Is It Love or Is It Conscription? 1941
Doris Day sings "Is It Love or Is It Conscription?" with Les Brown and His Orchestra
Doris Day sings "Is It Love or Is It Conscription?" with Les Brown and His Orchestra
Stan Kenton and his Orchestra perform "This Love of Mine" with Cyd Charisse and other dancers
Louis Jordan's Orchestra perform Jordan Jive. Setting is a canteen, with the orchestra and audience in US military uniform. The Swing Maniacs go through some extremely strenuous acrobatic dancing.
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra perform "Bli-Blip" with Marie Bryant and Paul White
Les Brown and His Orchestra perform "My Lost Horizon" with Doris Day
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra perform "Au Reet"
Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra perform "Let Me Off Uptown".
The Charioteers perform "Swing for Sale"
Cab Calloway performing his famous hit "Minnie the Moocher".
Count Basie does a little rhyming rapping before going into this Benny Goodman instrumental composition. While he's playing, plenty of couples are jitterbugging constantly until, one by one, they get tired and start to fall down on the floor.
1942 Soundies musical short starring The King's Men
The King Cole Trio and Ida James perform the title song in this Soundie.
Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five perform "G.I. Jive"
The Song Spinners perform "Love's Gonna Be Rationed"
Helen Huntley and Stan Kenton and His Orchestra perform "Jammin' in the Panoram."
Soundies short film featuring Maurice Rocco performing "Rock It For Me" on the piano.
The Pretty Priorities perform "Take It Off".
Soundies short film with Maurice Rocco and His Rockin' Rhythm performing "Rhumboogie".
Soundie with Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra.
Emerson's Mountaineers perform in this January 1944 Soundie music video. Polly Shaffer sings, with the Hillbillies on fiddle, guitars, and upright bass.