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This is a such a wonderful clip! Please don’t let my overly-verbose introduction get in the way of watching Western Swing great Tex Williams in

Cheesecake, cheesecake and more cheesecake. Producer/director William Forest Crouch knew the value of an attractive smile and figure, and there are many Soundies built around

      Born in Detroit in 1919 (some online sources claim 1916), Pat Flowers was active as a professional musician by his 18th birthday. He moved

While it was Jules Verne who brought the concept of a “Time Machine” to the fore, it is Soundies that, in their own way, actually

Racists imagery is pervasive in films of the 1940s. To see them in Soundies is distressing and far too frequent. But the fact that the

Lest we get too comfortable with the great jazz and big band music in the Soundies oeuvre, let us not forget that vaudeville and variety

How strange that the Soundies catalogue chooses to describe Louis Armstrong as “Old Satchmo.” Louis was in his early 40s, appears far younger on screen,

Johnny Smith is perhaps not as well known today as he should be, partially due to his early retirement after the passing of his wife.

We have referenced “song-stories” in the past. Now it is time to share one. As the name suggests, “song-stories” were Soundies in which the band

My memories of the music that I heard when I was very young are surprisingly clear. One is that my mom loved Kay Starr’s “Wheel