Blue Smoke for Sunday 12 June 2011
The heyday of 'live to air' New Zealand jazz broadcasts, the impact of radio, and the influence of broadcasters such as Arthur Pearce (Turntable) and Bob Bothamley.
The Lew Campbell radio band
Music Details - Radio and NZ Pop
Track: There's No Business Like Show Business
Artist: Dale Alderton Radio Band, 1YD, 1958
Composer: Irving Berlin
Source: Dale Alderton
Track: Just You Just Me
Artist: Dale Alderton Radio Band, 1YD, 1958
Composer: Jesse Greer & Raymond Klages
Source: Dale Alderton
Track: All the Way
Artist: Esme Stephens with the Dale Alderton Radio Band, 1YD, 1958
Composer: Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van Heusen
Source: Dale Alderton
Track: I Love You
Artist: Dick Colvin and His Music
Composer: Cole Porter
From NZ Presents (late 1940s NZBS radio programme)
Source: Radio NZ music library, Wellington, HOPT 6167.06. Original at RNZ Sound Archives, Christchurch
Track: Rhythm on Record opening, with 'Woman on My Weary Mind'
Artist: Bob Crosby and His Bobcats
Composer: Gil Rodin
Source: RNZ Sound Archives, Christchurch, TXCDR3215
Track: Dinah
Artist: Seven Pearce Arrows
Composer: Akst-Lewis-Young
Source: Dennis Huggard collection
Track: You Wouldn't Know
Artist: Lauri Paddi Band, Majestic Cabaret, c. 1940
Composer: Arthur Pearce
Source: Dennis Huggard collection
Track: String of Pearls
Artist: Bob Bradford Orchestra
Composer: Jerry Gray
Source: Dennis Huggard collection
Track: Golden Wedding
Artist: Martin Winiata Orchestra, with Wally Ransom, vocals
Composer: Gabriel Marie
Source: Dennis Huggard collection
Track: Breezin' Along with the Breeze
Artist: Freddie Gore 2YA Band with Marion Waite, vocals
Composer: Gillespie-Simons-Whiting
Source: Radio NZ Sound Archives, Christchurch, D149
Track: From the Land of the Sky Blue Water
Artist: Freddie Gore 2YA Band; arranger Bill Hoffmeister
Composer: Charles Wakefield Cadman
Source: Radio NZ Sound Archives, Christchurch, D149
Track: Everything I Dream
Artist: Esme Stephens, with John McKenzie, piano
Composer: Esme Stephens & Dale Alderton
From NZ Presents (late 1940s NZBS radio programme)
Source: Radio NZ music library, Wellington, HOPT 6167.07. Original at RNZ Sound Archives, Christchurch
Track: I Found a New Baby
Artist: Harry Wicks Trio
Composer: Jack Palmer & Spencer Williams
From NZ Presents (late 1940s NZBS radio programme)
Source: Radio NZ music library, Wellington, HOPT 6167.05. Original at RNZ Sound Archives, Christchurch
Track: My Pinto Pony and I
Artist: Jimmy Long
Composer: Burnette
From NZ Presents (late 1940s NZBS radio programme)
Source: Radio NZ music library, Wellington, HOPT 6167.04. Original at RNZ Sound Archives, Christchurch:
Track: Cowboy Jamboree excerpt, 2YD, c. 1948
Artist: Cotton Eye Joe aka Arthur Pearce
Source: Radio NZ Sound Archives, Christchurch, DCDR352A
Track: Un Pocito ditto Amore
Artist: The Five Amigos
Composer: Julio Gutierrez
Source: Dale Alderton
Track: Honeysuckle Rose
Artist: Sunny City Seven
Composer: Fats Waller
Source: Dennis Huggard collection
Track: Why Do I Love You
Artist: Mavis Rivers, with the Derek Heine Quintet
Composer: Kern
Source: NZ Presents (late 1940s NZBS radio programme)
Source: Radio NZ music library, Wellington, HOPT 6167.03. Original at RNZ Sound Archives, Christchurch
Track: How High the Moon
Artist: Mavis Rivers and Mark Kahi
Composer: Nancy Hamilton & Morgan Lewis
Album: Jazz Concert 1950
Catalogue Number: Ode SODET 467
Track: At Sundown
Artist: Darktown Strutters
Composer: Walter Donaldson
Album: Jazz the Way It Used to Be, Vol 1
Catalogue Number: Tartar TRL026
Track: Stomping at the Savoy
Artist: Geoff Michaelas
Composer: Razaf-Goodman-Webb-Sampson
Source: Dennis Huggard collection
Track: Lady is a Tramp
Artist: Lew Campbell's Dance Band
Composer: Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
Source: RNZ Sound Archives, Christchurch, D7851b sa-d-07851-s02-pm
Track: Blue Smoke
Artist: Dick Colvin Orchestra
Composer: Ruru Karaitiana
Source: RNZ Sound Archives, Christchurch, D 6918a sa-d-06918-s01-pm