1958 - NBC - Your Hit Parade - from 5/24/58 - (1/2)
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- 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?
Regarding Virginia Gibson, when she came home to St. Louis to perform at the Muny Opera (which had nothing to with opera but was an astounding 12,000 outdoor ampitheater in Forest Park) in the early years she was billed with the name everyone knew her as, Virginia Gorski. From St. Louis also came Betty Grable, Agnes Moorhead, Kay Thompson, Kathryn Grayson, Mary Wickes, Mary Treen and many others. A magic city to grow up in; I left 50 years ago and am still back every few weeks. Its home.
Still, YOUR HIT PARADE is considered a true predecessor to MTV, in how it visualized songs, in both literal and abstract ways.
"The following program is brought to you in compatible color on NBC".
This was the season when the show was virtually overhauled, featuring a new cast of singers, a new orchestra leader {Dick Jacobs replacing Raymond Scott, who was married to Dorothy Collins}, as well as color telecasts [but none of the 1957-'58 color transmissions of the show exist]. And, sadly, rock and roll made it impossible for the cast to sing most of the week's "Top Tunes" without sounding ridiculous....
I remember Giselle McKinsey and Snookie Lansing from those days. I watched Your Hit Parade every chance I got, as to hear that phenomenal R'nR music and ponder what was number one years before I was born.
Remember my mother getting a Toni home permanent given in kitchen by my cousin. In 6th grade mom gave me a Tonette gor children. All I can say is I had long hair be G ore but after I looked worse than that Witch Doctor on here. Ha. Eek! Think a week later I got a shorter haircut..alot shorter. 🤗
My god watching this I feel like Jane Goodall exploring an unknown species.
And the cost of production, oh my...
thank you for sharing
If they played the Witch Doctor, I'm surprised they weren't doing Elvis ballads. This is along the same lines as Lawrence Welk, who once played "One Toke Over The Line".
The great Jill Corey!
You know, when you think about it, I could hear one contemporary song being played here.
"#5! Gisele MacKenzie and the Hit Paraders get hot on the trail for love in this week's #5 hit, Bad Romance."
"🎶 WOOOO-OOO-OOO-OO.....
If you're looking for trouble, you found it!
If you're looking for love, I've got it!
Got nothing but BAD ROMANCE,
And I'm just as bad.............🎶"
Thank you so much for this show. Sometime I get stuck watching these old TV Shows and I forget (or couldn't care less) about the regular TV Shows in the front room. Thanks again.
OMG this was the year I got my first transistor radio when I was nine.
@fromthesidelines Its ashame this no longer exists in color, but it seems that the shows producers were at least 10-15 years behind in music taste by 1958.
@fromthesidelines Not only that, but Miss Gibson was one of the 'brides' in 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'.
Happy holiday.
It's just that the producers refused to acknowledge "rock 'n' roll" in its purest form (as Dick Clark was doing on "AMERICAN BANDSTAND" and his "SATURDAY NIGHT BEECH-NUT SHOW"), 'glenn'. They were trying to appeal to young ADULT viewers...and that's why "YOUR HIT PARADE" finally ended the following year.
Thanks for the clip. The quality was very watchable. It was neat to see how they "modernized" old songs and when they play the "current" songs - it sounded a little bit "rock n roll" but very musical. And (like the 1951-57) Hit Parade - they thought up neat scenarios and story lines to showcase the tunes. They really tried to make a great "relevant" music show - but it didn't last. The Hit Parade came back in 1974 with Chuck Woolery and some other singers and Milton DeLugg conducting the orchestra. Again, they had great, creative musical arrangements but it didn't last. I wrote a letter to Milton and he sent me back a nice Thank You note saying Yes, they did use the best arrangers & musicians - but the public didn't care! There's another clip on UA-cam of a LATE 50's Hit Parade with Dorothy Collins & Johnny Desmond doing "Everybody Loves A Lover" They sing with so much enthusiasm - it's REAL TV entertainment - but that Hit Parade series didn't make it either. So much music TODAY is so amateurish - it's nice to see these clips of real music professionals!
Not that Chuck Barris (who seemed to have a "retro" streak outside of his own creations) didn't try to make the 1974 version work . . .
Virginia Gibson went on to even bigger fame as co-host of the Discovery series seen on ABC-TV in the late 60's.
Jill Corey was/is such a delicious singer and personality. Virginia Gibson endured terror from Ethel Merman on Broadway in "Happy Hunting", went on to fame in a t.v. series with Walter Brennan and did a lot more, one of the prides of my native St. Louis, Missouri. Tommy Leonetti's vocal appears to have been pre-recorded because of all the moving around he does that a boom mike would have difficulty following.
Those were the days
Have they ever changed
Love thst show use to listen with my cousin b 4 we had a t v.thats wb
When j took a likiin tk Tommy leonetti
That was from the show's final NBC season. It moved to CBS in the Fall of 1958 and expired the following April.
With yet another "revamping" in the format: Dorothy Collins returned, with Johnny Desmond as the "male vocalist", and Clay Warnick's "Hit Parade" chorus, the Peter Gennaro dancers, and Harry Sosnik's "Hit Parade" orchestra. There were several "rock" performers who appeared as guests, but the show was just "too old" to weather such changes in popular music, and American Tobacco finally ended the series- after 24 years on radio and TV- on April 24, 1959.
@@fromthesidelines Well said and you are correct! We watched "Your Hit Parade" every week. And I remember when June Valli was on in the very early fifties! (Yeah, I am that old, big deal huh!)!!
I love their version of the Witch Doctor. To bad the film is so bad. Since this show was in color, the original print is probably a lenticular color kinescope. On a regular projector, it would be fuzzy black and white, but played on the right equipment (which probably no longer exists) it would be crystal clear and in color.
Thank you for your Channel youtube ...
13:22 - The scene that evoked "Hogan's Heroes" by 8 years... WTF a jokey German Nazi musical segment with "Chanson D'Amour" in the "French Underground" .... They were running out of material for sure.
The arrangement of "Twilight Time" has a Glenn Miller sound to it.
Yes and no...Although originally a 1930s song, "Once In A While" was revived to 1960 teenage audiences by the group The Chimes. Hit Parade was born and thrived in 50s pop culture before rock and roll. The 70s Midnight Special and the 80s MTV were an era exclusively of "rock" music....The two eras simply just don't compare. JMO
Your Hit Parade became a successful show on radio as early as 1935. It moved to tv in 1950, filled with musical production numbers. But as popular music shifted toward rock & roll, the show had a difficult time keeping pace, presenting acceptable & believable versions of the new songs. Hit Parade was nearing the end of its run when this episode aired. The program was cancelled in April 1959.
Note how much the celeste was used for "Once in a While." An instrument rarely heard today but integral in popular music in the 1950s and particularly a trademark of Joni James arrangements. Alan Copeland was a major force in American pop and jazz for several decades and at one point an important part of the latter Modernaires.
This is a "poor" kinescope recording because this was filmed from a COLOR monitor- and most 16/35mm black and white cameras weren't adjusted to filming color TV images at the time. I can imagine how this must have looked in "compatible color"...but the music is still uneven. "Big band" and "rock and roll" just don't mix (although Jill Corey's rendition of "Twilight Time" is quite good).
Damn, seems they could wears skirts as short as they wanted...so long as they were dancing, doing a stage show. I doubt a 60s show like Hullabaloo ever had dancers attired so briefly/showing so much leg. I liked the 1937 song best.
This aired when I was just a newborn, maybe seen by mom and dad since it's NBC...which is I guess a strange kind of 'nostalgia.'
When HULLABALOO was on network TV, the female dancers were wearing MINI-SKIRTS! I have no idea what you are trying say......and apparently you haven't a clue either!
Is it my imagination, or did Alan Copeland look a bit like Guy Mitchell?
i have the ross bagdarsarian witch doctor with the bird on my head on a reissue from united artists
Indeed, 'byrd'. Virginia was associated with ABC's 'DISCOVERY '6-" throughout most of the '60s, usually paired with Frank Buxton as co-host.
Staging "Chanson D'Amour" with a Nazi officer threatening the French underground is downright bizarre.
The song was popular for several weeks in a row; it became quite a stretch for the show's staff to think up new ways to showcase songs that "hung around" the "Top Seven" every week. For example, "Chanson d'Amour" might have been previously staged as a "French language lesson" between two students more interested in paying attention to each other than their teacher.........
World War II had ended just 13 years earlier. Many people watching this show had fought in the European theater or were refugees. I'm sure they got letters.
I thought it was kind of "tacky"!
Yeah, I thought pretty much the same thing, "What the hell is this about?"
Wearing a swastika on his arm even. I'll bet someone got in trouble over that!
Love the background set at 6:19 - the outlined instruments. I was a young boy in the late 50s. 1957 thru 1964 was one of my favorite times.
such fun. pull the Toni Extra down to .7 speed and it's a Bob Fosse production, Hott Jazz Cool Stepps
Not lenticular, which would have much more regular stripes, but likely a bad lowband quad tape playback with moire' due to chroma/luma FM video carrier interference.
What's with the Nazi officer in "Chanson D'amour"? What story were they trying to tell?
Maybe the writer of the bit just got home from a trip to Strasbourg and 'heard stories'...
"Your Hit Parade" got killed off by changes in musical tastes.
who is the girl singing "Twightlight Time''?
Jill Corey
@@gardistkalle6234 Jill Corey did have a couple of records on the charts in 1957-58 on Columbia Records. I have the original 45's! She was also married to some famous baseball player, but I can't remember his name at the moment!
I believe so!
Hits of the 40s in there..king porter stomp...
When television shows had one sponsor !
By 1955, "YOUR HIT PARADE" had two sponsors: American Tobacco {the primary sponsor}, and alternate sponsor Warner-Lambert's Richard Hudnut {replaced in the 1957-'58 season by The Toni Company}.
@@fromthesidelines Lots of the older people called it "The Lucky Strike Hit Parade" or "The Lucky Strike Parade". I remember Bette Davis calling it that on Johnny Carson's show, probably early 1980's.
By whose standard?? Are you serious?
Used to be a song named "The juckbox" ? back in 1958 maybe 1957?
Thanks
Juke Box Baby from Perry Como - c. 1956?
@@TheLeonhamm That sounds right to me! My very first record I ever bought was "Glendora" by Perry Como on a 78 r.p.m. RCA Victor records with "Nipper" on the label! That was in 1956 at the same time as "The Wayward Wind" by Gogi Grant, which was at number 1 for 10-12 weeks.
Vic
No hot Dorothy Collins, handsome Snooky Lanson or Russell Arms?!
Looks like something they would do on Ru Paul's Drag Race
Did teenagers watch this show? I'd bet NOT... I think this was aimed at their Mom & Dad...
You would be correct. A few years later, NBC would air "Hullabaloo!" for the teenagers. I was born in '67 so...😆
It's so awful, it's almost impossible not to watch. :-)
Not face book ! Why?
Cheesy renditions to say the least...
Dancing Nazis?
Too bad these were all segregated. “America’s taste in popular music”? Nope. Didn’t represent anything that was playing on black radio. We missed out on so much.
Yes' doowap. But some did cross over like twilite time .by the platters .
@@somethingelse5746 Not good enough and definitely not representative of ALL pop music. No black dancers either. I’m glad those days are gone.
@@andrealuvshouse you dont understand ' music the music industry before rock and roll . How all that evolved with out bringing up your racial complaints . I don't wanna hear it . Its history .your boring me
@@somethingelse5746 too bad.
Что это за баба-яга там выступает на 3-й минуте?
for Christ's sake bring on the beatles
Ah, this comment tells us a lot more about you, and your quaint tastes - than the local cheese sold for regular family-friendly-entertainment consumption. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! (insert head-wiggle) Yeahhh! ;o)
P.S. I do like The Beatles, and all those Teen Idol record stars of long, long ago.
Nazi ?
some of this has no class, it's just vulgar