YOUR HIT PARADE

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1954

Format: 16mm

Description: This episode of "Your Hit Parade" popular music show dates to April 17 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 (00:12:25:06) is an ad for a Crosleys refrigerator "Shelvador" 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 "Cross Over The Bridge" (00:02:28:02), "Wanted" (00:05:32:00), I Get So Lonely (00:08:11:17), "Bambalina" (00:10:27:00), "Secret Love" (00:14:18:06), "Make Love To Me" (00:17:05:18), "Answer Me My Love" (00:19:55:08), "Tea For Two" (00:22:17:21), "Young At Heart" (00:26:11:15)

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[Music] a division of the asco manufacturing corporation crosley television set and color styles radios and for the heart of a carefree home complete electric kitchen shelving or refrigerators shower door freezers electric ranges and water heaters kitchen sinks with automatic dishwashers and food waste disclosures and automatics washers and dryers and room air [Music] and now crosley brings you 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 posted on the air and the song post made on the automatic coin machines and accurate authentic fabulation of america's taste in popular music [Music] and now a special easter edition of the top seven songs of the week with dorothy collins snooki lanson gisele mckenzie russell arms the headquarters and dancers and raymond scott and the head parade orchestra [Music] so if you're a guy who had a gal in each and every port and you forgot the rules of love that life has always taught and if you broke as many hearts as ripples in a stream well brother hears the only way that you can be redeemed cross over the bridge cross over the bridge change a restless way of living cross over the bridge please your fiscal class behind you and true romance will find you brother if you have built a boat to take it to the greener side and if that boat is built of every lie you've ever lied you'll never reach the promised land of love i guarantee cause lies do not hold water and you'll sink into the sea cross over the bridge cross over the bridge change your restless way of living cross over the bridge leave your fiscal past behind you and true romance will find you to brother cross over i know it isn't easy to resist temptation's called but think of how your broken heart will hurt you when you fall and someday you will find that you are hopelessly in love and she'll belong to someone else as sure as stars above cross over the bridge cross over the bridge change your reckless way of living cross over the bridge leave your sticks will pass behind you and true romance will find you brother cross over the bridge cross over the green [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the wizard knows no [Music] someone who kissed me [Music] who [Music] she knew nothing of the danger in his charts a jury you may find him guilty but i'd forgive her if i could see a sign confession that he's repented and that he wanted no one but me [Music] she's jury may find him guilty but i'd forgive him if i could see a sign confession and that he wanted no one [Music] the wizards [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i get so lonely when i dream about you can't do without you that's why i dream about you if i could only put my arms about you life would be so bad we two could hug and kisses never tire i'm on fire you are my one desire i get so lonely when i dream about you why can't you be there tossing and turning in my slumber holding you it seems i give you kisses without number but only in my dreams i get so lonely when i dream about you can't do without you that's why i dream about you if i could only put my arms about you life would be so bad i get so lonely when i dream about you i do without you that's why i dream about you if i could only put my arms about you life would be so fast life would be so bad i know my life would be [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] here's the beautiful all-new crosley super shelfador the refrigerator that actually puts 89 of all the food right at your fingertips watch how this roll out interior glides right out to you here is the roll out crispy roll out shelves one two three of them by even the food at the very back is within easy reach and here's the spacious meat drawer and the tremendous full whipped freezer and now let's move over for a look at the crosley deep door it's in a class by itself no other refrigerator door begins to hold so much food and here's an exclusive crosley feature the coffee mizer perhaps you've never even thought of keeping your coffees apply in the refrigerator well you'll find that it stays much fresher much longer in the crosley coffee mizer and watch this with each push of the plunger you get an accurately measured tablespoon full of coffee no guesswork and no waste why not see this wonderfully convenient self-defrosting super salvador at your crosley dealer by who knows he may even invite you to help yourself to a cold drink right through the door from the amazing crosley beverage server yes inside and out it's a wonder the all-new super shelvador made only by crosley there's a genuine crosley shelby door to fit every budget and you can get them for as little as 162.54 cents [Music] [Applause] [Music] once i had a secret love [Music] that lived [Music] but all too soon my secret love [Music] became impatient to be free [Music] the way that dreamers often do just how wonderful you are [Music] [Music] i even told [Music] and my secret love no secrets [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] um take me in your ass and never let me go whisper to me softly while the moon is low hold me close and tell me what i wanna know say it to me gently let the sweet talk flow come a little closer make love to kiss me once again before we say good night take me and you're loving us a squeezy time put me in the hoo so i can dream all night everybody's sleeping so it's quite all right come a little closer make a love to me when you're near so [Music] when you're in my arms you give my heart a treat everything about you is so dark on sweet every time we kiss you make my life complete baby doll you know you swept me off my feet now's the time to tell you make love to me all the times i'll tell you come a little closer ask me and you'll see [Music] baby [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] answer me o my love just what sin have i been guilty of tell me how i came to lose your love please answer me sweetheart you were mine yesterday i believed that love was here to stay won't you tell me where i've gone astray please answer me my love if you're happier without me i'll try not to care but if you still think about me please listen to my prayer you must know i've been true won't you say that we can start anew in my sorrow now i turn to you please answer me my love you must know i've been true won't you tell me we can start anew in my sorrow now i turn to you and sir me answer me [Music] please [Music] [Applause] [Music] mm-hmm [Music] there's nobody near us to see us or hear us [Music] for you to take for all the boys to see [Music] can't you see how happy we could be [Music] two [Applause] and here is a word from our ultimate sponsor lucky strike hi my name is sandy becker you've probably heard me telling about lucky's better taste well here's someone else who's found that lucky's taste better america's prettiest golf pro miss alice bauer after a hard day out on the golf course and really hard competition i like to come in and sit down and relax and light up a lucky i guess that's the matter of taste too but to me lucky's taste better and here's america's comic poet laureate ogden match if you ask me why i smoke and like luckies i can only say that they taste valid and america's greatest professional tennis player jack kramer like anything else where you get a choice amateur professional tennis for example it's all a matter of taste and i like the way lucky's taste yes it's all a matter of taste and lucky's do taste better cleaner fresher smoother the reasons lucky strike means fine tobacco and luckies are made better so be happy go lucky number one the top tune of the week the song the survey finds in first place snooki lanson steps into the winter spotlight with song number one young at heart [Music] [Applause] [Music] very tales [Music] for it's hard you will find [Music] you can go to extremes with impossible schemes you can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams and life gets more exciting with each passing day and love is either in your eye or on its way don't you know that it's where every treasure on earth [Music] it's much better by far to be young [Music] think of all you'll derive out of being alive if you are among the at very [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] your head parade is presented on alternate weeks by lucky strike and crossland so tune in again next week at the same time for the top seven songs of the week now this is andre baruch saying good night for crawling and thanking you for letting crosley come into your home you


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