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Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 p.m.. NBC). Jazz version of Pinafore, with Perry Como, Kitty Kallen, Herb Shriner...
...taste in popular music is reflected by the list of best-selling pop singles for 1954 in the trade sheet Billboard. The top ten: 1) Little Things Mean a Lot (Kitty Kallen), 2) Wanted (Perry Como), 3) Hey, There (Rosemary Clooney), 4) Sh-Boom (Crew Cuts), 5) Make Love to Me (Jo Stafford), 6) Oh! My Papa (Eddie Fisher), 7) I Get So Lonely (Four Knights), 8) Three Coins in the Fountain (Four Aces), 9) Secret Love (Doris Day), 10) Hernando's Hideaway (Archie Bleyer...
Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). With Marian Anderson, Sid Caesar, Bob Hope, Carl Sandburg, Martha Raye, Perry Como...
Steeped in Aplomb. While Hollywood was beginning the new season with drama, Manhattan concentrated on songsters. Eddie Fisher and Perry Como arrived back on TV with the dependability of swallows zooming into Capistrano. Soon due are such talented warblers as Vaughn Monroe, Dinah Shore, Jo Stafford, Martha Wright and Jane Froman. Eddie Fisher sang four songs, worked in a little quick sell for his sponsor (Coca-Cola), and on ballads, unashamedly imitated his idol, Perry Como...
...show, Como demonstrated why he is the acknowledged TV master of song. Relaxed to the point of bonelessness, he is something of an Ed Sullivan steeped in aplomb, and presents the very picture of ease and graciousness. Como this year will repeat last season's big audience-getter: religious songs. For Catholics, Como sang a musical version of the Act of Contrition; for Protestants, Onward Christian Soldiers; and for Jews, he wore a yarmulke (skull cap) and sang Kol Nidre...