50 Years of Country Music

Name: 50 Years of Country Music
Genre: Musical
Released: 1978-01-22
Duration: 2 h 20 min
Cast: Roy Acuff, Chet Atkins, Gene Autry

TV Movie
1978
Not Rated
2h 20m

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Dolly Parton, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, and Crystal Gayle in 50 Years of Country Music (1978)

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A three-hour program chronicling the history of country music up to 1978, hosted by Dolly Parton, Glen Campbell, and Roy Clark and featuring performances by many iconic and contemporary star... Read allA three-hour program chronicling the history of country music up to 1978, hosted by Dolly Parton, Glen Campbell, and Roy Clark and featuring performances by many iconic and contemporary stars of the genre, including Roy Acuff, Kitty Wells, Bill Monroe, Ernest Tubb, Crystal Gayle,... Read allA three-hour program chronicling the history of country music up to 1978, hosted by Dolly Parton, Glen Campbell, and Roy Clark and featuring performances by many iconic and contemporary stars of the genre, including Roy Acuff, Kitty Wells, Bill Monroe, Ernest Tubb, Crystal Gayle, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, and Johnny Cash.

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Soundtracks
Here You Come Again
Written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil
Performed by Dolly Parton

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9/10

Fantastic Country Music special of Legends with Lotsa of Dolly!

This NBC television special from January 1978 ran a whopping three hours (unheard of for a country music tv program at the time) and featured dozens of legendary performers from throughout the genre's history, from pioneering superstars Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, Kitty Wells, and Bill Monroe, to the biggest stars of 1978 including Dolly Parton, newly famous to the mass public outside of country music fans at the time thanks to her million selling hit "Here You Come Again". Dolly, Glen Campbell, and Roy Clark each host an hour of the show and get to perform the most songs (Dolly gets two full songs alone plus "Mule Skinner Blues" with Bill Monroe, and also sings two melodies of tunes, one of several of her greatest hits, and another of Hank Williams songs with Clark and Campbell. (Incredibly, Loretta Lynn appears only to sing a medley of Patsy Cline hits, none of her own while Tammy Wynette is limited to one number. Good thing these gals were friends!) This program has been released on DVD retitled "Country's Greatest Stars Live Vol. 1" (there was a sequel to this program later that year that has been released as volume 2).