The kids are great

wOW AMAZING.... I luv jimmy Dorsey, and everything 40's, my parents were born in 1938 and 1942, but it was my grandparents I heard stories from back then, I WISH I WAS BORN THEN, IT The music, the fashions, the clubs and the dance was JUST INCREDIBLY AMAZINGGGG

@Lara-ri1lg

4 жыл бұрын

Except you might be dead from a dozen diseases they had no cure for then. Polio, pneumonia, diphtheria, scarlet fever. The list is long.

Kid you not Jimmy Dorsey had a very swinging big band. Also being a musician I especially like the sound of the upright string bass. No amplification needed. The bass man the drummer and the entire Jimmy Dorsey class musicians do a wonderful job here. thank you for posting great music. BOOM

@johnrhansonsr

Ай бұрын

And they tell us Rock and Roll started in the 50's. My a$$!

Can not imagine this melody without Mr. Dorsey and Mrs. O'Connel. What are the wonderful kids! Clear smiles and souls!

You really had to be in shape to dance like this. I know people now a days who get tired just getting out of bed. A whole different world then.

@treasurebailey4430

3 жыл бұрын

People don't eat healthy anymore. Almost everyone is sugar and wheat addicts now.

@fbflys

3 жыл бұрын

On the contrary, most people (specially kids) were way more active than today's. Remember: at that time things were not automated and people were involved in physical work.

Helen O'Connell does it for me every time

I don't know who they are but Jimmy's trumpeter and drummer are pretty darn good in this clip.

Probably very few people today know that the term "gate" was short for "alligator", which meant someone who was really hep and in the groove. Thus "Lord and Lady Gate" would be the hippest couple around.

@prebooomer

5 жыл бұрын

As in see ya later alligator, and after awhile crocodile. best slang ever!!

@don1643

8 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure the term "Gate" referred to an actual gate. What does a gate do when you open it? It swings.

@hebneh

8 ай бұрын

@@don1643 Nope. The "alligator" reference came first, and that led to the expression "Swing it, gate!" which as you said is reinforced because that's what an actual gate does.

@Strollmanx

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

That was real kids, amazing.

WOW!....what a great video....great swing arrangement with Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra and what a terrific vocal by Helen O'Connell. They don't get better than that, and the music and dancing was never that good since. You sure have good appreciation of an a-one performance. Thanks for your enjoyable video!

That was fun to watch. Thank you for posting!

Absolutely great 👍

@fremlinmartel8223

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Virginia, How are you doing?

so young so talented

Awesome!

Young Bill and Melinda.

Wonderful dancers!

The young boy has some dance moves very similar to those of the Nicholas Brothers moves.

Wow. Those kids are absolutely amazing dancers. What a routine! Wonder who they were and what happened to them. Was this their 15 minutes of fame, or did they become successful adult performers..? Tremendous singing by the outstanding Helen O'Connell too. Wish the video quality were a bit better, but thanks for posting.

@sopaman1234

6 жыл бұрын

Not much is known about Dick Humpries the boy dancer made a few movies in the 40's and 50's born 1929 died of a heart attack in 1977 at the age of 48

@sopaman1234

4 жыл бұрын

WOW!! died so young so sad!! :-(

WOW.

Go, kids, go!!! 🌞🌞😊🐈✝️⚜️

If kids would only dance like that now a days or move around there wouldn't be so many over weight kids. This was awesome !!!!!!! Kids now days just sit around glued to their xboxes and cell phones, tablets, etc's I feel sorry for them :-(

@chuck6187

8 жыл бұрын

+Alterjunkie And their parents are just as fat and lazy!

@txJoJo55

8 жыл бұрын

So true, I never get tired of watching this. Those kids are adorable

@Trumkin42

7 жыл бұрын

I know plenty that do, you just got to look for it. most places will even have a lesson to get people started.

@plaistowbill

4 жыл бұрын

Back then kids played stick ball, chopped wood, walked long distances. No need for gyms. Many were just active. Huge muscles were thing of circus freak shows. People were just fit.

@darrylbradshaw3527

2 жыл бұрын

Those two kids are far more energetic than today's generation of young people. These millennials and Gen Zer's are just outright lazy. I can outperform most of them, and I'm almost 60.

MERCI ❤️ Magnifique musique 🌹 et danses💗💗💗Bravo les ENFANTS💗

wins the internet forever.

Amazin

I agree! I'd love to go to a club and dance, 3 nights a week! My dad was following these bands all around Detroit when they played at the same high schools I went to dances at 32 years earlier. it's so full of life. Swing Kids is a great movie about German kids trying to get away from the stifled, restricted Nazi and German control through swing music. We still could be facing similar threats today. So sad.

@sopaman1234

4 жыл бұрын

What kids listen to today is not music it's a lot of trash with lots of profanities and filth..

I wish somebody had a clear print of this. Every version I've seen has been hopelessly blurred.

Fun number - and love those jitterbugging kids. Wonder if this is a deleted scene from the movie "I Dood It?" (made in 1942, released '43). The set is exactly like the set in that film (which I've seen several times), and of course it featured Dorsey and Helen O'Connell, but I don't recall this number.

@tealeafsen

8 жыл бұрын

+sandaglad how would i see the move?

@sandaglad

8 жыл бұрын

Hi tealeafsan: Catch "I Dood It" (from which this scene is deleted) on Turner Classic Movies or buy the DVD from Warner Archive. The movie has some outstanding musical numbers - but is a real oddity in that the "finale" is an old & dated production number from an Eleanor Powell film of the 1930's

when jimmy got away from ampola and green eyes this band could kick ass!!!!!!

@wms72

2 жыл бұрын

Amapola and Green Eyes were great songs!

The dancing kids here look very much like the kids in the frantic jitterbugging scene with Cab Calloway in "Sensations of 1945." Have no idea what their names were.

@sopaman1234

4 жыл бұрын

That's because the are the same kids. Richard (aka).Dickie Humpreys.. and his dancing partner...her name i don't really know..

I was relieved to see no crotch-in-the-face moves like some of the adult lindyhoppers are prone to do...!

@douglassharpe55

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Lord Wasn't necessary. To me, it's a bit awkward on the adults with the ladies in oversize underpants!

Música maravillosa época inolvidable Csodálatos zene felejthetetlen időszak‎

More of a workout than aerobics ever thought of being.

@shmataboro8634

3 жыл бұрын

Gizmo Rob, and a whole lot more fun to watch too.

Yup ... Jimmy taught us all.

Bom demais, viva a arte de danças, etc. maneco - Porto Alegre - Brasil.

Does anyone know who the kids were and whether they went on to become stars as adults?

@JazzzzlvrFU

4 жыл бұрын

The dancing kids are Dick Humphries and Marilyn Kay.

Where in the world did you find this outtake? Love it.

I like the jivey style of the girl singers then. Anita O'Day was that way eary on in her career.

Would have liked to download this excellent video featuring the wonderful Helen O`Connell in a rare performance but the item is not downloadable. I wonder why?

@gravyjohn

10 жыл бұрын

Chris-I was able to download using Google Chrome & the green button below the screen.

🤝👏👏👏👏👏

Thank you, John. Can view but cannot Download. Cannot see any green button either.

Where did you get this? I didn’t know the footage survived; I have the audio which came on the Rhino compilation “Alive and Kickin’: Big Band Sounds at M-G-M.” Big “I Dood It”/Eleanor Powell fan here

Muito bom!!!

I need the beat

Now THAT is DANCING!!! Unlike the kids of today with their disgusting hip hop, acting crude and dirty!! The kids back then had CLASS!!

@juuva6918

6 жыл бұрын

Then again, judging so one dimensionally is also not very classy.

@starogre

5 жыл бұрын

news flash, dancing like this wasn't classy back then. it was considered grotesque in the 30s

@darrylbradshaw3527

2 жыл бұрын

That was back in the days when America had culture. Unfortunately, most millennials and Gen Zer's wouldn't know culture if it got into bed with them. Almost none of them have any class or creativity!

Name of pianist?

@chasecoleman232

Жыл бұрын

That’s Bobby Van Eps, he was the pianist in the original Dorsey Brothers Orchestra and after the split remained with Jimmy for many years. His brother George Van Eps was a noted jazz guitarist.

What movie is this from?

i think the young boy dancing was micky rooney

@lscarver5

5 жыл бұрын

You might think that the boy could be Mickey Rooney because Mickey wasn't that tall. But the dancer is a young boy.

@Edwin48100

4 жыл бұрын

@@lscarver5 He was a young boy.

@roberttaylor1326

2 жыл бұрын

@@lscarver5 Mickey Rooney was once a young boy, and he started acting at age four, and was in his first movie at age six, so . . . . it is possible he's in this film clip

@lscarver5

2 жыл бұрын

@@roberttaylor1326 Mickey Rooney was born in 1920,which means he would have been about 21 or 22 years old when this was filmed. At the end of the clip there's a close-up of the two dancers. If you're familiar with Mickey Rooney you can see that's not him. Someone else identified them as Dick Humphries and Marilyn Kay.

@roberttaylor1326

2 жыл бұрын

@@lscarver5 That's fine. You opined about the person being a young boy, and I simply pointed out that Mickey Rooney started as a child actor.

Now kids are Pokemon Go zombies.

Very interesting, especially with the inclusion of the zoot suit in the lyrics and the dancing kid. It's too bad that only a year later (1943), zoot suiters (aka "pachucos") would be targeted, ridiculed and victimized in the infamous Zoot Suit riots of Los Angeles (yet more out of racial tension than fashion). Every time I see zoot suits now, like in this video, I think about that.

@user-ej3uq5hm9s

Жыл бұрын

im from mexico and in my opinion they deserve it if those "pachucos" feel so mexican then they should come back here if they don't assimilate american way of life deport them all

Is the kid wearing a zoot suit? I thought they were hated by the general population.

@don1643

8 ай бұрын

Zoot Suite

mira nada mas, que par de morros arrogantes.

Why did proper dancing go out of style?

Good, but they are offbeat.

HOMO DANCING AUTÉNTICUS ÑIS. MÉXICO TEPITO-ESCANDON.

What movie is this from?