Big Joe Turner - Feelin' Happy

[Independent488]

BEST.

[wickirsinn]

Cool...

[DallasPix]

THE song starts off just like Chuck Berrys' Back In The USA.. Guess I now know where Chuck got his tune for BACK IN THE USA..!!

[saxophile1]

Who's on tenor sax? Joe Houston?

[harris1234100]

@saxophile1 It looks like Joe Houston! You know your sax players.

[schmui]

how bored he sounds and looks in front of that lame crowd.

[peetie44]

This is, of course, a movie lip-sync.

Joe's original recording of "Feelin' Happy" was on the old Freedom Records label. It featured a trumpet solo that held one high-C for 10 bars of a chorus.

Big Joe; I played piano with him and knew him well.

[brtos]

0:07

[MsCaleb79]

this is the real man , this is oh yeah...

[funkstagazza]

hmmmmmmmm no black kids in the audience rock n roll was not just a white thing

[5656bigsteve]

I could be wrong but is the trombone player white but passing for black, for plot continuity?

[Stennert90]

Where can i buy this movie? :D

[oramikleepunk]

This is from one of Alen freeds Rock n Roll movies!

[smartcooky99]

Is the guy who walks in for the intro Mike Connors who played Private Eye Joe Mannix?

[leesterg]

@smartcooky99: You've got good eyes, that is Mike Connors, in this movie he was billed as Touch Connors. By-the-way, he is still living and resides in Encino, CA a suburb of Los Angeles.

[beatmastert]

Luv the sax, nice and tasty, no squeeling on the high notes like so many players do now.

[ojideagu]

@beatmastert People have squealed high notes on sax even before this video was made, it's

part of playing the sax. Next you will be saying guitar players shouldn't bend squealing high notes.

[beatmastert]

@ojideagu If I wanted to hear from an asshole I would have just farted.

[hobodudeTM]

The sax solo gives me orgasms in ear.

[Ali3009ify]

30's music waz so gay, lil wayne out classes these fools

[mcsemtex1]

@Ali3009ify it´s @ 40´s and its r&b :o

[decus69]

@Ali3009ify your gay

[Ali3009ify]

@jellyrollbaker your obivioulsy a lame old school hillbilly u doesnt no what the futute is, yo da la yo da laa he hooo hoo, lol

[wrfreytag]

It's Sterling Holloway (Voice of Winnie The Pooh for Disney....)

[pbuotte]

That drummer is swinging it!!

[PoireauMan68]

I didn't know Harpo Marx was playing in this movie??

[nettiemich]

@PoireauMan68 that's not harpo marx!

[spupapi]

I love this song

[lizdena]

I love the comments

[oitchy]

Look at them white folks a'clappin!

[knobstick]

I've played in bands for over 30 years now, a lot of it jumping stuff like this, and on the rare occasions you get an audience all clapping in time and on the downbeat like they are here it's fantastic!!!

[pyannaguy]

Oh, Man - you just tweaked my funnybone. My background sounds a lot like yours and I can't tell you how many times I've marvelled at how people almost invariably just clap on the downbeat like a bunch of drunk Vikings.

Speaking of rhythmically-challenged, if u get a sec, type in Vince Weber - (see: Vince the Prince - 1981) - he's a brilliant Boogie Woogie / Blues piano man / singer. In the background are a bunch of chicks on stage that are beyond clueless just trying to snap their fingers!

[whitefalcon64]

One of the greatest rock'n'rollers ever !!!!!

[kapacon]

"Oh well oh well, I feel so good today, we just touched down on an international runway........"

[GUGUG]

cool Kev, ta

[TigerRocket]

''What a racket...I don't see how they could stand that noise!''

Guffaws of laughter

[MRROCK92]

i love this

[HOGEFAN]

I love this song, and I love this movie. Perfect way to open the movie, too.

I've probably watched Shake Rattle and Rock about 30 times. Never get tired of it.

Thanks for the video!

[thebismarkandthehood]

@HOGEFAN never seen it-whats it about?

[HOGEFAN]

@thebismarkandthehood A radio DJ's job and rock n roll music are on trial in a 50's movie full of catchy and not so catchy tunes. Co-stars Sterling Holloway, who played the voice of Pooh later in his career. Fun movie geared more toward mindless entertainment from American International.

[goodoletimes]

marvelous !!!

[marctrainor]

Hey, gang, if this isn't fun, kick you in the butt, good old rhythm and blues, I'll kiss your "you know what". This guy just had it all "goin on" in the rhythm and blues department. Marc Trainor.

[UnknownStoner420]

lol better then the noise today thats for sure

[Horuuus]

GREAT !!!

[somegeek]

Damn - this is timeless.

[whitefalcon64]

Known as the boss of the blues, I should include as the big voice of Rock'n' Roll

[gangerollo]

Alrigdy, what a guy Joe was. I mean so natural and cool. And its heavy beat is so good for the soul.

[rutlegirl]

(overgrown child (me) jumping) lol

:D

[leosalais]

"Well well, my my. Let the good times roll, let the good times fly."

What a blues shouter.

[arjhendrix]

have no fear, big joe is here!

amazing snapshot of heaven.

well allright x2

got me a cadillac car...

........................

going jus a bit too far.

big joe for ever on this here toob.

[LosAngeleno1959]

"You and your black dress,and your seeping gown"!!

[joomuck]

I grew up listening to Pete Johnson and Joe turmer. What a place to come from.

[primeralives]

So this is what Mannix did before joining the police dept.

[Dreambro1]

ms85,, a lot of tunes then had similar tunes and lines, as with music nowadays,, that was the style then

[MOTOPAC]

MIKE CONNORS!

[southie231]

Joe Turner was known as "Boss of the Blues". I hope he made a few bucks from this movie. Generally the black R&B singers were shortchanged in the 50's. White covers and unscrupulous record company execs screwed these outstanding performers out of the $ they should have received. Thank you Big Joe for your wonderful music!!

[davegebo]

Today's music sucks. God help us all. Thank you Big Joe.

[marctrainor]

When I was growing up in the 50's listening to this stuff, I remember not knowing whether the bands were black or white. I just knew I liked the music. Now that I'm older, last night I talked to an old black man who told me, that back then, they wouldn't let a lot of the black acts play in white neighborhoods. What a loss for everyone, I think, but I'm glad to see a change in this video. Marc Trainor.

[MS85ToyotaCrown]

I've heard that tune some ewhere else sounds the same a shake rattle and roll.

[Rocky1DJ]

¡BIG! ¡BIG! ¡BIG! JOE TURNER.

¡Viva el Rock and Roll!.

[hitmanisback]

some one upload some john hendy the jump sax player

[jumpemup78]

Yep..this am the real rock n roll..jump child

[DrRavioli]

Well ,well!Isn't that Mike "Joe Mannix" Connors as the MC?(Elvis has stolen the bilding , Joe!)

[Maya54321]

True rock 'n' Roll, !!!

[AWV34]

What an act. What class? Where have all the great black musicians gone?

[jljimmeb]

they seem to be keeping time..that's how i keep time..

[hollywoodfats]

I'm still jumpin' for joy!

[landau1945]

Love these blues ''shouters'' Fascinating that Choker Campbell band ended up at Motown.

Others I would like to see besides Wynonie harris and Roy Brown are Billy Wright (inspiration to Little Richard) and Crown Prince Waterford.Has anybody got any of these artistes?

[Cherokee6194159]

LOL yea them White kids are getting down.

[thavault]

wow, the audience can't keep time.

[jaysshuffle]

Shit, they doin awright

[hyzercreek]

bad film editing? They seem to be ahead of the beat, the cutting room screwed up

[andrew17660]

its not really in proper sync i dont think

[haleyfan]

Hey thanks for the great video I own Shake Rattle and Rock. But it's just nice to have this footage online. I agree with d820m Wynonie should have some footage somewhere. (Big Joe and Wynonie were not rivals Big Joe was Wynonie's main influence and they sang together on "Battle of The Blues Partos 1 & 2")

[d820m]

That's right, thanks for the reminder, which is funny, because I have that on 78rpm (Aladdin 3037). Too bad "Going Home" and "Blues" from that same session were never released on record.

[d820m]

those songs are also on the 4-disc set I have; Wynonie Harris, Rocking the Blues covering the years 1944-1950.

[d820m]

If there were truly any justice in this world, there would be some footage of Joe's pricipal rival in shouting the blues, Wynonie "Mr.Blues" Harris himself. I guess Wynonie was just a tad bit too dirty for the teenagers who didn't want to see dirty, mature men who sang about sex and alcohol like Wynonie.