Kraft Music Hall Season 10
Kraft Music Hall is an umbrella title for several television series aired by NBC in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s in the musical variety genre, sponsored by Kraft Foods, the producers of a well-known line of cheeses and related dairy products. Their commercials were usually announced by "The Voice of Kraft", Ed Herlihy.
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Kraft Music Hall
1958Kraft Music Hall is an umbrella title for several television series aired by NBC in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s in the musical variety genre, sponsored by Kraft Foods, the producers of a well-known line of cheeses and related dairy products. Their commercials were usually announced by "The Voice of Kraft", Ed Herlihy.
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Kraft Music Hall Season 10 Full Episode Guide
--Ed McMahon (guest host) --The Rascals - ""A Beautiful Morning"" & ""People Got to Be Free"" --Litlte Anthony and the Imperials - ""Exodus"" & ""Hello Goodbye"" --Barbara McNair - ""On a Clear Day"" --Charlie Manna (comedian)
--Ed McMahon (guest host) --Sly and the Family Stone --The Four Tops --Joan Rivers (comedian) --Tim Hardin --Rita Gardner
--Ed McMahon (guest host) --New Vaudeville Band - ""Whispering"" & ""Falling in Love Again"" --Joanie Sommers - ""Goin' Out of My Head,"" ""Sign of the Times"" & ""Hurts So Bad"" --Hines, Hines & Dad (song-and-dance trio with Gregory Hines) - ""The Beat Goes On"" --Norm Crosby (comedian) --Bob McGrath (singer) - ""Scarborough Fair"" --Joanie Sommers and Ed McMahon - ""Happiness""
--Ed McMahon (host) --Spanky & Our Gang - ""Like to Get to Know You"" & ""Stuperflabbergasted"" --Bobby Vinton - ""Honey"" & ""Come Back to Me"" --Shelley Berman (comedian) --Peter Nero (pianist) - ""I've Got Rhythm"" --Gerri Grange (singer) - ""Feelin' Groovy"" & ""I'm Beginning to See the Light""
--Ed McMahon (host) and Doc Severinsen perform ""The More I See You"" --The Turtles perform ""The Battle of the Bands,"" ""Eleanore"" and ""The Story of Rock 'n' Roll Music"" --Gloria Loring - ""I've Gotta Be Me,"" ""One Note Samba"" and ""Did I Ever Really?"" --Doc Severinsen - ""Malaguena"" Comedy: --Flip Wilson - plays a guru in a comedy monolog --Tony Hendra and Nic Ullett (comedy team) - poke fun at Shakespeare and the UN
--Ed McMahon --Paul Anka --Dick Cavett --Pete Fountain --Dana Valery --Vic Perry (pickpocket)
--Ed McMahon (host) --Johnny Mathis - ""Camelot,"" ""I Say a Little Prayer,"" ""Moon River"" and ""Big Spender"" --Harper's Bizarre - ""Hey, You in the Crowd,"" ""Green Apple Tree"" and ""Both Sides Now"" --Jackie & Roy - ""Lady Madonna,"" ""Winds of Heaven"" and ""The Word"" --Eddie Hazell - ""Sunny"" and ""When Sunny Gets Blue"" --Jackie Vernon (comedian) - talks about his home town, Ferguson, Ohio.
--Ed McMahon (host for 8 weeks) --Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons - ""Let's Hang On"" ""Saturday's Father"" --Frankie Valli - ""By the Time I Get to Phoenix"" --Richard Pryor (comedian) - monologue (re: being the skinniest kid in the gang & being the only working knight in the country) --Roger Williams (pianist) - ""The Impossible Dream,"" ""Dark Eyes"" & ""The Spinning Son"" --Lana Cantrell (singer from Australia) - ""I'm All smiles,"" ""The Fool on the Hill"" & ""Baby, Now That I've Found You"" --Billy Barnes (singer in the new talent spotlight) - ""Lover, Come Back to Me""
--John Davidson (host) - ""Daydream"" (""What a Day for a Daydream""), ""Leavin' on a Jet Plane,"" ""I Will Wait for You"" and ""Today"" --Soupy Sales and John Davidson - ""I Dig Rock and Roll Music"" --Kaye Ballard sings ""Teeny Tiny"" --Irish Rovers - ""The Puppet Song""
--John Davidson (host) - ""Secondhand Man,"" ""Suzanne,"" ""Back in Your Own Back Yard"" and ""This Is All I Ask"" --Barbara Feldon and John Davidson - ""This Guy's In Love with You"" --The Doodletown Pipers - medley: ""The Look of Love,"" ""Sunny"" and ""Can't Take My Eyes Off You"" --Pete Barbutti (comedian)
--John Davidson (host for 3 weeks) --Harper's Bizarre --Estelle Parsons --Pete Barbutti
County Fair #6 --Eddy Arnold - ""Love Finds a Way,"" ""Molly Darlin',"" ""What a Wonderful World"" and ""Can't Take My Eyes Off You"" --Shari Lewis - ""Supersonic Tonic"" (and does a routine with her puppet Hush Puppy) --New Christy Minstrels - ""Oh, Susannah"" and ""Last Days of July"" --Eddy Arnold and guests - Summer medley: ""Sing a Summer Song,"" ""June Is Bustin' Out All Over,"" ""The Things We Did Last Summer"" and ""Summertime"" --Harry Blackstone Jr. (magician) --John Byner (comedian) - does impressions of celebrities
County Fair #5 (includes a salute to Broadway's ""Oklahoma"") --Eddy Arnold (host) - ""The Riddle Song,"" ""Turn the World Around,"" ""Gently on My Mind"" & ""Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'"" --The Brothers Four - ""Surrey with the Fringe on Top,"" ""San Francisco Bay Blues"" & ""I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"" --Anita Bryant - ""I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say No"" & ""Yellow Days"" --John Byner (comedian-impressionist) --Gene Sheldon (comedy banjoist)
County Fair #4 --Eddy Arnold (host) - ""I'll Hold You in My Heart,"" ""Dear Heart"" and ""Honey"" --Phyllis McGuire - ""For Once in My Life"" --Phyllis McGuire and Eddy Arnold - ""Sugartime,"" ""Sincerely"" and ""Muskrat Ramble"" --Lee Hazlewood - ""Mornin' Dew"" --Montford Mission (folk-singers, seminarians) - ""Time's Passed Us By"" --Cliff Arquette (comedian, in character as Charley Weaver) - reads selections from the Mount Idy newspaper. --John Byner (comedian) - does impressions
County Fair #3 --Eddy Arnold (host) - ""The Sunshine Belongs to Me,"" ""I Really Don't Want to Know,"" ""No Matter Whose Baby"" and ""It's Over"" --Buck Owens - ""Tiger by the Tail,"" ""Sweet Rosie Jones"" and ""Happy Times Are Here Again"" --Chris & Peter Allen - ""Come Rain or Come Shine"" --Dana Valery - ""By the Light of the Silvery Moon"" and ""Old Devil Moon"" --John Byner (comedian) - does an impression of a tightrope walker.
County Fair #2 --Eddy Arnold --The Everly Brothers --Margaret Whiting --John Byner --Montford Mission
County Fair #1 --Eddy Arnold (host) - ""Somebody Like Me,"" ""You Don't Know Me"" & ""I Wanna Go with You"" --Al Hirt - ""Java"" --Joanie Sommers & Eddy Arnold - ""Sunny"" --Joanie Sommers, Eddy Arnold and Al Hirt - ""Birth of the Blues,"" ""Basin Street Blues"" & ""Blues in the Night"" --All guests - sing ""County Fair"" --John Byner (comedian) - portrays an animal psychologist & a one-man acrobatic troupe --Mark Wilson (magician)
""Two on the Aisle"" - A salute to NY's Shubert Theater with Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme. --Steve & Eydie perform a medley of songs from ""Golden Rainbow,"" their current play at The Shubert Theater. They also perform selections from earlier Shubert plays.
""County Fair"" --Eddy Arnold - ""Make the World Go Away"" and ""What's He Doing in My World?"" --Eddy Arnold and Patti Page - ""Tennessee Waltz,"" ""Mockin' Bird Hill"" and ""Doggie in the Window"" --Patti Page - ""Gentle on My Mind"" --The Cowsills - ""We Can Fly"" --The Amazing Mr. Ballantine --Jack Burns (comedian) - plays a man trying to win a prize for his wife at the county fair.
""Vaudeville '68"" --Ed McMahon (host) --Sonny & Cher --Young Rascals - ""Please Love Me,"" ""How Can I Be Sure?"" & ""Mickey's Monkey"" --Joan Rivers (comedian) - talks about ""educating the single girl"" --Shelley Berman (comedian) - routine about a businessman handling fire phone calls at once --Ed Ames - ""Who Will Answer?""
From the Mardi Gras carnival in New Orleans: --Al Hirt (host) - ""New Orleans, My Home Town"" & ""Dear Old Southland"" --Pete Fountain (clairnetist) ""Bourbon Street Parade,"" ""Fancy Pants"" & ""Miss Lucy"" --Al Hirt and Pete Fountain - ""March of the Bobcats"" --Lana Cantrell - ""Sleepy Time Down South"" --Peter Gennaro dancers - ""South Rampart Street Parade"" --Al Hirt and Peter Gennaro - ""Java"" --All guests - ""When the Saints Go Marching In"" & ""You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans""
""The Comedy Survival Kit"" hosted by Steve Allen --Steve Allen - does a man-on-the-street interview with Louis Nye --Allen & Rossi - do a burlesque routine --Steve Allen and Allen & Rossi - recite lyrics from rock songs --Stiller & Meara - routine about a secretary and her boss on their first date --Louis Nye - plays a harried schoolteacher directing a children's pagent --The Marquis Chimps
""Class of '68"" - a salute to this year's ""graduating class."" Guests: --John Davidson (host) - ""Crossroads of Life"" & ""By the Time I Get to Phoenix"" --Tom Jones - ""It's Not Unusual"" --Fifth Dimension - ""Up-Up, and Away"" --Michele Lee - ""Jamboree Jones"" --Flip Wilson (comedian playing a guru) --Buffy Sainte Marie - ""Take My Hand"" --Irwin Corey (comedian)
""Cowboys & City Slickers"" hosted by Roy Rogers & Dale Evans --Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - ""Side by Side"" --Roy Rogers - ""Bummin' Around"" --Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, Phil Harris & Alice Faye - Beatles medley --Dale Evans - ""What Color Is Love?"" --Phil Harris - ""Mame"" --Alice Faye and Dale Evans - ""My Funny Valentine"" --The Serendipity Singers - ""River Song"" --All guests - Western medley
""Vacation a la King"" - European holiday spoof hosted by Alan King, with guests Edie Adams and Paul Lynde. Music: --Alan King - ""Back in Your Own Back Yard"" --Edie Adams - ""It's Very Nice to Go Traveling"" and ""Come Fly with Me"" --Alan King and Edie Adams - ""Then I'll Be Happy"" --Alan King, singers and dancers - medley of English music-hall songs --Peter Gennaro and dancers - Bullfight dance Comedy sketches: --Paul Lynde appears as a travel agent, a boorish American tourist, and a cruise director. --Using special effects, Alan King and Edie Adams play both an American and a French couple.
Sports and Physical Fitness spoof: --Don Rickles (host) - sings ""Shape Up"" & plays a coach giving a pep talk to a losing football team --Pat O'Brien (actor) - recreates his ""win one for the Gipper"" speech from ""Knute Rockne All American."" --George Plimpton (writer) - shows films of his attempts to invade professional sports --Joe Garagiola --Roosevelt ""Rosie"" Grier - sings ""On Broadway"" --Carl Yastrzemski (Red Sox baseball player) --Members of the U.S. Women's Olympic Gymnast Team
""A Grand Night for Swinging"" (a.k.a. ""Grand Night for Singing"") --Bobby Darin - ""If I Could Talk to the Animals,"" ""Mack the Knife"" & ""Drowning in My Tears"" --Bobbie Gentry - ""Hurry Tuesday Child"" --Bobby Darin and Bobbie Gentry - ""A Long Time Movin'"" --Bobby Van (singer-dancer) - ""Come Back to Me"" --Bobby Darin, Bobbie Gentry and Bobby Van - ""Nothing Can Stop Us Now"" --George Kirby (impressionist) - ""The Impossible Dream""
Guests: --Victor Borge (host) --Simon & Garfunkel - ""Mrs. Robinson,"" ""For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her,"" ""Angie,"" ""Overs,"" ""Patterns,"" ""Sounds of Silence"" and ""A Poem on the Underground Wall"" --Nancy Wilson - ""Midnight Sun,"" ""Can't Buy Me Love,"" ""Satin Doll,"" ""Ode to Billy Joe"" and ""Someone to Watch over Me"" --Cast (all guests) - ""59th Street Bridge Song"" --Leonid Hambro (violinist) - joins Victor Borge
Woody Allen Looks At 1967 --Woody Allen --Aretha Franklin --Liza Minnelli --John Byner, --William F. Buckley Jr.
1967 Christmas Show Host: Mitzi Gaynor --Mitzi Gaynor - ""We Need a Little Christmas,"" ""I Dig Rock 'n' Roll Music"" & ""I Know a Place"" --Mitzi Gaynor and Ed McMahon - ""Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"" & ""I Believe in You"" --Cyril Ritchard and Tony Tanner - ""Where Would You Be Without Me"" & ""On a Wonderful Day Like Today"" --Comedy: Mitzi Gaynor, Cyril Ritchard and Tony Tanner appear in a sketch about Scrooge and Bob Cratchit.
""A Taste of Funny"" --Groucho Marx --Soupy Sales --Dick Cavett --Burns & Schreiber --Times Square Two --Clair & McMahon
""The Nashville Sound"" hosted by Dinah Shore --Dinah Shore - ""Going Back to Nashville"" --Dinah Shore and Ray Charles - ""You Are My sunshine"" --Ray Charles - ""Yesterday"" --The Everly Brothers - ""Love of the Common People"" --Eddy Arnold - ""Here Comes Heaven"" --Eddy Arnold and Dinah Shore - ""Bonnie and Clyde"" --Johnny Mercer - ""Wide Place in the Road""
""Stage Door Johnny"" - a musical set in the Roaring Twenties. --Tony Randall (as Stage-Door Johnny) - sings ""Girls"" & ""Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries"" --Cab Calloway - ""Minnie the Moocher"" --Michele Lee - ""Looking for a Boy"" --Gilbert Becaud - ""It Must Be Her"" & ""Rosy and John"" --Nathaniel Frey, Tony Randall and Walter Winchell - sing ""Every Street's a Boulevard"" --Marilyn Maye - ""Bill Bailey""
""Fiddler on the Loose"" hosted by Jack Benny Comedy: --Jack Benny, Michael Rabin, Morey Amsterdam and Henny Youngman as a quartet playing a Beethoven minuet. --Jack Benny plays ""The Bee"" on fiddle accompanied by the Peter Matz orchestra. --Liberace and Jack Benny do a duet: ""When a Gypsy Makes His Violin Cry"" Music: --Blues Magoos - ""Tobacco Road"" --Liberace - ""Moonlight Sonata"" & ""How Insensitive"" --Astrud Gilberto - ""Misty Roses"" --Michael Rabin (violinist) - Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto NBC repeated this show on April 14, 1971.
--Phyllis Diller (host) - ""It's Today"" (with dancers) --Bob Hope - appears in a sketch with Phyllis Diller as the last 2 hippies on earth...in 1997. --Sonny & Cher - ""You and Me"" --Cher - ""Old Man River"" --Diller, Hope, Mike Douglas, Sonny & Cher - ""Let the Good Times Roll"" --Hugh Masekela (trumpet player) - ""If I Needed Someone"" --Mike Douglas - ""The Lady's in Love with You""
""How the West Was Swung"" - a musical look at the Old West Music: --Lorne Greene (host) - ""I Am a Gun"" --Lou Rawls - ""High Noon"" --Barbara Eden - ""Buttons and Bows"" --Bobby Van, Barbara Eden and Lou Rawls - ""The Day the West Was Swung"" --Baja Marimba Band - ""A Gay Ranchero"" Comedy: --Jerry Van Dyke
""Tin Pan Alley Today"" --George Burns (host) --George Burns, Dionne Warwick and Nancy Ames - medley of Beatles' songs --Dionne Warwick - ""Alfie"" --Harper's Bizaare - ""Anything Goes"" --Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - ""One-Note Samba"" --Nancy Ames - ""Sunny"" --Tony Tanner - ""Gonna Build a Mountain"" --Dick Cavett does a comedy monolog about current trends in music.
--Bobby Darin (as George M. Cohan) --Liza Minnelli --Dennis Day --Kaye Stevens --George Carle --cameo: Jack Benny walk-on
""The Hollywood Musical"" - a tribute to movie musicals --Rock Hudson (host) - sings ""Louise,"" ""Good Ship Lollipop,"" ""Thanks for the Memories"" & ""'S Wonderful"" --Connie Stevens - ""42nd Street"" & ""Hi Lilli"" --Rock Hudson and Michele Lee - ""Shadow Waltz"" --Michele Lee - ""Sing You Sinners"" & ""Trolley Song"" --Bobby Van - ""Singin' in the Rain"" & ""Song-and-Dance Man"" --All (entire cast) - Academy Award medley, ""For Me and My Gal"" and ""We're a Couple of Swells""
--Herb Alpert (host) --Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - ""I've Got a Lot of Livin' to Do,"" ""Habanera,"" and an international medley --Louis Armstrong Quintet - ""Cabaret"" --Louis Armstrong and Herb Alpert - ""Mame"" --Louis Armstrong and Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - ""Mack the Knife"" --Jackie Vernon (comedian) --Jackie Vernon & the Tijuana Brass - ""Spanish Flea"" --Robin Wilson - ""What Now, My Love?"" --dancers - ""Music to Watch Girls By"" (choreography by Peter Gennaro)