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You know you've made the Big Time when you're leading a band that's accompanied with a chorus line of perky flappers. But then again, if you're Ted Weems in the late 1920's & early 1930's, this is the life of a famous radio bandleader.

Just another day at the beach on the Eastern Seaboard during the Jazz Age, perhaps in Coney Island or Atlantic City.

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In this clip, the undocumented Brown sisters sing the number "Underneath the Harlem Moon." The soulful trio starts the song slow and syncopated. But this gives way to an almost swingy up-tempo rhythm more than worthy of being captured on film. Wish there was more ...

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Originally from Texas, Amos Milburn moved to Los Angeles and soon became a fixture in the Central Avenue music scenes thriving in Watts during the 1940's and 1950's.

As you can hear from his piano style, Milburn would be a great influence on Fats Domino. He wrote many hits during his day, and was also noted for recording Rudy Toombs' "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer."