An unusually wonderful night of MUSIC on TV. Monday, March 11 2019.

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Our most recent concerts & live events listings are still being updated in our earlier edition, easily available at:

https://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2019/02/events-update-concerts-festivals-film.html

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THIS EDITION is about an unusually wonderful night of music performances and classic movie musicals on TV.

If all you have is an antennae, keep reading -- plenty of this is on one or another of the PBS channels.

Most -- but not all -- of the movie musicals air on TCM -- Turner Classic Movies.

Wherever they're airing, channels (and even repeat times) are shown for each listing.
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All listings are TONIGHT, Monday, March 11, continuing after midnight into March 12th; all times are PACIFIC DAYLIGHT (PDT).

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3 pm-5 pm - "WILLIE NELSON LIVE" is a 2004 performance recorded live in Texas with Willie and his band. On AXS-TV.
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5 pm-7 pm - "YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER" (1942) *** Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth. In Argentina, an American entertainer, whose fondness for playing the ponies has left him broke, is the object of a hotel magnate who devises a scheme to marry him off to his eldest daughter. (Musical, 97 mins.) On TCM.
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6 pm-8:15 pm - "I SAW THE LIGHT" (2015) ** David Krumholtz, Elizabeth Olsen, Wrenn Schmidt, Tom Hiddleston, Josh Pais, Bradley Whitford, Cherry Jones, Maddie Hasson. Though released in 2015, Director Marc Abraham started working on this, his pet project, in 2009. This deeply personal biopic of country music legend HANK WILLIAMS chronicles his tumultuous life, from his marriage to aspiring singer Audrey Mae Sheppard to his residency at the Grand Ole Opry, as he struggles with alcoholism and addiction. (Drama, 123 mins.) On AXS-TV. Repeats 8:15-10:30 pm.
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7 pm-9 pm - "THE BAND WAGON" (1953) **** Fred Astaire & Cyd Charise.  A famous dancer whose career is on the decline stages a comeback with a musical adaptation of Faust, but fears the flamboyant director and his classical ballerina co-star will upstage him. (Musical, 112 mins.) On TCM.

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7 pm-8:30 pm - "JOHN DENVER: COUNTRY BOY" (2013) is a song-filled music bio of the late singer-songwriter (1943-97) who sold more records than anybody in the 1970s (more than 100 million copies). This doc is quite well done, but it's only being aired because it's PBS pledge drive, the only time they air their good music shows. So it will be interrupted by begging. On KOCE, aka PBS SoCal 1.
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8:15 pm-10:30 pm - "I SAW THE LIGHT" (2015) ** (see 6 pm listing). On AXS-TV.
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8:30 pm-10 pm - "LEONARD COHEN - TOWER OF SONG" (2018) celebrates the life and music of the late great (1934-2016), filmed at the Bell Center in Montreal on the first anniversary of his death. It's only being aired because it's PBS pledge drive, the only time they air their good music shows. So it will be interrupted by begging. On KOCE, aka PBS SoCal 1.

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9 pm-11 pm - "BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940" (1940) *** Fred Astaire & Eleanor Powell. Backstage romance in which song-and-dance partners (Astaire & George Murphy) both fall for the same beautiful, talented dancer. (Musical, 102 mins.) On TCM.
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9 pm-11:04 pm - "JOHN & YOKO: ABOVE US ONLY SKY" (2018) is a documentary telling "the untold story" of Lennon's "Imagine" album in 1971. He had another album that was climbing the charts when he was killed. On A&E. Repeats 1:03 am-3:05 am.

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10 pm-midnight - "JONI 75: A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION" (2019) is the s46/ep 17 edition of "GREAT PERFORMANCES," as the career and music of JONI MITCHELL is performed by JAMES TAYLOR, GRAHAM NASH, CHAKA KHAN, NORAH JONES, EMMYLOU HARRIS, SEAL, and RUFUS WAINWRIGHT. It's only being aired because it's PBS pledge drive, the only time they air their good music shows. On KOCE, aka PBS SoCal 1.

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10:30 pm-midnight - "THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN WAY" (2018) is a performance tribute and induction to the Colorado Music Hall of Fame for DAN FOGELBERG, JOE WALSH & BARNSTORM, and JAMES WILLIAM GUERCIO. On AXS-TV.
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10:30 pm-11 pm - "DAVID HOLT'S STATE OF MUSIC" airs its s 3/ep 2 from 2018, with JERRON "BLIND BOY" PAXTON from the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham, NC. On KLCS.
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11 pm-1 am - "3 LITTLE WORDS" (1950) *** Fred Astaire & Red Skelton. The story of songsmiths BERT KALMAR and HARRY RUBY and their stratospheric rise to fame. (Biography, 102 mins.) On TCM.
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11 pm-midnight - "THE KATE" airs its s 2/ep 3 from 2017, with KIEFER SUTHERLAND and his band. On KLCS.
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1 am-3 am - "EASTER PARADE" (1948) **** Fred Astaire & Judy Garland. An OSCAR-winning score that features 17 Irving Berlin songs drives this romp about a hoofer who tries to mold a singer into a Broadway star. (Musical, 107 mins.) On TCM.
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1:03 am-3:05 am - "JOHN & YOKO: ABOVE US ONLY SKY" (2018) is a documentary telling "the untold story" of Lennon's "Imagine" album in 1971. He had another album that was climbing the charts when he was killed. On A&E. Repeats now from earlier 9 pm broadcast.
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3 am-4 am - "HEE HAW" from 1980, features T.G. Sheppard, Gene Watson, Jed Allan, the Stoneman Family, Buck Owens and Roy Clark. On RFD-TV.
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Tuesday morning, 7 am-9:30 am, "EASY RIDER" (1969) **** airs on "Movies," that L.A.-based semi-premium cable channel that's free with an antennae.
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That's all for this edition.
Stay tuneful!
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