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Strike Up The Band ! * Here comes happiness . . . in a merry medley of romance . . . and rhythm !
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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Bing CrosbyJeff Lambert
Mary MartinBetty Lou Cobb
Brian DonlevyMemphis
Carolyn LeeAunt Phoebe Cobb
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
J. Carrol NaishBlackie
Warren HymerLimpy
Horace McMahonWolf
Ruby ElzyRuby
Harry BarrisSudsExplore the crew
- Director
- Victor Schertzinger
- Writer
- Walter DeLeon
- Producer
- Monta Bell
- Producer
- Buddy G. DeSylva
- Editor
- Paul Weatherwax
- Director of Photography
- William C. Mellor