Collection search - Cross Canada Hit Parade
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Record information – Brief Cross Canada Hit Parade
Series title:Cross Canada Hit ParadeHierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Item number (ISN):190692Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:MOLSTAR COMMUNICATIONSAccession:1973-0145Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Release date:1955-11-16Production company:Canadian Broadcasting CorporationProduction credit:director/producer, Stan Harris; script, John Aylesworth; musical director, Bert Niosi; choreography, Alan Lund; Blanche Lund; host, Austin WillisCast credit:Wally Koster, Joyce Hahn, Phyllis Marshall, Rusty DraperDescription: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 number six song in Canada, "Love and Marriage", by Joyce Hahn and Wally Koster. Bert Niosi, on clarinet, plays the July 1937 Benny Goodman hit song, "Sing, Sing, Sing", accompanied by the Hit Parade Dancers. Phyllis Marshall sings "Suddenly There's a Valley". Rusty Draper sings the fourth place song "Shifting, Whispering Sands". Next, Joyce Hahn sings a song by Bill Isbister, "Pumpkin Head". Wally Koster sings "Only You". Disc jockey Paul [Reed] of Hamilton, Ontario radio station CHML predicts that Rusty Draper's song "Are You Satisfied" will be a hit. Draper then sings the song. To conclude the show, Wally Koster, dressed as a devil, sings the top song of the week, "Sixteen Tons". <28mn 30s>Language:EnglishNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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