Latest Episodes from Phantom Dancer

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 17th Sep 2019

This  week's Phantom Dancer radio show with Greg Poppleton feature artist is the Glenn Miller Orchestra in German. In just four years Glenn Miller scored 16 number-one records and 69 top ten hits—more than Elvis Presley (38 top 10s) and the Beatles (33 top 10s). Miller received the first gold record for 1.2 million sales of Chattanoga Choo Choo in 1942. Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 10th Sep 2019

This week's Greg Poppleton Phantom Dancer features a set of 1940s swing bands from the Spotlight Bands series, a set of 1940s Nat King Cole and a set of the Dorsey Brothers on air, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey with a feature by their uptempo arranger, the influential musician and composer, Sy Oliver. Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 27th Aug 2019

Cole Porter, Fats Waller, and Jan Savitt's Orchestra at the opening of a radio station in 1937 feature on this week's Phantom Dancer with Greg Poppleton. Your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week. Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 13th Aug 2019

The scheduled 13 August show below will now be heard Tuesday 20 August. Please enjoy a classic Phantom Dancer including a set of 1940s Sydney swing and a set of some of the earliest recorded radio dance bands. Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 6th Aug 2019

Hit of the Week was a US record label founded in 1930 selling low-priced resin coated cardboard records. Hear a set of 1931 Hit of the Week records on this week's Phantom Dancer, the non-stop mix of swing and jazz radio show mixed from live 1920s-60s radio Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 30th Jul 2019

A Phantom Dancer listener, Matt, sent in a 1947 broadcast by Woody Herman which we'll hear on this week's Phantom Dancer. Matt's original source was a 1947 paper magnetic tape. I'd thought tape recorder tapes had always been a metal coating on plastic. But, no! Read the story of paper tape here, see the play list, paper tape video and hear the non-stop swing jazz mix from live 1920s-60s radio from the 30 July show. Read More