Your Hit Parade (December 31, 1955) [RESTORED FULL EPISODE] - New Year's Eve from NBC Studio 8-H
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- From an archive.org download, here is NBC's "Your Hit Parade" restored with Dyna-Stereo audio, and video level-corrected... With Raymond Scott and the Orchestra. From an NBC kinescope, this is an example of how well a good kinnie can look/sound with a little touching up...Takes too much processing time to do them all though...
As reviewed by "The Emperor of Television" from archive.org:
Singers: Dorothy Collins, Snooky Lanson, Russell Arms, Gisele MacKenzie.
Songs are: "Memories are Made of This" (sketch gives us some idea as to how the show itself was made), "White Christmas" (a song that still re-charts in December to this day), "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" (an "extra", a song played for nostalgia and to get the show up to its 30-minute broadcast length), "Autumn Leaves" (sung in French, "Les Feuilles Mortes"), "Love and Marriage" (this song is accompanied with an extremely silly visual sketch. I do warn, it may be hard to watch), "He", "Moments to Remember", "Rise and Shine", and "Sixteen Tons".
Presumed Autumn Leaves was sung in French to add variety. If a song stayed on the popular charts for a long time, the people involved would come up with some pretty strange ways to present the song. The song was first written in French so it wasn't a big stretch.
According to Wikipedia, The song had been written in the 1940s and re-charted on several occasions.
Snooky Lanson tries to sing "Sixteen Tons", though it is still inferior and ill-advised.
On a side note, some may feel the song performances are very short. I have confirmed that a lot of songs were shorter than the average song of today. In addition, the vocal-based nature of the show meant that the instrumental/orchestral break would be dropped for the show (which can actually be a bad thing if the original hit had a memorable horn or piano solo).
As usual, the show has excellent production values, first-rate singers, and excellent set design, concepts and done amazingly well for a live music show never intended for repeats. However, also, as usual, the commercials are, for the most part, painfully bad, though on a purely technical level, they are well-produced and glossy.
MUSICOM NOTE: What a review! Thank you, Emperor, for sharing... 
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This episode has been level-corrected and noise-reduced in Dyna-Stereo.
When this show aired on 12/31/55 I had just turned 14 and my family had listened to Your Hit Parade on the radio from as far back as I could remember and had recently got our first tv. I still enjoyed the songs of the time but Rock And Roll had come onto the scene and it was here to stay. By the time we were into the mid-sixties, I was looking for oldies stations.
Your Hit Parade, in our home, was a must to watch each week. I remember going into New York City, to NBC Studios as a child. We listened to the rehearsal, and Gisele McKenzie was singing. I was so excited, even though we just heard her, but didn't see the performance.
Gisele MacKenzie was really THE STAR of Your HitvParade
🎶 _For the taste that you like,_ 🎶
🎶 _Light up a Lucky Strike!_ 🎶
🎶 _Relax: It's light-up time!_ 🎶
Nice Job! After watching and listening to this I sure can go for a toasted tobacco Lucky Strike and an egg shampoo.
You like your shampoo over easy...I'm scrambled.
21:40 - Here's the "Showstopper" with Gisele MacKenzie doing "Rise and Shine" (no, not The Flintstones Rise and Shine...)
I think this is genius....Thanks
I had just turned 12 when this was first aired and I had such a crush on Dorothy Collins. Some songs stayed at the top of the list for weeks really stressing the creativity of how to stage them. How many different scenarios could you come up with for "This Ol' House"?
What was the theme song