Music: October 2007 Archives

See-Dubya and Charles G. Hill have each posted a tribute (each with a YouTube video) to country music star Porter Wagoner, who passed away Sunday.

See-Dubya mentions that his parents tell him he was a fan of Porter Wagoner's TV show, which co-starred a very young Dolly Parton. I remember the show as the second most memorable part of KOTV's Saturday afternoon line-up of country music shows, which was capped at 6 p.m. by Hee Haw.

A couple of years ago I stumbled across a short story which described one family's weekly Porter Wagoner ritual. (You can read the whole story here.)

There's no truth to the rumor that Mr. Wagoner's remains will be cremated and distributed in boxes of Breeze. (If you don't get that, watch the video below, at about 4 minutes in.)

UPDATED 2026/08/26 to replace dead links with Internet Archive Wayback Machine links. Sadly, the video was taken down by a copyright claim, but now there's a whole YouTube channel with over 200 episodes of the Porter Wagoner Show. And here's Porter and Dolly with an ad for Breeze.

In January 1973, the Porter Wagoner Show aired on KOTV at 5:00 pm, followed by the CBS Evening News with Roger Mudd, and then Hee Haw at 6:00 pm.