Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 31st Mar 2020

1940s trumpet player band leaders: Pippo Barzizza, Charlie Spivak and Randy Brooks, are the Phantom Dancer feature artists kicking off this week's non-stop live radio mix. The Phantom Dancer produced and presented by 1920s-30s singer and actor Greg Poppleton can be heard online from 12:05pm AEDST Tuesday 31 March at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ Two hour non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV presented by Greg Poppleton on radio 2SER 107.3 Sydney since 1985. In this week's mix hear Jo Stafford and a set of women pop singers on 1930s-50s radio, a set of Dizzy Gillespie radio and a set of 1940s radio swing bands lead by trumpet players Barzizza, Spivak and Randy Brooks. The last hour is all vinyl.

PIPPO BARZIZZA

With his friend and rival Cinico Angelini, Pippo Barzizz became the pre-eminent Italian swing and jazz band leader in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Beginning with his Blue Star Orchestra, then with Orchestra Cetra in the 1930s (which recorded 7,000 sides), and his Orchestra Moderna in the 1950s (which included a young Ennio Morricone), Barzizza broadcast regularly on EAIR, the national Italian radio, and then its post-war successor, RAI, intil 1954. He composed songs and film soundtracks. His treatise on musical exercises, "Barzizza's method" was published in 1952. Pippo composed songs such as "Domani", "Sera", (a beautiful piece “with a harmony almost too high for that period”) and solo orchestra songs as "Do sol la si do" and his extraordinary “Adagio”.

CHARLIE SPIVAK

Spivak's band was one of the most successful in the 1940s and survived until 1959. Spivak's experience playing with jazz musicians had little effect on his own band's style, which was straight dance music, made up mainly of ballads and popular tunes. Spivak himself (known as "Cheery, Chubby Charlie") had been noted for his trumpet's sweet tone and his strength for playing lead parts, rather than for any improvisational ability. He was also known as "The Man Who Plays The Sweetest Trumpet In The World".

RANDY BROOKS

Brooks began on trumpet at age six, and by eleven was touring with Rudy Vallee. He then worked with Claude Thornhill, Bob Allen, Bernie Cummins, Art Jarrett, and Les Brown before founding his own band in 1944. John Benson Brooks (no relation) contributed arrangements to the ensemble, and Stan Getz played in it in 1946. Among his hits for Decca Records were "Tenderly", "Harlem Nocturne" and "The Man With The Horn", but his swing-based style and large ensemble were out of step with the times, and his success eroded toward the end of the decade. He was married to singer and band leader, Ina Ray Hutton. Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week is Pippo Barzizza leading and conducting the RAI TV Orchestra on his compositions "Il Boscaiolo" and "Sera" on the 60th Anniversary RAI TV broadcast of 1986. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mUYCiv1caM 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!

31 MARCH PLAY LIST

Play List - The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #430
107.3 2SER Tuesday 31 March 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 7LTN Launceston 5 - 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 - 6am
Set 1	Swing Bands of Trumpet Playing Leaders on 1940s Radio
Non Hai Piu La Veste A Fiori Blu	Alberto Rabagliati e Quartetto Vocale Hot (voc) Pippo Barzizza Orchestra	Comm Rec Cetra, Rome 1946
Open + Stomping Room Only	Charlie Spivak Orchestra	'One Night Stand' Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 1947
Perdido + Theme	Randy Brooks Orchestra	'One Night Stand' Roseland Ballroom New York City AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Jul 1945
Set 2	Mickey Mouse Bands On 1950s - 60s Radio
Open + Tea For Two	Leon Kellner Orchestra	Blue Room Roosevelt Hotel WWL CBS New Orleans 1964
Mississippi Mud	Dick Jurgens Orchestra (voc) Al Galante and Band	Aragon Ballroom Aragon Ballroom WBBM CBS Chicago Dec 1950
Little Girl + Goodnight My Love + Drifting and Dreaming (Close)	Orrin Tucker Orchestra (voc) OT	Boulevarde Room Stevens Hotel ABC Chicago 1951
Set 3	Women Pop Singers on 1930s-50s Radio
More Than You Know	Jo Stafford (voc) Victor Young Orchestra	’Your Melody Hour’ KFI NBC Los Angeles 5 Aug 1951
If This Is Love, I Don’t Want Love	Kay Thompson	’Dodge Show’ Radio Transcription New York City 1935
Brahm’s Lullaby + Close	Ginny Simms + Chorus (voc) Cookie Fairchild Orchestra	’Personal Album’ AFRS Hollywood 1944
Set 4	Crooners on 1940s Radio
Open + Careless Hands	Frank Sinatra and The Hit Paraders (voc) Alex Stordahl Orchestra	’Your Hit Parade’ KFI NBC LA 30 Apr 1949
Open + Let’s Have Another Cup Of Coffee + Rise and Shine	Gordon MacRae	’The Railroad Hour’ KFI NBC Los Angeles 7 Aug 1950
Lucky Ol’ Sun	Dick Haymes and The Andrew Sisters (voc) Jerry Gary Orchestra	’Club 15’ KNX CBS Los Angeles 23 Sep 1949
Set 5	Dizzy Gillespie on 1940s-50s Radio
Lady Byrd	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Aircheck Apollo Ballroom Harlem NY 22 Jan 1947
Manteca	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Winter Palace Stockholm Radio Sweden 2 Feb 1948
Doodlin’	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jul 1956
Jam Session	Dizzy Gillespie with Orchestra	Rex Theatre RTF Paris Feb 1953
Set 6	Piano Playing Band Leaders on the Air
If You Can’t Smile and Say Yes	Nat King Cole Trio	Trocadero KHJ Mutual LA 26 Apr 1945
Body and Soul	Teddy Wilson Orchestra	’America Dances’ BBC London via WABC CBS NY 1939
Every Tub	Count Basie Orchestra	’Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 14 Jan 1953
Flying Home	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 13 Aug 1952
Set 7	1930s Radio Jazz and Dance Bands
Black and Blue Rhythm	Jack Hylton Orchestra	Comm Rec London 26 Sep 1933
Crazy Rhythm	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	’Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red New York City 8 Dec 1934
Dardenella	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	’Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 31 Oct 1936
Haunting Me	Henry Busse Orchestra	Radio Transcription Hollywood 1935
Set 8	Trad Bands on Radio
Beale Street Blues	Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Band	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1950
Heebie Jeebies	Eddie Condon Group	’Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 9 Sep 1944
I’m Confessin’	Hot Lips Page	’Doctor Jazz’ Stuyvesant Casino WMGM New York City 1950
That’s A Plenty	Muggsy Spanier	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 18 Apr 1953