Time-Line: 50s–60s

1950s and 1960s


Ada Leonard and Her All-Girl Orchestra

El Cumbanchero (1950 Studio Telescriptions)

Hotcha Chornia Brown (1950 Studio Telescriptions)


Dinah Shore

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956 – 1963 NBC)


Dinah Washington

Rock ‘n’ Roll Revue (1955)

The DuPont Show of the Month (1957 CBS)

Startime (Ford Startime) (1960 NBC)

Jazz on a Summer’s Day (1959 Galaxy)


Ella Fitzgerald

Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955 Warner Bros)

The Frank Sinatra Show (1958 ABC)

But Not For Me (1959 NBC)

Let no Man Write My Epitaph (1960 Columbia)

The Danny Kaye Show (1966 CBS)


Ethel Waters

The Jackie Gleason Show (1952 CBS)


Hazel Scott

The Hazel Scott Show (1950 DuMont)

Presenting Hazel Scott with her Trio: March of Dimes 1955 (1955)

The Night Affair (Lé Desordre et la Nuit) (1958)


Ina Ray Hutton

The Ina Ray Hutton Show (1951-52 KTLA)

The Ina Ray Hutton Show (1956 NBC)

Girl Time (1955-56 Purex)


Lena Horne

Toast of the Town (The Ed Sullivan Show) (1951 CBS)

Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956 MGM)

Here’s to the Ladies (1957ABC)

The Perry Como Show (1960 NBC)

The Judy Garland Show (1963 CBS)

The Dean Martin Show (1967 NBC)


Peggy Lee

Toast of the Town: The Ed Sullivan Show (1951 CBS)

Your Show of Shows (1953 NBC)

The Heart of Show Business (1957)

Nat King Cole Show (1957 CBS)

The Steve Allen Show (1958 NBC)

The Perry Como Show (1958, 1960 NBC)

Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1959)

The Judy Garland Show (1963 CBS)

The Dean Martin Show (1967, 1969, 1970 NBC)

The Bell Telephone Hour (1965 NBC)

“Fever” (late-1960s show unknown)

World of Peggy Lee? (1969 NET, song: “Is That All There Is”)


Sophie Tucker

Four Star Revue (All-Star Revue) (1951-1953)

Toast of the Town: The Ed Sullivan Show (1951-1965 CBS)

A Star is Born World Premier (1954 NBC)

What’s My Line (1957 CBS)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963 NBC)

Some Liked It Hot - Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928-1959