58min | Musical | b/w, fs
Directors: Joseph Kohn, Leonard Reed
Stars: Willie Bryant, Sarah Vaughan, Lionel Hampton, see below.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048988/
Watched online, mediocre/poor copy, only 40+min long.
Remarkably similar to Rhythm and Blues Revue (1955), 6 b/w, fs. The set and the audience inserts look the same, and the artist roster is very close. But the songs performed are different.
Although Freddy and Flo is a credited act, they don't appear in this copy of the film. They were prominent in the '55 edition. Also, Nipsey Russell appeared briefly here, but I missed Mantan Moreland. These must be part of the missing 18 minutes. But all these songs were present:
- Ding Dong Baby, Written and Performed by Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
- You're Not the Kind of a Boy, Performed by Sarah Vaughan
- My Love is True, Performed by Jimmy Brown with Paul Williams Orchestra
- We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye, Performed by Martha Davis
- Bewildered, Performed by Amos Milburn
- Somebody Somewhere, Performed by Faye Adams
- Lovey Dovey, Performed by The Clovers
- These Things I Offer You (For A Lifetime), Performed by Sarah Vaughan
- Come On Let's Dance, Performed by Charles 'Honi' Coles (as Coles) and Cholly Atkins (as Atkins)
- A Woman is a Worrisome Thing, Performed by Herb Jeffries
- Calloway Boogie, Written and Performed by Cab Calloway
This is not cutting edge stuff. The best segment was the dancing by Coles & Atkins, but the camera work was not great. However, the sound seemed live, that the taps were not dubbed, and they danced in unison only.
Studio Films, dir. Kohn, Reed; 6
