The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

For an earlier television series starring the same performer, see The Dinah Shore Show.

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show intro screen
Genre	Variety
Directed by	Bob Banner
Presented by	Dinah Shore
Theme music composer	Leo Corday Leon Carr
Opening theme	"See The U.S.A. In Your Chevrolet"
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	218
Production
Producer(s)	Bob Banner Robert Wells
Running time	45–48 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Picture format	Color
Audio format	Monaural
Original run	October 5, 1956 (1956-10-05) – May 12, 1963 (1963-05-12)

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.

Synopsis

The program began as a series of monthly specials substituting in the regular time slot of the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports. The first episode aired on October 5, 1956. By this time, Shore was already a veteran television performer, having hosted for five seasons the 15-minute long Dinah Shore Show, also sustained by Chevrolet, which was in its final season (the final season for all 15-minute long prime time network entertainment series) when The Dinah Shore Chevy Show was launched. The series featured celebrity guests from the worlds of music, theater, sports, and movies.^[1]

The program was well-received enough to be renewed the following fall as a weekly series on Sunday nights, where it was to remain until the premiere of Bonanza at the start of the 1961-62 season, after Dinah ended her decade-long association with Chevrolet following the 1960-61 season. At this point, it was returned to being part of an alternating Friday night lineup, and retitled simply The Dinah Shore Show (with Purex becoming her primary sponsor). It its final run, from October 14, 1962 to May 1963, it appeared on Sunday nights following Bonanza.

The last broadcast occurred on May 12, 1963, but Shore was to remain a staple of American television in various roles for years after the demise of this series.^[1]

The show won four Emmy Awards during its run. ^[2]

Series regulars

Performers

• The Skylarks (1956-1957)
• The Even Dozen (1961-1962)

Dancers

• The Tony Charmoli Dancers (1957-1962)
• The Nick Castle Dancers (1962-1963)

Music

• The Harry Zimmerman Orchestra (1957-1961, 1962-1963)
• Frank DeVol and His Orchestra (1961-1962)

Guest stars

Guest stars included:

Edie Adams Eve Arden Julie Andrews Cliff Arquette Tony Bennett Joey Bishop George Burns Red Buttons Sid Caesar Art Carney Nat King Cole Perry Como Robert Cummings Vic Damone Bette Davis Joan Davis Dizzy Dean Dolores del Rio Jimmy Durante Dale Evans Tom Ewell Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Ella Fitzgerald Zsa Zsa Gabor James Garner Betty Garrett Betty Grable Mahalia Jackson

Burl Ives Boris Karloff Peter Lawford Steve Lawrence Peggy Lee Ida Lupino Gisele MacKenzie (six times) Shirley MacLaine Fred MacMurray Marcel Marceau Dean Martin Ethel Merman Ricardo Montalbán Tony Randall Ginger Rogers Roy Rogers Frank Sinatra Barbra Streisand Shirley Temple Danny Thomas Mel Tormé Gwen Verdon Cornel Wilde Andy Williams Jonathan Winters

References

1. ^ ^{a b} The Dinah Shore Show at The Museum of Broadcast Communications
2. ^ "Towering Song of 1998". 1998 Award and Induction Ceremony. Songwriters Hall of Fame. http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/ceremony/entry/C3110/5081. Retrieved 2008-12-17. 

External links

• The Dinah Shore Chevy Show at the Internet Movie Database
• The Dinah Shore Chevy Show at TV.com
• The Dinah Shore Chevy Show at TV.com
• Dinah Shore Chevrolet Commercial at ADmusicDB