View from the Front Porch- September 13, 2012

This is one of my favorite memories, taken around 1967, as Bob Luman was a guest on my new TV show, "The Stan Hitchcock Show", produced at Channel 5 studios and ran in syndication nationwide from 1966 to 1970. This is where I learned to love television and watch it spread the popularity of country music across the land. Bob Luman was a great entertainer and I loved him like a brother. We had such a good time in music through the years. Sadly, none of the master tapes of this show exist today, having been thrown away when Channel 5 changed ownership many years ago. About 60 Master Tapes of the greatest entertainers we will ever know were guests on my show in the 60's. In 1979, I started the 2nd "Stan Hitchcock Show-From The Ozarks" and it ran in syndication for two years and was a wonderful time of music. We produced 46 shows of that series, but only 24 still survive. 33 years ago the company that produced the shows went bankrupt, and the show Master Tapes disappeared. In the last two years I have been able to locate 20 of these tapes, and after much work have restored them and digitized them. They are full of great music and great guest stars and, when added to my archive of television programming that I have saved and protected for so many years, this will be the basis for my new "Stan Hitchcock Show", where I will feature some incredible historic footage of special music times I have enjoyed. My production crew has been running me all over today, to different locations, shooting the opening for the show, and tomorrow we spend the whole day in the studio producing the first few shows. The show starts on BlueHighways TV the first week of October, and I will put some excerpts here on Facebook for you friends to see what we are doing. We really need to mobilize a large amount of fans of classic country to bombard dish, directv, and your cable systems to get them to add BlueHighways TV in your areas so you can enjoy real classic country music, bluegrass, gospel, folk, Western music, some blues and music that will make your heart sing. My show Heart to Heart is back on BlueHighways TV along with Reno's great show, in just a few more days. 53 years of music memories from adventures with my hero friends who invented country music, and the ones of us who came a little later and carried it on. I'm a little tired, and got a lot of miles on me, but I still have a tale to tell and I hope to get it told.    -Stan