YOUR HIT PARADE
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Genre: home movie
Year Published: 1954
Format: 16mm
Description: This episode of "Your Hit Parade" popular music show dates to September 11, 1954. The presentation is a kinescope, or a television signal that was recorded from a TV set onto 16mm film. The "Hit Parade" musical review show was sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes and Richard Hudnut Quick Home Permanent, and features advertisements for both products. At 13:21, golfer Sam Snead promotes Luckys. At :33, the animated Lucky Strike cigarettes sequence was created by special effects guru Ray Harryhausen. "Your Hit Parade" featured elaborate sets and choreography that was inspired both by Hollywood movies and "soundies" -- popular short film versions of popular songs. The show utilized a cast to perform the songs, as opposed to playing the versions then on the air. At (00:24:15:08) is an ad for Richard Hudnut's Home Permanent "Quick" Hair Product. The "Your Hit Parade" program started out on radio before moving to television in 1950, and ran until 1959. The show presented seven top hit songs. This episode features Giselle Mackenzie, Roy Landman / Snooky Lanson, Polly Bergen, and Russel Arms, as well as Raymond Scott and the Hit Parade Orchestra. (Some other singers on "Your Hit Parade" in this era often included Dorothy Collins, Eileen Wilson and June Valli.) Songs include "Little Things Mean Allot" (00:04:50:00), "The High And The Mighty" (00:07:26:07), "Sh-Boom" (00:10:25:23), "Hernando's Hideaway" (00:14:51:22), The Little Shoemaker (00:17:31:12), "In THe Chapal In The Moonlight" (00:19:45:22), "Its A Grand Night For Singing" (00:22:12:23), "Hey There" (00:25:34:17) The songs featured on the program were selected as a result of a secret survey, supposedly based on best selling sheet music and phonograph records, plus tabulations made of songs most heard on the radio and most played on jukeboxes.
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[Music] lucky strike the cigarette that tastes better cleaner fresher smoother in co-sponsorship with richard hudnut makers of quick the new home permanent with a 10-minute waving lotion presents your hit parade be happy be happy tonight lucky strike presents your hit parade the top tunes all over america as determined by your hit parade survey which checks the best sellers in sheet music and phonograph records the songs most heard on the air and the songs most played on the automatic coin machines an accurate authentic tabulation of america's taste in popular music your hit parade [Music] you know friends it's easy to see why lucky's taste better because it's right on the pack ls mft lucky strike means fine tobacco and then it's toasted to taste better so to get better taste from your cigarette lucky strike is the brand to get it's toasted to give you the best taste yet it's the toasted cigarettes [Music] so i feel a song coming on and i'm warning you it's a victorious happy and glorious new song i feel a song coming on it's a melody full of the laughter of children out after the race that my troubles are gone let those heavenly thumbs go and drumming cause i feel a song coming on [Music] full of the laughter [Music] in november [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] survey song number six during dorothy collins absence our lovely and talented guest star miss paulie bergen steps into the hit parade spotlight to sing little things mean a lot [Music] say i look nice when i'm not touch my hair when you pass the chair little things mean a lot [Music] away little things [Music] don't have to give me diamonds champagne sables and such [Music] i never prepared much for diamonds and pearls cause honestly honey they just cost money [Music] to tell me you haven't forgotten but now i'm forever for always and ever little [Music] me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] number two the hit parade dancers interpret the halving strains of the song the survey finds in second place the high and the mighty [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] survey song number four it's snooki lansen and heap big song number four shaboom [Music] if i could take you up in paradise up above issue and tell me i'm the only one that you love tonight could be a dream sweetheart hello hello again again all life could be a dream if only all my precious plans would come true if you would let me spend my whole life loving you life would be a dream sweetheart now every time i look at you something is on my mind if you do what i want you to baby we'd be so fine if i could take you up in paradise up above if you would tell me i'm the only one that you love life would be a dream sweetheart [Music] foreign [Music] now every time i look at you something is on my mind if you do what i want you to do baby we'd be so fine [Music] life could be a dream if i could take you up in paradise up above if you would tell me i'm the only [Music] could be a dream life could be a dream [Applause] here's ted williams one of baseball's greatest sluggers watch ted go after a heart fighting bone fish off the floor of the keys he's hooked one look at that line peel off good size catch looks like an eight pounder and it's all done with a glass rod ted's own company makes it ted what do you call that rod well it's a ted williams nine footer and i may be a little prejudiced but i think it's the very best there is for bone fishing i don't doubt it tell me uh another thing ted how do you feel about that lucky you're smoking well that's the best too i switched to lucky's a couple years ago while i smoke indoors and out i probably enjoy lucky's best in an open boat they give me just what i'm looking for and that's better taste well millions of smokers will agree with you there ted indoors and outdoors a lucky taste better for reasons that are printed right here on the pack ls lucky strike means fine tobacco and then that fine tobacco is toasted it's toasted is the famous lucky strike process that brings lucky's fine tobacco to its peak of flavor tones up this mild naturally good tasting tobacco to make it taste even better yes a lucky tastes better because it's the cigarette of fine tobacco and it's toasted to taste better cleaner fresher smoother so like ted williams be happy go lucky yes sir lucky's tastes great survey song number seven giselle mckenzie brings us the tangle rhythms of the tune that's in seventh place hernando's hideaway [Applause] i know a dark secluded place a place where no one knows your face a glass of wine a blast and breaks it's called fernando's hideaway all you see are silhouettes and hideaway at the golden finger bowl or any place you go [Music] you will meet your uncle max and everyone you know [Applause] but if you go to the spot that i am thinking of you will be free to gaze at me [Music] a match and you will know you're in hernando's hideaway oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] song number three russell arms finds a bedtime story in the whimsical song that captures third place on the survey the little shoemaker [Music] in the shoemaker shop this refrain would never stop as he tapped away working all the day at his bench there was he just as busy as a bee little time to lose with the boots and shoes but his heart went pop inside the little shop when a lovely girl sent him all a world she had come to choose some pretty dancing shoes and he heard her say in a charming way choose to set my feet at dancing dancing dancing dancing all the days shoes to set my feet and dancing dancing dancing all my tears away then he tapped and he stitched for his fingers were bewitched and he sewed a dream into every scene making shoes also neat just like magic on her feet and he hoped she'd know that he loved her so but she danced and stands as though she were in trance all around the shop like a spinning top on her daily feet she whirled into the [Music] and dancing dancing dancing [Music] number five polly bergen sings the lovely ballad the survey finds in fifth place this week in the chapel in the moonlight [Music] i'd love to hear the organs [Music] while we're strolling down the eyes [Music] in the chapel [Music] let the love light in your eyes to the roses turn to ashes till the organs if you never come i'll still be there till the moon light turns to dust how i love to really quietly [Music] in the chapel in the moonlight as they sing or promise me [Music] forever [Music] [Applause] time for a lucky strike extra snooki lanson the head paradis and dancers salute the new season with a rogers and hammerstein favorite it's a grand night for singing it's a grand night for singing the moon is flying high somewhere a bird who is bound to be heard is throwing his heart at the sky it's a grand night for singing stars are high above the earth i think i am falling in love falling in love [Music] it's a grand night for singing the stars the heart above the earth is a glow and to add to the show i think i am falling in love [Music] falling i think [Applause] and here's a word from our co-sponsor richard hudnut this must be terrific julian how can you tell well the girls yesterday stringy straggly hair but today real beauties that's right quick home permanent did it this amazing discovery by richard hudnut it's safe sure automatic and the quickest ever only quick has a 10 minute waving lotion that means your quick wave takes in just 10 minutes no other home permits that fast you see jean has a new quick how long did it take to finish real quick gene i finished everything in just one hour no check curls no fuss or bother and look at pat's pretty curl did you ever see a smoother prettier wave there's lanolin in quick waving lotion to give your hair a healthy shine and quick has an easy one-step neutralizer that makes your curls stay smooth and springy like naturally curly hair so get quick super regular or gentle by richard hudnut number one the top tune of the week the song the survey finds in first place jesus mckenzie steps into the winter spotlight with song number one hey there [Music] hey there you with the stars in your eyes [Music] love never made a fool of you you used to be too wide hey there you are that high flying clown though he won't throw crumb to you you think someday he'll come to you better forget him that's easy to say him with his nose in the air oh he's just bashful he's got you dancing on a string one of it break it and he won't care when did you start writing a love lorn column won't you take this advice or are you not seeing things too clear are you too much in love to hear is it all going in one and one [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] so long [Music] and the tunes [Applause] [Music] is [Music] your head parade is presented each week co-sponsored by lucky strike and richard hudnut so tune in again next week at the same time for the top seven songs of the week and remember tomorrow night on another network and southern stars in private secretary consult your local tv listings for time and station your hit parade has been selected as one of the programs to be shown to our armed forces overseas and was brought to you tonight by lucky strike product of the american tobacco company america's leading manufacturer of cigarettes don't anybody move until i tell you this be sure and watch satins and spurs sunday september the 12th over nbc television you
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