Strike Up The Band ! * Here comes happiness . . . in a merry medley of romance . . . and rhythm !
Birth of the Blues
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Romance|
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Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
Bing Crosby
Mary Martin
Brian Donlevy
Carolyn Lee
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
J. Carrol Naish
Warren Hymer
Horace McMahon
Ruby Elzy
Jack Teagarden
Danny Beck
Harry Barris
Perry Botkin Sr.
Minor Watson
Harry Rosenthal
Donald Kerr
Barbara Pepper
Cecil Kellaway
Ronnie Cosby
Ted Lewis
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Tommy Dorsey
Jimmy Dorsey
Benny Goodman
Paul Whiteman
Roscoe Ates
Charles Lane
Mantan Moreland
