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    • Jan 6, 1968
    ABC-TV debuts "Happening '68," a daytime weekend music show featuring Paul Revere & The Raiders, including future country star Freddy Weller
    Jun 23, 1968
    "The Summer Brothers Smothers Show" fills in for "The Smothers Brothers" on CBS with host Glen Campbell, who gets his own show the following January. Campbell performs "Dreams Of The Everyday Housewfie" on the first episode, which features guest Nancy Sinatra
    Jul 15, 1968
    "It's Happening," a daytime music series, debuts on ABC-TV. The house band is Paul Revere & The Raiders, including soon-to-be country star Freddy Weller
    Sep 8, 1968
    "The Summer Brothers Smothers Show," a summer replacement series hosted by Glen Campbell, closes its run on CBS
    Sep 16, 1968
    "The Andy Griffith Show" ends its eight-year prime-time run on CBS. The show featured The Dillards, a bluegrass group that influenced The Eagles, as recurring TV band The Darlings beginning in 1963
    Oct 25, 1968
    After a three-month run, the ABC music series "It's Happening" airs for the last time. A weekday program, it featured the rock band Paul Revere & The Raiders. Bass player Freddy Weller is destined to be a country hitmaker within a year
    Jan 29, 1969
    "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour" debuts on CBS with theme song "Gentle On My Mind." Campbell sings "Wichita Lineman" and teams with Bobbie Gentry on "Little Green Apples." Other guests include John Hartford, The Smothers Brothers and comedian Pat Paulsen
    Feb 7, 1969
    "This Is Tom Jones" debuts on ABC-TV, where it remains for two years. Jones goes on to make several country hits; his set list for his first installment includes "Danny Boy," "Johnny B. Goode" and "Green, Green Grass Of Home"
    Jun 2, 1969
    "Peyton Place" airs for the last time after five years in ABC's prime-time lineup. The small-town drama had been referenced the previous summer in Jeannie C. Riley's Tom T. Hall-penned hit "Harper Valley P.T.A."
    Jun 7, 1969
    ABC-TV airs the first episode of "The Johnny Cash Show," with guest Bob Dylan joining the Man In Black on "Girl From The North Country." Also appearing: Doug Kershaw and Joni Mitchell, who duets with Cash on "I Still Miss Someone"



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