Row, Row, Row Soundie

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This 1940s black-and-white Soundie from Juvenile Jubilee features a male bandleader directing a jazz band—violin, drums, saxophones—on a nightclub stage. A female singer in a lamé dress croons "Row, Row, Row," weaving through tables, flirting with a romantic couple and three ogling men. The men ditch blazers for crew sweaters, grab oars, and set her at the head of a mock scull, rowing backward past diners as they chant, blending jazzy tunes with playful antics.

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