The Porter Wagoner Show No. 136
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 136
The Porter Wagoner Show #136 with special guests Carl and Pearl Butler.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 136
Promo for Porter Wagoner Show #136 with special guests Carl and Pearl Butler. Spot opens with Carl and Pearl playing part of "Don't Let Me Cross Over;" then camera pulls out to reveal rhinestone-studded, blue-Nudie-suit-wearing Porter Wagoner standing at a microphone saying "That's Carl and Pearl Butler, my special guests this week" and inviting everyone to join him, right on this channel.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 136
Introduction to Porter Wagoner show #136. Program opens with Wagoner and Wagonmasters Mack Magaha, Buck Trent, Speck Rhodes, Don Warden, and George McCormick as well as Norma Jean onscreen singing "Howdy Neighbor Howdy" in front of a set built to resemble a country barnyard. Over brightly colored title card decorated with drawing of Wagoner, announcer Don Howser exclaims: "And now, in color, it's The Porter Wagoner Show, starring Porter Wagoner and The Wagonmasters, with Speck Rhodes and Norma Jean. Special guests Carl and Pearl Butler. Bringing you your favorite songs and stars of the Grand Ole Opry!" Howser enters and shakes hands with Porter, who wears a midnight blue Nudie suit covered in rhinestone cacti and wagon wheels. Howser introduces Wagoner as one of country music's finest goodwill ambassadors, then backed by The Wagonmasters (in matching western-themed red suits of their own), Porter plays guitar and sings "You Can't Make A Heel Toe The Mark," from his 1968 album "Green Green Grass Of Home." MCU Mack Magaha on fiddle.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 136
Porter introduces "two of the finest people in country music," Carl and Pearl Butler, who perform "For A Minute There" backed by The Wagonmasters. MS Don Warden's steel guitar. Porter returns and they exchange small talk about the Butler's ranch until Porter intros commercial.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 136
Mack and Buck plays us out of a commercial with a sizzling rendition of "Fire On The Mountain," backed by The Wagonmasters. Nice shots of Mack's fiddling and Buck's banjo pickin'. Very hot, but at under a minute, far too brief. At the end Mack breaks a string, and Porter says: "That fiddle got so hot it burned one of the strings off."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 136
Wagoner introduces Pretty Miss Norma Jean, who plays a two-tone guitar and sings the Harlan Howard composition "Meanwhile Down At Joe's" from her 1966 LP "A Tribute To Kitty Wells," backed by The Wagonmasters. Nice CU of Don's steel guitar.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 136
Accompanied by The Wagonmasters, Porter plays guitar and sings "The Cold Hard Facts Of Life." In his introduction Porter thanks the audience for making the song such a hit.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 136
Porter thanks everyone for patronizing the sponsors, then introduces gap-toothed comedian Speck Rhodes, who enters wearing his trademark checkered suit with bow tie and bowler hat. Porter seems amused by Speck's very existence, laughing as he says "Speckle, what you been up to this week?" Speck tells a long-winded and corny old fashioned joke about his fictional girlfriend Sadie, then sings the old-timey novelty song "There's More Pretty Girls Than One," backed by The Wagonmasters.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 136
Backed by The Wagonmasters, Porter sings/ recites the week's song of inspiration, "You're Not Home Yet," from "More Grand Old Gospel," the second of his albums with the Blackwood Brothers Quartet. The lights dim dramatically during the number, evoking moonlight on the Wagon House set.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 136
Porter thanks everyone for patronizing the show's sponsors and for writing letters to the show, saying that any letters sent your local station will be forwarded to the show. Porter reintroduces Carl and Pearl Butler, talking about their ranch in the country and saying that "they live the greatest life, I guess, of anybody in the world." Carl says the next song is so new that "the ink ain't dry on it." Backed by The Wagonmasters, Carl and Pearl perform "Punish Me Tomorrow."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 136
Porter decides to do "kind of an old one," then plays guitar and sings a verse and a chorus of 1961's "Sugarfoot Rag" until he has to wrap up the show. Porter waves goodbye as The Wagonmasters play the instrumental show outro, Don Howser signs off, the credits roll, then George chases Speck around his bass as Mack fiddles and dances us off the air.