Tagged: Musical
Killer Diller features The Clark Brothers (tap dancers), Nat King Cole, Moms Mabley, Dusty Fletcher, Butterfly McQueen, the Andy Kirk Orchestra and the Four Congaroos (dancing Lindy Hop). Dusty Fletcher plays a comic, tap dancer and bad magician. While practicing his routine for that evening’s variety show, he accidentally vanishes Lola (Nellie Hill), the [...]
A self important and sometimes snooty opera singer finds herself out of work and makes a career as a singer of popular songs on the radio.
Boy! What a Girl! is a 1947 African American film directed by Arthur H. Leonard and starring Tim Moore, with guest appearances by the Brown Dots, Slam Stewart, Sid Catlett and Gene Krupa.
Would-be theatrical producer Jim Walton is planning a new show that will feature bandleader Slam Stewart and the comic female impersonator Bumpsie (Tim [...]
The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a filmed 1957 ninety-minute musical color television special originally shown by NBC on November 26, 1957, as their Thanksgiving Day offering for that year. Based on the famous poem by Robert Browning and using the music of Edvard Grieg with special lyrics by Hal Stanley and Irving Taylor, [...]
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter and musician, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly / country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records [...]
Hey, Diana Krall is just cool.
Amazon is giving us a Christmas present this year with free MP3 downloads of Christmas music. I’ve downloaded these and added them to my current, fairly extensive collection of Holiday tunes. I only picked the family friendly ones to add to this list. In total, it’s 25 tracks and about an hour [...]
The Phantom Empire, starring Gene Autry the Singing Cowboy, was a 12-chapter 1935 Mascot serial that combined the western, musical, and science fiction genres. Gene Autry plays a singing cowboy of the same name, who runs Radio Ranch, a dude ranch from which he makes a daily live radio broadcast at 2pm. A [...]
Till The Clouds Roll By is an American musical-biographical film made by MGM in 1946.
The film is a fictionalized biography of composer Jerome Kern, who was originally involved with the production of the film, but died before it was completed. Robert Walker portrays Kern.
Till the Clouds Roll By is best remembered for its large cast [...]
This is a PBS documentary about Les Paul, recently deceased, the inventor of the electric guitar. This was filmed around his 90th birthday and he was still playing then. This is perhaps the best look at the creation of American Rock and Roll that I have ever seen.
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