Lee Wiley is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. You’ll hear the American jazz singer in broadcasts from the 1930s and 40s Thank you for supporting the Phantom Dancer during the annual 2SER Radiothon. Good luck in the main prize draw. LISTEN HERE The Phantom Dancer is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV which I’ve been bringing you every week on 107.3 2SER Sydney since 1985. Listen here JOIN ME ON FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/gregpoppletonmusic/ LEE WILEY Wiley began her radio career at KVOO in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She left home at 15 to sing on New York City radio stations. Her career was interrupted by a fall while horseback riding. She suffered temporary blindness but recovered. At the age of 19 she was a member of the Leo Reisman Orchestra. In 1931 she recorded three songs with Reisman, ‘Take It from Me’, ‘Time On My Hands’, and her composition ‘Got the South in My Soul’. She sang on the Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt program on NBC in 1932 and was featured on Victor Young’s radio show in 1933.

She rose to fame in the summer of 1934 on the Paul Whiteman Kraft Show. She was also heard on CBS with Willard Robison’s orchestra and then on her own 15 minute summer series in 1936, some of which we’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer. ALBUMS In 1939, Wiley recorded an album of eight Gershwin songs on 78s with a small group for Liberty Music Shop Records. The set sold well and was followed by albums of 78s dedicated to the music of Cole Porter (1940) and Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart (1940 and 1954), Harold Arlen (1943), and 10″ LPs dedicated to the music of Vincent Youmans and Irving Berlin (1951).

She was a favourite of Eddie Condon and sang on the later episodes of his 1944-45 Blue Network ‘Eddie Condon’s Jazz Concerts’ series which you’ll also hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer. On October 11, 1963, Bob Hope Theater on NBC-TV presented ‘Something About Lee Wiley’. Piper Laurie portrayed Wiley in the episode. Wiley’s singing voice was provided by Joy Bryan.

MARRIAGE Wiley married  jazz pianist Jess Stacy in 1943. The couple was described by their friend Deane Kincaide as being as “compatible as two cats, tails tied together, hanging over a clothesline”; they divorced in 1948. Her response to Stacy’s desire to get a divorce was, “What will Bing Crosby be thinking of you divorcing me?”, while Stacy said of Wiley, “They did not burn the last witch at Salem.” VIDEO OF THE WEEK Lee Wiley sings ‘Manhattan’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz1_gHUu7HE

3 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream Community Radio Network Show CRN #439
107.3 2SER Tuesday 3 November 2020 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 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 Sunday 5:06am, Monday 3am and 6:04pm – 7pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland – 5 – 6pm
Set 1	Women Singers on 1950s Radio
Open + I Woke Up Crying	Les and Larry Elgart Orchestra (voc) Joni James	‘Let’s Go To Town’ Radio Transcription 1950s
Take Mine	Betty Madigan	‘Guest Star’ Radio Transcription 17 Feb 1957
You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To	Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) Lynn Franklyn	Salt-Air Ballroom KDYL Salt Lake City 5 Jun 1957
Set 2	Australian Radio
Over There	Wally Portingale Orchestra	‘All In Fun Revue’ 2CH AWA Sydney Sep 1943
Swingin’ the Blues	Wally Portingale Orchestra	‘The Army on Parade” 2CH AWA Sydney Sep 1943
Here’s Hooey	Ward Leopold	Comm Rec Sydney 1940
Set 3	Lee Wiley
Three Little Words	Lee Wiley	‘Lee Wiley Sings’ WABC CBS NY 12 Aug 1936
Song of the Wanderer	Eddie Condon Ensemble	‘Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 10 Feb 1945
You’re a Sweetheart	Lee Wiley	KHJ Mutual LA 10 Mar 1938
Set 4	Chamber Music
Theme + Overture to the Marriage of Figaro	Paul Lavalle	’The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street ’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941
Ida	Diane Courtney	’The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street ’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941
Jazz Me Blues	George Barnes	’The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street ’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941
Shoo Fly, Don’t Bother Me	Henry Levine Octet	’The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street ’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 8 Sep 1941
Set 5	Movie Music
Double or Nothing Medley	Louis Levy and the Gaumont British Symphony	Comm Rec London 1937
Heigh-Ho	Bunny Berrigan (voc) Gail Reese	Paradise Restaurant WABC CBS NY 10 Apr 1938
Pennies From Heaven	The Mills Brothers	‘Norge Program’ Radio Transcription NYC 1937
Swingin’ on a Star	Louis Armstrong (voc) Louis Armstrong Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Tuskagee Airfield Alabama AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Oct 1944
Set 6	Harry James
Theme + Joe Blow	Harry James Orchestra	The Click WCAU CBS Philadelphia 1943
I Can’t Begin To Tell You	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Ginny Powell	Meadowbrook Gardens Cedar Grove NJ WABC CBS NY 10 Feb 1946
Forgotton	Harry James Orchestra	‘Call for Music’ KFI NBC LA 1948
Two O’Clock Jump	Harry James Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WNBC NBC NYC 25 May 1953
Set 7	Mildred Bailey 1944-45 Radio
Rocking Chair (theme) + Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 1944
Stormy Weather	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 24 Nov 1944
From The Land of the Sky Blue Water	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 1944
Summertime	Mildred Bailey (voc) Paul Baron Orchestra	‘Music Till Midnight’ WABC CBS NY 12 Jan 1945
Set 8	1940s Progressive Radio
I’d Rather Have a Memory Than a Dream	Sarah Vaughan	Comm Rec 25 May 1945
Hurry Home	Buddy Stewart	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 5 Mar 1949
Groovin’ The Blues	Miss Rhapsody (Viola Wells) (voc)	Comm Rec NYC 6 Jul 1944