Word: lanson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years), then on television (9 years)-the American Tobacco Co. sold so many cigarettes that it even produced a new brand: Hit Parade. Lannie Ross, Lawrence Tibbett, Frank Sinatra, Noel Coward, Fred Astaire, W. C. Fields all marched on the show with such regulars as Dorothy Collins and Snooky Lanson. Then came rock 'n' roll. The sort of stuff that Elvis sings began to lead the Parade, and American Tobacco apparently decided that kids who listen to that brand of song are hardly sophisticated enough to smoke. After long and faithful service to the pop-music fan, Your...
...E.D.T.), a pretty blonde aided by a quartet of brothers, is easy to look at, but her singing and performing are harder to take. CBS's Vic Damone Show (Mon. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.) and Russ Morgan Show (Sat. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.) and NBC's Snooky Lanson (Tues. and Thurs. 7:30 p.m., E.D.T.) are purely routine musical variety shows, but Russ Morgan has the edge because of his vocalist, Helen O'Connell, a throaty chanteuse who knows how to take over a song and make it her own. NBC's Julius La Rosa...
...most popular musical shows on TV, and the oldest, is NBC's Your Hit Parade (Sat. 10:30 p.m.), which offers musical dramatizations of the top seven tunes of the week, aided by the vocal efforts of Dorothy Collins, Gisele Mackenzie, Snooky Lanson and Russell Arms, and abetted by the orchestral ministrations of Raymond Scott. However many weeks a tune may hit Your Hit Parade, a different dramatization honors it each time. The dramatizations also have a way of transporting viewers and listeners far off in space and time, and even in spirit...
...stirring beat. Love Is a Many Splendored Thing took place in a many-splendored pastoral scene (with a dismounted Gisele Mackenzie in riding clothes). Love and Marriage was in an abstract setting of sky and bliss, concluding with a wedding procession. The Shifting, Whispering Sands had Snooky Lanson looking like an obbligato against a film showing "the beauty and terror of the desert." Moments to Remember (a comedy number) went to Africa, where a couple of big-game hunters were popped into stew pots by cannibals, and were seen singing before they became supper (Tarzan finally swung...