My mom used to never miss this show and Tennessee Ernie Ford's in the afternoons. She enjoyed not only the music but the cast members on both shows. ("American Bandstand" was also one of her favorites, at least when it was a daily show from Philadelphia.) Although she enjoyed the Mike Douglas and Merv Griffin shows I don't think it was the same for her as the musical-variety daytime shows in the '50s, and she would often get nostalgic for the Crosby show in particular and I still think she liked Bob better than she did Bing. . I think she hoped Don Ho's 1976 ABC show would revive the genre but against "The Young and the Restless" (11 AM in Dallas, where we were living then). there was no chance.
