What 60s tv show is this? (Buffalo Springfield on some variety show)

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I found this video of buffalo springfield

I don’t recognize the tuxedo guy or what show this could be.

Neil kicked ass while pretending to sing “Mr. Soul”, yeah?

Now I actually read the youtube info and it’s some show called “The Hollywood Palace”. But I still don’t know who tuxedo guy is.

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The show is The Hollywood Palace. The host is Tony Martin.

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I used to watch that show, but I must confess I haven’t given it a thought in all these years. **Ed Sullivan ** always comes to mind when I think of those early rock performances.

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I should have pointed out that Tony Martin wasn’t always the host. There were a variety of guest hosts. (Cyd Charisse was Martin’s cohost for that episode.) I think Bing Crosby was the most frequent one.

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I too had forgotten all about that show. Seeing that clip reminds me once again why Ed Sullivan’s show was so much cooler than the rest: no lip-synching.

Now I seem to remember seeing The Who on The Smothers Brothers show, and CSNY on The Johnny Cash Show. I wonder if those were real performances, and if they’re on youtube.

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I could google tony martin, but that’s no fun…

Who the hell is tony martin?

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He’s a singer. He’s been Mr. Cyd Charisse since 1948. Not a bad track record for Hollywood.

VCNJ~

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The Who played live on the Smothers Brothers. That was the episode in which way too much explosive powder was packed into a flash device and the resulting explosion caused Pete Townsend’s partial deafness.

However, not every band even on that show played live. The Jefferson Airplane were told to lip-synch for some reason and Grace Slick famously sang into the amplifier plug instead of the microphone.