This show is from 1954, not 1958. Mainly sponsored by Crosley, whose sponsorship ended in 1954 and all the songs are from 1954. It's still a great show and every word is sung live and every note played live by some very talented cast members, and in front of a studio audience. The Golden Age of Television indeed.

@MichaelKingsfordGray

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Are there any references to your facts?

@fromthesidelines

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! In the 1957-'58 season, the co-sponsors were American Tobacco (for *HIt Parade* cigarettes), and the Toni Company (Toni, White Rain, et. al.)- and there was a different cast of singers that season, as the originals were "let go" following the 1956-'57 season.

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

I was 7 years old when my family and I watched Your Hit Parade My favorite song was That's Amore. I thought that the song was When the Moon Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie.

The guitarist you're hearing throughout is electric guitar pioneer and jazz guitar great George Barnes. He was my father, and this is but one way he made a good living as a musician. BTW, those who commented that this aired in 1954 are correct, Crosley was an alternate sponsor to Lucky Strike in the 1951-1954 seasons. (I was born in '54, but I know this from my late parents' recollections...which are confirmed on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Hit_Parade)

@steiny747

7 ай бұрын

My father was the Piano player in the Raymond Scott orchestra. He was an accomplished jazz musician who also wrote, arranged orchestrated and conducted. I lived around the corner from George Barnes for a number of years.

@lacheraqui

7 ай бұрын

Based on your handle, your father must have been Lou Stein, yes? Our dads worked together quite a bit in the 1950s: a bunch of the Lawson-Haggart albums, Steve Allen's All-Stars Jazz Concert, Cootie Williams, Liza Morrow, Lou's Piano the Stein-way, Dad's Guitar in Velvet (which I recently re-released in vinyl with the fine folks at Sundazed Records on their Modern Harmonic label). Where and when did you live around the corner from us? -Alexandra Barnes Leh

His name was Bob Curtis, a.k.a. Bob Kitsis. We lived in Glen Cove in the 1950s and I remember your father very well he was extremely talented

I love this music

This was originally telecast on *March 6, 1954.* The following evening- March 7th- was the "COLGATE COMEDY HOUR" when Eddie Cantor was host to the winners of the annual "LOOK Magazine Awards" {29:34}.

@Telcom100

2 жыл бұрын

I was confused because 'Secret Love" was a huge hit for Doris Day in 1954. Before your post, I actually checked Google to see if it was a hit again in 1958. That does happen from time to time.

@fromthesidelines

2 жыл бұрын

Other than Bugs Bunny singing a chorus of it in "Rabbitson Crusoe" (1956), it wasn't revived as a "hit".

@godscountry6473

6 ай бұрын

@@Telcom100 no, it was not a hit again in 1958. Sometimes, Google is plain retarded.

Wow!

@jesusislukeskywalker4294

2 жыл бұрын

isn't it. so. call me old fashioned. i love it.

I realized quickly these songs are 1954 not 58.l see others also noticed.

Production Budgets through the roof. So much video 'Art'.

@fromthesidelines

2 жыл бұрын

American Tobacco {and the co-sponsors} spent top dollar on Raymond Scott, his orchestra and arrangements. The singers and dancers also cost a considerable amount of money every week. To compensate (except for the elaborate "Extra" production numbers), simplicity in sets and settings for the musical numbers were encouraged.

The date of this show can’t be correct. By 1958, Gisele MacKenzie was starring in her own Saturday night variety show. She was clearly the main attraction of YHP.

29:34- "See EDDIE CANTOR and the 'LOOK magazine winners' on *'THE COMEDY HOUR',* tomorrow night."

@JasonDelarosa2000

Жыл бұрын

More proof this was actually four years earlier.

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These days,Crosley is the finest manufacturer of cheap,junky,phonographs.

17:45 or so wow