Orchestra Wives (1942) - "I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo"

www.imdb.com/title/tt0035157/ - Singing are Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton (Betty's sister), The Modernaires, and The Nicholas Brothers. The Nicholas Brothers do their usual awesome acrobatic dancing!

[@PhilippeRR1]

And let's not forget the incredible NICHOLAS brothers!!! I have not seen their equals!!! Not even in classic ballet or at the Olympics with the gymnasts!!!

[@sherylcrawford8201]

This is the first time I heard the Nicholas Brothers sing. Amazing talents!

[@racourdav]

Those Nicholas Brothers were outta sight! Omg...the best dancers EVER

[@SaxonC]

Marion Hutton is a dream! ❤️

[@PaschalSCL]

February 12, 2014: From the 1963 graduating class of Paschal High School, Fort Worth, Texas--Happy 100th birthday to a great Paschal alumnus, the late Gordon Lee ("Tex") Beneke! You and Mr. Miller and all your associates did so much to boost the morale and determination of so many Americans during one of our country's darkest times. It was our parents' generation, and in memory of our parents and all other members of their generation--The Greatest Generation--who served the cause of liberty in so many ways, military and civilian alike, during and after that time, so that we might have the opportunity to enjoy the lives we have lived, we proudly salute you! Your wonderful music sounds as good today as ever!

[@AletheaThomas_47]

This era makes me wish I was born in it! Can't much top the entertainment of the big bands with song & dance talent back then! Those Nicholas Brothers!!....OMG! talent with class!

[@Coupal1]

I agree completely!  I heard Michael Jackson got a lot of his dance moves from the Nicholas Brothers.  Glenn Miller promoted them by having them in his two movies, Orchestra Wives and Sun Valley Seranade.

[@AletheaThomas_47]

You're so right!...Michael & his family shared the same home town as mine, Gary, IN....and my siblings and his went to the same school, Roosevelt High. I remember seeing them when they mesmerized the city in talent shows as the Jackson Five....those were such fun days!

[@kchaney56]

The Nicholas Brothers are unequaled.

[@ScrapNfight]

Wow, Betty owes a lot to her. I never knew Betty had a older sister, but you can see where Betty got a lot of her mannerisms from.

[@lucynagawlikguitar8128]

Amazing performance 👏👏👏👍congratulations

[@TheSchlerm]

This is some of the best entertainment, acting, dancing, music, ever..... Today's crap doesn't even come close. Even if The Joker and Ralph Kramden are playing the piano and bass, respectively... lol

[@denden666piek]

I finally got this film on DVD, and what a delightful experience it is! I love old Hollywood pictures and Glenn Miller made the best music in existence IMO!

[@SaxonC]

Love this era and love love love, Jackie Gleason, Cesar Romero and The entire Glenn Miller Band

[@JuliaInMerica]

Nicholas Brothers! 😍I can watch them dance forever!

[@BigSleepyOx]

Great video, particularly the dance segment.

[@66oblivion]

still impressive music....and hutton is as good as her sister was....nice upload.

[@Alandix]

Marion is a dead ringer for Betty Hutton~! The guy singing on far right in the Modernaires is my cousin, Ralph Brewster, who had a fab voice with a huge range!

[@kathydove4759]

Wow! The dancing is amazing! The whole thing is fabulous

[@stephend2879]

This is such top shelf! Love it.

[@pmcmanus420]

And, yes, that was Jackie Gleason on bass and Caesar Romero on piano. :D

[@osocool1too]

What an impeccable piece with wonderful Marion and Tex .. noticed Jackie Gleason and Cesar Romero in cameo roles...wonderful 🤗🤗👍🏼😎

[@amydearing9866]

I remember being around 13 and recording this song on a casette recorder directly from this movie. I've seen it hundreds of times.

[@FavoriteMovieDate]

Marion Hutton looks classy and sexy without a hint of sleaze. Wonderful clip all around. This is entertainment from A-Z!!!

[@fromthesidelines]

Beg pardon, Dorothy Dandridge was only featured in the brothers' "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" number in "Sun Valley Serenade" (which was also deleted down South).

[@gooddognigel4947]

My entire pelvic area and hips hurt whenever I see the Nicholas Bros. land.

[@daveeddington9325]

I once pulled a groin watching them :)

[@gooddognigel4947]

@@daveeddington9325 I don't doubt it.

[@davegaba9091]

Such incredible dancing! You're so right, though, it almost hurts!

[@dudley5533]

Such an incredible amount of talent put into one production number....just fabulous!

[@PhilippeRR1]

Go Tex BENEKE and Marion HUTTON! Go NICHOLAS BROTHERS. Fayard passed on at 92 in 2006... He's got a great interview on KZbin called, I believe "The NICHOLAS BORTHERS and FRED ASTAIR." They were great friends. Skin color in the arts quickly became a forgotten matter: TALENT AND CONTENT OF CHARACTER, NOT SKIN COLOR... or they all acted...

[@Disques13Swing]

Any one else notice that when Tex shuffled the piano's sheet music César stood up to retrieve it. The fun thing here is the piano continued to play when César's hands were not on the keys.............

[@Doug326]

All lip synching to a track.

[@neilmckillop8952]

Love when the band steps out with tempo change at 5.29 in the piece with the Brothers.

[@PhilippeRR1]

My dad and I STAND CORRECTED and I do thank you for this info... I saw this homage movie with Jimmy Stewart long ago and have forgotten this detail. May Maestro Miller rest in peace. They theorized about the causes of his passing... it was horrendous if true.

[@nancybogart3899]

Philippe Renaud what was SAID ABOUT THAT GUY? Please tell me!

[@JudgeJulieLit]

@@nancybogart3899 Two years after this film, Glenn Miller was in an airplane shot down over the English Channel, perhaps by "friendly fire" from an overhead Allied airplane that mistook it for a German airplane.

[@bertoneer1]

Why can't a band start up like this again someplace. I would like to play the drums in it. I was in the 19th Army Band for 2 years & 229th 24years.

[@nayeterlewis8570]

I love the Nicolas Brothers. I cannot find this movie anywhere.

[@707ladytee]

Nayeter Lewis it’s on KZbin.

[@fromthesidelines]

In most Southern theaters, exhibitors often deleted the sequence featuring the Nicholas Brothers (and Dorothy Dandridge) because they preferred not to feature black performers in "mainstream" films [Lena Horne's appearances in her MGM musicals were eliminated in the South for the same reason]. In order for their films to be booked in Southern states, most major movie studios allowed those theaters the option of "cutting away" from a black performance by means of a "transition"...

[@gregoryagogo]

@Denden666Piek It is a perfect band! All the right instruments and music arranged just right!

[@gregoryagogo]

Dad Vietnam, Grandpas WW2. Uncles were and so was I!

[@kchaney56]

OMG Marion is looking so hot.

[@PhilippeRR1]

Ah, of course Greg! I was actually told (by my dad I believe) that this was the phone number to the WHITE HOUSE in Glenn Miller and FDR's days. My dad, though, could have been misinformed. My apologies in advance then. Hey! Great idea to list the artists! Thanks! Marion Hutton has great talent. Betty's talent I highly appreciated in DeMille's THE BIG TOP (along with Charlton Heston, Cornell Wilde, Jimmy Stewart & Gloria Graham).

[@Disques13Swing]

Try this... Composée/Dial 001-212-736-5000 and see what you get! No joke. In the USA & Canada, it's 1-212-736-5000

[@Disques13Swing]

Sadly, this version cuts off a very uptempo close to the film. It's on another YT channel on here and worth a listen even if they cut off the last +/- 15 seconds. Miller's band normally played slower than this but drummer Moe Purtill struck a match and the whole band caught fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@HestiaBHN1]

i thoought Marion was Betty. But what an utterly charming performance she gives here.

[@gregoryagogo]

I heard this...

[@jonchezzz]

Wow

[@PhilippeRR1]

Marion HUTTON! WOW, thanks Gregory for that info! Sisters!

[@spencereng]

I was born in the wrong era.

[@stalkself]

wrong мнение

Yes same here

[@1940limited]

Yes, the one that has no respect for our heritage or rear talent.

[@TheRetro64]

Funny you should mention MASH. I first heard that song when Radar was singing it over the loudspeaker at the beginning of one episode.

[@ScrapNfight]

Yeah, a lot of people had that fast style but nobody could hold a candle to Betty. Not before, during or since. Nobody has ever matched that energy she had.

[@ThatWalmartGuy]

that was awesome

[@PhilippeRR1]

My favorite alphabet soup!

[@rafaverona]

Carlton in episode six of Fresh Prince

[@kaybats70844]

This is entertainment. Jackie Gleason on bass....Cesar Romero on piano....Tex Beneke lead singer...Ms. Hutton....The Nicholas Brothers....and those trombone players!!!!!! My Mom played trombone...how 'bout that?

[@jorgeandres7814]

Glenn Miller regular musicians, trumpeterJohnny Best, pianist Chummy MacGregor and bassist Doc Goldberg ghosted for actors George Montgomery, Cesar Romero and Jackie Gleason.

[@gregoryagogo]

In the movie "The Glenn Miller Story" Pennsylvania 6500 was the phone number to the hotel that Glenn's wife was staying at.

[@Disques13Swing]

It was the real phone number for the front desk of the Hotel Pennsylvania in NYC. The Millers owned a house across from Manhattan so Mrs. Miller had no reason to stay at a hotel while Glenn was overseas.

[@Elvira9121]

me too

[@gregoryagogo]

@Denden666Piek Started with my grandma's 78s which I have now... way too scratchy since she loved him too and played them often!

[@denden666piek]

@gregoryagogo I know, I've been a huge fan since I was 11 or 12 or so. That's about 10 years ago. The "Best of"-CD's I bought are still my favourite CD's. :)

[@gregoryagogo]

Yeah, boy what they missed!

[@RRBrace]

I saw this on a PBS Beg-a-thon and was surprised to see Jackie Gleason playing the bass..... and no credit for being in the movie..... on Wikipedia they mentioned that Harry Morgan (Col. Potter from MASH) and Dale Evans were in the movie, also....

[@mathewwallis2863]

There isn't a single thing I DON'T like about this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@pfos]

kalamazoo zoo zoo zoo zoo =P

[@irish89055]

The Glen Miller band still preforms... enlist..

[@veronicacougar5687]

Come to Los Angeles.

[@kchaney56]

These two are the source of Michael Jackson's dancing.

[@PhilippeRR1]

So Kalamazoo is in MICHIGAN... Chattanooga is in TENNESSEE... any other cities mentioned in songs we should know about? We know San Jose is CA...

[@gregoryagogo]

Her sister, Marion!

[@OMARLEI1]

Uau!

[@HectorButNotZeroni]

Take that, physics!

[@gregoryagogo]

@bertoneer1 There are bands... New band, "Bill Elliott's Swing Orchestra" is very much like Glenn Miller at times!

[@gregoryagogo]

Or should I say, "Late to the party!"

[@sierracuban]

FUNNY to see Tex Beneke playfully knocking down César Romero's musical notes as he " pretends " to play the piano.......César Romero, born in Brooklyn, New York, of Cuban parents was the illegitimate grandson of Cuba's greatest hero, poet, and patriot, José Martí.......His grandmother had an affair with José Martí, but back in the 19th century that was taboo.....César Romero though, would declare it in public......Sierra Cuban, Miami, FL ( César M. González )

[@gregoryagogo]

I know, I heard.

[@flossflink]

Jackie Gleason played bass??

[@veronicacougar5687]

Who is the piano player? I think he is my grandfather, Ron Cameron!

[@PhilippeRR1]

Let me say GREG that it is an honor to know you and your family. I hope made it back from Nam OK and did not go "fugazzi." The treatment we gave our soldiers of the NAM was so unfair! My God Parents were In the first Indochina War. God Father had 2 tours as Artillery (and army intel). God Mother was a Military Social Worker in the hospitals in Hanoi. Worst mutilated cases: Nam Dinh, patrolled by day by the French, but by the Viet Minh by night...WOMEN! Their best soldiers. The French used the...

[@bertoneer1]

Thanx. Where does Bill Elliott's Orchestra play?

[@mjminardi]

Check out the Bass player. Its Jackie Gleason!

[@kengeorge1923]

Jackie Gleason was a band leader in real life. Check him out on UTUBE.

[@PhilippeRR1]

On that hard and heart felt tragic note, I do want to say: it's great to know you! Just out of curiosity was your dad or Grand-dad in the service?

[@miller87536]

@Denden666Piek Onde vc conseguiu?

[@gregoryagogo]

Yer slow!

[@gregoryagogo]

There both a lot a like. It was kind of a 'style' to be quirky too... another on who had lots of energy was Martha Raye.

[@PhilippeRR1]

I hope you DAD made it back... (this is getting bad, you know).

[@gregoryagogo]

Really sad... as sad as la Bowlly dying in that theatre that was bombed.

[@PhilippeRR1]

..bank office as a bunker (fortified walls and underground foundations...no tunneling possible). My dad was armored cav (501st Regiment of the ex-Leclerc Division). He almost went to Indochina but Dien-Bien-Phu surrendered. GOD meant him for another war: being a good father & model grand-father. One grand-father in the resistance, mom too. Other grand father with Leclerc all the way to Berchesgaden. My God Father landed on 08/15/1944in Toulon with the 1st French Army & US forces. I wanted to...

[@ScrapNfight]

Who's the Betty Hutton wannabe ?

[@Disques13Swing]

Her sister Marion.

[@user-ee4nl2th9c]

グレン•ミラー カラマズーの娘

[@PhilippeRR1]

...and the group is... The Modernaires? Right?

[@rentslave]

I like how the brothers bent the rules of grammar to make things rhyme.Nothing racial,as Tommy Roe did the same thing.

[@gregoryagogo]

No city, but a state: Pennsylvania 65000 Mission to Moscow Louis Blues March Poinciana (Florida)

[@Disques13Swing]

In an old Dutch Garden A little old church in England Don't Cry, Cherie Along the Santa Fe Trail...

[@songanddanceman100]

What is all this war talk on this posting/messages??

[@kchaney56]

These two make MJ look like a piker.

[@PhilippeRR1]

...join the US armed forces through ROTC (this was my dream!!!). I arrived in the US at the age of 11. I could not do it because I was NOT a US Citizen. I knew French who enlisted with the US army in exchange of a Permanent Visa back in the Korean War. No longer possible in my time. I wanted to pay my debt of honor. HOW ABOUT YOU? Were you infantry? Air Force? Navy? Marines? Delta? If you were in the Submarines, I'll introduce you to somebody you'll find interesting. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

[@PhilippeRR1]

I knew French GUYS who enlisted, etc... (this is getting horrendous).

[@PhilippeRR1]

Oh! WHERE WERE YOUR GRAND-DADS? Please forgive me for being so verbose. I bet YOU were Military Intel or ONI. Your sentences are short and to the point!

[@PhilippeRR1]

Very much so... In Glenn MILLER's case, it was his transport plane that was bombed... in mid-air as it was flying across an RAF trial bombing zone exercise over the English Channel!!! The same type of miscommunication still occurs today alas! GOD BLESS!