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Tim Conway And Ray Charles
Jimmy_the_Gent431 August 2022
No Q&A, Carol just announces the guests.

Harvey and Vicki are a couple with tomboy daughter Carol. Tim plays a buddy who doesn't notice she is a girl.

Ray Charles sings his current single of Look What They Done To My Song Ma, which went to #65.

Harvey is a short tempered billboard hanger and Tim his apprentice, who is afraid of heights.

There is a very funny spoof of the movie Madame X. Carol is the woman on death row and Tim is a priest. We go to a flashback with Harvey as a millionaire who marries and leaves her, he is now married to Vicki. Carol shows up with a baby, funny scene when Carol and Vicki fight over it. Years pass and Harvey now plays the grown up son. Lyle is a blackmailer that becomes the murder victim. Funny final scene.

A great musical sequence has Carol as the Charwoman going to the empty stage with Ray Charles's piano. Ray appears with the Raettes and the dancers singing some of his hits like You Are My Sunshine, Georgia On My Mind, his version of the Beatles' Yesterday, He duets with Carol on Crying Time, God Bless The Child. It ends with Hallelujah I Love Her So and What'd I Say.

Carol sings her theme, Tim signs her book and she guides Ray's hand so he signs too.
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5/10
Best for the musical numbers
evening119 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
When I saw this episode scheduled on a local NYC public-TV station, I wanted to tape it for the appearance by Ray Charles. And his two engagements at the grand piano are indeed wonderful -- what a treat!

I was only 16 when this segment aired, and I wasn't a fan of the variety show. But I was very impressed with several elements in this episode's lineup -- Carol's cleaning-woman persona, all decked out in nothing-matches frock and night bonnet, and the wonderful backup singers and dancers.

Ray, just 42 when this aired, is backed by a quartet of lovely singers, crooning in both English and French and modestly attired in long-sleeved dresses, something we'd never see on today's crass stages. The program's dancers wear wildly hued and patterned togs attesting to the popularity of designer Emilio Pucci in 1972.

The biggest surprise of all in this episode is Carol Burnett and her lovely alto voice. She's sublime in totally unanticipated duets with Ray.

The episode includes some comedic bits with the obviously talented Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Keitel, and Tim Conway. However, the humor is way too forced and exaggerated for my tastes, so I reached for the fast-forward.

From what I could tell from this episode, this series, with some critical edits, is a gem.
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