Phantom Dancer :: 5:00pm 17th Jun 2023

Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 13th Jun 2023

Australian Jazz 1930s-50s is your Phantom Dancer feature this week. I'll be giving a talk on jazz in Sydney in the 1930s-50s as part of 'Send for Nellie' by playwright Alana Valentine about singer Nellie Small at the State Library of NSW 6-8pm, Thursday 15 June. TIX and More Info: Send for Nellie The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week. LISTEN to this week's Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 13 June) and weeks of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/
 
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GEORGE ASSANG

George Assang (1927–1997) was an Australian jazz and blues singer and actor from Thursday Island, Queensland. He performed under his own name and the stage name Vic Sabrino. Assang was of Aboriginal, Pacific Islander and Asian descent. As Vic Sabrino, he may have made the first Australian Rock'n'Roll recording. A single he recorded with French-born jazz artist Red Perksey and his Orchestra included a version of "Rock Around the Clock". This single may have been recorded in 1955, some three years before Johnny O'Keefe's recording of "Wild One" in 1958. On this week's Phantom Dancer you'll also hear Assang's version of Blue Suede Shoes, recorded in 1956. As an actor, Assang featured in TV and film. He had a major role in the TV series Barrier Reef (1971–1972), appeared in episodes of Skippy and Hunter (1968), Spyforce (1971), Boney (1972 and Number 96 (1974). He had roles in the movies The Intruders (1969) and And Millions Will Die (1973). He was one of the voices in the animated movie Dot and the Kangaroo (1977). He had a short-lived television series in 1958 called Vic Sabrino Sings. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGWfPe08W44[/embed]

PORT JACKSON JAZZ BAND

BAND PROTESTS AT DANCE COLOR BAN Sydney Daily Telegraph, 29 July 1947 An ex-servicemen's band refused last-night to play at a dance in Air Force House because the house committee had imposed a color ban. The band is The Port Jackson Jazz Band (founded in 1944 with this line-up in 1947: Ray Price (guitar, banjo), Ken Flannery (trumpet), James (Jimmy) Somerville (piano), Johnny Rich (trombone), Bob Cruikshanks (clarinet), Clive Whitcombe (drums), Marie Harriett (vocals). The band manager and organiser of the dance (Mr. Ray Price, who went on to study double bass at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, played bass in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO), then was kicked out of the SSO in 1956 amidst much publicity when the orchestra discovered his jazz activities) said last night: "The Air Force House manager (Mr. Cox) told me this afternoon that no colored persons would be allowed on the premises." "Negroes have been admitted to previous dances held at Air Force House and no explanation was given for the sudden ban." "The band, which consists of seven ex-servicemen, all professional musicians, unanimously agreed, as a protest, not to play tonight." "Our band has. a regular following, including about 12 colored boys." "Negroes who attend our dances are mostly seamen on leave." "They are all ex-servicemen, and many of them were entertained inService hostels in Australia during the war." Mr. Cox said: "The committee ruled that no colored people would be admitted tonight and I must enforce its ruling." Eddie Hudson, lightweight Negro boxer, who will fight Ken Bailey at Sydney Stadium on August 11, was one of those banned. Hudson said: "I attended the dance at Air Force House last Monday night and thoroughly enjoyed myself." "No drunks attend the dance, just a bunch of kids who want to have a good time." FRANK COUGHLAN He first learned to play trombone in his father's brass band. He was inspired by Miff Mole. At 19, Frank Coughlan moved to Sydney, New South Wales. He began playing at the Bondi Casino in Will James's dance band. In 1924, he joined the Californians, the first jazz group to come to Australia (who you can hear in this YouTube clip below)... [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9aDigP0kW0[/embed] He went to England in 1929, and played at the Kit Kat Club, Savoy Hotel and Claridges, recording with Fred Elizalde, Arthur Rosebery, Jack Hylton's Band, and the New Mayfair Orchestra. He returned to Australia because of the Depression. 1n April 1936, Frank Coughlan became band director at Sydney's newest jazz and dance club, the Trocadero. Coughlan remained at the Trocadero until 1942 whent he was drafted into the Australian Militia for World War II. From 1942 to 1946, he was active in the Militia and Australian Imperial Force. He was promoted to sergeant in 1945. While in the military, Coughlan entertain troops. He returned to the Trocadero in 1946 and had a residency there until the ballroom closed in 1970. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1CZ3SBQ26o[/embed] ABE ROMAINE Adrian August Bussy de Saint-Romain was an Australian jazz saxophone & clarinet player, bandleader & songwriter, born in New Zealand.
He first heard live jazz in San Francisco after working his passage as a cabin boy on the "Tahiti".
Romaine came to Australia in 1920 and worked with the orchestras of Cec Morrison & Merv Lyons. He went to London in 1930 and worked with Herman Darewski & Jack Hylton (toured Europe with the Hylton Orchestra). Returned to Australia in 1933 and worked with various Sydney bands, but decided to go back to London and left 2 May, 1936 where he worked with Harry Roy (including a tour to South America) but returned again to Australia in 1940. After a short time he was appointed bandleader at the Trocadero where he stayed for over 5 years (1941-1946). After a holiday in the U.S. (1946/47) he worked as a disc jockey at 2GB radio until the beginning of 1948 when he was appointed musical director of the State Theatre Orchestras in Melbourne & Sydney (1948-1951). He led bands in Sydney until appointed musical director of the Jack Davey Show on Radio 2GB in 1954.
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13 June PLAY LIST

Play List - The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINECommunity Radio Network Show CRN #602

107.3 2SER Tuesday 13 June 2023 12:04 - 2:00pm (+10 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 2RDJ Burwood Wednesday 12 - 1pm 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
Chanpagne Music
Open + Champagne Music (theme) + Anything Goes
Lawrence Welk Orchestra
Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 1956
I Don't Know Enough About You
Lawrence Welk Orchestra (voc) Alice Long
Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 1956
By the Fountains of Rome
Lawrence Welk Orchestra (voc) Jim Roberts
Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 1956
Glowworm + Love Me Tender + My Little Red Wagon + It's Delightful to Be Married + Theme Lawrence Welk Orchestra (voc) Quintet & Bob Lido
Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 1956
Set 2
Rhythm & Blues
Mop Mop (theme) + I Was Born To Rock
Smilin' Smokey Lynn
'Midnight Matinee' Olympic Auditorium KFVD Los Angeles 28 Sep 1951
Telephone Blues
Slide Dixon
'Midnight Matinee' Olympic Auditorium KFVD Los Angeles 28 Sep 1951
Elevator Boogie
Betty Washington
'Midnight Matinee' Olympic Auditorium KFVD Los Angeles 28 Sep 1951
Dry Bones
The Golden Keys 'Midnight Matinee' Olympic Auditorium KFVD Los Angeles 28 Sep 1951
Set 3
Australian Swing
St Louis Blues
Abe Romaine Orchesta Aircheck Trocadero sydney 1943
Trocadero Promotion + Grace Brothers Ad + Sweet Lucy Brown
Frank Coughlin Orchestra
Featureadio Transciption Sydney Apr 1936
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Port Jackson Jazz Band (voc) Marie Harriot
Comm Rec Sydney 25 Jun 1947
 Blue Suede Shoes
Red Perskey Orchestra (voc) Vic Sabrino Comm Rec Sydney 1956
Set 4
Easy Listening
Body & Soul
Harry Zimmerman Orchestra (voc) Pat Russo
'California Melodies'
KHJ Mutual LA 1946
I've Got Rhythm
The Flexible Five
'California Melodies'
KHJ Mutual LA 1946
Somebody Loves Me + Close
The Little Sisters
'California Melodies'
KHJ Mutual LA 1946
Set 5
Benny Goodman 1937
Boy Meets Horn
Benny Goodman Quartet
Camel Caravan WABC CBS NYC 16 Nov 1937
Sailboat in the Moonlight
Benny Goodman Trio
Camel Caravan KNX CBS LA 10 Aug 1937
Nagasaki
Benny Goodman Quartet
Camel Caravan WABC CBS NYC 16 Nov 1937
Liza
Benny Goodman Quartet
Camel Caravan KNX CBS LA 17 Aug 1937
Set 6
Harry James 1940
Cirribirribin (theme) + Tuxedo Junction
Harry James Orchestra
Southland Ballroom WNAC NBC Red Boston 19 Mar 1940
How High the Moon
Harry James Orchestra (voc) Dick Haynesl
Southland Ballroom WNAC NBC Red Boston 19 Mar 1940
Too Romantic
Harry James Orchestra (voc) Dick Haynesl
Chatterbox Mountainside NJ Aircheck 1940
Feet Draggin' Blues + Close
Harry James Orchestra
Chatterbox Mountainside NJ Aircheck 1940
Set 7
1926 Records
Sunday
Jean Goldkette Orchestra (voc) Keller Sisters
Comm Rec 15 Oct 1926
Oh, If I Only Had You
Ted Weems Orchestra (voc) Band Comm Rec 19 Jul 1926
Flamin' Mamie
Coon-Sanders Nighthawks (voc) Joe Sanders
Comm Rec 21 Dec 1925
Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick Chicken
Ted Weems Orchestra (voc) Dusty Rhodes & Parker Gibbs
Comm Rec 13 Sep 1926
Set 8
Lester Young
Too Marvelous
Lester Young
'Symphony Sid Show' Royal Roost WMCA NYC 1948
Lullaby of Birdland (theme) + Lester Leaps In Lester Young Birdland WABC ABC NYC 7 Aug 1956

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