Boswell Sisters- Crazy People - 1932 Film Clip

[webusecom]

It's great that young people like good music, I don't understand why older people hate on young people just because they say how old they are. If it makes them feel good and special I'm happy too why do some folks always have to hate something? Life is a whole lot better if you quit hating everything!

[BowserDog]

The Andrews Sisters would've never made it big if these gals hadn't burst on the scene first. Soooooo talented...and unheralded!

[sinajair5]

I really love that music... i don't know why, I'm 15 years old!

[preservationhall01]

@sinajair5 Your young age doesn't exclude you from having a more sophisticated taste than your peers. Don't follow the crowd like a sheep and you'll end up being much happier, confident, and at peace with yourself.

[zamusicza]

Loves me some Boswells ....as good as the Andrew Sisters...who I love also...only difference is these gals were gorgeous...

[rogerstill71]

@zamusicza Better any day than the Andrews Sisters, IMO.

[bill3murr]

crazy people like me love this....thank you for the best trio ever.

[MyprettyBubble]

Music was so much nicer in the early 20's-30's. The Boswell sisters also sung for a fliescher studios cartoon.

[MsNinjafetus]

@preservationhall01 highly doubtful lol

[preservationhall01]

@MsNinjafetus Sorry, I thought a Ninja fetus might be highly intelligent.

[MsNinjafetus]

Im in highschool and i luv this and no one else does...

[preservationhall01]

@MsNinjafetus Future valedictorian?

[meredith218461]

These ladies were so cool!

[Diosprometheus]

You can hear where the wah-wah-wah sound that was popular in music in the 60's came from in this song at the very end.

[2agray]

I had this 78 as a kid and played it for my aunt, "Oh God! I got sick of those leftover flappers from the 20's with that wadda-wadda-doo-dah-diddly and the 96 tempo changes every record. You couldn't dance to anything they sang and they were all over the radio. I'd just turn the dial. You knew exactly who they were without anybody saying anything." LOL.

[preservationhall01]

@2agray Glad you liked this LOL!! At least bplatt said you really did.

[MrMoviefan30]

They sound incredible! What ever happened to this music? Now it's about killing people and getting high. So sad. I love the '20's and '30's music!

[JMaggot69]

@MrMoviefan30 You know, rap isn't the only kind of modern music.

[DaNNiiZZiiEE]

my last name is Boswell <3 ;)

[EthanOberlin]

thry're to jazzy for their own good! :)

[ChristinaB1998]

I'm related to them so freaking awesome! :)

[busessuck1]

... This is much sexier than the music videos they make nowadays - because them girls who drag themselves nekked on the floor don't nearly have as much talent, so you're not gonna feel any affection towards them

[jonholdaway]

The Boswell Sisters are incredible, better than the Andrews Sisters and a decade earlier! Every afficionado of vocal jazz should study and know them.

[la69mo]

jajaja I love old music

[ConstanceConnee]

Does anyone sheet music to this song?

[RiaLake]

Wonderful to see and hear. Thank you.

[ridicolas]

soundsgood!!!!

[concordbdance]

marvelous!

[AudiGal09]

what a cute song. i'm a really new bozzies fan, i mean i just literally got into them yesterday. i love that's how rhythm was born and the object of my affection. and THIS.

[MrGotsquashed]

It's not 'doo wop', it's 'walla daa'! lol (Not even going to try to dance to this one.)

[ikkyusojun]

THE HARMONIES!

[ttrocco]

My favorite Boswell Sisters song! Try to catch the file, Big Broadcast of 1932, if you can-has a weird attempted suicdie by gas/hallucination scene.

Thanks for posting.

[playnite]

are they triplets?

[preservationhall01]

@playnite No-Martha was born 6/9/1905; Connee 12/3/1907, and Helvetia 5/20/1911.

[carrotstick24601]

Damn, wish I was born 80 years earlier... incredible stuff and real musicians who can actually sing and aren't just eye candy.

[christexample]

how old is this?

[preservationhall01]

@christexample 80 (years)

[NewDisneySucksHard]

real music.

[Shaundie13]

Thanks so much to allow us to watch and listen it ! big thanks from france of a 89's girl

[MrAdhirajSS]

1 dislike!!?? what motherfuckin piece of shit disliked this song!!!!!!

[SuperHartline]

Yes, the Boswells are incomparable. The Andrews sisters are beyond belief. But don't overlook the Dinning Sisters. When it comes to tight harmony and perfect sync, they are up there with the best. superhartline

[ZingZee123456789]

Wow...to be honest I'm surprised that they're white....

ELLA FITZGERALD said the Boswell sisters were her inspiration!! Their styles are EXACTLY the same!!

[2agray]

I had no idea that they were jazz oriented like that. I had heard Connie's solo records and they were ballads and I just completely passed up any Boswell Sisters 78's I found over the last 30 years thinking they were just a corny ballad group. Now I'm sorry I did that. I can definitely see the influence they had on the Andrews Sisters!

[sbgrant]

"376 likes, 0 dislikes"

[sbgrant]

This is just insanely good. I'm staggered by the technicality and ease with which they pull it off every time I watch it.

[sbgrant]

What, no autotune?!

[vincep1942]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Vercingetorix2006]

Yeah, and they influenced the Andrews Sisters, Ella Fitzgerald and I'm sure many others. Not only that, they were babes!

[Dikwerf]

This is a great tune. Do you know when it was recorded?

[Andy40004]

they still leave ??? i want theyr autograph

[kallemick]

@Andy40004 im sorry to say this but the youngest one died in the 1980's

[EthanOberlin]

i love this song sooooooo much and this is coming from a teenager, they sure sould rock it out for it being 1930 somethin'. But that connee sure could belt on out

[tylerhaunted]

wow..... such beauty. However i wonder just what would happen if you were to make like a scene for a horror movie where someone's getting hacked up into pieces, and all the sound has been taking out an only this song is playing, while watching the victim being brutally murdered. How disturbing of a horror would this make? Opinions??

[decayedmatter]

@tylerhaunted I love it! Do it.

[tylerhaunted]

@decayedmatter oh i intend on it, i intend on making a short when i have the ability to do it, along with money and time to do it.... and the volunteers.

May be several years before i get around to it but when it is done it will be up for viewing.

[kareljuwet]

@tylerhaunted

they'd invent a new oscar for 'best song choice'

[LeBu1]

what..the..hell....was..thaaaa­at ?! :S

[AzualMermaid22]

They are so in synch!

[zgomer1]

Great song!

[DieScreamingMarianne]

I'm only 15 years old, but I love music like this. Thank to my grandfather.

[faqirsilki]

awesome

[roybo1930]

Ahhhhhhh! LOVE THOSE BOSIES!!!! I`m crazy over them!

[xk80]

le vedi 'sti cazzo de americani?...

sincopano tutto... le note, le bombe,che pout pourri de roba... e noi che ce abbastava 'l trio lescano...

hua hua hua....

;)

[SnappyTune22]

love the 30s and 40s muic theres a restraunt that we go to that plays this kind of music and its so fun! it seems like one group that they sing like, that was how it was in the era

[tylerhaunted]

has anyone ever used 30s era music in horror music? especially slasher blood fest films? Think about it; the victim being chased/stalked/hacked and the actual sound has been muted. All you can see is their face in horror and pain and agony and the only music to comfort you...... is this. WTF

[chicoconpatas]

i cant believe theres even gaga comparisons in this video

[corvus13]

Awesome!

[Lips2Kumbo]

usually i listen 2 hip hop but dats sum good music

[emerging2012]

It should be noted that Ella Fitzgerald idolized the lead singer Connee Boswell, later saying, "My mother brought home one of her records, and I fell in love with it....I tried so hard to sound just like her." Now you see how important and influential these ladies were! They spawned a whole new style of singing and never really received all the accolades for doing so.

[LacyLeda]

This needs more views because more people need to listen to this GREAT song.

[preservationhall01]

@LacyLeda Thanx for your comment-I just don't "promote" my vids on YT as many people do. PH01

[dal4018]

@LacyLeda Ella Fitzgerald was huge fan of this talented female trio

[yaoibanshee]

Glozell!

[odysseetheater]

not for nothng they have been idols of ella fitzgerald, really, every tone ist correct, wonderful,, great great great

[spiderlaw]

i cant hold back the tears. It is sad that beautiful music like this doesnt exist anymore.

The music industry just goes down hill from year to year.....

I will forever love the Boswell Sisters and the Andrews Sisters!!

BTW...I aint old people. I am still young and only 23yrs old.

[devourerofbabies]

@spiderlaw What are you talking about?  People will still be listening to Lady Gaga 100 years from now.

[spiderlaw]

@devourerofbabies

Where did i mention Lady Gaga?

Anyways. Gaga is a joke. She copied Many other artists and then dares to call herself original! lol, she makes me laugh

[devourerofbabies]

@spiderlaw I like lady gaga

[spiderlaw]

@devourerofbabies

Thats fine. Doesnt change that she isnt original.

I dont like her but some people do and thats fine really. Talented, no not really. Original, definitely not. Crazy, all kinds of course :) !

[zbelzanger]

The Boswells do the female singing in the 1937 Harman & ising cartoon SWING WEDDING, which is a great takeoff on some of the big swing musicians of that day. It's on U-Tube.

[TheSwingShift]

@zbelzanger Actually, they did not sing the female part in "Swing Wedding." The sisters broke up in early 1936. The group that did that in Swing Wedding did a nice job of imitating them but if you listen to their lead singer (who was imitating Connee) it clearly isn't them. Boswell biographer David McCain played that cartoon at the Boswell Centennial in 2007 to note how close they did sound like the Boswell's.

[lexo30]

Just brilliant - I'd heard of them before but never seen or listened to them. Virtuosic, sexy, funny and strangely mysterious all at the same time.

[ladikira86]

whoa! their harmonies are on point. this is really cool to watch.

[mustangcharger]

It's an old,old custom of the heart that keeps people from driftin' apart.

[woollyjumperfilms]

fantastic. they are like three little flowers bending in the breeze.

[td241]

@woollyjumperfilms such an adorable simile ! i agree wholeheartedly.

[mustangcharger]

Christ in Heaven this is the greatest two minutes of my life. This humbles all of rock n roll, it is so daamn funky. Jesus Joseph this could beat The Devil in a song contest.

[vegajay]

I've watched this video every day for the past 5 days and i still can't get enough of it. Perfect in every sense of the word.

[cevc918]

Incredible - What beautiful and talented ladies...

[thetiler]

Really enjoy there style and I just found out about them. So many years I didn't even know they existed ! Wow !

[graphicpulse1024]

Whaaat?! The ending was awesome! oh and they're gorgeous too

[HughToober]

Awesome!!

Lady GaGa , Madonna and Brittney should do a remake of this!

[joeypolanski]

I first heard this by th Chenille Sisters (present-day group).

Its great to hear th original.

[JunKueen]

The Chenille Sisters?!! LOVE them!

[gabbysbuddy]

Rget were magic! And so was Connie on her own!

[dustinmanansala]

this song drives me crazy! in a good way of course ;D

[mvanlvr]

Craz-y people go crazy for people like you!

[VenusAsABoyFilms]

good. funny. sounds like a cartoon. :)

[marston5000]

The Boswell Sisters are amazing. I'm 61 years old, and too young to remember the Boswell Sisters. I still enjoy their musical harmony and message. I can listen to the music, and it still makes sense to me in the 21 century.

[DENISMURRELL]

A long time fan here but these videos are fantastic! Such beautiful girls.

[zbelzanger]

And when the "wha wha's" are all said and done, it's obvious who the leader is.

[Anubis454545]

The Boswell Sisters are just amazing! Such complicated singing style, in a perfect harmony.

Connie is very pretty :]]

[bluesborn]

Love the ending...wha wha wha wha wha....

These gals were incredible.

[DailyBrusher]

So amazing, I want to scream! They sing together like one instrument - brings tears to my eyes!

[keltyk]

@ DailyB- exactly how they affect me too- glad to hear i'm not the only one

[LindaDooWop]

I love this! Thank you so much for sharing.

[jennaskater693]

lol my name is karlea boswell! lol, distant aunts

[Lester2955]

This is great.......The Chenille Sisters also perform this now.

[luvebug21]

its goog very good indeed lol :x

[PeaceNdLovee]

I would love to start a band like this, or like the Andrews sister =]

[Direness]

The Andrews Sisters started as an imitation act of the Boswell Sisters, actually.

[Memale2009]

I like to be crazy too! So this song corresponds perfectly to my nature "crazy"! Let's be crazy! Yeah!

[LittleKim1001]

Great! Love them! Thanks for sharing!

[IrRrIS1l3nt]

too bad music like this doesnt exist nowadays. good to know there are still people preservating and enjoying it. i love the boswell sisters, especially this one and the depression era medley which you can find in my channel.

[SanaOsniva]

i love them so much XD the music is great and they look really good *_*

[dianamaryflorence]

This was one of my favorite songs back in the 1930's. The Boswell Sisters were one of my favorite music groups then and they still are now.

[hoopjnky]

You go Diana! Doin' You Tube and remembering the 30s. Ain't life grand!

[jeanserge21]

One of the things I like in youtube is that we can find people who knew different periods, even old ones.

[santasxgirlfriend]

superb!!!!

[SanaOsniva]

I love them so much

[JediGoddessChristy]

Crazy people crazy people...love it!

[mmpezzotti]

wow, maybe the best music i have ever heard, just after ray charles and the dave brubeck quartet.

win.

[roybo1930]

Why? Dear GOD, Why? Can`t People Sing Like This Today? So Many Times Singers Today Use Unnessary Voice Tricks, And Have No Soul. These Girls Had IT All. Thanks For Posting. This Is Awsome!!!

[tomkellycartoons]

Dear Roybo....I so agree with you! And gee...lyrics one can actually understand. What a concept. Not to mention singers who can actually sing! Don't get me started!! Cheers!

[walt1896]

I agree. Still in the case of the Boswells, mistresses of necessary voice tricks, it can be said that nobody sung like that back then either.

[ChrysalisBound]

wowza - can't get this brilliant tune outa my head!

thanks so much for sharing it - i'd never ever heard it before...

[bp996959]

OMG- how appropriate for a trio of women i know!!!

[27boof]

Damn! They are SO GREAT!!! SO tight, SSSOOO in tune, GREAT arrangement! Thanks for posting!

[preservationhall01]

Ditto boof. Glad you enjoyed the vid.

[SyberkaPL]

Yeah this is very great song!

[SladeBarker]

Connie Boswell probably had childhood polio AND a later accident. The chart-topping version of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" she recorded with Bing Crosby was a benefit for infantile paralysis. While on an early tour with her sisters, Boswell jumped out of a hotel window during a game, thinking there was a deck below. There wasn't. But what a trouper: When she began to find autographs too painful (she couldn't dot the "i" again and again), she simply changed the spelling of her name to "Connee"!

[cemeterydude]

I've always read the Connee was paralyzed due to polio - hmm, wonder what's the truth? This is a great clip of one of my fave Bozzies song! Thanks!

[hoopjnky]

While there is a debate as to whether it was polio or an accident, Connie did indeed have a disability and was in a wheelchair. However, in the short "Close Farmony." which you can find on You Tube, Connee actually takes a step. it is a very quick shot but not so fast that you do not see the severe limp. Her voice is amazing, but her spirit must have been otherworldly.

[everybodylovesmybaby]

Connie's limp would be consistent with childhood polio, which can cause one or both legs to atrophy.

[kspm01]

Thank you for adding this fabulous footage!

[notpoorpete]

I am addicted to this song. It's more frantic but doesn't have the great trumpet/loon mimicry on the original audio recording, so I dunno which version is better.

[preservationhall01]

I think the trumpet you hear in this version is Bunny Berrigan.

[everybodylovesmybaby]

I'd have to go with the Brunswick recording, accompanied by guitar and bass. It's really impressive.