Your Hit Parade (December 31, 1955) [RESTORED FULL EPISODE] - New Year's Eve from NBC Studio 8-H

Описание: From an archive.org download, here is NBC's "Your Hit Parade" restored with Dyna-Stereo audio, and video level-corrected... With Raymond Scott and the Orchestra. From an NBC kinescope, this is an example of how well a good kinnie can look/sound with a little touching up...Takes too much processing time to do them all though...

As reviewed by "The Emperor of Television" from archive.org:

Singers: Dorothy Collins, Snooky Lanson, Russell Arms, Gisele MacKenzie.
Songs are: "Memories are Made of This" (sketch gives us some idea as to how the show itself was made), "White Christmas" (a song that still re-charts in December to this day), "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" (an "extra", a song played for nostalgia and to get the show up to its 30-minute broadcast length), "Autumn Leaves" (sung in French, "Les Feuilles Mortes"), "Love and Marriage" (this song is accompanied with an extremely silly visual sketch. I do warn, it may be hard to watch), "He", "Moments to Remember", "Rise and Shine", and "Sixteen Tons".

Presumed Autumn Leaves was sung in French to add variety. If a song stayed on the popular charts for a long time, the people involved would come up with some pretty strange ways to present the song. The song was first written in French so it wasn't a big stretch.
According to Wikipedia, The song had been written in the 1940s and re-charted on several occasions.
Snooky Lanson tries to sing "Sixteen Tons", though it is still inferior and ill-advised.

On a side note, some may feel the song performances are very short. I have confirmed that a lot of songs were shorter than the average song of today. In addition, the vocal-based nature of the show meant that the instrumental/orchestral break would be dropped for the show (which can actually be a bad thing if the original hit had a memorable horn or piano solo).

As usual, the show has excellent production values, first-rate singers, and excellent set design, concepts and done amazingly well for a live music show never intended for repeats. However, also, as usual, the commercials are, for the most part, painfully bad, though on a purely technical level, they are well-produced and glossy.

MUSICOM NOTE: What a review! Thank you, Emperor, for sharing...