"Ten Pretty Girls" and "I'll Make You Mine" (1930)

★★★★ · Eleven pretty girls, counting the vocalist. · pedant · 2004-08-22

Anonymous 'sweet' band with cute vocalist plays two hits from '37 - 'Ten Pretty Girls' written by Will Grosz & Jimmy Kennedy, followed by 'I'll Make You Mine' by the prolific & brilliant Sammy Cahn (Sinatra fans may recall he recorded it years later). There's a jump cut to a slick radiogram set which looks a bit pointless, or possibly a cheeky advert, until you realise they've used it to bridge two separate performances - the 'rehearsal' (note as with most soundies the film is reversed, as the sign near the band stand is backwards) and the performance; in the 2nd number the vocalist is now in…

★★★★ · The mystery is solved · K.Y. · 2007-06-03

The young woman singing is Niela Goodelle who appeared in a series of musical comedy shorts in the mid to late 1930's. This soundie consists of excerpts from her last film, "Air Parade".