DORIS DAY

The Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton this week is big band singer and movie star, Doris Day.

In this week’s non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s – 1960s radio and TV, you’ll hear Doris Day in 1939 on Ohio radio and later in the 1940s as the star singer with international favourite Les Brown and his Band of Renown.

You can s the full Phantom Dancer play list of swing and jazz mixed by Greg Poppleton from live 1920s-60s radio below.

ONLINE

This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online right after the 21 May 2SER live mix at 2ser.com.
Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney

DAY TIME RADIO

Doris Day was born Doris Mary Kappelhoff in 1922.

She began her career as a big band singer with Barney Rapp and his New Englanders in 1939, which is where we’ll first hear her in a broadcast over NBC from Cincinnati.

She reached commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, ‘Sentimental Journey’ and ‘My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time’ with Les Brown and his Band of Renown. We’ll also hear from live airchecks with Les Brown from that period.

She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.

In 2011 at age 89, she released her 29th studio album My Heart which contained new material and became a UK Top 10 album and #12 on the Amazon bestseller list.

DAY TIME MOVIES

Day’s film career began with the film Romance on the High Seas (1948), leading to a 20-year career as a motion picture actress.

She starred in film musicals, comedies and dramas.

She played the title role in Calamity Jane (1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with James Stewart. Her best-known films are those in which she co-starred with Rock Hudson including 1959’s Pillow Talk, for which she was nominated an Academy Award for Best Actress.

She worked with James Garner on both Move Over, Darling (1963) and The Thrill of It All (1963), and also starred with Clark Gable, Cary Grant, James Cagney, David Niven, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Richard Widmark, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall and Rod Taylor.

DAY TIME TV

She became one of the biggest film stars in the early 1960s and ended her movie career in 1968. She then moved to TV, starring in the sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968–1973) during and after which she starred in TV specials.

AWARDS DAY

She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 1960, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures in 1989. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom; this was followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s Career Achievement Award.

ACTIVIST DAY

In 1971, Doris Day co-founded Actors and Others for Animals, and appeared in a series of newspaper advertisements denouncing the wearing of fur, alongside Mary Tyler Moore, Angie Dickinson and Jayne Meadows.

In 1978, Day founded the Doris Day Pet Foundation, now the Doris Day Animal Foundation (DDAF). A non-profit charity, DDAF funds other non-profit causes throughout the US that share DDAF’s mission of helping animals and the people who love them.

To complement the Doris Day Animal Foundation, Day formed the Doris Day Animal League (DDAL) in 1987, a national non-profit citizen’s lobbying organisation whose mission is to reduce pain and suffering and protect animals through legislative initiatives.

Day actively lobbied the United States Congress in support of legislation designed to safeguard animal welfare on a number of occasions and in 1995 she originated the annual Spay Day USA. The DDAL merged into The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) in 2006. The HSUS now manages World Spay Day, the annual one-day spay/neuter event that Day originated.

A facility bearing her name, the Doris Day Horse Rescue and Adoption Centre, which helps abused and neglected horses, opened in 2011 in Murchison, Texas, on the grounds of an animal sanctuary started by her late friend, author Cleveland Amory. Day contributed $250,000 towards the founding of the centre.

Day was a vegetarian.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is a 1964 interview with Doris Day by Lucille Ball. Enjoy!

21 MAY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #387
107.3 2SER Tuesday 21 May 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Big Bands on 1950s Radio
Cirribirribin (theme) + Musicmakers	Harry James Orchestra	Cocoanut Grove Ambassador Hotel KFI NBC Los Angeles 7 Jan 1953
Too Close for Comfort	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Joe Williams	‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party’ WCBS CBS NY 16 Jun 1956
South	Chuck Cabot Orchestra	Empire Room Rice Hotel CBS Houston Apr 1953
Set 2	Trad on 1940s – 50s Radio
Open + Everybody Loves My Baby	Wild Bill Davison	‘This is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 3 May 1947
Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now	Ralph Sutton	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 24 Jul 1954
‘S Wonderful	Louis Armstrong	‘All Star Parade of Jazz’ WRCA NBC NY 8 May 1955
Set 3	Slim Gaillard
Open + How High The Moon	Slim Gaillard	Birdland WNBC NBC NY 9 Sep 1952
Ba-Ba-Doo	Slim Gaillard	Birdland WNBC NBC NY 9 Sep 1952
How High The Moon + Jumping with Symphony Sid	Slim Gaillard	Birdland WNBC NBC NY 9 Sep 1952
Set 4	Doris Day
Blue Music	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Peacock Room Baker Hotel CBS Dallas 9 Aug 1945
Little Sir Echo	Doris Day (voc) Barney Rapp and his New Englanders	Sign of the Drum NBC Cincinnati OH 17 Jun 1939
I Wish I Knew	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 16 Aug 1945
I’m Happy About the Whole Thing	Doris Day (voc) Barney Rapp and his New Englanders	Sign of the Drum NBC Cincinnati OH 17 Jun 1939
Set 5	Modern Sounds on 1940s-50s Radio
Open + Casual Jazz	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Hampton Casino Hampton Beach NH WBZ NBC Boston 21 Jul 1953
Open + Carambola	Machito	‘Symphony Sid Show’ BIrdland WJZ ABC NY 1951
Don’t Take Your Love From Me	Maynard Fergusson Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Birdland AFRS Re-broadcast 1958
Set 6	1930s-40s Sweet Band Radio Transcriptions
Vieni Su (theme)	Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) CR	Radio Transcription 1941
So You’re The One	Sterling Young Orchestra (voc) Bobbie Ennis	Radio Transcription 1939
Would It Make Any Difference To You?	Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) CR	Radio Transcription 1942
Cherokee	Sterling Young Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1940
Set 7	Buddy Rich Big Band on Radio
Rain on the Riff (theme) + Cool Breeze	Buddy Rich Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Phoenixville PA Mutual Network 24 Dec 1945
Nellie’s Nightmare	Buddy Rich Orchestra	Hollywood Palladium KNX CBS LA Mar 1946
Day by Day	Buddy Rich Orchestra (voc) Dottie Reid	Hollywood Palladium KNX CBS LA 27 Mar 1946
Quiet Riot	Buddy Rich Orchestra	Post Lodge Larchmont NY Aircheck Apr 1947
Set 8	Buddy Rich Quintet
Four + If It Were a Bell	Buddy Rich Quintet	Birdland WABC ABC NY 7 Nov 1958