Here's a short subject from the Warner Brothers 'Melody Masters' series about the Robert Mitchell Choir. We get to watch them sing scales, "Home on the Range", "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" and other well known songs, straight and in swingtime.
Mitchell was an organist and choir master, who performed for the movies from the middle of the 1920s. He organized his boys choir in the 1930s, and they sang in an estimated hundred movies and numerous TV shows from 1936 through 1981. From the 1960s he returned to playing the organ, most notably at the Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles until shortly before his death in 2009 at the age of 96.
Mitchell was an organist and choir master, who performed for the movies from the middle of the 1920s. He organized his boys choir in the 1930s, and they sang in an estimated hundred movies and numerous TV shows from 1936 through 1981. From the 1960s he returned to playing the organ, most notably at the Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles until shortly before his death in 2009 at the age of 96.