Buck Owens and Rockabilly, who knew?
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Oh dear god! I remember my parents watching this.
So apparently I didn’t work hard enough purging those neurons.
I remember when Hee Haw was a show, not a rolemodel.
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Yes! Them, too! But I draw the line at Pink Lady & Jeff.
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My in-laws in NC consider “Hee Haw” the fairest invention of this earth and I kid you not when my b-i-l had to travel anywhere he’d take the DVDs of the show, so he’d always have something good to watch. As a stuck-up Brit, I watched stone-faced until I caught the unbuttoned unashamed crap-joke running-gag vibe of the show, it clicked and I started to enjoy it. (After all, the UK invented variety and pantomime*. We know all about appalling running gags.)
*ETA Benny Hill. Need I say more.
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The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show.
The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine.
Hell, even Donny and Marie and Sonny and Cher.
How about Kaptain Kool and the Kongs from the Kroft Superstar show?
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Also to mention, I would think it quite an honor to have the Beatles cover one of my songs, especially with the hard road to fame Buck had to scramble.
*Side note: Does anyone have info on Buck’s ancestry? He always kind of appeared to me as someone of mixed ancestry…maybe some Native American or Latino in there.
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That’s a steel-string!!! 
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No one gets to claim Hee Haw cred unless they have a pair of Liberty brand overalls in the closet. None of that cheap Walmart Dickies crap that’ll blow out after a month in the field.
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I think Owens’ guitar was a Grammer, at least the one in this picture. I had one for a while in the 80s. Real country music styling. Kind of overbuilt, IMO, and subsequently, a bit less lively sounding than a comparable Martin or Guild. But the styling, even though it wasn’t as cool as the Red White and Blue, was eye catching country western all the way.
The long haired twins are the Hager Brothers. They were a respectable musical act, though it looks like the peak of their fame is associated with Hee Haw. Sadly they both passed away within a year of each other at relatively young ages of 66 and 67
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they’re showing Laugh In re-runs a lot on TV where I live, so it’s fresh on my mind. Watching the Hee Haw clip just now, it was really obvious that was the formula. Reading thru the thread, I guess it’s old news, but Laugh In was off the air before I was born and I was very young when Hee Haw still aired, so I never put it together before. Whether that formula is a good or a bad thing I suppose could be debated, but hell, both shows can make me laugh (even if I cringe, too.) Laughter mostly due to Lily Tomlin on Laugh In.
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Variety shows of the 70s were certainly of their time. Donny and Marie were saccharine to a fault, but the show featured pretty solid performances meant for mass consumption. Gotta give them credit for the professional level their shows had.
Sonny and Cher, OTOH, I’ve had the pleasure of watching a few episodes a few weeks ago, on a small digital over-the-air channel. That one was pretty cringeworthy, far more than I remember as a kid. Some of the guest musical performances were decent, but the central act depended on Sonny and Cher doing an insult comedy act on each other. All the humor was about Cher mocking Bono’s stature and lack of talent, and Bono mocking Cher’s big nose and small boobs. Ugh, it was just terrible. As talented as the two were, stand up wasn’t their strength.
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My father sold the in tape three minutes of commercials for the sydicated show. That’s how I was able to go to college, the show paid me to. Dad went to meet Roy & Buck and the producers and attended a taping. Said everyone was very civil, polite and well spoken, including Minnie Pearl.
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Yep. Lots more.
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I hereby nominate Jack McBrayer to play Buck Owens in whatever Hee Haw project someone in Hollywood is thinking about right now.
Buck
Jack
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Hee Haw was awesome. Girls in skimpy clothes, corny jokes, now classic CW music performances. And I say that having grown up in the non-Pennsyltucky part of Pennsylvania.
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I guess this adds fuel to the whole “waking nightmare” argument, but I think it’s cool
[i couldn’t figure out how to find it 'cause I forgot their names, so I searched for `hee haw fart noises`. first result.]
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Osh Kosh B’gosh in the upper Midwest.
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Not really like Red Green at all. Hee Haw was much more frenetic, much more one liners and much less sketches, and of course the music. And lots of Daisy Duke type action, which you never saw at Possum Lodge.
I like them both. Quando flunkus omni moritati!!
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