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Film Clip of the Week

This week's film clip has Japanese Swing reminiscent of the radio music you'd hear on episodes of MASH

Chiemi Eri sings Walking My Baby Back Home recorded by King Records in 1953

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Swing, Jazz & Pop from live 1920s - 60s Radio & TV. Best Music Show - CBAA Radio Awards 2007. Presented by swing singer Greg Poppleton since 1985

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Tuesday
30 June 2009
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Song

Artist

Location & Date

Lambeth Walk

Jim Davidson & his ABC Dance Orchestra (voc) Alice Smith, Gordon Rawlinson, Dick Cranburn

Comm Rec
Sydney
21 Nov 1938

Moonlight Serenade + Jeep Jockey Jump

Tex Beneke & the Glenn Miller Orchestra

Hollywood Paladium
KNX CBS LA
2 Oct 1946

Mean to Me

Sarah Vaughan & Trio

'Stars in Jazz'
Birdland
WRCA NBC NY
16 Apr 1953

Aunt Hagar's Children's Blues + Basin Street Blues + NBC Chimes

Henry Levine's Dixieland Octet

'Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street'
Radio City
WEAF NBC Red NY
16 Jun 1940

Theme + Chiu Chiu

Desi Arnez Orchestra

Aircheck
Ciro's
Hollywood
1947

Intro + I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

Patti Page (voc) with Chorus & Orchestra

'The Big Record'
WCBS CBS TV
Channel 2
New York
27 Nov 1957

Pagliacci

Chico Marx Orchestra

'Fitch Bandwagon'
Blackhawk Restaurant
WMAQ NBC Chicago
20 Dec 1942

Northwest Passage

Woody Herman Orchestra

Meadowbrook Ballroom
Cedar Grove NJ
WABC CBS NY
18 Feb 1945

Loaded with Love

Ray Anthony Orchestra (voc) Tommy Mercer & Marcie Miller

Radio Transcription
Hollywood
1953

Rhythm & Romance (theme) + The Lamp is Low

Ella Fitzgerald (voc) Chick Webb Orchestra (theme) + Marion Forbes (voc) Freddy Monroe Orchestra

'Rhythm & Romance'
WJSV CBS Washington DC
21 Sep 1939

St Louis Blues

Keith Atkinson (cl) with Wally Portingale's All in Fun Revue

'Army on Parade'
2CH AWA Network
Sydney
Oct 1943

Again + This is Your Lucky Day (Close Theme)

Frank Sinatra (voc) Axel Stordahl Orchestra

'Your Hit Parade'
KFI NBC Hollywood
28 May 1949

Untitled

Andy Kirk Orchestra

Aircheck
Los Angeles
1944

Theme + Where did You Learn to Love?

Erskine Hawkins Orchestra

Blue Room
Hotel Lincoln
New York
AFRS Re-broadcast
1 May 1946

Christopher Columbus

Isham Jones Orchestra

'Good Evening Serenade'
WOR Mutual NY
13 Mar 1936

Theme + Rose Room

Artie Shaw Orchestra

Blue Room
Hotel Lincoln
WEAF NBC Red NY
18 Jan 1946

Let There Be Love

Shep Fields & his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (voc) Hal Derwin

Radio Transcription
New York
1940

Where Do I Go From You?

Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Helen O'Connell

Aircheck
7 Jun 1940

Medley:
Songs My Mother Taught Me + It's Love, Love, Love + In an Eighteenth Century Drawing Room + Blue Orchids

Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) The Crew Chiefs & Bob Carroll

'I Sustain the Wings'
NBC
6 May 1944

OK For Baby

Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra

Aircheck
c 1941

Theme + Keep on Jumpin'

Louis Armstrong Orchestra

'Spotlight Bands'
Tuskagee Airfield
Alabama
Mutual Network
5 Oct 1944

Floogie Boo + Theme

Cootie Williams Orchestra

'One Night Stand'
Savoy Ballroom
Harlem NY
AFRS Re-broadcast
12 Feb 1945

Slim's Jam

Slim Gaillard Orchestra

Comm Rec
New York
15 Dec 1945

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Greg Poppleton
The Phantom Dancer Radio Show

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