"Swing cat" Louis Prima and his jazz quintet play songs and accompany featured singers and dancers.
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Title: Swing Cat's Jamboree (1938)
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Louis Prima and a quintet play on a low stage in front of an audience at tables. They open with "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans," then Shirley Lloyd joins them to sing "I Can't Give You Anything But Love." They do a quick "If She Loves Me," with Prima singing. Then, from one of the tables in the audience, Ted Gary sings "You're an Education" to Mitzi Dahl, then the two of them tap dance. The band finishes with an up-tempo version of "Loch Lomond," and the audience hits the dance floor. The quintet includes clarinet, piano, guitar, bass, and a drummer who also plays vibraphone, with Louis Prima on trumpet. Written by <[email protected]>
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EnglishRelease Date:
6 August 1938 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Vitaphone Varieties (1937-1938 season) #12: Swing Cat's Jamboree See more »Company Credits
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(uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Performed by Ted Gary, then by Ted Gary and Mitzi Dahl (dance number)
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Vitaphone production reel #B-138. See more »Quotes
Louis Prima, Himself: [singing] You take the high road and I'll take the low road, And I'll be in Scotland afore ya; Where me and my true love will never meet again, On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond...See more »
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You're an Education(uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Performed by Ted Gary, then by Ted Gary and Mitzi Dahl (dance number)
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A VITAPHONE VARIETY Short Subject.
A highly energetic bandleader excites the crowd with his SWING CAT'S JAMBOREE.
Tooting on his trumpet, popular musician Louis Prima leads his 5-man combo while presenting three popular tunes. First up, songstress Shirley Lloyd warbles 'I Can't Give You Anything But Love.' Next, Mitzi Dahl and the awesomely limber Ted Gary dance to 'You're An Education In Yourself.' Finally, the whole room starts to jive during Prima's rendition of 'Loch Lomand.'
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Often overlooked or neglected today, the one and two-reel short subjects were useful to the Studios as important training grounds for new or burgeoning talents, both in front & behind the camera. The dynamics for creating a successful short subject was completely different from that of a feature length film, something akin to writing a topnotch short story rather than a novel. Economical to produce in terms of both budget & schedule and capable of portraying a wide range of material, short subjects were the perfect complement to the Studios' feature films.