Singer-dancer Ina Ray Hutton started out on Broadway at age 8 and performed with the big bands of Harry James and Artie Shaw, but it was as a pioneering band leader herself in the 1930s that she made ...

The Ina Ray Hutton Show was a TV show starring prominent female jazz bandleader Ina Ray Hutton and her all-female orchestra. The show lasted as a regional television show for five years, from 1951 to ...

Travis started playing professionally at age 15, playing in the early 1940s with Johnny McGhee, Vido Musso (1942), Mitch Ayres, and Woody Herman (1942–44). In 1944 he joined the military; after his ...

The HARVARD-YALE Ball. Ina Ray Hutton and Billy Burke. Dancing from 10:00 to 3:00. Couple $4.50; Stag $2.75. Tickets on sale at the Harvard Crimson and the House News Stands. The Penthouse with ...

For this 2011 documentary about the forgotten women of jazz, Judy Chaikin interviewed five elderly artists who played in the 30s and 40s, one as the lone woman in Woody Herman’s band and others ...

side 1: Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra. Laughin' Louie; side 2: Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears. And I Still Do (His Master's Voice X.4432). 78 rpm. Side 1 was originally recorded in 1933 and ...

Contains eighteen different groups, including: Ina Ray Hutton and Her Melodears, the Persian Red Heads, and Harry Waiman and His Debutantes. Also see Spitalny, Box 16, Folder I I I. Collection items ...