" YOUR HIT PARADE "FEBRUARY 28 1954 MUSICAL TV SHOW w/ RAYMOND SCOTT LUCKY STRIKE ADS XD47434

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This episode of "Your Hit Parade" popular music show dates to February 28 1954. The presentation is a kinescope, or a television signal that was recorded from a TV set onto 16mm film. The "Hit Parade" musical review show was sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes and Richard Hudnut Quick Home Permanent, and features advertisements for both products. At 13:21, golfer Sam Snead promotes Luckys. At :33, the animated Lucky Strike cigarettes sequence was created by special effects guru Ray Harryhausen.
"Your Hit Parade" featured elaborate sets and choreography that was inspired both by Hollywood movies and "soundies" -- popular short film versions of popular songs. The show utilized a cast to perform the songs, as opposed to playing the versions then on the air.
At (00:11:18:20) Is A Smoking Advertisement with Book Writer Amy Vanderbilt.
At (00:24:01:15) Is An Ad by Crosley For Their Refrigerator "Shelvador"
The "Your Hit Parade" program started out on radio before moving to television in 1950, and ran until 1959. The show presented seven top hit songs. This episode features Giselle Mackenzie, Roy Landman / Snooky Lanson, Polly Bergen, and Russel Arms, as well as Raymond Scott and the Hit Parade Orchestra. (Some other singers on "Your Hit Parade" in this era often included Dorothy Collins, Eileen Wilson and June Valli.) Songs include "Thats Amore" (00:02:00:03), "Changing Partners" (00:04:16:00), "Mama Inez" (00:06:40:02), "Stranger In Paradise" (00:08:40:20), "Heart Of My Heart" (00:12:59:19), "Women Man" (00:15:37:00), "Oh My Papa" (00:19:09:10), "Mimi" (00:21:54:20), "Secret Love" (00:25:12:00)

The songs featured on the program were selected as a result of a secret survey, supposedly based on best selling sheet music and phonograph records, plus tabulations made of songs most heard on the radio and most played on jukeboxes.
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[@TK-jc9by]

My parents watched this program every week. I was 9 years old when this episode aired. I remember Mom didn't like Snooky Lanson! Dad smoked Lucky Strikes. Thank you for these memories.

[@Robasaibot]

Reminds me so much of being at my grandparents when I was little this is great thanks for sharing

[@jonathan_nc]

As broadcast live on NBC 68 years ago tonight. Choreographer Tony Charmoli really outdid himself on this show. He won an Emmy for it in 1956. This show has excellent singing, dancing and musicians, all done live in front of an audience. Incredible talent!

[@robertusa1234]

I can see why the baby boomers loved rock and roll when compared to what their parents liked

[@lawrencephelps3181]

I'm a boomer and many of my generation were pampered and spoiled rotten. Nonexistent woes. The prior generation went through two world wars, the Depression, food rationing.

[@seltaeb3302]

Cigarettes cigarettes cigarettes! Looking back it was & still is criminal TV advertising to hook in the young teens to smoke.

[@lawrencephelps3181]

Boo hoo

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

I know all those songs except for Woman/man which I thought was terrific. Sounds very broadway-like

[@fromthesidelines]

That was originally a hit for Johnny Desmond, and a double-sided one for Jose Ferrer {"Woman (Uh-Huh)"} and Rosemary Clooney {"Man (Uh-Huh)"}.

[@chrishince8947]

Wait a minute... If they're pop stars, where are their tattoos?

[@neilthomas9244]

Hmm, wanted a smoke and to sing an inane ditty.

[@0neIntangible]

I was expecting Dick Clark.