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ClassicCountryDVD is proud to present this very special volume of The Porter Wagoner Show. Volume 3 starts out at the very beginning of the show and takes us to the wonderful invention of color television. In very rare footage, Hawkshaw Hawkins opens the show. Bill Anderson is the featured artist in the next show from 1961. Tex Ritter is next in a show from 1963. From 1967, Bobby Bare, Chet Atkins and Merle Travis are the featured artists. There is an interesting segment in the Mel Travis show where Tex Ritter and Porter talk about the new "Country Music Hall of Fame". Each show features songs from Norma Jean and the Wagonmasters and comedy from Speck Rhodes.

The Porter Wagoner Show – Volume #3              

Chapter 1 – Show #1 – 1961 - Guest - Harold Hawkshaw Hawkins

Porter Wagoner – “I'll Be There If You Ever Want Me”
Hawkshaw Hawkins – “Sunny Side Of The Mountain” (short)
Hawkshaw Hawkins – “Big Ole Heartache” (not yet released)
Hawkshaw Hawkins – “Twenty Miles From Shore” (b-side from Big Ol' Heartache)
Norma Jean – “'Til These Dreams Come True”
Porter Wagoner - “I Went Out Of My Way”
Benny Williams – “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” (instrumental/banjo)
Entire Group – “I Saw The Light” (gospel)
Porter Wagoner – “An Old Log Cabin For Sale”
 Chapter 2 - Show #11 – Guest - Bill Anderson

Porter Wagoner – “Tennessee Saturday Night”
Bill Anderson – “City Lights”
Norma Jean – “Why Don't You Love Me”
Porter Wagoner – “Everything She Touches Gets The Blues”
The Wagonmasters – “The Weeping Willow” (instrumental)
Porter Wagoner – “Angel Band” (gospel)
Bill Anderson – “Po' Folks”
 Chapter 3 – Show #99 – 1966 - Guest - Tex Ritter

Porter Wagoner – “Love Your Neighbor”
Tex Ritter – “High Noon”
Buck Trent – “Buck and The Five” (instrumental) (short)
Norma Jean – “A Woman's Gotta Make A Stand”
Porter Wagoner – “The Snakes Crawl At Night”
Speck Rhodes – (comedy)
Speck Rhodes – “I'm Going Back To Where I Come From” (comedy)
Tex Ritter – “I Dreamed Of A Hillbilly Heaven” (gospel)
Entire Group – “Foggy Mountain Top”
 Chapter 4 – Show #107 – 1/6/1967 - Guest - Bobby Bare

Porter Wagoner – “You Can't Make A Heel Toe The Mark”
Bobby Bare – “Streets of Baltimore”
The Wagonmasters – “Black Mountain Rag” (instrumental) (short)
Norma Jean – “Heartbreak USA”
Porter Wagoner – “The Cold Hard Facts Of Life”
Speck Rhodes – (comedy)
Porter Wagoner – “Suppertime” (gospel)
Bobby Bare – “Charleston Railroad Tavern”
Bobby Bare – “Detroit City” (short)
 Chapter 5 – Show #113 – 1/20/1967 - Guest - Chet Atkins

Porter Wagoner – “Ole Slew Foot”
Chet Atkins – “Colonel Bogey March” (instrumental/guitar)
Norma Jean – “Pursuing Happiness”
Porter Wagoner – “The Cold Hard Facts Of Life”
Speck Rhodes – (comedy)
Speck Rhodes – “I'm A Plain Old Country Boy” (comedy)
Porter Wagoner – “Rank Strangers” (short)
Chet Atkins & Porter Wagoner – “Kentucky” (duet)
Don Bowman – (comedy)
 Chapter 6 – Show #134 – 1967 - Guest - Merle Travis

Porter Wagoner – “Julie”
Merle Travis – “That's All”
Mack Magaha – “Katy Hill” (instrumental/fiddle) (short)
Norma Jean – “Jackson Ain't A Very Big Town”
Tex Ritter - (presents to Porter a lifetime pass to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum )
Speck Rhodes – (comedy)
Speck Rhodes – “In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree” (comedy)
Porter Wagoner – “I Saw The Light” (gospel)
Merle Travis – “Wildwood Flower” (instrumental/guitar)
Porter Wagoner & Merle Travis – “Nine Pound Hammer” (duet)