Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - The Chronological Classics: Cab Calloway and His Orchestra 1930-1931 (1931)

"Yaller" by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra

When Ina Ray Hutton was already an established Broadway performer, she was approached by music publisher and jazz promoter Irving Mills to lead the novelty all-girl Melodears.  Irving Mills managed some of the biggest orchestras in jazz.  One of those orchestras was headed by Cab Calloway (with whom Mills co-wrote Cab's most famous song, "Minnie the Moocher".)  As usual for jazz artists on the tour, Cab Calloway's earliest recordings are collected on The Chronological Classics: Cab Calloway and His Orchestra 1930-1931.

Here is the discography surrounding Cab Calloway's debut recordings:

The Chronological Classics: Cab Calloway and His Orchestra 1930-1931

Minnie the Moocher (featuring "Minnie the Moocher" by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra)

Snow White (featuring "St. James Infirmary" by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra)

"Is That Religion?" by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra

"Some of These Days" by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra

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Ina Ray Hutton - Ina Ray Hutton and Her Melodears (1944)

"Twenty-Four Hours in Georgia" by Ina Ray Hutton and Her Melodears


June Hutton followed in the music industry behind her half-sister Ina Ray Hutton.  Ina Ray's career had two iterations.  The first started in the mid-thirties as the leader of an all female Big Band, The Melodears.  The second came during World War II as the leader of an all male Big Band Orchestra that toured military bases around the United States and eventually landed her as an early host of her own television show (where she would lead, again, an all-female band).  Although Hutton never recorded an album nor very many singles, both careers have been captured by a few compilations that collect her bands' singles, radio broadcasts and film performances.  The album for this whistle-stop is Ina Ray Hutton and Her Melodears released by Vintage Music Productions.

Here is Ina Ray Hutton's discography:

Ina Ray Hutton and Her Melodears
The Definitive Collection 1934-1944 (compilation album)
1943 Spotlight Band Broadcasts (radio compilation album)

Swing Hutton Swing (featuring Ina Ray Hutton and Her Melodears)


A 1940s short (featuring Ina Ray Hutton and Her Orchestra)

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June Hutton - Afterglow (1955)

"My Kinda Love" by June Hutton


When Jo Stafford left Tommy Dorsey's Pied Pipers to go solo, June Hutton took her place.  Hutton, too, eventually went solo and released her debut album Afterglow (with arrangements by her husband Axel Stordahl) in 1955 on Capitol Records.

Here is the discography surrounding June Hutton's debut album:

There's a Fellow Waiting in Poughkeepsie (1944 single with The Pied Pipers)
Dream (1945 single with The Pied Pipers)
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (1945 single with The Pied Pipers)
Be Mine (1950 single)
More Than I Should (1950 single)
Teardrops from My Eyes (1950 single)
All the Bees Are Buzzin' Round My Honey (1950 single)
Nothing (1951 single)
Walkin' (1951 single)
I Miss You So (1952 single)
For the First Time (In a Long Time) (1953 single)
I Had a Little Too Much to Dream Last Night (1953 single)
The Lights of Home (1953 single)
No Stone Unturned (1953 single)
Oh, These Lonely Nights (1953 single)
Say You're Mine Again (1953 single)
Coney Island Boat (1953 single with Gordon MacRae)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953 soundtrack album with Gordon MacRae)
Too Little Time (1954 single)
We Don't Wanna Go Home (1954 single)
Afterglow
The June Hutton Collection 1945-55 (compilation album)

"East of the Sun (West of the Moon)" by June Hutton


"Dream" by June Hutton and The Pied Pipers


"Coney Island Boat" by Gordon MacRae and June Hutton


"I Hadn't Anyone Till You" by June Hutton


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