Big Names to Perform This Week at Busch Gardens
July begins with Mel Tillis and the Pointer Sisters headlining Busch Gardens Old Country week. Tillis offers three evening shows at 5 30, 7 30 and 9 p m with MCA hits and gold writes. the Pointer Sisters perform at 6 and 9 p m. Tickets include all rides and shows for nine dollars twenty five.
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Mel Tillis
Pointer Sisters
Busch Gardens
County Music Association
MCA
Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame
Tillis
Detroit
Bobby Bare
Ruby
Ruth
Anita
June
Bonnie
Steely Dan
Stephen Stills
Loggins & Messina
Three Musketeers Theatre
Williamsburg
Washington, D.C
PBS reshapes with three mininetworks and common carriage
PBS votes to form three satellite enabled mininetworks educational regional and PBS service aimed at simultaneous transmission. 126 of 157 licensees join common carriage to create a national block of programs for most stations. 1978 audience up 11 percent and debut of Connections noted. Debbie Shook stripped of Miss North Carolina 1978 crown after comments about mistreatment and financial woes.
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Los Angeles
PBS
Century Plaza
Big Boys
ABC
CBS
NBC
Public TV
Mininetworks
Debbie Shook
North Carolina
Raleigh
North Carolina Jaycees
Memorial Auditorium
Rex Smith IIs Overnight Sensation
Rex Smith, 23, rises to overnight fame after NBC aired Sooner or Later on March 25 1979. His film role as a teen rock star sparked swift fan letters and demand for his album You Take My Breath Away. He moved to New York in 1975, opened for Foreigner and Ted Nugent, and was cast by Bruce and Carole Hart to star in the film. He now pursues both music and acting with renewed ambition.
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Rex Smith
NBC
the Monkees
David
Shaun Cassidy
Leif Garrett
Smith
Iem
Atlanta
Southeastern
New York
Foreigner
Ted Nugent
Nugent
Madison Square Garden
Bruce Hart
Carole Hart
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Besure
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Penny II
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Peanuts
Lucy
Snuffy Smith
Doonesbury
DUKE
Melcome
Miami
Man
Denver
Rex Morgan, M.D
Wrai
Rex Smith Iis
Hollywood
Winchester Evening Star
Love Lucy
Bionic Woman
Villa Alegres
CBS Evening News
ABC News
NBC News
Andy Griffith
Dick Cavett
Rex Humbard
CBS News
Sanford and Son
Wilburn Brothers
MacNeil-Lehrer
McHales Navy
MacNeil-Lehrer Report
Lilias
PM Magazine
Family Feud
Evening Magazine
Carol Burnett and Friends
Hee Haw Honeys
Over
White Shadow
Little House
IBM
Bill Moyer
Nova Wild Wild West
Bill Moyers
Andres Segovia
White House
America
Marie Curie
Bowerp
Cincinnati
Lou Grant
Benny Hill
Rockford Files
Showtime
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