The Lorraine Page orchestra plays the title song, and Martha Mears and Bills Roberts sing it in this soundie.
Soundies were a short subject that can be considered ancestral to the sort of music videos that play on MTV. They were meant to be played on a device called a Mills Panoram, which was a sort of video jukebox that might be found in bars in the early 1940s. You put in a dime, and got one of ten songs with performers syncing along to the recording. Mills produced an estimated ten a week for more than seven years, and there were several competitors. Much major musical talent got their start performing for the system.
Miss Mears spent the 1930s. 1940s, and 1950s singing on the radio, and was the voice talent behind movie stars for songs such as "White Christmas". She died in 1986, aged 76.
Soundies were a short subject that can be considered ancestral to the sort of music videos that play on MTV. They were meant to be played on a device called a Mills Panoram, which was a sort of video jukebox that might be found in bars in the early 1940s. You put in a dime, and got one of ten songs with performers syncing along to the recording. Mills produced an estimated ten a week for more than seven years, and there were several competitors. Much major musical talent got their start performing for the system.
Miss Mears spent the 1930s. 1940s, and 1950s singing on the radio, and was the voice talent behind movie stars for songs such as "White Christmas". She died in 1986, aged 76.
