TV Guide (February 12, 1955)

Page scan 0006 from TV Guide

Record Details:

Title:
TV Guide
Date:
February 12, 1955
Publisher:
Philadelphia: Triangle Publications, Inc.
Volume:
TV Guide - Chicago (February 12, 1955)
Leaf #:
0006
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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Waiting to go on: Hit Parade stars line up for opening cue. THE FACT AMAZES 160 ‘HIT PARADERS’, BUT— It Happens Every Saturday Considering the planning, the hair-tearing, the hectic activity that goes into every instalment of NBC’s Your Hit Parade, the fact that the show reaches, your living room on Saturday night is the trick of the week—week after week. Even at final rehearsals, says associate producer Bill Nichols, ‘‘We frequently feel iike eliminating not only the bugs, but the entire show—and then eliminating each other.” This could make for wholesale carnage, for some 160 people are involved in the half hour of song and dance. These in¬ clude technicians, musicians, dancers, singers, researchers, cameramen, stagehands—plus, of course, co-stars Dorothy Col¬ lins, Gisele MacKenzie, Snooky Lanson and Russell Arms. The preparations begin on Tuesday, 11 days in advance of each show, when producer Dan Lounsbery and Nichols meet to map out a rough script based on what they hope will be the Nation’s seven top-rated tunes, plus “extras.” On Friday, tentative decision is made on sets and camera positions. Monday: audio requirements are discussed with con- Song and dance numbers in the making ►