Word: kraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hootie. "When Kraft TV Theater last January scheduled a play about a rock-'n'-roll singer called The Singin' Idol, they wanted Elvis Presley for the part. Presley's manager, an ex-carnival barker called Colonel Tom Parker, said Elvis was too busy, instead touted Sands, who had traveled with Parker's road shows across the cow country. Kraft producers in New York flew Tommy in from Hollywood, where he was working on a TV show called Hometown Jamboree, and were pleased with his lush, throaty voice and easy acting style. After...
Some 8,000 fan letters bombarded Kraft; offers came to Sands from twelve movie companies and the major networks. The two songs from the show, Teen-Age Crush, an insipid ballad-with-a-beat that relates in sobbing tones something about young love misunderstood, and Hep Dee Hootie ("Cutie wootie, you're all rootie with me"), sold as fast as they could be scratched onto disks. Crush, says Capitol Records, has sold 1,160,000 copies to date, and in the two weeks since Sands's first LP album, Steady Date, was released, some 225,000 copies have...
...Kraft TV Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC). Duel, with E. G. Marshall in a drama about the feud between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton (color...
...Kraft Television Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC). Mock Trial with Ed Begley...
...Kraft Television Theater . (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC). Prairie Night, by John Gay, starring Victor Jory...