Handsome Harry The Hipster

[mickram23]

Is this a Soundies reel? It certainly looks like one. Isn't it amazing that there were,basically, video jukeboxes around in the 40's?!

[CoolFreeHardBop]

I love the lingo Harry's putting down! Careless Carrie the Clipster? Crazy!

[W24YI]

No, Fats & Cab were doing their thing a few years before

Harry came along but Harry had his own kick going for

sure.

[busessuck1]

@W24YI in fact he was discovered by fats

[13loomisst]

Cute, but weren't Cab Calloway and Fats Waller doing this long before?

[conkyjoe]

If you ever get to hear Harry do his "reefer" rap and "Ceement Mixer", it will make your day.......

..."Can't go on, all my Nebutols are gone........"

..."of all the instruments out there, the furnace is the hippest"

..."all rise, turn east and face Decca"

"platter platter spinning slow, Victor 45 must go, push the switch and press the leever, Presley can't go on foreever."

..."You wouldn't know a melody if it hit you in the mouthpiece"

[hyzercreek]

Where would I find such a recording? Sounds like 1950's.

[hyzercreek]

I was just thinking, this guy was hip. I mean he was a hipster, he was a bopper. I mean, this boy was really hip. He wasn't hep....oooooh no, he was hip, not hep. Harry Gibson was the first man in history who took hep all the way to hip. The jive is hip, don't say hep that's a slip of the lip, let me give you a tip, don't you ever say hep it ain't hip.

[aladaube]

So cool - the Hipster is "sad" indeed. I can watch this over and over.