15:32 -- If you're watching this, you're interested in country music specifically, or pop culture in general. I'd advise you to go down this rabbit hole a little way via Wikipedia and RU-vid. It's interesting to compare this performance with Ritter's spare, intense 1952 recording and Frankie Laine's version. Of course, Laine's overproduced mess charted higher than Ritter's, but Ritter was the one who sang it at the 1952 Academy Awards -- the first Oscar show to be televised. Oh, dear. Now I'm going to have to find out if recordings of _that_ performance are around! Edit: Hot dang! Found it! Search for 25th Annual Academy Awards. Ritter's spot begins at 44:33. Also, I didn't expect to see much resemblance between Tex Ritter and his son John, but look at his eyes! 36:08 -- This is why Rowlf felt so real to me. He charmed my socks off when I was 7, and here I am at 67, still sitting here sockless.
12:26 -- Before Randy Rainbow, there was Weird Al Yankovic, and before Weird Al, there was Alan Sherman. Gotta love how song parodies changed over the decades. 37:09 -- Well, it's not _quite_ equal to my favorite Rowlf segment (S1E17 is), but it's still a fantastic example of how well Dean worked with Jim Henson and Frank Oz. Dean is why Rowlf became the first breakout Muppet star. Rowlf was, is, and always will be, my favorite Muppet.
1:00 -- Dang, but I wish the fidelity could be higher on the audio! Imagine having a first-gen copy of the original _analog_ -- not digital -- soundtrack. No electronic tweaking. no AutoTune (the work of Satan, in my eyes and ears), no cutting and splicing. Just fine musicianship across the board. 2:50 -- I wanted to watch this and see how well the first episode went, or rather, to see if there were any of the famous live broadcast snafus. If there are, they weren't in Dean's first number. The man certainly knew how to lean into a blue note. 18:35 -- I wonder how much a deck of those cards in good condition would pull on eBay? 24:38 -- The Yankees did face the Dodgers in the 1963 World Series. Holy cats, but that game was packed with famous names -- names even I, a non-fan, know! And yeah, the Yankees got home Sunday, but not as winners.
5:54 -- "More trouble than a _[what]_ with fallen arches?" 16:44 --Hot dang! This is (so far) my all-time favorite Rowlf bit! I found a clip of this on RU-vid some years ago. I like to re-watch it when I need a good laugh. Jim Henson surpassed himself with this one. I love how Rowlf name-checks many of the bebop and "cool jazz" artists working in NYC in 1964. Rubber Lips Levine wasn't one of 'em.
I'm delighted to see a integrated audience, with black people _in the good seats_ instead of stashed away in the back or in the balcony. Jimmy Dean was a stand-up guy. And thank you so very much for having my favorite Muppet, Rowlf's, first appearance. 1:32 -- Ah, the trials and tribulations of live TV! 22:54 -- Find an interview with Roy Clark in which he talks about his time with the band Dean had formed in the DC area and how they came to part ways. Clark gives Dean a lot of credit for teaching him what it takes to be a successful professional musician in pretty much every interview in which he's asked about influences. 25:17 -- Do you suppose Pete Townshend picked up his flashy "windmill" move from Roy Clark?
I occasionally think of skipping a performer, but I always stop and remember it's a Pete Matz arrangement, so the likelihood of hearing _something_ interesting is high. In all the twenty-some-odd episodes of _The Jimmy Dean Show_ I've watched, there has been only one Matz arrangement I absolutely hated. It was a swingy version of "I Walk the Line" with lush strings and woodwinds. It was like he was trying to overdo it.
I am interested in the shows where he featured new female singers - probably around 1959. One in particular, Texas Jean Valli. Any chance you have that episode you could post?
The show you're looking for is probably his previous daytime show, not this prime time version. This 1963 episode is just his second prime time show, which accounts for his snafu with the mic. The earlier show was really, _really_ early. It aired at 7:00 am, from what I can gather, and ran about 30 minutes. I haven't found any clips of the 1957-59 show yet except for the one in which Dean announces the cancellation of the series. He appeared to be a trifle miffed. After a recent, very painful injury, I watched my way through almost all the Jimmy Dean content on this channel, and I can't think of any girl singers he really introduced. He boosted Molly Bee a lot, but she was a show biz veteran. Patty Duke made her singing debut on _TJDS,_ but she already had her own sitcom, so she doesn't count either. Of course, the person whose career Dean influenced the most was probably Jim Henson. Now I'm interested in seeing what the previous show was like. If I find anything good, I'll get back to you.
That part of his first song with "The very first moment I heard your smile" and the headtilt afterwards was the most aparent slip he had, he does forget a whole verse in the next one though
