Local Television of the musical variety

Today's video performances come from the small archive of local television music shows that still exist. Many of these local shows now exist only in a handful of clips that somehow managed to survive tape wiping and thoughtless station management. Today's post will highlight some of my favorite clips from this remaining record of local music television.

The first Show was on the air for several years in the 1960s on WSTV Ohio(Now WTOV), and featured a radio disc jockey as host and local high school kids as the dancers. Of the many episodes produced, the 8 clips making up about 33 minutes are all that is said to remain. Fortunately, these are on YouTube for us to enjoy.

Now you're in with,

TEEN TIME!

This is an embedded playlist, and will(should) play through all 8 videos. If you prefer, here is the playlist page on YouTube: TEEN TIME

Some more information about Teen Time: 9TeenTime; Pittsburgh Radio & TV

The next clips are in COLOR, and come from an unknown television show(s).

The first clip highlights the music of this band in their attempt to get a third million seller with "1-2-3 Red Light". Here they are with a short interview at the start,

The 1910 Fruitgum Company!

Our second clip comes from the same(?) show, and features a band that appears firmly planted in the culture of their day, as they play us their only hit song, and one said to be the start of our flirtation with Bubblegum, "Green Tambourine", by

The Lemon Pipers

They're not really Hermits

Today's band needs no introduction. They took the US music scene by storm in late 1964 with hits such as "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter", and "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am", among many others including numerious cover versions. Herman's Hermits' had a hit in 1967 with this song, "There's a Kind of Hush"


Here they are in

Herman's Hermits!


Also, as a bonus, here are the Hermits doing their version of Silhouettes:

Today's song is by one of my favorite whimsical 60s bands. Spanky and Our Gang, a band whose name not so subtly references the Hal Roach shorts of a similar name, was formed in 1966 and wound up two years later in 1969 after the death of member Malcolm Hale in late 1968. Their hit songs include Lazy Days, Sunday Will Never Be The Same, and today's song: I'd Like To Get To Know You.


So without further ado, I present to you, Spanky and Our Gang:

Not the Wright Brothers

Hello again, after a 3 month hiatus I'm back again, but this time I'm only going to post once every week (or that's the plan, it may be more).


but anyway...

Today's band had a successful single top 5 hit, sold over a million copies of their self-titled album debut, made a promotional video, and was never heard from again.


So without further ado I present for your listening pleasure, Smile a Little Smile For Me, by The Flying Machine.

She's much prettier than Jeremy

Todays song is brought to you by virtue of the temporary loss of a member. in 1965 Jeremy was in a play, so Chad, not wanting to preform alone, enlisted the help of his wife Jill, and magic happened with the song "The Cruel War". This performance is from Hullabaloo, in COLOR.
(wikipedia Chad and Jeremy)

Here they are, Chad and Jill!

Well do you punk?

Today's poppy song come to you from the land of The Lovin' Spoonful. Do You Believe in Magic was the Lovin' Spoonful's first in a string of group hits in 1965 and 1966, and was written by John Sebastian.

Now so you can believe, here is the Lovin' Spoonful!

Also, as an aside, here is one of myfavorite songs used in one of my favorite short-lived TV shows.




Also, here is the first episode if you get interested. State Of Grace!

You really do have him

Today's band needs no introduction, they formed in 1964 and rocketed up the charts in August of that year with You Really Got Me, the band: The Kinks!

Enjoy!