Friday, August 7, 2009

The Original Music Videos

Back in the 1940s, there was a brief vogue for "soundies:" short films of popular singers that could be played on a kind of jukebox viewer in bars and clubs. A lot of musicians made performance or narrative versions of their hits for this market; here, Spike Jones and His Orchestra kind of have it both ways (with a bit of an assist from teh great Mel Blanc):

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