The Porter Wagoner Show No. 85
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 85
The Porter Wagoner Show #85 with special guest Carl Smith.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 85
Promo for Porter Wagoner Show #85 with special guest Carl Smith. Opens with CU of Smith singing "Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way," pulling out to reveal Porter who introduces Smith, saying "Why don't you and the family join us!"
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 85
Introduction to Porter Wagoner show #85. Program opens with Wagoner and Wagonmasters Speck Rhodes, Don Warden, and George McCormick plus Norma Jean onscreen singing "Howdy Neighbor Howdy." Over title card decorated with drawing of Wagoner, announcer Hairl Hensley introduces Wagoner and The Wagonmasters, show regulars Speck Rhodes and Norma Jean, and "your favorite songs and stars of the Grand Ole Opry!" Wearing dazzling lame' Nudie suit, Wagoner welcomes audience, then plays guitar and sings "Long Journey Home," backed by The Wagonmasters. MS Buck Trent wrestling some nicely twisty notes from his electric banjo.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 85
Porter introduces Carl Smith, who kind of sneaks in behind Wagoner. They talk about Carl's last appearance on the show, where Smith apparently brought his dog along.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 85
Backed by The Wagonmasters and his own steel guitar player Johnny Sibert (from his band "The Tunesmiths"), Smith plays guitar and sings "I Feel Like Crying." After the song Porter introduces a commercial, saying: "If you feel like crying, watch this, it might cheer you up a little."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 85
Buck Trent plays us out of the commercial, soloing on electric banjo on a short version of the Wagonmasters' single "Stampede," backed by The Wagonmasters. Afterwards Porter says to Trent of his banjo: " You can throw it in the river, you've wore it out."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 85
Wagoner introduces Pretty Miss Norma Jean, who plays guitar and sings "Then Go Home To Her," from her 1966 LP "Please Don't Hurt Me," backed by The Wagonmasters. CU Don's steel guitar, pull out to MS of Speck, Don, and George.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 85
Accompanied by The Wagonmasters, Porter plays guitar and sings "Crying My Heart Out Over You" from his 1963 LP "Y'all Come." CU Mack and his fiddle.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 85
Gap-toothed comedian Speck goes into his inexplicably popular "St. Louis Blues" routine, where he intentionally plays the fiddle poorly for no apparent reason. Speck to band: "Do you all know 'The Hot Canary'?" Wagonmasters: "Sure -- do you know it?" Speck: "No, I'm not too hot on that one." So they all play "St. Louis Blues," complete with Speck's tuning jokes, false starts, horsing around, swiveling hips, and intentionally excruciating playing. Painful, but at least not as long as usual.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 85
Porter plugs the show's souvenir booklet #4, "The Porter Wagoner Show Hits The Road!", containing songs and stories and pictures. It can be yours for only fifty cents by mail in an "en-vellup." Nice graphic of an envelope addressed to Wagoner.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 85
Backed by The Wagonmasters, Porter plays guitar and sings/recites a song featured in the booklet, "What Would You Do (If Jesus Came To Your House)." During the song the lights dim, dramatically evoking moonlight through chapel windows.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 85
Porter brings back Carl and introduces his steel guitar player Johnny Sibert. Nice CU of Sibert, also his highly influential triple steel guitar, which Porter and Carl joke about. Backed by Johnny and The Wagonmasters, Smith plays guitar and sings "Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way." MS Sibert, MCU Mack Magaha.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 85
Porter rushes in to ask Smith to play a little something to fill time until he has to wrap up the show, and after dawdling, Smith obliges with a chorus of "I Really Don't Want To Know." As the Wagonmasters play instrumental show outro and announcer signs off, Wagoner shakes hands with Norma Jean and Smith, waves goodbye as Magaha dances and fiddles us off the air. End title super reads: "Produced by Show Biz in cooperation with WSM-TV."