Fleischer Screen Song: I Ain't Got Nobody (1932)

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  • Опубліковано 7 вер 2009
  • Fleischer Studios Screen Song ("bouncing ball" cartoon) from 1932 "presenting for the first time on the screen Radio's greatest sensation" The Mills Brothers.
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  • @MikeBlitzMag
    @MikeBlitzMag 5 років тому +34

    The animation here is absolutely over the top brilliant, considering that the form was still not far removed from its infancy at that time (1932). And the Mills Brothers? Visionaries and vocal virtuosos of the highest order. Not only that, but a superb showcase of the original quartet with John Junior (who died in 1936). As genius as genius can get. We still are not worthy.

    • @cynthiapickett7403
      @cynthiapickett7403 2 роки тому +4

      Yes, credit really needs to go to the eldest brother, who guitar playing often sounded virtually electric when close to a microphone (in fact, thanks to people like Les Paul and Leo Fender, electric guitars would soon be employed by the big bands from the early 1940s onward). Even though historians would beg to differ, without John Charles Mills (his full name) there likely would not have been electric guitars of any kind.

  • @zapdunga12
    @zapdunga12 Рік тому +8

    John Mills Jr. died January 23 1936. He was only 25. He was the eldest brother and the leader. He played on a ukulele and a 4 string tenor guitar and sang bass like a tuba.

    • @Coowallsky
      @Coowallsky 3 місяці тому

      didn't know they had a leader.

  • @cynthiapickett7403
    @cynthiapickett7403 6 років тому +27

    Anybody wondering where Dean Martin got his singing style need look no further than this cartoon; Harry Mills was his chief inspiration.

    • @masercot
      @masercot 2 роки тому +2

      The Mills Brothers were actually on the Dean Martin show and got the reverence they deserved from Dino...

  • @Musicradio77Network
    @Musicradio77Network 4 роки тому +10

    This cartoon featuring the very first on-screen appearance of the Mills Brothers performing “Tiger Rag” and “I Ain’t Got Nobody”. The Mills Brothers was one of the very first vocal group ever made, and this was back when doo-wop does not exist in the 1930’s, and it was the Great Depression, but doo-wop street corner harmonies was long years ahead. Gotta love those very early vocal group sounds on this one.

  • @SeriouslyPrydeTv
    @SeriouslyPrydeTv 6 років тому +12

    BEAUTIFUL TALENTED MEN.

  • @Panzerreich
    @Panzerreich 8 років тому +22

    I LOVE this. Olden days cartoon with a singalong from the best Jazz musicians who ever lived. I wish i was alive when they were popular

  • @MWolfL
    @MWolfL 12 років тому +12

    I love this song, but my favorite version is when Igor in Young Frankenstein sung it because he made a pun out of it. He was pretending to be a bodyless head on display so instead of singing 'I ain't got nobody' he sang 'I ain't got no body'. I always crack up at that scene. :)

  • @pangea6090
    @pangea6090 5 місяців тому +3

    Man o man. As if I didn’t have reason to love the Mills Brothers more. Thanks for posting!

  • @rosemarymagrino772
    @rosemarymagrino772 27 днів тому

    They influenced so many others!

  • @Celluloidwatcher
    @Celluloidwatcher 3 роки тому +9

    Thank you for presenting the young Mills Bros., from Piqua, OH, near Dayton. At the time of the Max Fleischer cartoon, they were one of the biggest stars on radio, with the ability to sing, play, and imitate musical instruments. No wonder they got the attention they received, and rightfully so. Of course, their star grew bigger heading into WWII and beyond, and, then, the waning years until their deaths. But, personally, I love the scat-style that they developed in their early days. Can't get enough of it.

  • @stckz3175
    @stckz3175 7 років тому +7

    i,m from the netherlands but i love these usa cartoons w/ mills brothers huge faaan

  • @cynthiapickett7403
    @cynthiapickett7403 6 років тому +4

    Wonderful print of this great cartoon!

  • @TeamRocket2010
    @TeamRocket2010 14 років тому +4

    This Was The First Time I've Seen A Cartoon Character Of A Screen Song Break The Fourth Wall And Ask Us To Join In And Sing With That Bouncing Ball at 4:46.

  • @cha5
    @cha5 13 років тому +7

    @SIMPFANN There were examples of television being mentioned in some early 1930s movies like 'International House' (1933) plus cartoons like these Fleischer ones and I believe they even demonstrated television sets as an invention at the 1939 World's Fair, although it was still looked on as something right out of science fiction at this point in time.

  • @tommaytommay
    @tommaytommay Рік тому +2

    More specifically: Some of these days > tiger rag > i aint got nobody

  • @LorenIpsum75
    @LorenIpsum75 3 місяці тому

    The Mills Brothers' version of "Tiger Rag" sold one million copies in 1931. 🐯

  • @ckvlzlvxch
    @ckvlzlvxch 10 років тому +2

    Best sound quality! Many thanks.

    • @cynthiapickett7403
      @cynthiapickett7403 6 років тому +1

      One of the best prints of this wonderful cartoon that marked the debut of the Mills Brothers.

  • @francisalanwormald6328
    @francisalanwormald6328 4 роки тому +1

    At 83 ..HAVE I PASSED & GONE TO HEAVEN??? OH ! THOSE MILLS BROTHERS!!!

    • @MrCrowebobby
      @MrCrowebobby 9 місяців тому

      Hope you're still around, since we're the same age. (March 1937)

    • @francisalanwormald6328
      @francisalanwormald6328 9 місяців тому +1

      MAC@@MrCrowebobbyMAC, NOW 87, BUT IN TEHAB...BE WELL

  • @Ivanatis
    @Ivanatis 12 років тому +8

    wow the Mills brothers are so young in this one

    • @cynthiapickett8342
      @cynthiapickett8342 6 років тому +6

      Ivanatis For those of us who only remember Herbert, Harry and Donald as middle-aged/elderly men of the late 1950's to the very early 1980's are in for a rude Awakening as well as a pleasant surprise.

    • @jeffreyball6618
      @jeffreyball6618 Рік тому +1

      Their father was great. Do not ever forget pops.

    • @Ivanatis
      @Ivanatis Рік тому +1

      @@cynthiapickett8342 glad to see my comment from a decade ago is still attracting people here, greetings from Germany

    • @Ivanatis
      @Ivanatis Рік тому +1

      @@jeffreyball6618 Greetings to you too, Jeffrey, may God be always on your side

    • @jeffreyball6618
      @jeffreyball6618 Рік тому

      @@Ivanatis thank you. The mills brothers were on TV old movie that morning. The mctv channel. Various j

  • @carlosalbertomantillagarci9836
    @carlosalbertomantillagarci9836 5 років тому +1

    Funny cartoon. It remains me times when Oswald Rabbit were aired in TV animated series. Another detail is the song. The verse "Ain't Got Nobody" I heard in the David Lee Roth's "Just A Gigolo". A date with nostalgia. Greets from Peru...

  • @pallen1065
    @pallen1065 Рік тому

    My only Mills Bros. album has them doing this, all the way through ..

  • @rrgomes
    @rrgomes  14 років тому +2

    @TeamRocket2010 I think Lillian Roth also does that in "Down Among the Sugar Cane" but it's been a while since I've watched it.

  • @cynthiapickett7963
    @cynthiapickett7963 6 років тому +9

    At least the Fleischer staff had the foresight to imagine a TV set that transmitted from around the world, complete with racial stereotypes.

    • @priscianusjr
      @priscianusjr 4 роки тому

      Yeah, it's a racial stereotype Chinese guy doing the Russian kozatsky to a Jewish wedding tune.

  • @ginerzinwonderland
    @ginerzinwonderland 12 років тому +1

    @SIMPFANN Same thing I was thinking.

  • @robertrobson8974
    @robertrobson8974 5 років тому +1

    Was this cartoon shown on Hurray for Betty Boop?

  • @TeamRocket2010
    @TeamRocket2010 13 років тому +1

    @rrgomes But Lillian Roth is not a cartoon. She's a singer.

  • @austinhedges9365
    @austinhedges9365 6 років тому +3

    anyone know the song they were singing from 1:48-2:43?

  • @brettgaming-andmore2832
    @brettgaming-andmore2832 7 років тому +4

    where's the tiger there's the. tiger

  • @gamethroughs1262
    @gamethroughs1262 14 років тому +1

    @SIMPFANN You would have a nickel.

  • @necelticsox
    @necelticsox 8 років тому +5

    good lord the fleischers were so weird.

    • @rrgomes
      @rrgomes  8 років тому +15

      Yes. It's what made them so great.

    • @cynthiapickett7403
      @cynthiapickett7403 6 років тому +1

      Which made them a perfect match for the big-name Jazz Age acts like the Mills Brothers.

    • @LorenIpsum75
      @LorenIpsum75 3 місяці тому

      The location of the Fleischers' New York City studio facilitated booking celebrity voice & live action talent from various venues (Radio, Vaudeville, Broadway, etc.)

  • @gamethroughs1262
    @gamethroughs1262 14 років тому +1

    @SIMPFANN In bratislava a nickel could buy 17 top class hotels with enough left over to buy 12 houses

  • @rosiesteffy5529
    @rosiesteffy5529 Рік тому

    What a beautiful, innovative cartoon/film! ...And a sad reminder of America the racist bully. I'd love to see a modern family friendly edit; white noise would be better than the racist propaganda on the other channels.

    • @SB-se7vb
      @SB-se7vb Рік тому +2

      I love how you say this is a beautiful and innovative cartoon in one breath and then a racist one in need of a modern update in the next. Cognitive dissonance much? Why don't you just appreciate it for what it is, recognising at the same time that it is of a bygone era? Does a

  • @gamethroughs1262
    @gamethroughs1262 14 років тому +2

    I hate the new youtube look!