The Porter Wagoner Show No. 283
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 283
The Porter Wagoner Show #283 featuring special guests The Blackwood Brothers Gospel Quartet.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 283
Promo for The Porter Wagoner Show #283 featuring special guests The Blackwood Brothers Gospel Quartet. In his orange sherbet Nudie suit, Porter introduces the show's regulars and the Blackwood Brothers, promising a lot of fun if you'll just tune in. Fade out over art card with colorful illustration of Porter.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 283
Opening of Porter Wagoner show #283. Standard pre-recorded opening begins with CU of Porter s shiny red boots walking down hallway, which cuts to rear view of Wagoner s garish green Nudie suit festooned with rhinestone wagon wheels and cacti. Montage of smiling Porter happily walking through WSM-TV studio as stage hands and technicians prep show. Don Howser s voice over reads: "Direct from Nashville Tennessee, here s The Porter Wagoner Show!" Quick shots of regulars as Howser announces them: "Starring Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, Speck Rhodes, Don Howser, The Wagonmasters, and today s special guest star." Momentary pause in VO (presumably left for Howser to read the guest star s name on air), then prerecorded segment ends with Howser s "...and now, here s Porter." Cut to live portion as Porter, wearing dazzling, rhinestone-studded Dreamsicle-orange Nudie suit, plays guitar and sings "You Got-ta Have A License" accompanied by Wagonmasters Buck Trent, Don Warden, Mack Magaha, George McCormick, Jack Little and Speck Rhodes, all but Speck in matching green bean green Nudie suits. Colorful shots of audience applauding. Medium shots Mack's fiddling and Buck's sweet banjo solo.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 283
Porter welcomes audience and introduces the Blackwood Brothers Quartet, who perform the gospel number "The Night Before Easter" with their own backing band.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 283
Demonstrating his formidable instrumental prowess, banjo man Buck Trent struts his stuff on his own instrumental "Give Me Five."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 283
Porter introduces the pretty little lady Dolly Parton, who plays guitar and sings her number "Just The Way I Am" (from her LP "The Fairest Of Them All") backed by The Wagonmasters.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 283
Porter returns to sing a duet with Dolly, and backed by The Wagonmasters they perform "Tomorrow Is Forever." At 01:12:40 Dolly blows a line and laughing, tells Porter "I'm as sorry as you are, man." Oh, she's gonna get a whupping after that one, you can almost picture Porter saying "Dolly, go cut me a switch..."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 283
Porter introduces Speck Rhodes saying "This next ol' boy coming out here folks, don't adjust your sets, there's nothing wrong with it." This coming from a man in a sherbet-colored suit. Gap-toothed rube comedian Speck Rhodes ambles in wearing his usual checkered suit and bowler hat and tells a joke that's pretty danged funny, for a change. Then backed by The Wagonmasters, ol' Speckle sings the novelty song "Wait A Little Longer." Buck sneaks in the guitar solo from "Folsom Prison Blues," and Speck fudges his way through a line he doesn't quite remember.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 283
It's time for the week's sacred number. Porter says his most pleasant recording sessions were the ones he did with The Blackwood Brothers, so with them accompanying he performs the recitation "Supper Time" from their "In Gospel Country" LP. The sight of the somber, understated Blackwoods backing the rhinestone cowboy is as bizarre as a clown in a cathedral, but somehow they pull it of splendidly. I swear, Porter could've sold ice to Eskimos.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 283
The Blackwood Brothers grace us with another snappy uptempo gospel number, the lively "I Came Here To Stay" from their "Fill My Cup, Lord" LP. Porter displays the cover of the LP then wraps up the show, waving goodbye as The Wagonmasters play the instrumental show outro, Don Howser signs off, and credits roll as Mack dances and fiddles us off the air.