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There is no worse circumstance for a King than to suffer exile within the borders of his own land.<br />
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In 1968, show business was abuzz with talk of an Elvis Presley "come-back" special.<br />
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The only problem was that he had never gone away.<br />
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He was still making gold records, his films still made money and he was a staple in Las Vegas nightclubs, but this sovereign of Rock N' Roll Royalty had been a casualty of conquering hoards:<br />
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The British Invasion, spearheaded by some of his biggest acolytes, like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, had dislodged him on the music charts, the radio dial and even at the box office.<br />
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His voice was, and is, timeless, but his style of music fell into disfavor, as Teens rocked out to the Mersey Beat and some even deserted him for the Motown Sound.<br />
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In 1968, Presley's longtime mentor and manager, Col. Tom Parker made a deal to bring Elvis back to Television, starring in a <b>LIVING COLOR</b> special for <b>NBC-TV</b>, called <b>ELVIS,</b> that was sponsored by the Singer Sewing Machine Company.<br />
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The hour was a concert with some musical vignettes which pre-saged the <b>MTV </b>videos that would come two decades later.<br />
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Shot on <b>NBC's</b> cavernous Stage 4 in Burbank, CA, the glossy and fast-paced hour was Produced and Directed by the versatile Steve Binder, who had, four years earlier, brought the hit T.A.M.I. Show to theaters via the Electronovision technology.<br />
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Binder had extensive experience in more traditional comedy/variety programming, having just come from three years of Directing <b>CBS-TV's<i> DANNY KAYE SHOW.</i></b> His producing partner, Bones Howe, supervised the musical mix.Video veteran, Bob Finkel, who oversaw the <b><i>DINAH SHORE CHEVY SHOW</i></b> on <b>NBC-TV</b> served as Executive Producer.<br />
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There is nothing we can say about Elvis or his incomparable talents that his performance can't say more eloquently or with greater clarity.<br />
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This <b>NBC </b>special garnered a huge audience and re-kindled the King's career.<br />
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The rest, as it is often said, is <b>Television History.</b><br />
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Here from the <b>JULIAN R. YOU TUBE </b>site is <b>ELVIS</b>. Enjoy!!!!:)<br />
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To many American's, the fall of 1960 was the threshold of the future . Voters were just weeks from electing a young and vibrant President, the country was committed to beating the Soviet Union into Orbit , while many people were worried that the Cold War could turn Hot with the press of a button. <br />
We all wanted to win the Race for Space, but nobody wanted to win the Race for Extinction.<br />
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The Kennedy years were kinetic. The change it fostered was a threat to those who found comfort in the status quo.<br />
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Prime time, network television was the nation's primary source for benign ,escapist entertainment.<br />
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In 1960, TV's undisputed King of Comedy was comedian, singer, actor, hoofer, philanthropist, real estate mogul, Bob Hope, and he never disappointed his audience or his sponsor.<br />
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Nobody would accuse him of delivering scathing satire, but he reflected the country's penchant for poking holes in the inflated egos of Politicians, Movie Stars and whomever occupied the Kremlin.<br />
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He was the Comic In Chief who would entertain America's military wherever in the world they served.<br />
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Bob Hope was beloved for that commitment, alone.<br />
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Here, from the 20th Century Vision You Tube Channel is a 1960 outing of <em><strong>THE BOB HOPE BUICK SHOW</strong></em>, in <strong>LIVING MONOCHROME.</strong><br />
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Talk to a college student ( and I do every day, since I teach at a university ) and you get the sense that they think the whole world ( not just television shows ) was in<strong> Black and White</strong>, before they were born.<br />
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Yeah, they radiate a sense of entitlement.<br />
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Baby Boomers ( like me ) know better.<br />
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The world was in<strong> Black and White</strong> until the day in 1966 when a relative or friends parents bought a <strong>COLOR TV.</strong><br />
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Okay, maybe we have that entitlement thing going , too.<br />
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But in the Fall of 1954, the mighty <strong>CBS Television Network</strong> was still green with envy and red with embarrassment, almost a year after the<strong> F.C.C</strong> rejected the <strong>CBS </strong>mechanical system for non-compatible<strong> COLOR TELEVISION</strong>, and selected the <strong>RCA</strong> electronic system of<strong> LIVING COLOR TV</strong> as the national, broadcast standard.<br />
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<strong>CBS</strong> founder William Paley was livid that his professional rival David Sarnoff won the battle for <strong>COLOR TV</strong>, but wanted to know if tinted television could make for a greener bottom line.<br />
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<strong>CBS</strong> spent the next three years producing <strong>COLOR</strong> episodes of <strong>B&W</strong> shows on the Tiffany Network's primetime and daytime schedule.<br />
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One of the most popular <strong>CBS</strong> series was <strong><em>THE BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW</em></strong>, featuring one of America's favorite comedy couples.<br />
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The only installment of their show to be produced in <strong>COLOR</strong> aired just once on October 4, 1954.<br />
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By 1958, Paley decided to cast the world into shades of gray and shut down<strong> COLOR</strong> production. <br />
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He was tired of losing face, if not audience, to Sarnoff.<br />
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<strong>CBS</strong> would, when confronted with a <strong>FULL COLOR</strong> schedule on <strong>NBC</strong>, finally committed to <strong>COLOR</strong> in the Fall of 1966.<br />
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Here, from the<strong> VINTAGE COMEDY VAULT You Tube Site, </strong>is only episode of <strong><em>THE BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW </em></strong>to be produced and aired, as announcer Harry Von Zell says under credits,"in full color on color television receivers and in compatible black & white on regular black & white receivers."<br />
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When <strong>ABC-TV</strong> was viewed as less than a network, in the 1960's, the then third-placed web had but one glittering, crowning jewel on its prime time schedule.<br />
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Amid an ocean of winsome sitcoms, urbane spies, world weary cops and wholesome cowboys.<br />
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It was a throwback to a simpler, but perhaps more elegant, time in show business: a star-studded vaudeville revue.<br />
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Produced in modest studio that was a retro-fitted theater, <strong>ABC-TV</strong> engaged two of the brightest producers in commercial television to mount a bombastic variety show , replete with comedy, music and novelty acts that would be in league with legends like Sullivan and Caesar.<br />
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There would be rotating hosts who ran the gamut from Fred Astaire to Bing Crosby to Adam West in his Batman persona.<br />
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Bill Harbach and Nick Vanoff, both veterans of Steve Allen's landmark <em><strong>TONIGHT SHOW</strong></em> on<strong> NBC-TV</strong>, were charged shaping a show that would embody classic showbiz values ,while attracting viewers from the Baby-Boom generation,.<br />
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What they created was <em><strong>THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE.</strong></em><br />
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PAGEONEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505572765985087892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614935975854858913.post-662953697005479822014-03-21T22:57:00.004-04:002014-03-21T22:59:01.467-04:00LOVE IN BLOOM...AND JACK BENNY IN LIVING COLOR - THE JACK BENNY HOUR - NBC-TV - CIRCA 12/1/1966<br />
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Jack Benny was a master of comic timing.<br />
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He knew how to seed and sustain a laugh.<br />
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He could turn a pause into a punchline.<br />
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He knew when to exit...and as he proved in 1966 , he knew when to return.<br />
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America's favorite cheapskate, the comic genius who had starred in Vaudeville, Films, and who helped to define comedy on Radio, had not done television for over a year, when<br />
he stepped before the <strong>LIVNG COLOR</strong> cameras at <strong>NBC's</strong> sprawling Burbank,CA facility to tape <strong><em>THE JACK BENNY HOUR </em></strong>in the Fall of 1966.<br />
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The full episode posted below, from the <strong>JILL LACHENMAYER YOU TUBE</strong> site, is a prime example of the gentle, but absurd ( and sometimes, ad-libbed ) comedy that made Benny a comic Icon and a television pioneer.<br />
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His guests included comedian Phyllis Diller, singer Trini Lopez and The Smothers Brothers ( before they were controversial ).<br />
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American Motors was his sponsor and this Special pre-empted a first-run episode of <strong><em>STAR TREK</em></strong>, trading a Starship Captain for a King of Comedy. <br />
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You'll also note that on this occasion Benny's venerable theme song, <strong>LOVE IN BLOOM</strong>, was replaced with an upbeat instrumental theme that had a swinging sixties beat.<br />
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<br />PAGEONEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505572765985087892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614935975854858913.post-49332061061870591092014-03-02T17:32:00.004-05:002014-03-02T17:32:56.661-05:00 DINAH SHORE GIVES CHEVROLET A LIFT ACROSS THE U.S.A - THE CHEVY SHOW STARRING DINAH SHORE - NBC-TV - CIRCA 1/13/57<br />
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At <strong>NBC-TV</strong> in the late 1950's and early 1960's, nothing could have been finer than Sunday night with Dinah ...The vibrant,vivacious Dinah Shore.<br />
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If Lucille Ball was <strong>CBS's </strong>First Lady of Comedy, Dinah Shore was <strong>NBC's </strong>Queen of Musical Variety.<br />
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The Chevrolet Motorcar Division of General Motors put the honey-voiced hostess in the driver's seat ,when it placed <strong><em>THE CHEVY SHOW</em></strong> on the <strong>NBC</strong> Prime time Schedule in 1956.<br />
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It proved to be a video showcase for Ms. Shore's manifold talents and a video showroom for Chevy's, Eisenhower-era, chrome carriages that came from Detroit, complete with Body by Fisher.<br />
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She was not the first woman to carry a weekly comedy/music series on network television.<br />
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Kate Smith and Martha Raye were there first.<br />
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Chevrolet provided her custom built theme song...<strong><em>SEE THE U.S.A IN YOUR CHEVROLET</em></strong>...but it was her inspired choice to seal every show with a big, smooch of a kiss that became a trademark for her myriad viewers and a target for a multitude of satirists.<br />
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Director Bob Banner used <strong><em>THE CHEVY SHOW</em></strong> to experiment with some high octane video effects that were ahead of their time. The show was one of the network's first, weekly series to be produced in <strong>RCA COMPATIBLE COLOR</strong> and ,subsequently, in<strong> LIVING COLOR ON NBC</strong>. Banner employed , early, COLOR CHROMA-KEY techniques and , often, he involved the crew and the studio technology in an attempt to enliven and enrich the staging of musical numbers and comedy sketches.<br />
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Here , from the <strong>SPIFFYKITCHEN YOU TUBE SITE</strong>, is the first block of the January 13, 1957 episode of <strong><em> THE DINAH SHORE CHEVY SHOW</em></strong> on <strong>NBC-TV</strong>. Check out the opening number and what may be the the most unusual use of a fork-lift as a prop in early television!!!<br />
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The show was produced <strong>LIVE FROM NEW YORK</strong> and yes, the announcer is the incomparable Don Pardo.<br />
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Sid Caesar was as close to comic royalty as America could offer in the early 1950's<br />
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At the dawn of Television, Sid Caesar was ,both, the infant mediums king of sophisticated comedy and its sovereign of social satire.<br />
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Sadly, this week, so many of us have come to praise Caesar , and as his Family must bury him.<br />
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Sid Caesar, video visionary, comedian extraordinaire , actor, musician,writer , producer and two-time Emmy Award recipient ,passed away at age 91, in his Beverly Hills home.<br />
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His landmark 1950, <strong>NBC-TV</strong> series, <strong>YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS,</strong> stands some 64 years later as a much-heralded, truly hilarious example of Television at its best and its funniest.<br />
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If , in life, a person is known by the company they keep, Caesar's stellar reputation is buttressed by a renowned writing staff , that was early television's equivalent of the Algonquin Round Table. <br />
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Among those superlative comedic scribes who worked in the service of Caesar were Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, Woody Allen and Neil Simon.<br />
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The Writer's Room, which was housed at NYC's City Center, was Sid Caesar's cauldron of comedy.<br />
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A brass plaque, placed by the <strong>TV LAND</strong> cable network, now commemorates the comedic combustion that erupted inside those offices.<br />
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It was where young writers forged brilliant careers and life-long loyalty to the demanding, but nurturing boss.<br />
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It was survival of the funniest. <br />
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Because funny was all that mattered.<br />
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Sid Caesar was a master of multi-lingual double talk, had the timing of an atomic clock and could bring life to any character written by his stellar staff.<br />
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The only persona that he was reticent to portray in public was Sid Caesar. Like many comedians, he was riddled with doubt about himself, while confident and comfortable in any other role he essayed.<br />
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His first network series... 1949's<strong><em> ADMIRAL BROADWAY REVIEW</em></strong>, seen on <strong>DUMONT AND NBC</strong> was cancelled for being too successful. The president of Admiral Corp., Russ Sirigusa, cancelled the show at the end of its first season. He told Caesar that the show was such a hit and helped to sell so many television sets, that Admiral could not keep pace with consumer demand,. It was either expand their manufacturing plant or cancel the show. He cancelled the show.<br />
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When the incomparable Sylvester "Pat" Weaver took over <strong>NBC-TV</strong> in 1950, he envisioned a Saturday night , comedy revue with music that would air<strong> LIVE</strong> from NYC, Weaver enlisted Caesar and producer Max Liebman to create what became <strong><em>YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS.</em></strong><br />
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Caesar and Liebman had staged the kind of topical, energetic Revues that Weaver hoped to bring to <strong>NBC</strong>, and they had done it to excellent reviews and solid box office.<br />
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Liebman recruited co-stars Imogene Coco, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris.<br />
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It was a contentious , but successful partnership. Caesar guided the comedy and Liebman supervised the television production and crafted the musical elements.<br />
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<em><strong>YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS</strong></em> did smart, penetrating satire that resonated with the first generation of television viewers. <br />
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Viewers who chose to stay home on Saturday Night.<br />
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The audience was, from 1948 to 1954, comprised of early adopters who were, Eastern ( as rapidly as it grew, it took time for TV to spread across America ), educated and affluent.<br />
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You see, the first <strong>RCA </strong>television sets were monochrome receivers with a giant 12 inch screen and cost almost $300.00 in 1950. <br />
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That was the price of a used Chevy for most Americans.<br />
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Caesar helped to grow the medium, cultivate the audience , and sell a lot of Oldsmobile's ( his primary sponsor :) .<br />
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But Sid Caesar , the person and the performer, was more about comedy and culture than cash and commerce.<br />
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This meant that while other TV comedians were doing video vaudeville, Caesar and his legion of writers could target popular culture and spoof everything from America's burgeoning fascination with foreign films to the cryptic poetry of the Beat Generation, to the emerging mores of post-WWII, suburban life.<br />
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A new, LIVE show was produced 39 weeks per year. The stress on the Star led him into a spiral of alcohol and prescription drug addiction that he successfully overcame. <br />
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For all that has been written about the halcyon times when Sid Caesar ruled Saturday night TV, he required only two things of the material that his writers provided .<br />
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It had to be smart and funny.<br />
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Those are two traits that Sid Caesar also had in common with his writing staff and his audience.<br />
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Hail. Caesar!!!<br />
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Here , from the <strong>JAMES STEEBER YOU TUBE</strong> site, is one of Sid Caesar's earliest and most hilarious , television performances. It's from 1949's<strong><em> ADMIRAL BROADWAY REVIEW</em></strong> .<br />
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It is the exuberant story of a Five Dollar Date, as it is recalled from 1939 and the dour version of that night on the town as it would be repeated in 1949.<br />
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Enjoy!!!!<br />
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<br />PAGEONEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505572765985087892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614935975854858913.post-79196971601965837142014-02-09T15:23:00.001-05:002014-02-09T15:27:04.056-05:00A HARD DAYS NIGHT - THE COMEDIC COUPLE THAT FOLLOWED THE BEATLES DEBUT - THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW - CBS-TV - CIRCA 2/9/64<br />
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On a cold February night in 1964, a revolution in music erupted at New York's Ed Sullivan Theater.<br />
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This revolution was televised. <br />
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As a matter of fact, it was seen by millions of viewers, Coast to Coast on the <strong>CBS</strong> <strong>Television Network </strong>and in Canada, too.<br />
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<strong><em>THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW,</em></strong> originally christened as <em><strong>THE TOAST OF THE TOWN</strong></em>. was America's Video Vaudeville Theater from it's debut on the <strong>Tiffany Network</strong> in 1948 , right through it's finale in the early1970's.<br />
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While the host of the eponymous Sullivan show was derided for being stoic and awkward on the air, Ed Sullivan was a Broadway Columnist who had an amazing, prescient, journalistic ability to identify talent that was headed to stardom.He was aggressive enough to ,often,book them on his stage before any competitor.<br />
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Americans tuned in each Sunday night to see singers, dancers, comedians, acrobats, ventriloquists, circus performers and so much more.<br />
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On February 9th, 1964, Ed Sullivan showed his audience the future and it was embodied by four lads from Liverpool, England , who changed Music forever : <strong><em>THE BEATLES</em></strong><br />
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It was the first of three consecutive appearances on the top-rated, video variety show.<br />
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<strong><em>THE BEATLES</em></strong> were, as you know, and as history has proven, more than a fad. They altered the DNA of Music for generations.<br />
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( McCall & Brill )<br />
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Imagine that you were also appearing as a performer on that vaunted episode, which was watched by more than 45% of the American viewing audience.<br />
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The comedy team and, married duo ,of Mitzi McCall and Charlie Brill were booked to appear and perform their popular act, that night. <br />
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There could be no better showcase for the respected team that was seeking a bigger, brighter spotlight.<br />
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Now, imagine that you were given the unenviable task of following <strong><em>THE BEATLES</em></strong>, that night.<br />
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That's exactly what happened to Mitzi McCall and Charlie Brill.<br />
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In this clip from the<strong> MOVIE MAGG YOU TUBE</strong> site, they recount their tale of what happened when the followed the Four Mod Men who Rocked America!!!<br />
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As a bonus, from the Archive of American Television,<br />
here is award-winning, Director/Producer John Moffitt recalls <br />
that explosive night, when he was a Production Assistant on Sullivan's<br />
"Really Big Show!!!"<br />
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<br />PAGEONEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505572765985087892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614935975854858913.post-13390672188260241872014-01-11T22:13:00.004-05:002014-01-11T22:24:16.784-05:00TAPE WAS ROLLING - FIRST AMERICAN CRIME DRAMA RECORDED ON TAPE - DIAGNOSIS:UNKNOWN - CBS-TV - CIRCA JULY 5, 1960<br />
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In the hopeful summer of 1960, <strong>CBS-TV</strong> traded the bright lights of a Broadway theater for the dimly lit recesses of a pathologists lab, with surprising and entertaining results.<br />
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<strong><em>DIAGNOSIS: UNKNOWN</em></strong> was a <strong>B&W</strong>,<strong>CBS-TV</strong> mystery hour , that replaced Garry Moore's vibrant , NYC -based,variety show in the summer of 1960 and showcased Patrick O'Neal as a suave, urbane pathologist who solves crime by scientific method.<br />
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AS Dr. Daniel Coffee, O'Neal methodically navigated the byzantine clues that each case offered, while he engaged in badinage with upper class suspects from New York society. <br />
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Bearded and attired in a white lab coat, Dr. Coffee was portrayed as a pungent blend of an idealistic scientist and world-weary investigator.<br />
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Shot on videotape in NYC, at a time when most hour-long, crime dramas were shot on film in Los Angeles, it features early video performances by Tom Bosley and Larry Hagman, before they became two of the most famous faces and beloved leading men in television history.<br />
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You will also recognize some famous faces of fifties TV, like game show stalwart, Phyllis Newman and versatile character actor, Chester Morris. He played one of the medium's first and best crime fighters, when his <strong><em>BOSTON BLACKIE</em></strong> theatrical films came to the<strong><em> LATE SHOW</em></strong> and the <strong><em>LATE, LATE SHOW</em></strong> on local stations.<br />
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There were even some exterior elements shot on videotape ,when the most portable of field production systems filled a 1/2 ton truck.<br />
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The taught and stylish effort was directed by the legendary Fielder Cook.<br />
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From the <strong>SCREEN STAGE AND SONG YOU TUBE</strong> site, here is <em><strong>DIAGNOSIS:UNKNOWN</strong></em><br />
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On New Years Day 1954 , <strong>NBC-TV</strong> offered a landmark moment in <strong>LIVING COLOR TELEVISION</strong> for video viewers and broadcast professionals, alike.<br />
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The <strong>F.C.C's</strong> , offer its approval of the <strong>RCA/NBC</strong> system for compatible<strong> COLOR TELEVISION</strong> on December 17, 1953 at 5:32 P.M, EST, which allowed viewers with monochrome receivers to see the same shows as those with <strong>COLOR</strong> sets( albeit in black & white ).<br />
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A few weeks later, <strong>NBC </strong>seized upon the palette and pageantry of Pasadena, California's annual <em><strong>TOUNRAMENT OF ROSES</strong></em> <strong><em>PARADE</em></strong> to produce the nascent medium's first West to East coast, <strong>LIVE COLORCAST.</strong><br />
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It was a perfect video vehicle to introduce the vital and vibrant technology to those few who already owned<strong> COLOR</strong> sets , those gathered to watch in <strong> RCA</strong> viewing centers at hotels or retail outlets and those who aspired to bring color into their TV viewing routine.<br />
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Above is an image of the <strong>RCA</strong> assembly line , constructing the model CT-100, the first generation of consumer,<strong> COLOR</strong> sets made by the electronics giant. It debuted on the market in April of 1954, to positive reviews and at an initial cost of $1000.00, but quickly was discounted to $495.00 , in an effort to increase sales.<br />
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You could buy a car for the price of a <strong>COLOR -TV</strong> in 1954.<br />
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Here from the<strong> TV DAYS YOU TUBE SITE </strong> and <strong><em> THE</em></strong> <strong>KINESCOPE HD ARCHIVES</strong> is a clip from the <strong>RCA</strong> Documentary, <em><strong>SIGHTSEEING THROUGH COLOR TELEVISION , </strong></em>which details the day that that America was introduced to <strong>COMPATIBLE COLOR TELEVISION</strong>.<br />
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We <strong>LOVE</strong> the Holidays at <em><strong>KINESCOPE HD.</strong></em> <br />
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Like most tenacious television viewers, we prefer the white, fluffy snow that falls from the sky at the Yuletide season , to the electronic kind that says you've lost your cable connection.<br />
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Around Thanksgiving, here at <strong><em>KINESCOPE HD MASTER CONTROL,</em></strong> we rush to the cable guide to look for the latest holiday offerings from <em><strong>MICHEAL BUBLE </strong></em>or a classic film like <strong><em>WHITE CHRISTM</em>AS.</strong><br />
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One nostalgic, vintage video tradition that we celebrate, each year, is to watch one of the vibrant, upbeat, <em><strong>ANDY WILLIAMS HOLIDAY SPECIALS</strong></em>, produced at <strong>NBC's</strong> cavernous studios in Burbank,Ca.in the 60's.<br />
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Shot in LIVING COLOR ,through the warm, rich prism of RCA TK-41cameras, and mounted with vivid,meticulous production values, these shows offer a stylish frame for the wholesome portrait of a lyrical Family Christmas that Williams painted, in league with his Children, Siblings ( The Williams Bros.) , Guest starts and even his Parents.<br />
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So, here is a present of sorts to you, our few and loyal followers, proffered with our sincere thanks!!!<br />
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From the<strong> DEIDRE WILSON YOU TUBE</strong> site, a sampler of the very best <em><strong>ANDY WILLIAMS CHRISTMAS SHOWS. </strong></em>Enjoy!!!<br />
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Miss Patti Page was the "singing rage" in 1950's America.<br />
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Celebrated for her hit recording of THE TENNESSEE WALTZ, Patti Page was sweet as a mint julep on a sultry, summer day, with a pert crown of blond hair and an incandescent smile.<br />
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Patti Page had a husky singing voice that was tinged with honey.<br />
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Aquiline and approachable , she wasn't "the girl the next door," but she was the kindly, inviting, suburban neighbor that folks adored.<br />
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Combine those characteristics with a high octane vocal power and you can see why the venerable <b>Oldsmobile Division of General Motors</b> sponsored her<b> CBS-TV</b> series, <i><b>THE BIG RECORD</b></i>.<br />
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The monochrome, musical variety hour was mounted as direct competition to NBC's long-tenured <b><i>YOUR HIT PARADE</i></b>, which had been presenting the USA's favorite tunes since it debuted on radio in the 1930's. While <b><i>YOUR HIT PARADE</i></b> gauged the popularity of a song by tracking sales of records and sheet music plus radio airplay, <i><b>THE BIG RECORD</b></i> wanted to strike a more contemporary chord. It focused on hit, 45 RPM singles from a wide range of artists.<br />
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The Wednesday night songfest ( airing at 8PM EST) lasted only one year on the Tiffany Network, in the 1957-58 Television Season. Oldsmobile gave Patti Page a lift to <b>ABC</b> for another year of <i><b>THE OLDSMOBILE SHOW STARRING PATTI PAGE.</b></i><br />
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One footnote : Video Visionary Gary Smith, who would, with producing partner Dwight Hemion, go on to create some of the most amazing and memorable variety programming in television history, served as scenic designer for <i><b>THE BIG RECORD</b></i>. Enjoy!!!!<br />
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What better way to start the holiday season than spending Friday with Frank?<br />
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As Sinatra swung through the Sixties, his frequent specials were truly event television.<br />
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His February 1969, CBS COLOR concert, simply titled <strong><em>SINATRA</em></strong>, offered Old Blue Eyes in his musical prime.<br />
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Here, in a clip from the<strong> EliaIglesias1121</strong> <strong>YOU TUBE</strong> site, is the Chairman of the Board musically presaging the Apollo 11 lunar landing, backed by Don Costa and the big band on <strong>FLY ME TO THE MOON</strong>.<br />
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Frank Sinatra was the King of The World , before Earth's continents were digitally connected.<br />
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His voice could be heard anywhere on the planet, long before the age of global media.<br />
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That sound, textured by Jack Daniels, lived between the grooves of a vinyl disc, in the waves emanating from a hometown Radio outlet, or embedded in the scan lines of a local TV Station.<br />
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Sinatra was Show Biz Royalty and Italy was his ancestral home.<br />
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During a 1962 global tour in support of Children's charities, Old Blues did a monochrome concert on RAI-TV, then Italy's primary television network.<br />
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The Chairman of the Board's singing voice , in this studio session backed by pianist Bill Miller's sextet, is unmistakable, exhilarating and authentic.<br />
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The same cannot be said for the scratchy baritone who dubbed his few spoken lines into Italian.<br />
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Frank does 12 standards , in abridged arrangements by Neil Hefti , who composed the scores for such eclectic video efforts as <b><i>THE ODD COUPLE</i></b> and <i><b>BATMAN.</b></i><br />
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Here from the <b>HONEYBEE7700 YOU TUBE</b> site is <i><b>FRANK SINATRA IN ITALY.</b></i><br />
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American television viewers have always loved cowboys.<br />
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Especially the gunslingers who could fire off one liners with the same speed and accuracy as a six-gun.<br />
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From Hopalong Cassidy and Hoss Cartwight to Bat Masterson and Bret Maverick we like our gunsmoke tinged with giggles.<br />
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In the mid to late 1960's, as the nation faced what was ,perhaps, the greatest social upheaval since the Civil War, TV audiences rode off to the Old West in search of escape.<br />
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Shows like <strong><em>BONANZA, GUNSMOKE</em></strong> and <strong><em>THE BIG VALLEY</em></strong> offered a rare respite from the daily angst of American life, as portrayed on Network News.<br />
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At<strong> NBC</strong>, there was a sense that viewers wanted a Western that offered cowpokes who could lasso big laughs between barroom brawls.<br />
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And so was born<strong><em> LAREDO</em></strong>, a fast, furious, funny , two fisted Old West adventure, focusing on a quartet of Texas Rangers, who were wrangled by their long-suffering Captain.<br />
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Neville Brand, who made his reputation playing Al Capone on <em><strong>THE UNTOUCHABLES</strong></em>, evidenced a great gift for comedy, starring along with Peter Brown, William <br />
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Produced by <strong>UNIVERSAL STUDIOS</strong> and <strong>RONCOM FILMS , <em>LAREDO</em> </strong>was spun off on <strong>NBC-TV</strong> from its long running hit, <strong><em>THE VIRGINIAN.</em></strong> <br />
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The <strong>LIVING COLOR</strong> series lasted only two seasons, and didn't have enough episodes to meet the threshold for successful syndication. But it leaves a great legacy in action and laughter.<br />
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Here from the <strong>MORERADIOFILM AND TV YOU TUBE SITE,</strong> here is the November 4, 1965 episode of <strong><em>LAREDO</em></strong>, entitled <strong><em>THE GOLDEN TRAIL.</em></strong><br />
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Network Television in 1960, occasionally, offered optimism and elegance among the endless array of cops and cowboys.<br />
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As we entered the kinetic sixties, there were approx.52,000,000 TV sets in a country with a population of 179,323,175.<br />
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While weekly Prime Time took us to courtrooms and crime scenes , the sheriff's office and the surgical suite, some special programming could meet the standards of excellence set by video visionaries like Frank Stanton and Pat Weaver.<br />
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<strong>CBS</strong> would showcase Leonard Bernstein's NY Philharmonic concerts for young people.<br />
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<strong>ABC</strong> offered the innovative, if Kafka-esqe ,comedy of Ernie Kovacs.<br />
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<strong>NBC's</strong> Chet Huntley and David Brinkley guided voters and viewers into President John Kennedy's Camelot.<br />
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But the apex of television as an art form ,that year, was a vibrant, captivating hour of song, dance, music and comedy in <strong>LIVING COLOR</strong> called , simply ,<strong><em>ASTAIRE TIME.</em></strong><br />
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The sophisticated hour was the third and final installment in a trilogy of terpsichorean fun<br />
starring and produced by the legendary star of stage, screen, radio and nightclubs, Fred Astaire.<br />
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His first effort, 1958's <em><strong>AN EVENING WITH FRED ASTAIRE</strong></em>, won every major accolade and was the first musical program to be shot in filmic style and edited on <strong>COLOR</strong> videotape.<br />
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The 1959 sequel , <strong><em>ANOTHER EVENING WITH FRED ASTAIRE</em></strong> was also celebrated by viewers , professionals and critics, alike.<br />
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1960's <strong><em>ASTAIRE TIME</em></strong>, featured Astaire's dance partner, Barrie Chase, plus Jazz legends Count Basie and Joe Williams. <br />
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It was directed with a by iconic, producer/director Greg Garrison, whose career credits include <strong><em>THE BUICK-BERLE SHOW</em></strong> and <strong><em>THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW.</em></strong><br />
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Choreographer Hermes Pan , one of Astaire's favorite collaborators in cinema, brought a deft and sweeping look to dance numbers.<br />
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Here, from the <strong>AMPOPFILMS YOU TUBE</strong> site, is <strong><em>ASTAIRE TIME.</em></strong><br />
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In the "swingin' sixties," the creative team at <em><strong>NBC's KRAFT MUSIC HALL</strong></em> decided to offer viewers something hipper than the than country-western balladeers, Broadway crooners and recipes for caramel apples that were a staple of the long running, high budget, weekly hour of music & comedy.<br />
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They struck a deal to bring a sanitized, but star-studded version of the <strong>FRIARS CLUB's</strong> off the record and off color "roasts" of the most famous and infamous names in show business.<br />
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In 1968, Johnny Carson, at the zenith of his <strong><em>TONIGHT S</em></strong>HOW career, and spending more time in divorce court that most lawyers, was the target and one of his own comic heroes: the one, the only Groucho Marx, took lethally funny aim.<br />
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From the <strong>BERNIE OWEN YOU TUBE</strong> site, here is an excerpt of <strong><em>THE FRIARS ROAST JOHNNY CARSON</em></strong> on <em><strong>THE</strong></em> <strong><em>KRAFT MUSIC HALL.</em></strong> <br />
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How many television professionals could effortlessly alternate between aggressively interviewing the most interesting and powerful people on Earth and satirizing them in acerbically comic performances?<br />
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The late Sir David Frost did just that for almost six decades.<br />
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The international media impresario died suddenly, yesterday, leaving an amazing legacy in video.<br />
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David Parradine Frost, the son of a Minister, was a Knight in his native England UK and a true Citizen of the World.<br />
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He was in the second wave of Television broadcasters. Frost was one of those who learned their craft in front of the camera as the medium evolved and matured, not behind the microphone in radio studios, as had their predecessors. His work resonated with British Baby Boomers, who were questioning the values and institutions that their parents saved in World War Two.<br />
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Frost forged a new genre in Television as the point man on the BBC's groundbreaking, comedy program, <strong><em>THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS</em></strong> in the 1960's. He also hosted a subsequent, abortive, American version on <strong>NBC.</strong> While the show was rejected, Frost was embraced by stateside audiences.<br />
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A charter member of the international Jet Set, in the 1970's , Frost personified the frequent flyer. He hosted a daily, syndicated talk show for <strong>GROUP W BROADCASTING</strong>, based in New York, and actually commuted to the UK to star in a weekly interview program.<br />
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Like Playboy's Hugh Hefner, his most intimate, personal relationships made global headlines. He exemplified the MOD sensibilities of the immediate, post-<strong><em>MAD MEN</em></strong> era. He produced and hosted television shows in America, The UK and Australia. He also produced films and wrote books.<br />
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For this smart, savvy, multi-national, multi-media, multi-tasker, life, like television, was a global affair.<br />
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David Frost will best be remembered for eliciting a long-awaited apology for the Watergate affair from disgraced, former President Richard Nixon, during a landmark series of interviews he conducted with Mr. Nixon in 1976. That tense exchange was, itself, chronicled in a Broadway show and an Academy Award nominated film.<br />
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Frost began his storied career as a child of the burgeoning television generation and lived to be a respected, recognized elder statesman of international media.<br />
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Here, from <strong><em>ABC NEWS</em></strong> is David Muir with a remembrance of Sir David Frost. R.I.P.<br />
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Television's Queen of Comedy bet her kingdom to give American Television two of its greatest dramatic hours.<br />
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In 1966, the mighty <strong>CBS</strong> Network resumed its annual ritual of convincing and cajoling TV's reigning redhead,Lucille Ball, to continue with her hit series on the <strong>TIFFANY NETWORK</strong>, <em><strong>THE LUCY SHOW</strong></em>.<br />
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This was a complex negotiation , each year, because they were dealing with two Lucy's.<br />
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One was the driven and demanding actress, who rehearsed every <strong><em>LUCY SHOW</em></strong> script until it looked like it was spontaneous to the large and loyal audience.<br />
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But, in addition to her comedic career, the "other" Lucy was the president of <strong>DESILU STUDIOS</strong>, the production company that she and her ex-husband, video visionary and pioneer producer, Desi Arnaz, founded in the early 1950's to launch <strong><em>I LOVE LUCY.</em></strong><br />
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In the 1950's and 1960's, <strong>DESILU</strong> was to television , everything that <strong>MGM</strong> was to the movies in the 30's and 40's. No surprise. Both Ball and Arnaz had started their Hollywood careers acting in feature films. They actually met at <strong>RKO STUDIOS</strong>, which they purchased and folded into <strong>DESILU</strong> in 1957. <strong>DESILU</strong> was a small studio with the biggest hits on the little screen. <br />
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Most of their work landed on CBS. It was a prolific and profitable partnership.<br />
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To keep Lucy on the air and in the fold,<strong> CBS</strong> offered a financial incentive that was tailor-made for a studio executive. Because of her show's formidable ratings ( high, but not <em><strong>I LOVE LUCY</strong></em> high), she was given a "development" fund. It was her choice to invest in the production of pilot episodes for new <strong>DESILU</strong> series, or keep the money for herself.<br />
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She elected to invest in <strong>DESILU's</strong> future and with it in two unique pilots. One was for NBC and was described by its creator, Gene Roddenbery as "<em><strong>WAGON TRAIN</strong></em> to the stars." <br />
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That show was <strong><em>STAR TREK.</em></strong> Do I need to say more?<br />
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Producer Bruce Geller had a different, but intriguing, vision for another show that would have the intensity and action of sophisticated "heist" films like RIFIFI or TOPKAPI, but set in the shadowy world of espionage against an international backdrop. <strong>DESILU</strong> took it to<strong> CBS</strong>. <br />
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It was called<strong><em> MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE</em></strong>.<br />
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Both pilots , shot in COLOR, made their way to the Fall 1966 Prime Time Schedule. Both made television history and both left amazing legacies that manifested themselves in feature films.<br />
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The legend and lore of <strong><em>STAR TREK</em></strong> fills volume after volume.<br />
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The heritage of <strong><em>MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE</em></strong>, like the operatives who work for the Impossible Mission Force, has a lower profile.<br />
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The terse and tense exposition of the show changed the architecture of action dramas on television. The stories were meticulously crafted and often had to be written backwards to make sense. It was well known that in the late 1960's President Lyndon Johnson was one of the show's biggest fans. The show had a pace and a presence that was Spartan but suspenseful. Propelled by Lalo Schifrin's pulsating theme and eccentric casting ( Wally Cox as the point-person in a Spy caper?:) , the show ran from 1966 to 1973 on <strong>CBS.</strong><br />
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Here, from the <strong>DON FOLEY you tube site</strong>, here is the 1966 Pilot for <strong><em>MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE</em></strong>.<br />
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Nobody could ever accuse Jerry Lewis of comedic cowardice.<br />
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His life and career are a testament to the risks and rewards of working in the Funny Business.<br />
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At what may have been the zenith of his career in the late 1950's, when he was globally adored by children and adults, coveted by Paramount Pictures, where the films he produced and in which he starred broke box office records,when he was in high demand by nightclubs and television networks, he decided that it was time to take a dramatic star turn on <b><i>NBC-TV'S LINCOLN MERCURY STAR TIME.</i></b><br />
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Lewis, along with video veterans, producer Ernest D. Glucksman ,Director Ralph Nelson and writer Oliver Crawford crafted an updated version of the classic Al Jolson film, the first talking picture, <i style="font-weight: bold;">THE JAZZ SINGER </i>for the anthology series.<br />
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Co-starring with Anna Maria Alberghetti, Molly Picon, Eduard Franz , Joey Faye and Del Moore, Lewis brought his own unique talents to a modernized telling of the Sampson Raphaelson story of a performer who faces a moral choice between his Father and his Faith or Stardom and Success.<br />
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It was recorded at <b>NBC Burbank</b> on <b>2 inch, COLOR videotape</b> and manually edited. The production design and detailed sets seem to stand the test of time. You judge the performances.<br />
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Here , from the Joao Antônio Franz dos Santos <b>YOU TUBE</b> site, is <i><b>THE JAZZ SINGER.</b></i><br />
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Tonight , billions of people around the globe will look up at the night sky and , perhaps, they will notice the Moon, glowing in among the stars.</div>
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A comparative fraction will stop to recall that on this date in 1969, at 10:56 PM EDT, 02:56 UTC, and 109420 into the mission of APOLLO 11, Commander Neil Armstrong descended the ladder from</div>
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At that electrifying moment on that steamy summer night, 44 years ago, an estimated 600 million people watched television in homes and churches and bars and union halls and in parks and on beaches. Television took us from the launch pad , to mission control , to the white house and to the Moon.</div>
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The third member of the APOLLO 11 team, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins orbited the moon , as his partners walked it's surface. For a period, as he guided the ship around the dark side of Earth's only , natural satellite, he was out of communications contact with his colleagues and with NASA's Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas</div>
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I have not heard much on this 44th anniversary of this daring , dazzling accomplishment, which fulfilled the mandate of a martyred President .It was John Kennedy who set the goal of putting a man on the moon before end of the 1960's.The American Lunar landing all but ended the so-called RACE FOR SPACE, with , what was then the worlds only other Super Power, the Soviet Union.</div>
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<strong><em>"</em></strong><strong><em>FROM TELEVISION CITY IN HOLLYWOOD..."</em></strong> is one of the most familiar and famous phrases ever spoken on TV.<br />
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That simple, declarative statement has been a clarion call for <strong>CBS</strong> viewers since the Tiffany Network's Los Angeles Broadcast Facility opened its doors ... and the cavernous studios behind them ... in 1952.<br />
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One of the most prolific and proficient production centers in the history of the medium, TV City has been home to drama, comedy, sci-fi, music, soap operas, game shows , news , commercials and every other genre in video.<br />
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Even though<strong> CBS</strong> was vanquished by mortal rival <strong>NBC</strong> in the 1953 battle to set the technical standard in <strong>COLOR</strong> television, there was a time in the mid-1950's that <strong>CBS</strong> experimented with tinted TV, using RCA equipment. <br />
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At least two stages in the <strong>CBS </strong>complex at 7800 Beverly Boulevard in L.A's Fairfax section were outfitted with lumbering RCA TK-41 Cameras and supplemental lighting equipment required for polychromatic production.<br />
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A wide range of shows on the <strong>CBS</strong> schedule were produced at Television City in , what <strong>CBS</strong> branded as,<strong> FULL COLOR</strong> between 1954 and 1958.<br />
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In 1959, <strong>CBS</strong> scion William Paley decided that he would no longer spend his money buying equipment from his long-time competitor, <strong>RCA/NBC's</strong> David Sarnoff. <br />
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<strong>CBS</strong> shut down regularly scheduled, <strong>COLOR</strong> programming until the Fall of 1966, when all three of America's major broadcast networks delivered their prime-time programs in <strong>COLOR</strong>.<br />
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But reflecting on the mid-fifties at <strong>CBS</strong>, <strong><em>CHRYSLER'S SHOWER OF STARS</em></strong> is a prime example of the <strong>CBS COLOR STRATEGY.</strong><br />
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A monthly mix of music, comedy and variety, usually hosted by the incomparable Jack Benny, it alternated with <strong><em>CHRYSLER'S CLIMAX</em></strong>, a series of suspenseful dramas and mysteries.<br />
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While both shows were produced<strong> LIVE</strong> at Television City, <strong><em>SHOWER OF STARS</em></strong> was offered as a <strong><em>CBS COLORCAST</em></strong>, once a month.<br />
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Here from the <strong>SCREENSTAGEANDSONG YOU TUBE SITE</strong> , is a warm and wholesome comedy, based on a Broadway hit. Jack Benny does his monthly start turn, with a versatile cast in <strong><em>TIME OUT FOR GINGER</em></strong>. <br />
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In the early 1950's, <strong>Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis</strong> did something of which Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin only Dreamed:<br />
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They conquered the world.<br />
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Not a shot was fired and there were no casualties in a comic revolution<br />
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The unlikely paring offered audiences a voluble and volatile mix<br />
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If you met them, before they were a team, you might wonder how they <br />
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Martin, an alluring crooner with impeccable comic timing and Lewis,<br />
a kinetic comedian , whose adolescent demeanor, on stage, belied <br />
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They liked each other personally and shared the same comic sensibility.<br />
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When the legendary Atlantic City nightclub impresario, Skinny D-Amato,<br />
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After bombing, back to back, D'Amato, who was an entertainment visionary, told them that they could work the stage together or each could leave the club alone.<br />
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That was 1946 and in the turbulent decade that followed, they became the biggest stars on Film, in Nightclubs and on Television.<br />
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In 1956, they went their separate ways after making millions of people laugh and making show business history.<br />
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The story of their decision to "divorce " is a show business tragedy come true.<br />
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The act and their relationship succumbed to a lethal mix of ego and pride, jealousy and infighting.<br />
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Both went on to incredibly successful individual careers.<br />
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But together, they were invincible and incomparable.<br />
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They also made a lot of money for America's best nightclubs, the nation's largest theaters, Paramount Pictures, NBC Radio, NBC Television and their TV sponsor, The Colgate Palmolive Company.<br />
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While the wild physicality of their act didn't translate well to radio, their monthly, video adventures as part of the rotating constellation of stars on <strong>NBC-TV's</strong> expansive and expensive,<strong><em> COLGATE COMEDY HOUR,</em></strong> made for some of the most spontaneous moments in the mediums early years.<br />
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Here, from the <strong>DONAZIFY YOU TUBE</strong> site is the 5/2/54 episode of their Sunday night show, which celebrates the eighth anniversary of <strong>MARTIN AND LEWIS</strong> performing together.<br />
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It took less than 15 minutes for Astronaut Alan Shepard, supported by thousands of NASA technicians, government contractors and military personnel, to accomplish a daring dream of human adventure and scientific exploration, that would come to typify the baby-boom generation's sense of bravado : putting an American into space.<br />
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Shepard, a decorated Naval aviator and an accomplished engineer, was among the first class of 7 Astronauts who would risk<br />
their lives to launch the America's manned-spaceflight program, NASA's Project Mercury.<br />
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On May 5th, 1961, in the face of uncooperative weather and technical challenges, Shepard's Freedom 7 capsule , mounted atop a Redstone guided missile, thundered into space from Cape Canaveral, Florida. <br />
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It was a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes duration, but it was this country's first step into space.<br />
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It came at just the right time for a nation was that unsure it could find the footing to take its first steps toward the stars. The Soviets had just put Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into Earth Orbit, while American missiles, designed by German scientists who had emigrated to the US after World War II, kept exploding on the launch pad. <br />
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Shepard's flight gave America the confidence to move forward and upward into space.<br />
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At <b>NBC News</b>, division president Robert Kitner had launched his own experiment in broadcast journalism, the <b><i>INSTANT NEWS SPECIAL</i>.</b><br />
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His innovative vision was to produce wide-ranging, LIVE, special coverage of major stories as they develped, that would culminate in a prime-time, news program.<br />
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The Race For Space Between the United States and what was then the Soviet Union, offered the perfect opportunity to test this new and vibrant form of journalism.<br />
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While the US and the Soviets battled for supremacy in space, NBC and CBS ran the race for ratings. <br />
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At NBC, the smart and savvy Frank McGee anchored the network's television coverage of Project Mercury with superlative support from radio correspondent Jay Barbaree, whose daily beat was the manned space flight program.<br />
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At CBS News, anchorman Walter Cronkite owned the story. In years to come, he would fly with Astronauts in simulated weightless conditions and is alleged to have inquired about the possibility of being the first Journalist in space.<br />
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This was also one of the few stories on whichthe fledging ABC News division would shine, based on the expertise of the late Jules Bergman, who was as knowledgeable about NASA and the science of space fight<br />
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Just as Project Mercury was a Templar for the missions to the Moon that followed, NBC's coverage of early space exploration laid the foundation for major, breaking news coverage at the network level and for cable news.<br />
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Below, from the <b>MR. DAN BEAUMONT YOU TUBE </b>site,is a rare excerpt from an <b><i>NBC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT WITH FRANK McGEE on THE FLIGHT OF FREEDOM 7.</i></b><br />
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