SUPER SIX LIST - SIX COUNTRY SINGERS FOUND ONLY IN TOOBWORLD

SUPER SIX LIST

SIX COUNTRY SINGERS
IN TOOBWORLD

"You don’t understand
Country and Western music!
It’s about the real things in life.
Murder, train wrecks, amputations;
faucets leaking in the night.
All stuff like that."
Charlie Haggers
'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'

LORETTA HAGGARS
'MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN'
&
'FOREVER FERNWOOD'

O'Bservation: Everybody else on this Super Six List is different and not just because they're all male. Everybody else on this list is a one-shot guest appearance.  Loretta was a regular on the soap opera parody.  This is my favorite because of Mary Kay Place playing the role.  I first saw her in an episode of 'All In The Family' and I knew she would be going places.

From Wikipedia:
She is known for portraying Loretta Haggers on the television series 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman', a role that won her the 1977 Prime-Time Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series.

"Vitamin L." was the title of a popular 1976 country song by Emmy award-winning actress, Mary Kay Place, on her Grammy-nominated album "Tonite! At the Capri Lounge: Loretta Haggers". She also performed the song on the cult television series 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman', portraying the character Loretta Haggers, which was loosely based on Dolly Parton.

TOMMY BROWN
'COLUMBO'
"SWAN SONG"

From the IMDb:
A popular folk singer's plane has crashed. Two passengers have died, and one has escaped with minor injuries. Was it really an accident? How could it not have been? Or, was it really a nearly perfect murder? Columbo is called in to find out.

O'Bservation: "I Saw The Light" becomes tiresome after awhile.  It's an okay episode but for me it's saved by Mister John Dehner and John Randolph.

FLOYD BURNEY
'THE TWILIGHT ZONE'
'COME WANDER WITH ME"

From the IMDb:
Singer Floyd Burney, the "Rock-a-Billy-Kid", goes deep into the back woods hoping to find his next hit record. He no sooner arrives than he hears a beautiful singing voice which draws him deeper into the woods. He eventually meets Mary Rachel who tells him the song he heard belonged to someone and that she's forbidden to tell anyone about it. When she finally reveals it to him, Floyd learns that his future is preordained. 

O'Bservation: It's not exactly country, more like folk music.  But close enough.  I came up with a better ending than the one in the teleplay.  Floyd escapes his predicament only to find himself trapped in yet another song.  (Maybe one that is incessantly grating and made for kids.)

CHARLIE STRAYHORN
'THE ROCKFORD FILES'
"HEARTACHES OF A FOOL"

From the IMDb:
Jim finds that a country music star, a corrupt union boss and a Chinese triad all have one thing in common with why Rocky ended in the hospital after his rig was forced off the road: sausages.

O'Bservation: Taylor Lacher played Strayhorn but his singing voice was that of Willie Nelson.  Lacher was the second actor to play "Toby O'Brien" in episodes of 'Police Story'.

MUFFIN CALHOUN
'THE BIONIC WOMAN'
"ROAD TO NASHVILLE"

From the IMDb:
Someone is recording more than country music in the case of an old friend, so Jamie does some snooping, and puts a stop to it with the honest part of his team.

A fellow OSI agent goes missing while investigating country legend Big Buck Buckley who seems to be passing out top secret information by way of his music. Muffin Calhoun, a mutual acquaintance of Buck and Oscars takes Jaime to Nashville and introduces her to Buckley as the aspiring singer 'Jodi Lee Sommers'.

Jaime Sommers: 
So you and Oscar were in intelligence together during North Korea?

Muffin Calhoon: 
Yeah, that's right, only I had the intelligence to get out of this racket after the war.
O'Bservation: Hoyt Axton was in the episode as well, as Buck Buckley, the C&W star who was suspected of passing state secrets through his music.  I thought it would turn out to be Muffin.  As always, Doc Severinsen was a pleasue to watch.
LACY FLETCHER
'MAGNUM, P.I'

"LET ME HEAR THE MUSIC"

From "Magnum Mania!":
Magnum is hired by country musician Lacy Fletcher to unearth five songs written over 25 years ago by legendary country singer George Lee Jessup shortly before his death, and it seems that Lacy is not the only person searching for the songs.

Lacy Fletcher: 
I know this isn't exactly the place for country, but ah ... I ah got another little premiere here if you don't mind. This is one of the five songs that ... well they're all gonna be classics, because they were all written by the great George Lee Jessup and I had the wonderful privilege of writin' down the notes for him.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere
beneath the flashing, neon lights
And I'll try to get through
one more lonely night

People keep on a-movin'
just fillin' up the space
All I keep on a-see'in
is the memory of your face

I just wanna hold you
and listen deep within
Listen to the music
that'll let me live again

Let me hear the music
that keeps my world in time
Let me hear the music
and let me hear the rhyme