January 22nd, 1955-November 21st, 1961 (ABC)

Country and Western music show hosted by Red Foley. It originated for most of its run from Springfield Missouri. Among the show's regulars were Smiley Burnette, Bobby Lord, Wanda Jackson, and Brenda Lee.

Tonight's guests include Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson, and June Carter. 

Red Foley is the host.               

You think this is a show just for teenagers? Just because the singing guests are Paul Anka, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Anita Bryant and Bobby Darin? And Edward Byrnes and Bob Denver (Dobie's friend Maynard) are around for the sketches?
Straighten out, viewer. The producers claim this is a full-blown variety show, with songs of every description. Pat Boone is host, the 60 minutes are taped and exactly one medley will be devoted to sampling these youngsters record hits. 
Rest of the show divides up into four parts of the "Young World."                          

February 15th, 1958-September 10th, 1960 (ABC) 

A half-hour Saturday night rock and roll show hosted by Dick Clark and sponsored by the Beechnut Food Company.

Guests: Fabian and Lloyd Price.    

Host: Dick Clark.                                  

October 18th, 1959-1966, 

A one hour syndicated taped color weekly broadcast, featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The series was awarded a Peabody. Superb music by a 71 piece orchestra in the sumptuous setting of a ballroom. Different guest conductors appear on a weekly basis and take the podium. 

Howard Barlow conductor.                          

October 18th, 1959-1966, 

A one hour syndicated taped color weekly broadcast, featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The series was awarded a Peabody. Superb music by a 71 piece orchestra in the sumptuous setting of a ballroom. Different guest conductors appear on a weekly basis and take the podium. 

Fritz Reiner conducting.                          

January 12, 1959-April 26, 1968. This musical series ran semi regularly for almost ten seasons-sometimes weekly, sometimes biweekly, and sometimes as irregularly scheduled specials. All types of music were presented on the hour series; Donald Voorhees conducted the Bell Telephone Orchestra. 

Hoastess: Parice Munsel leads an all star cast in an evening devoted to the music of Vincent Youmans.  She is assisted by singers Janet Blair, and Earl Wrightson, Jazz man Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. Also, appearing are duo-pianists, Whittemore and Lowe. 


                                                                             

October 18th, 1959-1966, 

A one hour syndicated taped color weekly broadcast, featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The series was awarded a Peabody. Superb music by a 71 piece orchestra in the sumptuous setting of a ballroom. Different guest conductors appear on a weekly basis and take the podium. 

Sir Thomas Beecham conductor.                                        

January 12, 1959-April 26, 1968. This musical series ran semi regularly for almost ten seasons-sometimes weekly, sometimes biweekly, and sometimes as irregularly scheduled specials. All types of music were presented on the hour series; Donald Voorhees conducted the Bell Telephone Orchestra. 

Host:Robert Preston


                                                                

October 18th, 1959-1966, 

A one hour syndicated taped color weekly broadcast, featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The series was awarded a Peabody. Superb music by a 71 piece orchestra in the sumptuous setting of a ballroom. Different guest conductors appear on a weekly basis and take the podium. 

The music of George Gershwin. 

Walter Hendl conductor.                                                     

July 2, 1955-September 4, 1971; 1971-1982 (Syndicated). "The Lawrence Welk Show" presented middle-of-the-road music for almost three decades. Numbers were performed by the members of Welk's television family. That large group included the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet), Alice Lon, Norma Zimmer, Tanya Falan, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, Guy Hovis, Jim Roberts, Ralna English, Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke and former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess.                                                    

October 18th, 1959-1966, 

A one hour syndicated taped color weekly broadcast, featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The series was awarded a Peabody. Superb music by a 71 piece orchestra in the sumptuous setting of a ballroom. Different guest conductors appear on a weekly basis and take the podium. 






Alfred Wallenstein conductor.



 



                                                                              

July 2, 1955-September 4, 1971; 1971-1982 (Syndicated). "The Lawrence Welk Show" presented middle-of-the-road music for almost three decades. Numbers were performed by the members of Welk's television family. That large group included the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet), Alice Lon, Norma Zimmer, Tanya Falan, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, Guy Hovis, Jim Roberts, Ralna English, Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke and former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess.                                                    

A one hour video taped tuneful tour of the ragtime era reliving the excitement of the horse-and-buggy days when ragtime was born. 

Hoagy Carmichael introduces us to the ragtime era (1900-1917) with over fourteen songs and instrumentals being performed by performers Dorothy Loudon, Mae Barnes, Robin Roberts, Billy B. Quartet, Eubie Blake, Ralph Sutton, Dick Wellstood, the Wilbur de Paris Band and the Clara Ward Singers. Musical score by Robert Russell Bennett. Executive producer Donald B. Hyatt. Produced and written by William Nichols. Directed by William Graham. Broadcast live, tape and film.  

                                     

December 8, 1957-June 18, 1961. 
Programs not hosted by Dinah Shore (every 4th week during the season of 1957-58 and 1958-59, more often thereafter until June 1961) were known as "The Chevy Show." 

Presented on "THE CHEVY SHOW." The story of two brothers, Kasim & Ali and Marjiana the slave girl, in this musical comedy highlighting Aladdin's lamp, a 15 foot genie and Ali Baba.             

Presented on "SHIRLEY TEMPLE THEATRE." Toyland's the scene. Young Michael Petit and Angela Cartwright arrive there after running away from miserly Uncle Barnaby, played by Jonathan Winters, whom with three bumbling cutthroats try to do the babes in. Hosts Shirley Temple and her youngsters, Linda Susan, Charles Jr. and Lori. 

Songs:

"Toyland," "Floretta".......................Shirley Temple

"Piper's Song"...................Jonathan Winters, Angela Cartwright, Michel Petit

"Gonzales, Rodrigo and Gonzorgo," "Sailor's Life".....Jerry Colona, Joe Besser, Carl Ballentine

"Meantown"...............................Chorus

"Go to Sleep"..............Angela Cartwright, Michel Petit

"Can't Do the Sum"......Hanley Stafford, Angela Cartwright, Michel Petit

"Doll Dance," "Wooden Soldiers"...........Dancers


NOTE: When Shirley Temple's Storybook children's anthology series originally broadcast as a series 16 specials airing on ABC TV on various nights (Jan. - Dec. 1958). In January of 1959 the program began to run regularly every third Monday night on ABC TV. 
When it moved to NBC in 1960 it became a weekly series and was renamed "The Shirley Temple Show" or "The Shirley Temple Theatre."

                         

The gift of song. Singers June Valli, Susan Reed, Bill Hayes, and Lois Hunt participate in this musical show for the holiday season.  

Narrator and Announcer is Scott Vincent.           

Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians usher in the year 1961 along with Vincent Lopez and his orchestra. Robert Trout reports the festivities from Times Square.             

MEET THE ARTIST  a weekly broadcast with host Don Lowe spotlighting a different entertainer each week. 

Highlights from April 15, 1959 and May 2, 1960 Carnegie Hall benefit performances by Harry Belafonte with host Don Lowe presiding on the ABC Radio Network.  

 We hear over 15 different songs by Harry Belafonte as well and his anecdotal and direct conversation with his Carnegie Hall audience.           

The first of this season's wonderful programs from Carnegie Hall in New York City. Leonard Bernstein conducts, performs and explains. 

This CBS special pays tribute to composer George Gershwin. Maurice Chevalier, Florence Henderson, Frank Sinatra, Julie London, Ethel Merman, and Ron Husmann are all on hand to salute the great composer. One in a series of variety programs sponsored by General Electric. 

Musical Highlights:

"Lady Be Good"- Maurice Chevalier 
"The Man I Love"- Julie London, Florence Henderson 
"Strike Up The Band"- Ethel Merman     
"I've Got A Crush On You"- Frank Sinatra
"Someone To Watch Over Me"- Florence Henderson 
"I Got Rhythm"- Ethel Merman 
Porgy and Bess Dance Medley- Alvin Ailey and Carmen de Lavallade

Host: Richard Rodgers
Ronald Reagan: Series Host 

                                       

The third of six General Electric specials- a review of life in the 1920's and '30s, against a background of George Gershwin's music presented by top name stars: Maurice Chevalier, Florence Henderson, Ron Hussman, Julie London, Ethel Merman and Frank Sinatra. Richard Rodgers is host.             

         THE PLAY OF THE WEEK - Syndicated - 1959-1961
A New York-based dramatic anthology series that relied heavily on talent from Broadway, with occasional musical revues. 
Each Thursday night there was broadcast a staged different play  covering all genres, dramas, comedies, musicals, fantasies, mysteries, etc. 
Underwritten by Standard Oil of New Jersey, the series' executive producer was David Susskind.  

NEW YORK SCRAPBOOK

This was the second WNTA-TV review attempt for Play of the Week which presented two hours of song, dance and sketches about Manhattan and surrounding environs.   

Many bright moments in this program included "Demi Dozen" which had a solid run at Julius Monk's "Upstairs at the Downstairs" nitery.  "Mr. Off-Broadway" is sung by lead Orson Bean. and "Ballad of the Lexington Ave. Express" is sung by Jane Connell. There is a song narrative about a corner preacher by Gerry Matthews. 

Kaye Ballard also belts out a few songs of her own, as well as singers Kenneth Nelson and Maureen Bailey. 

Julian Stein's orchestrations were for piano and from time to time, drums. 
          

         THE PLAY OF THE WEEK - Syndicated - 1959-1961
A New York-based dramatic anthology series that relied heavily on talent from Broadway, with occasional musical revues. 
Each Thursday night there was broadcast a staged different play  covering all genres, dramas, comedies, musicals, fantasies, mysteries, etc. 
Underwritten by Standard Oil of New Jersey, the series' executive producer was David Susskind.  

NEW YORK SCRAPBOOK

This was the second WNTA-TV review attempt for Play of the Week which presented two hours of song, dance and sketches about Manhattan and surrounding environs.   

Many bright moments in this program included "Demi Dozen" which had a solid run at Julius Monk's "Upstairs at the Downstairs" nitery.  "Mr. Off-Broadway" is sung by lead Orson Bean. and "Ballad of the Lexington Ave. Express" is sung by Jane Connell. There is a song narrative about a corner preacher by Gerry Matthews. 

Kaye Ballard also belts out a few songs of her own, as well as singers Kenneth Nelson and Maureen Bailey. 

Julian Stein's orchestrations were for piano and from time to time, drums. 

Duplicate of #10524. 
          

October 18th, 1959-1966, 

A one hour syndicated taped color weekly broadcast, featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The series was awarded a Peabody. Superb music by a 71 piece orchestra in the sumptuous setting of a ballroom. Different guest conductors appear on a weekly basis and take the podium. 

Andre Kostelanetz conductor. 



                                                                              

A 12-part series produced for the National Educational Television & Radio Center by KRMA-TV, Denver Colorado.

The Ragtime Era with host Max Morath, who at the age of 32 is the ideal spokesman. He holds forth at an elegant pianoforte, singing and playing in a lively, authentic style. He' a close student of the period when America's popular music developed, and he sparks the narrative segments with anecdote and erudition that is as bright as the music.

We hum ragtime tunes quite casually today, unaware, as Mr. Morath points out, that ragtime was once a national issue, and that the musicians’ union once passed a resolution censuring this type of music. Mr. Morath explains why ragtime was more than just another kind of tune. He tells of its origins and the men who first wrote it: Scott Joplin, the author of Maple Leaf Rag; John Stark, the first publisher of good ragtime music; James Scoot and others. He defines ragtime, syncopation, polyrhythm, and improvisation. He speaks of the player piano, the importance of the ragtime composer who wrote his music down, and the spread of ragtime across the nation by the end of the first decade of the twentieth century.


Episodes in this series cover American pop music from the 1890's to 1920. Included are broadcasts focusing on the Blues, Ragtime, Musical Comedy, Tin Pan Alley, the Mauve Decade, Those Singin' Songs, Movie Music, the Song Pluggers, Tempos of the Time, and the songs made popular during World War 1.

From radio to television to national fame as a performer, Max Morath became the recognized purveyor of music and popular culture of the ragtime era. That is the way most people remember Max Morath as “Mr. Ragtime.”

In 1959, his epic 12-episode TV series The Ragtime Era, was the first modern educational documentary at KRMA-TV in Denver that both entertained and informed. It ushered in a field now produced by modern documentarians like Ken Burns at Florentine Films. Max wrote, hosted, and performed each 30-minute episode live in one-take and followed that series with other TV projects.

He pioneered educational television with his producer Moss Hall and this series helped move the transition from National Educational Television (NET) to the Public Broadcasting System (PBS).

Archival Television Audio, Inc. has preserved in its archive ten of the twelve part series. Missing is the sixth broadcast in the series, "The Yankee Doodle Boy," and the ninth broadcast in the series, "Emancipation of Women: New Music of the 20's"


With “The Ragtime Era” National Educational Television brings viewers one of the most delightful, and at the same time informative series ever produced. But “The Ragtime Era” is more than a recreation of the music from 1890 to 1920. It is also a careful study of American social history between 1890 and 1920, a period which saw the beginning of the labor movement, modern technical achievements, feminism, the growing importance of Negroes and immigrants. It was a period of activity, unrest, gaiety and real distress. And, finally, “The Ragtime Era” provides the audience with some sound and at the same time uncomplicated, musical theory and analysis. To do all of this KRMA-TV, the Denver affiliate of NET, has drawn on the services of singer-pianist-musician Max Morath, who combines with his performances of ragtime classics a presentation of the pictures, stage sets, and other paraphernalia of “The Ragtime Era.”

Episodes:

Episode #1: The Mauve Decade

Episode #2: Any Rags Today

Episode #3: Lonesome Road

Episode #4: Those Real Singin’ Songs

Episode #5: More Music than Comedy

Episode #6: The Yankee Doodle Boy

Episode #7: Tin Pan Alley

Episode #8: Tin Pan Alley Also Ran

Episode #9: June, Moon, and Spoon (New Music of the '20s)

Episode #10: The Tempos of Our Time

Episode #11: Feet First

Episode #12: The Great War



In this opening episode presented on February 11th, 1961, pianist Max Morath presents music from the Mauve Decade, the 1890's. A retrospective trip back in time exploring music of the 1890s, also called "The Gay Nineties" or "Naughty Nineties." 

Note: Max Morath passed away on June 19th, 2023 at age 96. 

       February 11, 1961 - April 19, 1961

A 12-part series produced for the National Educational Television & Radio Center by KRMA-TV, Denver Colorado.  

The Ragtime Era with host Max Morath, who at the age of 32 is the ideal spokesman. He holds forth at an elegant pianoforte, singing and playing in a lively, authentic style. He' a close student of the period when America's popular music developed, and he sparks the narrative segments with anecdote and erudition that is as bright as the music.
 
We hum ragtime tunes quite casually today, unaware, as Mr. Morath points out, that ragtime was once a national issue, and that the musicians’ union once passed a resolution censuring this type of music. Mr. Morath explains why ragtime was more than just another kind of tune. He tells of its origins and the men who first wrote it: Scott Joplin, the author of Maple Leaf Rag; John Stark, the first publisher of good ragtime music; James Scoot and others. He defines ragtime, syncopation, polyrhythm, and improvisation. He speaks of the player piano, the importance of the ragtime composer who wrote his music down, and the spread of ragtime across the nation by the end of the first decade of the twentieth century.


Episodes in this series cover American pop music from the 1890's to 1920. Included are broadcasts focusing on the Blues, Ragtime, Musical Comedy, Tin Pan Alley, the Mauve Decade, Those Singin' Songs, Movie Music, the Song Pluggers, Tempos of the Time, and the songs made popular during World War 1. 

From radio to television to national fame as a performer, Max Morath became the recognized purveyor of music and popular culture of the ragtime era. That is the way most people remember Max Morath as “Mr. Ragtime.”

In 1959, his epic 12-episode TV series The Ragtime Era, was the first modern educational documentary at KRMA-TV in Denver that both entertained and informed. It ushered in a field now produced by modern documentarians like Ken Burns at Florentine Films. Max wrote, hosted, and performed each 30-minute episode live in one-take and followed that series with other TV projects.

He pioneered educational television with his producer Moss Hall and this series helped move the transition from National Educational Television (NET) to the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). 

Archival Television Audio, Inc. has preserved in its archive ten of the twelve part series. Missing is the sixth broadcast in the series,"The Yankee Doodle Boy," and the ninth broadcast in the series, "Emancipation of Women: New Music of the 20's"


With “The Ragtime Era” National Educational Television brings viewers one of the most delightful, and at the same time informative series ever produced. But “The Ragtime Era” is more than a recreation of the music from 1890 to 1920. It is also a careful study of American social history between 1890 and 1920, a period which saw the beginning of the labor movement, modern technical achievements, feminism, the growing importance of Negroes and immigrants. It was a period of activity, unrest, gaiety and real distress. And, finally, “The Ragtime Era” provides the audience with some sound and at the same time uncomplicated, musical theory and analysis. To do all of this KRMA-TV, the Denver affiliate of NET, has drawn on the services of singer-pianist-musician Max Morath, who combines with his performances of ragtime classics a presentation of the pictures, stage sets, and other paraphernalia of “The Ragtime Era.”

Episodes:

Episode #1: The Mauve Decade

Episode #2: Any Rags Today

Episode #3: Lonesome Road

Episode #4: Those Real Singin’ Songs

Episode #5: More Music than Comedy

Episode #6: The Yankee Doodle Boy

Episode #7: Tin Pan Alley

Episode #8: Tin Pan Alley Also Ran

Episode #9: June, Moon, and Spoon (New Music of the '20s)

Episode #10: The Tempos of Our Time

Episode #11: Feet First

Episode #12: The Great War
                                                                             

October 18th, 1959-1966, 

A one hour syndicated taped color weekly broadcast, featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The series was awarded a Peabody. Superb music by a 71 piece orchestra in the sumptuous setting of a ballroom. Different guest conductors appear on a weekly basis and take the podium. 

Guest: Count Basie



                                                                                           

       February 11, 1961 - April 19, 1961

A 12-part series produced for the National Educational Television & Radio Center by KRMA-TV, Denver Colorado.  

The Ragtime Era with host Max Morath, who at the age of 32 is the ideal spokesman. He holds forth at an elegant pianoforte, singing and playing in a lively, authentic style. He' a close student of the period when America's popular music developed, and he sparks the narrative segments with anecdote and erudition that is as bright as the music. 

Mr. Morath’s subject for this program is the blues: their origin, their musical form, and the new rhythms involved. Combining musical analysis with some excellent performances by Ernie Douglas singing the blues, Mr. Morath presents a program of musical theory, history, and song. He talks about one of the fathers of the blues, WC Handy, and about the spread of the blues from Memphis to London, England. He gives a picture of music whose importance and popularity still continue, half a century later.

Episodes in this series cover American pop music from the 1890's to 1920. Included are broadcasts focusing on the Blues, Ragtime, Musical Comedy, Tin Pan Alley, the Mauve Decade, Those Singin' Songs, Movie Music, the Song Pluggers, Tempos of the Time, and the songs made popular during World War 1. 

From radio to television to national fame as a performer, Max Morath became the recognized purveyor of music and popular culture of the ragtime era. That is the way most people remember Max Morath as “Mr. Ragtime.”

In 1959, his epic 12-episode TV series The Ragtime Era, was the first modern educational documentary at KRMA-TV in Denver that both entertained and informed. It ushered in a field now produced by modern documentarians like Ken Burns at Florentine Films. Max wrote, hosted, and performed each 30-minute episode live in one-take and followed that series with other TV projects.

He pioneered educational television with his producer Moss Hall and this series helped move the transition from National Educational Television (NET) to the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). 

Archival Television Audio, Inc. has preserved in its archive ten of the twelve part series. Missing is the sixth broadcast in the series,"The Yankee Doodle Boy," and the ninth broadcast in the series, "Emancipation of Women: New Music of the 20's"


With “The Ragtime Era” National Educational Television brings viewers one of the most delightful, and at the same time informative series ever produced. But “The Ragtime Era” is more than a recreation of the music from 1890 to 1920. It is also a careful study of American social history between 1890 and 1920, a period which saw the beginning of the labor movement, modern technical achievements, feminism, the growing importance of Negroes and immigrants. It was a period of activity, unrest, gaiety and real distress. And, finally, “The Ragtime Era” provides the audience with some sound and at the same time uncomplicated, musical theory and analysis. To do all of this KRMA-TV, the Denver affiliate of NET, has drawn on the services of singer-pianist-musician Max Morath, who combines with his performances of ragtime classics a presentation of the pictures, stage sets, and other paraphernalia of “The Ragtime Era.”

Episodes:

Episode #1: The Mauve Decade

Episode #2: Any Rags Today

Episode #3: Lonesome Road

Episode #4: Those Real Singin’ Songs

Episode #5: More Music than Comedy

Episode #6: The Yankee Doodle Boy

Episode #7: Tin Pan Alley

Episode #8: Tin Pan Alley Also Ran

Episode #9: June, Moon, and Spoon

Episode #10: The Tempos of Our Time

Episode #11: Feet First

Episode #12: The Great War
                                                                

January 12, 1959-April 26, 1968. This musical series ran semi regularly for almost ten seasons-sometimes weekly, sometimes biweekly, and sometimes as irregularly scheduled specials. All types of music were presented on the hour series; Donald Voorhees conducted the Bell Telephone Orchestra. 

Host:Burl Ives.Salute To London 




                                                                             

July 2, 1955-September 4, 1971; 1971-1982 (Syndicated). "The Lawrence Welk Show" presented middle-of-the-road music for almost three decades. Numbers were performed by the members of Welk's television family. That large group included the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet), Alice Lon, Norma Zimmer, Tanya Falan, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, Guy Hovis, Jim Roberts, Ralna English, Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke and former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess.                                                                                                                     

       February 11, 1961 - April 19, 1961

A 12-part series produced for the National Educational Television & Radio Center by KRMA-TV, Denver Colorado.  

The Ragtime Era with host Max Morath, who at the age of 32 is the ideal spokesman. He holds forth at an elegant pianoforte, singing and playing in a lively, authentic style. He' a close student of the period when America's popular music developed, and he sparks the narrative segments with anecdote and erudition that is as bright as the music. 

Some songs stay alive despite any changes in taste or style, and a large number of the songs we’re singing now were written in the Ragtime Era. Mr. Morath sings many of them and describes why they have remained so popular for so long. The fact that they were written by musicians who were not professional song writers, the use of a simple pattern of notes, and the rhythms which made them easy to sing made these songs memorable. This program features not only Mr. Morath, but also a barbershop quartet.

Episodes in this series cover American pop music from the 1890's to 1920. Included are broadcasts focusing on the Blues, Ragtime, Musical Comedy, Tin Pan Alley, the Mauve Decade, Those Singin' Songs, Movie Music, the Song Pluggers, Tempos of the Time, and the songs made popular during World War 1. 

From radio to television to national fame as a performer, Max Morath became the recognized purveyor of music and popular culture of the ragtime era. That is the way most people remember Max Morath as “Mr. Ragtime.”

In 1959, his epic 12-episode TV series The Ragtime Era, was the first modern educational documentary at KRMA-TV in Denver that both entertained and informed. It ushered in a field now produced by modern documentarians like Ken Burns at Florentine Films. Max wrote, hosted, and performed each 30-minute episode live in one-take and followed that series with other TV projects.

He pioneered educational television with his producer Moss Hall and this series helped move the transition from National Educational Television (NET) to the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). 

Archival Television Audio, Inc. has preserved in its archive ten of the twelve part series. Missing is the sixth broadcast in the series,"The Yankee Doodle Boy," and the ninth broadcast in the series, "Emancipation of Women: New Music of the 20's"


With “The Ragtime Era” National Educational Television brings viewers one of the most delightful, and at the same time informative series ever produced. But “The Ragtime Era” is more than a recreation of the music from 1890 to 1920. It is also a careful study of American social history between 1890 and 1920, a period which saw the beginning of the labor movement, modern technical achievements, feminism, the growing importance of Negroes and immigrants. It was a period of activity, unrest, gaiety and real distress. And, finally, “The Ragtime Era” provides the audience with some sound and at the same time uncomplicated, musical theory and analysis. To do all of this KRMA-TV, the Denver affiliate of NET, has drawn on the services of singer-pianist-musician Max Morath, who combines with his performances of ragtime classics a presentation of the pictures, stage sets, and other paraphernalia of “The Ragtime Era.”

Episodes:

Episode #1: The Mauve Decade

Episode #2: Any Rags Today

Episode #3: Lonesome Road

Episode #4: Those Real Singin’ Songs

Episode #5: More Music than Comedy

Episode #6: The Yankee Doodle Boy

Episode #7: Tin Pan Alley

Episode #8: Tin Pan Alley Also Ran

Episode #9: June, Moon, and Spoon (New Music of the '20s)

Episode #10: The Tempos of Our Time

Episode #11: Feet First

Episode #12: The Great War
                                                                             

October 18th, 1959-1966, 

A one hour syndicated taped color weekly broadcast, featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The series was awarded a Peabody. Superb music by a 71 piece orchestra in the sumptuous setting of a ballroom. Different guest conductors appear on a weekly basis and take the podium. 

Andre Kostelanetz Conductor



                                                                                                        

       February 11, 1961 - April 19, 1961

A 12-part series produced for the National Educational Television & Radio Center by KRMA-TV, Denver Colorado.  

The Ragtime Era with host Max Morath, who at the age of 32 is the ideal spokesman. He holds forth at an elegant pianoforte, singing and playing in a lively, authentic style. He' a close student of the period when America's popular music developed, and he sparks the narrative segments with anecdote and erudition that is as bright as the music. 

Musical comedies broke away from the Viennese operetta in the Ragtime Era, and Mr. Morath spends this program telling about the ancestors of Naughty Marietta, and, later, Oklahoma! and Carousel. Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Cole Porter gained their starts from the impetus of the musical comedies, vaudeville shows and extravaganzas of the Ragtime Era.

Episodes in this series cover American pop music from the 1890's to 1920. Included are broadcasts focusing on the Blues, Ragtime, Musical Comedy, Tin Pan Alley, the Mauve Decade, Those Singin' Songs, Movie Music, the Song Pluggers, Tempos of the Time, and the songs made popular during World War 1. 

From radio to television to national fame as a performer, Max Morath became the recognized purveyor of music and popular culture of the ragtime era. That is the way most people remember Max Morath as “Mr. Ragtime.”

In 1959, his epic 12-episode TV series The Ragtime Era, was the first modern educational documentary at KRMA-TV in Denver that both entertained and informed. It ushered in a field now produced by modern documentarians like Ken Burns at Florentine Films. Max wrote, hosted, and performed each 30-minute episode live in one-take and followed that series with other TV projects.

He pioneered educational television with his producer Moss Hall and this series helped move the transition from National Educational Television (NET) to the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). 

Archival Television Audio, Inc. has preserved in its archive ten of the twelve part series. Missing is the sixth broadcast in the series,"The Yankee Doodle Boy," and the ninth broadcast in the series, "Emancipation of Women: New Music of the 20's"


With “The Ragtime Era” National Educational Television brings viewers one of the most delightful, and at the same time informative series ever produced. But “The Ragtime Era” is more than a recreation of the music from 1890 to 1920. It is also a careful study of American social history between 1890 and 1920, a period which saw the beginning of the labor movement, modern technical achievements, feminism, the growing importance of Negroes and immigrants. It was a period of activity, unrest, gaiety and real distress. And, finally, “The Ragtime Era” provides the audience with some sound and at the same time uncomplicated, musical theory and analysis. To do all of this KRMA-TV, the Denver affiliate of NET, has drawn on the services of singer-pianist-musician Max Morath, who combines with his performances of ragtime classics a presentation of the pictures, stage sets, and other paraphernalia of “The Ragtime Era.”

Episodes:

Episode #1: The Mauve Decade

Episode #2: Any Rags Today

Episode #3: Lonesome Road

Episode #4: Those Real Singin’ Songs

Episode #5: More Music than Comedy

Episode #6: The Yankee Doodle Boy

Episode #7: Tin Pan Alley

Episode #8: Tin Pan Alley Also Ran

Episode #9: June, Moon, and Spoon (New Music of the '20s)

Episode #10: The Tempos of Our Time

Episode #11: Feet First

Episode #12: The Great War
                                                                                          

July 2, 1955-September 4, 1971; 1971-1982 (Syndicated). "The Lawrence Welk Show" presented middle-of-the-road music for almost three decades. Numbers were performed by the members of Welk's television family. That large group included the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet), Alice Lon, Norma Zimmer, Tanya Falan, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, Guy Hovis, Jim Roberts, Ralna English, Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke and former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess.                                                    

December 8, 1957-June 18, 1961. 
Programs not hosted by Dinah Shore (every 4th week during the season of 1957-58 and 1958-59, more often thereafter until June 1961) were known as "The Chevy Show." 

Presented on "THE CHEVY SHOW." An original musical fantasy, based on a story by Stephen Vincent Benet, about an Irishman who sets off for America.   

The leprechaun Rory and his friends are portrayed by the Baird Marionettes. Book by A. J. Russell from  a story by Stephen Vincent Benet. Music by David Saxon. Lyrics by Diane Lampert and Peter Farrow. 
Songs include, "Every Little Boy," "Watcha Do on Sunday,?" "Hoo Boo,""Shenanigans," "Watersprite Ballet," and Goin' Green."   

NOTE: A "LOST" television broadcast only survives on B/W 16mm original negative stock and separate 16mm neg. optical track...not processed since its original broadcast almost sixty years ago. 

Unlike many other musical productions for television during the 1950's and 1960's NO LP was conceived or created for this presentation.

The ATA original reel to reel pristine direct line audio recording of O'HALLORAN'S LUCK was completed at the time of its one time airing, in color, on NBC TV.