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 October 16, 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. 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 "This Old House", "The High and the Mighty", "Bugle Call Band" (orchestrated by Raymond Scott), "If I Give My Heart To You", "Mary Comes Home This Date", "Skokiaan", "Sh-Boom", "Mountain Greenery", and #1 song of the week - "Hey There." At 24:30, a longer ad for Richard Hudnut Home Permanent with Julia Mead. 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 hardnut makers of quick the new home permanent with a 10-minute waving lotion presents your hit parade [Music] be happy go lucky 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 cause it's right on the pack ls mft lucky strike mean spine 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 cigarette and now the top seven songs of the week with gisele mackenzie snooki lansen polly bergen russell arms the head foreigners and dancers and raymond scott and the head parade orchestra and off we go with survey song number six paulie bergen invites you to hiss the villain as she sings the number six tune this old house this old house once knew his children this old house once knew his wife his old house was home and comfort as they thought some storms of light this whole house once rang its luster this old house heard many shouts now it trembles in the darkness when the lightning falls about this house no longer no more [Music] foreign soul houses are getting shaky this old house isn't getting old there's all a house that's in the rain this old house slipped in the cold on her knee she's getting chilly but she feels no fear of pain cause she sees an angel peeking through a broken window gonna have his house no longer and you're gonna have this house tomorrow [Music] so getting ready to meet this old house is afraid of thunder the solar house is afraid of storms this old house just groaned and trembles when the nightline clings is on his whole house is a getting feeble this old house isn't eating paint just like him it's puffered up but he's getting ready [Music] no longer he's getting ready to meet me [Music] number three snooki lanson sings the lovely ballad the survey finds in third place the high and the mighty [Applause] [Music] i was high and mighty [Music] and you came like a gentle flame me to find my ways i was high and mighty [Music] and i told my where to stop and start now i find that i was blind i'm learning it day by day love can change things what strange things [Music] all the gold on earth i have you and i give my heart forever [Music] [Applause] time for a lucky strike extra the hit parade dances are in a military mood as they step out to raymond scott's arrangement of bugle call rag so and then [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Applause] [Music] number two on the survey here's gizelle mckenzie with the tender melody that's in the runner-up spot tonight if i give my heart to you [Applause] [Music] hmm [Music] if i give my heart to you will you handle it with care will you always treat me tenderly and in every way be fair if i give my heart to you will you give me all your love will you swear that you'll be true to me by the light that shines above [Music] smile with me when i'm glad and always be as you are with me think it over and be sure please don't answer till you do when you promise all these things to me then i'll give my heart to [Applause] [Music] don't [Applause] ladies and gentlemen one of the most powerful drivers in professional golf slamming sammy snead tell me sam do you think practicing golf is really important well i think practicing is the most important part to the game that's where you win tournaments however there's only one thing missing and that is the pressure you hit a few then you light up with smoke then you try to see if you can hit him better but why do you smoke lucky sam well i've tried other brands while i'm a light smoker lucky's giving me what i want in a cigarette what's that sam better taste that's the reason people usually give her smoking lucky and no wonder if you just look right here on the pack you'll see it's toasted that's the famous lucky strike process that tones up lucky's good tasting tobacco to make it taste even better brings it to its peak of flavor well that's our story pure and simple a lucky tastes better because it's the cigarette of fine tobacco and it's toasted to taste better cleaner fresher smoother 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 [Applause] number four russell arms is in a familiar dilemma as he brings a survey song number four i need you now [Music] if i ever needed you [Music] i need you now i can't remember when i've ever been so blue if i ever needed love [Music] i need it now i feel so all alone i don't know what to do no night or day goes by when i don't have my cry i feel like i could die from wanting you i can't ease my aching heart but you'd know how if i ever needed you i need you now no day or night goes by when i don't have my cry i think that i could die from wanting you i can't ease my aching heart honey you'd know how if i ever needed you i need you now [Music] [Applause] survey song number five it's the headquarters and dancers and the african rhythms of skokian [Music] far away in africa [Music] take a trip to africa take a ship to africa come out along the lane [Music] up [Music] happy happy africa i'm doing the vlog [Music] jungle [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] song number seven snooki lands and sings the bright tune that's in seventh place on the survey [Music] life shaboom be a dream if i could take you up in paradise up above if you would tell me i'm the only one that you love life could be a dream sweetheart hello hello your home and hoping we'll meet again 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 [Music] but i want you to baby we'd be so fine oh life could be a dream 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] 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 oh life could be a dream if i could take you up in paradise some of us if you would tell me i'm the only one that you love life would be a dream sweetheart [Music] life would be a dream life would be a dream sweetheart [Music] [Applause] time for another lucky strike extra paulie bergen joins the hit paraders and dancers for a musical salute to the great outdoors mountain greenery together why do you love [Music] so you can our mountain green [Music] mosquitoes here won't fight you dear [Music] home [Music] is [Music] [Applause] greenery and here is a word from our co-sponsor richard hudner as we join snooki lanson backstage with julia mead listen please listen to the story of quick the richard hudnut new home permanent quick lantern's there to give your hair that healthy shine protects your hair from damage helps prevent that dry the life just looks good can be done in just one hour from start to setting get rich and hot nuts new home permanent quick get it quick julia me this is quick the sensational home permanent discovery with the 10 minute waving lotion quick is safe sure automatic no check curls no guess work no bother and if your hair is short like mine you can be completely finished in just one hour that's everything winding waving and easy one step neutralizing so save time and get quick super regular gentle by richard hudnitz number one the top tune of the week the song the survey finds in first place gisele mckenzie steps into the winter spotlight with song number one hey there [Music] hey there you with the stars in your eyes you used to be too wide [Music] though she won't throw a crap to you do you [Music] you're a real cat she's got you dancing on a string break it and she won't care i thought the sphinx was silent [Music] or are you not seeing things too clear are you too much in love to hear is it all going in one year [Music] and [Applause] so long for a while [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Music] your hit 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 lucky strike presents the jack benny program with dan daly kirk douglas and fred mcmurray 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 this is andre baruch saying be happy go lucky french ballerina jean mayer stars with steve allen dick sean paul whiteman and connie russell in the follies of susie next saturday at 9 eastern time over nbc television you
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