Martha Tilton - "A Little Jive Is Good For You" (1941)

[radiolon4]

Though this song seems to be about music and that's all, "jive" could = marijuana in 1930s slang -- as in "Here Comes The Man With The Jive: by Cab Calloway,.

[MrGreenman447]

Best female singer ever, fell in love the second I heard her voice

[MikeHudson65]

I am in love with Martha Tilton

[jessikamila]

I need the lyrics of this song!

[TheRockabillycowboy]

Encore Fantastic. This is MUSIC. Nurse sure looks hot too.

[medpub]

and so is a pretty nurse in a sexy outfit - NHS take heed!

[Jmassa54]

The one guy gives her the elevator eyes treatment: from shoelaces to shampoo. Lol

[fend3ry]

a little martha is good for you.

[level242]

I CAN SEE WHY THEY WERE CALLED: THE GREATEST GENERATION!

[balerick48]

My favorite song of hers is The Angels Sing with Benny Goodman. Her CD "Liltin' Martha Tilton" is very good.

[sidewinder0811]

Göttin !!!!

[djsvchost]

she's so pretty!

[monstamamma]

Um does that make woman unreal now?

[tonybklyn]

Ladies: please take note of :20-:24. THIS is how you enter a room. That was so the DAAAMN!!! factor. :-)

[73380401]

Ah, remember when nurses looked like nurses and not like tyre fitters as too many of them do now?What a beautiful smile.She'd put a spring in my step for sure.

[MrSteamhammer100]

a super nice one , indeed !

[jenju33]

Soooo cute. Love the dancing! Love the silly grins on their faces too.

[shaunsstuff79]

this canary sho can chirp and my lord in heaven what a nurse lol

[frschwa]

Got nothing but seeds and stems? Listen to this....

[frschwa]

F*****-A, and when it got down to seeds and stems, man, what a world o' trouble--Mann, ich brauch 'was und dies hier ist die Kur! Listening to Martha Tilton in Baghdad. Mann, ist das der Hammer!

[mrtigerucantfly]

Is it just me or did the first two guys do a crip walk? Lol good song, though!

[RaananVolesPianist]

"Jive," by the way, also meant marijuana. Listen to "All the Jive is Gone" by the Andy Kirk Orchestra.

[ftsjr]

Martha's a babe!

[TheSunRecords]

After this I wouldn't need no doctor.

[smilytrev]

happy new year

[helluvagun]

Great!

[hondotoo]

... martha is good medicine !

[hajune]

Great stuff

[divokyzivot]

nice :)

[0001943]

What a dish!

[MrRJDB1969]

Dig It ! Dig It ! The 1930's & 1940's were a great time period in this country !!

[akanedixon]

@MrRJDB1969 I would say that it was the best time

[sladedude44]

martha made them well real fast.!!!!

[MrRedFredSaid]

This is absolutely delightful.

[irismcooper]

I just love it. I believe hearing that Martha Tilton was Benny Goodman's favorite female singer amongs his many. Maybe, it was my beloved father, Willie Rosenberg.

Thanks for sharing this wonderful music with all of us. I

Iris Rosenberg-Cooper

[jaguarjaguarjaguarja]

Does anyone know the lyrics?

The song's so catchy. Music from the 1920s-1950s is my thing. I hate the rap crap of today.

[souglyworm]

do you have a lyrics of this song? I cant find the lyrics of this ...

[3investigators]

Great vid. Love the dancing!

[potamids]

What a beautiful woman.

[arthur1920]

wow. could they do musicals. or what?

Great job by Martha, whom I had never heard of before.

[170672346]

Great singer, beautiful young woman.

[sleedolfine15]

I do like Big Band music and it does'nt matter to me that the music was made half a century before I was born.

[mig15fan]

@sleedolfine15 agreed!!!!

[jhhwingnut]

I'd drop an anvil on my toe if Martha was my nurse.....mmmm man she's sure cute....!!!

[mig15fan]

@jhhwingnut hahaha!

[Turkeydoodlers]

what a woman!

Geesh women dont dress or look like anymore,

Always loved a woman who wore her hair like Martha

[waynebrasler]

Martha was darling but there seems to have been no budget for a makeup artist or hairdresser.

[ThomaSherrod]

Give me some skin, jackson! Like bees to honey in a hive, gettin well with nurse's jive! Ya pickin up on what I'm puttin down?! a hep singer for sure.

[MsGinger92]

wow thats cute.

I love that jumpin jive

[hep2jive]

and what an era!

[eldorado303]

i love her hair style !!! i feel gay !!!

[saferwaters]

gorgeous and very talented!!! gosh i wish i had her figure :)

[1973nitram]

How mad is this video!!! Martha Tilton in a whole new light !!! You'd never get away it now. Very un p.c. don't you know .Pax to all from Ian Smith.Xxx.

[aVideoSharing]

(Please pardon my British) I thought as though it was the top-one. Not too mental was it? (P.C. dead on) Anyway the song is tickety-boo. And Martha is always beautiful. PAX? to you too mate.

[senatorclaghorn]

I must have missed something. What is un-p.c. about it?

[lowlights]

About the only thing I note is the way the guys give her the "elevator eyes" (going from shin to shampoo) in an ogling way.

[youvexme]

It's a diagnostic test. If he doesn't he's obviously suffered severe brain stem trauma.

[raleighman3000]

i'd do the same

[MrHydra19]

She reminds me of Paul Weston's Wife....Jo Stafford!

[sturdle]

@MrHydra19Jo Stafford was wonderful....part of my past loved her........



[agrlfmtx]

That bass is swingin'!! Ah Cha Cha Cha!

[beefcakeyamato]

nothing like going to the theater to see a music video.:D i love her voice oh yeah and shes hot most definitely.

[nublackmusic]

wait a second. she sounds like a white ella fitzgerald. very interesting and amazing!

[swinginkatz]

I Love It. I dance to this.

[lowlights]

By the way - lots of good Martha Tilton on iTunes and such. Glad to see some good old songs out there in the digital world.

[JiggyHo]

That bitch is as jiggy as I am. :(

[hep2jive]

ART DECO DOOR at 0:30-0:35! Severe.

[tapdancegirl88]

does she tap dance

[waynebrasler]

Martha aged very well and performed nearly to the end. A very amiable personality popular in show business.

[StinkFingerr]

She's the cure for what ails you!

[bergfriedorg]

So ein Dummfug. *lach* :-)

[MikeHudson65]

If you liked this clip, check out Martha Tilton singing'Loch Lomand' another great track

[Noshirm]

WONDERFUL!!! (:-D)

[rodneyhackenflash]

I have never heard of Martha Tifton till today! I think shes excellent and lovely!

[cushtichavi]

Neither have I. She really is great. Why is she forgotten? She ranks as great as Holliday or O'Day. I'm sure I've misseds dozens of names. But she is great and swinggggssssssss

[BUNGLEJYME]

This was real entertainment! Great music, singing and dancing. The women were beautiful yet modest. Today, everything has to be in-your-face offensive noise and cheap sex. Oh, how I wish we could go back to the 1940's entertainment!

[fhcchoir]

I love this stuff!! Can't stand the music today: pull up to a red light & you get stuck in front of some punk kid with that God-awful deep bass sound that makes your ears hurt..I don't know how they can stand being in that car with the windows rolled up & all... wish they'd outlaw it!

[BUNGLEJYME]

Amen, my friend. I suffer with these boom car punks riding through my neighborhood. I'd love to "boom" them somehow.

[MikeHudson65]

That comment earlier...When women were real women. I concur. Go Martha!!!!

[MikeHudson65]

I like the guy in the grey pants/curly hair and the blanket around his shoulders. He's got one of those faces that makes you smile. And his rubber legs must be tripple jointed!!!!Fantastic!!!

[hebneh]

Wonderful song, great orchestra, swingin' singing, and lively eccentric dancing. Too bad we can't all could get cured so easily in real life, eh?

This song reminds me of "Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You", a '30s song which was re-used in the '80s film, "Pennies From Heaven".

[hep2jive]

art deco door at 30 seconds...

great clips! makes me feel great!

[AcridPeter]

Has the guy in the blanket in the chair been lobotomised? Is that his ailment. Jive won't help him.

[dkmckinney1]

Fantastic!!!

Thanks

[supper15fiets]

when woman where real woman!

[beboppinbetty]

Amen!

[getogatocat]

Oh you mean when women lived in loveless marriages, weren't smart enough for the workplace, were just and only eye candy and most certainly didn't enjoy sex?

Yeah I'll take sexism, no women's rights, and zero rape laws and counseling anytime just to be a real woman.

[redore33]

"Didn't enjoy sex", how old are you junior? Aboutb 18 I'd guess. How many Wars heve you been in, how many yrs did you fight for your country, Believe me your mother and grandmother LOVED sex!! I know I was there!!

[8House]

@getogatocat Pathetic.

[mikeecy]

@supper15fiets english is HARD!

[MrSteamhammer100]

@supper15fiets : you got so right !!

[songplugger]

I love this sassy Soundie! Martha and the Steps never fail to give me a lift.

[reelden]

yeah get that Jive going mayne! nice one