America’s New Year’s Eve Broadcast History: The Dick Clark Years December 31, 1972 was a strange time in the country…Vietnam, the Olympic disaster, Watergate, the works, however, there was still a calming familiar face. That night, NBC aired a special: ‘Three Dog Night’s Year’s Rockin’ Eve 1973’. It was hosted by members of the famous […]
‘Your Hit Parade’…The Original, Music Countdown Show Long before the Casey Kasem or American Bandstand countdowns, there was ‘Your Hit Parade’ which started on radio in 1935 and ran there till 1955. The television version started on NBC in 1950 and ran there till ’58 when it went to CBS for a year. In the […]
30 Rock Set: Silvercup Studios This is the studio set that stands in for NBC’s Studio 8H, home of ‘Saturday Night Live’. The main lot is at 4222 22nd Street in Long Island City. Other shows taping there are ‘White Collar’ and ‘Person Of Interest’. To see more, click the link. http://www.silvercupstudios.com/ Source
October 24, 1934…”Santa Clause Is Coming To Town”, Recorded Until broadcast radio and talking pictures came along, there hadn’t really been any “popular” or secular Christmas songs…most were still traditional, religious carols. The first recorded version of the song was by banjoist Harry Reser and his band, and was done on October 24, 1934 featuring […]