Merle Haggard & Mark O'Connor at the White House, President Reagan (1982)

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In Performance at the White House series w/ Merle Haggard and Mark O'Connor performing at President Ronald Reagan's Ranch in California, May 5th, 1982

Primary Guests
Ronald Reagan
Nancy Reagan
Merle Haggard
The Strangers
Tiny Moore
Norm Hamlet
Stephane Grapelli
Mark O'Connor
Beverly Sills
Director Kirk Browning

Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Nancy,
Haggard, Merle
Moore, Tiny
Grappelli, Stephane
O'Connor, Mark
Sills, Beverly

Description Contents: opens with footage of various musicians and artists performing outdoors with ‘Young Artists In Performance at the White House’ title card / (02:29) Beverly Sills provides voiceover intro to the program and welcome to President Ronald Reagan’s “Rancho Sierra Grande” in California where the concert will take place / (03:58) Outside on ranch, under covered pavilion****, President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan walk through the crowd and the First Lady takes the stage to announce the show and guest Merle Haggard, Mark O’ Connor / (07:03) Merle Haggard takes the stage to join the Strangers, puts on guitar, and begins “I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink”/ (10:52) Merle Haggard and the Strangers “Silver Wings” / (14:13) Merle Haggard and the Strangers “Workin’ Man Blues” / (18:11) Merle Haggard and the Strangers “My Favorite Memory” / (21:17) Merle Haggard and the Strangers “Footlights” / (25:34) Merle Haggard and the Strangers “Okie from Muskogee” / (28:38) Beverly Sills comes onstage and asks Haggard about where his style of music comes from, and Haggard says it comes may roots and then talks about his newfound affinity for ‘Big Band’ music and says he will do one and suggests “Pennies from Heaven” / (30:57) Merle Haggard and the Strangers “Pennies from Heaven” / (33:18) video segment of Merle Haggard on his house boat on Lake Shasta / (33:21) Haggard talking about his family and upbringing, the influence of Bob Wills, and what one must give up for fame / (35:28) Haggard, still on lake, talks about fiddle player Mark O’Connor / (35:45) Stephane Grapelli discusses Mark O’Connor’s talent / (36:12) video footage of national fiddle competitions with voiceover form Beverly Sills and interview with competition judge Herman Johnson (37:15) Byron Berline, another competition judge talks about Mark O’ Connor’s talent followed by O’Connor onstage / (38:00) cut back to Haggard on the lake talking about O’Connor / (38:17) cut to ranch stage performance with Mark O’Connor on fiddle performing unidentified song / (42:25) Beverly Sills comes onstage and interviews Mark O’Connor / (43:08) Fiddle Instrumental with Mark O'Connor, Merle Haggard, both on fiddle and many band members on fiddle / (48:27) President Ronald Reagan comes to the stage and thanks Merle Haggard and Mark O’Connor and Beverly Sills for bringing together such a group, and asks America to take pride in this type of creativity that can only come from freedom and closes by asking Haggard to do a couple more/ (52:10) Merle Haggard and the Strangers “Are the Good Times Really Over” / (55:48) Merle Haggard and the Strangers “Rainbow Stew” / (57:00) credits begin to roll while performance continues in background

" SANTA YNEZ VALLEY, Calif., March 7— The country-western singer Merle Haggard, who spent nearly three years in San Quentin Prison for attempted burglary and who was later pardoned by the Governor of California, sang today for the man who pardoned him, President Reagan.

''I hope the President will be as pleased with my performance today as I was with his pardon 10 years ago,'' Mr. Haggard said before the concert. Commenting through his deputy press secretary, Larry Speakes, the President said that although ''Merle Haggard's music is now the heart and soul of America,'' the pardon was ''routine'' and had simply ''come up through the system.''

The President and Mrs. Reagan and 400 invited guests sat on bales of hay in a tin-roofed arena at the Sierra Grande Ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains three hours north of Los Angeles by car, listening to Mr. Haggard perform such foot-stomping, flag-waving songs as ''Okie From Muskogee'' and ''Are the Good Times Really Over?'' Under an overcast sky on a chilly day, Mr. Haggard was joined on the makeshift stage by Mark O'Connor, a tall and scrawny 20-year-old fiddler who has already won the grand national fiddle championship three consecutive times." -New York Times (May 8, 1982)
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