Louisiana Hayride
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Nov 5, 2026
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He was known for his baritone voice and also his energetic performance style.
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And he initially found success as a regular performer on the influential radio and television program, the Louisiana Hayride.
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After a slow start in his early career, Horton signed with Columbia Records, where he began blending traditional country music sounds with rockabilly and helped pioneer a style that resonated with both rural and urban music audiences.
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He is best remembered for his string of highly successful historical saga songs, as they were called.
Steve MarstonGUEST
Right.
Steve MarstonGUEST
This was the home of the Louisiana Hayride.
Steve MarstonGUEST
which was a big deal back in the day.
Steve MarstonGUEST
It was basically a contemporary.
Rick MaupinHOST
play at the Hayride?
Steve MarstonGUEST
Who's that? Elvis? Elvis did.
Steve MarstonGUEST
My mom saw Elvis at the Louisiana Hayride.
Rick MaupinHOST
I knew that.
Roger BartlettGUEST
Like Johnny Otis and Muddy Waters and some Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington.
Roger BartlettGUEST
And then on the weekends, he was one of the announcers for the Louisiana Hayride.
James Patrick ReganHOST
Okay.
Roger BartlettGUEST
Wow.
Jay SteinerGUEST
And we keep talking about south Louisiana, which of course is my area, but further up in the north of the state, you have so many musicians who came from there and so much of a rich music history up there.
Jay SteinerGUEST
In Shreveport, for example, the Hayride, the Louisiana Hayride, was a radio show that introduced Americans to everyone from Roy Orbison, uh, to Elvis Presley, to Jerry Lee Lewis, who's from Louisiana, as well as many, many, many other artists, including Buddy Holly, one of my favorites.
Aaron MillarHOST
And Jackie, staying on road trips as well, I mean, obviously all of this can be built into, uh, really an amazing trip.
Aaron MillarHOST
I'm gonna try and do that in a little bit, just tie it together.
Stephen ParrHOST
don't do that
Louis R. AvalloneHOST
Hank Williams performed on the Louisiana Hayride.
Louis R. AvalloneHOST
Well, the
Stephen ParrHOST
Louisiana Hayride was hugely influential.
Stephen ParrHOST
Elvis Presley really kind of got his career rolling by playing at the Hayride over and over.
Louis R. AvalloneHOST
And look, the Louisiana Hayride wasn't just another radio program.
Louis R. AvalloneHOST
It was broadcast live.
Louis R. AvalloneHOST
from Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
He calls it the first confirmed live broadcast of a major rock show and says it may have been the very first, depending on a benefit concert at Winterland the spring before, which may or may not have gone out live, and on whatever small experiments college stations had tried in obscurity.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
And the band's own podcast, The Dead Cast, points out that live rock had been on the radio long before, all the way back to Elvis on the Louisiana Hayride.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
So was it the first, or only the first that anybody kept? A beginning, or one of several quiet beginnings that just happened to survive on tape? When Lesh told a friend that they had lit a candle for Neil, the friend asked whether they had lit it at both ends.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
"No," Lesh said, "in the middle.
Justin GausmanHOST
Sorry.Uh, next question.
Justin GausmanHOST
What radio station broadcast the Louisiana Hayride Radio Show?
Bec WylesHOST
Oh, KWK8 [ding sound] or something like that.
Justin GausmanHOST
I didn't ...
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Justin GausmanHOST
[laughs]
Bec WylesHOST
[laughs]
Justin GausmanHOST
Um, but in 1957 it was performed by, uh, a gal on the Louisiana Hayride.
Justin GausmanHOST
Um, this has been released on a Bear Family Records box set of the Louisiana Hayride.