A mix of clips from old movies, short music films, and TV show excerpts.
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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

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

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

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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