This is a prime example of why being high and randomly going on KZread is genius idea. Idk how I found this but I love it 😅

@dustrock766

3 жыл бұрын

Eres un genio jaja

@sayedalazam4228

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao thats how I got here If you missed the A train 🎶

@FL3XW3

3 жыл бұрын

LoL 😂

@Justinwashere

2 жыл бұрын

On god 😂😂

@eyamsbng3129

2 жыл бұрын

Yeeeah me too 😂😂

Fats Waller is one of the greatest entertainers in American history. Not only a virtuoso pianist, but a consumate performer who knew how to get the audience to rivet its attention on his wonderful hamming approach.

@moldyoldie7888

3 жыл бұрын

And don't forget, a composer!

@nicmart

Жыл бұрын

My sentiment exactly.

It's all an incredible musical treasure here, sheer heaven on earth. However, gotta say. The beautiful harpist playing the river song has truly just slayed me. Hallelujah to that. Blows me away, this harpist. She must have been an angel. So majestic her hands are.

@aarondigby9859

2 жыл бұрын

These idiots in school teaching our children now they just skip right over the Harlem Renaissance, it's just a shame our children are not being taught our true history.

These clips are absolute gold............Im a 45 year pro musician from Memphis and these films are part of the music that started it all......Rock and Roll in its infancy.....Important part of Americana......thank you

Beautiful, just beautiful! Loved the A train song ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Can watch this stuff all day. Man Fat's Waller!, Duke Ellington , Count Basie.... I never knew Take The A train had lyrics. Harlem was something else back in the day.

8:53 dude started spittin dat 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 We been rapping since the Harlem Renaissance that’s crazy

@NYNEDollaSign

3 жыл бұрын

The Jubilaires first rappers

@richard1849

5 ай бұрын

the two of you are exactly on point. peace@@NYNEDollaSign

@aarondigby5054

4 ай бұрын

​@@richard1849they just wasn't rapping about drugs, guns, sex and other debauchery

THis music is actually so good. I just listened to like an hour worth of this and I'm obsessed

@sinochoasporfavor8505

3 жыл бұрын

You are not alone dude

@11Kralle

3 жыл бұрын

"actually"? You're in for some big surprises about old music then...

@georgehudson5019

2 жыл бұрын

This is Looney Tune music

Why cant we get back to this kind of music ;) there were troubles - but somehow there was also more innocence?

damn, some of these girls man. Gorgeous!

wooooww!!!... That's pure magic, gold, diamond...etc. 5:16 The girls was like flowers, pure, beautiful & delicate!

Just another example of the phenomenal richness, variety, and creativity of black music. One lifetime is not enough.

They are all so gorgeous.

This is just incredible music from our people almost 100 years ago.

just make me smile....love them old movies...

Usually my music tastes and era range from the 70s 80s 90s and early 2000s... But I'm going a little further back into the 40s and surprisingly I like this music! Discovering these gems

man! my people was always the show stoppers for entertainment, man these times look so peaceful.✊🏽

The Delta Rhythm Boys remixed a Duke Ellington classic and added lyrics! Just awesome

The song "Preacher and the Bear" is defintely the roots of rock 'n roll

@vernetdorian5066

3 жыл бұрын

and of rap too

Boy am I glad that this video was listed in recommended!

This entertainment from the Harlem renaissance is the best thing ever, entertainment at its finest

Billy Strayhorn wrote A Train from the Duke's directions to Harlem. Love it!!!

@dew2912

3 жыл бұрын

Always loved Strayhorn's "Chelsea Bridge". Dont know why. Pretty sad song...

This was the music of mama and papa just as the Motown sound was what me and my peers heard, sang, and danced to. I was fortunate to hear some of the great musicians of my parents' generation, including Duke Ellington and Count Basie.

Thanks for helping my time machine experiences. I love seeing vintage footage

@dogshampoonetwork6051

4 жыл бұрын

Me also…thanks!

@ms.branch1207

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

8:51 the first rap music!! And holy shit the lady at the end playing the blues on a harp!

20:38 This is why I came here. This is the epitome of the Big Jazz Bands 🥁🎺🎷🪘🎵🎶

This is real music with excellent production. Very talented singers, dancers, and acting! Love it!

I enjoy this music,,,,my Auntie FLORA had wonderful parties at her house,,of course as children we weren't allowed to be on the same room but we could sit in another with the rest of the kids and imitate the adults dancing and enjoying the music! I miss my Aunt Flora!

I look into the eyes of many of the performers and extras and I can see the hurt through the smiles.

@PapagenoMF

4 жыл бұрын

Come on. They were in the movies and getting paid.

@tracywallace3478

3 жыл бұрын

I Always wanted to relate... But had a hard time finding all this EXtremely impressive.VERY RARE FOOTAGE MY LOVE TO ALL THOSE. "GENT'S"... LOVIN'IT!!!!!!!!!

@NoRockinMansLand

Жыл бұрын

What do you mean???

@Rjensen2

Жыл бұрын

Lmao, yeah....ok....🤣

@curtisokemahlvpvtpvke822

4 ай бұрын

​@@PapagenoMFdefinitely were underpaid if paid at all

Thank you this vid telling me who delta rhythm boys are been looking for this amazing voice a long time < 3

I love the joy in everyone's face

It's crystal. They were rapping way way back baby.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@audyojay

3 жыл бұрын

@GAIUS HOTCHKISS I see your confusion. Sorry. Wasn't for you. Excuse us please?

@sefp

3 жыл бұрын

No rapping here. It’s called singing. Rap Aggressive syncopated rhyming over predominant drum beats.

@audyojay

3 жыл бұрын

@@sefp Suck a Webster's dictionary if I don't know. My opinion stays on ya face. Move on.

@lloyddarbon5034

3 жыл бұрын

James, I'm with you. This was the radio edit. I bet when they were live, they were cussing the police and talking about their ho's :D

@independenceboyd2042

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly we’ve always been rappers

A-train video is just like a Boys To Men video, just, ya know...old. Plenty o babes rocking around while the impeccable vocal harmonies ring throughout. Fats always creeped me out. Bruh clowning with that giant hat represents Flav A Flav's minstrel act. "Soundies", who knew? Thanks for posting this. Everything old is new again.

@aarondigby5054

3 ай бұрын

That's why all children should be taught the cultural significance of the Harlem Renaissance

I love the way that everyone in these old films is always so beautifully dressed. I do like clean white cuffs with smart cufflinks. And some of the women's clothes and hairstyles are to die for.

@gelid1578

Жыл бұрын

I remember when my teacher who was in her 60s or 70s told us about what she’d wear. She had strict parents and would wear these white gloves everywhere she went. She absolutely hated them heha I adored that teacher despite some different views.

@aarondigby5054

3 ай бұрын

​@@gelid1578my mom purse always had the white gloves mof she's buried/laid eternally in white gloves. RIP Mom. I made sure you had the white gloves, pink dress and white pearls and earrings

Having been a professional musician for most of my life and having grown up around the time when these clips were made, the high quality of the music is fantastic and in many instances we have our black brothers and sisters for handing down such great music performed with such class.

Never Have I ever heard a harp beautifully played Muy Bonito.

Fell in love with fats whaler… fun fun happy fun - this is music at its best

Amazing, that harpist at the end was so great. Had almost a ragtime feel to it. Never heard anything like that before!

@aarondigby9859

2 жыл бұрын

I did my thesis on Jazz, it's a shame children nowadays are not taught this in school.

@aarondigby9859

2 жыл бұрын

The kids in school today are not being taught about Ragtime, Be-bop and the real origins of our popular music we listen to today.

i love this kind of music show, it remind me of my beloved mother, a very independant women who had a buick car way back then, n good life, living the life of indeoendant

This is soooooo great to see !!!! A talent time machine

This is well needed during this chaotic year of 2020 ! Indeed it is.

I might be young but this is really cool to see, glad I found these ancient songs😁

@curtisokemahlvpvtpvke822

4 ай бұрын

The older you get the less ancient this will become. This wasn't as far back as it seems. Ain't even been a century yet

Jimmy Rushing was at the beginning of a singing career that would take him well into the 60s. Great seeing him with the Count Basie band, and I found myself appreciating how Basie had completely changed his style. Only a few years before he made this soundie, he was a stride pianist leading the remnants of the Bennie Moten Orchestra in the mid 30s, then into Swing in the late 30s and early 40s and now you hear him moving into an early form of R and B with, "Take Me Back, Baby." Yea, Man.

@dominiquejenkins5495

Жыл бұрын

Who's the woman at the end of the video... She's SICK SICK...

That's straight up rap..Sugarhill action

@davidringo1399

3 жыл бұрын

Rap..? Much better than Rap......RR in its infancy

@brandonnewell1023

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidringo1399 youre a classic troll

@davidringo1399

3 жыл бұрын

@@brandonnewell1023 and your a moronic fool......

@brandonnewell1023

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidringo1399 shut ur bitch ass up u wouldnt know hip hop if it bit u in the ass

@davidringo1399

3 жыл бұрын

@@brandonnewell1023 hip hop crap...I know it and hate it ..punk

Fats Waller is INSANELY Charismatic. For real!

12:21 very interesting, every band member uses left hand to play their instrument while 90% of the world uses right hand. What a lucky coincidence that these three met

The preacher went out a huntin', it was on one Sunday morn' It was against his religion, but he took a shotgun along He got himself a mess o' mighty fine quail and one old scraggly hare And on the way home he crossed the path of a great big grizzly bear Well the bear got down lookin' ready to charge The preacher never seen nothin' quite that large They looked each other right smack in the eye Didn't take that preacher long to say bye The preacher, he run till he spotted a tree He said, "Up in that tree's where I oughta be" By the time that bear made a grab for him The preacher was a sittin' on top a that limb Scared to death, he turned about He looked to the sky and began to shout "Hey lord, you delivered Daniel from the bottom of the lion's den You delivered Jonah from the belly of the whale and then The Hebrew children from the fiery furnace So the good books do declare Hey lord, if you can't help me, For goodness sake don't help that bear" Yea, look out preacher! Well, about that time the limb broke off And the preacher came tumblin' down Had a straight razor out of his pocket By the time he lit on the ground He landed on his feet right in front a that bear And Lord, what an awful fight The preacher and the bear and the razor and the hair Flyin' from left to right Well first they was up and then they was down The preacher and the bear runnin' round an' round The bear he roared, and the the preacher he groaned He was havin' a tough time holdin' his own! He said, "Lord if I get out a here alive To the good book I'll abide No more huntin' on the Sabbath day Come Sunday I'm headin' to the church to pray" Up to the heavens the preacher glanced He said, "Lord won't you give me just one more chance" So the preacher got away, he looked around Seen a tree where he'd be safe and sound Jumped on a limb, turned about Looked to the sky and began to shout "Hey lord, you delivered Daniel from the bottom of the lion's den You delivered Jonah from the belly of the whale and then The Hebrew children from the fiery furnace So the good books do declare Hey lord, if you can't help me, For goodness sake don't help that bear"

@Goldengirl48

3 жыл бұрын

I love 💘 it! " He began to shout, "Lord, if You can't help me, don't help dat bear!!"

Classic stuff!! Fats was a genius! And some of those girls were gorgeous.

I loveeee this. Ol time black and white films

bring back jazz

@charlescozic3208

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, real jazz.

Beautifully Graceful Artistic Music & Songs...Appropriately finished with the Harp Instrumental... :)

God I love this SO much my eyes sting with tears....

@DrCrabfingers

3 жыл бұрын

And the ladies are SO beautiful...

@skimask6802

3 жыл бұрын

such a good song music were way better then now and ikr the woman were pretty 😃

Thank you, ndugu! I love this. Great bass lead vocal A-Train.

Interesting stuff. A different time but very familiar too.

Love this swing music

I was listening to Gza & Method Man “Shadowboxin” not sure how KZread figured I’d want to watch this next BUT I love it!!

@destroyeverything-_-479

3 жыл бұрын

The Real

@ALLiZMENTAL

3 жыл бұрын

Let me make my way over to shadowboxin

@henryjoseph5211

3 жыл бұрын

@@destroyeverything-_-479 ........

Gospel Music, I was raised on this music....I LOVE THIS ❤ 😍 💖 THANK YOU JESUS 🙏 ❤ 🙌 EBONICS...DISCERNMENT OF THE SPIRIT IS IMPORTANT!!!!❤ 🙏 GOD WILL BLESS AND PROVIDE!❤ I AM GOD'S PROPERTY 🙏 🙌 😌

just did a quick research, fats waller died in a train from pneumonia, 2 years after the "your feet's too big" video was shot, thats very sad, to die that young from pneumonia, just 39 ish

26:10 first time hearing a harp solo in RnB style

BEAUTIFUL💕

Some of the best music ever played. Watch "New Orleans" with Louis Armstrong........swings!

All of y'all hating on Cardi B, comparing the 1940's to today, are basically cut off from Rap music. You don't have access to it, if all you know is Cardi B. Rap music has always been underground. If you're cut off from the underground Rap scene then you have been cut off from general Rap music since the year of 1997 and have only seen what you have been allowed to see by corporates. That's over two decades of you no longer knowing Rap music. Over two decades!!! It's not your fault. But atleast know this much, you're out of touch, if you're here comparing these 1940's artists to corporate approved artists of today, like Cardi B. Being cut off from your own people's art is a bad place.

These sisters are so beautiful!! 😍

This is greatness! Thanks for this. Always considered myself a "connoisseur" if you will, of great music. My music taste runs from the 40s to now, damn near every genre, culture, background, etc. Music is life.

These were hard working African American men and women who had to put up with constant racism and prejudices in an era when Jim Crow laws were still in effect. They were entertainers, and the African Americans had to form their own communities and clubs, since many white people wouldn’t allow them entry. Segregation was rampant, even in parts of big cities like New York. I have the utmost respect for these people in these old music videos because they not only endured racism and the Great Depression, they also endured WW2, which again, they had to be separate from the white soldiers. All with far less resources and opportunities than what many African Americans have today. These people deserve more credit than anyone in ushering in Jazz and what would eventually be Rock n Roll. It is sad what America has become over time.

Thank you. Wonderful upload.

¡Gracias Dios por esta Belleza del Mundo! 🇧🇬 ❤️🙏🌹✨💞❤️❤️

Thanks, I was looking for this "Feet's too big" version for many years.

Take Me Back Baby!!!!

WOW, es tan perfecto! ✨🌹💞❤️❤️❤️

The preacher and the bear sounds like the original version Rapper's Delight !

@robewilliam504

3 жыл бұрын

Just can't stop listening to this songs, just can't stop thinking about the youthful days, you seem to love the music alot right, I can tell from your comment, they will be so glad to know that people are out there who cares and appreciate them so dearly.....by the way nice meeting you on here, I hope you are having a wonderful time out there right ???

I wasn't around back then of course... But I still love the history !!! And I my grandparents were living way back then, so I am so fascinated 🙋😁😎

28 minutes of straight up bars!!

It’s great watching all the great talent of the past. Smart and talented.

I agree black people made a big impact on music still to this day can't argue its beauty

"Rocking Chair" (after "I Want A Man") by the Mills Brothers (Four Boys and a Guitar).

Loved the Reverend and the Bear. XD One thing I noticed with even these videos is that while the guys came in everything from light to very dark, pretty much all of the women they chose were very pale. The idea that 'paler is prettier' was very much still in play.

@VMohdude-

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, I just noticed that right before I saw your comment.

This is beautiful 😍

@robewilliam504

3 жыл бұрын

Just can't stop listening to this songs, just can't stop thinking about the youthful days, you seem to love the music alot right, I can tell from your comment, they will be so glad to know that people are out there who cares and appreciate them so dearly.....by the way nice meeting you on here, I hope you are having a wonderful time out there right ???

Fats Waller laid the tracks for popular American Music just as much as Duke or Satchmo.

I can just keep looping it at 11:02 and sleep good

Aí gente que coisa maravilhosa

@josechem1

Жыл бұрын

Si... Muy maravillosa1

Me encanto el video , excelente ....!!!...Gracias a Reelblack por compartir estas joyas musicales. El penùltimo video son The Mills Brothers ."Rockin' Chair " (1942)

¡Voces Perfecta y PERFECTA MÚSICA! ¡Gracias él Mundo! 🇧🇬 ❤️✨🌹🙏💞❤️❤️

Handsome and talented men of my grandfather generation

You can't help but admire the beautiful, slender bodies in these clips. Before industrial fast food, when people ate proper meals.

@kevins.5472

4 жыл бұрын

I noticed that too.

@brewatch

4 жыл бұрын

@Art Deco jimmy rushing

@conditionalchoice

4 жыл бұрын

Mr. Five by Five been dieting then?

@dsvet

4 жыл бұрын

These are dancers dumbass. To make an empirical comparison you would have to compare dancers of today to them. That would be a fair comparison.

@simplykoko9033

3 жыл бұрын

Lool just because there wasn't Maccas or KFC back then didn't mean that people ate healthy. I am not a black American but when the freed slaves went to Liberia, they took their food with them as well as cooking styles, Liberian food is very oily, salty, over seasoned, over cooked. Sugary,. Which are a representation of how the slaves ate in the US especially the southern states. And continue to eat.

All the black beauties are chilling around the old rocking chair with the mills brothers

@skimask6802

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr its sad😪 but they will take the A train to heavon

Everybody is classic and Beautiful and talented times has changes

Thanks for the Memories!! ;-)

Fabulous. Thank you kindly!!!

Oh by Jingo was my fave. Such a happy song

I’ve never seen that performance of the Mills Brothers at 23:40, that was awesome and so were they.. that’s the late great Harry Mills disguised as the old man

Really enjoyed this one! Wow-what talent!

I swear I lovvvve this channel ❤️

@jamesalbertogray5842

3 жыл бұрын

Yes dear this channel is fucking dope

@jamesalbertogray5842

3 жыл бұрын

Hello dear how is your day going over there

@thepeacetrinity4006

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesalbertogray5842greetings darling Thank You for asking I'm moving along just Fine,Happy New year to You and Yours Sincerely 🎉❤️

@thepeacetrinity4006

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesalbertogray5842 So TRUE 📈

@jamesalbertogray5842

3 жыл бұрын

@@thepeacetrinity4006 thanks pretty,

It would be sooo nice to hear from those who participated in this film.. im sure someone was interviewed at some point.

They were rapping back then lol

@RobertoGinsburg

4 жыл бұрын

@So humbled 8:25 😉

@sohumbled6616

4 жыл бұрын

@@RobertoGinsburg Yes 😀

@brandonnewell1023

3 жыл бұрын

Stg! 🤣 It tripped me out

@davidringo1399

3 жыл бұрын

Rap..? Thats not "rap"

@brandonnewell1023

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidringo1399 then what is it then?

the list of songs you give leaves out the song that starts at 23:25, Hoagy Carmichael's "Rockin' Chair", performed by the Mills Brothers

Just beautiful stuff....give us more!

This is a joy in 2023, the talent is stunning

SING THE SONG BRUH! "Ride the A TRAIN." 😀😀😀

@skimask6802

3 жыл бұрын

Youuu,,,,,must take the A train too

Omg I love my black ancestors we had beautiful black women back then still do it’s just institutionalized now

@denisecoleman4099

3 жыл бұрын

Sure did take care.

@MrDFJohnson

2 жыл бұрын

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