Author Archive: Retro

All Black cast musical comedy short subjects.

Includes “Come To Baby Do” with Nat King Cole Trio, “Bundle Of Blues” with Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway’s “Jitterbug Party”, Count Basie & Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, Harlem Hotshots, “Sugar Chill” and “Black & Tan” with Duke Ellington

Music videos of the 1940’s (then called “soundies”). Features various 1940’s performers.

Early jazz feartuing the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

Includes “Marian Anderson Sings”, “Sarah Vaughn Sings”, “Symphony in Balck” with Duke Ellington and “Basin Street Review” with Lionel Hampton, Nat King Cole, Nipsey Russell and Dinah Washington.

The Harlem Hot Shots, Louis Armstrong, The Ebony Trio, Lena Horne, Lionel Hampton, Ruth Brown and others.

Includes “Dry Bones” with the Delta Rhythm Boys, “Open the Door Richard” with Dusty Fletcher, “Slow Poke” with Stepin Fetchit and “Spying the Spy”, a rare 1915 Black Short Subject on private eye stories.