The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American

The program began as a series of nine monthly specials substituting in the regular time slot of the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports. NBC first tested the singing star in an hour long format with two prime time specials early in 1956. The first Chevy Show episode aired on October 5, 1956, with Frank Sinatra as guest. By this time, Shore was already a veteran television performer, having hosted five seasons of the 15-minute-long Dinah Shore Show, also sustained by Chevrolet. It was in its final season (the final season for all 15-minute prime time network entertainment series) when The Dinah Shore Chevy Show was launched. The series featured celebrity guests from the worlds of music, theater, sports, and movies.^[1] During the fourth season, Carl Reiner was one of the show's writers and sometimes appeared on-camera as well, adding levity to a show which primarily focused on music.

The program was well-received and renewed the following fall as a weekly Sunday night series, broadcast in color, where it remained until

.

In 1970 Dinah Shore returned as a staple of American television in various daytime talk shows for NBC and syndication for more than twenty years after the conclusion of this series.[1]

The show won four Emmy Awards during its run.^[2]

Beginning in 2011 black-and-white kinescope episodes of the series aired on the Jewish Life Television network. Original color videotape episodes were added to the JLTV line up in 2015. This run concluded in 2017.

Series regulars

Performers

• The Skylarks (1956-1957)
• The Even Dozen (1961-1962)

Dancers

• The Tony Charmoli Dancers (1957-1962)
• The Nick Castle Dancers (1962-1963)

Music

• The Harry Zimmerman Orchestra (1957-1961, 1962-1963)
• Frank DeVol
  and His Orchestra (1961-1962)

List of guest stars

• Edie Adams (11-24-57)
• Anna Maria Alberghetti (4-20-58)
• Julie Andrews (1-12-58)
• Paul Anka (2-26-61)
• Eve Arden (4-13-58/1-11-59)
• Cliff Arquette (5-17-59/5-24-59/11-15-59)
• Pearl Bailey (1-24-60)
• Tony Bennett (5-31-59)
• Polly Bergen (1-31-60/4-9-61)
• Joey Bishop (4-19-57/3-20-60/4-30-61)
• Pat Boone (3-22-57/3-9-58/10-11-59)
• Rossano Brazzi (12-1-57/2-14-60)
• George Burns (4-19-59/4-24-60/12-29-61)
• Red Buttons (6-1-58)
• Sid Caesar (11-16-58)
• Art Carney (1-13-57/5-17-57/1-12-58/6-15-58/10-5-58/10-11-59/5-22-60/11-20-60)
• Johnny Carson (1-31-60)
• Marge and Gower Champion (4-10-56/11-24-57/2-9-58/6-15-58/10-19-58/5-10-59)
• Nat King Cole (10-9-60/12-29-61)
• Perry Como (1-17-56/1-13-57)
• Robert Cummings (10-27-57/3-9-58/11-30-58/5-10-59)
• Vic Damone (4-3-60/6-1-62)
• Bobby Darin (4-14-63)
• Bette Davis (2-23-58)
• Dizzy Dean (10-5-56/12-16-56)
• Dolores del Río (3-27-60)
• Howard Duff (5-18-58/1-10-60)
• Leo Durocher (4-16-61)
• Jimmy Durante (12-1-57/10-12-58)
• Dale Evans (12-16-56)
• Nanette Fabray (6-14-57/10-20-57/2-16-58/5-11-58/6-25-61/10-6-61)
• Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
  (2-8-59)
• Ella Fitzgerald (10-12-58/3-8-59/1-10-60/12-11-60/3-17-63)
• Eddie Foy Jr. (5-11-58)
• Stan Freberg (6-29-58/7-13-58/7-27-58/8-10-58/9-28-58)
• Zsa Zsa Gabor (10-11-59)
• James Garner (2-26-61/4-16-61/11-11-62)
• Benny Goodman (2-28-60)
• George Gobel (11-30-56/2-15-59)
• Betty Grable (11-2-56/3-8-59/11-22-59/4-3-60)
• Jose Greco
  (4-20-58/11-16-58/4-5-59)
• Al Hirt (12-11-60/1-8-61/2-26-61/4-9-61 /10-6-61/2-17-63)
• Betty Hutton (5-17-57/3-23-58)
• Mahalia Jackson (6-1-58/11-16-58/3-22-59/12-6-59/5-22-60)
• Ingemar Johansson (10-4-59/1-24-60/2-5-61)
• Van Johnson (4-20-58/1-25-59/5-17-59)
• Dean Jones (6-14-57 /10-20-57)
• Louis Jourdan (10-5-58/2-1-59)
• Burl Ives (10-5-58/12-21-58)
• Boris Karloff (5-17-57/10-27-57)
• Stubby Kaye (1-17-56/4-10-56/1-13-57)
• Julius LaRosa
  (5-11-58/10-26-58)
• Peter Lawford (1-26-58/10-12-58/5-3-59)
• Steve Lawrence (2-23-58/6-8-58/5-10-59)
• Peggy Lee (5-17-59)
• Liberace (1-20-63)
• Ida Lupino (5-18-58/1-10-60)
• Gisele MacKenzie (1-17-56/5-11-58/2-22-59)
• Shirley MacLaine (11-30-56/3-22-57/11-3-57/3-9-58/6-8-58/12-14-58)
• Fred MacMurray (6-14-57/12-29-57)
• Gordon MacRae (11-23-58/2-22-59/3-20-60)
• Marcel Marceau (1-17-56/11-1-59)
• Dean Martin (4-10-56/4-19-57/11-3-61/11-11-62)
• Groucho Marx (10-4-59)
• Elaine May (5-8-58/12-28-58/5-31-59)
• Audrey Meadows (1-18-59/3-20-60/1-26-62)
• Ethel Merman (1-19-58/10-19-58)
• Ann Miller (12-29-57)
• George Montgomery (11-24-57/6-8-58/11-23-58/11-22-59/10-6-61)
• Mike Nichols (5-8-58/12-28-58/5-31-59)
• Red Norvo (1-11-59/4/12-59/4-24-60/5-14-61)
• Janis Paige (3-16-58/5-3-59/3-13-60)
• Minnie Pearl (6-14-57)
• Jane Powell (2-8-59)
• André Previn (2-15-59/3-15-59/1-31-60/4-30-61/4-14-63)
• Tony Randall (3-8-59/4-12-59)
• Carl Reiner (4-19-59/10-4-59/10-11-59/11-1-59/12-6-59/1-24-60/2-28-60/3-20-60/5-8-60)
• Ginger Rogers (5-18-58/3-22-59)
• Roy Rogers (12-16-56/12-22-57)
• Cesar Romero (3-22-59)
• Dick Shawn (1-11-59)
• Frank Sinatra (10-5-56/1-26-58/12-9-62)
• Keely Smith (11-24-57/4-5-59/2-23-62)
• Gale Storm (10-27-57/12-21-58)
• Barbra Streisand (5-12-63)
• Shirley Temple (5-4-58/12-14-58)
• Danny Thomas (10-20-57/10-19-58)
• Mel Tormé (2-16-58/2-8-59)
• Miyoshi Umeki (6-8-58/1-22-61)
• Gwen Verdon (10-5-58/10-4-59)
• Robert Wagner (11-3-57)
• Andy Williams (5-8-60/12-11-60)
• Jonathan Winters (10-23-60/3-5-61)
• Ed Wynn (2-16-58)
• Lucho Gatica (9-04-60)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Dinah Shore at The Museum of Broadcast Communications
2. ^ "Towering Song of 1998". 1998 Award and Induction Ceremony. Songwriters Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2008-12-01. Retrieved 2008-12-17.

External links

• The Dinah Shore Chevy Show at
  IMDb
• Public domain episode on the Internet Archive
• May 17 1959 episode on the Internet Archive
• Episode Swingin' at the Summit on the Internet Archive