The Porter Wagoner Show No. 242
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 242
The Porter Wagoner Show #242 featuring special guests The Burris Youngins.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 242
Promo for The Porter Wagoner Show #242 featuring special guests The Burris Youngins. Spot opens with Dolly Parton singing "He's A Go-Getter." Camera pulls out to reveal Porter in sparkly white Nudie suit. Porter announces guests The Burris Youngins, names the show's regulars, and invites us to tune in. Fade out over art card with colorful illustration of Porter.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 242
Opening of Porter Wagoner show #242. Standard pre-recorded opening begins with CU of Porter s shiny red boots walking down hallway, which cuts to rear view of Wagoner s garish green Nudie suit festooned with rhinestone wagon wheels and cacti. Montage of smiling Porter happily walking through WSM-TV studio as stage hands and technicians prep show. Don Howser s voice over reads: "Direct from Nashville Tennessee, here s The Porter Wagoner Show!" Quick shots of regulars as Howser announces them: "Starring Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, Speck Rhodes, Don Howser, The Wagonmasters, and today s special guest star." Momentary pause in VO (presumably left for Howser to read the guest star s name on air), then prerecorded segment ends with Howser s "...and now, here s Porter." Cut to live portion as Porter, wearing dazzling, rhinestone-studded white Nudie suit, plays guitar and sings "Dooley" accompanied by Wagonmasters Buck Trent, Don Warden, Mack Magaha, George McCormick, Jack Little and Speck Rhodes, all but Speck in matching red Nudie suits. MS Buck's banjo solo, intercut with shot of audience applauding.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 242
Porter saunters over to his special guests, Metromedia recording artists Cindy and Joe, The Burris Youngins. Cindy and Joe wear matching shiny blue-and-white outfits and look to be about 10 and 12 respectively. Together the duo sings "Milwaukee Here I Come" backed by The Wagonmasters, and with Joe Burris on guitar. The song is a first-person narrative about a couple who work in a brewery; the woman falls in love with Ernest Tubb, dragging the man to Nashville with her. The sight of a pre-adolescent brother and sister singing the song is a strange one indeed. Porter chats with them a moment before introducing commercial.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 242
Leading the Wagonmasters in a fiddle solo, Mack Magaha plays us out of the commercial break with the instrumental "Liberty."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 242
Porter introduces the "beautiful ung lady" Dolly Parton. Dolly is heard offscreen squealing with delight at Porter's flub and asks him to "run that by me one more time;" Porter does a little imitation of her in refusing to. Shot of audience applauding which cuts to Dolly just as Porter rushes in to do who-knows-what, but Dolly pushes him away saying "Go away, you done enough already." Backed by The Wagonmasters and wearing a fetching black and white dress with poofy white wig, Dolly plays guitar and sings "He's A Go-Getter" from her 1969 LP "In The Good Old Days."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 242
Porter plays guitar and sings "Green Green Grass of Home" accompanied by the Wagonmasters. The lights dim evocatively during the number. Nice rendition, especially the recitation portion.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 242
Porter introduces Speck with a little joke at his expense, saying how Speck was singing backstage recently before a show and a woman walked by and asked what he was doing. Speck said "Just killing time," and the woman replied "You sure got the weapon for it." Shot of audience laughter. Wearing his trademark checkered suit and bowler hat, gap-toothed hayseed comedian Speck calls his fictional girlfriend Sadie on an old-fashioned wall-mounted crank style telephone. "Hello Sadie?" Speck asks. "How do you expect me to follow lines like that with my material?" Speck asks Sadie to connect him to Harry Beard's barber shop and some awfully corny old-fashioned jokes ensue. Shot of audience looking a little embarrassed. Speck shares advice for the unmarried folks thinking of getting married: "Say it with flowers, say it with sweets/ Say it with kisses, and say it with eats/ Say it with jewelry, and say it with drink/ But by cracky be careful, don't say it with ink."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 242
Don Howser comes in to help us settle down with a serious-type song after all that fun with Speck. Backed by The Wagonmasters, Porter recites/sings Hank Williams' "Pictures Of Life's Other Side." The lights dim again moodily, and Porter's delivery is outstanding.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 242
Porter talks some about the Burris Youngins. Seems that just a few days prior, Tommy Alsop (sic) from Metromedia recorded them for a new record. Then again backed by The Wagonmasters, the youngsters perform "Act Naturally." Shot of audience clapping as Buck goes into his guitar solo that looks to have been prompted by a lit "applause" sign (not that Buck doesn't deserve it, to be sure).
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 242
Finishing a comment he just made about how the Burris Youngins are very talented, Porter says "I wish I could say the same about these guys, folks, but I ain't never lied to you and I ain't a-gonna start now." Porter introduces "Ike, Mike, and Spike" (Wagonmasters Buck, Mack, and George) who perform "Columbus Stockade Blues" while cracking each other up all the way through it. Afterwards Speck returns and Porter asks him about the term he used in his routine to describe marriage troubles, "matrimonial dyspepsia." Speck says he don't know what it means seeing as he's not very smart, and it's hard to say without front teeth besides. Then Porter wraps up the show, waving goodbye as The Wagonmasters play the instrumental show outro, Don Howser signs off, and Mack fiddles and dances us off the air. Great pan across motley-looking audience applauding with cute shot of kids. End title super reads "Produced By Show Biz in cooperation with WSM-TV."