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Doris Day sings "Is It Love or Is It Conscription?" with Les Brown and His Orchestra

Stan Kenton and his Orchestra perform "This Love of Mine" with Cyd Charisse and other dancers

Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra perform "Au Reet"

1942 Soundies musical short starring The King's Men

Mel Tormé and the Mel-Tones sing the title song in this 1945 Soundie (a short film produced to be played on jukebox-like Panoram machines).

The King Cole Trio and Ida James perform the title song in this Soundie.

Soundies short film featuring Maurice Rocco performing "Rock It For Me" on the piano.

Louis Jordan's Orchestra perform Jordan Jive. Setting is a canteen, with the orchestra and audience in US military uniform. The Swing Maniacs go through some extremely strenuous acrobatic dancing.

Count Basie does a little rhyming rapping before going into this Benny Goodman instrumental composition. While he's playing, plenty of couples are jitterbugging constantly until, one by one, they get tired and start to fall down on the floor.

Lucky Millinder and His Band are joined by Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Les Brown and His Orchestra perform "My Lost Horizon" with Doris Day

Emerson's Mountaineers perform in this January 1944 Soundie music video. Polly Shaffer sings, with the Hillbillies on fiddle, guitars, and upright bass.

Soundies short film with Maurice Rocco and His Rockin' Rhythm performing "Rhumboogie".

Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five perform "G.I. Jive"

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra perform "Bli-Blip" with Marie Bryant and Paul White

The Charioteers perform "Swing for Sale"

Soundie with Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra.

The Song Spinners perform "Love's Gonna Be Rationed"

Helen Huntley and Stan Kenton and His Orchestra perform "Jammin' in the Panoram."

Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra perform "Let Me Off Uptown".