I'm an Old Cowhand

⭐ Featured Review

"Gus Van sings the Johnny Mercer standard while dressed in cowboy gear, then wears costumes to sing the song in an assortment of accents in this soundie. Soundies were music videos meant to be played on a device called a Mills Panaram. Drop a dime into one of the machines, and you got one of ten short film that lasted about three minutes. Most of them were songs like this. From 1940 through 1946, you could find Panarams at bars, diners, night clubs, and such places. Mills not only made the machines, they made more than two thousand of these shorts. Other manufacturers got into the market for t..."