Mills Brothers and Bing Crosby - Dinah (live)

Mills Brothers and Bing Crosby. Late career. From the left: Herbert, Donald, Harry and Bing.

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Music

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• mills
• brothers
• bing
• crosby
• dinah

[misspaddylee]

These guys never lost it.

Did you know that Donald was only about 17 when the Mills Bros. and Bing first recorded this song?

[SyberkaPL]

Only one year older than me. Nice! I hear about this somewhere.

[Labaron26]

This was when music was really MUSIC....and not a mass of confusion and noise like much of it is today....

[kjellkrone]

Well, folks, this is music, even in a hundred years from now, IT SWINGS!

[cachalot57]

Thank you, thank you,. thank you, thank you a million times

[RoryVanucchi]

amazing...nearly 45 years after the original classic....

two giant talents of the depression era that never really lost popularity...

tribute to their abilities to adapt to different eras...and the lyrics/melodies of the 20's-30's..

amazing energy for people that would pass not long after this final encore...

[GIOIRDANOBRUNO]

Grandissimi! Quale grande armonia!!!!!!!!!

[RoryVanucchi]

this clip should be mandatory in any music class... the energy was still there

all those years later.. fantastic peek into 30's swing era...

[JEMCO2008]

thank you for the post

[CarlLafong01]

@misspaddylee Glad you liked it, I always enjoy relating that story about Donald. The poor kid had been ignored and pushed aside by everyone he had approached. And then he went up to Donald, a major celebrity, whom he surely didn't know. When Donald said that he would take 20 of the raffle tickets, the surprised kid carefully counted out the tickets, as Donald, just as carefully, folded them and put them in his pocket. As if he might use one of them to claim his raffle prize.....LOL.

[misspaddylee]

@CarlLafong01 What a lovely story to share!  Thanks.

[CarlLafong01]

@misspaddylee In the mid 1970's, I saw their show in the big lounge of The Flamingo in Vegas. That morning, I was at the front entrance of the Flamingo when I saw Donald step out of a limousine. A young kid was there trying to sell raffle tickets for his scout troop. All the big shot gamblers were brushing him aside. The kid approached Donald, who kindly said "I should have about 20 of those." The happy kid carefully counted out 20, and Donald stuffed the tickets in his pocket. Such kindness!

[jimraw1]

@kellyjustus When the Mills Brothers started, it was the four brothers. John Jr. died of pneumonia in 1936 during a tour of England. Their father, John Sr., took his place on bass/guitar. When John Sr. decided to stop touring in 1958, the group became a trio.

[britcomic]

Bing was in top form just a few months before his death and the Mills Brothers seem unchanged. Fantastic treat to see this