Louis Armstrong & Danny Kaye, 'A Song is Born' (Part 1)

From the movie 'A Song is Born' (1948).

[@vonbabasin9544]

That's my dad on bass with Mel in the first clip and when they go back to the conservatory, Harry Babasin... he is the credited bass player at the end of the film... he met a Brazilian guitarist on this film, Laurindo Almeida, and were the first to fuse Brazilian rhythms and modern jazz a decade before the term Bossa Nova was even coined with the Laurindo Almeida Quartet, on Pacific Jazz in 1953... Hollywood jazz history at its finest!

[@alsuz]

Thank you so much for sharing this precious piece of history!

[@marilynstevenson865]

Von Babasin...How wonderful!!! What a thrill to have such a wonderfully talented muso father..Thank you for letting us know about your dad's achievements with Laurindo Almeida! Cheers, Marilyn (daughter of an Australian muso)

[@rubenstoronto]

That´s true. I know this history. Hugs from Brazil.

[@Slynell1]

He killed it bro

[@positivitysuccessvideos]

Awesome, Von. Such a great clip and great music.

[@WeAreNotAmused]

Freaking rhythmic locomotive syncopation with a swaggering stride. No less the essence of acquiescence

[@everettfuqua114]

I love the way the pianist plays holding a cigarette. Man, times have changed.

[@lucianflorescu711]

Fantastic ! An opportunity to SEE so many real great singers of an golden age of the music..Thank you for posting...

[@alsuz]

You're welcome, Lucian, God bless you.

[@pretsbr]

the golden gate quartet is phenomenal

[@helenreidt3315]

Now that's music !!!!! 💓💓

[@yvesfrancoisritmo]

The Louis Armstrong Lionel Hampton routine makes me wish Louis didn't go to the All Stars and trad reportoire in the late 40's (as good as it was) and kept his wonderful big band. For my money Armstrong sounds best in that sort of hard swinging circumstance like a Lionel Hampton Duke Ellington big band (Paris Blues) or Louis Jordan's jump combo (the 78 on Decca around 1950). Terrific music by all the groups here - esp Charlie Barnet and Armstrong w Hampton.

[@moewawa59]

My favorite Danny Kaye movie!

[@marilynstevenson865]

Louis, Lionel and friends...magic!!!

[@ericmoore1173]

How are you doing today my name is Eric Moore

[@TD-np6ze]

I 💕💕💕💕 the Jubilaire's!!!!

[@QueenBDreamwalker]

Gratitude for sharing this Musical Treasure 🎶💜

[@alsuz]

You're very welcome, Basmin, take care, God bless you.

[@plafkinfarms]

Thank you for bringing all of these great musicians back to life for all of us to enjoy. Roger Plafkin-Plafkin Farms, Ada, Michigan

[@RovedaMonica]

And that’s jazz really!

[@liberte5847]

GREAT EVER SONG FOR RYTHM AND HISTORY, BRAVO FOR SUCH A RARE RENDERING! MERCI BEAUCOUP! Emmanuel from PARIS

[@maltit141010]

We cannot forget that this was filmed almost 20 years before the civil rights movement took off. Afroamerican, Jews, Italians, and the rest of the constellation all together. In this time of obscurity in the US, Brazil, Hungary, and other countries these images give us some hope.

[@maltit141010]

@K. Victor We see all these groups represented on the video working together. Clear?

[@sjsartanddesign]

Yes that struck me as well. Music the great equaliser.

[@1510Ronald]

the best movie ever About Jazz and Swing - and the Golden Gate Quartett sing "Blind Barnabas" because some of their member is blind. And Rassismus? In this movie is blow away Thank you, and much mor thank you for this movie with White and Black together. Thats why musik…..

[@srothbardt]

This is based on "Ball of Fire" from 1941, with Gary Cooper in the professor role, and Barbara Stanwyck as the femme fatale. Originally based on a story by Billy Wilder. "A Song is Born" is directed by the great Howard Hawks and has a constellation of great musicians, including Benny Goodman (with mustache), Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton (vibes), Mel Powell (piano). Danny Kaye plays the shy guy prof role, and Virginia Mayo tries to carry the smolder on her shoulder, but isn't as incandescent as Stanwyck. Nice movie for the music!

[@vonbabasin9544]

Both films were Howard Hawks... my father was the bassist and he said they would literally watch clips of Ball of Fire and then improvise the dialogue for this film... Danny Kaye was famous for his improvisational technique

[@esmeephillips5888]

Virginia Mayo was always dubbed. She could dance but does not do much in this movie IIRC. She was too much the nice girl. Barbara puts the sleaze in.

[@srothbardt]

@@esmeephillips5888 THANKS for this. Very interesting. You're right about V. Mayo. Maybe they used her because Barbara Stanwyck would steal the show from Danny K

[@esmeephillips5888]

@@srothbardt 'Ball of Fire' had come out only seven years before. Don't think Missy would have wanted to revisit an old part (with singing dubbed at that) so soon. Besides, Kaye's was a fragile ego and he would not have wanted to work with a woman who boasted she could steal any scene- and Stanwyck often did. Danny was happier to appear with gentler ladies such as Dinah Shore and Doris Day. He lacked sex appeal. Virginia Mayo was in four films with him, so they must have been simpatico, but is she remembered for more than her beauty? (Btw, some of her maquillage in 'A Song is Born' is awful.) The film broke Danny's run of hits under Goldwyn. He restored his reputation with a smash season at the Palladium, like Judy later. But when he came back it was as an 'all-round family entertainer' rather than a romantic lead.

[@sirmontyrock]

I always likew A Song Is Born. fun film. Great music, too. Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton and Mel Powell all in the same band? Can't go wrong there. Fine performances from the mind-blowingly talented Danny Kay and the mind-blowingly beautiful Virginia Mayo.

[@richardkavanagh2314]

benny good man the world is waiting for the sunrise

[@MARKMANIATT]

Great clip.Wonderful little band led by the great Mel Powell on piano. Shame it isn't longer.

[@patriciadoolin7437]

I love it l happy day .

[@TD-np6ze]

That's the Jubilaire's!!!

[@TheGooner01]

great movie, great music

[@ArtigasMillan]

¡la mejor música del mundo!! gracias totales!👍😄

[@Artes_Mundo6376]

Miss o youtube

[@ismaelcrispino488]

Maravilloso, Danny Kaye, que actor, que músico, genial..Las Cinco Monedas ya la vi como 60 veces por lo menos, todos estos músicos hicieron grande la historia del jazz...!

[@esmeephillips5888]

The GGQ is still going, like the broom that has had four new heads and three handles.

[@victorhugonavarroaguayo5477]

Si, Todavía la veo, Las 5 monedas, ..desde 1960 hasta hoy.

[@JACEYFALK]

Hamp & Mr. Armstrong are the best !

[@esteca2007]

Well great music of all times, pity that just a few people looks at good and I would say sustainable music, because this was the base of the good music at all times. Example Laurindo de Almeida which has greatly contributed to the so called modern jazz, and later on Bossa Nova, we can say is one of the highest contributes for the guitar playing music all over the world. My congratulations to all of these great artists which really mad3 good and soundable music....

[@marcellusstrykegl3936]

I was hoping someone had uploaded the entire movie. Mind you the clips are great with ,louie,Benny,Buddy, Jimmy, and Lionel and the gang, but the entire movie . . .thats where the swing is !

[@bruiserbuk]

The movie is streaming with Amazon Prime, and I'm about to watch it right now.

[@petermedina6595]

QUE BUENA RECOPILACIÓN. EXTRAORDINARIA. ME AGRADA MUCHO ESCUCHARLA. FELICITACIONES..--.

[@christalstarkey1456]

good muisc

[@Marathonracer]

The great Zutty Singleton on drums at 4:24.

[@christalstarkey1456]

good song

[@manoelteixeira4936]

Magistrais, Expert. os melhores entre os melhores e bons. maneco -Brasil.

[@Jeweliedear]

Thank you!

[@ericmoore1173]

How are you doing today my name is Eric Moore

[@WeAreNotAmused]

Totally sublime

[@Irish39100]

They Used Too Have The Hole of this Movie Posted wish they would Post it Again ,Along with The Glenn miller Story with James Stewart .

[@RWBHere]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppbbhIqfn7RseNU

[@ClaireScorzi]

Uma amostra do melhor da música popular americana, num trecho de um dos meus filmes preferidos: A Canção Prometida (A Song Is Born), de 1947/8.

[@ericmoore1173]

How are you doing today my name is Eric Moore

[@dave1argaman]

sweet i love it.

[@juliec605]

Danny was handsome.

[@alligatore01]

Wonderfull movie!!!!

[@СергейПофигаськин]

Дихання свіжого повітря.

[@tryarunm]

Brilliant music, musicians, singes. But I was hoping for a performance from Danny Kaye.

[@kruijsse]

He didn't want to sing as he just divorced his wife who was his songwriter and did not want to do anything else

[@lorienstone]

They didn't get a divorce, just separated for a few months. They were married for almost 50 years, 1940 until he died.

[@esmeephillips5888]

Director Howard Hawks said that Danny was too afraid of Sylvia to sing anyone else's material, and that he was 'as funny as a crutch' during production.

[@Lucy24626]

Si ya en aquellas épocas todo era joda y diversión, mas jucio amigos.

[@plafkinfarms]

Perhaps not too many people remember Charlie Barnet and his orchestra; Charlie played the alto sax. Roger Plafkin--Plafkin Farms, Ada, Michigan

[@gregorykayne6054]

I worked for an 25 year old idiot who was going to destroy a bunch of 1940 era Charlie Barnet records. "Don't do that. I said. If you throw in that dozen Glenn Millers and those eight Artie Shaws, I'll pay you $10." What a Maroon!

[@figmo397]

It cracks me up to see the piano player smoking while playing!

[@texidodj]

And a very remarkable fact is they did.t study music (academically or in a music conservatory).

[@ramoosa]

Someone has uploaded the full movie on dailymotion BUT in Spanish. I am looking for the English version which I had watched a few years back on KZbin.

[@marceljakob5]

could you supply us with the link still?:)

[@LaPenserosa1]

As of September 2016 there is an English-language version on KZbin.

[@RWBHere]

@@LaPenserosa1 It was taken down in October 2019.

[@ramoosa]

The lovely lady is Virginia Mayo.

[@鶴岡久雄-k1t]

Rafiq Moosa

[@danielpinheiropimentelneto3382]

Sensacional, isso faz parte de um filme, quando garoto assistia sessão da tarde, poderia me dizer o nome? Obrigado

[@alsuz]

Esse filme é o musical 'A Song is Born' (1948), e traz os grandes nomes do Jazz, Daniel, imperdível pros aficionados. Abraço, fica com Deus.

[@danielpinheiropimentelneto3382]

@@alsuz você não faz ideia o quanto eu adoro jazz, estudo saxofone, isso basta não é? Vou ver aonde consigo essa fita, Agradeço muito o refresco na minha memória, fica com Deus tenha um ótimo dia.

[@tripacer2005]

Louis Bellson on drums

[@isorokudono]

Listen to Mel Powell on that piano!! FUCK! His hands have to be as strong as Gould. hahahaha

[@bingcro]

where are all the other parts please

[@yasminaberrabane2883]

👍🏾👍🏿👍❤️ PARIS 2017

[@willyjansseune6261]

prachtig

[@NeilTruick]

The lovely lady is Virginia Mayo...

[@playgroundjustice3587]

Straight from St. Louis

[@vonbabasin9544]

Not her voice though... dubbed by vocalist Jeri Sullivan

[@armandoipv]

4:01 Cuba Gooding Jr in Blue suit. :O

[@katherynroberts3962]

Listen to Lionel Hampton on the vibraphone

[@ericmoore1173]

How are you doing today my name is Eric Moore

[@GabrielPerez-by8to]

EL GRAN BENNY GOODMAN LA MÚSICA PREFERIDA D DOÑA CHEPA:MI MADRE. NOSE DIGA LOIS ARMSTRONG Y EL CLRINETE ATTHIE SHAW😊

[@nicoerr]

Muskrat ramble :D

[@celiacontreras607]

movie

[@Ozmulki]

What's the name of the first song they play here please?

[@Ozmulki]

I worked it out. Muskrat Ramble

[@Slynell1]

It's a who's who.

[@engbuen72]

Jimmy Dorsey is not in this clip

[@thegsk]

The Dorsey bros had a huge feud at that point.

[@Alffovinni]

That's Jeri Sullivan on vocals... Virginia Mayo is lip syncing

[@StudioB27]

not here (-,0)

[@michaelg3074]

Louis, Lionell, Benny, Danny Kaye was hell bent on racial integration.

[@TheHaRRibbo]

grtgr

[@ericmoore1173]

How are you doing today my name is Eric Moore

[@TheHaRRibbo]

@@ericmoore1173 hello omg i m good hbu

[@ericmoore1173]

@@TheHaRRibbo okay cool

[@ericmoore1173]

@@TheHaRRibbo so where are you from

[@XXX-tw6zm]

I see the early elements of rap music there to don't kill me for saying that but at about 3 minutes that guy starts rapping the one on the left Maybe they called it scat at that time but I don't see the difference

[@esmeephillips5888]

Cab Calloway was a rapper, only better.

[@mmack5994]

a lame remake of "Ball of Fire" that starred Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. Don't get me wrong .. the music is great but I'd rather watch the Bennie Goodman story or The Five Pennies than this!

[@kruijsse]

But only this movie gets so many greats together

[@christalstarkey1456]

good muisc

[@christalstarkey1456]

good song