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April 08, 2006
Hee Haw Photo Gallery Notes Ol' Al ain't got a lot of new writing done this week, but I have whooped up a bunch of new Hee Haw photo galleries for Tanya Tucker, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty and my personal fave cool guy Dave "Stringbean" Akeman.
Alright, for starters, there's the main Hee Haw page, and Hee Haw picture page. There's all kinds of goodies linked out of there.
Among the more recent, I have a Buck Owens page and six pages of Buck pictures. Among other things, there are a couple of pictures of Buck on the cheesy Match Game show.
Related, I have 24 pages of pictures of Ray Charles on Hee Haw in 1970, RAY CHARLES HEE HAW PICTURES This includes 11 pages of Ray Charles singing his hit "Crying Time" with the composer, Buck Owens- starting HERE. I've had "Don't Change On Me" in stock for years on the Ray box set, but I hadn't really paid attention to what a fine little song it is until I saw this performance. WHAT are these danged fools laughing about?
This week, I added 15 pages of vintage 1973 pictures of 14 year old Tanya Tucker performing her main hits "Delta Dawn" and "What's Your Mama's Name?" It's real interesting to study her look, and her movements. She's a cute kid and all, but there's something weird about a 13-14 year old being able to understand and communicate the very beaten down and weary adult sentiments of these songs. You can see some of that even in just her posture and facial expressions here.
Also from Hee Haw #126, there are six pages of pictures of Conway Twitty doing his monster hit "You've Never Been This Far Before." As a guy, I might be a bit inclined to make fun of his ladies man shtick. Listening again though, this is a fine little dramatic song. Also, those "bom, bom, bom"s are in fact a pretty strong hook. Plus, he really knew how to sell this kind of stuff vocally, and even how to cast those far away romantic looks. Rather than mocking, fellas might should just be taking notes. This stuff sure worked for Conway.
On top of which, from this same 1974 episode, we have nine pages of Conway Twitty - Loretta Lynn pictures, performing their best and biggest duet hit "Louisiana Woman, Missisippi Man." Folks, that right there is some righteous Cajun funk. "Too bad alligator, you swim too slow."
Also, editing the still images, I'd say these are some of the very best images I've seen of either one of these performers. Looking at them, they really seemed to bring out the joy in each other.
Ol' Stringbean had the roughest job on Hee Haw. In his main recurring bit, he was THE scarecrow of Kornfield Kounty, responsible for trying to scare off all the bad jokes. Tough job on this show.
From the same March 2, 1974 broadcast, we've got a MoreThings photo gallery of one of Dave Akeman's last performances. It didn't occur to me till I was editing these photos that when Stringbean died on November 10, 1973, he would have already had a whole last season of Hee Haw performances in the can. They typically taped a whole year's worth of shows in a couple of weeks during the summer, so they'd have been showing new Stringbean every week for six months after he passed.
That's good, cause here he's leading the regular crew through a fine performance of a groovy little stomper I'd never heard before called "Uncle Eph's Got the Coon." It's good to see him jammin' hard with Grandpa Jones, Roy Clark and Roni Stoneman, this fleeting moment of joy caught forever on video.
