1958 - NBC - Your Hit Parade - from 5/24/58 - (2/2)
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- Опубликовано: 23 апр 2011
- A b/w kinescope of a complete "Your Hit Parade" from May 24,1958 - originally broadcast in COLOR. Due to the odd grain of this kinescope, I have a hunch this very well may be a monochrome copy of a "lenticular kinescope" - a special black and white film that has tiny prisms on the emulsion that reveal COLOR! - However, there apparently aren't any machines available to 'decode' color. Then again, I could be entirely wrong - but I have a hunch. This was definitely kinnie'd off a color monitor - so why not use lenticular film?
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In 1957, the producers if "Your Hit Parade" purged the entire on-air cast, including all the singers, the orchestra, and even host Andre Baruch (who, like his successor Del Sharbutt, never appeared in front of the cameras).
Besides host Baruch, the victims of the "Purge Of '57" also included bandleader Raymond Scott and singer Dorothy Collins (who in real life was Mrs. Scott).
BTW, Baruch had also hosted the radio version and in fact married one of the show's female regulars on radio during the 1940's, Bea Wain.
This episode was near the end of the first year with the hew cast.
While it's my understanding that "Your Hit Parade" always used "extras" (past hits not on the current charts) going back to it's early days on radio in the 1930's, the producers increased the number of "extras" (and a corresponding decrease in the number of current hits) in the late 1950's in an attempt to prevent the show from being overrun with rock-and-roll songs.
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Remember, the U.S. producers hadn't pandered to a below 18-year-old consumer. Everything was still slanted to adult-only entertainment. Another fact, the copyright had run out on the older music, and required no payment to play it and the older adults were the consumers who were targeted, not the teenage consumers. This music was their generation's choice.
Rock n' Roll eventually killed the program.
As for Hit Parade cigarettes, magazine ads for them (with radio and TV spots) virtually disappeared after 1959. With Tareyton already a best-selling filter brand for American Tobacco [and the fact "YOUR HIT PARADE" went off the air in April 1959], they decided to focus on that one exclusively, and let Hit Parade quietly disappear after several years.
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The disclaimer at the beginning was for those stations who couldn't carry the show "live" at 10:30pm(et) on Saturdays- often, they were small affiliates, mostly in the Midwest, who were the ONLY TV stations in their area, and had to carry more than one network's programming on their schedule...or preferred to show local/syndicated programs instead of the network's programming.
On alternate weeks, the songs performed outside the weekly "Top Five" were identified as "Hit Parade Extras".
Blazee. I prefer the original cast. 1958 - it feels like a toothless tiger. I found myself looking away where I am glued to the early '50's programs.
Are we talking about the show where Joseph Bologna was the wealthy guardian of five orphan girls in the early 1960's? I liked that program, and don't remember people breaking into song during it.
By the way, Tommy Leonetti recorded several albums for RCA Victor in the '60s, eventually headlining his own TV variety show in Australia by the end of that decade...
@rodrigoarayap1995 - I'm sure the 1974 revival would have had "participating advertisers." Or at the very least, sustaining ones.
@fromthesidelines - And that's not counting the even more ill-fated summer 1974 revival attempt (also on CBS) with one of the singers being Chuck Woolery - some months before landing the gig of (first) host of the ultimately long-running "Wheel of Fortune."
But it's this issue of cover versions of popular hits, above all else, why I don't watch "Glee" (which is almost like "YHP," only with a plot / storyline - the more melodramatic, the better ;-\).
The one season in living color … too bad the muddy b/w kinescopes are the only record.
And remember kids, Dick Clark died for Your Hit Parade's sins.
My god, people was so easy to please, back in the days😶😶😶.
@fromthesidelines For some reasons, I think that ''Rags to Riches'' was likely based on a probable attempt by NBC to do a brief summer revival of ''Your Hit Parade'' for their 60th anniversary in 1986, but in that case plans would be preliminary, as the television variety show died a generation earlier.
Anyway, who sponsored the 1974 revival? (if it had an sponsor)
Dream is being sung a quarter tone flat most of the time, gees guy...
Not to mention the warbling vibrato...yuck.
I remember seeing it, 'wm'. Chuck Barris produced it, with the blessings of American Tobacco, who leased him the rights to the show. I'd never seen "YOUR HIT PARADE" before...and I was interested, to say the least.
"GLEE" is a more successful version of "RAGS TO RICHES" [NBC, 1987-'88], without the forced "nostalgia" the latter stressed..and it wasn't "too hip for the room", either.
I believe the short-lived 1974 summer version of "Hit Parade" featured three regulars (including future game show host Chuck Woolery) doing songs of the past and current hits performed by the original artists.
Imagine Chuck Woolery singing the old Johnnie Ray hit "Cry", followed immediately by Paper Lace doing " The Night Chicago Died ".
Trainwreck alert! 😄
Teens didn't really want to hear Tommy Leonetti sing "All I Have To Do Is Dream"- they wanted the original HIT recording by the Everly Brothers, who did sing it earlier in the evening when they appeared on Dick Clark's "SATURDAY NIGHT BEECH-NUT SHOW", which got more viewers and support than the faltering "YOUR HIT PARADE"...which was cancelled by NBC a few weeks after this telecast. A final season on CBS finished the series, which ended in April 1959.
Do you have a link to the everly brothers on that show singing dream?
The problem with "Glee" (and by extension "Smash") is that the music, dancing, and showmanship are overpowered by the sexual content. My mom and I were especially turned off when Kurt (the main gay character) became the main focus. Time even mentions this: "Nearly all the Ten Commandments get violated at point or another, while the audience is invited to laugh at people's pain and folly and humiliation."
It's a shame because my mom and I enjoy the performances, we just can't get into the story.