M&A Music Performance Jazz Shorts

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Narrationless Industrial Shorts With Jazz Scores

American Airlines Operations: jazz and gorgeous Technicolor tells story of AAL air cargo operationsfrom woman wanting a new washer (she has old-fashioned wringer washer), to role of AAL in shipping by airgood shots of San Francisco late 1950s 8-8B

The Masters: another jazz industrial short re American Airlines preventive maintenance operations in TulsaTechnicolor late 1950s 8-8A

The Right Hand of Plenty: Volkswagen short in gorgeous color re assembly of VW automobiles and man and machineshas cool jazz soundtrack (mid-1960s) 8-3B

Grape Jam: impressionistic jazz flute and bass provide vivid background music for this short which follows wine-making process from vine through bottling to ultimate consumptionWalker Valley Vineyards in New York (1986) excellent color 4-24A

Jazz Shorts 1:

1) Brown and Harris [and their dusky high-steppers ]: HotPepper 1930s black women dancers and two black young men tappers

2) Stepin Fetchit and midget bellboy introduce boogie-woogie jitterbug dancer woman, Mickey O'Danielgreat swing dance scenes black

3) Unknown Tune with black chorus line, plus man & woman tap dance team 1930s

4) Bye Bye, Baby Blues, Joe Turner with boogie-woogie piano of Meade Lux Lewis black

5) Georgia on My Mind, Carolyn Marsh with Ray Bloch and his Orchestra (1941)

6) Got a Penny, Benny? Nat King Cole Trio (1946) black

7) Vine Street Blues, ? Wingy Manone's Band with Anna Lee (1943)

8) Untitled boogie woogie with black men and women dancersnovelty and otherwise early 1940s

9) Never Too Old to Swing, Tiny Grimes (1945) black

10) Take Everything, The Three Peppers (1945) black

11) Don't Be Late, Cecil Scott and his orchestra (1945) black crooner a la Billy Eckstine

12) Big Fat Butterfly, Gene Rodgers an The V's (1944) black

13) I've Got the World on a String, Les Brown and his Band of Renown Snader

14) TV kinescope of drunk man dancing with two women to a recording of Artie Shaw's Concerto for Clairnetfrom unknown comedy-variety TV show of early 1950s

15) Chop Sticks, Johnny Long and His Orchestra (1943)

16) Chant of the Jungle, Larry Clinton and His Orchestra (1943)

Jazz Shorts 2:

1) Low Gravy, Glen Gray and His Casa Loma Orchestra

2) Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, Johnny Messner and His Orchestra (1942) hot version!

3) Good, Good, Good, The Barkley Sisters

4) I Know That You Know, Emil Coleman

5) The Hot Foot,

6) Indiana, The Mel-Tones

7) Blow Top Blues, Cab Calloway black

8) A Friend of Yours, Glen Gray and His Casa Loma Orchestra

9) Ain't She Pretty?, The Three Peppers black

10) Boomerang, Harry Brever

11) Harriet, Chuck Foster

12) I'm Homesick, That's All, Stan Kenton and His Orchestra

13) Juanita, The Mel-Tones

14) Stuff You Gotta Watch, Chuck Foster

15) A Kiss Goodnight, The Barkley Sisters

Jazz Shorts 3:

1) Reed Rapture, Stan Kenton

2) Unknown Boogie Woogie, black jazz piano player

3) Down Yonder, Mr. and Mrs. 88 (Eddie Cole) Snader

4) Margie, Van Alexander and his Orchestra

5) Detour, Mr. and Mrs. 88 Snader black

6) Why Don't You Do Right?, Peggy Lee Snader

7) Sophisticated Lady, Duke Ellington (with Johnny Hodges) Snader 1952

8) Stan's Boogie, Stan Fisher

9) Dance of Renown, Les Brown and His Band of Renown Snader

10) Harlem Nocturne, Harry Zimmerman and His Orchestra Snader

11) Wherever There's Me, There's You, Mr. and Mrs. 88 black

12) Unknown Boogie Woogie with jazz combo and jitterbug dancers (Ozzie Nelson Orchestra on soundtrack?) 1940s

13) Bugle Woogie, Susan Miller with Lorraine Page the female Trumpeteers 1941

14) Broom and Pan, Gee Gee Pearson sings song about being a drummer in a swing band 1943

15) Time Takes Care of Everything, June Richmond black 1946

Jazz Shorts 4:

1) Dixieland music, Firehouse Five Plus Two [from film Grounds For Marriage]

2) Red Hot River Valley, Firehouse Five Plus Two

3) St. James Infirmary Blues, Stan Kenton

4) Lonesome, Al Donahue and His orchestra

5) Cornsilk, Phil Neely Trio and Marcia Griffin (1941)

6) Eager Beaver, Stan Kenton

7) Let's Go to a Party, black band and singers

8) hot instrumental dubbed behind all-girl band plus dancers (Charlie Shavers?, Coleman Hawkins?)

9) Boogie Man, Johnny Long

10) Dancers in Love, Ike Carpenter

11) Dinah, Bob Howard black

12) black Hawaiian group with jazz band on soundtrack

13) Everybody Loves My Baby, Firehouse Five Plus Two

14) Dual Boogie, Mr. and Mrs. 88 black Snader

Jazz Shorts 5:

1) Frenesi, Del Casino and his Orchestra

2) Tillie, Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five [excerpted from Caldonia] black 1945

3) Goodnight, All, Johnny Taylor

4) Swining' o' the Green, Patricia Ryan (1943)

5) Rug Cutters Holiday, Freddie and Flo, Slap and Happy, Snap and Snappy [Jelly and Red Allen] (1943) black

6) Legs Ain't No Good, Edna Mae Harris and Slim Thomas black (1942)

7) What to Do, Savannah Churchill with Les Hite and His Orchestra black (1942)

8) Unknown Boogie Song with black group

9) My Bottle Is Dry, June Richmond black 1946

10) Memphis Blues, Jerri Sullavan

11) Doin' You Good, Lawrence Welk

12) Jonah, Fats Daniels with Glen Gray and His Casa Loma Orchestra [Bobby Hackett is trumpet player in band] 1945 black

13) Swampfire, Air Lane Trio

14) South, Firehouse Five Plus Two Snader

15) These Things I Offer You, Sarah Vaughan

16) Virginia, Georgia, and Caroline, Cab Calloway

Jazz Shorts 6:

1) Smiles, Tommy Reynold and his Orchestrawith tap dancer Sunnie O'Dea (1942)

2) Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Ike Carpenter Snader

3) It's the Talk of the Town, Ike Carpenter Snader

4) The Skunk Song, Cab CallowayCab's band includes Cozy Cole (drums), Bennie Payne (Piano), and Jonah Jones (trumpet) (1942) black

5) Rocco Blues, boogie woogie version of Molly Malone, Maurice Roccogood montage of hands and fingers playing piano (1943)

6) I'm a Shy Guy, Nat King Cole Trio (1946) black

7) We, the Cats, Shall Hep Ya, Cab Calloway (1945) black

8) Knock Me Out, Apus and Estrellita, Dewey Brown black (1945)

9) Yeah, Man--Yeah, Man, Cotton Club Tramp Band (same as in feature film Stormy Weather) black

10) When Your Lover Is Blue, Tommy Reynolds and HisOrchestra

11) Someone's Rockin’ My Dreamboat, Shep Fields (1942)

12) Don't Be a Baby, Baby, Joe Marsala

13) Jammin' in the Panoram, Stan Kenton (1942)

14) If You Can't Smile and Say Yes, Louis Jordan black (1944)

15) The Man with the Weird Beard, Ray Bauduc (1946)

Jazz Shorts 7:

1) Texas, Van Alexander

2) That Did It, Marie, Tony Pastor (1942)

3) Paradiddle Joe, Tony Pastor (1941)

4) Louis Jordan Medley [ Five Guys Named Moe, Fuzzy Wuzzy, The Ration Blues ] splicy black

5) Jubilee, Louis Jordan black

6) Semper Fidelis, Larry Clinton

7) You're Driving Me Crazy, Mel Torme Snader

8) That Lady in Bed, Phil Moore Quintet black jazz

9) Skylark, Sonny Dunham and His Orchestra with Harriet Clark (1942)

10) Lazy Bones Hoagy Carmichael (opens with him playing Stardust with Dorothy Dandridge and Bob Crosby and His Orchestra (1941)

11) Coming Through the Rye, Charlie Spivak

12) All Ruzzitt Buzzitt, Dallas Bartley and His Orchestra black (1945)

13) Major Bowes Scenes:

 Nagasaki, Harlem rent party scene from Radio Revels short

 You're a Heavenly Thing, jazz banjo duet

 But Almost woman sings and tap dances

Jazz Shorts 8:

1) Surprise Party, Joy Nelson

2) Under the Willow Tree, Marilyn Hare and The Paragons

3) Little Brown Jug, The Korn Kobblers

4) Melody Parade, The Swing Stars

5) Trip to the Moon, The Swing Stars (1946)

6) Jim, Judy Carroll and Johnny Thomas

7) Sweet Lorraine, Harry Cool

8) Elmer's Tune, The Dorn Brothers and Mary, Jackie Greene (1941)

9) Rain on the Roof, Maxine Gray

10) Raymond Scott’s War Dance for Wooden Indians, Nucomi and Neeahtha with Ben Pollock and his orchestraa Raymond Scott composition (1941)

11) Oh, DearThe County Fair, The Four Sweet Notes (1942)

12) What This Country Needs, Martha Tilton, Jimmy Dodd, Leo Diamondrecorded by Bobby Sherwood and His Orchestra (1941)

13) No, No, Baby, Skeets Tolbert

14) Rhythm of the Rhythm Band, The Musical Madcaps

15) The Devil Sat Down and Cried, Savannah Churchill with Les Hite and His Orchestra black

16) Drink Hearty, Henry Red Allen black (no op)

Jazz Shorts 9:

1) Somebody Nobody Loves, Claude Thornhill and His Orchestra

2) Wham, The Four Ginger Snaps black

3) Broadway, Henri Woode

4) Untitled, Henri Woode

5) The Pollard Jump, The Suntan Four with Nicki O'Daniel (1946)

6) It's Nothing New, Al Donahue and His Orchestra

7) Maria Elena, Johnny Long and His Orchestra

8) My Buddy, Larry Clinton

9) Rock It for Me, Maurice Rocco black

10) Hold That Tiger, Victor Young and His Orchestra

11) Jumpin' Jive, Ginger Harmon

12) Amen, Johnny Messner and His Orchestra

13) My Reverie, Larry Clinton and His Orchestra

14) Darktown Strutters' Ball, The Charioteers black

15) The Anvil Chorus, Al Donahue

16) Johnny Peddler, Johnny Long and His Orchestra

Jazz Shorts 10

1) The Wave-a-Stick Blues, Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra (1942)

2) That's for Me, Beverly Roberts

3) Honeysuckle Rose, Fats Waller (black perfect condition) 1941

4) Love Turns Winter, Martha Tilton with Bobby Sherwood and His Orchestra

5) Let's Get Away from It All, Johnny Long

6) Your Darn Tootin', Gabriel, trumpeter Muzzy Marcellino with Ted FioRito Orchestravocal

7) Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well?, Phil Moore Four black

8) Sleepy Time Down South, Jerry Cooper

9) Jive, Little Gypsy, Jive, Bobby Sherwood

10) When My Sugar Walks Down the Street, Henry Levine

11) Nightride, Dave Schooler

12) Bend Down, Sister, Harry Barris

13) Hawaiian Holiday, Godfrey Dancers

14) You Gotta Be a Football Hero, Gus Howard with Les Elgartand His Orchestra

Jazz Shorts 11

1) Millenium Jump, Joe Marsala

2) Yes, Indeed, The Spirits of Rhythm with Dorothy Dandridge black

3) Southland Swing, The Swing Sirens (1944)

4) Livin', Lovin', Laughin', Marcella Hendricks

5) Exactly Like You, Joy Hodges

6) Caterpiller Shuffle, Johnny Long

7) The Dipsy Doodle, Larry Clinton

8) Blues in the Night, Cab Calloway perfect condition black

9) On My Way, Ralph Flanagan and His Orchestra

8) The Whistler's Mother-in-Law, Ken Curtis (later to play Festus on TV's Gunsmoke) sings with Shep Fields and His New Music (1942)

11) Time Will Take Care of Everything, Les Brown and His Band of Renown

12) Whatcha Know, Joe?, Larry Clinton

13) The Stars and Stripes Forever, Ralph Flanagan

14) The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Jerry Wayne and His Orchestra (with Charlie Shavers on trumpet)

Jazz Shorts 12

1) I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Cab Calloway Snader

2) Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie, Bob Chester

3) Billboard March, Les Brown

4) Straighten Up and Fly Right, Mr. and Mrs. 88 black Snader

5) Minnie the Moocher, Cab Calloway black

6) The St. James Infirmary Blues, Cab Calloway black

7) Margie, Tony Pastor

8) Tuxedo Junction, Glenn Millerexcerpted from The Glenn Miller Story feature film

9) Jump, Children, Anna Mae Winburn and The International Sweethearts of Rhythm (1946)

10) It's a Sin to Tell a Lie, Bob Howard black

11) It's an Old Southern Custom , Bob Howard black

12) You Can't Pull the Wool Over My Eyes, Bob Howard with black children

13) The Volga Boatmen, Al Donahue

14) Breakfast in Rhythm, The Three Chefs black

15) Pardon Me, The Three Chefs

16) Corn on the Conga, Tony Pastor

17) Here's Love in Your Eye, Benny Fields (1941)

Jazz Shorts 13

1) Java Jive, Al Donahue (1943)

2) Azusa, Liz Tilton with Matty Melneck and His orchestra (1946)

3) Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip, Tony Pastor

4) The One I Love, Mary Healy sings with Ben Pollack's Orchestra

5) Deep Purple, Larry Clinton

6) Jealous, Stan Kenton and His Orchestraprominently features Kenton on pianoeven boogie woogie

7) Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me, The Modernaires [The Glenn Miller Modernaires] filmed July 10, 1944

8) That Wonderful, Worrisome Feeling, Ann Parker sings with Al Trace and His Silly Symphonists (1944)

9) I Don't Know Why, Tommy Reynolds

10) I'm Looking for a Guy [Who Plays Alto and Baritone and Doubles on a Clarinet and Wears a Size 37 Suit], Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra 1942

11) Hong Kong Blues, Hoagy Carmichael

12) America, I Love You, Claude Thornhill

13) Buck and Bubbles song-and-dance routine, with Dick Powell, excerpted from feature film Varsity Show 1937

14) That Man of Mine, International Sweethearts of Rhythm

15) Ain't She Sweet?, Lawrence Welk

16) Born to Swing, Ginger Harmon (1941)

17) A Sleepy Lagoon, Sonny Dunham and His Orchestra

Jazz Shorts 14

1) Sentimental Journey, Glen Gray and His Casa Loma Orchestra

2) Overnight, Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra

3) Moonlight Cocktails, Buddy Clark

4) Dream, Les Elgart and His Orchestra

5) Sizzle with Sissle, Noble Sissle (incomplete) black

6) Oh, Marie, Ron Perry and His Orchestra (1945)

7) Adventure in Boogie Woogie, Robert Crum (dupe) 1946

8) Calloway Boogie, Cab Calloway black

9) One for My Baby, Cab Calloway black

10) This Love of Mine, Stan Kenton

11) Exactly Like You, Connie Boswell

12) Joshua, Ralph Flanagan

13) Reynolds Riff, Tommy Reynolds

Jazz Shorts 15

1) Half Past Jump Time, Mabel Lee black

2) Sun Tan Strut, Sun Tan Band black

3) Untitled Swing Instrumental, George Paxton

4) Junior, Johnny Long

5) Let Me Love You Tonight, George Paxton

6) Pretty Kitty Blue Eyes, George Paxton

7) I Like It Cause I Love It, Una Mae Carlisle black (1944)

8) Steak and Potatoes, Mabel Scott black

9) Jumpin' at the Juke Box, Al Donahue

10) Am I Lucky?, Dusty Brooks (1946)

11) Baby, Are You Kiddin'?, Dusty Brooks (1946)