He charted with covers of the Creedence Clearwater Revival songs “Lodi” and “Lookin’ Out My Back Door.” Getting Buck to agree to co-host “Hee Haw” was a big deal. He was, as Buddy ...

If you are of a certain age or simply fancy TV variety-themed series, you will remember Hee Haw, initially hosted by country artists Roy Clark and Buck Owens. It premiered on CBS on this day in 1969.

On "Hee Haw," Stoneman played "the Ironing Board Lady," Ida Lee Nagger, who would appear during one of the series' signature blackout bits, the song "Pfft You Were Gone!" Stoneman published an "as ...