I keep coming back to this wonderful video... Partly because I love Glenn Miller's music, especially this song... but mostly because I LOVE Dorothy Dandridge! 😍
What an era! Thank God it's been rescued for all posterity. The amount of technical choreography puts anything today back to kindergarten! Under appreciated, energetic, and just plain fun to listen too. It doesn't hypnotize, it energizes and entertains. Thanks for sharing this.
OMG ‼️ Super magnificent performance by all artists ‼️ Specially Tex Beneke , Dorothy Dandridge and Nicolas brothers 👍‼️ Music 🎵 of Glenn Miller is Masterpiece 🎉🏆‼️🔥🔥🐐🐐❤️❤️❤️
Man, I'm really a rock'n'roll fan... from my childhood... This is actually not even my decade... but I still keep coming back to it... The 'Swing' decade had a LOT going for it... Especially Glen Miller... and even more especially, Dorothy Dandridge! What a star!!! 😁
Unfortunately both she and the Nichols brothers were born thirty years too early for them to reach the superstar status their deserve. Also having them perform separately meant they part could be cut out for White Southern audiences.
Did you know that Dorothy Dandridge got married to Harold Nicholas one year after this movie came out? (Harold Nicholas is one of the Nicholas brothers)
Thanks for that factoid! I study all the great dancers. Here's her Wikipedia page. I also have to research the dandridge sisters en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Dandridge
Peter Farrar:- The fabulous Glenn Miller's orchestra in supreme form with the ryth mic " Chattannooga Choo Choo". Dorothy Dandrige with her sinuous facial expressions & dancing & the fabulous Nicholas Brothers with their dance sessions were outstanding & stole the show. Currently there is nothing to compare with this quality of musical talents, but musical garbage. A bad decaying taste of the present generations that favours. Golden words by Peter E. Farrar. 2:17 6:02
Sfido chiunque a dire quando hanno sentito per la prima volta che questa canzone alla radio! Io avevo appena 7 anni! Abitavo in Udine. Era il 1957!! Ne sono rimasto entusiasmato! Ora ho il motivo sul mio telefonino per le chiamate!!! Cosa ne pensate?
Paula Kelly had the lead female vocal on this track. Marion starred on People Like You and Me. Trivia: It didn't come out until the 1960s or 70s that the Modernaires had some help from the group Six Hits and a Miss. The sound equipment of the time had trouble getting enough volume from the Mods so Fox added 6HAAM, singing behind the scenes.
Yes. He was one of the stars from Fox's "stable" of actors. John Payne portrays the pianist, although his playing was dubbed by Chummy MacGregor. The film was successful enough that more stars appeared in Miler's second film "Orchestra Wives". There was Cesar Romero (the Joker in the 1960s TV version of Batman), Jackie Gleason, Harry Morgan a/k/a Col. Potter, and Dale Evans.
The Nicholas Brothers are fabulous too, of course... but when Dorothy Dandridge is on state, I find it impossible to take my eyes off her... Sorry boys! 😉
