[2] He studied for a brief time at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and became a musician on Midwestern Hayride on WLWT, eventually taking over as the show's host until it went off the air in the early 1970s.
Standing 6'-6" tall and weighing nearly 300 lb (140 kg) for most of his professional career, he was nicknamed "The Round Mound of Sound", and wrote a song by the same name in 1968.
In later years, Price became significantly thinner and lampooned himself in the song "The Boone County Weight Watchers of America".
[1] He served as the bass vocalist for the Hee Haw Gospel Quartet, which included Grandpa Jones, Buck Owens, and Roy Clark.
[3] His wife, Donna Price, wrote a few memorable tunes for him, including the hit "Let's Truck Together", which was used in a late 70s Hee Haw skit.