I'm late to the party 🥳but I think it was the angle at witch he pushed her. After checking ✔up on his gal. He turns and pushes Billie Holiday from the back of her shoulder and down..
Billie said in her autobiography "Lady Sings the Blues" that she shot 30 takes of the sequence where she's knocked to the ground by her faithless boyfriend, and since she was totally untrained in how to take a fall on screen, she was sore for weeks.
Billie said in her autobiography, "Lady Sings the Blues," that she had to shoot about 20 takes of that scene and she was sire fir weeks afterwards because nobody ever told her how to fake a fall onscreen without hurting herself.
I know Ashley says so brought me here! 🙂 Ouch, Billie holiday but great recovery The girl can sing! 🙂 Sir Duke Ellington is all that, and a sweet taste of yummy chocolate that man's Got talent! ( In there day!)💖
Thanks, Ashley. LOL, but I would NOT wanna fall like that. There's no love in that fall. Nawwwww, but I still like another one of Billie Holiday's songs "Strange Fruit."
I noticed that the dancer known as, "Snake Hips," was also featured in this piece. And I also caught a glimpse of long time Ellington band member Johnny Hodges. This film is a historical treasure trove. Elloington's genius as a composer is on full display. Thank you for bringing this masterpiece to us.
Thank you so much for posting this! Referencing the Georgetown University's Library page entitled "Duke Ellington on stage and screen", this short film released in 1935 was demanded and created by Ellington after the mistreatment and misrepresentation of him and his and Black American art by Paramount Studios in the 1934 film 'Murder at The Vanities' in the scene initially titled "Ebony Rhapsody". (Later, in a clearly racist and disrespectful move, it was renamed "The Rape of The Rhapsody".) Ellington had the wherewithal and clout to stand up for his image and respect, with the result being in amends, this beautiful film.
As early as 1928 Duke Ellington had already established himself as a "race man," a Black celebrity who felt an obligation to use whatever influence and power he had to fight for coivil rights and racial justice and equality. And a year before "Murder at the Vanities" he starred in a Paramount short called "A Bundle of Blues." Just after "Murder at the Vanities" he got to appear on-screen with Mae West in her film "Belle of the Nineties," and West was at the height of her star power. The "suits" at Paramount were O.K. with featuring Duke's band on the soundtrack but they wanted to put white musicians on the screen. No way, said Mae West: she demanded and got the right to have Ellington's musicians appear on screen with her.
@AlvesterGarnett @mgconlan Thank you both for these thoughtful info notes as to how the video clip got produced and the efforts required in the 1930s, for gawd’s sake, JUST to make a musical short reel featuring Black people!! The fact that neither the controversy in producing Nonwhite visual arts, nor the general pattern of reception for the productions have changed at all indicates strongly that The System of R/WS not only irrefutably exists, but here’s visual testament to its awesome powers of supremacy & domination over all involved. While I realize Ms. West’s own contributions to Paramount certainly SHOULD have afforded her lifetime executive status, it cannot be lost on a general public that in 2020-23, Mae West WOULD own a studio. Duke Ellington would probably, in all likelihood, not-unless it was in Mississippi or Georgia (concepts) WHICH ironically offer greater opportunities to Nonwhite people classified Black today than “Hollywood” appears to be offering, since the 1970s!. Perhaps the “Mae Wests” of today are the best placed, best-positioned, certainly the most-affluent women, in actual fact, to produce Justice worldwide. Perhaps it will turn out to be women who classify themselves White who invent Justice & launch it into practice vs. Systemic Injustice, launched since 1492. In all the other Areas of Activity besides merely in Entertainment as well!! But looking back to 1935, one cannot help but wonder what specifically stopped them-completely-from doing so-then??
I remember learning about this film in junior high school. I was reading a lot about Billie Holiday, and saw photos of her in this movie. Now I get to see the movie!!!
My Dad brought me here may he rest in peace. I asked him who his favorite musician was in the 40s. Without hesitation... Duke Ellington. I certainly would have been here if Ashley had asked too... who ever she is❤❤❤!!!
Had never seen this before. Thanks ReelBlack! Also my first ti.e seeing Lady soooo young. She was a looker!!! These are a few of the reasons your channel was one of my first TH-cam subscriptions.
Thank you for this amazing piece of art history. Gave me chills. Really makes you think about many heavy things. Art is light of love that touches all.
This was a great piece all around in that time period, loved Earl "Snakehips" Tucker's performance top screen split with with the chorus of girls, bottom screen, in the end.
Thanks for restoring the original Paramount logo at the beginning and end instead of the horribly ugly "U. M. & M. TV" logo that got stuck on this film in the 1950's. A great film in its own right and also a pencil sketch for Ellington's later symphonic masterpiece, "Black, Brown and Beige." The soundtrack was recorded in October 1934 and featured Billie Holiday in her first truly great vocal performance (those two nervous vocals with a Benny Goodman studio band in November and December 1933 notwithstanding). Somewhere she matured during that year from an O.K. "hotcha" jazz singer into a goddess. Incidentally Ellington drew on previous compositions for this suite (the "Dance" is "Ducky Wucky" and the final "Harlem Rhythm" sequence is "Merry-Go-Round"), the dancer at the end is Earl "Snake Hips" Tucker, and director Fred Waller later quit Paramount in 1938 to invent Cinerama.
According the Liner Notes in "Lady Day. The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1934)" and some other sources, the soundtrack was recorded at Paramount Film Studios (Astoria, Long Island, New York) in Tuesday, March 12, 1935.
Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton, who plays that growl trombone solo under Billie Holiday, just tears me apart. His spooky, almost human, voicing on the trombone set much of the tone for the Ellington Orchestra. I've never heard anybody get that sound out of a trombone. Genius!!!
Ashley brought me here, and I appreciate it
Me too!
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Me as well
Me too!😁
Girl me too 😂😂😂
Ashley says so sent me here,so here I am.
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Me 3!
Billie bounced lol
Ashley brought me here ,but I've seen this movie before but I never paid attention to that fall🤭🤣🤣🤣
Ashley sent me here to watch Billie fall awkwardly lol
How many here because of Ashley? Glad to know about this!👏🏽🥳
Omg now why would she fall like dat 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩 ASHLEY MY FACE IS LIKE URS
I'm late to the party 🥳but I think it was the angle at witch he pushed her. After checking ✔up on his gal. He turns and pushes Billie Holiday from the back of her shoulder and down..
That fall was epic and Ashley Said So! 🤣🤣🤣
Billie said in her autobiography "Lady Sings the Blues" that she shot 30 takes of the sequence where she's knocked to the ground by her faithless boyfriend, and since she was totally untrained in how to take a fall on screen, she was sore for weeks.
Ashley sent me here to see Billie Holiday bounce🤣🤣
It was A good stunt fall because it was a real fall.😬
Ashley implied it's A silly looking stunt, instead it was too real.
Ashley sent me too😂😂💯💯
🤣🤣 facts
😂 me too
She sure did BOUNCE!! 😁😆
Ashley, asked us to check this out! Billie, was knocked down to the floor! She sung about her man walking out on her, from the floor! 🎶🙄🎶
Billie said in her autobiography, "Lady Sings the Blues," that she had to shoot about 20 takes of that scene and she was sire fir weeks afterwards because nobody ever told her how to fake a fall onscreen without hurting herself.
LMAO!! That fall was silly as Hell!! 😂Ashley is crazy too...
5:32 Those harmonies under Billie Holiday's vocals!
Ashley brought me here. Boy Billy took a fall.
I am here to see Duke Ellington
Ashley sent me here, thanks Ashley and reelblack!!
Ashley sent me too 😂, the bounce though 😳
Ashley bought me here. I am crying laughing
I wasn't born 'till '67. Billie Holiday STILL MOVES Me.
Yeah and I love Ashley's accent !!!!
AshleySaySo! Brought me here! 🌹
Thank you Ashley 🙂
Thanks for bringing me here Ashley
This is actually an absolute masterpiece
I'm here because of Ashley ❤
Ashley brought me with the billy holiday story 👍🏾
I know Ashley says so brought me here! 🙂
Ouch, Billie holiday but great recovery The girl can sing! 🙂 Sir Duke Ellington is all that, and a sweet taste of yummy chocolate that man's Got talent!
( In there day!)💖
Ashley brought me here I am grateful
That drop had a bop🤣
Ashley sent me to check out Billie at 3:58. Sadly at 4:44 she was just waking up to tell her side of the story 😂😂😂
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😂😂😂
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I cannot lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ashley plays too much!! She's about a much of a mess as that fall on the floor... 😂
One of the best soundies I've seen so far.
Thanks, Ashley. LOL, but I would NOT wanna fall like that. There's no love in that fall. Nawwwww, but I still like another one of Billie Holiday's songs "Strange Fruit."
Thanks Ashley says so!!!
I noticed that the dancer known as, "Snake Hips," was also featured in this piece. And I also caught a glimpse of long time Ellington band member Johnny Hodges. This film is a historical treasure trove. Elloington's genius as a composer is on full display. Thank you for bringing this masterpiece to us.
You hear and see also Cootie Williams, Tricky Sam Nanton, Barney Bigard, Harry Carney, Otto Hardwick, Lawrence Brown, and others all seen and heard.
@@michaelsquires1218, thank you .
Snake Hips toured with the Ellington Orchestra, and was a featured dancer when Ellington played the Cotton Club.
Ashley sent me here. Hey Ashley!
If there's classical music then this's what the classical music is
Ashley SaySo got me here! 😊
Ashley brought me here too 💗
3:58
Lmao 🤣
Ashley brought me here 👏👏
Thank you so much for posting this! Referencing the Georgetown University's Library page entitled "Duke Ellington on stage and screen", this short film released in 1935 was demanded and created by Ellington after the mistreatment and misrepresentation of him and his and Black American art by Paramount Studios in the 1934 film 'Murder at The Vanities' in the scene initially titled "Ebony Rhapsody". (Later, in a clearly racist and disrespectful move, it was renamed "The Rape of The Rhapsody".)
Ellington had the wherewithal and clout to stand up for his image and respect, with the result being in amends, this beautiful film.
As early as 1928 Duke Ellington had already established himself as a "race man," a Black celebrity who felt an obligation to use whatever influence and power he had to fight for coivil rights and racial justice and equality. And a year before "Murder at the Vanities" he starred in a Paramount short called "A Bundle of Blues." Just after "Murder at the Vanities" he got to appear on-screen with Mae West in her film "Belle of the Nineties," and West was at the height of her star power. The "suits" at Paramount were O.K. with featuring Duke's band on the soundtrack but they wanted to put white musicians on the screen. No way, said Mae West: she demanded and got the right to have Ellington's musicians appear on screen with her.
@AlvesterGarnett @mgconlan Thank you both for these thoughtful info notes as to how the video clip got produced and the efforts required in the 1930s, for gawd’s sake, JUST to make a musical short reel featuring Black people!!
The fact that neither the controversy in producing Nonwhite visual arts, nor the general pattern of reception for the productions have changed at all indicates strongly that The System of R/WS not only irrefutably exists, but here’s visual testament to its awesome powers of supremacy & domination over all involved.
While I realize Ms. West’s own contributions to Paramount certainly SHOULD have afforded her lifetime executive status, it cannot be lost on a general public that in 2020-23, Mae West WOULD own a studio. Duke Ellington would probably, in all likelihood, not-unless it was in Mississippi or Georgia (concepts) WHICH ironically offer greater opportunities to Nonwhite people classified Black today than “Hollywood” appears to be offering, since the 1970s!.
Perhaps the “Mae Wests” of today are the best placed, best-positioned, certainly the most-affluent women, in actual fact, to produce Justice worldwide. Perhaps it will turn out to be women who classify themselves White who invent Justice & launch it into practice vs. Systemic Injustice, launched since 1492. In all the other Areas of Activity besides merely in Entertainment as well!! But looking back to 1935, one cannot help but wonder what specifically stopped them-completely-from doing so-then??
Ashley brought me here.. And yes Billie all to be ashamed falling like that🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
The legendary singer songwriter was super talented!!
R.I.P Your Music still lives in us!!
Thank you for influencing many singers out there today!!
Let’s see how many geniuses we can put on film in 10 minutes!
Ashley said to check this out love Billie Holliday thanks Ashley
I’m here because of Ms. Ashley!!! ❤️
Superb talent. These modern lads and lasses are 85 years behind the times!
I remember learning about this film in junior high school. I was reading a lot about Billie Holiday, and saw photos of her in this movie. Now I get to see the movie!!!
😭😭😭😭😭😭 Ashley !!!
My Dad brought me here may he rest in peace. I asked him who his favorite musician was in the 40s. Without hesitation... Duke Ellington.
I certainly would have been here if Ashley had asked too... who ever she is❤❤❤!!!
Ashley brought me here!
Ashley told me about this page!
Ashley says so sent me here
Billie holiday 🌹
Billie's first appearance on film at the age of 19
This must have been before she was addicted to drugs! She had a nice singing voice! 🎶
Ashley Says So sent me 😀
"Jammin the Blues" brought me here and I'm stayin.
Ashley brung me here!! 🙈
Fantastic, thank you. We're learning together.
Ashley brought me here. I love Billie Holiday…Great songstress! ❤
9:41 Earl "Snakehips" Tucker, a third grade girl named Ella Fitzgerald admired him.
Ashley says so brought me here 😅
The Duke and Lady Day. I don’t think there’s any other figures in jazz I have as much respect and adoration for. Maybe Pres and Trane.
Had never seen this before. Thanks ReelBlack! Also my first ti.e seeing Lady soooo young. She was a looker!!! These are a few of the reasons your channel was one of my first TH-cam subscriptions.
Ashley sent me here, &; thank goodness she did😊.
Who here paused on Ashley's face looking at this.
😂
WOW amazing. Thanks for sharing
Here from Ashley, too.
Thank you for this amazing piece of art history. Gave me chills. Really makes you think about many heavy things. Art is light of love that touches all.
So dope a music video short of it’s time
Ashley Says So ☺️🤗
Ashley brought me here too! I am a new subbie to her channel and I am literally BINGE watching her videos! Watch out Netflix!!
This was a great piece all around in that time period, loved Earl "Snakehips" Tucker's performance top screen split with with the chorus of girls, bottom screen, in the end.
Brilliant! I really enjoyed this video. It should have a million views.
Ashley was right 😂😭🤣 love you Lady Day
Absolute gold
Yesss ma'am Ashley! It was the bounce for me 🤦🏾♀️
Ashley say so told be to come here ...🙂
Stopped by here, because Ashley said so.
Ashley brought me here too
Incredible talent.
Ashley said so sent me here and I am glad she did ❤
AshleySaysSo sent me here.
Seen this movie with my grandmother many of times and never noticed the way Billie fell until Ashley pointed it iut😭😭s
The greatest voices in jazz- Eleanora Fagan aka Billie Holiday
Ashley brought me here and I can't get my time back.
who is ashley? ashley judd?
Ashley sent me here
It's the bounce for me Ashley Say So. Lol
But why did I keep rewinding that fall...😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks for restoring the original Paramount logo at the beginning and end instead of the horribly ugly "U. M. & M. TV" logo that got stuck on this film in the 1950's. A great film in its own right and also a pencil sketch for Ellington's later symphonic masterpiece, "Black, Brown and Beige." The soundtrack was recorded in October 1934 and featured Billie Holiday in her first truly great vocal performance (those two nervous vocals with a Benny Goodman studio band in November and December 1933 notwithstanding). Somewhere she matured during that year from an O.K. "hotcha" jazz singer into a goddess. Incidentally Ellington drew on previous compositions for this suite (the "Dance" is "Ducky Wucky" and the final "Harlem Rhythm" sequence is "Merry-Go-Round"), the dancer at the end is Earl "Snake Hips" Tucker, and director Fred Waller later quit Paramount in 1938 to invent Cinerama.
According the Liner Notes in "Lady Day. The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1934)" and some other sources, the soundtrack was recorded at Paramount Film Studios (Astoria, Long Island, New York) in Tuesday, March 12, 1935.
@@ceabe5248 The October 1934 date came from an online Duke Ellington discography. March 12, 1935 was the date the film was released.
Amazing
Ashley brought me here
Billie Holiday moves my soul.
I always enjoyed instrument music from this song also ❤ Artie Shaw too salam to you all from Jkrta cty
So good.
Love me some Ashley says so❤️introducing me to this masterpiece !
8:34 Earl "snake hips" tucker
Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton, who plays that growl trombone solo under Billie Holiday, just tears me apart. His spooky, almost human, voicing on the trombone set much of the tone for the Ellington Orchestra. I've never heard anybody get that sound out of a trombone. Genius!!!
Ashley, WHY did he push her like that? Plz tell me there was a trampoline
I love this movie! An old school gem. First movie with Chanteuse Lady Day, I love her too.
Ashley thanks 😊
Thank you.
Ashley brought me here for 3:58 😂