The Porter Wagoner Show No. 272
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 272
The Porter Wagoner Show #272 featuring special guest Pete Stamper.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 272
Promo for The Porter Wagoner Show #272 featuring special guest Pete Stamper. What a sight: checkered-suited Speck Rhodes leads The Wagonmasters (all clad in matching luminescent green Nudie suits) in a roll-call style recitation of the week's guests. "Y'all be watchin' right here on this channel." Fade out over art card with colorful illustration of Porter.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 272
Opening of Porter Wagoner show #272. 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 orange Nudie suit, plays guitar and sings "Southern Bound" (from 1970's "You Got-ta Have A License" LP) accompanied by Wagonmasters Buck Trent, Don Warden, Mack Magaha, George McCormick, Jack Little and Speck Rhodes, all but Speck in matching bright green Nudie suits. MWSs Buck's banjo solo and Mack's fiddling. Another typically fabulous shot of audience applauding, but all looking bored and unimpressed. Big round guy in audience wears vest and cowboy hat that make him look like a cartoon version of Bonanza's "Hoss Cartwright."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 272
Porter introduces his special guest, comedian Pete Stamper. Pete gives Dolly a half dozen roses, makes joke about his wife getting the other half. Tells jokes about his wife's lousy driving habits that get big yuks and applause from audience. Porter intros commercial.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 272
Backed by The Wagonmasters, Mack Magaha fiddles us out of the commercial break on an unidentified instrumental.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 272
Porter introduces the beautiful little lady Dolly Parton. Dolly wears a canary yellow dress and plays guitar and sings "A Better Place To Live," backed by The Wagonmasters, who join in on the "la-la-la" choruses. Afterwards Porter makes jokes about "the la la singers."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 272
Porter introduces a Pete Stamper composition from his current LP "You Got-ta Have A License." Accompanied by The Wagonmasters, Porter plays guitar and sings "The Way He Said Your Name." Really nice shot from side of stage of Porter and Wagonmasters singing with audience framed behind them.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 272
Porter introduces gap-toothed rube comedian Speck Rhodes, who ambles in wearing his usual checkered suit and bowler hat and tells a corny joke about mini-skirts that gets a big round of applause. Then backed by The Wagonmasters, Speck sings the old-timey number "Sweet Fern."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 272
It's time for the sacred number of the week, and Dolly Parton takes the honors. Backed by The Wagonmasters, Dolly sings "Where No One Stands Alone." Extreme CU of Dolly superimposed over wide shot.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 272
Porter reintroduces Pete Stamper, and they joke about how none of the songs Pete has written for Porter have become hits (including an unnamed "worst song ever.") Then backed by The Wagonmasters, Stamper performs the humorous narrative "Across The Alley From The Opry." It's not a bad bit but Stamper rushes through it and pretty much blows his timing altogether.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 272
Porter wraps up the show, waving goodbye as The Wagonmasters play the instrumental show outro, Don Howser signs off, and Mack fiddles and dances us off the air as credits roll. In the long shot we can see that Porter wears green boots with his orange suit. Incredible.