Category: U-#

While we all know that Who is on first base, not everyone is aware of the fact that he (Who) had twin brothers, Who and

To the swing fans, bobbysoxers, jitterbugs, alligators, and hepcats of the 1940s, the music of Lenny Herman would have been strictly off the cob. (Meaning

Cab Calloway was immensely popular in the 1940s, enough so that after a four-Soundie “set” produced in January 1942, Cab returned to film five more

As I have said in the past, Soundies producers tended to be “equal opportunity offenders.” While African Americans took the brunt of the stereotypes and

Frank Cook is hardly a household name today, and that was probably the case back in the early 1940s as well. He appears on film

Ongoing famine in Ireland during the mid-1850s led to an estimated two million emigrants coming to the United States between 1845 and 1855. By the

The response to the Second World War on the Panoram screen was unequivocally patriotic, a no-holds barred pro-America answer to our involvement in Europe and

We’ve talked about Merle Travis and Carolina Cotton in the past, so today we’ll take a closer look at their work with the Glee Gates

Minnie the Moocher, “Hi-De-Ho,” Hep Cats and the Reefer Man. Cab Calloway’s charismatic personality and hyperactive stage persona have tended to overshadow the fact that

The four 1942 Soundies featuring Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra hold great promise, yet considering Thornhill’s later achievements they are bound to disappoint somewhat. There