(439) HOLLYWOOD A GO GO : LOCAL MUSIC TELEVISION IN THE MID 1960's

Hollywood - A Go Go was a local television show - local as in Los Angeles - that featured artists who were appearing on the Sunset Strip Go Go  music club scene (girls in boots dancing in cages which started at the Whiskey were called Go Go Girls) and in its 40 some episodes which aired in 1965 and 1966 many of those we blog about appeared... Jackie DeShannon, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Bobby Fuller Four, Chuck Berry...  It was hosted by KHJ radio am disk jockey Sam Riddle, and featured the Gazzari Dancers.  Thanks to YouTube contributors of historical music television footage, here is Rick Nelson and, on another show, Jackie De Shannon.