RCM Productions

Spike Jones and His City Slickers perform "Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy".

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942.

In this Soundie, the Mills Brothers sing the title song to a cut-out image of Dorothy Dandridge, which then comes to life and dances for them.

Dorothy Dandridge and band perform "Cow-Cow Boogie".

R.C.M. Soundie

Johnny Taylor sings "Good Nite All" at a house party.

1942 Soundies musical short

A little music from Lynn Albritton, Lou Ellen and The Harlem Cuties.

Tex Williams and Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang sing "Take Me Back to Tulsa".

Jazz Soundie with Stan Kenton and his players.

An early "soundie" in which Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White sing "A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat" while getting dressed up for a big date.

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra perform "Bli-Blip" with Marie Bryant and Paul White

Whitey's Lindy Hoppers at their best along with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra performing for this "Hot Chocolate" musical short.

Kay Starr singing "Stop That Dancing Up There".

"Let's Scuffle" is a short subject -- a single song-and-dance number -- that appears to have been cut from a feature-length movie: to be precise, a 'race film'. (This was the term used by American cinema exhibitors in the 1940s and earlier for any movie with an all-black cast, intended primarily for distribution in black neighbourhoods at a time when many American cinemas were segregated.) The song-and-dance performer here is none other than the great Bill Robinson.

Dona Drake sings "Sticks and Stones".

Yvonne De Carlo sings herself to sleep, in her dreams she dances with a Latin dancer. She awakes to sing again.

The Bronco Busters perform "Old Chisholm Trail."

Comedic musical short featuring the Hoosier Hotshots.

Original Schnickelfritz Band perform "Turkey in the Straw."