This is LIVE, unedited, 100% pure bard work and god given talent. Imagine seeing a group with this kind magic today! Today's world needs this kind of majesty.
They simply had a real cultural background , where life, work, family, pleasure, pain and entertaining weren’t divided. Music is getting poorer as the links between people are just maintained by money and show business.
The guitarist here is Cliff White (d. 1998), longtime guitarist and bandleader for Sam Cooke. He joined the Mills Brothers when their regular guitarist Norman Brown was drafted in World War II.
My favorite version of this song by the Mills Brothers. Love to see Mr. Mills Sr in this...and love the tempo more than the original studio recording. Harry will never have any peers vocally!
The late, great John Mills Junior would most assuredly have been impressed with his father and his three brothers (not to mention his replacement on guitar). I know that I sure was. Impressed, that is. Absolute, utter, jaw dropping perfection.
There's so much to this in just under 2.5 minutes. You can watch this repeatedly and focus on a different aspect of their performance. This takes true skill, but they're still having fun!
Amazing how black people produced such good song, music, acting and dance, had to go thru so much racism and discrimination because white superiorism saw them as a lower class or sad to say, sub human. Thankyou to all who contributed despite the challenges.
Curticus64 I couldn't agree more with you! There has never been anyone who has remotely come close, regardless of what era, to these legends! Truly a one in a million group!
This is from the movie "Reveille with Beverly" (1943) A wildly, wonderfully entertaining movie from WWII. Ann Miller becomes a morning disc jockey for soldiers. "Reveille with Beverly" also has Bob Crosby and his Bobcats performing "Big Noise from Winnetka", Duke Ellington Orchestra performing "Take the A Train" on a moving train, Count Basie Orchestra doing "One O'clock Jump", Freddie Slack (with the GREAT Ella Mae Morse) performing "Cow Cow Boogie:, and even Frank Sinatra (in white tie and tails!). ""Reveille with Beverly" - you must see this movie!!
Have to agree with you on that one!!! They were always so uplifting and "positive" when they sang... and boy did they ever LAST: from 1928 to 1982, and QUITE popular throughout most of that time!!! Hats off to them: they are a BIG part of our musical heritage, and i loved them when i was growing up in the 1960s... Cab Driver was one of my favorite male quartet songs EVER.
Ah, my favorite band. Listen to Mills Bros, Ink Spots, Ella Fitzgerald, Andrew Sisters, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, and a lot of Django Reinhardt. What the hell happened to good music? all I hear on the radio now is: "ass, booty, boobs, nigga, drugs, cracka, alchohol, bitches, and sex". I mean honestly aren't humans supposed to become smarter over time?
@boaty2008 It's not about what society has done to music. It's about what's become popular. There is still fantastically amazing music released every day, you just need to find it. People grow impatient when they hear something new, so the same shit gets rehashed.
If you meet a suntanned lady Full of life and hidey hadey Big brown eyes, a little bit shady That's Sweet Lucy Brown Boys in town are dyin' to meet her Millionaires line up to greet her Ain't no gal in Georgia sweeter than Sweet Lucy Brown When she talks she sure sounds funny Yowzer, mister When she kisses it tastes like honey I don't mean maybe, she's a pretty baby Listen fellows I'm confessin' Take a tip and stop your guessin' If it's love then take a lesson From Sweet Lucy Brown Oh Lucy Oh Lucy Brown Oh Lucy Oh Lucy Oh Lucy Brown Oh Lucy Oh Lucy Oh Lucy Brown Oh Lucy Ain't no gal in Georgia that's sweeter than Sweet Lucy Brown
damn, the whole song is awesome, but i love the part at the end (1:50) were the chubbier guy sings "oh lucyyyyy"...i think ive heard that part before also, in a longer version, anyone know what song imt alking abut and could help me? thx
They were originally called "Four Boys and a Guitar" because they were originally a child act. Their father, John Hutchinson Mills (right) ran a barber shop in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. His four sons began singing in the choir of the Cyrene African Methodist Episcopal Church and in the Park Avenue Baptist Church in Piqua. After lessons at the Spring Street Grammar School, they gathered in front of their father's barbershop or on the corner to perform. They entered an amateur contest at May's Opera House but while on stage Harry realized he had lost his kazoo. He improvised by cupping his hand over his mouth and mimicking the sound of trumpet. The brothers liked the idea and worked it into their act. John, the bass vocalist, would imitate the tuba. Harry, a baritone, imitated the trumpet, Herbert became the second trumpet, and Donald the trombone. John accompanied the four-part harmony on ukulele and then guitar.
