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    Ina Ray Hutton (born Odessa Cowan; March 13, 1916 – February 19, 1984) was an American singer, bandleader, and the elder sister of June Hutton. She led...
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  • The Ina Ray Hutton Show is a TV show starring prominent female jazz bandleader Ina Ray Hutton and her all-female orchestra. From October 30, 1950, until...
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    Ina Ray Hutton. Hutton was born in Bloomington, Illinois. Her parents were Marvel Svea Williams and Odie Daniel Cowan. She and her older sister, Ina Ray...
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    programs soon followed. In 1956, Brewster was the announcer on The Ina Ray Hutton Show, a variety program on NBC television.: 502  On Maverick, Brewster's...
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  • effort for Columbia Pictures, and stars Ina Ray Hutton, Hugh Herbert, Ann Savage, and Billy Gilbert. It was Hutton's first major film role; she had become...
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  • Melodears, also known as Ina Ray Hutton and Her Melodears, was an American all-female band. The band was led by singer Ina Ray Hutton and featured several...
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    female bands were led by trumpeter B. A. Rolfe, Anna Mae Winburn, and Ina Ray Hutton. Big Bands began to appear in movies in the 1930s through the 1960s...
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  • Hopkins (1903-1984) Pee Wee Hunt (1907-1979) Lloyd Hunter (1910-1961) Ina Ray Hutton (1916-1984) (Melodears) Tommy Igoe (born 1964) (The Birdland Big Band)...
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  • Girl Time is a 1947 American concert film directed by Will Cowan. Ina Ray Hutton as herself / Orchestra Leader Nellie Lutcher as herself Dorothy Costello...
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    including those of Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Ina Ray Hutton. In 1950, Hirt became first trumpet and featured soloist with Horace...
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  • male band, Blanche Calloway and Her Joy Boys, from 1932 to 1939, and Ina Ray Hutton led an all-girl band, the Melodears, from 1934 to 1939. Eunice Westmoreland...
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    bands (most notably the all-female bands led by Irene Vermillion and Ina Ray Hutton). Klein was a native of Cleveland, Ohio where she played trumpet in...
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    led by Tex Beneke, Ray McKinley and Buddy DeFranco. In addition to the Glenn Miller Orchestra, he also played with the Ina Ray Hutton, Claude Thornhill...
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    Screen and Stage Use 'Tom Thumb' on Way Of Local Origin Husband Sues Ina Ray Hutton". New York Times. p. 38. Schallert, Edwin (Nov 8, 1957). "Stage Calls...
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  • Shop' in Toronto when Ina Ray Hutton brought her all-female band (the Melodears) to town. Her piano player had taken ill, and Hutton was frantically trying...
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    Georgie Price, Eleanor Powell, Hildegarde, Ray Bolger, Sally Rand, Jack Pearl, the Lane Sisters, and Ina Ray Hutton. He wrote the Broadway stage scores for...
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  • and his success eroded toward the end of the decade. Brooks married Ina Ray Hutton and moved to Los Angeles, where he suffered a stroke and was unable...
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  • an all-female orchestra, headed by Ina Ray. He added Hutton to her name and it became the popular Ina Ray Hutton and her Orchestra. In 1934, Mills Music...
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    disco/dance singer, songwriter and producer Ina Ray Hutton – entertainer, leader of all-female band June Hutton – singer Janice K. Jackson (1995) – Educator...
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  • All-Stars, a band that included Lee Wiley. In 1940, he also toured with Ina Ray Hutton. He then joined the band of Wingy Manone. From 1947 until 1951, he worked...
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  • Rhythm. In 1950, Sager joined the all-female band of Ina Ray Hutton that performed on The Ina Ray Hutton Show. While with the All-American Girl Orchestra...
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  • artist Edward Hutton (writer), British writer Ina Ray Hutton, American jazz age dancer and orchestra leader Jim Hutton, American actor June Hutton, American...
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    Sweethearts and "Helen Lewis and Her All-Girl Jazz Syncopators" were popular. Ina Ray Hutton led an all-girl band, the Melodears, from 1934 to 1939. Eunice Westmoreland...
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  • Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (song) (category Songs with music by Ray Henderson)
    were unrelated to the plot. The song was the theme song for TV's The Ina Ray Hutton Show during the 1950s. The song was featured in the 1936 Our Gang short...
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    Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw, Hot Lips Page, Jack Teagarden, Ina Ray Hutton, and Alvino Rey. His songwriting hits include "Let Me Off Uptown", performed...
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  • toured with the orchestras of Tommy Reed (1913–2012), Les Elgart, Ina Ray Hutton, Benny Goodman, and Woody Herman from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s...
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  • ex-actress with four young female charges The Ina Ray Hutton Show – a series featuring bandleader Ina Ray Hutton The Lawrence Welk Show – a musical program...
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  • By 1948, KTLA boasted a show lineup that included Spade Cooley, The Ina Ray Hutton Show, The Continental Lover, Time for Beany, Korla Pandit's Adventures...
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    This was followed by jobs in the bands of Dick Rogers, Shep Fields and Ina Ray Hutton. In July 1944, he joined Boyd Raeburn's short-lived big band, where...
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    Organization (USO) camp shows across the country. They also joined Ina Ray Hutton and her Orchestra, a female-led all-male big band. The Kim Loo Sisters...
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