Jim and Jesse.

[telepbrman]

Was there a "Jim and Jesse" show? I saw a photo with a logo behind them and was wondering about it....sidenote: Is there any video/dvd performances of Jim and Jesse? Thanks, dy.

[J. Mark Lane]

Not sure I understand your question. Jim McReynolds of "Jim and Jesse" died about two years ago. His brother Jesse has continued to perform, as Jesse McReynolds and the Virginia Boys. There is a Jesse instructional video, and other footage out there. There's some fun footage of the brothers in the movie "High Lonesome." Does that help?

Mark

[Rroyd]

One of their albums was called the "Jim And Jesse
Show," which featured a photo of them with the album name in the background. My guess is that what you saw was some sort of reproduction of that album jacket.

[f5loar]

Yes, J&J had their own TV Show in the mid 60's. In color if I remember! I recall it being broadcast out of VA.

[telepbrman]

Yep, that is the type of info I am looking for, and now I need to track down that show or them shows. Keep you posted,dy.

[GTison]

good luck, They used to have a show out of Dothan, AL for Jim Walter Homes and maybe a mobile home company too. They also worked around Live Oak, Florida. I remember it, but I was probably about 6 years old. Call up Jessie McRenolds and ask him. You won't find any kinder folks than the McRenolds. Most of those old shows were erased and the tape used over. It would be neat to see some of those though.

[f5loar]

They have released a tape of 2 of their shows but I forget which ones. It was around 1974-76 era. I have it here somewhere and got if from J&J several years back on VHS.

[AeroJoe]

You can try to contact WITN here in eastern North Carolina (Greenville) or WNCT (also near Greenville, NC)...I remember seeing them on TV when I was a kid, in color, this was the late 60's/early '70's, but I do remember their TV program, and it was broadcast on one or the other of the above stations...the only ones in the "rabbit ear", pre-cable, wrap some tin foil on the antennae for better reception days that we could pick up clearly...

[telepbrman]

Foil and Rabbit ears...the good old days, Uhf anyone...thanks for the scoop on the stations and such, I'll keep you posted, thanks dy.

[Brandolin Tucker12]

J&J sells the 70's TV show videos at their "record" table. If any body gets it, watch for Garland Shuping. He plays bajo on about the last 15 mins. and is on the cover too! ( J&J Live in Japan album too,if anybody cares.) He's my daddy.

[f5loar]

Tim Ellis plays banjo on first part of video and looks like late 70's or early 80's. No date on the video I have.
Shuping burns down "Heartbreak Mountain" by Buck Owens as an instrumental and also Monroe/Keith's "Shennedoah Breakdown" at breakneck speed. Worth the price of the video for those two songs. Fine Jesse mandolin picking throughout this live tape before a TV audience.

[TerryA]

Bowfinger, just curious...how do you know of Jim and Jesse
doing a show out of Dothan, Al. I was born and raised in
Dothan (and grew up in a Jim Walter home). I don't remember
Jim and Jesse in particular, but I do remember in the late
50's and early 60's, there were a lot of country and old time
pickers working the lots of home builders, used cars dealers,
and bomb shelter builders. Jim and Jesse would have fit right
in.

TerryA

[AeroJoe]

Yall check this out...in reference to the above-mention "rabbit ears" and tin-foil for better TV reception some of you remember...

My wife has a dorsal column stimulator implanted into her left side, about where the appendix would be (on the other side)...it's an oval-ish shaped thing a tiny bit larger than a walnut, and the wires run up under her skin to an implant in her spine...it's the result of a car wreck we were in. It blocks pain messages to the brain, similar to the way a current TV scambler blocks you from watching the Spice Channel (not that you would want to anyway...right?) Anway, I CAN get better TV reception ( I don't have cable or satellite, I'd never practice if I did) and even better radio reception when my wife gets close to either appliance....And the thing is, she has not had the device turned "on" in several years...her back, thanks to the Lord, healed ok on it's own. But it still emits some sort of something or whatever it does, for all she has to do is hold onto the antennea of either the TV or the radio and /instantly/, I can watch MNF oh so clearly, or listen to the Pinecone Bluegrass Show on the cheapie radio we have in the bathroom.
...Now, getting her to stand there and hold onto the TV antennae for 4 quarters, and overtime if necessary, is another story altogether...

Back to the Jim and Jesse thing...it was WITN that broadcast that show...it came on after "WITNey the Hobo Show", a sorta "Captain Kangaroo" show for kids that came on Saturday afternoons here in eastern NC, back in the early '70's...

[GTison]

TerryA , Like I said I remember it. I used to run around in circles shouting "Jim&Jessie's on" so that the whole family could come to the TV and see it. I liked them even as a kid. I don't remember the music only that they were on. I grew up in NWFl. " The Wiregrass" as it is called. I believe there's some mention of their TV work in the 'Bluegrass a history' book or something I've read

[TerryA]

Bowfinger, I forgot they called that the 'Wiregrass' area.
NWFL; dog races at Ebro, fishing at Wewahitchka, Dead Lakes
and Choctawhatchee Bay, fried shrimp at Graceville, the beach
at Panama City, oysters at Appalachicola, Florida Boys gospel
quartet, Grand Ole opry on the radio every Saturday night
hoping to hear JIM AND JESSE...Yeah Buddy!