Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 1st Sep 2020 Alix Combelle

Alix Combelle, French swing saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader is this week's Phantom Dancer feature artist from 1930s-40s commercial sides. This Alix Combelle featured show was to be mixed live-on-air 17 March 2020. However, the 2SER studio closed due to COVID. So this is the first live Phantom Dancer in over five months. The Phantom Dancer produced and presented by 1920s-30s singer and actor Greg Poppleton can be heard online from 12:04pm AEST Tuesday 1 September at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ The last hour is all vinyl.

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The French swing saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader came from a musical parisian family His father, François Combelle, played classical saxophone with the Band of the Republican Guard. Alix Combelle played drums in the late 1920s. In the early 1930s he played clarinet and saxophone in theater pit orchestras in Paris. He was a member of a bands led by Gregor (Krikor Kelekian), Arthur Briggs, Michel Warlop, Guy Paquinet, and Ray Ventura. He worked with visiting American musicians such as Benny Carter, Adelaide Hall, Coleman Hawkins, Freddy Johnson, and Danny Polo. He was a member of Bill Coleman's band when it included Argentinian swing guitarist Oscar Aleman. He performed with French singers such as Charles Trenet and Jean Sablon and recorded with Philippe Brun. In the 1940s he led the band Jazz de Paris. His son, Philippe, was a drummer.

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1 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List - The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #428
107.3 2SER Tuesday 1 September 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	St Patricks Day
Open + Swing High Swing Low	Peter van Steeden Orchestra and Chorus	'Town Hall Tonight' WEAF NBC Red NYC 17 Mar 1937
Comedy Routine	Fred Allen	'Town Hall Tonight' WEAF NBC Red NYC 17 Mar 1937
Serenade in the Night	Peter van Steeden Orchestra	'Town Hall Tonight' WEAF NBC Red NYC 17 Mar 1937
Set 2	1950s Progressive Jazz Radio
Open + Let's Get Away From It All	Andre Previn	London House WBBM CBS Chicago 1959
Lover	Lester Young, Mary Osbourne and group (voc) Babs Gonsalves	'Adventures in Jazz' Birdland WCBS TV NYC 1952
My Funny Valentine + Close	Chet Baker	'Storyville' Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston 1954
Set 3	1950 Big Band Radio
Open + Toreador Song	Ralph Flanagan Orchestra	'One Night Stand' Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Sep 1950
Tenderly	Ray Anthony Orchestra	'One Night Stand' Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Dec 1950
Hello Young Lovers + Close	Art Wayner Orchestra (voc) Ginny Powell	'One Night Stand' The Latin Quarter NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Nov 1950
Set 4	Alix Combelle
Verlaine	Alix Combelle et le Jazz de Paris	Comm Rec Paris 31 Jan 1941
Every Tub	The Hot Club Swing Stars	Comm Rec Paris 14 Feb 1938
Oui	Alix Combelle et son Orchestra	Comm Rec Paris 16 Feb 1943
Reflets	Trio de Saxophones Alex Combelle	Comm Rec Paris 18 Dec 1940
Set 5	Swing Era Singers
Open + Back in Your Own Backyard	Eddie Fisher	'Coke Time' Jun 1958
Speak Low	Nan Wynn	'Kraft Music Hall' KFI NBC LA 6 Jan 1944
I Wish I Didn't Love You So + Close	Bing Crosby	'Philco Radio Time' KECA ABC LA 19 Nov 1947
Set 6	Hillbilly Radio
Open + You Can't Break My Heart	Adolph Hofner	Aircheck San Antonio 1950s
Open + Y'all Come	Roy Acuff and The Smoky Mountain Boys	WSM Nashville 1940s
Bye Bye Blues	Hoosier Hot Shots	'National Barn Dance' WLS Blue NBC Chicago 1938
Boots and Saddles + Close	Carson Robison and his Buckeroos	'Ford R&G Used Cars Show' Radio Transcription 1949
Set 7	1940s Swing Radio
Theme + Later Tonight	Les Brown Orchestra	Hollywood Palladium KNX CBS LA Nov 1943
Blue Moon	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	'Downbeat' AFRS Hollywood Feb 1944
Tess's Torch Song	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Thelma Carpenter	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NY 17 Apr 1944
I'll Never Smile Again	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) The Sentimentalists	'Tommy Dorsey and Company' CBS 24 Jun 1945
Set 8	Mod Sounds
Where or When	Erroll Garner	'The Big Record' CBS TV NYC 27 Nov 1957
Hello Dolly + Danke Schoen	Duke Ellington Orchestra	'One Night Stand' Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFTRS Re-broadcast Jul 1964
Straight No Chaser	Miles Davis	'Bandstand USA' Spotlite Washington DC Mutual 1959