Phantom Dancer Swing Radio Show

[koopkooper]

diggin the show!! Hey was that you I spied on Monster House the other night!!

 

[phantom dancer]

Hey Dr K

Yep, I was on the telly in my 1930s double-breasted suit, fedora & megaphone. Thanks for tuning into the Phantom Dancer. Diggin' your podcasts

Cheers
Greg

 

[phantom dancer]

Phantom Dancer Tues 19 Feb 2008

Today's Phantom Dancer Highlight is part of "A Demonstration of a Modern Phase of Music" broadcast 12 March 1936 and featuring Bunny Berrigan, Joe Marsala, Bud Freeman, Teddy Wilson & Stan King

See the full playlist and on-air times for today's Phantom Dancer Show on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Enjoy!
Greg

 

[phantom dancer]

Phantom Dancer Show 26 Feb 2008

Reuben Solomon's dance band plays for you from Calcutta in 1942, Bob Chester's Orchestra Speaks Low from Chicago in 1944, and Carle Comes Calling in Frankie C's radio show from 1948

All on the Phantom Dancer Radio Show
Tuesday 26 Feb 2008, 12 noon (0100) GMT
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney & 2ser.com

Full playlist on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Cheers
Greg

 

[phantom dancer]

Phantom Dancer Highlights, Tuesday 4 Mar 2008

Phantom Dancer Highlights, Tuesday 4 Mar 2008 12 noon - 1:30pm, 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney & 2ser.com

Australia's longest-running Swing Show. On-air since 1985 and 2007 CBAA Best Music Show Award winner. Swing, jazz & dance from live 1920s - 60s radio & TV. This week's highlight is a 15 minute mix of unusual instruments in broadcast popular music. We hear a Hammond B3 from WJSV Washington in 1939, a Steinway grand (not so unusual) for a cheese company in 1948, celeste and harpsichord on a swing record from Berlin in 1941, and moody oboe, bell and theremin to close an episode of Suspence from 1946. Presented by Greg Poppleton. Enjoy!

See the full playlist on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

 

[phantom dancer]

Phantom Dancer Tues 18 Mar

Phantom Dancer Highlights, Tuesday 18 Mar 2008 12 noon - 1:30pm (0100 GMT), 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney & 2ser.com

Three first time radio performances of songs feature this week:
- Good Ship Lollipop (Fleishmann Yeast Hour, Dec 1934)
- Let’s Have Another One (Chesterfield Show, Feb 1940)
- Just Close Your Eyes (One Night Stand - Aug 1944)

See the full playlist on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

 

[phantom dancer]

Phantom Dancer Tues 25 Mar 2008

Highlights
Phantom Dancer Radio Show
1920s - 60s Swing, Jazz & Dance from live radio & TV
Tuesday 25 March 2008
12 noon (0100 GMT)
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney & 2ser.com

This week we check out the sounds of breakfast radio in 1939, Gus Arnheim plays for us from the Rendevous of Hollywood Stars in 1931 and Glenn Miller plays to German soldiers from the Abbey Road Studios, London in 1944. Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985. Enjoy.
Full playlist on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

 

[phantom dancer]

Phantom Dancer 1 Apr Show

Highlights
Phantom Dancer Radio Show Tues 1 Apr 2008
1920s - 60s Swing, Jazz & Dance from live radio & TV
12 noon (0200 GMT)
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney & 2ser.com

This week Fats Waller & Andy Razaf wax and sing about New York in a 1938 CBS radio show. We also hear from the piano and orchestra of Claude Thirnhill broadcasting from Steel Pier, Atlantic City in 1956. Maxine Sullivan sings her famous version of Mollie Malone in front of Jimmie Lunceford’s Orchestra over a Jubilee broadcast from Hollywood in 1945
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Full playlist on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

 

[phantom dancer]

Phantom Dancer Playlist 8 Apr 2008

Highlights
Phantom Dancer Radio Show Tues 8 Apr 2008
1920s - 60s Swing, Jazz & Dance from live radio & TV
12 noon (0100 GMT)
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney & 2ser.com

This week Raymond Scott’s Quintet plays Boy Scout in Switzerland over a Music Depreciation revue in 1940. Also you’ll hear live broadcasts by singers Lena Horne, Jackie Cain, Kay Perry, Gertrude Nielsen, Patti Page and Lassie the Wonder Dog!

Full playlist on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

 

[phantom dancer]

15 Apr Phantom Dancer

Highlights
Phantom Dancer Radio Show Tues 15 Apr 2008
1920s - 60s Swing, Jazz & Dance from live radio & TV
12 noon (0100 GMT)
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney & 2ser.com

This week Red Nichols Calls the Freaks on a 1930 heat program. Russ Morgan plays the Wabash Blues from the Hotel Claremont SF. Benny Goodman Sing Sing Sings in a Camel Carvan from New York in 1939

Full playlist on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

 

[phantom dancer]

Phantom Dancer Apr 22 Show

Highlights
Phantom Dancer
Tues 22 April
12 noon (0100 GMT)
Live stream http://www.2ser.com

Swing, jazz & dance from live 1920s-60s radio. This week we hear live broadcasts by Barry Ulanov's All-Star Modern Jazz Musicians featuring Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie from 1947, Martha Tilton with Benny Goodman in 1939, Lester Young, Woody Herman, Erroll Garner and more from Hoffnung. Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985

See full playlist on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

 

[phantom dancer]

Phantom Dancer Apr 29

Highlights
Phantom Dancer
Tues 29 April
12 noon (0200 GMT)
Live stream http://www.2ser.com

Swing, jazz & dance from live 1920s-60s radio. This week we hear live broadcasts by Dizzy Gillespie from Stockholm in 1948, Woody Herman from Omaha in 1954, Martha Tilton singing Pop Corn Man from the Madhattan Room in 1937 and more from Hoffnung. Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985

See full playlist on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

 

[phantom dancer]

Phantom Dancer Tues 20 May Show

Highlights
Phantom Dancer
Tues 20 May
12 noon (0200 GMT)
Live stream http://www.2ser.com

Swing, jazz & dance from live 1920s-60s radio. This week we hear live broadcasts by Anita O'Day & Dorothy Lamour. Frank Sinatra sings his first hit record in 1939 and Die Goldene Sieben sings what Capriolen means in their 1937 hit song from Berlin in 1937. Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985

See full playlist on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

 

[phantom dancer]

Phantom Dancer Tues 27 May 2008 12 noon

Phantom Dancer Highlights
Tuesday 27 May 2008
2SER-FM Sydney and http://www.2ser.com
12 noon (0200 GMT)

CBAA Best Music Show 2007. Swing, jazz and dance form live 1920s-60s radio & TV. This week you'll hear pianist Harry 'the Hipster' Gibson play Bix Beidebecke's famous piano pieces In a Mist and Candlelight over a WJZ NY Eddie Condon Jazz Concert in 1944. Ruth Etting entertains us for Oldmobile over WABC NY in 1934. The Andrew Sisters sing their iconic Rum & Coca Cola over AFRS Hollywood in 1945 introduced by Bob Hope. Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985. Enjoy!

You can see the full play list on the radio show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

 

[phantom dancer]

1930s Cartoon Music

Phantom Dancer Highlights
Tuesday 3 June 2008
2SER-FM Sydney and http://www.2ser.com
12 noon (0200 GMT)

Phantom Dancer Tuesday 3 June 12 noon - 1:30pm
A listener who grew up with Merrie Melodies cartoons in the 1970s sets the highlights for this week's Phantom Dancer. He's asked for the Merrie Melodies' theme tune "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down' and any other cartoon music. So today's Phantom Dancer will open with a bracket of cartoon songs from live 1930s radio broadcasts and radio transcriptions, including 'The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down' , 'I Like to Sing-a', 'The Old Man of the Mountain' (Betty Boop) and 'Powerhouse' (Bugs Bunny, Ren & Stimpy and many more). Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985. CBAA Best Music Show 2007. Enjoy!
You can see the full play list on the radio show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

 

[phantom dancer]

Phantom Dancer playlist 17 June

The Phantom Dancer
Tuesday 17 June, 12 noon (0200 GMT)
2SER-FM 107.3 Sydney and 2ser.com live stream

CBAA Best Music Show 2007. This week we take a short musical journey to Seattle in a 1939 Carnation Contented Hour over NBC, We visit the world famous Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel Los Angeles in 1934 to hear Ted Fio Rito's Orchestra with singers Jack Howard and his 2 Sisters. And Bob Hope introduces the Andrew Sisters and Anita O'Day back to back in a Command Performance USA program from Hollywood in 1945. Presented by Greg Poppleton soince 1985. Enjoy!

See the playlist on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Enjoy

Greg

 

[phantom dancer]

Phantom Dancer in 1 Hour

The Phantom Dancer
Tuesday 24 June, 12 noon (0200 GMT)
2SER-FM 107.3 Sydney and 2ser.com live stream

A cowboy song from 1930s Prague, Duke Ellington live from the Cotton Club, Benny Goodman live from the Congress Hotel and lots, lots more on today's Phantom Dancer in just one hour!! Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985. Enjoy!

See the playlist on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Enjoy

Greg

 

[phantom dancer]

Phantom Dancer now Twice a week

The Phantom Dancer
Tuesday 1 July, 12 noon (0200 GMT)
repeated
Sunday 6 July, 6:30am (2030 GMT Saturday)
2SER-FM 107.3 Sydney and 2ser.com live stream

The Phantom Dancer is now repeated on Sunday (or Saturday if you live in Europe and the Americas!)

This week we tune into live radio broadcasts by Ruth Etting, Sarah Vaughan, Xavier Cugat and Tommy Dorsey's last ever!

See the playlist on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Enjoy

Greg

 

[phantom dancer]

Phantom Dancer for Tues 8 July & Sunday 13 July

The Phantom Dancer
Tuesday 8 July, 12 noon (0200 GMT)
repeated
Sunday 13 July, 6:30am (2030 GMT Saturday)
2SER-FM 107.3 Sydney and 2ser.com live stream

The Phantom Dancer is now repeated on Sunday (or Saturday if you live in Europe and the Americas!)

This week you'll hear swing from Norway in 1941 and tune into live radio broadcasts by Timmie Rogers, Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Jay McShann & Fats Waller!

See the playlist on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Enjoy

Greg

 

[phantom dancer]

Phantom Dancer Today and in 5 days time

The Phantom Dancer
Tuesday 22 July, 12 noon (0200 GMT)
repeat
Sunday 27 July, 6:30am (2030 GMT Saturday)
2SER-FM 107.3 Sydney and 2ser.com live stream

The Phantom Dancer is now repeated on Sunday (or Saturday if you live in Europe and the Americas!)

Your twice weekly fix of Swing, Jazz & Dance from live 1920s - 1960s radio & TV. This week we hear Helen Ward singing with the King of Swing, Benny Goodman from the Congress Hotel Chicago over NBC in 1936; Sammy Kaye and his Swing & Sway Band broadcasting from the Hotel Astor Roof, New York over CBS in 1951; and Frank Sinatra croons to us from 1944 over an AFRS Mail Call program. CBAA Best Music Show 2007. Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985

See the playlist on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Enjoy

Greg