This is LIVE, unedited, 100% pure bard work and god given talent. Imagine seeing a group with this kind magic today! Today's world needs this kind of majesty.
They simply had a real cultural background , where life, work, family, pleasure, pain and entertaining weren’t divided. Music is getting poorer as the links between people are just maintained by money and show business.
The guitarist here is Cliff White (d. 1998), longtime guitarist and bandleader for Sam Cooke. He joined the Mills Brothers when their regular guitarist Norman Brown was drafted in World War II.
This is from the movie "Reveille with Beverly" (1943) A wildly, wonderfully entertaining movie from WWII. Ann Miller becomes a morning disc jockey for soldiers. "Reveille with Beverly" also has Bob Crosby and his Bobcats performing "Big Noise from Winnetka", Duke Ellington Orchestra performing "Take the A Train" on a moving train, Count Basie Orchestra doing "One O'clock Jump", Freddie Slack (with the GREAT Ella Mae Morse) performing "Cow Cow Boogie:, and even Frank Sinatra (in white tie and tails!). ""Reveille with Beverly" - you must see this movie!!
My favorite version of this song by the Mills Brothers. Love to see Mr. Mills Sr in this...and love the tempo more than the original studio recording. Harry will never have any peers vocally!
Curticus64 I couldn't agree more with you! There has never been anyone who has remotely come close, regardless of what era, to these legends! Truly a one in a million group!
The late, great John Mills Junior would most assuredly have been impressed with his father and his three brothers (not to mention his replacement on guitar). I know that I sure was. Impressed, that is. Absolute, utter, jaw dropping perfection.
There's so much to this in just under 2.5 minutes. You can watch this repeatedly and focus on a different aspect of their performance. This takes true skill, but they're still having fun!
Amazing how black people produced such good song, music, acting and dance, had to go thru so much racism and discrimination because white superiorism saw them as a lower class or sad to say, sub human. Thankyou to all who contributed despite the challenges.
Have to agree with you on that one!!! They were always so uplifting and "positive" when they sang... and boy did they ever LAST: from 1928 to 1982, and QUITE popular throughout most of that time!!! Hats off to them: they are a BIG part of our musical heritage, and i loved them when i was growing up in the 1960s... Cab Driver was one of my favorite male quartet songs EVER.
Ah, my favorite band. Listen to Mills Bros, Ink Spots, Ella Fitzgerald, Andrew Sisters, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, and a lot of Django Reinhardt. What the hell happened to good music? all I hear on the radio now is: "ass, booty, boobs, nigga, drugs, cracka, alchohol, bitches, and sex". I mean honestly aren't humans supposed to become smarter over time?
@boaty2008 It's not about what society has done to music. It's about what's become popular. There is still fantastically amazing music released every day, you just need to find it. People grow impatient when they hear something new, so the same shit gets rehashed.
Music today is nothing but garbage I wasn’t around in the 40s or 50s but looking back at old clips these men had talent I like the older music doo wop classic 60s soul music and I’m only 57 years old once again better than this garbage that’s out today
They were originally called "Four Boys and a Guitar" because they were originally a child act. Their father, John Hutchinson Mills (right) ran a barber shop in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. His four sons began singing in the choir of the Cyrene African Methodist Episcopal Church and in the Park Avenue Baptist Church in Piqua. After lessons at the Spring Street Grammar School, they gathered in front of their father's barbershop or on the corner to perform. They entered an amateur contest at May's Opera House but while on stage Harry realized he had lost his kazoo. He improvised by cupping his hand over his mouth and mimicking the sound of trumpet. The brothers liked the idea and worked it into their act. John, the bass vocalist, would imitate the tuba. Harry, a baritone, imitated the trumpet, Herbert became the second trumpet, and Donald the trombone. John accompanied the four-part harmony on ukulele and then guitar.
If you meet a suntanned lady Full of life and hidey hadey Big brown eyes, a little bit shady That's Sweet Lucy Brown Boys in town are dyin' to meet her Millionaires line up to greet her Ain't no gal in Georgia sweeter than Sweet Lucy Brown When she talks she sure sounds funny Yowzer, mister When she kisses it tastes like honey I don't mean maybe, she's a pretty baby Listen fellows I'm confessin' Take a tip and stop your guessin' If it's love then take a lesson From Sweet Lucy Brown Oh Lucy Oh Lucy Brown Oh Lucy Oh Lucy Oh Lucy Brown Oh Lucy Oh Lucy Oh Lucy Brown Oh Lucy Ain't no gal in Georgia that's sweeter than Sweet Lucy Brown
Unfortunately most of that audience was shipped directly to the South Pacific and never made it home. The Japanese were brutal. The Army knew how to entertain soldiers and made it a top priority. At least they got to see this masterpiece of a performance before they shipped.
This song always reminds me of a girl I once knew named Lucy Brown. She was pretty sweet. Except she had a hook for a hand. If you made her mad, she'd bury that hook in your thigh and shout "ding dong!". Oh, and she also had a problem with canaries. Not so much a phobia as a desire to wipe out the species. Come to think of it, she wasn't that sweet. Never mind.
This is LIVE, unedited, 100% pure bard work and god given talent. Imagine seeing a group with this kind magic today! Today's world needs this kind of majesty.
Imagine in 1943 hearing this, live or recorded. Even now it feels like a two minute break from everything bad. It is all smiles and happiness!
💕💕💕
When music was about the music and not about overinflated egos. Love it.
Man you are so right. Music today is so shallow.
They simply had a real cultural background , where life, work, family, pleasure, pain and entertaining weren’t divided. Music is getting poorer as the links between people are just maintained by money and show business.
Peace & Life Everlasting with Jesus ❤️
Zero auto tune and total talent❤
When human beings become musical instruments 💯
The Mills Brothers were truly great!
Harry was sooooo talented its unfortunate that the modern world is so sped up that they wouldn't even consider watching this..😢
Some people still do, I do.
The guitarist here is Cliff White (d. 1998), longtime guitarist and bandleader for Sam Cooke. He joined the Mills Brothers when their regular guitarist Norman Brown was drafted in World War II.
Talent, Style, Showmanship, Personality. Bam.
This is from the movie "Reveille with Beverly" (1943) A wildly, wonderfully entertaining movie from WWII. Ann Miller becomes a morning disc jockey for soldiers. "Reveille with Beverly" also has Bob Crosby and his Bobcats performing "Big Noise from Winnetka", Duke Ellington Orchestra performing "Take the A Train" on a moving train, Count Basie Orchestra doing "One O'clock Jump", Freddie Slack (with the GREAT Ella Mae Morse) performing "Cow Cow Boogie:, and even Frank Sinatra (in white tie and tails!). ""Reveille with Beverly" - you must see this movie!!
Great WWII morale movie during the worst era. Even the Japanese would capture these movies overtaking islands out in the Pacific and they loved them!
My favorite version of this song by the Mills Brothers. Love to see Mr. Mills Sr in this...and love the tempo more than the original studio recording. Harry will never have any peers vocally!
There is NOTHING and NOBODY in today's music that could even remotely come close to the talent on display in this video.
Curticus64 I couldn't agree more with you! There has never been anyone who has remotely come close, regardless of what era, to these legends! Truly a one in a million group!
The late, great John Mills Junior would most assuredly have been impressed with his father and his three brothers (not to mention his replacement on guitar). I know that I sure was. Impressed, that is. Absolute, utter, jaw dropping perfection.
Rip
Perfection is right! Lovely music.
Love them. They became musical instruments. Such talent
This is a song, the first time you see it, you just sit there with your mouth hanging open at the ridonkulous amount of talent on display.
Agree!! These guys had it ALL: they were the Real Thing.
I know! I often forget that their only accompaniment is a guitar.
this music video makes me happy
Agreed!!
What incredible talent these men had. As someone else here said it is sad to see what has become of music today.
It's sad how the world has become....
Words fail me. Absolute GREATNESS!!!
There's so much to this in just under 2.5 minutes. You can watch this repeatedly and focus on a different aspect of their performance. This takes true skill, but they're still having fun!
Pentatonix fans really need to take note! These guys are their primary inspiration.
They were so cute! My dad grew up in Jamaica in the 40s/50s. He loved The Mills Brothers. Love you dad👼🏾😇🪽
Man, I love the Temptations, Take 6 but these Brothers (sic) are the bomb 🎁👩👧👦
If I could time travel to the '30s and see one musical act, it would be the Mills Brothers.
@frycook48 Can I just choose both?
Amazing how black people produced such good song, music, acting and dance, had to go thru so much racism and discrimination because white superiorism saw them as a lower class or sad to say, sub human. Thankyou to all who contributed despite the challenges.
Brought a huge smile to my face!
I just found this song randomly and have listened to it three times back to back. What a flow and man are they tight!
Man the end is so good, I have to keep listening to it, the way he's pronounced the D's is awesome lol
somehow they always put a smile on my face =)
Wow. I have chills down my spine!
You cant get any better then this
Harry is the King on this one!
From the film Reveille with Beverly (1943)
Nothing like it today....
Have to agree with you on that one!!! They were always so uplifting and "positive" when they sang... and boy did they ever LAST: from 1928 to 1982, and QUITE popular throughout most of that time!!! Hats off to them: they are a BIG part of our musical heritage, and i loved them when i was growing up in the 1960s... Cab Driver was one of my favorite male quartet songs EVER.
Looks like the great dancer and movie star Ann Miller introducing them,
It's from "Reveille with Beverly," starring Ann Miller, who's the gal introducing the Mills Brothers here.
Class pure class.Simply the best! :-)
Aaah the mills brothers swingin, "live", having fun and that moment still many years ahead performing and recording.
Tragically, these geniuses would be boo'd off stage today.
I so LOVE this!!!
I know what I like, and Sweet Lucy Brown is good stuff!
Mills was, blessed they must not smoke they kept themselves beautiful
It seems so simple and yet full of wonderful melodies. They sound exceptional
I'm 16 .I love this.
Love it, Evelyn! You've got good taste.
That means you're 22 now.
These guys should be eternally famous! They’re just beyond perfect!
They are and will be remembered for all time. I cannot say that for anybody out there today. "Cardi B" for example.
@@John-wg6xw I hope you’re right. I hope these guys stay as famous as can be for always. So incredibly talented.
@@alexd1121No worries. They and many others will ALWAYS be known and remembered by true and dedicated musicians everywhere throughout time. God bless.
I love this❤
Wonderful!
Adoro a los MIlls desde chico
So brilliant.
Real music.
Talent personified
I can tell that Bobby McFerrin got his shit from these guys.
This is so awesome!
Wow amazing I, love it
Amazing!
This is raw talent. Its truly amazing, seeing them live must have just been mnd blowing.
Very goood
Amazing singing voices
Ah, my favorite band. Listen to Mills Bros, Ink Spots, Ella Fitzgerald, Andrew Sisters, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, and a lot of Django Reinhardt. What the hell happened to good music? all I hear on the radio now is: "ass, booty, boobs, nigga, drugs, cracka, alchohol, bitches, and sex". I mean honestly aren't humans supposed to become smarter over time?
>>-----------------------------> Dean Martin's favorite band growing up! Only their voices and one guitar - nothing else!!!
Wow very talented 👏
This is what talent is
All i can say.............WOWW!
omfg wow! im speachless, I had no idea these amazing artist existed! :0
Still Old Is Good
What can you say, fantastic! Mills Brothers 😎👍
Absolutely breathtaking!
Amazing!! We Heard This For Jazz Appreciation Month In My Class :)
I love them😍
These guys were great!!
Thank you for posting most of them live too 90 years old
@boaty2008 It's not about what society has done to music. It's about what's become popular. There is still fantastically amazing music released every day, you just need to find it. People grow impatient when they hear something new, so the same shit gets rehashed.
Music today is nothing but garbage I wasn’t around in the 40s or 50s but looking back at old clips these men had talent I like the older music doo wop classic 60s soul music and I’m only 57 years old once again better than this garbage that’s out today
1:50 on repeat!
Amazing
im happy now:)
espectáculo!!!
I'm so glad she said "four men" and a guitar. A small sign of respect in a time when we received zero respect in this country.
On the records it's "Four Boys and a Guitar". Men is better.
What you expect her to say.
They were originally called "Four Boys and a Guitar" because they were originally a child act. Their father, John Hutchinson Mills (right) ran a barber shop in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. His four sons began singing in the choir of the Cyrene African Methodist Episcopal Church and in the Park Avenue Baptist Church in Piqua. After lessons at the Spring Street Grammar School, they gathered in front of their father's barbershop or on the corner to perform. They entered an amateur contest at May's Opera House but while on stage Harry realized he had lost his kazoo. He improvised by cupping his hand over his mouth and mimicking the sound of trumpet. The brothers liked the idea and worked it into their act. John, the bass vocalist, would imitate the tuba. Harry, a baritone, imitated the trumpet, Herbert became the second trumpet, and Donald the trombone. John accompanied the four-part harmony on ukulele and then guitar.
Makes me happy..
Who says a trumpet player needs a trumpet?
I am back,love the mills brothets
looove this!
Class Act!!
If you meet a suntanned lady
Full of life and hidey hadey
Big brown eyes, a little bit shady
That's Sweet Lucy Brown
Boys in town are dyin' to meet her
Millionaires line up to greet her
Ain't no gal in Georgia sweeter than Sweet Lucy Brown
When she talks she sure sounds funny
Yowzer, mister
When she kisses it tastes like honey
I don't mean maybe, she's a pretty baby
Listen fellows I'm confessin'
Take a tip and stop your guessin'
If it's love then take a lesson
From Sweet Lucy Brown
Oh Lucy
Oh Lucy Brown
Oh Lucy
Oh Lucy
Oh Lucy Brown
Oh Lucy
Oh Lucy
Oh Lucy Brown
Oh Lucy
Ain't no gal in Georgia that's sweeter than Sweet Lucy Brown
Classic
Very nice!
"big brown eyes, a little bit shady"
2 people actually went trough the trouble of disliking this, sad creatures...
Fun fact: John Sr. actually played (and imitated) stand-up bass when he had his own vocal group as a young man.
Terrific not like today
Best ever,,don ,harry
DALE LOS MILLS BRODER
who the fuck disliked THIS?
This was one of the early tunes from the 1930s; Papa John sounds just like his late (and guitar-playing) namesake!
This is the best john mills jr leading
I wonder how they were able to make trumpet sounds without using an actual trumpet.
Ahhhhhhhh..............w/ their mouth.
Unfortunately most of that audience was shipped directly to the South Pacific and never made it home. The Japanese were brutal. The Army knew how to entertain soldiers and made it a top priority. At least they got to see this masterpiece of a performance before they shipped.
i wanna smoke a blunt with these guys
They were rapping then
This song always reminds me of a girl I once knew named Lucy Brown. She was pretty sweet. Except she had a hook for a hand. If you made her mad, she'd bury that hook in your thigh and shout "ding dong!". Oh, and she also had a problem with canaries. Not so much a phobia as a desire to wipe out the species. Come to think of it, she wasn't that sweet.
Never mind.
Brothers
holy shit