1920s Bathing Beauties - Louis Armstrong Jazz

[FleurOlivia]

The woman @0:57 looks kind of drunk

[myrtlenhoward]

And that is what REAL women look like...No Botox, no lifts, tucks, vaneers...you know what i'm sayin'. And the happiness....wow, the happiness!

[PhallusFlaccidus]

my nan said that in those days here was no need for the razor blade down the bush to trim the bikini line...

[JounathxD]

Hi, good video, In what page in internet haved the photos of 2:00 - 2:31? plz plz

[suzannesadiiqa]

My gran said that when those cozzies got wet they left absolutely nothing to the imagination!!! that went for the mens as well......

[subbitz]

@ 2:30 . Nice ass!

[paulj0557]

These gals are average, we have the same 'average' gals today. Now get a load of the early 30's chorus girls in all of those Busby Berkley flicks. Those little honeys were the sweetest things I've EVER seen. Watch 2reeler's videos- SAMMY LEE Convicts 1930 Jazz Prison

What you see is 100% real and boy can they wiggle!

[MrGunterguerrero]

Oh yes ! They should see Brazilian girls on the beaches today !

[dadasopher]

@MrGunterguerrero Hahaha! Yes, quite a contrast!

[selgomez123ful]

coutney i see the video

[september9182000]

i need this for my stupid project :0

[september9182000]

omg i need this for my project but i dont know how to burn it :0

[TasteOfTorment]

And at 1:17, the girl in the middle with the long hair is super beautiful!

[TasteOfTorment]

soooooo cute!!!!

[purplefox071]

The must have had horrible tan lines...

[AnubisEvalyna]

The biggest reason for cannabis to be illigal is offcourse money.

I'm not gonna tell you the whole story, it's all over the internet.

But imagine this.

Cannabis becomes legal again, more people start using the most innocent drug on the planet.

And they start to ask themselfs, (for example, (one of many)); "Why the hell are we killing the planet by cutting down too many trees, when paper can be made from hemp?"

Millions of companies would lose loads of money!

See the real reason?

[CheifPaco]

(Video Begins) "OOOoooOOoo! Yeah! Nice legs you got th-(Pans over to the left)-uh......o_O... I'd still hit it.

[Relesy]

I'm thinking Baccano...

[MrMusicman488]

There is a REAL purity in these women.

[BobE1945]

This is one of the greatest recordings of all time! No bandgot it ever better!

[ysbaddaden2003]

Is it just me or do some of these women look like Shemp Howard?

[youtuuberoxx]

1:45 haha crazy 1920's teenagers

[dadasopher]

@youtuuberoxx Crazy teenagers!

[Helena012345]

I would have loved to be a teenager when this sort of music was around and they still had dance halls :)

[dddang]

Shia Lebouf at 1:18

[rockking05]

is it just me but history has a weird way of repeating itself like back then in the 20`s when jazz was new white kids would come over to the jazz scene and smoke pot and drink beer which was outlawed at the time.The beer was tranported by gang members who help tranport illegal beer to these places,and it help creat in forn whitin the amercia culture.Women cut their hair short and kids begin listening to black music and people begin crititing this just like they do today with rap music and pot

[AnubisEvalyna]

@rockking05

It's always the same dude.

When alcohol was outlawed there was alot of crime.

You'd say they would legalize cannabis for the same reason, to pull down the crime rate.

But cannabis makes people think for themselfs instead of going with the flow.

That's the last thing a gouvernement wants.

That's why harddrugs like alcohol which can kill you are legal, and cannabis which cannot kill you is illigal.

They don't care about your life, they only care about themselfs and money.

[old6is]

Fashions come and go, but Louis Armstrong will be with us for ever.

One of my "Ddesert Island Discs"

[garylandgren]

cool

[MPL029]

that woman at 1:21 on the left looks seriosly pissed!!!! (or is that a guy??)

[dadasopher]

yes, her expression really sets that photograph off from the rest. i'd like to think that she was just hot, tired and dehydrated, but she looks jealous and resentful to me.

[wheelslarbac]

@MPL029 I would like to know how you

typed 1:21 on the ''1920s Bathing Beauties

- Louis Armstrong Jazz

Could you tell me how to type that ?

Thank You

[MPL029]

@wheelslarbac Its not a secret...when you leave a comment and type in a time based on when it appears in the video (which you can see if you place your cursor on the streamline at the bottom of the video)..it will automatically highlight it in your posting.

[littlebigbrain]

I've loved Louis Armstrong since I was 7 when I first heard him at Primary School (Juniors) when Sister Zita made us listen to a series about the birth of Jazz. I can still see the old valve radio sitting by her desk blasting out this noise that made ones body jingle and jangle.

Thank you for posting this lovely little video.

I bet he's up there playing to God and getting her feet tapping.

[yacketycat]

Ah, there always has to be one psychotic Cosmo Girl on YouTube trying to justify her demented ideas about beauty. These women are so much more gorgeous and happy than anyone alive today could ever hope to be. Betcha anything that they were all snapped up for keeps by, oh, age 22...

[littlebigbrain]

Not true many of them remained spinsters because of the 15,000,000 men killed during the Great War. In the film "I'm All Right Jack" a reference is made to that fact. Quite a serious point for a comedy film.

[yacketycat]

Possible that some of them did, but I'm sure these ladies still had plenty of fun and full dance cards along the way. :)

[littlebigbrain]

Actually it was the men that had the fun and who took advantage of the social imperative for women to marry. Although there was the notion of the 'roaring twenties' it was the men that manipulated the situation and many women in desperation did things that got them into trouble with the prudish moral values of the day. It is a bit like the Sixties some got the freedom but most women missed out. Remember the Film "Poor Cow" that showed what happened to women that got stuck with the baby.

[yacketycat]

Couldn't it be said that, since you're most likely a man and I'm a woman, you're perpetuating the same type of manipulation here by discounting my opinions? ;)

I'm just playing, can't help it. :-D My original point was simply that these women are lovelier - and probably had a far better self-image - than their modern counterparts. Having had the good fortune to know some former flappers, I can say that despite the restrictive social mores, joy came more easily to them than to modern women.

[littlebigbrain]

I agree that joy came more easily. This is possibly because the times were easier.

Yes I am a man but I aslo had a Grand aunt and grandmother alive at this time with both of them about the ages of these women. I know what a hard life they had and how these moments illustrated in this video were few and far between.

No I did not discount your view because you are a woman. I did not know that.

I have always been concerned about the disadvantage women are placed in by society.

[yacketycat]

As a woman, I appreciate that... I knew that was where you were going, I was just teasing. My great aunt Charlotte bucked the system (she was the classic flapper), and spent her life refusing to care what anyone else was doing - she turned down four marriage proposals to move to NYC and work as a graphic designer in the '20s, and didn't marry until she was in her 40s. The 1920s saw the first widespread "women's movement," and she took full advantage of it - so I always see it through her eyes.

[littlebigbrain]

My mum taught me about a "woman's place" in that she was a single mother in the early fifties and she fought tooth and nail to keep us together against the forces of reactionary bigotry. She died two years ago after 80 years of being the most independently strong person I have ever known.

I have inherited her strength but more importantly she taught me a woman's life made them far stronger than men.

Whoops!! I'm knocking myself there. Actually there is more woman in me than "Macho" man.

[littlebigbrain]

ps. this is the best chat I've had on YouTube. Thank you.

[yacketycat]

I was thinking the very same thing. It's wonderful to have an intelligent back-and-forth online, and quite rare, too!

[littlebigbrain]

Now I'm getting big headed and the danger is I'll be seeking a sex change just to complete the job. Did you look at the video I attached from my other channel. If not did it get sent. It's the infideltv in me. The tv being the double meaning.

Whoops! An intelligent man. Oxymoron I believe. Or at least most of my women friends probably believe.

I better knock back 14 pints of beer just to put d Universe back into order or else everything might get out of shape & we'll end up crashing in2 d Sun.

[JEMCO2008]

thank you for the post

[prettyparisian]

Dadasopher, thank you so much for this video! The women back then were so beautiful, effortlessly glamourous. I take inspiration from these women, and have enormous respect and love of the 20's so this video was pleasent to watch. Thanks xx

[pavaqlco]

Girls were ugly back then..

[kittenstoes]

NO, cosmetic surgery just wasn't implemented on girls age 8 and up if they had potential. I certainly hope that, after your statement, that you are drop-dead gorgeous pavaqlco, or that would make you a hypocrite...

[pavaqlco]

No, I'm not. I really don't need to be :P

[kittenstoes]

And neither do the women in this clip..

[littlebigbrain]

pavaqlco no longer exists.

[BSNFabricating]

Cosmetic surgery, airbrushed photography, starvation diets..and I'm sure these gals in the '20's were overall happier than the supermodel types (and wannabes) are today...

[luvebug21]

The clothes were beautiful xxxxx

[cw1310]

They sure had ugly cloth then.

[fillra]

Very pretty girls! You can see the same faces today, fresh and fit and happy. They're worth fighting for!

Thanks, dadasopher.

Kid Ory wrote the tune, and it was recorded by Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five, on February 26, 1926, Chicago, Illinois.

Armstrong, Louis (Cornet, Vocal)

Ory, Kid (Trombone)

Dodds, Johnny (Clarinet, Alto Saxophone)

Armstrong, Lil Hardin (Piano, Vocal)

St. Cyr, Johnny (Banjo)

More Louis at michaelminn, or at redhotjazz or at dippermouth dot blogspot.

[Yetti0]

Note there were no bras then... Howard Hughes invented the first bra for a movie which required a plump cleavage for Jane Russell.

[juslookin3]

Beautiful collection.

[Hatorah]

Not ugly...it's just that we've evolved in personal care products have acquired good artistic talent to camouflage the real "us" LOL and, I must say that plastic life was not in vogue. Whatever, they look happier and more prudent.

[dadasopher]

That's why I find these people so attractive: they look like real, flesh-and-blood humans - neither plastic, nor under-weight, nor over-weight.

[TheNotoriousJesus]

@Hatorah

Regardless women are getting prettier even when not using make up ;)

[Hatorah]

@TheNotoriousJesus I attribute this to the mixing of races too. Honestly, I have a mix-race daughter who looks like a sculpture made in Heaven. The beauty of Black mixed with my DNA has produced a child that all stare at her...green eyes, long curly hair, mouth like a tulip, small nose, green eyes like almonds, and shaped like a mermaid. Heck, I have to keep praying for her so that she does not go in the wolves den. I give praise to GOD for this...and she has singing talent to sell. SIGH.

[moviebull2]

god, women were but-ugly back then

[pramjam64]

Dude! Your grandma is HOT!

[lustre5]

Great!  Loved Muscrat Ramble by the McGuire Sisters.

[oldernwiser0]

lovely collection of photos and a very good montage ! thanks for sharing .. and yes i almost forgot that louis armstrong was a jazz specialist before his days as a singer !