Phantom Dancer :: 5:00pm 19th Dec 2020
Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 15th Dec 2020
Barbara James, Australian dance band singer features on this week's Phantom Dancer with some of her broadcasts from the 1930s and 1940s. Presented every week by actor, Greg Poppleton, The Phantom Dancer, is your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV. It's recorded live at 107.3 2SER Sydney, Tuesdays 12:04 - 2pm, and sent to 22 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online. Hear this week's Phantom Dancer (after 15 Dec), and plenty of past Phantom Dancers for your enjoyment, online at radio 2ser.com In the mix this week, live 1930s-60s radio by Glenn Miller's Army Air Forces Band, Lee Konitz, Charlie Parker in Boston, a Frank Sinatra aircheck from 1939 (singing his first record release), singer Loyce Whiteman (daughter of 'King of Jazz' Paul Whiteman), and Australian dance band singer, Barbara James. See the full play list below.BARBARA JAMES
Born in Sydney in 1907 (some sources say 1908), Barbara James was a jazz and swing singer. Her parents were entertainers Will James and Malvena Moore. Her father, Will, taught her to play the saxophone, xylophone and banjo. She also played violin and danced. She was married to musician and band leader, Reg Lewis, who we'll also here on this week's Phantom Dancer. Over her career, James performed and recorded with numerous jazz bands in Australia such as Frank Coughlan’s Trocadero Orchestra, Dick Freeman and his Trocadero Orchestra and Johnny Tozer and his Swing Band. From 1921, she was contracted by Harry George Musgrove to Musgrove’s Theatres, appearing at theatres in Sydney and Melbourne, including the Tivoli circuit and Trocadero, and on ABC radio. She first appeared on the Tivoli theatre circuit billed as a ‘child wonder xylophonist’. This week's Phantom Dancer presents a selection of her radio broadcasts from 1937-45. Barbara toured Hong Kong in 1946. From 1949 to 1955, Reg and Barbara Lewis toured Europe and Britain. In London, they performed in the West End at Café Anglaise and the Windmill Theatre. London variety shows featuring Reg and Barbara Lewis included, ‘Stars, Songs and Society’ Windmill Theatre London, 1950, ‘Nudes of the East’ 1951, ‘The Talk of the Town’ Tribe Bros Ltd London, 1950-1951 and ‘Midday Music Hall’, 1953. They appeared on BBC radio and TV. They had a regular 15 minute vocal and piano show on Sydney radio in the 1960s called, 'Between You and Me'.15 DECEMBER PLAY LIST
Play List - The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream
Community Radio Network Show CRN #446
|
||
107.3 2SER Tuesday 8 December 2020 12:04 - 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 - 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 - 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 - 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 - 4am 2SEA Eden Monday 3 - 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 - 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 - 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 - 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 - 9pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 - 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 - 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 - 2pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 - 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 - 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 - 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 - 6pm |
||
Set 1 |
Swing Bands on 1943-44 Radio | |
Theme + The Carioca |
Richard Himber Orchestra |
'Spotlight Bands'
Aniston, Alabama
Blue Network
13 Nov 1943 |
I'm Beginning To See the Light (theme) + The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else |
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade |
'One Night Stand'
New Park Casino
Palisades Park NJ
AFRS Re-broadcast
1944 |
One Night Stand + Close |
Denny Beckner Orchestra |
'Spotlight Bands'
Norfolk, Virginia
AFRS Re-broadcast
30 Mar 1944 |
Set 2 |
Charlie Parker in Boston | |
Ornithology |
Charlie Parker |
'Symphony Sid Show'
Hi-Hat Club
WCOP Boston
18 Dec 1953 |
Laura |
Charlie Parker |
'Symphony Sid Show'
Hi-Hat Club
WCOP Boston
1954 |
Out of Nowhere + Jumping with Symphony Sid |
Charlie Parker |
'Symphony Sid Show'
Hi-Hat Club
WCOP Boston
24 Jan 1954 |
Set 3 |
Barbara James | |
I Can't Give You Anything But Love |
Barbara James (voc) Reg Lewis and his Trocadero Orchestra |
Comm Rec
Sydney
1941 |
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing |
Barbara James (voc) Frank Coughlan Trocadero Orchestra |
Radio Transcription
Sydney
June 1937 |
Small Town Boogie |
Barbara James (voc) Albert Fisher Orchestra |
ABC Sydney
1944 |
Set 4 |
1950s Swing on Radio | |
It's All In The Game |
Ray Anthony Orchestra |
'One Night Stand'
Cafe Rouge
Hotel Statler NYC
AFRS Re-broadcast
1952 |
Disorder at the Border |
Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Horace Silver |
'Stars in Jazz'
Birdland
WNBC NBC NY
1952 |
Everything Happens To Me |
Matt Denis Trio (MD voc) |
'All Star Parade of Bands'
Chi Chi Club
WRCA NBC NY
15 Jun 1955 |
Set 5 |
Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra 1943-44 | |
Jeep Jockey Jump |
Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra |
'Uncle Sam Presents'
AFRS Re-broadcast
Oct 1943 |
Theme + Flying Home |
Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra |
'I Sustain The Wings'
Chicago Theatre
WMAQ NBC Chicago
10 Jun 1944 |
Don't Be That Way |
Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra |
'Uncle Sam Presents'
AFRS Re-broadcast
Feb 1944 |
There Are Yanks + Close |
Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra (voc) Ray McKinley and the Crew Chiefs |
'I Sustain The Wings'
WEAF NBC New York City
15 Apr 1944 |
Set 6 |
Early Harry James Orchestra | |
Cirribirribin (theme) + Tuxedo Junction |
Harry James Orchestra |
Southland Cafe
WNAC NBC Red Boston
19 Mar 1940 |
FRom The Bottom Of My Heart |
Harry James Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra |
'America Dances'
WABC CBS NY and BBC London
19 Jul 1939 |
Andalucia (The Breeze and I) |
Harry James Orchestra |
Blue Room
Hotel Lincoln
WABC CBS New York City
22 May 1941 |
Feet Draggin' Blues + Close |
Harry James Orchestra |
Aircheck
Chatterbox Club
Mountainside NJ
1940 |
Set 7 |
Loyce Whiteman 1930s Cocoanut Grove | |
Sweet and Lovely (theme) + I'm Through With Love |
Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman |
'Cocoanut Grove'
TRANSCO Radio Transcription
Los Angeles
1931 |
Rain On The Roof |
Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman |
'Cocoanut Grove'
TRANSCO Radio Transcription
Los Angeles
1932 |
Whistling in the Dark |
Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman |
'Cocoanut Grove'
TRANSCO Radio Transcription
Los Angeles
1931 |
You Could Have Been the One, Baby |
Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman |
'Cocoanut Grove'
TRANSCO Radio Transcription
Los Angeles
1932 |
Set 8 |
Lee Konitz 1954 Radio | |
Open + Hi Beck |
Lee Konitz |
Storyville
Copley Square Hotel
WHDH Boston
5 Jan 1954 |
Subconscious Lee |
Lee Konitz |
Storyville
Copley Square Hotel
WHDH Boston
5 Jan 1954 |