The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show

- Season 3

(1958)

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Ernie sings Christmas-themed songs, then welcomes his guest, Charles Laughton. Laughton and Ernie sing a song together and Laughton reads a poem by Edgar A. Guest.

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Show opened with Top Twenty chorus accompanying Tennessee Ernie Ford in the song "I'm Dancing with an Angel", culminating in a dancing duet with Ernie Ford and Terry Gekler.

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Ernie goes into the audience while singing "Sixteen Tons", Kate returns for the second week in a row to a country-western themed programme with an outdoor barbecue set. The Top Twenty chorus sings a medley of cowboy songs including "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" and "Don't Fence Me In".

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Guest Ethel Waters, here looking rather fat and old, sings a few favorite songs, all slow blues numbers, which she tells Ernie are her favorites. He joins her in a back and forth version of "St. Louis Blues", and are joined by the Top Twenty Chorus for the hymn, "Stand By Me".

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In the last show of the season, Ernie acknowledges two of "The Top Twenty" celebrating birthdays. His guest Andrè Previn, plays music from his album,:"Like Young". An intrusive, long winded sound man interrupts a keyboard duet with Ernie and Previn.