"Hooray for Holllywood" from the 1937 film "Hollywood Hotel."

"Hooray for Holllywood" from the 1937 film "Hollywood Hotel." Busby Berkeley gets the whole troupe swingin in high-style Art Deco fashion with the most fabuloso opening sequence in motion picture history . With Dick Powell, Francis Langford, Harry James, and Benny Goodman's orchestra. Enjoy! Another thing you will enjoy is the new eBook "Waiting for the Real World to Catch Up" by Brian S. Alexander, now available for the Kindle, Nook, iPad, and more. Winner of the 2013 Persis Prize!

[@liberte5847]

Those crazy musicals are so GOOD nowadays, they represent liberty, choice and, above anything : joy and happyness, what elss? Merci beaucoup for all these american movies that make us happy and dancing every day! Emmanuel from Paris

[@PresidentalMexican]

u never experienced that era it was meant for the greatest generation and lost generation. You are probably another baby boomer/silent generation thinking how great that period was when you were just a little kid/child that couldn't go out alone and playing in the playground how sad and pathetic. Those two hippie generations hate the pre 1960 norms and yet they watch those movies. Even their own parents hated their sh$tty ass like Ronald Reagan and James Cagney who opposed your sh#tty communist whinny brat ideology

@@PresidentalMexican i'm a gen z and i love these. which generation you are means nothing, you can still appreciate old movies and music

[@lonniebishop1750]

Pure Hollywood magic in less than 5 minutes. A true musical classic.

[@liberte5847]

THE REAL GOLDEN YEARS OF MOVIES! BRAVO! Merci beaucoup for this incredible soundie musical as a most classique movie of the 20th century! I DO LOVE it, it's Hollywood for ever young, no way! Emmanuel from Paris MERCI!

[@liberte5847]

An incredible incomparable historical Hollywood rendering shorty cut. BRAVO! Historical song ever! MERCI BEAUCOUP FOR this historical incredible incomparable rendition! MERCI BEAUCOUP from Paris France. We DO LOVE really Hurray FOR HOLLYWOOD! MERCI BEAUCOUP! With so much humour! MERCI BEAUCOUP!

[@RAMROD4708]

Nothing says "Busby Berkeley Production Number" quite like the Goodman orchestra being driven atop a fleet of American Bantam roadsters!

[@liberte5847]

Merci beaucoup from Paris France 👍 👍 👍

[@prestonsalexanderstudios]

The Great Movie Ride was the best ride ever.

[@SUMMONER917]

Another Disney fan I see!

[@andrewc.2952]

Just makes me smile. Unforgettable. Love seeing Gene Krupa too.

[@XX-gy7ue]

still one of the best place songs around ! WONDERFUL !!

[@Catherine-yy5ut]

I love that the Simpsons took this tune and used it for the Guys and Dolls musical. "Guys and dolls, we're just a bunch of crazy guys and dolls....oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah! ...."

[@yusufbhaimia1987]

I actually thought this tune was a Simpsons original. It’s only from a thread that I found out that it’s from Hotel Hollywood 😂

[@Ryushoishikawa]

Thanks to the person who put up this video.

[@FrankThetank-el2sd]

Thank you so much for this it is so timeless❤😊

[@FHIPrincePeter]

I just cannot get enough of this Tune.

[@olejoe97233]

This song is my favorite from Hollywood musicals because Johnny Davis puts so much energy into it. It defines the genre for me.

[@PresidentalMexican]

u never experienced that era it was meant for the greatest generation and lost generation. You are probably another baby boomer/silent generation thinking how great that period was when you were just a little kid/child that couldn't go out alone and playing in the playground how sad and pathetic. Those two hippie generations hate the pre 1960 norms and yet they watch those movies. Even their own parents hated their sh$tty ass like Ronald Reagan and James Cagney who opposed your sh#tty communist whinny brat ideology\

[@truefreeman100g6]

David are you a rayssist? Or are you a narcissist?

[@liberte5847]

Historical Hollywood rendering! Incomparable and incredible in september 2019! Amazing rendition in 35 millimeters fresh new copy. Thanks so much for Hollywood History. Merci Beaucoup for this incredible black and white rendering ever!

[@operamichael]

Oh, I love this. I smile and feel good as I watch it.

[@liberte5847]

The best ever crazyest ever film! BRAVO! Jazzy soundtrack ever and incredible STARS! Emmanuel from PARIS

[@SteveTaksler]

I can listen to this everyday! Uplifting

[@MrNurserob]

Lol, my BF was working my last nerve this evening and I popped my earbuds in and took a long walk around the neighborhood listening to this song, in Beverly Grove. It’s an uplifter for sure.

[@TPOrchestra]

I'm amazed at the audio quality of this, which sounds almost like it was recorded in the early fifties. For comparison, listen to the original "White Christmas," recorded five years later but sounds like it's ten years older. I didn't think this kind of fidelity was possible in the thirties.

[@jimstokes6742]

There is no frequency response limit to film track recording. However, there is a TON of audio processing that goes on to get the sound right for actors on the screen sound system. There is a rise between 1k and 3KHz added to the original recording when dubbing because the human ear is most sensitive to those frequencies. They have to compete with sound effects and orchestra backgrounds. Also boom bass is sharply attenuated below 150 Hertz. Thus, the goad is INTELLIGIBILITY. That's why voices sound very clear on the old analogue phones. The phone company engineers figured that out from the beginning. So the frequency response of an analogue phone line is 100 to 3k with a huge rise from 1K to 3K. Actually, there really is bass response down to around 50 Hertz on a phone line. But the lows are rolled off.

[@samlongoria5268]

Yeah!

[@PresidentalMexican]

u never experienced that era it was meant for the greatest generation and lost generation. You are probably another baby boomer/silent generation thinking how great that period was when you were just a little kid/child that couldn't go out alone and playing in the playground how sad and pathetic. Those two hippie generations hate the pre 1960 norms and yet they watch those movies. Even their own parents hated their sh$tty ass like Ronald Reagan and James Cagney who opposed your sh#tty communist whinny brat ideology

[@DiddyBohlen]

@@PresidentalMexican Both generations where shit. Imagine living in a time where you have the most wanted criminals running around the street causing trouble and being in fear of another war breaking out over anything. You can't argue that our current era is superior to anything before.

[@davidoppenheim3979]

@@DiddyBohlen Are you nuts? Look at mass school shootings today, Capitol insurrection and people dying from Fentynol overdoses today- Mass murder of college students in Idaho? Why is today so much better?

[@liberte5847]

ONE of the BEST ever MUSICAL! Thanks et MERCI BEAUCOUP from France. Emmanuel from Paris

[@JHMDEUCE]

I've been in love with Frances Langford forever.

[@liberte5847]

HURRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD! YU REALLY GOT ME NO WAY! BRAVO FOR THIS UNIQUE HOLLYWOOD WAY NO WAY. Emmanuel from Paris

[@user-uc2ri9or8q]

Not sure what the rest of the film is like, but I can say this: How can anything get better than an opening like this one?

[@itsarcasmsweetie594]

Oh My God The tune to this song has been stuck in my mind for the past several years. I could never remember the lyrics, only the tune It's been bugging me all this the but NOW I KNOW I DIDNT JUST MAKE A SONG UP AND IM SO HAPPY I FOUND IT-

[@tomgallagher3991]

Guys and dolls, we're just a bunch of crazy guys and dolls...

[@LAGreg123]

@@tomgallagher3991 take it easy skywalker…

[@garystuart6289]

This is the sequence that got me into the music of long ago. And I went on to play and sing "Hooray For Hollywood." Not like they've done it since, but like they did it then. Gary

[@liberte5847]

The best ever from genious Hollywood! Greatest rendering in 35 millimeters FILM. Merci beaucoup.

[@jeremiahnoar7504]

I wish the real Hollywood was like this.

[@MariaGonzalez-ok5mk]

Beautiful!!!!! Nice memories!!!!

[@steveheywood9428]

Hooray for Hollywood all the way from Australia. 👍👌😜

[@curtislinden9297]

I'm here from This Is Important pod

[@chuckiedimes1466]

Love those great Johnny Mercer lyrics

[@ccaammiinniiito2]

@Charles...Haven't you ever heard of the Irish tenor? Same range as Dennis Day!

[@ccaammiinniiito2]

@Charles...apologies! I meant my post for "Sarmadaso."

[@jackatherton0111]

You could be Donald Duck! Fabulous songwriting team: Richard Whiting (Margaret ‘s dad) and of course Johnny Mercer.

[@frezerh]

Monty burns! I work for Monty burns! M-m-m-m-m- Monty Burns

[@ljsd1]

Also "we're just a bunch of crazy guys and dolls"

[@user-py8xw5bk1s]

love this song

[@twiggs9560]

The played this song all day at my old job at Madame Tussaud’s Hollywood

[@gpersefone]

🎶Guys and dolls 🎶 We're just a bunch of crazy guys and dolls...🎶

[@goldenvulture6818]

Thank you Mark Hamill

[@Biprov]

I was so hoping to see this comment; thank you!!

[@dothebartman9156]

"Guys and dolls! You know we're just a bunch of crazy guys and dolls!"

[@liberte5847]

One of the ever BEST ever Hollywood song from one of the best movie picture at that time! Merci beaucoup from Paris France

[@TravisTerrell]

I feel extremely uncultured reading all the movie quotes other comments are leaving! Glad to learn which movie this iconic song is from.

[@rayszymarek2920]

Got to love the flash and showmanship of gene Krupa as shown here. Krupa was always a star

[@scotnick59]

Never dreamed of seeing Harry James being so goofy!

[@hekstoo5988]

Awesome movie. Have the DVD but I watch this when it's not nearby 😂

[@ReaperOnRepo]

I sing hooray for hollywood anytime something cheesy happens or if there's a Macguffin in the movie lol. Thanks grandma.

[@vertxxgg]

GREAT Busby Berkeley that film was never seen in Spain until T.V in 70s

[@OneUltimateWarrior]

I always remembered the melody, but didn't know the name of the song until now, haha.

[@MerleOberon]

Fabulous DC-3s!

[@itsjohndell]

Actually Douglas DC-2...the engine nacelles and the slightly boxy fuselage give it away. The-3 was just coming into full service about the time this was filmed and American preferred to lend WB a still front line DC-2. "St. Louis Airport" is in fact Van Nuys Airfield where many WB airport exteriors were filmed including in Casablanca.

[@landongervich233]

My grandpa always sings this song

[@liberte5847]

A great classique movie, nowadays still scarce! A most CLASSICAL ONE! A great signature from Hollywood! BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO, great everything, great comedians, great VOICES, great greatests! No more to be added.... Emmanuel from Paris

[@QuandaleDingle-wt2yk]

They look so happy but they don't know whats gonna happend 4 years later

[@martinober249]

A young Dick Powell before he changed his image and did tough guy roles

[@indiana600610]

Wonderful!!! Thanks for posting! Keep em coming. I have never seen this movie but would love to watch the whole show.

[@DRoleder]

Altman's "Long Goodbye" brought me here

[@oskibor]

¡Hermoso! Ya mismo me pongo a buscar esta película completa. Mchas gracias, Spiffykitchen.

[@FrankThetank-el2sd]

Oh you really are the best for this ❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@SteveTaksler]

No one as good as Johnny "Scat" Davis

[@franciscomercado9938]

awesome. That johnny davis gave his all!

[@maxgrubnik2517]

Pure MAGIC. Thank you for uploading this video. 🪅👯‍♂️🎉 Hollywood 🥳🎊🎇

[@zacharywinograd2647]

Guys and Dolls! Were just a buncha crazy Guys and Dolls!

[@goldenvulture6818]

Thank you Mark Hamill

[@DouglasUrantia]

It was filmed at the now defunct Alhambra Airport that was on Valley Blvd. I lived in a house that was later built on the runway. I was 4 years old then. The Rose Parade floats were made in the old hangers.

[@raistlinmills131]

4 when this scene was filmed?

[@virghammer1]

All the gods bless you! What a wonderful, wonderful memory.

[@DouglasUrantia]

@@virghammer1 ....the airport was abandoned when I was there.....:))

[@DouglasUrantia]

@@raistlinmills131 I think it was in the 1940s. Before my time....:))

[@deborahmagana5039]

I will always love Fadorias!

[@jourwalis-8875]

Busby Berkeley! Say no more!

[@scottuehlinger7887]

I was looking at the autos driving them to the airport. Notice how SMALL they are? Not the usual 1930s cars....I am pretty sure they are Austin Bantams or American Austins...known best for being Mickey Mouse's convertible....Bantam was best known for developing the JEEP prior to WW2

[@jourwalis-8875]

And Gene Krupa singing! Never heard before!

[@krishasilvan4897]

i love their era

[@Sans.Souci.]

I love Johnny Mercer’s anthem to Hollywood, but I wish they could have used the original lyrics. The Hays code tidied them up, but the “clean” lyrics are still amazing

[@ShaggyDawg]

Are related to the restaurant with the same name

[@robertromero8692]

Thanks so much for this! Like many others, I always thought it was a woman's voice singing the opening. Some of the lyrics in this original were later dropped. After all, saying "any shop girl can be a top girl If she pleases the tired business man" is bound to raise eyebrows LOL.

[@rhymeswithorange6092]

It got replaced with "And any barmaid Can be a star maid If she dances with or without a fan", Which is pretty much just as suggestive.

[@gregoryagogo]

BETTER ENJOY IT BEFORE KZbin REMOVES IT FOR HATE SPEECH, DISINFORMATION, OR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.

[@drwhite7285]

"Yea, I even lost my cat"

[@MrSuperbatone]

I am shocked - SHOCKED! - that the name of the energetic boy singer with the trumpet who opens this shebang has so far been omitted. WELL! He's Johnny "Scat" Davis (1910 - 1983). He actually did play the trumpet, led a band in the midwest, "Johnny Davis and his All-Stars"; found success in New York, and actual fame in Hollywood. His voice is instantly recognizable, and immortal - as this premiere version of "Hooray For Hollywood" became the "go-to" recording of the song, heard countless times in various media to this day! There's a wonderful WB cartoon, "Katnip Kollege," which features Davis' singing voice in a snappy sequence toward the end. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Davis

[@jimstokes6742]

Indeed, there are other songs recorded by Scat Davis here on KZbin.

[@virghammer1]

Yay, Johnny Davis! Thanks, Brad!

[@hebneh]

This is staged terrifically, with multiple cars, a nice little Deco building, and a sleek airplane - and with very clever, smooth tracking shots. I'm intrigued that the many movie stars named on the various signs didn't work for Warner Bros., which made this film. Usually a studio wouldn't promote competitors' performers.

[@PresidentalMexican]

u never experienced that era it was meant for the greatest generation and lost generation. You are probably another baby boomer/silent generation thinking how great that period was when you were just a little kid/child that couldn't go out alone and playing in the playground how sad and pathetic. Those two hippie generations hate the pre 1960 norms and yet they watch those movies. Even their own parents hated their sh$tty ass like Ronald Reagan and James Cagney who opposed your sh#tty communist whinny brat ideology

[@ThreadBomb]

@@PresidentalMexican WTF is wrong with you?

[@PresidentalMexican]

@@ThreadBomb wtf is wrong with me? wtf is wrong with silent/baby/gen x who EXPERIENCED VERY LITTLE AS A KID LOOKING AT THEIR FATHERS THINGS WHEN IT WASNT MEANT FOR THEM

[@jsat5609]

The "sleek airplane" appears to be a Douglas DC-2. The DC-2 was slightly redesigned and became the DC-3, which was one of the most famous, and widely produced airplanes in history. I agree with your comments, great staging, great setting, and props, (including the airplane!) From what I've read about the studio system, you often could use stars under contract to another studio if the studio was in the mood to make a deal with you.

[@billbright1755]

Lights, camera 🎥,,,, and action 🎬!

[@AkaiEdgarMTG]

RIP Great Movie Ride

[@robarnum7180]

So now you know where this song comes from!

[@larpsim]

I am quite sure that this song was written as a spoof on Hollywood and became a hit with just proof that it was right.

[@sanjayshukla1441]

Fun fact: With 50 views per day, this song will reach 1 billion views on 54,748 CE and will reach current world population of 7.7 billion people views on 421,622 CE! So, if you want to be the 1 billionth viewer and 7.7 billionth viewer of this song then come back to listen to this song on the given dates! 😅

[@Spiffykitchen]

wow

[@NaturalyH]

Amazing Busby Berkeley job... I would be interested in discovering what car model was used for this sequence ? A Chevrolet Roadster 1935 maybe? Great post anyway, thank you! PBF

[@PresidentalMexican]

u never experienced that era it was meant for the greatest generation and lost generation. You are probably another baby boomer/silent generation thinking how great that period was when you were just a little kid/child that couldn't go out alone and playing in the playground how sad and pathetic. Those two hippie generations hate the pre 1960 norms and yet they watch those movies. Even their own parents hated their sh$tty ass like Ronald Reagan and James Cagney who opposed your sh#tty communist whinny brat ideology

[@robanderson6310]

I am also curious as to the car in the opening scene. ?? Someone I know said King Midget but I don't think so ... anybody know ???

[@bluejay02920]

Comedian Ted Healy was killed the night of the preview and his staring movie credits where removed from the Trailer here and also from the newspaper ads. Even though in the movie he is credited as the 4th actor. Search online to find out more about the comedian who created the 3 stooges.

[@raistlinmills131]

Can someone please tell me all the names listed on the car's signs and what instruments they play. I have found Clark Gable Kay Francis Leslie Howard Garbo Olivia De Havilland Wayne Morris Margaret Lindsey Anita Louise And Mona marshall.

[@davidramirez4810]

Johnnie Davis was great!

[@mamarremamarremamarremamar4092]

Young Harry James

[@jamesbumbry8358]

The audio recording level of Hooray for Hollywood song is way to low. It needs to be re-recorded at its proper level to get its full outstanding affect.

[@joeybonin7691]

Glad someone said it.

[@larpsim]

I had to turn it down

[@dubbtubbdrum]

Wow GK spoke

[@wendyokoopa7048]

Hollywood of the 30s to fifties HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD WHERE EVERY MECHANIC CAN BE A PANIC. now? Hooray FOR HOLLYWOOD WHERE EVERYONE'S A FANATIC AND IT'S CAUSING A PANIC.

[@goldenvulture6818]

Hollywood's golden age ended in the 1960s. Its post-golden age ended in the early 2010s.

[@angeluvsvid]

this song was in Why do Fools fall in love movie Larenz Tate character as Frankie Lymon when he O D on drugs sad movie

[@jml2015]

luke be a jedi tonight!

[@cornellwaters9089]

🌐 Thank You!

[@delao7230]

Also Olivia de Havilland is still alive

[@Gigugan]

Popozao!!

[@GPD1984]

That drummer is Bobby Cannavale...prove me wrong.

[@djgreco100]

That Frances Langford was cute and kind of hot in her stylish suit....

[@aardvarkhole]

Long Beach airport, 1937.

[@raistlinmills131]

I am getting very mixed replies of where this airport was. Some people say Alhambra, California Others say Long Beach, Caifornia. Some even say Phoenix, Arizona.

[@rogervizion2556]

2:50 song

[@usernamea604]

Roger Vizion Thanks 😂

[@wcjapan]

Johhy "Scat"Davis !

[@flamingotrop44]

I'm working for Monty Burns

[@toniespino293]

I just found out that the opening sequence was filmed at the Alhambra {California} Airport (demolished 1957). Now called The Airport Tract.

[@byrd56]

The lyrics that were written by Johnny Mercer say "Go out and try your luck/You might be Donald Duck". Yet I don't know if it's been brought up here that Warner Bros., with the help of cartoon producer Leon Schlesinger, had already come out with a relatively new character back in '37 named Daffy Duck. Eventual versions of "Hooray for Hollywood" that were featured in some of those Warner/Schlesinger cartoons, such as "A Star is Hatched" in '38, changed the line about Donald Duck to Daffy Duck.

[@goldenvulture6818]

Timeless song. All the other versions of it pale in comparison.

[@elizabethwilliams7790]

Wow 💕🎶👍!