Some of These Days (1942) User Reviews

She's No Sophie Tuckie

[boblipton · 4/10 · 15 July 2023]

Maxine Sullivan sings the Sophie Tucker signature song in this soundie.

Soundies were short films, about three minutes in length. The were meant to be played on a machine called a Mills Panoram, a video jukebox that was typically to be found in bars, lounges, and similar venues. You put a dime in and got a performance from the ten on the machine. The movies would be changed weekly, and from 1940 through 1946, Mills and other companies produced more than two thousand soundies.

Miss Sullivan sings the song well in a musical sense, but puts no emotion into it, and neither do the smiling girls behind her. My reaction is based on having heard the song performed by Sophie Tucker, the last of the red-hot mamas. She first recorded it in 1910, had a milion-copy-selling recording with the Ted Lewis Band in 1926, and performed it many times on stage, radio, in films and on television as a raucous, angry, vengeful blues number. Miss Sullivan lacks all that.

Some of These Days was another Soundie I watched on YouTube

[tavm · 7/10 · 26 July 2011]

This was another Soundie I watched on YouTube. In this one, singer Maxine Sullivan sings about how the person she's singing to is gonna miss her. While she warbles, several other females are dancing to the tune. One of them was Winnie Johnson who was married to comedian Stepin Fetchit and once dated actor Canada Lee. She was also in the Cotton Club chorus with Lena Horne. Another one was Edna Mae Holly who was once married to boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. In another scene, she's playing with some black (stereotypically so) dolls with a man as Maxine is singing about a breakup during this scene. This was another of these "music videos" that originally played on Panorams (film jukeboxes) at restaurants, bars, and train or bus stations. Overall, I liked Some of These Days.

One of the best sondies!

[msladysoul · 9/10 · 5 June 2008]

I love this soundie. This soundie is less then five minutes but its very fulfilling, there's great singing, some hip dancing from guys and girls, a little acting, pretty girls, its an early form of an music video, it is a 40'ish music video. Maxine Sullivan is a great singer who had a lot of soul in her voice. She should be remembered more then what she is. I wonder who the pretty girl that was shown throughout the soundie a few times more then the others, she was the one who did a little playacting with a guy playing house with little stick figures or whatever and she had quite a few close ups. She had a wonderful personality, exuberant, and gorgeous, I'm surprised she didn't become a big star. Some of the people used in the background of soundies were used in other soundies as well, I recognized some in this soundie in other soundies, hopefully the pretty girl from this soundie I'll see in other soundies.