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

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Swing & Dance from live 1920s & 30s radio this week by Belgium's Fud Candrix Orch in 1940 and Die Goldene Sieben from Germany in 1937. Also Australia's Coughlan Brothers in a rare radio swing session from Sydney in 1943. Lee Wiley, Helen O'Connell and Buddy Clark sing some swing. Hear about the Flying Saucer that didn't show up from NBC News in 1954. Full playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Presented by Greg Poppleton. Enjoy!

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Aug 23 play list now up. Swing and dance from 1920s-50s radio includes music from Sydney by Bob Lyons & his Trocadero Dance Orchestrra with Olive Lester singing in 1940. And from Birdland in New York, 1950, we hear Charlie Parker backing vocalist Chubby Newsome. Full playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.com

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Swing and dance from live 1920s & 50s radio every week. Today, hear Gene Krupa drumming in his first broadcast of his 'Sensational New Band with Strings that Swing!' from NBC 1944. Tenor sax legends Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins jam together over a 'Jubilee' show from 1946. And there's more flying saucer news from 1955. Full playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Presented by Greg Poppleton. Enjoy!

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Your Tues September 6 Phantom Dancer playlist is now up at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Swing & dance from live 1920s-50s radio. Hear Jim Davidson & his ABC Dance Orchestra from Sydney in 1937, Benny Goodman over a Let's Dance program from New York in 1935 and the Glenn Miller Orchestra under the direction of Ray McKinley in a Guest Star show from 1957. Presented by Greg Poppleton every Tues, over 107.3 2SER-FM in Sydney & 2ser.com. Cheers!

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Phantom Dancer playlist for Tues Sep 13 12noon AEST 2SER-FM & @ser.com now up at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Cheers!

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Phantom dancer, Tues Sep 20. www.2ser.com & 2SER-FM Sydney 12 noon. Swing and dance from live 1920s-60s radio & TV. Hear Shorty Rogers Giants from an NBC TV 'Tonight Show', July 1955; Kay Perry sings for Fats Waller in a remote from Chicago's Hotel Shernan in 1940; and hear the all-woman Swing Band of Bea Turpin and her musical Jills of Jive over a KNX Victory Belles, Los Angeles, 1942. Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985. Full playlist at www.gregpoppleton.com.

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Swing and dance from live 1920s - 50s radio. This week hear Harry James' Boogie Woogie trio from 1939 featuring Albert Ammons on the piano. Duke Ellington will broadcast to you from the Hurricane Restaurant in New York in 1943. Django Reihhardt sits in with the ATC Band in a 1945 broadcast from Paris. Also songs by Betty Roche, Bing Crosby, Groucho Marx, the Andrew Sisters, Fats Waller & Louis Armstrong. Full playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Enjoy!

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Hi, the Phantom Dancer playlist for Oct 4 has had to be changed because I'm suddenly filming on that day. (For an Australian feature set in the 1930s & 40s). You can see the new playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.com Lots of Irving Berlin in the new playlsit. Cheers![/url]

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Live swing from 1920s-50s radio this week brings you Harry James and Teddy Wilson over two 'America Dances' broadcasts from New York to the BBC in London in 1939. Check out Hal Kemp's Orchestra over 1935 breakfast radio with the latest Hollywood gossip. Full playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985.

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This week's swing sessions from live 1920s-60s radio & TV includes Dolly Dawn & her Dawn Patrol, Sarah Vaughan over NBC, Rosa Rio over WJZ NY, and excerpts from the 1940 CBS documentary 'London After Dark' featuring dancers and dance bands at London's exclusive Savoy and at the 2000 dancers+ ballroom, the Hammersmith Palais, during a midnight air raid. Full playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985!

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Tues Nov 1 Phantom dancer paly list now up on Radio Show at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Cheers!

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Phantom Dancer
Tuesday November 8, 12:00pm - 1:30pm

This week's 90 minutes of swing and dancer focuses on the 1920s in the last half hour. We'll hear plenty of radio transcriptions from the era by such 1920s band leaders as Coon-Sanders, Ray Miller and Hoagy Carmicheal. James P. Johnsom plays his famous test piece for 1920s stride pianists, Carolina Shout, in a 1947 show from New York. Full playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.com.

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Phantom Dancer playlist for today in 2 hours time at 12noon AEST now up at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Enjoy!

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Phantom Dancer play list for Tues Nov 29, 2SER-FM Sydney, now up. Swing and dance from live 1920s & 50s radio & TV brings you Barbara James singing over Sydney radio in 1945, Les Paul & Mary Ford from Hollywood, Alix Combelle from Paris and Ella Fitzgerald singing with her own orchestra from the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, 1940. Full playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Enjoy!

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Phantom Dancer playlist Tues Dec 6 now up at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Lots of personal favourites this show, opening with an Aussie swing version of Bluebirds in the Moonlight from 1940 & including Django Reinhardt playing, Nuits de Saint-Germain-Des-Pres, from the 1952 film Route du Bonheur. Cheers, Greg!