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CLEDUS MAGGARD & THE

CITIZEN’S BAND

“THE WHITE KNIGHT”

(Jay Huguely)

Mercury 73751

No. 19   March 13, 1976

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Now, Cledus can’t be that boy’s real name, you say?  You’re right as night ain’t day.  See, Cled is really Jay

Huguely (b. Quicksand, KY), a one-time Shakespeare­an actor turned ad man.  Yup, Cledus Maggard was

just an idea gone loco.  One day while working at an ad agency inGreenville, South Carolina, Jay got this

joltin’ notion to do a novelty number around the then-hot CB (citizen’s band radio) craze.  Jay got

somejingle men to give him a hand, and poof!  There it was, “The White Knight.”  Some copies were pressed

and circulated.  “I figured the agency would be giving these away as Christmas presents for the next 20

years,” Huguely told Jeannie Sakol in The Wonderful World of Country Music.  Mercury Records got wind

of the effort, and decided to distribute the disk worldwide.

For the remainder of the decade, Mercury kept shipping Cledus’s comedic, country corn pone.  “Ken­tucky

Moonrunner” (#85; C&W: #42, 1976), “Virgil and the $300 Vacation” (C&W: #73, 1976), and “The Farmer”

(C&W: #82, 1978) managed to tickle some funny bones.