The Johnny Money Present is an American tv music selection present hosted by Johnny Money. The Display Gems 58-episode collection ran from June 7, 1969, to March 31, 1971, on ABC; it was taped on the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. The present reached No. 17 within the Nielsen scores in 1970.[1]
Money opened every present, invariably previous the primary quantity along with his customary “Howdy, I am Johnny Money” greeting, and its regulars included members of his touring troupe, June Carter Money (his spouse) and the Carter Household, The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, and The Tennessee Three, with Australian-born musical director-arranger-conductor Invoice Walker. The Statler Brothers carried out transient comedian interludes. An instrumental model of “Folsom Jail Blues” was used for the opening credit.
It featured many folks, singer-songwriter and nation musicians, akin to Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, Kris Kristofferson, Mickey Newbury, Neil Younger, Gordon Lightfoot, Merle Haggard, James Taylor and Tammy Wynette, Roy Orbison. It additionally featured different musicians akin to jazz nice Louis Armstrong, who died eight months after showing on the present.[1]
Background
Money had been approached by ABC to host a tv present after the foremost success of his two dwell jail albums, At Folsom Jail and At San Quentin.[2] The present began with an hour-long tryout provided by ABC as “a summer season substitute for its Saturday night time selection extravaganza The Hollywood Palace.”[1] Whereas Money had a big diploma of freedom, he “needed to settle for some compromises by internet hosting showbiz royalty like Bob Hope, George Gobel, Kirk Douglas, Burl Ives, Peggy Lee and Lorne Greene. They gave the present gravitas that happy each advertisers and the community”.[1]
Format
The present was recorded at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, then house of the Grand Ole Opry.[1] The present was conceived by Invoice Carruthers, who additionally served as govt producer and director for the primary season. Stan Jacobson was additionally a producer on the present. Myles Harmon was this system govt for ABC Tv. The primary present featured Joni Mitchell, Cajun fiddler Doug Kershaw, Fannie Flagg as a comic book, and Bob Dylan.
The present included a “Nation Gold” phase which featured legends not often or by no means seen on community TV akin to Invoice Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys. Creator Wealthy Kienzle means that in addition to offering leisure, the present operated as a “Nation Music 101”.[1]
Money endured within the face of ABC “community anxieties” on a number of events. He refused to chop the phrase “stoned” from Kris Kristofferson’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down”, he stood by his Christian religion “regardless of community anxieties”, and endured in bringing on Pete Seeger whose anti-Vietnam Struggle music on one other community had “induced a firestorm”.[1] He premiered his “Man in Black” music on an episode taped at Nashville’s Vanderbilt College campus.
In 1970, Columbia Information launched The Johnny Money Present, a dwell album, as a tie-in with the TV collection, although the report shouldn’t be thought-about a soundtrack. The discharge is uncommon as Columbia was affiliated with competing community CBS. Money’s model of Kris Kristofferson’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down”, included on the collection, is included on the album and was launched as a single, which was a serious hit for Money.
One uncommon taping occurred in 1971. Money started this system assuming it was a daily episode. Moments after Money greeted the viewers, June Carter Money got here on stage and stated she had a particular visitor. Ralph Edwards then joined the 2 on stage; because the viewers erupted in a standing ovation, Money realized that it was really a taping for an installment of That is Your Life honoring him.
Collection overview
| Season | Episodes | Initially aired | ||||
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| 1 | 32 | June 7, 1969 (1969-06-07) | Might 13, 1970 (1970-05-13) | ABC | ||
| 2 | 26 | September 23, 1970 (1970-09-23) | March 31, 1971 (1971-03-31) | |||
Checklist of episodes
Season 1 (1969–1970)
32 episodes
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| 1.1 | June 7, 1969 |
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| 1.2 | June 14, 1969 |
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| 1.3 | June 21, 1969 |
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| 1.4 | July 5, 1969 |
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| 1.5 | July 12, 1969 |
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| 1.6 | July 19, 1969 |
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| 1.7 | July 26, 1969 |
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| 1.8 | August 2, 1969 |
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| 1.9 | August 9, 1969 |
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| 1.10 | August 16, 1969 |
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| 1.11 | August 23, 1969 |
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| 1.12 | August 30, 1969 |
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| 1.13 | September 6, 1969 |
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| 1.14 | September 20, 1969 |
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| 1.15 | September 27, 1969 |
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| 1.16 | January 21, 1970 |
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| 1.17 | January 28, 1970 |
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| 1.18 | February 4, 1970 |
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| 1.19 | February 11, 1970 |
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| 1.20 | February 18, 1970 |
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| 1.21 | February 25, 1970 |
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| 1.22 | March 4, 1970 |
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| 1.23 | March 11, 1970 |
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| 1.24 | March 18, 1970 |
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| 1.25 | March 25, 1970 |
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| 1.26 | April 1, 1970 |
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| 1.27 | April 8, 1970 |
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| 1.28 | April 15, 1970 |
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| 1.29 | April 22, 1970 |
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| 1.30 | April 29, 1970 |
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| 1.31 | Might 6, 1970 |
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| 1.32 | Might 13, 1970 |
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Season 2 (1970–1971)
26 episodes
| # | Airdate | Visitors |
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| 2.1 | September 30, 1970 |
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| 2.2 | September 23, 1970 |
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| 2.3 | October 7, 1970 |
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| 2.4 | October 14, 1970 |
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| 2.5 | October 21, 1970 |
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| 2.6 | October 28, 1970 |
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| 2.7 | November 4, 1970 |
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| 2.8 | November 11, 1970 |
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| 2.9 | November 18, 1970 |
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| 2.10 | November 25, 1970 |
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| 2.11 | December 2, 1970 |
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| 2.12 | December 16, 1970 |
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| 2.13 | December 25, 1970 | “The Johnny Money Christmas Present”
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| 2.14 | January 6, 1971 |
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| 2.15 | January 13, 1971 |
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| 2.16 | January 21, 1971 | “The Historical past of Nation Music: Half 1”
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| 2.17 | January 28, 1971 | “The Historical past of Nation Music: Half 2”
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| 2.18 | February 3, 1971 | |
| 2.19 | February 10, 1971 | “Captain Campbell’s Drugs Present” |
| 2.20 | February 17, 1971 |
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| 2.21 | February 24, 1971 |
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| 2.22 | March 3, 1971 | “Circus for Kids Of All Ages” |
| 2.23 | March 10, 1971 |
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| 2.24 | March 17, 1971 |
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| 2.25 | March 24, 1971 | |
| 2.26 | March 31, 1971 |
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Cancellation
The present was canceled in 1971 in response to the Prime Time Entry Rule, which eradicated a half-hour of community prime time programming from all the main networks’ nightly schedules. Money’s present was one in all many who had sturdy rural followings that had been canceled throughout the networks in what got here to be often called the “rural purge.”
Revival
In 1976, CBS ran a revival of the present, Johnny Money and Buddies, as a substitute collection for 4 weeks from August 29 to September 20, 1976.[3] The brand new present was taped on the newly constructed Grand Ole Opry Home in Nashville.[4] Except for musical performances, this collection additionally featured a larger emphasis on comedy, with Steve Martin and Jim Varney showing as regulars, and with June Carter Money performing a number of comedy routines as “Aunt Polly” (reviving a personality she had carried out early in her profession).
Following Johnny Money and Buddies, an annual Johnny Money Christmas Particular collection was launched, beginning in 1976, with specials airing nearly yearly till 1985.
The Better of The Johnny Money TV Present
A DVD set that includes 66 dwell performances from the present, known as The Better of The Johnny Money TV Present, was launched in Area 1 on September 18, 2007. The DVD set was hosted by Kris Kristofferson and directed by Michael B. Borofsky, and was produced by Reverse Angle Productions for Sony Photos Leisure and Legacy Recordings, Sony Music Leisure’s catalog division. An accompanying CD, that includes chosen numbers from the present (a few of them not on the DVD set), was additionally launched.
DVD monitor record
DVD 1
- Johnny Money – Ring Of Hearth
- Bob Dylan – I Threw It All Away
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- From Season 1, Episode 1, initially aired June 7, 1969.
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- Bob Dylan and Johnny Money – Woman From The North Nation
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- From Season 1, Episode 1, initially aired June 7, 1969.
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- Kris Kristofferson – Loving Her Was Simpler (Than Something I am going to Ever Do Once more)
- Louis Armstrong and Johnny Money – Blue Yodel No. 9
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- From Season 2, Episode 6, initially aired October 28, 1970.
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- Stevie Marvel – Heaven Assist Us All
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- From Season 2, Episode 8, initially aired November 11, 1970.
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- Creedence Clearwater Revival – Dangerous Moon Rising
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- From Season 1, Episode 15, initially aired September 27, 1969.
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- Linda Ronstadt and Johnny Money – I By no means Will Marry
- George Jones – Medley (White Lightning with Johnny Money, She Thinks I Nonetheless Care, Love Bug, The Race Is On)
- Johnny Money – Hey Porter
- Waylon Jennings – Medley (Solely Daddy That’ll Stroll The Line, The Singing Star’s Queen, Brown Eyed Good-looking Man)
- Tammy Wynette – Stand By Your Man
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- From Season 2, Episode 17, initially aired January 28, 1971.
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- Marty Robbins – Medley (Large Iron, Working Gun, El Paso)
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- From Season 1, Episode 17, initially aired January 28, 1970.
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- Johnny Money – Come Alongside And Experience This Practice
- Johnny Money – As Lengthy As The Grass Shall Develop
- Johnny Money – Man in Black
- James Taylor – Candy Child James
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- From Season 2, Episode 20, initially aired February 17, 1971.
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- Pete Seeger and Johnny Money – Cripple Creek
- Pete Seeger and Johnny Money – Fearful Man Blues
- Johnny Money – Sunday Morning Coming Down
- Johnny Money – Outdated Time Faith
- Johnny Money, The Carter Household, The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins and The Tennessee Three – Daddy Sang Bass
- Mom Maybelle and The Carter Sisters – Wildwood Flower
- Neil Younger – The Needle and the Injury Finished
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- From Season 2, Episode 20, initially aired February 17, 1971.
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- Johnny Money and The Tennessee Three – Tennessee Flat High Field
- Joni Mitchell and Johnny Money – The Lengthy Black Veil
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- From Season 1, Episode 6, initially aired July 19, 1969.
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- Johnny Money and The Tennessee Three with Carl Perkins – Large River
DVD 2
- Johnny Money – I Stroll The Line
- June Carter Money – A Good Man
- Derek and the Dominos – It is Too Late
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- From Season 2, Episode 14, initially aired January 6, 1971.
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- Derek and the Dominos with Johnny Money and Carl Perkins – Matchbox
- Charley Pleasure – In a position Bodied Man
- Refrain & Johnny Money – Nation Gold Intro
- Invoice Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys – Blue Moon Of Kentucky
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- From Season 2, Episode 8, initially aired November 11, 1970.
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- Loretta Lynn – I Know How
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- From Season 1, Episode 30, initially aired April 29, 1970.
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- Jerry Lee Lewis – Complete Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
- Johnny Money – Experience This Practice
- Johnny Money – America The Lovely
- Johnny Money – This Land Is Your Land
- The Everly Brothers with Ike Everly and Johnny and Tommy Money – That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine
- Ray Charles – Ring Of Hearth
- Johnny Money – A Boy Named Sue
- Conway Twitty – Howdy Darlin’
- Mom Maybelle Carter – Black Mountain Rag
- Tony Joe White and Johnny Money – Polk Salad Annie
- Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman
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- From Season 2, Episode 10, initially aired November 25, 1970.
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- Neil Diamond – Cracklin’ Rosie
- Ray Value – For The Good Occasions
- Roy Orbison – Cryin’
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- From Season 1, Episode 15, initially aired September 27, 1969.
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- Roy Orbison and Johnny Money – Fairly Lady
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- From Season 1, Episode 15, initially aired September 27, 1969.
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- Johnny Money – Wished Man
- Chet Atkins and Johnny Money – Recuerdo De La Alhambra
- Chet Atkins – Medley (Again Residence in Indiana, Nation Gentleman, Mister Sandman, Wildwood Flower, Freight Practice)
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- From Season 1, Episode 30, initially aired April 29, 1970.
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- June Carter Money with Homer And Jethro – Child, It is Chilly Outdoors
- Merle Haggard – No Laborious Occasions
- Merle Haggard and Johnny Money – Sing Me Again Residence
- Carl Perkins – Blue Suede Sneakers
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- From Season 2, Episode 16, initially aired January 21, 1971.
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- Johnny Money, Carl Perkins, The Carter Household and The Statler Brothers – The Outdated Account Was Settled Lengthy In the past
- Roy Clark – Medley (In The Summertime, twelfth Avenue Rag)
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- From Season 1, Episode 6, initially aired July 19, 1969.
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- The Statler Brothers – Flowers on the Wall
- Johnny Money – Working Man Blues
- Johnny Money and June Carter Money – Jackson
- Johnny Money and June Carter Money – Flip Round
- Johnny Money and June Carter Money – I Love You As a result of
- Hank Williams Jr. – Medley (You Win Once more, Chilly Chilly Coronary heart, I Cannot Assist It If I am Nonetheless in Love With You, Half As A lot)
- Johnny Money – A Fantastic Time Up There
CD monitor record
- Johnny Money – I Stroll the Line
- Johnny Money – Flesh and Blood
- Tammy Wynette – Stand by Your Man
- George Jones – She Thinks I Nonetheless Care / Love Bug / The Race Is On
- Johnny Money – I’ve Been In all places
- Bobby Naked – Detroit Metropolis
- Ray Charles – Ring of Hearth
- Derek and the Dominoes – It is Too Late
- Kris Kristofferson – Loving Her Was Simpler (Than Something I am going to Ever Do Once more)
- Roy Orbison – Solely the Lonely / Oh, Fairly Lady
- Johnny Money with The Carter Household and The Statler Brothers – Belshazzar
- Waylon Jennings – Brown Eyed Good-looking Man
- Johnny Money and Joni Mitchell – Woman From the North Nation
- James Taylor – Hearth and Rain
- Johnny Money, The Carter Household, The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins and The Tennessee Three – Daddy Sang Bass
- Johnny Money – Closing Monologue – I Stroll the Line (reprise)
- The Johnny Money Present at IMDb
- On TV.com
Notes
