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. . . AND LA HUTTON’S SONGS WILL BE SOMETHING SPECIAL on the Hit Parade. And the show runs for six years on Broadway. It is what is known as “a hit.” Miss Hutton’s TV debut is following approximately this selfsame script, with one important difference: her show will run precisely one night and will, almost certainly, never be seen live again. Everything about it has been squeezed, boiled, com¬ pressed and condensed into 90 min¬ utes. The excitement of an entire Broadway season is being concen¬ trated on a single night. The Hutton show, titled “Satins and Spurs,” will be the first of NBC’s high¬ ly touted color “spectaculars,” 90-min¬ ute specials. It will be produced by Max Liebman, who for five years was the maestro in charge of the Sid Caesar-Imogene Coca epic, Your Show of Shows. He will do 20 of these shows on alternate Saturdays and Sundays, with Leland Hayward set to do 13 on Monday nights, once a month. “Satins and Spurs,” written for Miss Hutton by Billy Friedberg and Lieb¬ man, has to do with a rodeo queen who comes to New York to appear in the annual rodeo at Madison Square Garden. While there, a writer-photog¬ rapher from a national magazine latches onto her, intent on doing a long article on what makes a rodeo queen tick. Inevitably, they fall in love, have a misunderstanding, fall out of love, get back to an under¬ standing and, at the time of the fade- out, are in love again. There is a song for every phase of the relationship, and Miss Hutton sings the songs. The excitement of the Hutton spec¬ tacular was first generated last spring when Liebman prevailed on the blonde dynamo to take her chances with him. Hutton, an excitable and emotional lass with enough energy to light Dayton, Ohio, for seven months, capitulated. She had long admired Liebman—and to be admired by Hut¬ ton is to be hit right smack in the face by a veritable cyclone of demon¬ strative affection. Right off the bat she tossed a tre¬ mendous party in the producer’s honor at Hollywood’s fabled Brown Derby. Outside, a marquee was emblazoned with the billing, “Betty Hutton Pre¬ sents Max Liebman.” Inside, Holly¬ wood’s biggest names romped through a delectable buffet, heard a four-sec¬ ond speech from Liebman and sat entranced through a Betty Hutton floor show. All this for a TV show. Miss Hutton, who mixes sentiment, emotion, energy and hard sense in wholesale lots, promptly went out and hired Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, a couple of pretty fair country song¬ writers. Armed with only a bare story line, the two Oscar-winning (“Buttons and Bows” and “Mona Lisa”) songsmiths went to work. Now it so happened that Miss Hut- ◄ Convincing: producer Max Liebman and the star he persuaded to try TV.