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The Lively Ones Season 1, Episode 1: Show A

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The premiere episode features singer Peggy Lee, ""cool jazz"" from Dave Brubeck and his Quartet, bandleader Woody Herman and His New Thundering Herd, and R&B vocalist Damita Jo. Watch The Lively Ones Season 1, Episode 1 Show A in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of The Lively Ones Season 1, Episode 1 and share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Episodes

8 episodes
1

Show A

The premiere episode features singer Peggy Lee, ""cool jazz"" from Dave Brubeck and his Quartet, bandleader Woody Herman and His New Thundering Herd, and R&B vocalist Damita Jo.

30 min
2

Show B

This show features jazz singing from Fitzgerald and Williams, comedy by Brill & McCall, noted drummers Krupa, Bellson and Manne, and Japanese pantomimist Mamoko. Host Vic Damone sings ""Tonight"", Ella Fitzgerald performs ""Body and Soul"" and ""Lady Be Good"", and Joe Williams does ""Every Day I Have the Blues."" The off-beat treatment is given to the drum trio, who perform ""Bases Loaded"" at the Los Angeles Chavez Ravine/Dodger baseball stadium, and to Mamoko who is seen flying a kite on a Pacific beach.

30 min
3

Show C

This episode features Stan Kenton and his band, folk vocal group The New Christy Minstrels, folk singing duo Joe and Eddie, ""cool jazz"" trumpeter Shorty Rogers and his Giants and pop pianist Peter Nero. Nero performs ""Something's Coming"" and the Rogers group does ""Not Really the Blues,"" both set at a Nike missile base, while the New Christy Minstrels live it up at a beach party with ""Saint's Train"" (a hybrid of ""When the Saints Come Marching In"" and ""This Train""). Damone is featured with ""Charmaine"" in a studio recording session and Joe and Eddie perform ""Did You Hear About Jerry?"" in a nightclub setting. In director Barry Shear's far-out department, Kenton leads an orchestra of disembodied instruments for ""Malaguena"" and a Mobilux film fuses abstract objects with a jazz background.

30 min
4

Show E

This show spotlights impressionist Frank Gorshin, pop singer Jack Jones with his hit ""Lollipops and Roses,"" the Brazilian jazz guitar of Laurindo Almeida on ""Bad and the Beautiful,"" West Coast jazz singer Ruth Olay and lutenist Jack Marshall. Host Vic Damone sings ""Have You Met Miss Jones?""

30 min
5

Show F

This program features pop diva Miss Peggy Lee, singer/pianist Buddy Greco, folk pop vocals from The New Christy Minstrels, comedy by Brill & McCall and piano jazz from Oscar Peterson.

30 min
6

Show D

Vic Damone's ""Lively Ones"" on this episode are pop singer Jack Jones, the folk group The Limeliters, comedy song stylist Dorothy Loudon, California jazz singer Ruth Olay, composer/pianist Andre Previn, and host Damone at Yale University joining the Yale Whiffenpoof Chorus for their signature song. In a Roman arena (Los Angeles Chavez Ravine/Dodger Stadium) Jones serenades a hungry tiger with ""It's a Lonesome Old Town,"" while 'Emporer' Damone ponders his fate. Dorothy Loudon performs ""I'm Not a Real Hot Mama"" and ""Mobile"" at another arena-a Hollywood night club; the Limeliters entertain with ""Mama Don't 'Low"" at a poolside party and Previn contributes the Second Movement of Gershwin's Concerto in F.

30 min
7

Show G

This program featured jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald and one of her frequent collaborators.

30 min
8

Show H

On this episode Cal Tjader and his Latin jazz band perform ""The Continental,"" Si Zentner, with his Big Band sound, contributes ""Take Five"" and ""Up A Lazy River,"" vibraphonist Terry Gibbs and jazz singer Chris Connor, who sings ""Good-bye."" Also shown is another Mobilux film of abstract forms set to a modern jazz background.

30 min