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about Hee Haw in just a moment. But most

Friday and Saturday nights I was at a country

music jamboree. My dad played in a band. My

brother also played in a band at that time. So

we were at these places on a regular basis, and

we saw many of the music stars. I mean, some

of these places would bring in people from

Nashville and other places around the country.

They'd have a lot of locals sing, and then they'd

have one star to show up because that is what

drew the crowds. Several hundred people

would come out. So we grew up around this.

I'm talking about on a weekly basis. It was in

our home. This is what we heard; this is what

we saw. So I saw firsthand the immorality, the

drunkenness, the wickedness and all of this

that's associated with country music. And I

remember my dad taking me to at least two

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