SwingDJs

Tues Oct 5 Playlist now up at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Hear swing from Sydney's Trocadero by Abe Romaine's Orchestra. Also live radio swing by Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmie Lunceford, Count Basie & more. Benny Goodman at Glenn Miller Day tribute WNEW NY 5 June 1945. Presented by Greg Poppleton. Cheers

Playlist for Tues Oct 12 2004 now up at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Swing & dance broadcasts from 1930 with Red Nichols & his Brunswich Orchestra to 1964 with Duke Ellington's Orchestra from Steel Pier, Atlantic City. Cheers!

Tues Oct 19 playlist now up at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Hear Frank Coughlan from Australia in 1956, Jan Brockhuis from Holland, and Hawaiian Swing from the 1944 AFRS seies 'Songs of the Islands.' Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985. 2SER-FM Sydney & 2ser.com 0030-0200GMT Cheers.

Tues Oct 26 Phantom Dancer playlist now up at http://www.gregpoppleton.com Live radio swing by Jan Savitt, Duke Ellington, Jimmu Dorsey, Jaroslav Jezek from Prague in 1936 and more. Songs by Joanie O'Brien, Frances Langford, Joya Sherill, Jo Stafford and lots more of the real thing. Cheers!

Phantom Dancer Highlights Tues Nov 2 1030-12noon 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney & 2ser.com

Swing and dance from live 1920s-50s radio. Full playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.comIt's Melbourne Cup Day! And famous 2UE race caller, Ken Howard, calls The Pisspots' Plate - a private joke race call featuring Ken H's drinking mates in the Captain Cook Hotel, Moore Park - from 1952. Also, East German swing by Kurt Henkels & the Leipzig Radio Dance Orchestra from the late 1950s. We'll count down to 12 noon with the World's Oldest Talking Clock, an experiment recorded on lead cylinder in 1878! Plus lots of live radio swing by Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sydney's Wally Portingale and more, with 'off-the-air' songs by Frank Sinatra, Pearl Bailey, The Charoiteers and Frank Coughlan. Presented by Greg Poppleton. Enjoy![/url]

Phantom Dancer playlist for Tues Nov 16 now up at http://www.gregpoppleton.com Hear Glenn Miller from the Meadowbrook Ballroom in New Jersey, Nov 16 1939, the Trio Lescano with Angelini's Orchestra from Rome in 1938 and a send-up of Australian Radio with Here's Hooey from Sydney in August 1940. Plus Dick Jurgens, Harry James, Helen Forrest, Count Basie & more. Presnted by Greg Poppleton, 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney & 2ser.com, Tuesdays 1030am-12noon (0130-0300GMT). Enjoy!

The Phantom Dancer - Your weekly mix of swing and dance from live 1920s-60s radio & TV. This week we tune into the Hal Kemp Orchestra for Lavena Cosmetics in 1934, Louis Armstrong's All-Stars for US Savings Bonds in 1950, Django Reinhardt on AFN Paris' 'Beaucoup de Music' in 1945, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra broadcasting to the German Army from the Abbey Road Studios, London in 1944. We also get to meet Mrs America 1939! Full playlst at http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Tues Nov 30 playlist now up at http://www.gregpoppleton.com We'll hear Benny Goodman over the 'Let's Dance' program, NY 1935; Jimmy Dorsey for the Hollywood Palladium in 1943; Louis Jordan from the Cafe Zanzibar NY 1945 and swing from 1930s & 40s Finland, Germany, Italy and France. 2SER-FM & 2ser.com Tuesdays 1030am-12noon AEST = Mondays 3:30pm-5pm PST. Cheers!

Tuesday Dec 7 Phantom Dancer playlist now up at www.gregpoppleton.com. Hear the ATC Band play Django from AFN Paris in 1946, Phil Harris from the Cocoanut Grove LA in 1932, trumpeter Billie Rodgers singing with Tommy Pedersen from the Hollywood Palladium in 1947 and Linda Keene Yankee Doodling with Jack Tegarden on "Young Man with a Band' from NY in 1939. Presented by Greg Poppleton. 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney. 1030-12noon AEST. Enjoy!

Final Phantom Dancer for 2004 on Tuesday Dec 14, 1030am-12noon. A seasonal theme. The show returns to 2SER Tues Jan 4. Full playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.com Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year. Greg Poppleton - the Phantom Dancer

Artie Shaw Tribute Show this Tues Jan 11, 1030-12noon on Phantom Dancer, 107.3 2SER-FM & 2ser.com. See full playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Hear Artie Shaw live on radio between 1938-1945. Presented by Greg Poppleton. Now playing swing for 20years

Now in it's 20th year, the Phantom Dancer this Tues Jan 18 (Mon Jan 17 in US & Europe) features swing from the last broadcasts by the original Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras in 1945 and 1956 respectively. And 15 minutes of singer Dinah Washington from 1944 and 1960 vintage radio. See the full playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.com Presented by Greg Poppleton. Enjoy![/url]

Phantom Dancer Feb 1 playlist now at http://www.gregpoppleton.com 2 Duke Ellington radio airchecks from 1940 and 1964. Hear the South Sydney juniors Rugby League Club swing band from a 1965 EMI custom record. 2SER-FM & 2ser.com Tuesday 1030am[/url]

Phantom Dancer playlist for Tuesday Feb 8 now up at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Hear 3 swinging instrumentals by Charlie Barnet's Orch from Casino gardens in 1944, Louis Prima from 1939, Bob Chester, Bunny Berrigan & Pippo Bazizza from Rome. Prsented by Greg Poppleton. Enjoy![/url]

Phantom Dancer playlist for Tues Feb 15 1030am AEST 2ser & 2ser.com Sydney now up at http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Australia's longest running Swing Show is now in its 20th year. Presented by Greg Poppleton. Live 1930s-50s swing radio by Ray Anthony, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Bob Crosby & more. Enjoy!