Soundies were the early version of today's music video, they were founded in the 1940s. They were generally 3 minutes long and produced in America. Soundies covered all types of music such as: Classical to big band swing, hillibilly novelties etc. These soundies were glorious little capsules of musical history but sadly wartime restrictions stopped people from watching soundies, the number of soundies used after 1946 dropped from 10,000 to 2,000.
That may have been the end of Soundies but channel 4 did a series called "The jazz package" in the summer of 1993. Now the only place to find Soundies is in second hand record stores.
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