Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 1st Oct 2019

DOLLY DAWN

When you listen to Ella Fitzgerald you hear Dolly Dawn? Why? Because Dolly Dawn was a big influence on Ella Fitzgerald's singing style. Dolly Dawn is this week's Phantom Dancer presented by Greg Poppleton.

ONLINE

This week's Phantom Dancer will be online right after the 1 October 107.3 2SER Sydney live mix at 2ser.com. Hear the show live every Tuesday 12:04-2pm on 107.3 2SER Sydney

FOCUS

Dolly Dawn was one of the first vocalists to become the sole focus of a band. When Walter Winchell coined the term 'canary' for female singers, he was referring to her. She sang with George Hall and his Orchestra from age 16. Though born Theresa Maria Stabile, (she was a cousin of band leader Dick Stabile) she had already given herself the stage name Billie Starr after winning a singing contest at age 14. George Hall and Harriet Mencken, a writer on The New York Journal-American, came up with the name, Dolly Dawn, for her. 'She's as fresh as the dawn and as dimpled as a doll,' the newspaperwoman said, according to an article in Radio Guide in 1937. Miss Dawn never stopped hating the name, which she thought made her sound like a stripper.

DAWN PATROL

Nevertheless, her relationship with Hall and his wife was so close that they formally adopted her when she was 19. In a ceremony on 4 July 1941, at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, George Hall officially turned the band over to her and became her manager. [caption id="attachment_8258" align="alignnone" width="525"] NEW YORK - JANUARY 28: Big Band singer Dolly Dawn and orchestra leader George Hall. Dolly models hat fashions. Image dated January 28, 1936. New York, NY. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)[/caption] The band was renamed 'Dolly Dawn and Her Dawn Patrol' and on this week's Phantom Dancer we hear her introduce herself as a band leader on NBC's 'Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street'. The WW2 draft took most of her band, so from 1942 she continued without the band, appearing in engagements across the US. She continued to record into the 1950s. She developed a cult following that saw her in scattered club appearances in the 1970s and 80s, particularly in response to the release of a double album of her records with George Hall on the RCA Bluebird label in 1976.

VIDEO

This week's Phantom Dancer video of the week is Dolly Dawn singing with George Hall's Orchestra in the 1938 short, 'Hall's Holliday'. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO71Zi3hg24

1 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List - The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #407
107.3 2SER Tuesday 1 October 2019 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 - 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) National Program: Edge FM Bega Monday 3 - 4pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 - 9pm 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 - 1pm 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 - 6am ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 - 11pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	1939 - 40 Radio Remotes
Theme + Choppin' Wood	Woody Herman Orchestra	The Famous Door WEAF NBC Red NY 7 Jan 1940
Dardenella	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	'Chesterfield Show' WABC CBS NY 25 Oct 1939
The Chinese Lullaby + Close	Teddy Powell Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Blair	The Famous Door WJSV Washington DC via WABC CBS NY 21 Sep 1939
Set 2	This Is Jazz 1947 Radio
Theme + St Louis Blues + Tin Roof Blues	Wild Bill Davison and more (voc) George Brunies	'This is Jazz' WOR Mutual NY 10 May 1947
Chocolate Bar	James P Johnson	'This is Jazz' WOR Mutual NY 17 May 1947
Blue Turning Gray Over You + I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling	Wild Bill Davison and more	'This is Jazz' WOR Mutual NY 17 May 1947
Set 3	Glenn Miller in German 1944
Long Ago and Far Away	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Johnny Desmond	ABSIE American Broadcasting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 30 Oct 1944
Body and Soul	Glenn Miller Orchestra	ABSIE American Broadcasting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 27 Nov 1944
Poinciana	Glenn Miller Orchestra	ABSIE American Broadcasting Station in Europe Abbey Road Studios London 6 Nov 1944
Set 4	Dolly Dawn
The You and Me That Used To Be	George Hall Orchestra (voc) Dolly Dawn	'Easy to Remember' WABC CBS NY 1937
Dolly Dawn Speaks	Dolly Dawn	'Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street' WJZ NBC Blue NY 25 Aug 1941
Beethoven Wrote But It Swings	Dolly Dawn and her Dawn Patrol	Comm Rec 15 Feb 1939
52nd Street	George Hall Orchestra (voc) Dolly Dawn	'Easy to Remember' WABC CBS NY 1937
Set 5	Novelty Songs on 1930s-40s Radio
The Music Goes Round and Round	Paul Whiteman Orchestra (voc) Jack Teagarden	'Paul Whiteman's Musical Varieties' WJZ NBC Blue NY 12 Jan 1936
Open The Door Richard	The Hit Paraders	'Your Hit Parade' WNBC NBC NY 1 Mar 1947
Swingin' On A Star	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA	'Spotlight Bands' Tuskagee Alabama AFRS Re-broadcast 5 Oct 1944
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah	Ginny Simms	'Your Hit Parade' WNBC NBC NY 1 Mar 1947
Set 6	Trad Bands on 1940s Radio
Ollie Outs In Free	Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) Carl Ravazza and Band	Radio Transcription 1942
Tain't Me	Raymond Scott Orchestra (voc) Dorothy Collins	Radio Transcription 1944
Cancel the Flowers	Carl Ravazza Orchestra (voc) Carl Ravazza	Radio Transcription 1941
The Beard	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1944
Set 7	Cocoanut Grove 1931 - 32 Radio Transcriptions
Do The New York	Gus Arnheim Orchestra	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1931
Down Among the Sleepy Pines	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Jean Shark and the Three Ambassadors	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1932
Out of Nowhere	Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Bing Crosby	'MJB Coffee Revue' KFI NBC Orange Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1931
I Know You're Lying But I Love It	Jimmie Grier Orchestra (voc) Gogo DeLys and the Four Cheers	Radio Transcription Cocoanut Grove Los Angeles 1932
Set 8	Jazz Piano on Radio
Budo	Bud Powell	'Symphony Sid Show' WJZ ABC NY 7 Mar 1953
All The Things You Are	Thelonius Monk	Aircheck 1948
Cherokee	Art Tatum	Radio Transcription late 1940s
I'll Remember April	Erroll Garner	Peacock Lane KFI NBC LA Mar 1957