The Lively Ones Episode Rating Graph
Jul 1962 - Sep 1963
The Lively Ones is an American musical variety series hosted by Vic Damone that aired on NBC in the summers of 1962 and 1963.
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The Lively Ones Episode Guide
Show A
S1 Ep1
1.0
26th Jul 1962
The premiere episode features singer Peggy Lee, ""cool jazz"" from Dave Brubeck and his Quartet, bandleader Woody Herman and His New Thundering Herd, and R&B vocalist Damita Jo.
Show B
S1 Ep2
2nd Aug 1962
This show features jazz singing from Fitzgerald and Williams, comedy by Brill & McCall, noted drummers Krupa, Bellson and Manne, and Japanese pantomimist Mamoko. Host Vic Damone sings ""Tonight"", Ella Fitzgerald performs ""Body and Soul"" and ""Lady Be Good"", and Joe Williams does ""Every Day I Have the Blues."" The off-beat treatment is given to the drum trio, who perform ""Bases Loaded"" at the Los Angeles Chavez Ravine/Dodger baseball stadium, and to Mamoko who is seen flying a kite on a Pacific beach.
Show C
S1 Ep3
9th Aug 1962
This episode features Stan Kenton and his band, folk vocal group The New Christy Minstrels, folk singing duo Joe and Eddie, ""cool jazz"" trumpeter Shorty Rogers and his Giants and pop pianist Peter Nero. Nero performs ""Something's Coming"" and the Rogers group does ""Not Really the Blues,"" both set at a Nike missile base, while the New Christy Minstrels live it up at a beach party with ""Saint's Train"" (a hybrid of ""When the Saints Come Marching In"" and ""This Train""). Damone is featured with ""Charmaine"" in a studio recording session and Joe and Eddie perform ""Did You Hear About Jerry?"" in a nightclub setting. In director Barry Shear's far-out department, Kenton leads an orchestra of disembodied instruments for ""Malaguena"" and a Mobilux film fuses abstract objects with a jazz background.
Show E
S1 Ep4
16th Aug 1962
This show spotlights impressionist Frank Gorshin, pop singer Jack Jones with his hit ""Lollipops and Roses,"" the Brazilian jazz guitar of Laurindo Almeida on ""Bad and the Beautiful,"" West Coast jazz singer Ruth Olay and lutenist Jack Marshall. Host Vic Damone sings ""Have You Met Miss Jones?""
Show F
S1 Ep5
23rd Aug 1962
This program features pop diva Miss Peggy Lee, singer/pianist Buddy Greco, folk pop vocals from The New Christy Minstrels, comedy by Brill & McCall and piano jazz from Oscar Peterson.
Show D
S1 Ep6
30th Aug 1962
Vic Damone's ""Lively Ones"" on this episode are pop singer Jack Jones, the folk group The Limeliters, comedy song stylist Dorothy Loudon, California jazz singer Ruth Olay, composer/pianist Andre Previn, and host Damone at Yale University joining the Yale Whiffenpoof Chorus for their signature song. In a Roman arena (Los Angeles Chavez Ravine/Dodger Stadium) Jones serenades a hungry tiger with ""It's a Lonesome Old Town,"" while 'Emporer' Damone ponders his fate. Dorothy Loudon performs ""I'm Not a Real Hot Mama"" and ""Mobile"" at another arena-a Hollywood night club; the Limeliters entertain with ""Mama Don't 'Low"" at a poolside party and Previn contributes the Second Movement of Gershwin's Concerto in F.
Show G
S1 Ep7
6th Sep 1962
This program featured jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald and one of her frequent collaborators.
Show H
S1 Ep8
13th Sep 1962
On this episode Cal Tjader and his Latin jazz band perform ""The Continental,"" Si Zentner, with his Big Band sound, contributes ""Take Five"" and ""Up A Lazy River,"" vibraphonist Terry Gibbs and jazz singer Chris Connor, who sings ""Good-bye."" Also shown is another Mobilux film of abstract forms set to a modern jazz background.
The first episode of The Lively Ones aired on July 26, 1962.
The last episode of The Lively Ones aired on September 12, 1963.
There are 16 episodes of The Lively Ones.
There are 2 seasons of The Lively Ones.
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The Lively Ones has ended.