The Hollywood Palace (1964)
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.
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Episode 1 - Host: Bing Crosby / Bobby Goldsboro
Release Date: 1968-09-28Songs: --Bing Crosby with chorus - ""If You're Looking For A Man"" --Bobby Goldsboro - ""Honey"" 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"" Also appearing: --Sid Caesar --Abbey Lincoln --Bob Gibson (of the St. Louis Cardinals) --Milton Berle --The Four Robertis --The Iriston Horsemen --According to one source, a rock group from the off-Broadway hippie musical ""Your Own Thing"" also appeared on this show.
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Episode 2 - Host: Jimmy Durante / Joey Heatherton
Release Date: 1968-10-05Music: --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.
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Episode 3 - Host: Milton Berle / Leonard Nimoy
Release Date: 1968-10-12Guests: --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 Sketch: --Leonard Nimoy and the Bottoms Up Revue appear in a sci-fi spoof titled ""Star Odyssey 2001 7/8""
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Episode 4 - Host: Diahann Carroll / Richard Harris
Release Date: 1968-10-19--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""
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Episode 5 - Host: Don Adams / Janis Joplin
Release Date: 1968-10-26Host: Don Adams --Janis Joplin (with Big Brother & the Holding Company) - ""Summertime"" & ""Why"" (another source listed the 2nd song as ""I Need A Man to Love"") --Barbara Eden - sings ""Big, Beautiful Ball"" --Arte Johnson (comedian, in character as Rozmenko, the singing Russian) - ""Mame"" --Brothers Castro (singers from Mexico) - ""Michelle"" & ""Por Usted"" --The Dovyeko Company (acrobats on stilts from the Moscow State Circus)
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Episode 6 - Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / Aretha Franklin / Spanky and Our Gang
Release Date: 1968-11-02Guests: --Sammy Davis Jr. (host) --Spanky & Our Gang - ""Give A Damn"" & ""Yesterday's Rain"" --Aretha Franklin --Johnny Whitaker (child actor, from ""Family Affair"") --Corbett Monica (comedian)
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Episode 7 - Host: Mike Douglas / Donovan
Release Date: 1968-11-09--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 (comedians) --Rudy Schweitzer (juggler) --The Solokhins (balancing acrobats from the Moscow State Circus)
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Episode 8 - Host: Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca / Bee Gees
Release Date: 1968-11-23Co-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: --Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca in a routine about a dying bullfighter and a fawning American tourist. --Imogene Coca does a routine about a frumpy stripper.
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Episode 9 - Host: Milton Berle / Martha Raye
Release Date: 1968-11-30Music: --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 Hughes
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Episode 10 - Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / Ike & Tina Turner
Release Date: 1968-12-07--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""
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Episode 11 - Host: Jimmy Durante
Release Date: 1968-12-14Host: Jimmy Durante --Ethel Merman --Sugar Ray Robinson --Vikki Carr --Bill Dana --Leland Palmer --Hendra & Ullett
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Episode 12 - Host: Bing Crosby (1968 Christmas Show) / Glen Campbell
Release Date: 1968-12-211968 Christmas Show hosted by Bing and Kathryn Crosby, with their children Harry, Mary Frances and Nathaniel. --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"" --All (entire cast) - ""We Wish You a Merry Christmas"" --Nicolai Olkovikov (juggler from the Moscow State Circus)
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Episode 13 - Host: Bing Crosby / Bob Hope / Bobbie Gentry
Release Date: 1969-01-04Hollywood Palace Anniversary Show Music: --Bing Crosby - ""Once-A-Year Day,"" ""The Straight Life"" and ""Little Green Apples"" --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: --Bob Hope and Bing Crosby receive the 1st Annual Show Business Hall of Fame Award. Earl Wilson (columnist) presents the award. --Stu Gilliam (comedian) --Dovyeko Acrobatic Troupe (of the Moscow State Circus)
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Episode 14 - Host: Jimmy Durante / Marvin Gaye
Release Date: 1969-01-11--Marvin Gaye - ""I Heard It Through the Grapevine"" --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) --The Society of Seven (rock group) --The Tahiti Nue Revue
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Episode 15 - Hosts: Roy Rogers & Dale Evans / Jeannie C. Riley
Release Date: 1969-01-18--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""
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Episode 16 - Host: Don Knotts / Bobby Vinton
Release Date: 1969-01-25Host: Don Knotts --Bobby Vinton --Cyd Charisse --Gail Martin --Georgie Kaye --Maureen Arthur --The Checkmates
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Episode 17 - Host: Don Adams
Release Date: 1969-02-01Host: Don Adams --Tony Martin --Barrie Chase --The Lettermen --Joe Forman --Ruth Buzzi --Alan Sues
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Episode 18 - Host: Robert Goulet / Dusty Springfield
Release Date: 1969-02-08Guests: --Robert Goulet (host) --Dusty Springfield - ""Son Of A Preacher Man"" & ""I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore"" --The Mills Brothers --Kay Thompson --Jack Wakefield --Hendra & Ullett
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Episode 19 - Host: Milton Berle
Release Date: 1969-02-15Host: 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 doughnuts
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Episode 20 - Hosts: Rowan & Martin
Release Date: 1969-02-22All-Comedy Show: --Dan Rowan and Dick Martin (co-hosts) --Gene Sheldon (banjo playing pantomimist) --Irwin C. Watson (stand-up comedian) --Ron Gaylord & Burt Holiday (comedy team) - sing ""The Impossible Dream"" & do a skit about hijackers --Betty Walker (comedian) - does a telephone gossip routine --Jackie Gayle (stand-up comedian) --Simmy Bow (double-talking comedian)
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Episode 21 - Host: Bing Crosby / The Temptations
Release Date: 1969-03-01Songs: --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 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 with Gary Crosby & Chorus - ""Hey, Jude"" Also appearing: --Victor Borge --Guy Marks
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Episode 22 - Hosts: Diana Ross & the Supremes / Stevie Wonder
Release Date: 1969-03-08--Diana Ross & the Supremes (hosts) - ""With a Song in My Heart,"" ""Strangers in Paradise"" and ""Without a Song"" --Diana Ross and the Supremes - medley: ""Let's Get Away from It All,"" ""The Lady Is a Tramp,"" ""Day After Day"" and ""I'm Living in Shame"" --Stevie Wonder - ""For Once in My Life"" --Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder - ""I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"" --Ethel Waters - ""Suppertime"" --Diana Ross and Ethel Waters - ""Bread 'n' Gravy"" --Diana Ross and Donald McKayle (dancer) - ""Soulful Strut"" --Soupy Sales (comedian) --Sammy Shore (comedian) --Saddris (comic)
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Episode 23 - Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / James Brown Revue
Release Date: 1969-03-15--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)
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Episode 24 - Hosts: Phyllis Diller & Don Rickles
Release Date: 1969-03-22Co-hosts: Phyllis Diller & Don Rickles --Terry Thomas --The King Family --The Baja Marimba Band --Jack Walker
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Episode 25 - Hosts: Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca / Gladys Knight & the Pips
Release Date: 1969-03-29Hosts: 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""
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Episode 26 - Host: Bing Crosby / Four Tops
Release Date: 1969-04-05--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"" --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)