Hee Haw 6

Pickin' and grinnin', singin' and spinnin' tall tales and corny jokes, the citizens of Kornfield Kounty landed on television in 1969 with the arrival of Hee Haw as a summer replacement series for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Each week co-hosts Buck Owens and Roy Clark and the cast of comedians and musicians would welcome the biggest stars in country music to perform their songs and help deliver the one-liners. Conceived as a rural alternative to Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Hee Haw ranked in the top 20 nationwide when CBS dropped the show in 1971 in an attempt to "de-countrify" the network's programming. It was quickly picked up and became the longest-running weekly syndicated original series in television history. The last "new" episode aired in 1992. Looks like the non-network executives had the last hee-haw. For more information on Hee Haw visit the official website at www.heehaw.com

Kenny Rogers performs the song that changed his career and marked his arrival as a bona-fide country music star, "Lucille." As a change of pace from this piece of history, he later spotlights the uptempo "Daytime Friends and Night Time Lovers," which in real life followed "Lucille" to No. 1 on the country charts.