I Told You Mitch Miller Was A Joker…Can You Spot The Joke Here?
As you watch, you’re in for a surprise as there is “a joker in the deck”, but not a word was ever said about it on the show. Thanks to Kevin Vahey for this bit of fun. (The joker, Johnny Carson, shows up at 2:53, 3:28 and 4:11)
Pierino Ronald “Perry” Como (May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001) Perry Como had a career spanning more than half a century. He recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. “Mr. C.”, as he was nicknamed, sold millions of records for RCA and pioneered a weekly musical variety television […]
The Durland Riding Club…Now Home To ABC New York As you can read on the photo captions, the Durland Riding Club with it’s academy and stables was built on the site now occupied by ABC in 1901. The building had a front on both 66th and 67th Street, just west of Central Park. These photos […]
July 17, 1955…Behind The Scenes With ABC At Disneyland Opening This is the only place you can see this rare 14 minute video of ABC’s preparations for the 29 camera live remote, of the 90 minute opening ceremony show at Disneyland. 61 years ago today, what was then television’s largest remote took place at the Disneyland […]
April 18, 1964…April 18, 2012; Remembering Dick Clark On this day in 1964, The Beach Boys performed “Fun, Fun, Fun” and “I Get Around” on “American Bandstand.” Afterward, Dick did this interview with them. On this day in 2012, “America’s Oldest Teenager” passed away. I had the good fortune of knowing and working with him, […]
Wow – did I see Johnny Carson in the chorus?
There’s….Johnny!
My long lost good pal Fred Baskin who worked Q prompter for Mitch Miller as well as Ed Sullivan told me of a cute story about Mitch..Back in that time the networks were still skiddish about highlighting black people on TV. Mitch found Leslie Uggams and loved her. He pushed NBC and introduced her on his show. But there was one thing that Mitch absolutely forbid her to do……He would not allow her to play cards with the rest of his singers because he knew that they would clean her out!! She was young and innocent and they were ruthless players.
Great camera work between 5:10 and 6:30 . The men had to move out of the way so the huge RCA TK-41 camera could move around the set. Amazing!
Its funny at the end they announce the montreal Canadians playing Detroit. It means that the airdate of this show was APRIL 22, 1966, with Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals played on Sunday, APRIL 24th.
Looked like Johnny was ‘caught’ not singing, and had to go to ‘chorus’ mode.
Wow! Bob McGrath who went on to Sesame Street. The man is ageless.
Thank you FrBob Sewvello! That camera work was done by my dad, Bill Flood. He was the crane camera operator for Mitch Miller for years. Nice to see his work again. He was also friends with Leslie Uggams and used to tell the story of how he taught her to drive a stick shift around the streets surrounding Brooklyn Studios. I miss my dad, he passed in 2009.