Today 1957. NBC's Today Show with Dave Garroway. New York. News, weather, and Kokomo Jr. the chimp.

Real lively group in that chat there...more like a funeral parlor.

Van Doren must have had off.
The scandals didn't break until next August.

If you didn't Wear a Tie you weren't Cool 😎

Looks like a different planet. And I was nearly one year old at the time.

I still recall a TV column in the ASBURY PARK PRESS {N.J.} written in 1992 by a very snotty critic named Robert Strauss about the Saturday edition of "TODAY". And in that column, he had the gall to refer to Dave Garroway as "a gawky guy with a chimp". Strauss' photo published in his column made him look like the very epitomy of a Yuppie nerd......because he virtually looked JUST LIKE GARROWAY!!!!! (And he still does)

Before Today was vapid

Military contractors asking for billions back then 😆

7-8am(et), November 20, 1957.

Simpler, better times. Puts a smile on my face.

Thanks for the memories 😄

Blocked by Sony?? So the Japanese own the RCA Legacy back catalog now? Sheesh....

Thanks for sharing. For the last few decades, at least, the Today Show has felt so cold, and often features people with rictus grins, filling time in the most transparent of ways. There's something much more natural about these earlier years. I especially like the segment where we just see the crowd watching Kokomo as a lovely music selection plays. A very soothing way to start a day.

Captain Video here,Excellent kinoscope recording, Lived in the NYC area. I would get up early and watch the test patterns until Today came on. This may have been for the 10am,EST feed for the West Coast feed so they could go home early. Videotape was still in its infancy.

Crazy, that's my birthday, and my brother's name is Kokomo, named after the Indiana town. 🕊💖🖖

Has anyone ever watched the great filmaker of documentaries David Hoffman? He is still living.
The good ole days of TV and broadcasts," "MIsty," "When Sunny Gets Blue," what music! Good ole blackboards and chalk for the weather. Race cars? Not for me.
Thank you for this, David Garraway a jack of all trades, Kimoto the monkey was smarter than most people. Helen O'Connor, Frank Blair and NBC.
Listen to that music.🎵🎶🎵
This is amazing, IBM and corporations. American Imperialism and colonization, American Empire. The English Empire and colonization.
General Smedley Butler's "War is A Racket." United Fruit Company, now Chiquita Bananas.
"I Hear that Train coming " Johnny Cash.
Edward Bernay, he began a thing called, Public Relations. Consumerism for the wealthy.
Billy Martin & New York Yankees!!! Updates in 2024, The Negrow League of Baseball just made history at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. Willy Mayes passed away 2 days before this at 93.
It was about time this needed to corrected.
Keep that music playing & bring back Kimoto.
Father's Knows Best and Wagon Train. Lol
🙏❤️🌎🌏🌍🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵

It appears that NBC's hourly tone back then was about 687.5 Hz, with a duration of :00.3 sec. (300 ms). Maybe -20 dB audio level on that.