Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 2nd Jul 2019

CHANSON

This week's Greg Poppleton Phantom Dancer feature artist is French singer Jean Sablon in radio transcriptions from 1954. See the full Phantom Dancer play list of swing and jazz mixed from live 1920s-60s radio below.

ONLINE

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

SABLON

Jean Sablon, known as the French Bing Crosby, came form a musical family. His father, Charles , was a composer, as was Jean's brother André. His sister was singer and actress Germaine Sablon. Jacques Sablon was his nephew. Jean Sablon studied piano at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris. He left before graduating to enrol at the Paris Conservatoire to study singing. He began performing in the cabarets of Paris at the age of 17 in 1923. He was accompanied on his first record by the popular pianist/composer Mireille. He was the first cabaret singer to use a microphone in his stage act. In the 1920s he spent time in Brazil where his recordings remain popular today. Sablon is credited with arranging Reinhardt's debut in a fashionable cabaret in 1933. He is also recognised for his talents as a lyricist and a composer. Sablon appeared in a number of motion pictures and television films performing as a vocalist or pianist, his last being in 1984 when he sang "April in Paris" in Mistral's Daughter, the popular American TV miniseries filmed in France. In 1937, he won the Grand Prix du Disque for the song "Vous qui passez sans me voir", written for him by Charles Trenet and Johnny Hess, and which we'll hear on this week's Phantom Dancer. That same year, he went to the United States, where he sang on live radio broadcasts for CBS and made several records in English. He returned to Paris in 1939 but, with the German occupation of France in World War II, he went back to America for the duration. From 1946-1947 the CBS radio network presented The Jean Sablon Show. Sablon was accompanied by an orchestra led by Paul Baron.

VIDEO

This week's Phantom Dancer video of the week is Jean Sablon in 1933 singing Mimi. Phantom Dancer listeners will know this song from the 1933 Phil Harris Cocoanut Grove broadcast version I've played in the past. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwOilXLwLXI

2 JULY PLAY LIST

 

Play List - The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #393
107.3 2SER Tuesday 2 July 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 7 - 8pm and early morning on 23 other stations.
Set 1	Woody Herman
Blue Flame (theme) + Red Top	Woody Herman Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WABC CBS NY
I'll Walk Alone	Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Frances Wayne	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 18 Oct 1944
Apple Honey	Woody Herman Orchestra	Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 17 Jul 1945
Set 2	Mod Sounds
The Squirrel	Miles Davis (tp) Lucky Thompson (sax)  Shelly Manne (d)	'All Star Jazz Session' WPIX TV NY 17 Jan 1949
Open + The Dart Game	Shelly Manne	Basin Street WCBS CBS NY 21 Apr 1956
Lover + Artistry in Rhythm + Close	Stan Kenton Orchestra	'The Concert in Miniature' The Million Dollar Ballroom WTMJ NBC Milwaukee 10 Jun 1952
Set 3	Benny Goodman Camel Caravan
Let's Dance (theme) + Scatterbrain	Benny Goodman Orchestra	'Camel Caravan' WEAF NBC Red NY 18 Nov 1939
I Didn't Know What Time It Was	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Louise Tobin	'Camel Caravan' WEAF NBC Red NY 14 Oct 1939
Roll 'Em + Goodbye (close)	Benny Goodman Orchestra (piano) Fletcher Henderson	'Camel Caravan' WEAF NBC Red NY 4 Nov 1939
Set 4	Jean Sablon
Open + Vous qui passez sans me voir	Jean Sablon (voc) Roger Roger Orchestra	'Paris Star Time' French Broadcasting System in North America Paris 1954
Sur le Pont d'Avignon + Dinner For One, Please James	Jean Sablon (voc) Roger Roger Orchestra	'Paris Star Time' French Broadcasting System in North America Paris 1954
Paris, tu n'as pas changé + Bouillabaisse + Close	Jean Sablon (voc) Roger Roger Orchestra	'Paris Star Time' French Broadcasting System in North America Paris 1954
Set 5	Trad Radio
Salty Dog	The Southern Jazz Group	Aircheck Adelaide 18 Jun 1949
You're Some Pretty Doll	Muggsy Spanier	'This is Jazz' WOR Mutual NYC 22 Mar 1947
Charlie My Boy	Jimmy Dorsey Dorseyland Band (voc) Pat O'Connor and Charlie Teagarden	Radio Transcription Hollywood 1950
Squeeze Me	Muggsy Spanier	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 11 Apr 1953
Set 6	Garber and Gordon
Star Dust	Jan Garber Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 1940
It Seems Like Old Times	Gray Gordon and his Tic Toc Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Cliff Grass	Radio Transcription New York City 1939
Lady Be Good	Jan Garber Orchestra (voc) Fritz Heilbron	Radio Transcription New York City 1940
Annabelle	Gray Gordon and his Tic Toc Rhythm Orchestra	Radio Transcription New York City 1939
Set 7	Sweet Bands on Radio
Miss Otis Regrets	King Sisters	Radio Transcription Hollywood 1947
By Heck	Paul Whiteman Orchestra	'Forever Pops' ABC Radio 1948
Funiculi Funicula	Paul Baron Orchestra	'Mildred Bailey Show' WABC CBS NY 12 Jan 1945
Tiss Me Or You Dotta Det Out + I'll Get By + Close	Ray Herbeck and his Rhythm with Romance Orchestra (voc) Lorraine Benson	Trianon Ballroom WGN Chicago 24 Nov 1947
Set 8	Bop Big Bands
Tiny's Blues + Father Knickerbocker	Chubby Jackson	'Symphony Sid Show' Royal Roost WMCA NY 5 Mar 1949
Perdido	Terry Gibbs All-Stars	'Symphony Sid Show' Birdland WJZ NY 5 Mar 1949
Dizzy's Business	Dizzy Gillespie	Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jun 1956