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

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phantom dancer · #361 Post by **phantom dancer** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:27 am

On this week's Phantom Dancer you'll hear a set of 40s swing bands from the Spotlight Bands series plus live broadcasts by Benny Goodman, Eddie Heywood and the Boswell Sisters

And you can see this week's Video of the Week – The Pepsodent Show from 3AW Melbourne with film of Melbourne from 1940/42 - where you can read this week's play list, at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012 ... melbourne/. Enjoy!

phantom dancer · #362 Post by **phantom dancer** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 5:42 am

There's delightful swing, jazz and dance for you from live 1920s – 1960s radio & TV on this week's Phantom Dancer - produced by Greg Poppleton at 107.3 2SER Sydney and heard across Australia over the Community Radio Network

There's even a late 1940s bop set for you this week, with live radio bop by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Barnet and Benny Goodman

And this week's Video of the Week? 'Music By Gershwin' George Gershwin himself on NBC New York radio for Feen-A-Mint chewing gum, live in 1934

See the play list and video of the week at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012 ... o-in-1934/

phantom dancer · #363 Post by **phantom dancer** » Sat Jun 16, 2012 3:40 am

G'day Phantom Dancers,

By request on this week's Phantom Dancer, you get to enjoy once more an Alvino Rey set from a 1942 Spotlight Bands Blue Network broadcast which I played just over a year ago. In particular, the requester asked for the song 'Cash for Your Trash'

The requests email address is phantomdancer@2ser.com

Alvino Rey, born Alvin McBurney, was a bandleader and pioneer electric guitarist. He built his first amplified guitar pickup in 1923 at the age of 15, but didn't patent it. Gibson had him help design a pickup for their first electric guitar, the ES-150 in 1935

Quoting Wiki, "Starting in 1939, Rey used a carbon throat microphone to modulate his electric guitar sound. The mike, developed for military pilots, was worn by Rey's wife Luise, who stood behind a curtain and sang along with the guitar lines. The novel combination was called "Singing Guitar", and later became known as the Sonovox. Along with early Vocoders (initially called Voders), which were initially developed to scramble messages between the Pentagon and field commanders during WWII, the Sonovox innovation was one the first known talk box experiments. A Soundie film of Rey using the Sonovox is posted on YouTube and further info about Rey and the Sonovox can be found in the Dave Tomkin's book, "How To Wreak A Nice Beach" (How to Recognize Speech)"

This week, see two Phantom Dancer Videos of the Week! Both demonstrate the Sonovox. The first is a brief explanation from the Disney studios. Is the chappie asking the questions the voice of Bugs Bunny, Mel Blanc?

The second video is the Alvino Rey Sonovox clip with 'Stringy The Guitar'. All Stringy's voices are done through Alvino Rey's pedal steel.

See his week's play list and both video clips on the Phantom Dancer Blog - Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/

phantom dancer · #364 Post by **phantom dancer** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 5:18 am

Greetings Phantom Dancers!

A mix of two classic Phantom Dancers for you this week as I will be in another studio mixing the latest Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Broadcasters CDs

Yep! CDs. Two albums, possibly 3, recorded live in a studio over 9 hours. I think I'll call the first CD 'Slap' and the second one 'Dash'. I aim to get the first CD out to you both physically and digitally by late September. Stay tuned!

Phantom Dancer Video Of The Week: some curious footage of Bix Beidebecke with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra from a 1928 Newsreel

See it at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge with this week's play list: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012 ... ed-cheeks/

phantom dancer · #365 Post by **phantom dancer** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:03 am

This week, Greg Poppleton brings you on the Phantom Dancer, a listener request for pioneer electric guitarist Alvino Rey (he built his first guitar pickup in 1923), a hilarious burlesque skit with Jack Benny, Gary Cooper and the Benny Goodman Orchestra from 1943, plus lots of live radio 1930s-50s swing and jazz

You can see the full play list and the Phantom Dancer Video Of The Week - Spike Jones and a Musical Dingbat - at the Greg Poppleton Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012 ... l-dingbat/

phantom dancer · #366 Post by **phantom dancer** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 5:30 am

Good Morning, Afternoon and Evening to you, Phantom Dancers,

This week's Phantom Dancer has live radio swing and jazz by Louis Prima, Cab Calloway, Bunny Berrigan and more

Phantom Dancer Video Of the Week: Audio from an Eddie Condon Floor Show, WPIX TV NY, 16 Nov 1948, introduced by Lord Buckley

See the Play List and Video at Greg Poppleton's Radio Blog. Enjoy! Link: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012 ... v-ny-1948/

phantom dancer · #367 Post by **phantom dancer** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:46 am

Salutations Phantom Dancers,

Another humdinger of a show for you this week. Vincent Price introduces calypso pioneers Lord Invader & Lord Beginner, Bob Hope introduces Bing Crosby & The Andrew Sisters. Plus more 1940s Australian swing by George Trevare, Billy Cotton from London & Angelini from Rome

An Olympic Video Of The Week: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope (who gets very angry at the beginning – look at his face when he hits Jerry Lewis), Dean Martin, the aforementioned Jerry Lewis & John Scott Trotter's Orchestra raising money to send the US team to the 1952 Helsinki Games. Presented by Greg Poppleton

See the full play list and this week's video on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012 ... mpic-team/

phantom dancer · #368 Post by **phantom dancer** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:56 am

This week's Phantom Dancer features a set of Glenn Miller without Glenn Miller – former band members who kept up the name or went their own musical directions. You'll hear 1940s – 50s radio broadcasts by former Miller singer, Ray Eberle, former Miller arranger, Jerry Gray, Miller singer and saxophonist, Tex Beneke, and former Miller drummer, Ray McKinley

This week you'll also hear a broadcast by 'nine-year-old' Toni Harper singing with the Count Basie Orchestra on a Jubilee show from Hollywood. And this week's Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, features the young Toni Harper from the 1948 film 'Make Believe Ballroom'

You can read this week's play list and enjoy the Video of the Week at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012 ... er-singer/

phantom dancer · #369 Post by **phantom dancer** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 4:21 am

What a finger-lickin' good Phantom Dancer I have for you this week

We hear Johnny Desmond singing with the Glenn Miller Orchestra from London in German, Benny Goodman gets together with Arturo Toscanini & The NBC Symphony on Rhapsody In Blue, and lots of live radio swing from the 1930s by Lee Wiley, Hal Kemp, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Crosby and more...

Oh, and this week's Video Of The Week is a Bob Crosby TV Show from CBS LA in the 1950s.

See the play list and Video of the Week by visiting the Greg Poppleton Radio Lounge Blog. http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012 ... -symphony/ Enjoy!...

phantom dancer · #370 Post by **phantom dancer** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:22 am

On last week's Phantom Dancer we ran out of time to play live radio airchecks by Charlie Parker and Lester Young. This week, we'll hear them for sure. As well as live 1930s-50s radio by the orchestras of George Olsen, Duke Ellington, Ray Herbeck and more. Tune in. Time and station after the Video of the Week

See the play list and the video of the week at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012 ... -abc-1955/

Video Of The Week:
Australia presents, 'This Is The ABC' (1955) a production by the Film Division, Department of the Interior, for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. (Includes footgae of Jim Gussey and the ABC Sydney Dance Orchestra) Enjoy!

phantom dancer · #371 Post by **phantom dancer** » Sat Aug 11, 2012 6:44 am

Goodness gracious! What a time you’ll have this week listening in to The Phantom Dancer!

Just like the two women on their 1922 mobile phone in this week’s Phantom Dancer Video Of The Week, just hook up your umbrella aerial to the nearest fire hydrant and tune into live vintage radio swing and jazz by Hal Kemp, George Trevare, Duke Ellington and lots more!

Bobby Haggart and Ray Bauduc even duet on Big Noise from Winnetka live for you from 1939!

Presented by Greg Poppleton

Enjoy the play list and Video of the Week at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012 ... from-1922/

phantom dancer · #372 Post by **phantom dancer** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 7:59 am

Firstly, apologies to Sydney Phantom Dancer listeners last Saturday night on 2SER when the show was interrupted for 25 minutes by our friends at Latinos FM

Secondly, this week's Phantom Dancer show is a doozy. The late, great Tony Martin sings with Ray Noble, Jimmy Grier and The 3 Cheers perform Dinah and Sarah Vaughan holds sway from Birdland, all from rare 1920s - 1960s radio & TV shows, of course

And while on the subject of TV, The Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is NBC's 10th Anniversary of TV show, April 1949

Read this week's play list and watch the Video of the Week on the Phantom Dancer blog at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012 ... show-1949/

phantom dancer · #373 Post by **phantom dancer** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:59 am

I hope you enjoyed the 'classic' Phantom Dancer that went to air last week. So, the Phantom Dancer show scheduled for last week will now be heard this week – with one change – a listener request

A listener emailed me at phantomdancer@2ser.com and asked for 'If I Didn't Care' sung by the Inkspots and songs from 'Singing In The Rain' – The Musical. See Set 4 in the play list on the Radio Lounge Blog to see what I've chosen. I hope you enjoy the selections

And for this week's Video Of The Week, I'm putting up a video of myself for a change – singing 'Falling In Love Again'. I hope you like it

See the Video of the Week on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012 ... ove-again/

phantom dancer · #374 Post by **phantom dancer** » Sun Sep 02, 2012 6:05 am

The skin, kidneys, liver and Hammond B3 are all organs. Hear Johnny Saab play the Hammond live on 1939 radio on this week’s Phantom Dancer. Little Jack Little kicks off the show from 1930. There’s also live radio by Frank, Tommy Dorsey & Raymond Scott

Video Of The Week. Did you know – when The Beatles started they performed in swimming trunks with toilet seats around their heads? Get more on the inside dope by watching this week’s Phantom Dancer Video Of The Week, an excerpt from a 1966 Soviet propaganda film condemning The Beatles and Western Pop Culture. Yeah, yeah, yeah!

See the play list and Vid of the Week at the Greg Poppleton Radio Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012 ... ropaganda/

phantom dancer · #375 Post by **phantom dancer** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 4:44 am

This week - Two shots of 1930s pianist and cabaret star, Ramona, on the Blue Network’s ‘Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varieties’ PLUS two shots of Benny Goodman from the Madhattan Room, New York, over WOR & WABC in 1937, on this week’s Phantom Dancer

See more great live 1930s-50s radio jazz and swing in this week’s playlist on the Greg Poppleton's radio Lounge Blog where you can also see The Video Of The Week: a mash-up of 1950s Chicago TV commercials. Enjoy! Blog: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2012 ... go-tv-ads/

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

Melbourne 1940

George Gershwin On Radio In 1934

Alvino Rey & the Sonovox

Bix Puffs His Cheeks

Spike Jones & A Musical Dingbat

Phantom Dancer - Eddie Condon's Floor Show

Bing, Hope, Lewis & Martin on a 1952 Olympics Telethon

Toni Harper & Glenn Miller Without Glenn Miller

Bob Crosby Show & Benny Goodman with the NBC Symphony

This Is The ABC (1955)

Mobile Phone Demonstraion From 1922

NBC's 10th Anniversary Of TV Show, 1949

Falling In Love Again

Anti-Beatles Soviet Propaganda

Ramona, Goodman & 1950s TV Ads