Here's a musical number from a September 1965 episode of The Lucy Show entitled "Lucy in the Music World." She gets a job on a music show not unlike ABC's Shindig! (which went on the air in September of '64) or NBC's Hullabaloo (which went on the following January, obviously inspired by the success of Shindig!) It's a good example of what 1965 Show Business thought "those kids today" wanted.
The producer of the show, who you'll see in the first shots, was played by veteran character actor Lou Krugman, who turned up a number of times on I Love Lucy and again every few weeks on the next two of Lucille Ball's three situation comedies. He was also seen in darn near every filmed TV show done in Hollywood in the sixties. For example, he was Nunzio, the guy who tried to sell Rob Petrie a wholesale fur coat on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Take a gander at this IMDB list of credits.
Lou was just one of those actors who worked all the time without ever becoming a regular on a TV series. It was kind of the way Jamie Farr was before he got the role of Klinger on M*A*S*H. The guy worked everywhere but until he landed that part, there was no way you could tell anybody who he was and have them go, "Oh, I know who you're talking about." I was introduced to Lou at a party once and we spent a delightful half-hour talking about shows he was on. I think we covered about 8% of them.
And the host of Wing Ding — the show within the show — was Reb Foster. Mr. Foster was a Los Angeles disc jockey back then, bouncing back and forth between playing all the hits on KFWB and playing all the hits on KRLA.
Lastly, you might be interested to know who wrote that theme song for Wing Ding. It was none other than the great singer, Mel Tormé — best known on this blog for reading a newspaper at Farmers Market just before Christmas one year. Mel was in this Lucy Show episode, though not in this clip, as Mel Tinker, an outta-work songwriter who lived near Lucy's character. He played that part in later episodes of The Lucy Show in what obviously was an attempt to set up a spin-off into his own show. But somehow…it never quite spun. Maybe they should have tried selling Wing Ding instead…