Soundies Of The 1940s
The First Music Videos
Volume 2
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In Volume 2 of The Originator of Music Videos –
Soundies, we get to enjoy the talents of Henny Youngman. In the soundie
Sweet Sue, Just You, the song's words and music are by Will Harris and
Victor Young, and performed by Six Hits & A Miss and the all-women Lorraine
Page Orchestra. You will also get to enjoy Kay Lorraine, Merle Pitt's Five
Shades of Blue, and Frank Wilcox as the porter. Carolyn Marsh with Ray Bloch
and His Orchestra, Billy Burt, Gai Moran, Danny Hocktor, The Three Suns,
Emil Coleman and His Orchestra with vocals by June Barton, a song from the
Broadway show "Ziegfield Follies Of 1912" (William Jerome / James V.
Monaco), . The Gordonairs of Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians and The University
Chorus.
Believe me you will be enthralled by not only the era, but the songs and the
abundant amount of talent, back in the day. So sit back in your chair and,
for over an hour of great times,
let the soundies of the 30s and 40s take you away.
Euterpe Jones The Marimba Queens Trip On Beefheart
2:38 (This version is colorized)
Our Teacher (1943) 2:42
Heaven Help A Sailor On A Night Like This (ca
1940s) 2:35
Hawaiian Hula Song (ca. 1940s) 1:51
Sweet Sue (Just You) 3:09
I Don’t Want To Walk Without You 3:01
I Can't Give You Anything but Love (1941) 2:42
Stardust 2:47
A Jazz Etude (1941) 2:39
Zig Me Baby with a Gentle Zag (1941) 2:20
Beyond The Blue Horizon (1944) 2:21
Surrender (maybe Perry Como check it out) 2:31
Got To Be This or That (1945) 2:24
Once In A While (ca 1941) 2:52
Row Row Row 2:35
Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech 2:06
Fiesta 2:48
We start this fascinating DVD with the 1956 movie, Sound And The Story
starts with a women putting the Romeo and Juliet album in her RCA Victor
record player. This took me back to evenings with my mom and dad when we
would put Madame Butterfly in ours and sit and listen.
The Sound and The Story tells us how vinyl records are made. I loved the
step by step process involved, starting by taking us to Boston and showing
us a recording being done of “Romeo And Juliet” by the Boston Symphony. We
learned about the three requirements for Hi-Fidelity recording (full dynamic
range; natural balance between all sections and instrument and the frequency
range).
Then we are off to New York City to transfer the recorded sound form tape
to a lacquer master. Our lacquer master is then sent to Indianapolis,
Indiana which was one of three processing plants to which a lacquer master
might go. We then see our lacquer master become a mold, and then finally,
the dupes of the mold. We start in production control and move on to
packaging, the shipping control room and then finish in shipping and
distribution. All of the steps involved are explained in an easy to
understand manner, I was absolutely enthralled and amazed watching it all.
The movie is a wonderful testament to the vinyl record, not only in it’s job
of explaining the process, but making it so exciting and interesting while
doing it. As a lover of all things vinyl, I never knew all they went through
to make the recordings I still treasure today. Speaking of treasure, I was
green with envy watching the ending which is full of album covers from all
genre’s of music. So me wish I had a time machine to take me back to grab
all those albums for my collection. The album cover with Yehudi Menuhin,
made me think of the soundie on this collection Who’s Yehudi?
So sit back, relax and take a trip from Boston, to NY and Indianapolis for
the next twenty three and a half minutes, without leaving home. Believe me
you will enjoy it.
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