RCM Productions

Soundie featuring June Richmond (vocals) and Roy Milton performing "Hey Lawdy Mama."

In this Soundie, the Mills Brothers sing the title song to a cut-out image of Dorothy Dandridge, which then comes to life and dances for them.

Spike Jones and His City Slickers perform "Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy".

The Bronco Busters perform "Old Chisholm Trail."

Johnny Taylor sings "Good Nite All" at a house party.

R.C.M. Soundie

Kay Starr singing "Stop That Dancing Up There".

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra perform "Bli-Blip" with Marie Bryant and Paul White

Whitey's Lindy Hoppers at their best along with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra performing for this "Hot Chocolate" musical short.

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942.

Dorothy Dandridge and band perform "Cow-Cow Boogie".

Yvonne De Carlo sings herself to sleep, in her dreams she dances with a Latin dancer. She awakes to sing again.

Tex Williams and Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang sing "Take Me Back to Tulsa".

"Let's Scuffle" is a short subject -- a single song-and-dance number -- that appears to have been cut from a feature-length movie: to be precise, a 'race film'. (This was the term used by American cinema exhibitors in the 1940s and earlier for any movie with an all-black cast, intended primarily for distribution in black neighbourhoods at a time when many American cinemas were segregated.) The song-and-dance performer here is none other than the great Bill Robinson.

The Bronco Busters perform "Silver Spurs."

Soundie featuring The Chanticleers singing "Babbling Bess." Also starring Francine Everett (as Babbling Bess) and Mable Lee (Dancer).

Harry Langdon lip syncs the title song and interacts with models.

An early "soundie" in which Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White sing "A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat" while getting dressed up for a big date.

Ozzie Nelson takes us along for a typical day for a bandleader.

Dona Drake sings "Sticks and Stones".