KPIX Dance Party

About This Item

Excerpt from KPIX's daytime program Dance Party with Dick Stewart, from c1962. Features scenes of Stewart introducing Rod McKuen's pop single 'Oliver Twist' and teenagers from Sir Frances Drake High School in San Anselmo, CA dancing to the song. 'Oliver Twist' reached No. 76 on the US. singles chart in early 1962.

Please note: this brief 1min 53secs segment is the only surviving footage the TV Archive preserves featuring scenes from KPIX's Dance Party. We don't have the episode from which this segment was sourced or any other Dance Party footage, other than what appears in this 2004 reunion show, also produced by KPIX-TV.

Type of material
series
Duration
2:02
16mm, b&w optical sound film
Rights for this video belong to
CBS5 KPIX-TV
Date aired
c1962
Originally aired on
KPIX-TV
Identifier
V63130-1
Views
20817

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