I loved this show as a young kid. Tennessee Ernie is still my favorite TV performer. These color shows on early video are the best--so much better than TV of today. Thanks Ernie!
I was born 1960. My parents were married in 1958, and my grandmother gave them a color TV as a wedding gift. So, growing up I was the only kid in the neighborhood with a color TV at home. We’d have a dozen kids in the house for Saturday morning cartoons, and Saturday nights usually a lot of my parents’ friends would come over to watch color shows. It’s fun to see something from that era, in color.
Ernie's opening number with the chorus ["Together (Wherever We Go)" from the Broadway musical "Gypsy"] was shot outside NBC-Burbank, probably the oldest videotaped footage of those RCA TK-41's in a location setting.
Some of these NBC color tapes from the late 50s and early 60s are finally seeing the light of day. Tape cost and storage were expensive, so somebody shelled out the money to buy the tapes and store them. Certainly not the network! So far, I have seen various Dinah Shore Chevy Shows, Steve Allen Plymouth Shows, the final Howdy Doody, The Shirley Temple Shows, George Buns Specials and the Sing Along With Mitch show on NBC color tape.
Well, that's why it never means much when anybody says that about their time. And why it means even less when anyone follows up with what you said there.
While I'm grateful to be young and living in such a technologically advanced time; what I wouldn't give to be a 20 year old in the 1950/60's. What a great time to be alive it seems! Love this show!
Found Ford via learning about the Civil War then wanting to get a Music playlist of Civil War songs. He was one of the first artist. I am glad I found his Civil War album that has lead me to his other music.
It's good when the original videotape is preserved. Tennesee was willing to pay 300 dollars pers reel and storage, probably. I remember this show was in the day time, but, that could have been repeated.
Charles Schulz allowed his "Peanuts" characters to endorse Ford automobiles in their print and TV advertising (and on Ernie's show) from 1959 through '64.
I remember a clip . I think it was on YT of Dinah Shore in one of her season beginning shows telecast from the NYC theater usually used by Perry Como . It was done in a similar way with Ms. Shore getting out on the street from a new Chevy and walking through the stage entrance to begin her show !
@Maxx Fleischer No, the cure is conversation. Avoidance has done little. Pretty sad you think closing your eyes will make it go away. Reminds me of Marianne Williamson claiming slave owners as 'her people'. Why symbolically embrace that ideology? Nancy Pelosi taking a knee 1) in cloth made by slaving tribes, 2) especially when kneeling was what allegedly killed Floyd. Why accuse all cops of being murderers when racism itself is an ad hominem argument??? Some pretty wrong thinking going on.
@@jehobden And according to what I read in the book 'TV on Video' by the late Sam Frank, at least one video store owner in Los Angeles told the author the largest amount of customers for his store's rentals and sales of 'Amos 'n' Andy' video were, in fact, his black customers. If one watches an episode of ;Amos 'n' Andy' today, it is really no more offensive than an episode of 'Sanford & Son'. But the latter series receives the left-wing seal of approval, of course, because that TV sitcom was produced by super-socialist Norman Lear. Also, bear in mind the original board of the NAACP was not even comprised of "colored persons" (for what the "CP" in the organization's name stands), unless one considers Caucasian Jewish persons to be "colored." Actually, all human beings are "colored," just a question of which colors.
What was the name of his female sidekick who had such an infectious laugh. I would just wait for TEF to make her laugh. Can't remember her name. Think she also sang.
I read that TEF did not like the LA so much because of questionable infuences and he moved his farmily to the area near SF to be out of that environment . He did a daytime variety show for ABC after the NBC show ended.] The annoucer on the politician sketch was Bob LeMond .
PhilaVideo Aww, man! I miss the good old days when Tennessee Ernie Ford broadcasted on KDTN 2 as a PBS station on Saturday nights at 8:30 pm. Every time I flip through the channels and see Daystar, KDTN 2’s current affiliate since 2004, it makes me cry, yearning for those days. Zachary White misses those good old days, too.
PBS Funding Addict I actually have one episode on cassette from the KDTN 2 days. I don’t have the kind of hardware to convert the tape to a digital video. I have the episode where Ernie’s on the USS Yorktown from season 5 of this show. It’s the only episode I have. I also have the Lawrence Welk Show and Guy Lombardo Show as well before that episode. It was recorded in circa 2002-2003. The time I recorded it was in KDTN 2’s wailing days.
Zachary White Well, can you at least ask your parents to get that kind of hardware so you can upload it? I’ve been looking up station IDs, promos and sponsors from KDTN 2 when it was a PBS station on TH-cam everyday, but nothing from those days has been uploaded ever since txtapefiend’s videos of KDTN 2 station IDs from 2002 and spliced promos of Sewing With Nancy, Religion and Ethics Newsweekly and Nightly Business Report also from 2002 was taken down for some reason on February of this year. Probably because his channel was terminated or he quit TH-cam. I really need something new to relive the good old days from when KDTN 2 was a PBS station so badly!
![What's My Line? - Tennessee Ernie Ford; Gig Young [panel] (May 4, 1958)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/-kZWxGcNqnE/mqdefault.jpg)
I loved this show as a young kid. Tennessee Ernie is still my favorite TV performer. These color shows on early video are the best--so much better than TV of today. Thanks Ernie!
I was born 1959. Somehow, I am still listening to this God loving man. Thank you Phila.
I needed a good laugh.
I was born 1960. My parents were married in 1958, and my grandmother gave them a color TV as a wedding gift. So, growing up I was the only kid in the neighborhood with a color TV at home. We’d have a dozen kids in the house for Saturday morning cartoons, and Saturday nights usually a lot of my parents’ friends would come over to watch color shows. It’s fun to see something from that era, in color.
Originally aired September 22, 1960. And very rare for anything in original NBC color from this era to still exist in that format!
Thank you for appreciating this! It is a shame someone left a negative.
Thanks for posting this. I think Ernie himself saved the tapes for this show.
Ernie's opening number with the chorus ["Together (Wherever We Go)" from the Broadway musical "Gypsy"] was shot outside NBC-Burbank, probably the oldest videotaped footage of those RCA TK-41's in a location setting.
epaddon There were rerun airings on KDTN 2, back when it was North Texas’ secondary PBS station.
Nice it was filmed and not KENNISCOPE.
Some of these NBC color tapes from the late 50s and early 60s are finally seeing the light of day. Tape cost and storage were expensive, so somebody shelled out the money to buy the tapes and store them. Certainly not the network! So far, I have seen various Dinah Shore Chevy Shows, Steve Allen Plymouth Shows, the final Howdy Doody, The Shirley Temple Shows, George Buns Specials and the Sing Along With Mitch show on NBC color tape.
This is the best thing I've watched in a long time!
Loved the ladies colorful dresses!
50s had lots of women in colored dresses/skirts
HI just became a state a year earlier
Spelling went from Hawai'i..to Hawaii
5:25 "My goodness this world is in a mess"
If only he could see the insanity of today...
Well, that's why it never means much when anybody says that about their time. And why it means even less when anyone follows up with what you said there.
What a world! There's nobody like Tennessee Ernie Ford! Ernie and the Top Twenty were spectacular, weren't they?
I just learned about ford from my uncle and I love this.
Steelstriker Go to my channel for more of this! I have a handful of episodes that are extremely rare and haven’t been seen for a long time until now.
While I'm grateful to be young and living in such a technologically advanced time; what I wouldn't give to be a 20 year old in the 1950/60's. What a great time to be alive it seems!
Love this show!
How wonderful to see a show in which Almighty God is exalted in song. How far thus nation has fallen.
I had no idea this was originally broadcast in color, we didn't get a color TV until 1964. :)
Nice shot of the parking lot at NBC Burbank
This is superb. Thank you very much for the upload.
I forgot how great he was.
Ernie was just the greatest
Back when television shows were good!
Found Ford via learning about the Civil War then wanting to get a Music playlist of Civil War songs. He was one of the first artist. I am glad I found his Civil War album that has lead me to his other music.
This is great. And the peanuts cartoon 5 yrs before the 1st holiday cartoon .never knew this. This show is work , talent. None on today
I agree with you..great shows back then...😊💕
I want some Sudsy Soap Flakes!!! And those Sudsy Detergent Dancing Darlings! Wow!
9:50 If only 1968's Presidential Election had been this much fun for real!
WHAT?
What does the 1968 presidential election have to do with a variety show in 1960?
@@vannieloumarshall7232 The skit was set at the time of the 1968 Presidential Election, even though it was produced in 1960.
It's good when the original videotape is preserved. Tennesee was willing to pay 300 dollars pers reel and storage, probably. I remember this show was in the day time, but, that could have been repeated.
I remember watching this on NJN on Saturday evenings. I didn't know who Tennessee Ernie Ford was. I just call him Ferris.
Just plain silly fun! Thank you!
Wow. This is quality entertainment! What a voice that guy has.
Baritone
16 tons
I bet if you put this on every platform available today it would be the #1 viral video of all time.
Yes. It would. I agree with you!
The Peanuts opening is interesting since this is five years before the first full length Peanuts animated special "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
Charles Schulz allowed his "Peanuts" characters to endorse Ford automobiles in their print and TV advertising (and on Ernie's show) from 1959 through '64.
Ernie Ford & George Gobel were both born & died in the same years, which were palindromes of each other, 1919 & 1991.
That's interesting.
My Favourite Ford Show Peanuts Intro!
Classic and top notch entertainment.
I remember reruns of this as a kid in the mid 70s
Introduced by Paul Frees.
This was the start of FORD SHOW's 5th & final season. NBC replaced this show with HAZEL, with Ford still the sponsor, for the 1961-62 season.
@Maxx Fleischer Only if he built cars. :)
This replaced by "Hazel" ?
Unimaginable.
I remember a clip . I think it was on YT of Dinah Shore in one of her season beginning shows telecast from the NYC theater usually used by Perry Como . It was done in a similar way with Ms. Shore getting out on the street from a new Chevy and walking through the stage entrance to begin her show !
7:30 : Since 1966 there haven't been ANY reruns of AMOS & ANDY on tv.
@Maxx Fleischer The NAACP had reruns of the show banned for good that year.
@Maxx Fleischer
Good or bad, it's history.
@Maxx Fleischer
No, the cure is conversation. Avoidance has done little. Pretty sad you think closing your eyes will make it go away.
Reminds me of Marianne Williamson claiming slave owners as 'her people'. Why symbolically embrace that ideology? Nancy Pelosi taking a knee 1) in cloth made by slaving tribes, 2) especially when kneeling was what allegedly killed Floyd. Why accuse all cops of being murderers when racism itself is an ad hominem argument???
Some pretty wrong thinking going on.
@Maxx Fleischer
And that is similar to slurs about minorities. Go figure. You traded one bias for another. Being deaf and blind is still no asset,
@@jehobden And according to what I read in the book 'TV on Video' by the late Sam Frank, at least one video store owner in Los Angeles told the author the largest amount of customers for his store's rentals and sales of 'Amos 'n' Andy' video were, in fact, his black customers.
If one watches an episode of ;Amos 'n' Andy' today, it is really no more offensive than an episode of 'Sanford & Son'. But the latter series receives the left-wing seal of approval, of course, because that TV sitcom was produced by super-socialist Norman Lear.
Also, bear in mind the original board of the NAACP was not even comprised of "colored persons" (for what the "CP" in the organization's name stands), unless one considers Caucasian Jewish persons to be "colored." Actually, all human beings are "colored," just a question of which colors.
if you like this look up Ernie Kovacs show from the 1950s it's comedy long before Monty Python .
What was the name of his female sidekick who had such an infectious laugh. I would just wait for TEF to make her laugh. Can't remember her name. Think she also sang.
Would like to know, too.
WWG1WGA! 1960!
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They would gave NO IDEA
JFK ASSASSINATION RFK.. and Nixon WINNING
1968
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Too bad they didn't have 🔴and🔵
No tattoos on the dancers 😋
The rainbow motif wouldn't be a thing for another 60 years.
Is this from a PBS airing?
I read that TEF did not like the LA so much because of questionable infuences and he moved his farmily to the area near SF to be out of that environment . He did a daytime variety show for ABC after the NBC show ended.] The annoucer on the politician sketch was Bob LeMond .
I know about the Peanuts character appeared in the Tennessee Ernie Ford show
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Do you have any broadcasts of Tennessee Ernie Ford from KDTN 2 when it was North Texas’ former secondary PBS station?
No but thank you for visiting my channel.
PhilaVideo Aww, man! I miss the good old days when Tennessee Ernie Ford broadcasted on KDTN 2 as a PBS station on Saturday nights at 8:30 pm. Every time I flip through the channels and see Daystar, KDTN 2’s current affiliate since 2004, it makes me cry, yearning for those days. Zachary White misses those good old days, too.
Have any more Ford Show episodes in the collection?
Zachary White I was wondering the same thing. I’m hoping that we’ll get some broadcasts of Tennessee Ernie Ford from KDTN 2 when it was a PBS station.
PBS Funding Addict I actually have one episode on cassette from the KDTN 2 days. I don’t have the kind of hardware to convert the tape to a digital video. I have the episode where Ernie’s on the USS Yorktown from season 5 of this show. It’s the only episode I have. I also have the Lawrence Welk Show and Guy Lombardo Show as well before that episode. It was recorded in circa 2002-2003. The time I recorded it was in KDTN 2’s wailing days.
Zachary White What do you mean wailing days?
PBS Funding Addict as in before Daystar took over (the final months of KDTN 2 being a PBS affiliate).
Zachary White Well, can you at least ask your parents to get that kind of hardware so you can upload it? I’ve been looking up station IDs, promos and sponsors from KDTN 2 when it was a PBS station on TH-cam everyday, but nothing from those days has been uploaded ever since txtapefiend’s videos of KDTN 2 station IDs from 2002 and spliced promos of Sewing With Nancy, Religion and Ethics Newsweekly and Nightly Business Report also from 2002 was taken down for some reason on February of this year. Probably because his channel was terminated or he quit TH-cam. I really need something new to relive the good old days from when KDTN 2 was a PBS station so badly!
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