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Mike Macgirvin

Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:32:37 -0700

Hee Haw Where Are You Tonight

Funny Hee Haw songs

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Mike Macgirvin

Fri, 27 Sep 2019 19:34:27 -0700

It was equally baffling and bizarre to a suburban American kid in the 60s. On the coasts we had Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and the Smothers Brothers to give us a good dose of the new fangled psychedelic long-hair anti-war acid-rock thing. Middle America countered with Hee Haw to balance the hippie message with short haired rednecks and country music. It was my dad's favourite show. But that was ultimately what the 60s were all about. Having really weird shit injected directly into your brain and trying to extract meaning from it.

Waitman Gobble

Fri, 27 Sep 2019 21:25:58 -0700

My dad was big on that show too. He asked me 'Do you know what seperates the assholes from the hillbillies? The Ohio river'

Wikipedia has interesting details, the show was written by two Canadians who knew little about hilljack life. To keep production costs minimsl they shot an entire season in two weeks and split it up into individual shows.

I like this video of Roy Clark performance filmed in 1969 about the same time they recorded the first season, but I do not think it was part of Hee Haw. It shows a more serious musician I think.

Roy Clark - Malaguena
by kkiilljjooy on YouTube

Mike Macgirvin

Fri, 27 Sep 2019 22:36:32 -0700

Roy and Glen Campbell were always the serious ones. They were there to attract the middle age women with their squeaky clean but "baby I've got magic fingers" attitude.