The High Art of Hee Haw

Gunilla Hutton and Misty Rowe  Junior Samples Minnie Pearl  Roy Clark as poet Claude Strawberry  Carter family - Sara, Maybelle and AP Carter  Hank Williams and Hank Williams Jr  Hank Williams Jr smoking a cigar  Roy Acuff playing fiddle  Hank Williams Sr  Jerry Reed - CGP  Johnny Cash, 1965 El Paso mugshot  June Carter and Johnny Cash, wedding day 1968

 

 Roni Stoneman  Lulu Roman  Jim & Jon Hager - the Hager brothers  Cathy Baker  Buck Owens and the Buckaroos  handsome young Conway Twitty  Young 13 year old Tanya Tucker  

 

Hee Haw premiered in 1969 as a CBS network show to replace The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.  It was perhaps a somewhat unfortunate circumstance, but it's a much more significant show.  It was conceived as something of a hayseed version of Laugh In. (Director Bill Davis had been a director for the Smothers brothers show.)

CBS dumped the show in 1971 in a network ethnic cleansing of hicks from their schedule, along with the unceremonious cancellation of The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres.  There would certainly be stiff competition for such a title, but this may have been the most boneheaded move in network television history.

Anyway, Hee Haw spun off into syndication, becoming certainly one of the couple or three most successful television shows produced for original syndication.  The last original shows were produced in 1992.

For 23 years, hosts Roy Clark and Buck Owens even just by themselves made the show worthy based on their "pickin' and grinnin'" - emphasis on the "pickin."  Heck, they even had Roy Acuff as a regular cast member for five years.  

But actually, I put even more significance on the presence of Grandpa Jones, who really made the show.  It was the perfect outlet for his old-school vaudeville inspired act.  "Hey Grandpa, what's for supper?" That cornpone comedy personnae was pretty fun and identifiable affirmation for us rubes, but he was also a fine banjo picker, expressive singer, and resident folk music scholar.  Plus, you should really give a listen sometime to one of the Hee Haw Gospel Quartet records.  Fine, fine music.  I'll take them over some crappy alt rock schmucks any old day- and of course twice on Sunday.

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