Birth of the Blues
Strike Up The Band ! * Here comes happiness . . . in a merry medley of romance . . . and rhythm !
Overview
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
- Production
- Paramount Pictures
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Cast
Bing Crosby
Jeff Lambert
Mary Martin
Betty Lou Cobb
Brian Donlevy
Memphis
Carolyn Lee
Aunt Phoebe Cobb
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Louey
J. Carrol Naish
Blackie
Warren Hymer
Limpy
Horace McMahon
Wolf
Ruby Elzy
Ruby
Harry Barris
Suds
Minor Watson
Henri Lambert
Harry Rosenthal
Piano Player
Donald Kerr
Skeeter, Barbershop Musician
Barbara Pepper
Maizie
Cecil Kellaway
Granet
Ronnie Cosby
Jeff as a Boy
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Tommy Dorsey
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Dorsey
Self (archive footage)
Crew
- Director
- Victor Schertzinger
- Writers
- Harry Tugend,Walter DeLeon
- Producers
- Monta Bell,Buddy G. DeSylva
- Cinematography
- William C. Mellor
- Composer
- Robert Emmett Dolan
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CinemaSerf
July 27, 2025
It’s set in the American Deep South in the late 1930s so of course there are going to be unsavoury racial overtones, but in some ways this films strives to suggest that by using jazz music and the wholesomeness of Bing Crosby, there might be some green shoots of desegregation starting to emerge. The young “Jeff” is a pretty prodigious talent, but is regularly strapped by his father for playing with “darkie bands” in New Orleans. Undeterred, he grows up (into Bing Crosby) and establishes his own …