Phantom Dancer Swing Radio Show

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Phantom Dancer Tues 9 Oct & Sat 13 Oct 2012

Hello Phantom Dancers,

I hope you enjoyed the last two weeks of 'classic' Phantom Dancers on 107.3 2SER Sydney. Now I'm back in the saddle to bring you a whole new episode, including live 1920s-60s radio swing and jazz by Charlie Shavers, Charlie Parker, Jack Teagarden with Paul Whiteman, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holliday, June Christy, Jan Savitt and more. See the play list below

Support the Phantom Dancer between 15 - 27 October. It's the annual 2SER Radiothon. Call or email your support by becoming a subscriber or renewing your subscription. You'll be in the running for some great prizes.

Now for the Video Of The Week: that 1940s 2CH announcer at 1:39 bears a passing resemblance to how I looked twenty years ago. See it, with this week's play list, on the Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/live-swing-jazz-by-charlie-shavers-charlie-parker-more

 

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Phantom Dancer Play List Tues 16 Oct 2012

Subscriber Greetings, Phantom Dancers!

It's that time of year. The 2SER subscriber drive. 2SER, where The Phantom Dancer is recorded, is a volunteer run, community supported station

And each year we ask you for your financial support to keep The Phantom Dancer & 2SER on air. And so many of you come through, which is wonderful

This Tuesday's Phantom Dancer show has live swing and jazz from George Shearing, Wally Portingale (1940s Sydney band leader) Pete Daly & His Chicagoans and more

And in between songs I ask you to Share The Love and subscribe

Here's the play list and Video of the Week - since there's a set of rare 1929 – 1931 radio broadcasts on today's Phantom Dancer, here's a rare 1929 radio clip – an experiment in home recording. You'll see it all on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/brunswick-panatrope-radio-broadcast-1929/

 

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Star night At The Cocoanut Grove 1934

G'day Subscribers,

It's the second week of Subscriber Drive and this Tuesday I'll be playing some of the records I didn't get to play for you last week. See the play list below...

And as for last Saturday, I was making a film with the 'Bondi Hipster' and it didn't 'wrap', which is finish, in film talk, until 6pm. So my apologies as I could not make it to the studio

But all going well, next Saturday, which is the last day of the 2SER subscriber drive, The Phantom Dancer will be live to take your pledges by phone and email

Have you subscribed? If yes, THANK YOU. If not, take the time to subscribe this Tuesday 12noon – 1:30pm and Saturday 6 – 7:30pm. You'll be keeping The Phantom Dancer and 2SER on the air. And you'll be in the running for the daily prize draw and the major prize draw

The Subscriber Drive phone number is 9514 9500. The Subscriber Drive online sign-up page is http://www.2ser.com/supporter-drive

And since today's show features a set of Cocoanut Grove radio transcriptions, here's 'Star Night At The Cocoanut Grove' including a song by Bing Crosby and the play list on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/star-night-at-the-cocoanut-grove-1934/

 

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Swing, Jazz and Charlie Chaplin

Hello Phantom Dancers

Thank you for your support during this year's Subscriber Drive. Good luck for the major draw in November

Yes, I did say the show would be live last Saturday. And I spent hours preparing a Saturday show for you. But a family member died, so it was important I be with my family. I hope you understand

And now for this Tuesday's and Saturday's show - a lot of the music I didn't get to play for you during the Subscriber Drive - Jimmy Dorsey from the Meadowbrook, John Kirby from the Aquarium in New York, Jack Teagarden from Coral Gables and more

See the Play List and the Video Of The Week, the funniest fight scene filmed ever starring Charlie Chaplin, at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/charlie-chaplin-funniest-boxing-scene-ever/

 

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Phantom Dancer Tues 6 Nov, Sat 10 Nov. Live Newtown Festival 11 Nov

Hello Phantom Dancers,
I'll be singing with my 1920s and 1930s band The Bakelite Broadcasters, tomorrow, Tuesday 6 November for the Melbourne Cup.

That means tomorrow's Phantom Dancer show, Tuesday 6 November, 2SER 107.3 12 noon (repeated Saturday 10 Nov, 6pm AEST, +11 GMT) will be a 'classic' show (from 8 November 2011). I hope you enjoy it. It's full of great swing & jazz from live 1920s – 60s radio and TV

Next Sunday, 11 November, The Phantom Dancer will be LIVE at the 2012 Newtown Festival in the 2SER Chillax Area, 3 – 3:45pm. Do come down to Camperdown Memorial Park to enjoy the live 1920s – 1960s radio & TV swing & jazz tunes, and the huge festival

Eventhough, this Tuesday and Saturday's Phantom Dancer will be an edited repeat, your Video of the Week, is another new vintage discovery found by trawling YouTube for you. Avalon Time Halloween Party 1939 starring Red Skelton and featuring Bob Strong's Orchestra with vocal group 'The Three Puffs' – Avalon were a brand of cancer stick – puffs – get it? Enjoy, Greg! See it on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/1421/

 

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How I wish we lived closer, really would love to come to one of your gigs / events

Harry

 

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Television - 1939

Movember greetings to you, Phantom Dancers,

The Phantom Dancer will be DJing live 1920s-60s radio swing & jazz this Sunday 11 Nov, 3pm, Newtown Festival in the 2SER Chillax area

However, I'll be away from the studio again this week. So I've dug up a classic edition of The Phantom Dancer first broadcast 6 December 2011 if you want to check out the playlist on this blog

This week's live 1920s – 60s radio swing & jazz highlights include the Afro-Cuban All-Stars on Jubilee AFRS 1945 playing How High The Moon, Al Sears with Duke Ellington's Band playing The Suburbanite, Chick Webb Keeping Out Of Mischief Now and Helmut Zacharias from Berlin in 1941 including swing harpsichord on his version of Bei Dir war es immer so schoen

And I've added some of Road To Gundagai from the Bakelite Broadcasters' latest CD 'Doin' The Charleston'. The Bakelite Broadcasters played at the launch for Movember in Sydney
Hear The Phantom Dancer on 107.3 2SER Sydney and 2SER online
- Tuesday 13 Nov 12 Noon (+11 GMT)
- Saturday 17 Nov 6pm (+11 GMT)

Video Of The Week – Televison 1939 – Enjoy!!! on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog at http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/phantom-dancer-live-11-nov-television-1939-film/

 

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In My Merry Oldsmobile

What a song, what a car (one of the longest lived car brands) what a show!

Yes, it's another classic Phantom Dancer this Tuesday and Saturday. A show from 2009 with so much great music I really enjoyed editing it for rebroadcast for you. I hope you enjoy listening to it. But do I have a play list? No. It went to air before this blog started in September 2009

Anyhow, I can tell you it has live swing and jazz from 1930s – 50s radio broadcasts by Kay Kyser, George Shearing, Phil Harris, Gene Krupa and more

And at the end I've added "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter" from the new Greg Poppleton and his Bakelite Broadcasters CD 'Doin' The Charleston'

Visit Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog to see this week's Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, a 1932 Fleischer sing-a-long cartoon from 1932 featuring the 1905 hit song, 'In My Merry Oldsmobile'. Hee's the link: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/in-my-merry-oldsmobile/ Enjoy!

 

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The Latest Phantom Dancer

Hello Phantom Dancers,

Another classic Phantom Dancer for you this Tuesday 27 Nov and Saturday 1 Dec 2012, this time from February 2011

You'll hear live swing and jazz from 1920s-60s radio and TV featuring Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford, Jack Teagarden, Benny Goodman and more

The Phantom Dancer is heard in Sydney on 107.3 2SER, Digital Radio and 2ser.com, Tuesdays at 12 noon and Saturday 6pm

It's also heard on 26 radio stations across Australia, including Artsound 92.7FM Canberra, Sundays 7 - 8pm

And for the Video Of The Week, enjoy Lawrence Welk on TV in 1960 on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/lawrence-welk-tv-1960/

 

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Krazy Kat Cartoon 1932

Greetings Phantom Dancers,

I'm so looking forward to being back in the 2SER 107.3 studios tomorrow broadcasting live

And what a swinging show I have for you. Three chances to hear Raymond Scott in different combinations, two incarnations of Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller live on 1930s - 1940s wireless and tunes by Bea Wain, Lena Horne and Ella Fitzgerald with her Orchestra

And the Video Of The Week? Seeing Stars. A Krazy Kat cartoon from 1932 packed full of Hollywood celebs. Enjoy and see the full playlist on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/krazy-kat-cartoon-from-1932/

 

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Benny Goodman Broadcast 1946

Hello Phantom Dancers,

Well, an unexpected surprise during last week’s Phantom Dancer – only one of the two turntables in the studio was working!

So I didn’t get to play all the records I had listed for you last week. But I know now that the turntable has been fixed, so you’ll be hearing live swing and jazz from 1920s – 1960s radio & TV by Lionel Hampton, Mildred Bailey and more I had listed for last week on this week’s show

Also some rare Australian radio from Melbourne’s 3AW in 1940, featuring pianist Isador Goodman and his Orchestra!

And for the Video of the Week, a complete Benny Goodman radio broadcast from the Palladium Ballroom in Hollywood in 1946

Read the play list and enjoy at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/benny-goodman-complete-1946-broadcast/

 

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1940s Hallmark Christmas Party Home Movie

Hi-Ho Phantom Dancers,

A set of early 1930s radio transcriptions for you this week on The Phantom Dancer. Plus songs by Helen Ward, Loyce Whiteman, Lisa Murrow and Marion Hutton live on 1930s – 1940s wireless.

Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters have had the pleasure of playing for a lot of corporate Christmas parties this year. So for The Phantom Dancer Video Of The Week, footage of an early 1940s Hallmark company Christmas soiree. Enjoy!

See this week's Phantom Dancer play list and Video of the Week at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/1940s-hallmark-christmas-party-home-movie/

 

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1940s Xmas Cinema Ads

The Phantom Dancer will be heard on 107.3 2SER Sydney on Christmas Day at 12 noon. So you'll hear a seasonal mix of swing and jazz from live Christmas Eve and Christmas Day broadcasts
See the play list and this week's festive Phantom Dancer video at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012/12/23/1940s-christmas-movie-trailers/

 

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Patti Page on the Phantom Dancer

Happy New Year, Phantom Dancers!

I'm looking forward to playing lots more swing and jazz from live 1920s – 1960s radio and TV for you in 2013 on The Phantom Dancer. And, if you have any feedback or requests for to hear your favourite swing and jazz songs on the show, please email me at phantomdancer@2ser.com

Sad to note that the singing rage, Patti Page, passed away on New Year's Day. So on this week's Phantom Dancer, we hear Ms Page singing with the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra on their Stage Show, CBS TV, New York, in 1956

And for the Phantom Dancer Video of the Week we see and hear Patti Page on her own TV show, The Big Record, in a duet with Johnnie Ray. Enjoy! Check out this week's play list and video at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/patti-page-on-the-phantom-dancer/

 

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Machito and his Afro-Cubans

Cheerio Phantom Dancers,

What a show of live 1920s-60s radio swing and jazz for you this week!

Tune into Hawaiian tunes from The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu in 1934, Lawrence Welk plays his Champagne Music over KECA LA in 1955 and for the Jitterbugs there's Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Buddy Rich, Jimmy Dorsey and more

The live radio clip of Xavier Cugat has inspired me to post as this week's Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, Machito and his Afro-Cubans over WMCA's Symphony Sid Show in the late 1940s. Enjoy on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge, and see the play list there, too http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/machito-and-his-afro-cubans/

 

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Destination Earth (1956)

Hello Phantom Dancers,

This week's show has live radio swing and jazz for you by Duke Ellington, The International Sweethearts Of Rhythm, Vaughn Monroe and Orrin Tucker and that's just in the first set

See the full play list after this important 1956 film by American Petroleum about oil, Martians and democracy. Enjoy at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/destination-earth-1956/

 

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong

What could possibly go wrong on live radio, Phantom Dancers?

Hear for yourself on this week's Phantom Dancer as Borrah Minevitch's Harmonica Rascals make a lo-fi dog's breakfast out of their WNEW New York broadcast on the stage of the Paramount Theatre for a Glenn Miller Day Broadcast, 5 Jun 1945. And there's lot's of live 1930s-1950s radio swing bands to dance to

Phantom Dancer Video of The Week – Boxcar Rhapsody (1942) – a jukebox soundie produced by composer Sam Coslow and starring Borrah Minevitch playing what is now the Armenian national anthem. Enjoy on this week's Greg Poppleton Radio Lounge Blog entry, 'What Could Possibly Go Wrong?': http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/what-could-possibly-go-wrong/

 

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Patty Andrews Curtain Call

Howdy Phantom Dancers,

A jam-packed show this week, including a dedication to long-time Phantom Dancer listener, Rosie. I hope you like Tony Murena playing Madam's, Paris, 1940

Bob Dyer and Dawn Lake, mainstays of Australian TV in the 1960s, are heard in earlier in their careers as singers on this week's Phantom Dancer

It was reported on 1 February that Patty Andrews, the last of the Andrews Sisters, stopped living at the age of 94. So as a tribute to her, the Phantom Dancer plays a solo radio performance by Patty from 1940 – she was the only who arrived at the broadcast after the sisters has a fight with their parents

Tune in, too, to plenty of 1930s – 50s swing and jazz live off the original wireless by bands like Count Basie, Woody Herman and Charlie Barnet

Hear Patty Andrews solo on this week's Phantom Dancer Video of the Week. It's the complete 15 minute Glenn Miller Show from WABC NY 30 Jan 1940. Enjoy and see the play list on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/patty-andrews-curtain-call/

 

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Blue Danube Network

Phantom Dancers!

You'll have another chance every week for the next month to hear The Phantom Dancer on 2SER Digital and Sydney Star Observer Pop-Up Station, Wednesdays 7 - 8:30pm

This week The Phantom Dancer tunes into long gone stations WVUS of the Mosquito Network and WOFA of the Blue Danube Network. WVUS was in New Caledonia and WOFA was in Vienna, one of the 3 AFRS stations in Austria from 1945 - 55. Enjoy!

Check out a photo and audio collage of the Blue Danube Network and this week's Phantom Dancer playlist at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge...http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/the-blue-danube-network/

 

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Laurel & Hardy Wash The Dishes

On this week's Phantom Dancer we tune into Irving Berlin's 50th Birthday in 1930, hear a set of British swing from the 1930s and early 40s – some from announced records simulating broadcasts – and a set of bop and cool including the Lee Gordon Australian track, 'She's The Ginchiest'

And here's the funniest, Laurel & Hardy wish the dishes. See the video where you'll also see this week's Phantom Dancer play list - Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/laurel-hardy-wash-the-dishes/