AFRICAN AMERICAN SOUNDIES 1940s MUSIC VIDEOS CAB CALLOWAY LOUIS ARMSTRONG FATS WALLER XD38984c

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This collection of 1940s music videos, also known more widely as “soundies“, was released by Official Films. It features some outstanding performances by African American singers, jazz performers and boogie woogie musicians. The first features Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing “Blues in the Night“. The credits indicate was film was originally produced by Minoco, which was owned by Mills Novelty of Chicago. For a time, Mills made a sort of closed-loop 16mm video juke box known as a Panoram. The film dates after 1942, when Calloway first released the song. Cabell “Cab“ Calloway III was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer and became a popular vocalist of the swing era. His career spanned over 65 years. At screen time 14:56 trumpeter Louis Armstrong and his band, as well as Nicodemus, are featur