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Complete list of all 39 Soundies excerpted, March 15, 2009
This review is from: Soundies: A Musical History (DVD)
American taverns in the 1940s usually had neon-decorated jukeboxes that played 78s. Roomier "joints" often provided entertainment from an icebox-sized machine called a Panoram. For a certain amount of coin, patrons could both listen to and watch songs performed by their favorite artists. This ingenious monster contained numerous film loops deliverable on demand to a projector and shown via mirrors and rear projection on an opaque glass screen. After WWII, the Panoram was superseded by a new device: television.
On the SOUNDIES documentary, some of the original artists are interviewed, plus there's commentary from host Michael Feinstein, Wynton Marsalis, Hugh Hefner and Leonard Maltin. As mentioned elsewhere, only song fragments are featured here.
These include:
Hot Chocolate - Duke Ellington & orch.
Blowtop Blues - Cab Calloway & orch.
Jumpin' at the Jubilee - Louis Jourdan & Tympani Five
Frim Fram Sauce - King Cole Trio
Don't Cry Baby - Les Paul Trio
Why'd I Fall For Abner? - Merle Travis & Carolina Cotton
Clink! Clink! Another Drink - Spike Jones & City Slickers
Boardwalk Boogie - Will Bradley & orch.
Man, That's Groovy - Jimmy Dorsey & orch.
Stop That Dancin' Up There - Kay Starr & Jimmy Dodd
Huckleberry Duck - The Martins
Honeysuckle Rose - Fats Waller
Take Me Back, Baby - Count Basie & band
Lullaby of Broadway - Mel Tormé & his Mel-tones
Fan Dance - Sally Rand
A Lady With Fans - Faith Bacon
There Won't Be a Shortage of Love - Peggy Mann
Just As Tho' You Were Here - Lois Collier & Glamourettes
You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith - Mitchell Ayres & orch.
Bless 'Em All - Dick Robertson w. Johnny Messner orch.
I Shut My Mouth For Uncle Sam - Frances Faye
Der Fuhrer's Face - Spike Jones & City Slickers
Jump Children - International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Lazy River - Mills Bros.
America, I Love You - Claude Thornhill & orch.
Shine - Louis Armstrong & orch.
Jungle Jig - Dorothy Dandridge & Cee Pee Johnson
Let Me Off Uptown - Gene Krupa & orch.
Got a Penny, Benny - King Cole Trio
My Lost Horizon - Doris Day w. Les Brown & band
I Learned a Lesson - Lawrence Welk & orch.
Did Anyone Call? - Cyd Charisse
Tiger Rag - Liberace
The Lamp of Memory - Yvonne De Carlo
BONUS:
The Songs of Yesterday Are Here to Stay - Michael Feinstein
plus--
I Hear You Knocking - Gene Austin
You Always Hurt the One You Love - Mills Bros.
The Music Shop - Rubinoff
Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair - Cliff Edwards
4-F Ferdinand - Harry 'The Hipster' Gibson
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