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     we tuned in to see Gordie Tapp host 
     
     Country Hoea’own. This was the 
     
     program that featured the Hames 
     
     Sisters, Tommy Hunter, Tommy 
     
     Common, and King Ganham, and it 
     
     was the means by which Gordon 
     
     Lightfoot became known. Dan 
     
     Messer’s Jubilee and Singalong 
     
     Jubilee were programs we never 
     
     wanted to miss. 
     
    

    
     Saturday nights brought 
     
     wrestling stars such as Whipper Billy 
     
     Watson into action. When the hockey 
     
     season began each fall, Murray 
     
     Westgate introduced, through his 
     
     Imperial Esso commercials, Hockey 
     
     Night In Canada. Following the 
     
     hockey game Viewers across the 
     
     country enjoyed the musical 
     
     performances of “everybody’s pet,”