Your Hit Parade March9-1954_

http://foxeema.blogspot.com/ An episode of "Your Hit Parade", a popular show from the 1950s featuring the hits of the week performed by the cast of the show. Songs in this episode include: "That's Amore", "Young At Heart", "Make Love to Me", "Heart of My Heart" (done in a way even more silly than the February 27 episode I uploaded!), "Oh My Papa", "Stranger in Paradise" and "Secret Love". Contains original commercials for Crosley (a division of Avco) and Lucky Strike cigarettes. Main vocalists are: Snooky Lanson, Russell Arms, Dorothy Collins and Gisèle MacKenzie

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Classic
• TV;
• Television;
• 50s;
• 50's;
• 1950s;
• 1950's;
• Fifties;
• Pop
• Music;
• Popular
• Oldies;
• Retro;
• Song;
• Songs;
• Kinescope;
• NBC;
• Live
• Your
• Hit
• Parade;
• television show
• classicswarfare
• 60s
• 70s
• medley
• nepali
• oldies

[Sheri451]

My Grandma had one of those stoves with two ovens, I remember that. I don't remember whether it was a Crosley, I sure wouldn't appreciate someone blowing cigarette smoke in my face.

[BluePhilDog]

Thanks for posting such an important historical artifact!

[fromthesidelines]

At the time, Avco's Crosley division alternated sponsorship with the show's primary sponsor, American Tobacco [Lucky Strike]. In the fall of '54, Warner-Lambert's Richard Hudnut division replaced Crosley on alternate Saturdays. This edition was actually the March 6, 1954 broadcast {March 9th fell on a Tuesday that year}. Keep in mind that if a song was popular enough to stay in the "Top 7", new ways to present it every week could often veer towards the ridiculous....

[fromthesidelines]

The "NBC Television presents" slide [created by freelance graphic artist Martin J. Weber in 1948] was seen only at the beginning of kinescope film recordings of the network's live shows, on those affiliates unable to carry the original live broadcasts. The producers of "YOUR HIT PARADE" also added a disclaimer reminding viewers these "kinnies" were delayed broadcasts. One reason was because some smaller stations often carried more than one network's programming...