Fleischer Screen Song: I Ain't Got Nobody (1932)
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- 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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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.
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.
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.
didn't know they had a leader.
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.
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
Anybody wondering where Dean Martin got his singing style need look no further than this cartoon; Harry Mills was his chief inspiration.
The Mills Brothers were actually on the Dean Martin show and got the reverence they deserved from Dino...
BEAUTIFUL TALENTED MEN.
Man o man. As if I didn’t have reason to love the Mills Brothers more. Thanks for posting!
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.
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. :)
i,m from the netherlands but i love these usa cartoons w/ mills brothers huge faaan
Wonderful print of this great cartoon!
@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.
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.
They influenced so many others!
Best sound quality! Many thanks.
One of the best prints of this wonderful cartoon that marked the debut of the Mills Brothers.
More specifically: Some of these days > tiger rag > i aint got nobody
The Mills Brothers' version of "Tiger Rag" sold one million copies in 1931. 🐯
At 83 ..HAVE I PASSED & GONE TO HEAVEN??? OH ! THOSE MILLS BROTHERS!!!
Hope you're still around, since we're the same age. (March 1937)
MAC@@MrCrowebobbyMAC, NOW 87, BUT IN TEHAB...BE WELL
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...
Originally Louis Prima did it first.
@@Musicradio77Network nice detail. Besides this cartoon is a precedent of karaoke, because shows the lyrics of this song.
wow the Mills brothers are so young in this one
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.
Their father was great. Do not ever forget pops.
@@cynthiapickett8342 glad to see my comment from a decade ago is still attracting people here, greetings from Germany
@@jeffreyball6618 Greetings to you too, Jeffrey, may God be always on your side
@@Ivanatis thank you. The mills brothers were on TV old movie that morning. The mctv channel. Various j
My only Mills Bros. album has them doing this, all the way through ..
@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.
At least the Fleischer staff had the foresight to imagine a TV set that transmitted from around the world, complete with racial stereotypes.
Yeah, it's a racial stereotype Chinese guy doing the Russian kozatsky to a Jewish wedding tune.
Was this cartoon shown on Hurray for Betty Boop?
@SIMPFANN Same thing I was thinking.
@rrgomes But Lillian Roth is not a cartoon. She's a singer.
anyone know the song they were singing from 1:48-2:43?
Sounds like "some of these days"
@@swingcocktail You got it.
where's the tiger there's the. tiger
@SIMPFANN You would have a nickel.
good lord the fleischers were so weird.
Yes. It's what made them so great.
Which made them a perfect match for the big-name Jazz Age acts like the Mills Brothers.
The location of the Fleischers' New York City studio facilitated booking celebrity voice & live action talent from various venues (Radio, Vaudeville, Broadway, etc.)
@SIMPFANN In bratislava a nickel could buy 17 top class hotels with enough left over to buy 12 houses
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.
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
I hate the new youtube look!
That's sad
LMAO