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"It has erroneously been described as the first instance on American television of physical contact between a black man and a white woman,[26] forgetting many p
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"It has erroneously been described as the first instance on American television of physical contact between a black man and a white woman,[26] forgetting many previous instances, including Frankie Lymon dancing with a white girl on Alan Freed's live ABC T.V. show "The Big Beat" on July 19, 1957,[citation needed] Nancy Sinatra kissing Sammy Davis, Jr., on her 1967 Movin' with Nancy TV special,[27] and Louis Armstrong shaking hands with "What's My Line?" panelists Dorothy Kilgallen and Arlene Francis in 1953."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petula_Clark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petula_Clark
- hackernj 3y agoThanks for the link. The first half of that paragraph is also interesting: “In 1968 NBC-TV invited Clark to host her own special in the US, and in doing so, she inadvertently made television history. While singing a duet of "On the Path of Glory", an antiwar song that she had composed, with guest Harry Belafonte, she took hold of his arm, to the dismay of a representative from the Chrysler Corporation (the show's sponsor), who feared that the moment would incur racial backlash from Southern viewers.[22] When he insisted that they substitute a different take, with Clark and Belafonte standing well away from each other, Clark and the executive producer of the show—her husband, Wolff—refused, destroyed all other takes of the song, and delivered the finished programme to NBC with the touch intact.[23][24] The Chrysler representative was terminated, and the programme aired on 8 April 1968, four days after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., with high ratings, critical acclaim,[25] and a Primetime Emmy nomination.”
- selimthegrim 3y agoThis continued into the 90s apparently https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/former-teen-idol-says-she-160157085.html https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/former-teen-idol-says-she-16...