Music Hop

Pop and rock music was featured in this series for youth, essentially a Canadian version of American Bandstand.[1]

The first season (1963–1964) was a Toronto production with host Alex Trebek who welcomed visiting musicians and introduced songs from the house musicians before a studio audience of dancing teenagers. He was replaced in following seasons by Dave Mickie, a disc jockey for CKEY in that time. Series musicians were Norm Amadio and the Rhythm Rockers, joined by The Girlfriends who were a female vocal trio. The producer of this season was Stan Jacobson.

The second season's schedule expanded to all weekdays with other Canadian cities contributing to the production of Music Hop:

• Mondays: Let's Go originated from Vancouver with producer Ain Soodor
• Tuesdays: Jeunesse Oblige originated from Montreal with producer Pierre Desjardins
• Wednesdays: Hootenanny originated from Winnipeg with host Ray St. Germain (Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame Inductee) with producer Ray McConnell
• Thursdays: Music Hop originated from Toronto with producer Allan Angus
• Fridays: Frank's Bandstand originated from Halifax with producer Manny Pitson

The first season of this half-hour series was broadcast Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. (Eastern) from its debut 3 October 1963. In the following two seasons, it was seen every weekday, also at 5:30 p.m., since 28 September 1964. In its final season, the Friday episode was omitted from 3 October 1966 until its final broadcast on 28 June 1967.

Music Hop attracted approximately one million weekly viewers according to CBC estimates, mostly under age 20, with an estimated one-third of those viewers adults.

• Let's Go
• Where It's At
• One More Time

• Allan, Blaine (1996). "Music Hop". Queen's University. Archived from the original on 29 May 2010. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
• Music Hop at IMDb