Your Hit Parade Clip: Tweedlee Dee by Dorothy Collins

[@magcarril]

This is old fashioned ENTERTAINMENT! Take it light...It was one way of seeing and hearing the hits of the week...Nostalgic Memories! Peace, love and a smile...MARIA GONZALEZ...VIVA MARIA!

[@kaleman1]

Eileen Wilson...Snooky Lanson...Dorothy Collins..the 3 Original Hit Paraders. It was a fun show and rock and roll was indeed the end for it.

[@annshelaann]

This is really funny I love the man dancers!

[@rslitman]

The LaVern Baker version is nowhere to be found on KZbin. That's the one I was really looking for.

[@fromthesidelines]

This was basicially the beginning of the end for the show. When the cast tried to perform "rock and roll" numbers like this, they could not match LaVerne Baker (and other "original" renditions), and the teenagers watching "YOUR HIT PARADE" knew this. That's why there was a general "overhaul" of the cast in 1957...and the show went off in April of 1959.

[@cha5]

I kind of wonder about some of these "surveys of the top favorite tunes" that YHP supposedly used, I mean were their "surveys" reflected in 'Downbeat' or 'Billboard' from the 1950s which actually kept track of what the most popular albums were back then?

[@EduardoBuenoamigo]

Is it just because I am a Brazilian and would note this in a heartbeat but the beat IS from the song Brazil that Carmen Mirand make immortal? Have you see the movie Brazil? If I find a video clip of it you can compare and see the shameless use of the beat. I like this song though, but it is funny how it was used with no problems at all. Thanks for the posting. I love your videos!

[@pgh45rpms]

YHP began as a radio show in 1935. Their surveys were supposedly based on record & sheet music sales, radio airplay and jukebox figures -- but how the YHP surveys were actually tabulated was never disclosed. YHP was a radio fixture until 1953. The tv version began in 1950, but folded by the end of the decade. When r&r caught on, Billboard, Cashbox & Downbeat were far more accurate, as were radio station playlists.

[@wlh70]

@SergioRafaelNittolo I'll gladly accept your offer.

[@AlmieRoseVazzano]

Directed by David Lynch.

[@Sugarbehr1967]

Pat Boone recording 'Tutti Frutti'...Dorothy Collins performing 'Tweedlee Dee'...the ignorance of the 50's...they appealed to white bread America who wanted to put the real music where they thought it belonged..while the music got out to the masses..it took a pioneer like Alan Freed to showcase the true artists!

[@strawberriibuns]

ahahaahhahhahahhahahhahahaHHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHH :D

[@unclealand]

When black singers began to show they could make big money, that is when the staions and producers started paying attention. It's a business. So is the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I mean, they just "honored" Madonna.

[@ibm650]

I'm (now) an old white guy who grew up in Southern Ontario listening to hit parade shows from Detroit and Buffalo. Local jukeboxes played 45s based on popularity, indeed, but in high school, my generation began to learn where this music came from. Race isn't the point. Buddy Holly was white and got invited to play the Apollo based on the sound of his "Not Fade Away" demo. Georgia Gibbs or Pat Boone? No way--no soul. Originality trumps watered-down covers.

[@solarvegan]

Good observation! I suppose "Your Hit Parade" was out of step with the burgeoning rock 'n' roll era.

[@flightmatron]

"Tweedlee Dee" was covered by Georgia Gibbs. It was nothing compared to the original by LaVerne Baker. Gisele MacKenzie is here singing "Dance with me Henry, also originally recorded by black artist. There was a lot of this piracy in the 50s. Pat Boone even sang Little Richards "Tutti Frutti." His wop-bop-a-loo-bop had no "boom." Cornball at it's best.

[@pwarren1010]

I went from listening to Black Sabbath The song 5150 Mob Rules to this! This video is more disturbing I think

[@fromthesidelines]

"Rock and Roll" was the factor that eventually doomed "YOUR HIT PARADE", because, by 1956-'57, teens insisted on hearing the ORIGINAL performers (or their recordings) instead of the "YHP" cast, who were indeed mostly out of touch with "current" songs performed between 1955 and the end of the series in 1959 {Snooky Lanson's "Hound Dog" was a good example}.

[@unclealand]

You're right about Georgia Gibbs, but do you really use Wikipedia as a reliable and sane source of facts? Always re-check their info. Anybody can write to the Wikipedia database.

[@hebneh]

There's an undeniable irony in the staging of this song, originally by a black singer (LaVerne Baker), as if it was a Swiss cuckoo clock with the lead singer in a blonde Aryan wig.

[@unclealand]

I don't think "Tutti Frutti" was a great loss as a representation of anything, and, besides, it was Laverne Baker's version of "Tweedlee Dee" that outsold the cover done by Rosemary Clooney.

[@unclealand]

Sorry, but it's called Show BUSINESS. It's about money and popularity. Look at some of the other groups and people who were inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. It's not about art.

[@bubbadon7540]

Sort of queer, but great fun.

[@Sugarbehr1967]

Rock and roll most certainly did not start the decline of American culture in America...it reflected the changing tune of music in America..and as for the so called 'Charles Manson Generation'..as you so charmingly called it....the counter culture of the 60's were about free love, and stopping the war, and MOST OF THEM by the way weren't mass murderers, who are still in prison for their crimes.! What is boils down to was racism, plain and simple.