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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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I Love Lucy At The 6th Annual Emmy Awards!
In these excerpts from the earliest existing Emmy Awards telecast, Vivian Vance accepts the Emmy for Best Series Supporting Actress (from none other than Lucy's former radio co-star Richard Denning) and then Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz accept the Emmy awarded to I Love Lucy as the Best Situation Comedy of 1953.
("I love Lucy" received no awards for comedy writing that evening. AT that time, the Academy had not yet decided to award Emmys for writing)
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Added: 23rd February 2009
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During the halftime of a December 9, 1974 Monday Night Football broadcast, Howard Cosell chats with John Lennon. Almost exactly six years later, on another Monday Night Football telecast, Cosell would announce Lennon's murder.
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Added: 22nd March 2008
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From the first-ever telecast of What's My Line (February 2, 1950), New York Yankees' shortstop Phil Rizzuto is the mystery guest. Notice how different the set is for this bit of TV history.
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Added: 6th June 2009
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There are reports that veteran newsman Walter Cronkite is gravely ill.
The 92-year-old former anchor of "The CBS Evening News," who has been ailing for some time, has reportedly taken a turn for the worse, according to TVNewser and other online sites.
CBS News spokesman Kevin Tedesco had no comment on Friday.
Bob Schieffer said, "All of us are praying for the best, and our thoughts are with Walter's family." The host of CBS'"Face the Nation" and a longtime Cronkite colleague, Schieffer noted that he had no current news on Cronkite's condition.
The face of CBS News for more than two decades, Cronkite was named "the most trusted man in America" in a 1972 "trust index" survey, and he ended each broadcast with the reassuring signoff, "And that's the way it is."
He left the "Evening News" anchor desk in 1981, but after that kept a busy schedule both in journalistic and other activities.
For 24 years, he served as onsite host for New Year's Day telecasts by the Vienna Philharmonic until ill health forced him to bow out earlier this year.
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Added: 19th June 2009
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Remember them? I meant to talk about these clean-cut group of boys yesterday, but anyways, here is a 1966 clip that was shown on the farewell of "Hullaballoo", which was televised 4/11/66 on NBC.
The nation-wide program was a direct copy of the teen-attended "Shindig" show.
This sixties telecast had all the cool acts at the time; all who were being popularized by the medium of television.
Singer Paul Anka introduces the group here with the enthusiasm of what was the 1960s.
With their success playing at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, the group were about to receive the finest management that was not at all common.
You may not be aware, The Cyrkle was not just another American band from the mid-60s. This group had certain pro's in the business behind them.
This clip of their most famous hit "Red Rubber Ball", became a number two hit on the Billboard chart marker for this unusual reason.
Musicians Don Dannemann on guitar and lead vocals, bassist and backup vocalist Tom Dawes were the two responsible for getting their act together in the "Keystone State" known as Pennsylvania. It was the moment Brian Epstein got involved that things eventually changed, Brian immediately became interested in getting a contract together with the four members.
Brian's business partner Nathan Weiss, had attended a Atlantic City show with the band performing.
At the time, the boys were know as The Rhondells.
He obviously saw the potential in them with their 1965 concert.
He took over entirely with "making them over" to something that would be a record-hit selling group.
Weeks later, musican John Lennon gave some input to Brian's new discovery, Lennon suggested that the new name should be spelt in a different manner.
In 1966, a decision was made for The Cyrkle to join the Beatles for their American tour.
The Dodger Stadium show was an eventful moment for the Cyrkle as it gave them the chance to expose their sound to a great deal of the teen audience. The band owned a great deal of debt for the opportunity that night. The group though was part of a few other acts picked to open the eventful concert.
A favorite from the era, The Cyrkle's 1966 song "Red Rubber Ball," landed on the number two position that year on the vinyl single selling chart.
A cool fact about this was that Paul Simon of Simon and Garfunkel and Bruce Woodley of The Seekers helped in creating this composition for the band. Nothing may of happened if it weren't for Simon. At some point, Paul passed along the song to The Cyrkle when the boys were the opening act for for Simon and Garfunkle.
Their record company, Columbia now had a hit on its hands, this was thanks to the creative output given to the boy group.
The Cyrkle would return to the charts with "Turn-Down Day," as a follow-up in 1966.
The group recorded one more album, and a soundtrack for a risky adult flick called "The Minx", which came out during 1967. It was not well received by critics due to its poor subject matter. The Cyrkle went for a psychedelic sounding soundtrack album filled with harmonies, clearly presented as a departure from The Cyrkle's familiar sound.
Soon after, more 45's came out, but the group felt like breaking-up. Their past success was hard to match, which was just at the end of the year of 1967.
Following-up, members of the group remained in the business by going into television commercial territory.
Two of the guitarists became popular jingle composers.
One of them was for Alka-Seltzer. It was Tom Dawes who had turned out the "plop plop fizz fizz" tune for the company. The other, Danneman as well wrote popular jingles that kept advertisers happy with positive sales.
Danneman wrote for Swanson Foods and the Continental Airlines Corportation commercials.
Both were successful with their television advertising careers.
Also to Danneman's credit was the famous 7Up Uncola tune.
Together, their jingle ability was proven to be second to none in the business of selling products to consumers. Bandmates did do one last benefit show where they had originally formed, that was back in 1986 in Easton, Pennsylvania.
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Added: 2nd December 2009
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Have you heard this before?
"Santa Baby", another classic made when recorded in 1953. This was not a family friendly song.
Strictly for her fans and Santa Claus.
Remember Kitt in the role of Catwoman on that 1960s bat show? It was only for a short stint as we know.
This intellectual woman had quite a tough life growing up, going from house to house, really not knowing much about her parents until later on.
This needy sung compostion was partly written by Joan Javits, but there was a bit of trouble with the actual writers of the X'mas hit.
Joan Javits, and Philip Springer wrote it, which is the truth, but another name was added to the single, fictional writer Tony Springer. Why?
Both Philip and Joan worked for a big entertainment firm back then, they decided to write down a 3rd writer for another rival company to get their composition heard yearly. Kinda strange, but this is how it went.
Years later, Joan decided to sell her 1/2 of the composition for financial reasons in 1981. It wasn't being used enough at the time.
Recently the history of the track has been revived, revenue checks have really increased, this is thanks to Madonna's update of the tune.
It has gone on to being added in various television and holiday movies because of her. This is where the dollars really are. Each telecast brings in a nice check.
The sexy X'mas tune has as well been covered by various artists.
Eartha had already updated this tune in the early sixties with a quicker tempo. Can't really imagine that, but that is where she went with it then."Santa Baby" has since then been changed around from its original jazzy sound.
Kinda like a yearly signature song.
It is ironic that Eartha passed on December 25, 2008.
Did you see her portray the Wicked Witch of the West in the nationwide stage production of "The Wizard of Oz"? I really enjoyed that. How about you?
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Added: 21st December 2009
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Known as icons, these two characters have been televised with a long series of comedy shows on their own, after a good first time run, ever since 1960. Here they are now with this timely commercial hocking their morning cereal nationwide to kids. This is a Christmas favorite since first telecasted in the late 1980s. Santa always arrives at the best of times.
I still remember seeing the two cereals appearing on store shelves in 1971.
I bet it tastes a whole lot different now then it did then.
The original cartoon series ran until 1966, this is when it eventually went into heavy syndication form. It was shown a number of times to the amusement of the shows creators. This prompted for more of the same in later shows using the main characters.
By the way, which of the two were your favorite?
Cocoa Pebbles?
Question number two. Do they still broadcast this ad in the month of December?
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Added: 20th December 2009
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Merlin Olsen, the Hall of Fame tackle who anchored the Los Angeles Rams’ Fearsome Foursome, the line that glamorized defensive play in the N.F.L., died early Thursday at a hospital in Duarte, Calif. He was 69. Olsen was also a longtime color commentator for NBC’s pro football and Rose Bowl telecasts, working with Dick Enberg, and he acted on television, most prominently as the very large and bearded Jonathan Garvey in NBC’s “Little House on the Prairie” and in his own series, “Father Murphy.”
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