" YOUR HIT PARADE " MARCH 26 1955 MUSICAL TV SHOW w/ RICHARD HUDNUT LUCKY STRIKE ADS XD46594

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This episode of "Your Hit Parade" popular music show dates to March 26, 1955. 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.
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 "Tweedly Dee" (00:02:10:07), "How Important Can it Be" (00:04:54:00), "Hawaiian War Chant (00:07:55:07), "Thats All I Want From You" (00:10:18:11), "The Ballad Of Davy Crockett" (00:14:09:06), "Sincerely" (00:00:16:49:20), "Koko Mo" (00:19:02:06), "April Showers" (00:21:25:23) "Melody Of Love" (00:25:21:06)
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[@debbiethompson4701]

My parents were newlyweds, 20 something's .Thank you love it!

[@larryboysen5911]

I was 12 when this segment of "Your Hit Parade" was aired. We watched this show on a 21" Arvin TV. My late dad was in the TV service business...we always had the most up-to-date set in the living room! I loved that era, and playing 78 records of these hits...sill play them today, from my 3,000 record collection 78-45-331/3. When music was music...not the junk passing for music today!

[@653j521]

It was the junk passing for music then. :) You only like it because it reminds you of your youth,

[@larryboysen5911]

@@653j521 No, nothing to do with my youth...I'm very glad I'm my age in this so-called "futuristic" era...as the human race, in my opinion is a failure....I would not care to be young today...good luck with your path in life! I just happen to like vintage music, you are entitled to your opinion...I still call the crap you term "music" is, well noisy crap!

[@JEEPSTR78]

Thanks for posting! Love it!!

[@MediaWest]

raymond scott. what a legend. i know he did cbs orchestra, which is playing the music live, but this guy invented so much music technology. amazing.

[@fromthesidelines]

Raymond became associated with 'YOUR HIT PARADE" when his brother Mark Warnow, the radio show's conductor, died of a sudden heart attack in October 1949 [Scott's real name was *Harry Warnow]* and he took over, moving to television with the series in 1950. After he and the cast were dropped in 1957, Scott devoted himself to expanding his musical technology and creating electronic compositions.

[@mohammedcohen]

...the Tweedle-e-dee dance reminds me of the "Four Grecian Urns" from the Music Man - danced by Hermoine Gingold

[@kbobdonahue1966]

It would be interesting to see if my parents were watching this back in the day. My parents were married for three months when this first aired. My mom, Sally, RIP, was pregnant with my oldest sister, Kerry. Of course, I wasn't a twinkle in my mom's eye yet, that would at least eleven years down the road. Thank you for posting this. This is great 👍

[@fromthesidelines]

If they were watching George Gobel on Saturdays at 10pm(et), they refrained from changing the channel to see "YOUR HIT PARADE", which followed. According to the 1954-'55 Nielsen ratings, Gobel's program was #8- and "YOUR HIT PARADE" was #15.

[@PhilJLF]

I can’t wake up to this, goodbye will watch later

[@ericjanssen394]

Anyone else old enough to remember Your Hit Parade getting a short-lived summer-replacement variety reboot/remake series in the 70's (with a then-unknown Chuck Woolery as Snooky Lanson), back during the big '74 anniversary-revival marketing? The episodes would dig up one old chart from the 50's, and do YHP-style numbers to "September Song", "Hoop de Do", and "Old Cape Cod". I'd almost forgotten being hooked on that show as a kid until the old 50's shows resurfaced on KZbin.

[@stevefahnestalk8500]

Chuck Woolery as Snooky Lanson? You mean as a replacement, I'm sure.

[@ericjanssen394]

@@stevefahnestalk8500 I'm sure, too.

[@fromthesidelines]

Chuck Barris was responsible for that revival, with permission from American Brands {formerly American Tobacco}, who still owned the rights to the title and format.

[@lestersabados1306]

I was not born until the late 60s, i go back to feel the vibes of the 50s. Its not rubbish but these tunes are so depressing.

[@freemangriffin4953]

Dorothy does a great job with "How Important Can It Be?". She introduced "Losing My Mind", "In Buddy's Eyes", and "Too Many Mornings" in Stephen Sondheim's Follies!

[@fromthesidelines]

"Tweedle Dee' was one of the pioneer rock and roll songs released that year (as sung by LaVern Baker). But you'd never know it from the way the cast usually presented it as a "novelty song" [their version was based on Georgia Gibbs' somewhat "mainstream" version for record listeners and buyers].

[@C-130-Hercules]

📽 👏 Awesome new projector! With auto stop in case the film 🎞 melts onto the red hot projector bulb 💡. I hate when that happens.

[@davidmicalizio824]

"Quick" 😄

[@fromthesidelines]

"The Ballad of Davy Crockett" was one of the longest-lasting songs on the "Hit Parade" survey (and reached the #1 spot for several weeks). It became popular because it was featured during the wildly successful "Davy Crockett" segments on ABC's "DISNEYLAND" that season {and hit recordings by Bill Hayes and "Davy" himself, Fess Parker}.

[@sbhg3166]

Yep, after watching most all of the Davy Crockett episodes on Disneyland (or maybe the reruns), I was thrilled to get my realistic Davy Crocket musket toy rifle around 1966. (It even came with a metal ramrod)

[@653j521]

I read that long lasting songs on the survey were what killed the show. People didn't want to see the same ones week after week.

[@fromthesidelines]

What actually "killed" the show was a change in pop music. Rock 'n' roll began to crowd out the "traditional" elements of nice, pleasant sounding tunes. That's why there was more reliance on "Extras" during the last two seasons- and even when some "rock" performers were seen during the final season, viewers really didn't want to see Dorothy Collins and Johnny Desmond interpreting the week's songs. That's why "YOUR HIT PARADE" finally went off the air in April 1959.

[@mohammedcohen]

...the grand parents of Kasey Kasem's "Top 40"...

[@mohammedcohen]

...I remember my mom getting a 'permanent'....a serious misnomer because she had to get them often...obviously the were only temporary. Do women still get permanents???

[@fromthesidelines]

Yes, they do. 😃

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

Purty corny. And the Bomb was hangin in the air ...while these escapist dreamscapes were being aired on the frequent frequencies ... 🇫🇮

[@smallpicture]

I was 3 1/2 years old when this show was broadcast. No wonder I don’t remember it. Lol!

[@fromthesidelines]

You were in bed sleeping when this came on. 😉