– February Newsletter
Lots of news for you this month. Sorcery and Swing 23 March, new album, magazine article, and a request from London for your help. Read on…
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Lots of news for you this month. Sorcery and Swing 23 March, new album, magazine article, and a request from London for your help. Read on…
MorePianist composers George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Rube Bloom on live 1930-34 radio are your Phantom Dancer feature artists this week.
MoreJack Teagarden was a self-taught jazz trombone virtuoso, singer, and band leader. Mechanically minded, he also patented a trombone spit valve. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
MoreLeon Brown “Chu” Berry was a 1930s American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer of the swing standard, ‘Christopher Columbus’. His 1937 version of Body and Soul, which predates Coleman Hawkin’s famous recording, ‘set the saxophone free’. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
MoreJack Teagarden was a self-taught jazz trombone virtuoso, singer, and band leader. Mechanically minded, he also patented a trombone spit valve. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
MoreSorcery & Swing, live dinner show, is the perfect balance between amazing magic, whimsical storytelling & delightfully swinging 1920s jazz
MoreAl Hibbler was a blind baritone who sang with Duke Ellington’s Orchestra and then was a solo artist. Hibbler is seen as a bridge between R&B and traditional pop. He is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
MoreCharlie Christian is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He was an American swing and jazz guitarist and a key figure in the development of bebop and cool jazz. Hear him live on 1940 radio…
MoreNew Years Eve from 1954 New Years Eve radio is featured on this week’s Phantom Dancer. You’ll hear George Shearing, Sauter-Finnegan, Ted Heath, and more.
MoreNew Years Eve and Christmas Music from 1930s Christmas radio and 1950s New Years Eve radio is featured on this week’s Phantom Dancer. You’ll hear Guy Lombardo, Tommy Dorsey and Duke Ellington. Because of a glitch last week, you’ll hear the second half of the Phantom Dancer scheduled that was scheduled for 17 December.
MoreChristmas Music is featured on this week’s Phantom Dancer. Hear Kid Ory, Paul Whiteman, Patti Page and the hammond organ – piano duo of Caldwell and Pollard.
MoreSonny Dunham, US swing trumpet player, trombonist and band leader is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
MoreWe’re back at The Basement Builders’ Club Wollongong for an afternoon of swinging 1920s and 1930s jazz. Great club. Relaxed, easy atmosphere. The Basement is pokie free. And there’s no cover charge! Show: 2:30 – 5:30pm
MoreAlexander Tsfasman, was a Soviet jazz pianist, composer, orchestrator, conductor, bandleader, publicist and public figure. His recorded output covered original compositions including Gershwinesque and Whitemanesque suites, Russian, German, and American jazz tunes. Tsfasman was the first to record jazz in the Soviet Union. He was was the only Russian member of the International Jazz Federation.
MoreThis is Cardea Sydney where you can enjoy Sorcery & Swing with your friends, Thurs 5 Dec 7:30 – 9:30pm. Looking around this 300 Barangaroo Ave, Barangaroo institution (near Wynyard Station & King St Wharf), you see a decadent red lounge room. These people are good looking roosters. A mere few hours ago a woman […]
MoreRoy Haynes, one of the greatest and most influential drummers in the history of jazz died 12 November, aged 99. He performed into his 80s. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
MoreSwing in 1930s – 40s Europe, is the Sonic Journey I’ll be taking with ABC Weekends Breakfast host, Simon Marnie, on ABC Radio Sydney, after the 11am news till noon on 702 ABC Radio Sydney (2BL).
Simon Marnie and I will be sonically journeying to 1930s-40s Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, the Soviet Union, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy and France, and there’ll be a Spanish language rhumba in there too.
MoreJoanie O’Brien was a singer, movie, TV actor in the 1950s-60s who sang with Harry James and Bob Crosby and co-starred with Elvis Presley and Cary Grant. She’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
MoreFred Astaire – singer – on a 1936 US Presidential election radio show is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.You’ll hear Fred Astaire (actor, dancer, singer, choreographer, television presenter and considered the most influential dancer in the history of film) singing and tap dancing on a special election night edition of The Packard Hour radio show
MoreStep back in time to the Roaring Twenties with Sorcery & Swing, the ultimate blend of 1920s music, magic, and dinner! Experience the charm of a true speakeasy as vaudeville comes back to life before your eyes.
MoreAdolf Steimel was a German dance band leader, composer, organist and pianist. He is known for Wir machen Musik (1942), Herr Sanders lebt gefährlich (1944) and Einmaleins der Ehe (1949).
Hear him on this week’s Phantom Dancer…
Bob Crosby was the singing, band leading younger brother of Bing Crosby. Bob also had his own radio and TV shows from 1936 on. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
MoreEddie Heywood was an American jazz pianist and composer active in the 1940s and 1950s. His career was interrupted in the 1950s and 60s by hand paralysis. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
MoreJulie London, was a U.S jazz and pop singer, film, TV and commercials actor. Billboard named her most popular woman singer of 1955, 56 and 57. She had a small, intimate voice made ‘smokey’ by being a three packs a day gal. Her last years were miserable with tobacco poisoning, strokes, lung cancer, choking and heart attacks. She’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
MoreOctober shows: Northbridge Baths Sat 12 Oct 2-4pm, Builders’ Club Wollongong Sun 27 Oct 2:30-5:30pm plus shows in Adelaide and Katoomba
MoreFrankie Masters, was a U.S bandleader, jazz standards writer, and pianist. Frankie’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
MoreIt’s 2SER Radiothon! On this week’s Radiothon Phantom Dancer, hear Stan Kenton at the start of his radio band career, Senor Xavier Cugart, Trad jazz radio with Earl Hines and 1931 radio selling silks and shoes.
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On this week’s Radiothon Phantom Dancer, hear 100 years of recorded radio from an excerpt from National Defence Day Broadcast in 1924 to The Phantom Dancer in 2024. You’ll also hear Fats Waller and Adelaide Hall broadcasting from London, Julie London from New York and Harry James from Culver City Ca.
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It’s the 2024 2SER Radiothon and your opportunity to support Community Radio 2SER. Your subscriptions go in the draw for major prizes. The Phantom Dancer has been on 2SER, under various titles, since 1985! This week enjoy some of your favourite feature artists from the past few years. Good stuff!
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Dave Lambert was an American jazz lyricist, singer, and an originator of vocalese. He spent a lifetime experimenting with the human voice. Buddy Stewart (born Albert James Byrne Jr.) was an American jazz singer. Both were killed in car crashes (1966 & 1950). Hear them on this week’s Phantom Dancer…
MoreIt’s the 2024 2SER Radiothon and your opportunity to support Community Radio 2SER. Your subscriptions go in the draw for major prizes. The Phantom Dancer has been on 2SER, under various titles, since 1985! This week enjoy some of your favourite feature artists from the past few years. Good stuff!
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Earl Burtnett, was a U.S bandleader, jazz standards writer, and pianist. Earl’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
MoreWilfred Theodore Wemyes, known professionally as Ted Weems, was an American bandleader, songwriter and musician popular in the 1920s – 1930s who had a sleeper hit with ‘Heartaches’. Weems’s work in music was recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
MoreShortwave broadcasting by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra from New York to Latin America in 1940 is your Phantom Dancer Feature this week. And below are some relevant paragraphs on shortwave broadcasting taken from a 1942 article in ‘RCA Review’.
MoreNorthbridge Baths’ 100th anniversary celebration Sat 12 Oct with the upbeat sounds of Greg Poppleton’s 1920s swing band, transporting attendees back to the era when the Baths first opened.
MoreGlenn Miller, born Alton Glen Miller, was an American trombonist, composer, arranger and band leader. His swing orchestra was the best selling recording band 1939 – 1942 and the continues playing today. His Army-Air Forces band modernised US military music. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
MoreWendall Hall was an American country singer, vaudeville artist, songwriter, pioneer radio performer, recording artist and ukulele player. On 4 June 1924, the ‘Red-Headed Music Maker’ marriage ceremony to Marion Martin was the first ever live on radio. He is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week. The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix […]
MoreJohnny Marvin, was a hugely popular record & radio singer & songwriter between 1924 – 44. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week
MoreRay Anthony, bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor, is the last living member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Born 20 January 1922, he is now 102 and a half years old. Ray Anthony is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.
MoreThis Saturday 20 July, 11:05am – 12 noon, ABC Radio’s Simon Marnie and I go on a Sonic Journey through the music of Glenn Miller. Glenn Miller, born Alton Glen Miller, was an American trombonist, composer, arranger and band leader. His swing orchestra was the best selling recording band 1939 – 1942 and the continues playing today. His Army-Air Forces band modernised US military music.
MoreCROONING, originated by female singer, Vaughn De Leath, for her first weekly broadcast on New York City Station, 2XG, in 1920, is a smooth, intimate, singing style tailored to the dynamic range of 1920s – 30s microphones. It’s your Phantom Dancer feature this week.
MoreWe’re back at The Basement Builders’ Club Wollongong for an afternoon of swinging 1920s and 1930s jazz. Show: 2:30 – 5:30pm
MoreStep into a world where the enchanting melodies of swing music and the mysterious allure of magic converge in “Sorcery and Swing,” a mesmerising dinner show set in the heart of a 1920s Speakeasy.
Join us at Stamford Plaza Melbourne (111 Little Collins St) on the 21st of September for an evening of glamour and intrigue, where guests are encouraged to don their finest 1920s attire – “Guys in Ties, Girls in Pearls.”
MoreHenry ‘Red’ Allen was an American trumpeter and singer,. He was the first to incorporate Louis Armstrong’s trumpet innovations and he was a Downbeat poll winner for both trad and modern trumpet. He’s your Phantom Dancer featured artist this week.
MoreGet your Tickets now for the Saturday 10 August 6:30-10pm Sorcery & Swing Show 19290s jazz, magic and dinner show at the Castlereagh Boutique Hotel, 169 Castlereagh St, Sydney
MoreLena Horne was an American singer, actor, dancer, and civil rights activist. Her career spanned more than seventy years and covered film, television, and theatre. She recorded and performed into the 1990s, retiring from public view in 2000. She’s your Phantom Dancer featured artist this week.
MoreJim Davidson was a drummer who lead the ABC Radio Dance Orchestra in Sydney 1936 – 41. It was Australia’s most popular swing orchestra and dance band. After World War Two he was head of light entertainment at BBC London. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature this week.
MoreToni Harper was a child singer in the 1940s-50s with a remarkably mature voice. She is your Phantom Dancer feature this week.
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