Jordan Jive

Louis Jordan and his group play the title song, while a couple of jitterbugs do some extreme movies in this soundie.

Soundies were three-minute videos meant to be played on a type of video jukebox called a Mills Panaram. From about 1940 through 1947, Mills and a few competitors issued more than two thousand reels of film for these machines. Each reel had ten three-minute shorts on it. Put a dime in a machine, which might be at a night club or diner, and you got one of the shorts. Most of them seemed to have been musical, but there were aso comedy routines and occasional acrobats.

I've never heard of the Maniacs the Swing before. They were certainly a lot of fun and complemented Jordan's music well.