Shake It, Don't Break It

Vintage 1940s Lenticular Hula Girl in original plastic frame from my personal collection. There were several versions of this made, all with different frames and different poses of the girl. But all of them featured the same girl, she just did a slightly different dance in each.

A Knife, A Fork and A Spoon

Look! This is how a nice and sound Sunday dinner should end up. No fighting. No politics. No scheming. No prozac for desert.
Just happiness, and a knife, a fork and a spoon. The Fashionaires & Billy Reed.

The Secret Music of China

Alexander Laszlo/Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman - The Secret Music of China. Available thanks to Mundo Estranho De Pb.

Jungle Rhumba

From 'Neptune's Daughter' comes this luxuriously exotica flavored clip of Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra at Casa Cugat:

(Via The International Army of Freaks)

Song of the kolkhoz of Borets

Chorus of the Russian song of the kolkhoz of "Borets" [Bronnitskogo] region of Moscow

Easy for YOU to Say

The female singer/dancer is Marie Bryant, who you can read about here. The reference in the article about her making calypso recordings makes me wonder if she is the same Marie Bryant who sings Don't Touch Me Tomato from this album.

Jitterbug Fashion Parade

Jitterbug Fashion Parade - Amos Milburn via BeBop Wino

Lazybones soundie

In this Soundie from 1941, Hoagy Carmichael sings his composition Lazybones while Dorothy Dandridge and Peter Ray perform a novelty dance number.



Read all about Soundies in THE SOUNDIES BOOK: A REVISED AND EXPANDED GUIDE TO THE "MUSIC VIDEOS" OF THE 1940s (2007) available from iUniverse at www.iuniverse.com

Zig Me, Baby

Just what the doctor ordered, gentle silliness and bad hair, found at Mr. Dante Fontana's Audio-Visual Guidance 3.0.

 

Alvino Rey Lies Over The Ocean

We have posted about Alvino Rey and his "talking guitar" before. But this is kind of cute, and I am going to bed with "My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean" ringing in my ears.


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Most Important Meal of the Day

The Three Chefs perform Breakfast in Rhythm

When Banana Skins Are Falling

I will provide the regular Slim Gaillard updates on this blog, on that you can rely. Snap, Crackle, and Pop has an album with a few Slim numbers missing from my collection,  Maybe you need them too, especially When Banana Skins Are Falling:

Roll, Torchy, Roll!

If this photo Torchy Gargano doesn't make you want to ogle some photos of amateur rollerskating's finest — circa 1942-1971 – I don't know what will.

Maybe this.

Scary Movies 3.

"The Uninvited" (1944).

Another one of my favorites. Not fright-inducing in the traditional sense, but plenty creepy and good to watch on a dark, rainy night. Also -- Ray Milland!

Ondiolini (1948)

The ondioline again:

Shaving Cream and other delights

You may remember Benny Bell's 1940s risque novelty song "Shaving Cream" — sung by Paul Wynn — from the Dr. Demento Show or recently when WFMU's Best Show host Tom Scharpling compared the song to what 2 Live Crew used to do.
After being played by Dr. Demento the song became a Top 40 hit for four weeks in 1975, peaking at 30.

Download "Shaving Cream" and other songs like "Go Take a Ship for Yourself," "Pincus the Peddler," "A Goose for My Girl" and many others from the Internet Archive.

These ads appeared in Billboard in the 1940s.

Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat

Dorothy Dandridge and Paul White, as well as all the PCL-ers shop at Groove Clothiers.....

Hot Dogs Made Their Name

Zorch's Inner Sanctum has just posted a wonderful collection of early calypso music by Wilmoth Houdini including a song I've been looking for (for the title alone, but it's a great tune anyway):

Hot Dogs Made Their Name - Wilmoth Houdini

Got a Penny, Benny?

Mona Lisa Nat and King Cole Trio Nat, two entirely different people.

Anyone else feel their blood pressure return to normal when they listen to the King Cole Trio?

The Philharmonicas : Powerhouse

The Six Philharmonicas performing an all harmonica version of “Powerhouse” by Raymond Scott from the 1939 short film “The Dipsy Doodler” by Larry Clinton and His Orchestra.



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