BIG BAND MOVIE ALERT! TCM AUGUST 22ND RARE!

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Eyeball · #1 Post by **Eyeball** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:37 pm

BIG BAND MOVIE ALERT! TCM AUGUST 22ND RARE!

This stuff is mega scarce. Can anyone make me copies?

I need JAM SESSION and CAROLINA BLUES.

DVD or VHS ok.

Happy to tradfe or reimburse you for your time.

On August 22, TCM will show :

CAROLINA BLUES (1944) with Kay Kyser orchestra

JAM SESSION (1944) with Louis Armstrong and a tons of Swing bands!

REVEILLE WITH BEVERLY (1943) Duke Ellington, Freddie Slack with Ella Mae Morse, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Mills Brothers! (Got that one already)

In decades of film watching, I have never come across the first two films.

Eyeball · #2 Post by **Eyeball** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:01 pm

JAM SESSION has eluded me for decades.

Look at this line-up!

Ann Miller
Alvino Rey and His Orchestra
Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra
Glen Gray and His Orchestra
Teddy Powell and His Orchestra
Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
Jan Garber and His Orchestra
Jo Stafford and The Pied Pipers
Nan Wynn

GemZombie · #3 Post by **GemZombie** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:17 pm

John, remind me a few days ahead of time and I will set my homemade DVR to record it, and then convert it to DVD quickly.

Eyeball · #4 Post by **Eyeball** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:22 pm

Thanks, Jesse!

I shore appreciate it.

GemZombie · #5 Post by **GemZombie** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:46 pm

No problem... sounds like something I'd like to have too.

Actually, i Just set it up to record manually (6:30pm, Aug 22nd, 1.5 hours).

So unless something goes wrong, I'll have it for you.

Eyeball · #6 Post by **Eyeball** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:09 pm

Hey - can you also get me CAROLINA BLUES with Kay Kyser? Another astoundingly elusive film that few people have seen since TV in the 50s and 60s.

Be sure and grab REVEILLE WITH BEVERLY for yourself - it has some great bands in it.

THANKS!

*funny story - Johnny Carson once related that his Army camp in WW2 had only one movie and it was REVEILLE WITH BEVERLY. He just shook his head when he remembered that - just seeing the same film over and over and over and over....

GemZombie · #7 Post by **GemZombie** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:52 pm

"reveille"

They are all set to record...

Eyeball · #8 Post by **Eyeball** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:04 pm

You'll thank me! Hahaha...swell

Lindyguy · #9 Post by **Lindyguy** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:12 pm

I have it scheduled on my Tivo if nobody else remembers. Thanks for the heads up. I love Charlie Barnet!

Eyeball · #10 Post by **Eyeball** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:44 pm

Jesse -

Did you grab those films for me?

CountBasi · #11 Post by **CountBasi** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:24 pm

I got these. There's a full performance of Take The A-Train in the Reveille with Beverly film, where Betty Roche comes out from behind a curtain and takes a vocal. Magical, the sheer joy on the Duke's face as his fingers slither off the keys, and everyone else in the band. Absolutely fantastic.

GemZombie · #12 Post by **GemZombie** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:36 pm

Eyeball wrote:Jesse -

Did you grab those films for me?

Yes, and they are burned to DVD, i just haven't shipped them off yet. I wont' be able to send them until next week... but I have 'em

Eyeball · #13 Post by **Eyeball** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:46 pm

OKeh, Jesse.

Let me know what I can do for you.

CountBasi · #14 Post by **CountBasi** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:12 pm

'The Fabulous Dorseys' was on TCM on Friday at noon - 2pm PST. I wondered into a pool hall for my lunch and saw it on! They don't put any sound on their TVs during the daytime though.

Luckily this is available on Netflix - I put it in my queue when I got home

CountBasi · #15 Post by **CountBasi** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 11:48 pm

Kansas City Kitty (1944) - Bob Crosby in this

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/3706/Kansas-City-Kitty/

Beautiful But Broke (1944)

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/28077/Be ... but-Broke/