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MacDonald & Associates Musical Performance Catalogue Mainstream Pop Music Titles Part I |
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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 Korla
Pandit:
syndicated show copyright 1955 (#11) 8-1E 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 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 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" 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 |