Robert R. Snody

Air Mail Special

Robert R. Snody

Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing

Count Basie does a little rhyming rapping before going into this Benny Goodman instrumental composition. While he's playing, plenty of couples are jitterbugging constantly until, one by one, they get tired and start to fall down on the floor.

The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair

Robert R. Snody

Marjorie Lord, Jimmy Lydon

"An average American family", the Middletons, visit the 1939 World's Fair and witnesses the advent of future technology, encountering robots and dishwashers for the first time.

Toot That Trumpet

Robert R. Snody

The Deep River Boys sing an exciting version of Toot that Trumpet (1941), staged as a club setting with lots of dancers, Chinese paper lanterns hanging from the ceiling and a lively trumpet player.

Rigoletto Blues

Robert R. Snody

Delta Rhythm Boys

An amazingly tight version of the Act 3 Quartet from Rigoletto with the Delta Rhythm Boys.