Singer Dotty Mack (real name Dorothy Macaluso) hosted this weekly show – originally called Girl Alone – from Cincinnati where a cast lip-synced and danced to songs of the period.
Most of the songs mimed were current pop favourites or novelty songs by such stars as Eddie Fisher, Perry Como, or Patti Page. Sometimes puppets or other visual aids accompanied the mimes.
The series ran on the DuMont Television Network from February to August 1953 and switched to ABC in September 1953.
Things began to get complicated when rock & roll started taking over the hit parade in 1955. Although Dotty gamely included such records as Rock Around The Clock in her repertoire, the sight of pleasant young people pantomiming to Elvis Presley or Buddy Holly records became slightly ludicrous and the show quietly passed from the screen in September 1956.
Dotty Mack died on 11 November 2019, aged 90.
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