Music: Hawaiian Hula Song with Steel Guitar

Hawaiian Hula Song, a classic. A seductive beauty does the hula while a duo play on guitar and slide. During the last third of the song, the rhythm picks up, becoming swingy.

Where Hawaiian traditional and American Jazz meet, practically western swing.

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Louis Jordan - You Gotta have a Beat

Now, Louis Jordan is going to school you on the difference between now and then, between yesterday and today, between the modern and the antiquated.

Even back in the 1940's, this ingenious musician, lyricist and performer, Louis Jordan, had it right. To this day, no one still could disagree — Today You Gotta have a Beat!

"People today is full of rhythm, it's in their head or either in their feet. So you better wake-up and get with them, 'cause today you gotta have a beat."

Too right, too right.

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New Year Redux: Georgia Sothern

Film Theatarettes presents Georgia Sothern in her dance from the musical hit Star and Garter.

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New Year Redux: Chinese Joy Dance

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New Year Redux: 20th Century Vamp strips

In this stag film just hauled out of basement, a Twentieth Century Vamp strips to her knickers to a raucous early jazz score.

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Fiddlin' Man - Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys

Bob Wills shows his master showmanship as both bandleader and musician in this short known as Fiddlin' Man.

Backing the king of western swing, the gum-chewing pianist, the expressionless guitarist, and the giddy drummer make playing with Wills look easy.

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Nettezza urbana - Michelangelo Antonioni

In memory of the master filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, his 1948 short film Nettezza urbana, aka Dustmen.

To Hear Your Banjo Play - 1947

Folk master Pete Seeger narrates Alan Lomax's documentary on the evolution and appreciation of American folk music. Special cameo performances include Woody Guthrie and Brownie McGhee, amongst many others.

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20th Century Vamp strips

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Music: Mahalia Jackson Sings - I Believe

Mahalia Jackson sings a truly heartfelt and soulful rendition of the gospel song "I Believe."

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Music: 1940's Hollywood Pop - Jimmy Wakely

In this clip, fictitious, watered-down pseudo-western-swing act Jimmy Wakely & the Sunshine Girls perform "You Are My Sunshine."

Jimmy Wakely was a Hollywood B-Western personality. With his career zenith during the studio system, Wakely would star in cowboy matinees and be featured in a comic book series.

"You are my Sunshine," one of the most covered songs of it's day, is arranged here with an early manufactured pop sensibility. Including a Western swing rhythm section, Andrews Sisters' styled harmonies, and a crooner leading a very stiff Hollywood studio orchestra, the arranger has achieved a quintessential triumph in banality.

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Burlesque: Chinese Joy Dance

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Burlesque: Georgia Sothern

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Music: The Hut Sut Song

WARNING: This absurd, cartoonish, and throroughly ridiculous soundie will brand itself in your memory.

After one viewing, the melody from this song will pop into you head unexpectedly at the most inopportune times and will remain there for up to several hours.

This singing quartet in fact is the King's Men, led by Ken Darby, a Hollywood songwriter who is said to have won at least 3 Academy Awards.

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Music: Who's Yehoodi?

An amusing soundie from 1942, Who's Your Hootie?, also called Who's Yehoodi?, was orignally composed in 1940 by Bill Seckler and Matt Dennis.

Bandleader Kay Kyser is joined by vocalist Lane Truesdale.

Based on a running gag by radio comedian Jerry Colona.

Pretty risque for its day. Who's your hootie?

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Americana: Coney Island of the 1940's

Coney Island, "the place where merriment is king!"

Take a trip back in time 50 years before the Mermaid Parade.

See masses of old school New Yorkers beat the heat by hitting the beach.

See Side Shows! Carnies! Freaks! Thrill rides! Includes the original Coney Island Hot Dog, the Bathing Girl Review, and people getting sick on rides.

Not to mention the Tiger Rag, if 1940's Coney Island existed today an insurance agent would have a field day.

Still, 1940's Coney Island kicks Disneyland's ass any day.

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Music: Bob Wills - Oklahoma

In this clip, from the B Western "Take Me Back to Oklahoma," Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys croon in perfect harmony 'Oklahoma we love you,' with Wills' signature backup calls.

Riding with Tex Ritter, they sing together 'Calamity Jane.'

But, clearly, the King of Western Swing makes Ritter pale in comparison, in our opinion.

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Music: Hawaiian Hula Song with Steel Guitar

Hawaiian Hula Song, a classic. A seductive beauty does the hula while a duo play on guitar and slide. During the last third of the song, the rhythm picks up, becoming swingy. Where Hawaiian traditional and American Jazz meet, practically western swing.
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Burlesque: Afro Mood - Amalia Aguilar

Exotic burlesque dancer short from the forties. Perhaps something you would have seen in Havana in the 40's, with a faux-Arabian theme. Staring Amalia Aguilar. Saucy.

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Music: Bob Wills - Lone Star Rag

In this clip, from the B Western "Take Me Back to Oklahoma," Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, on stage to entertain the locals, are introduced by Tex Ritter. The King of Western Swing then launches into a rendition of his classic 'Lone Star Rag.'

"They're good, aren't they?"
Tex Ritter responds, "Best in the West."

Too right, too right.

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