At Your Request

Country

Australia

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How it feels

A daytime TV series in Melbourne in the late 1950s. Hosted by a baritone radio personality, it played songs that viewers requested. Not much is known about how the music was presented or if any recordings survive.

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What happens

At Your Request is an Australian television daytime series which aired from 1958 to 1959. The series aired on Tuesdays at 2:30PM on Melbourne station HSV-7, and was hosted by baritone Charles Skase, who was also known as a radio personality. Information on this series is scarce. The series presented requested songs, but it is not clear how these songs were presented (such as whether it was a disc jockey series like TV Disc Jockey, a lip-sync series like Hit Parade, or a live music series like Sweet and Low). The archival status of the series is also not known, although being a daytime series aired in a single city means it is unlikely (though not impossible) that kinescope recordings exist of it. For some time, the series was preceded on HSV-7's schedule by documentary series Australia Wide and followed by Gadget Man (which consisted of demonstrations of gadgets). On Australian television of the 1950s, music programmes were typically aired in a single city, with some exceptions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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