Jo Ann Castle accordion solo on the Ina Ray Hutton Show

[@ramonpineda2357]

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[@abrakadabrah3031]

Difficult piece to play She was beautiful

[@abrakadabrah3031]

So tragic a life... Beauty gaded...so very quickly... sad Loved watching her ...🎉🎉🎉 .

[@abrakadabrah3031]

Hard song to play...she plays it its nothin 😮 So beautiful...and fleeting

[@39thala]

Such a talented lady!

[@dariowiter3078]

YAY JO ANN!!!!! 🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵 👏👏👏👏👏 😁😁😁😁😁

[@barryobrien7935]

OK, this could be TMI but Ina Ray Hutton also had a brief summer replacement show (for whom I don’t know) on NBC. This clip could be from that 1956 show. I don’t think any kinescope recordings exist anymore for Ina’s KTLA show. I think KTLA’s 40th Anniversary program had a clip but that was 35 years ago as KTLA is now 75. KTLA had a studio theatre across from parent Paramount Pictures on Melrose Ave. Melvan Theatre (at Melrose/Van Ness) with marquee changed to KTLA Studio Theatre. The station had very cramped facilities (prior to move to Sunset Blvd. in 1955) and this small theater was their only studio that could accommodate an audience. It had a ramp added for camera with dolly just like all the theatre studios in NYC in the early days. I don’t recall Ina Ray’s show having any pattern on floor as sometimes different programs had to air from same stage with little time to shift scenery. So more than likely this clip is from NBC show. How surprised LA viewers would have been to learn that beautiful, blonde Ina Ray Hutton was part Black. KTLA was also home to Korla Pandit mysterious organist from the East who, it was much later revealed, was also Black. You can, of course, Google these interesting stories and there are film musical clips featuring Ina Ray from the Thirties and early Forties. She was quite the looker and sang and danced. Mishaps on her Live TV show (KTLA 1951-55 or so) included elephant relieving itself (yes! no. 2) and as Ina always wore strapless gowns, she had a slight mishap when part of her anatomy was exposed.

[@melissaritz5123]

Hi Barry! Such interesting info you shared with us. Thank you for all the behind-the-scenes updates. I would love to find footage of the show you mentioned with the elephant and "wardrobe malfunction"! (I've heard this story from a few other people, but the footage eludes me.) I'd love to connect with you to discuss further. [e-mail] So nice to meet an Ina Ray Hutton fan!

[@fromthesidelines]

This is from her 1956 NBC summer series [Wednesdays, 10:30pm(et)], for Purex {Blue Dutch Cleanser, Beads-o'-Bleach, et. al.}.

[@josephalexandergemmell9979]

by zez confrey, who also wrote kitten on the keys, premiered at the same concert with rhapsody in blue!

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

No WONDER Lawrence Welk hired her - she was incredible, even at an early age!! If this is 1956 as someone in the comments posted, she would have been just 16 years old! Amazing talent!!

[@sherriheadaccordion]

I remember playing that at music contest when I was in high school, not nearly that fast or that comfortably! I could never play it now, old arthritic hands.

[@prycerobertson4695]

God gave her fingers!

[@rolom3]

Oh nice to hear Ina Ray speak!

[@josimarcordeiro2511]

excelete!

[@notvalidcharacters]

When is this from?? Wiki sez: >> The Ina Ray Hutton Show is a TV show starring prominent female jazz bandleader Ina Ray Hutton and her all-female orchestra. From October 30, 1950, until October 9, 1951, the program was sponsored by Altes Beer on KTLA.[1] From 1951 to 1955, the show was a regional television show on the Paramount Television Network flagship station KTLA, and had a brief network run on PTN in 1956.[2]

[@grantkozera3656]

One wonders if the accordion would have been a little more popular if she would have been in the place of Myron. Myron was a good Steward of the accordion all those years. A class act. She doesn't have to look at the keys. Welk was a smart guy.

[@freewings84]

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