@MichaelKingsfordGray Sorry pal. This is a clip from the American film musical "DuBarry Was A lady" which was shot in its entirety in Technicolor. What you're seeing is the real deal. Yes color motion picture film was that good in the 1940's.
It swings so hard, and yet they all look like they're listening to a sermon on Sunday morning :-D Except for Buddy Rich, of course. I think the guy smiled like that in his sleep.
This clip is from the 1943 MGM Technicolor Film "Dubarry Was A Lady" Starring Red Skelton Lucille Ball Gene Kelly and Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. The soundtrack was remixed to Stereo, this because MGM's Sound Department used multiple microphones to create multiple 'tracks'. They were mixed to Monophonic sound(before stereo became available). MGM's Sound Engineers discovered they could mix a better balanced soundtrack using multiple tracks. Years later they remixed the tracks to true stereo. The original recordings were actually quite good and provide great sound. MGM's superior production standards are evident in the entire look of this clip.
It was common practice to record the sound track in advance, then have performers mime to it while the cameras rolled. 20th C. Fox had a similar setup, using multiple tracks that were mixed down to mono for theatre release. Sadly a lot of the studios recorded multi-track recordings as intermediate stages with no long-term value ... and trashed them. Some of these (e.g. partial stereo soundtracks from Glenn Miller's two movies) survived only because someone forgot they'd saved a spare copy or two of the originals.
Tommy is of course a big band/swing legend who helped Sinatra break out into becoming a star. What ISNT talked about as much, is that Tommy had a very notable role in helping to push Elvis into national stardom as well. It was Tommy who first gave Elvis a national platform. He took a tremendous amount of heat for booking Elvis, but refused to cave to pressure, and brought Elvis on his show 5 more times before anyway else tried him. A move that was also unpopular with Tommy's band, who thought Elvis was a joke. But Tommy predicted that Elvis was going to become one of the next big superstars, and wanted to do his part to move the process along. Tommy Dorsey helped Rock and Roll cement itself as a new popular genre. Dorsey was a real man of the people. “I don’t particularly care for his type of music, but that’s the teen-agers’ choice and if they like it we’ll give it to them. Only time will tell if he has any lasting qualities. The kids want Elvis now and they should be able to have him.”-Tommy Dorsey
Thank you! TD featured Elvis on his "Stage Show" television program. There are several clips available on TH-cam. As with his contemporary Glenn Miller, you really ache for what Tommy (and Jimmy too) might have done if fate hadn't taken them from us.
Buddy once said in an interview that Mr. Dorsey demanded “absolute perfection.” As did, I’m sure, all the other legendary bandleaders he played for. And the way this band played, you can hear it.
@@WPM_in_ATL Goodman was famous for giving players "The Ray" if they messed up. If you were "rayed" you either fixed what was wrong or found a different band. Glenn Miller was similar. He'd sometimes have the guys go over a single phrase dozens of times until it was *right*
Not limited to big band guys either. I've heard that James Brown would fine his guys for mistakes. Saw a video where his bass player said that he got fined $50 once and asked James B why $50 when the usual fine was $25 and was told that it was because Quincy Jones was in the audience.
The Ziggy Elman/Chuck Peterson trumpet duet is totally sizzling. This is surely one of the best films of jazz ever made - it captures everything. Virtuoso performances, tight arrangement, brilliant impro, and the film is so clear it could have been made yesterday.
Jimmy Zito not chuck Petersen In the original take he muffs the solo after Ziggy elman plays it must have been overdubbed?? There is another well git it in stereo on you tube same film
Yes, the musicals of WW2 are the soundtrack to a nation on the march, led by its youth. From being caught with its pants down in November '41 to bestriding the planet less than four years later- it soon became the country that could turn out a Liberty Ship in a week. Swing and jitterbug witnessed to the faster tempo of civilian life once the USA was united in its purpose. Orchestras were a bunch of virtuosi under the baton of a commander and working to the same end, like military units. They combined discipline with individual flair. The Greatest Generation birthed pretty great popular music. But after 1945 it all fell apart quite soon, like the big bands. America went back to quarreling and divisiveness. Jazz became 'progressive' and 'cool', not danceable, played by small groups and often pretentiously dessicated. Then rock and roll shoved it to one side.
The incredible clarity is because it's Technicolor film, the best available at the time. In 1943 the technology for videotape, especially in color, hadn't been invented yet.
1943 no thats not right. That Arrangement of Well Git It sounds like it was recorded last night Buddy in great form as usual. The whole band is tight and forever swinging. This kind of big band music never gets old notice Buddy getting all those accents and punctuating that bass drum. keep these kind of charts coming our way. thank you a zillion times over
I forever have loved it when every single member (no matter how large or small a group or band it is) is a total......TOTAL virtuoso or BEAST on their instrument. This is soooooo very cool to watch and listen too. These folks really knew their stuff to the point where (at any time) the leader could just point to any one........and they would just kill it. My word, for me, this is just fascinating to watch and to listen to, no matter what the musical genre. This video was wonderful.
What a phenomenal career Buddy had considering that he was still playing until his death 43 years after this. He became a Marine at this time as well. I believe we will never see the likes of his extraordinary prowess behind the kit. The gold standard of drumming. BTW what a sensational clip of professional understated musicians.
question authority you need a chalkboard or a clipboard to comprehend context superstar. Best to take your own hotshot advice and fuck off first jaggoff. Unbelievable
Norman Zierler totally agree! his stuff as a studio musician with small groups in the fifties is super underrated as well. I think he had a lot of potential to be a bop guy before he did his own group
@@sommerwood2920 no feel? That's a very sad comment, I'd love you to open your ears to what feel is my friend. Listen to (for example) Billie's Bounce with his trio, and Prelude to a Kiss on Roar of '74, then come back and make the case that Buddy Rich has no feel.
What's up @0:05 after introducing the band, when the camera first zooms in on the guy taking a deep breath and pursing his lips as if HE were making the trombone sounds, like the Mills Brothers imitated musical instuments? You think this to be merely coincidence?
This was the nightclub scene. They were imitating several popular acts just before this introducing each one in a similar way. This was like a bait-and-switch, only in a good way.
Tommy Dorsey was constantly on at my Dad's house when he was still alive and I can see why. Its clean, its got style and elegance and even if you never heard a song from him, when you do its gonna make you tap your feet. I still enjoy playing all his old records of Tommy and Buddy or Gene Krupa and Frankie. They're music will never die. Crack a cold one open and sit back and smile.
The musicians from this era were all totally on top of their game . But I bet Buddy Rich was well pleased with the advances made with cymbals over the next 50 years , they used to be so tinny in the 40's
@@jasonhood2453 He keeps insisting "colorized!" no matter how many people point out that it's full-on Technicolor. To borrow a phrase, "knows more than all the film historians" 😄
This band`absolutely COOKS. Incredible production quality for 80, ok just 79 years ago! And Buddy, well this shows that he was a MONSTER drummer his whole life!
And in just a few years later when the war was over and big bands fell out of favor, so many musicians that then have to find alternative employment, some I suppose went into record studios doing backing for singers.
That's absolutely what happened. Also by that point a lot of the original musicians were in their 30s and 40s and didn't want to live on the road anymore. Many years ago I heard an interview with Peanuts Hucko. The reporter asked why he settled for somewhat pedestrian studio work; he said something like "I get paid twice as much and get to go home to my family after dinner every night. Why not?"
Wow! Fantastic Cut of "Well, Get It" with AWSOME 1st and 2nd Trumpeters absolutely NAILING the duet in high register!! This cut and this band clearly set the highest standard for this very difficult piece of music,,,we tried so hard, but even at an awsome HS our top jazz band could never quite "hack" it like this! This is beautiful and beautiful to have preseverved for generations long after the muscians have passed! Thanks for posing this!🙃😜😜
One amazing thing about Buddy was that he hit just as hard in his 60s as he did here in his 20s! Wonderful to have all this old footage made available on TH-cam TV!
Here's the truly amazing thing to me - If you watch footage of Buddy beginning with this period and go all the way up through the 80s, he actually gets BETTER. It's the mark of a true genius.
From the intro the Buddy Rich biography "Traps The Wonder Drummer" ... "His career started when he was two years old in his parents' Vaudeville act, and by the time he was four he was the highest paid child performer in the world."
Awesome music, buddy is unreal as usual, the sax player with the glasses is a flamer tho, at 2:14 onwards i think it shows what he would like to be tooting
Whoever choreographed the cameras clearly knew what they were doing. They captured the band so that you feel like you're part of the action. Me having played a few instruments myself in the past, most of these solos look like they were captured live (not the piano duet). And Buddy Rich . . . well, he's on fire.
Years ago I found a VHS tape of this 1943 movie, "Du Barry" along the roadside in somebody's trash. Thought it was going to be junk until I started watching it, and found out The Tommy Dorsey Band and my all time drum idol, Buddy Rich, were featured throughout, and in color too.
@MichaelKingsfordGray Yeah would have seen this before if it was real. Rich had no feel anyway just noise. Black drummers much better and some others Morello etc.was Dave Tough white? Gene Krupa.
I always loved this number. I can't believe it exists in such beautiful audio and video. An absolute treasure. Thank you so much for posting this gem!!
@@Bogframe "Pure" is the word for it. Optical tracks were years ahead of anything done on commercial 78s*. It's a shame the process wasn't used beyond film sound tracks, it would be beyond awesome to hear more of the bands of that era in (near) high fidelity. * The pedant in me has to mention that extended-frequency 78s _did_ exist but very few were ever made because they weren't practical for home playback.
@@Poisson4147 digitally scanned and free from noise caused by the Shellac they were pressed from, 78s can deliver decent sound, but it wasn't until vinyl that fildelity caught up to film.
Yep. And that's just the musicians. The people on the other side of the camera involved in the production of this gem must have been pretty dedicated too.
Music from the time of the "The Greatest Generation" who endured the Great Depression, defeated Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, gave us Social Security and host of other alphabet soup programs to lift Americans out of poverty. How did we get from FDR and Truman to Trump and Biden? Our grandparents who made so many sacrifices for us are rolling in their graves watching our country disintegrate.
Tommy brought him in to stop the band getting too 'sweet' and set in its ways. I have a feeling TD also feared little Jimmy's team would swing harder. It was a timely move, bc with the war the national pulse quickened and the upbeat side of band repertoires got wilder: zoot suits and jitterbuggers.
The boogie woogie drummer boy of poke a hole in it ! As a 18 year old I was so fortunate to see him and his big band at River Oaks in Calumet City, Illinois in think it was 1974 and it was free! What an awesome drummer and show .
You will never hear their like again. That sound and music belonged to a truly bygone era.
My husband‘s jazz band is just as good. And yeah, that is bragging. You’d have to hear them to believe them.🥰
it still lives ian
Rest in peace legend, was taken from us too soon. 😭
The joint is still jumping in 2024! Such great music!
I met buddy rich in 1981 when his band was at Disneyland..Still have the sticks he gave me..what a moment.
Rob Constantine so lucky
Wow!
Lucky and I would like those sticks
You're lucky he didn't take you outside and show you what it's all about.🤣
I would shadow box and frame those babies!
Fab! Not sure I’ve seen footage of such a youthful-looking Buddy Rich. ❤
Rich called Dorsey the best melodic trombonist ever, and he was right.
@@erniebuck7986 smooth as silk.
Damn this is more clearer than some of the videos during the 80's and 90's
Nothing like digital!
Deep focus and really great optics at the time.
@MichaelKingsfordGray Sorry pal. This is a clip from the American film musical "DuBarry Was A lady" which was shot in its entirety in Technicolor. What you're seeing is the real deal. Yes color motion picture film was that good in the 1940's.
You're comparing film to video. There were no video or digital cameras that could compare with good film stock until recently.
Shot on film, no tape...
Wow, it's like a time machine. The images, the sound, everything was clear. And, man those guys really could swing.
It swings so hard, and yet they all look like they're listening to a sermon on Sunday morning :-D Except for Buddy Rich, of course. I think the guy smiled like that in his sleep.
35mm film and perhaps optical or acetate sound. Long before audio tape. Incredible.
I thought the dude at the very beginning was making trombone noises with his mouth until they panned to the real trombone
Exactly😂
same here!
Same hahaha
Yuuup.... got me too
You'll want to look up the Mills Brothers for real mouth trombone.
Was für eine Kultur,ein Genuss!!!
The level of talent is almost unbelievable.
This clip is from the 1943 MGM Technicolor Film "Dubarry Was A Lady" Starring Red Skelton Lucille Ball Gene Kelly and Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. The soundtrack was remixed to Stereo, this because MGM's Sound Department used multiple microphones to create multiple 'tracks'. They were mixed to Monophonic sound(before stereo became available). MGM's Sound Engineers discovered they could mix a better balanced soundtrack using multiple tracks. Years later they remixed the tracks to true stereo. The original recordings were actually quite good and provide great sound. MGM's superior production standards are evident in the entire look of this clip.
so this is an amazon videoclip
intereasnte, gracias
It was common practice to record the sound track in advance, then have performers mime to it while the cameras rolled. 20th C. Fox had a similar setup, using multiple tracks that were mixed down to mono for theatre release.
Sadly a lot of the studios recorded multi-track recordings as intermediate stages with no long-term value ... and trashed them. Some of these (e.g. partial stereo soundtracks from Glenn Miller's two movies) survived only because someone forgot they'd saved a spare copy or two of the originals.
Everybody in this video are all dead!! But damn,They kicked ass in the 40s for sure. I would love to see this band today but yea,Im dreamin. lol
Soon everybody liking this music will also be dead
Tommy is of course a big band/swing legend who helped Sinatra break out into becoming a star. What ISNT talked about as much, is that Tommy had a very notable role in helping to push Elvis into national stardom as well. It was Tommy who first gave Elvis a national platform. He took a tremendous amount of heat for booking Elvis, but refused to cave to pressure, and brought Elvis on his show 5 more times before anyway else tried him. A move that was also unpopular with Tommy's band, who thought Elvis was a joke. But Tommy predicted that Elvis was going to become one of the next big superstars, and wanted to do his part to move the process along. Tommy Dorsey helped Rock and Roll cement itself as a new popular genre. Dorsey was a real man of the people. “I don’t particularly care for his type of music, but that’s the teen-agers’ choice and if they like it we’ll give it to them. Only time will tell if he has any lasting qualities. The kids want Elvis now and they should be able to have him.”-Tommy Dorsey
Thank you! TD featured Elvis on his "Stage Show" television program. There are several clips available on TH-cam.
As with his contemporary Glenn Miller, you really ache for what Tommy (and Jimmy too) might have done if fate hadn't taken them from us.
His brother Jimmy, a legendary sax player co-lead the 50"s band.
😊Miller was an arranger and the third leader with no name on the marque for the Dorseys in the mid-1930's.
I love everything about this. The dueling pianos, dueling trumpets, Buddy Rich on drums, etc. This may be the perfect big band tune.
And a harp...
And dont forget the photograph.
Does anybody have a personnel list? I'd love to know who the 'dueling trumpets and piano' are, as well as everyone else on stage!!
@@trumpete53snoho The trumpeter featured at the beginning was Ziggy Elman, there was an occasional glimpse of Jo Stafford sitting at the back.
Me too, colorized, well done,but of course then no coloured guys in the band🙄standard then- great recording..
This was 80 years ago(!)
Buddy once said in an interview that Mr. Dorsey demanded “absolute perfection.” As did, I’m sure, all the other legendary bandleaders he played for. And the way this band played, you can hear it.
So did buddy 😂 🤬
Benny Goodman had no tolerance for slackers, either.
@@WPM_in_ATL Goodman was famous for giving players "The Ray" if they messed up. If you were "rayed" you either fixed what was wrong or found a different band. Glenn Miller was similar. He'd sometimes have the guys go over a single phrase dozens of times until it was *right*
@@WPM_in_ATL Artie Shaw too.
Not limited to big band guys either. I've heard that James Brown would fine his guys for mistakes. Saw a video where his bass player said that he got fined $50 once and asked James B why $50 when the usual fine was $25 and was told that it was because Quincy Jones was in the audience.
The Ziggy Elman/Chuck Peterson trumpet duet is totally sizzling. This is surely one of the best films of jazz ever made - it captures everything. Virtuoso performances, tight arrangement, brilliant impro, and the film is so clear it could have been made yesterday.
During the trumpet duet, dude on the left was just a tad flat (3:42 mark) but quickly adjusted the horn when the opportunity came.
Jimmy Zito not chuck Petersen In the original take he muffs the solo after Ziggy elman plays it must have been overdubbed?? There is another well git it in stereo on you tube same film
That's Jimmy Zito, not Chuck Peterson, on the duet with Ziggy Elman.
@@ccotcamp I assumed the band was miming to a pre-recorded track. I have this performance on CD in true stereo.
@@mikecloud1257 Never know, Mike. Could have been overdubbed also.
That can't be Buddy Rich, he's smiling throughout the performance.
Yep, because he was very young here and didn't have many problems to deal with.
Smiling? He's having a blast!
He was just the drummer. Good or bad he got paiď
They are obviously having a great time! That's what playing this style is all about!
There's a YT vid of Buddy Rich in his mid-40s doing a 20-minute, non-stop drum solo.
I saw Buddy live at Ronnie Scott's. I was sat only a few feet away and I am still blown away!
Love Buddy rich's huge smile and his joy playing those drums
I think that was Gene Krupa
Ian Borges nah that's buddy rich
@@joshuayue854 Yeah I see what you're saying now
@@jm10014 you're f'n blind!
He was having a good ol' time and enjoying himself for sure.
The first time I’ve ever seen a young Buddy Rich.
And Tommy was all of 38 at the time, too.
Me too
Never underestimate the huge role that Big Band/Swing music played in the Allies winning WWII.
David Becker absolutely bro! This one probably got them hyped the fucked up!! I did for me!!
@james crowe How so
james crowebot
@@BlueEuph This jacks me up! Makes me feel like the ultimate alpha fucking male! Damn, I want to fucking punch a baby I am so jacked!
Yes, the musicals of WW2 are the soundtrack to a nation on the march, led by its youth. From being caught with its pants down in November '41 to bestriding the planet less than four years later- it soon became the country that could turn out a Liberty Ship in a week.
Swing and jitterbug witnessed to the faster tempo of civilian life once the USA was united in its purpose. Orchestras were a bunch of virtuosi under the baton of a commander and working to the same end, like military units. They combined discipline with individual flair.
The Greatest Generation birthed pretty great popular music. But after 1945 it all fell apart quite soon, like the big bands. America went back to quarreling and divisiveness. Jazz became 'progressive' and 'cool', not danceable, played by small groups and often pretentiously dessicated. Then rock and roll shoved it to one side.
Now that’s a band!
If I travelled back and stepped from a time machine this is what I'd hope to see ....
If they ever invent that time machine, I'll see you there.
At a later date, Sinatra said that TD was the "General Motors of the band business."
MAMA (make america musical again) 😊
Buddy rich was barely 26 years old and more than holding his own with the best of the best
At age 26 Buddy had been playing drums 23 years.
@@tomcooper6108 He was with Artie Shaw in the late 30s.
I'm sure Dorsey was beyond happy to have Buddy Rich in his band.
He was holding his own at 5.
Buddy Rich *was* the best of the best. Even Neal Peart might have thought so.
Tommy Dorsy and his band was fantastic and i get a great plеasure listening them
What a time to be alive
Insane video quality. Like being there. Rip to the greats
The incredible clarity is because it's Technicolor film, the best available at the time. In 1943 the technology for videotape, especially in color, hadn't been invented yet.
I can picture my Father a WWII Navy veteran listening to this on board the AS16 "Howard W. Gilmore" cruising around the Pacific Theater. RIP Dad.
1943 no thats not right. That Arrangement of Well Git It sounds like it was recorded last night Buddy in great form as usual. The whole band is tight and forever swinging. This kind of big band music never gets old notice Buddy getting all those accents and punctuating that bass drum. keep these kind of charts coming our way. thank you a zillion times over
Ray Szymarek ...Kenny Clarke was the very first one to introduce those accents and punctuations on the drums.
Can't be '43. Rich left Dorsey's band in '42 to enlist in the marines.
@@edleahy2413 This may have been filmed in ‘42, but the movie was released in ‘43.
This is crystal clear for 1943!!!
I forever have loved it when every single member (no matter how large or small a group or band it is) is a total......TOTAL virtuoso or BEAST on their instrument. This is soooooo very cool to watch and listen too. These folks really knew their stuff to the point where (at any time) the leader could just point to any one........and they would just kill it. My word, for me, this is just fascinating to watch and to listen to, no matter what the musical genre. This video was wonderful.
Terrific stuff. I think I was born a few decades too late
as was I.
What a phenomenal career Buddy had considering that he was still playing until his death 43 years after this. He became a Marine at this time as well. I believe we will never see the likes of his extraordinary prowess behind the kit. The gold standard of drumming. BTW what a sensational clip of professional understated musicians.
BIRD LOVED BUDDY!
Why are they underrated ?? because you said so fuck off
@@questionauthority7377 He said underSTATED -- not underRATED. Reading is fundamental, chief; guess it's your turn to fuck off
question authority you need a chalkboard or a clipboard to comprehend context superstar. Best to take your own hotshot advice and fuck off first jaggoff. Unbelievable
Buddy and the Marines had a rather messy parting of the ways, I heard...
those guys are from another planet- just crazy good- makes me wince playing my little rock and roll stuff on my guitar...
No one drove a band like Buddy! Everyone talks about his phenomenal speed but he also had exquisite taste and feel
well said and so true!
Norman Zierler totally agree! his stuff as a studio musician with small groups in the fifties is super underrated as well. I think he had a lot of potential to be a bop guy before he did his own group
Don't agree. No feel.
@@sommerwood2920 no feel? That's a very sad comment, I'd love you to open your ears to what feel is my friend. Listen to (for example) Billie's Bounce with his trio, and Prelude to a Kiss on Roar of '74, then come back and make the case that Buddy Rich has no feel.
@@bcdrummer1962 Unfortunately for you I have never liked Buddy Rich. No feel.
What's up @0:05 after introducing the band, when the camera first zooms in on the guy taking a deep breath and pursing his lips as if HE were making the trombone sounds, like the Mills Brothers imitated musical instuments? You think this to be merely coincidence?
This was the nightclub scene. They were imitating several popular acts just before this introducing each one in a similar way. This was like a bait-and-switch, only in a good way.
I got to see Buddy Rich and his orchestra playing in a theatre venue in the late 60s and man could that cat bring the house down
Tommy Dorsey was constantly on at my Dad's house when he was still alive and I can see why. Its clean, its got style and elegance and even if you never heard a song from him, when you do its gonna make you tap your feet. I still enjoy playing all his old records of Tommy and Buddy or Gene Krupa and Frankie. They're music will never die. Crack a cold one open and sit back and smile.
I heard Buddy Rich say that there was no question that Tommy Dorsey was the finest trumpet player ever.
@@blujay9191Trombone. When the swing era slowed, Tommy didn’t. He went on to play and record some great stuff in the late ‘40’s - like “Trombonology.”
@@thomasleary2814 And later went into TV work. His "Stage Show" program is credited with introducing Elvis to much wider audience.
Doesn’t get better!
The musicians from this era were all totally on top of their game . But I bet Buddy Rich was well pleased with the advances made with cymbals over the next 50 years , they used to be so tinny in the 40's
Love it.
Technicolor, too.
MichaelKingsfordGray Wrong. It’s an excerpt from “Du Barry Was A Lady” which was filmed in technicolor. This hasn’t been “colorized.”
@@jasonhood2453 He keeps insisting "colorized!" no matter how many people point out that it's full-on Technicolor.
To borrow a phrase, "knows more than all the film historians" 😄
The Great Ziggy Elman on Trumpet!
and Jimmy Zito!
Really!
Before or after his time with Benny Goodman?
@@tuxguys after
Gotta love the drummer. Buddy and Gene were drum kings.
Boy, would it be nice to be back in time in that room with them!
YOU CAN! ITS CALLED REGRESSIVE TRAVEL....WHAT YEAR WOULD YOU LIKE?
THIS WAS ONE HECK OF AN ALL STAR BAND INDEED! T.D. WAS THE CADILLAC OF THE BIG BANDS
Not to take ANYTHING away from Tommy, but imho the AAF Band was his equal in quality and musicianship.
Thanks. My kind of Music. They were Real Artists & still sound great all of these years later.
This band`absolutely COOKS. Incredible production quality for 80, ok just 79 years ago! And Buddy, well this shows that he was a MONSTER drummer his whole life!
And in just a few years later when the war was over and big bands fell out of favor, so many musicians that then have to find alternative employment, some I suppose went into record studios doing backing for singers.
That's absolutely what happened. Also by that point a lot of the original musicians were in their 30s and 40s and didn't want to live on the road anymore. Many years ago I heard an interview with Peanuts Hucko. The reporter asked why he settled for somewhat pedestrian studio work; he said something like "I get paid twice as much and get to go home to my family after dinner every night. Why not?"
@@Poisson4147 Yes, some even probably backed Elvis, but like you said ,conditions were better without packing your bags for a different gig.
This is about as good as it gets. Brilliant.
I like Buddy Rich better here cuz he's smiling. Makes him much more fun to watch.
Man this was a great music moment.
Wow! Fantastic Cut of "Well, Get It" with AWSOME 1st and 2nd Trumpeters absolutely NAILING the duet in high register!! This cut and this band clearly set the highest standard for this very difficult piece of music,,,we tried so hard, but even at an awsome HS our top jazz band could never quite "hack" it like this! This is beautiful and beautiful to have preseverved for generations long after the muscians have passed! Thanks for posing this!🙃😜😜
Now that was simply FANTASTIC!!!!! Loved every note PLAYED be each musician here!
It was an era never to be seen again...
One amazing thing about Buddy was that he hit just as hard in his 60s as he did here in his 20s! Wonderful to have all this old footage made available on TH-cam TV!
keith Gillard except that he wasn’t in his 30’s here. He was only 25-26 here!!
Michael Arbassio corrected! Thank you! You were right!
Here's the truly amazing thing to me - If you watch footage of Buddy beginning with this period and go all the way up through the 80s, he actually gets BETTER. It's the mark of a true genius.
Even at a young age, Buddy Rich shows he was a better player than most rock players today.
That’s because jazz and rock drumming ain’t the same at all.
From the intro the Buddy Rich biography "Traps The Wonder Drummer" ... "His career started when he was two years old in his parents' Vaudeville act, and by the time he was four he was the highest paid child performer in the world."
If they ever created a time machine, I'm definitely putting this on my list, I'd kill to hear and witness it live!
What a delight! he was absolutely peerless on that slide trombone!!
Buddy is a complete natural - a joy to watch. Great band & film.😀
I replay this at least 3 or 4 times a week. Can't get enough!
Nothing beats the big band sound!!
Awesome music, buddy is unreal as usual, the sax player with the glasses is a flamer tho, at 2:14 onwards i think it shows what he would like to be tooting
Those guys swung hard. Great musicians all around.
Young people take note... Spotlessly clean, supremely skilled and talented and just wonderful.
25 years ago today this man played his last show. RIP my Buddy!
Excellent picture and sound quality for something that was filmed nearly 80 years ago!
The movie studios were years ahead of the record companies when it came to making high-quality transcriptions. And thank heavens for that!
Whoever choreographed the cameras clearly knew what they were doing. They captured the band so that you feel like you're part of the action. Me having played a few instruments myself in the past, most of these solos look like they were captured live (not the piano duet). And Buddy Rich . . . well, he's on fire.
One of the best songs made by Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra!!!!!
Wow, that was some really fun music - our greatest generation were such brave young men. They really had some f-ing nut back then!
Nice to see Jimmy and Tommy together.
Wow, tight band. All the solos were great.
Ziggy Elman. Dorsey. Buddy. One of those clips that captures the swing Era at it's late peak. Tommorow had some huge stars go through.
Incredible performance, showmanship and photography.
Years ago I found a VHS tape of this 1943 movie, "Du Barry" along the roadside in somebody's trash.
Thought it was going to be junk until I started watching it, and found out
The Tommy Dorsey Band and my all time drum idol, Buddy Rich, were featured throughout, and in color too.
1:50 - "The Professor" on Bass - Phil Stephens! With almost every major radio orchestra and recording studio through the 1950s
Amazing footage & colour reproduction!!! Thanks for taking us back in time vividly!!!!!
@MichaelKingsfordGray Yeah would have seen this before if it was real. Rich had no feel anyway just noise. Black drummers much better and some others Morello etc.was Dave Tough white? Gene Krupa.
Sommer Wood yeah, we get it. You don’t like Buddy. Move on
Sommer Wood yes, Dave was white. Are you going to not like him now?
@@thecrippledrummer Good I thought he was. Proves my point. Quality over hype.
@@sommerwood2920 Racist bitch! MAGA 2020. Greetings from Canada.
I always loved this number. I can't believe it exists in such beautiful audio and video. An absolute treasure. Thank you so much for posting this gem!!
Film! The soundtrack is pure analogue!
@@Bogframe I'm amazed at how many people assume digital color video existed in 1943 😛. EVERYTHING was analogue.
@@Poisson4147 video IS analogue, but videotape wasn't invented until the 1950s. The sound on film is visual analogue and as pure as it gets.
@@Bogframe "Pure" is the word for it. Optical tracks were years ahead of anything done on commercial 78s*. It's a shame the process wasn't used beyond film sound tracks, it would be beyond awesome to hear more of the bands of that era in (near) high fidelity.
* The pedant in me has to mention that extended-frequency 78s _did_ exist but very few were ever made because they weren't practical for home playback.
@@Poisson4147 digitally scanned and free from noise caused by the Shellac they were pressed from, 78s can deliver decent sound, but it wasn't until vinyl that fildelity caught up to film.
76 years old still fantastic
79 and ditto.
Perfeccion total, que absoluta maravilla.
wow, clear, in color, fabulous video
This was taken from the 1943 movie DUBARRY WAS A LADY. It's on film, not videotape. That's why it's so clear!
Phenomenal. Like a time machine.
WOW, what a great performance!
Real testament to what 40's engineers could do when allowed to pull out all the stops.
i did a jimmy dorsey tour with Henry Questa doing this tune...man could play...Ziggy Elman! R.I.P. Ted (THEO)Bowden and Randy Lintott, my friends
So that's one of the bands Henry Questa was in prior to his time with Welk. Superb player as was the great trombonist, Bob Havens.
Wow! Just think how much total hours and years of practice and intelligent dedication are found here! Over a million?
Yep. And that's just the musicians. The people on the other side of the camera involved in the production of this gem must have been pretty dedicated too.
Music from the time of the "The Greatest Generation" who endured the Great Depression, defeated Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, gave us Social Security and host of other alphabet soup programs to lift Americans out of poverty. How did we get from FDR and Truman to Trump and Biden? Our grandparents who made so many sacrifices for us are rolling in their graves watching our country disintegrate.
The dude is Tommy Dorsey. One of the greatest big band trombone players of all time
I love to think of World War II soldiers (like my dad) listening to this and loving it ; I hope it made their days and nights better.
Fantastic quality ...great band ...buddy rich ,the king of drums ..period !
both dorsey brothers were very talented!jo atlanta ga
Wow, Tommy so solid! And Buddy so fast and swingin`. Amazing how well his swing era SOUND carried over into his modern big bands.
🎶🎺Thank you very much for praising and sharing this jewel made of gold that enhances my love for jazz!!!! 🥁🥁. Greetings from Argentina!!!. 🎶
A swinging Sy Oliver composition. His music gave this band new energy!!
Tommy brought him in to stop the band getting too 'sweet' and set in its ways. I have a feeling TD also feared little Jimmy's team would swing harder. It was a timely move, bc with the war the national pulse quickened and the upbeat side of band repertoires got wilder: zoot suits and jitterbuggers.
Very nice. Thanks for sharing. Simpler times.
love the suits, love the sound, love Buddy
The boogie woogie drummer boy of poke a hole in it ! As a 18 year old I was so fortunate to see him and his big band at River Oaks in Calumet City, Illinois in think it was 1974 and it was free! What an awesome drummer and show .
Buddy killin’ it, as usual.