RIP Jim Hager

When will "Buck and the Buckaroos" get into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame? (Buck's red, white and blue guitar was pretty cool, too.)

 

Roy Clark!

As a kid in the South at the time, I remember "Hee-Haw" was the first time I'd ever consciously thought of "marketing." ... Somebody came up with a cornpone/middle america version of "Laugh-In." What a great idea.

 

Hee Haw was created by a Jewish man.

In the state of Tennessee alone, there are about 25 Jewish people, period.

I always liked Cathy Baker, the young blonde. I bet she still looks hittable.

Like most of you, for many years it was Hee-Haw v. Lawrence Welk Saturday nights at 7 pm. My interminable childhood suffering came to an end when Solid Gold came on channel 26.

 

And the Moderator1 verdict on westcoastvol's "bet" was ....?

 

In Nashville right now, there's gloom, despair and agony oh me... deep, dark depression and excessive misery. RIP, Jim.

 

i didn't know what it meant so i looked it up. that's fantastic. hat tip.

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/prestapes/lbj_haggar.html

 

Reading those sentences gave me a hollow pit in my stomach, similar to that feeling you get the late Sunday night before your first day of school back from Christmas break.

 

Agreed. Buck and the boys rocked harder than most through the '60s. His red, white and blue guitar was tres cool, but so were the twin Telecasters he and Don Rich played.

Buck once took out a full-page ad in a music trade journal, can't remember if it was Billboard or Music City News or whatever, pledging that he would never sing a song that was not "country" music - and then immediately followed up by releasing his cover of "Memphis." Great stuff.

And there were all kinds of hotties on that show....Misty Rowe from the early days of "Happy Days." Then there was Lulu Belle.... *shudder*