I'm 78 and this is the first time I am aware of seeing Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra. What a show!! Been aware of him/them almost all my life. Thanks!!
@georgesingleton34253 күн бұрын
You've miss a lot. His orchestra played the background music for the Little Rascals. A deceased friend, who was twenty years older, told me about Lunceford back in 1995.
@charleswebster7568 Жыл бұрын
This is my Cousin Paul F. Webster. He taught Miles Davis how to hit the high note! Thank you for the film! ~Charles A. Webster
@user-jy9bq2mo4u Жыл бұрын
His drummer Jim Crawford would rent out the basement apartment in his victorian house to Manhattan College students. From 1971 to 1972 I lived there with 2 classmates. He and his wife Aileen were wonderful to us. They would invite us upstairs on occasion when they had an old musician friend visiting. He would introduce them as the best trumpeter or clarinet player but would then say they were “old as mud”! He would show us scrapbooks filled with pictures of him sitting high over the band at various venues, including Palisades Park. He also had a copy of Jazz Magazine with his picture on the cover. It detailed his style of playing the drums and was credited for a style that became known as “The Lunceford Beat”. Of course I knew of all the other greats from that era, but when I got home to Brooklyn on a break from school, I asked my father if he had ever heard of the Lunceford band. His eyes opened wide and said of course! It was one of the best of that era. Many years later, when I returned to show my high school age son where I used to live, the house was gone, replaced by a townhouse. I still love to hear the music and have wonderful memories of Jim Crawford. There used to be more videos of the band but I guess they were taken off due to copyright issues.
@thebudknight65484 ай бұрын
Very neat story - thanks for sharing !
@pegclairezach3 ай бұрын
wow! what a terrific story! Thanks for sharing. I can imagine the scene as you described.
@FBA_AllTHEWAY2 ай бұрын
✊🏾🇺🇸 Great performance thanks for sharing!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@fredricksmith8760Ай бұрын
He was FLOWING the DNA of Hip-hop is all through this, were such an AMAZING CULTURE
@terrellcuevo236914 күн бұрын
Absolutely!!
@pegclairezach4 ай бұрын
Joe Thomas is simply amazing. Jazznocracy blows me away. Thanks for sharing this wonderful moment. H/T
@mikereed32182 жыл бұрын
The Lunceford Band was outstanding during the era of the great African American Swing Bands. Great entertainers and the best arrangers of their time.
@chrisrattray89582 жыл бұрын
There was never an era of great African American swing bands. Just as there was never an era of great European American swing bands. There certainly was however, an era of great swing bands in America and Europe!
@evettalawrence-davis55852 жыл бұрын
My Dad passed in 2015. He was a trumpet player and performed with many local bands in his hometown, Pittsburgh, PA. A WWII Navy vet, he was a member of the prestigious B-1 U.S. Navy Band. I learned to appreciate these many talented bands and musicians thanks to my wonderful Dad. Rest in Heaven Daddy. May the music play on.
@sc33695 жыл бұрын
thats my uncle Jock on the end-Baritone sax
@jazzshowroom28772 жыл бұрын
You are the niece of the great Carruthers?
@lulumoon69422 жыл бұрын
Respect!
@Dontez400TezCarothers2 ай бұрын
I'm from Mississippi my Grandfather Percy and his siblings (My Dad's Dad Carothers, Caruthers, Carouthers from Muldon and Prairie Mississippi
@MichaelPowersNY6 жыл бұрын
My wife's late father EDDIE DURHAM (top center trombone) & also a guitarist 1935-37 (Sy was there as well). Coming to JL from Basie - Durham brought his brass choreography. He recorded Hittin the Bottle (Arlen/Gorney/Harburg/Koehler) on guitar, perhaps THEE historic seminal recording of Amplified Guitar, on a metal-bodied Dobro resophonic, non-electric guitar - and - Honey Keep Your Mind On Me (won the All American Poll), on guitar. He composed (& arranged) for JL: Oh Boy!, Harlem Shout, Pigeon Walk, Well All Right Then!, WHAMREBOPBOOMBAM, Blues In The Groove (a swinigin song!), Swingin on C. DURHAM arranged Ellington's Bird of Paradise, Lunceford's Special and many others for Jimmie. Both Sy Oliver & Eddie Durham worked w/Glenn Miller. Durham was inducted into Hall of Fame for his arr. of IN THE MOOD 1938 Blubird - for Miller, who also recorded Durham's compositions WHAM & I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire, among others. F B Eddie.DurhamJazz
@jonathanpearl53792 жыл бұрын
I have bought your wife's book as gifts several times. Everyone loves it.
@martinloomer3913 Жыл бұрын
As a guitarist and arranger, Eddie Durham has always been one of my heroes! What an incredible groundbreaking talent he was.
@tiberiusgracchus4222 Жыл бұрын
The precision of this band is just mind blowing. They make playing perfectly together at blistering fast tempos sound so easy. And most importantly it swings!
@eugenerowland12622 жыл бұрын
My father passed away in 2004. Back in the '60s he mentioned Lunceford in the same breath Count, Cab, and Duke. Thanks to Smartphones and KZbin I finally can enjoy the Lunceford Orchestra. When I meet my dear old Daddy again, I bet this will make him smile !!! 😃👍
@yvesfrancoisritmo2 жыл бұрын
For me Lunceford and Ellington were the two greatest big bandleaders. They were somewhat different - Lunceford was the par excellence swing band. Rhythm was their business indeed - and this Vitaphone short is one of the best moments I have ever seen of any band (and well recorded as well) - they entertained enough so there was not need for a storyboard. Myra may have toured with them but did not record with them. Too bad - she was an excellent singer and fits the style of the band well. Singers today could learn from her (as well as Willie Smith - Rhythm Is Our Business - and Eddie Tompkins on Nagasaki) in how to entertain while singing. I could write for years about this - this is my favourite music film/video of all time.
@gw85632 жыл бұрын
A wonderful.performance Sheer perfection all round!
@wstewic2 ай бұрын
Willie Smith, a true gigant!!
@RoderickFernandez-ps5ci6 ай бұрын
Why have I never heard of Myra Johnson what a wonderful voice
@Roger.Coleman19496 ай бұрын
Same here - and what a personality Myra had !
@RoderickFernandez-ps5ci6 ай бұрын
I looked her up on the web and there was a few things about her and some music with cab calloway I@@Roger.Coleman1949
@emmanuelmassarotti55352 жыл бұрын
Fantastic artists What a show
@Yourdemise27Ай бұрын
Wow! We are amazing 💯💯💯💯
@janegreen93402 жыл бұрын
Pure talent rarely seen or appreciated today
@seximujer2 жыл бұрын
When I was 3 yrs old my parents took me to see Jimmie Lunceford they never knew I remembered the show until I grew older and told them.
@scotnick593 жыл бұрын
Famed for it's precision was this marvelous band and here is the proof!
@johnholloway24452 жыл бұрын
mama raved about these guys,,really big in 36 to bad he died in 47 biggest band at the time superb
@bytheway10312 жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday Jimmie Lunceford🎂🎷 06-06-2022
@thebes507 жыл бұрын
These guys were the absolute best. I wish Jimmy had lived longer so we could have seen and heard more of them.
@markkotishion23792 жыл бұрын
In just over two minutes, Myra Johnson, the personality girl kicks Beyonce's butt sideways!
@SwinginDrummer Жыл бұрын
Wonderful band!
@sambrinson61532 жыл бұрын
Born too soon, was this extraordinary orchestra of talent, great musical excitement and joy .
@johnbartholomew483110 жыл бұрын
The precision at work in the ensembles! Most impressive. Snappy uniforms, too.
@yvesfrancoisritmo2 жыл бұрын
Its so amazing isn't it - precision and great uniforms. And the incredible entertainment
@jonathanpearl53792 жыл бұрын
They had a dozen different uniforms.
@Alpha-Andromeda2 жыл бұрын
Great sound quality! What a gem!
@RatPfink668 жыл бұрын
Filmed circa July, 1936. Vocalist on "Rhythm is our Business" - Willie Smith, alto sax. Vocalists on "Nagasaki" - Eddie Tompkins and Sy Oliver (back chatter), trumpets. Dance duo -Joe Thomas and Earl Carruthers, tenor and bari saxes.
@waldolydecker81182 жыл бұрын
As an aside, the lyric for "Rhythm is our Business" was written by a fledgling Sammy Cahn, his earliest successful assignment, before his later decades relationship with Frank Sinatra and Academy Award-winning movie success.
@RatPfink662 жыл бұрын
Nice of him to own up to it. Frank Loesser disowned anything he'd written before his first Broadway show. (Junk Man, I Wish I Were Twins, etc.)
@waldolydecker81182 жыл бұрын
@@RatPfink66 - Why wouldn't he own up to it? Nothing wrong in any way with the quality of the tune in its composition or performance. Frank Loesser's motivations for his actions are his and his alone.
@bigeman256 жыл бұрын
I have heard the Jimmie Lunceford band on record for years and never actually seen them, thank you for sharing this vid with us. They put on a great show and the musicianship was excellent!
@uslines2 жыл бұрын
Jimmie my preferred after the Duke.
@sopaman12347 жыл бұрын
Who are the two fools who gave this beautiful part of african american music history thumbs down???
@oliverz.35554 жыл бұрын
This was a normal show part in 1936. The fool here are you !! Learn the history of the band and the Bigband-Jazz at this time.
@gregorypalmer54032 жыл бұрын
American.
@gdubbs6802 жыл бұрын
86 years ago as of 2022! Im surprised how classy they are. My grandmother world have turned 17 that year. I wonder if she listened to this band?
@Alpha-Andromeda2 жыл бұрын
You’re surprised that 80 years ago people were classy…?
@Mrc1722 жыл бұрын
Ahh for the good old days when musicians had talent.
@brwneyesaz11 жыл бұрын
Thanks.
@jahlaune2 жыл бұрын
I’ve never seen them on film. My grandmother loved Walking thru heaven with you , by Jimmy Lunsford that’s all I really know but nice film. I wonder was this one of the films they showed on those juke boxes that had little screens. I learned of them during the pandemic called panorams . I can’t imagine where else these shorts would be shown except the colored theaters of the time
@Alffovinni3 жыл бұрын
3:38 Myra Johnson- you can't pull the wool over my eyes
@juanalbertorendonsalazar19082 жыл бұрын
Maravilloso
@lulumoon69422 жыл бұрын
This neutralizes thousands of YT soul sucking videos, thank you! ❤️👍💞
@ricardofuentesmujica4742 жыл бұрын
Excelente gracias.
@XYZ-lz3xv Жыл бұрын
Great
@Roger.Coleman194911 жыл бұрын
Just fantastic, never tire of seeing this,thanks for the best quality upload of 10 minutes of pure pleasure !.
@jamesneilsongrahamloveinth13012 жыл бұрын
Lunceford seems to have chosen musicians who could also move, dance and sing. Good policy. Such musicians play with more verve and intelligence . . .
@creativeartstv25344 ай бұрын
You Cant Pull the Wool Over My Eyes..i have that chart for my band.
@JUSTUS-jl3jv2 жыл бұрын
That crazy trumpet!
@SELMER19476 жыл бұрын
GREAT !!!!!!
@JoCamossi-q4mАй бұрын
Willie Smith en chantant a des manières de camelot sur un marché !
@weatherboi2 жыл бұрын
Big band era, wouid loved to have been around in those days.
@drafe0079 жыл бұрын
white heat rhythm!!
@chilango72596 жыл бұрын
wow what talent
@garmbrister7 жыл бұрын
No greater band. Ever.
@katheryneclayton33799 жыл бұрын
READY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@woodbell677 жыл бұрын
Great quality upload, thank you!
@edwinkirkland88562 жыл бұрын
Ellington, lunceford never again
@jeremiah.ledbetter11 жыл бұрын
I think it was a special feature on a Follow the Fleet DVD.
@cesarmonteiro6914 Жыл бұрын
Muito bom. Gostei. From Brasil
@OTOss8 Жыл бұрын
I get the sneaking suspicion that they might not actually be playing live.
@cl7player Жыл бұрын
A big band able to play without sheet music!
@christophercanzoneri29625 ай бұрын
The soundtrack was recorded separately. Arrangements were largely memorized through repetition.
@girlmeetsreggae7 жыл бұрын
that was amazing!!!! ♥
@peteandpare2 жыл бұрын
Oh WOWEE they sure were talented in those days just as good as Fred Astair whom I thought was great.they sure can make those instruments talk.
@paulasuniverse50292 жыл бұрын
Actually better than Fred Astaire who copied Honi Coles and used a choreographer for his Hollywood movies. (In my youth I recognized Honi Coles' moves despite seeing Astaire's body.) Astaire had great respect for Jazz and Blues. Here's a quote from the book, "Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz" by Todd Decker: "Interracial music making was par for the course for most top jazz players in the swing years. White players like Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw brought black soloists into their bands because they wanted to play with the best, and they were not about to let race get in the way."
@dallaskenn7 жыл бұрын
Consummate entertainers.
@user-jd7vj4ib3c2 жыл бұрын
Фейерверк красоты и талантов. Я немею...
@sophie11yaerold452 жыл бұрын
She's a good singer and I was not born 1936
@TheSecurdisc2 жыл бұрын
Very good. Just can't work out if they actually playing live or it is dubbed recording. First class none the less.
@georgesingleton34252 жыл бұрын
Lunceford wrote the music for the Little Rascals movie shorts.
@MrOkgrillo2 жыл бұрын
The Director Joseph Henabery acted Abraham Lincoln in notorious D. W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation"
@brwneyesaz11 жыл бұрын
@jeremiah ledbetter. thanks for sharing this video. Where did you find it?
@sambissell26582 жыл бұрын
Here you go, it's on Amazon, though it's a bit pricey at $24.28 though there is a used copy for $6.25......also you can watch it on Amazon Prime currently for $.99 or buy it for $8.99. In any case, here's the link to find it on Amazon: amzn.to/3ySIGVs
@gregorypalmer54032 жыл бұрын
Were any of the arrangements Gerald Wilson's ? These are all I think pre then.
@aarongranda78252 жыл бұрын
Is he rapping?
@atomictraveller2 жыл бұрын
you want to reference the version of nagasaki by them ills brothers
@lewisner2 жыл бұрын
It's amazing to think that while this cheerful stuff was on, Hitler was ramping up his murderous plans in Germany.