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TV Music & Dance Shows #3 Thaxton, Revere, Kinks DVD, MP4, Flash Drive

TV Music & Dance Shows #3 Thaxton, Revere, Kinks DVD, MP4, Flash Drive
TV Music & Dance Shows #3 Thaxton, Revere, Kinks DVD, MP4, Flash Drive
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100 More Minutes Of Vintage Rock & Roll Television Entertainment. An Episode Of The Lloyd Thaxton Dance Show With Guests Peter, Paul & Mary, The Lost 1967 TV Pilot Of The Paul Revere & The Raiders Show & A Collage Of Live TV Performances By The Kinks, Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD, MP4 Video Download Or USB Flash Drive! #ClassicTVMusicAndDanceShows #TVMusicAndDanceShows #LloydThaxton #Happening #Happening68 #ItsHappening #PaulRevereAndTheRaiders #DickClark #TheKinks #MusicalVarietyShows #TeenShows #RockMusic #RockAndRoll #RockNRoll #PopMusic #DVD #VideoDownload #MP4 #USBFlashDrive


Contents:

THE LLOYD THAXTON SHOW (Black/White (Tinted), 1964, 35 Minutes)
A prime example of the era's dance shows and particularly of the Thaxton show itself, as it was a best-of promotional reel meant to sell this daily show of KCOP-TV Los Angeles in sydication to other stations.

PAUL REVERE AND THE RAIDERS (Color, 1967, 28 Minutes)
The raucous & wonderful tv pilot for the series that was to become known as IT'S HAPPENING featuring their unique mix of music and comedy.

KINKS COLLAGE (Color / Black/White, Various 1960s, 37 Miniutes)
A cluster of great performances on American television shows including some excellent performances on Shindig with Jimmy O'Neil.


Lloyd Thaxton (May 31, 1927 - October 5, 2008) was an American writer, television producer, director, and television host best known for his syndicated pop music television program of the 1960s, The Lloyd Thaxton Show, which began as a local Los Angeles program on KCOP in September 1961. The Lloyd Thaxton Show (sometimes known as "The Lloyd Thaxton Hop") debuted on KCOP as an hour-long presentation from 5 to 6 p.m. The format, much along the lines of American Bandstand, featured local high school students dancing on the soundstage to the latest records. The show was almost totally unscripted and spontaneous. Thaxton's description of the idea: "No one told me what I had to do. I was producing it myself. I was writing it myself." Thaxton frequently clowned around on stage to the music, lip-synching the vocals and accompanying the records on guitar or piano. One favorite recurring skit had the costumed Thaxton on his knees, impersonating painter Toulouse-Lautrec, while lip-synching a current song. He also occasionally "performed" on an odd contraption made from a tennis racket and a bow and arrow that roughly looked like a guitar and "play-synked" popular early-1960s instrumental tunes like "Scratchy" by Travis Wammack and various The Ventures and Link Wray guitar songs. The Lloyd Thaxton Show, with its mix of new music and comedy skits, immediately shot to Number One in the time period, with a viewership of at least 350,000 homes, including those on the East Coast. Many leading rock 'n' roll acts of the time, like The Byrds, Sonny & Cher, The Kinks, The Bobby Fuller Four, The Challengers and others appeared on the program. Thaxton would end each show by saying, "I'm Lloyd Thaxton," followed by the teen audience shouting, "So what," whereupon the Bill Black Combo instrumental of the same name would play.

Happening '68, a rock-and-roll variety show produced by Dick Clark Productions which aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network, debuted on ABC TV on January 6, 1968. Variously known in different forms throughout its two-year run as Happening '68, Happening, Happening '69 and It's Happening, the show followed American Bandstand on Saturday afternoons. Happening '68 was popular enough that ABC added a weekday spin-off. It's Happening ran on Mondays through Fridays from July 15, 1968 through October 25, 1968.When 1968 ended, Happening '68 became just Happening, which was canceled in October 1969. Happening '68 was co-hosted by Mark Lindsay and Paul Revere of Paul Revere And The Raiders, and their band made frequent appearances. There were guest performers lip-synching their latest releases, band contests with celebrity judges and other bits to attract teenage audiences. Prizes were given to all contestants, and the grand prize for each winning band was a record contract with ABC Records.

The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, north London, in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. They are regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s. The band emerged during the height of British rhythm and blues and Merseybeat, and were briefly part of the British Invasion of the United States until their touring ban in 1965. Their third single, the Ray Davies-penned "You Really Got Me", became an international hit, topping the charts in the United Kingdom and reaching the Top 10 in the United States. The Kinks' music drew from a wide range of influences, including American R&B and rock and roll initially, and later adopting British music hall, folk, and country. The band gained a reputation for reflecting English culture and lifestyle, fuelled by Ray Davies' wittily observational writing style, and made apparent in albums such as Face to Face (1966), Something Else (1967), The Village Green Preservation Society (1968), Arthur (1969), Lola Versus Powerman (1970), and Muswell Hillbillies (1971), along with their accompanying singles. After a fallow period in the mid-1970s, the band experienced a revival during the late 1970s and early 1980s with their albums Sleepwalker (1977), Misfits (1978), Low Budget (1979), Give the People What They Want (1981) and State of Confusion (1983). In addition, groups such as Van Halen, the Jam, the Knack, the Pretenders, The Raincoats and the Fall covered their songs, helping to boost the Kinks' record sales. In the 1990s, Britpop acts such as Blur and Oasis cited the band as a major influence. Ray Davies (rhythm guitar, lead vocals, keyboards) and Dave Davies (lead guitar, vocals) remained members throughout the band's 33-year run. Longest-serving member Mick Avory (drums and percussion) was replaced by Bob Henrit, formerly of Argent, in 1984. Original bass guitarist Pete Quaife was replaced by John Dalton in 1969. After Dalton's 1976 departure, Andy Pyle briefly served as the band's bassist before being replaced by Argent bassist Jim Rodford in 1978. Session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins accompanied the band in the studio for many of their recordings in the mid-to-late 1960s. The band became an official five-piece in 1970, when keyboardist John Gosling joined them. Gosling quit in 1978; he was first replaced by ex-Pretty Things member Gordon Edwards, then more permanently by Ian Gibbons in 1979. The band gave its last public performance in 1996 and broke up in 1997 as a result of creative tension between the Davies brothers. The Kinks have had five Top 10 singles on the US Billboard chart. Nine of their albums charted in the Top 40. In the UK, they have had seventeen Top 20 singles and five Top 10 albums. Four Kinks albums have been certified gold by the RIAA and the band have sold over 50 million records worldwide. Among numerous honours, they received the Ivor Novello Award for "Outstanding Service to British Music". In 1990, the original four members of the Kinks were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as the UK Music Hall of Fame in November 2005. In 2018, after years of ruling out a reunion due to the brothers' animosity and the difficult relationship between longtime drummer Mick Avory and Dave, Ray and Dave Davies finally announced they were working to reform the Kinks, with Avory also on board. However, comments made by each of the Davies brothers in 2020 and 2021 would indicate that in the years since the initial announcement, little (if any) progress has been made towards an actual Kinks reunion for a new studio band album.