Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 16th Aug 2022

Charlie Shavers was an American jazz trumpeter. He played with Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, Sidney Bechet, Midge Williams, Tommy Dorsey. and Billie Holiday. He was also an arranger and composer. One of his songs, "Undecided", is a jazz standard. Charlie Shavers and his trumpet on radio in the 1960s... [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWlQlppMJfU[/embed] The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week. LISTEN to this week's Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 16 August) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ Charlie Shavers on the 1967 WCBS CBS TV NYC show, "Dail M for Music"... [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPRRFdsXsaw[/embed]

YOUNG SHAVER

Charlie Shavers palyed piano and banjo before switching to trumpet. Before the age of 16, in the mid-1930s, he was playing in the orchestras of Tiny Bradshaw and Lucky Millinder. Aged 15, in 1935, he played in the trumpet section of Frankie Fairfax's Campus Club Orchestra with Dizzy Gillespie and Carl (Bama) Warwick. In 1936, he joined John Kirby's Sextet as trumpet soloist and arranger. He was only 16, but gave his birth date as 1917 (he was born in 1920) to avoid child labor laws. Shavers's arrangements and solos helped make Kirby's band one of the most commercially successful and imitated of its day. In 1937, he performed with Midge Williams and her Jazz Jesters. Charlie Shavers on a 1950s Dorsey Brothers Stage Show... [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKR2XtwEX8s[/embed]

YOUNG BLADE

In 1944, Shavers was playing sessions in Raymond Scott's CBS staff orchestra, which you'll here on this week's Phantom Dancer. He left John Kirby's band in 1945 to join Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra, with whom he toured and recorded, off and on, until Dorsey died in 1956. In 1949, he sang and played the hit "The Hucklebuck" with the Dorsey Orchestra. You'll hear him sing "Mt Daddy's Got The Gleeks" with the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra in 1956 on this week's Phantom Dancer. He played with the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra on all "Stage Show" telecasts for CBS in the 1950s. During this time he also appeared with the Metronome All-Stars and made a number of recordings as trumpet soloist with Billie Holiday. From 1953 to 1954, he worked with Benny Goodman and toured Europe with Norman Granz's popular Jazz at the Philharmonic series, where he was a crowd favorite. He formed his own band with Terry Gibbs and Louie Bellson. Shavers died from throat cancer in New York in 1971 at the age of 50. His friend Louis Armstrong died while Shavers was on his deathbed, and his last request was that his trumpet mouthpiece be buried with Armstrong. Charlie Shavers with the Benny Goodman Orchestra playing Sing, Sing, Sing on the Sid Caesar TV Show, 1 Nov 1954... [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsJVNSOk7Q4[/embed]

16 AUGUST PLAY LIST

Play List - The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINECommunity Radio Network Show CRN #559
107.3 2SER Tuesday 16 August 2022 12:04 - 2:00pm (+10 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 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 - 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 - 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 - 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 - 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 - 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am - 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 - 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 - 10am 2RDJ Burwood Wednesday 12 - 1pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 - 11am 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am -12 noon 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 - 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 - 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 - 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 - 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 - 6pm
Set 1	Larry Clinton
Dipsy Doodle (theme) + Shh! Don't Look Now	Larry Clinton Orchestra (voc) Bea Wain and Ford Leery	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 9 Feb 1939
Night Shades	Larry Clinton Orchestra (voc) Bea Wain	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 9 Feb 1939
Strictly for the Persians	Larry Clinton Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 9 Feb 1939
Get Outta Town + half time announcement	Larry Clinton Orchestra (voc) Bea Wain	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 9 Feb 1939
Set 2	Johnny Messner
Can't We Be Friends (theme) + Moonlight Masquerade	Johnny Messner Orchestra (voc) Jack Ryan	Marine Grill Hotel McAlpin WOR Mutual NYC 7 Dec 1941
Mamma Maria	Johnny Messner Orchestra (voc) The 3 Jacks	Marine Grill Hotel McAlpin WOR Mutual NYC 7 Dec 1941
Madeleine	Johnny Messner Orchestra (voc) Jack Ryan	Marine Grill Hotel McAlpin WOR Mutual NYC 7 Dec 1941
Pearl Harbour Attack News	WOR News Room	Marine Grill Hotel McAlpin WOR Mutual NYC 7 Dec 1941
Set 3	Kay Kyser
I'm Sitting on Top of the World	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines	Radio Transcription 1934
Going Home	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines (voc) Glee Club	Radio Transcription 1934
Jungle Drums	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines	Radio Transcription 1934
Who's Going to Take Me Home?	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines (voc) Kay Kyser,  Mohan Boag, Sully Mason and Band	Radio Transcription 1934
Set 4	Charlie Shavers
Theme + I Never Knew	Raymond Scott's Capitivators	'Morning Music' WABC CBS NYC 10 Jan 1943
What is this Thing Called Love	Charlie Shavers Quartet	London House WBBM CBS Chicago May 1962
Your Daddy's Got the Gleeks	Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra (voc and tp) Charlie Shavers	Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 May 1940
I Want a Little Girl + Bernie's Tune	Charlie Shavers Quartet	London House WBBM CBS Chicago May 1962
Set 5	Phil Napoleon
Medley including Ballin' the Jack	Phil Napoleon and his Memphis Five	'One Night Stand' AFRS re-broadcast Nick's New York City 20 Jul 1949
Runnin' Wild	Phil Napoleon and his Memphis Five	'One Night Stand' AFRS re-broadcast Nick's New York City 20 Jul 1949
The Alligator Crawl	Hank Duncan (piano)	'One Night Stand' AFRS re-broadcast Nick's New York City 20 Jul 1949
Up a Lazy River + Close	Phil Napoleon and his Memphis Five	'One Night Stand' AFRS re-broadcast Nick's New York City 20 Jul 1949
Set 6	1938-39 Artie Shaw
Nightmare - opening theme + You're Mine You	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NYC 20 Oct 1939
Nightmare - mid program theme + My Reverie	Artie Shaw Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WJZ NBC Blue NYC 25 Nov 1938
Moonray	Artie Shaw Orchestra (voc) Helen Forrest	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NYC 22 Oct 1939
Jungle Drums	Artie Shaw Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WJZ NBC Blue NYC 30 Dec 1938
Set 7	Big Stars
You're Just in Love	Louis Armstrong All-Stars (voc) Louis Armstrong, Thelma Middleton	'Guest Star' Radio Transcription 12 Dec 1954
Two O'Clock Jump	Harry James Octet	Aircheck 1950s
Clarinet a la King	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Aircheck Virginia Beach 3 Sep 1949
Not Really the Blues	Woody Herman Orchestra	Blue Room Hotel Roosevelt WWL CBS New Orleans 20 Oct 1951
Set 8	1950s Jazz
Theme + Sweet Georgia Brown	Roy Eldridge Quintet	'Bandstand USA' Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NYC Mar 1957
When Your Lover Has Gone + Theme	Erroll Garner Trio	Storyville WHDH Boston Dec 1953
Little Girl Blue	Shelly Manne Quartet	Basin street WCBS CBS NYC 1956