Taken from the Paramount short "The Little Broadcast" (1933)
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@egosactorco6 жыл бұрын
I would’ve never thought that the trumpet noise was coming out of his hands that’s neat
@retiredmusiceducator36125 жыл бұрын
trumpet 'noise?' that is not noise. he toots better than most trumpet players!
@cynthiapickett74035 жыл бұрын
@@retiredmusiceducator3612 You got that absolutely right!
@bossfox57415 жыл бұрын
Wait you dont know about the old comb and paper jazz trick
@samspianos4 жыл бұрын
@@bossfox5741 You can see his hands are empty;this trumpet sound is made with voice and hands
@manuelaffonso21912 жыл бұрын
@@bossfox5741 - We used the comb, and silver paper from a cigarette pack in the late 40's early '50's. Had to soak it in water first to remove it though. 🎺
@mattmazzara14 жыл бұрын
Love the Mills Brothers. These guys were ahead of their time and were a big influence on other singers including the likes of Dean Martin.
@SB-se7vb2 жыл бұрын
And Louis Prima.
@MikeBlitzMag6 жыл бұрын
Little wonder that their career survived for seven decades. Absolute, utter perfection.
@YounisJackson6 жыл бұрын
The lyrics With his long white beard and his crooked step He tramps along with the folks all laugh With a twinkle in his eye he passes them by Old man of the mountain He wears long hair but his feet are bare They say he's mad as an old march hare His cares are none and he owes no one Old man of the mountain He talks with the birds when he's lonely Sleeps with the stars for a tent While the bees spread a feast when he's hungry And God charges no rent He'll live as long as an old oak tree And laugh at fools like you and me I often sigh and wish that I were The old man of the mountain
@sunrise82635 жыл бұрын
The first line ends with "... crooked STAFF" [as in, walking stick], so it rhymes with "laugh". (You're welcome.)
@ghostforsaken19114 жыл бұрын
Thanks bro
@armyshope4 жыл бұрын
Very beautiful song
@dggfghj11753 жыл бұрын
You da reel mvp
@manuelkong103 жыл бұрын
Awesome Thanks!
@clallen874 жыл бұрын
Wow what an absolute gem. Can’t believe I’ve never heard of these guys until now! Simply amazing
@fino26044 жыл бұрын
Well they made over 2500 recordings over nearly 60 years together. You've a lot of catching up to do... lol. Enjoy the journey. 😄
@spacelemur79552 жыл бұрын
Welcome, late-comer! So glad you found your way here. Do enjoy!
@DinsRune Жыл бұрын
@Space Lemur better late than never!
@sethconserva74046 жыл бұрын
I love how whenever Harry looks at any of his companions he has such a look of joy and pride!
@cynthiapickett74036 жыл бұрын
Great observation!
@essexpeter61164 жыл бұрын
Yes and they remained like that into older age until ill health prevented them from performing. They lost brother John jnr in the 30s (he would have survived today) and their Father filled a gap base sing with an additional guitar player.
@SB-se7vb2 жыл бұрын
Companions? They're all brothers.
@adolflazary5864 Жыл бұрын
Exactamente
@cynthiapickett74036 жыл бұрын
Among the best scat-singers ever!😂
@thedogg69883 жыл бұрын
@william craig 1
@thedogg69883 жыл бұрын
A
@TheHeater903 жыл бұрын
Definitely on the short list of them, along with Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby and a few others
@whlewis91648 жыл бұрын
Whoever downvoted this will have some explaining to do at the pearly gates.
@SuperSerialnumber8 жыл бұрын
It was the old man of the mountain... duh...
@whiterook80224 жыл бұрын
So early that John Jr is there. ON FILM. Crystal clear, perfect audio. Excellent, excellent upload.
@cd_dark1906 Жыл бұрын
Listen at 0.75 speed, it's too good 😮😮
@treywest2682 жыл бұрын
It is so tragic that so many "musicians" have no knowledge or respect for the magnificent talent that came before them. These guys were great!!!
@ArkRed18 жыл бұрын
Harry did the trumpet sounds. It started when Harry forgot his kazoo at a performance and had to fake it. Harry, Don, Herbert, and John Jr. on guitar. John Mills Sr. used to sing like and upright bass.
@so70aeiou8 жыл бұрын
Same as Louis Armstrong , ain't it ?
@marco64002 ай бұрын
Well Well Well … speechless ❤❤❤
@karenwilliams89775 жыл бұрын
And SO HANDSOME...sigh.
@cynthiapickett74034 жыл бұрын
Agreed!
@Suckle-Buckle Жыл бұрын
2023 And still the best
@katechivers53239 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! I wish I lived in a time when music was like this.
@TheGreatMoonFrog4 жыл бұрын
It still is, just stay away from the pop garbage pushed by the music industry. Tons of great music made today by truly talented musicians and singers.
@Green-sp2jk3 жыл бұрын
totally man especially the racism and segregation!!
@luismantaras64604 жыл бұрын
Mills Bros. are marvelous to listen and to watch too!! Coolest!
@gentlejones4 жыл бұрын
one of the greatest recorded performances of all time
@vincelong31322 жыл бұрын
Truth
@kaabal-assad79626 жыл бұрын
Alright,THIS is real music,is too good
@susannahsears30412 жыл бұрын
Sooooo cool!!!! Instant time travel to a place I somehow recognize but never knew existed!!!! SZ xo 🙏♥️😍
@soddington2 жыл бұрын
Truly badass. Topnotch!
@ArkRed19 жыл бұрын
Such a great tune and arrangement by a great group. It will be a long time before we see a group with that much talent with just their voices and a single guitar for accompaniment.
@chiangui248 жыл бұрын
I think it's safe to say it's been a sufficiently long time by now.
@cynthiapickett74036 жыл бұрын
Proof that "less is more".
@armyshope4 жыл бұрын
Beautifully said
@frankscarborough14284 жыл бұрын
Love love love these very talented gentlemen
@stringup58296 жыл бұрын
They were so young there, so talented.
@manuelkong103 жыл бұрын
COLOSSAL talent The glory of America
@vincelong31323 жыл бұрын
Truly great Americans, their extended family story is amazing.
@vincelong31323 жыл бұрын
American heros
@whiterook80224 жыл бұрын
Also, may I say, excellent performance by Donald.
@hoodatdondar26643 жыл бұрын
Two sets of lyrics here: With his long white beard and his crooked step He tramps along with the folks all left (?) With a twinkle in his eye he passes them by The old man of the mountain He wears long hair but his feet are bare They say he's mad as an old March hare His cares are none and he owes no one The old man of the mountain He talks with the birds when he's lonely Sleeps with the stars for a tent While the bees spread a feast when he's hungry And God charges no rent He'll live as long as an old oak tree And laugh at fools like you and me I often sigh and wish that I were The old man of the mountain. =========================== With a long, white beard and a crooked stare, He tramps along with the folks all scared; With a twinkle in his eye, he passes them by, The Old Man of the Mountain! Oh, he wears long hair and his feet are bare, They say he's mad as a grizzly bear, His cares are none and he fears no one, The Old Man of the Mountain! He talks with the bears when he's lonely, He sleeps with the sky for a tent, And he'll eat you up when he's hungry, And it wouldn't cost him a red cent! And he'll live as long as an old oak tree, He'll eat up fools like you and me, Oh, I often sigh and jump and cry At the Old Man of the Mountain!
@Beehashe3 жыл бұрын
I think the line is “with his long white beard and his crooked staff” (as in walking stick) “and the folks all laugh”
@treywest2682 жыл бұрын
@@Beehashe indeed it is! I agree wholeheartedly.
@frankscarborough14283 жыл бұрын
The mills brothers are phenomenal love em
@cynthiapickett50176 жыл бұрын
Almost deadpan beatboxing. Gotta love it!
@andrewc.29526 жыл бұрын
I love it! Can't keep still with a song like this.
@robertdiotalevi2852 жыл бұрын
👍
@62chucky7 жыл бұрын
LOOOVE THIS! Loved them! They emulated horns and sang close harmony.!
@ront19712 жыл бұрын
Wow, I can see where Leon Redbone and Zazz have gotten there influence!
@gwendolyn20012 жыл бұрын
I am officially addicted to this group. I was born too late.
@GhemourMoncef Жыл бұрын
Yeah, after two world wars and a great depression
@gwendolyn2001 Жыл бұрын
@@GhemourMoncef I am 70--I have lived in periods of poverty in childhood and adulthood. I lost no one in the Viet Nam war, but I knew people who did. I lost friends to AIDS and have through several recessions. It isn't as if the eras after WW II have been trouble free.
@GhemourMoncef Жыл бұрын
@@gwendolyn2001 sorry about and i apologize if that comment offended you in a way
@gwendolyn2001 Жыл бұрын
@@GhemourMoncef I was in no way offended! I was just pointing out that every era has its trials and tribulations and that while the WW II era was certainly horrific in many ways, other eras have had their own horrors. Sorry if that were not clear. :)
@robertdiotalevi285 Жыл бұрын
It is NEVER too late, darling.
@yaminoonna32183 жыл бұрын
I freaking love them so much
@Markymoo9929 жыл бұрын
Awesome! So much better than anything I've heard today
@cynthiapickett74034 жыл бұрын
Herbert's bored look is always amusing!
@billdornan4379 Жыл бұрын
Check out their rendition of Basin Street Blues for instrument sounds they are able to reproduce. It’s amazing! 🇨🇦
@salamasilver7 ай бұрын
Amazing.
@GuyCabliaro7 жыл бұрын
Pure beauty.
@cynthiapickett50176 жыл бұрын
ken elkins Yeah!
@marilynstevenson8656 жыл бұрын
Oh my goodness!! What wonderful magic!! I had not (to my shame) heard the Mills Bros doing the fantastic song before! I listened to them ass a child on 78's on the beautiful upright gramaphone..and I wondered at their beaut, Thank you for downloading this. Such a fabulous treasure! Thank you.
@DuncansWildEscapes2 жыл бұрын
still jamin out to this I love it
@franktuckwell196 Жыл бұрын
When people talk of The Creme de la Creme, if you ever wondered what it means? it means this.
@ggarmy43208 жыл бұрын
Wow.... this is sooo good !love it !! Am going to look for some off these guys music !!
@stevevr19654 жыл бұрын
Wonderful
@cynthiapickett74034 жыл бұрын
Happy Posthumous Birthday to John Charles Mills (1910-1936); he would have turned 110.
@vincelong31323 жыл бұрын
A great young man, and engine that drove them.
@johnnybambam1414 жыл бұрын
No doubt best sound ever
@callumpearce50499 жыл бұрын
I just found the Sheet music to this in a pile of my great Grandad's music. Thankyou so much for putting this video up on KZbin!!!!!
@cynthiapickett85772 жыл бұрын
TCM channel needs to air this stuff more often!
@celticdollface23 күн бұрын
goodness this is over 90 years old this footage. John the guitar playing brother died in 1936
@lilypearce32144 жыл бұрын
Is it weird for someone as young as me to enjoy this? 🙊
@kevingoins98583 жыл бұрын
Not at all. My parents introduced their music to me when I was five!
@bryanrendleman20012 жыл бұрын
No! Shows character, taste and wisdom.
@АлександрШтормЪ5 жыл бұрын
Спасибо за видео!
@robyntattersall2363 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the share … I wish more video footage was available .. I’ve seen everything multiple times and I’m sure there is more out there somewhere
@andygibson81434 ай бұрын
Ye gads, the trumpet is his own voice amazing !!!!
@anamariagutierrez20197 жыл бұрын
Very nice song, thanks for sharing it
@cynthiapickett74032 жыл бұрын
On this day (06/28/1982), the world 🌎🌍 lost Harry Mills at age 68; RIP.
@utube94163 жыл бұрын
Scat 🥶😭🔥
@balajiLILG7 жыл бұрын
they all look so innocent :)
@cynthiapickett74036 жыл бұрын
Yes--they actually look and sound like the prototype boy-band that they certainly were.
@GarwinWayne8 жыл бұрын
Don is doing the lead, only 19 in this clip. Herbert is doing the trumpet sounds & John Jr is playing the guitar.
@cynthiapickett74037 жыл бұрын
Actually, Don's more likely about 16-17 in this Big Broadcast outtake (The Little Broadcast, 1933).
@essexpeter61167 жыл бұрын
Left to right it is Herbert, Don, Harry (trumpet) and John jnr. Donald the youngest was born in 1915.
@robertdiotalevi285 Жыл бұрын
Back for more!
@robertdiotalevi285 Жыл бұрын
And even more!
@ericrocheleau53379 жыл бұрын
Im 14 and this is one of my favs.. some of the best music ive ever heard, i wish i lived in this beautiful time
@Sigmundfruit8 жыл бұрын
you gotta remember this was still the time of segregation and rampant, albeit fast fading, prejudice. you don't know how lucky we are
@hayz6917 жыл бұрын
+Sigmund Fruit definitely true; but it's hard to find this kind of charm in the modern day. I think that's what they were referring to.
@smackedkat51127 жыл бұрын
Dude shut up
@nicolaslacrampette69757 жыл бұрын
wo you're such a special little snowflake
@grantjohnson6976 жыл бұрын
Why did you feel the need to mention you were 14?
@seanbarrett88867 жыл бұрын
Some good rap music
@tribeofnan8886 жыл бұрын
Timeless!!!
@silviamachado6710 жыл бұрын
maravilhoso talento!!!
@KinaarOzeat5 жыл бұрын
Cara essa é muito boa
@italianstallion4186 жыл бұрын
Stellar!
@cynthiapickett74037 жыл бұрын
Not Cab Calloway, but a good record to prove to younger people that Herbert, Harry, and Donald weren't always middle-aged to elderly men--and they even had a guitar-playing elder fourth brother who also sang bass named John, Jr.
@manuelaffonso21912 жыл бұрын
Try listening to : '' Count Basie and the Mills Brothers. -The Board of Directors.'' - Can't go wrong.
@ferminguerratello6246 жыл бұрын
BEST SONG EVER, LIKE ''LIMEHOUSE BLUES''
@robertforsythe32802 жыл бұрын
Ponder who all of humble hearts seek Father with all
@cynthiapickett74037 жыл бұрын
Was looking at the find a grave website the other day; I noticed that poor Harry gets rather short shrift compared to even his father as far as online comments are concerned. It was a tie between his three brothers (with Donald slightly leading).
@enifalison25785 жыл бұрын
Esta si es música , no las idioteses que se escuchan en mi país.
@cynthiapickett74037 жыл бұрын
It was likely for show, but there was always a Laurel and Hardy-like tension between Don and Harry (the pretty-boy vs. chubby --if hammy funnyman) on stage, even in later years--with Herbert as the LaVerne Andrews-like middleman (see also Larry Fine).
@surearrow7 жыл бұрын
>>------------------> Awesome!
@cynthiapickett74037 жыл бұрын
I think the group photo with Satchmo (Louis Armstrong) was likely taken at the time the first Big Broadcast was made.
@roccovitiello70314 жыл бұрын
It was nice to the the older brother who was killed in an auto accident in 1935 RIP older brother
@cynthiapickett74034 жыл бұрын
No, he had pneumonia (possibly complicated by tuberculosis, as per his death certificate).
@Caine7ify3 жыл бұрын
And Cab’s the most well known for the song
@cynthiapickett74032 жыл бұрын
Thanks in part to the Betty Boop cartoon of the same name!
@cynthiapickett83427 жыл бұрын
Anyone else --especially those of us who came up from the 1960's onwards -- that John Jr. sounds a bit like Like Turner?
@cynthiapickett74034 жыл бұрын
I meant Ike Turner, the late ex-husband of Tina Turner.
@glenyswana72596 жыл бұрын
Wow
@masercot2 жыл бұрын
I prefer Cab's version of this song but only because I heard it first...
@emellynlilith2 жыл бұрын
Muito 10
@GhostxDreams5 жыл бұрын
pretty cool
@barryobrien79352 жыл бұрын
2nd from left is very good looking.
@jazzstew31083 жыл бұрын
You can watch the ten minute short here: publicdomainmovies.info/the-little-broadcast-1933/
@oktrayn5 жыл бұрын
Dari oldtv
@cynthiapickett74037 жыл бұрын
Intelligent hip-hop fans would do well to learn more about the jazz quartet who, in imitating horns and woodwinds, inadvertently created both doo-wop and birthed hip-hop as well.
@MeenaBlue6 жыл бұрын
How does he do the muted trumpet sounds?
@falanajerido69399 жыл бұрын
Is that john jr. playing the guitar the .one who died early in. life
@Markymoo9929 жыл бұрын
yeah :) he's awesome, didn't he die of pneumonia?
@cynthiapickett74037 жыл бұрын
Yes, he did (likely complicated by Tuberculosis).
@MrRamazanLale26 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of Mafia 1
@italianstallion4186 жыл бұрын
STELLAR! !
@neronine73203 жыл бұрын
.. i want to live in those w/b '20.,' 30❤️.. How can i enter inside? 😁..
@martiangirl62742 жыл бұрын
I think this was the way to go because the instruments were expensive.
@manuelaffonso21912 жыл бұрын
I read that the reason he started playing ''mouth trumpet'' was because he forgot his kazoo when they entered a competition.
@robertdiotalevi2852 жыл бұрын
The old man moved when the mountain went condo.
@thatisweird8 жыл бұрын
Oooooo-oh, you better beware...
@pinkiehyde42848 жыл бұрын
hahaha
@LEEHARIBO8 жыл бұрын
who is 'the old man of the mountain'?
@sahagun257 жыл бұрын
HYEONRI LEE oh, you really don't wanna know...
@LEEHARIBO7 жыл бұрын
Jareth Orozco Sahagún lol why? Who is he?
@itsukarine7 жыл бұрын
the non-conformist
@MrRamazanLale26 жыл бұрын
Santa
@shizukagozen7776 жыл бұрын
HYEONRI LEE Trump
@cynthiapickett83427 жыл бұрын
Not bad for a bunch of beatboxing kids; notice how the young Donald Mills tries to suppress a smile.
@thetruemusichead2 жыл бұрын
The guitar is the only instrument. All the other sounds are their 4 mouths!
@M888HGAAAWNKLMTOZLNLSSSKKHHZBB Жыл бұрын
HEY BOYS IM BACK IN A BIG WAY
@cynthiapickett74037 жыл бұрын
The four guys are cleaned up for Hollywood, with Cab Calloway-like white suits in contrast with their almost scruffy look in the cartoon wraparounds.
@Vidrayna Жыл бұрын
Can some explain to me what technique harry uses with his hands? 0:12
@LouiePadreWillardino9 ай бұрын
He's cupping his hands by rolling his right hand into a half circle fist and then covering it like so with his left hand and then putting his tongue at the top of his mouth and then making a falsetto noise while making sure the air comes out of the space under the upper teeth. Learned this from tom thum who could do the same so that's probably what he did.