# Paramount Headliner

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'''''Paramount Headliner''''' refers to 1930s [musical short](/source/musical_short)s or "one-reelers" by [Paramount Pictures](/source/Paramount_Pictures). Not all of the shorts had the term "Paramount Headliner" attached. In this context [headliner](/source/%3Awikt%3Aheadliner) primarily referred to bands and singers headlining on [Broadway](/source/Broadway_theatre). Similar musical shorts were produced by other major studios.

==List of Paramount musical shorts==
* 1935 ''Paramount Headliner: Broadway Highlights No. 1'', featuring [Sophie Tucker](/source/Sophie_Tucker) and [Al Jolson](/source/Al_Jolson)
* 1936 ''Cavalcade of Music''<ref>Motion Picture Herald - Volume 123 1936 - Page 73 "Paramount CAVALCADE OF MUSIC, THE: Headliners— A Paramount Headliner that is better than the average one reeler. Running time, 1 reel. — C. A. Jordan, Opera House, Cogswell,</ref>
* 1938 ''Paramount Headliner: Queens of the Air''
* 1938 ''[Bob Crosby](/source/Bob_Crosby) and His Orchestra''
* 1938 ''Paramount Headliner: Himber Harmonies'', director [Leslie Roush](/source/Leslie_Roush)
* 1939 ''Tempo of Tomorrow'' - music of [Richard Himber](/source/Richard_Himber) and his orchestra.<ref>Jim Cox ''Musicmakers of Network Radio: 24 Entertainers, 1926-1962'' 2012 p.268 "... years hence—together with Al Neibur and Abner Silver—Ross co-wrote the song Listen to My Heart. Backed by an orchestra conducted by Richard Himber, Patricia Gilmore sang it in the 1939 short film Tempo of Tomorrow."</ref>
* 1939 ''Artie Shaw's Class in Swing'' director [Leslie Roush](/source/Leslie_Roush)<ref>Jazz on Film and Video in the Library of Congress Rebecca D. Clear - 1993- Page 10
FBC 4365 A Paramount Headliner featuring Artie Shaw and his Orchestra performing the numbers "I Have Eyes," "Nightmare, " "Shoot the Likker to Me John Boy" and "Table d'Hote" with Buddy Rich on drums.</ref><ref>Modern Drummer 1985 "The Shaw band appears again in A Class In Swing, a Paramount headliner with Buddy Rich on drums. The closer is "Shoot The Likker To John Boy," featuring Rich working with only one floor torn.</ref><ref>Klaus Stratemann Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa: a filmo-discography 1980 - Page 8 "ARTIE SHAW'S CLASS IN SWING 1939 (A Paramount Headliner) Paramount Pictures Corp. (c) 8 Sep 39, MP 9634 Released same date, release No. A 9-1 Dir.: Leslie Roush</ref>

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