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) was a weekly country music-variety staple featuring such musicians as Charlie Robinson, Ray Ecox, Yvonne Ambrose-Haygood, Bill Teague, Mark Alstad, Rosie Mello, Jolene Farrara, Mark Pacheco, and Mel Wilson. Announcer Ron Palmer and news reporter Rick Rigsby also made appearances on the show. The show started in 1956, three years after the launch of its host television station

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. It was produced at both KHSL-TV studio locations on 4th and Wall Streets from 1956–84 and on Silverbell Road from 1984-95. It was broadcast on Channel 12 from 1956–95 and was shown in reruns on KHSL-TV until 1997 when it was cancelled following the acquisition of the station by

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. From 1997 to 2015, repeats (usually early 1990s shows) aired on KRVU in Chico.Moriss Taylor, Band Bio
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, a chief rival of KHSL-TV since 1956. Episodes can now be seen on

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''Chico News and Review'' Story on Moriss Taylor
(November 22, 2001)
''Chico News and Review'' Story on Moriss Taylor
(November 29, 2001)
''Chico News and Review'' Story on Moriss Taylor
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