On the Hit Parade
television show, the program's featured vocalists routinely sang to other
performers, who, while acting with the singers in the program's song
dramatizations, remained silent.
Singers
from the show's choral group, the "Hit Paraders," were often sung to, as
were Hit Parade dancers; outside
actors were also hired for this purpose.
The picture, here, is of my mother, Sue Bennett, singing the
song "Anytime," on the March
29, 1952 telecast of the program. (It was
the number two song on the Hit Parade, that week; the first-place song was "Wheel of
Fortune.") She is singing to Bob
Herget, one of the Hit Parade dancers.
The picture is from a group of photos I found in 2012, in my
father's apartment. The pictures are of
a television screen/television set, and they show parts of a couple of Hit
Parade telecasts, as the programs were in progress. I do not know who took them.
Bob Herget later became a prominent choreographer, for both
television, and Broadway. (He was later, indeed, a choreographer for Your Hit Parade.)
Mr. Herget died in 1981.
Here is his obituary from The New York Times:
Here, as well, is an entry about his career on the Internet
Broadway Database (ibdb.com):
