When we moved to the US when I was a kid, I lived in fear of anyone finding out about certain aspects of British popular culture (stuff that made Benny Hill looked sophisticated). So I was kind of relieved to discover Hee Haw. My dad just thought it was good.
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Malaguena on a steel string guitar is, as @anon67050589 implies, pretty damned impressive. Nice.
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Red Green poked fun at male stereotypes, only secondarily at small-town stereotypes, and as you say, had more of a sketch comedy format. IMO the humour was a good deal more sophisticated than Hee Haw, but Hee Haw had the music and RG didn’t, apart from the occasional novelty song.
I’m a man,
but I can change,
If I have to,
I guess.
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I say this with complete sincerity:
I like Benny Hill.
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Dude, I had the overalls!!! And so did my brother and sister!!!
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Did you not see??? I had the overalls!!!
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Veddy interestink…
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Commedia dell’Arte Johnson.
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Absolutely - they were my Missouri-side granddad’s favorites.
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You can describe almost any atrocity as an outgrowth of the culture in which it happened. I disagree – strongly – that those atrocities are actual examples of culture.
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That’s the thing I found saddest about Hee Haw – I had no idea who Buck Owens was other than his appearances on Hee Haw. It took decades before I found out about his songwriting, the Bakersfield Sound, etc. As far as I knew, he was just Martin to Roy Clark’s Rowen.
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Here’s a nice write up on Buck via the Country Music Hall of Fame:
http://countrymusichalloffame.org/Inductees/InducteeDetail/buck-owens
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Isn’t Farm Report on at like five in the morning? Seems like an odd time to show up at someone’s door.
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My parents would have watched it with my grandparents, amused by the corny jokes and the references to country living that they all understood. I can imagine that a laugh shared between the generations would have been appealing in 1969.
I should have known that my father was not to be trusted once I found out that he lied to me about why Hee Haw’s All Jug Band had only one jug…
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OK. Perhaps I was a little unclear. We never showed up a 5am. Visiting was more than just “show up, hand out for a while , go home”. Going visiting lasted days. We would stop at one place, stay for a few hours, go to the next, stay the night, etc. I seem to remember one time I was left with Grandma for two weeks and only spent one night in her house.
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Sounds to me like that may be the best thing about the show. Without the Hee Haw, few people may have ever heard of Buck Owens at all.
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