Today 1957. NBC's Today Show with Dave Garroway. New York. News, weather, and Kokomo Jr. the chimp.
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Relive November 20, 1957, 7AM to 8AM. Extremely rare segment takes us back in time to the live set of NBC's The Today Show from New York. The famous row of clocks. Teletype machines and telephones are there as well as Dave Garroway takes you through the events of the day. Also features are Helen O'Connell, Frank Blair, Jack Lascoulie and Kokomo the Chimp. The newscast tells of transistors and Kruchev, plus Cuban rebels for Castro stirring up trouble. There's also "Daves Album," the people of New York through a store window front, and the ad-libbing and conversations with the director on camera that you'll only find on live TV. National promos for NBC shows include You Bet Your Life and The People's Choice. The News, the weather, Dave enjoys a Grand Prix Speedway Auto Race slot car set where everyone has fun, Dave reads poetry to Kokomo Jr., and the chimp loves it! The teletype shows the temperature in all the major cities of the United States, as well as the call letters of the NBC TV station there. Especially enjoyable is the New Yorker's looking in on the show, at Kokomo, and at Dave. Notice the men and women's hats, a look of a bygone era. Kokomo Jr. replaced J. Fred Muggs as the animal mascot of the Today Show in 1957, so there were actually two different chimps that were mascots on the Today show. Toward the end more New Yorker's are shown through the window enjoying Kokomo the chimp. What a time capsule! Mastered from 16mm b-w kinescope film.
Military contractors asking for billions back then 😆
Crazy, that's my birthday, and my brother's name is Kokomo, named after the Indiana town. 🕊💖🖖
Pretty wild!
Van Doren must have had off.
The scandals didn't break until next August.
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!
Looks like a different planet. And I was nearly one year old at the time.
Simpler, better times. Puts a smile on my face.
Me too...
If you didn't Wear a Tie you weren't Cool 😎
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.
7-8am(et), November 20, 1957.
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
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).
It appears that NBC's hourly tone back then was between 688 and 692 Hz, with a duration of :00.3 sec. (300 ms).
Blocked by Sony?? So the Japanese own the RCA Legacy back catalog now? Sheesh....
That's the story...
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.
Real lively group in that chat there...more like a funeral parlor.