I love The Mills Brothers. You know what? There's a musical based on their music, slated to start touring in February 2016, called "Up The Lazy River." Break a leg!
@@lifeontheledgerlines8394 Not that funny if you were aware that the BEE GEEs WERE NOT JUST DISCO!!!!!! THEY WERE AMAZINGLY DIVERSE MUSICIANS, WHO WERE PERSECUTED BY THE US MUSIC MEDIA - Hence your ignorance. Despite the US, they have still sold over 250 million albums!!!! And BARRY is in the Giunness Book Of Records, as the 2nd most successful songwriter in the history of music, after Paul McCartney. AND now Barry is SIR BARRY GIBB, being knighted for his contribution to music and charity.
@@lifeontheledgerlines8394 Please click on my icon/photo and see all the brilliant music they created over 5 decades, and Barry still is. You will see, at the top of the page that I have created, separate Playlists for each Decade - mostly in chronological order. Be prepared to be surprised. NB - Of course they were influenced by many musicians, including the BEATLES. BUT this was the music of their early childhood, before modern popular music, that influenced their amazing harmonies.
Love the Mills Brothers. They were one of my Dad's favorite groups. So many great memories singing along with him & them. Thanks for the sweet memories and sweet sounds.....
I always loved their old album , "Four Boys and A Guitar" Their best version of Stardust was on tthat album and but for one guitar as the title said, all of the horns were sounded by mouth , scatting and all. Lazybones and Java Jive was on that album also
I M a care giver and the lady that am working with just remembered it and I got to RU-vid to play it to her, and she is singing along and dancing with it
Check out some of their other videos and you will see that the "eye thing" is part of their style. Siblings tend to have physical cues like that jn common.
the guy standing next to their father (second from right) is really good-looking! also, i can't believe i dind't know about the mills brother earlier..
@JDPotok No, I meant the one next to Harry and John Mills Sr. Not the guitar player but next to John Mills Sr. I now know his name is Gene Smith and the guitar player is Norman Brown but thanks for answering my question.
If anyone can tell me the names of the Mills Brothers, from left to right in the video above, it would mean a lot to me. I assume that's Harry singing the lead in the second verse, but which is Donald and Herbert. I guess that's John Sr over on the right singing bass, right?
I think you're imagining things because I see no "ugly racist stereotypes" whatsoever here. Also who are these "dancers" you mention because from what I saw there was not a single dancer in sight. All that we see here are 5 very well dressed men harmonizing beautifully to a gentle and perfectly harmless old song. Honest to God did we even watch the same video?!?!
This video, (up the lazy river) is not the video I commented on. The one I commented on, had all the men (Mills Bros and others) dressed in overalls with straw hats like field hands. all the women were in microshort poofy skirts and midriff tops, and one guy was sitting in a rocking chair eating a water melon.
@PhillyC187 Interesting story, however, the title says that the group you see here in the video are in fact The Mills Brothers. The InkSpots are good too.
I know right! My comment wouldn't have gotten anywhere close to those two likes without that "motherfucking" just thrown in there for seemingly no reason. It's almost like I was trying to emphasize how good a singer I believe Harry Mills is and how there is no replacement for, the one, the only, the man, the myth, the legend, the sweetheart of a generation, the great HAAAAARRRRRRRRY MIIIIILLLLLS In all seriousness that is just how I speak and I type the same way I speak, I tone it down when I need to and am in a professional environment, but when I am just commenting on youtube, whats the point in censoring myself?
