Country Music — Every Saturday Night on Channel 11
by Paula Bosse
The warm-up for wrestling…
by Paula Bosse
I have a surprisingly deep knowledge of classic country music. And it can all be traced back to sitting with my father every Saturday night as he watched the jam-packed lineup of country music TV shows on KTVT-Channel 11.
Followed by wrestling.
Which I also have a surprisingly deep knowledge of. If only by osmosis.
Thank you, Channel 11, for providing this bonding time with my father, which I didn’t really appreciate as a child, but I do now.
(And, yes, I’m happy that my antiquarian bookseller father and Comparative Literature-degree-holding mother often took our family to the Sportatorium to see both country music package-shows and wrestling matches. You can’t say our family wasn’t well-rounded.)
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Sources & Notes
1969 ad from an odd little local publication (which probably used to belong to my father) called Country and Western — The Sound That Goes Around the World, published in DFW by PegAnn Production.
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For some young men, watching the Porter Wagoner show was not about the music 🙂
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I’m pretty sure my father would agree on that whole-heartedly.
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You must do an article on Sportatorium wrestling. In mid 50s, A good guy was Pepper Gomez (the tummy claw) and abad guy that jap Duke Keomuka.
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