Swingin' Classics Vol. 10
Opening credits - CU needle being placed on record on phonograph (record player) zoom in. Silhouette shot of couple swing dancing. Producer and editor credits superimposed over Sally Rand and her fan dance (multi-frame effect), dissolves and superimposed shots of musicians, club marquees for the Savoy, Small Bar, Sugar Rays, Baby Grand, Hotel Theresa, Sugar Bowl, Roy Campanella, Jackie Robinson, and the Apollo. Jitterbug dancers, CU trumpet horn in cam. Zooms into horn. Shadow on curtain of couple swing dancing.
Jimmy Dorsey & Orchestra "A Whole Bunch of Something" with Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly (1943)
Duke Ellington & Orch. "Alcibiades (Timon of Athens March)" Sam Woodyard, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Cat Anderson Paul Gonsalves, Lawrence Brown, Russell Procope, Jimmy Hamilton, Irving Jones, and more.
Kitty Kallen "Sailor With the Navy Blue Eyes" - two girls go on picnic by the beach, two sailors pull up in row boat and romance them, one sailor does a funny dance.
Lawrence Welk & Orch. "Bobby Sox Tune" - good dancing. Set made to look as if they are perfroming in a Soundies Panoram (the projection machine used to play Soundies).
Lorraine Page "Sweet Sue (Just You)" Features group of tap dancers.
Ricardo Montalban "He's a Latin from Staten Island" - Staten Island ferry, man tries to pick up various women but everytime he's about to kiss them, the Latin lover (Ricardo) comes up and the women go off with him. Good stereotypical close ups of women's calves with backseamed stockings. (1941)
Jimmie Dodd "It's Love, Love, Love" This soundie opens with an image of the panoram (the machine used to play soundies). Dodd went on to become a star on the Mickey Mouse Show.
Stan Kenton & Orch. "Reuben's Blues"
Slim Gilliard Trio "Dunkin' Bagels" Sctaman Crothers on drums? (1946)
Gale Storm "Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)" with Johnny Downs. Gale - in maid uniform - and Johnny - in doorman's outift sing and dance in fanct apartment.
Duke Ellington "Mood Indigo"
Al Donohue "Song of the Volga Boatman"
Benny Goodman "I Know That You Know" Swing dancing couples in the rain. Long shots and CUs of choreographed professional dancers swinging in the rain.
Artie Shaw & Fred Astaire "I'm Not Hep to That Step But I'll Dig It" - Astaire conducts orchestra and dances.
Bobby Hackett "When the Saints Go Marchin' In"
Helen O'Connell "When the Sun Comes Out" (backed by Dorsey Brothers Orchestra)
Bobby Hackett "Swing That Music"
Duke Ellington & Orch. "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" with Dianne Reeves
Stan Kenton & Orch. "Down In Chihuahua"
Dorsey Brothers "Dorsey Stomp"
Artie Shaw & Orch. with Helen Forest "Lady Be Good"
Stan Kenton & Orch. with June Christy "Just a Sittin' & a Rockin'"
Dorsey Brothers with Dick Haymes "It's a Lovely Day"