American TV series or program
Hullabaloo
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Early episodes of
Hullabaloo
featured special segments taped in London and hosted by
the Beatles
' manager
Brian Epstein
who introduced up and coming UK music acts.
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Genre
| Musical variety
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Written by
| John Aylesworth
Frank Peppiatt
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Directed by
| Steve Binder
Bill Davis
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Narrated by
| Johnny Holliday
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Country of origin
| United States
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Original language
| English
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No.
of seasons
| 2
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No.
of episodes
| 48
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Executive producer
| Gary Smith
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Running time
| 45–48 minutes
(January 1965–August 1965)
22–24 minutes
(September 1965–April 1966)
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Production companies
| The Gary Smith Company
Hullabaloo Enterprises
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Network
| NBC
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Release
| January 12, 1965
(
1965-01-12
)
?
August 29, 1966
(
1966-08-29
)
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Hullabaloo
was an American
musical variety series
that ran on
NBC
from January 12, 1965, through April 11, 1966 (with repeats to August 1966).
[1]
Similar to
ABC
's
Shindig!
[2]
and in contrast to
American Bandstand
, it aired in
prime time
.
Overview
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Directed by
Steve Binder
, who went on to direct
Elvis Presley
's
1968 "comeback" special
,
Hullabaloo
served as a big-budget, quality showcase for the leading pop acts of the day, and was also competition for another like-minded television showcase,
ABC
's
Shindig!
A different host presided each week
[1]
?among these were
Sammy Davis, Jr.
,
Jerry Lewis
,
Gary Lewis
,
Petula Clark
,
Paul Anka
,
Liza Minnelli
,
Jack Jones
,
David McCallum
and
Frankie Avalon
?singing a couple of his or her own hits and introducing the different acts. Chart-topping acts who performed on the show included
Simon and Garfunkel
,
the Mamas & the Papas
,
Dionne Warwick
,
Gary Lewis and the Playboys
,
the Lovin' Spoonful
,
the Rolling Stones
,
the Yardbirds
,
Sonny & Cher
,
the Supremes
,
Herman's Hermits
,
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
,
the Animals
,
Roy Orbison
and
Marianne Faithfull
. The first 13 episodes of
Hullabaloo
included black and white segments taped in London and hosted by
the Beatles
' manager
Brian Epstein
where he introduced up and coming UK music acts to the American audience.
[2]
[3]
[4]
Sid Bernstein was the booking agent for Hullabaloo.
Peter Matz
, later of
The Carol Burnett Show
, was the orchestra leader.
[2]
Peppiatt and Aylesworth
were the writers.
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citation needed
]
Some of the programs in the series were
videotaped
at
NBC Studios
in
Burbank, California
. Most were taped in
New York City
, either at NBC's Studio 8H in the
RCA Building
(which was built for
Arturo Toscanini
and the
NBC Symphony Orchestra
, and would later house
Saturday Night Live
), or at NBC's color studio in the
Midwood
section of
Brooklyn
(where
The Cosby Show
would be filmed many years later).
Color episodes
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Much of the series' color videotaped footage was later transferred over to
kinescope
on film ? as such copied in black and white. In 1973, after the shows production company declined to own the original color masters, the episodes were wiped and only three half-hour episodes are known to exist in their original color videotaped form.
[5]
[6]
The three surviving color episodes were hosted by
Michael Landon
,
Jerry
and
Gary Lewis
(both co-hosted the same episode) and
Paul Anka
, respectively and featured:
the Byrds
, and
David Winters
(Landon),
Paul Revere & the Raiders
(both Landon and Lewis')
the Cyrkle
,
Lesley Gore
,
Peter and Gordon
(Anka),
Gary Lewis & the Playboys
,
Barry McGuire
(Lewis’).
Dancers
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The show was choreographed by
David Winters
, who selected and choreographed the Hullabaloo Dancers, a team of four men and six women who appeared on a regular basis. Two of them,
Michael Bennett
and
Donna McKechnie
, went on to achieve considerable fame on
Broadway
. Dancer
Patrick Adiarte
, who also attempted to launch a solo singing career on the series, went on to play
Ho-Jon
in the television series
M*A*S*H
. Another female dancer, model/actress
Lada Edmund Jr.
(known today as Lada St. Edmund, was best known as one of the caged "go-go girl" dancers in the "Hullabaloo A-Go-Go" segment near the closing sequence of the show.
[1]
She also had a brief recording career with the singles "I Know Something" and "The Larue." She later co-starred with
Jon Voight
in the 1969 film
Out of It
and in
Act of Vengeance
released in 1974. Dancer
Suzanne Charney
also had some degree of fame on Broadway as the lead frug dancer in
Sweet Charity
, reprising her role in the
1969 film
as well. David Winters went on to direct or produce over 200 TV shows, specials and films.
Broadcast history
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The series was originally a one-hour broadcast, airing 8:30?9:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Its first season ran 18 new episodes from January through May 1965 then, from June through August 1965, it featured selected repeats, which aired 10:00?11:00 p.m.
[1]
The second season of 30 new episodes ran from September 1965 to April 1966. Reduced to thirty minutes, the episodes aired 7:30?8:00 p.m. on Monday.
[1]
From May through August 1966 it aired repeats, and was replaced by the
sitcom
The Monkees
in September 1966.
Availability
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Highlights of many of the segments have been compiled for release in
VHS
and
DVD
formats. Additionally, a special entitled “Hullabaloo?a 60’s Flashback” has been produced under the “My Music” umbrella for use by
PBS
stations during pledge drives; it premiered in March 2013.
In popular culture
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Hullabaloo
was mentioned in the lyrics of the 1980
Ramones
song "
Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?
":
Do you remember
Hullabaloo
?
Upbeat
,
Shindig!
and
Ed Sullivan
, too?
Do you remember rock 'n' roll radio?
[7]
The show was also featured in the movie
Why Do Fools Fall in Love
(1998).
In
Quentin Tarantino
's 2019 film
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
, fictional actor
Rick Dalton
(
Leonardo DiCaprio
) appears as a guest host on
Hullabaloo
, singing the 1956 song "
Green Door
".
References
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- ^
a
b
c
d
e
Terrace, Vincent (1980).
The Complete Encyclopedia of Television Programs (1947-1979)
(first ed.). Cranbury, New Jersey: A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc. p.
214
.
ISBN
0-498-02488-1
.
- ^
a
b
c
McCleary, John Bassett (May 22, 2013).
Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s
. Ten Speed Press. p. 259.
ISBN
9780307814333
. Retrieved
December 4,
2014
.
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King, Susan (February 26, 1995).
"Retro: What's All the Hullabaloo?"
.
Los Angeles Times
. Retrieved
February 3,
2022
.
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Lehman, Doc (April 29, 2012).
"We Had A Shindig At The Hullabaloo!"
. BANGAGONG! by Doc Lehman: Reliving The 60's & 70's.
- ^
Jerry and Gary Lewis on Hullabaloo '65
, retrieved
2023-01-29
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Hullabaloo, whole show (with Cyrkle), April 11, 1966
, retrieved
2023-01-29
- ^
"Ramones Lyrics : Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?"
.
PLyrics.com
. Retrieved
26 June
2021
.
External links
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