Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 25th Feb 2020

This week's Phantom Dancer 25 February mix feature artist from live 1920s-60s radio is The Teenager. Specifically, we'll hear three examples from 1929 - 45 radio of music and spoken word aimed at the teenager. You'll even hear the massed voices of teenagers in a Frank Sinatra broadcast. The Phantom Dancer with actor and 1920s-30s singer Greg Poppleton can be heard online now at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ The last hour is all vinyl.

HAROLD TEEN

'Harold Teen' is a 1929 song celebrating the popular comic book character of the same name first published in 1919, written and drawn by Carl Ed (pronounced "eed"). Asked in the late 1930s why he had started the strip, Ed answered, "Twenty years ago, there was no comic strip on adolescence. I thought every well-balanced comic sheet should have one." [caption id="attachment_8730" align="alignnone" width="525"] Harold Teen 1928 movie poster[/caption] The success of the strip led to toys, figurines, pins and other products. Carl Ed received writing credit for both film adaptations of Harold Teen. Tap dancer Hal Le Roy had the title role in the 1934 movie musical Harold Teen. In the 1928 silent version, Harold was portrayed by Arthur Lake, best known for his many performances as Dagwood Bumstead. There was also a Harold Teen radio show mid-day on Saturdays on the Tribune radio station WGN in Chicago. It was mostly a DJ show with Harold and his buddy Shad spinning the latest hits. Kansas City jazz band pianist Joe Sanders wrote a song about the "Don Juan of comic strip fame", describing him as a "human love machine" and as "romance personified". A performance by the Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra can be heard in the March 1, 1929, episode of the Maytag Frolics radio program on this week's Phantom Dancer

BOBBY SOXERS

Bobby soxer is term for a very zealous fan of 1940s traditional pop music, in particular that of singer Frank Sinatra. We'll hear them screaming after a Frank song in this week's Phantom Dancer. Bobby soxers were usually teenage girls in high schools and colleges, who got their name from the bobby socks that they wore. Teenage actress Shirley Temple played a stereotypical Bobby socker in the film The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947). [caption id="attachment_8732" align="alignnone" width="525"] Bobby soxers[/caption]

SEVENTEEN

Turns out, as you'll hear announced on this week's Phantom Dancer, that Eddie Condon's dxieland jazz was 'OK with teenage USA'.  This reported wisdom came from a newly published magazine, Seventeen, the first magazine aimed at 13-17 year old girls that treated them like adults so they could be sold to. Helen Valentine (1893-1986) was the founder and editor in chief of Seventeen. [caption id="attachment_8731" align="alignnone" width="525"] April 1945 Seventeen cover[/caption] In 1944, while serving as promotion director for Mademoiselle magazine at Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications, she was asked by Annenberg to help revive a movie magazine. Although the concept of "teenager" as a distinct demographic segment of the population was a relatively new idea at that time, Valentine instead proposed a magazine for teen-age girls. Noticing the wide popularity of a King Features Syndicate comic strip by cartoonist Hilda Terry that focused on the trials and tribulations of a typical teenager's life entitled Teena which began running in July 1944, Valentine convinced Annenberg that teenage girls needed a magazine of their own and that the then unserved demographic had the potential to become an important and lucrative new consumer market segment stating that "It was time to treat children as adults." The magazine was launched in September 1944 and within a year, Seventeen had a circulation of a million. Seventeen is credited with creating a teen market for clothing manufacturers and other industries.

VIDEO

The Phantom Dancer Video of the Week  is a short clip from the documentary, Teenage, featuring Bobby Soxers. Enjoy! [embed]https://vimeo.com/88820695[/embed] Make sure you come back to this blog, Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge, every Tuesday, for the newest Phantom Dancer play list and Video of the Week!

25 FEBRUARY PLAY LIST

Play List - The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #425
107.3 2SER Tuesday 25 February 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 - 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 - 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 - 11pm 5GTR Mt Gambier Mon 2:30 - 3:30am 4NAG Keppel FM 3 - 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 - 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 - 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 - 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 - 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 - 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 - 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 - 6am
Set 1	Sweet Music
Open + On the Sunny Side of the Street	Frances Langford	'Swingtime' AFRS Hollywood 1944
Open + Old Shanty Town	Owen Bradley and the Anita Kerr Singers (voc) Lion Oil Orchestra	'Sunday Down South' Lion Network. 25 Jul 1954
Sheik of Araby + Time To Say Goodbye (theme)	Russ Morgan Orchestra (voc) Russ Morgan	Club Del Mar Santa Monica Ca 22 Aug 1959
Set 2	Modern Music Radio
Open + Move	Miles Davis Nonet	'Symphony Sid Show' Royal Roost WMCA NY 4 Sep 1948
Open + Lady Be Good	Coleman Hawkins	'Jazz Art Concert' Theatre DeLys WNBC NBC NY 4 Oct 1952
Boogie Mysterioso	Mary Lou Williams Quintet	'Jazz Club USA' Voice of America 1951
Set 3	Selling Oldsmobiles
Open + Roll Out of Bed with a Smile	Johnny Green Orchestra	'Oldsmobile Program' WABC CBS NY 20 Feb 1934
Everything I Have Is Yours + After Sundown	Ruth Etting	'Oldsmobile Program' WABC CBS NY 20 Feb 1934
Temptation + I Wanna Be Loved (theme)	Johnny Green Orchestra	'Oldsmobile Program' WABC CBS NY 20 Feb 1934
Set 4	Aimed at Teenagers
Open + I Found a New Baby	Eddie Condon	'Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert' Ritz Theatre WJZ Blue NY 3 Mar 1945
Open + Harold Teen	Coon-Sanders Nighthawks (voc) Joe Sanders	'Maytag Frolics' Radio Transcription 28 Feb 1929
I Love You	Frank Sinatra	'Your Hit Parade' WABC CBS NY 6 May 1944
Set 5	Trad Jazz on Radio
Royal Garden Blues	Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Band	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1950
Eh, La Bas!	Papa Celestin	'Dixieland Jamboree' WDSU ABC New Orleans 1950
Jazz Me Blues	Bob Crosby Bobcats	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 25 Mar 1940
Copenhagen	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WEAF NBC Red NY 30 Dec 1939
Set 6	Swing Radio
Take The A-Train (theme) + Way Low	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Hurricane Restaurant Aircheck NYC 28 Aug 1943
Open + Sugarfoot Stomp	Benny Goodman Orchestra	'Spotlight Bands' Springfield Ma. Blue Network 29 Sep 1943
Frantic in the Atlantic	Cab Calloway Orchestra	'One Night Stand' Club Zanzibar AFRS re-broadcast 16 Jul 1946
Your Father's Moustache	Woody Herman Orchestra	'Wild Root Creme Oil Show' ABC 1 Dec 1946
Set 7	1930s French Swing
Got a Date in Louisiana	Philippe Brun Swing Band	Comm Rec Paris 8 Mar 1938
Avalon	Michel Warlop Orchestra	Comm Rec Paris 2 Mar 1935
What'll I Do	Fletcher Allen Orchestra	Comm Rec Paris 15 Mar 1938
Popcorn Man	Ray Ventura Orchestra (voc) Betty Allen	Comm Rec Paris 1938
Set 8	1940s-50s Moderne
BeBop	Howard McGee Sextet	Aircheck Hollywood 29 Apr 1947
Imagination	Slim Gaillard	'Symphony Sid Show' Birdland 2 Jun 1951
Oo-Ba-Ba-Re-Ba	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	400 Restaurant New York City Aircheck 1945
Mulligantawny	Woody Herman Third Hers	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Peony Park WOW NBC Omaha 1954