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Soundies - The first Black "music videos" Triggered by IstenSzek's thread: http://prince.org/msg/8/313322
If you really want to get into it, the first "music videos" that featured Black performers were called Soundies back in the '40s. You would find coin operated machines that played these 3 minute films in many public locations like bars and nightclubs. ...Cab Calloway ...Fats Waller ...Dorothy Dandridge ...Slim Gaillard ...The Mills Brothers ...Louis Jordan ...Count Basie ...Ralph Brown ...Ella Fitzgerald ...Slam Stewart ...The Five Stars ...Tiny Grimes ...Dizzy Gillespie tA  Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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I agree! 
God Neal you are a historian/realist. Black people been making music videos since FOREVER!  | |
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Nice..... | |
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theAudience said: ...Dizzy Gillespie I know everybody and their mama has done this one, but I love this clip. I think half the view count is mine. I've seen that one so many times! | |
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Uncle Neal, you already know how I feel about them things 
That being said, here're my 2 absloute FAVE soundies ever... Lester Young's Jammin' The Blues - 1944 Duke Ellington & Young Billie Holiday's Symphony In Black - 1935 http://www.dailymotion.co...gton_music | |
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Thank you for the history lesson tA.  This also proves that the concept of a music video is a lot older than Elvis, The Beatles, and everyone else. | |
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Yup, people don't realize just how old the music video really is.
Only somewhat related, but I'd kill to have a working Panoram, the machine "Soundies" played on. | |
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TonyVanDam said: Thank you for the history lesson tA.
This also proves that the concept of a music video is a lot older than Elvis, The Beatles, and everyone else. Not true.....the Beatles invented everything music related. | |
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Thanks TA. Once again, you never cease to amaze me.  Andy is a four letter word. | |
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Graycap23 said: TonyVanDam said: Thank you for the history lesson tA.
This also proves that the concept of a music video is a lot older than Elvis, The Beatles, and everyone else. Not true.....the Beatles invented everything music related. | |
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tA I'm watching all of these. I've seen some before on PBS n' shit, or very very truncated references in music history documentaries. I either forgot or never knew these coin-operated ones were called Soundies. | |
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These used to come on BET Jazz all the time ... PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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oh my god! 
i am shocked by the drums at the end of Louis Jordan's and Dizzy's soundies | |
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Graycap23 said: TonyVanDam said: Thank you for the history lesson tA.
This also proves that the concept of a music video is a lot older than Elvis, The Beatles, and everyone else. Not true.....the Beatles invented everything music related.   | |
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