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March 26, 2006
Buck Owens: 1929 - 2006
We lost yet another icon yesterday. Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens has died at his home in California. He was 76.
Buck Owens was a country swing star long before country swing was cool, and long before I'd ever heard of him. I first noticed this man when he teamed with another country singer named Roy Clark to host a comedy program called "Hee Haw" - one of the most popular shows of all time - which ran in first-run prodcution for nearly 20 years, and is still in syndication today. It was a show that didn't have an agenda, other than to make America laugh.
No preaching, no political correctness, none of that - the cast & crew of Hee Haw wanted to make you laugh, and that was it. And, they never failed to do precisely that.
Godspeed, Buck, and prayers for your surviving family. You will be very much missed.
Posted by Lord Spatula I, King & Tyrant at March 26, 2006 07:10 AM
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Buck was one of a kind. I liked him even before "Hee Haw", but I grew up on country (in the Nashville area then, you didn't have much choice). Our loss is a gain to the house band in heaven.
Posted by: Tennessee Budd at March 27, 2006 11:24 AM
SAAAAAAA-LUTE!
Posted by: Alan K. Henderson at March 28, 2006 03:53 AM