1)

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR, ADVENTURES IN MUSIC

Category:

Music Special

Network:

NBC

Date:

Jan 12, 1959

Co-stars:

Renata Tebaldi (Metropolitan Opera Star), Maurice Evans (Actor),

Bill and Cora Baird (Puppeteers), NYC Ballet Company,

Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale (Pianists),

Donald Voorhees and the Bell Telephone Orchestra

Belafonte sings:

Turn Around, Hallelujah I Love Her So, Jump Down, Spin Around

Take My Mother Home, In That Great Gettin' Up Mornin'

Tebaldi:

Arias from Madame Butterfly - Un bel di (one fine day),

Tu, tu piccolo iddio (You, you beloved little idol)

Evans:

Recites verses from Ogden Nash to the music "Carnival Of The Animals."

NYC Ballet Co:

Souvenirs

Note:-

2)

AN EVENING WITH BELAFONTE

Category:

Network:

BBC

Date:

Sept 20, 1959

Co-stars:

Belafonte:

3)

TONIGHT WITH BELAFONTE

Category:

Music Special

Network:

CBS

Date:

Thursday, Dec 10, 1959

Prod. & Directed:

Phil Stein, Norman Jewison

Musical Director:

Robert Corman

Co-stars:

Odetta, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Mary Hinkson, Arthur Mitchell,

The Belafonte Folk Singers

Belafonte:

Bald Headed Woman, Sylvie (with B. Singers), Mo' Yet (with Children),

Coffee Grows On White Oak Trees (with B. Singers),

Jump Down, Spin Around (with Children and B. Singers),

John Henry, My Lord What A Mornin' (with B. Singers),

A Little Lyric Of Great Importance (with B. Singers),

A Hole In The Bucket (with Odetta),

Suzanne, In That Great Gettin' Up Mornin' (with B. Singers),

Terry & McGhee:

Hoedown Blues

Odetta:

Waterboy, Three Pigs (with Children),

Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho (with B. Singers)

Why-N-Why, Glory, Glory (with B. Singers)

Belafonte Singers:

Shenandoah

Children:

Little Bird Fly Through My Window

Outline:

In Belafonte's own words, "a portrait of Negro life in America, told in song."

Choir of 26, Orchestra of 9, with 12 Dancers.

This "Revlon Hour" special received an Emmy award.

4)

PERSON TO PERSON

Category:

Network:

CBS

Date:

1959

Co-stars:

Belafonte:

5)

BELAFONTE: NEW YORK 19

Category:

Music Show

Network:

CBS presented by Revlon

Date:

Sunday, Nov 20, 1960

Prod. & Directed:

Phil Stein, Norman Jewison

Co-stars:

Gloria Lynne (Jazz Singer), John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet,

Contemporary String Quartet, Arthur Mitchell, Mary Hinkson, with dancers

Julie Robinson and Pat Dunn, Herb Levy and his Pennywhistle

Belafonte sings:

Hanging Around New York Town, Sister Suki (with Children),

God Bless The Child, Guantanamera, Reincarnation (with Levy),

Hava Nageela (with Dancers), Theatre Medley (with Lynne)

Buked and Scorned (with Dancers), Birth Of The Blues (with Lynne),

Liza Jane (with Lynne)

Lynne:

He Needs Me

Jazz Quartet:

Django (with Dancers)

String Quartet:

Sketch (with Jazz Quartet)

Dancers:

Palladium Dance

Outline:

A tribute to Postal Zone 19, New York's melting pot of culture and the arts.

The show is dedicated to the music of midtown Manhattan.

Duration:

60 minutes

6)

INAUGURAL GALA FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT, JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY

Date:

Location:

Produced by:

Mstr Ceremonies:

Joey Bishop

Performers:

Leonard Bernstein, Mahalia Jackson, Fredric March, Bette Davis,

Anthony Quinn, Sidney Poitier, Louis Prima, Keeley Smith, Juliet Prowse,

Helen Traubel, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Kelly, Alan King, Ethel Merman,

Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Nat King Cole, Jimmy Durante, Harry Belafonte,

Milton Berle, Bill Dana, Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Others

Belafonte sings:

John Henry, When The Saints Go Marchin' In

Duration:

160 minutes

7)

PERRY COMO'S KRAFT MUSIC HALL

Category:

Music Show

Network:

NBC

Date:

1961

Co-stars:

Perry sings:

8)

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR, OPENING NIGHT

Category:

Music Special

Network:

NBC

Date:

Sept 29, 1961

Co-stars:

Belafonte:

9)

THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW

Category:

Network:

Date:

Co-stars:

10)

WHAT'S MY LINE?

Category:

Quiz Show

Network:

CBS

Date:

Oct 21, 1962

Co-stars:

Belafonte:

11)

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR

Category:

Music Special

Network:

NBC

Date:

April 11, 1963

Co-stars:

Belafonte sings:

Try To Remember, Who's Gonna Be Your Man, Amen

Others?