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- This entry in the "See America First" series focuses on the ten years prior to the US Civil War. We see monuments and buildings associated with people and places of that era. Some of these are: a monument to slaves in Nachitoches, Louisiana; the Brunswick, Maine home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, where she wrote the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; Fort Nashboro in Nashville, Tennessee; composer Stephen Foster's home in Bardstown, Kentucky; the grave of abolitionist John Brown at his family's farm in North Elba, New York; and Andrew Jackson's home, The Hermitage.
- In this episode: diamond cutting technology; a collapsible 2-story trailer; how glass marbles are made; the Vultee Vengeance dive bomber.
- This entry (RKO production number 04-304) features the highlights of the just-completed, except for the New Year Day bowl games, and features primarily the end-of-season game in the Cotton Bowl stadium between the number-one ranked Fighting Irish of Notre Dame and the Mustangs of Southern Methodist University.
- A flight attendant becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman, all of whom are named Mike. After the three find out about one another, she must decide which one she loves the most--which won't be easy.
- Country music series that represented the first televised attempt to present the Grand Ole Opry as a regular series.
- American frontiersman Davy Crockett fights in the Creek Indian War, is elected to the U.S. Congress and fights for Texas at the Alamo.
- Public service program sponsored by the U.S. Army featured top country and western singers playing their hit songs interspersed with announcements urging viewers to visit their local Army recruiting station.
- "Shock Theater" was a hosted horror movie show with Ken Bramming as Dr. Lucifur presenting horror movies for WSIX-TV, Channel 8, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; on Fridays at 10:15 pm.
- News documentary on the sit-in movement for civil rights in the South, focusing on Nashville, Tennessee.
- After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.
- A weekly syndicated country and western musical performance show hosted by the country vocal duo, Doyle and Teddy Wilburn.
- An examination of the progress that has been made in US school desegregation in the ten years since Brown v. Board of Education.
- Seventeen country music performers play 27 different country and western numbers, to the accompaniment of seven different bands.
- Featuring Eddy Arnold, Minnie Pearl, Dottie West, Chet Atkins, Ernest Tubb, and Flatt and Scruggs and The Jordainaires.
- Produced at WLAC-TV in Nashville, "Night Train. debuted in October 1964. The show boasted a house band led by musical director Bob Holmes and showcasing the fiery blues licks of Johnny Jones.
- Overlooked when the Tennessee legislature reapportioned the state, the 40-acre community of Shagbottom is discovered and notified to elect a state representative. The ensuing power struggle results in both fussin' and feudin'.
- Featuring Eddy Arnold, Gene Pitney, Buck Owens, Connie Smith, Linda Gayle, from THE GRAND OLE OPRY.
- 1963–1966TV EpisodeFeaturing Roy Acuff, Buck Owens, Minnie Pearl, Roy Drusky, Del Reeves, and Norma Jean. Also featuring Merle Haggard, Tex Ritter, Connie Smith, Mrs. Jim Reeves, Hank Cochran, Wesley Rose, Roger Miller, along with Frances Preston, TN Gov. Frank Clement, and Jim Henson's Muppets.
- A country music show comes to Broadway with the only big screen appearance of the legendary Hank Williams.
- A roving cowboy drifts from place to place earning his keep by singing songs and spinning yarns.
- When the promised musical entertainment fails to show up at Archie's saloon, the bartender begs The Drifter to sing a few songs to keep the unruly crowd at bay and earn a hot meal. While the young singer tickles the ivories, a beautiful saloon girl tries to convince him to take her on his travels.
- Down a dusty road in the deep South, wanders a young man, Arlin Grove, with a guitar and his earthly belongings on his back, just released from the U.S. Army, with no place to go. When a Hootenanny comes to town, it just discovered that Arlin not only has an exciting voice, he also is a gifted guitar player. He is soon appearing on the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville.
- Episode: (1966)1963–1966TV EpisodeFeaturing Roy Acuff, Flatt and Scruggs, George Hamilton IV, Sonny James, Carl Smith, Hank Snow, Kitty Wells, Dottie West, and Faron Young.
- A Hillbilly hits the big time in Las Vegas.
- This is a musical movie exploring different places and venues in Nashville, TN relative to country music in 1965. These include several places within the Broadway area, a club, and even a couple of mentions of WENO radio, a local country radio station that served the Nashville area at that time. This movie features the music of Webb Pierce, the Wilburn Brothers, Lorene Mann, Warner Mack, Loretta Lynn, Justin Tubb, Dave Dudley, Jean Shephard, Charlie Louvin, Autry Inman, and Gordon Terry, along with some fantastic musicians and a few others. The L & C Tower is featured prominently in the movie so please watch for it. Also, there is a 1913 car in the movie that is carrying several people on Broadway. The story behind that is it was a prize winning for the wife of Billy Robinson, a steel player for the Prince Albert Grand Ole Opry 1948-1952. They sold the car shortly after it was delivered to their home to WENO radio, and it was used for promotional purposes by that station for a number of years. Watch for it in the movie as well. T Tommy Cutrer is one of the main people in the movie. He was a famous annohncer on the Grand Ole Opry in the years prior to this and was involved in politics by the time this movie was filmed (1965). It is kind of a homecoming for him to return during the DJ Convention of 1965 for this movie.
- A singer determined to make it in country-western music lets nothing stand in his way, including stealing. The girl who loves him and a female preacher try to straighten him out and help him make it legitimately.
- Rivals on the raceway--for publicity purposes only (but secretly buddies). Then they fall in love with the same woman--and the rivalry on the raceway becomes very real...
- Two brothers, one a popular race car driver that all the women love and the other a brilliant mechanic who makes the winning possible, become enemies when one messes with the other's girlfriend.
- "Mystic Circle" was a hosted horror movie show with Ken Bramming as "Dr. Lucifur" presenting horror movies for WMCV-TV, (independent) Channel 17, Nashville, Tennessee, USA .
- In the Louisiana bayous, a trio of hunters captures a monster called the Swamp Thing and take it to New Orleans, where--naturally--they display it in a strip joint. When the monster's favorite stripper gets into a fight with another stripper, he breaks loose and starts killing.
- Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, were hosts of this Country and Western themed variety show. Comedians Hope, Crosby, Minnie Pearl, and others perform skits. Musical acts as diverse as Louis Armstrong to The Monkees perform.
- Johnny Cash sings "Hey Porter", "Wreck of the Old 97", "I've Got a Thing About Trains" and "Wabash Cannonball". Johnny & Gordon Lightfoot duet on "For Lovin' Me". Johnny, Dan Blocker & Joey Scarborough perform "Folsom Prison Blues". The Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot". Johnny does a medley of "Get Rhythm", "There You Go", "Still In Town" and "The One On the Right is on the Left".
- Televised comedy/variety show with a country bent.
- Merle Haggard; Jack Burns; Susan Raye and the Hagers.
- Tammy Wynette; Faron Young; George Jones.
- Johnny Cash sings "I Guess Things Happen That Way", "Loading Coal", "Dark as a Dungeon", "Cocaine Blues", "Blistered", "Ballad of a Teenaged Queen" and "You Beat All I Ever Saw". Johnny & Buffy Sainte-Marie duet on "Custer". Johnny & Doug McClure duet on "Cowboy Buckaroo". The Cowsills duet with Johnny on "Children Go Where I Send Thee". Johnny & June Carter Cash perform "Keep On the Sunnyside". The Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform "Lead Me Gently Home".
- In this FICTIONAL film, filled with FICTIONAL people doing FICTIONAL things, Mabel (Marilyn Maxwell) and Arnold (Leo G. Carroll), a couple of sophisticated swells from New York City, are on one of their annual 'See American First' tours. They are traveling bu auto and get stranded on a road in a rural part of Tennessee. Marty Robbins (Marty Robbins) and his musicians and crew, en route to Nashville, stop their bus, help them get on their way and give them tickets to the Grand Ole Opry, which Mabel thinks is a grand old opera. Arnold becomes fascinated by the country music and accepts an offer from Marty to take a trip with him and his musicians. Along the way, Arnold becomes the manager of Jose Gonzales-Gonzales (Jose Gonzales-Gonzales), who has decided he is a show producer. The group then engages in the production of a country-western music show.
- Johnny Cash sings "Ring of Fire", "Frankie and Johnny", "Sing it Pretty", "Sue", "Johnny Yuma", "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow", "Ballad of Ira Hayes". Ed Ames sings "The Windmills of Your Mind". Johnny and Ed duet on "Love of the Common People". Joni Mitchell sings "The Gallery". Johnny & Joni duet on "The Long Black Veil". The Monkees perform "Nine Times Blue". Johnny and the Monkees duet on "Everybody Loves a Nut". Roy Clark performs the "Twelfth Street Rag". The Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform "Lead Me, Father".
- Merle Haggard strums "Hobo Meditation." Bonnie Owens sings "Lead Me On." Eddy Fukano, the number one country star in Japan croons "Columbus Stockade Blues."
- O.C. Smith sings "Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife". O.C. & O.C. Jr. sing "For Once In My Life". Johnny, O.C. & O.C. Jr. perform "Hickory Holler's Tramp". Johnny sings "Remember the Alamo", "Strangest Dreams", "The Big Battle", "So Doggone Lonesome" and "Seasons of My Heart". Kenny Rogers & The First Edition perform "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town". Melanie sings "Baby Guitar". Melanie & Grandpa Jones perform "Silver Threads and Golden Needles". Grandpa sings "Mountain Dew". June Carter Cash sings "Tall Lover Man".
- The episode opens with Johnny Cash singing "Three Feet High and Rising"; Then Lulu sings "Morning Dew" and duets with Cash on "Games People Play"; Fannie Flagg sings "You've Changed"; The "Ride This Train" segment features Cash singing "San Quentin" and "Give My Love To Rose." John Hartford sings "Tear-Stained Monologue" then jams on bluegrass medley with Cash and Norman Blake. Chet Atkins follows with a brilliant instrumental, then Cash recites a poem he's written to Atkins' accompaniment. The closing series of songs finds Cash essaying "Wanted Man" then turning center stage over to the Statler Brothers who sing their hit "Less of Me," then Cash and the ensemble sing "Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms." The episode closes with Cash singing "I Saw A Man."
- Roger Miller sings "I Got Stripes". Johnny Cash duets with Odetta on "Shame And Scandal On The Family". Johnny sings "Ballad Of The Blue And Gray", "On The Line", "Lornea" and "Johnny Reb". Johnny duets with Roger on "King Of The Road". Johnny performs an instrumental with Carl Perkins and The Tennessee Three on "Outside Looking In" and "Luther Played The Boogie". Johnny with the Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform "How Great Thou Art".
- Cass Elliott sings "Soft and Tenderly" and a medley of "Gentle On My Mind", "Born to Lose" & "Release Me". Johnny Cash sings "Going to Memphis", "Don't Take Your Guns to Town", "Hardin Wouldn't Run", "The Ballad of Boot Hill". Ramblin' Jack Elliott sings "If I Were a Carpenter", and "Take Me Home" (duet with Johnny Cash). The Staple Singers sing "We'll Get Over". Tommy Cash (Johnny's brother) sings "That Lucky Old Sun".
- 1969–19711hTV EpisodeJohnny Cash sings "Folsom Prison Blues", "You're the One I Need", "I Walk the Line" & "This Land is Your Land". Roy Orbison sings "Cryin'". Johnny & Roy duet on "Pretty Woman". Creedence Clearwater Revival performs "Bad Moon Rising" & "Proud Mary". Phil Harris sings "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette". Johnny & Phil Harris duet on "That's What I Like About the South". Bobbi Martin sings "Your Cheatin' Heart". Johnny & June Carter Cash duet on "Jackson". Johnny with the Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform "Battle Hymn of the Republic".