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 February 28 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 (00:11:18:20) Is A Smoking Advertisement with Book Writer Amy Vanderbilt. At (00:24:01:15) Is An Ad by Crosley For Their 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 "Thats Amore" (00:02:00:03), "Changing Partners" (00:04:16:00), "Mama Inez" (00:06:40:02), "Stranger In Paradise" (00:08:40:20), "Heart Of My Heart" (00:12:59:19), "Women Man" (00:15:37:00), "Oh My Papa" (00:19:09:10), "Mimi" (00:21:54:20), "Secret Love" (00:25:12:00) 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] [Music] [Applause] lucky strike presents your history the top tunes all over america as determined by your hit parade survey which checks the best sellers in sheet music and pornograph records the songs hosted on the air and the songs most played on the automatic coin machines and accurate authentic tabulations of america's taste in popular music your hits parade [Music] it's true friends smoking enjoyment is all a matter of taste and the fact of the matter is lucky's taste better tastes better because ls mft lucky strike means fine tobacco and lucky's are made better so you be happy go lucky because lucky's taste better cleaner fresher smoother lucky's taste better go lucky stripes and now the top seven songs of the week with dorothy collins snooki lansen giselle mckenzie russell arms the hit for raiders and dancers and raymond scott and the hit parade orchestra and off we go with survey song number three dorothy collins the head for raiders and dancers raise the curtain with the bright number three tune that's amore when the moon hits you i like a big piece of pie that's the morning when the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine that's the morning bells will ring tingling [Music] stars make you drool just like pasta zoo that's the morning [Music] if you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet you walk in a dream but you know you're not dreaming seen your whole day excuse me but you see back in old napoli that's the morning if you walk in a dream but you know you're not dreaming senior holiday excuse me but you see back in old napoli that's the morning [Music] number four snooki lansen has a romantic encounter for the tune of survey song number four changing partners [Music] we will sing together to a dreamy melody when they called out changed partners and you waltzed away from me now my arms feel so empty as i gaze around the floor and i'll keep on changing partners till i hold you once more so we danced for one moment and too soon we had to pie in that wonderful moment something happened to my heart so i'll keep changing partners till you're in my arms and then oh my darling i will never change partners again oh my darling i will never change [Music] again [Laughter] so time for a lucky strike extra raymond scott leads the orchestra in a sizzling arrangement of mama inez [Music] so [Music] [Applause] number two on the survey it's a wacky honeymoon for gizelle mckenzie as she sings the number two melody stranger in paradise take my hand i'm a stranger in paradise all lost in a wonderland a stranger in paradise if i stand starry-eyed that's a danger in paradise for mortals who stand beside an angel like you i saw your face and i ascended out of the commonwealth [Music] somewhere in space i had suspended [Music] prayer of a stranger in paradise don't send me in dark despair from all that i hunger for but open your angel's arms to the stranger in paradise and tell her that she may be [Music] a stranger [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] ladies and gentlemen america's foremost authority on etiquette miss amy vanderbilt how do you do some of my friends tell me that in my new book on etiquette i was a little hard on smoking actually i was hard on smokers at least some smokers i dislike thoughtless smokers you know the man next to you at the dinner table who holds his cigarette so that the smoke drips into your eyes i don't like the careless type who flicks his ashes on the rug and laughingly says that they keep the malls out well i like considerate smokers for instance i like to know that my husband is considerate enough to carry my brand of cigarette and that as i'm sure you can guess from my being here is lucky strike i think no matter which way you look at it in smoking as an etiquette it is after all all a matter of taste i don't smoke a great deal but when i do i want a cigarette that tastes better to me than any other that's lucky strike as amy vanderbilt says smoking enjoyment is all a matter of taste and the fact of the matter is lucky's taste better cleaner fresher smoother for two very good reasons one ls mft lucky strike means fine tobacco two luckies are made better to taste better so be happy go lucky next time you buy cigarettes ask for a lucky strike survey song number six snooki lansen and his cavemen cronies are in a flirtatious mood as they harmonize too hard of my heart of my heart i love that melody love the melody heart of my heart brings back a memory when we were kids on the corner of the stream [Music] [Music] friends [Music] if once more i could listen to that gang that sang heart of my heart i love this song let's sing another forest heart of my heart i love that melody one delightful new heart of my heart brings back a memory [Music] when we were kids on the corner of the [Music] that friends were dearer [Music] if once more i could listen to that gang that sang heart of my heart [Music] so number seven gisele mckenzie and russell arms square off for the battle of the sexes to the tune of a new comet of the survey woman [Music] man man is a creature you can't overlook as easy to read as a page in a book he'll boast and he'll brag of the women he's burned then just like a doorknob his head can be [Music] turned a man oh a man any woman will say whatever he is we like him that way a woman is something both evil and good but too complicated to be understood an angel when loving a devil and mad a woman can make you both happy and oh woman no woman no what can't she be whatever she is necessary as strong as an ox or as meek as a pup he's just a small boy who will never grow up a leader by day he can make business humble then wind up at night under some woman's songs [Music] we like him that way afraid of a cricket she'll scream at a mouse but she'll tackle a husband as big as a house she'll take him for better she'll take him for worse he'll bust his head open then act as his nurse [Music] whatever they are they're necessary [Applause] [Music] [Applause] number five dorothy collins brings us the poignant song that captures fifth place tonight oh my papa [Music] to me he was so wonderful oh my purpose to me he was so good no one could be so gentle and so lovable [Music] he always understood when he would take me on his knees with a smile he changed my tears [Music] always the clown [Music] he was so wonderful deep in my heart i miss him today [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] time for another lucky strike extra snooki lanson the hit for raiders and dancers introduced that charming parisian madmoiselle me [Music] mimi you funny little good for nothing mimi am i the guy mimi you sunny little honey of a mimi i'm aiming high mimi you've got me sad and dreamy you could free me if you'd see me mimi you know i'd like to have a little son of a mimi by and by [Music] my neck is on my right foot my right is on my left oh listen to me mimi of reason i'd be wrapped the listen to me mimi your passions mimi you funny little good for nothing mimi am i the guy maybe [Music] you know i'd like to have a little son of a mimic [Applause] and here is a word from our alternate sponsor crosley here is the all-new super shelvador made only by crosley inside and out it's a wonder for example only crosley gives you the beverage server want a cold drink help yourself right through the door and only crosley gives you the coffee mizer watch one press of the button and you get an accurately measured tablespoon full you don't waste a spec the coffee mizer fits into the crosley deep door where it keeps your coffee as fresh as the day it was open and with the price of coffee sky-high these days you want your supply to stay fresh so you can enjoy it down to the last drop the coffee mizer and the beverage server are only two of the many exclusive features that make this beautiful crosley super salvador the most convenient refrigerator in the world be sure to see it the all-new super salvador made only by crosley 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 secret love i had a secret life that lived within the heart of me all too soon my secret love became impatient to be free so i told a friendly star the way that dreamers often do [Music] just how wonderful you are why i'm so in love with you [Music] now i shouted from the highest [Music] hills [Music] and my secret laws no secrets [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] oh that's all the songs and the tunes that you picked to be [Music] played be happy today [Music] 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 [Music] and remember next tuesday night on another network lucky strike presents danny thomas in the prize-winning comedy make room for danny consult your tv listings for time at 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 you
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