Texas Playboys on TV 1976 with Merle Haggard
When my cousin Skeeter Elkin, piano player for Bob Wills, gave me this video he told me that when it aired it pre-empted the traditional national TV sunday night programming of The Wonderful World of Walt Disney. Only Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys ever had power to bump the mouse!
About Merle Haggard
Merle Ronald Haggard was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in country music, he was a central pioneer of the Bakersfield sound. With a career spanning over five decades, Haggard had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart.
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