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

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Cheerio Phantom Dancers,

What a show of live 1920s-60s radio swing and jazz for you this week!

Tune into Hawaiian tunes from The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu in 1934, Lawrence Welk plays his Champagne Music over KECA LA in 1955 and for the Jitterbugs there's Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Buddy Rich, Jimmy Dorsey and more

The live radio clip of Xavier Cugat has inspired me to post as this week's Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, Machito and his Afro-Cubans over WMCA's Symphony Sid Show in the late 1940s. Enjoy on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge, and see the play list there, too http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... ro-cubans/

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Hello Phantom Dancers,

This week's show has live radio swing and jazz for you by Duke Ellington, The International Sweethearts Of Rhythm, Vaughn Monroe and Orrin Tucker and that's just in the first set

See the full play list after this important 1956 film by American Petroleum about oil, Martians and democracy. Enjoy at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... arth-1956/

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What could possibly go wrong on live radio, Phantom Dancers?

Hear for yourself on this week's Phantom Dancer as Borrah Minevitch's Harmonica Rascals make a lo-fi dog's breakfast out of their WNEW New York broadcast on the stage of the Paramount Theatre for a Glenn Miller Day Broadcast, 5 Jun 1945. And there's lot's of live 1930s-1950s radio swing bands to dance to

Phantom Dancer Video of The Week – Boxcar Rhapsody (1942) – a jukebox soundie produced by composer Sam Coslow and starring Borrah Minevitch playing what is now the Armenian national anthem. Enjoy on this week's Greg Poppleton Radio Lounge Blog entry, 'What Could Possibly Go Wrong?': http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... -go-wrong/

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Howdy Phantom Dancers,

A jam-packed show this week, including a dedication to long-time Phantom Dancer listener, Rosie. I hope you like Tony Murena playing Madam's, Paris, 1940

Bob Dyer and Dawn Lake, mainstays of Australian TV in the 1960s, are heard in earlier in their careers as singers on this week's Phantom Dancer

It was reported on 1 February that Patty Andrews, the last of the Andrews Sisters, stopped living at the age of 94. So as a tribute to her, the Phantom Dancer plays a solo radio performance by Patty from 1940 – she was the only who arrived at the broadcast after the sisters has a fight with their parents

Tune in, too, to plenty of 1930s – 50s swing and jazz live off the original wireless by bands like Count Basie, Woody Herman and Charlie Barnet

Hear Patty Andrews solo on this week's Phantom Dancer Video of the Week. It's the complete 15 minute Glenn Miller Show from WABC NY 30 Jan 1940. Enjoy and see the play list on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... tain-call/

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Phantom Dancers!

You'll have another chance every week for the next month to hear The Phantom Dancer on 2SER Digital and Sydney Star Observer Pop-Up Station, Wednesdays 7 - 8:30pm

This week The Phantom Dancer tunes into long gone stations WVUS of the Mosquito Network and WOFA of the Blue Danube Network. WVUS was in New Caledonia and WOFA was in Vienna, one of the 3 AFRS stations in Austria from 1945 - 55. Enjoy!

Check out a photo and audio collage of the Blue Danube Network and this week's Phantom Dancer playlist at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge...http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... e-network/

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On The Phantom Dancer this week, live 1920s – 50s radio swing & jazz by Red Nichols, Glenn Miller, Glen Gray, Anita O'Day and more

And for the Phantom Dancer Video of the Week – Anita O'Day sings 'Thanks For The Boogie Ride' in front of Gene Krupa's Orchestra and some great swing dancing in a soundie from 1942

See Anita O'Day and the Phantom Dancer play list on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... s-in-1942/

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Enjoy the latest Phantom Dancer play list and the latest Phantom Dancer Video of the Week: George Burns & Gracie Allen in a 1929 Vitaphone short, 'Lambchops'...On Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... one-short/

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A postmodern Phantom Dancer 12 noon Tues 107.3 2SER this week. A pastiche of earlier shows. Tres ducky. Tres ironique! Live-stream http://www.2ser.com/on-air/streaming

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For those of you who follow the blog and are thinking, 'Where's last week show?'. Well, it went to air, but it was a postmodern pastiche Phantom Dancer of two classic shows, highly self-referential and highly amusing, no doubt. I had to pre-record as I was singing for a Tea Dance with Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters, 1920s-30s jazz and swing that afternoon

This week – a whole new Phantom Dancer for your listening and dancing pleasure on 107.3 2SER, online and digital radio. See the play list, Phantom Dancer Video of the Week (Spike Jones) and air times on the Greg Poppleton Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... view-1952/

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What a show! What a show! Live swing and jazz by Meade Lux Lewis, Glenn Miller, Erroll Garner, Johnny Green and more 1920s-60s radio & TV on this week's Phantom Dancer.

See the play list and this week's Video Of The Week - you asked for more Spike Jones on TV – on Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com

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On this week's Phantom Dancer we highlight Benny Goodman's swing band, swing sextet and his bop group in three different radio broadcasts.

See the play list with the Video of the Week: a German swing song (Hmm Hmm) by the great Czech swing band and singers, R.A. Dvorsky and the Allan Sisters recorded in 1941. Enjoy at Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog! http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... from-1941/

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Salutations Phantom Dancers,

Of course this week's show has a version of 'Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead'

But we're a cut above the rest

We'll be playing the live Glenn Miller swing version with Marion Hutton singing over WEAF New York in 1939. Make sure you tune in. What makes this version special? Marion obviously doesn't think much of the song!

And since the famous song is from The Wizard Of Oz, this week's Video Of The Week is a Command Performance USA film clip of Oz star, Judy Garland, singing the most famous song from the film, 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'. And Bob Hope's in there, too. Enjoy! It's on the Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... h-is-dead/

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Hello Phantom Dancers,

There are big changes afoot.

Firstly, this Saturday's show will be the last.

After six years of being heard twice a week on 2SER, the show will now be heard just once weekly – every Tuesday at the same time since the late 1990s – 12 noon.

But, instead of being a 90 minute show on Tuesday, it'll be 2 hours from next week, 12 noon – 2pm.

And, sometime this year, and I don't know when as yet, you'll be able to hear The Phantom dancer any time you want on the 2SER website.

And now for this week's Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, Vitaphone's latest news on Hollywood from 1934. Enjoy with this week's play list on the Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... this-week/

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History time, Phantom Dancers,

The very first 2 hour Phantom Dancer (and Program 50 for national listeners) starts this week.

I started The Phantom Dancer on 107.3 2SER Sydney way back in December 1985. I had already been doing a 15 minute segment of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV within another program called Cityscope since Dec 1984. The segment was called, Hot House, after the song.

Then in December 1985 I was asked to fill in for a vacated time slot. The previous show had been called Jazz Direction Out and I unhappily inherited the name. The next name for the show after a schedule reshuffle was even worse. I didn't choose it, but my proposed title, 'Hot Shit!', was not accepted (and was at that time illegal). Because the show was in a late lunchtime slot, it got called 'Swing Sandwich'. Cringe.

In 1989 there was yet another radio schedule reshuffle and the show was moved to 11:30pm – 1am Sunday night – Monday mornings. I called it 'Round About Midnight'. Listenership bloomed. And I did a few 'wacky' things like a 'Honeysuckle Rose-a-thon' and a live mix of women in jazz with Lost In Space. Like, far out, daddy-o!'

Another reshuffle saw the show put back to a weekday afternoon at 1pm. This, too, was considered a dead spot like late Sunday night, but listenership grew some more. In this 'carnation, I called the show 'The One O'Clock Jump'.

Another reshuffle shunted the show in 1994 to another then graveyard slot of 10:30am Tuesday morning. But the show did well. And I changed the name to The Phantom Dancer.

Around 1997, The Phantom Dancer almost went off-air due to a 'music producer' who still thought enough of the show to claim in print in a prestigious jazz dictionary that he both 'produced' and 'presented' the show. He went on to an academic career.

The Phantom Dancer did have its one only ever producer in 1999. Jo White helped refocus the show and as a result, the show became even more popular in the 2000s and 2010s, where it has kept its 12 noon Tuesday time slot. It was even repeated after 2006. First on Sunday mornings at 6. Then Saturday evenings at 6. Such symmetry! And now, the show has grown to two hours long!

Many people have supported and nurtured the Phantom Dancer over the years. The list of names is too long to print here. Most important are the many 2SER Phantom Dancer subscribers who keep the show and 2SER on air with their dollars. 2SER is a community supported station. Thank you.

Hence, this week's Phantom Dancer Video of the Week. It's a mix of 2SER 1st Birthday Idents by Sydney commercial radio personalities for the very first subscriber drive in 1980. Long time 2SER listeners, is that the voice of John Cochrane giving George Donikian some feedback after his first ID read? Enjoy on Greg Poppleton's Radio Blog with this week's first 2 hour show play list: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... sary-1980/

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Much Hullabulloo To You, Phantom Dancers,

The Phantom Dancer playlist for Tuesday 7 May 2013 is posted for you on the Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge Blog. You can hear the show on 2SER 107.3 and online (see the online address at the top of the play list). Tune in for live 1930s – 60s swing and jazz radio by Duke Ellington, Pee Wee Erwin, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Anita O'Day and more. Enjoy!

And now for your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, two Phantom Dancer regulars in a soundie of CBS' Saturday Night Swing Club. Together on the sound stage, the house swing band lead by Leith Stevens and Eddie Condon's Dixieland group. But who is the singer? Is it Kay Thompson, Bea Wain...? Check it out with the play list on the blog: http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/2013 ... 938-video/