Gene Williams Produces TV Show Here In Branson...

Gene Williams Show now located at the TV studeo in Springfield.

Seen coast-to-coast and border-to-border and broadcast to more then 50 million homes weekly the Gene Williams Country Television Show is taped live at the 50's at the Hop Theatre inside the Branson Meadows Mall. The show’s co-host Katie Lynn is also one of Gilley’s Urbanettes and has worked with Gilley for more than eight years. He and Katie Lynn interview a celebrity guest each week and the guest and Katie Lynn perform with Williams’Country Junction Band.

In addition to Gilley and McMahon, the TV show’s guests have included the Oak Ridge Boys, Roy Clark, Barbara Fairchild, Sons of the Pioneers, the Osmonds, Johnny Cash’s band The Tennessee Three, the Blackwood Brothers, Helen Cornelius, Johnny Lee, Little Jimmy Dickens, Porter Wagoner, Wanda Jackson and more.

His good friend Ed McMahon was one of his first guests when he started his television show in Branson. "After all these years, it was time for a change and Mickey willingly filmed a new opening and closing. Look for other country artists joining in soon and perhaps a mixture of celebrities including Ed McMahon on future shows," Williams said.

This show is produced once every three weeks. Gene opens the show and introduces Katie who sings a number with the Country Junction band. A guest comes on and does a number or two and they visit and then the first segment is over. The camera turns off and the cast changes clothes and comes out for a short proctice then the next segment is taped followed by the third segment. This show is free to the public so just show up at show time and let ur rip. This picture shows Joey Riley, Gene, Mickey Gilley, Katie Lynn and I'm not sure who the other gal is.

Here is a couple of interesting news releases concerning Gene.

Road in Dyess, Arkansas, named after him. BRANSON, Mo. -- A road in his hometown of Dyess, Ark., has been named after Gene Williams at the same time the community named a highway after the late Johnny Cash, another Dyess native. Dyess Mayor Larry F. recently presented the key to the city and a souvenir road signs to Williams on Williams’ television show, the Lucas Oil sponsored “Gene Williams Country Television Show

Gene Williams donates to save hometown's history.

Where First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt once stood to announce details of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal program that built Dyess Colony, Ark., former resident Gene Williams stood Thursday to announce that he is giving the seed money to save the historical building that was central to the program. Williams, a Dyess notable who grew up down the road from Johnny Cash and went on to his own outstanding career in country music and television, donated $50,000 to the City of Dyess to purchase the Dyess Colony Administration Building and start its renovation. The two-story Greek Revival-style building located in the heart of his small hometown is designated a National Register District. According to historians, Eleanor Roosevelt stood on its steps to explain her husband’s “experiment in permanent reestablishment of the independent farmer" and the distribution of between 20 and 40 acres, a five-room clapboard house, a mule, a cow and a year’s worth of groceries and supplies. Dyess Mayor Larry Sims, other city officials and members of the Johnny Cash Memorial Committee gratefully accepted the donation with the announcement that the building will be named the Gene Williams Building. Once renovations are completed the building will house city hall, a library, the Dyess Colony Memorial, a place to archive the history and memorabilia from the Depression-era experimental community. Rooms will be dedicated to some of Dyess’ former famous residents. One room will house the Gene Williams Museum. The Cash family has donated items for the Johnny Cash memorial. Tommy Cash will also have a museum.
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