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“Always” is a popular song written by Irving Berlin in 1925, as a wedding gift for his wife Ellin Mackay, whom he married in 1926...
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"Snake Hips" Ann Pennington in 'Happy Days' (1929)
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JANUARY 6TH
Happy Birthday Phyllis Haver!
(January 6, 1899 – November 19, 1960)
American Actress of the Silent Film Era
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🎶 Step back to the swingin’ 1940s with *“Zoot Suit”* — performed by Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White with Ted Fio Rito’s Orchestra! This lively Soundie captures pure vintage rhythm and charm. 💃🏽🕺🏽
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#OpenTheDoorRichard #CountBasie #JazzHistory #Soundies #MusicVideo #1940sMusic #StepinFetchit #BoogieWoogie #SwingEra #ClassicJazz #FilmHistory #VisualJukebox #MusicalShort #RetroMusic #AmericanCulture
Posters for last 4 films watched: Jitterbug Senorita (1941) Don't Cry (1941) Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) The Tell-Tale Heart (1941)
Last 4 films watched
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#soundies of #SoundSky Recommend your fave best value audio handheld recording devices. I am interested in the 32 bit float but don’t need it, if the price is right and it has the other features I want:
-at least 4 tracks
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-cleanest preamp I can get cheaply.
Thank you!!
Joe Turner was the father figure for all of the 1940s and 1950s rhythm & blues shouters. He honed his craft in the bars and night clubs of Kansas City during the late 1920s and 1930s, and by the the time he appeared in the 1938 "From Spirituals to Swing" concert at Carnegie Hall and made his […]
Amos Milburn was one of the major rhythm & blues stars of the late 1940s and early 1950s,.
"Bad, Bad Whiskey" was a #1 R&B hit for Milburn in 1950. Credited to the profilic arranger/producer Maxwell Davis, it was the first in a series of drinking songs recorded by him. Many of these were hits […]
This video combines the Obscure Indie/Post Punk Group Mini Mall with a few bygone era Soundies performances. Soundies were short musical numbers mostly from the early to mid 1940s. I thought it would be fun to give them new life.
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Did you see the great cover shot for @amianet.bsky.social's latest journal issue? We contributed that #Kodak test reel image from our Alfred Gruenhut Colln. Gruenhut worked for Talk-A-Vision, a #Soundies competitor, back in the 1940s. bmac.libs.uga.edu/Detail/colle...
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