27 September 2022
(Until 27 September)Chiemi Eri and 1950s Japanese Jazz – Phantom Dancer 27 Sept 2022
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Chiemi Eri was a Japanese actor and singer of folk songs and jazz. She is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist, on which she even sings a Turkish folk song.
Japanese Jazz TV from 1960 with vocal duo, The Peanut Sisters…
The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week.
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Chiemi Eri sings Come On To My House from a Japanese movie…
ERI
Chiemi Eri (江利 チエミ, Eri Chiemi, was born as Chiemi Kubo (久保 智恵美, Kubo Chiemi) in Tokyo.
In 1951 she started her singing career at the age of 14 with her recording of “Tennessee Waltz.”
She sang mostly traditional Japanese songs and some American songs such as “Jambalaya” and “Come on-a My House” backed by saxophonist Nobuo Hara’s Orchestra. She sang the latter in three movies.
NHK TV Variety Show from Feb 1965, ‘Let’s Meet in a Dream’…
CHIEMI
Chiemi was one of Japan’s best-known singers in the 1950s-60s-70s and also appeared in numerous television shows from the early 1950s until just before her accidental death in 1984.
She sang with the Count Basie Orchestra and you’ll hear in concert recordings of two songs she sang with Basie, ‘Our Love is Here to Stay’ and ‘The Carioca’.
27 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST
Play List – The Phantom Dancer | ||
107.3 2SER Tuesday 27 September 2022 | ||
Set 1 | Tommy Tucker | |
My Heart Sings | Tommy Tucker Orchestra (voc) Don Brown and the Three Two-Timers | ‘Spotlight Bands’ North Chicago Blue Network 11 Jan 1945 |
Comin’ Round the Corner | Tommy Tucker Orchestra (voc) Don Brown and the Three Two-Timers | ‘Spotlight Bands’ North Chicago Blue Network 11 Jan 1945 |
There Goes That Song Again | Tommy Tucker Orchestra (voc) Don Brown | ‘Spotlight Bands’ North Chicago Blue Network 11 Jan 1945 |
| Brass Hat + I Love You (theme) | Tommy Tucker Orchestra | ‘Spotlight Bands’ North Chicago Blue Network 11 Jan 1945 |
Set 2 | World Jazz Series | |
Intro + Drum Boogie | Louis Armstrong + Gene Krupa Trio | ‘World Jazz Series’ Madison Square Garden WCBS CBS NYC 5 Jun 1960 |
Record Rap | Louis Armstrong | ‘World Jazz Series’ Madison Square Garden WCBS CBS NYC 5 Jun 1960 |
Unnannounced | Dizzy Gillespie | ‘World Jazz Series’ Madison Square Garden WCBS CBS NYC 5 Jun 1960 |
Set 3 | Meredith Willson conducts | |
Who’s Dream Are You? (theme) + Ain’t Misbehavin’ | Armed Forces Radio Orchestra | AFRS Hollywood 1944 |
Nagasaki + Ta-Ra-Ra-Bomm-De-Ay + Zing Went the Strings of My Heart | Armed Forces Radio Orchestra | AFRS Hollywood 1944 |
I’ll Never Be The Same + Rosalita + Talk of the Town | Armed Forces Radio Orchestra | AFRS Hollywood 1944 |
Melancholy Baby + Tea for Two + Wildflower + Through the Years | Armed Forces Radio Orchestra | AFRS Hollywood 1944 |
Set 4 | Chiemi Eri | |
Stardust | Chiemi Eri (voc) Hiroshi Watanabe and his Star Dusters | ‘Sunday Jazz Concert’ Sankei Hall, Tokyo 15 Apr 1956 |
Walking My Baby Back Home | Chiemi Eri (voc) Nobuo Hara and Sharps & Flats | Comm Rec Tokyo 1953 |
Uskudara | Chiemi Eri (voc) Nobuo Hara and Sharps & Flats | Comm Rec Tokyo 1954 |
Our Love is Here to Stay + Carioca | Chiemi Eri (voc) Count Basie Orchestra | Comm Rec Tokyo 8 Jun 1963 |
Set 5 | 1940s Swing | |
Gin Mill Special | International Sweethearts of Rhythm | ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945 |
Bonne-Intermezzo | Charlie Barnet Orchestra | Casino Gardens Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 3 Jan 1947 |
Jean | Russ Morgan Orchestra | Hotel Claremont San Francisco 11 Jul 1945 |
Dinah + Gypsy Love Song | Cab Calloway Orchestra | ‘One Night Stand’ AFRS re-broadcast Cafe Zanzibar New York City 16 Jul 1945 |
Set 6 | Eddie Condon | |
I Got Rhythm | Eddie Condon Group | ‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 5 Aug 1944 |
Blues Round My Head | Eddie Condon Group (voc and cl) Woody Herman | ‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 27 Jan 1945 |
Back Home Again in Indiana | Eddie Condon Group (tp) Billy Butterfield | ‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 27 Jan 1945 |
Wolverine Blues + Ensemble Blues | Eddie Condon Group | ‘Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 15 Jul 1944 |
Set 7 | Artie Shaw | |
Non-Stop Flight | Artie Shaw Orchestra | Comm Rec New York City 27 Sep 1938 |
Snug As a Bug in a Rug | Artie Shaw Orchestra | Comm Rec New York City 17 Mar 1939 |
This Is It | Artie Shaw Orchestra | Comm Rec New York City 31 Jan 1939 |
Serenade to a Savage | Artie Shaw Orchestra | Comm Rec Hollywood 22 Jun 1939 |
Set 8 | Blues & Cool | |
| S.K Blues | Joe Turner (voc) Johnny Otis Orchestra | ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1945 |
| Empty Bed Blues + Love My Baby + Improvised Blues + Theme | Johnny Otis Orchestra and Jubilee All-Stars (voc) Ivie Anderson + Joe Turner | ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Oct 1945 |
| I’ll Remember April | Dave Brubeck Quartet | Aircheck Jan 1954 |
