Let Me Off Uptown 1942
Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra perform "Let Me Off Uptown".
Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra perform "Let Me Off Uptown".
Cab Calloway performing his famous hit "Minnie the Moocher".
The Charioteers perform the classic title song in this early music video format.
The Pretty Priorities perform "Take It Off".
Willie Howard sings of his escapades as Tyrone Shapiro, the Bronx Cavallero, in Yiddish, Spanish, and English.
Jimmy Wakely Trio sing "Git Along Little Pony".
Four dancers, two males and two females, merrily dance to the merry tune of "Skip to my Lou".
A Soundie short starring comedian Willie Howard as a socialist revolutionary.
A language teacher gives the titular advice to a class in this comedy short.
Cab Calloway and his Cabaliers sing "Blues in the Night".
1941 Soundies musical short starring Johnny Long and Helen Young
Cab Calloway and The Cabaliers are singing about how The Big Bad Wolf only talks about his Disney money, Felix the Cat is fat and rich, and Mickey the Mouse is riding in his motor car, while the skunk moans about how "nobody loves me" on account of him just being a "dirty old skunk".
A Soundie starring Barry Wood.
Soundies short film in which Gracie Barrie sings "I've Got to Get Hot"
Martha Tilton & Ben Pollack's Orchestra
The Deep River Boys sing an exciting version of Toot that Trumpet (1941), staged as a club setting with lots of dancers, Chinese paper lanterns hanging from the ceiling and a lively trumpet player.
Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle with Carson Robison and His Buckaroos.
The soundie begins with the guys in the bandbox playing nurdy stuff & the dancers in the street chanting "No, No, No!" until at long last Walter Fuller bursts into a wild, rapid jazz rendition of "After I'm Gone," setting the dance competition in motion.
Produced by Official Films and titled "When The Circus Comes to Town, featuring the Kidoodlers singing a song.
Willie Howard is a guard on sentry duty sent to the mess hall where pretty girls are present to entertain the troops in this soundie.