Compilation Reel #4 (Music/Dance)

Genre: Soundie

Format: 16mm

Description:

1. Soundies: The Four King Sisters sing " Java Jive" in shoulder strip dresses. 4 king sisters go to a Diner where they drink coffee and playfully hijack a man's burger in turn.

2. Sugar Geise sings "Patty Cake Baker Man" in a girlie one piece dress. A cake baker man dancing.
young women in super short mini skirts, tiny aprons, and cook hats, tap dancing. The cook and short skirt girls introduce the cake queen with a pointy crown.
Sugar Geise sings while sitting on the top of the slowly spinning fake cake.

3. Vincent Lopez and Orchestra in " The Minute Waltz"
Various shots of Vincent Lopez and his orchestra playing Chopin’s "The Minute Waltz" in dance hall style.

4. All girl band soundie (1946 from sprockets)

5. Luba Malina in “Cuban Pete”. Cuban Pete is king of the Rumba Beat and is clad in silk shirt, shaking maracas. Full orchestra in similar outfits behind him. Sung by woman in Cuban dress. Six Cuban ladies in flamenco style dresses dance. Man and woman in rumba clothes dance. Singer dances with egg-shaped man. (1956)

6. Set in faux Caribbean bar - tropical plants, men in uniform, woman with flowers in their hair. Waiter in short jackets carrying drinks tray. Woman dances with swarthy, latin in uniform. Sung in fake native accent. (1956)

7. Winnie Shaw (The Lady in Red) sings “Nauth Girl from Cuba”, She is clad all in white veils, and sings with a Cuban orchestra set up on her left and right. and nightclub tables behind. Dwarf in toga plays snake charming trumpet. She takes off robes, revealing flamenco costume underneath. MS of man in matador jacket and Indian or Sikh in turban watching. (1956)

8. Little Annie Rooney, B/W, 1941
Vaguely Germanic beer hall song and tap dance number featuring “Little Annie Rooney” and her suitor. Bar patrons sing along, raising their mugs in the air.

9. Untitled, B/W, 1931
A barbershop quartet, the Crew Cuts, is introduced by a cop. After a traffic safety message to kids, they perform their latest Mercury release, “The Barking DOG.”

Complete Record: 1. Soundies: The Four King Sisters sing " Java Jive" in shoulder strip dresses. 4 king sisters go to a Diner where they drink coffee and playfully hijack a man's burger in turn. 2. Sugar Geise sings "Patty Cake Baker Man" in a girlie one piece dress. A cake baker man dancing. young women in super short mini skirts, tiny aprons, and cook hats, tap dancing. The cook and short skirt girls introduce the cake queen with a pointy crown. Sugar Geise sings while sitting on the top of the slowly spinning fake cake. 3. Vincent Lopez and Orchestra in " The Minute Waltz" Various shots of Vincent Lopez and his orchestra playing Chopin’s "The Minute Waltz" in dance hall style. 4. All girl band soundie (1946 from sprockets) 5. Luba Malina in “Cuban Pete”. Cuban Pete is king of the Rumba Beat and is clad in silk shirt, shaking maracas. Full orchestra in similar outfits behind him. Sung by woman in Cuban dress. Six Cuban ladies in flamenco style dresses dance. Man and woman in rumba clothes dance. Singer dances with egg-shaped man. (1956) 6. Set in faux Caribbean bar - tropical plants, men in uniform, woman with flowers in their hair. Waiter in short jackets carrying drinks tray. Woman dances with swarthy, latin in uniform. Sung in fake native accent. (1956) 7. Winnie Shaw (The Lady in Red) sings “Nauth Girl from Cuba”, She is clad all in white veils, and sings with a Cuban orchestra set up on her left and right. and nightclub tables behind. Dwarf in toga plays snake charming trumpet. She takes off robes, revealing flamenco costume underneath. MS of man in matador jacket and Indian or Sikh in turban watching. (1956) 8. Little Annie Rooney, B/W, 1941 Vaguely Germanic beer hall song and tap dance number featuring “Little Annie Rooney” and her suitor. Bar patrons sing along, raising their mugs in the air. 9. Untitled, B/W, 1931 A barbershop quartet, the Crew Cuts, is introduced by a cop. After a traffic safety message to kids, they perform their latest Mercury release, “The Barking DOG.”