When the Moon is WHERE?

There's a whole lotta Hollywood Palace clips on youtube lately, and some of them are just mindblowing:

Look! I'm Bibi! (minus the box)

I never cease to be amazed by what shows up on archive.org.



This particular video is worth watching if only for the unique way Big Joe Turner interprets "Shake Rattle and Roll" for the cameras (at 43 minutes in) a real live feel to it. Other performances include:
Cab Calloway in full mop o' hair mode for "Minnie the Moocher" with shadow play;
"Bad Bad Whiskey" (amen!) sung by Amos Milburn;
The Delta Rhythm Boys singing "Dry Bones" in a pretty static presentation;
Nat 'King' Cole sings a Havana-moon-style slow calypso song;
and Mantan Moreland and Nipsey Russell do classic bits of "That's bad/no, that's good" (where Nipsey expresses glee that his aged wife burns to death ha-HA!) and the old "Finishing your sentence" joke stream.

The compression is fairly strong on the embed, so - and how cool is this - why not just download a nice 3.5 gig mpeg2 version? Cause they got it!

The perfect answer to "No, my brotha! You got to get your own!" (Sorry- a purely USA reference, from the "Hello Love" album compilation commercial back in the 70's)

The short circuits - Sweet sweet sway

from JB's Warehouse which is momentarily in hibernation ...

* Yes, that is Morgan Freeman as the groovy DJ introducing today's toetapper.
* The song was written by Joe Raposo, who's usually associated with another Children's Television Workshop show, Sesame Street. Among his best known compositions: Bein' Green, C Is For Cookie, Doin' The Pigeon and Sing.
* The lead singer is Denise Nickerson, best known as the human blueberry in the previous year's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. - JB

Rhythm and Blues Revue

Rhythm and Blues Revue (1955) [IMDb] is in Public Domain and is according to Internet Archive a "Musical variety show filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City featuring a cast of popular African-American performers: Willie Bryant, Freddie Robinson, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Faye Adams, Bill Bailey, Herb Jeffries, Amos Milburn, Sarah Vaughan, Nipsey Russell, Big Joe Turner, Martha Davis, Little Buck, Nat 'King' Cole, Mantan Moreland, Cab Calloway and Ruth Brown."

Here's a wild and fun clip from the film with an exciting exotica vibe,
Lionel Hampton - Bongo Interlude:

Clip added by weirdovideos

Bonus: Don't forget to pick up the 1951 8-track LP "Here's Gates" with Lionel Hampton ('Bongo Interlude' is one of the tracks) posted and shared by Brad over at MoodieToonz last year. It's still there. And it's still swingin'!