Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 5th Nov 2019

INTERNATIONAL

This week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton is The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, the first integrated all women band in the United States. Latina, Asian, Caucasian, Black, Indian and Puerto Rican members gave the band an ‘international’ flavour, hence the name. You’ll hear them today from 1944-45 AFRS airchecks.

ONLINE

This week’s Phantom Dancer will be online after the 5 November 107.3 2SER Sydney live mix at 2ser.com.
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International sweethearts of rhythm trumpets

SWEETHEARTS

The original members of the band had met at Piney Woods Country Life School, a school for poor and African American children, in 1938 in Mississippi. Most who attended Piney Woods were orphans, including band member Helen Jones, who had been adopted by the school’s principal and founder (also the Sweethearts’ original bandleader), Dr Laurence C. Jones.

International Sweethearts of Rhythm saxes

OF

The International Sweethearts of Rhythm turned professional and severed connections with Piney Woods in April 1941. The venues they played, such as the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, the Howard Theatre in Washington D.C., the Regal Theatre in Chicago, the Cotton Club in Cincinnati, the Riviera in St. Louis, the Dreamland in Omaha, or the Club Plantation and Million Dollar Theater in Los Angeles, were for black audiences. Leonard Feather stated in a Los Angeles Times article about the band that “if you are white, whatever your age, chances are you have never heard of the Sweethearts”.

The Sweethearts swiftly rose to fame, nonetheless. The band set a new box office record of 35,000 patrons in one week of 1941 at the Howard Theatre. In Hollywood they made short films for use in movie theaters. One of these is your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week. Radio work was largely confined to ‘Jubilee’ broadcasts over Armed Forces Radio aimed at black US armed forces personnel. You’ll hear excerpts from some of these broadcasts on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

International Sweethearts of Rhythm rhythm section

RHYTHM

The 16-piece International Sweethearts of Rhythm featured a strong brass section, heavy percussion, and a deep rhythmic sense, along with many of the best female musicians of the day. The band leader and singer was Anna Mae Winburn. Check out the video of the week below to savour their original ideas.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is ‘Central Avenue Boogie’ from a 1940s soundie by the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, sung by Anna Mae Winburn.

5 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
Community Radio Network Show CRN #412

107.3 2SER Tuesday 5 November 2019
After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT)
National Program:
ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm
Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm
7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm
2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm
3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am
and early morning on 23 other stations.

Set 1
Big Bands on One Night Stand
Open + Saint Louis Breakdown
Lucky Millinder Orchestra
‘One Night Stand’
Savoy Ballroom
Harlem NYC
AFRS Re-broadcast
17 July 1945
I’ll Be Around
Sonny Dunham Orchestra (voc) Pat Cameron
‘One Night Stand’
Cafe Rouge
Hotel Pennsylvania NYC
AFRS Re-broadcast
14 Apr 1944
I’ve Got Rhythm + Close
Tony Pastor Orchestra
‘One Night Stand’
Jantzen Beach
Portland OR
AFRS Re-broadcast
15 May 1945
Set 2
1940s-50s Trad Radio
Lonesome Road
Muggsy Spanier & Baby Doods
‘This is Jazz’
WOR Mutual NY
5 Apr 1947
Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Ralph Sutton Quintet
Club Hangover
KCBS San Francisco
7 Sep 54
I Ain’t Gonna Give Anyone None of my Jelly Roll
Meade Lux Lewis
Club Hangover
KCBS San Francisco
7 Sep 54
Set 3
Lounge Radio
Open + Quiet Village (theme) + Happy Talk
Martin Denny Orchestra
‘One Night Stand’
London House
AFRTS Re-broadcast
via WBBM CBS Chicago
1959
Open + Boulevarde of Broken Dreams
Dick Carroll Orchestra
‘The World Dances’
WJSV CBS Washington DC
21 Sep 1939
Kila Kila Holi A’kala + Close
Johnny Pineapple
Polynesian Village
Edgewater Beach Hotel
WGN Chicago
1 Jan 1958
Set 4
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Galvanising
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood
1945
Diggin’ Dyke
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood
17 Jul 1945
She’s Crazy With the Heat
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
‘Jubilee’
AFRS Hollywood
Set 5
Les Brown
Carioca
Les Brown Orchestra
Radio Transcription
1949
Open + Love is Just Around the Corner
Les Brown Orchestra
Peacock Room
baker Hotel
CBS Dallas
9 Au !945
We’ll Be Together Aain
Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Jane Harvey
‘One Night Stand’
Cafe Rouge
Hotel Pennsylvamia
AFRS Re-broadcast
28 Dec 1945
Show Me The Way To Go Home
Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Butch Stone
Palladium Ballroom
KNX CBS LA
16 Aug 1945
Set 6
1935-36 Dance Bands
Down By the Old Mill Stream
Bunny Berrigan Orchestra
‘Saturday Night Swing Club’
WABC CBS NY
22 Oct 1936
Christopher Columbus
Isham Jones Orchestra
WOR Mutual NY
13 Mar 1936
Haunting Me
Henry Busse Orchestra
Radio Transcription
1935
Weary Blues
Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
‘Ford V-8 Show’
CBS Dallas
Aug 1936
Set 7
Django Reinhardt Radio Transcriptions
Nuages
Django Reinhardt Quintet
Radio Geneve
Switzerland
25 Oct 1949
How High the Moon
Django Reinhardt with Ray McKinley’s Quintet
Jazz Club Francaise
1945
Black Night
Django Reinhardt Quintet
Radio Geneve
Switzerland
25 Oct 1949
Danse Norvegienne No. 2
Django Reinhardt Quintet
Radio Geneve
Switzerland
25 Oct 1949
Set 8
Miles Davis
Intro + Walkin’
Miles Davis
‘Bandstand USA’
Birdland
WOR Mutual NYC
3 Jan 1959
All of Me
Miles Davis
‘Bandstand USA’
Birdland
WOR Mutual NYC
3 Jan 1959

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