"Swing Cats Jamboree" with Louis Prima

[Morthund]

i am being a total and uter stereotypical stoner by suggesting that the swingin' cats in this are ALSO high as fuck?

I mean...the womans eyes at 1:19, and the jazz/swing scene back in the day..reefers....I'm just saying is all

[F0nkyNinja]

@Morthund

She looked like that, and none of them are "high as fuck".

[Morthund]

@F0nkyNinja

wanna bet?? I bet at least none of them looked as stupid as you do now anyway ha ha ha

learn to google before you post your opinions as facts

heres a clue....Google "reefer" and "swing musicians" and a whole new world will open up Oh Innocent One LOL

[JonaVicis]

Was the dancer a young Ray Bolger?

[sobieskilinda]

@JonaVicis I don't recognize him but he is not Ray Bolger. Ray was tall and lanky, the scarecrow in the Wizard Of Oz.

[shabadoo3399]

this is entertainment!

[rolfen]

My good these people are so cool

[anfiorsceal]

What a great show these guys put on - professional to the highest level.

[lucasboydjr]

not Buddy Ebsen, photos of Buddy from the same years proves it. The dancer is uncredited.

[almostblues]

are you sure the music isn't backplayed? at min 2:56 Prima seems using a mute, but no mute is on the trumpet

[jleoblues]

This is real serious playing: Folks I have a question: Does anyone if Louis Prima and the great trombonist Jack Teagarden ever crossed paths.? That would have been something to hear

[doowopman49]

WOW! just T-E-R-R-I-F-I-C here. thank you so much for the wonderful post. tom d brick,nj.

[230606230606]

I don't think that dancer is Buddy Ebsen, doesn't look like him. His looks never did change all that much, see him in Born to Dance with Elenore Powell just a few years after this. You can tell that is Buddy Ebsen and this guys is not. hey don't move the same either.

[lamontlewis]

@230606230606 Pal, that's Buddy Ebsen. If I didn't see his face, I'd know his moves. Buddy was a hoofer, not a dancer. Believe me, that's Buddy.

[230606230606]

Prima LOVED what he did!

[alynr1972]

0:26 girl on table miming a blow job

[jerseyjoe4good]

the male singer and swing dancer surely is a veeeerrrry young Buddy Ebsen. He had a great and fascinating career. During WWII he was one of those special Hollywood people (like Jimmy Stewart) who fought against the "suits" who wanted him to be bond salesmen or USO-type entertainers. After the Navy foolishly turned him down, he joined the Coast Guard and served as genuine, full service officer.

[donw116]

It's from 1938 ... Louis Prima and his quintet includes clarinet, piano, guitar, bass, and a drummer who also plays vibraphone, with Louis Prima on trumpet.

[imshooshy]

Look at that cool cat swing!

[suze9088]

Is there a way to download this video in good quality? Do you mind sharing this with me and my brothers? that is my father, Louis Masinter on bass and we would LOVE being able to have this for all time. Daddy played with Frank Frederico on guitar and Godfrey Hirsch on xylophone for many many years and Frank attended his funeral 14 years ago. They are now playing with Louis on the big bandstand in the sky now.

[lordkoos]

@suze9088

Search around google you can find ways to download the video to your own computer.

[wichtigerstatist41]

@suze9088

[tweezee]

great post....1938 hell i was not even thought of. im only 23 and im a black male living in Detroit i might add. this music is unheard of where i come from...im glad i know my roots...cuz after all music is Motown. i just wish more in my generation would pay attention. but i can't blame them. no ol' school cats show us love either.

[painfield]

@tweezee you know, cool cats didn't show much love in their own time, imagine them old grumpy bastards that lived then hearing music now! Almost sure it's going to be the same for us hearing techno new-age rap pop&roll but evolution in culture yo see from the moment backwards, not viceversa!

Cheers!

[tweezee]

you right painfield! i guess its a shame on us all. but at least sum of us take off our hats to fellow artist no matter wat generation of music. after all, good music is good music. cheers to you!

[cociss]

@tweezee: music is not Motown, music is music.

[VValkyrie]

First part of this is "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans", my home town as well as Mr Prima's.

[tweezee]

happy super bowl to ya! lol

[dog1701]

@tweezee I don't if you got a reply or not, but download RealPlayer, place your cursor at the top right corner of the video, and a button will appear that will allow you to download the video in flv. fromat.

[radrunr]

Awesome - What a showman and musician. You don't see this anymore unfortunately.

[frankgall]

Great1!!

[ruenovo]

released august 1938

[secretarul]

'38 ?

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