Here’s a very nice combo/medley of the Nat Cole trio in 1946 performing a two songs, ‘It’s Better To Be By Yourself’ and ‘Solid Potato Salad’. As in yesterday’s clip the outstanding guitarist is Oscar Moore but this time the bassist is Johnny Miller. At 1:20 there are some excellent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYsseoG5XV8 Apropos of yesterday’s Nat Cole/Chico Marx post, here’s a terrific demonstration of Cole’s artistry at a young age. It’s a ‘soundie’ (made for jukebox consumption) of ‘Come To Baby, Do’, featuring his original trio which included Wesley Prince on bass and the criminally underrated guitarist Oscar Moore. (I like
Here are two versions of Nat Cole playing (not singing) ‘Tea For Two’ from his groundbreaking 1957 TV show. I have no idea if the idea of having him do ‘a Chico’ (1:24 on the first version) was his or the networks but my showbiz intuition tells me that someone
‘Commotion On The Ocean’ (1956) is the 174th short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed on Tuesday, January 17th 1956 and released on Thursday, November 8th of that year. The abbreviated shooting schedule (a single day) was due to the fact that Shemp Howard
‘Skidoo’, Otto Preminger’s woeful 1968 attempt at a counter-culture comedy, is not looking any better with age. Having said that, it still possesses the most singular of all end credit sequences in which Harry Nilsson (billing himself as just ‘Nilsson’) sings the entire cast and crew list. It’s probably the
Last night we watched the above installment of ‘Hollywood Palace‘, an hourlong variety show that broadcast Saturday nights (except September 1967 to January 1968, when it aired on Monday nights) on ABC from January 4, 1964, to February 7, 1970. This particular episode was broadcast on January 20th, 1968. The host
‘Dizzy Doctors’ (1937) is the 21st short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Wednesday, December 9 through Saturday, December 12, 1936 and was released on Friday, March 19, 1937. I consider it in the top-tier of the Curly shorts, with pacing, jokes and
‘Blunder Boys’ (1955) is the 166th short film made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Monday, January 24th through Wednesday, January 26th 1955 and was released on Thursday, November 3rd of that year. This is the last Shemp entry that wasn’t a remake, or otherwise
‘The Tooth Will Out’ (1951) is the 134th short subject made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed on Monday, February 19th and Tuesday, February 20th 1951 and was released on Thursday, October 4th of that year. The abbreviated two-day shooting schedule (the Shemp shorts were generally
Some rarities of the past are so deeply weird–so obscure and near indecipherable–that viewing/listening to them is akin to discovering hieroglyphics of long dead civilizations and attempting to translate them into something relatively meaningful. Which brings us to ‘The Voice Of Hollywood’, a series of short films produced by Poverty