Woody Herman and His Orchestra compilation reel
name: label: Collection Performer
content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984
label: Collection Collector
content: Smith, Ernie
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content: Webster, Ben
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content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
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content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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content: Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996
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content: Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David), 1909-1986
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content: Jamal, Ahmad, 1930-
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content: Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
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content: Davis, Miles
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection / Series 2: Additional Titles
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Motion picture film
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content: Reel OF 491.133-135
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Moving Images [31983000034363]
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content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: 1. Woody Herman and His Orchestra with Lee Wiley; black and white, 218 feet

Copyright: 1938

Corporate Creator: Warner Brothers and Vitaphone

Director: Roy Mack

Performer(s): Woody Herman and His Orchestra, Lee Wiley

Song Title(s): "Carolina in the Morning", vocals by Wiley; "Two Little Girls in One", unidentified female dance team; "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", vocals by Wiley; "Jail House Blues", unidentified male/female dance team

2. Woody Herman excerpts from an unidentified motion picture; back and white, 380 feet

Performer(s): Woody Herman and His Orchestra, personnel: Billy Bauer - guitar, Chubby Jackson - bass, Dave Tough - drums, Serge Chaloff - baritone sax, Shorty Rogers, Pete Condoli - trumpets, Bill Harris - trombone, Marge Hyams or Red Norvo - vibes, Frances Wayne (?) vocals

Song Title(s): "Wild Root"; "Rock-a-Bye Boogie", vocals by Wayne; "Who Dat Up Dere", vocals by; "Blowin' Up a Storm", solos by Norvo, Charloff

3. Woody Herman's Herds (an Ernie Smith compilation reel); black and white, 420 feet

- Unidentified; a younger orchestra, outdoor setting 

Performer(s): Woody Herman and orchestra

Song Title(s): "Sabre Dance"; "Caledonia", unidentified vocals; "Apple Honey"
 
Corporate Creator: Universal International

Producer: Will Cowan

Director: Will Cowan


- Unidentified; a different, possibly earlier group

Performer(s): Woody Herman, Terry Gibbs, Serege Chaloff, Bill Harris and others

Song Title(s): Unidentified, vocals by Herman, and two unidentified males, solos by Gibbs, Chaloff and Harris; Unidentified, clarinet solo by Herman

Video reference copies available.