Franks launches YouTube channel
Randall Franks, actor, entertainer and author from Ringgold, launched a YouTube channel featuring his early folk music days as well as current footage. Randall Franks TV (youtube.com/user/randallfranks) highlights dozens of Franks’s music performances from folk, bluegrass, country and Southern gospel as well as interviews from numerous television stations and film and TV sets.
Franks, who is best known as “Officer Randy Goode” from the TV series “In the Heat of the Night,” starred in three TV series and 15 films. Musically, he is recognized as an International Bluegrass Music Museum Legend and Independent Country Music Hall of Fame inductee.
“It is amazing the legendary entertainers who have joined us on my stage show through the years and many are seen performing with me,” he said.
The newly launched channel is attracting an international audience.
“Folks from around the world stop by and check out our vintage interviews and performances which cannot be found anywhere else featuring some of America’s greatest music and TV legends and stars who have been part of my life and career,” he said. “I have also created impromptu interview and music features I have shot on the sets of my films.”
Franks channel features special appearances from numerous Bluegrass, Country, Gospel and even TV Hall of Fame members from Ralph Stanley to Kitty Wells, Carroll O’Connor to Little Jimmy Dickens.
Franks became a country music personality as a youth beginning appearances at country, folk, bluegrass and gospel events. He has recorded 24 albums in four genres, his latest being “Keep ‘Em Smilin.” He is a syndicated newspaper columnist featured across the Southern and Midwestern U.S. and an author with eight books including his “Encouragers III: A Guiding Hand” released last month.