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Peter Sellers performing A Hard Days Night followed by The Beatles - We Can Work It Out. This was from a Granada television special on Lennon & McCartney
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Added: 9th October 2007
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Opening Intro for the 50's Television show "Your Hit Parade". Your Hit Parade was a popular radio and television program, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes and broadcast from 1935 to 1955 on radio and telecast from 1950 to 1959. During this 24-year run, the show had 19 orchestra leaders and 52 singers or groups.
Each Saturday evening at 8pm, a hit parade of the more popular and bestselling songs of the week were presented. The original format involved a presentation of the top 15 tunes. Later, a countdown with fanfares led to the top three finalists, with the number one song for the finale. Occasional performances of standards and other favorite songs from the past were known as "Lucky Strike Extras."
Listeners were informed that "Your Hit Parade survey checks the best sellers on sheet music and phonograph records, the songs most heard on the air and most played on the automatic coin machines, an accurate, authentic tabulation of America's taste in popular music." However, the exact procedure of this "authentic tabulation" remained a secret. Some believe song choices were often arbitrary due to various performance and production factors. The show's ad agencies never revealed the specific sources or the methods that were used to determine the top hits.
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Added: 11th October 2007
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What a great scene from Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film 'Lolita'. In this scene Humbert is checking out a room he's thinking about renting and stumbles upon his deciding factor. Shelley Winters, James Mason, Sue Lyon and Peter Sellers were perfectly cast! Trivia for this is in the Comments.
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Added: 26th February 2008
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Way back in the 1950's, a company called Lever Brothers brought out this cool tasting toothpaste called "Stripe" onto the city-suburbanite market.
Many already were aware of various brands already established; "Colgate-Palmolive" and their highly known toothpaste, they were one of the prime sellers of tooth products at the time on television. The Lever Brothers wanted to get a piece of the pie in sales with their brand. In those days, everyone was buying Colgate's Dental Cream due to the informative commercials being repeated often to informative seeking viewers. Another brand, Procter & Gamble's "Crest" was as well a high selling product at the time. Choices were already out on the selling market thanks to the increase of television sales in the 1950s.
Stripe got into the advertising game by sponsoring the 1959-1960 season of "The George Gobel Show", which turned out to be his last year on air with this show. With advertising, there was money to be made with showing products on highly viewed television showings. it was a proven factor in market testing around the country of America.
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Lever's "Lux" on Jack Benny's weekly show. It was in 1961 that Stripe had to make some changes due to its heavy competition. The outer box was repackaged to copy Colgate's toothpaste, and the company focused on the homemakers instead to win over new sales to families. Utilizing television was what drove sales in the early years of broadcasting.
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Added: 11th November 2009
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