http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALjYJNHgAlE



This is an opening from the show from the second episode of the second season from September 1965. Its also one of the only three surviving color episodes.


Enjoy

...and its interesting that the three surviving videotapes were all half-hour editions of the show. NBC preserved the entire series on black and white kinescope film (primarily for legal reasons) and kept them in their Fort Lee, New Jersey warehouse, as well as the original viedotape masters. When they began cleaning out most of their stored videotapes and films from that warehouse in 1973, they contacted producer Gary Smith to see if he wanted a complete set of "HULLABALOO" videotape masters for his own personal use. He DECLINED {"Hey, what am I going to do with them? I just don't have the space to store them..."}, and the network erased and reused the tape stock, save for the three episodes that "got away". It's frustrating not to be able to see The Mamas and The Papas peforming "California Dreamin'" in "Living Color", but at least that exists.

%#@*^=! Gary Smith!!!!


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Always great to see the girl dancers in their go-go boots.

...unlike "SHINDIG!", was basically a mainstream version of a "teen music show" (think "Ed Sullivan"). Keep in mind that the producer was Gary Smith, who had previously been one of the producers of "THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW" (1963-'64); unlike Jack Good, who always aimed "SHINDIG!" directly at teens with songs and performers they wanted to hear, Smith thought in terms of "traditional musical variety" programs. He always made sure an "older" (or "established") performer was the guest host {or hostess}, because he didn't want to "alienate" older members of the viewing audience by focusing on "younger" hosts [like deejay Jimmy O'Neill, of "SHINDIG!"]. This is why singers like Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka, Jack Jones, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Trini Lopez often served as guest hosts, and performed at least one "standard" for the "grown-ups" watching. Smith also made sure, during the first hour-long season, that established comedians, like Woody Allen, Don Adams and Stiller & Meara, performed a routine to "round out" the variety portion of the program [when the show became a half-hour in the fall of '65, those segments disappeared]. If you watched a full half-hour or hour-long episode, you'd notice how different it was from "SHINDIG!". Both shows, however, suffered from the same malady: ratings. Once they were moved from their established nights and time periods into different ones in the fall [the second season of "HULLABALOO" was actually a replacement for a rejected series NBC had planned to schedule on Monday nights in the fall of '65- a sitcom version of Elvis Presley's 1964 movie "Kissin' Cousins", featuring Edd Byrnes in Presley's role of "Josh Morgan"], they faltered, and both were cancelled at the end of the season {however, "SHINDIG!" was first, in January '66}.

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