Hullabaloo

What a sight to see Little Joe come out on the stage and sing. And not bad at that. It was more fun though to see Paul Revere and the Raiders, Mamas and Papas, and Jackie De Shannon. Jackie. Good Lord. Back in high school I thought she was the hottest ticket in town. I must have been looking out the wrong side of my eyes, cause this girl is not a bit pretty. I watched this show many times way back there and I must say it is not as much fun now as it was during those long, hot Houston summers of the mid-60's. But still a lot of fun. Jackie, where did you go?

Such an amazing show from the 60s. Unlike other related music shows from this decade that frequently wiped the masters, leaving very little to see, Hullabaloo has been fully archived, meaning you can see all the greats from that time. From the dancers, to the eccentric sets, the entire show is just amazing.

I wasn't born when this show originally aired on NBC, nor was I even from U. S., but it is definitely one of my favourite shows to watch. The only way to watch this now is either on the Internet or on DVD, but I personally think Hullabaloo should be on streaming services or aired on television. The only problem about the show isn't even the show itself, but the fact that the vast majority of the shows original colour tapes were wiped, and most of the episodes (with the exception of three) survive as low-quality black and white kinescopes, so we can't see its bright and colourful surroundings, but at the end of the day, it's better than nothing, the fact that all the wiped episodes had copies was great considering the wiping policies back then.

Hullabaloo is one of the greatest music shows of the 60s, if not ever.

Welcome to the "Swingin' Sixties" when "Hullabaloo" made its TV debut (1965-1966) on prime-time broadcasting and, thus, provided lots of great public exposure for the pop-music talent (from both America and Britain) that existed at the time.

Believe me - "Hullabaloo" is a nostalgic "Blast-From-The-Past" that is certain to entertain those viewers who really dig all of the groovy sights, sounds, and fashions from that unique era in pop music history.

This was my favorite show when I was a teenager. I just Loved the dancers.

This is actually a review of a retrospective special of this show as hosted by Peter Nooone of Herman's Hermits. He intros many of the acts that appeared on the show during its two season run. If not him, then many of the show's guest hosts in vintage clips do it. By the way, because many of the tapes are now lost, most of the clips are black-and-white kinescopes and not the color video originally presented. Anyway, the most exciting of the performances involved the show's dancers, usually female, shaking up a storm like during The Young Rascals' "Good Lovin'" or Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots are Made for Walkin'" which also has the bizarre sight of giant boots on stage. In some other performances, those dancers are standing still whether as mannequins or, as in The Byrds' "The Times, They Are A-Changin'", as hunters about to aim! Since this aired on PBS, there were also pledge breaks that had interviews with the producer, choreographer, one of the dancers, and Leslie Gore who performed on the show though no clips of any of her songs were shown except as a snippet. Overall, this was quite an enjoyable special but it left me wanting more. Maybe there are some individual eps somewhere here online...P.S. During the Trini Lopez segment where he sang "If I Had a Hammer", my mom reminisced about seeing him in concert with Dad as her date when they lived in Chicago. They happened to have a couple of his albums at the time.