Ina Ray Hutton and Her Melodears - Doin' The Suzy Q

[Wn8ief]

my friend Helen Baker was Ina's Guitar Player

[CubicleKK]

I don't care what her ethnic background was-she was smoking hot!!!!

[TCoffey8]

Yes... Apparently she was "passing"

[lauristonplaceeh3]

For more information on her, see the article by Bob Stanley in The Guardian of Friday 8 July 2011.

[vertxxgg]

some said she was Cherokee others Ucrainian karaite jew..Odessa Cowan z a wonder chick americana

[HConstantine]

@vertxxgg go to Sudio360 (the NPR show) and search for her name. It turns out that under the mores of the 1930s she was black passing for white (meaning she had one or two black great grandparents).

[vertxxgg]

curious ..those filmlets of Ina ray were seen in Barcelona in 1937 during a festival of jazz to benefit of International Brigades and combattants in Cinema Goya id keep the program..

[coolcutsgal2]

isn't she Betty Huttons sister?wern't they a sister act to begin with?

[ziggyelman]

@coolcutsgal2 , No, her sister was Marion Hutton who sang with Glenn Miller

[zbelzanger]

"Come get your tootsies hot!" lol.  (Girl!!! I just got done polishing that floor.)

[coolcutsgal2]

This was Betty Huttons sister!They started out together then had a falling out!they went their seperate ways & the rest is history!

[juitel]

My mother was a member of the Melodears. Ina Rae Hutton was an amazing performer.

[simoneporter44]

Thanks for sharing! Ina was my great aunt and it's always great to see videos of her. :)

[Fiftiesflashback]

@typicalwhiteperson20

NOW YOU'RE TRUCKIN' WITH THE REST OF US HEP-CATS! YEAH, MAN!

[kissmeraas]

It's nice to see Lady GaGa in her prime of youth before the stroke...

[ladyloveforevenmore]

A great Performance - like all the others by Ina Hutton. I had never seen them before - this footage and other of her are also a great heritage of mankind !

[stonescourt3]

I LOVE THIS STUFF! depression-era music was all too happy to lighten folks' spirits!

[RatPfink66]

Song is from 1936. (So is the clip probably - they didn't keep songs around long then.)

[scottw11354]

She was a giant!!!!

[zbelzanger]

THE SUZY Q never looked better.

[northbreed1]

Unsung heroine of the "Big Band Era" back in the spotlight thanks to janklompstra. Ain't she sumptin'!

[vertxxgg]

Ina Ray Hutton real name was Odessa Cowan she came from a jewish karaite family well establish in Crimea who emigrate to USA...those short films were seen in Barcelona during a Jazz festival in 1937 to benefit of International Brigades..Id keep the program

[jaykkieiseya]

saw this on led zep vid trampleld underfoot

[kevnar]

Now we know where they got the Crip Walk from.

[inutza06]

sassda

[SSRusitah]

Gwen Stefani is the reincarnation of Ina Ray Hutton hehe

[wiscsuzski]

I was just thinking the same thing!

[SSRusitah]

hhaha Great Minds Thinks Alike

[YOUniverse2012]

band leader, tap dancer and singer wow!

[Frefflica]

its like how the hell do you do that on THAT floor in THOSE shoes?? superb..

[spanishlake]

I love the way she works to entertain us. For some reason today it's all about attitude. You have to act above it all like Avril Lavigne--like you couldn't care less about your audience or about their perceptions of you.

[niteshadehoney]

this is cool but i like youtubes exit rocks way better

[orangabug]

Did she say in the beginning that this dance was from Harlem? Apparently this is another example of white artists taking black culture and watering it down for a mainstream audience.

[Jnkdog]

Big Band = Cool Nice performance!

[max6550]

'The Blond Bombshell of Rhythm'

[valerie558]

Very Cool ... I say ... Let's bring back the Big Bands !!!

[doodlkatz]

she's got everything madonna wishes she has ...an unbelivable talent ... it's a weird feeling having th hots for some one who been dead 30 yrs and was old enough to be your grandma I feel like that old KINKS song.... pictures of lily?

[chicagotgirl]

Young People Today dont know what a REAL "Entertainer" is...( Heck, I can barely spell it!)

[jameslv2k]

Thanks! I've been looking for these for years.

[David2cool4u]

oops, wrong room ( closes door slowly and leaves )

[dreds4hair]

damn now thats talent

[pmintun]

Now, THAT'S Entertainment. Eat your heart out, Madonna.

[missy2shoes]

THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!!!!