Kraft Music Hall

Kraft Music Hall

1958
★★☆☆☆ 4.7/10
📺 13 Seasons
🎬 214 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 60 min/episode
Kraft Music Hall is an umbrella title for several television series aired by NBC in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s in the musical variety genre, sponsored by Kraft Foods, the producers of a well-known line of cheeses and related dairy products. Their commercials were usually announced by "The Voice of Kraft", Ed Herlihy.

Seasons

Season 1
1958 • 48 Episodes
Scheduled guests: --The Dunhills, precision dancers who toured with Milton Berle during the summer of 1958. The trio was made up of Walter Long, Bob Roberts and Art Stanley.
Season 10
1967 • 40 Episodes
--Herb Alpert (host) --Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - ""I've Got a Lot of Livin' to Do,"" ""Habanera,"" and an international medley --Louis Armstrong Quintet - ""Cabaret"" --Louis Armstrong and Herb Alpert - ""Mame"" --Louis Armstrong and Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - ""Mack the Knife"" --Jackie Vernon (comedian) --Jackie Vernon & the Tijuana Brass - ""Spanish Flea"" --Robin Wilson - ""What Now, My Love?"" --dancers - ""Music to Watch Girls By"" (choreography by Peter Gennaro)
Season 11
1968 • 41 Episodes
--Eddy Arnold (co-host) --Don Rickles (co-host) --Alan King (co-host) --Bobbie Gentry --Rocky Graziano --Joe Louis --Sugar Ray Robinson
Season 12
1969 • 40 Episodes
--Alan King (host) --Alan King and Browning Bryant - ""The Straight Life"" --Browning Bryant (teenage singer) - ""Shenandoah"" --Carol Lawrence - ""Wait till the Sun Shines, Nellie"" --Carol Lawrence and Alan King - medley: ""Summertime,"" ""Blue Skies"" and ""Up a Lazy River"" --Marian Mercer (actress, from Broadway's ""Promises, Promises"") --Carl Ballantine (comedian)
Season 13
1970 • 37 Episodes
Season Premiere: ""Women's Liberation"" theme Sketches: --Eva Gabor plays a female baseball player giving an interview. --A newly liberated woman (Eva Gabor) and her husband (Paul Lynde) share their newfound happiness with friends (Alan King & Anne Meara). --An elderly couple (Alan King and Totie Fields) argue over who is is charge of the family. The couple sings ""Do You Love Me?"" --A runaway wife returns home. The husband is Alan King and the wife is...Paul Lynde!

Crew

Writer
Carroll Moore, Norman Barasch, Tony Webster
Producer
Dwight Hemion, Gary Smith

Network

NBC

Keywords

variety show