RCM Productions

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

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942.

Nat 'King' Cole & Ida James wonders "Who's Been Eating My Porridge?"

Louis Armstrong and his Sleepy Time Down South.

A comic short featuring Whitey's Lindy Hoppers.

Soundie featuring June Richmond (vocals) and Roy Milton performing "Hey Lawdy Mama."

Dona Drake sings "Sticks and Stones".

Princess Aloha & Andy Iona's Orchestra in Hilo Hattie.

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

Original Schnickelfritz Band perform "Turkey in the Straw."

Soundie featuring The Chanticleers singing "Babbling Bess." Also starring Francine Everett (as Babbling Bess) and Mable Lee (Dancer).

Soundie with Gael Amber singing and few couples dancing.

Charles Dorn with the novelty number My Little Grass Shack.

Moonlight Becomes You, Eddy Howard.

A college girl (Bonnie Kildare) dreams of her boyfriend (Johnny Downs) as he sings her a love song. The song begins at graduation ceremony and eventually moves to a soda fountain. A mixed double quartet contributes a lovely chorus.

Comedic musical short featuring the Hoosier Hotshots.

"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.

The Bronco Busters perform "Silver Spurs."

The combination of The Four Tones & Lucius Brooks with Mildred Boyd to deliver "Baby, Are You Kiddin'?"

Carolina Cotton Yodeling with the Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang.