Saturday Night Jamboree - Final Reunion Show (1981)

This rare reunion show features the legendary fiddler known as Charlie "Bigfoot" Keaton along with fiddler Jerry Deer with Dean Porter on guitar along with other great musicians and dancers from the tri-state area of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia.
Charles W. “Big Foot” Keaton (1921-1983)
was widely known through much of America for his country-western and jazz fiddle playing. He recalled making his radio debut on the “Sandy Valley Grocery Program” at a very young age in 1932. He was born in 1921 in Ashland, Kentucky and retired as a blast furnace keeper at Armco. He was featured on the “Saturday Night Jamboree” which broadcasted live from 1953-1965 on WSAZ sponsored by Ashland Oil Company. Unfortunately, very few videos have survived from that era, but they had a final reunion broadcast in 1981.
Charlie Keaton was a nephew of Volna Fraley and together they performed at Jean Thomas’s American Folk Song Festival that was archived in the Smithsonian playing the old-time fiddle tune “Wild Horse” in 1934. He was then called “Little Charlie Keaton” but grew up to be known as “Big Foot Keaton”!
Among musicians he appeared with on their way up were Tennessee Ernie Ford, Grandpa Jones and Connie Smith. He was a member of Argillite Church of the Nazarene and his last group was called The Heaven Bound Trio.
...Here is “Foot” playing a jazz violin piece titled “Deep Purple”.
"Deep Purple" was the biggest hit written by pianist Peter DeRose "Deep Purple" was published in 1933 as a piano composition. "Deep Purple" became so popular in sheet music sales that Mitchell Parish added lyrics in 1938.

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My father was Bob Baker. Guitar player sitting with blue shirt. So good to see this.