Dorothy Collins & Johnny Desmond: Everybody Loves a Lover (Your Hit Parade 1958)

By the end of 1956, and under her friend and mentor Jack Benny's urging, Gisele MacKenzie secretly made it known to the sponsors and producers of "Your Hit Parade" that she would not return to the popular TV show under any conditions after the current season. With advent of rock 'n roll, and the changing of the tastes in popular music, this led to Your Hit Parade deciding to clean house, and terminated their relationship with the entire cast including longterm headliners Dorothy Collins, Snooky Lanson and Russell Arms. The show opened the 1957-1958 season in its regular Saturday night slot on NBC-TV, but in color. The new cast couldn't carry the show, and the public now wanted to see the artists that made songs a hit, sing them. NBC dropped the show. It was picked up by CBS, who brought Dorothy Collins back to the Your Hit Parade spotlight, sharing the bill with Johnny Desmond. The show had a new format, but only last one season (1958-1959). Here Dorothy and Johnny team on the Doris Day hit, "Everybody Loves a Lover" from the CBS-TV preview special of their 1958-1959 season.

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[VideosTimes2]

Oops..just noticed there's only one audio channel in this video. I'll correct that sometime in the future. Can't believe I missed this!

[fromthesidelines]

You forgot to mention that musical director Raymond Scott {Dorothy's husband} also left "YHP" after the 1956-'57 season, replaced by Dick Jacobs. Even long time announcer Andre Baruch gave way to Del Sharbutt in the 1957-'58 season. If you want to see what the May 24, 1958 edition of the show was like, look for it on YouTube. When the show moved to CBS, Harry Sosnik became the conductor, and Norman Jewison, the director. Dorothy returned in 1958 because sponsor American Tobacco wanted her to...

[wholesomesweetness86]

VideoTimes2 you never stop amazing me with some of things you post. SO rare so wonderful to actually see Dottie and Johnny singing on the last season of Hit Parade. Had no idea any footage still existed... and forget the Hit Parade format these 2 shoulda had shows of their own! SO great! Gonna be playing this one a lot thank you! - Matt

[MattTheSaiyan]

Ugh. It just doesn't have the same appeal as the early-to-mid-1950s version of the show.

[UncleCharlieOakley]

Terrific. Two superb pop singers. Collins was brilliant in "Follies" on Broadway and Desmond made a very sexy, charismatic co-star for Barbra Streisand on Broadway in "Funny Girl."