Jim "Gomer Pyle" Nabors hosts his first variety special. His guests are Andy Griffith, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Shirley Jones, and Marilyn Horne.
In comedy sketches, Andy offers his version of the opera "La Traviata," and hillbillies Andy and Ernie face an evening without TV because Ernie shot the NBC "chicken."
Alan Copeland is the musical director of this special broadcast.
HIGHTLIGHTS:
"Put on Your Sunday Clothes"-------------------Jim Nabors
"I Have Dreamed"-----------------------------Shirley Jones
"In Their Shoes"------------------------Jim Nabors, Shirley Jones
Railroad medley "Down in the Valley," "Wabash Cannonball,"
"The Rock Island Line," "Drill, Ye Tarriers Drill,"
"Grandy Dancers' Ball," "John Henry," Casey Jones"
------------------------------------Jim Nabors, Tennessee Ernie Ford
"Crude sorte, amor tiranno" (from Rossini's "L'Italiana in Algeri")
--------------------------------------------------------Marilyn Horne
"Libiamo, Libiamo" (from Verdi's "La Traviata").....Jim Nabors
Marilyn Horne
"If my Friends Could See Me Now"...................Jim Nabors
