Posted on 08/26/2021 11:26:20 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper
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Do people here remember when organ music was used in soaps, as I recently read that this was done until about the early '70s.
Bkmrk.
I always think of “As the World Turns” that was on when they broke in with the original bulletins on JFK getting shot.
Later
When life was sane.
Yes, Actually for some radio “dramas” several WurliTzer Theatre Pipe Organs were used, then the Hammonds took over..
And on NBC it was Bachelor Father, Don Pardo was the Booth Announcer on shift on that day. There is a YouTube video with the sequences..
Do people here remember when organ music was used in soaps
Yep, I kind of have an obsession with Old-Time TV, especially the coverage of The Kennedy Assassination.
I remember Dark Shadows creeped me out when I was a little kid.
I recall watching some of that (coverage of the Kennedy assassination) and there is even some colour videotape footage of the news coverage in Dallas. And the story behind that was the local affiliate (believe it was NBC) did that for a few minutes before network HQ ordered them to switch back to black and white as that is how the rest of the outlets were covering it.
It took 20-30 minutes for the cameras to warm up, so that is why there was just audio. Television news was still in its infancy in those days.
But I do remember Cronkite going on and on about how Right-Wingers attacked Adlai Stevenson in Dallas a few weeks before, so he just *knew* it had to be a Right-Winger that killed JFK.
Turned out to be a Commie.
Love the Old Cincinnati skyline at 2:26.
It's amazing how the brain can recall something from 50 plus years ago.
I’ve learned to appreciate OTR shows and the work that had to go into them.
I watch old time TV on a portable DVD player in my office on my lunch break.
Something to help me keep my sanity.
For now I have an 80s thing going with Remington Steele with the great Stephanie Zimbalist.
Vintage Steele now playing.
Acapulco!
“I definitely remember the Hollywood Squares. Lily Tomlin looked young!”
Hollywood Squares, along with the Art Fleming version of Jeopardy, the 1963 to 1969 version of Match Game, and numerous others was the victim of the great purge allegedly ordered by a woman who was the daytime program director at NBC and in about 1975 allegedly gave the order to destroy the vast collection of videotapes and films of game shows and soap operas (going back to the mid 1950s) in their archive at that time.
As a result, Hollywood Squares shows from the late ‘60s to about 1975 are fairly rare IIRC and are sought after in the TV collection market.
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