Quotes

[on country singer Wilf Carter] Wilf's recordings always opened up with him saying, 'Throw another log on the fire, boys, and I'll tell you about my grey-haired mother.' So I'd imitate Wilf's voice and talk about throwing his grey-haired mother on the fire.

[on country singer Hank Snow] He was about five feet tall, wore a ten-gallon hat, and had a tiny little face. He drove up in a huge limousine and asked me, 'Rawhide, is there a song you'd like me to sing?' I said, 'Hank, would you happen to know 'The Strain' from the opera 'Hernia?' 'I don't believe I know that one', Hank replied, and he sang one of his wretched cowboy songs.