Chattanooga Choo Choo!

[ozboy39]

Old Hollywood will always be the best

[MrTherandom]

psh I think they used autotune back then...i mean how else would they sound so good?!?! oh wait....BECAUSE THEY HAVE TALENT

[thomasmoredamian]

I WANT DOROTHY DANDRIDGE!

[bellsofizzy]

i know Dorthys part of the dance now i wanna learn the guys part but its sooooo hard

[bramblelf]

The dancers are brilliant!

[SunsetSix]

This was back when blacks and whites got along.

[quetnique]

@SunsetSix ?????

[kenspets]

@SunsetSix Yeah Right ! Blacks & Whites got along GREAT during this period in Time ? Racism was Rampant & the Norm during the 40's. Dorothy Dandridge wasnt even ALLOWED to eat or Sleep where Whites were Allowed ! It was against the Law for a NEGRO to drink water from a WHITES ONLY Water Fountain ! Black Servicemen were being Lynched & Burned in the South JUST FOR WEARING THE UNIFORM ! Who was it that gave you such a great insight into race relations during the 1940"s ?

[IDiggSocialMedia]

@SunsetSix Most whites back then treat blacks terribly! Blacks were separated from whites, treated like 3rd class citizens, and portraited badly in films! I enjoy music and films of the 40s too but if it's one thing I hate (and hope and pray never returns) back then is the mindless, senseless racism that was rampant!

[Anthrax2404]

Pure class...

[richtoga]

I love it, they did a good job with this song and dance.

[zeak62]

wow they are great, God rest them.. just great

[debashri27]

Gosh, I'm getting tingles! This is talent...

[MarvelettesDude2]

Does anyone know what year this was?

[RennyGd]

@MarvelettesDude2 yea, it's from the movie," Orchestra wives" in 1942. It pops up on TCM once in awhile. If you like the performance, you will probably enjoy the rest of the movie too.

[hp2ie8]

@RennyGd Actually, this is from Glenn Miller's first movie "Sun Valley Serenade" (1941). This is the second half of the original version of "Chattanooga Choo Choo" which was debuted in this movie. You never hear the full version of the song except in the movie or on the movie soundtrack album.

[RennyGd]

@hp2ie8 Thanks for the info. I just remember seeing it in "Orchestra Wives". A great performance in any case. I'll have to check out"Sun Valley Serenade" when it comes up on TMC.

[DearSkylark]

whoa that was amazing! i love this kind of music. and dancing is fantastic!

[halfgoodhalfevil]

A time when ladies and gentlemen dressed like ladies and gentlemen, what a time--it is missed badly.

[MarvelettesDude2]

I just love this video. Now this is a show! Singing, dancing, how can you not like this? It is funny of energy.

[MarvelettesDude2]

@MarvelettesDude2 Full Of energy*

[VashFanboy1]

I don't know how I wound up at this video, but I'm glad I did.

[megasus88]

I once lived in Chattanooga. I always thought of this song having come from Australia.

Love it.

[kanimitsu500]

Fifteen people did not catch the train.

[InTheSticks0001]

There are just somethings that can't be improved upon!

[tomas1we5]

最後の二人のダンス、またが裂けないか心配になったｗｗ

[tomas1we5]

この動画でタップダンスに興味が湧いた！

[laidesman115]

my grandad was a great singer and he sang this alot <3

[ANNLOVESJAZZ]

Go boys shake it mama!

[mrains100ify]

My God how good is this!

[FriendlierGuy]

Great video. Great soft shoe!

[wichiepooh]

Real music, with real instruments, real good singers en people who realy love making music together.... Love it!!

[Narutoki]

ONE M00:00RE TIME!!! XD

[supahkawaiiful]

@hoehawk99 you know im really tired of people that hate on music i love ALL music

[dead2day1]

Time lass tune 

[AnotherSpecialEdMom]

Talent, more talent, still more talent -- all lined up in a row. Where are our talented people now?

[GetSomeGetRight]

This is addictive! 

[aqx770]

Now THAT is talent!!

[PoetryETrain]

Thank you, this has been added to our playlists here and on facebook...

[eflaspo]

love the "little black dress" on dorothy dandridge

[TheSmashedPumpkin]

Entschuldigen Sie, ist das der Sonderzug nach Pankow?

[Jiffybob47]

and this is how you 'serve' someone. amazing clip.

[garlicblue6]

so talented days!

[kentwesterly]

@garlicblue6 Your so right!! makes so called stars today look like chump,s

[BurninErn100]

That was great!

[shadowgouhl5000]

These guys could make dancing with the stars look like a chump.

[dykeritz9]

Class!!!

[Al7417]

Two fantastic jet shorties with a burning feet. Awesome...Love it really...wow!!!

[Arkelk2010]

The Nicholas Brothers: from all that I've read, as nice as they were talented.  (And Dorothy Dandridge has nothing to be ashamed of either.)

[Al7417]

@Arkelk2010 Those guys are simply hot heels.It's improbable

[MrMimbreno]

fred astaire n'a qu'a bien se tenir.

[Aloebunny]

Parton me boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo!

[pfcwar5150]

Hats off to the Nicholas Brothers!..What talent!

[ReactArts]

lol i'm actually here because of Family guy

[paolonove65]

BEAUTIFUL !!!!!

[NashiShuryo]

15 people can't afford to go on the chattanooga choo choo~

[TheIRLTrolls]

Anyone come here after watching the mooma and moopa episode of black books?

[cdl80000]

@TheIRLTrolls I'm watching it right now

[Siska0Robert]

@TheIRLTrolls no, but I'm gonna right now. thanks for reminding :)

[UFOJockey]

Glenn Miller at the beginning makes it look so easy. The man had talent.

[MrCriticOfAll]

Simply beautiful.

[PoetryETrain]

thank you, we have added this to our playlists here and on facebook...

[HipHopAnonymousX]

WOO-HOO CHATTANOOGA BORN AND RAISED!!!!! LOVE THIS WAY TO GO, HOMETOWN PRIDE FTW!!!!

[hoehawk99]

One of my favorite songs ever :) Im 16, suck it Bieber!

[mustangred]

@hoehawk99 No one gives a rat's ass how old you are.

[SpaceCowboy641]

@hoehawk99 Congratulations for your good taste, Btw. Did you know, that "Bieber" is the German name for beaver?. He should down trees for the cold winter and nothing else ...

[totallypoundonthat]

@hoehawk99 D'awww

[Fiddlesticks116]

@hoehawk99 Me too, and I'm 15. New stuff is good, but nothing beats music like this.

[hotpinkladygaga]

@hoehawk99 i was the hundreth person to like ur comment :)))))

[JabberWockyzZ]

@hoehawk99 What does Justin Bieber have to do with this?

[2014hollyhudson]

@hoehawk99 AGREE! I am 16 too and love the big band music, and rat pack, and so much from back then. Music now days just can't beat it :)

[iconaclastor]

Wow! The guys dancing, especially the last 22 seconds of this clip, are awesome! This is stuff that even Gene Kelly didn't do, although Donald O'Conner did a good flip off a wall in the movie "Singing In The Rain".

[macvatu]

Were these two dancers still working in the 60s? I remember a couple guys with similar style to The Nicholas Bros dancing on stage at the London Palladium. They sang and danced and did just about any trick you can think of.

[FilmBuffClassic]

And people think this music is boring!!!! You got to be kiddin me!!!!!

[MsKiwiAZ]

Check out purrzazz.co.nz 

[keylala0222]

i wish music meant something today....like this.

[EternalSearcher]

@keylala0222

I thought of that. It does really, it's just nowadays you have to dig for it. There are songs with meaning, there are films with a powerful messages. Years will pass, and people will remember this days with nostalgia.

[Sla58vik]

It's а film of my dad!

many thx for this vid from Kiev!

[XxFugufishXx]

I want to follow these directions EXACTLY one day.

[CPLWeeks]

I realize how lucky I was to meet Tex and get his autograph before he died.

[firestartertwistedfi]

Yes, blow your big phallic trombones - you never know you may catch Dorothy's eye :)

[carolineclapton]

My Grandmother used to sing this to me when I was young. Of course I always found it special because my name is Caroline, and the lyric "dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer, than you have your ham & eggs in Carolina" seemed meant for me!

[MuppetShowManiac]

incredible.

[erscott13]

The Nicholas Brothers take my breath away in every movie I've ever seen them in.

[trussox]

BAD

ASS

[stickwagger]

The dancing is one of the best clips of the genre and era. Who told Tex Ritter that wearing the baseball cap would make him look good?

[CobinRain]

@stickwagger I thinnk you'll find that is Tex Beneke, not Tex Ritter!

Baseball cap? 60 years ahead of the crowd?

[mazndz]

black books you never fail ;)

[2784035159]

Glenn Miller Orchestra comes to Moscow in October:)

[awarren92]

I sure hope when I get older that I don't complain as much as "today's music" like some of you people do. It's sad. What will going to Youtube complaining about "today's music" and "rap crap" solve? I personally categorize music by its quality and not by its age. If today's music bothers you so much don't listen to it--there are plenty of ways to listen to the music that you love. Or how about promoting the artists today who actually DO make great music but are struggling for some recognition?

[pen2004]

For those who pontificate about which art is better or "crap", this or Rap, please re-assume your well worn back seat and keep following. Let those who have powered American musical and dance culture lead the way as usual. That innate rhythmic craftsmanship is surely not understood by outsiders but whose products are globally enjoyed and copied, spawned from African drums, Negro spirituals via Jazz and Rock to Rap today, each iteration scoffed at but always proved ahead of the curve. lol

[bluffer09]

OUTSTANDING !!!!

[mahapralaya]

Damned Black Books!

[StarAssasin]

my balls hurt when i see them :)

[RainbowRawrrz]

;) Im 13 and oldies are me favorite genre

[dahsuerk]

Sun Valley Serenade. Who is playing piano?

[2rangerguy]

I wonder how many of them went on to serve in World War II.

[XxFugufishXx]

They made music back then as if no wars had ever existed.

[gcpropertymanagement]

How do you argue? Can't you enjoy these pros for their work? These guys could dance on the head of a pin. Incredible!

[BeautifulDances]

@gcpropertymanagement I agree, I remember when I first picked up a tap shoes and saw the bottom I was like OMG. I have full respect for them, it is like dancing on Ice.

[gcpropertymanagement]

How do you argue? Can't you enjoy these pros for their work?

[alaitain]

love the old bands. oh to have been living inthe 30s and 40s music era! i dont like the music of the 2000 era. as much.

[MIXERPILOT1]

DAMN!!!

[RayPointer]

"When you hear the WHISTLE blowing eight to the bar....

SHOVEL all the coal in...

[dlanorlegend]

Excuse me. I want to know the lyrics of end section of singing, about "When you hear the ______ blowing eight to the bar", "______ all the coal in". Please. THX.

[ahachie]

@dlanorlegend When you hear the whistle blowin' eight to the bar

Then you know that Tennessee is not very far

Shovel all the coal in

Gotta keep it rollin'

Woo, woo, Chattanooga there you are

[MSBUSYLENA]

I love to see The Nicholas Brothers dance well tap (laughing)

[Pathtith]

Holy schmoly! Now, THAT is dancing! And also gymnastics.

[KosaiAvonej]

It's worth noting Dorothy was actually dancing with her husband Harold Nicholas in this act. They where married from 1942 until 1951.

[raynarayskye]

@KosaiAvonej The average person that would be searching for this video would already know that, those that ended up here by mistake more than likely don't care.

[ochihiro]

天才タップ兄弟＝ニコラスブラザーズと美人エンタティナー＝ドロ­シーダンドリッジの競演、で悪いわけがない。タップならやっぱり­ニコラスが最高。1930〜19-40年代のダンスに最大の影響­を与えたのがよく分かるよね。ドロシーも後年成形手術を受けて白­人マーケット迎合となったが、そんな必要がないのにと嘆息。

[Samirxxxxx]

My father loved this movie...

[tonybklyn]

Looks like 12 people are unfamiliar with non-autotuned music.

[wazaryan]

Waza from Aus.

Micheal Jackson eat your heart out just jokeing.amazing stuff.

[Undinchen1]

11 people missed the Chattanooga Cho Cho.

[kober1996]

3:23 Holy duck fuck! amazing! :D

[HippoSnatch]

Wish i could've seen this in person with my own eyes (:

[uniqque14u]

Don't know if I would have made it back over the train rail to close the dance routine. Whew... they were good!

[jprietoable]

jessica it is the Chattanooga mistery train!!! JP

[CuteKidan18]

nothing beats a classic

[Hot80s]

throw this clip on BET for Educational purposes.

[darkangelsapproved]

Played this song in jazz band a couple years ago! Now I know where it came from :)

[Kennymac8251]

Good grief was she hot.

I didn't notice anyone else dancing with her.

[sorgiorgio]

wonderfull very nice

[singingsmithy]

dont see stuff like that these days. awesome!

[Agorante]

@singingsmithy Sure you can. I saw one of them (not sure which) live as a headliner at one of the big downtown theaters in San Francisco in the nineties (or was it the eighties?). As I remember one of the brothers died but the other one toured America. This isn't my kind of music but the Nicolas Brothers were special.

[Larisa1988100]

класс!! степ отбивают и песенка веселенькая 

[13forevercasted13]

no one sings that good anymore T_T

[alivewire13]

BETTER THAN RAP CRAP!!!

[alexoldmovies27]

@alivewire13 you can say that again!!

[raynarayskye]

@alivewire13 how ironic.

[ahachie]

@alivewire13 To be honest, this song is actually similar to rap.

[SmootherCurls]

@ahachie That is not where rap came from. This is actually similar to Jazz. Rap has a completely different history.

[b0rderbr0ther22]

@alivewire13 hell nah better than this new pop crab (justin bieber, jonas brothers, lady gaga, lil wayne)

[agent4051]

@alivewire13 Every thing is better than crap... sorry I mean rap.

[redsugarapple]

:3 I like her dress and the peopel actually have raw talent, no auto tune!

[rapiddominace]

Black guys are the only ones who can pull off tap dancing without looking gay....

I look at this and say, "wow, those guys are great." i bet if a white guy was doing that he'd look like a total fag....except for James cagney

[hannibaltheundeadcat]

@rapiddominace Gene Kelly and Fred Astair managed.

[rapiddominace]

@hannibaltheundeadcat - no, they looked gay

[muscian100]

@rapiddominace you're a rather offensive person

[ViceroyNikolai]

what year was this made?

[Eluzara]

@ViceroyNikolai 1941

[SingWithInNow]

lol, makes me smile !!!

[DarrkLotus]

So thats where the C-Walk came from :')

[numbuh460]

lol, from "trifle to spare" to "not a nickel to spare"

[dbrick59]

I love millers music. This was from the movie Sun Valley serenade 1941.

[Oscar847]

u see people with REAL talent were famous back in the old days...now the technology is just ruining true talents..lady gaga's voice goes through how many programs? and no one can sound like justin bieber..not even justin bieber!

[misSsunneshineE]

this are the breakdancers from 1945 ^^

[ViceroyNikolai]

I think tex made the preformance, and the 3 black folk broke it, im not a racist, just an opinion.

[thekrushori]

@ViceroyNikolai This kind of performance was common at the time, one section was meant to please the ear and the next to please the eye.

[NkrumahTure]

Two masters at work.

[artsylovelylady]

They don't make movies like this anymore but I wish they did. Decades later we are still watching and enjoying this type of film. What does that tell you, Hollywood?

[MiladyPersnickety]

@chasinhooley - tap shoes have slick metal plates on the heels and toes of the soles, and those floors are highly polished. Plus, years of experience . .YEARS!!

[Drunkcitymusic]

I'm no interpretive dance major but the guy on the left is trying to take her wallet

.

[macvatu]

Two Brothers came to London in the 60s and performed regularly on TV calling themselves The Dallas Brothers. They were just as good as the Nicholas Bros on here. They even opened a dancing and acting school called the University of Showbusiness at Bayswater, London, and by all accounts proved very popular with younger people desperate to break into show business.

[TeeBoner8]

HA HA HOLY SHEEP SHIT THAT IS SOME GREAT DANCING!!!

[emejia009]

The Nicholas Brothers where like the Michal Jacksons of thie time(dancing that is).

[chasinhooley]

singing, dance, timing unreal!! did they dust the floor??? to help them they seem to be sliding a bit. is it an old trick??? they dont make them like this any more!

[xXshortshytxX]

If a camera had come tht close to my trombones slide it would have got soaked.....

[Thepianofreak17]

@xXshortshytxX Then you need a new cork for your spit valve!

[xXshortshytxX]

If a camera had come tht close to my trombones slide it would have got soaked.....

[KingRaven101]

Good heavens, that lady is showing her ankles!

[BigTMoney121]

I love her voice in this!!!!! Love you Dorothy!

[bicon2]

..and that's what entertainment was all about-brilliant!

[brainerdrebel]

If you come to Chatt you need to wear a bulletproof vest. We are in the top 5 most dangerous places to live. The local government is corrupt, we recalled our mayor and he want leave. There are traffic cameras and hidden traffic vans everywhere to fleece you. We have a gang problem in Chatt with shooting almost daily in the tourist areas. Please use caution if you plan a vacation to Chatt-town. Check out Chatt-town on U-tube.

[Animatrixette16]

OMG THE fLIPPER CLaP!!! I love how when the Brothers dance they look like theyre rollerskating ^_^

[aadeebindy]

this makes me want to buy the new toyota avalon.

[downmachinedown]

Haha, I am from Chattanooga. Good song but man what a shitty place to live.

[mackeymkay]

I came.

[DaniB0626]

Those Nicholas Brothers are too smooth!

[MissSheilaBeila]

I can't believe Harold went off and married that gorgeous woman later. WOW!! Thank you for this clip!

[perfectstrangr0]

Halle Berry should watch this and learn about true Black Talent.

This is what entertainment and talent are all about

Glen Miller was another one who helped knock down the color barrier,

yet is rarely given credit in that regard

[lovewalk101]

@perfectstrangr0 Uhhh...she did watch it. That is how she knew how to perform it for the movie.

[MysticGoddess1975]

This is about my hometown Chattanooga Tn and The Chattanooga Choo Choo...but besides that Dorthy Dandridge was amazing!!!!!! This is a GREAT video!! Thanks