[78-L] Soundies

[David Lennick]

Some years back, I bought a collection of LPs and videotapes that had been 
donated to a church..had to take everything, even though more than half the LPs 
were things I already had. But among the tapes were 4 MCA Home Videos of 
SWING--The Best of the Big Bands, volumes 1-4. Also a number of unbranded tapes 
of big band material including two labelled "The Soundies, 1941-1946" Parts 1 & 
2 and one labelled "Soundies and early TV Transcriptions". No idea of the 
source and as I recall, these weren't done in HiFi.

dl

Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> I had all of these, the Maltin and the Pioneer laserdisc. Maltin told me it
> was a real project to get good prints of these elusive films. No, it was
> never issued on laser disc or DVD. These programs might have been licensed
> from Maltin's production company. Maybe someone should e-mail him about
> these four programs.
> 
> Jeff Sultanof
> 
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:40 PM, agp <agp2176 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> I have a nice Laser Disc on Pioneer Artists (yep -- still watch them
>> buggers!) of Soundies. Got it cheap too, back in the mid 90s. Among
>> the tracks are:
>>
>> Block Party Revels by The Harlem Kitties
>> My Chickashay Girl by Spade Coolie
>> Hot Frogs -- Ethel Waters/ Fats Waller/ Bill Robertson/ the Mills Brothers
>>  From the Indies to the Andes in his Undies by the Hoosier Hot Shots
>> Wave a Stick Blues by Ozzie Nelson
>>
>> Don't know if these among the best, but I like em
>>
>> T