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Shindig! was an American musical variety series which aired on ABC from September 16, 1964 to January 8, 1966. The show was hosted by Jimmy O'Neill, a disc jockey in Los Angeles at the time  who also created the show along with his wife Sharon Sheeley and production executive Art Stolnitz.

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The series first aired for a half-hour every week, but was expanded to an hour in January 1965. In the fall of 1965, the show split into two half-hour telecasts, on Thursday and Saturday nights.
Shindig!'s premiere episode was a pilot featuring The Righteous Brothers. Later shows were taped in Britain with The Beatles as the guests. The series featured other "British invasion" bands and performers including The Who, The Rolling Stones and Cilla Black. Shindig continued to broadcast episodes from London throughout its run.
Many popular performers of the day played on Shindig! including Sam Cooke, Lesley Gore, Bo Diddley, and Sonny and Cher.
Shindig!'s success prompted NBC to air the similar series Hullabaloo starting in January 1965.

Decline
By October 1965, the show was having ratings problems (Time magazine said "early-season tide [was] running against the teen scene"), and in January 1966, Shindig! was cancelled and replaced in its Thursday time slots by Batman.

Series regulars
Accompanying the music acts of the week, Shindig! also featured a dance troupe called the Shin-diggers. One of the regular dancers was Teri Garr, who would go on to find success as an actress. The Shin-diggers' assistant choreographer, Antonia Basilotta (better known as Toni Basil), was most widely known for the 1980s song "Mickey".
The series house band, the Shin-diggers (later renamed the Shindogs), featured a young Glen Campbell, Joey Cooper, Chuck Blackwell (drums), Billy Preston, James Burton, Delaney Bramlett, Larry Knechtel (on bass) and pianist Leon Russell.
The Blossoms, an all-female vocal group featuring Darlene Love, backed up many of the performers and were occasionally featured in spotlight performances. The Wellingtons were a trio of male singers who performed on their own and as backup singers.Donna Loren, Jackie DeShannon and Bobby Sherman were also regular vocalists on the series.

Musical guests
The Animals
Louis Armstrong
Desi Arnaz, Jr.
Long John Baldry
The Barron Knights
Fontella Bass
Shirley Bassey
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
James Brown
The Byrds
The Beau Brummels
Tony Bennett
Chuck Berry
Cilla Black
Booker T & the MG's
Glen Campbell
Freddy Cannon
Johnny Cash
Chad and Jeremy
Chubby Checker
The Coasters
Petula Clark
Sam Cooke
The Dave Clark Five
The Spencer Davis Group
Jackie DeShannon
Dick and Dee Dee
Dino, Desi & Billy
Bo Diddley
The Dixie Cups
Donovan
The Everly Brothers
Shelley Fabares
Adam Faith
Marianne Faithfull
Four Tops
Aretha Franklin
Freddie and the Dreamers
Gale Garnett
Gary Lewis & the Playboys
Marvin Gaye
The Gentrys
Gerry & the Pacemakers
Stan Getz
Dizzy Gillespie
Dobie Gray
Bessie Griffin
Bobby Goldsboro
Lesley Gore
Grass Roots
Françoise Hardy
Herman's Hermits
The Hollies
Don Ho
The Honeycombs
The Ikettes
The Isley Brothers
Davy Jones
Gloria Jones
The Kingsmen
The Kinks
Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas
Bettye LaVette
Jerry Lee Lewis
Little Anthony and the Imperials
Little Eva
Major Lance
Donna Loren
Darlene Love
The Lovin' Spoonful
Lulu & the Luvvers
The Mamas & the Papas
Manfred Mann
The Marvelettes
Johnny Mathis
Jody Miller
Millie
Sal Mineo
Matt Monro
The Moody Blues
The Nashville Teens
Ricky Nelson
Roy Orbison
Rita Pavone
Gene Pitney
The Poets
Elvis Presley
Billy Preston
The Pretty Things
Eddie Rambeau
The Righteous Brothers
Johnny Rivers
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
Jimmie Rodgers
The Rolling Stones
The Ronettes
Bobby Rydell
Tommy Sands
Neil Sedaka
Del Shannon
Dee Dee Sharp
Sandie Shaw
The Shangri-Las
Bobby Sherman
Sir Douglas Quintet
Sonny & Cher
Rod Stewart (as part of Brian Auger and the Trinity)
The Supremes
The Temptations
Joe Tex
Tommy Tucker
Ike & Tina Turner
The Turtles
Twinkle
Unit 4 + 2
Vashti
Bobby Vee
The Ventures
The Vibrations
The Walker Brothers
We Five
Clara Ward Singers
Mary Wells
The Who
Hank Williams, Jr.
Jackie Wilson
Howlin' Wolf
The Yardbirds
The Zombies

Celebrity guests

Ted Cassidy
Patty Duke
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Rosey Grier
Tommy Kirk
Vincent Price
Alan Sues
Raquel Welch
Orson Welles

Guest hosts

George Chakiris
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Carolyn Jones
Boris Karloff
Hedy Lamarr
Jack E. Leonard
Hugh O'Brian
Mickey Rooney
Ed Wynn

References In popular culture

Shindig! was mentioned in The Ramones song "Do You Remember Rock N' Roll Radio?" as "Do you remember Hullabaloo, Upbeat, Shindig!, and Ed Sullivan too...?"
Shindig! made an appearance on a 1965 episode of The Flintstones as "Shinrock!" with host "Jimmy O'Neillstone". The episode featured musical guests The Beau Brummels, appearing as "The Beau Brummelstones", who performed their

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