Minnie the Moocher 1942
Cab Calloway performing his famous hit "Minnie the Moocher".
Cab Calloway performing his famous hit "Minnie the Moocher".
Jimmy Wakely Trio sing "Git Along Little Pony".
Cab Calloway and his Cabaliers sing "Blues in the Night".
Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra perform "Let Me Off Uptown".
Four dancers, two males and two females, merrily dance to the merry tune of "Skip to my Lou".
A language teacher gives the titular advice to a class in this comedy short.
Martha Tilton & Ben Pollack's Orchestra
Cab Calloway and The Cabaliers are singing about how The Big Bad Wolf only talks about his Disney money, Felix the Cat is fat and rich, and Mickey the Mouse is riding in his motor car, while the skunk moans about how "nobody loves me" on account of him just being a "dirty old skunk".
Willie Howard is a guard on sentry duty sent to the mess hall where pretty girls are present to entertain the troops in this soundie.
Soundie of the Delta Rhythm Boys' version of the eponymous classic song, accompanied by some dancing beauties.
The Pretty Priorities perform "Take It Off".
The Deep River Boys sing an exciting version of Toot that Trumpet (1941), staged as a club setting with lots of dancers, Chinese paper lanterns hanging from the ceiling and a lively trumpet player.
Will Bradley's Six Texas Hot Dogs perform "Basin Street Boogie."
Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle with Carson Robison and His Buckaroos.
There Won't Be a Shortage of Love from Teddy Powell's Orchestra.
Denver Darling's Hillbillies and their Buffalo Gals.
The Charioteers perform the classic title song in this early music video format.
The soundie begins with the guys in the bandbox playing nurdy stuff & the dancers in the street chanting "No, No, No!" until at long last Walter Fuller bursts into a wild, rapid jazz rendition of "After I'm Gone," setting the dance competition in motion.
The Korn Kobblers and Where the Sweet Mamas Grow.
Willie Howard sings of his escapades as Tyrone Shapiro, the Bronx Cavallero, in Yiddish, Spanish, and English.