Bad Plot GREAT music
The storyline of this movie was so weak and full of holes, but the music was OUTSTANDING. It was worth sitting through just to see the great acts like Sinatra, the Mills Brothers and Count Basie
sharetrue the plot was weak but it was only there to connect the music together .I understand that this movie was based on a actual radio show hosted by a woman whose name i can not recall who was married to Freddie Slack [ the piano player on cow cow boogie ] I thought everyone was great but as much as I enjoy 40's music I thought Frank Sinatra[who looked like a butt twitching sissy] did not fit in every one else did swing and he did a ballad but I have never been a Snotra fan.... I really enjoyed getting to hear Freddie Slack/Ella Mae Morse do Cow-Cow Boogie[anything by them is almost impossible to find on cd] also enjoyed the Radio Rogues ,whom I had never heard of. Hope Turner Classic shows more 40's swing musicals, would like to see some of the Louis Jordan or Cab Calloway movies from same era. Check out youtube there are some real good video [short clips]from forties movies. Especially good is Ina Ray Hutton who is almost unknown today but her all female band is fantasic
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Completely agree, well, except that I didn't find the Radio Rogues all that entertaining.
But I LOVED the Mills Brothers song (Sweet Lucy Brown). I just found an mp3 on amazon and downloaded it. Great song.
I guess TCM runs this movie once every few years. I just saw it a few days ago.
> I thought Frank Sinatra[who looked like a butt twitching sissy]
I know you'll never see this, but that made me laugh out loud. Supposedly teenaged girls in the 1940s had the same shriek-and-swoon reaction to Sinatra as their counterparts twenty years later had to the Beatles. I've never understood that; to me, young Sinatra looks like a half-starved ferret.