Kid you not Jimmy Dorsey had a very swinging big band. Also being a musician I especially like the sound of the upright string bass. No amplification needed. The bass man the drummer and the entire Jimmy Dorsey class musicians do a wonderful job here. thank you for posting great music. BOOM
wOW AMAZING.... I luv jimmy Dorsey, and everything 40's, my parents were born in 1938 and 1942, but it was my grandparents I heard stories from back then, I WISH I WAS BORN THEN, IT The music, the fashions, the clubs and the dance was JUST INCREDIBLY AMAZINGGGG
WOW!....what a great video....great swing arrangement with Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra and what a terrific vocal by Helen O'Connell. They don't get better than that, and the music and dancing was never that good since. You sure have good appreciation of an a-one performance. Thanks for your enjoyable video!
Probably very few people today know that the term "gate" was short for "alligator", which meant someone who was really hep and in the groove. Thus "Lord and Lady Gate" would be the hippest couple around.
@@don1643 Nope. The "alligator" reference came first, and that led to the expression "Swing it, gate!" which as you said is reinforced because that's what an actual gate does.
Wow. Those kids are absolutely amazing dancers. What a routine! Wonder who they were and what happened to them. Was this their 15 minutes of fame, or did they become successful adult performers..? Tremendous singing by the outstanding Helen O'Connell too. Wish the video quality were a bit better, but thanks for posting.
On the contrary, most people (specially kids) were way more active than today's. Remember: at that time things were not automated and people were involved in physical work.
Fun number - and love those jitterbugging kids. Wonder if this is a deleted scene from the movie "I Dood It?" (made in 1942, released '43). The set is exactly like the set in that film (which I've seen several times), and of course it featured Dorsey and Helen O'Connell, but I don't recall this number.
Hi tealeafsan: Catch "I Dood It" (from which this scene is deleted) on Turner Classic Movies or buy the DVD from Warner Archive. The movie has some outstanding musical numbers - but is a real oddity in that the "finale" is an old & dated production number from an Eleanor Powell film of the 1930's
The dancing kids here look very much like the kids in the frantic jitterbugging scene with Cab Calloway in "Sensations of 1945." Have no idea what their names were.
I agree! I'd love to go to a club and dance, 3 nights a week! My dad was following these bands all around Detroit when they played at the same high schools I went to dances at 32 years earlier. it's so full of life. Swing Kids is a great movie about German kids trying to get away from the stifled, restricted Nazi and German control through swing music. We still could be facing similar threats today. So sad.
If kids would only dance like that now a days or move around there wouldn't be so many over weight kids. This was awesome !!!!!!! Kids now days just sit around glued to their xboxes and cell phones, tablets, etc's I feel sorry for them :-(
Back then kids played stick ball, chopped wood, walked long distances. No need for gyms. Many were just active. Huge muscles were thing of circus freak shows. People were just fit.
Those two kids are far more energetic than today's generation of young people. These millennials and Gen Zer's are just outright lazy. I can outperform most of them, and I'm almost 60.
Would have liked to download this excellent video featuring the wonderful Helen O`Connell in a rare performance but the item is not downloadable. I wonder why?
Where did you get this? I didn’t know the footage survived; I have the audio which came on the Rhino compilation “Alive and Kickin’: Big Band Sounds at M-G-M.” Big “I Dood It”/Eleanor Powell fan here
That was back in the days when America had culture. Unfortunately, most millennials and Gen Zer's wouldn't know culture if it got into bed with them. Almost none of them have any class or creativity!
That’s Bobby Van Eps, he was the pianist in the original Dorsey Brothers Orchestra and after the split remained with Jimmy for many years. His brother George Van Eps was a noted jazz guitarist.
Very interesting, especially with the inclusion of the zoot suit in the lyrics and the dancing kid. It's too bad that only a year later (1943), zoot suiters (aka "pachucos") would be targeted, ridiculed and victimized in the infamous Zoot Suit riots of Los Angeles (yet more out of racial tension than fashion). Every time I see zoot suits now, like in this video, I think about that.
im from mexico and in my opinion they deserve it if those "pachucos" feel so mexican then they should come back here if they don't assimilate american way of life deport them all
@@lscarver5 Mickey Rooney was once a young boy, and he started acting at age four, and was in his first movie at age six, so . . . . it is possible he's in this film clip
@@roberttaylor1326 Mickey Rooney was born in 1920,which means he would have been about 21 or 22 years old when this was filmed. At the end of the clip there's a close-up of the two dancers. If you're familiar with Mickey Rooney you can see that's not him. Someone else identified them as Dick Humphries and Marilyn Kay.
Kid you not Jimmy Dorsey had a very swinging big band. Also being a musician I especially like the sound of the upright string bass. No amplification needed. The bass man the drummer and the entire Jimmy Dorsey class musicians do a wonderful job here. thank you for posting great music. BOOM
And they tell us Rock and Roll started in the 50's. My a$$!
wOW AMAZING.... I luv jimmy Dorsey, and everything 40's, my parents were born in 1938 and 1942, but it was my grandparents I heard stories from back then, I WISH I WAS BORN THEN, IT The music, the fashions, the clubs and the dance was JUST INCREDIBLY AMAZINGGGG
Except you might be dead from a dozen diseases they had no cure for then. Polio, pneumonia, diphtheria, scarlet fever. The list is long.
The kids are great
Can not imagine this melody without Mr. Dorsey and Mrs. O'Connel. What are the wonderful kids! Clear smiles and souls!
Helen O'Connell does it for me every time
That was fun to watch. Thank you for posting!
I don't know who they are but Jimmy's trumpeter and drummer are pretty darn good in this clip.
WOW!....what a great video....great swing arrangement with Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra and what a terrific vocal by Helen O'Connell. They don't get better than that, and the music and dancing was never that good since. You sure have good appreciation of an a-one performance. Thanks for your enjoyable video!
Absolutely great 👍
Hello Virginia, How are you doing?
Probably very few people today know that the term "gate" was short for "alligator", which meant someone who was really hep and in the groove. Thus "Lord and Lady Gate" would be the hippest couple around.
As in see ya later alligator, and after awhile crocodile. best slang ever!!
I'm pretty sure the term "Gate" referred to an actual gate. What does a gate do when you open it? It swings.
@@don1643 Nope. The "alligator" reference came first, and that led to the expression "Swing it, gate!" which as you said is reinforced because that's what an actual gate does.
Thanks!
WOW.
Wonderful dancers!
MERCI ❤️
Magnifique musique 🌹 et danses💗💗💗Bravo les ENFANTS💗
That was real kids, amazing.
Awesome!
Música maravillosa época inolvidable Csodálatos zene felejthetetlen időszak
so young so talented
Wow. Those kids are absolutely amazing dancers. What a routine! Wonder who they were and what happened to them. Was this their 15 minutes of fame, or did they become successful adult performers..? Tremendous singing by the outstanding Helen O'Connell too. Wish the video quality were a bit better, but thanks for posting.
Not much is known about Dick Humpries the boy dancer made a few movies in the 40's and 50's born 1929 died of a heart attack in 1977 at the age of 48
WOW!! died so young so sad!! :-(
You really had to be in shape to dance like this. I know people now a days who get tired just getting out of bed. A whole different world then.
People don't eat healthy anymore. Almost everyone is sugar and wheat addicts now.
On the contrary, most people (specially kids) were way more active than today's.
Remember: at that time things were not automated and people were involved in physical work.
The young boy has some dance moves very similar to those of the Nicholas Brothers moves.
Amazin
Go, kids, go!!!
🌞🌞😊🐈✝️⚜️
Fun number - and love those jitterbugging kids.
Wonder if this is a deleted scene from the movie "I Dood It?" (made in 1942, released '43). The set is exactly like the set in that film (which I've seen several times), and of course it featured Dorsey and Helen O'Connell, but I don't recall this number.
+sandaglad how would i see the move?
Hi tealeafsan: Catch "I Dood It" (from which this scene is deleted) on Turner Classic Movies or buy the DVD from Warner Archive. The movie has some outstanding musical numbers - but is a real oddity in that the "finale" is an old & dated production number from an Eleanor Powell film of the 1930's
I wish somebody had a clear print of this. Every version I've seen has been hopelessly blurred.
The dancing kids here look very much like the kids in the frantic jitterbugging scene with Cab Calloway in "Sensations of 1945." Have no idea what their names were.
That's because the are the same kids. Richard (aka).Dickie Humpreys.. and his dancing partner...her name i don't really know..
Does anyone know who the kids were and whether they went on to become stars as adults?
The dancing kids are Dick Humphries and Marilyn Kay.
Bom demais, viva a arte de danças, etc. maneco - Porto Alegre - Brasil.
I agree! I'd love to go to a club and dance, 3 nights a week! My dad was following these bands all around Detroit when they played at the same high schools I went to dances at 32 years earlier. it's so full of life. Swing Kids is a great movie about German kids trying to get away from the stifled, restricted Nazi and German control through swing music. We still could be facing similar threats today. So sad.
What kids listen to today is not music it's a lot of trash with lots of profanities and filth..
Young Bill and Melinda.
If kids would only dance like that now a days or move around there wouldn't be so many over weight kids. This was awesome !!!!!!! Kids now days just sit around glued to their xboxes and cell phones, tablets, etc's I feel sorry for them :-(
+Alterjunkie And their parents are just as fat and lazy!
So true, I never get tired of watching this. Those kids are adorable
I know plenty that do, you just got to look for it. most places will even have a lesson to get people started.
Back then kids played stick ball, chopped wood, walked long distances. No need for gyms. Many were just active. Huge muscles were thing of circus freak shows. People were just fit.
Those two kids are far more energetic than today's generation of young people. These millennials and Gen Zer's are just outright lazy. I can outperform most of them, and I'm almost 60.
Thank you, John. Can view but cannot Download. Cannot see any green button either.
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Where in the world did you find this outtake? Love it.
Would have liked to download this excellent video featuring the wonderful Helen O`Connell in a rare performance but the item is not downloadable. I wonder why?
Chris-I was able to download using Google Chrome & the green button below the screen.
when jimmy got away from ampola and green eyes this band could kick ass!!!!!!
Amapola and Green Eyes were great songs!
I was relieved to see no crotch-in-the-face moves like some of the adult lindyhoppers are prone to do...!
Mike Lord Wasn't necessary. To me, it's a bit awkward on the adults with the ladies in oversize underpants!
Yup ... Jimmy taught us all.
🤝👏👏👏👏👏
Muito bom!!!
More of a workout than aerobics ever thought of being.
Gizmo Rob, and a whole lot more fun to watch too.
KIDS GOT STYLE...
Where did you get this? I didn’t know the footage survived; I have the audio which came on the Rhino compilation “Alive and Kickin’: Big Band Sounds at M-G-M.” Big “I Dood It”/Eleanor Powell fan here
I like the jivey style of the girl singers then. Anita O'Day was that way eary on in her career.
Now THAT is DANCING!!! Unlike the kids of today with their disgusting hip hop, acting crude and dirty!! The kids back then had CLASS!!
Then again, judging so one dimensionally is also not very classy.
news flash, dancing like this wasn't classy back then. it was considered grotesque in the 30s
That was back in the days when America had culture. Unfortunately, most millennials and Gen Zer's wouldn't know culture if it got into bed with them. Almost none of them have any class or creativity!
hip hop is derived from traditional african dances. be very careful. an entire continent's music and dance cannot be crude and dirty
Name of pianist?
That’s Bobby Van Eps, he was the pianist in the original Dorsey Brothers Orchestra and after the split remained with Jimmy for many years. His brother George Van Eps was a noted jazz guitarist.
Helen Hayes
I need the beat
What movie is this from?
Very interesting, especially with the inclusion of the zoot suit in the lyrics and the dancing kid. It's too bad that only a year later (1943), zoot suiters (aka "pachucos") would be targeted, ridiculed and victimized in the infamous Zoot Suit riots of Los Angeles (yet more out of racial tension than fashion). Every time I see zoot suits now, like in this video, I think about that.
im from mexico and in my opinion they deserve it if those "pachucos" feel so mexican then they should come back here if they don't assimilate american way of life deport them all
i think the young boy dancing was micky rooney
You might think that the boy could be Mickey Rooney because Mickey wasn't that tall. But the dancer is a young boy.
@@lscarver5 He was a young boy.
@@lscarver5 Mickey Rooney was once a young boy, and he started acting at age four, and was in his first movie at age six, so . . . . it is possible he's in this film clip
@@roberttaylor1326 Mickey Rooney was born in 1920,which means he would have been about 21 or 22 years old when this was filmed. At the end of the clip there's a close-up of the two dancers. If you're familiar with Mickey Rooney you can see that's not him. Someone else identified them as Dick Humphries and Marilyn Kay.
@@lscarver5 That's fine. You opined about the person being a young boy, and I simply pointed out that Mickey Rooney started as a child actor.
Now kids are Pokemon Go zombies.
Is the kid wearing a zoot suit? I thought they were hated by the general population.
Zoot Suite
mira nada mas, que par de morros arrogantes.
Why did proper dancing go out of style?
Good, but they are offbeat.
HOMO DANCING AUTÉNTICUS ÑIS.
MÉXICO TEPITO-ESCANDON.
What movie is this from?