Phantom Dancer Swing Radio Show

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Guy Lombardo's Last New Year 1976-77

Thanks, as always, for tuning in, Phantom Dancers. 107.3 2SER Tuesdays 12 noon - 2pm. Streamed live. Online at 2ser.com.

This Tuesday, another Marx Brothers' Paramount Movie Parade from 1933, the Goodman Orchestras live on the air, Al and Benny, Kay Thompson and the Lombardo Picture Story 'Flowers'. We open with Stan Kenton's tribute to the recently troublesome Mexican volcano, Popocatapetl.

Oh, and the Video of the Week today is Guy Lombardo's last New York New Years' Eve as broadcast on CBS TV 1976-77 with Guy giving the Lombardo touch to 'Feelings' and that 1976 hit, 'I Write The Songs'. Enjoy on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/07/07/the-final-guy-lombardo-new-years-eve-cbs-tv-1976-77/

 

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Eddie Condon, Red Allen, Cat Women On The Moon

Happy Days are here again, Phantom Dancers,

This Tuesday's Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER radio show highlights: a set of 3 songs from 'Oklahoma' via live wireless broadcasts from the 1940s and a set of swinging dixie revival off the radio by Red Allan, Eddie Condon and the This Is Jazz crew.

And this week's Video of the Week? The 1953 B-Grade Classic, Cat Women On The Moon. Scary!!!

See it, and this week's play list, on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/cat-women-on-the-moon

 

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Phantom Dancer Show & Marx Bros Sing 'I Love You'

G'day Phantom Dancers,
This Tuesday, 107.3 2SER 12 noon, The Phantom Dancer presents a mix of classic Phantom Dancers from 2008 and 2011 for you because an acting gig takes me away from the studio.

I don't have a playlist for you, but I can write that you'll hear live swing & jazz by Bob Crosby, Gene Krupa, Wally Portingale and his All In Fun Revue over 2CH Sydney in 1943, Jack Teagarden, Django Reinhardt, Glenn Miller, Woody Herman, Lynn Stevens and more that I'm listening to right now.

And of course, as always, here is your Phantom Dancer Video Of The Week, which this week is the Four Marx Brothers, Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo singing "Everyone Says I Love You". Enjoy on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/the-marx-brothers-sing-i-love-you/

PS: And you can hear the last 2 weeks of Phantom Dancers online here:
http://www.2ser.com/component/k2/item/4291-phantom-dancer-play-list-16-july-2013
http://www.2ser.com/component/k2/item/4168-phantom-dancer-play-list-9-july-2013

 

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Hear Online Phantom Dancer Shows. See Latest Play List

Hats Off To You Phantom Dancers,

This week I'm back in the 107.3 2SER studio playing the platters that matter. And they include live swing and jazz from 1920s-60s radio & TV by Count Basie, Dave Brubeck, Charlie Parker & Strings, Phil Spitalny, Anson Weeks and Frank Coughlan. Full play list on the blog Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge

And the Video of the Week? A fragment of a radio broadcast by swing band leader Hans Rehmstedt from the 1940s playing Amazonas. Enjoy on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/...ive-swing-radio-fragment-from-hans-rehmstedt/

http://www.2ser.com/component/k2/item/4291-phantom-dancer-play-list-16-july-2013

http://www.2ser.com/component/k2/item/4168-phantom-dancer-play-list-9-july-2013

 

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Isham Jones Vitaphone Short

Happy Horses’ Birthday for August 1, Phantom Dancers,

On this week’s show, Tuesday 12 noon 2SER 107.3 Sydney, online (see link at top of play list when you click the blog link) and on 27 radio stations across Australia (program CRN#64) we hear Erskine Hawkins extraordinary rendition of two Gilbert and Sullivan tunes, Charlie Parker interviewed by Symphony Sid, Eddie Condon, Phil Harris, Jay Wilbur and more.

And what a video for you this week! Isham Jones on a Vitaphone music short from the 1930s. Enjoy!

It's all on the blog Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/isham-jones-vitaphone-short/

 

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Jan Garber, Jo Stafford and more. Live Radio 1930s-60s

Hello Phantom Dancers,

On this week’s show, live swing and jazz from 1920s – 60s radio and TV by Jan Garber, Jo Stafford, Enoch Light and the Light Brigade and more.

And this week’s Video Of The Week, a ‘Hollywood on Parade’ short from 1932 with Bing Crosby, George Burns and Gracie Allen. The film’s theme song has a very early use of the verb ‘televised’ in its lyric. Enjoy!

See the play list, broadcast times, online link and Video of the Week at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/hollywood-on-parade-with-bing-gracie-allen/

 

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Gray Gordon Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra Band Remote NBC 1939

Salutations Phantom Dancers,

On this Tuesday’s show (CRN #66) we hear live 1920s-60s radio swing and jazz by Bing Crosby in 1931 and 1962, Helen Forrest, Rosemary Clooney, Society Bands, bands for the early 1930s, and the swinging Sydney brass band, The Band Of The Eastern Command recorded in Sydney in 1956 for Planet records ‘If Artists Are Out Of This World They’re On A Planet.’

And a band remote makes the grade for this week’s Video of the Week – Gray Gordon and his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra from the Green Room of the Hotel Edison New York, 18 January 1939.

Enjoy it as you read this week's Phantom Dancer play list on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge
http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/gray-gordons-tic-toc-rhythm-orchestra-live-in-1939/

 

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Artie Shaw 1939 'Symphony Of Sound' Short

Serenades to You, Phantom Dancers,

More Bing and Rosemary Clooney off the wireless from 1962, they sing and also discuss those new-fangled answering machines. Also enjoy like swing and jazz by Red Allen, Joan Edwards, Bop by Benny Goodman, and as promised last week, brass band swing from 1957 by the Band Of The Eastern Command as featured in the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.

And this week’s Video of the Week? How about the Artie Shaw ‘Symphony Of Swing’ short from 1939? Enjoy!

Check out the play list and Video of the Week on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/1939-artie-shaw-short-symphony-of-swing/

 

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Complete 1955 Your Hit Parade TV Show

Cheerio Phantom Dancers,

This Tuesday, live swing and jazz from 1920s-60s radio by Charlie Barnet, Woody Herman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and more. See the full play list and this week's Video of the Week - the Your Hit Parade TV Show Christmas Eve 1955 edition with Dorothy Collins, Giselle MacKenzie, Snooky Lanson and the Raymond Scott Orchestra on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/christmas-eve-1955-your-hit-parade-tv-show/

 

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World's Earliest Music Video (1925)

Wow! Yet again the gremlins crippled a turntable during last week’s show so I had to deviate from the play list in the second half (vinyl part) of last Tuesday’s Phantom Dancer and play a whole Spotlight Bands by Jimmie Lunceford and an entire Jubilee show featuring Benny Carter for you. I hope you enjoyed them.

Fingers crossed this week I can bring you the exciting mix of live swing, jazz and dance from live 1930s-50s radio and TV I have listed for you in the play list below. Tune in and find out. Time, station, online details are at the top of the play list below

And your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week? Well, it’s history’s earliest extant music video. Gus Visser and his Singing Duck, no less, from 1925. Quack, quack!

Check it all out on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/earliest-music-video-from-1925/

 

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Thrasher Sisters

Recently The Phantom Dancer has been contacted by family members of some of the singers and radio personalities presented each week on the show. So this week I've put up two sets of live radio featuring talent that some Phantom Dancers have a personal connection to – Lawrie Brooks, John Reed King, The Thrasher Sisters and Eleanor Russell.

Now, you can check out this show online (after 20 Sep) and hear earlier Phantom Dancer shows any time you wish over the next month by following The Phantom Dancer links at 2ser.com

And The Phantom Dancer Video of the Week – a WMGM NY 'Doctor Jazz' show aircheck of Ride Red Ride, Henry Red Allen, Stuyvesant casino, New York, 24 Feb 1952...Hear the video, read the play list on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/09/14/family-connections-to-phantom-dancer-radio-shows/

 

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Flying Saucer Billy Cotton Band Decca 1950

Well, Phantom Dancers, I trust you enjoyed last week’s Phantom Dancer encore presentation!

This Tuesday I’m in the studio at 107.3 2SER Sydney, 12noon- 2pm (+10 GMT).

I’ll be bringing you some rock’n'roll radio from the mid-1950s starring Count Basie, Al Sears and Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor.

And I’ll be playing you the Charlie Ventura and Oscar Pettiford radio airchecks I wasn’t able to play because time ran out two weeks back.

See this Tuesday’s full play list, time, online link, station and your Phantom Dancer Video Of The Week below - Billy Cotton’s ‘The Flying Saucer’ released on Decca in 1950 - on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/09/28/flying-saucer-billy-cotton-band-1950/

 

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Mr Trololo with Jazz 4-tet on Early Soviet TV

Hear Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Oscar Pettiford and more, live on 1930s-1960s radio on this Tuesday's Phantom Dancer, 12 noon, Tuesday 8 Oct, 107.3 2SER Sydney.

And your Phantom Dancer Video Of The Week this week. My kids have been talking about him one the past month – Mr Trololo, Edward Khil, on an early Soviet TV show, singing, 'Once A Brave Captain.' Love the picture of the TV tower pasted not quite right across the screen of the TV set in the opening shot of Moscow Melodies. Enjoy while reading The Phantom Dancer play list on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/mr-trololo-on-1960s-soviet-tv/

 

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Phantom Dancer Show 15 Oct 13 & 2SER Supporterthon

Hello Phantom Dancers,

107.3 2SER Sydney, the lovely radio station that broadcasts the Phantom Dancer to you every Tuesday at 12 noon, and that puts it online for you so you can lesson at your leisure is having its ANNUAL SUPPORTER DRIVE.

Yes, 2SER is a community radio station. Your Phantom Dancer, playing swing and jazz from live 1920s-1960s radio and TV, is a volunteer – on-air over 2SER thanks to your support since 1985.

Visit the 2SER website, http://www.2ser.com, to see what you can win by subscribing because every subscriber goes in the major prize draw!

Most importantly, subscribe, and support Sydney’s biggest, truly community focused radio station, 2SER.

Lots of great swing and jazz for you this week to get you dancing to the phone (02 9514 9500) or dancing to the keypad to SUPPORT 2SER.

See the playlist and this week’s Phantom Dancer Video Of The Week…Glenn Miller’s community-minded radio show, ‘I Sustain The Wings’, WEAF NY 18 Dec 1943 on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/glenn-miller-radio-show-1943-2ser-subscriber-drive/. Enjoy!

 

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Phantom Dancer Supporter Drive Tues 22 Oct 2SER 12 noon (+11 GMT)

Phantom Dancer, 12noon (+11 GMT) Tues 22 Oct, all your favourite swing toons for the 2SER 107.3 SupporterThon. Check out the play list...And Phantom Dancer shows are online at http://www.2ser.com. Follow the Phantom Dancer links.


http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/...the-phantom-dancer-tuesday-22-october-12-2pm/

 

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First Radio Station Documentary 1909 - 1917

Thank you Phantom Dancers for supporting 2SER during this year’s Supporterthon. 2SER listenership has doubled in the last 12 months. The number of people who supported 2SER this year has also substantially increased, though I don’t have the figures.

Good luck in the major prize draw.

On this week’s Phantom Dancer, you’ll hear a set of live radio blues and r’n'b from the 1940s-1950s. You’ll also hear live radio broadcasts by Erskine Hawkins, Gene Krupa and the Eskimo Pie Orchestra!

And as your Phantom Dancer Video Of the Week, a documentary about radio 100 years ago: The First Radio Station – Enjoy! See it with the play list ay Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/documentary-on-the-first-radio-station-1909-1917/

 

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Nancy Wilson on Jazz Scene USA TV, 1962

Hi-Ho Phantom Dancers,

Another encore Phantom Dancer for you this Tuesday 5 November, 12 noon, 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney. Well, actually it’s excerpts from a few Phantom Dancers from 2010 – 2013 for your enjoyment. You’ll hear great live swing and jazz radio performances from the 1920s-1960s by Ben Pollack, Charlie Ventura, Benny Goodman, Shep Fields and more.

And the Phantom Dancer Video of the Week? A swingin’ TV show from 1962, produced by Steve Allen and staring Nancy Wilson. Enjoy!

http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/nancy-wilson-jazz-scene-usa-tv-show-1962/

 

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The Jimmy Barnes Story

A-rick-a-poonie, Phantom Dancers,

It turns out, from stats collected during the recent 2SER Radiothon, that the Phantom Dancer is No. 5 in popularity on 107. 3 2SER Sydney. And congratulations to Ed, a 2SER subscriber since 2002, who won the 2013 Subscriber Drive major prize of a 12 months entertainment package for him and a friend to enjoy.

On this Tuesday's Phantom Dancer, we start out with live radio bop by Bud Powell and Charlie Parker, head to swing with Benny Goodman, 1930s with Hal Kemp and Red Nichols, then 1950s smooth with Frank Sinatra, Patty Ryan and more – all live off the wireless of course. See the play list with the Video of the Week at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog.

And the Video of the Week? The Jimmy Barnes Story. Take notes! Jimmy's the first character in this made for schools exercise in scape-goating. See it with this week's play list on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/the-jimmy-barnes-story/

 

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1945 Dinner Party Hijinks

This week I was asked, "play a set of women jazz singers live off vintage radio." So on next Tuesday's Phantom Dancer I will - Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holliday, Dinah Washington and Winnie Brown. How's that!

There's a bit of a personal connection in this for me. I realised after I had made my selections that I have a personal connection with both SV and DW.

One of the <a href="http://www.bakelitejazz.com">Bakelite Broadcasters</a>(my swing / jazz band) double bass players backed both divas on Australian tours. And my vocal mentor booked Ms Vaughan into his New York nightclub many moons ago.

And your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week emphasises the 'Educational' in 2SER Sydney EDUCATIONAL Radio. Watch and learn good manners from this 1945 film about the most fun you can ever politely have at a teen party.

See the video and read the play list on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog...http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/the-slap-happiest-dinner-party-ever-1945/

 

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Sound of Jazz 1957 CBS TV Show

Another encore Phantom Dancer for you this week. I must away from the studio.

This Tuesday, you'll hear live 1920s – 60s radio swing and jazz by Wild Bill Davison, Baby Dodds, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Jim Davidson & the ABC Dance Orchestra, Chris Connor, Jimmy Dorsey, The Andrew Sisters and lots more, from radio programs like 'This Is Jazz', 'Jubilee', 'Bandstand USA', and 'Sunset Serenade'.

Oh, and Robert Young from 'Father Knows Best' will pop by to talk to the kids.

Tune in:
The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER Sydney
Tuesdays 12 – 2pm EST (+11 GMT)
Listen online: http://www.2ser.com

So there's no play list today, but there is the Phantom Dancer Video of the Week. It's an all-star Sounds of Jazz TV Show, CBS 1957. The music's so good, CBS released the soundtrack as an LP in 1958. Enjoy!

See Sounds of Jazz on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/1957-sounds-of-jazz-tv-billie-holliday-count-basie/