Swing's the Thing/The Band Parade compilation reel
name: label: Collection Performer
content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984
label: Collection Collector
content: Smith, Ernie
label: Collection Performer
content: Webster, Ben
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content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
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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 491.70-71
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 [31983000034140]
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content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: 1. Swings the thing; black and white, 670 feet

Copyright: 1939

Corporate Creator: Astor Pictures Corp.

Producer: Joe Rock

Director: Alf Goulding

Performer(s): Harry Roy and His Famous Band, Mabel Mercer

Song Title(s): Unidentified title, Roy solo on clarinet; "I'm Cheerful"; Unidentified title; "You're the Last Word in Love"; "Harlem is Weeping", Roy, vocals by Mercer.

2. The Band Parade - Ted Lewis and His Band; black and white, 293 feet

Copyright: 1939

Corporate Creator: Castle Films

Performer(s): Ted Lewis and His Orchestra, unidentified female dancer, vocal quartet

Song Title(s): "On the Sunny Side of the Street", vocals by Lewis; "Me and My Shadow", vocals by Lewis; "Three Black Mice", vocals by Lewis and quartet; "Isn't She a Pretty Thing", vocals by Lewis, dance by unidentified female; "I'm the Leader of the Band", vocals by Lewis.

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