Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 18th May 2021

Barbara James, Australian dance band singer features on this week's Phantom Dancer with some of her broadcasts from the 1930s and 1940s. This is a repeat of a 2018 mix as I'll be filming this Tuesday. Presented every week by, 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 23 radio stations of the Community Radio Network and online. Hear this week's Phantom Dancer (after 1 May), 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. [gallery ids="10260,10260" type="rectangular" link="none"] 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'.

18 MAY PLAY LIST

Play List - The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #491
107.3 2SER Tuesday 18 MAY 2021 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 2SEA Eden Monday 3 - 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 - 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 - 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 - 4am 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 4RPH Brisbane Sunday 3 - 4am 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