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"Artists And Models"
(1937) with Jack Benny, Ida Lupino, and
Louis Armstrong's band.
"Around the World" Kay Kyser
"As Thousands Cheer" with Bob Crosby, Kay Kyser and their
bands.
"Atlantic City" Louis Armstrong.
"Babes Of Swing Street" with Ann Blyth & Andy Devine -
how's
that for casting?
"Ball of Fire" that features Gene Krupa and his band
performing
Drum Boogie.
"Bathing Beauty" with Harry James and Xavier Cugat.
"Beat The Band" has the Gene Krupa Orchestra doing Shadow
Rhapsody and I'm in Love.
"The Benny Goodman Story"
"Best Foot Forward" with Lucille Ball, June Allyson, Nancy
Walker
and Harry James and Orchestra performing One O'Clock Jump and Flight
of the Bumble Bee.
"Birth of the Blues" Bing Crosby and Jack Teagarden.
"Blues In The Night" (WB-1941) with the Jimmie Lunceford
Orch.
"Broadway Rhythm"
"Cabin in the Sky" Duke Ellington.
"Carnegie Hall" with Arthur Rubenstein, Jascha Heifitz,
Leopold
Stokowski and Vaughan Monroe, without his band.
"Change Of Heart" also featured Count Basie & Ray
McKinley.
"Cinderfella" with Jerry Lewis; has Count Basie's band.
Jerry
Lewis' other films have great big band pieces too.
"Cross My Heart" with Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts and the
Les
Brown band.
"Dancing Co-Ed" with Artie Shaw and a performance of Traffic
Jam.
"Date with Judy" with Xavier Cugat
"Do You Love Me?" (TCF-1946) with Dick Haymes, Maureen
O'Hara
and Harry James and his band.
"Five Pennies" Louis Armstrong.
"Follow the Boys" Freddie Slack and Louis Jordan.
"Gals Incorporated" (1943) with Harriet Hilliard and The
Pied
Pipers.
"The Gene Krupa Story"
"George White's Scandals of 1945" has the Gene Krupa
Orchestra.
Leave Us Leap.
"Girl Crazy" the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
"Glamour Girl" the Gene Krupa Orchestra. Plays Gene's
Boogie.
"The Glenn Miller Story"
"Hat Check Honey" Freddie Slack.
"Here Comes Elmer" includes the Nat King Cole Trio, Dale
Evans
and Pinky Tomlin.
"Hi Good Lookin'" the Ozzie Nelson Orchestra.
"Hi-De-Ho" features Cab Calloway.
"Hit Parade" (of 1943) with Basie & McKinley!
"Hit Parade" (of 1947) with Eddie Albert, Kid Ory &
William
'Fred Mertz' Frawley.
"Hit The Ice" the The Johnny Long Orchestra. (an Abbott
and
Costello movie).
"Holiday Inn" Bob Crosby's band.
"Hollywood Canteen" Jimmy Dorsey and Carmen Cavallero.
"Hollywood Hotel" with Benny Goodman's 1937 band features
Gene
and a performance of Sing, Sing, Sing.
"Honeymoon Lodge" stars the Ozzie Nelson Orchestra.
"I Dood It" with Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra.
"Iceland" stars Sammy Kaye's Band.
"Jam Session" has the Casa Loma, Charlie Barnet, Alvino
Rey
and Jan Garber Orchestras.
"Juke Box Jenny" has the Charlie Barnet band.
"King of Jazz" (1931) starring Paul Whiteman and his
Orchestra.
"Luxury Liner" Xavier Cugat.
"Make Believe Ballroom" Gene Krupa, Ray McKinley, Peewee
Hunt,
etc.
"Make Mine Laughs" with Ray Bolger, Dennis Day and Frances
Langford:
stars the Frankie Carle Orchestra.
"Make Mine Music" Benny Goodman plays After You've
Gone
and All the Cats Join In. (awesome stuff!)
"Manhattan Merry-Go-Round" with Phil Regan, Leo Carillo,
Kay
Thompson, the Ted Lewis Orchestra, Gene Autry and Joe DiMaggio.
"Many Happy Returns" with Burns and Allen.
"Mayor Of 44th Street" with George Murphy.
"Meet The People" (MGM-1944) Lucille Ball, Dick Powell,
Virginia
O'Brien, Spike Jones & His City Slickers. This was the last movie
musical
Dick Powell made.
"Melody Parade" Charlie Barnet Orchestra plays Skyliner,
and Redskin Rhumba.
"Music In Manhattan" the Charlie Barnet band.
"My Favourite Spy" Kay Kyser and his band.
"New Orleans" (UA-1947) with Louis Armstrong, Billie
Holliday
and Marjorie Lord (of TV's 'Danny Thomas Show') and Woody Herman.
"No Leave, No Love" with Van Johnson, Keenan Wynn, and the
Xavier
Cugat Orchestra.
"Orchestra Wives" the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
"Presenting Lily Mars" with Bob Crosby, and Tommy Dorsey
and
his band, and a performance of Broadway Rhythm.
"Private Buckeroo" with the Andrews Sisters, Dick Foran,
Joe
E Lewis, and Harry James and his Orchestra.
"Reveille With Beverly" starred the bands of Bob Crosby (Big
Noise from Winnetke), Duke Ellington (Take the 'A' Train) and
Count Basie (One O'Clock Jump).
"Rhythm Parade" the Mills Brothers.
"Rockabilly Baby"
"Sarge Goes To College"
"Second Chorus" with Artie Shaw's Orchestra doing Concerto
for Clarinet.
"Sensations of 1945" with Woody Herman and Cab
Calloway.
"Seven Days Ashore" features Margaret Dumont, Virginia
Mayo
and the almost-forgotten Freddy Fisher & His Schnickelfritzers.
"Seven Days Leave" with the Les Brown band, and Freddy
Martin
and his band.
"Ship Ahoy" featuring Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey's
band.
Hawaiian War Chant.
"Silver Skates"
"Sing Your Worries Away" with Alvino Ray Orchestra.
"Some Like It Hot" - starring Bob Hope, Shirley Ross and
Gene
Krupa. Krupa was actually a co-star and shared many scenes with Hope
and
Ross. His orchestra was featured extensively, with such classics as Wire
Brush Stomp and Blue Rhythm Fantasy. (I think there are two
films with this name, so this one is otherwise known as "Rhythm
Romance.")
"So's Your Uncle" Jack Teagarden Orchestra.
"Song is Born" Goodman, Dorsey, Armstrong, Hampton, etc.
"Springtime In The Rockies" with Betty Grable, John Payne,
Carmen
Miranda, and Harry James and his Orchestra.
"Springtime in the Rockies" with Harry James and his
Orchestra.
"Stage Door Canteen" - also stars: Guy Lombardo, Benny
Goodman,
Xavier Cugat, Freddy Martin, and Count Basie. Benny plays Why
Don't You Do Right, and Bugle Call Rag, which really jives.
"Start Cheering" (1938) with Jimmy Durante, the 3 Stooges,
Broderick
Crawford, and the Louis Prima Orchestra.
"Stormy Weather" with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Lena
Horne,
Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, and Ada Brown with Aint Misbehavin' and
Jumpin' Jive. J
"Sun Valley Serenade" Glenn Miller Orchestra!
"Sweet And Lowdown" Benny Goodman Orchestra.
"Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" a 1933 movie in which Betty
Grable
was a member of the band.
"Sweethearts of the USA" Jan Garber band.
"Swing Kids" all Benny Goodman tunes.
"Take It Big" the Ozzie Nelson Orchestra.
"The Duke is Tops" - with Lena Horne, Ralph Cooper, and
The
Cats and the Fiddle.
"The Fabulous Dorseys" - also has guest appearances of
Paul
Whiteman and his Orchestra. They play Marie, Green Eyes,
etc.
"The Fleet's In" with Jimmy Dorsey and band playing Tangerine,
and Amapola.
"The Gang's All Here" with Benny Goodman playing two
tunes,
and a bevy of banana toting girls.
"The Ladies Man" (1961) with Jerry Lewis, Vicki Benet, and
Harry
James.
"The Sky's The Limit"
"The Strip" (MGM-1951) with Mickey Rooney, Vic Damone and
Louis
Armstrong.
"Thrill Of A Romance."
"Time Out For Rhythm" (1941) with Rudy Vallee, Ann Miller
&
The Three Stooges: stars the Casa Loma Orchestra playing Boogie
Woogie
Man.
"Twenty Million Sweethearts" stars the Mills
Brothers.
"Two Girls and a Sailor" there's something of a story to
this
one also but it really just covers a huge revue of Harry James (plays a
few tunes), Xavier Cugat, Gracie Allen, Lena Horne, several more... and
Jimmie Durante performing Inka Dinka Doo!
"Variety Show" with Fred Waring and his band.
"Weekend at the Waldorf"
"What's Buzzin' Cousin" with Lucille Ball, Victor Mature,
Arnold
Stang, and Ginny Simms: with the Les Brown Orchestra.
"What's Cookin'" Woody Herman plays Woodchopper's Ball.
"Winter Time" Woody Herman and Orchestra. 1943.
"You Were Never Lovelier" with Xavier Cugat.
"You'll Find Out" with Kay Kyser.
Disney's "Melody Time" is now available at most video stores.
Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians perform the soundtrack for a segment
titled "Trees"...the Joyce Kilmer poem set to music and artwork. Also
in
the film is Freddy Martin and his Orchestra performing a jazz
interpretation
of The Flight of the Bumble Bee. "Melody Time" was
made in 1948 and is still a wonderful film.
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