Footage from swing film with Louis Prima and Shirley Loyd.Swing band plays music to an audience in a club, audience bounces and claps to the beat as band members play trumpet, clarinet, stand-up bass, drums, guitar, and piano on a round stage, swing style trumpet solo.Shirley Loyd, an attractive woman in a black dress steps on stage and sings “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love”, accompanied by Louis Prima and his quartette.. The audience applause. Xylophone player begins a new tune, piano player joins in, followed by clarinet and trumpet, the trumpet player dances along with the music.A young couple step out onto the dance floor, they man and woman dance side by side to the music, the boy leans in dramatically to kiss the girl, who jokingly slaps him across the face, and the two continue to dance. The dance is a swing type dance with some tap (perhaps the Charleston?).Louis Prima, Swing Cat’s Jamboree, trumpet, solo, swing dance
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