Listen to the Mockingbird
- 1941
- 3m
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The Korn Kobblers dress as rustics -- one is made up as a girl -- and shoot at the camera in this rendition of the title 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.
"Listen to the Mockingbird" was written in 1855 and was immensely popular. It purports to tell the story of a man whose sweetheart has died; he visits her grave and reminisces about how they used to enjoy its music together. It sold an estimated twenty million copies of sheet music and was adapted as marching music during the Civil War.
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.
"Listen to the Mockingbird" was written in 1855 and was immensely popular. It purports to tell the story of a man whose sweetheart has died; he visits her grave and reminisces about how they used to enjoy its music together. It sold an estimated twenty million copies of sheet music and was adapted as marching music during the Civil War.
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- boblipton
- Jul 16, 2023
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