If you thought Musical Chairs was just a daytime game show on CBS in the mid-70's, cribbing its name from a classic schoolyard game, you'd be wrong.
20 years earlier, NBC acquired a regional game under the same Musical Chairs title as a summer replacement primetime series. The only thing these two sets of Chairs have in common is that neither was very successful.
NBC's Musical Chairs had the same panel each week: songwriter Johnny Mercer, comic actress Rose Marie (later of The Dick Van Dyke Show and Hollywood Squares, among others), actor-singer-songwriter Bobby Troup, at the time more known as an accomplished jazz musician, and cartoon & radio icon Mel Blanc. Series host Bill Leyden would follow this up with It Could Be You.
We showcased this sample over at Saturday Morning Archives (due to Blanc) yesterday, so now it's here.....
Troup's combo was the house band, backed by the vocal group, the Cheerleaders.
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