Rhythym Boys & Paul Whiteman`s Band: Happy feet

[homargc]

From 1:35 to 1:43 the G Sisters sing something that I suspect is in Yiddish. Anyone with knowledge of the language able to help with the text?

[FlinckJanne1981]

anyone got notes for this, maybe for sax or other, i got huge amount of notes to trade, for sax most requestet from me, nothing gona change my love for you, baker street, careless whisper.

[Pandaonfire5]

He dances better than the "shuffling" kids today!

[shangrigreige]

spiffing

[amax0692]

after watching the aviator i just went by those few seconds "give them a low down beat and they begin dancing" lol finally found it

[caroleona1]

This is amazing!!!

[bobdoucet]

My new favourite video! Thanks so much for posting this!

[cboal1]

About twenty-five years ago--now--I had the rare and golden opportunity to watch in its entirety, the film, "Paul Whiteman: King Of Jazz", from which your wonderful exerpt was taken. The fading color was orginal, I believe, and the film long for its time. But it was pure magic; I sat in utter, rapt attention, as each outrageous scene followed another. It was all 'over the top', brassy, loud, innovative, and the distilled work of pure genius, yet made dreamlike by the pastel coloring.

Thank you!

[libertariancfo]

I had no idea they made music videos back when I was a kid! All without digital recording!

Great video!

[GunnarMcGriff]

It's like psychedelia of the 1920s.

[sarcip7x]

I feel high watching this

[kurtarmbruster]

Whiteman at his finest--one of America's great orchestras! This arrangement is a Jazz Age classic, too. Thanks for sharing!

[jacksonbaseball22]

lol so funny

[cosycleaner]

Go Mr Whiteman, Go!

[ikevyoiPhone3G1996]

If I was Paul Whiteman I would put the Charelston in here

[FrancescoRedondi]

Al Norman is incredible, but if you concentrate on the audio, so is the arrangement! It's time to realize how much wonderful music Paul Whiteman made: there are tons of his recordings available. Thank you ashel77 for sharing this wonderful video: it's really mind-boggling!

[GeminiNightOwl]

Paul was definitely "the King", and with Al Norman's amazing footwork, the Rythym Boys, and the Rockettes - how much better does it get? Just a shame Bix Biederbeck was ill and couldn't do the movie. All in all, pure entertainment and talent at its best. Thanks so much for compiling the three sequences in one :)

[onthe165]

anyone know what year this was filmed?

[78timothy]

Filmed in 1929, released in early 1930, Movietone sound on film soundtrack, cost Universal a little over 2,000,000. in 1930 gold statndard dollars. Nearly Bankrupted them,never made back their investment, but wow what a show!! Now, what a great example of 1930's talent, and entertainment.

[onthe165]

thank you for the info! :)

[chkjns]

@78timothy - wow, thanks for the historical perspective! Mine is a music history channel, an archive of over a century of pop music the world over. 11 playlists for each year since 1900, and the 350 best artists, like Whiteman, each have playlists, too!

[CodaBear2]

2:20 I see where Michael Jackson got his moves lmao

[etoiledelkirov]

good ^^ faboulous

[bizzarroflame]

HAPPY FEET!!! Wombo Combo!!!

[GirugaMarc]

2:20

HAPPY FEET!

WOMBO COMBO!

[goatseman5000]

That aint falco

[prettyparisian]

Fabulous, you gotta have a sense of humour to charleston =D Al Norman is incredible! x

[jacklawrence84]

Outstanding!  So much fun and entertainment packed into 5 minutes.

[Salsa3914]

Who's that crazy legs dancer at 2.20?

[Linhombre69]

Al Norman

[louswire]

I read somewhere else that the dancing girls went on to become the Rockettes... any confirmation on this?

[rundkorper]

Joy! I love this song and seeing these fantastic humourous and surreal visuals just compounds it! I want to live in this video.

[dumbek3]

That could easily be some sort of surrealist dream sequence. I don't know where you found it, but it blew my mind! Thanks.