Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 25th Jun 2019
TEENAGE MARKETING
A window into the birth of the ‘Teen Market’ with a mix of 1943 Frank Sinatra broadcasts and rehearsals for the weekly ‘Your Hit Parade’ radio show on this week’s Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton.
See the full Phantom Dancer play list of swing and jazz mixed by Greg Poppleton from live 1920s-60s radio below is ready for your perusal below.
ONLINE
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FRANK
After Sinatra left the Tommy Dorsey orchestra he became resident singer on a radio show that had started in 1936 called ‘Your Hit Parade’.
Mainly aimed at housewives aged 25 – 50, producers noticed that when Sinatra started on the show, more and more teenage girls began turning up at the studio for the broadcast.
Pop music wasn’t aimed at the teenage market, yet teenage girls known as ‘bobbysoxers’, wearing white socks rolled down to the ankles, came to swoon to the crooner.
On this week’s Phantom Dancer, we hear some of these Sinatra ‘Your Hit Parade’ broadcasts and rehearsals from 1943, and from his low point in 1949.
PARAMOUNT
Sinatra sang his first solo concert in 1942 at New York City’s home of big band shows, the Paramount Theatre.
Bobbysoxers queued for blocks to get in. They screamed when Sinatra walked on stage. Sinatra said the stamping, yelling and screaming of 5,000 teenage girls ‘scared him stiff’.
No singer had ever been screamed at en masse with such adulation. Marketing types saw a new market to sell product to – the teen market – and the Paramount stank of urine from all the overly excited girls.
VIDEO
This week’s Phantom Dancer video is a 1943 film promo of Frank Sinatra singing ‘Star Dust’ on Your Hit Parade. Enjoy!
25 JUNE PLAY LIST
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Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
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107.3 2SER Tuesday 25 June 2019 |
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Set 1
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Sweet Bands on 1950s Radio | |
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Open + Let’s Do It
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Nat Brandwein Orchestra
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Empire Room
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel WABC ABC New York 1956 |
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Margie
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Ray Anthony Orchestra (voc) Tommy Mercer, Marcie Miller and the Skyliners
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‘One Night Stand’
Cafe Rouge Statler Hotel NYC AFRS re-broadcast 1952 |
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Happiness Street + Close
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Frankie Masters Orchestra (voc)FM
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‘One Night Stand’
Conrad Hilton Hotel Chicago AFRS Re-broadcast 1955 |
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Set 2
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Corny Cowboys | |
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Open + The Chant of the Wanderer
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The Plainsmen
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‘Call of the Range’
KNX CBS LA 1946 |
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Open + Katy Hill
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Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
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‘Martha White Biscuit Time’
WSM Nashville Jun 1953 |
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Sugar Hill + Roly Poly
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Bob Wills (voc) Tommy Duncan
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‘Wake Up Ranch’
KFVD Los Angeles 26 Feb 1949 |
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Set 3
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Les Paul and Mary Ford | |
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Open + Little Rock Getaway
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Les Paul and Mary Ford
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‘Les Paul and Mary Ford at Home’
KFI NBC LA 26 May 1950 |
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Dry My Tears
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Les Paul and Mary Ford
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‘Les Paul and Mary Ford at Home’
KFI NBC LA 30 Jun 1950 |
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Lover + If a Nightingale Could Sing Like You
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Les Paul and Mary Ford
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‘Les Paul and Mary Ford at Home’
KFI NBC LA 12 May 1950 |
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Set 4
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Frank Sinatra | |
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I’ve Heard That Song Before
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Frank Sinatra
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‘Your Hit Parade’
WABC CBS NY 27 Feb 1943 |
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Body and Soul (theme) + Chant of the Groove
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Frank Sinatra
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‘Your Hit Parade’
WABC CBS NY 26 Aug 1944 |
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I Love You + Close
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Frank Sinatra
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‘Your Hit Parade’
WABC CBS NY 6 May 1944 |
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Set 5
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Duke Ellington 1945 Radio | |
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Subtle Slough
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Duke Ellington Orchestra
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‘A Date With The Duke’
Paradise Theatre Detroit ABC Radio 19 May 1945 |
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I’m Beginning To See The Light
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Duke Ellington Orchestra
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‘A Date With The Duke’
400 Restaurant WJZ ABC NY 28 Apr 1945 |
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Hollywood Hangover
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Duke Ellington Orchestra
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‘A Date With The Duke’
Regal Theatre Chicago ABC Radio 26 May 1945 |
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Jumpin’ Punkins
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Duke Ellington Orchestra
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‘A Date With The Duke’
Evansville IN ABC Radio 16 Jun 1945 |
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Set 6
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Guest Star | |
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Remember
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Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Yvonne Lanauze
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‘Guest Star’
Radio Transcription New York City 11 Feb 1951 |
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Red Bank Boogie
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Count Basie (piano) Harry Sosnick Orchestra
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‘Guest Star’
Radio Transcription New York City 23 Oct 1949 |
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That’s A’Plenty
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Louis Armstrong
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‘Guest Star’
Radio Transcription New York City 7 May 1950 |
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Basin Street Blues
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Louis Armstrong (voc) LA
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‘Guest Star’
Radio Transcription New York City 12 Dec 1954 |
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Set 7
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Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra | |
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Concert to the Stars
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Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra
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Radio Transcription
1940 |
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Caravan
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Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra
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Radio Transcription
1938 |
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From Another World
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Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra
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Radio Transcription
1940 |
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Basin St Blues
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Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Robert Goday
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Radio Transcription
1938 |
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Set 8
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Jazz on 1940s-50s TV | |
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South Rampart Street Parade + Hamp’s Boogie Woogie
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The Dukes of Dixieland + Lionel Hampton Otchestra
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‘2nd Timex All-Star Jazz Show’
CBS TV 30 Apr 1958 |
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Three Little Words
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Eddie Condon Group
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‘Eddie Condon Floorshow’
WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948 |
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Ridin’ High
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Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald
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NBC TV NYC
9 Apr 1958 |
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Up a Lazy River + Close
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Louis Armstrong
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‘1st Timex All-Star Jazz Show’
NBC TV 30 Dec 1957 |
