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Echoes of the Big Band Era (1939) is a vibrant classic musical performance celebrating the golden age of swing and big band music. Featuring elegant orchestral arrangements and lively rhythms, this vintage film captures the spirit of late 1930s entertainment, when dance halls and orchestras defined popular culture. A nostalgic showcase for fans of classic music, swing-era performances, and timeless cinema from Hollywood’s golden age.
Transcript
00:00The End
00:30Rita, will you please stop that?
00:44You're crazy, that's what you are.
00:46And I've sent for a doctor.
00:48Good.
00:49I hope we can dance.
01:00Oh, there you are, doctor.
01:02You see, just as I told you.
01:04Oh.
01:08Yes.
01:09Yes.
01:11Clearly a mania manifestation.
01:13She must be taken in hand at once.
01:19Look in my eyes.
01:23Hmm, hypothyroid.
01:27Tachycardia.
01:28Ixnay on the Uppleday Off Day.
01:31She must be put where she won't hear any music for six months.
01:34You must be crazy.
01:35I'm going to be a star.
01:37Why, the fellow next door is just begging me to be my manager.
01:40Well, delusion.
01:41Maybe you'd like to be my manager.
01:43I should say not.
01:45Where's the telephone?
01:46Right over there.
01:46I must call the insane asylum.
01:48Oh, no, no.
01:49Harry, save me.
01:51Come on.
01:53Harry, save me.
01:54What's going on here?
01:55They're trying to put me away.
01:57Can I be your manager?
01:58Yes.
01:59I must ask you not to interfere, young man.
02:02Go away.
02:03Come on, Anita.
02:03I'm going to make you a bandleader.
02:05A crazy bandleader?
02:07Certainly.
02:07Why should I be an exception?
02:09There he is.
02:32There, there.
02:34Oh, Margarita, you are so sweet, sir.
02:54We love you more and more.
02:57Oh, yes, we do.
02:59La Margarita, La Buccaraccia, please don't you go away and leave us.
03:08We want to have you near us always, so come and say that you will not play.
03:17Oh, Margarita, you are so sweet, sir.
03:21We love you more and more.
03:25Yes, we do.
03:25My Margarita, I'm so romantic, but Margarita, oh, you drive me frantic.
03:37A good little noodle, do me corbata, lo que or mara, no se do sota.
03:46On my guitar, oh, so lightly, I play nicely when the stars begin to shine.
03:51And though every star up above you knows I love you, I can never make you mine to the moochacha.
03:57When the stars are fading beneath your window, I'm a serenade, my Margarita.
04:07Life could be sweeter if I could feel in your glances my romances when it dances.
04:14But whenever we're together, you're as fickle as the weather when you kiss and run away.
04:24Whenever we're together, she's as fickle as the weather, especially when I kiss and run away.
04:28Da, da, da, da!
04:29Da, da, da!
05:17I cry for you, what a fool I used to be, but I found two eyes
05:45Just a little bit bluer And I found a heart
05:51Just a tiny bit truer I cry for you, what a fool
06:01Now it's your turn to cry over me
06:07And now, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce to you Miss Emily Adrian.
06:17Thank you very much.
06:47Thank you very much.
07:17For the benefit of the gentleman who just walked in, we're going to do our new look-look dance.
07:45You ready, Billy?
07:46Solid.
07:46Let's swing!
07:47This is the look-look
07:52This is the look-look
07:55You look at your wire and you count to two
08:03One, two
08:05He looks at her, she looks at him
08:07You look at us, we look at them
08:10Look-look
08:11Look, look, look, look, look, stop and listen, too
08:29Tis another
08:30Tis another new swing craze
08:32Let's try it!
08:33Let's try it!
08:35Take the letter L
08:36Take the letter L
08:37Take the letter L
08:38Then you add double O and a K
08:39Next you grab yourself apart
08:40Big guy like that
08:41Start to swing and sway
08:43You make the letter L
08:45With your arms and feet
08:47With your arms and feet
08:48Now the double O is real easy
08:49Circle round
08:50And then repeat
08:52To make the letter K
08:53Swing out your arms
08:54Let go your feet
08:55Look!
08:56Look!
08:57Look!
08:58Look!
08:59Look!
09:00Isn't the new swing say so sweet?
09:01Let's try it!
09:11I tell you, no sane person would behave that way
09:14And she must be restrained
09:16But look, she's getting five thousand dollars a week
09:20And how much do you get?
09:22As her manager I get five hundred dollars a week
09:24Besides what I can knock down
09:26Where's the telephone?
09:28I must call up the insane asylum
09:29To come and take her away?
09:31No, to come and take me away
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