Original air date on NBC television: October 2, 1956 to June 25, 1957

The first example of a videotape recording was broadcast by NBC television
when The Jonathan Winters Show was seen coast to coast on Tuesday,
October 23, 1956.

Maude Frickert was perhaps Winters most famous character

This single peaked for three weeks at #4 on the Billboard pop singles chart
in December 1967. It became the Miracles highest charting popular single
since "Shop Around". The song also topped the Billboard Black Singles
Chart and was a million-selling hit for The Miracles, their sixth overall.

Jackie Wilson’s recording of "Lonely Teardrops", become his first
Top Ten hit, reaching #7 on Billboard’s Pop chart and #1 on the R&B 
chart. It is a 1999 Grammy Hall of Fame Inductee and is ranked #308
on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. 

"C’mon Everybody", a song by Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart,
was originally released as a B-side. The song got to No. 35 on the 
Billboard Hot 100. It was his last Top 40 Hit in the U.S. The single
is ranked at No. 403 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 
Greatest Songs of All Time.

Edward Raymond ‘Eddie’ Cochran (October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960)

"Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis was featured in the 1957 movie
Jamboree. It was written by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer. The single
was ranked as the 96th greatest song ever by Rolling Stone. It sold one
million copies in its first 10 days of release and became one of the best-
selling records in the United States, as well as one of the world’s best-
selling records of all time.