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Music Hop

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Music Hop
Genremusic
Presented byAlex Trebek
Dave Mickie
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
Production
ProducersStan Jacobson (1963–1964)
Allan Angus
Pierre Desjardins
Ray McConnell
Manny Pitson
Ain Soodor
Original release
NetworkCBC Television
Release3 October 1963 (1963-10-03) –
28 June 1967 (1967-06-28)

Music Hop was a Canadian music television series that aired on CBC Television from 1963 to 1967.

Premise

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Pop and rock music was featured in this series for youth, essentially a Canadian version of American Bandstand.[1]

Production

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The first season (1963–1964) was a Toronto production with host Alex Trebek who welcomed visiting musicians and introduced songs from the house musicians before a studio audience of dancing teenagers. He was replaced in following seasons by Dave Mickie, a disc jockey for CKEY in that time. Series musicians were Norm Amadio and the Rhythm Rockers, joined by The Girlfriends who were a female vocal trio. The producer of this season was Stan Jacobson.

The second season's schedule expanded to all weekdays with other Canadian cities contributing to the production of Music Hop:

  • Mondays: Let's Go originated from Vancouver with producer Ain Soodor
  • Tuesdays: Jeunesse Oblige originated from Montreal with producer Pierre Desjardins
  • Wednesdays: Hootenanny originated from Winnipeg with host Ray St. Germain (Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame Inductee) with producer Ray McConnell
  • Thursdays: Music Hop originated from Toronto with producer Allan Angus
  • Fridays: Frank's Bandstand originated from Halifax with producer Manny Pitson

Scheduling

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The first season of this half-hour series was broadcast Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. (Eastern) from its debut 3 October 1963. In the following two seasons, it was seen every weekday, also at 5:30 p.m., since 28 September 1964. In its final season, the Friday episode was omitted from 3 October 1966 until its final broadcast on 28 June 1967.

Reception

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Music Hop attracted approximately one million weekly viewers according to CBC estimates, mostly under age 20, with an estimated one-third of those viewers adults.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Corcelli, John (April 2002). "Music Hop". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
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