The two men were also part of the cast of a new country music sketch comedy television series, Hee Haw, beginning in 1969. Akeman and his wife lived modestly in a small cabin, but he was known to ...

After that, I remember watching 'Hee Haw' and seeing String on it, and I didn't understand how he could be on the television and be dead." The past 40 years have brought expansion and enrichment ...

"Stringbean, like Grandpa Jones, since the Hee Haw shows, is playing a lot of colleges," host Tex Ritter said by way of introduction, noting the musician's high-profile tenure on the long-running ...

Among casualties were “The Beverly Hillbillies,” “Green Acres,” “Mayberry RFD” and, of course, “Hee Haw ... “chase it” with pork and beans. “Fortunately the pork and ...

A notably tall, skinny young man, Akeman got his stage moniker in 1935, when fellow musician Asa Martin called him “String Bean” or “String Beans” during a radio performance on WLAP-AM in ...

Opry and "Hee Haw" member David "Stringbean" Akeman and his wife, Estelle, were murdered on Nov. 10, 1973, as they returned home from the Opry.

and senior advocate who started the yearly string of productions five years ago — local seniors already are rehearsing for a pair of local autumn performances that will highlight Hee Haw (of ...