[1][2] Long served in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1945 before returning to Corpus Christi, Texas, to work in a record store.
[2] While at RCA, Long would meet Colonel Tom Parker, who hired him to do publicity work for Eddy Arnold.
[2] By 1959, Long formed his first music publishing business, Moss Rose, and was also responsible for the construction of Nashville's SESAC Building.
)[4] Among the stars under his agency included Skeeter Davis, Ray Price, Chet Atkins, Little Jimmy Dickens, Ferlin Husky, Don Gibson, Bill Anderson, Jan Howard, Mel Tillis, and Brenda Lee.
[6] In March 1972, Long was admitted to a hospital in Nashville for surgery to remove a brain tumor (Source listed it incorrectly as 1982.).
[7] Funeral services were held two days later in Nashville with honorary pallbearers including Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley, Jerry Bradley, Jo Walker-Meador (listed as Jo Walker), Frances Preston, Howard, Ken Nelson, Huskey, Tex Ritter, Arnold, Parker, Bud Wendell, Atkins, Jack Stapp, Young, and Jimmie Davis while actual pallbearers included were Anderson and Owen Bradley (All names mentioned except for Briley, Howard, and Parker are Country Music Hall of Fame inductees as of 2023.).