Latest Episodes from Phantom Dancer

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. Read the Barbrara James story, Phantom Dancer play list and hear the show after 18 May here. Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 11th May 2021

Ted Fio Rito band leader, composer and pianist, is this week's Phantom Dancer feature artist in a 1934 Cocoanut Grove radio transcription. Read story, play list, watch Cocoanut Grove videos and listen to show here. Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 4th May 2021

Ray Miller, popular 1920s band leader and trombonist, whose jazz band was the first to play at the White House (in 1924) is this week's Phantom Dancer feature artist. Visit for story, videos, play list and show here. Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 27th Apr 2021

Turk Murphy, San Francisco Great Revival trad trombonist, singer, composer, arranger, and union band leader who looked after his musicians is this week's Phantom Dancer feature artist with Greg Poppleton. Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 20th Apr 2021

Max Roach was one of the most important drummers in history. The bebop pioneer was also a composer and is this week's Phantom Dancer feature artist. Read his story, show play list, hear show and see videos here... Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 13th Apr 2021

Lester Young, jazz tenor saxophonist called 'The Prez', is this week's Phantom Dancer feature artist from live 1940s-50s broadcasts. Young was one of the most influential saxophinists, playing "a free-floating style, wheeling and diving like a gull, banking with low, funky riffs that pleased dancers and listeners alike". Alcohol killed him. Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 6th Apr 2021

Ruth Etting was a US singer/actress of the 1920s and 1930s. She never had voice lessons and had over 60 hit recordings. She worked on stage, radio and film. She was known as 'America's Radio Sweetheart' and was also involved in a famous case of domestic violence with her mobster first husband. Read her story, Phantom Dancer play list, see videos and listen to the show here Read More