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Mickey
Gilley Replaces Ed McMahon as Gene Williams TV Show Announcer
Gilley
holds the record for the most number of repeat appearances as a guest star on
the Lucas Oil sponsored Gene Williams Country TV Show and has even hosted the
show. From the Hollywood Walk of Fame to Gilley’s in Texas and then Branson,
Gilley has had his own theater in the entertainment town since the ‘90s.
"My friend Mickey Gilley has supported me for the nearly eight years I have been
doing my show in Branson. He substituted as a host several years ago when I was
hospitalized after suffering a heart attack. He has helped me tremendously and
has been a regular guest. He talks about my show at every show he does in his
Mickey Gilley Theatre and I return the favor on my show and talk about his live
show here in Branson and his great career in country music," said Williams who
began his country music television show in Arkansas 45 years ago.
"Among his 17 number-one hits biggest hits are Room Full of Roses, Don't the
Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time, and the remake of Stand by Me. Early in
my country music career I was booking country artists in different venues, and I
put Mickey on my stage in Horseshoe Bend, Ark. It’s important to me that after
decades, we are still great friends," said Williams.
Seen coast-to-coast and border-to-border and broadcast to more then 50 million
homes weekly the Gene Williams Country Television Show is taped live at the Gene
Williams Theatre inside the Branson Mall. The show’s co-host Katie Lynn is also
one of Gilley’s Urbanettes and has worked with Gilley for more than eight years.
Williams and Katie Lynn interview a celebrity guest each week and the guest and
Katie Lynn perform with Williams’ Country Junction Band.
In addition to Gilley and McMahon, the TV show’s guests have included the Oak
Ridge Boys, Roy Clark, Barbara Fairchild, Sons of the Pioneers, the Osmonds,
Johnny Cash’s band The Tennessee Three, the Blackwood Brothers, Helen Cornelius,
Johnny Lee, Little Jimmy Dickens, Porter Wagoner, Wanda Jackson and more.
"My good friend Ed McMahon was one of my first guests when I started my
television show in Branson and I appreciate his introducing me each week with
his characteristic ‘Herrrre’s Gene.’ After all these years, it was time for a
change and Mickey willingly filmed a new opening and closing. Look for other
country artists joining in soon and perhaps a mixture of celebrities including
Ed McMahon on future shows," Williams said.
Road in Dyess, Arkansas, named after Gene Williams
BRANSON, Mo. -- A road in his hometown of Dyess, Ark., has been named after Gene Williams at the same time the community named a highway after the late Johnny Cash, another Dyess native. Dyess Mayor Larry F. recently presented souvenir road signs to Williams on Williams’ television show, the Lucas Oil sponsored “Gene Williams Country Television Show.”read more........
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