That is my father Jimmy Peterson on piano, (and my mother Mable leaning on the piano keeping dem gurls in check) with the first words in the movie. The normal gig was the piano player and arranger for Louis Jordan and His Timpany Five, as well as his own group, The Jimmy Peterson Trio. Spenser Williams speaks for himself. ❤️🖤💚😎🤘🏾

@auntie9077

3 жыл бұрын

Blpfunk...I hope you have this on CD to share with your kin and young ones

@trevinhickman9022

3 жыл бұрын

Cool legacy

@deborahdoster5172

3 жыл бұрын

Much Love to you! Don't you miss the good ole days. I enjoyed it.

@kionyaf7408

3 жыл бұрын

Ain’t nobody that dumb he getting played like a fiddle

@auntie9077

3 жыл бұрын

@@kionyaf7408 ''Everyone plays the fool sometime' b bp p p C:

Iam very proud of My people because They didn't let jim crow Keep them down.

I love these old movies. Thank you for sharing!!!

@reelblack

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks for posting! That's my mama Joyce Mc Elrath, singing, "Beale Street Mama." She had a lovely career after this, notably a long engagement years later at Don Robey's famous Texas supper club. That's where Billy Strayhorn heard her on stage and personally escorted her to an on-the-spot audition for Duke Ellington. He was impressed, too and wanted to work with her. But she was afraid to break Robey's contract. So, Ellington asked her to reconnect when it expired. Never happened. Told me that she was tired of life on the road. Went home, got married, and settled down. That's fate! Thanks again.

@reelblack

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing. I know about Don Robey. He was not to be crossed. Thanks for sharing her story. Do you know if she appeared in any other films?

@christinakelley3768

2 жыл бұрын

@@reelblack Yes, it was years later when researching things that I discovered Robey was well-known for using violence.There were no other films. Can't thank you enough for posting this. We've finally seen it! Blessings to you!

@darryl526

Жыл бұрын

extremely gorgeous as are you

i just love old movies thank u

Jolly holy moly. What a treat! Please keep it comin' as this is glorious. Please! Let our kids see how music tells all of our stories. Music itself, amongst musicians does not tolerate racism. Together. Together for our spirit, for our SOUNDINGS. A zillion thanks. 😊. Feeling sunny!

Beale Street has a special place on my heart. Seeing it like this makes me so happy

Spencer Williams is my favorite.

these ladies are so beautifully dressed...and those hats! STYLIN"

Thank you for sharing this!!! Everyone looked so elegant and chic in this movie

8:15 his facial expressions 😂😂 I can't..

@ccth22

3 жыл бұрын

LOL I fell out

I had a good laugh, and even wrote down some of the jokes...Quality of picture was made up by the script and actors. It was good.

My grandmother was 6 years old when this came out.

@ahmad.tillery.1987

3 жыл бұрын

Wow mine was 4

@sisyaffayahyisrael2112

3 жыл бұрын

My momma was 5

@Penrose-wi6tx

3 жыл бұрын

My maternal grandmother was 20 My paternal grandmother was 33 My parents wasn’t born until the year after 47”

@MrSadelover100

3 жыл бұрын

4

TO THE THUMBS DOWN GUY, YOU'RE NOT SMART.

@cookielove8174

3 жыл бұрын

It's an agent🧐🕵️ 😑

@beingmarilyngail8470

3 жыл бұрын

Whoever it was watched the entire movie and didn't mess a beat.

@nanchanger

3 жыл бұрын

@@cookielove8174 😂

Thanks so much for this

🗣🎤 Good morn fam. Thanks for giving us something to look forward to after dinner this evening 💞

1946, haha, I nearly broke my finger trying to click on this, Haha. I keep telling people my grandparents were wealthier today then we are, I get silence. Debt was dumb, Cash was KING then, ijs.

You have one of the best channels on KZread! Loving these movies!

@reelblack

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you gingergirl

15:16 - "And that little slip of the lip makes me know that some slick rat has been nibblin' on your cheese, Mister Jones..."

"That's what I say about pretty women. When u flushed wid doe, they love u long but when ya scratch get low they up n gone" lol

@runner6500

3 жыл бұрын

"Some slick rat is nibblin' on yo' cheese."

@redbone8844

3 жыл бұрын

Really 🤣

@sheranda77

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

Great movie classic

Spencer Williams reminds me of Windel Pierce as Andy Brown in Amos and Andy😆😄

@netarcheruto

2 жыл бұрын

That is the andy brown on the tv series

Thanks @reelblack another great masterpiece

Matilda was a trip, lol.

One day closer to a million lifes touched.

I am a 90s baby oh how I want to go dancing how they use to. It was normal.

BLESSED DAY STAY SAFE

It's the same old story, rerun mentalities and scenario. I so love the restraint in these older movies. Sometimes how It's done makes all the difference. Ain't that just like a fool and his money, all over town spending. I yi yi

My last name is Beale, and I've been looking into it. Seems like a coincidence, but man, this is some good jazz. Love this recording, thank you for posting!

@9:50 That’s ‘Andy’ from the old Amos and Andy tv show.

By the end of the day (July 25th 2021) YOU WILL BE ON 🎉🎆 1 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS 🎆🎉 Through the trial comes Triumph 🌈💪🏾🖤✨ I watched #DropSquad last night & I think I heard about it when Chi-Raq came out, due to Spike Lee being the Exec.Prod 🎬😇 Thanks #ReelBlack for recommending another gem (hope you do a weekly list as you can't upload movies) ✌🏾&☝🏾❤️

@cookielove8174

3 жыл бұрын

I'm coming for the 🍾LIVE STREAM PARTY 🎉 #1MillSubs #ReelBlack📺🖤

As a blues fanatic I dug the piano players boogie riffs. But I thought the script was a bit of stereotyping at a time when Black folks and culture was seen as less than.

@latoyahayes3381

2 жыл бұрын

I agree 🖤

What can I say Nothing wrong with Free Meals in a Cot! You know where your man is (Ha Ha) Such good comedy lots of fun Good acting enjoyed Thanks a treat. Janice Harley

Where oh where did you find this? Is there a high resolution version somewhere to be found?

How he took off with that $...classic

A funny comedy, but I admit I find the fall guy's performance embarrassing. He seemed to smarten up once he had money, though. Spencer Williams stood out as the most polished pro in the cast.

Love this

15 mins in and the women haven’t changed much today in 2021. Smh. Interesting time capsule nonetheless

@redbone8844

3 жыл бұрын

Right 🤣

@jeanettesdaughter

2 жыл бұрын

Wonder why⁉️ Just born that way or made that way . Speak for yourself. Not me. Raised differently deliberately away from this kind of culture, which by the way isn’t that particulately Black. You find it wherever you find poverty. What IS distinctively Black is the love of music and dance, good times: relief from the deprivation forced on us by forces greater than us. Not all that different today. The similarity to women today ( and men) is the similarity to conditions today. When concrete conditions change, people change. And who changes the conditions? People. Just saying. Keep it in perspective. “Fa sho” - we can be funny.

I watched this one for the music. Don Albert was a territory band out of San Antonio that recorded some good ones in the thirties. Interesting to see his band in a mid-40s movie. Like most territory bands, they are little rough but swing hard. Sorry, but I fast forwarded through most of the alleged acting and alleged plot.

Black face? They were still doing this in 1946? Wow.

@netarcheruto

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, I caught that2

@Mrreginam

2 жыл бұрын

It seems odd to criticize Black people for doing Blackface. We are allowed to poke fun at ourselves.

@greenbyrd3665

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrreginamHumor is subjective. I don't find it to be funny, but if you do, enjoy!

Needs more volume. The music is phenomenal.

"Pretty Boy Brown" looks familiar. I think I've seen him in another movie.

He was a real simp for her.

That's my mom Joyce McElrath.

I just love watching our movie that were made during the segregation era 😊🥰

Thanks for the vedio?Real Black. Fantastick?

@annabellaboyer643

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for?Beale Street Mama.(1946)Spencer Williams. For the vedio.

Wow!

WOW blackface in a black produced film? I guess society was totally segregated as was the military, & brothers were still being lynched2. Damnnnn!!!! And those were the good times 4who?!!!

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Was the man, July Jones, who bought the woman the car mentally disabled? Matilda treated him horribly. 35:00 Why does the male have white paint around his mouth? 😣 Is the aggressive language in comedy routine supposed to be funny?

@esther5242

3 жыл бұрын

Right!! I was mortified!!!

@greenbyrd3665

3 жыл бұрын

Right. I guess 75 years ago, it was acceptable. Thank God for progress!

@sherrelly8845

3 жыл бұрын

The Man With The White Paint On His Mouth Is A White Man In Black Face

🖤🦋🥰

Subscribed

the act, kinda creepy shows the narrative of black relationships.. how he talks about beating her the first guy had a woman only wanting money...woe...love old films speaks volumes

#cosign🤞🏿🤞🏿🤞🏿

Bad News Johnson. 🎬

Back then they didn't want me, now I'm hot, hos all on me...

@31:37 why do i see someone in blackface here when the whole club is filled with black people??

🍿🍿🍿🍿👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🍿🍿🍿🍿

I had to exit on the beat on a woman act

Wow, she starts off the movie treating the darker skinned brother like dirt. This is reminding me of my growing up years. I can’t sit through it

@NoBullsh_t

2 жыл бұрын

U need help dude...

Bladk face act was not funny!!

The propaganda is real

I pity the audiences in 1946 who paid to see this. Acting, screenplay, photography, editing-- all incredibly bad. Sack Amusement Enterprises did no one any favors releasing this; a real embarrassment to watch.

@nanchanger

3 жыл бұрын

You must not have been born yet...

@blpfunk

3 жыл бұрын

You must be so young, you do not understand what Black film makers had to go through to get anything out to the public. Using your own money, below budget productions, cultural scorn, blah blah blah, on down the line...

@nanchanger

3 жыл бұрын

@@blpfunk I think he's comparing it to the garbage coming out of Hollyweird this century...

@thomasnorman8023

3 жыл бұрын

Tim Tracy! U've no idea on what Blacks've 2 go thru to put out any kind of movies or else u would've not said on what u said.Just plead ignorance 🤡🤡🤡 SOLID!!!!

@timtracy4228

3 жыл бұрын

@@thomasnorman8023 Still a lousy movie.