Soundies: Mills Brothers
name: label: Collection Performer
content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984
label: Collection Collector
content: Smith, Ernie
label: Collection Performer
content: Webster, Ben
label: Collection Performer
content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
label: Collection Performer
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
label: Collection Performer
content: Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996
label: Collection Performer
content: Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David), 1909-1986
label: Collection Performer
content: Jamal, Ahmad, 1930-
label: Collection Performer
content: Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
label: Collection Performer
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
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 491.224
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000034793]
label: Type
content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Descriptive Summary: 915f., b&w, an Archives Center compilation reel:

1. Lazy Rhythms Starring the Mills Brothers - A Musical Film Review

Copyright: 1944

Corporate Creator: The New Official Films

Producer:

Director: William Forest Crouch

Performer(s): The Mills Brothers

Song Title(s): a. "Lazy River" b. "Rockin' Chair" c. "Til Then"

2. Movie Newsreels Presents Diving Exhibitions - Santa Barbara, Calif.

Copyright: ca/ 1944-1948

Performer(s): Margie Gastring (sp?)

3. "Rockin' Chair" (Same as #1-2 above.)

4. I Ain't Got Nobody

Descriptive Summary: a cartoon short featuring the music of the Mills Brothers who sing and scat "Tiger Rag" while images of members of various ethnic groups (Chinese, African, Mexican, American Indian) engage in stereotypical behavior as viewed on a television set. This is followed by a "sing-along" of "I Ain't Got Nobody".

Copyright: 1932

Corporate Creator: Fleischer Studios, distributed by Paramount Pictures

Producer: Max Fleischer

Director: Dave Fleischer

Performer(s): The Mills Brothers

Song Title(s): a. "Tiger Rag" b. "I Ain't Got Nobody"

6. "Tiger Rag"

Descriptive Summary: introduced by a radio announcer

Performer(s): The Mills Brothers

Song Title(s): "Tiger Rag"

Video reference copy available.