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The Country Touch (episode)
Television (Full Length Episode) – 1968
Country and western music legend Tex Morton presents this popular 1960s music show. The Auckland studio audience is seated on hay bales in a barn-styled set and provide the chorus to the musical numbers. The Hamilton County Bluegrass Band, The Country Touch Singers and Square Dancers, Jan Butler, fiddler Colleen Bain, and resident guest singers Kay and Shane perform. Tex himself sings a novelty number about the good ol’ days, and applauds Butler: “Isn’t she a redheaded little spark? I wish we had colour television!” The times they have a changed!
How’d you like to have a wife who talks back to you in five languages?– Presenter Tex Morton tells it how he sees it, while introducing multilingual Jan Butler
Key Cast & Crew
Bryan Easte
Alan Pearson
Ian Ingley
Bryan Daish
Ian Douglas
Tex Morton
Produced by
NZ Broadcasting Corporation
Acknowledgements
NZ On Screen acknowledges the performers and musicians for allowing NZ On Screen to reproduce this title on this website
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