Singerdancer Ina Ray Hutton started out on Broadway at age 8 and performed with the big bands of Harry James and Artie Shaw but it was as a pioneering band leader herself in the 1930s that she made her name Hutton organized her first allwomen big band Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears in 1935 A few film appearances for the band and a starring role for Hutton in Ever Since Venus 1944 along with endless national touring eventually led her to NBC and a musical variety show in 1956 In this Paramount short one of a series directed by Fred Waller who went on to invent Cinerama Huttongrooving up front in her standard sheer evening dressand the original Melodears perform Organ Grinders Swing Overture followed by The Winstead Trio doing The Bugle Call Rag