The Drummer Man/Let Me Off Uptown compilation reel
name: label: Collection Performer
content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984
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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: 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 491.80-81
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 [31983000034165]
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content: Motion picture films
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content: 1. The Drummer Man; black and white, 463 feet (footage is missing the Jeanne Blanche number)

Copyright: 1948

Corporate Creator: Universal International

Producer: Will Cowan

Director: Will Cowan

Performer(s): Gene Krupa Orchestra and Jazz Trio (Krupa, Billy Baker, piano, Tommy Lucas, alto), Carolyin Grey, Jeanne Blanche

Song Title(s): "Lover"; "Boogie Blues", vocals by Grey; "Stompin' at the Savoy"; "Leave Us Leap"


2. Let Me Off Uptown (a compilation reel created by Ernie Smith); black and white, 620 feet


1. "Let Me Off Uptown"

Copyright: 1942

Corporate Creator: Official Films, Inc.

Performer(s): Gene Krupa and His Orchestra, Anita O'Day, Roy Eldridge, and two Lindy Hoppers

Song Title(s): "Let Me Off Uptown"; Unidentified instrumental featuring Cootie Williams on trumpet; "Battle Hymn of the Republic" performed by a Dixieland combo; "Fine and Mellow", an excerpt from 491.10-1, vocals by Billie Holiday

Video reference copies available.