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- Cindy Walker sings why she got behind bars from seven beers with the wrong man.
- The Pretty Priorities take it off while flaunting their voices.
- Mel Tormé and the The Mel-Tones sing the title song in this 1945 Soundie.
- War-time song that likens hugs, kisses and love to other commodities (e.g., gasoline, tires) that were rationed during WWII.
- The King Cole Trio and Ida James perform the title song in this Soundie.
- Pretty women dance with military men in the city park.
- A group of 18th century musicians are playing a Johann Sebastian Bach song and a couple is doing a stately dance, when the music suddenly switches to jitterbug, and the dancing couple really starts to swing.
- Anita O'Day performs the hit song "Let Me Off Uptown", accompanied by Gene Krupa on drums and Roy Eldridge on trumpet.
- A 19-year-old Doris Day sings the title song in this Soundie accompanied by Les Brown and His Orchestra.
- Paul White and Dorothy Dandridge sing about the clothes they will wear to impress their "Sunday" beaux.
- Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.
- Ancestors of music videos, YANKEE DOODLER, ROSIE THE RIVETER, and DEAR ARABELLA were made during World War II for coin-operated jukebox devices found in restaurants, bars and train stations. On built-in glass screens, they projected 16mm films of artists performing popular tunes. These examples, although not in perfect condition, are time capsules of their era.
- In this "Soundie", Sister Rosetta Tharpe sings the title song while young couples do the Lindy Hop.
- Louis Jordan and his orchestra perform G.I. Jive.
- "Tiger Rag" starring Walter Liberace at the piano. Liberace plays a "double time, rhythm arrangement" of the title song while two attractive ladies watch in this Soundie.
- Soundie of the Delta Rhythm Boys' version of the eponymous classic song, accompanied by some dancing beauties.
- In this Soundie, Count Basie and His Orchestra play the title song while many couples do the Lindy Hop.
- The Charioteers perform "Swing for Sale" in a very casual nightclub and it isn't long before all the patrons are dancing.
- A nurse gets the wounded patients in her office up dancing when she sings about jive.
- Van Alexander and His Orchestra get into the cowboy mood with the classic song.
- In this Soundie, a cowboy, accompanied by other cowboys and cowgirls as a chorus, sings "Back in the Saddle Again Again", popularized by its co-writer, Gene Autry. Through the work house window, they can see real cowboys in action. They also can see a not-so-real cowboy in action on a not-so-real horse.
- Toni Lane sings a song gleefully anticipating and celebrating the point in time when Hitler would be gone for good.
- In a Soundie, Stan Kenton and His Orchestra are depicted on their rise to fame.
- Nat 'King' Cole on piano sings 'Got A Penny Benny' along with accompaniment by an upright bass player and an electric guitar player, called The King Cole Trio.
- One of thousands of 3-minute "Soundies", the forerunner of the music video, produced in the 1940s for video jukeboxes called a "Panoram".
- Soundie of Dorothy Dandridge performing the cowboy classic.
- Glee Gates Trio play the instruments, while vocalists Merle Travis (who also plays guitar) and Carolina Cotton sing the title song in this 1945 Soundie.
- Fats Waller performs his classic hit accompanied by his big band and a bevy of beauties.