Do You Remember "Hee-Haw"?

[arwalden]

Did you like it? Any favorite characters or sketches?

[NoPasaran]

1. Saaaa-LUTE!

[imax2268]

49. who doesn't remember that show...!!!!

[arwalden]

2. Junior Samples "One Call Gets It All...BR549"

"All two-hunnert dollar cars have been SLASHED to one-hunnert-niney-nine dollars and niney-nine cents."

-- Allen

[CanuckAmok]

3. "...You met another, and PFFFFFFTTT, you wuz gone..."

n/t

[Richardo]

45. My brothers and I always waited for the Junior Samples ad...

HA!

[Lostmessage]

4. Hey Grandpa what's for Supper

I loved that segment.

I loved Jr Samples BR549, the dancing cartoon pigs and the lady at the Ironing board with the teeth missing.

My Parents were from the south and we watched it religiously. Buck Owens played a major part in my growing up LOL.

[dbt]

43. That lady at the ironing board was Ronnie Stoneman!

One of the BEST banjo players ever to put on a set of fingerpicks. It's a shame Hee Haw never let her cut loose; she could have mopped the floor with Roy Clark!

:loveya:
dbt

Check out some of the early Stoneman Family recordings (when Ronnie was rather young). Their version of "Shady Grove" kills!

[Bertha Venation]

5. loved it when I was a kid

My favorite:

Where, oh, where are you tonight?
Why did you leave me here all alone?
I searched the world over and I thought I found true love
But you met another and ppbblltthh! you was gone

Just thinking of it makes me smile. What a bunch of goofy old farts.

And I miss Minnie Pearl. Ever heard her "Good mornin', this mornin'!" bit? LOVED her.

I want a Minnie Pearl hat.

[arwalden]

6. "I Crossed A Sponge With A Potato The Other Day" (WHADJA GET?!)

"It didn't taste too good but it sure soaked up a lot of gravy!"

[Faygo Kid]

7. Oh, Arwalden - Forget "Hee Haw," what about "The Smothers Brothers?"

Isn't it time for an Arwalden poll on Pat Paulsen for President? Share a Little Tea With Goldie? Steve Martin's first ever sketch? Can you humor an old guy, who never got over his crush on Elizabeth Montgomery?

[EstimatedProphet]

10. Now THAT was a show!

And Laugh-in too, while we're at it!

[arwalden]

20. That brings back many memories. I enjoyed the...

... Smothers Brothers show too. Also, the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour was another one we watched.

-- Allen

[Faygo Kid]

32. So let's go, my friend! A Smothers Brothers poll? Talk about Vietnam. .

With Vietnam back (and well should it be), it's time to resurrect the Smothers Brothers. They were right then; they are so relevant now. Remember the skit taking on "Bonanza" (their Sunday night competition), with Pat Paulsen as Pa, Mama Cass as "Hass" (ohmigod, the censorship - "Kiss my Hass") and Rosey Grier as the mysterious Ma Cartwright? The Brothers played the Bad Guys, trying to steal the Cartwrights from their Neilsons (ratings). I bet you remember it.

[DinahMoeHum]

8. "Where, where are you tonight?. . .

"...why did you leave me here all alone?
I searched the world over and I thought I found true love,
You met another and :P, you was gone !!"

:evilgrin:

The show was my first real introduction to country music.

:evilgrin:

[Archae]

9. "I'm a pickin'..."

Only part I didn't like was their "soap opera," where they just sat there looking blank.

But "Pickin' and grinnin'," the barbershop, (remember the Pee Little Thrigs and the Big Wad Bolf?) :D "Cuzzin" Minnie Pearl, Grandpa Jones, "...and phrrrt, you were gone", John Henry Faulk, Reverend Grady Nutt, so many were so good on that show.

[1monster]

13. Oh! We're not ones to go 'round spreadin' rumors...

In fact we're not the gossipin' kind
You'll never hear one of us repeatin' gossip.
So you'd better be sure and listen close the first time!

Hey! How 'bout RENDERCELLA and her swo tugly ep stisters and her mugly ep stother, and how she slopped her dripper on the bay from the wall. And how she arried the pransome hence manyway?

[arwalden]

15. You Have A Great Memory!!

I could only recall the last two lines.

-- Allen

[arwalden]

23. Rindercella Story

Rindercella by Archie Campbell

Once upon a time in a corn funtry, there lived a geautiful burl, and her name was Rindercella. Now, Rindercella lived with her mugly other and her two sad blisters. Also, in this same corn funtry, there was a very prandsome hince. Now this prandsome hince was gonna have a bancy fall, and he invited the people for riles amound. Especially the pitch reople!

Now Rindercella's mugly other and her two sad blisters, they went out to buy some drancy fesses, you know, to wear to this bancy fall, but Rindercella couldn't go, because all she had to wear was some old rirty dags. So finally the night of the bancy fall arrived, and Rindercella couldn't go, so she just cat down and shried. She was kitten there shryin', when all at once there appeared before her, her gary mudfather! And he touched her with his wagic mand. And there appeared before her a cage boach and hix white sources, you know, to take her to the bancy fall. But he said, now, Rindercella, you be sure and be home before nid might or I'll purn you into a tumpkin!

So when Rindercella arrived at the bancy fall, this prandsome hince met her at the door because he'd been watching all this time behind a widden hindow. And Rindercella and the prandsome hince nanced all dight. And they lell in fuv!

And all at once the midclock struck night and Rindercella staced down the rairs, and just as she reached the bottom, she slopped her dripper! So the next day the prandsome hince went all over this corn funtry, looking for the geautiful burl who had slopped her dripper.

Finally he came to Rindercella's house. Well, he tried it on her mugly other and it fidn't dit. He tried it on her two sigly usters and it fidn't dit. Then he tried it on Rindercella and it FID dit! It was exactly the sight rise. So they got married and lived heavily after hampers.

Now the storal of the mory is this: if you go to a bancy fall and you wanna have a prandsome hince lall in fuv with you, don't forget to slop your dripper!

[Bunny]

24. The Culhanes of Cornfield County?

It was great!

[Deja Q]

11. I recall a set of weird looking identical twins...

As for the show, can't stand it. I much prefer "Hee Haw: The Next Generation"... no pics, but if you were to watch "The Critic" episode "Sherman of Arabia", you'd get to see it... :D

[Bunny]

26. The twins were Jim and John something.

I actually got their autographs when they came to my hometown for "Old Fashioned Days". I think I was about 10 or 12.

[arwalden]

31. Jim And John HAGAR... (Cute Photo Inside)

Weren't they adorable? And LOOK! One of them has a "Jimmy Carter For President" T-shirt on!

Edit: More Photos...

[terrya]

33. They're cute. But who's the guy in the middle?

He's cute, also.

:-)

Terry

[arwalden]

34. I Have No Clue... I Just Googled Them..

... I didn't really read to see who the fellow in the middle was.

-- Allen

[arwalden]

35. It's Garlin Hackney

http://www.hackandthe57s.com/ArtistLowRes.htm

I've never heard of this rockabilly artist myself.
-- Allen

[terrya]

36. I'm so nosy, my friend. I didn't expect you to look it up for me.

Thank you for finding out.

I owe you one.

:-)

Terry

[arwalden]

12. "Oh, you'll never hear one of us repeating gossip!"

"So you'd better be sure and listen close the first time!"

[Nlighten1]

14. Big boobies

in low slung shirt...as a child I remember it well...

[ironflange]

38. Plenty of those

I'd watch it for them well-scrubbed country girls in the low-cut gingham blouses and short-short cutoffs. Yeehooooo!!!

[arwalden]

16. I Recall Something Along The Lines Of "Gloom, Despair and Agony For Me"

but I can't remember the rest.

-- Allen

[Lostmessage]

17. ??

Deep dark depression?
Extensive misery
If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all

[arwalden]

18. Yes, yes yes! That's It! Thank you... my memory has been jogged!!

-- Allen

[Ratty]

19. Sundays were depressing for me as a kid

Due to circumstances ... I always hated Sundays and became very depressed. Plus there was never anything on TV then except sports and bad movies and Music/Dance shows. All things I hated. Then there was Hee Haw. I really despised that show and never watched it. Too much music (which I also hated) and very unfunny sketches featuring stars I'd never heard of. So now when I think back to it now, not only do I not like it, I associate it intimately with Sundays so I have to say I hate it.

[lolly]

21. Home town show

Most of the show was shot in Bakersfield, CA.

Buck Owens was (and still is; owns a big restaurant there) a big shot there. Played a red/white/blue guitar.

A seven-degrees of separation issue here: I played in a high school orchestra for a year with the sister of the Hee-Haw orchestra's fiddler--the lady with the blue fiddle.

[lpbk2713]

22. "Hey Grampaw, that shore is a purdy gal over yonder."

"Shucks. I Shore wish I was a-facin' thataway."

[The Zanti Regent]

25. Hee Haw had the FINEST looking girls on

Who cared about the music, I loved the FIne lookin girls in tie tops and cutoffs.

[mitchum]

37. Absolutely, it was like an Erskine Caldwell novel come to life...

with all of those fine Hee Haw Honeys

[Awsi Dooger]

40. Yes, I'm trying to remember their names...

One of the perky blondes was Misty Rowe. Another played a character called Nurse Goodbody. I think her name was Gunilla Hutton.

Damn, I'm partial to brunettes and can't remember the name of the incredibly ample one on Hee Haw.

The two or three skits featuring the Honeys was the only reason I watched Hee Haw, after NFL football every Sunday.

[terrya]

27. "Where, where, are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone"?

"I searched the world over and thought I found true love. You met another and *thpppppptt" you were gone!"

I don't believe I still remember that!

:-)

Terry

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

28. There's a HOLE in the bucket!

But also a VERY VERY big fan of Roy Clark's

[maveric]

30. IMO Roy Clark is one of the best guitarists EVER.

His speed pickin has yet to be matched.

[LynneSin]

29. That was our family's entertainment on Saturday nights

when I was growing up.

That and the Lawrence Welk show.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

46. Are we related?

I have the same childhood memory!

[Rabrrrrrr]

39. Lots of Hee Haw growing up

Kinda loved, kinda didn't, but mostly, always enjoyed it. And ended up seeing most of those people live at one point or another.

Roy Clark live - gotta say, that's a show that's up there with Pink Floyd and Zappa. hell of a musician.

[WillParkinson]

41. I refuse to answer...

On the grounds that ...uh... my mother MADE me watch it! Yeah, that's it.

[JCMach1]

42. How about FORCED to watch

It was that or Lawrence Welk...

Back in the Dark Ages before cable.

[trof]

44. I was there!

My cousin was the chief engineer for Opryland Productions which taped Hee-Haw, among other C&W shows.

While visiting with his family, we spent a day at work with him while they were taping a Hee-Haw segment.

Junior Samples "act" was no act. He was as thick as two planks. Nice guy, but s-l-o-w.

I saw a fairly well known (at the time) singer/musician (whose name escapes me now) do a line of coke off of his guitar (banjo?) case during a break. Oh my.

George Lindsay ("Goober") was a sweetie, and everybody's buddy. Did tend to get up into the hooch and wake up in unexpected places once in a while. Like my cousin's car in the parking lot. "Hey Goob! Wake up! Time to go home."

The Hee-Haw girls were cute and sweet and took on over our little girl like she was a long lost cousin. The grabass and "whoopsies" on the show were NOT scripted. Them wuz wild and crazy days in Nashville.

[arwalden]

47. You Never Cease To Amaze...

and impress me with all the great stories about your life.

-- Allen

[trof]

48. I've been everywhere, man.

Sometimes it amazes and amuses me how many subjects here I can personally relate to, or have personal experiences with that are germane.

(My favorite new word for the day: "germane-Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant.
".)

May have something to do with having been around for 62 years.
;-)

[ThoughtCriminal]

50. Pain Despair and Agony on Me

Deep Dark Depression
Excessive Misery
If it weren't for Bad Luck
I'd have no luck at all
Pain Despair and Agony on Me