Collection search - Cross Canada Hit Parade

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Cross Canada Hit Parade

Item number (ISN):

190725

Series title:

Cross Canada Hit Parade

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

190725

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

MOLSTAR COMMUNICATIONS

Accession:

1973-0145

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1955-12 ?

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

director/producer, Stan Harris; script, John Aylesworth; musical director, Bert Niosi; choreography, Alan Lund; Blanche Lund; host, Austin Willis

Cast credit:

Wally Koster, Joyce Hahn, Mindy Carson, Phyllis Marshall

Description:

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Program in a weekly television series featuring the top songs on Canada's hit parade. Bert Niosi and His Orchestra and the Hit Parade Dancers accompany the singers. Elaborate costumes and sets are used for many of the song settings. This show begins with a performance of the song "I Hear You Knocking" by Wally Koster, dressed as Father Time. Phyllis Marshall sings "Only You". Mindy Carson sings "If I Were a Bell" from the 1950 musical GUYS AND DOLLS. Wally Koster and Joyce Hahn sing "Love and Marriage". Disc jockey Keith [Sandy] of the Toronto radio station CKEY's show MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM, predicts that the song "The Trouble with Harry" will be a hit. The Hit Parade Dancers dance to the song. Mindy Carson and The Four Diamonds sing her hit song "Memories are Made of This". Joyce Hahn sings "It's Almost Tomorrow". The Four Diamonds sing "Be My Loving Baby". Next is a medley of the top songs for each month of 1955: "Let Me Go Lover", sung by Joyce Hahn; "Melody of Love"; "Davy Crockett", sung by Wally Koster and some children; "Unchained Melody", sung by Phyllis Marshall; "Rock Around the Clock"; "Yellow Rose of Texas"; "Love is a Many Splendored Thing", sung by Joyce Hahn; and "Sixteen Tons", sung by Wally Koster. <30mn>

Language:

English

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1. Includes commercials for Royal Instant Pudding, Chase and Sanborn coffee, and Frigidaire ovens.~2. Identified in some AVCA documentation as the show of 11 January 1956, but Wally Koster tells viewers this is the last show of 1955.~3. Followed by audio from the television station CBLT of a singing commercial for Jersey Milk chocolate bars, CBC TV's news review of the year 1955, and the introduction to THE JACKIE RAE SHOW.
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Open

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions~Contact for copyright clearance for material in this accession produced by Molstar: Peg Walsh (pwalsh@nhl.com), Sr. Director of Operations and Footage Licensing and/or Hannah Readnour (hreadnour@nhl.com), Footage Licensing - (212) 324-6170 (telephone); (212) 324-6130 (fax). NHL Productions 1185 Avenue of the Americas, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10036.

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