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n. (alternative form of razzmatazz English)
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Razzmatazz was a music based children's television programme which ran on ITV between 2 June 1981 and 2 January 1987.
Singer Lisa Stansfield found fame as a presenter on Razzmatazz at the age of 16. 1 2 Brendan Healy played keyboards for the show. Other regulars involved included compere Alistair Pirrie, and Teenage Correspondent Zoe Brown who had previously been televised in 1982, climbing the Old Man of Hoy with her father, the mountaineer Joe Brown.3
A little like a junior version of Top of the Pops, the programme aired as part of CITV or earlier incarnations of the ITV children's strand. It featured games such as Popscotch (where children hopped across a board of squares with pop stars pictures on it to answer pop related questions). In later series games like the tongue twister game where contestants had to open a folder and read a very long complex paragraph mostly focused around the words 'Peggy Babcock' who was a female pirate who oversaw the game, though she was only a drawing. Contestants did this against the clock. Later Write Razz Right! replaced the tongue twister game and, again against the clock, contestants would have to write the name of the quizz a number of times in yellow on a black background (yellow and black were the show's colours at this point) to win.
Razzmatazz was produced by Tyne Tees Television for Children's ITV.
Usage examples of "razzamatazz".
Calgary was no dusty old-west cattle town, but a sky-scrapered modern city set like a glittering oasis in the skirts of the prairies: and the Stampede, in which one July I'd worked as a bronco rider, was a highly organized ten-day rodeo with a stadium, adjacent art and stage shows and all the paraphernalia and razzamatazz of big-time tourist entertainment.
When he'd gone and the room next door had mostly emptied, I looked down on the flags and the banners and the streamers and balloons and the razzamatazz with which Exhibition Park had met the challenge of Assiniboia Downs and Woodbine and thought of all that had happened on the journey across Canada, and I wondered whether I would find flat-footing round British racecourses in the rain a relaxation or a bore, wondered if I would go on doing it.
No bunting, no razzamatazz, no posters with print large enough to read at ten paces.