Movies Similar to Let's Make Music

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Stan Kenton and His Orchestra(1947)

A brief history of Stan Kenton's musical career from taxi-dance gigs to his successful big band orchestra.

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Off the Record(1936)

This musical short salutes bandleader B.A. Rolfe on his 40th anniversary in show business.

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Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko(1991)

For the past ten years Zappa in composing has turned away from Rock and Roll music - for which he first became famous - and has been working on new, contemporary, orchestral electronic music; in solitude and beyond any commercial conventions or commitments. It is the first time that Zappa has allowed a film crew to study him during compositional work, actually filming the first moments of a new compositional process. By contrast, in a staged interview Zappa gives comments on music. This film seeks to reveal the sensetivities of Zappa's personality and character also beyond narrative content.

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Paramount Headliner: Bob Crosby and His Orchestra(1938)

In a nightclub setting, Bob Crosby and His Orchestra play five numbers, as young couples dance in front of the bandstand, in contrasting styles ranging from Dixieland to Blues to Ragtime Pop to Swing: "How'dja Like to Love Me?", "Pagan Love Song", "Moments Like This", "Romance in the Dark" and one of the group's best-known recordings, "The South Rampart Street Blues." The featured vocalist if Kay Weber and the drummer is Ray Bauduc.

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Mallrats(1995)

Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall. Eventually, they decide to try and win back their significant others and take care of their respective nemeses.

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Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'(1940)

Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.

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Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra(1938)

In a nightclub setting, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, with two of his vocalists, perform four of the group's best known songs. For the complete list of songs, check the soundtrack listing.

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Flying Down to Rio(1933)

An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca. The first pairing of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and their only pre-Code film.

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Orchestra Wives(1942)

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.

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The Eddy Duchin Story(1956)

The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.

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You'll Find Out(1940)

The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.

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Something to Sing About(1937)

James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.

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Keeping Time(2023)

A meditation on what it means to maintain continuity with the past — told through the kaleidoscopic journey of a young drummer who must learn how to guide a multi-generational band into the future after being named their new bandleader.

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Freddie Rich and His Orchestra(1938)

A musical short subject in which band leader Freddie Rich conducts three musical numbers with his orchestra, with solos by Nan Wynn with the Three Symphonettes. In the midst of the radio broadcast on which the band is performing, a gangly guitarist named Joe Sodja interrupts and asks to perform.

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Henry Busse and His Orchestra(1940)

This one-reel musical short, part of the WB/Vitaphone Melody Master series, features the music of trumpet-player and orchestra leader Henry Busse and his Orchestra, playing their own arrangements of various popular songs of the time...or in the Warners' song library. Those include "Wang Wang Blues," "Hot Lips" and "Along the Santa Fe Trail."

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Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott(2010)

His filmmaker son probes the professional and private lives of his remote but fascinating father: bandleader, composer, inventor, and electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott.

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Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words(2016)

Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.

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Frank Zappa: The Broadcast Archives(2008)

Frank Zappa - The Broadcast Archives is a collection of live performances from the master of experimental and comedy rock. These Saturday Night Live performances demonstrate the musical genius and the progressive jazz-rock arrangements that were the signature of the phenomenal Frank Zappa. Featured tracks include: Peaches En Regalia I Am The Slime Purple Lagoon Dancing Fool The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing St Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast

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Pacific Paradise(1937)

In this MGM Miniature Musical, Harry Owens and his orchestra perform several song numbers.

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Zappa(2020)

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.

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