What he did do, for a couple of kids a long time ago, was make radio feel like a whole lot of fun. One of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the Hit Parade title, which came from the Hit Parade radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike. Gary Girard never became a big deejay star, though he did eventually own WKCD in Mystic. Vintage Lucky Strike Fan Frank Sinatra 1943 Cigarettes Your Hit Parade Rare Ad. song, Your Hit Parade, choreography, This episode of 'Your Hit Parade' popular music show dates to. Long before iPods, cassettes or even 8-tracks, he had a personal entertainment device. Hit Parade Radio Studio The program’s roots actually went back a bit further starting in 1928 with the program titled Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra (tobacco was definitely King back then). 1958 HIT PARADE CIGARETTES vintage magazine advertisement Pleasure up. TV SHOW w/ RAYMOND SCOTT LUCKY STRIKE ADS. ![]() Girard liked music so much he figured out how to hook up a 45 rpm record player on the center console of his car. Mark and I were talking about him this weekend and Mark remembered something else. The program morphed into the Lucky Strike Dance Hour and then The Lucky Strike Magic Carpet Show before settling in for a long run as Your Hit Parade. It was just weekend shows in a largely empty station, but what he was letting us in on was the mystique of radio - speaking into that microphone and having the words roll across the whole state. ![]() Mark would sometimes bring records of his own, and in those days of looser playlists, Girard would say, sure, let's spin 'em. We'd look through the station's library and check out new promo records that had come in. My friend Mark and I, high school kids enchanted by radio, would go to the station and he'd let us hang around, talking rock 'n' roll. I met him at WPOP in Hartford in the early 1960s, when he was doing weekend shifts. Arguably the largest and most strategically devised campaign for any cigarette in history,was for the Lucky Strike brand of cigarettes throughout the course of the 1920’s and into the 1930’s.
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