Hullabaloo 

This was a Pop Rock weekly variety show seen on NBC As with ABC TVs "Shindig", which began 4 months earlier, this series combined the musical trends of the day, "The British Invasion", ... See full summary »

Stars:

Patrick Adiarte, Suzanne Charny, Gene Castle

Cast

Series cast summary:
Patrick Adiarte	...	Dancer / ... 14 episodes, 1965-1966
Suzanne Charny	...	Dancer 13 episodes, 1965-1966
Gene Castle	...	Dancer 12 episodes, 1965
April Nevins	...	Dancer 12 episodes, 1965
Brian Epstein	...	Himself - Co-Host 11 episodes, 1965
Dionne Warwick	...	Herself - Performer / ... 6 episodes, 1965-1966
Paul Anka	...	Himself - Host / ... 6 episodes, 1965-1966

Storyline

This was a Pop Rock weekly variety show seen on NBC As with ABC TVs "Shindig", which began 4 months earlier, this series combined the musical trends of the day, "The British Invasion", Detroits' "Motown" sound and the merging Folk Rock trend. Unlike "Shindig", this series featured a segment from Great Britian hosted by The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein who presented "up and coming" groups. The weekly hosts, at the NBC Bubank studio, included George Hamilton, Roger Smith, Noel Harrison, Paul Anka and Sammy Davis Jr. The performers , from both sides of the Atlantic, included The Four Seasons, The Beatles, Nancy Sinatra, Gary Lewis and The Playboys, Petulia Clark, Barry McGuire, The Kinks, Herman's Hermits, The Byrds and The Lovin' Spoonful

---

Plot Keywords:

variety show | pop music | dance | rock music | non fiction | 

---

Genres:

Family | Comedy | Music

---

Certificate:

TV-G

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 January 1965 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Stage 1, NBC Studios - 3000 W. Alameda Avenue, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Gary Smith Company, The, Hullabaloo Enterprises, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min (12 January 1965-31 August 1965) 60 min (13 September 1965-29 August 1966)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White (1965 season) Color (1966 season)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

George Hamilton, as one time host in 1965, sang The Beatles hit ballad "And I Love Her'. The Producer was so impressed, with his performance, that Hamilton was asked to host regularly, but Hamilton turned it down the offer, as he was not interested in expanding his singing career, at that time.

---

Connections

Featured in The Roth Show: The New York City Way (2014)

---

Soundtracks

HULLABALOO
Written by Gary Smith
Performed by the Hullaballoo Dancers & Singers (1965-1966)

User Reviews

This "Hullabaloo" special was quite enjoyable but I wanted to see more

This is actually a review of a retrospective special of this show as hosted by Peter Nooone of Herman's Hermits. He intros many of the acts that appeared on the show during its two season run. If not him, then many of the show's guest hosts in vintage clips do it. By the way, because many of the tapes are now lost, most of the clips are black-and-white kinescopes and not the color video originally presented. Anyway, the most exciting of the performances involved the show's dancers, usually female, shaking up a storm like during The Young Rascals' "Good Lovin'" or Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots are Made for Walkin'" which also has the bizarre sight of giant boots on stage. In some other performances, those dancers are standing still whether as mannequins or, as in The Byrds' "The Times, They Are A-Changin'", as hunters about to aim! Since this aired on PBS, there were also pledge breaks that had interviews with the producer, choreographer, one of the dancers, and Leslie Gore who performed on the show though no clips of any of her songs were shown except as a snippet. Overall, this was quite an enjoyable special but it left me wanting more. Maybe there are some individual eps somewhere here online...P.S. During the Trini Lopez segment where he sang "If I Had a Hammer", my mom reminisced about seeing him in concert with Dad as her date when they lived in Chicago. They happened to have a couple of his albums at the time.