Vintage Music Video Channel

[Chas]

In lieu of an MTV or somesuch for us, I would like to start a thread for that.

I'm impressed with this.

Nat King Cole-Oscar-Coleman Hawkins

Had to add this.

Rhapsody in Black & Blue

 

[Viper Man]

:eusa_clap Great idea, Chas!

Django & Stephane

Henry "Red" Allen

 

[Brian Sheridan]

This is why the internet is killing TV, newspapers, magazines...

You could not find a vintage music video channel anywhere, even with 900 cable channels.

With YouTube - you can create your own.

Sweet!

 

[Hamilton_Honey]

These are great!

And I think it would be awesome to have a Vintage Music Video Channel - between all the "soundies" and clips from films and even early TV it would be quite a variety and very entertaining!

Do a search on You Tube for "soundie":

Soundies on You Tube

 

[Chas]

Jackie...

More.

 

[Prairie Dog]

Next Up On The FL Vintage Music Video Channel....

Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire http://youtube.com/watch?v=zpYYBHs-fOc

 

[Chas]

Nicely done, kids! I haven't seen some of these. I think we're on to something here..... gotta make some calls.

Let's keep this thing a-rolling...

Elanor....Powell.

Hula Tap

How many takes? One...two....three. Maybe.... I am in awe.
Western Rope Dance

Dorothy Dandridge in a Western Outfit....uhhghhhguhhguhhhguhhh....(the Homer Simpson drooling sound) taking a cold shower now....Cow Cow Boogie

 

[Caroline]

Cab Calloway doing Minnie the Moocher

I wanted to put one of the Cab/Betty Boop cartoons but I didn't want to go too far off topic!

 

[LizzieMaine]

One of my favorite Technicolor musical numbers from 1929. Must be seen to be appreciated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zca2XiRAtU

 

[Dismuke]

Here's one of my favorites - the Nicholas Brothers of whom I am a HUGE fan:


"Lucky Number" from 1936
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifk9paFSyuk

Someone mention Cab Calloway? Here they are a bit more grown up with Cab's band in 1942 - their performance here is simply spectacular:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiZnDhHGEF8

Through YouTube I also discovered a contemporary Czech bandleader called Ondřej Havelka While his videos were made in the 1990s, everything about them, the backgrounds, music and clothes, is strictly vintage. Some of them are kind of, well, a bit STRANGE such as this one done to "It All Depends On You"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4vUr55J0fw

Here is a fun one done to the 1940s song "Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVdojmdQK1U

And speaking of contemporary European 1920s and 1930s bands, I am a HUGE fan of Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester. They have been mentioned on this board before - and I had the pleasure of meeting Raabe a few years back when he performed in San Antonio. Unfortunately, not a lot of YouTube clips by him but here is one of him in concert:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMkjoQ6S7oQ

 

[Dismuke]

This is why the internet is killing TV, newspapers, magazines...

You could not find a vintage music video channel anywhere, even with 900 cable channels.

With YouTube - you can create your own.

Yep. Same with a radio station with a 1920s and 1930s format. With the Internet one you can just create your own. And that is why the RIAA is so hell bent on destroying Internet radio via the outrageously high per-song per-listener statutory royalty rates they managed to get pushed through which, if allowed to stand, are upwards of 130 percent of most stations revenues.

In the short run, they may get their way and kill off existing stations. In the long run - well they face the same fate that Luddites always have. At least the television stations and newspapers so far have taken a more proactive and rational approach to new technologies than has the RIAA which holds some sort of notion that they are entitled to a world that is technologically frozen somewhere in the 1980s.

The Internet is the best thing that ever happened for those of us who have extremely niche tastes in music - and for those who have niche interests in general.

 

[Chas]

WOW! Thanks for that Ondrej Havelka link, Dismuke! I'm a fan!

More....

Fats Waller

 

[Lulu-in-Ny]

Check these guys out.

 

[Foofoogal]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vnRqYMTpXHc

http://youtube.com/watch?v=y_5jYrZ0dMc&feature=related

 

[Dismuke]

WOW! Thanks for that Ondrej Havelka link, Dismuke! I'm a fan!

More....

Fats Waller

Wow back to you on that Fats Waller! Thanks so much for posting it. I actually have the audio soundtrack of that clip that I got a few years ago from an ultra cheapo bargain LP import from Europe. The audio alone is remarkable and the tap dancing in the background made it obvious that it came from an old movie musical of some sort. But being on a cheapo import LP, there were absolutely NO liner notes to indicate where it came from. I have always been curious as to what the movie sequence looked like. Now I know, thanks to your pointing it out.

Here is another clip - this time from Great Britain. The music on this is okay - but what makes this clip REALLY neat is entirely visual: the art deco sets on this are very stylized and outstanding.

The Radio Parade of 1935
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2kgKi7buKg

Today's world looks so flat and bland by comparison.