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UPDATED 2-8-09

ROUTE 66:
2 different treatments
of an American standard.

ROUTE 66
Performed by the composer

ROUTE 66
Nat King Cole's version

PEOPLE LIKE YOU & ME
Glenn Miller, Modernaires

WWII Swing

JITTERBUG PARTY
Cab Calloway

One of several "Soundies,"
early equivalent of music
videos, shown on special
jukeboxes called Panorams.

MINNIE'S IN THE MONEY
Benny Goodman
(W.W. II era)

Benny sings! (flat)
Good dancing sequence

STARDUST
Sinatra

when he was still skinny (1943)

SONG FROM
THE OLD COUNTRY

Don Pullen-George
Adams Quartet

with Michele Hendricks.
Newer than most here,
but worth checking out!

JUST ONE MORE CHANCE;
I SURRENDER, DEAR


Early Bing Crosby

SOME WESTERN SWING

Bob Wills and
his Texas Playboys

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

BABY LOVE
The Supremes

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

FINE AND MELLOW
Billie Holliday

If you only have time to watch
one of these, this is the one.

YOU FILL ME WITH INERTIA
Peter Cook, Dudley Moore,
and Eleanor Bron.

the original and best version of
BEDAZZLED

ANOTHER SCENE

from Bedazzled

AH, BUT THE STRAWBERRIES . . .
THAT'S WHERE I HAD THEM.

THE CAINE MUTINY:
Bogart

DRUM BOOGIE

Young man, what
does "Boogie" mean?

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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