The Ina Ray Hutton Show
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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 1956, and had a brief network run in 1956. http://www.parabrisas.com/d_huttonir.php
The show's theme song was "Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
" by The California Ramblers
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Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
bandleader Ina Ray Hutton
Ina Ray Hutton
Ina Ray Hutton was an American female leader during the Big band era, and sister to June Hutton.Hutton was born as Odessa Cowan in Chicago, Illinois of African American descent. She began dancing and singing in stage revues at the age of eight. Cowan's mother Marvel Ray was a local pianist and...
and her all-female orchestra. The show lasted as a regional television show for five years, from 1951 to 1956, and had a brief network run in 1956. http://www.parabrisas.com/d_huttonir.php
The show's theme song was "Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (song)
"Has Anybody Seen My Gal?" was a popular song of the 1920s, music by Ray Henderson, lyrics by Sam M. Lewis & Joseph Widow Young, first recorded by The California Ramblers in 1925 on their self-titled album The California Ramblers...
" by The California Ramblers
The California Ramblers
The California Ramblers were a popular and prolific jazz group from the 1920s, that recorded hundreds of songs under many different record labels throughout the 1920s. Three of the members of the band, Red Nichols, Jimmy Dorsey, and Tommy Dorsey, would go on to front big bands in later decades...
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