This is LIVE, unedited, 100% pure bard work and god given talent. Imagine seeing a group with this kind magic today! Today's world needs this kind of majesty.

Imagine in 1943 hearing this, live or recorded. Even now it feels like a two minute break from everything bad. It is all smiles and happiness!

@MethodiousMind

Жыл бұрын

💕💕💕

Harry was sooooo talented its unfortunate that the modern world is so sped up that they wouldn't even consider watching this..😢

@MCB13132

4 ай бұрын

Some people still do, I do.

When music was about the music and not about overinflated egos. Love it.

@barryharrison9316

2 жыл бұрын

Man you are so right. Music today is so shallow.

@samuelmann9099

2 жыл бұрын

They simply had a real cultural background , where life, work, family, pleasure, pain and entertaining weren’t divided. Music is getting poorer as the links between people are just maintained by money and show business.

@larrykav

Жыл бұрын

Peace & Life Everlasting with Jesus ❤️

@pmfg875

7 ай бұрын

Zero auto tune and total talent❤

The Mills Brothers were truly great!

When human beings become musical instruments 💯

The guitarist here is Cliff White (d. 1998), longtime guitarist and bandleader for Sam Cooke. He joined the Mills Brothers when their regular guitarist Norman Brown was drafted in World War II.

The late, great John Mills Junior would most assuredly have been impressed with his father and his three brothers (not to mention his replacement on guitar). I know that I sure was. Impressed, that is. Absolute, utter, jaw dropping perfection.

@donaldfuck

Жыл бұрын

Rip

@MethodiousMind

Жыл бұрын

Perfection is right! Lovely music.

My favorite version of this song by the Mills Brothers. Love to see Mr. Mills Sr in this...and love the tempo more than the original studio recording. Harry will never have any peers vocally!

Talent, Style, Showmanship, Personality. Bam.

What incredible talent these men had. As someone else here said it is sad to see what has become of music today.

@daddyo1952

2 жыл бұрын

It's sad how the world has become....

This is a song, the first time you see it, you just sit there with your mouth hanging open at the ridonkulous amount of talent on display.

@altareggo9520

10 жыл бұрын

Agree!! These guys had it ALL: they were the Real Thing.

@MethodiousMind

Жыл бұрын

I know! I often forget that their only accompaniment is a guitar.

There is NOTHING and NOBODY in today's music that could even remotely come close to the talent on display in this video.

@brandontruszkowski9870

6 жыл бұрын

Curticus64 I couldn't agree more with you! There has never been anyone who has remotely come close, regardless of what era, to these legends! Truly a one in a million group!

this music video makes me happy

@mmike855

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed!!

Words fail me. Absolute GREATNESS!!!

They were so cute! My dad grew up in Jamaica in the 40s/50s. He loved The Mills Brothers. Love you dad👼🏾😇🪽

This is from the movie "Reveille with Beverly" (1943) A wildly, wonderfully entertaining movie from WWII. Ann Miller becomes a morning disc jockey for soldiers. "Reveille with Beverly" also has Bob Crosby and his Bobcats performing "Big Noise from Winnetka", Duke Ellington Orchestra performing "Take the A Train" on a moving train, Count Basie Orchestra doing "One O'clock Jump", Freddie Slack (with the GREAT Ella Mae Morse) performing "Cow Cow Boogie:, and even Frank Sinatra (in white tie and tails!). ""Reveille with Beverly" - you must see this movie!!

@MikeJones-do1xv

4 ай бұрын

Great WWII morale movie during the worst era. Even the Japanese would capture these movies overtaking islands out in the Pacific and they loved them!

I just found this song randomly and have listened to it three times back to back. What a flow and man are they tight!

There's so much to this in just under 2.5 minutes. You can watch this repeatedly and focus on a different aspect of their performance. This takes true skill, but they're still having fun!

If I could time travel to the '30s and see one musical act, it would be the Mills Brothers.

@solepropt

3 жыл бұрын

@frycook48 Can I just choose both?

Man, I love the Temptations, Take 6 but these Brothers (sic) are the bomb 🎁👩‍👧‍👦

Pentatonix fans really need to take note! These guys are their primary inspiration.

Man the end is so good, I have to keep listening to it, the way he's pronounced the D's is awesome lol

Brought a huge smile to my face!

somehow they always put a smile on my face =)

You cant get any better then this

Wow. I have chills down my spine!

Nothing like it today....

Have to agree with you on that one!!! They were always so uplifting and "positive" when they sang... and boy did they ever LAST: from 1928 to 1982, and QUITE popular throughout most of that time!!! Hats off to them: they are a BIG part of our musical heritage, and i loved them when i was growing up in the 1960s... Cab Driver was one of my favorite male quartet songs EVER.

Aaah the mills brothers swingin, "live", having fun and that moment still many years ahead performing and recording.

Looks like the great dancer and movie star Ann Miller introducing them,

It seems so simple and yet full of wonderful melodies. They sound exceptional

Amazing how black people produced such good song, music, acting and dance, had to go thru so much racism and discrimination because white superiorism saw them as a lower class or sad to say, sub human. Thankyou to all who contributed despite the challenges.

Class pure class.Simply the best! :-)

Harry is the King on this one!

It's from "Reveille with Beverly," starring Ann Miller, who's the gal introducing the Mills Brothers here.

Mills was, blessed they must not smoke they kept themselves beautiful

From the film Reveille with Beverly (1943)

Real music.

So brilliant.

Tragically, these geniuses would be boo'd off stage today.

I know what I like, and Sweet Lucy Brown is good stuff!

I'm 16 .I love this.

@mmike855

6 жыл бұрын

Love it, Evelyn! You've got good taste.

@martitinkovich4489

2 жыл бұрын

That means you're 22 now.

I so LOVE this!!!

Adoro a los MIlls desde chico

Ah, my favorite band. Listen to Mills Bros, Ink Spots, Ella Fitzgerald, Andrew Sisters, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, and a lot of Django Reinhardt. What the hell happened to good music? all I hear on the radio now is: "ass, booty, boobs, nigga, drugs, cracka, alchohol, bitches, and sex". I mean honestly aren't humans supposed to become smarter over time?

Wonderful!

I love this❤

Talent personified

This is so awesome!

I can tell that Bobby McFerrin got his shit from these guys.

Wow amazing I, love it

Amazing singing voices

>>-----------------------------> Dean Martin's favorite band growing up! Only their voices and one guitar - nothing else!!!

This is what talent is

@martitinkovich4489

2 жыл бұрын

All i can say.............WOWW!

Still Old Is Good

Amazing!

omfg wow! im speachless, I had no idea these amazing artist existed! :0

These guys should be eternally famous! They’re just beyond perfect!

@John-wg6xw

3 ай бұрын

They are and will be remembered for all time. I cannot say that for anybody out there today. "Cardi B" for example.

@alexd1121

3 ай бұрын

@@John-wg6xw I hope you’re right. I hope these guys stay as famous as can be for always. So incredibly talented.

@John-wg6xw

3 ай бұрын

@@alexd1121No worries. They and many others will ALWAYS be known and remembered by true and dedicated musicians everywhere throughout time. God bless.

Wow very talented 👏

Best ever,,don ,harry

This is raw talent. Its truly amazing, seeing them live must have just been mnd blowing.

Very goood

Absolutely breathtaking!

Who says a trumpet player needs a trumpet?

What can you say, fantastic! Mills Brothers 😎👍

Amazing!! We Heard This For Jazz Appreciation Month In My Class :)

These guys were great!!

1:50 on repeat!

Thank you for posting most of them live too 90 years old

I love them😍

I am back,love the mills brothets

espectáculo!!!

Makes me happy..

Amazing

Class Act!!

"big brown eyes, a little bit shady"

im happy now:)

who the fuck disliked THIS?

@boaty2008 It's not about what society has done to music. It's about what's become popular. There is still fantastically amazing music released every day, you just need to find it. People grow impatient when they hear something new, so the same shit gets rehashed.

looove this!

Very nice!

Classic

2 people actually went trough the trouble of disliking this, sad creatures...

Fun fact: John Sr. actually played (and imitated) stand-up bass when he had his own vocal group as a young man.

If you meet a suntanned lady Full of life and hidey hadey Big brown eyes, a little bit shady That's Sweet Lucy Brown Boys in town are dyin' to meet her Millionaires line up to greet her Ain't no gal in Georgia sweeter than Sweet Lucy Brown When she talks she sure sounds funny Yowzer, mister When she kisses it tastes like honey I don't mean maybe, she's a pretty baby Listen fellows I'm confessin' Take a tip and stop your guessin' If it's love then take a lesson From Sweet Lucy Brown Oh Lucy Oh Lucy Brown Oh Lucy Oh Lucy Oh Lucy Brown Oh Lucy Oh Lucy Oh Lucy Brown Oh Lucy Ain't no gal in Georgia that's sweeter than Sweet Lucy Brown

Terrific not like today

I wonder how they were able to make trumpet sounds without using an actual trumpet.

@martitinkovich4489

2 жыл бұрын

Ahhhhhhhh..............w/ their mouth.

They were rapping then

This was one of the early tunes from the 1930s; Papa John sounds just like his late (and guitar-playing) namesake!

This is the best john mills jr leading

DALE LOS MILLS BRODER

i wanna smoke a blunt with these guys

Music today is nothing but garbage I wasn’t around in the 40s or 50s but looking back at old clips these men had talent I like the older music doo wop classic 60s soul music and I’m only 57 years old once again better than this garbage that’s out today

Brothers

which chords are used in this track?

Does anyone know what broadcast this is from and where to watch the full thing??

I'm so glad she said "four men" and a guitar. A small sign of respect in a time when we received zero respect in this country.

@michaelmarcus5890

4 жыл бұрын

On the records it's "Four Boys and a Guitar". Men is better.

@HAM-sb2ns

4 жыл бұрын

What you expect her to say.

@richardgraham5051

3 жыл бұрын

They were originally called "Four Boys and a Guitar" because they were originally a child act. Their father, John Hutchinson Mills (right) ran a barber shop in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. His four sons began singing in the choir of the Cyrene African Methodist Episcopal Church and in the Park Avenue Baptist Church in Piqua. After lessons at the Spring Street Grammar School, they gathered in front of their father's barbershop or on the corner to perform. They entered an amateur contest at May's Opera House but while on stage Harry realized he had lost his kazoo. He improvised by cupping his hand over his mouth and mimicking the sound of trumpet. The brothers liked the idea and worked it into their act. John, the bass vocalist, would imitate the tuba. Harry, a baritone, imitated the trumpet, Herbert became the second trumpet, and Donald the trombone. John accompanied the four-part harmony on ukulele and then guitar.

holy shit

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