Hal Lashwood's Alabama Jubilee Explained

Genre:Variety
Creator:Hal Lashwood
Starring:Hal Lashwood
Country:Australia
Language:English
Producer:Harry Pringle
Runtime:30 mins
Channel:ABC Television
Last Aired:[1]

Hal Lashwood's Alabama Jubilee was an Australian television variety series hosted by Hal Lashwood which aired from 1958 to 1961 on ABC Television. It was essentially a minstrel show, with some of the performers appearing in blackface makeup.[2] In 1960, it was retitled Hal Lashwood's Minstrels.[3]

Hal Lashwood's Alabama Jubilee

Hal Lashwood's Alabama Jubilee began in Sydney on 6 March 1958.[4] It aired in Sydney on Thursdays and Melbourne on Fridays.

It was devised and prepared by Lashwood and produced by Harry Pringle.[5] It aired fortnightly, alternating with Cafe Continental, a variety series featuring acts of diverse ethnic backgrounds.[6]

It sometimes aired after episodes of Amos'n'Andy.[7]

Notable episodes include:

Other guests included Roy Giles, Noel Melvin, Babs MacKinnon, James Wilson and Nellie Small.

The show was replaced by Rooftop Rendezvous.[14] Lashwood went into another variety show, Shower of Stars.[15] [16]

Cast

Hal Lashwood's Minstrels

Hal Lashwood's Minstrels
Genre:Variety
Creator:Hal Lashwood
Country:Australia
Language:English
Runtime:30 mins
Channel:ABC
First Aired:[17]

The show came back as Hal Lashwood's Minstrels which started in July 1960 and went until August 1961. It was replaced by The Magic of Music.

Notable episodes include:

Other guest stars included Al Kenny, Stan Penrose, Jimmy Haines, C. Ray Smith and Patti Markham.

In 1961 an album called Hal Lashwood's Minstrels was released.[21]

Cast

Reception

Writing in The Bulletin in 1963 Max Harris referred to the ABC commissioning variety shows:[22]

Even a modest weekly entry into the variety field is a dubious investment. Shows of the calibre of Cafe Continental, The Lorrne Desmond Show, and the dismal Hal Lashwood Minstrels, demonstrate the hopelessness of the A.B.C.'s half-baked amateur essays at glossy effects. Against the failure of such shows to attract viewers, the A.B.C. was shattered by the enormous national success of “The Outcasts.” Public reaction itself confirmed the A.B.C.’s impulse to re-think programming at a loftier level.

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: 1959-12-31 . Friday Television . 6 . . Radio/TV Supplement . 2023-01-15.
  2. Web site: HAL LASHWOOD'S ALABAMA JUBILEE. 1958 (?) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230115030807/http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=Id:331331;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 . 2023-01-15 . 2013-03-26 . National Film and Sound Archive.
  3. Joyce . Morgan . Lashwood, Harold Francis (Hal) (1915–1992) . 19 . 2016 . lashwood-harold-francis-hal-17116 . 2020-07-01.
  4. News: 1958-03-03 . Full Details Of This Week's Programs On All Channels . 10 . . subscription . 2020-07-06.
  5. 1958-06-25 . LADIES AND GENTLEMEN ... be seated . ABC Weekly . . 20 . 26 . 9 . 2020-07-01.
  6. Web site: Bollen . Jonathan . 2011-01-22 . Moving variety between stage and screen . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200704094241/http://jonathanbollen.net/touring-variety/moving-variety-between-stage-and-screen/ . 2020-07-04 . 2020-07-02 . Research on performance and desire.
  7. News: 16 June 1958 . TV Guide . 16 . Sydney Morning Herald.
  8. 1958-03-05 . Looking Ahead on Channel 2, ABN . ABC Weekly . . 20 . 10 . 33 . 2020-07-14.
  9. News: 1958-07-28 . Old Star as Guest . 11 . . 2023-01-15.
  10. News: 1959-03-09 . 'Jubilee' Is One This Week . 21 . . subscription . 2020-07-07.
  11. News: 1959-04-06 . Accident Nearly Halted Career . 19 . . subscription . 2020-07-07.
  12. 1959-05-20 . All the TV Programmes . ABC Weekly . . 21 . 20 . 31–32 . 2020-07-07.
  13. News: 18 May 1959 . Guide To TV Programs On All Channels . 18 . .
  14. News: 1959-07-01 . TV Highlights . 24 . . . 2020-07-01 . National Library of Australia.
  15. News: 1959-05-18 . Lashwood for Comedy . 18 . . subscription . 2020-07-07.
  16. News: 1959-05-21 . Lashwood in New TV Show . 1 . . Radio/TV Supplement . subscription . 2020-07-07.
  17. News: 1960-08-11 . Saturday Television . 7 . . Radio/TV Supplement . subscription . 2020-07-07.
  18. News: 1960-12-21 . Television Topics . 8 . . 2848 . . 2020-07-01 . National Library of Australia.
  19. Web site: HAL LASHWOOD'S MINSTRELS. 1960.12.15 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200702040300/http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;page=0;query=%22Paul%20Robeson%22%20Media:%22TELEVISION%22;rec=0;resCount=10 . 2020-07-02 . 2020-07-02 . National Film and Sound Archive.
  20. Book: Curthoys, Ann . https://books.google.com/books?id=EJMwU1kqo7sC&q=Paul+Robeson+hal+lashwood%27s+minstrels&pg=PA169 . Passionate Histories: Myth, Memory and Indigenous Australia . 2010 . ANU Press . 9781921666650 . Peters-Little . Frances . 169 . Paul Robeson's visit to Australia and Aboriginal activism, 1960 . Curthoys . Ann . Docker . John.
  21. News: 1961-09-06 . Col Joye planning to go into orbit . 29 . 9 . . 14 . Teenagers' Weekly . Australia . 2020-07-01 . National Library of Australia.
  22. Harris . Max . 1961-10-28 . A New Cultural Deal? . . 82 . 4263 . 32 . 2023-01-18 . Trove.

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