Word: hawes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mistakes Country Music has made about its audience so far has been to print 5,000 posters of Hee Haw Star (and Country Music humor columnist) Archie Campbell. He is sprawled in the pose made famous by Burt Reynolds in Cosmopolitan and clad in red-and-white-striped long underwear. Of the 5,000 posters printed, Country Music has sold just 37. "We discovered," says McCabe, "that our readers wallpaper their walls. Unlike rock fans, they don't put up posters...
...filled the time have been produced on low budgets, $10,000 to $60,000 per half-hour, v. $100,000 for an average network show of the same length. Cheap game shows have proliferated, and shows that the networks once discarded such as The Lawrence Welk Show and Hee Haw, have been resuscitated...
...pact that he suggested Hammer take back to the U.S. to study. Instead, Hammer flipped through it for 30 seconds and changed just one word, scratching out "draft" and substituting "agreement." Then he signed it and handed it back to Gvishiani. When the Russian began to hem and haw, Hammer asked in mock amazement how the Soviet official could possibly object to signing his own draft. After those theatrics, the agreement was an anticlimax: it is a nebulous "technical cooperation" that commits neither Occidental nor the Soviets to anything except consultations between their experts...
...President Fred Silverman is rapidly ridding that network of its lingering Saturday Evening Post image, the casualty rate was the highest of all. Out, in addition to Sullivan, were such other golden oldies as Andy Griffith, Jim Nabors, The Beverly Hillbillies, Hogan's Heroes, Family Affair and Hee Haw. "The time has come to go big city as opposed to hayseed," says Silverman. Translation: CBS, adopting the reasoning of its competition, has decided that who watches a show is as important as how many. The young adult, metropolitan market is preferred by most sponsors because it buys more than...
...misleading, as anyone will know who listens to the deft melodic twists and musical good humor of Livingston's first LP, especially the songs Carolina Day and Sit on Back. Alex's LP, released last week, divulges a freewheeling, lowdown style of music that lies somewhere between Hee Haw and New Orleans' Jazz Preservation Hall. Kate's album debut, Sister Kate, produced by Peter Asher and due for release next month, would be an accomplishment for a blues singer with years of experience. As it is, her weary lag and sag in Sweet Honesty and her joyful hymning of Home...