RCM Productions

Carolina Cotton Yodeling with the Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang.

Harry Langdon lip syncs the title song and interacts with models.

A college girl (Bonnie Kildare) dreams of her boyfriend (Johnny Downs) as he sings her a love song. The song begins at graduation ceremony and eventually moves to a soda fountain. A mixed double quartet contributes a lovely chorus.

Merle Travis dreaming of a Texas Home.

Tex Williams and Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang sing "Take Me Back to Tulsa".

Deuce Spriggins' Band teaming with Carolina Cotton for "Down the Trail to San Antone."

Jazz Soundie with Stan Kenton and his players.

Musical short starring Spade Cooley.

Smoke' Wells sings "I Got Her in the Mail."

Yvonne De Carlo sings herself to sleep, in her dreams she dances with a Latin dancer. She awakes to sing again.

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942.

Spike Jones and His City Slickers perform "Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy".

Dona Drake sings "Sticks and Stones".

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra perform "Bli-Blip" with Marie Bryant and Paul White

"Let's Scuffle" is a short subject -- a single song-and-dance number -- that appears to have been cut from a feature-length movie: to be precise, a 'race film'. (This was the term used by American cinema exhibitors in the 1940s and earlier for any movie with an all-black cast, intended primarily for distribution in black neighbourhoods at a time when many American cinemas were segregated.) The song-and-dance performer here is none other than the great Bill Robinson.

An early "soundie" in which Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White sing "A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat" while getting dressed up for a big date.

In this Soundie, the Mills Brothers sing the title song to a cut-out image of Dorothy Dandridge, which then comes to life and dances for them.

Comedic musical short featuring the Hoosier Hotshots.

R.C.M. Soundie

The Bronco Busters perform "Silver Spurs."