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Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra perform "Au Reet"

Doris Day sings "Is It Love or Is It Conscription?" with Les Brown and His Orchestra

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.

1942 Soundies musical short starring The King's Men

Helen Huntley and Stan Kenton and His Orchestra perform "Jammin' in the Panoram."

The King Cole Trio and Ida James perform the title song in this Soundie.

Performed by Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra

Stan Kenton and his Orchestra perform "This Love of Mine" with Cyd Charisse and other dancers

Soundies short film featuring Maurice Rocco performing "Rock It For Me" on the piano.

Mel Tormé and the Mel-Tones sing the title song in this 1945 Soundie (a short film produced to be played on jukebox-like Panoram machines).

Cab Calloway performing his famous hit "Minnie the Moocher".

Featuring Jimmy Dorsey

Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra perform "Let Me Off Uptown".

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.

Emerson's Mountaineers perform in this January 1944 Soundie music video. Polly Shaffer sings, with the Hillbillies on fiddle, guitars, and upright bass.

The Charioteers perform "Swing for Sale"

Les Brown and His Orchestra perform "My Lost Horizon" with Doris Day

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

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

Soundie with Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra.