Cootie Williams and His Orchestra/Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar compilation reel
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content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984
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content: Smith, Ernie
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content: Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection / Series 2: Additional Titles
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content: 1 Motion picture film
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content: Reel OF 491.146-148
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Moving Images [31983000034405]
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content: Motion picture films
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content: 1. Cootie Williams, His Hot Trumpet and Orchestra; black and white, 142 feet

Copyright: 1943

Corporate Creator: Columbia Pictures, "Film Vodvil" Series 1, Number 2

Director: Harry Foster

Performer(s): Cootie Williams and His Orchestra, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Laurel Watson

Song Title(s): "I Love My Baby, But My Baby Don't Love Me [Things Ain't What They Used to Be]", vocals by Vinson; "Giddap Mule", vocals by Watson


2. Cootie Williams and His Orchestra (appears to be a compilaton reel created by Ernie Smith); black and white, 355 feet

Performer(s): Cootie Williams and His Orchestra, the Douglas Brothers, the Lindy Hoppers, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Laurel Watson

Song Title(s): Unidentified instrumental; "I Love My Baby, But My Baby Don't Love Me [Things Ain't What They Used to Be]", vocals by Vinson; Unidentified tune, acrobatic dances by the Douglas Brothers; "Giddap Mule", vocals by Watson; Unidentified tune, dances by the Lindy Hoppers

3. Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar; black and white, 503 feet

A fashion show is set to music.

Copyright: 1940

Corporate Creator: Universal Studios Associate

Producer: Will Cowan

Director: Larry Ceballos

Performer(s): Wingy Manone and His Orchestra, The Fashionaires, Cathryn Miller, Alphonse Berge, Maxine Grey, Larry Blake

Song Title(s): "Fashions in Swing"; "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", ocarina quartet and vocals; Unidentified instrumental, an unknown clothes designer "creates" a dress on a model. This continues with three more models; "Sing, Sing, Sing", unidentified female vocalist; comedy routine; "Love is the Fashion", unidentified female vocalist sings during a fashion show; "I Love Coffee, I Love Tea", ocarina quartet

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