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I've looked and looked for something about his weekly tv show and can't find any mention of it. I hate to say I'm wrong about it as I can still see him walking on carrying his guitar and sitting on a stool to sing a song and start the show. This is going to bug me big-time until I figure it out. I must be wrong as the people writing about him would not have left out something that important in his career.

No, you're not dreaming it. Many of the interviewees in this book brought it up, even without being asked. Roger had his own show on NBC for one season (1966). Stories about that show are scattered all throughout the book.

The show went off the air after only one season because Roger hated it. Roy Clark's comments:

"It was awful hard to structure Roger. In fact, when you tried to structure him, you lost him. You lost his magic. And they had that show very highly produced. It was 'Roger, walk over here and stand here and look at this camera and say this. Walk over here, look at that camera and introduce this guest.' And that wasn't Roger, so he left."

Roy goes on to describe how he happened to be in the studio when Roger did his last show and describes everything that happened, their conversation beforehand, etc..

(Have I mentioned that this is a MUST-READ book yet? LOL!

I don't have the book yet but it sounds great. I'm relieved I wasn't dreaming about watching his tv show. I have sheet music of a lot of his songs and think I will go now and play "Little Green Apples" on the piano.

God didn't make little green apples and it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime. There's no such thing as Doctor Suess, Disneyland, and Mother Goose is no nurs-'ry rhyme.

And when myself is feeling low, I think about her face aglow to ease my mind.

Words and music to Little Green Apples was by Bobby Russell. They used to determine how popular songs were before records, etc., by the amount of sheet music sold.

Thanks again.