian band in 1924 with his brothers Carmen, Lebert and Victor, and other musicians from London.

Promoted as creating ‘the sweetest music this side of Heaven’, the Royal Canadians may have sold up to 300 million records in its lifetime.

HITS

The band made its first record in 1924 and recorded sporadically until signed to Columbia in 1927 when they had their first big hit. From then on they recorded prolifically for the top record companies including Brunswick and Decca.

Though the jazz and swing community ridiculed the band’s sweet style, Louis Armstrong called Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians his favourite band.

EVE

Guy Lombardo is most famous for 48 years of New Years Eve band broadcasts on radio and then TV.

Lombardo played his first New Years Eve broadcast in 1928.

The following year, his orchestra played US radio’s first national New Years broadcast from New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel. In fact, we hear Guy Lombardo broadcasting from the Grill Room of the Hotel Roosevelt in this week’s Phantom Dancer.

He played New Years in the Grill Room of the Hotel Roosevelt every year until 1959 when he switched to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. He played New Years there every year until 1976. His TV New Year shows began in 1956. As early as 1945, he was being familiarly introduced over New Years airwaves as ‘Old Father Time’. His radio theme, from 1929, was the traditional New Yeras Eve song, ‘Auld Lang Syne’.

Even after Lombardo’s death in 1977, the Royal Canadians’ New Years specials continued for two more years on CBS. The Royal Canadians’ recording of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ still plays as the first song of the new year in Times Square, New York City.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is Guy Lombardo’s New Years Eve TV special in New York City live from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 1976 – his last. It includes the Guy Lombardo version of the 1970s hit, ‘Feelings’ (at 7’35”).

20 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #342
107.3 2SER Tuesday 20 November 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 24 other stations.
Set 1	Hot 1930s Radio
I’m Gonna Lose My Gal + Shine on Harvest Moon + You’re Such a Comfort To Me	Ruth Etting (voc) Johnny Green Orchestra	‘Oldsmobile Program’ WABC CBS NY 16 Feb 1934
Shadows on the Swanee	Harry Foster (voc) Jimmie Grier Orchestra	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1932
The Merry Widow + So I Married The Girl	George Olsen Music (voc) Hotcha Gardiner	‘Lucky Strike Hour’ WEAF NBC Red New York City 1 Dec 1932
Set 2	Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street
Open + Magic Carpet	Paul Lavalle Woodwinds	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 25 Aug 1941
Flow Gently Sweet Afton	Diane Courtney	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 25 Aug 1941
Whirl Away	Lumel Morgan Trio	‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 25 Aug 1941
Set 3	1950s Music Radio
Quiet Village (theme) + Happy Talk	Martin Denny	London House WBBM CBS Chicago 1959
Sound Off	Vaughan Monroe and the Moon Men	Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ ABC Jun 1951
Love Walked In + Close	Charlie Spivak Orchestra	‘Monitor’ Pleasure Beach Bridgeport Conn. WRCA NBC NY 26 Jun 1955
Set 4	Guy Lombardo
Auld Lang Syne (theme) + They Say It’s Wonderful	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (voc) Don Rodney	‘Guy Lombardo Show’ Radio Transcription New York City 1948
I Don’t Care Who Knows It + I’ll Buy That Dream	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (voc) Trio and Kenny Gardiner	‘Musical Autographs’ WJZ Blue NYC 11 Sep 1945
Polka	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians	‘One Night Stand’ Grill Room Hotel Roosevelt NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 25 Oct 1950
Set 5	Martha Tilton – Benny Goodman Camel Caravan 1939
Gotta Get Some Shuteye	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 7 Feb 1939
Hurry Home	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 3 Jan 1939
Sweet Little Headache	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 14 Feb 1939
I Have Eyes	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Martha Tilton	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 10 Jan 1939
Set 6	Louis Armstrong 1940s-50s Radio
You Rascal You	Louis Armstrong	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 7 May 1950
I’m Confessing That I Love You	Louis Armstrong	‘Spotlight Bands’ Tuskagee AL AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Oct 1944
I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City	Louis Armstrong	‘Spotlight Bands’ Dallas TX AFRS Re-broadcast 17 Aug 1942
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love + Close	Louis Armstrong	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Apr 1943
Set 7	1930s-40s Western Swing Records
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home	Texas Rose	Comm Rec Dallas 15 May 1938
Shiner Song (in Czech)	Adolf Hofner Orchestra	Comm Rec San Antonio 1948
Get Hot	W. Lee O’Daniel	Comm Rec San Antonio 21 Nov 1936
Happy Go Lucky Polka (in Czech)	Adolf Hofner Orchestra	Comm Rec San Antonio 1949
Set 8	Jazz Moderne on 1940s-60s Radio
Afro Bossa	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRTS Re-broadcast 1964
The King	Count Basie Orchestra	Aircheck New York City Sep 1948
Open + Sweet Georgia Brown	Roy Eldridge	‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NY Mar 1957
What’s New?	Terry Gibbs All-Stars	Birdland WABC ABC NY Sep 1953

October 24, 2018October 29, 2018

Peter Kreuder German Swing Composer – Phantom Dancer 30 October

THANK YOU

This week’s Phantom Dancer has a set of 1930s-40s swing by request of Jonathan, a supporter who called during last week’s 2SER Supporter Drive.

I’ve chosen four commercial releases of stage and film songs written by the prolific German composer and child prodigy, Peter Kreuder.

Thank you to everyone who called and went online to become 2SER financial supporters during this year’s 2SER Phantom Dancer Supporter Drive.

You keep The Phantom Dancer going.

PHANTOM DANCER

The Phantom Dancer, with Greg Poppleton, is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week. It’s been on 2SER since 1985, thanks to your financial support in 33 subscriber drives.

And over those years, Greg Poppleton and The Phantom Dancer have inspired musicians, painters, film, TV and theatre creatives.

Listen on-air every Tuesday 12:04-2:00pm AEST (+11 GMT) and online

See this week’s full play list and video of the week below.

PETER KREUDER

Peter Kreuder was a German pianist, composer and conductor. He was a child prodigy who enrolled as a piano student in the Cologne Conservatorium at age four and gave his first concert at age five.

He wrote popular and art songs, operettas, musicals, a piano concerto and two operas.

Most importantly for today’s Phantom Dancer he also wrote stage and film music with a lot of swing style.

Beginning by helping arrange the musical score to Marlene Dietrich’s breakthrough film, The Blue Angel, in 1930, he went on to write music for around 150 movies.

He became Germany’s most in-demand film composer in the 1930s and 40s. All his songs in this week’s Phantom Dancer come from this period.

He was so important to the German film industry that he was forced to return to Germany from Sweden (to where he had emigrated in 1939) after Nazi threats to his relatives in Germany. Kreuder had been a Nazi Party member from 1932-34 when he resigned.

After the war he took Austrian citizenship. He conducted radio orchestras in Argentina and Brazil in the 1940s, writing again for German film in the 1950s and writing two memoirs.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week features Peter Kreuder’s music in the 1939 German western, ‘Wasser für Canitoga’.

30 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #339
107.3 2SER Tuesday 30 October 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 24 other stations.
Set 1	1940s Swing Era Drummers
Stomping at the Savoy	Gene Krupa Trio	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom AFRS Re-broadcast 1946
Indiana	Eddie Condon Group (drums) George Wettling	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 10 Feb 1945
Desperate Desmond + Close	Buddy Rich Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Phoenixville Pa AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Dec 1945
Set 2	Early 1930s Radio
Open + What Is This Thing Called Love?	Ambassadors of Melodyland	‘Dr Scholls Program’ Radio Transcription 1931
Open + Rain on the Roof	George Shackley Ensemble	‘Nehi Program’ Radio Transcription 1932
Redman Rhythm + Close	Don Redman Orchestra	Casino de Paris WABC CBS NY 22 Dec 1933
Set 3	1950s Pop Singers on the Air
Blacksmith’s Hop (theme) + Money, Honey	Ella Mae Morse	‘Here’s To Veterans’ Radio Transcription 1954
It Might As Well Be Spring	Margaret Whiting	‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription 1954
What a Difference a Day Makes + Pavanne (Close)	Andy Russel (voc) Toots Cammerata Orchestra	‘Double Feature’ AFRS Re-broadcast 15 Oct 1944
Set 4	Latin Sounds 1940s-50s Radio
Theme + Oya Negra	Enric Madraguera and his Music of the Americas (voc) Eddie Gomez	‘One Night Stand’ Copacobana New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Jul 1945
You Two	Xavier Cugat Orchestra (voc) Juan Manuel	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Ramona Room Hotel Last Frontier NBC Las Vegas 30 Nov 1953
Open + Carambola	Machito	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 17 Nov 1951
Set 5	Swing Bands 1940 Chicago Radio
Pretty Little Petticoat (theme) + Huckleberry Duck	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 1940
Ooh, What You Said!	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Marian Mann	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 29 Apr 1940
There I Go	Fats Waller Rhythm (voc) Kay Perry	Panther Room Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Chicago 10 Dec 1940
Make Believe Dance Land	Ozzie Nelson Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 24 Mar 1940
Set 6	1930s English Dance Bands
Let’s Put Out The Lights and Go To Sleep	Ambrose Orchestra (voc) Sam Browne and Elsie Carlisle	Comm Rec London 26 Oct 1932
How Am I To Know?	Johnny Claes and his Claepigeons (tp) Nat Gonella	Comm Rec London 1941
Five Fifteen	Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra	Comm Rec London 1933
My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean	Johnny Claes and his Claepigeons (voc) Irene King	Comm Rec London 1941
Set 7	Set of Peter Kreuder German Swing Songs for Johnathan who Supported 2SER in the Supporter Drive
Wenn zwei wie du and ich	Hans Rehmstedt Orchester (voc) Rudi Schuericke	Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1939
6 Minuten Peter Kreuder Pot Pourri	Bernhard Ette mit seinem grossen Buehnenschau-Orchester	Comm Rec Berlin 1937
Eine Insel aus Traeumen geboren	Hans Rehmstedt Orchester (voc) Rudi Schuericke	Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1939
Aus lauter Liebe	Die Goldene Sieben (voc) Peter Igelhoff	Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1937
Set 8	Night in Tunisia-a-thon
Night in Tunisia	Charlie Parker (as) Fats Navarro (tp) Bud Powell (piano) Curley Russell (b) Art Blakey (d)	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NY 30 Jun 1950
Night in Tunisia	Boyd Raeburn Orchestra	Rose Room Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco 19 Jun 1945
Night in Tunisia	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jun 1956
Night in Tunisia	Charlie Parker (as) Kenny Dorham (tp) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d) Milt Jackson (vibes)	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 26 Feb 1949

October 15, 2018October 21, 2018

2SER Supporter Drive 2018 – Week 1 Phantom Dancer

SUPPORT

This is the first week of the annual 2SER Supporter Drive.

The Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week. It’s been on 2SER since 1985, thanks to your financial support in 33 subscriber drives.

And over those years, Greg Poppleton and The Phantom Dancer have inspired musicians, painters, film, TV and theatre creatives.

On-air Tuesdays 12:04-2:00pm AEST (+11 GMT) and online

COMMUNITY

2SER is community radio with a wide range of specialist music, like The Phantom Dancer, plus independent news and current affairs unavailable on any other station.

2SER runs on your financial support. Give any amount you want this year and you’ll be in the running for some great prizes in the daily prize draw.

Standard annual subscriptions are:
$40 concession
$80 standard
$160 passionate
$600 life member

Support 2SER now.
Any money amount enters you into the daily prize draw.

FAVOURITE

Over the next fortnight, I’ll be sharing with you some of my favourite 2ser Phantom Dancer musical moments mixed from shows recorded ten years ago.

I’ve got some of my kids on-air moments to share with you, moments from when they were aged 4 and 6. And I’ve got some of your great listener stories to share with you, too!

Check out more 2SER listener stories on the 2SER home page, or read quotes from our listeners on this page.

You can hear lots of past Phantom Dancers, too, at 2ser.com.

LOVE

At 2SER, we’re really lucky to air such a wide range of specialist music shows, in depth news programs, and plenty of local and alternative stories from our community every day.

Listeners like yourself truly shape that content, sending us comments, letting us know about your events and businesses, and giving us all feedback too. And of course, being able to send all this into your earlobes wouldn’t be possible without your support!

STORIES

“I love your radio show! ” Harri
“Will keep listening for sure. I really love your show” Michelle, Melbourne
“Love your program. We tape it each week” Trish
“Your program is wonderful,” Tim
“Loving it! ” Nathan
“Knocked out by your show. We’ll be regular listeners from now on” Trevor & Betty
“Your show rocks!” Sonja
“Love your show” Tara

GIVE

Support 2SER now
You can also call in your support 61 2 9514 9500

VIDEO

Inside the Phantom Dancer 2SER study filmed just last month…

16 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #337
107.3 2SER Tuesday 16 October 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 24 other stations.
Set 1	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
Swing That Music	Louis Armstrong (voc) Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	Comm Rec Los Angeles Aug 1936
You Old Son of a Gun	Rosemary Clooney (voc) Buddy Cole Music	‘Stars for Defense’ Radio Transcription Nov 1959
Sherlock Holmes & Wine Ad	Nigel Bruce	‘Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ KHJ Mutual LA Sep 1945
Wabash Blues	Jerry Thomas Quintet	Comm Rec Zurich, Switzerland 1942
Set 2	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 95000
Open + Bridegroom Special	Yiddish Swing Orchestra	‘Yiddish Melodies in Swing’ WHN NY 1940
China Boy	Sidney Bechet (sop sax)	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue Network NYC Feb 1945
Stage Coach	Wally Portingale Orchestra	‘Army on Parade’ 2CH AWA Sydney Oct 1943
That’s Love	Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) The Three Ambassadors	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
Set 3	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
Unidentified	Jan Garber Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca AFRS Re-broadcast Mar 1945
Easter Parade	Martha Mears	’10-2-4 Time’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles Mar 1948
Don’t Blame Me	Dinah Shore	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City Dec 1948
Set 4	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
Isn’t It Romantic?	Chet Baker Quartet	Storyville Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston 16 Mar 1954
Good Evening (theme) + April Showers	Del Courtney Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Rose Room Palace Hotel San Francisco AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Jan 1948
Drifting and Dreaming (theme) + Cheek to Cheek	Orrin Tucker Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Cocoanut Grove Wiltshire Centre Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 1955
Pretending + Hold My Hand + Theme	Griff Williams Orchestra	Empire Room Palmer House WGN Chicago 5 Mar 1947
Set 5	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
Love, Nuts and Noodles	Phil Harris Orchestra (voc) Jack Smith	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1933
I’d Rather Lead A Band + Farewell Blues + Theme	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby and The Four Freshman	‘Ford V-8 Revue’ Radio Transcription 1936
Arabian Lover	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 3 May 1929
These Foolish Things	Count Basie Nonet	Boston 7 Sep 1954
Set 6	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
Levee Blues	Jimmy Dorsey’s Dorseyland Band (voc) Charlie Teagarden	Radio Transcription Hollywood 1950
Till The End of Time	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Frances Wayne	‘Woody Herman Show’ ABC 1 Dec 1946
Margie	Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights	‘Trianon Time’ Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca KECA ABC LA 1945
I’ve Got Five Dollars (theme) + Ooh! That Kiss!	Freddy Rich Orchestra	‘Friendly Five Footnotes’ Radio Transcription 1932
You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It	Harry James Orchestra	Trianon Ballroom Southgate Ca KECA ABC LA Dec 1945
Section A + Theme	Raymond Scott Orchestra	‘Raymond Scott Show’ AFRS Re-broadcast
Set 7	Subscribe to 2SER Call 9514 9500
When My Dreamboat Comes Home	Jimmy Rushing (voc) Count Basie Orchestra	Aircheck Savoy Ballroom New York City 30 Jun 1937
The Glider	Artie Shaw Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Santa Barbara Ca 10 Oct 1945
Artistry in Rhythm (theme) + Eager Beaver	Stan Kenton Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 28 Nov 1944
Savoy Blues	George Lewis	‘Dixieland Jamboree’ WDSU ABC New Orleans 7 Oct 1950
Get Out Of Town	Leah Matthews (voc) Woody Herman’s Third Herd	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Peony Park WOW NBC Omaha 1954
Tangerine	Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberle (voc) Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	Aircheck
Chicago	Benny Goodman	NBC TV 1967

September 22, 2018September 25, 2018

Brecht and his Opera – Phantom Dancer 25 September 2018

I remember, maybe inaccurately, a verse by satirist Barry Humphries‘ character, Sir Les Patterson, that went like this, “Singing songs by Brecht needs the memory of an elephant / But what they lack in tune, they gain in relevance.” Brecht’s original 1930 radio-like recording of the Threepenny Opera is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature.

SHOW

The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1929 – 65 radio.

Mixed live-to-air by 1920s – 1930s singer and actor, Greg Poppleton, on radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney since 1985, The Phantom Dancer is re-broadcast on 23 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online at 2ser.com.

You can hear lots of past Phantom Dancers, too, at 2ser.com.

PLAYLIST

The Brecht feature and a whole mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-50s radio. Read the full play list below.

Remember – the ALL VINYL FINYL HOUR.

DREIGROSCHENOPER

With song lyrics by Kurt Weill and book by Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera (Dreigroschenoper), ‘a play with music’, was based on an Elisabeth Hauptmann translation of John Gay’s 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar’s Opera. Hauptmann was Brecht’s girlfriend. Brecht did not credit her work.

RIP-OFF

1. Brecht claimed he did the translation, not Hauptmann
2. Brecht added four songs by French poet François Villon, without crediting Villon.
3. For these songs he used the translations by K. L. Ammer, without crediting Ammer.

When questioned by critics about these lapses, Brecht said he had, “a fundamental laxity in questions of literary property.”

STANDARDS

On this week’s Phantom Dancer we hear Lotte Lenya (married to Weill), Kurt Gerron, Erich Ponto, Willy Trenk-Trebitsch and Erika Helmke sing songs from Brecht’s play. the recordings are from an album of 78rpm records with radio-like announcements, made in Berlin in 1930.

Two of these songs you’ll now recognise as standards. They are, ‘Die Moritat von Mackie Messer’ (Mack the Knife) a jazz standard, and ‘Seeräuberjenny’ (Pirate Jenny) a cabaret staple.

CAPITALIST

Opening on 31 August 1928 at Berlin’s Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, The Threepenny Opera, is a socialist critique on the capitalist world.

PETIT-BOURGEOIS

But despite its socialist credentials, Brecht’s ‘play with music’ was panned after its 1930 Soviet premier. Izvestia scowled: “It is high time that our theatres ceased playing homage to petit-bourgeois bad taste and instead turned to more relevant themes.” Oh, Sir Les!

IMPACT

Composer Weill’s artistic gave his intent for the music in a dense statement he issued in 1929, “Opera was founded as an aristocratic form of art. If the framework of opera is unable to withstand the impact of the age, then this framework must be destroyed. In the Dreigroschenoper, reconstruction was possible insofar as here we had a chance of starting from scratch.”

He also opined, “music cannot further the action of the play or create its background but achieves its proper value when it interrupts the action at the right moments.” This was much copied by subsequent Western doyens of agitprop-style worthiness.

BANKERS

The Threepenny Opera was slow to pick up audiences, but then it became a huge success in Berlin with 400 performances in its first run.

And ironically, the first run of Brecht’s socialist work was the place to be for Berlin’s monied classes. Socialites, bankers, industrialists and diplomats saw Brecht’s play as the place to be seen.

Productions elsewhere in the world in the 1930s were flops. Weill described a 1935 BBC broadcast of the play as totally misunderstanding what it was about. The 1930s Broadway production was described as dreary, though the music was praised, and closed after 12 performances.

SCORE

As you’ll hear, Weill’s music borrowed heavily from 1920s German jazz and dance band music, and this is its most interesting attribute.

Like Greg Poppleton’s 1920s-30s band, the original Lewis Ruth band in the 1930 album recording of The Threepenny Opera you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer were all multi-instrumentalists.

The seven-piece ensemble played 23 instruments.

VIDEO

Max Raabe introduces Bertolt Brecht…

25 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #333
107.3 2SER Tuesday 25 September 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Raymond Scott on 1940-41 Radio
Pretty Little Petticoat (theme) + Wellesley High Jump	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 21 Oct 1940
Humpty-Dumpty Heart	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Roberta Leigh	Burmuda Room Hotel Brunswick WBZ Boston 6 Dec 1941
Huckleberry Duck + Pretty Little Petticoat (theme)	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 1 Nov 1940
Set 2	John Coltrane live on 1960s Radio
Afro Blue	John Coltraine	The Half-Note WCBS-FM NY 26 Mar 1965
Set 3	Trad Jazz on 1940s Radio
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (theme) + Original Dixieland One Step	Wild Bill Davison	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 17 May 1947
Song of the Wanderer	Muggsy Spanier	‘Eddie Condon’s Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 17 Feb 1945
I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling + Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (theme)	Wild Bill Davison	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 24 May 1947
Set 4	Dreigroschenoper 1930
Overture + Mack the Knife	Lewis Ruth Band (voc) Kurt Gerron	Dreigroschenoper Album Comm Rec Berlin 1930
Ballad of the Agreeable Life + Love Duet + Cannon Song	Lewis Ruth Band (voc) Willy Trenk-Trebitsch, Erika Helmke, Gerron	Dreigroschenoper Album Comm Rec Berlin 1930
Pirate Jenny + Finale Act 1	Lewis Ruth Band (voc) Lotte Lenya, Erika Helmke, Erich Ponto	Dreigroschenoper Album Comm Rec Berlin 1930
Set 5	Harmonists on 1930s Radio
Swingin’ on the Strings	The Inkspots	WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Aug 1935
Swing for Sale	Mills Brothers	‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription NYC 1937
Why Don’t You Practice What You Preach?	Boswell Sisters	‘Woodbury Show’ KNX CBS LA 18 Sep 1934
Down Among the Sleepy Pines	The Three Ambassadors + Jean Shark	Cocoanut Grove Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1932
Set 6	Cab Calloway
Shout, Shout, Shout	Cab Calloway	Comm Rec New York City 30 Aug 1938
Hey Now, Hey Now	Cab Calloway	‘One Night Stand’ Club Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1945
We, The Cats, Shall Hep You	Cab Calloway	‘One Night Stand’ Club Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jul 1945
Ducktrot	Cab Calloway	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription New York City 17 Sep 1950
Set 7	Royal Garden Blues
Royal Garden Blues	Muggsy Spanier	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 11 Apr 1953
Royal Garden Blues	Ray Miller Orchestra	‘Sunny Meadows Show’ Radio Transcription Chicago 26 Jan 1929
Royal Garden Blues	Louis Armstrong	‘Damon Runyon Memorial Jazz Concert’ Blue Note ABC Chicago 11 Dec 1948
Royal Garden Blues	Hot Lips Page	‘Doctor Jazz’ Stuyvesant Casino WMGM NYC 1950
Set 8	Women Singers Part 2
Rocking Chair (theme) + Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone + I’ll Never Be The Same	Mildred Bailey	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 1944
As Long As I’m Dreaming	Peggy Lee	‘Peggy Lee Show’ KNX CBS LA 1948
Mad About The Boy	Lena Horne	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Chewin’ Gum + I Wanna Be A Rug Cutter	Ella Fitzgerald	Savoy Ballroom WEAF NBC Red NY 4 Mar 1940

September 16, 2018September 17, 2018

Lester Young – Phantom Dancer Radio Show 18 September 2018

Lester Young started playing jazz in the family band. He became one of the most influential tenor saxophonists in jazz. He also coined a lot of hipster words. Lester Young is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist.

SHOW

The Phantom Dancer is a non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio.

Mixed live-to-air by Greg Poppleton on radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney since 1985.

The Phantom Dancer is re-broadcast on 23 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online at 2ser.com.

And 2ser.com is where you can hear lots of past Phantom Dancers, too.

PLAYLIST

The Lester Young feature and a whole mix of swing and jazz from live 1930s-50s radio. Read the full play list below. ALL VINYL FINYL HOUR.

LESTER YOUNG

Known as ‘Prez’, Lester Young was one of the most influential tenor saxophonists in jazz.

Reams have been written about Lester Young’s cool, fluid style so I won’t wax lyrical about that here.

Better you hear it first hand from live 1950s broadcast recordings on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

HIPSTER

Less known about Lester Young, is that he coined or popularised a lot of the hipster jargon that came to be associated with jazz.

‘Bread’ for money is a Lester Young original. ‘Bread’ became a Lester Young feature song in the 1956 Count Basie Orchestra. He’d ask, “How does the bread smell?” to mean what does the gig pay? He popularised the word ‘cool’, meaning ‘in vogue’.

FAMILY

Lester came from a musical family. His father was a band leader and Lester commenced his music career touring with the family band. His brother, Lee, was a drummer. In earler Phantom Dancers you would have heard the Lee and Lester Young band broadcasting from Los Angeles over KHJ.

CLARINET

Lester occasionally doubled on clarinet in the 1930s Walter Page Blue Devils Band and in the Count Basie Orchestra. It was stolen in 1939 and he didn’t pick up a licorice stick again until jazz promoter Norman Granz bought one for him in 1957.

INFLUENCE

Young wasn’t influenced by an earlier tenor sax player, but by Frankie Trambauer from Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra. FT played C-Melody Sax, the main sax played in the 1920s and pitched between alto and tenor.

BLUES

DB Blues is a Lester Young original you’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer from a 1945 ‘Jubilee’ Armed Forces Radio broadcast.

Drafted into the army in 1944, Young was caught with marijuana and alcohol and dishonourably discharged. He was held in a DB ‘dentention barracks’ for one trauma filled year.

SOLO

Alcoholism, with symptoms of malnutriton and liver disease, affected his playing in the 1940s and 1950s, but there were also many moments of brilliance.

The most famous, which you can find online in an earlier Phantom Dancer, is his economic and emotive solo on ‘Fine and Mellow’, backing Billie Holliday in an all-star band on the CBS TV special, ‘The Sound of Jazz’.

VIDEO

Lester Young and that famous Lester Young solo on ‘The Sound of Jazz’, CBS TV, in 1957.

18 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #332
107.3 2SER Tuesday 18 September 2018 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Gus Arnheim 1931 Radio
Sweet and Lovely (theme) + You Don’t Need Glasses To See I’m In Love	Gus Arnheim Orchestra	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
It’s The Girl	Gus Arnheim Orchestra	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
I Got The Ritz From The One I Love + Sweet and Lovely (theme)	Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman	‘Cocoanut Grove’ Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931
Set 2	Modern Singers on 1950s Radio
Open + Blue Velvet	Arthur Prysock	‘Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WRCA NBC NY 9 Sep 1952
Open + Tenderly + The Nearness of You	Sarah Vaughan	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Zardi’s KFI NBC LA 21 May 1956
Happy Birthday + Send My Baby Back To Me + Close	Billy Eckstine	‘All-Star Parade of Bands’ Birdland WRCA NBC NY 8 Jul 1953
Set 3	Club Hangover 1954
Relaxin’ at the Trouro + Senstation Rag	Muggsy Spanier	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 27 Nov 1954
Flying Home	Earl Hines	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 30 Jan 1954
Dardenella + Checkin’ With Chuck (theme)	Ralph Sutton	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 24 Jul 1954
Set 4	Lester Young
DB Blues	Lester Young	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 22 Apr 1956
Call Me Darling	Count Basie Orchestra, Lester Young (ts) Thelma Capenter (voc)	V-Disc New York City 27 May 1944
Polkadots and Moonbeams	Lester Young	‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NY 22 Dec 1956
Set 5	Headline Women Singers on 1940s Radio
The Starlit Hour	Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra (voc) EF	Savoy Ballroom WEAF NBC Red NY 26 Feb 1940
Honeysuckle Rose	Lena Horne (voc) Fletcher Henderson Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Aintcha Ever Comin’ Back?	Peggy Lee (voc) Paul Weston Orchestra	‘Peggy Lee Show’ KNX CBS LA 1947
It Had To Be You + Close	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 1944
Set 6	Cotton Club
Oh, Babe! Maybe Someday	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ivie Anderson	Cotton Club WCBS CBS NY 24 Mar 1938
I’m Slappin’ on Seventh Avenue + Lost In Meditation	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ivie Anderson	Cotton Club WCBS CBS NY 22 May 1938
The Gal From Joe’s + Riding on a Blue Note	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Cotton Club WCBS CBS NY 1 May 1938
East St Louis Toodle-oo + Jig Walk + In a Sentimental Mood	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Cotton Club WCBS CBS NY 8 May 1938
Set 7	1937 Radio
I’d Do Anything For You	Seger Ellis and his Choirs of Brass	Radio Transcription NYC 1937
Pennies from Heaven	Mills Brothers	‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription NYC 1937
Johnny One Note	Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis	‘Chesterfield Show’ WABC CBS NY 1937
Blue Skies + Closing	George Hall Orchestra	Radio Transcription NYC 1937
Set 8	Bop Big Bands on Radio
Oo-Pop-A-Da	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Winter Palace Radio Sweden Stockholm 2 Feb 1948
Belvedere Bop	Chubby Jackson Orchestra	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WMCA NY 12 Mar 1949
Serenade in Sulphur-8	Slim Gaillard	‘Symphony Sid Show’ WJZ ABC NY 7 Jul 1951