Thanks for sharing. For the last few decades, at least, the Today Show has felt so cold, and often features people with rictus grins, filling time in the most transparent of ways. There's something much more natural about these earlier years. I especially like the segment where we just see the crowd watching Kokomo as a lovely music selection plays. A very soothing way to start a day.
Captain Video here,Excellent kinoscope recording, Lived in the NYC area. I would get up early and watch the test patterns until Today came on. This may have been for the 10am,EST feed for the West Coast feed so they could go home early. Videotape was still in its infancy.
@@kevinmadden1645 They made them for the advertising agencies as off air checks because only the TV stations had the capability to playback Ampex or Scotch 2" tapes.I worked at DuArt Color in 1966 and were processing color kinnies for somebody at CBS. 3/4"cassettes and 1" did not come in until around the late70's
I still recall a TV column in the ASBURY PARK PRESS {N.J.} written in 1992 by a very snotty critic named Robert Strauss about the Saturday edition of "TODAY". And in that column, he had the *gall* to refer to Dave Garroway as "a gawky guy with a chimp". Strauss' photo published in his column made him look like the very epitomy of a Yuppie nerd......because he virtually looked JUST LIKE GARROWAY!!!!! (And he still does)
Thanks for the memories 😄
Our pleasure!
Simpler, better times. Puts a smile on my face.
Me too...
Thanks for sharing. For the last few decades, at least, the Today Show has felt so cold, and often features people with rictus grins, filling time in the most transparent of ways. There's something much more natural about these earlier years. I especially like the segment where we just see the crowd watching Kokomo as a lovely music selection plays. A very soothing way to start a day.
Well said!
Because Dave and company were broadcasters. The current crew has no idea.
Captain Video here,Excellent kinoscope recording, Lived in the NYC area. I would get up early and watch the test patterns until Today came on. This may have been for the 10am,EST feed for the West Coast feed so they could go home early. Videotape was still in its infancy.
😊😊 2:00 😮
I did not know that kinoscope was still being used as late as 1957.
@@kevinmadden1645 They made them for the advertising agencies as off air checks because only the TV stations had the capability to playback Ampex or Scotch 2" tapes.I worked at DuArt Color in 1966 and were processing color kinnies for somebody at CBS. 3/4"cassettes and 1" did not come in until around the late70's
I still recall a TV column in the ASBURY PARK PRESS {N.J.} written in 1992 by a very snotty critic named Robert Strauss about the Saturday edition of "TODAY". And in that column, he had the *gall* to refer to Dave Garroway as "a gawky guy with a chimp". Strauss' photo published in his column made him look like the very epitomy of a Yuppie nerd......because he virtually looked JUST LIKE GARROWAY!!!!! (And he still does)
Looks like a different planet. And I was nearly one year old at the time.
Crazy, that's my birthday, and my brother's name is Kokomo, named after the Indiana town. 🕊💖🖖
Pretty wild!
7-8am(et), November 20, 1957.
It appears that NBC's hourly tone back then was about 687.5 Hz, with a duration of :00.3 sec. (300 ms). Maybe -20 dB audio level on that.
Military contractors asking for billions back then 😆
Van Doren must have had off.
The scandals didn't break until next August.
34:09- Del Sharbutt speaks for Fitch Medicated Shampoo. At the time, he was also the announcer for "YOUR HIT PARADE".
Del also served as announcer/sidekick for Betty White’s daytime NBC show Live from Burbank in 1954.
If you didn't Wear a Tie you weren't Cool 😎
Blocked by Sony?? So the Japanese own the RCA Legacy back catalog now? Sheesh....
That's the story...
Real lively group in that chat there...more like a funeral parlor.
Before Today was vapid
That happened when Barbara Walters joined the show.
@@salianni16 I thought she was on ABC, not NBC
@@witherblaze Long before she went to ABC she was over at NBC with the Today Show. She was on the Today Show from the 1960s towards the early 70s.
And expanded to *four* hours.
Barbara worked on "TODAY" from 1961 (initially as a writer and researcher, becoming a "Today Girl" in 1963) through 1976 (as a co-host).