Collection search - Cross Canada Hit Parade

MOLSTAR COMMUNICATIONS

1973-0145

Film

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1956-04-04

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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

Wally Koster, Joyce Hahn, Eddie Allen, Bobby Gimby, Blain Mathé, Barry Wood, Lloyd Edwards, Jimmy Namario, Kathleen Stokes

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 "Hot Diggety" by Wally Koster. He is accompanied by the Hit Parade Dancers. The Happy Gang, stars of a CBC radio series since 1937, make their television debut singing "Never Let the Worry Worry You". Joyce Hahn sing "A Tear Fell". Disc jockey Keith [Sterling] of Ottawa radio station CKOY, host of the program MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM, predicts that the song "Rock Island Line" will be a hit. He introduces Wally Koster who sings it. Frank [Rodwell], a dancer with the National Ballet, dances to the song "Blue Suede Shoes". Joyce Hahn sings "Why Do Fools Fall in Love". "No, Not Much" is sung by Eddie Allen of The Happy Gang. An instrumental of the song "The Poor People of Paris" closes the show. <30mn>

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