1950s “YOUR HIT PARADE” MUSICAL PROGRAM w/ RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRA & RICHARD HUDNUT ADS XD47494

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website TOBACCO HEALTH WARNING: Tobacco kills more than 8 million people each year. More than 7 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use. Smoking causes stroke and coronary heart disease, which are among the leading causes of death in the United States. Even people who smoke fewer than five cigarettes a day can have early signs of cardiovascular disease. Smoking damages blood vessels and can make them thicken and grow narrower. “Your Hit Parade,” which some also inaccurately refer to as “The Hit Parade,” began as an American radio music program in 1935 and later became a television series in the 1950s airing from 1950 to 1959 and was sponsored by American Tobacco’s Lucky Strike cigarettes. It featured the Lucky Strike Orchestra, led by Raymond Scott, as well as famous actors such as: Eileen Wilson, Snooky Lanson, and Dorothy Collins. This episode was sponsored by Richard Hudnut’s Quick Home Permanent. It was produced by Dan Lounsbery and staged and directed by Bill Colleran. The choreography was done by Ernest Flatt and the vocal arrangements were done by Ray Charles. The episode opens with an advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes (0:18). Silhouettes of women are show and then their faces are illuminated by the light (0:30). Woman holds a telephone while dancing (0:53). Woman dances with dusters (0:57). Woman dances with a tennis racket (1:00). Men dance with ribbon (1:03). Three women dance with boxes advertising for Richard Hudnut’s Quick Home Permanent (1:11). Group of nicely dressed men and women as well as police officers (1:45). A man stands behind a harp at the Studio for Quick Home Permanent (1:55). Sign saying “St. Patrick’s Day Block Party It’s a Great Day for the Irish” (1:59). Man and woman sing (2:09). The characters sing and line dance and tap (3:00). Two boxers boxing in a ring (4:50). Men carrying boxer and place him on table (5:12). Woman checks on the boxer and holds his glove (5:17). Boxer awakens and hugs the woman (6:55). Text saying “When the beggar whistled Moritat the underground knew that an informer had betrayed them” (7:14). Man, who is pretending to be blind, walks in a dark alley (7:28). Men drink and argue with each other (7:57). The blind man begs the two men for money (8:21). The blind man whistles (8:38). Men in white jackets walk into the bar (9:12). Man is shot by a pistol (9:27). Blind man grabs money out of the dead man’s hands and he runs off (9:36). Advertisement for Mail Order Catalogue and wedding rings (9:59). Man sits next to a donkey and a woman tends to the laundry (10:23). Man sings and helps his wife hang the laundry (11:21). Woman picks up firewood and man looks at catalogue (11:56). Women put on make up in a dressing room (12:36). Advertisement for Richard Hudnut’s Quick Home Permanent (12:52). Wealthy people in Paris eat dinner and dance (13:52). Man opens a wine bottle and pours it (14:38). Cocktail glasses with a card saying “Cocktails St. Patrick’s Day 4 P.M. until?”(15:56). Cocktail napkin with the text “The Great Pretender” and an upside down clover (16:08). Woman places food down on the table, holds picture of a man, and then proceeds to organize the room (16:18). Woman greets guests (18:13). Heart with an arrow carved into a tree with the words Peg written inside it (18:21). Man guides a donkey (18:41). Man in vest and woman in a fancy dress sing and embrace each other (18:59). Sign for 2 O’clock Club Rock and Roll Waltz (20:56). Men and women enter the club while a man and a woman sit at a table and smoke (21:10). Men and women dance (22:44). Advertisement from Richard Hudnut’s Quick Home Permanent (23:42). Gisele Machenzie plays the piano with a cartoon playing the accordion (23:50). Richard Hudnut’s Quick Home Permanent advertisement (24:59). The Herald-Ceacon newspaper with the title “U.S. Fleet in Lisbon” (25:09). Sailor dances and takes a picture of a woman who begins to dance with him (25:20). Man carrying a tray enters (27:27). Emmy Award (27:43). Man holds an Emmy Award (28:01). Egg (28:50). Woman with pearl earrings (28:52). Richard Hudnut Easy Egg Shampoo advertisement (29:03). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit