SWING AND SWAY

Sammy Kaye, the band leader who went by the memorable tag-line ‘Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye’ is this week’s Greg Poppleton Phantom Dancer feature artist in radio excerpts from 1945 and 1949.

Check out the full Phantom Dancer play list of swing and jazz mixed from live 1920s-60s radio below.

ONLINE

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KAYE

Samuel Zarnocay was a Swing Era band leader and composer whose musical style could at times be described as ambient, through in the 1940s-50s was described as ‘sweet’.

GIMMICK

Kaye had a very personable style on stage and was apt to engage in quick conversations with his audience during radio band remotes.

He had an audience participation gimmick called ‘So You Want to Lead a Band?’ where audience members would be called onto stage in an attempt to conduct the orchestra, with the possibility of winning batons.

Kaye was also known for his use of ‘singing of song titles’, which was emulated by Kay Kyser and Blue Barron.

Band members sometimes sang backing vocals on songs as the ‘Kaydettes’.

TV

Sammy Kaye was one of the few Swing Era band leaders who became a fixture on US TV in the 1950s. His TV shows include:

The Sammy Kaye Show CBS (1951–52)
The Sammy Kaye Show NBC (summer 1953)
So You Want to Lead a Band ABC (1954–55)
Sammy Kaye’s Music From Manhattan ABC (1958–59)

SEND UP

In October 1939, Kaye’s sweet band sound was sent-up by Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra with the song ‘The Wrong Idea (Swing and Sweat with Charlie Barnet)’ written by Barnet and Billy May.

FIRE

Sammy Kaye was among hundreds of artists whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week we Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye for the original 1937 record. Swing and Sway!

9 JULY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #394
107.3 2SER Tuesday 9 July 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) 5pm Saturdays National Program: 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	Swing Bands on 1946 Radio
Open + Tea For Two	Gene Krupa (voc) Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Palladium Ballroom LA AFRS Re-broadcast 1946
As Long As I Live	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) BC	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom LA AFRS re-broadcast 1946
Brooklyn Boogie	Louis Prima Orchestra (voc)FM	‘Spotlight Bands’ Camp Shanks NY AFRS Re-broadcast 1946
Set 2	Corny Cowboys
Sweet Lucy Brown	Frank Coughlan Orchestra	Sydney Apr 1936
The Girl on the Police Gazette	Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Orchestra	Comm Rec Sydney 1936
Darktown Strutters’ Ball	Frank Coughlan Orchestra (voc) FS	Sydney 25 May 1937
Set 3	1930s Radio Dance Bands
Open + I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm	Joe Sanders Nighthawks (voc) JS	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 25 Mar 1937
Open + You’re My Everything	Anson Weeks Orchestra (voc) Pete Fylling	Radio Transcription 1932
I Don’t Want To Get Well + Like The Wind You Are Gone + Close	Kay Kyser Orchestra	Trianon Ballroom WGN Mutual Chicago 6 Feb 1937
Set 4	Sammy Kaye
Open + Kiss Me Sweet	Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) Laurel Lesley and Don Cornell	‘Chrysler Showroom’ Radio Transcription 1949
Open + Just a Prayer Away	Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) Billy Williams and Choir	‘Sunday Serenade’ WJZ Blue NY 15 Apr 1945
My Gal Sal + Close	Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc)	‘Chrysler Showroom’ Radio Transcription 1949
Set 5	February 1945 Radio
Harvard Blues	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Dickie Wells	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NY 24 Feb 1945
Contrasts (theme) + King Porter Stomp	Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ AFRS Re-broadcast 11 Feb 1945
Wake Up!	Andy Kirk Orchestra	Aircheck Apollo Theatre Harlem NYC 21 Feb 1945
Save Your Sorrows	Eddie Heywood Orchestra	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945
Set 6	Lee Wiley 1936-38
Robins and Roses	Lee Wiley	WABC CBS NY 17 Jun 1936
Sugar	Lee Wiley	Jam Session St Regis Hotel New York City BBC London 5 Nov 1938
On The Sentimental Side	Lee Wiley	KNX CBS LA 10 Mar 1938
Once In a While	Lee Wiley	KNX CBS LA 10 Mar 1938
Set 7	Radio Transcriptions
The Cradle Song	Les Elgart Orchestra	Radio Transcriptions 1946
Sepulveda	Jimmie Grier Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1946
Dream, Dream, Dream	Les Elgart Orchestra (voc) Terry Parker and the Tune Tellers	Radio Transcription 1946
Coyote Canyon	Jimmie Grier Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1946
Set 8	1950s-60s Jazz
Flat Foot Floogie	Slim Gaillard	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ NY 20 May 1951
I Want a Little Girl	Charlie Shavers Quartet	London House WBBM CBS Chicago May 1962
Dizzy’s Business	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jun 1956