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The Alan Dale Show: from Dumont network in 1948—Dale sings two songs—Janie Ford sings one song—special guest is New York interviewer/radio celebrity Barry Grey who speaks of his new show in Florida and of Al Jolson's visit to his program (6/48) 8-3E

Coke Time (The Eddie Fisher Show): reel contains two quarter-hour programs as follows: 8-4D guest Diahann Carroll (3/18/55)

a) "Bring Back the Thrill," Eddie Fisher

b) "Tell Me Why," Eddie Fisher

c) Diahann Carroll—sings “The Sleeping Bee” from her Broadway musical “The House of Flowers”

d) "[I'm Always Hearing] Wedding Bells," Eddie Fisher—guest Morton Downey on St. Patrick's Day (3/16/55)

a) "[I'm Always Hearing] Wedding Bells," Eddie Fisher

b) Morton Downey: "Where the River Shannon Flows"

c) "Mother Macree," Eddie Fisher

The Edsel Show: last half hour of musical-variety show featuring—Bing Crosby with Louis Armstrong open with lively jazz song (Barrett Deems on drums)

—Frank Sinatra and Crosby banter while Sinatra sings 8-bars from “All the Way,” “Love and Marriage,” “Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home”)

—Crosby sings bars of “True Love”—the they pair-off for “Mexicali Rose” (Crosby), “South of the Border, Down Mexico Way” (Sinatra), “I Love Paris” (duet), “Sweet Leilani” (duet), “The Road to Morocco” (duet—joined by Bob hope)

—Rosemary Clooney sings solo “I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plans”

—brother tap dance duet

—Sinatra-Crosby and chorus “Collegiate” refrain

—Crosby sings "The Wiffenpoof Song"

—Sinatra sings "Sweetheart of Sigma Chi"

—Crosby-Sinatra sing duet on “September Song”

—Crosby-Sinatra duet “A Long, Long Trail a-Winding”

—Lindsay Crosby sings "In the Middle of an Island" with The Four Preps as his backup group

—dance ensemble does routine with mambo rhythm

—Sinatra and Armstrong jazz duet "Birth of the Blues" is Missing From 1600’ Version

—Clooney in medley with Sinatra and Crosby, all three with Louis Armstong end with "Sunnyside of the Street"

—commercial for 1958 Edsel (in half-hour version) (10/13/57) 1600’ version without commercial 16-1C last half-hour with commercials C-3E

Judy Garland: musical special with guests Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra—show marks return of Judy Garland to television after a six-year hiatus—produced and directed by Norman Jewison (2/25/62) good dupe 20-6B

—Just in Time, When You’re Smiling Garland

—Too Marvelous for Words, Sinatra

—You Do Something to Me, Martin-Garland then Martin-Garland-Sinatra

—You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, Martin

—I See Your Face Before Me, Sinatra

—The Man That Got Away, Garland

—The One I Love, Sinatra and Martin

—I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Martin

—Let There Be Love, You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You, Martin-Garland-Sinatra

—You Made Me Love You, The Trolley Song, Rock-a-Bye Your Baby, Swanee, San Francisco Garland

Your Hit Parade I: program of 6/14/52 12-13A

—"Blacksmith Blues," Eileen Wilson No. 7

—"Forgive Me," Dorothy Collins No. 6

—"Why," Hit Parade dancers with a Lucky Strike Extra

—"Be Anything," Snooky Lanson No. 3

—"Blue Tango," Hit Parade dancers No. 2

—"A Guy Is a Guy," Eileen Wilson No. 5

—"I'm Yours," Russell Arms No. 4

—"I Got Rhythm," Dorothy Collins and Hit Parade dancers with a Lucky Strike Extra

—"Kiss of Fire," Snooky Lanson No. 1

Your Hit Parade II: program of 4/30/55 is co-sponsored by Richard Hudnet Quick home permanent and Lucky Strike cigarettes C-2D

—"Dance with Me, Henry," Giselle McKenzie No. 7

—"How Important Can It Be?," Dorothy Collins No. 6

—"Waltz in Swingtime," a Jerome Kern song featuring the Hit Parade dancers in a Richard Hudnet Extra

—"Unchained Melody," Snooky Lanson No. 5

—Commercial: Julia Meade and Snooky Lanson backstage plugging Quick home permanent

—"Tweedle Dee," Russell Arms sings it as "a jazzy lullaby" sung to crying baby No. 4

—"Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White," Raymond Scott and his orchestra with the Hit Parade dancers

—"Melody of Love," Dorothy Collins No. 3

—"It's a Lovely Day Today," Giselle McKenzie and the Hit Parade dancers in a Richard Hudnet Extra

—Commercial: animated cartoon of German clock with figures that smoke Lucky Strike cigarettes

—"The Ballad of Davy Crockett," Snooky Lanson No. 1 and Hit Parade dancers with a Lucky Strike Extra

—Commercial: Richard Hudnut Enriched Creme Shampoo

Your Hit Parade III: program of 12/25/54 C-18E

—"The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane," Snooky Lanson #7

—"Teach Me Tonight" #6

—"I Need You Now," Giselle McKenzie #5

—"Let Me Go, Lover," Dorothy Collins #2

—"Count Your Blessings" #3

—Extra: "It's a Big, Wide Wonderful World," Giselle McKenzie

—"Mr. Sandman," Dorothy Collins #1

Your Hit Parade IV: program of 1/22/55 has complete opening with Lucky Strike stop-action commercial—plus Dorothy Collins plugs cigarette in opening commercial C-18E

—"Mr. Sandman" #1

—"Naughty Lady of Shady Lane," #4

—"Let Me Go, Lover" #2

—"Teach Me Tonight" #3

—"Count Your Blessings" #7

—"Melody of Love," #5

—"Hearts of Stone," #6 rock and roll

Your Hit Parade V: program of 2/27/54 has complete opening with Lucky Strike stop-action commercial A-15D

—Commercial: Dorothy Collins plugs Lucky Strike cigarettes

—"That’s Amore,” Dorothy Collins #3

—"Changing Partners," Snooky Lanson (waltz) #4

—Lucky Strike Extra: “Mama Inez” Raymond Scott Orchestra

—"Stranger in Paradise,” Giselle McKenzie #2

—Commercial: Andre Barush introduces Amy Vanderbilt who criticizes unthoughtful smokers, but approves of courteous smokers—she doesn’t smoke much but finds Luckys to her taste etiquette

—"Heart of My Heart,” Snooky Lanson and friends in caveman costumes #6

—"Woman – Man,” Giselle McKenzie and Russell Arms in boxing ring #7

—"Oh, My Papa," Dorothy Collins #5

—Lucky Strike Extra: “Mimi,” Russell Arms

—Commercial: Crosley Super Shelvador refrigerator—has “coffee Miser” plastic case that gives one-tablespoon servings of coffee

—"Secret Love," Giselle McKenzie in Geisha costume #1

—signature song and “Be Happy, Go Lucky”

Your Hit Parade VI: program of 10/17/53 has complete opening with Crosley appliances plugs T-12C

—"Oh,” Snooky Lanson #3

—"Crying in the Chapel,: Dorothy Collins #4

—Crosley Extra: “Don’t Be That Way” Raymond Scott Orchestra

—"No Other Love,” Giselle McKenzie #5

—Commercial: the “brand new 1954 Crosley television” is plugged—larger picture (21 inch) with no static when electrical appliances are used

—"Many Times,” Russell Arms #7

—"Ebb Tide,” instrumental realized with modern dancer Nanons Miller and Tom Hanson #6

—"Oh, My Papa," Dorothy Collins #5

—“You, You, You,” Dorothy Collins #2

—Crosley Extra: “I’m a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas,” Snooky Lanson

—Commercial: Ogden Nash plugs good eating, good fun, and good smoking—he admits smoke Lucky Strike cigarettes for 30 years tobacco

—"Vaya con Dios,” Giselle McKenzie costumed as a Spanish dama #1

—signature song

Stephen Foster Films

I: contains two Admiral 600' films from 1947—these are Kodachrome color prints 12-7B

a) "The Old Folks at Home"

b) "Beautiful Dreamer"

II: "Nelly Was a Lady" —Kodachrome color 8-6A

III: "Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground" very racist imagery—including The Kings Men in blackface B&W 8-3B

IV: "Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground" Kodachrome color version of very racist short—blackface 2 Copies 8-7B 8-8B

V: "My Old Kentucky Home" B&W 8-6D

VI: Two Stephen Foster Songs: 8-3D

I: "Old Black Joe" B&W (1947) Ken Darby Singers

II: "The Old Folks at Home" B&W (1947)

VII: "Old Folks at Home" B&W 8-10D Various Titles: B/W all found on A-29B

—“Camptown Races”

—“Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming”

—“My Old Kentucky Home”

—“Nelly Was a Lady”

—“Massa’s in the Cold, Cold Ground”

—“Nelly Bly”

—“Beautiful Dreamer”

—“Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair”

ABC NEWS Special Report: "American Music—From Folk to Jazz and Pop" (See NEWS 228)

Cafe Continental: see Variety Programs

The Patti Page Show: program #9 from 1955 (15 minutes) 8-6E (songs about roses and gardens)

—"The One Rose That's Left in My Heart"

—"Garden in the Rain"

—"Rosetta," PAGE FIVE

—"Mighty Like a Rose," Patti Page (no minstrel show references)

—"I'm Looking at the World through Rose-Colored Glasses"

—"This Is My Song" is signature song

The Patti Page Show: half-hour program (Screen Gems 1957)

—"Detour" 12-2D

—"I'll String Along with You"

—"Ain't She Sweet," Page Five

—"I Hear a Rhapsody"

—"Steam Heat"

—"You Go to My Head"

—"Roll Out the Barrel" Page Five

—"When Day Is Done"

Patti Page: split-screen publicity interview for feature film "The Boys' Night Out"4-16D

The Jill Corey Show: sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Reserve

a) sings the music of Harold Arlen (full opening to this show) 1956 8-5C

b) sings the music of Hoagy Carmichael 1956

The Arthur Murray Party: guests singers Don Cornell ["Hold My Hand"] and Denise Lor ["If I Give My Heart to You"] and Cornell-Lor duet ["This Can't Be Love"] (August 17, 1954 8/17/54) 12-5B

—Katherine Murray does dance skit with Kenny Delmar, Arnold Stang, Jack Norton

—commercials for 5-Day Deodorant Pads from Ruth Warwick and then Ben Grauer

—plus anti-cigarette/ pro-pipe commercial at end of show for Kaywoodie pipe company

Pat Boone Chevy Showroom: guests are Canadian pop star Pat Lambert and Broadway star Gordon MacRae ” (11/28/58) C-1E

—Boone opens with “I’m Bidin’ My Time”

—Commercials for 1959 Chevrolet (Boone does first one for Biscayne)

—Boone describes his Royal Command Performance in London last week

—Then sings “St. Louis Blues”

—MacRae sings “Lost in the Stars”

—Boone-MacRae medley of courting folk songs (duet on “Foggy Foggy Dew”

—MacRae sings “Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair”

—Duet on “The Cooper of Fyfe” and Americanized version called “Man in the West”

—Boone sings

—Ends with duet on “Froggy Went a-Courtin’

Pat Boone Chevy Showroom II: guests are singer Jaye P. Morgan, Count Basie with Joe Williams—Boone does first commercial of new 1959 Chevrolet—music as follows: (12/11/58) 8-4A

1) “It’s All in the Game,” Pat Boone

2) “You Came a Long Way from St. Louie,” Jaye P. Morgan sings mocking the stereotypical Playboy male in the smoking jacket!

3) Boone chats with Morgan, then moves over to Count Basie to discuss jazz history—Missing “Jumping at Woodside” (plus other jazz piece?) Commercial: Betty Skelton delivers spot highlighting brakes on 1959 Chevy

4) “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” Joe Williams and Boone duet in a “whitebread” arrangement

6) Boone signs off with eight bars of “the Chevy Song”

Pat Boone Chevy Showroom III: guests are Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme who have been married for 3 months (4/10/58)—extra segment is spliced in featuring Nat King Cole (10/1/58)—all Chevrolet commercial excised A-10C

1) “All Dressed Up and No Place to Go,” Pat Boone opens show

2) “Too Young,” Boone (too high-pitched and slow for his voice)

3) “Come Rain or Come Shine,” Steve Lawrence “just about one best new young singers”

4) Boone and Lawrence jest about their marriages then sing duet “Open Up That Dog House”

5) “Scarlet Ribbons,” Boone

6) “I’ve Got a Right to Sing the Blues,” Edie Gorme

7) “Midnight Flyer,” Nat King Cole (from program of 10/1/58)

8) “I Love a Piano” “Piano Roll Blues,” trio of Gorme, Lawrence and Boone

A Song a Minute: CBS audition variety show with regulars and special guest performers who each sing segments of a song as follows:

—Tommy Leonetti, “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her face”

—Gretchen Wyler, “How You Gonna Keep ‘m Down on the Farm”

—The Noteworthies, “Tom Dooley”

—Anita Bryant, “S’Wonderful”

—Leonetti And Wyler, “Darktown Strutters Ball”

—player piano plays ragtime song “Kitten on the Keys”

—Noteworthies, “Meet in St. Louis, Louie”

—Les Paul And Mary Ford, “Waiting for the Sunrise”—both play guitars, good close-ups on Les Paul’s picking style (full 32-bar song)

—Bryant, “Stars Fell on Alabama”

—Bryant and Leonetti, “Buttons and Bows”

—Wyler, “Ma, He’s Making Eyes at Me”

—Noteworthies, “Carolina in the Morning”

—Leonetti, “I’ve Got a Crush on You”

—Mambo song played by full orchestra

—Bryant and Leonetti, “Two Sleep People”

—Wyler, “I’m Just Wild about Harry”

—Noteworthies, “Shenendoah”

—African-American trumpet soloist with orchestra “It’s All in the Game”

—Noteworthies, “Standin’ on the Corner”

—Les Paul and Mary Ford, “Vaya con Dios”

—Full cast sings “It’s Gonna Be a Great Day”

The Dinah Shore Show: see Variety Programs

Steve Lawrence Show: quarter-hour of production numbers from his network programs—w/ Jill St. John, Allan Sherman, Nipsey Russell, Juliette Prowse (?) Fall 1965 8-13B

a) opens singing “What Is This Thing Called Love?”

b) spoof of Jackie Gleason (Sherman) and Crazy Guggenheim (Lawrence)—St. John enters leading to Lawrence-Sherman duet on “What Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?”—the Jill St. John joins in

c) Lawrence plays kazoo starts (backed by his chorus also on kazoos) musical arrangement of “Camptown Races”—segues to singing “Toot Toot Tootsie”

d) Comedy routine with Lawrence, Sherman and Nipsey Russell Re comedy songs: “People” and “Stormy Weather” spoofed—segues to cast singing “Good Advise”

TVAds 14.6: 21) Steve Lawrence Show: Lawrence sings two complete songs

The Perry Como Show: see Variety Programs

The Ezio Pinza Show [The RCA Victor Show]: kinescoped Christmas program from early television—with commercials for RCA-Victor television sets (12/21/51) 12-4B

Bonino: pilot episode here called "I, Bonino" (w/ Eva Maire Saint Ezio Pinza; dir. Gordon Duff; wr. Robert Alan Aurthur; prod. Fred Coe) 4/22/53

Varsity, U.S.A.: Bennett Cerf hosts this pilot from about 1955 in which the stars of tomorrow are sought in college stage productions (from University of Miami students produce "University of Miami Sketchbook" with music by Jerry Herman) 12-2B

Dobie Gillis III: "Vocal Boy Makes Good" guest stars are The Lettermen 12-11A

The Jackie Gleason Show: see Variety Programs

Ford Star Jubilee: "Mary Martin Noel Coward—Together with Music"—musical songfest (60 minutes of 90 minute show) 10/22/55—includes the following: 20-3B

a) End of song by Martin, to commercial for 1956 Fordstresses safety Lifeguard design

b) Comedy banter (she breaks up), end of first period

c) Commercial with animated man and puppet for Ford

d) Coward sings medley of seven of his songs

e) Martin sings medley from South Pacific

f) Coward introduces Martin who sings "My Heart Belongs to Daddy"

g) Coward sings "World Weary" and comedy classic, "What's Going to Happen to the Children When There Aren't Any More Grown Ups?”

h) Martin sings "One Fine Day" while Coward mocks her opera technique

i) Ilka Chase delivers commercial for the upholstery in 1956 Ford

j) More banter re "One Fine Day" singing

k) Closing montage of American standards by Gershwin, Porter, etc. songs "Get Out Those Old Records"

"They'll Never Believe Me"

"S'Wonderful"

"Time on My Hands"

"I Never Knew What Time It Was"

"Anything Goes"

"Dancing in the Dark"

short pieces of Dance songs

The Frank Sinatra Show: Bulova Watch sponsored musical variety show features guest Phil Silvers, plus Roberta Lee (sings "Bill Bailey")—Sinatra sings the following:

—"I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me"

—song & dance vaudeville skit with Silvers 12/50

—"All of Me"

—"Body and Soul" (12/16/50) hour show edited to 22 minutes C-8C

Frank Sinatra Timex Special: “An Afternoon with Frank Sinatra” aired 12/13/59—stars Sinatra, with guests Peter lawford (makes good reference to “my brother-in-law, Senator John Kennedy”—and Sinatra says Nixon might demand equal time—others include The Hi Los, Juliet Prowse, Ella Fitzgerald, Hermoine Gingold, Red Norvo—performance as follows: 20-10D

—“I’ve Got the World on a String,” Sinatra

—CommerciaL: John Cameron Swayze ties a Timex Marlin watch to an arrow—it is then shot through a glass window—and keeps on ticking

—“The Desert Song,” The Hi Los

—“Comes Love,” Lawford and Gingold

—“There’s a Lull in My Life,” Ella Fitzgerald

—“It’s Alright with Me,” Sinatra (sung to Juliet Prowse)

Sinatra then makes get-well appeal to Cole Porter who is ailing at home

—Juliet Prowse dance routine

—“Too Marvelous for Words,” Sinatra

—“Here’s That Rainy Day Is Here,” Sinatra w/ Red Norvo combo

—“Just You, Just Me,” Ella Fitzgerald

—“I’ll Never Smile Again,” Sinatra with The Hi Los (arrangement is Pied Pipers from Tommy Dorsey band)

—“Can’t We Be Friends,” Sinatra with Ella Fitzgerald—has special lyrics in which Sinatra mentions other black female singers: Della Reese, Dinah Washington, Lena Horne

—“Puttin’ on the Ritz,” production number with Lawford, Gingold and dancers

—Medley: from Ella Fitzgerald’s new Gershwin record album:

“Who Cares?,” Ella Fitzgerald

“Love Walked In,” The Hi Los

“Our Love Is Here to Stay,” Sinatra

“Love Is Sweeping the Country,” Ella, Lawford, Gingold, Prowse, Sinatra

Frank Sinatra Timex Special: program welcomes home Elvis Presley who has left the U.S. Army—Sammy Davis, Jr. appears—Elvis segment has been excised from this fair dupe (5/12/60) 20-6A

Here’s to the Ladies: Frank Sinatra hosts special w/ Lena Horne And others 20-10B

Sinatra: CBS News special in which Walter Cronkite profiles Sinatra—includes performances and interviews with Nancy Sinatra, Johnny Carson, Count Basie, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr.—shows Sinatra in recording session and relaxing at Jill’s—Sinatra objected to some of Cronkite’s questions and threatened to withdraw from the program, but matters were resolved before airing fair dupe (11/23/65) 20-9B

Sinatra's Fifth Special: Frank Sinatra in an hour-long one-man show (color kinescope) 11/5/69 16-6D

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show: commercials edited from this kinescoped 15-minute show from June or July 1956

John Davidson with Love: hour-long special hosted by Davidson with guests Barbara McNair, George Gobel, Floyd Cramer, Nashville Brass—sponsored by Shurfine grocery products annual sale (color kinescope) syndicated 1972 20-3B

The Lawrence Welk Show

I: "Salute to County Fairs" is theme featuring Lennon Sisters, Larry Hooper, Bobby Burgess (8/20/66) 20-3A

II: network kinescope from 1959 with three commercials for 1959 Dodge automobiles (Lennon Sisters sing song in one commercial)—Rocky Rockwell, Joe Feeney, Pete Fountain, Alice Lon 20-11C

III