" YOUR HIT PARADE " OCTOBER 09 1954 MUSICAL TV SHOW w/ RAYMOND SCOTT LUCKY STRIKE ADS XD47324
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This episode of "Your Hit Parade" popular music show dates to October 09 1954. The presentation is a kinescope, or a television signal that was recorded from a TV set onto 16mm film. The "Hit Parade" musical review show was sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes and Richard Hudnut Quick Home Permanent, and features advertisements for both products. At 13:21, golfer Sam Snead promotes Luckys. At :33, the animated Lucky Strike cigarettes sequence was created by special effects guru Ray Harryhausen.
"Your Hit Parade" featured elaborate sets and choreography that was inspired both by Hollywood movies and "soundies" -- popular short film versions of popular songs. The show utilized a cast to perform the songs, as opposed to playing the versions then on the air.
At (00:13:00:00) is an ad for Richard Hudnuts Home Permanent "Quick" Hair Product.
The "Your Hit Parade" program started out on radio before moving to television in 1950, and ran until 1959. The show presented seven top hit songs. This episode features Giselle Mackenzie, Roy Landman / Snooky Lanson, Polly Bergen, and Russel Arms, as well as Raymond Scott and the Hit Parade Orchestra. (Some other singers on "Your Hit Parade" in this era often included Dorothy Collins, Eileen Wilson and June Valli.) Songs include "Sh-Boom" (00:02:33:20), "If I Give My Heart" (00:05:32:05), Stardust (00:08:08:06), I Need You Now (00:10:39:05), Skokiaan (00:14:07:09), "This Ole House" (00:16:31:00), The High And The Mighty" (00:19:07:01), "I Got The Sun In The Morning" (00:21:52:06), "Hey There" (00:25:4215)
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I was 9 years old and every week my parents would watch this show. I was so lucky to have parents that loved music. We always had 78's and LP'S. FROM SINATRA, NAT KING COLE, TOMMY DORSEY, GENE KRUPA , XAVIER CUGOT, DESI ARNAZ, PATTI PAGE, JO STAFFORD, GALE STORM, DORIS DAY AND THEN, EVEN ELVIS. My love of music came directly from my folks. It all started with this show !
I was 16 years of age and remember these Hit Parade shows. My dad purchased our new television in 1952 and we would watch shows like this every time they came on. Great memories. Thanks a bunch.
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I was 14 yrs old...My dad bought a RCA 14 inch console tv. in 1949...What memories
Thanks for sharing your memories. Stay healthy and safe!
It's so hard to imagine now how exciting it must have been to be able to sit in your living room and watch great entertainment like this. We take so much for granted now but the medium was all brand new then. Not everyone had a TV so it was still a novelty. There's such a purity to this type of show. It's too bad we can't have plain musical entertainment shows now. It's so sad that those days are long over.
Most people had a TV by '54. My family lived in a rental house that made This Old House look opulent. We had a TV. When it didn't work, a neighbor was happy to have us drop by.
We could receive one channel, the NBC affiliate in Houston, Texas. TVs had to warm up. Adjust the horizontal. Adjust the vertical.
Takes me back! I was 3, but I know my parents used to watch this every week! Polly Bergen and Gisele Mackenzie were just great! Raymond Scott, with his Glenn Miller-sounding orchestra! Fabulous!
I was nine in 1954. I remember the show and all these songs so well, especially Skokiaan, Hey There, and the theme from the aviation thriller movie "The High and the Mighty". I get an incredible rush hearing that one, as flew on an airliner for the first time that year.
I was 4. Remember all the songs and the lyrics. It almost scares me. Can`t remember what I did yesterday, but can remember the lyrics to songs that were written before I was born.
Please find more like this.
A true slice of America in it's peak.
Absolutely beautiful. Thank You.
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It's great to see the old shows like this again, from when television was actually entertaining.
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TV continued with these dance music productions for decades... The Dean Martin Show, etc.
This is just... Incredible. Hard to pick a favorite here.
The early rendition of Sh-boom is top notch, and This Ole House - Wow! And Polly Bergen's voice is absolute butter!
I didn't wake up this morning with the awareness that adding machines can be percussion instruments, or accountants' desks could be dance pedestals, but again, Wow...
Every note sung and played here is just marvelous, start to finish!
This video is awesome. I was pretty young but everyone watched it. This when music was music. Not the garbage of today. Glad u brought this memory back. Find more of these videos. PLEASE. TV was so good back then. Now it stinks to. Thank u for this. .🤗🤗🤗🤗👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👌👌💝☺
I was 11 years of age in 1954...many fond memories of a fine childhood! That was a time when music was MUSIC...not the electronic nonsense of today. One of my favorite pastimes was playing 78 records of these hits and so many more! Two of Rosemary Clooney's big sellers...and among my favorites. Being dad was in the TV repair and sales field...we always had the up-to-date TV's!
I turned 10 two days latter.
The sheltered childhood you lived can never be put back in this day. I was 8 in 1964, and once I saw The Beatles, there was nothing I sought that came before.
it's crazy to think this is one month before Elvis's first hit and everything is about to change.
Woaaah! Thanks for that new chapter tab!
Boy! What a period music performance time capsule! Thanks!
I bet I'm not the only history hound who while listening to music of a period sees the various events of the time scrolling by in mind's eye review, and, isn't it wonderful how that can work?
Same here! I feel as if a time machine has taken me back to 1954, when I was a very impressionable nine year old.
These are the shows my parents watched. Both are gone now and I sure miss them.
I just loved this video!! What a treasure.
Of course I was born
10-15-1954
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I was born in '55, and there was NO pop music in our home, as my parents were older than other parents relatively speaking. That is, until The Beatles arrived in 1964!! (My parents were 34 when I was born).
I loved this! It was wild to hear “Sh-boom” with a semi-1940s musical arrangement, helped stylistically by the singer. I’ve only heard it with a popular 1950s/early 1960s feel, quartet-style.
Their arrangement (inspired by David Carroll's) was based on The Crew Cuts' hit recording. They wouldn't dare use The Chords' original version.
That was an African American that wrote that song for a black group.
Which is being covered because of racial segregation of television.😠
All five members of "The Chords" {"Ricky" Edwards, Claude Feaster, Carl Feaster, Jim Keyes, Floyd McRae} were credited with writing the song. They had the "R&B" hit recording- and it was climbing up the charts when The Crew Cuts {a white vocal group from Canada} covered it, and *they* had the overall #1 hit recording......mostly because mainstream radio stations played their version more than The Chords' at the time.
Hip show for the times.
Getting old folks..
Was 5 yrs old and listen to this program..
Funny what one remembers..
I like the electric guitar with the big band arrangements, very nice . .
Shaboom! It's a love song, how crazy... Could.... It... Be.... WHY ARE THE DEMONS DANCING!?
dreams are weird that way. especially when portrayed on stage.
Those demons my dear fellows, are the swinging temptations of the fabulous '50's young, cavalier, bachelor life. They're the devil on the left shoulder, temping promiscuous sexual adventures against the angel on the right, offering family, kids, devotion, a mother in law, hopefully not divorce and taking the kids about the time you're working your butt off for her and the family... Go on kids. Don't listen to an old man.
I was 12 years old when this was on.and in 6th grade. We got a 16 inch black and white TV that year. We always watched and sang along with the singers. Such a treat.
Interesting. Back then I was 13 years old. Soon after, rock and roll was taking over. Which I loved.
Watched the Hit Parade broadcast religiously. Tv didn’t arrive in Hawaii until 1954. Programs were not live. They were taped on the mainland, then flown by plane over the pacific. Got to see them a week later. Yes, the news was also broadcast a week late. But we got used to it. Those were the days …
"The following program is 'YOUR HIT PARADE', as originally telecast Saturday, October 9, 1954."
-kinescope disclaimer
I was 2 when this aired -
The songs had lyrics we could understand-
Although I prefer songs from the sixties-
I appreciate the show and song interpretations.
I never missed An episode of The Hit Parade when I was a little girl !!! Love it !!! ♥️♥️♥️
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Wowser wowser. My favorite song then. I joined the Air force Nov 1954
God things were so simple back then. I was born in 58. But my parents and aunts and uncles talk about this show and the singers. I grew up on American Bandstand and Soul Train.
at ten years old i watched every night
I used to watch this with my grandmother and loved seeing it again.
I remember "Your Hit Parade" and all of these songs!
Your Great-Grand Parents would gather with your grandparents and they would sit around a 9 inch Philco screen in a wood cabinet to watch this. History is weird yeah?
And here we are, watching on my phone! 😄 It must have been fun back in the day, tho.
Got NEWS for you buddy, it’s exponentially WIERDER now.
I’m 85 years old. I remember listening to the Hit Parade program “live” on the radio. Listening to these recordings takes me back in time!
The song "Hey There" inspired a comical version by Homer and Jethro, "Hey Thar, You with tha nose on yore face. You've got the large, economy size, right thar betwixt yore eyes,,\\...".
Polly Bergen appeared in Winds of War mini series playing Rhoda Henry 29 years after this show. Amazing.
Oh to return to a more sain time .
Wow! Gisele Mackenzie really adds some spice to this “ Big Band” version of, “Sh-Boom!” However, The Chords R&B version, also from 1954, is still the BEST (not to mention, the FUNKIEST) “Sh-Boom,” …by far!
Giselle was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Local gal made real good!
ShBoom was credited by some to be the first rock n roll record. It was more a progression to Bill Haley but regardless Thank You for this, my first viewing of this show since maybe 1959 when I was 4 and don't really remember. As a history buff I look forward to more of these.
Peri - this is TRULY one of your very best vids.. EVER!! Of the hundreds of them you've posted over the years, I can honestly say, this is my absolute favorite of them all! Job well done!
I was 17 later joined the Army 1961. Different music then
Sh-boom was utterly creepy. Great rendition by Giselle though. And finally, someone who sings Hey There in my key. Love this show, can't get enough of it.
Very artistically done
Polly Bergen had a lovely voice.
My parents were married on October 9th, 1954
As seen on Saturdays at 10:30pm(et).
I was 5 months old when this was broadcast.
Delightful, but it looks like a window to an alien planet, our world has changed so much. Incidentally, this program was made about two weeks after I was born. The only performer I recognized was Polly Bergen. A better time.
A time we can never re-create. But even then, in the 50's, we were living under the threat of Nuclear annihilation.
I supposed two of the them I remember from the years since. I was only a year at the time of broadcast.
My mother and sister insisted on watching this show in 1953 I think. This and "Peter Potter's Juke Box Jury". "Will it be a hit or a miss"? My sister usually got it right.
We only had the one Philco TV. Then we got a better Sylvania and my older brother put the Philco in our room. I never saw these shows after that.
That was in the days when the instrumental music was played on woodwind and brass instruments were common, not just guitars.
There were many beautiful pop songs in the 60's and 70's that used orchestras. Carly Simon, Carole King, etc.
I remember watching this show with my parents. Rock and roll killed it. In the end, it was pretty funny hearing the singers cover songs like _Hound Dog_ by Elvis.
love some of these . but your listening to the reason we made rock and roll
This is interesting to me both from a cultural standpoint and from a technical standpoint.
The music of the era was great.
Based on the errors in the recording this appears to be a Kinescope recording. Before video tape entered the picture (IIRC circa 1955) networks would record a live program from the east coast for time delay for western time zones by pointing a film camera at a TV screen...The sync bars in the video picture and the film grain seem to confirm that. Those sync bars and noise show that the mixture of Coax and Microwave relays on the feeds for TV networks of the time had issues and give a more realistic idea of what TV viewing of network feeds was like than many of the master copies that were recorded in the studio where the performances originated or the film masters for shows that weren't live and were initially recorded to film.
Usually, kinescope recordings of "YOUR HIT PARADE" featured disclaimers at the beginning and end, because they were "delayed broadcasts" on several stations they didn't carry the original "live" telecasts on Saturdays- like this:
*"The following program is 'YOUR HIT PARADE'- as originally telecast Saturday, October 9, 1954."*
I thank God that Rock'n'Roll came along so that by time I was a child in 1964, there was something other than this "music for hip adults" to listen to! Believe me, the music I listened to in the 60's and 70's was not anything I sat around with my parents to enjoy. And we, obviously can NEVER go back to the "innocence" of the 50's. The genie is out of the bottle.
But if I'd been 30 or 40 or older, I'd probably have enjoyed the Hit Parade of the 50's.
@@HardRockMaster7577 By the time I began to exist all the good music was already recorded so as a kid 'Oldies Radio', which back then was a mix of Do-Wop and Primordial Rock'n'Roll of the same vintage, Influenced my taste and acted as a decent center point for growth. Eventually I grew to like all popular music from dawn of the Swing Era (1932) to the popular genres of the 80's yet never really cared for the music of my generation. There was kind of a cultural low point in the early 50's when swing which had mostly died with it's musicians in WWII had kind of faded into mediocre vocal groups with vaguely swing like backing before the earliest vestiges of rock had taken hold where music was kind of bland...It wasn't bad it just lacked original flair like a 55 Mopar that had carried the first boring restyle (that killed the prewar flair) 5 years too long and looked painfully dated compared to the rest of the industry at the time.
John Wayne whistled this in the movie High and Mighty in 1954.
What a beautiful rendition!! Thank you!! Inspiring!
"Raymond Scott and the Hit Parade Orchestra"!!! Was not expecting to hear that name on this video - I wonder if they're going to perform "Powerhouse." (For those who have not spent their entire lives watching Looney Tunes, they used his compositions as background music in most of their cartoons.)
There is at least one episode we are posting where Scott and his band perform one of his compositions -- stay tuned!
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Scott often performed "Powerhouse" with members of his orchestra {recreating his quintet of the 1930's} as an "Extra".
I remember watching this show and watching for one of the dancers, Tad Tadlock. She was an amazing dancer as well as absolutely beautiful. Using Wiki right now I see that she had quite a career. Any one else remember her ? She also did several of the Newport cigarette commercials.
"Sh-boom", by the Crew Cuts, was the first 78RPM single that I purchased when I was 13.
I've got an original copy of that that my mom bought. It's 45 RPM.
When I was a teen in the 70's, there still plenty of novelty songs, and there was also Album Rock and FM radio!!
Pop music hits before Rock 'n Roll took over the music scene. This was 1954, two years before Elvis busted in to rock it all, all over the place. Squeezing out singers called "Snooky."
When this aired I was 8. We eventually had a tv but this show was probably before. I would have remembered the songs, that’s how much I cared about music, at that age. I am surprised that the original artists that did these hits are not even mentioned. It’s hard to imagine doing one of these complicated dance new routines for the Elvis Presley Hound Dog hit, just a year or two later
Thank God rock n roll came in the following year!
Thank you, shared!
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Lucky Strikes was my grandfathers brand. It's not what killed him it was old age. But cigarettes killed a lot of poor souls.
I was around but too young to appreciate it. What I find fascinating, though, is the quality of production this early in TV. Movies and stage shows have lead time built in. Radio is carried on the talent of the actors and sound people. But to get the arrangements, do the sets and costumes, do rehearsals and plan the direction in a timely manner, and pull it off this well must have been a heck of a ride for everyone. I'm wondering if the producers watched the charts and set a threshold for a bit of lead time. Which would lead to another question of how many did they earmark that didn't make it.
If those cigarette ads had been for beer the title would have been Your Lit Parade.
Shboom in Hell is meme worthy for sure.
Those devil dancers earned their due! These days you'd have fundamentalists freaking about Satanism on family TV.
The dancing demons Sh-boom segment was really good.
This was TV at early age. Houses had amtennaes on top. TV stations far apart. We lived in southeast Iowa. We got very snowy reception...3 towns Ames. AbC....Cedar Rapids. CBS and Des Moies NBC. All were near 100 .Iles away so our reception was snowy a d nort clear. We had a rotor box with motor to turn TV antennae towards town for better reception. Oh yes... and we had to get up to turn channel, or volume or on / off. Ha
This is great, I was 3 then, but my parents talked about it.
Between the carcinogens in the cigarettes and god only knows what in the home permanent these people didn’t have a chance.
I have to say, yeah I'm jealous of your guys with a few years on me. But I do remember when television was only B&W, those old T-birds, and boy those drug store lunch counters -
let's face it, those malts, grilled cheese sandwiches,
and 5cent coffee are GONE ! Does nostalgia feel good ? -
or does it hurt ?
It’s an interesting holdover from Old Time Radio.
I spoke with Dorothy Collins st the stage door after her performance in "Follies".
She was married to someone on the show.
I think it was tbe band leader.
My sisters and I bought my mother a carton of Luckies for Christmas. The carton was decorated in Christmas Holly and wreaths. Maybe a drawing of Santa too.
I was two months from my eighth birthday.
Yes, she was "Mrs. Raymond Scott" from 1952 through 1965. She gave birth to their daughter Deborah about two weeks after this telecast- and returned to the show a month later.
This is evidence of a stagnant period in popular music after the Big Band era and before the dawn of Rock ‘n Roll. All the songs feel and sound the same. Richard Hudnut must have had quite an ego !
I loved this show. Dorothy Collins was in here somewhere, I think, later on....
She was on maternity leave. She didn't return until November 20, 1954.
i am 78 now!
and i was smoking luckys lol
1000% better than the rubbish of today's songs.
True... but even after, in the 60's and 70's, there were many pop standards created and recorded.
Snooky Lansen, Gisele McKenzie, and the dancing Lucky Strike boxes.
You're confusing the dancing "Old Gold" cigarette packs {they used three at the time- for regular, King Size and filter- on "TWO FOR THE MONEY" and "TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES"} with Luckies.
The same melody is used in the Dubuque ham commercial.
That was in the forties
Gee if this show was presented today, think about what hip-hop and rap would do for it. Who would be the singers? Show would last one night.
Today, there are 20 music shows and more for people to listen to. Back then, not so.
Whoever recorded this with their VCR must have been rich.
Videotape recording wasn't perfected in 1954. This is a *kinescope film,* photographed from a TV monitor using a special camera that could film a TV image of 30 frames per second {as opposed to the standard 24 frames per second of sound movie film} without the picture "fluttering", or seeing lines in it. Yes, it did cost a few hundred dollars to obtain a "kinnie" of a live TV program at the time.
Giselle McKenzie was a great singer, actress, and was TERRIFIC lookin'! I had a crush on her when I was in high school.
Quaint?.....old fashioned.....not a bit of it. I remember every song, with my ear glued to the valve wireless. Today there's music and song just about everywhere, most of it the same and forgettable. In 1954, everything 'on the air' was exciting; Radio Luxembourg; ' wonderful 2-0-8! and American Forces Network...nothing else, at least in the UK.
I wonder what the Nestle people thought about Richard Hudnut using the name “Quick”?😊
Nestle spelled their chocolate drink mix *"QUIK".* So there was no trademark infringement.
I started seeing Lucky Strikes again last year or so. I would buy them because they were cheap but they actually aren't really any good and are just some cheap cigarette that got the rights to that name.
Better times
It was 20 years before "my time" and I can easily say it was a better time than now
The old days were the best days, and the best days were the old days! Every thing was cheap and nobody complained ,you respected your elders and you do what you're told or else! and you learned to have good taste and manners in everything !
@@jethro1963 I say that my teenage time, 1968-1974, had great music, soft and hard. We never yearned for what came before, or what our parents our grand-parents were listening to. So, in way, we missed out on fun family songs.
LUCKY STRUCK MEANS FINE TOBACOO
LSMFT. Loose straps mean floppy...... remember THAT?
LSMFT!
Oh how I remember that ..I am 81
Who is the sax player, I wonder?
I don't understand the dancers on Sh-Boom. So..... your life is a nightmare of demons unless you accept this "angel's" request of dating her?
Richard Hudnut though.
Mellow... heh there. ❣
Lucky Strike had a green package?
L.S.M.F.T.
"Lucky Strike green has gone off to war."
(The green ink contained stuff that was considered necessary for the war effort)
♥️♥️♥️
honey, it is not safe...
The first MTV.
Wow. I was just 1 week old! Like the music but it seems so 'before my time ' and so un-hit-parade-ish.
It seems so dorky today. I wonder if there weren’t teenagers at the time who kinda felt it was moth Bolly farty.
Of course and that laid the groundwork for the social revolution that happened a decade later.I was about 10 when this aired and
Yup....The Rock and Roll breakout was just around the corner when these quaint hits of the day went to air 🤙
Even in late 60's and 70's, there was plenty of dorky songs, but, there was also FM Album Rock for teens. We had quote a choice!!
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The show is good when they aren't covering songs I know. Dear gosh their covers of "Sh-boom" and "Great Pretender" were disgusting.
Pretty cheesy and over the top.
But I still liked some of the covers.