RIP Roy Clark

[Judge]

Remember the hosts of "Hee Haw" ? Probably not. It was sort of a country version of "Laugh-In".

Roy Clark and Buck Owens. Roy died today...

 

[Mary Terry]

Where, oh where, are you tonight?
Why did you leave me here all alone?
I searched the world over and thought I'd found true love
But you loved another and, pfftt, you was gone!

Jimmy Dean fired Roy for habitual tardiness. Never trust a man who "smokes his own 'sausage'."

RIP, Roy.

 

[Judge]

Where, oh where, are you tonight?
Why did you leave me here all alone?
I searched the world over and thought I'd found true love
But you loved another and, pfftt, you was gone!

Jimmy Dean fired Roy for habitual tardiness. Never trust a man who "smokes his own 'sausage'."

RIP, Roy.

LOL...I was thinking of that song as well. Corny show, but hey...I laughed. Guilty as charged.

Funny mentioning Jimmy Dean. When he sold his company to the Sara Lee Corporation, they made sausage out of Jimmy Dean. Having fired him as the 30-year official spokesperson for the product that continues to bear his own name.

Funny to recall how my grandparents were clueless about "Laugh-In". Yet they loved "Hee-Haw".

 

[Mary Terry]

Now that song is stuck in my head.

Hee Haw was the kind of show that no one would admit they watched, but everyone did. I laughed, too. My brothers liked the babes in short shorts, and I occasionally catch my hubby watching the old reruns late at night. He likes country music.

 

[Mary Terry]

I didn't know Sara Lee bought him out. I buy Jimmy Dean bulk sausage, the hot kind that comes in a plastic roll. Very tasty for breakfast patties.

 

[Judge]

I didn't know Sara Lee bought him out. I buy Jimmy Dean bulk sausage, the hot kind that comes in a plastic roll. Very tasty for breakfast patties.

They not only bought him out, but they booted him out.

I was never a country music fan, but I did like Bluegrass. Roy and Buck Trent at their best. Some real Americana happening here:

Only four strings on a banjo. Must be really easy to play, huh? Guess again. RIP Roy.

 

[Mary Terry]

They not only bought him out, but they booted him out.

I was never a country music fan, but I did like Bluegrass. Roy and Buck Trent at their best. Some real Americana happening here:

Only four strings on a banjo. Must be really easy to play, huh? Guess again. RIP Roy.

I'm the same - don't care for country music because it's so predictable and makes me want to howl like a dog. I can always anticipate the lyrics and music even if I have never heard the song. I do enjoy some Bluegrass pickin' and grinnin', though.

I think Roy played numerous instruments, all very well. Maybe a kind of musical genius in overalls.

 

[tlc]

I watched the show as a kid at my grandmas, and always watched the reruns when I got the RFD channel. I saw Roy on guitar doing some amazing work including 2 handed tapping. A good decade before Eddie Van Halen made it popular. I wonder if guys like Eddie were influenced by Roy.