Today's classic country offering is something a bit different. It's clip of the old Cas Walker Show I found on You Tube. Cas, as you'll find out in the clip, was the owner of a chain of grocery stores in the east TN/southwest VA/southeast KY area. He was also into country and bluegrass music. He had a TV show in Knoxville in the late 60's and he had all kinds of cheesy ads for his stores. One of the first ones I remember seeing when we moved to this area was an ad about how great the meat was in his stores, the tag line for the ad was "You may beat our prices, but you'll never beat our meat." I died laughing when I heard that. Cas was also an ardent right wing Republican and a sworn foe of Communism. He'd send out flyers with questions on them like "Do you support President Nixon?" and then you could check off one of the following choices "A) YES! I love freedom and America! B) No! I love Communism and I hate Jesus."
This clip is a true classic, it's got the clogging kids, the band who all look like sex offenders, and the man himself hawking that miracle cream. Cas was an institution in this area for many years but sadly all things must pass and now he's taking the dirt nap and his grocery empire has fallen by the wayside. I can't help but think how he would have hated Barack Obama and I shudder to think about the lengths he would have gone to to see him defeated.
(The title of this post comes from an ad that Cas ran about his watermelons. He claimed all his melons were "thumpin' good," whatever the hell that meant.)
3 comments:
So many things to say!
It's salve, Mr. Cas not save
Thumpin good means you thump the melons to see if they are quality. Lots of Americans pretend they know what they're doing but no one agrees on what a good thump is.
It creeps me out that Mr. Cas had old sores that refuse to heal, and that he thought we'd like to know.
He had the most WHAT??? kind of condition.
What is sticking out of his pockets?
Cute clogging kids though.
I actually went to one of his stores when I was a wee lass. I had forgotten all about him.
MnMom-Now, now, down here it is known as "save."
PoP-I went into his stores as well. Then one night they all became Piggly Wiggly's.
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