Category: P

“Princess Poo-Poo-Ly has plenty papaya, and she likes to give it away.” Minoco Production’s Jack Barry certainly stuck his neck out with this title …

Take two film stars of the 1940s, Johnny Downs and Gale Storm, add a terrific song by Will Jason and Val Burton, wrap them up

Congratulations to group member Christian S., the first to identify the song “We’re the Couple in the Castle” in the Tune-O contest. Christian won the

From the early 1930s onward, well into the early 1950s, the Mills Brothers were the most popular black vocal harmony group nationwide. As the 1930s

And now, enter stage right, a life-size “human dog” named Bonzo. I’ve spoken often of the concept of the “Soundies time machine.” How extraordinary that

As far as the general public was concerned, the bizarre visual humor of Spike Jones and his City Slickers premiered on the Panoram screen. While

There are few voices as familiar – no, instantly identifiable – to children who grew up in the 1950s and ‘60s as that of Cliff

This routine by the Milt Britton and his Orchestra is musical mayhem at its best. It was the band’s closing number on stage for more

“You ask what this kid, this Jewish kid from the Bronx, is doing in a Latin band in Manhattan?” So Teddy Schulman, who was performing