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9/28/68Music:
--Bing Crosby with chorus - "If You're Looking For A Man"
--Bobby Goldsboro - "Honey" (excerpt) and "The Straight Life"
--Jeannie C. Riley - "Harper Valley PTA"
--Bing with Jeannie C. Riley & Bobby Goldsboro - medley: "Nashville Cats," "Gentle On My Mind," "Little Green Apples" and "Hold Me Tight" (and a few lines from "By the Time I Get to Phoenix")
--Abbey Lincoln (actress-singer) - "Africa"
--Leland Palmer, Danny Apolinar, John Kuhner and Anthony Travis perform a song from their off-Broadway musical "Your Own Thing."
Also appearing:
--Sid Caesar (as Professor Ludwig Know-It-All)
--Bob Gibson (of the St. Louis Cardinals)
--The Four Robertis (acrobats)
--The Iriston Horsemen (on tape)
Also, cameos by future Hollywood Palace hosts Milton Berle, Don Adams and Don Knotts.moreless -
10/5/68Music:
--Jimmy Durante (host) - "Did You Ever Have a Feeling?" "That's How Young I Feel" and "The Father of Girls"
--Jimmy Durante and Joey Heatherton - "I Came Here to Swim"
--Joey Heatherton - "Light My Fire" (with dancers)
--Don Ho - "Next Door to Paradise," "Nai Puni" and "One Paddle, Two Paddle"
--The Lennon Sisters - "I Don't Know Why" and "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams"
Also appearing:
--Lewis & Christy (comedy team) - do a sketch about driving non-stop across the US.
--Female Olympic gymnasts - 6 finalists in the US Olympic trials demonstrating their skills on the balance beam and uneven parallel bars.moreless -
10/12/68--Milton Berle (host)
--Leonard Nimoy - sings "Here We Go Round Again"
--Shani Wallis - "Oliver!" medley: "Who Will Buy?" "Consider Yourself" and "As Long as He Needs Me"
--The Checkmates Ltd. - "Wear It On Your Face" & "Thank You, Love"
--Johnny Puleo's Harmonica Gang
--Irving Benson (comedian in character as Sidney Shpritzer, Milton Berle's comedy foil)
--The Bottoms Up Revue from Las Vegas
Comedy sketch:
--Leonard Nimoy and the Bottoms Up Revue appear in a sci-fi spoof titled "Star Odyssey 2001 7/8"moreless -
10/19/68--Diahann Carroll (host) - "Watch What Happens," "My Personal Property," "Over You" & "The Fool on the Hill"
--Diahann Carroll, Marc Copage and Michael Link (all from the series "Julia") - "The Thank-You Song"
--Richard Harris and Diahann Carroll - "What Do the Simple Folk Do?"
--Richard Harris - "The Yard Went on Forever" and "The Hive"
--The Checkmates, Ltd. - "Black Is Black"
--Mort Sahl (comedian) - does a satire of Presidential candidates
--Buddy Schwab ("Hollywood Palace" choreographer) with dancers - "Broadway Rhythm"moreless -
10/26/68Host: Don Adams
--Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company - "Summertime" & "I Need A Man to Love"
--Barbara Eden sings "Big, Beautiful Ball" (production number with dancers)
--Arte Johnson (comedian, in character as Rozmenko, a Russian entertainer) sings "Mame" in faux Russian.
--The Brothers Castro (singers from Mexico) - "Michelle" & "Por Usted"
--The Dovyeko Company (acrobats from the Moscow State Circus) - acrobats walking on stilts.
Comedy:
--Don Adams plays a lawyer known as "The Big Mouthpiece" in a comedy monologue.
--Reporter Arte Johnson interviews coach Leon Football (Don Adams)moreless -
11/2/68--Sammy Davis Jr. (host) sings "If My Friends Could See Me Now" (with special lyrics about being the Hollywood Palace host).
Sammy Davis Jr. - "MacArthur Park," "I Gotta Be Me" and "Peace Brother Peace"
--Aretha Franklin - "I Say A Little Prayer" and "Come Back Baby"
--Aretha Franklin and Sammy Davis Jr. - medley "What Is Soul?" (correct title?), "Think," "Respect" and "What'd I Say?"
--Spanky & Our Gang - "Give A Damn" & "Yesterday's Rain"
--Johnny Whitaker (child actor, from "Family Affair") - sings "Every Boy Can Be President"
--Corbett Monica (comedian)
--John Bassett (singer-guitarist, appeared in "Golden Boy" with Sammy) sings a song dedicated to his own son.moreless -
11/9/68--Donovan - "Jennifer Juniper" & "Lalena"
--Donovan and Sergio Mendes - "There Is a Mountain"
--Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66
--Mike Douglas (host) - If This Isn't Love" and "Danny Boy"
--Mike Douglas and Polly Bergen - "When I'm 64" & "Wait Till We're 65"
--Polly Bergen - "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" & "When in Rome"
--Hendra and Ullett (comedy duo)
--Rudy Schweitzer (juggler)
--The Solokhins (balancing acrobats from the Moscow State Circus)moreless -
11/23/68Co-Hosts: Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca
--The Bee Gees - "Massachusetts" & "I've Gotta Get a Message to You"
--Lou Rawls - "I'm Satisfied" & "Down Here on the Ground"
--Chita Rivera (singer-dancer) - "Pretty for Me"
--Jane Morgan (singer) - medley: "Georgia," "That Lucky Old Sun" & "What'd I Say?"
--Gelina Adaskina (trapeze artist from the Moscow State Circus).
Comedy sketches:
--"The Last Angry Bull," a movie parody with Sid Caesar as a bullfighter and Imogene Coca as a smitten American.
--Imogene Coca plays a frumpy stripper who teases the audience by slowly removing her overcoat.moreless -
11/30/68Music:
--Milton Berle - "What a Night This Is Going to Be"
--Martha Raye - "Toot Toot Tootsie, Good-Bye" and "Those Were The Good Old Days"
--Barrie Chase (singer-dancer) - "Suzie Q"
--Roosevelt Grier - "Slip Away"
--The Third Wave (teenage musicians from the Phillippines)
Also appearing:
--Joey Forman (comedian)
--Joe Besser (comedian)
--Mary Beth Hughesmoreless -
12/7/68--The Ike & Tina Turner Revue - "Understanding" and "You Got What You Wanted, Now You Don't Want What You Got"
--Sammy Davis Jr. (host) - "Tenement Symphony" & "At the Crossroads"
--Sammy Davis Jr. and Lola Falana - "I Feel Good"
--Lola Falana - medley: "It Never Entered My Mind" & "Goin' Out of My Head"
--Sammy Davis Jr. and Carmen McRae - medley: "People" & "Don't Rain on My Parade"
--Carmen McRae (singer) - "He Loves Me" & "Watch What Happens"
--Jo Anne Worley (comedian from "Laugh-In")
--Jack Carter (comedian) and Sammy Davis Jr. - sing "Without You" and do impressions of various celebrities.
--Bobby Doyle (singer discovered by Sammy) - "Just Can't Help Believing"moreless -
12/14/68Music:
--Jimmy Durante (host) - "Dear World"
--Ethel Merman - "This Is My Lucky Day" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
--Sugar Ray Robinson - "Hello, Show Business"
--Vikki Carr - "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "Yesterday I Heard the Rain"
Also appearing:
--Bill Dana (comedian, in character as Jose Jimenez)
--Leland Palmer (singer-dancer)
--Hendra & Ullett (comedy team)
--The Iriston Horsemen (from the Moscow State Circus)moreless -
12/21/681968 Christmas Show hosted by Bing and Kathryn Crosby, with their children Harry, Mary Frances and Nathaniel.
Music:
--Bing Crosby - "White Christmas," "Silent Night" and "This Is That Time of the Year"
--Bing and Kathryn Crosby - "When the Kids Are Married" and "Christmas Is A Birthday"
--Bing, Kathryn and children - "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
--Harry Crosby - "Oh, Come Little Children"
--Glen Campbell - "Wichita Lineman"
--Bing Crosby and Glen Campbell - "1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero"
--John Byner (comedian) - "Christmas Is Coming"
--The Lennon Sisters - "Christmas Waltz" and "Christmas Song"
--Bing Crosby and cast - "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"
Also appearing:
--Nicolai Olkovikov (juggler from the Moscow State Circus)moreless -
1/4/69Hollywood Palace Anniversary Show
Music:
--Bing Crosby - "Once-A-Year Day," "The Straight Life" and "Little Green Apples"
--Bing Crosby and Bobbie Gentry - "Okolona River Bottom Band"
--Bobbie Gentry - "Mornin' Glory"
--Tiny Tim - "Come to the Ball," "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" and "Great Balls of Fire"
--Judy Carne - "Ring-Around-a-Rosy Rag" (with dancers)
Also:
--Earl Wilson (columnist) presents Bob Hope and Bing Crosby with trophies for The 1st Annual Show Business Hall of Fame Awards.
--Stu Gilliam (comedian)
--Dovyeko Acrobatic Troupe (of the Moscow State Circus)moreless -
1/11/69--Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It Through the Grapevine."
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--Jimmy Durante (host) - "Inka Dinka Doo," "Say It with Flowers" and "Girls."
--Ella Fitzgerald - "Melancholy Serenade" & "Hey Jude."
--Jimmy Durante and Ella Fitzgerald - "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?"
--Pat Cooper (comedian)
--Sergio Franchi (tenor) - "Eh, Compare" (with Jimmy Durante).
--Sergio Franchi (tenor) sings and dances to "Alexander's Ragtime Band."
--Sergio Franchi (tenor) sings "E Lucevan La Stelle" aria from Puccini's 'Tosca.'
--The Society of Seven (rock group).
--The Tahiti Nue Revue. -
1/18/69--Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (co-hosts) - "Little Green Apples"
--Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (with the Stoney Mountain Cloggers) - "Nashville Cats"
--Roy Rogers - "Too Many Chiefs"
--Dale Evans - "Queen of the House"
--Burl Ives - "Wolverton Mountain"
--Burl Ives and George Gobel - "In the Summertime"
--Burl Ives and Roy Rogers - "Jambalaya"
--Sonny James - "Born to Be with You"
--Sonny James and Dale Evans - "Hawaiian Wedding Song"
--Jeannie C. Riley - "The Girl Most Likely"
--Jeannie C. Riley and Roy Rogers - "Flattery Will Get You Everywhere"
--Irene Ryan (of "The Beverly Hillbillies") - "I Am a Woman"
--All (entire cast) - "Build a Better Mousetrap"moreless -
1/25/69Host: Don Knotts
--Bobby Vinton
--Cyd Charisse
--Gail Martin
--Georgie Kaye
--Maureen Arthur
--The Checkmates -
2/1/69Guests:
--Don Adams (host) - does comedy routines throughout the show (please see "Recap" for more details)
--Barrie Chase (dancer) - sings "Son of a Preacher Man" in a production number.
--The Lettermen sing "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" and "Light My Fire"
--Buth Buzzi and Alan Sues (comedians, from "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In") - do a comedy routine about a woman visiting her jailed husband.
--Tony Martin sings "Learn How to Laugh" and "A Man Without Love"
--Joey Forman (comedian) - In a comedy sketch, Forman plays a struggling actor who runs into Don Adams at Schwab's Drugstore.
--Igor Kio (illusionist from the Moscow State Circus)
--The Half Brothers (comedic jugglers)moreless -
2/8/69Guests:
--Robert Goulet (host) - sings "On A Clear Day," "MacArthur Park" and a medley (of "Wives and Lovers" and "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife").
--Dusty Springfield sings "Son Of A Preacher Man" & "I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore"
--Robert Goulet and Dusty Springfield - medley: "The Look of Love" (Goulet) and "American Boys" (Dusty Springfield).
--The Mills Brothers - "Cab Driver," "My Shy Violet" and "The Jimtown Road"
--Robert Goulet joins the Mills Brothers for a medley (of Mills Brothers' hits)
--Kay Thompson (singer) - "Hello, Hello" and "I Love A Violin" (production numbers with male dancers-singers)
--Jack Wakefield (comedian)
--Hendra & Ullett (comedy team)
--Nina Logatsheva (low wire-walker, from the Moscow Circus)moreless -
2/15/69Host: Milton Berle
--Mel Torme - sings "Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," "One Note Samba," "Quiet Nights" and "The Girl from Ipanema"
--Steve Allen
--Jane Meadows
--Dana Velery (singer) - "Those Were the Days" and "Good Times"
--Jerry Collins (comedian)
--Leland Palmer (singer) - "Angel on My Shoulder"
Comedy:
--Milton Berle sings with himself (using split-screen special effects)
--Mitchell Ayres' orchestra spoofs the big band era.
--Vaudeville comedians do a routine about doughnutsmoreless -
2/22/69All-Comedy Show:
--Dan Rowan and Dick Martin (co-hosts)
--Gene Sheldon (pantomime comedian) - plays "I'm Looking Over A Four-Leaf Clover" on the banjo.
--Irwin C. Watson (stand-up comedian)
--Ron Gaylord & Burt Holiday (comedy team) - one sings "The Impossible Dream" while they tell jokes. Also do a skit about a hijacker
--Betty Walker (comedian) - appears four times during show doing telephone monologues.
--Jackie Gayle (stand-up comedian)
--Simmy Bow (double-talking comedian)moreless -
3/1/69Songs:
--Bing Crosby - "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
--The Temptations - "Runaway Child, Running Wild"
--Bing with the Temptations - "My Girl"
--Gary Crosby - "Gentle on My Mind"
--Bing Crosby with Frank Sinatra Jr & Gary Crosby - "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," "Three Blind Mice" and "Fugue For Tinhorns"
--Frank Sinatra Jr. - "Love Was Here Before The Stars" and "We'll Be Together Again"
--Bing and Gary Crosby with Chorus - "Hey, Jude"
Also appearing:
--Victor Borge
--Guy Marksmoreless -
3/8/69--Diana Ross & the Supremes (hosts) - "It's Today," "Day After Day" and "I'm Livin' in Shame."
--Diana Ross & the Supremes - medley ("The Lady Is a Tramp" and "Let's Get Away from It All").
--Stevie Wonder - "I Don't Know Why."
--Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross - "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" and "For Once In My Life."
--Ethel Waters - "Suppertime."
--Ethel Waters and Diana Ross - "Bread 'n' Gravy."
--Donald McKayle (dancer-choreographer) and Diana Ross dance to "Soulful Strut."
--Soupy Sales (comedian)
--Sammy Shore (comedian) - plays a preacher in a stand-up comedy routine.
--The Saddris Dancers (comedic dancers).moreless -
3/15/69--Sammy Davis Jr. (host) - "Up - Up and Away," "I've Gotta Be Me," "Ol' Man River" and "Choreography"
--James Brown Revue - "I'm Black & I'm Proud," "I Got The Feeling," "Give It Up Or Turn It Loose" & "Please Please Please"
--Sammy Davis and James Brown - "I Feel Good"
--Peggy Lipton (from the "Mod Squad," making her singing debut) - "Just A Little Lovin'"
--Peggy Lipton and Sammy Davis Jr. - "Little Green Apples"
--Charo (singer, married to Xavier Cugat) - Latin medley
--Charo and Sammy Davis Jr. - "I-Yi-Yi-Yi-Yi Like You Very Much"
--Nipsey Russell (comedian, does verses on a variety of topics)
--Dave Madden (comedian from "Laugh-In," commenting on trite sayings)moreless -
3/22/69Co-hosts: Phyllis Diller & Don Rickles
--Terry Thomas
--The King Family
--The Baja Marimba Band
--Jack Walker -
3/29/69Hosts: Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca
--Gladys Knight & the Pips - "Fever" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
--Buddy Rich plays a drummer in a sketch about Caesar and Coca attending a Broadway musical.
--Edie Adams - "When My Baby Smiles At Me"
--Gene Baylos appears in a sketch with Caesar.
--Brendan Hanlon (Irish singer) - "I Gotta Be Me"moreless -
4/5/69--Bing Crosby (host) - "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and "Both Sides Now"
--The Four Tops - "In the Still of the Night" and "Eleanor Rigby"
--Sally Ann Howes - "Just One of Those Things" and "Free Again"
--Sally Ann Howes and Bing Crosby - medley of songs performed by London's "Buskers" (Please see "Recap" for song titles).
--Phil Crosby (Bing's son) - "For Once in My Life"
--Bing and Phil Crosby - "Sam's Song," "When You and I Were Young Maggie Blues" and "Play a Simple Melody"
--Shelley Berman (comedian)
--George Carl (pantomimist)
--The Dagastan tightrope walkers (acrobats, from the Moscow Circus)moreless
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