Louisiana Hayride Years : Making Musical History in Country's Golden Age

by Logan, Horace; Sloan, Bill; Williams, Hank , Jr.; Cash, Johnny

• ISBN13: 9780312206611
• ISBN10: 0312206615
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-04
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Summary

From 1948 to the late 1950s, Horace " Hoss" Logan produced the Louisiana Hayride , a weekly country music show broadcast on CBS Radio. The Hayride was known as the " Cradle of the Stars" for building many country music careers, and for introducing the young Elvis Presley to a national audience. Horace Logan's memoir " brings the old show back to life," as Hank Williams Jr. Says--from Johnny Cash and Presley to George Jones, Johnny Horton, Faron Young, Jim Reeves, Willie Nelson, and many more. As producer, emcee, and friend to the Hayride performers, Logan gives us a personal look into musical history in the making. Complete with sixteen pages of rare onstage and behind-the-scenes photographs, Louisiana Hayride Years brings to life the early days of modern country music and the people who gave the Hayride a permanent place in popular musical culture.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Hank Williams Jr
Introduction	xi
Johnny Cash
The Shy Kid from Memphis	1	(8)
Birth of an Entertainment Legend	9	(19)
Hank Williams I---A Ticket to Immortality	28	(26)
Hank Williams II---The Loneliest Man Alive	54	(28)
The Legacy and the Lawsuits	82	(15)
``Cradle of the Stars''	97	(26)
The Feud with the Opry	123	(12)
The Act Nobody Could Follow	135	(29)
Freeing the King to Claim His Throne	164	(25)
Johnny Horton: Fisherman's Lament	189	(18)
Cashing in with the ``Man in Black''	207	(17)
Ringing Down the Curtain	224	(10)
Hillbillies in Hollywood	234	(10)
Casualties, Survivors, and Outlaws	244	(13)
It Was One Helluva Ride!	257	(26)
Artists and Bands That Appeared on the Louisiana Hayride	283	(6)
Index	289