I remember waking up New Year morning, 1 January 1966, watching the sun rise next to the neighbour's camphor laurel from my bed on the back verandah of the house I grew up in. It was a beautiful yellow orp in a cloudless lapis blue sky. I made a note to my 5 year old self to remember the joy of the moment forever. It was a year of optimism. Then within a few short months, in April of that year, I was fighting for my life.

1969

New Years Eve night 31 December 1969 was what I recall to be a three hour special on a local commercial station (Channel 9) covering the momentous decade that was the 1960s. I thought at the time the same thing would happen in 1979, 1989 and so on. But no decade has been so optimistically radical since. Australia did have a bright three years with the progressive Whitlam government 1972-75. And, since you'll be hearing Tuxedo Junction live from 1970 radio on this week's show, it reminds me that in the early 70s, Sydney ABC station 2BL always played Tuxedo Junction sung by a blues singer as its open song after the station came on the air for the morning at 5:45am. However, by 1979 the country was in the doldrums under the 'austerity' of a wealthy farmer prime minister and a suburban lawyer treasurer. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUO41I-jp5M[/embed]

20 DECEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List - The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINECommunity Radio Network Show CRN #576
107.3 2SER Tuesday 20 December 2022 12:04 - 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 - 5:55pm National Program 5UV Adelaide Monday 2:30 - 3:30am 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 - 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 - 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 - 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 - 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 - 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 - 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 - 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 - 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 3am - 4 and 6 -7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 - 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 - 11am and Sunday 11pm Reading Radio (QLD) Friday 1am - 2 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am - 12 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 - 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 - 2pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Saturday 4am - 5am Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturday 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 - 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 - 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 - 6pm 2SEA Sapphire Coast Eden Sunday 9 - 10pm
Set 1	Glenn Miller 1965
Open + Moonlight Serenade (theme) + St Louis Blues March	Ray McKinley and the Glenn Miller Orchestra	'All-Star Parade of Bands' The Riverboat WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1965
Teach Me Tonight	Ray McKinley and the Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Joan Shephard	'All-Star Parade of Bands' The Riverboat WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1965
Hallelujah, I Love Her So	Ray McKinley and the Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Ray McKinley	'All-Star Parade of Bands' The Riverboat WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1965
Moonlight Serenade (extended theme)	Ray McKinley and the Glenn Miller Orchestra	'All-Star Parade of Bands' The Riverboat WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1965
Set 2	Glenn Miller 1970
Moonlight Serenade + Tuxedo Junction	Buddy de Franco and the Glenn Miller Orchestra	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Gull Golden Mile Hotel Fort Laudedale FL 1 Jan 1970
Set 3	Count Basie 1965
One O'clock Jump (theme) + Splanky	Count Basie Orchestra	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Pick Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Chicago 31 Dec 1965
Auld Lang Syne	Count Basie Orchestra	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Pick Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Chicago 1 Jan 1966
Chestnut Street Ramble + One O'Clock Jump (theme)	Count Basie Orchestra	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Pick Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Chicago 1 Jan 1966
Set 4	World's Greatest Jazz Band
My Inspiration (Theme) Son of a Preacher Man	World's Greatest Jazz Band (Bobby Hackett, Yank Lawson, Bud Freeman, Ralph Sutton, Carl Fontana, Bob Wilber, Lou McGarity, Billy Butterfield, Wes Johnson Jnr)	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Roosevelt Grill WNBC NBC NYC 1 Jan 1970
Mercy, Mercy	World's Greatest Jazz Band	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Roosevelt Grill WNBC NBC NYC 1 Jan 1970
Spinning Wheel	World's Greatest Jazz Band	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Roosevelt Grill WNBC NBC NYC 1 Jan 1970
South Rampart Street Parade	World's Greatest Jazz Band	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Roosevelt Grill WNBC NBC NYC 1 Jan 1970
Set 5	Dizzy Gillespie & Jonah Jones
Theme + Soul Kiss	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	'All-Star Parade of Bands' London House WMAQ NBC Chicago 31 Dec 1969
On the Street Where You Live (theme) + Baubles, Bangles and Beads	Jonah Jones Quartet	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Rainbow Grill WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1969
Mack the Knife	Jonah Jones Quartet (voc) Jonah Jones	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Rainbow Grill WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1969
Set 6	Dinah Shore
Open + Let It Snow	Dinah Shore	'The Dinah Shore Show' WRCA NBC NYC 24 Dec 1954
Happy Christmas, Little Friend	Dinah Shore	'The Dinah Shore Show' WRCA NBC NYC 24 Dec 1954
Walkin' Down the Road	Dinah Shore	'The Dinah Shore Show' WRCA NBC NYC 24 Dec 1954
Teach Me Tonight + Close	Dinah Shore	'The Dinah Shore Show' WRCA NBC NYC 24 Dec 1954
Set 7	Jingle Bells
Let's Dance (theme) + Jingle Bells	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Joseph Urban Room Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 1936
Jingle Bells	Mel Blanc and The Sportsmen	'Mail Call' AFRS Hollywood 1945
Jingle Bells	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Tex Beneke and The Modernaires	'Sunset Serenade' Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NYC 27 Dec 1941
Jingle Bells	Dave Brubeck Quartet	Birdland WJZ ABC NYC Jan 1954
Set 8	Charlie Parker
Jumping with Symphony Sid/Jingle Bells (theme) + Half Nelson	Charlie Parker	Royal Roost WMCA NYC 25 Dec 1948
White Christmas	Charlie Parker	Royal Roost WMCA NYC 25 Dec 1948
Little Willie Leaps	Charlie Parker	Royal Roost WMCA NYC 25 Dec 1948