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Watched this for the first time a year or so ago. I was actually flabbergasted just seeing that it was THE ACTUAL Count Basie and his orchestra there

They were actually outside no green screen

All you Count Basie fans GOD bless you .!! I happen to have known Freddy G & Butch M personally. Freddy nickname. Was ( the human metronome ) he kept better time than a Swiss watch .!! Joey

That's about the only scene that would not have to be edited for political correctness

Love that Gucci saddlebag.

That horse is the most gorgeous palomino to ever grace the silver screen!

My absolute favourite scene as well. Brilliant!

I just watched this for the first time yesterday and I recognised the song from a count Basie cassette I have and I thought “I wonder if this version of the song was performed by count Basie too” before he and his band were revealed

This is supposed to be a scene of comedy but it's just soo classy.

Not just the best scene in this movie but one of the greatest of all time, just wonderful!!

The only scene from the whole movie that would not need to be edited for political correctness in today's climate

PRIIIIICELESSSSSSS!!!!🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

After Blues, my favorite music.

An anachronism that only Mel Brooks could pull-off..

Mel Brooks, don't ever apologize for this comedy masterpiece.

Best scene in the movie

This movie was Hilarious 🤣

In 1974 at 14 I, in my best hippie duds, caught the Bus over to what passed for the art house movie theater in Charlotte and saw this film. It was so much fun there in the hipster south watching this particular film! To this day I remember the uproarious laughter. This was my favorite scene as I'd just landed the Bari Sax chair in Bill Hanna's high school Charlotte Jazz Ensemble.

If I could ask Mel Brooks one question it would have to be how the hell did he get Count Basie and His Orchestra to shoot this scene in the middle of nowhere? 😅

"Count Basie, we want you and your orchestra to play in our movie." "Ok sure, where at?" "At the sands." "The Sands Hotel was torn down years ago!" "You misunderstand me."

And now, to ruin the illusion: I actually did an assignment for my Jazz and Media class in grad school on this very scene. If you hadn't noticed, the syncing of music and video is absolutely atrocious. The band you see on screen was not the Basie band at the time; they had just come back to the mainland (NYC) from some gigs overseas, and they just had Basie fly out to LA for the scene. The band you see does have some former and future Basie band members, but no currents, other than the man himself. Still a winner, though! Oh, and the band you hear are LA studio cats!

I loved that scene not only because it featured Count Basie and his orchestra, but because of the hilarious incongruity of a big band playing cool music in the middle of the desert in a Western scene with a black cowboy with fancy Gucci accoutrement and fancy duds riding on a Palomino in style.

When I saw this in the movie theater, I cried laughing (like everybody else, probably). When I saw this later on RUclips, I cried laughing some more. What a film! Bless Basie's and Brooks' hearts!

That is so cool that Count Bassie and his orchestra were in this film 🥁🎹🎷🎺🎸🔥🔥🔥

Count Basie and his band came to my elementary school wayyyy back in the day. They were amazing!!!

April in Rock Ridge

I saw this movie when I was 11, and 48 years later, I still don't get the joke.

My favorite scene as well!

Shedding tears…this scene is sad oh so sadder

Pure timeless comedy and it's because this scene is so hilariously composed

A scene which is irrelevant to the plot and brings the narrative to a complete halt, which explains why I had to scrape myself off the floor helpless with giggles. I saw Blazing Saddles as part of a double bill with Monty Python and the Holy Grail, another work of comedic genius full of utterly irrelevant moments like this.

Swag on celluloid before it was ever in our vocabulary......

Laughing my arse of at this scene, 48 years after the film was made!

Count Basie was an answer on Jeopardy last night and Tim Conway's daughter was on the radio which made me think of Harvey Korman and Blazing Saddles and the Gucci saddle bags, LOL.

Can you imagine sitting with Brooks when this idea came to him? "we need an entrance for Cleave to return to Rock Ridge, you know a real classy entrance of a smooth brother ..... I got it! Count Basie, we'll get Count Basie ....." "Mel, it'll never happen ........"

One of the Basie Band's signature tunes. "One more once!"

Surreal and cool

This whole scene speaks VOLUME. What a great way to have a send off. Count Basie and his Orchestra in the middle prairie. It is so SOPHISTICATED if you ask me 🥁🎻🪕🎺🎸🎷🎹👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

The ultimate anachronism that only mel brooks could pull-off, amid a story depicting -- through comedic genius -- the entrenched violent white racism so keenly demonstrated whenever a Blackman is put in charge. Count Basie--straight outta Red Bank N.J.

A cigarette brand in Australia had a similar idea for what turned out to be a cult classic ad. Anyhow have a Winfield. With Paul Hogan at about the same time. This is the best way to fight racism.

Profoundly moving, because Basie’s life, Duke Ellington’s life, are the spiritual and artistic foundation of the movie.

Skin from one Cool dude to another!

High diving the count hell yes

Now whenever I walk through a Southwestern desert in New Mexico or Arizona, Count Basie will be playing "April In Paris" in the background, at least in my mind.

Count Basie ROCKS. A legend in a legendary film.

I remember when this came out. I got to see it here in Hollywood and some of my Mom's friends had worked on it. I was still too young to work in film yet and I so wish I could have worked on westerns. Especially this one. They were pretty much over by the time I started working. I've stood on pretty much all the western sets in LA and I used to work at Warner Brothers for a few years. So I also live close to there as well. The scene where they all run out of the gate at Warner is on Barham Blvd and Across the street is the back of Universal studios. I've been driving past that gate since my Dad was doing the driving when I was a little kid. After I saw that film, I think of it every single time I pass that gate. I went past it yesterday lol This scene absolutely blew me away. The sound was much much better in the theater and I think we saw it in the Chinese theater on Hollywood Blvd. To me, that was the coolest thing I had ever seen in a movie and my admiration for Basie and that type of music just grew from that day on. I remember my Dad being thrilled that I loved that scene so much. I begged him to take me to see it again and it was the only film he took me to twice. An it was because of this scene. The next time we saw it was on a Sunday and the audience was jam packed fulla black folk and when that camera pulled back and showed Clevon in that gear the audience went absolutely MAD!. So I jumped up and screamed too. An my Dad seemed quite cool with it all. When the film was over we got up to leave and a black guy in the seat behind us motioned to my Dad, who was a Jew from NY, an certainly was not a racist but he was definitely out of his element in this audience.So my Dad said hi to the guy and the guy said to my Dad, "Man, you are an awesome Dad to bring your kid to this film. An the fact this kid knows and loves Basie so much. . . man, I wish my Dad had been that cool to me." Then he look at me an held out his hand so I slapped it lol Which was the thing back then. An then he said to me, "Some day yer gonna be grown up and yer gonna remember this day. An the main thing you are gonna remember is how motherfuckin cool yer ole man was to bring you here today an let go wild with the crowd! You remember that when you have kids " An we all walked out together an he an my Dad talked about NY an Basie an stuff. Turns out my Dad saw Basie in a club in NY that the guy had also seen Basie coming out of one night as he was walking past. So they ended up talk an then hitting a bar together. One of the best nights of my entire childhood. :)

genius!

You cannot top this, the greatest music in the funniest western ever made !

One more Time 🎼🎷🎺🥁🎹.

I was at home watching some stupid movie on TV, my Dad in his chair reading. (He didn't care for TV) When this came on he perked up, "Why, why..that's.... He's from that era and it was priceless!