The Porter Wagoner Show No. 276
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 276
The Porter Wagoner Show #276 featuring special guest, cowboy actor Chill Wills.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 276
Promo for The Porter Wagoner Show #276 featuring special guest Chill Wills. Spot consists of Wills telling viewers to tune into the show for the best in country western entertainment, ending with Wills' comically menacing exhortation to "look at it." Fade out over art card with colorful illustration of Porter.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 276
Opening of Porter Wagoner show #276. 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 live on air), then prerecorded segment ends with Howser s "...and now, here s Porter." Cut to live portion as Porter, wearing dazzling, rhinestone-studded sky blue Nudie suit, plays guitar and sings "The Crawdad Song" accompanied by Dolly Parton and Wagonmasters Buck Trent, Don Warden, Mack Magaha, George McCormick, Jack Little and Speck Rhodes, all but Speck in matching red Nudie suits. Speck and Dolly take turns at the mic. Shots of audience applauding.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 276
Porter welcomes audience and introduces cowboy actor Chill Wills. Wills makes jokes about the wealth of country singing stars ("Marty Robbins has a home smothered in swimming pools, and Johnny Cash just made a down payment on Texas"), then rambles a bit about how his wife Jill Wills is a big country music buff. Wills plugs his LP "Hello, Cousin," then sings the humorous ditty "Little Darling" to a female-vocal-laden prerecorded backing track. Wills is quite a character, hamming it up like crazy.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 276
Backed by The Wagonmasters, Mack Magaha fiddles us out of the commercial break with a lively instrumental.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 276
Porter introduces the beautiful little lady, Miss Dolly Parton, who plays guitar and sings "In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)," backed by The Wagonmasters.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 276
Backed by The Wagonmasters, Porter plays a "verse and a chorus" of his 1966 hit "Your Old Love Letters."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 276
Chill Wills and gap-toothed comedian Speck Rhodes perform a goofy little comedy sketch about Speck trying to save the ranch that Chill runs.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 276
Backed by The Wagonmasters, Dolly sings the week's sacred song, "If We Never Meet Again."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 276
Porter displays a copy of Chill Wills' LP "Hello, Cousin," saying "It's one of the greatest albums that I own, and I have lots of albums." Chill masterfully performs a folksy recitation from his record entitled "Will Rogers." Wills appears to get weepy-eyed by the end of the piece about his dear departed friend.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 276
Porter returns and says there aren't words to describe how beautiful that was. Chill seems choked up as he says how happy he was to be on the show, and tells Speck he ought to trade in his checkered suit as he's starting to look like a hippy in it. 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 as credits roll.