Pluggers by Rick McKee for June 19, 2021

Never watched the TV series on TV Land; have watched the 1993 motion picture with Jim Varney (1949-2000) as Jed. I have watched Gilligan’s Island thereon and have the theme song memorized though.

You have never watched the Beverly Hillbilly’s ?One of the greatest tvs shows ever!

Oh god.

And you’re a Plugger especially if you know that the music in the “Beverly Hillbillies” theme was played by Flatt and Scruggs.

Jed Clampett was a trend setter way ahead of his time, in the 60’s….

He established the 80’s “Don Johnson, Miami Vice – evening shadow beard, sports coat over T-shirt, no socks & loafers” fashion style…

And you bearly keeps you family fed, does you?

i know all the words to the “Batman” theme too

Back in the day when most song lyrics were coherent.

Now I have that stuck in my head!

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Back then we only had 3 or 4 TV Stations so you only saw certain shows . Makes it easy to remember ;-)

and “Gilligan’s island”………

What’s the first thing you know? Ol’ Jeb’s a millionaire.

Swimmin’ pools, movie stars

Earworm alert!

In the early days of television, theme songs (music written specifically for a given television or radio program or video game) were used to give notice that a specific show was coming on - possibly a hold-over from radio days, when sound was key. And the theme song-even if it was just a couple of bars long (e.g., Gunsmoke), it would help to set the mood for the show. Eventually, theme songs were picked from popular music (e.g., CSI Las Vegas) but they still were there to announce the show and set the mood. However, at some point, TV producers decided that theme songs (and rolling titles and credits) were more apt to get viewers to tune out than tune in and they decided to jump right into the action. (Possibly they assumed that the visual images were now more important than the audio.) Some shows start with some action (like a prologue) and then jump into the theme song and run the credits. Others just keep going. I do wish that credit would be given to all those who help make the show what it is—for every ‘star’ in a show, there are a dozen or more talented people working their butts off to make it happen.

In 2019, while touring in Alaska, I led a bus full of Pluggers in singing this theme song, because the young lady bus driver had no idea of what we were talking about. She had never heard of The Beverly Hillbillies! Can you imagine a person growing up so deprived?! ;)

And “Green Acres”!

LOL!! I’m a Plugger. It’s been confirmed. :D

Commercial jingles are the things that stick in my Plugger mind. See the USA in your Chevrolet…Come alive, you’re in the Pepsi generation…Head for the Hills, Head for the Hills Brothers coffee…Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should…

That should be “barely kep his family fed”. The “t” was dropped.

Black gold. Texas tea. If I only know most of the words, am I a plugger?

Or you were a kid who watched “Beverly Hillbillies” reruns after school everyday.

Or Gene Autry’s theme

You’re a Plugger if you believe you know all of the words of the “Beverly Hillbillies” theme song. The actual song title is “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” and was written by Paul Henning, and performed by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.

A true Plugger knows the lyrics to closing credits!

Guilty! Ha, ha.

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