The Charioteers sing a nice version of the classic jazz song in this soundie.
Soundies were short films, about three minutes in length. The were meant to be played on a machine called a Mills Panoram, a video jukebox that was typically to be found in bars, lounges, and similar venues. You put a dime in and got a performance from the ten on the machine. The movies would be changed weekly, and from 1940 through 1946, Mills and other companies produced more than two thousand soundies.
There are some nice variations on the musical theme here, including some scatting at the end. Shelton Brooks wrote the song in 1917 and it quickly became popular; Sophie Tucker put it in her vaudeville act and the earliest known recording was on May 9 by the Six Brown Brothers, followed on May 30 by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2006.
Soundies were short films, about three minutes in length. The were meant to be played on a machine called a Mills Panoram, a video jukebox that was typically to be found in bars, lounges, and similar venues. You put a dime in and got a performance from the ten on the machine. The movies would be changed weekly, and from 1940 through 1946, Mills and other companies produced more than two thousand soundies.
There are some nice variations on the musical theme here, including some scatting at the end. Shelton Brooks wrote the song in 1917 and it quickly became popular; Sophie Tucker put it in her vaudeville act and the earliest known recording was on May 9 by the Six Brown Brothers, followed on May 30 by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2006.
