User blog:Markscedarhouse64/Before Jeopardy! Alex Trebek began hosting Music Hop

Alex Trebek ruled the Saturday morning dance-show era in the early 1960s and, in 1961, began presiding over a briefly defunct CBC show called Music Hop. As host and interviewer, Trebek introduced Canada's most acclaimed sock-hop hitmakers durting that time; and this series took CBC viewers to the top of the Canadian Nielsen ratings during its entire run.

Music Hop debuted on CBC in the fall of 1961 pre-Soundcloud and pre-Spotify. 11 years later, Trebek would make his U.S. series television debut as host of NBC's ill-fated 1973 game show The Wizard of Odds, which featured the title theme composition by a pre-Growing Pains Alan Thicke, who went on to compose the themes from several hit sitcoms including Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life and Hope & Gloria and Gloria Loring's 1987 adult comtemporary romantic ballad Friends and Lovers.