Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 2nd Jul 2019
CHANSON
This week’s Greg Poppleton Phantom Dancer feature artist is French singer Jean Sablon in radio transcriptions from 1954.
See the full Phantom Dancer play list of swing and jazz mixed from live 1920s-60s radio below.
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SABLON
Jean Sablon, known as the French Bing Crosby, came form a musical family.
His father, Charles , was a composer, as was Jean’s brother André. His sister was singer and actress Germaine Sablon. Jacques Sablon was his nephew.
Jean Sablon studied piano at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris. He left before graduating to enrol at the Paris Conservatoire to study singing.
He began performing in the cabarets of Paris at the age of 17 in 1923. He was accompanied on his first record by the popular pianist/composer Mireille.
He was the first cabaret singer to use a microphone in his stage act. In the 1920s he spent time in Brazil where his recordings remain popular today.
Sablon is credited with arranging Reinhardt’s debut in a fashionable cabaret in 1933. He is also recognised for his talents as a lyricist and a composer. Sablon appeared in a number of motion pictures and television films performing as a vocalist or pianist, his last being in 1984 when he sang “April in Paris” in Mistral’s Daughter, the popular American TV miniseries filmed in France.
In 1937, he won the Grand Prix du Disque for the song “Vous qui passez sans me voir”, written for him by Charles Trenet and Johnny Hess, and which we’ll hear on this week’s Phantom Dancer.
That same year, he went to the United States, where he sang on live radio broadcasts for CBS and made several records in English. He returned to Paris in 1939 but, with the German occupation of France in World War II, he went back to America for the duration.
From 1946-1947 the CBS radio network presented The Jean Sablon Show. Sablon was accompanied by an orchestra led by Paul Baron.
VIDEO
This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is Jean Sablon in 1933 singing Mimi. Phantom Dancer listeners will know this song from the 1933 Phil Harris Cocoanut Grove broadcast version I’ve played in the past. Enjoy!
2 JULY PLAY LIST
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Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
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Set 1
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Woody Herman | |
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Blue Flame (theme) + Red Top
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Woody Herman Orchestra
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Meadowbrook Ballroom
Cedar Grove NJ WABC CBS NY |
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I’ll Walk Alone
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Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Frances Wayne
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Palladium Ballroom
KNX CBS LA 18 Oct 1944 |
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Apple Honey
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Woody Herman Orchestra
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Cafe Rouge
Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 17 Jul 1945 |
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Set 2
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Mod Sounds | |
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The Squirrel
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Miles Davis (tp) Lucky Thompson (sax) Shelly Manne (d)
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‘All Star Jazz Session’
WPIX TV NY 17 Jan 1949 |
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Open + The Dart Game
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Shelly Manne
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Basin Street
WCBS CBS NY 21 Apr 1956 |
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Lover + Artistry in Rhythm + Close
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Stan Kenton Orchestra
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‘The Concert in Miniature’
The Million Dollar Ballroom WTMJ NBC Milwaukee 10 Jun 1952 |
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Set 3
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Benny Goodman Camel Caravan | |
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Let’s Dance (theme) + Scatterbrain
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Benny Goodman Orchestra
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‘Camel Caravan’
WEAF NBC Red NY 18 Nov 1939 |
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I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
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Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Louise Tobin
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‘Camel Caravan’
WEAF NBC Red NY 14 Oct 1939 |
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Roll ‘Em + Goodbye (close)
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Benny Goodman Orchestra (piano) Fletcher Henderson
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‘Camel Caravan’
WEAF NBC Red NY 4 Nov 1939 |
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Set 4
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Jean Sablon | |
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Open + Vous qui passez sans me voir
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Jean Sablon (voc) Roger Roger Orchestra
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‘Paris Star Time’
French Broadcasting System in North America Paris 1954 |
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Sur le Pont d’Avignon + Dinner For One, Please James
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Jean Sablon (voc) Roger Roger Orchestra
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‘Paris Star Time’
French Broadcasting System in North America Paris 1954 |
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Paris, tu n’as pas changé + Bouillabaisse + Close
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Jean Sablon (voc) Roger Roger Orchestra
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‘Paris Star Time’
French Broadcasting System in North America Paris 1954 |
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Set 5
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Trad Radio | |
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Salty Dog
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The Southern Jazz Group
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Aircheck
Adelaide 18 Jun 1949 |
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You’re Some Pretty Doll
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Muggsy Spanier
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‘This is Jazz’
WOR Mutual NYC 22 Mar 1947 |
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Charlie My Boy
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Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Band (voc) Pat O’Connor and Charlie Teagarden
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Radio Transcription
Hollywood 1950 |
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Squeeze Me
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Muggsy Spanier
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Club Hangover
KCBS San Francisco 11 Apr 1953 |
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Set 6
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Garber and Gordon | |
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Star Dust
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Jan Garber Orchestra
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Radio Transcription
New York City 1940 |
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It Seems Like Old Times
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Gray Gordon and his Tic Toc Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Cliff Grass
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Radio Transcription
New York City 1939 |
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Lady Be Good
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Jan Garber Orchestra (voc) Fritz Heilbron
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Radio Transcription
New York City 1940 |
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Annabelle
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Gray Gordon and his Tic Toc Rhythm Orchestra
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Radio Transcription
New York City 1939 |
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Set 7
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Sweet Bands on Radio | |
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Miss Otis Regrets
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King Sisters
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Radio Transcription
Hollywood 1947 |
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By Heck
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Paul Whiteman Orchestra
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‘Forever Pops’
ABC Radio 1948 |
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Funiculi Funicula
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Paul Baron Orchestra
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‘Mildred Bailey Show’
WABC CBS NY 12 Jan 1945 |
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Tiss Me Or You Dotta Det Out + I’ll Get By + Close
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Ray Herbeck and his Rhythm with Romance Orchestra (voc) Lorraine Benson
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Trianon Ballroom
WGN Chicago 24 Nov 1947 |
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Set 8
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Bop Big Bands | |
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Tiny’s Blues + Father Knickerbocker
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Chubby Jackson
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‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost WMCA NY 5 Mar 1949 |
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Perdido
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Terry Gibbs All-Stars
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‘Symphony Sid Show’
Birdland WJZ NY 5 Mar 1949 |
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Dizzy’s Business
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Dizzy Gillespie
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Birdland
WCBS CBS NY Jun 1956 |
