The Song Spinners sing a close-harmony version of this wartime tune in this soundie.
Soundies were precursors of the music videos that play on MTV. They were meant to be played on a sort of video jukebox called the Mills Panoram. You could find them in bars, diners, night clubs. Put a dime in and you got a random song from a ten-song playlist. Mills and other companies would issue new playlists weekly, so from 1940 through 1946, there were more than 2,000 songs recorded on these three-minute musical films. Some starred well known entertainers, like Cab Calloway. Some featured performers just starting out, like Doris Day and Ricardo Montalban.
Soundies were precursors of the music videos that play on MTV. They were meant to be played on a sort of video jukebox called the Mills Panoram. You could find them in bars, diners, night clubs. Put a dime in and you got a random song from a ten-song playlist. Mills and other companies would issue new playlists weekly, so from 1940 through 1946, there were more than 2,000 songs recorded on these three-minute musical films. Some starred well known entertainers, like Cab Calloway. Some featured performers just starting out, like Doris Day and Ricardo Montalban.
