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Genre music Original language(s) English Original network CBC Television Final episode date 28 June 1967 Number of seasons 4 | 5.9/10 TV Country of origin Canada No. of seasons 4 First episode date 3 October 1963 Network CBC Television Cast Alex Trebek | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Producer(s) Stan Jacobson (1963-1964)
Allan Angus
Pierre Desjardins
Ray McConnell
Manny Pitson
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Music Hop is a Canadian music television series which aired on CBC Television from 1963 to 1967.
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Premise
Pop and rock music was featured in this series for youth, essentially a Canadian version of American Bandstand.
Production
The first season (1963–1964) was a Toronto production with host Alex Trebek who welcomed visiting musicians and introduced songs from the house musicians before a studio audience of dancing teenagers. He was replaced in following seasons by Dave Mickie, a disc jockey for CKEY in that time. Series musicians were Norm Amadio and the Rhythm Rockers, joined by The Girlfriends who were a female vocal trio. The producer of this season was Stan Jacobson.
The second season's schedule expanded to all weekdays with other Canadian cities contributing to the production of Music Hop:
Scheduling
The first season of this half-hour series was broadcast Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. (Eastern) from its debut 3 October 1963. In the following two seasons, it was seen every weekday, also at 5:30 p.m., since 28 September 1964. In its final season, the Friday episode was omitted from 3 October 1966 until its final broadcast on 28 June 1967.
Reception
Music Hop attracted approximately one million weekly viewers according to CBC estimates, mostly under age 20, with an estimated one-third of those viewers adults.