Good Nite All 1943
Johnny Taylor sings "Good Nite All" at a house party.
Johnny Taylor sings "Good Nite All" at a house party.
Dorothy Dandridge and band perform "Cow-Cow Boogie".
Soundie featuring June Richmond (vocals) and Roy Milton performing "Hey Lawdy Mama."
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra perform "Bli-Blip" with Marie Bryant and Paul White
Spike Jones and His City Slickers perform "Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy".
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.
Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942.
Musical short starring Spade Cooley.
The Bronco Busters perform "Old Chisholm Trail."
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.
"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.
Whitey's Lindy Hoppers at their best along with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra performing for this "Hot Chocolate" musical short.
Original Schnickelfritz Band perform "Turkey in the Straw."
Yvonne De Carlo sings herself to sleep, in her dreams she dances with a Latin dancer. She awakes to sing again.
R.C.M. Soundie
Ozzie Nelson takes us along for a typical day for a bandleader.
Soundie featuring The Chanticleers singing "Babbling Bess." Also starring Francine Everett (as Babbling Bess) and Mable Lee (Dancer).
Dona Drake sings "Sticks and Stones".
Chris Cross and crew sing "I Wanna Be a Fireman".
The Bronco Busters perform "Silver Spurs."