Directed by
Steve Binder, who went on to direct
Elvis Presley's
1968 "comeback" special,
Hullabaloo served as a big-budget, quality showcase for the leading pop acts of the day, and was also competition for another like-minded television showcase,
ABC's
Shindig! A different host presided each week Sid Bernstein was the booking agent for Hullabaloo.
Peter Matz, later of
The Carol Burnett Show, was the orchestra leader.), the episodes were wiped and only three half-hour episodes are known to exist in their original color videotaped form. The three surviving color episodes were hosted by
Michael Landon,
Jerry and
Gary Lewis (both co-hosted the same episode) and
Paul Anka, respectively and featured:
the Byrds, and
David Winters (Landon),
Paul Revere & the Raiders (both Landon and Lewis')
the Cyrkle,
Lesley Gore,
Peter and Gordon (Anka),
Gary Lewis & the Playboys,
Barry McGuire (Lewis’).
Dancers The show was choreographed by
David Winters, who selected and choreographed the Hullabaloo Dancers, a team of four men and six women who appeared on a regular basis. Two of them,
Michael Bennett and
Donna McKechnie, went on to achieve considerable fame on
Broadway. Dancer
Patrick Adiarte, who also attempted to launch a solo singing career on the series, went on to play
Ho-Jon in the television series
M*A*S*H. Another female dancer, model/actress
Lada Edmund Jr. (known today as Lada St. Edmund), was best known as one of the caged "go-go girl" dancers in the "Hullabaloo A-Go-Go" segment near the closing sequence of the show. She also had a brief recording career with the singles "I Know Something" and "The Larue." She later co-starred with
Jon Voight in the 1969 film
Out of It and in
Act of Vengeance released in 1974. Dancer
Suzanne Charney also had some degree of fame on Broadway as the lead frug dancer in
Sweet Charity, reprising her role in the
1969 film as well. David Winters went on to direct or produce over 200 TV shows, specials and films. ==Broadcast history==