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My Great Aunt Marian can be seen in many of these clips playing guitar behind Ina.

One wonders if the accordion would have been a little more popular if she would have been in the place of Myron. Myron was a good Steward of the accordion all those years. A class act. She doesn't have to look at the keys. Welk was a smart guy.

So tragic a life... Beauty gaded...so very quickly... sad Loved watching her ...🎉🎉🎉 .

Who's the wonderful guitarist?

Hard song to play...she plays it its nothin 😮 So beautiful...and fleeting

Oh nice to hear Ina Ray speak!

No WONDER Lawrence Welk hired her - she was incredible, even at an early age!! If this is 1956 as someone in the comments posted, she would have been just 16 years old! Amazing talent!!

excelete!

Difficult piece to play She was beautiful

From an August 1956 telecast. She was on NBC's Wednesday night schedule at 10:30pm(et) that summer, for Purex [Beads-o'-Bleach, New Blue Dutch Cleanser, et. al.].

It appears that the 20’s & 30’s were more progressive for women and people of Colour than it was in the 40’s & 50’s. Apparently Ina and Eunice/Rita/Dona all had African American lineage

Interesting clips of gorgeous Ina Ray. At the very end, at 5:23, a hint of how good her band was at its best. Thanks for sharing.

Just found out she passed for white.

Además de hermosa, carismática, y talentosa👍👍👍😘😘😘😘😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️

Wow, and she's playing clave while dancing, a very difficult thing to do.

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Ina Ray was sensational. I believe her sister was too,

Effortless swag

I guess this was a TV show.

I remember playing that at music contest when I was in high school, not nearly that fast or that comfortably! I could never play it now, old arthritic hands.

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OK, this could be TMI but Ina Ray Hutton also had a brief summer replacement show (for whom I don’t know) on NBC. This clip could be from that 1956 show. I don’t think any kinescope recordings exist anymore for Ina’s KTLA show. I think KTLA’s 40th Anniversary program had a clip but that was 35 years ago as KTLA is now 75. KTLA had a studio theatre across from parent Paramount Pictures on Melrose Ave. Melvan Theatre (at Melrose/Van Ness) with marquee changed to KTLA Studio Theatre. The station had very cramped facilities (prior to move to Sunset Blvd. in 1955) and this small theater was their only studio that could accommodate an audience. It had a ramp added for camera with dolly just like all the theatre studios in NYC in the early days. I don’t recall Ina Ray’s show having any pattern on floor as sometimes different programs had to air from same stage with little time to shift scenery. So more than likely this clip is from NBC show. How surprised LA viewers would have been to learn that beautiful, blonde Ina Ray Hutton was part Black. KTLA was also home to Korla Pandit mysterious organist from the East who, it was much later revealed, was also Black. You can, of course, Google these interesting stories and there are film musical clips featuring Ina Ray from the Thirties and early Forties. She was quite the looker and sang and danced. Mishaps on her Live TV show (KTLA 1951-55 or so) included elephant relieving itself (yes! no. 2) and as Ina always wore strapless gowns, she had a slight mishap when part of her anatomy was exposed.

Love it!!!!

Correct song title is Cachita, not Conchita

Along with the wonderful Ina Ray and Melodears, some wonderful for 1936 camera & film-editing/sound-synchronizing magic. Has anything been written about "the making of..." this film and whatever (presumably) larger feature it was part of?

Ina Ray rules! Thanks for posting this fun number. Good band & Ina Ray was delightful.

When is this from?? Wiki sez: >> 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 October 9, 1951, the program was sponsored by Altes Beer on KTLA.[1] From 1951 to 1955, the show was a regional television show on the Paramount Television Network flagship station KTLA, and had a brief network run on PTN in 1956.[2] << Jo Ann Castle was born September 1939, that means she's somewhere between eleven and sixteen.

Melissa Ritz So great to see these clips! Thanks for adding them. My father was a crazy autograph hound in the late 30s in NYC and I've been cataloging his collection. I try to learn about all the people in his collection and learning so much! This is great - never heard of her before. Same with Cab Calloway's sister.

Wow. This number is delightful. Great arrangement & Ina Ray is hot! I don't notice problems with the sound - sounds good to me. Thanks for posting.

I like her dress :)

They where passing for white

by zez confrey, who also wrote kitten on the keys, premiered at the same concert with rhapsody in blue!

God gave her fingers!

Liked seeing the band members clap their hands to this song.

So Ina retired from the music world in 1968. This looks like the early, or possibly the mid 1950s. I wish there was footage of her speaking or singing in the 1950's to 1968. Even an interview would do.

Such a talented lady!

Do you have any footage of Jo Ann Castle on the Mickey Finn Show? I know she appeared at least one time.

My, this lady certainly had attractive bare shoulders, I must say! 💞💞💞💞💞 😀😀😀😀😀

YAY JO ANN!!!!! 🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵 👏👏👏👏👏 😁😁😁😁😁

Wow! Future Lawrence Welk pianist/accordionist Jo Ann Castle on another show! My, was she ever multi-talented! 😀😀😀😀😀

Hi Melissa. I contacted you about a year ago regarding some articles and photos of Ina Ray Hutton. That I found in a briefcase 💼. I just wanted you to know I gave all the pictures and articles to a woman named Renee. Renee’s channel is called paper and moose, and today she opened up the package I sent. I will keep you updated. I had to abandon my instagram pmk29 and now ketophotograph92 on insta. Take care and stay safe out there. ♥️🙋🏻‍♀️Risa

After having known June's 1957 recording of this song only, it's such a joy to find that her sister had sung it too, in the same key at that! :-D

That was just sooo amazing and wonderful seeing them together! I wish there was footage of June singing with her sister's orchestra as Elaine Merritt back in the late 1930's B-) Thank you so much for sharing this!

Выдающаяся джазовая певица, несправедливо забытая, была руководителем своего бенда, красивая, талантливая!

She "passed" for white back in those days in order to survive in the music business. Like my Mother, she's mixed with white and black, although she looks white. That girl could dance and sing:)

She "passed" for white back in those days in order to survive in the music business. Like my Mother, she's mixed with white and black, although she looks white. That girl could dance and sing:)

Some of my fav female performers

Some of my fav female performers

I can hear the similarities in both her and her sisters voice Ina seems like the sassy funny sister hehe where as june seems more matured