Saw these incredible gentlemen in Las Vegas (live) with my grandparents and parents (1960 - I was 8 yrs old and pounding "Shirley Temples" one after the other). Their performance has had a profound effect on my life, even 60 years later!
Whole lotta greatness up there on that TV screen. Mills Brothers, geniuses of easy jazz. Benny who got a lot (too much?) mileage out of the same jokes. Is anything today capable of being good eighty years after the fact?
What an era....music, voices and instruments...lots of them. Wow...I have lots of their music and just crank it whenever I need to feel lost in the vibes music moves of the soul. Bless all of them.
@@susankennedy5739 I have seen acapella groups perform, but for limited audiences. Unfortunately, there are very few venues where these groups can get national exposure.
@@juanmonge8 True! There was an entire a capella summit in the Bay Area a while back, all kinds of groups giving classes and performing together in a night concert. Maybe it will return. The Pentatonics are a very popular group, for instance!
Fabulous Mills brothers love them ever since I watched them with Dean Martin. Dean emulates Harry and they sound brilliant together. Definitely worth finding and watching all the Mills brothers performances
'insulted in harmony'...'used them for hubcaps'...excellent gags! There's another video on RU-vid of the Mills Brothers singing Up A Lazy River with Dean Martin.
Maybe my favorite Mills Bros. performance... ...coincidentally, of my favorite Tommy Dorsey tune. Listen to the special lyrics: If you get all of the references, you are either really culturally literate, really old, or both. (Tangentially, my favorite Don Wilson bit of business.) Benny had the Genius to surround himself with geniuses... Orson Welles, Johnny Carson, and Don Imus had that same Genius. (All True Geniuses understand that, and do it.)