YOUR HIT PARADE

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1958

Format: 16mm

Description: This episode of "Your Hit Parade" popular music show dates to March 28, 1958. 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 (00:0024:04) is a Crosley Avco Advertisement For their Home Appliances and at (00:11:52:07) is another Crosley ad for their Refrigerator 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 "That's Amore" (00:02:05:13), Young At Heart (00:04:35:09), "Nobody's Sweatheart At The Dance" (00:07:24:18), "Make Love To Me" (00:09:33:08), "Heart Of My Heart" (00:13:33:22), Oh My Papa (00:16:24:02), "Stranger In Paradise" (00:19:04:22), "Who" (00:22:00:21), "Secret Love" (00:25:34:13)

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[Music] welcome to your hit parade see it's on across me your hit parade brought to you tonight by crosley a division of the astro manufacturing corporation crosley television set and color styles radios and for the heart of a carefree home complete electric kitchen shelved or refrigerators shower door freezers electric ranges and water heaters kitchen sinks with automatic dishwashers and food waste soldiers and automatic washers and dryers and rooms [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 most heard on the air and the song post made on the automatic coin machines and accurate authentic tabulation of america's taste in popular music your hit parade [Music] and now the top seven songs of the week with dorothy collins snooki lansen gizelle mckenzie russell arms the hit paraders and dancers and raymond scott and the hit parade orchestra and off we go with survey song number six giselle mckenzie the headquarters and dancers get things underway with this frightly number six tune that's amore [Applause] when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's a murray when the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine [Music] [Applause] [Music] when you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet you're involved when you walk in a dream but you know you're not dreaming sing your way excuse me what you see back in old napoli that's a mooring when you walk in a dream but you know you're not [Music] that's [Music] [Applause] [Music] so number seven snooki lansen introduces the beautiful song making its first appearance on the survey young at heart fairy tales can come true it can happen to you if you're young at heart [Music] for it's hard you will find to be narrow of mine [Music] if you're young at heart [Music] you can go to extremes with impossible schemes you can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams and life is more exciting with each passing day love is either in your heart or on its way don't you know that it's worth every treasure on earth if you're young [Music] for as rich as you are it's much better by far to be young [Music] think of all you'll derive out of being alive here is the best part you have a head start if you are among that heart [Applause] [Laughter] time for a crosley extra virginia conwell steps out to raymond scott's brilliant arrangement of nobody sweetheart so so um [Music] [Applause] [Music] number four on the survey dorothy collins introduces another newcomer to the survey tonight make love to me [Music] never let me go whisper to me softly while the moon is slow hold me close and tell me what i want to know say it to me gently let the sweet talk flow [Music] me once again before we say good night [Music] come a little closer make love to me [Music] when you're near so help me dear chills run up my spine [Music] now's the time to tell you make love to me now's the time to tell you make love to me [Applause] this i think you'll agree is a lot of food it's the actual food you can store in this new crosley super salvador the world's most convenient refrigerator when fully loaded the super salvador puts 89 of all this food right at your fingertips well let's see how this is possible we'll start with the beverage server at the top of the exclusive crosley deep door no other refrigerator door holds nearly as much as this and it's all at your fingertips there's plenty of room even for your big quart bottles round or square now let's have a look at the refrigerator itself here's the rollout crisper roll out shelves three of them as you see even the food at the very back is brought right out in front where you can get at it here's the meat drawer and at the top the full width crossly freezer now just for the sake of comparison let's look at the small amount of food that's not right at your fingertips that's the food kept in back of these two small drop shelves and the food stored in the back of the freezer of course in no freezer can you put all the food right up front there you have it the magnificent crosley super salvador the only refrigerator that puts eighty nine percent of all the food right at your fingertips be sure to see it the all-new super shelvador made only by crosley survey song number five snooki lansen and the hit paradis turn back the clock as they bring us the number five melody heart of my heart [Music] [Applause] heart of my heart i love that melody of the melody heart of my heart brings back a [Music] memory when we were kids on the corner of the street we were rough and ready guys but oh how we could harmonize heart of my heart meant friends were dearer than friends were dearer then too bad we had to [Music] i know a tear would glisten if once more i could listen to that gang that sang part of my heart whatever happened to mademoiselle from armentiere's heart of my heart i love that melody say that you'd be good heart of [Music] i know a tear would listen if once more i could listen to that gang that sang heart of my heart [Applause] number three here's russell arms with a plaintiff ballad that captures third place on the survey oh my papa oh my papa to me he was so wonderful oh my to papa he was so good no one could be so gentle and so lovable oh my papa he always understood gone are the days when he would take me on his knee and with a smile he'd change my tears to laughter my papa so funny so adorable always the clown so funny in his way oh my papa to me he was so wonderful deep in my heart i miss him so today oh my papa my god [Laughter] [Applause] number two on the survey giselle mckenzie finds romance in a parisian setting as she sings stranger in paradise [Music] [Applause] [Music] take my hand i'm a stranger in paradise a stranger in paradise if i stand starry eye 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 common place there's a chance that you care [Music] of a stranger in paradise don't send me in dark despair [Music] from all that i hunger for your angel's in arms and tell her that she may be a stranger no more [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] time for another crosley extra dorothy collins the hit for aidas and dancers and an all-time jerome kern favorite who [Music] do who stole my heart away who [Music] makes me dream all day dreams i know can never come through seems as though i'll ever be blue means my happiness who [Music] will i answer yes too [Music] well you are against [Music] no one [Music] makes me dream all day dreams i know can never [Music] through will i answer yes to hear me talking to you well you are [Music] together and here is a word from our alternate 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 a matter of taste too but to me lucky's taste better and here's america's comic poet laureate ogden nash if you ask me why i smoke and like luckies i can only say that they taste better 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 tastes 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 lansen steps into the winter spotlight with song number one secret love once i had a secret love [Music] that lived within the heart of me oh too soon my secret love became impatient to be free [Music] so i told the friendly stars the way the dreamers often do [Music] just how wonderful you are [Music] why i'm so in love with you [Music] now i shouted from the highest hills [Music] at last my hearts an open door and my secret love's no secret any [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] so long for a while [Applause] and the tunes that you pick to be blessed [Music] [Laughter] you let me [Music] here's the best news of the year [Music] is presented on alternate weeks by lucky strike and clause 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 crosley and thanking you for letting crosley come into your home you


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