Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 8th Nov 2022
Billy Maxted, U.S jazz arranger, and pianist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He wrote for Benny Goodman, Red Nichols and Claude Thornhill and led his own Dixieland band in the 1950s which we’ll hear live on this week’s Phantom Dancer.
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BILLY
Maxted began his career in 1937 as a member of the Red Nichols big band, for which he wrote arrangements.
From 1940 he played with Teddy Powell, Ben Pollack and Will Bradley (1941-42).
After serving in the U.S. Navy he wrote arrangements for the big bands of Claude Thornhill and Benny Goodman.
He led a band with Ray Eberle (1947-48) and soon after led his own Manhattan Jazz Band, which played Dixieland with Bob Zurke on boogie-woogie piano.
He was house pianist at Nick’s club in Greenwich Village from 1949-1960 from where he did a weekly broadcast over NBC.
In the 1950s he recorded for MGM, Brunswick, Cadence, and Seeco.
In 1958, British bandleader Reg Owen had a major hit on the American charts with Maxted’s upbeat instrumental composition, “Manhattan Spiritual”, released on the Palette label.
His sidemen included trumpeter Chuck Forsyth, trombonist Lee Gifford, either Sol Pace or Dan Tracey on clarinet, and (by 1958) bass saxophonist Johnny Dengler.
In the 1960s, he recorded for K&H and Liberty and as a sideman for Bob Crosby, Pee Wee Erwin, and Red Nichols.
8 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST
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Play List – The Phantom Dancer
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Set 1
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Selling Bonds | |
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Open + Trumpeter’s Lullaby
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Ralph Marterie Orchestra
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‘Treasury Show’
WBBM CBS Chicago 26 Dec 1954 |
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Two Sleepy People
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Ralph Marterie Orchestra |
‘Treasury Show’
WBBM CBS Chicago 26 Dec 1954 |
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Babysitter
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Ralph Marterie Orchestra
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‘Treasury Show’
WBBM CBS Chicago 26 Dec 1954 |
| The Gal That Got Away | Ralph Marterie Orchestra (voc) Bill Walters |
‘Treasury Show’
WBBM CBS Chicago 26 Dec 1954 |
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Set 2
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Coleman Hawkins | |
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It’s the Talk of the Town
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Coleman Hawkins Quartet
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London House
WBBM CBS Chicago 19 Jun 1963 |
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Honeysuckle Rose + Close
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Coleman Hawkins Quartet
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London House
WBBM CBS Chicago 19 Jun 1963 |
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Set 3
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Art Lowrey | |
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Open + Almost Like Being in Love
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Art Lowrey Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’
Hotel Chase AFRS Re-broadcast KMOX CBS St Louis 1957 |
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The Girl Without a Name
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Art Lowrey Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’
Hotel Chase AFRS Re-broadcast KMOX CBS St Louis 1957 |
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Monterey + Begin the Beguine
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Art Lowrey Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’
Hotel Chase AFRS Re-broadcast KMOX CBS St Louis 1957 |
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April Love + Say No More
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Art Lowrey Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’
Hotel Chase AFRS Re-broadcast KMOX CBS St Louis 1957 |
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Set 4
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Billy Maxted | |
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Open + Tin Roof Blues (theme) + Tailgate Ramble
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Billy Maxted and his Manhattan Jazz Band
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‘One Night Stand’
Nick’s AFRS Re-broadcast WRCA-FM NBC NYC 1957 |
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When the Saints Go Marching In
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Billy Maxted and his Manhattan Jazz Band
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‘One Night Stand’
Nick’s AFRS Re-broadcast WRCA-FM NBC NYC 1957 |
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Set 5
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1930s-40s German Dance Orks | |
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Guter Mond
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Hans Carste Orchestra (voc) Rudi Schuericke
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Comm Rec
Berlin 1940 |
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Ich mache alles mit Musik
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Kurt Wege Soloists
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Comm Rec
Berlin 1940 |
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Bei dir war es immer so schön
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Kurt Wege Soloists
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Comm Rec
Berlin 1938 |
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Über die Dächer der großen Stadt
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Hans Carste Orchestra (voc) Rudi Schuericke Terzett
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Comm Rec
Berlin 1939 |
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Set 6
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1930s Dance Bands | |
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Down T’uncle Bill’s
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Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis
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Radio Transcription
NYC 14 Dec 1934 |
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Stompin’ at the Savoy
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Isham Jones Orchestra
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WOR Mutual NYC
24 Jan 1936 |
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Babs
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The Inkspots
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WEAF NBC Red NYC
9 Aug 1935 |
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Whistling in the Dark
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Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman
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Radio Transcription
Los Angeles 1931 |
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Set 7
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1940s Women Singers | |
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Blue Rain
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Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Connie Morgan
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‘Spotlight Bands’
Columbus OH Blue Network 19 Nov 1943 |
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I Cover the Waterfront
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Sarah Vaughn | ‘Eddie Condon Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948 |
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Love Me or Leave Me
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Sarah Vaughn
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‘Eddie Condon Floorshow’
WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948 |
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It Had to Be You + Rocking Chair (theme)
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Mildred Bailey
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‘Music till Midnight’
WABC CBS NYC 1944 |
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Set 8
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1960s Radio and TV Jazz | |
| Chicago |
Benny Goodman Trio
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WNBC NBC TV
NYC 21 Aug 1967 |
| Sometimes I’m Happy | Tony Bennett (voc) Gene Krupa Trio |
Radio Transcription
1963 |
| I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles + Rose Room |
Charlie Shavers Quartet
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London House
WBBM CBS Chicago May 1962 |
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PLAYLIST
Ralph Marterie Trumpeters' Lullaby
Ralph Marterie Two Sleepy People
Ralph Marterie Babysitter
Ralph Marterie The Gal That Got Away
Coleman Hawkins Quartet It's the Talk of the Town
Coleman Hawkins Quartet Honeysuckle Rose
Art Lowrey Orchestra Almost Like Being in Love
Art Lowrey Orchestra The Girl Without a Name
Art Lowrey Orchestra Monterey
Art Lowrey Orchestra Begin the Beguine
Art Lowrey Orchestra April Love
Art Lowrey Orchestra Say No More
Billy Maxted and his Manhattan Jazz Band Tin Roof Blues
Billy Maxted and his Manhattan Jazz Band Tailgate Ramble
Billy Maxted and his Manhattan Jazz Band When the Saints Go Marching In
Hans Carste Orchestra (voc) Rudi Schuericke Guter Mond
Hans Carste Orchestra (voc) Rudi Schuericke Über die Dächer der großen Stadt
Kurt Wege Soloists Ich mache alles mit Musik
Kurt Wege Soloists Bei dir war es immer so schön
Hal Kemp Down T'uncle Bill's
Isham Jones Stomping at the Savoy
The Inkspots Babs
Gus Arnheim Whistling in the Dark
Connie Morgan Blue Rain
Sarah Vaughn I Cover the Waterfront
Sarah Vaughn Love Me or Leave Me
Mildred Bailey It Had to Be You
Mildred Bailey Rockin' Chair
Benny Goodman Trio Chicago
Tony Bennett Sometimes I'm Happy
Charlie Shavers Quartet I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
Charlie Shavers Quartet Rose Room
