This clip features actor, singer and nightclub performer Harry Richman performing the song “Puttin’ On the Ritz”. The song was featured in a scene from the musical of the same name. It was written and published by Irving Berlin in...
This clip features The Benny Goodman Quartet with Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson & Gene Krupa as they perform the song “I’ve Got A Heartful Of Music”. This is from the 1937 film Hollywood...
“I Love to Singa” is a song written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg for the Warner Bros. feature-length film The Singing Kid. Al Jolson and Cab Calloway perform the song in this clip that dates back to...
Watch this excellent footage of the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra playing “Swinging in Harlem”. Erskine Hawkins was from Birmingham, Alabama and was a prominent African American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer during the 1930s and 1940s. In 1978, Erskine...
