Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 6th Aug 2024

Wendall Hall was an American country singer, vaudeville artist, songwriter, pioneer radio performer, recording artist and ukulele player. On 4 June 1924, the ‘Red-Headed Music Maker’ marriage ceremony to Marion Martin was the first ever live on radio. He is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.

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WENDALL

Radio pioneer Wendall Hall was known as the Red-Headed Music Maker and the Pineapple Picador on in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1923, he released the song

His 1923 hit, “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No Mo’,” sold over two million copies in the United States and was the first musical hit on radio.

Hall also collaborated with Carson Robison and Art Gillham writing songs.

Wendall Hall started his music career in 1922 song plugger, travelling around the U.S and to play in music in shops, theatres, and on the wireless.

His first vaudeville act was him singing and playing the xylophone. He found the ukulele to be more portable and quickly became an expert with that instrument.

By 123 is was performing often on Chicago radio, leading in January 1924 to hosting the pioneer commercially sponsored variety program, The Eveready Hour (spruiking batteries) on WEAF in New York.

On November 4, 1924, the program was on a pre-network 18 station “hook-up” to broadcast election returns with entertainers Will Rogers, Carson Robison, Art Gillham, and the Waldorf Astoria Orchestra.

Eveready even painted their batteries with a red top to cash in on Hall’s popularity.

In January, 1929, Hall hosted ‘The Majestic Theatre of the Air’ as producer, program director, and emcee on CBS.

In April of that year he introduced singer Harriet Lee on the show as the “Chicago Nightingale”, leading to her becoming a hit on radio

He hosted ‘Gillette’s Community Sing’ in the early 1930s and made a few musical short films. He wrote commercials for radio and from September 1933 had a program on NBC.

HALL

Wendall Hall performed played standard ukulele, the taropatch ukulele, banjo, banjolele, and the 10-string Martin-style tiple.

He published an instruction book, Wendell Hall’s Ukulele Method, with Forster Music in 1925, that was edited by May Singhi Breen.

Hall also marketed a series of custom ukuleles through the Regal Musical Instrument Company of Chicago, with his picture on the head of The Red Head Ukulele and banjolele with red tuning pegs that have become collectors’ items

Wendall distanced himself from the ukulele when they went out of fashion. However, when Arthur Godfrey brought uke’s back in the 1950s, Hall scored a five days a week radio show and his instruction booklets were updated and republished.

6 August PLAY LIST

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107.3 2SER Tuesday 6 August 2024
12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT)
National Program
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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
7RPH Hobart Monday 3 – 4pm
3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm
7MID Oatlands Monday 3am – 4 and 6 -7pm
2MCE Bathurst Thursday 9 – 10am
1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am
and Sunday 11pm
Reading Radio (QLD) Friday 1am – 2
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
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7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am
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3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
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Set 1
Gay Claridge
Open + Instrumental
Gay Claridge Orchestra
‘One Night Stand’
Chez Paree
Chicago
AFRS Re-broadcast
15 Oct 1945
I Don’t Want to Love You + Two Again
Gay Claridge Orchestra (voc) Jack Milton
‘One Night Stand’
Chez Paree
Chicago
AFRS Re-broadcast
15 Oct 1945
Dancing with a Dolly Gay Claridge Orchestra (voc) Guy Claridge
‘One Night Stand’
Chez Paree
Chicago
AFRS Re-broadcast
15 Oct 1945
The Way You Look Tonight Gay Claridge Orchestra
‘One Night Stand’
Chez Paree
Chicago
AFRS Re-broadcast
15 Oct 1945
Set 2
Tadd Dameron
Good Bait
Tadd Dameron with Fats Navarro (tp)
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost
WMCA NYC
28 Aug 1948
Anthropology
Tadd Dameron Quintet
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost
WMCA NYC
28 Aug 1948
The Kitchentte Across the Hall
Tadd Dameron Quintet (voc) Pancho Kenny Hagood
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost
WMCA NYC
28 Aug 1948
Rifftide + Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid (theme)
Tadd Dameron Quintet
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost
WMCA NYC
28 Aug 1948
Set 3
Wendall Hall
Open + Carolina Rose
Wendall Hall
‘The Pineapple Picador’ WTMJ NBC Milwaukee
4 Feb 1931
Whispering Breeze + Roly-Poly Baby
Wendall Hall
‘The Pineapple Picador’ WTMJ NBC Milwaukee
4 Feb 1931
Mellow Moon + Your Eyes
Wendall Hall
‘The Pineapple Picador’ WTMJ NBC Milwaukee
4 Feb 1931
Lonely Lane + Land of My Sunset Dreams
Wendall Hall
‘The Pineapple Picador’ WTMJ NBC Milwaukee
4 Feb 1931
Melancholy Moon Wendall Hall ‘The Pineapple Picador’ WTMJ NBC Milwaukee
4 Feb 1931
Ain’ Goona Rain No Mo’ + Aloha Oe
Wendall Hall
‘The Pineapple Picador’ WTMJ NBC Milwaukee
4 Feb 1931
Set 4
Rock’n’Roll Dance Party
Open + Take 1
Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor  Big Band
‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’
WCBS CBS NYC
10 Jul 1956
Headin’ Home
Della Reese
‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’
WCBS CBS NYC
10 Jul 1956
Money Honey
Clyde McPhatter
‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’
WCBS CBS NYC
10 Jul 1956
Wailin’ + Close
Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor  Big Band with Al Sears
‘Rock’n’Roll Dance Party’
WCBS CBS NYC
10 Jul 1956
Set 5
Duke Ellington
Diminuendo in Blue
Duke Ellington Orchestra ‘A Date with the Duke’
ABC Toledo OH
9 Jun 1945
Rocks in My Bed
Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Bette Roche
‘A Date with the Duke’
ABC Toledo OH
9 Jun 1945
Crescendo in Blue
Duke Ellington Orchestra
‘A Date with the Duke’
ABC Toledo OH
9 Jun 1945
Teardrops in the Rain
Duke Ellington Orchestra
‘A Date with the Duke’
ABC Toledo OH
9 Jun 1945
Set 6
Benny Goodman
Time Was
Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Tommy Tucker
Meadowbrook Ballroom
Cedar Grove NJ
WABC CBS NYC
20 Sep 1941
Tuesday at Ten
Benny Goodman Orchestra
Meadowbrook Ballroom
Cedar Grove NJ
WABC CBS NYC
20 Sep 1941
Intermezzo
Benny Goodman Orchestra
Meadowbrook Ballroom
Cedar Grove NJ
WABC CBS NYC
20 Sep 1941
Benny Rides Again
Benny Goodman Orchestra
Meadowbrook Ballroom
Cedar Grove NJ
WABC CBS NYC
20 Sep 1941
Set 7
Woody Herman
Cuban Holiday
Woody Herman Orchestra
‘Woody Herman Show’
WWL CBS New Orleans
10 Nov 1951
The Nearness of You
Woody Herman Orchestra
‘Woody Herman Show’
WWL CBS New Orleans
10 Nov 1951
Businessman’s Bounce
Woody Herman Orchestra
‘Woody Herman Show’
WWL CBS New Orleans
10 Nov 1951
I Won’t Cry Anymore
Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Dolly Houston
‘Woody Herman Show’
WWL CBS New Orleans
10 Nov 1951
Set 8
Charlie Parker
This Time the Dream’s on Me Charlie Parker ‘Symphony Sid Show’
Birdland
WJZ ABC NYC
30 Jun 1950
Little Wille Leaps Charlie Parker
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Birdland
WJZ ABC NYC
30 Jun 1950
I Remember April/52nd Theme Charlie Parker ‘Symphony Sid Show’
Birdland
WJZ ABC NYC
30 Jun 1950

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