Pickin', and grinnin', singin', and spinnin', tall tales and corny jokes, the citizens of Kornfield Kounty landed on television on 1969 with the arrival of HEE HAW as a summer replacement series for The Smothers Brothers C... more »omedy Hour. each week co-hosts Buck Owens and Roy Clark and the cast of comedians and musicians would welcome the biggest stars in country music to perform their songs and help deliver the one liners. Conceived as a rural alternative to Rowan & Martins Laugh In, HEE HAW ranked in the top 20 nationwide when CBS dropped the show in 1971 in an attempt to "de-countrify" the networks programming. It was quickly picked up and became the longest running weekly syndicated original series in television history. The last "new" episode aired in 1992. Looks like the non0network executives had the last hee-haw.
Enterting to the tune of King of the Road, the wildly talented Roger Miller settles in for a loose version of his first No. 1 record, Dang Me. On a more serious note, he dusts off Thats the Way I Feel, a 1958 Faron ZYoung hit that Miller Co-wrote with George Jones and cust himslef in 1970. Peggy Little has a voice whose vibrato whirs like a hummingbird's wings, all the better to charm everyone with I Wish I DIdnt Have to Miss You and Statue of a Fool. A glamorous Loretta Lynn Looks to be a thousand miles from her childhood home in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, which inspired the autobiographical Coal Miners Daughter. She also adds some downhome touches to Secret Love, a huge pop hit for Doris Day in 1954. Loretta's Decca labelmate Bill Anderson displays his own songwriting skills with the poporiented I Love You Drops and Wild Week-end, a prime example of the chugging 4/4 rhythm once known around Nashville as "The Bill Anderson beat"« less