Films featuring American Jazz or Dance Bands 1927-1947
this page first published by John Wright, 26 Oct 1997
last update 22 Oct 2008
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As well as on records, jazz and dance band music was recorded for films during the 78 rpm era.
This page continues the list of American films known to feature bands, seen and heard, some not identified. Note: Bands may also appear in films listed in the Entertainers and Popular Song film lists.
If you can add to this list, can fill in any of the gaps or if you know of websites or books
dealing with old movies that might have useful information
then please e-mail me.
Recent updates to listing:
Updates from 'Who Sang What On The Screen' by Alan Warner (1984)
| Updates from 'Black Beauty, White Heat' by Frank Driggs, Harris Lewine (1982)
| Updates from 'Jazz In The Movies' by David Meeker (1972)
| TV means has been shown on television
| V is also available on video
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You may find videos of some of the films on the net at Amazon.com. In the list below those with Order Today! can indeed be ordered via their link. For the other films you can use the search link at the foot of this page.
| FILM | DATE | FEATURING |
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| Take It Big | 1944 | Ozzie Nelson Band Harriet Hilliard Frank Forrest Jack Haley Richard Lane SONGS Sunday Monday Or Always, Love And Learn, Life Can Be Beautiful, Take It Big, I'm A Big Success With You V |
| Talk About A Lady | 1946 | Stan Kenton Orch Jinx Falkenburg SONGS You Gotta Do What Whatcha Gotta Do, I Never Had A Dream Come True, A Mist Is Over The Moon |
| Taxi | 1931 | Les Hite Orch James Cagney Loretta Young SONGS .......... |
| Thanks A Million | 1935 | Paul Whiteman Orch Dick Powell Yacht Club Boys SONGS Thanks A Million, I'm Sitting High On A Hilltop, Sugar Plum, New O'leans, Sing Brother, I've Got A Pocketful Of Sunshine, The Square Deal Party, Happy Days Are Here Again |
| Thanks For Listening | 1937 | Pinky Tomlin Maureen O'Sullivan Jonah Jones (tr) SONGS The Love Bug Will Bite You, I Like To Make Music |
| That's My Gal | 1947 | Jan Savitt and his Tophatters SONGS That's My Girl, Take It Away, The Music In My Heart Is You, For You And Me, Sentimental, Hitchhike To Happiness, 720 In The Books |
| That's Right You're Wrong | 1939 | Kay Kyser Orch Ginny Simms Harry Babbit SONGS I'm Fit To Be Tied, Scatterbrain, Little Red Fox, The Answer Is Love, Chatterbox, Happy Birthday To Love |
| This Is The Life | 1944 | Ray Eberle Orch Bobby Brook Quartet Donald O'Connor Susanna Foster Peggy Ryan SONGS Gremlin Walk, It's The Girl, Yippee-I-Vot, With A Song In My Heart, All Or Nobody At All, You're A Lallapalooza, At Sundown, L'Amour Toujours L'Amour |
| Thousands Cheer | 1943 | Kay Kyser Orch Bob Crosby Orch Benny Carter Orch Hazel Scott Kathryn Grayson Jose Iturbi Mickey Rooney Lena Horne Ann Sothern Gene Kelly Virginia O'Brien SONGS In A Little Spanish Town, Honeysuckle Rose, Tico Tico, The Joint Is Really Jumpin' In Carnegie Hall, Daybreak, Three Letters In The Mailbox, Let There Be Music, The United Nations On The March, The Mop Dance, I Dug A Ditch In Wichita, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Should I?, American Patrol |
| Thrill Of A Romance | 1945 | Tommy Dorsey Orch Xavier Cugat Orch King Sisters Van Johnson Esther Williams Lauritz Melchior Robert Allen SONGS Please Don't Say No Say Maybe, I Should Care, Lovely Night, Vive L'Amour, Thrill Of A Romance, Schubert's Serenade |
| Thrill Of Brazil | 1946 | Enric Madriguera Tito Guizar Ann Miller SONGS Thrill Of Brazil, Copacabana, Custom House, A Man Is Brother To A Mule, That's Good Enough For Me, My Sleepy Guitar |
| Thunderbolt | 1929 | Theresa Harris Curtis Mosby's Dixieland Blue Blowers George Bancroft Fay Wray SONGS Daddy Won't You Please Come Home, Sittin' Around Thinkin' About My Baby |
| Time Out Out For Rhythm | 1941 | Glen Gray Casa Loma Orch Eddie Durant's Rhumba Orch Ann Miller Rudy Vallee Six Hits And A Miss SONGS Boogie Woogie Man, Time Out For Rhythm, As If You Didn't Know, Obviously The Gentleman Prefers To Dance, The Rio De Janiero, Shows How Wrong A Gal Can Be, Twiddlin' My Thumbs, Did Anyone Ever Tell You |
| To Beat The Band | 1935 | Johnny Mercer And His California Collegians Fred Keating Orch Helen Broderick SONGS Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Mo, I Saw Her At Eight O'Clock, If You Were Mine, Meet Miss America, Santa Claus Came In The Spring |
| Too Many Blondes | 1941 | Rudy Vallee Helen Parrish Iris Adrian Humberto Herpera Orch SONGS Whistle Your Blues To A Bluebird, Don't Mind If I Do, Let's Love Again, The Man On The Flying Trapeze |
| Top Man (GB:Man Of The Family) | 1943 | Count Basie Orch Borah Minnevich And His Harmonica Rascals Donald O'Connor Susanna Foster SONGS Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams, Basie Boogie, Dark Eyes |
| Trocadero | 1944 | Gus Arnheim Orch Matty Malneck Orch Bob Chester Orch Wingy Manone Band Rosemary Lane Johnny Downs Ida James SONGS The Music Goes Round And Round, Shoo Shoo Baby, Roundabout Way, Bull Frog Jump, How Could You Do That To Me?, The King Was Doing The Rhumba, Trying To Forget, Can't Take The Place Of You |
| Turn Off The Moon | 1937 | Phil Harris Orch Charles Ruggles Marjorie Gateson SONGS Turn Off The Monn, Easy On The Eyes, Jammin', That's Southern Hospitality, Little Wooden Soldier |
| Twenty Million Sweethearts | 1934 | Ted Fiorito Orch Dick Powell Pat O'Brien Ginger Rogers Mills Brothers SONGS I'll String Along With You, Fair And Warmer, Out For No Good, What Are Your Intentions?, How'm I Doin'?, The Man On The Flying Trapeze |
| Twilight On The Prairie | 1944 | Jack Teagarden Orch Eddie Quillan Johnny Downs SONGS Let's Love Again, Where The Prairie Meets The Sky, Don't You Ever Be A Cowboy, Texas Polka, No Letter Today, I Got Mellow In The Yellow Of The Moon, Sip Nip Song, Salt Water Cowboy, The Blues, Little Brown Jug, And Then |
| Two Blondes And A Redhead | 1947 | Tony Pastor Orch Jean Porter June Preisser Judy Clark SONGS It's So Easy, All I Know Is Si Si, Boogie Woogie From Nowhere, On The Sunny Side Of The Street |
| Two Girls And A Sailor | 1944 | Harry James Band Xavier Cugat Orch Lena Horne Lina Romay June Allyson Gloria De Haven Van Johnson Virginia O'Brien Jimmy Durante SONGS Paper Doll, Take It Easy, Inka Dinka Doo, My Mother Told Me, A Love Like Ours, In A Moment Of Madness, Young Man With A Horn, Sweet And Lovely, Granada, Estrellita, A-Tisket-A-Tasket. Did You Ever Have The Feeling?, Flash, Charmaine, Babalu, The Thrill Of A New Romance, You Dear, Castles In The Air, Who Will Be With When I Am Far Away?, Dardanella, My Wonderful One Let's Dance |
| The Vagabond Lover Order the video of Vagabond Lover Today! (NTSC format) | 1929 | Rudy Vallee & his Connecticut yankees Sally Blane Marie Dressler SONGS I'm Just A Vagabond Lover, If You were The Only Girl In The World, A Little Kiss Each Morning, Georgie Porgie, I Love You, Believe Me I Love You, I'll Be Reminded Of You V |
| The Varsity Show | 1937 | Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians Dick Powell Priscilla Lane Rosemary Lane Buck And Bubbles SONGS Love Is On The Air Tonight, Moonlight On The Campus, Old King Cole, Have You Got Any Castles Baby?, We're Working Our Way Through College, On With The Dance, You've Got Something There, When Your College Days Are Gone |
| Weekend At The Waldorf | 1945 | Xavier Cugat Orch Van Johnson Lana Turner SONGS And There You Are TV |
| What's Buzzin' Cousin? | 1943 | Freddy Martin Orch Ann Miller SONGS Ain't That Just Like A Man, Short Fat And 4F, Nevada, Knocked Out Nocturne, $18.75 |
| What's Cookin'? (GB:Wake Up And Dream) | 1942 | Woody Herman Orch Andrews Sisters Jane Frazee Jivin' Jacks And Jills Robert Paige Gloria Jean SONGS What To Do(AS), Blue Flame(WHO), Woodchoppers' Ball(WHO), I'll Pray For You(JF,AS,GJ), Amen (Yes, Man)(WHO), You Can't Hold A Memory In Your Arms(JF, WHO), If, Love Laughs At Anything |
| When Johnny Comes Marching Home | 1943 | Phil Spitalny and his All-Girl Orchesra Allan Jones Jane Frazee Gloria Jean Four Step Brothers SONGS This Is It, Say It With Dancing, This Is Worth Fighting For, When Johnnny Comes Marching Home, One Of Us Has Gotta Go, We Must Be Vigilant |
| Wintertime | 1943 | Woody Herman Orch Sonia Henie Jack Oakie SONGS Wintertime, Later Tonight, Dancing In The Dawn, I'm All A-Twitter Over You, We Always Get Our Girl, I Like It Here, Ice Ballet |
| The Yanks Are Coming | 1942 | Henry King Orch Mary Healy Parkyakarkus SONGS I Must Have Priorities On Your Love, Don't Fool Around With Your Heart |
| You Can't Have Everything | 1937 | Louis Prima Band Alice Faye Don Ameche Tony Martin Ritz Brothers SONGS You Cant Have Everything, Please Pardon Us We're In Love, The Loveliness Of You, Afraid To Dream, Danger Love At Work, Long Underwear, It's A Southern Holiday, Rhythm On The Radio |
| You Can't Ration Love | 1944 | Artega All-Girl Orch Betty Rhodes Johnny 'Scat' Davis Johnnie Johnston SONGS Love Is This, Ooh-A-Oh, Look At What You Did To Me, How Did It Happen?, I Don't Want To Walk Without You, Oodles Of Noodles, One O'Clock Jump, Louise |
| You'll Find Out | 1940 | Kay Kyser Orch Helen Parrish Ginny Simms Harry Babbit SONGS You've Got Me This Way, Like The Fella Once Said, The Bad Humour Man, I'd Know You Anywhere, I've Got A One Track Mind, Don't Think It Ain't Been Charming |
| You're The One | 1941 | Orrin Tucker Orch Wee Bonnie Baker Jerry Colonna Lillian Cornell SONGS Strawberry Lane, I Could Kiss You For That, My Resistance is Low, The Yogi Who Lost His Will Power, You're The One For Me, Gee I Wish I'd Listened To My Mother, Oh Johnny Oh |
| Youth On Parade | 1942 | Bob Crosby Orch Ruth Tery John Hubbard Martha O'Driscoll (Dubbed Margaret Whiting) SONGS I've Heard That Song Before, You're So Good To Me, Cotcha Too Ta Mee, You Got To Study Buddy |
| You Were Never Lovelier | 1942 | Xavier Cugat Orch Fred Astaire Rita Hayworth (dubbed by Nan Wynn*) Lina Romay SONGS Audition Dance, Dearly Beloved*, Shorty George, I'm Old Fashioned, Wedding In The Spring, You Were Never Lovelier, These Orchids, Chiu Chiu, On The Beam |
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