Latest Episodes from Phantom Dancer

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 1st Aug 2023

The Valtonen Sisters, who also recorded under the name Harmony Sisters, is your Phantom Dancer feature artist, The sisters, Vera, Maire and Raija were Karelians whose family moved to Finland after the 1917 Russian Revolution. They sang in ten languages in a career spanning 1934-54. Hear them on this week's Phantom Dancer... Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 25th Jul 2023

It's All in the Game is a hit pop song and this week's Phantom Dancer feature. It's the only pop song written by a US Vice President and Nobel Prize laureate. His name is Charles G Dawes and he ended up hating the song. Hear it on this week's Phantom Dancer... Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 18th Jul 2023

Guy Lombardo Canadian and American bandleader of the 'sweetest music this side of heaven', violinist, hydroplane racer and leader of Louis Armstrong's favourite orchestra is this week's Phantom Dancer feature artist. Hear him on this week's Phantom Dancer... Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 11th Jul 2023

Mary Lou Williams was a jazz pianist, arranger and composer is this week's Phantom Dancer feature artist. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records versions. She wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was a mentor and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie. Hear her on this week's Phantom Dancer... Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 20th Jun 2023

Hans Rehmstedt was a 1930s-40s German swing band leader and violinist. He is this week's Phantom Dancer feature artist. He recorded some moody atmospheric sides in the late 30s- early 40s, some of which you'll hear on this week's Phantom Dancer. Listen here... Read More