I'm obsessed with "Hullabaloo"
I'm obsessed with "Hullabaloo"
I'm obsessed with "Hullabaloo"#0
Posted: 9/17/06 at 6:06pm
I've been watching it all afternoon on two DVDs, and it's crazy-boogaloo fun. NO, I don't remember the original airings! Uncle Twelvy's OLD, but he ain't THAT old. I was an infant at the time. But it's so much fun today to watch Donna McKechnie (see her on the photo, front and on the far left!) and Michael Bennett "pony" and "swim" and "twist" their way dancing around the big music stars of the day. So very cool.
I was particularly fascinated watching Michael Bennett "wriggling around" on the same set with the Supremes. Such a wonderful "If we could only see the future" moment. I was thinking about his "Dreamgirls" staging and vision, and I guess it hadn't hit me that he was THIS close to the actual source. He was THERE, baby, when it was happening! And Miss McKechnie and her "high hair" and "faux fall" is front and center for almost EVERY dance sequence. Not exactly a shock, when one thinks about it.
Petula Clark: 
Where else can you watch Trini Lopez, Vicki Carr, The Four Seasons and Herman's Hermits sing show tunes from "The Sound of Music" and "My Fair Lady?" What a crazy medley THAT was! I just finished a show with Sammy Davis, Jr., The Surpremes, The Lovin' Spoonful and Sony & Cher.
For those of you who know this show... what do YOU think?? And for those of you who don't know it... check out the DVD releases (Vols. 1 and 2). Pretty great stuff!
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re: I'm obsessed with#1
Posted: 9/17/06 at 6:09pmI'm going to see if it's on Netflix, Uncle Twelvy.
re: I'm obsessed with#2
Posted: 9/17/06 at 6:12pmWow! Wow!
re: I'm obsessed with#3
Posted: 9/17/06 at 6:15pm
The official TV poster:
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re: I'm obsessed with#4
Posted: 9/17/06 at 6:16pm
i love the theme music
"HULLABLOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!"
re: I'm obsessed with "Hullabaloo"#5
Posted: 9/17/06 at 7:40pm
Eye candy!!
Opening: 
Donna McKechnie (looking like one of the "nicest kids in town"): 
Michael Bennett on the right: 
The "original" Jersey Boys: 
The "original" Dreamgirls: 
Sony & Cher with the Lovin' Spoonful: 
Michael Bennett down front right (while The Supremes and Sony & Cher watch from the right side): 
Donna in a fab "Mondrian" dress and Michael (right) doing a dance break: 
PURE. HEAVEN.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#6
Posted: 9/17/06 at 8:05pmWell, I DO remember the original airings - vividly! Choreographer was David Winter, who was A-rab in the film version of WEST SIDE STORY.
re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#7
Posted: 9/17/06 at 8:06pm
You're even older than Twelvy!
Wow.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#8
Posted: 9/17/06 at 8:17pmwheres my DonnaM!?
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
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re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#9
Posted: 9/17/06 at 8:36pmI remember it VERY well. Hullabaloo, Shindig, and Where the Action Is (in the afternoon) were mandatory viewing for teens for the few years they ran in the 60's.
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mamie4 5/14/03
re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#10
Posted: 9/17/06 at 8:53pm
Aren't there any "yougins" out there who find this crap cool???
*turns up ear trumpet to hear response*
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re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#11
Posted: 9/17/06 at 8:58pmWould I mind a map tool, you say?
re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#12
Posted: 9/17/06 at 9:03pm*checks Rathy into Shady Pines*
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re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#13
Posted: 9/17/06 at 9:06pm*sets Shady Pines afire*
re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#14
Posted: 9/17/06 at 9:11pm
does cturtle remember seeing this show as a kid?
GUILTY!
re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#15
Posted: 9/17/06 at 9:14pmLiar!
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#16
Posted: 9/17/06 at 9:19pmThere was also Lloyd Thaxton, where his distinguishing feature was allowing the kids to lip-sync to hit records, then the rest voted (via applause), on who did it the best. We loved that part of his show.
re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#17
Posted: 9/17/06 at 9:21pmdid PAUL REVERE AND THE RAIDERS make an appearance? (or is my brain fried.) i used to love those boyz.
re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#18
Posted: 9/17/06 at 9:45pm
Sorry, I nodded off for a sec.
What was the question??
NO, I didn't know Paul Revere personally. Or General Custer, or Marie Antoinette.
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re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#19
Posted: 9/17/06 at 10:01pmBut he did wait on Queen Victoria a couple of times.
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re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#20
Posted: 9/17/06 at 10:07pm
Wow - I'd forgotten about Lloyd Thaxton. That's where I first saw Sonny and Cher. The next month was Halloween and I managed to find the first pair of bell bottom pants in Northern Virginia to wear to a Halloween party. (My hair was already straight, dark, and down to my tush. Nobody who knows me now can believe it!) I was a smash.
Paul Revere and the Raiders used to show up regularly on Where the Action Is. In '66 my family drove cross country to California - very much like the Ricardos and Mertz's. We were somewhere in no-mans land between LA and Las Vegas when our car broke down. While waiting at a service station for it to be fixed, a van pulled in and out came Paul Revere, Mark Lindsey, and the rest of the guys! They were on their way to Vegas. I was 16 years old and was sure I was seeing a mirage on the desert. I wasn't - they were real and I was in heaven!
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mamie4 5/14/03
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re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#21
Posted: 9/17/06 at 10:49pm
Exactly! That's where I first saw Sonny and Cher, as well. Remember how strange we thought they were? Also, Paul Revere and the Raiders were regulars on WHERE THE ACTION IS, which was on weekday afternoons.
Updated On: 9/17/06 at 10:49 PM
re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#22
Posted: 9/17/06 at 10:58pmok, then, i'm guilty of that one too :)
re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#23
Posted: 9/17/06 at 11:24pmThere's a lot of stuff from this show on the site that dare not be named.
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re: I'm obsessed with 'Hullabaloo'#24
Posted: 9/17/06 at 11:35pmOh hell...I'm old! I have somewhere deep in a box, in the storage room of my building, The Hullabaloo Dance Book...which shows you step by step how to do all those dances. And I knew everyone of them!
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