Script Notes: Making his
second Ford Show appearance, classic character actor Adolph
Menjou drops by for a few lessons in 'gentleman farming' from
the old master, himself. Unfortunately, the old master wasn't
around, so Ol' Ern had to do.
Musical Numbers: Along Came Jones: Ernie and The Top
Twenty / The Battle Of New Orleans: Ernie and The Top Twenty / Rock Of Ages:
Ernie
Script Notes: At the time of this visit, The Ford Show
was the number one half-hour variety show, and Rosie's Lux Show (sponsored by
Lever Bros.) was number two. A fact that raised a few eyebrows on Madison
Avenue, when she joined Ernie for this show's Ford commercial! A Classic!
Musical Numbers: Personality: Ernie and the Top Twenty
/ I'm Old Fashioned: Ernie / June Is Bustin' Out All Over: The Top Twenty / Lazy
Afternoon: Rosie / Catfish Take A Look At That Worm/Row, Row, Row Your
Boat/Paddlin' Madeline Home: Ernie and Rosemary / Nine Hundred Pages Of
Sixty-Six Books: Ernie and The Top Twenty
Cast: Ernie Ford, Rosemary Clooney, The Top Twenty
Script Notes: Charlie convinces Ernie to
call Mama Weaver back home in Mt. Idy.
Musical Numbers: Blackberry Boogie: Ernie / Stardust:
The Top Twenty / Doodle Dee Doo: Cliff and Ernie / God Put A Rainbow In The
Cloud: Ernie and The Top Twenty
Script Notes: Of the 191 Ford Shows broadcast live
every Thursday night from October 4th of '56 to June 29, 1961, five stand out
among the most memorable; the season closers. And among those five, this June
25, 1959 airing, closing the third season (with Nielsens placing it as the
fourth highest-rated show in the country that week) qualifies unconditionally as
a Ford Show Classic. Ernie's genuine affection and admiration for those behind
the scenes, as well as the ever-present Top Twenty, comes out from the very
beginning of this season closer. Taking the spotlight off himself, Ernie shines
it brightly on the Ford Show production team throughout the entire half-hour,
without whom, he says, he'd be "...as lost as a bull in an empty
dairy." (We'll pause just a sec, while you folks picture that...). Helping
bring the curtain down for this classic Ford show is composer and pianist Andre
Previn, who performs his newest record, "Like Young", and Ford Show
writer and comic Danny Arnold (who would go on to develop Barney Miller and
other smash hits).
Musical Numbers: Bless Your Peapickin'
Hearts: Ernie
and The Top Twenty / Like Young: Andre / Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come
Home:
Ernie and Andre / God Be With You: Ernie and The Top Twenty
Cast: Ernie Ford, Andre Previn, Danny Arnold, The Top
Twenty
Ernie's Guest: Adolph Menjou
Ernie's Guest: Tommy Sands
Ernie's Guest: Cliff Arquette (Charlie
Weaver)
Ernie's Guests:
Andre Previn and Danny Arnold