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LATEST ADDITIONS 12-8-07:
ROUTE 66 HAT TRICK
3 totally different treatments of
an American standard.
ROUTE 66 Performed by the composer

ROUTE 66 Nat King Cole's version

ROUTE 66 By Asleep at the Wheel

GUYS AND DOLLS TRAILER Hosted by Ed Sullivan
 A great musical
FOOL, FOOL, FOOL The Clovers
 Early 50s R&B
PEOPLE LIKE YOU & ME Glenn Miller, Modernaires
 WWII Swing
GOD BLESS THE CHILD, NOW BABY OR NEVER Billie Holliday and Count Basie

WHY DON'T YOU DO RIGHT? Peggy Lee, Benny Goodman 
BABY LOVE The Supremes

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STARDUST Sinatra

when he was still skinny (1943)
OOH, KICK-A-ROONEY The King Cole Trio
 In concert (late 40s)
3 great selections!
SONG FROM THE OLD COUNTRY Don Pullen-George Adams Quartet

with Michele Hendricks.
Newer than most here, but worth checking out!
JITTERBUG PARTY Cab Calloway
One of several "Soundies," early equivalent of music videos, shown on special jukeboxes called Panorams.
JUST ONE MORE CHANCE; I SURRENDER, DEAR
 Early Bing Crosby
SOME WESTERN SWING
 Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
DJANGO REINHARDT, STEPHANE GRAPELLI The Quintet of the Hot Club of France
From an unidentified movie
THE BLUES ARE BREWIN' Billie Holliday, Louis Armstrong
(Beware of abrupt ending)
I'll CAPTURE HER HEART
Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire Music by Irving Berlin
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LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER

Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen
HEEBIE JEEBIE BLUES Boswell Sisters
 First of the great girl groups
HIPSTERS, FLIPSTERS AND FINGER-POPPIN' DADDIES
Lord Buckley visits Groucho on YOU BET YOUR LIFE GUNSMOKE:
Marshall Dillon lays down the law and the bad guy.
FINE AND MELLOW Billie Holliday

If you only have time to watch one of these, this is the one.
BYE BYE BABY Motown goes to New York,
 Mary Wells live at Harlem's Apollo Theatre.
YOU FILL ME WITH INERTIA Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, and Eleanor Bron.
the original version of BEDAZZLED
ANOTHER SCENE
 from Bedazzled
MINNIE'S IN THE MONEY Benny Goodman
(W.W. II era)
 Benny sings! (flat) Good dancing sequence
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AH, BUT THE STRAWBERRIES . . .
THAT'S WHERE I HAD THEM.
 THE CAINE MUTINY: Bogart
DRUM BOOGIE

Young man, what does "Boogie" mean?
CALDONIA
Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five
BE MY BABY The Ronettes
 Phil Spector's Wall of Sound
SHOUT
 The Isley Brothers
MY GIRL: The Temps!
PONY TIME Chubby Checker
Bad lip-synching but amusing dancing.

Cruising at Bob's
 Home of the Big Boy
Surfing in Michigan? You bet.
 CHECK IT OUT!
Reno Air Races

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