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Soundie - Got To Be This or That (1945)

1945 · Ephemeral film · 2 min

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Emil Coleman and His Orchestra vocal by June Barton

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Running time
2 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★★ · Look closely · Spuzz · 2005-06-12

An ok song, with the singer doing her best Judy Garland impersonation. But... look closely. The first giveaway were the two violin (??) players. They were sort of not playing their songs.. Then the trumpeter, and the other wind instruments. This might be the most incompetent soundie ever. Have these people that we see in the orchestra (aside from the pianist) ever picked up an instrument before? Or are they just actors? Look.. closely.

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