Let's Go (1964 TV Series)
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''Let's Go'' started at CBC Vancouver as a summer musical series for teenagers, July 17, 1964, to Sept. 4, 1964. There were 8 Lets Go shows produced and broadcast locally on CBUT Vancouver, Friday evenings at 7:30 PM. Fred Latremouille and Randi Conlin were Hosts, with the Classics as the house band. Regular performers were Gillian Russell, Susan Pesklevits (
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), Mike Campbell, Nancy Davis, Tom Northcott, Howie Vickers, Marcel Chouinard,
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, and Ed Whiting. Produced and directed by Ain Soodor, script assistant Chris Paton, studio director Al Vitols. The Classics band members were, Tom Baird (keyboard/writer),
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(sax), Brian Russell (guitar), Glenn Miller (bass), Gary Taylor (drums), and Howie Vickers (lead vocalist). On-air schedule was found in the CBC Times records for British Columbia. ''Let's Go'' on September 28, 1964, became part of the CBC network series called
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from 5 cities during the week at 5:30 to 6:00 PM. Fred Latremouille and Red Robinson were Hosts for Vancouver’'s Lets Go, which was seen on Mondays, Winnipeg's show on Tuesdays, Toronto on Wednesdays, Montreal on Thursdays and on Fridays it was Halifax. Performers who joined Let's Go: Patty Surbey, Marty Gillan,
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, Joanie Taylor, Bobby Faulds, and Bonnie Huber. The Music Hop series continued until 1967. Lets Go shows from CBC Vancouver, were produced and directed by Ain Soodor, (1964-1966), script assistant Chris Paton. Al Vitols produced and directed Lets Go shows in 1966, script assistant was Patsy MacDonald. ''Let's Go'' was a daily CBC Television entertainment series aired during the 1967–1968 season, featuring musical guests. It was the successor to ''
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'', and the show's title was taken from the Vancouver segment of ''Music Hop''. Each day's episode featured local talent from a different city, moving across the country from east to west: Halifax (Monday), Ottawa (Tuesday), Toronto (Wednesday), Winnipeg (Thursday) and Vancouver (Friday).
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appeared on the Halifax show, before she achieved huge popularity with "Snowbird". The Winnipeg show was hosted by Chad Allan, the former front man for
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, played as the house band in Winnipeg.
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(Pesklevits) was a regular performer on the Vancouver show before becoming the lead singer of the Poppy Family. ''Let's Go'' shows, starting in 1967 from Vancouver had a new host, Howie Vickers, followed by Mike Campbell,
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, Tom Northcott and Terry Frewer, all taking turns. The new house band was named Probably Us, with Bob Buckley (sax), Terry Frewer (guitar), Bob Murphy (keyboard), Doug Edwards (bass), and George Ursan (drums). In addition to the regular Let's Go performers, new singers were introduced each week, Jayson Hoover, Lynn Brooks, Bruce Bissell, Ted Davis, Nancy Lester, Rik Salem, The Raible Brothers, Rosalind Keene, Dave Sinclair, Kelly Christopher, Mark Middler, Anne Attenborough, Tom & Barry Collins, PM Howard, and Rick McCartie. A variety of pop-rock groups made appearances such as The Collectors, 3's a Crowd, The Wiggy Symphony, The Shockers, the Northwest Company,
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. These Let's Go shows from Vancouver were produced and directed by Ken Gibson, the script assistant was Patsy MacDonald. The last Lets Go show aired on June 26, 1968. CBC Vancouver and the CBC network continued in the same time slot with mostly bands and was titled "Where It’s At" until it ended on June 20, 1969. CBC Let's Go Show was different in Vancouver and Winnipeg. The Vancouver show was hosted by Red Robinson and Fred Latremouille. Winnipeg show was hosted by Chad Allan, of The Guess Who.


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Music Hop ''Music Hop'' was a Canadian music television series that aired on CBC Television from 1963 to 1967. Premise Pop and rock music was featured in this series for youth, essentially a Canadian version of ''American Bandstand''. Production The fi ...
'' * '' Where It's At'' * ''
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* {{imdb title, 8264526
Queen's University Directory of CBC Television Series
via archive.org) 1964 Canadian television series debuts 1968 Canadian television series endings 1960s Canadian music television series 1960s Canadian variety television series Black-and-white Canadian television shows CBC Television original programming