July 10, 1950…’Your Hit Parade’ Comes To Television
On July 11, 2014
- TV History
July 10, 1950…’Your Hit Parade’ Comes To Television
The video here is from New Year’s Eve of 1955 from NBC Studio 8H and starting at the 2 minute mark, “Memories Are Made Of This” is performed by a singer posing as a stage manager with him getting a ride on the Panoram dolly camera near the end.
The show started on the NBC Radio Red Network in 1935 and came to NBC television viewers on Saturday nights from 10:30 till 11, from July 1950 till the summer of 1957. The show was in color from ’54 till ’57 when NBC canceled it.
In the fall of ’57, the show ran on CBS for a year, but rock and roll had put a big dent in the show’s popularity and that was it’s last season. Enjoy and share!
YOUR HIT PARADE is considered one of the precursors of the music video, in its visual interpretation of songs that went beyond a straightforward performance of the tune.