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THE BOBBY GOLDSBORO SHOW
“THE BOBBY GOLDSBORO SHOW”
was a highly-rated, 30-minute syndicated television variety show that ran
for 3 seasons, from 1973-75, with some stations airing reruns in 1976.
The program, from Show Biz Productions, was filmed on Stages 31, 41
and 43 at CBS Television City Studios in Hollywood. Bill Graham was the
Executive Producer, and the show was produced by Bill Hobin, Jane
Dowden and Reg Dunlap. Ed Hider was a writer, with Hobin the director.
The band consisted of pianist Timmy Tappan, guitarist Tommy Tow and
drummer Jan Kurtis. Much of the music, including by the guests, was
sung live with backing tracks pre-recorded in Nashville by Bobby and the
band. Some production was done at WLAC/WTVF studios.
The show featured Peter Cullen (the voice of “Optimus Prime” in the
“Transformers” movies and television shows) as the voice and operator of
characters Calvin Calaveras (Season 1), Helmet (Season 2), and Jonathan
Rebel (Season 3).
Each show featured an opening song from Bobby. The middle two
segments generally each included a song from that episode’s guest star,
along with songs from Bobby and a comedy segment with one of Peter
Cullen’s characters. The final segment was Bobby talking with the guest,
and often performing together.
A DVD of Bobby performing his biggest hits on the show is available
through his official website. Click here for details.
#101
JIM NABORS
BG-Love the One You’re With; JN-The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Without You;
Calvin’s impressions with JN & BG; BG-Medley: Mornin’, Mornin’/Lodi/Don’t it Make You
Wanna Go Home; BG&JN-I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing
#102
MAC DAVIS
BG-Proud Mary; MD-Somethin’s Burnin’, Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me; Calvin with MD;
BG-Medley: With Pen in Hand/Autumn of My Life/Back That Way You Came;
BG&MD-Medley: A Poem for My Little Lady/In the Ghetto/Fall in Love with Your Wife/
I Believe in Music
B.J. THOMAS
BG-Brand New Kind of Love; BJT-Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head; Calvin with BG
and BJT about women; BG-Medley: Lisa Was/Jean/Michelle/Sweet Caroline; BG&BJT-
Hold On (I’m Coming)/Bring Back the Time
BOBBIE GENTRY
BG-The Straight Life; BGentry-Medley: Help Me Make it Through the Night/Don’t Let Me
Be Lonely Tonight; Calvin with BG & BGentry about romance; BGentry-You and Me
Together; BG-Medley: Water Color Days/Throwback/Danny is a Mirror to Me;
BG&BGentry-It Takes Two
LYNN ANDERSON
BG-Listen to the Music; LA-How Can I Unlove You; Calvin with BG; LA-Keep Me in
Mind; BG-Honey; BG&LA-Today, Rose Garden
SEALS & CROFTS
BG-Dancing in the Moonlight; SC-Summer Breeze; BG-A Song for Children; SC-
Hummingbird; BG&Calvin-Being You and Me; BG&SC-Hoedown
KENNY ROGERS
BG-Birmingham Lucy; KR-Abraham, Martin and John; Calvin with BG and KR
AND THE FIRST
about golf; KR-Reuben James; BG-Medley: City of New Orleans/The L&N Don’t Stop
EDITION
Here Anymore; BG&KR-Walk a Mile in My Shoes
JOHNNY MATHIS
BG-The Guitar Man; JM-Summer Breeze; BG-Fire and Rain; Calvin with JM about
running track; JM-Happy; BG-Medley: A Poem for My Little Lady/And I Love You So/
By Your Side; BG&JM-Song Sung Blue
BOBBY VINTON
BG-Muddy Mississippi Line; BV-Every Day of My Life; BG-Do it Again; BV-Mr. Lonely;
Calvin with BV about show business; BG&BV-Medley: Blue Velvet/Roses are Red/
Blue on Blue/Sealed with a Kiss/I Love How You Love Me/Please Love Me Forever/
But I Do
VICKI LAWRENCE &
BG-Your Song; VL-The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia; BG-The Gypsy;
BOBBY RUSSELL
BR-Saturday Morning Confusion; Calvin conquers VL’s fear of frogs; BG&VR&BR-
Cecil, Everything is Beautiful
ROD McKUEN
BG-Candida; RM-If You Go Away; BG-The Letter; RM-Now I Have the Time; Calvin with
BG about the mafia; BG-Medley: Country Feelin’s/Southern Fried Singin’ Sunday
Mornin’; BG&RM-The World I Used to Know/With Pen in Hand/Jean/I’m a Drifter
BILL WITHERS
BG-One Less Set of Footsteps; BW-Use Me Up; BG-Medley: Hard Luck Joe/Hoboes and
Kings; BW-Lean on Me; Calvin and BG talk jive; BG&BW-Ain’t No Sunshine
RAY STEVENS
BG-Me and You and a Dog Named Boo; RS-Losing Streak; BG-Down on the Bayou;
RS-Bein’ Friends; Calvin gives BG singing lessons; BG&RS-Turn Your Radio On
FREDA PAYNE
BG-You Don’t Mess Around with Jim; FP-Band of Gold; BG-I’m Stone in Love with You;
BG-Medley: I Think I’ve Got it Made/Richer Man Than I; Calvin with BG about
insomnia hypnosis; BG&FP-You’ve Got a Friend/Will You Love Me Tomorrow
PAUL WILLIAMS
BG-It Never Rains in Southern California; PW-I Won’t Last a Day Without You; BG-Been
to Canaan; Calvin with BG and PW about sensitivity; BG-Childhood-1949; BG&PW-
We’ve Only Just Begun/Let Me be the One/Rainy Days and Mondays
DOC SEVERINSEN
BG-California Wine, Killing Me Softly with Her Song; DS-Last Tango in Paris
BURL IVES
BG-Watching Scotty Grow, Where is the Love, I Believe in Music; BI-Payin’ My Dues,
A Little Bitty Tear; BG&BI&Calvin-Froggie Went A-Courtin’
LENNON SISTERS
BG-Fever, Medley about children; LS-Scarborough Fair, 1970’s medley; BG&LS-Little
Green Apples
JERRY REED
JR-Amos Moses; BG&JR-When You’re Hot, You’re Hot
+ 7 ADDITIONAL EPISODES
“THE BOBBY GOLDSBORO SHOW” SEASON ONE 1972-1973
#201
JIM NABORS
BG-Take a Letter Maria, Country Roads Take Me Home; JN-Make the World Go Away,
Cardboard Crayons and Clay; BG&JN-Sing
#202
MAC DAVIS
BG-Summer (The First Time); MD-Your Side of the Bed, Lonesomest Lonesome; Also:
Never Been to Spain, Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me
#203
DANNY DAVIS AND
BG-Tie a Yellow Ribbon, Medley: For the Good Times/Sunday Morning Coming Down;
THE NASHVILLE
DD-Brassy Bluegrass
BRASS
#204
ROGER MILLER
BG-Knock Three Times; RM-Open Up Your Heart; BG-He’s Part of Us; Bobby and Helmet
about diet; RM-Whistle Stop; BG&RM-Me and Bobby McGee
#205
GEORGE “GOOBER”
BG-Daniel, Medley: If/Baby, I’m A-Want You/Make It With You; GL-Unluckiest Songwriter
LINDSEY
in Nashville; BG&GL-Onions
#206
CURTIS MAYFIELD
BG-Born to Make You Happy; CM-If I Were Only a Child Again; BG-If’n I Was God; Helmet
claims credit for Bobby’s talent; CM-Future Shock; BG-Been to Canaan; BG&CM-People
Get Ready/It’s All Right
#207
SERGIO MENDES
BG-Drift Away, Honey; SM-Where is the Love, Put a Little Love Away; BG&SM-Girl from
& BRASIL ‘77
Ipanema
#208
JUD STRUNK
BG-Cracklin’ Rosie, Rocky Mountain High; JS-A Daisy a Day; Also: Old Dogs, Children and
Watermelon Wine
#209
THE LETTERMEN
BG-Rock and Roll Man, Daydream; L-Bridge Over Troubled Water, You’ve Got a Friend;
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head; BG&L-An Old Fashioned Love Song
#210
HENRY MANCINI
BG-Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, Mr. Bojangles; HM-Ludmilla’s Theme; BG&HM-Moon River,
All His Children
#211
DOC SEVERINSEN
BG-Sing Me a Smile, Killing Me Softly with Her Song, She; DS-A Song for You; BG&DS-
Dear John
#212
SEALS & CROFTS
BG-Down on the Corner; SC-Ruby Jean and Billie Lee; Helmet demonstrates ESP to BG
and Timmy Tappan; BG-The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore; SC-We May Never Pass this
Way Again; BG&SC-Pop Goes the Weasel/Devil’s Dream/Hoedown/Arkansas Traveler
#213
VICKI LAWRENCE &
BG-Solitary Man, Behind Closed Doors, Tequila Sunrise; VL-He Did with Me;
BOBBY RUSSELL
BR-Mid-American Manufacturing Tycoon
#214
BOBBIE GENTRY
BGentry-You Light Up My Life, Benjamin; BG&BGentry-I’ll Never Fall in Love Again/
United We Stand
#215
BOBBY WOMACK
BG-Walk a Mile in My Shoes; BW-Nobody Knows You when You’re Down and Out; Also:
Fire and Rain, It’s All Over Now
#216
ANDY AND DAVID
ADW-Hello Mary Lou; Also: Happy Together, Let Me Be There, Loving Arms, Bye Bye Love
WILLIAMS
#217
DOBIE GRAY
BG-Put a Little Love in Your Heart; DG-Good Ole Song; BG-These are the Best Times;
Helmet accepts an Oscar with BG; DG-Loving Arms; BG-It’s Too Late (Carole King song);
BG&DG-Drift Away, The In Crowd
#218
BOBBY VINTON
#219
VIKKI CARR
BG-Take it Easy, Stagger Lee, Everything I Own; VC-With Pen in Hand, Leave a Little
Room; BG&VC-I Believe in the Sunshine
#220
JOHNNY MATHIS
BG-Little Green Apples; JM-I’m Coming Home, Stop Look and Listen to Your Heart; Also:
Do You Know the Way to San Jose, The Twelfth of Never
#221
JOHNNY BENCH &
BG-Danny’s Song, Loves Me Like a Rock; JBench-You Don’t Mess Around with Jim; Also:
JOLEEN BENOIT
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
#222
ROY CLARK
BG-No Love at All; RC-Yesterday When I was Young; BG-Green, Green Grass of Home;
Bobby and Roy talk with Helmet; BG-Fever; RC-Somewhere Between Love and Tomorrow;
BG&RC-Riders in the Sky
#223
CHARLIE RICH
BG-Ramblin’ Man, If You Could Read My Mind; CR-Behind Closed Doors, The Most
Beautiful Girl in the World; BG&CR-Big Boss Man, Lonely Weekends
#224
LENNON SISTERS
BG-Muddy Mississippi Line, Killing Me Softly with Her Song; LS-Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy;
Too Long at the Fair; BG&LS-Top of the World
#225
MAUREEN
BG-I Got a Name, Time Good Time Bad; MM-The Morning After; Also: I Won’t Last a Day
McGOVERN
Without You, Blue Monday, Until It’s Time for You to Go
#226
ANNE MURRAY
BG-The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down; AM-I Know, Love Song; BG&AM-Medley:
Snowbird/Danny’s Song/Cotton Jenny/Break My Mind
#301
RAY STEVENS
BG-If You Love Me; See the Funny Little Clown, Time in a Bottle; RS-The Streak; Fairytale;
BG&RS-Freddie Feelgood and His Funky Little Five Piece Band
#302
CHI COLTRANE
BG-Sweet Gypsy Rose, Honey; CC-Thunder and Lightning, Different Ways;
BG&CC-Shortnin’ Bread
#303
KENNY ROGERS
BG-Solitary Man, I’m a Drifter, Hello Summertime; KR-Stranger in My Place; Terry Williams-
AND THE FIRST
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
EDITION
#304
JIM STAFFORD
BG-Tie a Yellow Ribbon, Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues; JS-Swamp Witch, Spiders and
Snakes; BG&JS-JS National Anthem impressions
#305
DAVE LOGGINS
BG-Let Me Be There, The Straight Life, All the Woman I’ve Wanted; DL-Please Come to
Boston, Someday.
#306
JOHNNY MATHIS
BG-Stagger Lee, Watching Scotty Grow, I Have to Say I Love You in a Song; JM-I’m Stone
in Love with You; BG&JM-Sweet Child. Also: As Sure as I’m Sitting Here
#307
THE SPINNERS
BG-Santa Fe Train; S-I’m Coming Home; BG-With Pen in Hand; S-Mighty Love; BG and
Jonathan Rebel about war; BG-You Won’t See Me; BG&S-BG dances to Mighty Love
#308
DOBIE GRAY
BG-I Got a Name, Maybelline, Broomstick Cowboy; DG-The Music is Real, Hey Dixie;
BG&DG-Drift Away
#309
AL WILSON
BG-Dark Clouds; AW-Show and Tell; BG talks with Jonathan Rebel; BG-Summer
(The First Time); AW-Peace Song; BG&AW-The Snake
#310
JOSE FELICIANO
BG-My Cherie Amour, I Honestly Love You, Blue Autumn; JF-Golden Lady; BG&JF-Foggy
Mountain Breakdown
#311
TRIBUTE TO
BG-One Less Set of Footsteps, Fritos commercial, Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues; BG
JIM CROCE
and Jonathan Rebel about the dog wash; BG-I Got a Name, You Don’t Mess Around with
Jim; BG and Jonathan talk about Jim Croce’s songs; BG-Time in a Bottle, Bad Bad
Leroy Brown
#312
PAUL WILLIAMS
BG-Take a Letter Maria; PW-You and Me Against the World; BG-California Wine; Jonathan
Rebel talks about songwriting with BG and PW; PW-I Won’t Last a Day Without You;
Bobby and Paul talk about movies
#313
BOBBY WOMACK
BG-Save the Last Dance for Me; BW-I Take it on Home; BG-Reunion; BW-I Don’t Know
What this World is Coming To; Jonathan Rebel and BG sing; BG-Brand New Kind of
Love; BG&BW-California Dreamin’
#314
DAVID GATES
BG-It Never Rains in Southern California; BG and Jonathan Rebel Fritos commercial;
DG-Baby, I’m A-Want You; BG-Six Days on the Road; BG and Jonathan Rebel’s
world’s smallest radio; DG-Clouds; BG-Muddy Mississippi Line; BG&DG-The Guitar Man/If
#315
ROD McKUEN
BG-Quicksand, He’s Part of Us, Little Things; RM-Colors and Changes, Now I Have the
Time; BG&RM-Seasons in the Sun
#316
PAUL REVERE AND
BG-Did She Mention My Name; PR-Cover of the Rolling Stone/Stepping Out/Just Like Me/
THE RAIDERS
Louie, Louie; BG-And Then There Was Gina; BG and Jonathan Rebel about unique
singing talents; BG-Can You Feel It; BG&PR-Indian Reservation
#317
BOBBY VINTON
BG-Another Saturday Night; BG Fritos commercial; BV-My Melody of Love; BG-One Tin
Soldier; BG as Billy Ray Elmore with Jonathan Rebel; BV-Am I Losing You; BG&BV-And I
Love You So, Tie a Yellow Ribbon
#318
SAMI JO
BG-Dancing in the Moonlight; SJ-It Could Have Been Me; Jonathan Rebel’s nose makes
BG’s frog noise; BG-Kids are People Too; SJ-I’ll Believe Anything You Say; BG-Come
Back Home; BG&SJ talk
#319
JOHNNY BENCH
BG-Wherefore and Why; JB-I Love; BG-You’ve Got a Friend; Jonathan Rebel talks
baseball with BG&JB; BG-If There Were Only Time for Love; BG&JB-Me and Bobby McGee
#320
DOC SEVERINSEN
BG-Star Baby, Come a Little Bit Closer, Summer (The First Time); DS-Hill Where the Lord
Hides; BG&DS-Stop and Smell the Roses
#321
TRINI LOPEZ
BG-Mornin’, Mornin’, Teach the Children, If You’ve Got a Heart; TL-Fly Me to the Moon,
Sweet Gypsy Rose; BG&TL-If I Had a Hammer
#322
SEALS & CROFTS,
BG-You Can Have Her, Fritos commercial; SC-Ashes in the Snow; BG-Cat’s in the Cradle;
ENGLAND DAN &
EDJFC-Showboat Gambler; Jonathan Rebel and BG talk about family history;
JOHN FORD COLEY
BG&SC&EDJFC-Dust on My Saddle
#323
THE 5TH DIMENSION
BG-Carefree Highway, Fritos commercial; 5D-Harlem; BG-Alone Again Naturally;
5D-Hardcore Poetry; BG & 5D talk with Jonathan Rebel; BG&5D-One Less Bell to Answer,
Aquarius
#324
BO DONALDSON &
BG-Mountain of Love; BD-Billy, Don’t Be a Hero; BG-Willie and the Hand Jive; Jonathan
THE HEYWOODS
Rebel and BG talk about conscience; BG-Seasons in the Sun; BD-The Heartbreak Kid;
BG-Autumn of My Life
#325
LENNON SISTERS
BG-Stop and Smell the Roses, BG and Jonathan Rebel Fritos commercial; LS-Bitter They
Are Harder They Fall; BG-You and Me Against the World; Jonathan Rebel, Timmy Tappan,
and BG as Billy Ray Elmore at the piano; LS-Let Me Be There; BG-I’ll Remember You;
BG&LS-Lean on Me
#326
ANNE MURRAY
BG-I Can Help; AM-Day Tripper; Jonathan Rebel and BG read letters; AM-Highly Prized
Possession; BG-Marlena; BG&AM-Love Song
