Phantom Dancer :: 5:00pm 12th Sep 2020
Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 8th Sep 2020
Paul Douglas, 1930s CBS announcer and later Broadway and Hollywood film star, is this week's Phantom Dancer non-stop swing jazz feature artist. Paul Douglas opens this week's show in a 'Saturday Night Swing Club' broadcast. Greg Poppleton has been bringing you The Phantom Dancer, your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV, each week since 1985. Hear The Phantom Dancer online from 12:04pm AEST Tuesday 8 September at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ where you can also hear two years of archived shows. The finyl hour is vinyl.RADIO
Though Paul Douglas Fleischer performed in dramatics as a student at Yale, he first started in radio, He began as an announcer for CBS radio station WCAU in Philadelphia, relocating to network headquarters WABC in New York in 1934. Douglas co-hosted CBS's popular swing music program, The Saturday Night Swing Club, from 1936 to 1939. He was host and commercial pitchman for Chesterfield Cigarettes on swing band leader Glenn Miller's 1939-42 CBS radio series.BROADWAY
Paul Douglas made his Broadway debut in 1936 as the Radio Announcer in Doty Hobart and Tom McKnight's Double Dummy at the John Golden Theatre. In 1946 he won both a Theatre World Award and a Clarence Derwent Award for his portrayal of Harry Brock in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday.HOLLYWOOD
Douglas began appearing in films in 1949. He may be best remembered for two baseball comedy movies, It Happens Every Spring (1949) and Angels in the Outfield (1951). He also played Richard Widmark's police partner in the 1950 thriller Panic in the Streets, frustrated newlywed Porter Hollingsway in A Letter to Three Wives (1949), Sgt. Kowalski in The Big Lift (1950), businessman Josiah Walter Dudley in Executive Suite (1954) and a con man-turned-monk in When in Rome (1952). Douglas was host of the 22nd annual Academy Awards in March 1950. Continuing in radio, he was the announcer for The Ed Wynn Show, and the first host of NBC Radio's The Horn & Hardart Children's Hour. In April 1959 Douglas appeared on The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show as Lucy Ricardo's television morning show co-host in the episode "Lucy Wants a Career". Douglas starred in Clash by Night in 1952 with Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas was originally cast in the 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone called "The Mighty Casey", a role written for him by Rod Serling based on his character in Angels in the Outfield. Douglas died the day after production of the episode had been completed. He had been in his last stages of illness during filming, and his severe physical state was apparent on film. (The crew incorrectly assumed that his condition was the result of heavy drinking.) The episode – which was a comedy – was deemed unairable. It was, however, resurrected some months later, and Douglas's scenes were re-shot with Jack Warden. Film director Billy Wilder and his longtime co-writer I. A. L. ('Izzy') Diamond had just offered Douglas the role of Jeff Sheldrake in the 1960 movie The Apartment that went to Fred MacMurray instead. Wilder later said: "I saw him and his wife, Jan Sterling, at a restaurant, and I realized he was perfect, and I asked him right there in the parking lot. About two days before we were to start, he had a heart attack and died. Iz and I were shattered."VIDEO OF THE WEEK
A trailer from the 1950s US/UK sci fi shlocker, 'The Gamma People', starring Paul Douglas and Leslie Phillips. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d5RIQDcxLA Make sure you come back to this blog, Greg Poppleton's Radio Lounge, every Tuesday, for the newest Phantom Dancer play list and Video of the Week!8 SEPTEMBER PLAY LIST
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Set 1 |
Swing on 1930s Radio | |
Open + Panamania |
Leith Stevens Orchestra |
'Saturday Night Swing Club'
WABC CBS NY
12 Jun 1937 |
Naila (Delibes) |
Arnold Johnson Orchestra |
Comm Rec (unissued)
Variety Records
New York City
26 May 1937 |
RCA Radio Ad + Wolverine Blues + Study In Brown (theme) |
Larry Clinton Orchestra |
'RCA Campus Club'
Glen Island Casino
New Rochelle
WEAF NBC Red NY
2 Jul 1938 |
Set 2 |
Latin Sounds on 1946-53 Radio | |
Open + Chiu Chiu |
Desi Arnez Orchestra |
Ciro's
KNX CBS LA
1946 |
Bolero |
Sergio Torres Orchestra (voc) unannounced woman singer |
'Chicklets Program'
XEW Mexico City
1949 |
Chi sas? Chi sas? |
Xavier Cugat Orchestra |
'All-Star Parade of Bands'
Last Frontier
NBC Las Vegas
30 Nov 1953 |
Set 3 |
1943-44 Swing Radio | |
Joshua |
Richard Himber Orchestra |
'Spotlight Bands'
Aniston, Alabama
Blue Network
13 Nov 1943 |
I've Got You Under My Skin |
Leo Reisman Orchestra |
'Spotlight Bands'
National Press Club
Washington DC
Blue Network
23 Jan 1943 |
I Got Rhythm + Close |
Lenny Conn Orchestra |
'One Night Stand'
Los Angeles
AFRS Re-broadcast
1949 |
Set 4 |
Special Music Programs | |
First Movement |
Morton Gould Orchestra |
'American Symphonette No. 3'
WOR MBS/CBC New York City
1939 |
Open + I've Got Rhythm + Money Money (calypso) |
Lucky Millinder Orchestra with Noble Sissle and the Hall Sisters |
'Swingtime At The Savoy'
WNBC NBC NY
28 Jul 1948 |
Circle of Fourths + Jam With Sam |
Duke Ellington Orchestra |
'Ravinia Festival'
WBBM CBS Chicago
1 Jul 1957 |
Set 5 |
1939 Radio Singers | |
We Three |
Johnny Messner Orchestra (voc) Johnny Messner |
Radio Transcription
New York City
1939 |
Stairway To The Stars |
Teddy Wilson Orchestra (voc) Thelma Carpenter |
'America Dances'
CBS NY / BBC London
1939 |
From The Bottom Of My Heart |
Harry James Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra |
'America Dances'
CBS NY / BBC London
19 Jul 1939 |
Chew, Chew Your Bubblegum |
Chick Webb Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald |
Southland Cafe
WNAC NBC Boton
4 May 1939 |
Set 6 |
Traditional Jazz on 1939 - 1951 Radio | |
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (theme) + Maple Leaf Rag |
Wild Bill Davison |
'This Is Jazz'
WOR Mutual NY
19 Apr 1947 |
You're Driving Me Crazy |
Bob Crosby Bobcats |
'Camel Caravan'
WABC CBS NY
18 Jul 1939 |
Snag It |
Henry 'Red' Allen Dixielanders |
'Doctor Jazz'
Stuyvesant Casino
WMGM NY
1950 |
There'll Be Some Changes Made + I Would Do Anything For You |
Eddie Condon Group (voc) Red McKenzie |
'Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert'
Town Hall
WJZ Blue NY
16 Sep 1944 |
Set 7 |
Benny Goodman On The Air | |
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise |
Benny Goodman Quintet |
'Jubilee'
AFRS Re-broadcast
Jan 1948 |
Clarinade |
Benny Goodman Orchestra |
Meadowbrook Gardens
Culver City Ca
KECA ABC LA
26 Jan 1946 |
Sweet Georgia Brown |
Benny Goodman Quintet |
'Spotlight Bands'
Springfield Mass.
Blue Network
29 Sep 1943 |
Jack Benny-Gary Cooper Skit + One O'Clock Jump |
Benny Goodman Orchestra |
'Jack Benny Show'
WEAF NBC NY
13 Dec 1942 |
Set 8 |
Modern Sounds on 1940s-50s Radio | |
Romance Without Finance |
Tiny Grimes Quintet (voc) Tiny Grimes |
Comm Rec
15 Sep 1944 |
Hot House |
Barry Ulanov's All Star Modern Jazz Musicians |
'Bands For Bonds'
WOR MBS NY
13 Sep 1947 |
Painted Rhythm |
Stan Kenton Orchestra |
Palladium Ballroom
KNX CBS LA
27 Nov 1945 |
Fine and Dandy |
Slim Gaillard Quintet |
'Symphony Sid Show'
WJZ ABC NY
2 Jun 1951 |