Thelma White and Her All-Girl Orchestra old jazz clip

[gmttdan]

Well i love this clip :)

[tfiddler]

I just ran this last night for a group of folks at one of my 16mm film shows and it was a big hit, so there... I also have a real 1917 three spring Victorla... and for it's time it was a wonderful machine with a pleasing sound and I still love to listen to it for hours on end, so there again...

[papimilli]

all those with negative comments must have big chip on their shoulders to find something negative in this! pendejos!

[zbelzanger]

"I wonder who's boogin my woogie now." lol. (Ya gotta love the 40's)

[dal4018]

YOUR WELCOMED CUSHTI

[Cassoix]

@ioneking even in insignificant You Tube text comments where mediocre personalities (ioneking, everyone else seems to be well adjusted)seem to have issues with the world vent their anger at their own insignificant existence, and attempt to get arguments out of strangers by posting gratuitous irrelevent comments ,well done, I guess small victories must be prized where ever you can ilicit them.

[Cassoix]

Unfortunatly this clip has spawned some extremely negative commentary from some covertly hostile individual who obviously has issues with white women. In my opinion there was some better big band stuff out there, this is not the only example. The fact that it was done by women has nothing to do with it, there is mediocrity everywhere you look,

[mistertaterbug]

While I agree that these gals "ain't no Ella"...my god, who is?...it takes nerve and practice to do what they're doing, especially in the time period they were doing it in. Not to forget, there are daughters, wives, mothers and grandmothers in this bunch too. I think they're a lot braver than you armchair critics and other bottom feeders who judge people from a safe distance because you don't have the balls to go do whatever it takes to get the job done.

[ioneking]

Just your typical jazz theives, stealing what was Duke Ellington , Count Basie, and all the other great Black jazz entertainers. just so typical!! ...

[Lyork]

There is truth in what you say & it hasn't changed much. But what it took for any woman, black or white, to actually sit on one of those band stands and actually get to play in those days, you will never know! They certainly didn't get the recognition of an Ellington or Basie band so be a little kinder.

[ioneking]

@Lyork.....First of all you have to understand that there was no women up there doing any real conducting with the band to begin with.  The women were simply eye candy for the gentlemen, just simply dancing & singing so there! and far as for what it took for the women to get up there? Well let's just say women still use that to get ahead in socitey today and that is giving up the draws to the lucky man who is in that lucky position to get her ahead so there were no real stars but real Whores!!!

[Lyork]

@ioneking You sound angry with an ax to grind, perhaps a wanna be musician.

[fillra]

I think Thelma appeared in the 1936 film "Reefer Madness", an anti-drug film.

[Armigerous]

Phil Spitalny: call your office

[swinginkatz]

Talented and Good Looking. Any still around, respond.

[ottohedrick]

washad2 you are right, the film was turned over,

[78timothy]

This is one of the Soundies from the Late 1940's that were so popular and were normally viewed in a Jukebox like machine called a "Panoram" A juke box that was designed to play short 10 minute reels of musical entertainment. designed for private viewing. Yes it is backward, as the Panoram used a mirror to reflect the original image projected (Upside down and backward) to the viewing screen. Shot, developed and processed originally on 16mm film stock. Shown on TV in the 1950's too.

[gary78rpm]

They are performing the stock arrangement of "Hamp's Boogie Woogie", arranged by Edgar Battle.  Written by Lionel Hampton and Milton Buckner. Lionel recorded a similar version with his own band for Decca in March, 1944.

[washad2]

the film is fliped over, it is showing backwards, the trombones are backwards, and the saxaphone are, and the trumpets too.

[cushtichavi]

Never heard of this lovely lady. Thanks You Tube for showing us this great lady and her band.

[dal4018]

Hey Cush she was one of three women to conduct a jazz band with MEN ONLY.The other two were Blanche Calloway,Anna Mae Winburn.

[cushtichavi]

Thanks for the info.

[MajorRagtime]

Wow, rap was so different 50 years ago!

[strangeromance1]

Love this! Love Ina Ray too! This seems a little more fun and unadulterated than Ina Rays band which tends to be more on the commercial side. These ladies are a little more fun, a little more simple and maybe a little more black (not rying to be a racist) but as far as musical style. They rule as far as raw talent goes and I'd prefer to spend my money on their performnce becuase it was more fun and therefore worth it. This is very cool! Thanks!

[3investigators]

It is nice to see but I do prefer Ina Rae and I definitely prefer the music of the 1930's to the 1940's watered-down variety.

[porkotube]

too much clothes

[exatrax]

The image is flipped left-right. Look at the hands of the players on the back...

[richardbrompton]

Nice...but I prefer Ina Ray Hutton

[bdecorsey]

re: glennmiller2005,

Thats not really the point, is it? Amazing that this many women musicians (who are all quite accomplished) were able to survive and support themselves via their art. Certainly not the norm for women in 1946!

No one is saying they're the best jazz ensemble ever assembled. No need to compare them to the top performers in their field at the time.

When Miles Davis was starting out, all anyone could say was that he was no Dizzy.

[teebeesea]

To bdecorsey: Thank you for posting the only remark here (so far) with any value (that includes mine!). I'm sorry for any music "fan" who needs to measure everything by whatever might be considered the "highest standards." This is an interesting clip of a band I'd never heard or heard of...certainly more valuable to have it available on YouTube than yet another scratchy Miller or Shaw Bluebird played on somebody's crappy wind-up machine with a two-pound tone arm and steel needle!

[RatPfink66]

glenn2005 may have been uncharitable, but his reaction would have been exactly the reaction of the music business wise*sses in 1946. Now that the bands are all gone, we can afford to be more charitable.

[glennmiller2005]

mediocre at best, simple riff based arrangement and a barely swinging band. not bad, but they're no shaw or goodman band.

[portugalete]

Delicious!!! Thanks for the post