RCM Productions

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

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

Musical short with divers Jeanne Fairbrother, Steve Acardi and Tony Zukas with music by Jimmie Wallington.

R.C.M. Soundie

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

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

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.

Redd Harper and his Minnie the Mermaid.

Comedic musical short featuring the Hoosier Hotshots.

Smoke' Wells sings "I Got Her in the Mail."

Deuce Spriggins' Band teaming with Carolina Cotton for "Down the Trail to San Antone."

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

Dona Drake sings "Sticks and Stones".

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

Jazz Soundie with Stan Kenton and his players.

The Bronco Busters perform "Silver Spurs."

1942 Soundies musical short

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

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