Buddy Rich with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra 1943 "Well Git It" | from "Du Barry Was a Lady"
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You will never hear their like again. That sound and music belonged to a truly bygone era.
I met buddy rich in 1981 when his band was at Disneyland..Still have the sticks he gave me..what a moment.
Rob Constantine so lucky
Wow!
Lucky and I would like those sticks
You're lucky he didn't take you outside and show you what it's all about.🤣
I would shadow box and frame those babies!
Wow, it's like a time machine. The images, the sound, everything was clear. And, man those guys really could swing.
It swings so hard, and yet they all look like they're listening to a sermon on Sunday morning :-D Except for Buddy Rich, of course. I think the guy smiled like that in his sleep.
35mm film and perhaps optical or acetate sound. Long before audio tape. Incredible.
Fab! Not sure I’ve seen footage of such a youthful-looking Buddy Rich. ❤
Damn this is more clearer than some of the videos during the 80's and 90's
Nothing like digital!
Deep focus and really great optics at the time.
@MichaelKingsfordGray Sorry pal. This is a clip from the American film musical "DuBarry Was A lady" which was shot in its entirety in Technicolor. What you're seeing is the real deal. Yes color motion picture film was that good in the 1940's.
You're comparing film to video. There were no video or digital cameras that could compare with good film stock until recently.
Shot on film, no tape...
The Ziggy Elman/Chuck Peterson trumpet duet is totally sizzling. This is surely one of the best films of jazz ever made - it captures everything. Virtuoso performances, tight arrangement, brilliant impro, and the film is so clear it could have been made yesterday.
During the trumpet duet, dude on the left was just a tad flat (3:42 mark) but quickly adjusted the horn when the opportunity came.
Jimmy Zito not chuck Petersen In the original take he muffs the solo after Ziggy elman plays it must have been overdubbed?? There is another well git it in stereo on you tube same film
That's Jimmy Zito, not Chuck Peterson, on the duet with Ziggy Elman.
@@ccotcamp I assumed the band was miming to a pre-recorded track. I have this performance on CD in true stereo.
@@mikecloud1257 Never know, Mike. Could have been overdubbed also.
I love everything about this. The dueling pianos, dueling trumpets, Buddy Rich on drums, etc. This may be the perfect big band tune.
And a harp...
And dont forget the photograph.
Does anybody have a personnel list? I'd love to know who the 'dueling trumpets and piano' are, as well as everyone else on stage!!
@@trumpete53snoho The trumpeter featured at the beginning was Ziggy Elman, there was an occasional glimpse of Jo Stafford sitting at the back.
Me too, colorized, well done,but of course then no coloured guys in the band🙄standard then- great recording..
Buddy once said in an interview that Mr. Dorsey demanded “absolute perfection.” As did, I’m sure, all the other legendary bandleaders he played for. And the way this band played, you can hear it.
So did buddy 😂 🤬
Benny Goodman had no tolerance for slackers, either.
@@WPM_in_ATL Goodman was famous for giving players "The Ray" if they messed up. If you were "rayed" you either fixed what was wrong or found a different band. Glenn Miller was similar. He'd sometimes have the guys go over a single phrase dozens of times until it was *right*
@@WPM_in_ATL Artie Shaw too.
Not limited to big band guys either. I've heard that James Brown would fine his guys for mistakes. Saw a video where his bass player said that he got fined $50 once and asked James B why $50 when the usual fine was $25 and was told that it was because Quincy Jones was in the audience.
The level of talent is almost unbelievable.
This clip is from the 1943 MGM Technicolor Film "Dubarry Was A Lady" Starring Red Skelton Lucille Ball Gene Kelly and Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. The soundtrack was remixed to Stereo, this because MGM's Sound Department used multiple microphones to create multiple 'tracks'. They were mixed to Monophonic sound(before stereo became available). MGM's Sound Engineers discovered they could mix a better balanced soundtrack using multiple tracks. Years later they remixed the tracks to true stereo. The original recordings were actually quite good and provide great sound. MGM's superior production standards are evident in the entire look of this clip.
so this is an amazon videoclip
intereasnte, gracias
It was common practice to record the sound track in advance, then have performers mime to it while the cameras rolled. 20th C. Fox had a similar setup, using multiple tracks that were mixed down to mono for theatre release.
Sadly a lot of the studios recorded multi-track recordings as intermediate stages with no long-term value ... and trashed them. Some of these (e.g. partial stereo soundtracks from Glenn Miller's two movies) survived only because someone forgot they'd saved a spare copy or two of the originals.
Tommy is of course a big band/swing legend who helped Sinatra break out into becoming a star. What ISNT talked about as much, is that Tommy had a very notable role in helping to push Elvis into national stardom as well. It was Tommy who first gave Elvis a national platform. He took a tremendous amount of heat for booking Elvis, but refused to cave to pressure, and brought Elvis on his show 5 more times before anyway else tried him. A move that was also unpopular with Tommy's band, who thought Elvis was a joke. But Tommy predicted that Elvis was going to become one of the next big superstars, and wanted to do his part to move the process along. Tommy Dorsey helped Rock and Roll cement itself as a new popular genre. Dorsey was a real man of the people. “I don’t particularly care for his type of music, but that’s the teen-agers’ choice and if they like it we’ll give it to them. Only time will tell if he has any lasting qualities. The kids want Elvis now and they should be able to have him.”-Tommy Dorsey
Thank you! TD featured Elvis on his "Stage Show" television program. There are several clips available on CZcams.
As with his contemporary Glenn Miller, you really ache for what Tommy (and Jimmy too) might have done if fate hadn't taken them from us.
His brother Jimmy, a legendary sax player co-lead the 50"s band.
😊Miller was an arranger and the third leader with no name on the marque for the Dorseys in the mid-1930's.
I saw Buddy live at Ronnie Scott's. I was sat only a few feet away and I am still blown away!
Love Buddy rich's huge smile and his joy playing those drums
I think that was Gene Krupa
Ian Borges nah that's buddy rich
@@joshuayue854 Yeah I see what you're saying now
@@jm10014 you're f'n blind!
He was having a good ol' time and enjoying himself for sure.
The first time I’ve ever seen a young Buddy Rich.
And Tommy was all of 38 at the time, too.
Me too
That can't be Buddy Rich, he's smiling throughout the performance.
Yep, because he was very young here and didn't have many problems to deal with.
Smiling? He's having a blast!
He was just the drummer. Good or bad he got paiď
They are obviously having a great time! That's what playing this style is all about!
There's a YT vid of Buddy Rich in his mid-40s doing a 20-minute, non-stop drum solo.
If I travelled back and stepped from a time machine this is what I'd hope to see ....
If they ever invent that time machine, I'll see you there.
Insane video quality. Like being there. Rip to the greats
The incredible clarity is because it's Technicolor film, the best available at the time. In 1943 the technology for videotape, especially in color, hadn't been invented yet.
Everybody in this video are all dead!! But damn,They kicked ass in the 40s for sure. I would love to see this band today but yea,Im dreamin. lol
Soon everybody liking this music will also be dead
I can picture my Father a WWII Navy veteran listening to this on board the AS16 "Howard W. Gilmore" cruising around the Pacific Theater. RIP Dad.
I thought the dude at the very beginning was making trombone noises with his mouth until they panned to the real trombone
Exactly😂
same here!
Same hahaha
Yuuup.... got me too
You'll want to look up the Mills Brothers for real mouth trombone.
What a phenomenal career Buddy had considering that he was still playing until his death 43 years after this. He became a Marine at this time as well. I believe we will never see the likes of his extraordinary prowess behind the kit. The gold standard of drumming. BTW what a sensational clip of professional understated musicians.
BIRD LOVED BUDDY!
Why are they underrated ?? because you said so fuck off
@@questionauthority7377 He said underSTATED -- not underRATED. Reading is fundamental, chief; guess it's your turn to fuck off
question authority you need a chalkboard or a clipboard to comprehend context superstar. Best to take your own hotshot advice and fuck off first jaggoff. Unbelievable
Buddy and the Marines had a rather messy parting of the ways, I heard...
Tommy Dorsy and his band was fantastic and i get a great plеasure listening them
Buddy rich was barely 26 years old and more than holding his own with the best of the best
At age 26 Buddy had been playing drums 23 years.
@@tomcooper6108 He was with Artie Shaw in the late 30s.
I'm sure Dorsey was beyond happy to have Buddy Rich in his band.
He was holding his own at 5.
Buddy Rich *was* the best of the best. Even Neal Peart might have thought so.
Never underestimate the huge role that Big Band/Swing music played in the Allies winning WWII.
David Becker absolutely bro! This one probably got them hyped the fucked up!! I did for me!!
@james crowe How so
james crowebot
@@BlueEuph This jacks me up! Makes me feel like the ultimate alpha fucking male! Damn, I want to fucking punch a baby I am so jacked!
Yes, the musicals of WW2 are the soundtrack to a nation on the march, led by its youth. From being caught with its pants down in November '41 to bestriding the planet less than four years later- it soon became the country that could turn out a Liberty Ship in a week.
Swing and jitterbug witnessed to the faster tempo of civilian life once the USA was united in its purpose. Orchestras were a bunch of virtuosi under the baton of a commander and working to the same end, like military units. They combined discipline with individual flair.
The Greatest Generation birthed pretty great popular music. But after 1945 it all fell apart quite soon, like the big bands. America went back to quarreling and divisiveness. Jazz became 'progressive' and 'cool', not danceable, played by small groups and often pretentiously dessicated. Then rock and roll shoved it to one side.
Boy, would it be nice to be back in time in that room with them!
YOU CAN! ITS CALLED REGRESSIVE TRAVEL....WHAT YEAR WOULD YOU LIKE?
MAMA (make america musical again) 😊
This is about as good as it gets. Brilliant.
Tommy Dorsey was constantly on at my Dad's house when he was still alive and I can see why. Its clean, its got style and elegance and even if you never heard a song from him, when you do its gonna make you tap your feet. I still enjoy playing all his old records of Tommy and Buddy or Gene Krupa and Frankie. They're music will never die. Crack a cold one open and sit back and smile.
I heard Buddy Rich say that there was no question that Tommy Dorsey was the finest trumpet player ever.
@@blujay9191Trombone. When the swing era slowed, Tommy didn’t. He went on to play and record some great stuff in the late ‘40’s - like “Trombonology.”
@@thomasleary2814 And later went into TV work. His "Stage Show" program is credited with introducing Elvis to much wider audience.
Now that was simply FANTASTIC!!!!! Loved every note PLAYED be each musician here!
The joint is still jumping in 2024! Such great music!
Was für eine Kultur,ein Genuss!!!
Rest in peace legend, was taken from us too soon. 😭
No one drove a band like Buddy! Everyone talks about his phenomenal speed but he also had exquisite taste and feel
well said and so true!
Norman Zierler totally agree! his stuff as a studio musician with small groups in the fifties is super underrated as well. I think he had a lot of potential to be a bop guy before he did his own group
Don't agree. No feel.
@@sommerwood2920 no feel? That's a very sad comment, I'd love you to open your ears to what feel is my friend. Listen to (for example) Billie's Bounce with his trio, and Prelude to a Kiss on Roar of '74, then come back and make the case that Buddy Rich has no feel.
@@bcdrummer1962 Unfortunately for you I have never liked Buddy Rich. No feel.
Gotta love the drummer. Buddy and Gene were drum kings.
I forever have loved it when every single member (no matter how large or small a group or band it is) is a total......TOTAL virtuoso or BEAST on their instrument. This is soooooo very cool to watch and listen too. These folks really knew their stuff to the point where (at any time) the leader could just point to any one........and they would just kill it. My word, for me, this is just fascinating to watch and to listen to, no matter what the musical genre. This video was wonderful.
If they ever created a time machine, I'm definitely putting this on my list, I'd kill to hear and witness it live!
Those guys swung hard. Great musicians all around.
This band`absolutely COOKS. Incredible production quality for 80, ok just 79 years ago! And Buddy, well this shows that he was a MONSTER drummer his whole life!
I always loved this number. I can't believe it exists in such beautiful audio and video. An absolute treasure. Thank you so much for posting this gem!!
Film! The soundtrack is pure analogue!
@@Bogframe I'm amazed at how many people assume digital color video existed in 1943 😛. EVERYTHING was analogue.
@@Poisson4147 video IS analogue, but videotape wasn't invented until the 1950s. The sound on film is visual analogue and as pure as it gets.
@@Bogframe "Pure" is the word for it. Optical tracks were years ahead of anything done on commercial 78s*. It's a shame the process wasn't used beyond film sound tracks, it would be beyond awesome to hear more of the bands of that era in (near) high fidelity.
* The pedant in me has to mention that extended-frequency 78s _did_ exist but very few were ever made because they weren't practical for home playback.
@@Poisson4147 digitally scanned and free from noise caused by the Shellac they were pressed from, 78s can deliver decent sound, but it wasn't until vinyl that fildelity caught up to film.
Now that’s a band!
Wow! Just think how much total hours and years of practice and intelligent dedication are found here! Over a million?
Yep. And that's just the musicians. The people on the other side of the camera involved in the production of this gem must have been pretty dedicated too.
25 years ago today this man played his last show. RIP my Buddy!
wow, clear, in color, fabulous video
This was taken from the 1943 movie DUBARRY WAS A LADY. It's on film, not videotape. That's why it's so clear!
Love it.
Technicolor, too.
MichaelKingsfordGray Wrong. It’s an excerpt from “Du Barry Was A Lady” which was filmed in technicolor. This hasn’t been “colorized.”
@@jasonhood2453 He keeps insisting "colorized!" no matter how many people point out that it's full-on Technicolor.
To borrow a phrase, "knows more than all the film historians" 😄
One amazing thing about Buddy was that he hit just as hard in his 60s as he did here in his 20s! Wonderful to have all this old footage made available on CZcams TV!
keith Gillard except that he wasn’t in his 30’s here. He was only 25-26 here!!
Michael Arbassio corrected! Thank you! You were right!
Here's the truly amazing thing to me - If you watch footage of Buddy beginning with this period and go all the way up through the 80s, he actually gets BETTER. It's the mark of a true genius.
I got to see Buddy Rich and his orchestra playing in a theatre venue in the late 60s and man could that cat bring the house down
THIS WAS ONE HECK OF AN ALL STAR BAND INDEED! T.D. WAS THE CADILLAC OF THE BIG BANDS
Not to take ANYTHING away from Tommy, but imho the AAF Band was his equal in quality and musicianship.
Buddy is a complete natural - a joy to watch. Great band & film.😀
Real testament to what 40's engineers could do when allowed to pull out all the stops.
I replay this at least 3 or 4 times a week. Can't get enough!
Years ago I found a VHS tape of this 1943 movie, "Du Barry" along the roadside in somebody's trash.
Thought it was going to be junk until I started watching it, and found out
The Tommy Dorsey Band and my all time drum idol, Buddy Rich, were featured throughout, and in color too.
Yeaahh, this is gold!!!!
Like its recorded yesterday🤘
Amazing footage & colour reproduction!!! Thanks for taking us back in time vividly!!!!!
@MichaelKingsfordGray Yeah would have seen this before if it was real. Rich had no feel anyway just noise. Black drummers much better and some others Morello etc.was Dave Tough white? Gene Krupa.
Sommer Wood yeah, we get it. You don’t like Buddy. Move on
Sommer Wood yes, Dave was white. Are you going to not like him now?
@@thecrippledrummer Good I thought he was. Proves my point. Quality over hype.
@@sommerwood2920 Racist bitch! MAGA 2020. Greetings from Canada.
those guys are from another planet- just crazy good- makes me wince playing my little rock and roll stuff on my guitar...
Ziggy Elman. Dorsey. Buddy. One of those clips that captures the swing Era at it's late peak. Tommorow had some huge stars go through.
Wow, that was some really fun music - our greatest generation were such brave young men. They really had some f-ing nut back then!
Buddy killin’ it, as usual.
Excellent picture and sound quality for something that was filmed nearly 80 years ago!
The movie studios were years ahead of the record companies when it came to making high-quality transcriptions. And thank heavens for that!
Whoever choreographed the cameras clearly knew what they were doing. They captured the band so that you feel like you're part of the action. Me having played a few instruments myself in the past, most of these solos look like they were captured live (not the piano duet). And Buddy Rich . . . well, he's on fire.
A swinging Sy Oliver composition. His music gave this band new energy!!
Tommy brought him in to stop the band getting too 'sweet' and set in its ways. I have a feeling TD also feared little Jimmy's team would swing harder. It was a timely move, bc with the war the national pulse quickened and the upbeat side of band repertoires got wilder: zoot suits and jitterbuggers.
Incredible performance, showmanship and photography.
i did a jimmy dorsey tour with Henry Questa doing this tune...man could play...Ziggy Elman! R.I.P. Ted (THEO)Bowden and Randy Lintott, my friends
So that's one of the bands Henry Questa was in prior to his time with Welk. Superb player as was the great trombonist, Bob Havens.
76 years old still fantastic
79 and ditto.
Nothing beats the big band sound!!
Wow! Fantastic Cut of "Well, Get It" with AWSOME 1st and 2nd Trumpeters absolutely NAILING the duet in high register!! This cut and this band clearly set the highest standard for this very difficult piece of music,,,we tried so hard, but even at an awsome HS our top jazz band could never quite "hack" it like this! This is beautiful and beautiful to have preseverved for generations long after the muscians have passed! Thanks for posing this!🙃😜😜
Man this was a great music moment.
1:50 - "The Professor" on Bass - Phil Stephens! With almost every major radio orchestra and recording studio through the 1950s
Even at a young age, Buddy Rich shows he was a better player than most rock players today.
That’s because jazz and rock drumming ain’t the same at all.
From the intro the Buddy Rich biography "Traps The Wonder Drummer" ... "His career started when he was two years old in his parents' Vaudeville act, and by the time he was four he was the highest paid child performer in the world."
One of the best songs made by Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra!!!!!
Phenomenal. Like a time machine.
love the suits, love the sound, love Buddy
What a great band, very precise, but still swinging and having fun!
Terrific stuff. I think I was born a few decades too late
as was I.
1943 no thats not right. That Arrangement of Well Git It sounds like it was recorded last night Buddy in great form as usual. The whole band is tight and forever swinging. This kind of big band music never gets old notice Buddy getting all those accents and punctuating that bass drum. keep these kind of charts coming our way. thank you a zillion times over
Ray Szymarek ...Kenny Clarke was the very first one to introduce those accents and punctuations on the drums.
Can't be '43. Rich left Dorsey's band in '42 to enlist in the marines.
@@edleahy2413 This may have been filmed in ‘42, but the movie was released in ‘43.
Thanks. My kind of Music. They were Real Artists & still sound great all of these years later.
The Great Ziggy Elman on Trumpet!
and Jimmy Zito!
Really!
Before or after his time with Benny Goodman?
@@tuxguys after
What a delight! he was absolutely peerless on that slide trombone!!
Fantastic quality ...great band ...buddy rich ,the king of drums ..period !
Those insane single stroke rolls are there on display all those years ago
Awesome video quality it feels
Like your in the room with them
I love to think of World War II soldiers (like my dad) listening to this and loving it ; I hope it made their days and nights better.
Great clip....great band and of course.......great drummer!
Wow, tight band. All the solos were great.
Nice to see Jimmy and Tommy together.
I like Buddy Rich better here cuz he's smiling. Makes him much more fun to watch.
Wow, Tommy so solid! And Buddy so fast and swingin`. Amazing how well his swing era SOUND carried over into his modern big bands.
Superb!
WOW!! I never thought I would see a smile on Buddy Rich's face. Awesome guy.
I thought the same. Guess he was forced to because it was a feature film.
@@eric_in_florida I'm thinking there was some cutting up happening between Buddy and one of the piano players. You can see the piano player facing Buddy grinning. It was supposed to be Joe Belkin, but there might have been an actor in his place. The other piano player with Milt Rask, who was phenomenal with his stride playing!
At a later date, Sinatra said that TD was the "General Motors of the band business."
Tommy had such good balance between his brass, reed, strings and percussion...….like his choice of piano solos also. He was great all the way through the swing era.
Did he write what he wanted played? Im sure the pianists did their own thing for it.
What a time to be alive
I saw Mr. Clark Yocum as a guitarist for the first time. Thank you very much.
At first I didn’t believe this was a 1943 video..very beautiful! It makes me go back with imagination..thx 👍🏻
Fabulous. The quality of this video is great
That's because it's a Technicolor film (MGM, _DuBarry Was a Lady_ 1943) rather than a video. Nothing could match it for clarity and color that "popped". Awesome!
Videotape wasn't developed until years after this was made, and didn't approach film clarity for a long time after that.
The boogie woogie drummer boy of poke a hole in it ! As a 18 year old I was so fortunate to see him and his big band at River Oaks in Calumet City, Illinois in think it was 1974 and it was free! What an awesome drummer and show .
Wonderful music played by some really fine musicians!
WOW, what a great performance!
The dude is Tommy Dorsey. One of the greatest big band trombone players of all time
Young people take note... Spotlessly clean, supremely skilled and talented and just wonderful.
There it is. The most technically proficient drummer who ever lived in his mid-twenties captured on film for future generations to see. Got to see him play back in the 70s and 80s and he just got better and better each time. Traps the Drum Wonder indeed. Today's drummers have no access to the realm of artistry he occupied. I would say he left a massive hole in the music scene when he left us back in 87'. I still feel it. I literally think of Buddy and his approach to the drum set every time I pick up a pair of sticks or brushes. I feel privileged to have seen many of the giants of jazz years ago (Oscar Peterson, Maynard Ferguson, Louie Bellson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan...) I benefited from every performance. This culture can turn it's back on jazz but I live on what these great masters left behind. Jazz music is better than it can ever be played. It enables the artist to project his or her unique, distinctive personality through and instrument, pulling the creativity out of one's inner being. It immediately transcends the printed page (notation). It really bothers me that "America's classical music" is so poorly represented in our era (with some exceptions of course). Even so, jazz will never die.
Sorry, I saw him several times in the 70s and IMHO, I believe Joe Morello was a better "technical" drummer, mainly because he could play this kind of stuff the first time through by sight reading the music until his eyes got too bad.
Rich was great but he had to hear the song first. Morello didn't, and he could do it in 2/4, 3/4/, 4/4/, 5/4, 7/4, 9/4, 11/4, and the really odd time signatures out of India like the stuff Ravi Shankar played on sitar.
@@ytubepuppy That's why IMHO Morello, through a great technician, sounded more mechanical to me and less nuanced and improvisational than Buddy. Like his playing was overly analytical and had a certain flatness to it (the drum solo on Take 5 being an exception). Hearing as opposed to reading is no deficiency or obstacle to the creative artist. I would argue just the opposite. I'm in a swing band right now and honestly, I wouldn't pay money to hear them play anything. They can all read but not one of them can actually swing (it's a community college band). Buddy knew everyone's part. Those charts were in his blood and it came through in the way he interpreted the piece. That's my take on it. It's like Error Garner (who could not read music) said; "do audiences come to hear me read or to hear me play?".
No question that Buddy was phenomenal. A mistake from him was so rare that it made news. I wonder if that could have been said of any other performer.
@@MASHMU Good point. I did see him drop a stick on three separate occasions (once in the 1970s and twice in the 80s) so he was human after all. But your right, the guy's ability was stunning. Very few if any performers in that category.
The clarity of the video and sound made it seem like it was shot yesterday. So cool.