Your Hit Parade -Feb27-1954

http://foxeema.blogspot.com/An episode of "Your Hit Parade", a 1950s TV show featuring covers of the top hits of the week. Songs in this episode are: "That's Amore", "Changing Partners", "Stranger in Paradise", "Heart of My Heart" (WTF!), "Man and Woman", "Oh My Pa-Pa" (no comment on the wig), and "Secret Love". Cast members are: Snooky Lanson, Dorothy Collins, Gisèle MacKenzie and Russell Arms. Also contains original commercials for Lucky Strike cigarettes and Crosley refrigerators.

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[tomservo56954]

The "Lucky Strike Extra" tune, "Mama Inez", is also an Extra on the 5/2/51 episode.

[tomservo56954]

@Archangel101576 I have read how YOUR HIT PARADE's visualization/dramatization of popular song can be considered one of the threads that led to the music video.

[fromthesidelines]

If you want to see what the show looked like in the 1957-'58 season, look for "1958 - NBC - Your Hit Parade - from 5/24/58"...it's posted, in two parts.

Finally, CBS picked up the show in the fall of '58. It tried to feature several "rock" performers, balanced with Dorothy Collins and Johnny Desmond, but not enough viewers tuned in to keep it on for another season.

[fromthesidelines]

The producers tried to straddle the divide between "adult contemporary" and "rock" for at least three seasons, but when Snooky Lanson tried to sing his version of "Hound Dog" in 1956, it sounded ludicrous to most teenagers. The cast was replaced with "younger" performers in the fall of 1957 [they had no experience in "rock", either], and more standards {"Hit Parade Extras"} were performed. Ratings continued to fall to the point where NBC cancelled the show....

[fromthesidelines]

"YOUR HIT PARADE" went off the air at the end of April 1959 (on CBS), 'bobbobato', in the face of "Rock and Roll" ultimately dominating the charts by then.

[bobbobato]

@Archangel101576 apparently Hit Parade went off the air when Rock and Roll became popu

[iotbs8]

I used to watch this show, as a kid. Didn't realize it at the time, but I had a 'crush' on Dorothy Collins. Ironically, the cigarette commercials didn't bother me a bit. Today, I'd have to wonder if that old line about 'licking an ashtray' would apply to either Dorothy, or her husband, orchestra leader Raymond Scott. Anyway, it's great to hear their rendering of these old favorites, many of which I still listen to today.

[Juliaflo]

@hotsickle Exactly!

Have a good summer.

[hotsickle]

@Juliaflo oink

[Archangel101576]

I'd never seen this show before, but it's pretty good. I'm impressed with the choreography, the acting out of the songs, and the performances of the show's singers. This show would never work today, which is sad. Imagine someone else singing a Lady Gaga song, or acting out one of her songs. It would never fly, and that's just another indictment of how much pop music has devolved.