Brief History
Originally titled as "The Big Five Show" a local program when it premiered in 1964 and was a reference to WEWS Channel 5 and the 5 to 6 pm time slot on Saturday afternoons. When the program became syndicated nationally, stations had the option of airing the program at different times, hence the program's title change and deletion of the Channel 5 and local air time references.
The introduction of the program commenced with a studio musician shouting "HEY LET'S GO WITH THE UPBEAT SHOW!" as the in-house band, Dave C and The Sharptones, would play the introductory theme song with the program's main title logo (done in Viking stencil font) slowly exploding and coming back together again in a quasi-animated frame by frame fashion as the performers were announced for that particular episode. Ironically, the logo was almost similar to the logo of WIXY. The series was aired in black and white from 1964 until 1967, then broadcast in color from 1967 until the series demise in 1971.
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