Phantom Dancer - swing & dance from live 1920s-50s radio

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Hello Phantom Dancers,

On this week's show, you'll hear a rare radio broadcast from Shep Fields' New Music (including early electric guitar) and a broadcast excerpt from Glen Island Casino by Bob Strong. There's also a couple of sets of jazz and dance from 1920s-30s radio for your listening and dancing pleasure.

And for your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, from 1929, I've put up some rap from the High Hatted Tragedian of Jazz, Ted Lewis, for you. Hear the rap and see the play list on the blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... ted-lewis/

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Well, well, Phantom Dancers, another most delightful show of live swing and jazz from 1920s-60s radio & TV for you this Tuesday.

There's a set of swing and bop small groups from the 1940s & 50s, a set of dance music from the late 20s and early 30s, a set of swing from the 1940s and lots, lots more.

And for your Video of the Week, Alistair Cooke talks to Les Paul and Mary Ford on the CBS TV show 'Omnibus', 23 Oct 1953, about their music and multitracking. Les & Mary demonstrate. Enjoy the play list and video on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... n-1953-tv/

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On The Phantom Dancer this Tuesday 107.3 2SER a set of swing from the AFRS 'One Night Stand' series and we'll finally get to hear Shelly Manne, Les Brown and everyone I've had listed in the final set for the last three weeks. Listen online http://www.2ser.com/on-air/streaming

And by request for your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week Anton Karas playing The Harry Lime Theme from The Third Man on his zither. Watch as the crowd goes mild on this 1950s Pathe Pictorial on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... les-brown/

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My goodness gracious, this Tuesday’s Phantom Dancer is once again chock-full of swing and jazz goodness with some Australian 1930s swing by Frank Coughlan and Jim Davidson and the ABC (Radio) Dance Orchestra. Check out the play list on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... from-1933/. And if you missed last week’s Phantom Dancer, hear it online at http://www.2ser.com/component/k2/item/3 ... day-28-may

And as your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, enjoy Jim Davidson from 1933 with his New Palais Royal Orchestra on the radio blog - http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... from-1933/

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This week, Phantom Dancers, I'm playing 1940s DJ and I've put together a set of announced 1941 Stan Kenton Transcriptions for you just like a radio station in 1941 might have put them together as a music show. I hope you enjoy it. See the songs I'll be playing for you on the play list on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog.

And your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is a complete broadcast by Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra over NBC from KANS Witchita Kansas, 11 July 1955 - also on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... n-the-air/ - Happy listening!

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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 ... v-1976-77/

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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/2013 ... rehmstedt/

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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 ... one-short/

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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 ... e-in-1939/

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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 ... -of-swing/

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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 ... e-tv-show/

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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 ... dio-shows/

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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 ... band-1950/

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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 ... soviet-tv/

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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 ... ber-drive/. Enjoy!