Post only videos, soundies, and promo clips here. No music show appearances (Bandstand, Shindig, etc.) or concerts (Woodstock, TAMI Show). Clips from movies (ie. Elvis) are fine.

[Edited 9/3/11 21:10pm]

Repost of a thread I started on Soundies:
(http://prince.org/msg/8/3...sg_6772321)

I've had to remove/replace a few of the videos as the links have gone dead.

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

Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

http://www.youtube.com/wa...R6nmKjcSeU

http://www.youtube.com/wa...rBMu-jhzIo

http://www.youtube.com/wa...FztJ2x0bjg

http://www.youtube.com/wa...bmcT4qieI4

http://www.youtube.com/wa...b3iPP-tHdA

http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related

http://www.youtube.com/wa...mn-BYyjBeI

http://www.youtube.com/wa...WsLmI9XR1g

http://www.youtube.com/wa...ubavlo3CFk

http://www.youtube.com/wa...4Ct7H9QqAc

http://www.youtube.com/wa...OwUvGgAL0k

http://www.youtube.com/wa...37x7lNP4DY

http://www.youtube.com/wa...cp_3NEWTzU

Bessie Smith...



...St. Louis Blues



Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

[Edited 9/5/11 11:05am]

"Why Can't We Be Friends" by War (1975)

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