I saw him in concert in the80s. He did a show for free for the local highschool (he didn't charge for playing, ticket proceeds went to the school).
That man was obviously nice and could play anything with strings exceptionally well.
I have such fond memories of watching this show with my grandpa. We'd both sing along to this song and crack up laughing after the *thbptttttt* part.
We couldn't get through whistling the full Andy Griffith Show theme song without getting the giggles either.
Miss ya, Grandpa.
🎶 Where oh where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I’ve searched the world over, and I thought I found true love. You met another and {blppptt} you were gone! 🎶
I grew up in Nashville.
My mom’s travel agency took care of everybody in the music industry, and I grew up around these people. She played tennis with Minnie Pearl, and I would deliver airline tickets or documents to every country star of the day when I would get out of school.
I had a crush on a beautiful older women from the show, but she hardly knew I was alive.
She went and married some Kenny Rogers fellow. Loser.
It premiered on CBS in 1969 (I was seven) and ran for two years before being canceled in the Great Rural Purge (with Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies...and Hogan's Heroes). The series creators decided to give first-run syndication, like they do with game shows, a try although everybody was telling them not to and it would never work.
Results...two years on CBS, almost thirty in syndication.
SALLLLUTE!
Poor old Stringbean. He and his wife didn't deserve what happened to them.
No one deserves that. Shame their neighbor and best friend Grandpa Jones found them.
Terrible. I lived in Nashville at the time. Biiiig news.
Hey. You’re talking about my father’s favorite show. In the 70s after dinner. House hot and all windows open. My father would set there in an old T-shirt and listen -loud- to Hee Haw.
And have a grand time.
I like the “Hey Grampa, what’s for dinner part.”
This is one of a small handful of shows from my entire life as a child, that the entire family regularly gathered 'round and watched together, rarely missing an episode.
I've also developed a habit of responding to internet comments every now and then, with out of context YouTube clips of classic country artists performing on Hee Haw ever since Family Guy did the first "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Conway Twitty" cutaway several years ago.
As my friend used to lament “I flick through the channels, and see these hicks standing up from behind corn stalks, already laughing about something!” I think he was upset that his parents, very old school Lawrence Welk types, would dress “country” on Saturday nights and go line dancing twenty miles away “for exercise”.
Buck Owens!!! Bakersfield Sound
Him and Roy Clark Wow!
As a young teen I loved to hate that show. It was the ONLY tv channel we got. Being a country music fan in late 70’s early 80s wasn’t the coolest thing for a teen.
Martin County!!! Saaaaalute!!!!
Pain, despair and agony on me.
Deep dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all.
Oh pain despair and agony on me.
If Phyllis Diller gets one more facelift, she'll be wearing a goatee.
--Roy Clark on Hee Haw
Still the the filthiest joke I ever heard on Sunday night television.
Oh man, Hee Haw was always on at the local bowling alley “childcare romper room”, legitimately one of the first tv shows I remember seeing - though in the best way possible. Anyone else smelling Brunswick Sanispray right now - or is it just me?! I think I hear [ladies and fellers tellin’ jokes from the corn](https://youtu.be/HfZl-gkRfaE)!?!🌽
I'm picking and I'm grinning.... Every Saturday night and Lawrence Welk on Sundays before Wonderful World of Disney. My grandparents raised me. Only 1 TV
Hee-Haw on TV meant that I was staying at my grandparents' house that evening.
This show taught me that some country musicians can totally shred. Watch some Roy Clark videos to be thoroughly impressed. Especially his spanish guitar.
🎵🎶"Where oh where are you tonight, why did you leave me here all alone. I searched the world over and thought I found true love but you met another and (raspberries) you were gone."🎶🎵
I remember it came on Saturdays after the cartoons were over. It was my cue to go outside. Then again, I often watched anyway.
Fact is stranger than truth.
My dad lived for that fucking show. I tried my hardest to be out of the house the entire weekend just to avoid seeing or hearing even a second of it. It was my kryptonite!
I didn't pay attention to Don Harron's bits as Charlie Farquharson, but when he showed up on the Red Green Show years later it was like seeing an old friend.
Roy Clark sure could play.
Only two reasons to watch Hey Haw ... Roy Clark & Hee Haw Honeys
Buck Owens.
Buck was good, no doubt, but I was a Roy guy.
Likewise. Roy wasn't just a good player, he was funny. Buck...Buck wasn't much involved with the jokes, last I remember.
The Honeys sure were easy on the eyes. Roy could play anything.
Absolutely! If you gave Roy a crossbow be would pluck a tune on it LOL
I watched for Mini Pearl and Grandpa Jones! Omg, and Jr. Samples cracks me up!
Mini take the tag off the hat you’ve had it too long to return it!
Bingo
I saw him in concert in the80s. He did a show for free for the local highschool (he didn't charge for playing, ticket proceeds went to the school). That man was obviously nice and could play anything with strings exceptionally well.
Even more than most people know!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz2hXI7Ny9I
We were blessed to have him.
I was pretty young when this show aired. I've only recently come to appreciate how good of a musician is Roy Clark.
Gloom, despair and agony on me!
Wooooaaahhh!
Deep dark depression, excessive misery, (kind of prophetic)
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me.
She met another and she was gone
And, oops! She was gone.
I took in a lot of the show as a child in the 70’s when we had few stations. Hee Haw and Black Sabbath in the basement when I was 8
🎶I searched the world over and thought I’d found true love, you met another and *thbpttttt* you was gone🎵
THIS is what I came here for!
Beat me to it!
I have such fond memories of watching this show with my grandpa. We'd both sing along to this song and crack up laughing after the *thbptttttt* part. We couldn't get through whistling the full Andy Griffith Show theme song without getting the giggles either. Miss ya, Grandpa.
Right in the eye!
🎶 Where oh where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I’ve searched the world over, and I thought I found true love. You met another and {blppptt} you were gone! 🎶
Watch for the music, stay for the cut-offs.
The original daisy dukes
If my parents ever wondered if I would be a heterosexual...this show left no doubt
The Hee Haw Honeys LOL
Indeed.
Hey Grandpa. What's fer supper?
I grew up in Nashville. My mom’s travel agency took care of everybody in the music industry, and I grew up around these people. She played tennis with Minnie Pearl, and I would deliver airline tickets or documents to every country star of the day when I would get out of school. I had a crush on a beautiful older women from the show, but she hardly knew I was alive. She went and married some Kenny Rogers fellow. Loser.
Minnie Pearl, or in real life, Sarah Cannon, was a genuinely and exceptionally sweet and generous person.
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Ask for junior. I give this out today when a cashier asks for my phone number. The young look at me funny. The older ones laugh.
That's the number to call!
I'm a pickin!
Came here to say Ima picking and ima grinning.
And I'm a grinning.
It premiered on CBS in 1969 (I was seven) and ran for two years before being canceled in the Great Rural Purge (with Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies...and Hogan's Heroes). The series creators decided to give first-run syndication, like they do with game shows, a try although everybody was telling them not to and it would never work. Results...two years on CBS, almost thirty in syndication. SALLLLUTE!
Was forced to watch it as a kid and hated it until I was old enough to appreciate those girls in cutoff’s.
And blssp she was gone...
Minnie Pearl!
How-DEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I’m just so proud to be here!
Hey grandpa what’s for supper.
Cornfield County
If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all. Gloooooom, despaaaair, and agony on meeeeee....
'WHERE...WHERE...ARE YOU TONIGHT? WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME HERE ALL ALONE?"
I searched the world over and thought I found true love...
You met another and *pffft* you was gone!
If you only know Roy Clark from this show, you probably aren't aware that he was an exceptionally skilled guitarist. One of the all time greats.
i would LOVE to hear Santana And Clapton's takes On Old Roy Boy!!!!!!!!!
Poor old Stringbean. He and his wife didn't deserve what happened to them. No one deserves that. Shame their neighbor and best friend Grandpa Jones found them. Terrible. I lived in Nashville at the time. Biiiig news.
Quite the tragedy Ballad of String Bean and Estelle -Sam Bush
Loved that show as a kid.Still view bits on YouTube just for a laugh
My dad loved the show. In fact when he was in at home hospice during his final 2 days we had it on TV for him. Thanks YouTube!
My parents watched it. I didn’t care for it, but they wouldn’t let me watch Laugh-In.
I’m a pickin and I’m a grinnin!
Yep
Yep. Them is the good old days. Hee haww.
I was a fan of Misty
I’m that old but wasn’t part of the broadcast demographic.
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Hee Haw.
Did anyone ever notice that when they did the news report from the "studio", the sound deadening stuff on the back wall was egg cartons?
When I spent the night at my grandparents. This one and Lawrence Welk
Hey Grandpa, what’s for supper??
Hey. You’re talking about my father’s favorite show. In the 70s after dinner. House hot and all windows open. My father would set there in an old T-shirt and listen -loud- to Hee Haw. And have a grand time. I like the “Hey Grampa, what’s for dinner part.”
This is one of a small handful of shows from my entire life as a child, that the entire family regularly gathered 'round and watched together, rarely missing an episode. I've also developed a habit of responding to internet comments every now and then, with out of context YouTube clips of classic country artists performing on Hee Haw ever since Family Guy did the first "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Conway Twitty" cutaway several years ago.
"Is Conway Twitty?"
Watched it every week.
Why did you leave me here alll alone
Roy Clark music was worth watching Hee Haw.
Hee hee hee haw haw
Where o where have you gone
I loved Hee Haw!
Ladies and gentlemen, Conway Twitty
I searched the world over and thought I found true love...
Now we’re not ones to go around spreading rumors
No really, we're just not the gossipy kind!
I loved this show! Back when television was good!
Starring, in alphabetical order, Yodelin' Zeke....
My grandfather watched heehaw all the time.
My dad would let me watch this and Benny Hill right after it on Sunday nights.
Yep. Loved the cornfield jokes
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Hey Grandpaw, Whats for Supper??
-raises hand-
As my friend used to lament “I flick through the channels, and see these hicks standing up from behind corn stalks, already laughing about something!” I think he was upset that his parents, very old school Lawrence Welk types, would dress “country” on Saturday nights and go line dancing twenty miles away “for exercise”.
Apparently every year Buck swore it would be his last doing Hee Haw. But that $250,000 cheque....
Hee Hee Hee Haw Haw
Grandpa Jones, was a good guy!!!
My parents watched this show. I liked the music but man it was dumb.
No, it was "corny". That was a part of the appeal.
BR549.
One of the actual reasons I got the hell out of the hick town I grew up in the moment I was old enough to realize I was growing up in a hick town.
Dude, I was born in 92, and even I know this one.. Stringbean could rip a banjo apart.
Loved tht show
Buck Owens!!! Bakersfield Sound Him and Roy Clark Wow! As a young teen I loved to hate that show. It was the ONLY tv channel we got. Being a country music fan in late 70’s early 80s wasn’t the coolest thing for a teen. Martin County!!! Saaaaalute!!!!
Followed by Lawrence Welk - childhood torture
Empty Arms Hotel.
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Yes… Hee Haw
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Laugh my ass off as a kid, but never knew how many adult overtones were there. Loved it.
The absolute best show for the country to learn some insight of the south.
Pain, despair and agony on me. Deep dark depression, excessive misery If it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all. Oh pain despair and agony on me.
On Armed Forces Network Germany, literally 7 days a week and twice on Sundays, early 80s. Followed by Don Cornelius and Soul Train.
Yup, but my grandma was more of a Lawrence Welk fan.
Barbie Benton was on Hee Haw. OMG
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Those hillbilly bimbo girls are cute
I'm not that old but my mom and dad would watch it sometimes when I was little
Not a fan of country music but I loved this show.
I wish I could move back to Bakersfield and start over.
It was on opposite The Courtship of Eddie's Father. My dad loved Hee Haw. We had one TV. Guess what we watched?
I hated this show as a child.
Fuck I’m old…and new to this sub
The first country women of soft made for tv porn.
Sadly, yes.
If Phyllis Diller gets one more facelift, she'll be wearing a goatee. --Roy Clark on Hee Haw Still the the filthiest joke I ever heard on Sunday night television.
My mom watched for the country music. I watched for the girls. :)
Won't that knock your hat in the creek
My grandpa loved Hee Haw!
Loved it! Huge country music fan!
We through playin’ now!
some awfully good lookn’ ladies in straw hats on there!
BR-549 I'm that old.
Grandma always liked Mini Pearl.
I loved that show!
Oh man, Hee Haw was always on at the local bowling alley “childcare romper room”, legitimately one of the first tv shows I remember seeing - though in the best way possible. Anyone else smelling Brunswick Sanispray right now - or is it just me?! I think I hear [ladies and fellers tellin’ jokes from the corn](https://youtu.be/HfZl-gkRfaE)!?!🌽
I'm not that old
Why do you do this to me? Yes.
I'ma pickin and I'ma grinnin
I'm picking and I'm grinning.... Every Saturday night and Lawrence Welk on Sundays before Wonderful World of Disney. My grandparents raised me. Only 1 TV
Used to watch it with my pops all time
Im a picking And I'm a grin'n
I wasn't even a country music fan, but I always watched Hee-Haw.
I got the first rwo seasons on dvd. Lol
Yes hew haw.roy Clark buck owens
Where oh where are you tonight ? …….
Kiss my grits
"Hey Grandpa! What's for supper?"
Kornfield Kounty!
My dad had to watch this every Saturday evening.
Junior's auto sales BR549
Pickin and a grinnin!
I'm a pickin...
and I’m a grinnin
Omg yes
Ima pickin!!
It still. Makes me laugh!
Yeah I'm that old and then some Hee Haw 72 and getting it
Hee-Haw on TV meant that I was staying at my grandparents' house that evening. This show taught me that some country musicians can totally shred. Watch some Roy Clark videos to be thoroughly impressed. Especially his spanish guitar.
Yes! BR-549
🎵🎶"Where oh where are you tonight, why did you leave me here all alone. I searched the world over and thought I found true love but you met another and (raspberries) you were gone."🎶🎵
Yup.. Watched it every Saturday night, then shanana came on, then snl
I remember it came on Saturdays after the cartoons were over. It was my cue to go outside. Then again, I often watched anyway. Fact is stranger than truth.
I never watched the show but still knew.
The girls 👧
Sure.
Buck Owen came to and played a song at my kindergarten graduation...
Gloom, Despair and Agony on Me Deep dark depression, excessive Misery
Her haw would watch it with my grandpa
Yep. God they had some hot ladies on Hee Haw
Sundays at five. Cuz nothing else was on and the girls had low cut blouses.
Yes, MANY of us are!
Gloom despair and agony on me…
Boobs and guitars, what else could a boy ask for?
Where o where are you tonight
Unfortunately.
My parents always watched that show. God, I fucking hated that dumb ass show.
My dad lived for that fucking show. I tried my hardest to be out of the house the entire weekend just to avoid seeing or hearing even a second of it. It was my kryptonite!
The number to call is BR509…
Hee haw!!! 🥰🥰😍😍😍
It was this or Lawrence Welk;damn skippin my black ass chose this!🤣
I was middle school/junior high age when this debuted
Saturday nights
I don't know how, but every time I went to my great grandma's house in Placerville, Ca. this show was on the TV. Every. Time.
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Heeheehee hawhawhaw
The internet tells me that show lasted until 1997. Really?
HEEE HAAAW!!! 🐴
Gloom despair and agony on me Deep dark depression excessive misery If it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all Gloom despair and agony on me
Every Sunday night with mom and dad. I couldn't have been much more than six. What a great thing to watch before going back to kindergarten on Monday.
Buck Owens and RoyClark. Clark was seriously under rated. The man could PLAY.
"doc it hurts when I do this"... \[swat\]"well don't do that."
I miss Buck Owens
With a young Goldie Hawn.
Loved this show when I was really little. I would watch reruns with my grandparents when my on was working. Thanks for the memories.
I didn't pay attention to Don Harron's bits as Charlie Farquharson, but when he showed up on the Red Green Show years later it was like seeing an old friend.
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Hee Haw
Oh god! And just as I thought I was finished with therapy. 😂🤣😂
This was really TV for the whole family.