The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | Season 6 | Episode 4 | New Years Eve | Nat King Cole | George Burns

1961 New Year’s Eve episode. Dinah’s guests are George Burns, Ginger Rogers and Nat King Cole. “Sugar Throat” Burns tries to convince Dinah, Ginger and Nat to sing a duet with him without success – they all claim that they don’t want to hurt the feeling of a dear colleague; in Nat’s case the colleague is himself. All the guests sing several solo numbers instead. .

Director: Dean Whitmore
Writers: Sid Dorfman, Laurence Marks
Stars: Dinah Shore, George Burns, Ginger Rogers

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to May 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was “See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet”, which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.

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. 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.

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