Mills Brothers and Bing Crosby - Dinah (live)

[RoryVanucchi]

amazing...nearly 45 years after the original classic....

two giant talents of the depression era that never really lost popularity...

tribute to their abilities to adapt to different eras...and the lyrics/melodies of the 20's-30's..

amazing energy for people that would pass not long after this final encore...

[GIOIRDANOBRUNO]

Grandissimi! Quale grande armonia!!!!!!!!!

[RoryVanucchi]

this clip should be mandatory in any music class... the energy was still there

all those years later.. fantastic peek into 30's swing era...

[JEMCO2008]

thank you for the post

[britcomic]

Bing was in top form just a few months before his death and the Mills Brothers seem unchanged. Fantastic treat to see this

[playman08]

A lesson for modern singers, you can actually hear the words!! Great stuff.

[guitarpilot1]

I love this stuff. God bless the Mills Brothers and the people who download this stuff!

[rjvonbokern]

Great clip. Bing & the Mills Brothers are

the best. If memory serves me right this was from a CBS special celebrating Bing's 50th anniversary in show business. Toward the end of the show he

fell off the edge of the stage & broke a couple of bones. Unfortunately, this was his next to last special, his last was the

Xmas show with David Bowie. Bing passed away about 6 months later.

[tuxguys]

I watched this right after I listened to their original recording together, from 40 years earlier... "black don't crack," and neither does Crosby.

(No comments, people, I first heard that phrase used by Ossie Davis about himself in the movie "Repo Man.")

[grandplans]

all four excellent musicians.

[fiddlenut24]

bing crosby never lost his voice, great to see wonderful singers like him and the mills brothers having fun

[Shigeru409382]

perfectly sung mr. crosby!!! love it!!!

[IDidItMyWay78]

Gotta love it

[whitefalcon64]

I have no words to describe this faboulous final !!!! Thanks for post it. Greetings from Spain.

[bplatt1069]

As fabulous as the Mills and Bing are here, no one performs this song better than the great Boswell Sisters; in fact, I venture to say they got the tempo change idea from them.

[kellyjustus]

so when did the 4guys become 3

[jimraw1]

@kellyjustus When the Mills Brothers started, it was the four brothers. John Jr. died of pneumonia in 1936 during a tour of England. Their father, John Sr., took his place on bass/guitar. When John Sr. decided to stop touring in 1958, the group became a trio.

[54spiritedwill54]

FANTASTIC. Grrreat!

[guitarmanaruna]

Wow...legends..!!

[kjellkrone]

Well, folks, this is music, even in a hundred years from now, IT SWINGS!

[misspaddylee]

These guys never lost it.

Did you know that Donald was only about 17 when the Mills Bros. and Bing first recorded this song?

[SyberkaPL]

Only one year older than me. Nice! I hear about this somewhere.

[CarlLafong01]

@misspaddylee In the mid 1970's, I saw their show in the big lounge of The Flamingo in Vegas. That morning, I was at the front entrance of the Flamingo when I saw Donald step out of a limousine. A young kid was there trying to sell raffle tickets for his scout troop. All the big shot gamblers were brushing him aside. The kid approached Donald, who kindly said "I should have about 20 of those." The happy kid carefully counted out 20, and Donald stuffed the tickets in his pocket. Such kindness!

[misspaddylee]

@CarlLafong01 What a lovely story to share! Thanks.

[CarlLafong01]

@misspaddylee Glad you liked it, I always enjoy relating that story about Donald. The poor kid had been ignored and pushed aside by everyone he had approached. And then he went up to Donald, a major celebrity, whom he surely didn't know. When Donald said that he would take 20 of the raffle tickets, the surprised kid carefully counted out the tickets, as Donald, just as carefully, folded them and put them in his pocket. As if he might use one of them to claim his raffle prize.....LOL.

[Labaron26]

This was when music was really MUSIC....and not a mass of confusion and noise like much of it is today....

[IThinkIm2D]

when jazz like this first came out, it was dismissed by many as noise. And worse.

I love Bing Crosby (especially early '30s), but I also have many, many recent songs that are equally great.

[GodsFavoriteBassPlyr]

You are soo right. I wish I could give you 10 thumbs up - but youtube would only let me give one ; )

This generation misses out on SO much..!

[obamahipmusic]

Bing is wonderful

[wurly1100]

A wonderful assembly of talent we'll never see again. Great stuff!

[Georgewos]

This is one of the very few songs Bing recorded with the Mills Brothers in the early 1930's.

[kickedsazabi]

well this video doesnt sound like they were in those years.

[trcithaca]

Considering this performance is about 45 years after they first put the song on record, I'd say they did pretty well.

[hardcoresjoerd]

<3lol

[mhasy1965]

Real entertainers for a change, instead of shockers and indoctrinators.

[HCFan39]

I´m not that old that I´ve heard the music

on TV or so but I remember that I loved to

listen to this song sung by another group

which had visited our town.Still love it !!!

Great to hear the original (?)now.

[spoonido]

Grrreat! Thanks for posting this! :o)

[timboytx]

FANTASTIC. I'm thankful that I am old enough to remember some of the legends when they appeared on TV in their later years. I just wish I appreciated their music as much then as I do know. I can't get enough of it. Thanks for posting this.

[yaboo100]

Possiby my fave video on youtube :) Thank you ever so much x

[kargo386]

This video is from Crosby's TV special commemorating his 50 years in show business. Bette Midler also guest-starred. Does anyone know if the entire show is available? I had an audio recording but lost it 30 years ago when the guy to whom I loaned the cassette died, but the performances live on in my head.

[dickTed]

Great performance from vets past their prime.