Cher & Glen Campbell – Jingle Bells

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Cher Glen Campbell - Jingle Bells (Live on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, 1969)02:16

Cher & Glen Campbell – Jingle Bells (Live on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, 1969)

In 1969, country-pop and TV star Campbell and the dynamic Cher teamed up to appear on a Christmas edition of Campbell’s series on CBS. In its first season of a three-year run on the network, the Goodtime Hour was introduced as a replacement for the controversial (and suddenly canceled) Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, which pushed a late-Sixties agenda that was fairly anti-establishment.

Campbell’s series was more rooted in the core values one might expect from an Arkansas-born country musician: family fun with an emphasis on wholesome and inoffensive comedy. (Interestingly enough, one of the Goodtime Hour‘s writers, Rob Reiner, would become more well-known for starring in one of the most controversial shows of its time: All in the Family.)

This wasn’t the pair’s only TV appearance together either. In August 1971, Campbell was a musical guest of Sonny and Cher’s third episode of their series and in November of that year, Cher returned to Campbell’s show, appearing this time with her husband.

From RollingStone, December 3, 2015

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