Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 17th Mar 2020

Doris Day is this week's Phantom Dancer feature artist and opens an all vinyl Phantom Dancer today - your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-50s radio with Greg Poppleton. The Phantom Dancer produced and presented by 1920s-30s singer and actor Greg Poppleton can be heard online from 12:05pm AEDST Tuesday 17 March at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ This week's all vinyl Phantom Dancer also has Fats Waller on 23 September 1943 radio, a set of Dizzy Gillespie on 1950s radio and live Trad Bands including Eddie Condon and George Wettling. See the play list below [caption id="attachment_8102" align="alignnone" width="525"] Doris Day[/caption]

RADIO

Doris Day was born Doris Mary Kappelhoff in 1922. She began her career as a big band singer with Barney Rapp and his New Englanders in 1939, which is where we'll first hear her in a broadcast over NBC from Cincinnati. She reached commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, 'Sentimental Journey' and 'My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time' with Les Brown and his Band of Renown. We'll also hear from live airchecks with Les Brown from that period. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967. In 2011 at age 89, she released her 29th studio album My Heart which contained new material and became a UK Top 10 album and #12 on the Amazon bestseller list. [caption id="attachment_8103" align="alignnone" width="525"] Doris Day and dance act partner Jerry, 1937[/caption]

MOVIES

Day's film career began with the film Romance on the High Seas (1948), leading to a 20-year career as a motion picture actress. She starred in film musicals, comedies and dramas. She played the title role in Calamity Jane (1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with James Stewart. Her best-known films are those in which she co-starred with Rock Hudson including 1959's Pillow Talk, for which she was nominated an Academy Award for Best Actress. She worked with James Garner on both Move Over, Darling (1963) and The Thrill of It All (1963), and also starred with Clark Gable, Cary Grant, James Cagney, David Niven, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Richard Widmark, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall and Rod Taylor.

TV

She became one of the biggest film stars in the early 1960s and ended her movie career in 1968. She then moved to TV, starring in the sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968–1973) during and after which she starred in TV specials.

AWARDS

She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 1960, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures in 1989. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom; this was followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award.

ACTIVIST DAY

In 1971, Doris Day co-founded Actors and Others for Animals, and appeared in a series of newspaper advertisements denouncing the wearing of fur, alongside Mary Tyler Moore, Angie Dickinson and Jayne Meadows. In 1978, Day founded the Doris Day Pet Foundation, now the Doris Day Animal Foundation (DDAF). A non-profit charity, DDAF funds other non-profit causes throughout the US that share DDAF's mission of helping animals and the people who love them. To complement the Doris Day Animal Foundation, Day formed the Doris Day Animal League (DDAL) in 1987, a national non-profit citizen's lobbying organisation whose mission is to reduce pain and suffering and protect animals through legislative initiatives. Day actively lobbied the United States Congress in support of legislation designed to safeguard animal welfare on a number of occasions and in 1995 she originated the annual Spay Day USA. The DDAL merged into The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) in 2006. The HSUS now manages World Spay Day, the annual one-day spay/neuter event that Day originated. A facility bearing her name, the Doris Day Horse Rescue and Adoption Center, which helps abused and neglected horses, opened in 2011 in Murchison, Texas, on the grounds of an animal sanctuary started by her late friend, author Cleveland Amory. Day contributed $250,000 towards the founding of the center. Day was a vegetarian.

VIDEO

This week's Phantom Dancer video of the week is a 1964 interview with Doris Day by Lucille Ball. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFo1QkI-rSc

17 MARCH PLAY LIST

Play List - The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #428
107.3 2SER Tuesday 17 March 2020 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 - 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 - 5:55pm National Program: 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 - 11pm 5GTR Mt Gambier Mon 2:30 - 3:30am 4NAG Keppel FM 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 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 - 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 - 6am
Set 1	Swing and Sway with Doris Day on 1939-45 Radio
I’m Happy About The Whole Thing	Doris Day (voc) Barney Rapp and his New Englanders	NBC Cincinatti 17 Jun 1939
Blue Music	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Peacock Room Baker Hotel CBS Dallas 9 Aug 1945
Long Ago and Far Away	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 7 Jul 1944
I Wish I Knew	Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS Hollywood 16 Aug 1945
Set 2	Fats Waller 23 Sep 1943 in Story and Song
Reefer Song	Fats Waller	Comm Rec New York City 23 Sep 1943
Ain’t Misbehavin’ + There’s a Girl in my Life + Honeysuckle Rose	Fats Waller	’Personally, It’s Off The Record’ WABC CBS NY 23 Sep 1943
Set 3	1934 Radio Jazz and Dance
Maniacs’ Ball	Glen Gary and the Casa Loma Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Intro + It Don’t Mean A Thing	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	’Chrysler Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Song of the Vipers	Louis Armstrong	Comm Rec Paris Oct 1934
Swingy Little Thingy	Hal Kemp Orchestra	’Lavena Program’ Radio Transcription New York City 1934
Set 4	Bop and Hop On 1940s-50s Radio
A Night In Tunisia	Charlie Parker	'Symphony Sid Show' Royal Roost WMCA NY 12 Mar 1949
Now's The Time	Howard McGee	Birdland WJZ ABC NY Oct 1951
I'm Glad There's You	Charlie Ventura (voc) Jackie Kain and Roy Kral	'Symphony Sid Show' Royal Roost WMCA NY 1949
Set 5	Dizzy Gillespie on 1940s-50s Radio
Lady Byrd	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Aircheck Apollo Ballroom Harlem NY 22 Jan 1947
Manteca	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Winter Palace Stockholm Radio Sweden 2 Feb 1948
Doodlin’	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jul 1956
Jam Session	Dizzy Gillespie with Orchestra	Rex Theatre RTF Paris Feb 1953
Set 6	Piano Playing Band Leaders on the Air
If You Can’t Smile and Say Yes	Nat King Cole Trio	Trocadero KHJ Mutual LA 26 Apr 1945
Body and Soul	Teddy Wilson Orchestra	’America Dances’ BBC London via WABC CBS NY 1939
Every Tub	Count Basie Orchestra	’Stars in Jazz’ Birdland WNBC NBC NY 14 Jan 1953
Flying Home	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 13 Aug 1952
Set 7	1930s Radio Jazz and Dance Bands
Black and Blue Rhythm	Jack Hylton Orchestra	Comm Rec London 26 Sep 1933
Crazy Rhythm	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	’Let’s Dance’ WEAF NBC Red New York City 8 Dec 1934
Dardenella	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	’Saturday Night Swing Club’ WABC CBS NY 31 Oct 1936
Haunting Me	Henry Busse Orchestra	Radio Transcription Hollywood 1935
Set 8	Trad Bands on Radio
Beale Street Blues	Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Band	Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1950
Heebie Jeebies	Eddie Condon Group	’Eddie Condon Town Hall Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NY 9 Sep 1944
I’m Confessin’	Hot Lips Page	’Doctor Jazz’ Stuyvesant Casino WMGM New York City 1950
That’s A Plenty	Muggsy Spanier	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 18 Apr 1953