RING-DANG-DO * 1965 * SAM THE SHAM and the PHAROAHS
Videos
DECADES MEMORIES! A ’60S YOU-TUBE VIDEO REWIND
JOHN F. KENNEDY. A REMEMBRANCE. 53-YEARS AGO.
JFK: YEARS OF LIGHTNING, DAY OF DRUMS (audio) * Gregory Peck * November 1964
JOHN F. KENNEDY: YEARS OF LIGHTNING, DAY OF DRUMS
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New York Times Movie Review (above link) Aprill 11, 1966
This 1964 documentary, narrated by actor Gregory Peck, tells the story of President Kennedy’s 1000 days in office, while also showing scenes from his funeral. The film was created to air internationally only, but due to critical acclaim Congress passed a special resolution allowing it to be seen in the United States. The documentary was funded by the U.S. Information Agency and written and directed by Bruce Hershensohn.
Funded by HBO in partnership with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performance Arts, the film was digitally restored in observance of the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s death, November 2013.
Available on DVD by Warner Brothers Home Entertainment. Released 2013.
COMING SOON! SEPTEMBER 2016: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK
BEATLES, ’64! ‘A HARD DAY’S NIGHT’ CONCERT SCENES
JULY 6: THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY
The Beatles’ anticipated first full-length motion picture film, ‘A HARD DAY’S NIGHT,’ premiered in London at the Pavilion Theater on this day, 52-years ago, July 6, 1964.
GEORGE MARTIN, BEATLES’ EMI PRODUCER, DIES AT 90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MnuNvzyfI4#t=63
THE NEW YORK TIMES REMEMBERS GEORGE MARTIN 1926-2016
CKLW-TV 9 SWINGIN’ TIME! MARTHA & VANDELLAS ’67
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKJ6i0j01EY
A MCRFB Note: For our second video install (June 3, 2015), Martha and the Vandellas performing on ‘Swingin’ Time,” March 11, 1967, please GO HERE.
MOTOWN MONDAY! JACKSON 5 VIDEO MEMORY, ’71
A MEMORABLE BOBBY DARIN VIDEO FLASHBACK, ’60!
SATURDAY NIGHT BEECH-NUT SHOW WITH DICK CLARK
The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show was Dick Clark’s second attempt at a prime time show. His first, a prime-time version of American Bandstand, ran only 13 weeks. The Beechnut Show was much more successful lasting almost 3 years.
The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show was broadcast live, on ABC-TV, Saturday nights from the Little Theatre in New York City. Every weekend, Dick Clark commuted from Philadelphia to NYC to do the “Beechnut” show. There was actually two shows done each Saturday. The first was a rehearsal show where the artists could sketch out their performances and Clark could line everything up. This would have a different audience then the second show which was the one that was televised. 
Beechnut Gum was actually picked up as a sponsor for the third episode to the conclusion of the show’s run. The artists that appeared usually “lip-synched” to their records. Very few actually performed live.
This is the only show to be able to make the claim of having Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper as guests (though on different episodes). All three were killed together in a plane crash on February 3, 1959.
Amazingly, Elvis Presley and Ricky Nelson, two of the biggest stars of the period, never appeared on the show. The first show aired on February 2, 1958 with guests Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Willis, Johnny Ray and the Royal Teens. The final show aired on September 10, 1960. MORE . . . .
A MCRFB Note: For our previous third installment four video posting of ‘Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show with Dick Clark,’ on MCRFB (March 28, 2014), go here.
Above information provided by TV.com. For the complete 1958-1960 Dick Clark Beech Nut Show summary and artist-appearance listing for every show, go here to TV.com.
About the IFIC button seen worn by attendees in the Beech-Nut show audience? Well, it stands for ‘FLAVOR-I-F-I-C.’ As in Beech-Nut chewing gum! Special thanks to Edward Bowman for sharing that ‘trivia’ bit of information with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
Motor City Radio Flashbacks will be showcasing many of these *rare* Dick Clark video presentations here on this website from time to time. In this fourth installment, we present four video classics (below) from the Dick Clark Beech-Nut show as was first broadcast on national television during that memorable late-’50s into the ’60s rock and roll era:
Chuck Berry (July 18, 1959). Bobby Darin (March 19, 1960). Little Anthony & The Imperials (January 02, 1960). The Coasters (March 7, 1959).
