1940s Jazz, R&B, Gospel and Black music and dance performances in Film or TV

In and around some great blues, swing and jazz music, a very unpopular band-leader. Prince Ellis, is killed in a Harlem nightclub, and, in and around some more great music, a detective finds the lists of suspects is very long, as Prince Ellis was indeed very unpopular with many citizens.

In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.

A straight man comes over to three comedians and tells them how the only way to handle a woman is to treat her rough and make her like it.

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new song. Katie joins Lily in England after the boys give their latest song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited after the boys, now in the army, show up in England.

A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father.

After perennial college students Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are forced to make it on their own, the competitive pair get jobs with Artie Shaw's band and reunite with ex-manager Ellen Miller.

A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused of theft. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.

Woody Herman's orchestra plays five tunes, and guest performers sing and dance.

Gang member, Muggs, aspires to be a jockey and tries to cheat his way to the top.

An American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner.

"Jigger' Pine forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit and to play blues music. The dedication isn't paying off financially and, while riding the rails in a boxcar, they meet and befriend gangster Del Davis. He offers them a job at a New Jersey roadhouse, where Powell falls in love with Kay Grant, a former 'real good friend' of Davis. But when Powell learns that Character is about to have a baby, he returns to her. Jigger tries to make Kay the band's singer and, after this fails, runs off with her. She leaves him with nothing but a nervous breakdown. Back at the roadhouse, after his recovery, Kay shows up, has a quarrel with Davis, shoots and kills him, and plans to take back up with Jigger, who knows better but just can't help himself. While she is waiting in a car for him, along comes cripple Brad Ames, who she put in that condition, and he gets in and drives the car over a cliff, leaving no survivors in the two-passenger crash. The band is back together at the end, still using boxcars as their transportation, but happy playing the blues.

The black residents of Lazy Town are bored one day until a sultry light-skinned woman shows up to teach them what rhythm is.

Fats Waller performs his classic hit accompanied by his big band and a bevy of beauties.

Soundie of the Delta Rhythm Boys' version of the eponymous classic song, accompanied by some dancing beauties.

In this "Soundie", Sister Rosetta Tharpe sings the title song while young couples do the Lindy Hop.