The Three Suns -- a group with a guitar, an accordion, and an organ -- perform and sing the title song in this soundie.
Soundies were short films, usually about three minutes in length. They were meant to be played on a video jukebox called a Mills Panoram, which might be found in a bar, a night club, or a lounge. Put in a dime and you got one of ten of these brief bits, which would be changed weekly. Most were performances of songs, but there were a sprinkling of other sorts of performances. Some well-known performers go their first screen time in the soundies, performers like Doris Day and Dorothy Dandridge. From 1940 through 1946, Mills and other companies produced over two thousand of these movies.
This one is a facile performance, but pretty hokey.
Soundies were short films, usually about three minutes in length. They were meant to be played on a video jukebox called a Mills Panoram, which might be found in a bar, a night club, or a lounge. Put in a dime and you got one of ten of these brief bits, which would be changed weekly. Most were performances of songs, but there were a sprinkling of other sorts of performances. Some well-known performers go their first screen time in the soundies, performers like Doris Day and Dorothy Dandridge. From 1940 through 1946, Mills and other companies produced over two thousand of these movies.
This one is a facile performance, but pretty hokey.
