Women jazz and swing musicians, radio announcers and singers from live 1930s-50s radio are this week's Phantom Dancer feature artists for International Women's Day. Read their story, watch videos, see the play list and listen to the show here... Read More
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Rosemary Clooney, 1950s pop star and post 60s jazz singer had an incredible voice despite heavy smoking which finally made the end of her life painful before killing her. Read More
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Shuffle Rhythm is featured on this week's Phantom Dancer with 1944-45 broadcasts by Henry Busse and Jan Savitt Read More
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Les Paul and Mary Ford are this week's Phantom Dancer feature artists. Les was a jazz guitarist. Mary was a country guitarist. Together, they pioneered multitracking and had a string of hits in the 1950s. Read their story, watch videos, see the play list and listen to the show here... Read More
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Clifford Brown is this week's Phantom Dancer feature. Clifford Brown was an outstanding jazz trumpeter who in a career spanning only a few years became a jazz sensation. See playlist, story, watch Clifford Brown videos, hear show here Read More
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Don Redman is this week's Phantom Dancer feature artist. Don Redman was a U.S jazz musician, arranger, bandleader and composer. The inventor of swing. Hear him in a rare, static-filled 1933 home radio disc recording. Read his story, watch videos, see the play list and listen to the show here... Read More
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Dinah Washington, The Queen of the Blues, the most popular black female recording artist of the 1950s, is this week's Phantom Dancer feature. Read the story and play list, see videos, hear the radio show here Read More
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Meredith Willson, this week's Phantom Dancer feature artist, was a piccolo and flute virtuoso who played in John Philip Sousa's band, the New York Philharmonic under Arturo Toscanini, composed popular music and 3 Broadway shows including 'The Music Man', was a two time Academy Award nominee, wrote three books and conducted the Armed Forces Radio Service Orchestra during WW2. Read his story, watch videos, see the play list and listen to the show here... Read More
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