Buck Trent, Jackie Waddell, Pat Woodell, and Jonathan Winters. LOS ANGELES - NOVEMBER 26: HEE HAW cast members:L-R (back) Stringbean, Archie Campbell, Gunilla ... [+] Hutton; (next) the Hagers ...

Getting Buck to agree to co-host “Hee Haw” was a big deal. He was, as Buddy put it, the Garth Brooks of the mid- to late 1960s and early 1970s. Buddy became a recurring guest artist on the show.