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Burt Reynolds is mentioned in the theme song of the pilot version of the 1980's tv hit "The Fall Guy". After his nomination for Boogie Nights he was quoted as saying "My being nominated this year is no comeback story because I simply refused to go away."  The man who was the inspiration for Melvin P. Thorpe, Marvin Zindler, until his death on 29 July 2007 still worked for ABC Channel 13 in Houston, and was still known for doing his scandalous exposes. -Thanks to Jon AcelloDolly Parton is the owner/namesake of Smokey Mountain area theme park "Dollywood", located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA. The director, Colin Higgins, also directed Dolly in her film debut, '9 to 5'. Sadly, he died of AIDS in 1988. -Thanks to Frank R.Dolly Parton was once quoted as saying "I describe my look as a blend of Mother Goose, Cinderella, and the local hooker!" Other people that were up for Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton's roles in the film included Willie Nelson for the role of Ed Earl Dodd and Barbara Mandrell or Crystal Gale for the role of Miss Mona Stangley. Adult film star Kay Parker was one of the girls at the Chicken Ranch. -Thanks to Mark EvansBefore Jim Nabors acted, he edited news footage for a local television station. Today he lives in Hawaii on property that has a working macadamia nut farm. When Dolly had her variety series, both Burt Reynolds and Charles Durning showed up as guest stars. Charles Durning was nominated for an Oscar in The Best Supporting role catagory and Dolly was nominated for a Golden Globe in The Best Actress Catagory. A 60 minute television special to promote the film, entitled "The Best Little Special in Texas" was released in syndication in July of 1982. In television prints of the film, during "Twenty Fans," several of the scenes where you could make out a female backside on the video were replaced with clips of couples dancing in their underwear. The "Aggie Song" runs pretty much the same on television as on video, except the shower scene, and the two shots leading up to it. The first shot, "It's even better than an Aggie football game," is different on TV where some men pull down their pants in the locker room, revealing their jock-straps. Instead of cutting the line from the already badly-cut song, they just use a longer cut of the next shot of the guys on the other side of the locker room, "Better than a football game?" In the next shot in the shower-room, although it appears to be the same shot, the camera is zoomed in above the men's butts, which are shown on the video version. In her 1987 ABC variety show, "Dolly," Dolly invited two of her "Wh*rehouse" co-stars to join her. In a segment called "Dolly's Date," she had a pretend-date with Burt Reynolds, where the two briefly talked about this film (and the hernia that Reynolds sustained). On a later episode, which took place on Dolly's birthday, Charles Durning showed up and sang "The Sidestep." With a title that was scandalous for the time it was released, the stars were reduced to referring to the film as "The Best Little Bleephouse in Texas" or "The Best Little Chickenhouse in Texas." To this day, Parton often uses these names when referencing the film. « Click here to add some Best Little Wh*rehouse In Texas trivia Rediscover your favorites! If you like The Best Little Wh*rehouse In Texas or 80's Dance / Musical classics, then be sure to check out this list: ..... Dirty Dancing ..... Pink Floyd: The Wall ..... Breakin' ..... Footloose ..... Xanadu ..... Stop Making Sense ..... Times Square ..... Fame ..... Pennies From Heaven ..... Earth Girls Are Easy ..... Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo ..... Purple Rain ..... Girls Just Want to Have Fun ..... Best Little Wh*rehouse In Texas ..... Back To The Beach ..... One From The Heart .....[More] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The exterior of the Chicken Ranch was erected on the Universal lot where the original Bates house (from the 1960 Alfred Hitchock film Psycho) once stood. The Bates house was relocated when production began on Psycho II, leaving the vacant lot a prime location for the Chicken Ranch. The scenes at the chicken ranch were filmed at the Pfluger farm in Pflugerville, Texas. It's located on Pfennig Lane. [Thanks to Lynn] The courthouse scene was filmed in Belleville, TX. [Thanks to Dani Krejci] The real Chicken Ranch was officially closed down on August 1, 1973. The house was located in LaGrange, Texas. In 1977, two Houston lawyers bought the house and relocated part of it to Dallas, where it became a chicken-themed restuarant, still called The Chicken Ranch. They retained the original furnishings and even recruited Miss Edna to serve as the hostess! The restuaraunt closed down in January of 1978, and the house/furnishings were auctioned off that June. [Thanks to Jon Acello] My family moved to Texas from Germany in the great German Texas immigration and settled on land in Cele, Texas, part of the Richland community in the Texas Hill Country. This area is east of Austin betweeen Manor and Pflugerville is known by most old time locals, but not many others. For the sake of our purposes, we'll just call the area Pflugerville. As a child, my great Aunt took me and some of my family by the old house in the early 80's, and I've driven by it numerous times since. It's a quaint, beautiful old house about a half mile off the road about a mile from my family's church, the Richland Church known as St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church. My aunt told us about the filming, much of which I've long forgotten. However, I do remember her mentioning that after filming was finished, both Dolly Parton and Burton Reynold's apparently tried to buy the house and surrounding land from the current owners. The owners would not sell. Where in the World is the Best Little House: The house is located on Cameron Road and owned by the W. M. Murchison family. (I have no idea if this is the original family who owned the house during the filming, but my guess is that they are.) It is still painted white and the architechure remains, from what can be seen from the road, exact and intact since it's filming days. There is no real address, since these are old country families, homes, and roads. The white pages lists the Murchison's address as simply Cameron Road, Pflugerville, Texas. Here are Directions: From Pflugerville: Take I-35 North to Pflugerville, take the Pflugerville/FM-1825 exit. FM-1825 (FM = Farm to Market Road) turns into Pecan Street. Take Pecan straight into Pflugerville, through "downtown", and past FM-685. Continue straight through the country side until you come to a curved fork in the road. Take the left fork. Continue straight down Cameron. Right before the big S curve, the Best Little House is on your right. It's on a slight hill about a 1/2 mile off the road. There is a big sign announcing the Murchison farm. From Manor: From 290 East in Manor, take a left onto Gregg Manor Road at the ONLY light in Manor, Texas. Turn right onto Fuchs Grove Road (pronouced Fox). Continue down Fuchs Grove until you reach a stop sign. At the Y turn, take a Left. You are on Cameron, although there won't be many signs telling you this. Continue straight down Cameron. Right after the big S curve, the Best Little House is on your left. It's on a slight hill about a 1/2 mile off the road. There is a big sign announcing the Murchison farm. There are not a lot of signs on the old country roads, so a good map is advised. Cameron makes a funny Z across this part of the hill country, so a map would help you make sure you are on the correct part of Cameron. Additional Scenes: Cameron Road/Fuchs Grove Intersection to Cameron Rd/Cele Rd Intersection: (Pronounced Fox Grove) This stretch of Cameron will take you past the St John's Church to Cele and the Steger Lane area. Filming took place on this part of Cameron by Cele and Steger Lane (Steger is my maiden name by the way), and in front of the St. John's church. Most noteably, the scenes where Burt Reynolds is traveling fast in his car to/from the Chicken House in the beginning of the movie were shot on this stretch of road. Although much of the country side has changed over the years, the road and fields are pretty much the same and are recognizable from the movie. [Thanks to Marissa Steger-Eddings] Can you help? Do you know any of the Texas filming locations used for The Best Little Wh*rehouse In Texas? [Please send them in] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fabulous, fabulous sountrack. As far as musicals go, this soundtrack is in the same league as "Grease" and "Little Shop Of Horrors". I'm not a big country music fan per say, but this music isn't exactly country. It's more like broadway-goes-country. The whoel country-western thing was big in the early 80's,even in California. Who could foregt the hit show "Dallas"? "I Will Always Love You" is a classic song and the whole c.d is awesome. The soundtrack for the film has been released on CD, Cassette, and LP. With a melodic score that compliments the musical numbers, it's a shame that the orchestral score was omitted from the soundtrack album. Retaining 7 of the songs from the stage version, which were written by Carol Hall, each was given a splashy film treatment with full orchestrations and chorus arrangements. Also featured were three original songs written by Dolly Parton (though the third, "Where Stallions Run," was omitted from the soundtrack album and most prints of the film). Dolly Parton actually wrote and filmed a fourth song for the film. The song was entitled "A Gamble Either Way". It was eventually cut from the film, but made its debut on Dolly's "Burlap and Satin" album. [Thanks to Bill Pavao] There are several inconsistancies with vocals and verses between the film and the soundtrack album -- verses from "The Aggie Song" and "A Lil' Ole Bitty Pissant Country Place" appear on the soundtrack though they were deleted from the film. During the song "Hard Candy Christmas," Dolly takes over all the vocal parts on the soundtrack album that the prostitutes sang in the film. I would highly recommend the soundtrack to anyone who likes the film or Parton. The tracks are: 1. 20 Fans --Jim Nabors 2. A Lil Ole Bitty Pissant Country Place --Dolly Parton 3. Sneakin'Around --Dolly Parton & Burt Reynolds 4. Watchdog Report/Texas Has A Whorehouse In It --Dom Deluise 5. Courtyard Shag 6. The Aggie Song 7. The Side Step --Charles Durning 8. Hard Candy Christmas --Dolly Parton 9. I Will Always Love You --Dolly Parton The ZZ Top song, "La Grange", was written about the Chicken Ranch and it's exploits and is the name of the small central Texas town outside of which the ranch sat. -Thanks to Brec SitesBurt Reynolds' ballad "Where Stallions Run" was omitted from many prints of the film. The song has only surfaced in television prints of the movie, and was left off of the soundtrack completely. Written by Dolly Parton, the song has had two other incarnations which she performed. The first, "God Won't Get You" (which appears briefly in the film "Rhinestone") has different words, but the same music. Parton's other version of the song, "A Cowboy's Ways," features nearly identical lyrics and appeared on her album "Burlap and Satin." Dolly Parton's song "I Will Always Love You" became a hit for the second time. The song, which she wrote for her singing partner Porter Wagoner, appeared on her 1974 album "Jolene." This was the first time an artist had ever made a hit of the same song twice. The song gained even greater notoriety when Whitney Houston recorded it for the soundtrack of "The Bodyguard." Both "A Lil' Ole Bitty Pissant Country Place" and "The Aggie Song" have extra verses which appear on the soundtrack which were ultimately omitted from the film. There has been debate over whether or not these scenes ever appeared in any theatrical or television prints of the movie. In the opening song, "Twenty Fans," the last line was changed after the original release. In the theatrical version (as on the soundtrack), the last lines that you hear are "I'm comin', I'm comin'! I want to thank you -- I want to thank you, Jesus." In later prints of the film, it was changed to a chorus repeating "Hallelujah" several times. « Click here to add new music trivia for Best Little Wh*rehouse In Texas Soundtrack Available: On CD | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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