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Ina Ray Hutton: The Blonde Bombshell of Rhythm

Ina Ray Hutton was a skilled musician, singer and dancer hired in 1934 to front and lead the all-women Melodears Orchestra (the name itself a pun). The Melodears Orchestra was assembled in 1934 by the influential booking and promotional agent, Irving Mills, a music publisher and theatrical agent who had built the commercial careers, and fortunes, of his clients, like Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. Ms. Hutton who was nearly as successful as the big-name Swing orchestras. She had noted arrangers including Alex Hill who wrote charts for the Melodears. Today, the recordings may sound dated, but stand up to close examination. In 1936, the brilliant music director Eddie Durham coached and tutored them further, adding polish and finesse and spoke highly of the musicians, “that band played, just the same as the boys. They had to. I trained ‘em.” Mills dropped the orchestra in 1939, but Ina Ray bought out the Mills agency share. Hutton then ran all-male bands during WWII and through the 1940s. She also made feature films usually playing herself such as in “Ever Since Venus” 1944. She adapted quickly to television, broadcasting often in Los Angeles after 1949. In 1955 Ina Ray Hutton made a movie called “Girl Time” with an all-female orchestra format. In this slideshow, the last music excerpt is from, what I believe is the 1955 “Girl Time” film with all female musicians. The first three music excerpts in this clip are the Melodears Orchestra, so women perform ALL the music in this clip.