As part of the promotion for the 1976 movie Bound for Glory), in which he played the role of renowned folk songwriter Woody Guthrie, David Carradine appeared around March of 1977 at the Dinah Shore’s show Dinah! performing his very personal version of Guthrie’s song This Land Is Your Land. He adds some things, changes others, plays a lot of harmonica while singing, and uses the first verse of the song as a refrain, which is not the way Guthrie wrote it, as it can be seen on his official website.

In this 2002 interview, he recalled the occasion this way:
“I remember they had a piece in People magazine [March 21, 1977] when I did Bound For Glory—”After 500 acid trips, David Carradine finally has his shit together!” Something like that. And it showed a picture of me with an eight-day growth of beard from the movie, and I thought that was kind of a dirty trick, because you got the impression that’s what I looked like all the time.”

“About a week later, I went on Dinah Shore’s talk show to sing “This Land Is Your Land.” And she asked me if I had really taken 500 acid trips. And I said, “I don’t know where they get that stuff. I must have been high when I said it.””

For some unknown reason, this 7:48 min. video starts with the end of the song, and then presents it from its beginning at min. 3:30, what footage numbers confirm. In this long compilation video of guests singing in the show, the song starts at min.11:10, and is followed by the public’s applause.