Movies: Rcm Productions

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

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

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

1942 Soundies musical short...

Jazz Soundie with Stan Kenton and his players....

Kay Starr singing "Stop That Dancing Up There"....

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....

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

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942....

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

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....

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

R.C.M. Soundie...

The Bronco Busters perform "Old Chisholm Trail."...

Original Schnickelfritz Band perform "Turkey in the Straw."...

Dona Drake sings "Sticks and Stones"....

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

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

"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 mo...

Comedic musical short featuring the Hoosier Hotshots....