FO CUS, August 17,1979 — 11 , COMING ATTRACTIONS: MUSIC
Tennessee Ernie Ford has pile of ashes. Not true. Not months in advance and there tened to it and danced to it, dreamed of a moment like true at all. Gospel music is is never an empty seat in the swing is a shimmering net this for 25 years. And now happy music,” says the host. house. full of memories and good* that his dream has come true, And the mood is infectious. The agenda is jam-packed times. he is as excited as a pig in a The program opens with with the following ready to On Saturday, August 25 at truffle patch. the entire cast singing a stir appear on the Opry House 9:00 p.m., the doors to those What has Old Ern and ring version of Put Your Hand stage: Ralph Sloan and the memories will re-open when many of his friends jumping in the Hand, and that sets the Tennessee Travellers, Ernest Channel 9 presents Big Band up and down is That Great positive tone for the rest of Tubb, Charlie Walker, Bar Bash, a three-hour tribute to American Gospel Sound, a the program. bara Mandrell, Justin Tubb, the great Swing bands and jamboree of up-beat, up Roy Drusky, Porter Wagoner, vocalists. Larry Gatlin, Skeeter Davis, lifting, feeling-good music to Taped live at the famous Roy Acuff, Cousin Minnie be seen Wednesday, August The stars will shine Friday Cafe Rouge (recreated at the 22 at 9:05 p.m. on Channel 9, night, August 24 at 10:15 p.m. Pearl. Senator Robert Byrd. Statler Hilton in New York) as part of Summer to Re as the sounds of Nashville fill Jeanne Seely, Hank Snow, and New Jersey's Meadow- member, the station's mem the evening air in a special the Crook Brothers, the Fruit brook, the concert features bership and public aware Channel 9 encore broadcast Jar Drinkers, the Willburn Johnny Desmond, Dizzy Gil ness drive. Recorded live beof Live From The Grand Ole Brothers. Marty Robbins and lespie. Helen Humes, Helen fore a near-capacity house at Opry. The exclusive televi many more. Forrest, Earl Hines, Sammy. Opryland, U.S.A., the prog sion coverage of the Tennes Grant Turner.and Tony Kaye, Don Cornell and the ram is, as Ernie said, "not a see tradition promises over Lyon emcee the acts, inter Pipers, the Count Basie O r-' God show, it's a music three hours of the country view the performers, and fill chestra, the Maynard Fergu show." And what music it is! music capital s best, a high-> in some of the history for son Orchestra and the Joining Ernie for this even light of Channel 9's "Sum America's most venerable Woody Herman Orchestra. ing of vocal artistry are: Spe mer to Rememberr’ the sta country institution. Also appearing are Anita cial Guest Star Della Reese; tion’s membership and prog O'Day, Fran Warren, the late The Happy Goodman Family; ram awareness drive. Joe Venuti and Teddy Wil The Jordanaires; Micki The Opry's informal and For anyone who remem son. Fuhrman. making her na "down-home" style is un bers the period between Film footage pays tribute tional television debut in iquely American and Ameri 1935-45, all the musical to such immortals as Tommy smashing form; and the Fisk cans respond: the weekend magic of the era can be Dorsey, Duke Ellington, (University) Jubilee Singers show attracts over 700,000 summed up in a single word Glenn Miller, Benny Good under the direction of people annually, with an av — swing. Musicologists can man, Miles Davis, Charlie Matthew Kennedy. erage visitor travelling over dissect it, and trace it to its Parker, Artie Shaw, Spike To introduce the music 900 miles to attend the per roots in popular music and Jones, Thelonius Monk, and and get the audience in the formance. Tickets are sold jazz, but for those who lis Sarah Vaughan. proper frame of mind to enjoy the sounds, Ford sets out how he feels about Gos pel music at the top of the DOUBLE-LOG WALL SYSTEM program. "You know, a lot of people think that to sing PINE-LOG Gospel music you’ve got to put on a sackcloth and sit in a HOMES LTD.
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