Woody Herman & His Orchestra (1938)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Woody Herman and his orchestra are appearing in front of a theatre audience (thanks to some stock footage from a silent movie) and do five numbers including the well-known 'You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby' and 'Carolina in the Morning'. If you watch Turner Classic Movies enough then you know that various Warner/Vitaphone shorts are played and their main goal back in the day was to show off various musical talent that most people probably only knew from the radio. With that in mind we got some great artists and some that probably weren't remembered a few years after their films were released and that might have been the case here. Now, if you're a fan of these shorts or older music in general like I am then you're going to at least be entertained because the numbers are good enough to go through once. I thought Herman had a very good voice and I thought it worked perfectly well on the 'Beautiful Baby' number. 'Two Little Girls in One' wasn't the strongest number but we do get a decent dance sequence with Lee Wiley and Marie Hartman. 'Jailhouse Blues' features another dance number this time with Hal and Honey Abbott.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Woody Herman and his orchestra are appearing in front of a theatre audience (thanks to some stock footage from a silent movie) and do five numbers including the well-known 'You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby' and 'Carolina in the Morning'. If you watch Turner Classic Movies enough then you know that various Warner/Vitaphone shorts are played and their main goal back in the day was to show off various musical talent that most people probably only knew from the radio. With that in mind we got some great artists and some that probably weren't remembered a few years after their films were released and that might have been the case here. Now, if you're a fan of these shorts or older music in general like I am then you're going to at least be entertained because the numbers are good enough to go through once. I thought Herman had a very good voice and I thought it worked perfectly well on the 'Beautiful Baby' number. 'Two Little Girls in One' wasn't the strongest number but we do get a decent dance sequence with Lee Wiley and Marie Hartman. 'Jailhouse Blues' features another dance number this time with Hal and Honey Abbott.