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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another new weekly variety series, ABC's Music Scene, rattles with vibrations of Your Hit Parade, Hullaballoo and Laugh-In but bears a few promising new wrinkles. For one, the show does not commit itself to endless and eventually monotonous replays of the same top seven songs every week, as did Hit Parade. Instead, Music Scene tunes are picked from any place on any of the Billboard "Hot 100" or bestseller charts (soul, country, "easy listening"). On opening night the producers shrewdly mixed things up, booking Tom Jones, James Brown and Buck Owens-plus the Beatles. Between numbers...
...other new variety offering is, by comparison, antediluvian. The title, Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters Hour, says it all. The 76-year-old vaudevillian co-stars with four sisters who, though the oldest is not quite 30, are all 14-year veterans of The Lawrence Welk Show. The standard finale of their series will be an upbeat musical tribute to a city. Opening night it was Chicago (that toddlin' town), which the girls cheerily hymned as "the convention center of the nation...
...commercial offering of the season, a widow (Florence Henderson) with three daughters and a cat, wed a widower (Robert Reed) with three sons and a dog. The rival pets and siblings reduced the wedding to a sickening chaos that was about a thousand decibels less hysterically amusing than the show's laugh track suggested...
...Harvard University Band has had to drop plans for giving the halftime show at the November 9 game between the Green Bay Packers and the Baltimore Colts in Baltimore. Prohibitive costs forced cancellation of the plans. but the Administration was not in favor of the idea anyway...
...Harvard alumnus who has a financial interest in the Colts is reporiedly the one who suggested that the band give the show. but the band itself was first contacted by the Maryland Harvard Club...