Phantom Dancer Swing Radio Show

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The Phantom Dancer
Tuesday June 26, 12 noon (0200 GMT) to 1:30pm
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney & 2ser.com

The Phantom Dancer plays swing, jazz and dance from live vintage 1920s - 60s radio & TV every Tuesday. Playing Swing since 1985!

This week, Greg Poppleton brings you legendary Sydney bandleader Frank Coughlan in a Featuradio Transcription from 1937.

You'll also hear Frank Sinatra with Andre Previn's Orchestra broadcasting in 1946, Helen Forrest with Gordon Jenkin's Orchestra broadcasting in 1944, and Glenn Miller wowing the bobby-soxers from the Meadowbrook Ballroom in New Jersey over NBC's Red Network in 1939.

Full playlist on the radio show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com.

Enjoy!

 

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Phantom dancer Playlist 3 July 2007

Phantom Dancer
Tuesday July 3, 12noon (0200 GMT) to 1:30pm
107,3 2SER-FM Sydney & 2ser.com
Your weekly mix of swing, jazz and dance from live 1920s - 60s radio & TV.

This week we hear from Sydney's own Jim Davidson Orchestra and Dudley Cantrell Orchestras from the 1930s. Jack Smith (remember the 70s TV Show, You Asked For It?) sings for Oxydol in 1945. We tune into Louis Armstrong broadcasting from Chicago in 1948 for the Damon Runyom Memorial Jazz Concert.

Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985. Full playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Cheers
Greg Poppleton

 

[Shimmy Sally]

This sounds wonderful, right up my alley.

 

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War of the Worlds & Esquire Jazz Concerts

Cheers, Shimmy Sally!

New The Phantom Dancer Show Playlist
Tuesday July 10, 12noon (0200 GMT) to 1:30pm
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney & 2ser.com

Australia's longest-running Swing Show
On-air since 1985

Your weekly mix of swing, jazz and dance from live 1920s - 60s radio & TV. This week we hear from Sydney's own Bob Dyer & his Mountain Men from 1940.. Duke Ellington plays the final part of the story of The Tattooed Bride over NBC in 1952. We tune into The Supper Club from New York in 1945 to catch The Mills Brothers. Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985.

Playlist on the radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

 

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Phantom Dancer 24 July 2007 Playlist

Your weekly radio show of live Swing, Jazz & Dance from live 1920s - 60s radio. This week's highlights include:
1 - Woody Herman's First Herd broadcasting from the Meadowbrook Ballroom, Cedar Grove NJ 1945
2. - Desi Arnez' Orchestra from Ciro's Hollywood in 1946
3. - 16 y.o. Mel Torme broadcasting from Chicago with Chico Marx's orchestra in 1942
Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney
Live audio stream: http://www.2ser.com
Tuesdays 12 noon (0200 GMT)
Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985
Full playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.com
Enjoy!

 

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31 July Phantom Dancer Playlsit

Next Tuesday's playlist for the Phantom Dancer Live Vintage Swing radio show now up at http:www.gregpoppleton.com

Here live broadcasts by Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, the Andrew Sisters & more

107.3 2SER-FM & 2ser.com Tuesdays 12 noon (0200 GMT)

 

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Phantom dancer Playlist Tues 28 Aug

The Phantom Dancer
Swing, Jazz & Dance from 1920s - 1960s Radio & TV since 1985
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney & 2ser.com
Tuesdays 12 noon (0200) GMT
Presented by Greg Poppleton, 1920s & 30s-style Swing Singer

This week’s highlights: (tues 28 August 2007)
- Jack Lemmon visits the Condoli Brothers on Stars in Jazz
- Oh Wilbur! Is that Peter van Steeden’s Orchestra playing a set of rhumba’s on your Alan Young Show, 15 years before we met? - Mr Ed
- Charlie & his Orchestra make fun of the BBC over Reichrundfunk, Berlin, 1941
- Charlie Barnet and singer Lynn Franklyn talk about Space Travel, and Charlie’s Orchestra fits two songs in between, from 1957

Full playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Do you like old time Swing & Jazz Radio & TV?
Buy your own big band radio show CDs on the OTR CD page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Happy Listening!
Greg Poppleton

 

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Phantom Dancer Playlist Tues 4 Sep 2007

Tuesday 4 September 2007 Phantom Dancer Show
Swing Jazz & Dance from live 1920s-60s radio & TV
2SER-FM 107.3 Sydney & 2ser.com
Tuesdays 12 noon (0200 GMT)

This Tuesday....
- We tune into the wireless from 1929 to hear Mary Williams, Mugsy Spanier & Red Nichols & his 5 Pennies
- Miff Mole plays 'For the Record' in 1944
- Fats Waller gives out over NBC's Red Network in 1938
- Songs over the radio by Helen Forrest, Ella Fitzgerald, Marion Hutton & the Dave Lambert Singers

Full playlist on the radio show page of
http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Enjoy!
Greg

 

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Playlist Tues 11 Sep 2007

Phantom Dancer Radio Show
Tuesday 11 September 2007
12 noon (0200 GMT)
2SER-FM & 2ser.com

This Tuesday's Highlights,

Live radio broadcasts by the 3 Louis - Armstrong, Jordan & Prima.
And radio transcription songs by the 3 Jokers and the 3 Ds

See the full playlist on the radio show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Happy Listening!
Greg

 

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In just one hour...

In just one hour....! 0200 GMT 12 noon AEST
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney & http://www.2ser.com

Phantom Dancer Highlights this week:

1. Jimmy Dorsey from the Meadowbrook Ballroom in 1939
2. Ella Fitzgerald from the Roseland Ballroom in 1940
3. The George Shearing Quintet over CBS TV in 1958

Full playlist for today's show on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Enjoy

Greg!

 

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In under 90 minutes from now....

In under 90 minutes from now....

Phantom Dancer Radio Show
0200 GMT 12 noon AustEST
107.3 2SER FM & http://www.2ser.com
90 minutes of swing, jazz & dance from live 1920s - 60s radio & TV

Today's highlights:
1. Chubby Jacksons' Big Band from Birdland over WMCA NY in 1949
2. Faye Adams singing with Sam 'the Man' Taylor's Big Band over WCBS NY in 1957
3. The big bands of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey & Glenn Miller broadcasting from Chicago, New York & Hollywood in the 1940s

See the full playlist on the radio show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Enjoy!
Greg

 

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PD Playlist Tues 9 Oct 2007

Swing, jazz & dance from live 1920s - 60s radio & TV

Highlights this Tuesday, 9 Oct 12 noon AEST (0200 GMT)
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney & 2ser.com

- Mack the Knife + Ballad of the Agreeable Life from the 1930 Berlin cast recording of the Threepenny Opera
- 10 year old Toni harber sings with Count Basie's Orch. in a 1948 broadcast
- Jimmie Lunceford broadcasting from Decker's Fiesta Danseteria,
"The World's First Self-Service Night Club", 13 Jun 1940

Full playlist on the radio show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Broadcasts for sale on the OTR CDs page of http://www.gregpoppleton.con

Enjoy!
Greg

 

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Phantom Dancer 2SER Radiothon

Yep! It's that time of year. The annual 2SER Radiothon - raising money to keep community radio 2SER Sydney, and The Phantom Dancer Show on the air.

Check out the Radiothon Phantom Dancer playlist for Tuesday 23 Oct, 12 noon on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

And subscribe to 2SER-FM at https://www.donations.com.au/2ser/subscribe.asp

Thank you for your support
Greg Poppleton
Phantom Dancer Radio Show

 

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Dec 4 Show

Today's Phantom Dancer Radio Show - 90 minutes of live 1920s-60s swing, jazz & dance - will have excerpts from a 1937 NBC broadcast by Fairchild & Carroll & their 2 pianos, Ella Fitzgerald from the Savoy Ballroom, Charlie Parker from Boston's Hi Hat Club, Hal Kemp, Bob Chester & Tip Toe Through the Tulips with Don Vorhees.

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

Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney. Live stream http://www.2ser.com. Tuesdays 12 noon, 0100 GMT. Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985

Enjoy!

 

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Phantom Dancer Tues 11 Dec

In just One Hour....
In just one hour, The Phantom Dancer will be on the air
- 90 minutes of swing, jazz & dance
- from live 1920s-60s radio & TV
- presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985
- 107. 3 2SER FM Sydney & http://www.2ser.com

Highlights today....
1. Chubby's Blues - featuring the double bass of C Jackson on a Woody Herman broadcast from the Meadowbrook NJ, 1945
2. The Andrew Sisters for Kraft in 1945
3. The Dinning Sisters with nat King Cole for Wildroot Creme Oil in 1948

See full playlist on the radio show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Enjoy!

 

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Today & Christmas Day

The Phantom Dancer Christmas Show in one hour, and repeated at 12 noon (0100 GMT) Christmas Day has caroling aplenty from live 1930s-50s radio shows by:
- Benny Goodman
- Charlie Parker
- Nat King Cole
- Frank Sinatra
- Count Basie
- Chico Hamilton & More

Show playlist & worldwide tune-in details - Radio Show page at http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Enjoy,

Greg Poppleton

 

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First Show for 2008

Today's Phantom Dancer is the first for 2008.

90 minutes of swing, jazz and dance from live 1920s-60s radio every Tuesday at 12 noon (0100 GMT) 107.3 2SER-FM & 2ser.com, Sydney

This week's highlights:
- Fats Waller & his Rhythm broadcasting from New York's Yacht Club in 1938
- Rare Carl Ravazza Radio Transcription from 1941
- Cole Porter singing You're The Top on a 1934 Fleishmann Yeast Show (with ad)

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

 

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Jan 29 2008 Phantom Dancer

Every Tuesday
12 noon (0100 GMT) 2SER 107.3 Sydney & 2ser.com
90 minutes of Swing Jazz & Dance from live 1920s-60s radio & TV

Todays Highlights:
- Dance band singer Doris Day in broadcasts from 1939 & 1945
- The first Dorsey Bros Orchestra playing for Chrysler in 1934
- Paul Whiteman's Concert Orchestra play Deep Purple over WJZ NY in 1936

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

 

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Sugar Chile Robinson

The six year old jazz piano prodigy, Sugar Chile Robinson appears with 8 year old drummer Joey Preston & Lionel Hampton's Orchestra on the Phantom Dancer, this Tuesday, Feb 5 - in a Jubilee Show from Hollywood in 1946.
Plus 90 minutes of jazz, dance & swing from live 1920s-60s radio & TV including a rare aircheck of Abe Romain's Orchestra from Sydney's Trocadero around 1943
Tune into The Phantom Dancer, 107.3 2SER-FM & 2ser.com, Tuesday 5 Feb 2008 12 noon (0100) GMT. On air since 1985. Presented by Greg Poppleton

Full playlist at http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Cheers
Greg

 

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Phantom Dancer Radio Show 12 Feb 2008

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

This Tuesday's Highlights...
- Bon Bon helps launch the new NBC studios of KYW Philadelphia in 1937 by singing in front of Jan Savitt & his Top Hatters
- Duke Ellington plays solo piano for Nat King Cole in 1947 from Cincinnati and plays with his band from Birdland over NBC in 1952
- Music Hall days are relived with a 1945 record by Dan Agar in Sydney singing I'm Henry the Eight, I Am
See the full playlist on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com
And if you like music from 1920s -60s radio - checkout my online store on the Swing CDs, Books & DVDs page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Enjoy
Greg