Music Hop

Music Hop
Genre	music
Presented by	Alex Trebek (1963-1964) Dave Mickie (1964-1967)
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	4
Production
Producer(s)	Stan Jacobson (1963-1964) Allan Angus Pierre Desjardins Ray McConnell Manny Pitson Ain Soodor
Release
Original network	CBC Television
Original release	3 October 1963 – 28 June 1967

Music Hop is a Canadian music television series which aired on CBC Television from 1963 to 1967.

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

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:

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.

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