Porter Wagoner has passed away and left Country music one step closer to total domination by faux-Country acts singing about sippy cups.
Take a minute to listen to some real Country, Porter style. This Bill Anderson-penned number is my favorite song of Porter's and one of his best, I think.
(By the way, if Bill had penned that sippy cup song, the guy in it would still have stood on his front porch and looked through the window at his family, only this time the children would be all dirty and hungry and the wife would be banging a vacuum cleaner salesman.)
We still watch The Porter Wagoner Show on RFD TV.
You can see classic performers; some were well established at the time, but some are up and coming.
It's all cool
He was a great showman, off to play with the others that have preceeded him now.
On a slightly happier note "Happy belated Birthday"
Hope you had a great time celebrating.
I grew up in the city where we were taught to laugh at "hillbilly music." But I often watched Porter Wagoner's show - the excellence of his music, even in a style I didn't care for, was obvious.
Posted by: Juan Paxety at October 29, 2007 11:55 AMFrom my limited exposure via my southern bride, there are two kinds of popular country music, and stations are required to play them alternately:
Boogie Down Jams and Country Wuss-tern.
Up-tempo songs followed by sappy wuss songs, followed by up-tempo.
BDJ songs are rockin', usually imply partying, and are always anchored by a witty line ("We'll be raising the roof 'till the walls fall in, then we'll build 'em back up and do it all agin...")
Country Wuss-tern: ("I didn't realize what love was...*dramatic pause*....til I saw it in your eyes.")
The Jams are kind of fun. Country Wuss-tern makes the guys from Air Supply cringe.
Posted by: CJ at October 29, 2007 12:14 PMRIP Porter. Thanks for the songs. Muchas Gracias for letting us all take a gander at Dolly.
Posted by: Carl H. at October 30, 2007 12:57 AMDolly owes her career to good Ol Porter Wagner and the Wagoneers..
Man that album cover says it..coming in from a hard night at the bowling alley, only to find your sweet thing sharing a bottle of Crown Royal with the neighbor..geez. I'm shaking just thinking about it.
There does seem to be a lot of Dixie cup songs lately Donnah..
Posted by: csason at November 1, 2007 01:03 PMWe used to have a lamp like that--I think it was a wedding present.
Posted by: Norma at November 4, 2007 04:57 PMI use to have an ash tray like that. I think my first mother-in-law gave it to me.
She use to keep her lamp shades covered in the original plastic like that too.
What is it with people doing that? I had one girlfriend from church whose mom, in addition to all the plastic-covered lamps, had plastic runners on all the pathways in the carpet too. That her belongings could look like new and yet still totally look like crap hadn't occurred to her.
Posted by: Donnah at November 7, 2007 01:39 AM