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There were a few things at Farm Aid III I’ll wager you won’t see at many concerts. That includes 70,000 people doing a perfectly executed wave, little white-haired farm wives dancing to the strains of Lou Reed, an eight-minute set by the Grateful Dead, and 20-foot TV images of Dick Clark and Sarah Purcell, our Farm Aid host and hostess.
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I HAVE HEARD THE CATTLE CALL
FARM AID III
LINCOLN, NE
September 19, 1987
by Casey McCabe
There were a few things at Farm Aid III I’ll wager you won’t see at many concerts. That includes 70,000 people doing a perfectly executed wave, little white-haired farm wives dancing to the strains of Lou Reed, an eight-minute set by the Grateful Dead, and 20-foot TV images of Dick Clark and Sarah Purcell, our Farm Aid host and hostess.
The concert was being televised by Dick Clark Productions, which explained the presence of such curious figures as Dennis Hopper, Bruce Jenner, LeVar Burton and Catherine Bach as emcees, who along with Clark and Purcell probably never did a stitch of honest farm labor between them, much less tip over a cow.