Jimmy Dean Show—Country Classics
’60s Girl Grooves
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Before he was known for sausage, Jimmy Dean hosted his own national television variety series featuring country music’s biggest stars. After 50 years, highlights from these shows are available again for the first time in a PBS special that kicks off our August TV pledge drive at 6 pm Saturday, Aug. 17. Hosted by entertainer, actor and musician Roy Clark, the Jimmy Dean Show—Country Classics includes early career appearances by Chet Atkins, George Jones, Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, Minnie Pearl, Dottie West and many others.
At 7:30 pm Saturday Aug. 17, is ’60s Girl Grooves, a first-time look at the girl groups and female singers of the 1960s with rare footage and original performances from the archives of American Bandstand, Where The Action Is, Shindig!, and other worldwide music vaults. The show (and the PBS exclusive CD box set and 3-DVD set) features hit recordings by Martha & the Vandellas, The Supremes (above), The Shirelles, Little Eva, Petula Clark, Aretha Franklin, Shelley Fabares and many others.
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Gloria Estefan: The Standards Then at 7:30 pm Friday, Aug. 23, seventime Grammy Award-winner Gloria Estefan (below, center) performs live for the first time songs from her recording Gloria Estefan: The Standards. The collection features classics of the American Songbook personally selected by Estefan as she performs with saxophonist Dave Koz and the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra. Elvis: Aloha From Hawaii At 9 pm (following the Gloria Estefan special) is the historic Jan. 14, 1973, concert from Honolulu featuring Elvis Presley in one of the most outstanding performances of his career. As the first entertainment event beamed live via satellite, the concert reached huge audiences in Australia, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines and South Vietnam, and was available in approximately 30 European countries later the same day. When an edited version of
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the concert finally aired in the U.S. nearly two months later, it was seen by 51 percent of the total viewing audience. In tribute to the 40th anniversary year of the concert, Elvis comes to WILL-TV for this PBS pledge special.