Blowtop Blues – Cab Calloway and his Orchestra
Cab Calloway’s 1942 series of four Soundies was successful enough that he was asked back in June 1945 to appear in five more. This time
Cab Calloway’s 1942 series of four Soundies was successful enough that he was asked back in June 1945 to appear in five more. This time
I have no idea about the age demographic of our group, but in the off chance that we have some younger members, it bears noting
As many of you know, my book, The Soundies: A History and Catalog ofJukebox Film Shorts of the 1940s, was released this past Monday. (It
“Blues of Mary’s Flat” is a Mary Osborne composition, and a rather oddly named tune. First, it is not a blues, but rather a 32-bar
Sometime in the early 1980s, I met with Berle Adams at his office in Hollywood. A former vice-president with MCA, Berle had managed Louis Jordan
This Soundie is for my good buddy Jim, a burgeoning talent in bluegrass banjo. Self-taught, multi-instrumentalist Eddie Peabody began performing on the vaudeville stage in
The Jubalaires was one of the better black vocal harmony groups of the 1940s. As Howard Rye has pointed out, they were essentially a gospel
I am a real fan of the sound of harmonica bands, although I am the first to admit that said sound may be an acquired
So, these two Jewish cats, Joe Sultzer and Charlie Marks, walk into a printer’s shop; or perhaps it was Sultzer’s brother … there are a