April 11, 1966…The Last Episode of “Hullabaloo” Airs On NBC
April 11, 1966…The Last Episode of “Hullabaloo” Airs On NBC
This is a rare color clip from that final show, with Leslie Gore. Paul Anka was the host for this last show, which featured songs from the 1965 Oscar nominees. “Hullabaloo” was directed by the first director known for his music specials, like The TAMI Show, Steve Binder.
Although all of the shows were shot and videotaped in color, very few of the color shows are left. Somehow about 45 black and white renditions survive, that I suspect were dubs made for the production company.
The show started in a one hour format, and ran in pirmetime from January 12, 1965 through April 11, 1966, but three months in it was cut to thirty minutes, and went to a 7:30 Monday night slot. It was replaced by “The Monkees”, and was taped mostly at NBC Brooklyn, but was also done in Studio 8H and at NBC Burbank. Below is the line up for that final night. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
1) Paul Anka – “What Now My Love”
2) The Cyrkle – “Red Rubber Ball”
3) Lesley Gore – “Young Love”
4) THE HULLABALOO DANCERS (choreographed by David Winters)
5) Peter and Gordon – “Woman”
6) ACADEMY AWARD Medley – Nominees for Best Song of 1965:
6a) Paul Anka and Lesley Gore – “You’re Gonna Hear From Me” (from “Inside Daisy Clover”)
6b) Lesley Gore – “I Will Wait for You” (from “Umbrellas of Cherbourg”)
6c) Peter and Gordon – “Ballad of Cat Ballou” (from “Cat Ballou”)
6d) Paul Anka – “The Shadow of Your Smile” (from “Sandpiper”)
6e) The Cyrkle and other guests – “What New Pussycat?”
7) Peter and Gordon – “Wrong From The Start”
Hullabaloo’s low point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGSPRTK7ke8
Great song composed by Michel Legrand!
Likely the same rrason early Carson is black snd white: they reused the tape.
We transferred a few of these from 2″ Quad color videotape about 20 years ago. Paul Surratt and Bill Dicicco should be credited for saving many television treasures including these.
I bought the 3 sets that were released in the early days of DVD. (So long ago that the DVDs have an A side and a B side) The first set wasn’t bad, with a fair amount of color, but the 2 later sets were pretty poor, and the soundtracks were very thin. I think material like this should be colorized if no such color material exists. It shouldn’t be too hard to come up with a decent match. The Rolling Stones doing Get Off of My Cloud and She Said Yeah in November, 1965, may only survive as a b&w kine, but there are color photographs from their appearance as a guide. The soundtracks, that’s another problem, but master recordings could be used since most Hullabaloo performances were lip synched. We may never live long enough to see it, but there may come a time when this is a relatively easy and inexpensive process. I’ve seen some amazing work from places like VidFire in England and LiveFeed from here. (Although I believe LiveFeed is defunct and I haven’t seen any examples of kine restoration done in the last few years).
NBC’s offline system of editing quad videotapes required making black and white kinescopes, which were used to preview the cuts before cutting the actual video tape. Might the surviving black and white prints of Hullabaloo have come from those kinescopes?
…Leslie Gore had the prettiest blue eyes !
…we use to watch both Hullabaloo and Shindig, but Shindig was my fave ! l..San Antonio’s own Sir Douglas Quintet performed on Hullabaloo and I believe were also on Shindig ! ..Hullabaloo seemed so straight laced while Shindig was a bit more edgy ..sad that both programs didn’t follow through in archiving all of their shows.
Steve Binder rocks.
Wow – TK 41 cameras with big orthicon rings in the overscan. I worked with these cameras in my first year of television work in early 1969. It was like pulling teeth to get a half way decent picture out of them, with many, many adjustments….
I remember the show, also remember how low band color video tape looked.
That guy with the clapper board at the opening looks an awful lot like a young Richard Thomas.
One of the Hullabaloo Dancers went on to be in A Chorus Line. Donna McKechnie got a Tony Award for her performance.
Hullabaloo was a pretty good