The Porter Wagoner Show No. 83
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 83
The Porter Wagoner Show #83 with special guests Carl and Pearl Butler.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 83
Promo for Porter Wagoner Show #83 with special guests Carl and Pearl Butler. Opens with CU of the duo singing "Little Mac," pulling out to reveal Porter who introduces Walker, saying "Why don't you and the family join us, right on this channel!"
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 83
Introduction to Porter Wagoner show #83. 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 Nudie suit festooned with rhinestone wagon wheels, Wagoner welcomes audience, then plays guitar and sings "Y'all Come," from the 1963 album of the same name, accompanied by The Wagonmasters. MS Buck Trent and his electric banjo. Porter horses around and cracks up a bunch of times during the song. Referring to the song's call-and-response chorus, Wagoner refers to the audience as "the choir of the south."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 83
Porter introduces the week's guests, "Mr. & Mrs. Country Music," Carl and Pearl Butler, who enter wearing matching, eyeball-searing lame' and rhinestone Nudie suits. The couple performs their latest Columbia records single "Little Mac," backed by The Wagonmasters.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 83
Speck, Don and George play us out of the commercial break with an instrumental number featuring Don's steel guitar.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 83
Porter introduces a man he's very proud of, a young fellow who just completed his basic training at Ft. Benning Georgia, Porter's son Richard Wagoner. They talk as if Richard is about to sing a number, even going so far as to make a dedication to his battalion, but Richard does not in fact perform. Huh?
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 83
Wagoner introduces Pretty Miss Norma Jean, who plays guitar and sings "Go Cat Go" from her 1965 LP "Pretty Miss Norma Jean," backed by The Wagonmasters. Whatever Buck's doing off screen has Norma on the verge of stitches for the whole song.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 83
Accompanied by The Wagonmasters, Porter plays guitar and sings "Another Day, Another Dollar" from his 1965 album "The Thin Man From West Plains."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 83
Porter makes an earnest statement of thanks for the audience's patronage of his sponsors, then introduces gap-toothed comedian Speck Rhodes, who enters wearing his trademark checkered suit with bow tie and bowler hat. Rhodes and Wagoner banter around some awful puns about family, then Speck sings "Hound Dog" backed by The Wagonmasters. While Buck plucks his Mosrite guitar, Speck dances (if you can call it that). Elvis didn't die until 1977 but he's already spinning in his grave from this one. As audience applauds, Porter says "Don't overdo it folks, I'm payin' him all I can, I tell ya."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 83
Porter returns and 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."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 83
Wagoner reintroduces Carl and Pearl Butler to sing the day's serious song, "Dreaming Of A Little Cabin," which they perform backed by The Wagonmasters. MS Speck, Don, and George.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 83
Porter gets everybody to gang around the mic to sing a song the feature on their "personal disappearances," "Foggy Mountain Top." Every performance of this song seems to be a contest to see how far the Wagonmasters can tease Norma Jean without her losing it. Mack in particular pushes his limits on background vocals, to the obvious annoyance of Don Warden. At 01:27:04, Norma mimes punching Mack in the face!
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 83
Porter brings Mack back to play a little bit of "Bill Cheatham" to fill time until he has to wrap up the show. As the Wagonmasters play instrumental show outro and announcer signs off, Wagoner shakes hands with Norma Jean and guests, waves goodbye as Magaha dances and fiddles us off the air. End title super reads: "A Show Biz Production."