Melody Magic

1935
10m

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Here is Johnny Green conducting his lush dance orchestra in a medley of four of his own popular compositions. His band singer Marjory Logan and The Tune Twisters (male trio) sing two more Gr... Read allHere is Johnny Green conducting his lush dance orchestra in a medley of four of his own popular compositions. His band singer Marjory Logan and The Tune Twisters (male trio) sing two more Green songs (both with lyrics by James Dyrenforth): "What Now" and "Not Bad." Green chastise... Read allHere is Johnny Green conducting his lush dance orchestra in a medley of four of his own popular compositions. His band singer Marjory Logan and The Tune Twisters (male trio) sing two more Green songs (both with lyrics by James Dyrenforth): "What Now" and "Not Bad." Green chastises his second pianist (and arranger), Dave Terry, for infringing on Green's musical territo... Read all

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Johnny Green

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Marjory Logan

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Dave Terry

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Tune Twisters

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Director
- Fred Waller
Writers
- Milton Hockey
- Fred Rath
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5/10

Okay

This is the second music short starring Johnny Green's orchestra from Paramount in 1935. In this one he plays dance music based on his own orchestrations. In days to come he would become a conductor for MGM's house orchestra and would appear in three lush Technicolor shorts in the 1950s playing light classical pieces.

This one, however, is competent but fairly ordinary. Although his orchestrations are fuller than typical for a dance band, within a couple of years jazz would evolve into Big Band, with far more interesting work from solo artists. He get a hint of that movement when a quartet performs a moderately hot version of "Not Bad", complete with some scat singing and a bit of novelty clowning when the orchestra :revolts" and gets transformed into high-pitched miniature versions of themselves.