Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 1st Oct 2019
DOLLY DAWN
When you listen to Ella Fitzgerald you hear Dolly Dawn? Why? Because Dolly Dawn was a big influence on Ella Fitzgerald’s singing style. Dolly Dawn is this week’s Phantom Dancer presented by Greg Poppleton.
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FOCUS
Dolly Dawn was one of the first vocalists to become the sole focus of a band. When Walter Winchell coined the term ‘canary’ for female singers, he was referring to her.
She sang with George Hall and his Orchestra from age 16. Though born Theresa Maria Stabile, (she was a cousin of band leader Dick Stabile) she had already given herself the stage name Billie Starr after winning a singing contest at age 14.
George Hall and Harriet Mencken, a writer on The New York Journal-American, came up with the name, Dolly Dawn, for her.
‘She’s as fresh as the dawn and as dimpled as a doll,’ the newspaperwoman said, according to an article in Radio Guide in 1937. Miss Dawn never stopped hating the name, which she thought made her sound like a stripper.
DAWN PATROL
Nevertheless, her relationship with Hall and his wife was so close that they formally adopted her when she was 19. In a ceremony on 4 July 1941, at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, George Hall officially turned the band over to her and became her manager.
NEW YORK – JANUARY 28: Big Band singer Dolly Dawn and orchestra leader George Hall. Dolly models hat fashions. Image dated January 28, 1936. New York, NY. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)
The band was renamed ‘Dolly Dawn and Her Dawn Patrol’ and on this week’s Phantom Dancer we hear her introduce herself as a band leader on NBC’s ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’.
The WW2 draft took most of her band, so from 1942 she continued without the band, appearing in engagements across the US. She continued to record into the 1950s.
She developed a cult following that saw her in scattered club appearances in the 1970s and 80s, particularly in response to the release of a double album of her records with George Hall on the RCA Bluebird label in 1976.
VIDEO
This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is Dolly Dawn singing with George Hall’s Orchestra in the 1938 short, ‘Hall’s Holliday’. Enjoy!
1 OCTOBER PLAY LIST
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Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
Community Radio Network Show CRN #407 |
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107.3 2SER Tuesday 1 October 2019 |
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Set 1
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1939 – 40 Radio Remotes | |
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Theme + Choppin’ Wood
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Woody Herman Orchestra
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The Famous Door
WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jan 1940 |
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Dardenella
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Paul Whiteman Orchestra
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‘Chesterfield Show’
WABC CBS NY 25 Oct 1939 |
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The Chinese Lullaby + Close
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Teddy Powell Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Blair
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The Famous Door
WJSV Washington DC via WABC CBS NY 21 Sep 1939 |
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Set 2
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This Is Jazz 1947 Radio | |
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Theme + St Louis Blues + Tin Roof Blues
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Wild Bill Davison and more (voc) George Brunies
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‘This is Jazz’
WOR Mutual NY 10 May 1947 |
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Chocolate Bar
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James P Johnson
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‘This is Jazz’
WOR Mutual NY 17 May 1947 |
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Blue Turning Gray Over You + I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling
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Wild Bill Davison and more
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‘This is Jazz’
WOR Mutual NY 17 May 1947 |
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Set 3
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Glenn Miller in German 1944 | |
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Long Ago and Far Away
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Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Johnny Desmond
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ABSIE American Broadcasting Station in Europe
Abbey Road Studios London 30 Oct 1944 |
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Body and Soul
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Glenn Miller Orchestra
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ABSIE American Broadcasting Station in Europe
Abbey Road Studios London 27 Nov 1944 |
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Poinciana
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Glenn Miller Orchestra
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ABSIE American Broadcasting Station in Europe
Abbey Road Studios London 6 Nov 1944 |
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Set 4
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Dolly Dawn | |
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The You and Me That Used To Be
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George Hall Orchestra (voc) Dolly Dawn
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‘Easy to Remember’
WABC CBS NY 1937 |
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Dolly Dawn Speaks
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Dolly Dawn
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‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’
WJZ NBC Blue NY 25 Aug 1941 |
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Beethoven Wrote But It Swings
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Dolly Dawn and her Dawn Patrol
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Comm Rec
15 Feb 1939 |
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52nd Street
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George Hall Orchestra (voc) Dolly Dawn
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‘Easy to Remember’
WABC CBS NY 1937 |
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Set 5
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Novelty Songs on 1930s-40s Radio | |
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The Music Goes Round and Round
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Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) Jack Teagarden
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‘Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varieties’
WJZ NBC Blue NY 12 Jan 1936 |
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Open The Door Richard
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The Hit Paraders
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‘Your Hit Parade’
WNBC NBC NY 1 Mar 1947 |
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Swingin’ On A Star
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Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA
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‘Spotlight Bands’
Tuskagee Alabama AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Oct 1944 |
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Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
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Ginny Simms
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‘Your Hit Parade’
WNBC NBC NY 1 Mar 1947 |
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Set 6
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Trad Bands on 1940s Radio | |
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Ollie Outs In Free
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Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) Carl Ravazza and Band
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Radio Transcription
1942 |
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Tain’t Me
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Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Collins
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Radio Transcription
1944 |
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Cancel the Flowers
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Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) Carl Ravazza
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Radio Transcription
1941 |
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The Beard
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Raymond Scott Orchestra
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Radio Transcription
1944 |
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Set 7
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Cocoanut Grove 1931 – 32 Radio Transcriptions | |
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Do The New York
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Gus Arnheim Orchestra
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Radio Transcription
Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1931 |
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Down Among the Sleepy Pines
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Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Jean Shark and the Three Ambassadors
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Radio Transcription
Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1932 |
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Out of Nowhere
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Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Bing Crosby
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‘MJB Coffee Revue’
KFI NBC Orange Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1931 |
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I Know You’re Lying But I Love It
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Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo DeLys and the Four Cheers
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Radio Transcription
Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1932 |
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Set 8
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Jazz Piano on Radio | |
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Budo
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Bud Powell
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‘Symphony Sid Show’
WJZ ABC NY 7 Mar 1953 |
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All The Things You Are
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Thelonius Monk
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Aircheck
1948 |
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Cherokee
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Art Tatum
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Radio Transcription
late 1940s |
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I’ll Remember April
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Erroll Garner
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Peacock Lane
KFI NBC LA Mar 1957 |
