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1950 Your Hit Parade DVD TV 3 DVD SET LOST EPISODES

1950 Your Hit Parade DVD TV 3 DVD SET LOST EPISODES

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1950 Your Hit Parade DVD TV 3 DVD SET LOST EPISODES

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André Baruch continued as the announcer when the program arrived on NBC television in 1950, written by William H. Nichols, and produced, in its first years, by both Dan Lounsbery and Ted Fetter. Norman Jewison and Clark Jones (nominated for a 1955 Emmy) directed with associate director Bill Colleran. Tony Charmoli won a 1956 Emmy for his choreography, and the show's other dance directors were Peter Gennaro (1958-59) and Ernie Flatt (uncredited). Paul Barnes won an Emmy in 1957 for his art direction. In 1953, the show won a Peabody Award "for consistent good taste, technical perfection and unerring choice of performers." The seven top-rated songs of the week were presented in elaborate TV production numbers requiring constant set and costume changes. However, because the top songs sometimes stayed on the charts for many weeks, it was necessary to continually find ways of devising a new and different production number of the same song week after week. This could prove challenging with the literal lyrics of a song such as "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" on week after week. However, an imaginative staging of a song seen for many weeks sometimes brought audience applause just for the surprise of a fresh concept. Although Tony Bennett claimed to have made the first music video in 1956 with a short film of "Stranger in Paradise," some histories of popular music credit Your Hit Parade's visual story concepts as a major step forward in the evolution of the music video. On the TV series, vocalists Dorothy Collins (1950-59), Russell Arms (1952-57), Snooky Lanson (1950-57) and Gisèle MacKenzie (1953-57) were top-billed during the show's peak years. During this time, MacKenzie had her own hit record in 1955 with "Hard to Get" which climbed to the #5 ranking in June 1955 and stayed on the charts for 16 weeks. Your Hit Parade's TV vocalists (top, l. to r.): Snooky Lanson, Russell Arms and (bottom, l. to r.) Dorothy Collins, Gisèle MacKenzie.The line-up of the show's other singers included Eileen Wilson (1950-52), Sue Bennett (1951-52), June Valli (1952-53), Alan Copeland (1957-58), Jill Corey (1957-58), Johnny Desmond (1958-59), Virginia Gibson (1957-58), and Tommy Leonetti (1957-58). All were performers of standards, show tunes or big band numbers. Featured prominently were the Hit Parade dancers and the Hit Paraders, the program's choral singers, who sang the opening commercial jingle:

Be happy, go Lucky,
Be happy, go Lucky Strike
Be happy, go Lucky,
Go Lucky Strike today!

During the 1950-1951 season Bob Fosse appeared as a guest dancer on several episodes, with partner Mary Ann Niles. From 1950 until 1957, the orchestra was led by well-known bandleader and musician Raymond Scott (who married Dorothy Collins in 1952), and the show's other music supervisor was Harry Sosnik (1958-59) with Dick Jacobs, who was an uncredited music director (1957-58).  The show faded with the rise of rock and roll when the performance became more important than the song. It is said that big band singer Snooky Lanson's weekly attempts to perform Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" hit in 1956 hastened the end of the series. The series went from NBC (which, there, would become the first TV show ever to contain the living color peacock) to CBS in 1958 and expired the following year. While Your Hit Parade was unable to deal with the rock music revolution, the show's imaginative production concepts had an obvious influence on the wave of music videos that began in the decade that followed CBS also brought it back for a brief summer revival in 1974. That version featured Kelly Garrett, Sheralee and Chuck Woolery, who afterward went on to greater fame as the host of Wheel of Fortune, Love Connection and Lingo. The 1974 version of Your Hit Parade also featured hit songs from a designated week in the 1940s or 1950s. Milton DeLugg conducted the orchestra; Chuck Barris packaged this series, the only program he has ever made for CBS.

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