HULLABADIG AU GO GO

HULLABALOO
NBC 1965-1966

SHINDIG!
ABC 1964-1966

HOLLYWOOD A GO-GO
Syndication 1965-1966

HULLABADIG AU GO GO
MAD #105, September 1966
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Jack Davis

Parody combining all three shows on different networks, which all had the same themes, pop acts of the time performing in front of an audience, rotating celebrity hosts, and house dancers.

MAD's rock and roll acts were always called "[...] and the [...]"

Maria Callas was an opera singer.

I guess The Flatones is supposed to be a parody of Phil Spector-produced girl groups like The Ronettes or The Supremes.

This supposed to be a mashup of protest singers such as Bob Dylan, who I don't think did shows like this.

Most people know of Hullabaloo from the brief clip in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood not realizing it was a real show.

HOOPADEEDOO
Playboy, ca. 1966
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Will Elder & Jack Davis

For a while they where doing Little Annie Fanny on a monthly schedule and having other artists collaborate. Here they also had Jack Davis. Her agent, a recurring character, was modeled after Phil Silvers.

The protest singer looks like Bob Dylan but the song's more like Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction. Sonny and Wanda are very loosely based on Sonny and Cher and their song is a parody of I Got You, Babe.

Loving Anthony is sort of a combination of Little Anthony and James Brown. The program director is a caricature of William F. Buckley.

Annie is always in the background with the focus of the stories being a satire of current events like Candide. But this being a feature for Playboy, they have to find a way for her clothes to come off in each episode.

Making fun of rock and roll has been around since the beginning.