King of Jazz: Rhythm Boys

Scene from the "King of Jazz" featuring a song performed by: Bing Crosby, Al Rinker and Harry Barris.

"So the Bluebirds and the Blackbirds got together"

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Music

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• Paul
• Whiteman
• King
• of
• Jazz
• Bing
• Crosby
• Al
• Rinker
• Harry
• Barris

[CaptainNuclear]

@fungoo989

You best be trollin' because I think you have it backwards. Music has hardly evolved, instead, became nothing more than background noise for a mindless crowd.

Continue on with your Mainstream, kind sir.

[tuxguys]

This is fascinating stuff... I've heard recordings of the Rhythm Boys, but I'd never seen them. Most impressive: the actual timbre of Crosby's voice is far superior to that of the other two, but the blend of the three of them is seemless.

[HockeyPeaceandLove]

Lol Bing at 0:35 guess it wasn't Michael Jackson who invented that move ;p

[wakemasta23]

@CaptainNuclear This is such a good song! But seriously dude, you're totally shortchanging modern music. Just because music today is different doesn't mean it's less meaningful or creative. In fact I could easily argue that modern music is more creative then music back then. Just compare the number of genres that existed back then as compared to now. Sure the mainstream stuff on pop radio is pretty formulaic and terrible, but there's tons of great underground music out there.

[SuperCoolSaul]

Somehow ponies brought me here

[MrAnthonyVance]

This is pretty priceless film -- wow! And Bing was one hell of a vocalist -- was he not? Enjoyed this much. Thank you for the post.

[SirCrooner]

@CaptainNuclear At the same time, people with an older tase in music back there in 1930 would have said the same thing about Paul Whiteman and the Rhythm Boys.

[Onlymusical]

Crosby looks bizarre with that wide part in his hair but this is fantastic. What a fabulous piece of film.

[busessuck1]

@kassandrasduplex Mississippi Mud is among the top five single greatest white jazz recordings- would you rather listen to Kenny G than a great song with racist overtones? I most Cerfuckly wouldn't

[saavedra342]

Desde Argentina digo: Gardel inventó todo en el tango cantado, además de su real valía como compositor y dueño de una voz excepcional.

Del mismo Bing en la música americana.

Unicos los dos, después viene el resto, obviamente si restar méritos a muchos que si lo poseen.

[WheezerTheGeezer]

During the filming of The King of Jazz Crosby was thrown in jail for a stunt he and some of the Whiteman band members pulled. Joe Venuti told the story of how all of the band members were given automobiles. One night they were getting ripped on bootleg hootch and decided to roll their cars down some hills where they would crash at a four-way intersection. This they did and Crosby got thrown into the slammer. The cops were kind enough to let him out each day long enough to film his bits.

[Rod1837]

So the rumor goes, Bing made it big and then turned his back on Al Rnker & Co. But Bing received a lot of bad press after he died. The COLOR production in 1931 was big money for Hollywood. Anyway, I think that Crosby's persona comes through as pretty much the same as in the Road Pictures and remained the same until the end of his long career. Thanks for the clip, did anyone notice how politically incorrect the opening was? My how times have changed.