RCM Productions

Musical short starring Spade Cooley.

Spike Jones and His City Slickers perform "Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy".

The Bronco Busters perform "Old Chisholm Trail."

Harry Langdon lip syncs the title song and interacts with models.

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942.

Whitey's Lindy Hoppers at their best along with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra performing for this "Hot Chocolate" musical short.

Johnny Taylor sings "Good Nite All" at a house party.

Dorothy Dandridge and band perform "Cow-Cow Boogie".

R.C.M. Soundie

In this Soundie, the Mills Brothers sing the title song to a cut-out image of Dorothy Dandridge, which then comes to life and dances for them.

Yvonne De Carlo sings herself to sleep, in her dreams she dances with a Latin dancer. She awakes to sing again.

A little music from Lynn Albritton, Lou Ellen and The Harlem Cuties.

"Let's Scuffle" is a short subject -- a single song-and-dance number -- that appears to have been cut from a feature-length movie: to be precise, a 'race film'. (This was the term used by American cinema exhibitors in the 1940s and earlier for any movie with an all-black cast, intended primarily for distribution in black neighbourhoods at a time when many American cinemas were segregated.) The song-and-dance performer here is none other than the great Bill Robinson.

Comedic musical short featuring the Hoosier Hotshots.

Kay Starr singing "Stop That Dancing Up There".

Original Schnickelfritz Band perform "Turkey in the Straw."

The Bronco Busters perform "Silver Spurs."

The Terry Twins with Jerry Browne & His Orchestra perform "Chiquita Banana."

An early "soundie" in which Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White sing "A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat" while getting dressed up for a big date.

Ozzie Nelson takes us along for a typical day for a bandleader.