Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 16th Jun 2020

The Boswell Sisters, 1920s-30s vocal group, is this week's Phantom Dancer feature of the week with a set of radio transcriptions they made in 1930. The Phantom Dancer is produced and presented by 1920s-30s singer and actor Greg Poppleton. The show has been on-air over 107.3 2SER Sydney since 1985. You can hear it online from 12:04pm AEST Tuesday 12 June at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ The finyl hour is vinyl.

  BOSWELL SISTERS - PHANTOM DANCER PROGRAM NOTES Martha, Connie and Vet were the 1920s-1930s harmony sensations, The Boswell Sisters. They were yet another 1920s - 30s jazz stand-out who had classical backgrounds, having studied classical piano, cello, and violin respectively. “We studied classical music . . . and were being prepared for the stage and a concert tour throughout the United States, but the saxophone got us,” Martha told the Shreveport Times in 1925. The sisters' older brother Clyde, also a classically trained musician, was the one who first got his sisters into jazz. He introduced them to cornetist Emmett Louis Hardy, who shaped the sisters' knowledge of jazz harmony, syncopation and improvisation. Vet took up the banjo, Connie took up saxophone and Martha continued playing the piano. Hardy died of tuberculosis at age 22. Clyde died from flu at 18. The trio played concerts and vaudeville in the early 1920s, gradually replacing their classical repertoire with jazz. They first recorded in 1925 and after arriving in Los Angeles in 1929 sang on radio shows and recorded film music. You'll hear a song from one of their 1930 Hollywood Continental Broadcasting Corporation transcriptions on The Phantom Dancer today. They became nationally famous, then internationally famous, after they moved to New York City in 1930 with their own show over CBS. They recorded for Brunswick from 1931-1935, recordings that are considered milestone in vocal jazz. Connee wrote the vocal arrangements, Glenn Miller wrote the band arrangements and engaged the best New York jazz musicians to accompany the sisters, including the Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman, Bunny Berigan, Fulton McGrath, Joe Venuti, Arthur Schutt, Eddie Lang, Joe Tarto, Manny Klein, Dick McDonough and Carl Kress. Connee also made more conventional solo records for Brunswick during the same period. They had 20 hits in this time, appeared on film and experimental TV, toured Europe twice, and even made a recording released only in Australia. They influenced the Andrew Sisters in the US, the Trio Lescano in Italy, Allanovy Sestry in Czechoslovakia and the Harmony Sisters in Finland. Connie Boswell's solo recordings were a major influence on Ella Fitzgerald. Vet's daughter and granddaughter published the book, The Boswell Legacy, in 2014. And your Phantom Dancer video of the week is the Isham Jones music video, Underneath The Broadway Moon. Isham Jones was a bandleader and composer of many jazz songs including 'It Had To Be You.' Enjoy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5jodWgrtCc

16 JUNE PLAY LIST

Play List - The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #441
107.3 2SER Tuesday 16 June 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 - 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 - 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 - 11pm 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 - 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 - 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 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 2MCE Bathurst / Orange / Central West NSW Wednesday 9 - 10am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 - 1pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 - 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 - 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 - 6am
Set 1	Swing '43
Bicycle Bounce	Erskine Hawkins Orchestra	Comm Rec New York City 1943
American Patrol	Shep Fields and his New Music	'One Night Stand' AFRS Re-broadcast 1943
Take It Down + What Is This Thing Called Love? (Close)	Leo Reisman Orchestra	'Spotlight Bands' National Press Club Blue Network Washington DC 23 Jan 1943
Set 2	Progressive Jazz from live 1952 - 1956 Radio
Open + The Dart Game	Shelly Manne Quintet	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY 21 Apr 1956
All of Me	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Bette Roche	Town Casino NBC Cleveland OH 17 Sep 1952
Lover Come Back To Me + Jumping With Symphony Sid (Close)	Stan Getz Quartet with Shelly Manne (d)	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY 21 Apr 1956
Set 3	Australian Swing from 1940s Radio
Waltzing Matilda	116th Rhythm Ensemble (voc) Gordon Andrews	Aircheck Sydney 1944
Sahara	Wally Portingale and the 'All in Fun Revue' Orchestra (voc) Jack White	'Army on Parade' 2CH AWA Network Sydney Aug 1943
Lili Marlene	Lawrie Brooks (voc) with Orchestra and Chorus	'Montague Brierly Showman' Sydney 1944
Set 4	The Boswell Sisters on Continental Broadcasting 1930
The Parade of the Blues	The Boswell Sisters	Radio Transcription Continental Broadcasting System Hollywood 1930
The One I Love Just Can't Be Bothered With Me	The Boswell Sisters	Radio Transcription Continental Broadcasting System Hollywood 1930
There's a Lull in My Life	The Boswell Sisters	Radio Transcription Continental Broadcasting System Hollywood 1930
Set 5	Swing on '44 Radio
No Love, No Nothin'	George Trevare and his Australians (voc) Al Royal	Comm Rec Sydney 1944
Gulf Coast Blues	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	'Downbeat' AFRS Hollywood Feb 1944
Leap Frog (theme) + Love Is Just Around The Corner	Les Brown Orchestra	'One Night Stand' Peacock Room Baker Hotel Dallas TX AFRS re-broadcast 9 Aug 1945
One O'Clock Jump	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	'Command Performance' AFRS Hollywood Dec 1942
Set 6	Dance Bands on 1937 - 39 Radio
Oh, Babe, Maybe Some Day	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Cotton Club WOR Mutual New York 24 Mar 1938
Sold American	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Mar 1939
Let's Dance (theme) + That Naughty Waltz	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Madhattan Room Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 6 Nov 1937
Moonshine Over Kentucky + Heigh Ho	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	Paradise Restaurant WEAF NBC Red NY 3 May 1938
Set 7	Cab Calloway 1930 - 1950
Got A Darn Good Reason Now (For Being Good)	Cab Calloway Orchestra (voc) CC	Comm Rec New York City 24 Jul 1930
Mississippi Mud + Minnie The Moocher (theme)	Cab Calloway Orchestra (voc) CC	KTSP Radio St Paul-Minneapolis 28 May 1938
We The Cats Shall Hep You	Cab Calloway Orchestra (voc) CC	'One Night Stand' Club Zanzibar NY AFRS Re-broadcast 16 Jul 1945
Ducktrot + Close	Cab Calloway's Caballiers (voc) CC	'Guest Star' Radio Transciption NY 17 Sep 1950
Set 8	Modern Riffs in 1945 - 51 Radio Dance Bands
Seventh Avenue	Clyde Hart's All-Stars (voc) Trummy Young	Comm Rec New York City Jan 1945
Hop, Skip and Jump	Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five	'Spotlight Bands' San Luis Obispo Ca Mutual Network 26 Sep 1945
Elevation + Heart to Heart (theme)	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 2 Dec 1947
The Happening + Got To Go	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WNBC NBC NY 8 Jun 1951