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==Film shorts== Red Nichols and his band appeared in several musical film shorts. The first was Red Nichols & His Five Pennies (1929), a [[Vitaphone]] short directed by [[Murray Roth]]. Red Nichols' Five Pennies play "Ida", "Whispering", "Nobody's Sweetheart", "Who Cares", and "China Boy". The musicians are Red Nichols (cornet), Tommy Thune and John Egan (trumpet), Herb Taylor (trombone), Pee Wee Russell (clarinet), Irving Brodsky (piano), Eddie Condon (banjo and vega lute) and George Beebe (drums). In 1935, the film short Million Dollar Notes was released by [[Paramount Pictures]], directed by [[Fred Waller]] and produced by [[Adolph Zukor]]. The songs performed were "St. Louis Blues", "Rhythm of the Dixieland Band", and "Everybody Loves My Baby". In 1936, he and his band appeared in a ten minute film short entitled Red Nichols and His World Famous Five Pennies directed by [[Joseph Henabery]] which featured his theme song "Wail of the Winds" written by [[Harry Warren]], "Get Happy", "When It's Sleepy Time Down South", "Troublesome Trumpet", "Cryin' for the Carolines", "Carolina in the Morning" written by [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donalson]], and "Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin' Caroline". In the 1950s, [[Snader Telescriptions]] were recorded for Entrance of the Gladiators (1952), Three Blind Mice (1952), American Patrol (1951), Battle Hymn of the Republic (1950) and Back Room Entrance. These were live performances produced by Louis D. Snader in Hollywood. Back Room Blues (1950) was directed by Louis "Duke" Goldstone.
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