On April 3, 1948, Wills and the Texas Playboys appeared for the inaugural broadcast of the Louisiana Hayride on KWKH, broadcasting from the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana.

* On October 4, 1955, early in his career, Elvis Presley performed at the Boys Club Gymnasium at 1530 1st Street Northeast in Paris as a member of the Louisiana Hayride Jamboree tour.

* George A. Caldwell ( 1892 – 1966 ), building contractor convicted in the " Louisiana Hayride scandals " of 1939-1940 ; born in Abbeville

Presley had first performed " Heartbreak Hotel " during a live show in December 1955 during a tour of the Louisiana Hayride, but the song gained strong popularity after his appearance on Stage Show in March 1956.

He introduced Irving Berlin's " Easter Parade " and George and Ira Gershwin's " I've Got a Crush on You " in Treasure Girl ( 1928 ); Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz's " I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan " in The Little Show ( 1929 ) and " Louisiana Hayride " in Flying Colors ( 1932 ); and Irving Berlin's " Not for All the Rice in China " in As Thousands Cheer ( 1933 ).

* August 27 – The Louisiana Hayride put on its final radio show.

* October 16-Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on a radio program in Shreveport, Louisiana called the Louisiana Hayride.

In 1948 he released " Move it on Over ," which became a hit, and also joined the Louisiana Hayride radio program.

In 1948 he moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, and he joined Louisiana Hayride, a radio show broadcast that propelled him into living rooms all over the southeast appearing on weekend shows.

Williams eventually started to host a show on KWKH and started touring across western Louisiana and eastern Texas, always returning on Saturdays for the weekly broadcast of the Hayride.

He returned to perform in KWKH and WBAM shows and in the Louisiana Hayride, for which he toured again.

* " Louisiana Hayride " w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz

* James Monroe Smith ( 1888-1949 ), later president of Louisiana State University during the " Louisiana Hayride " scandals of 1939, taught at NSU in the summer of 1917.

However, northern Louisiana's lasting contribution to the world of popular music was the radio program " The Louisiana Hayride ", which started broadcasting in 1948 on KWKH in Shreveport.

* Louisiana Hayride ( 1944 )

Driftwood left Arkansas for Nashville and became popular by his appearances on the Grand Ole Opry and programs including Ozark Jubilee and Louisiana Hayride.

Floyd Long was the father of future U. S. Representative Gillis William Long and U. S. Army Colonel Floyd H. Long, Jr. Long's brief first tenure corresponded with the " Louisiana Hayride " scandals that engulfed the president of Louisiana State University, James Monroe Smith.

He eventually obtained a job as an announcer for KWKH-AM in Shreveport, Louisiana, home of the popular radio program Louisiana Hayride.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

In 1721 the King sent three commissioners to Louisiana with full powers to do all that was necessary to protect the colony.

They adopted a program by which Louisiana was divided into five districts.

For southeastern Louisiana, Mobile was the principal post, and it was to furnish supplies for trade to the north and east, in the region threatened by British traders.

Thenceforth, the commerce of Louisiana was free to all Frenchmen.

In his first and last speech in the Senate, Johnson spoke eloquently in opposition to Grant's military intervention between rival governments in Louisiana, when the gubernatorial election was disputed and Democratic supporters ousted the winning Republican side with armed force in New Orleans.

One of the earliest was Paul Prudhomme, who in 1984 began the introduction of his influential cookbook, Paul Prodhomme's Louisiana Kitchen, by describing the over 200 year history of Creole and Cajun cooking ; he aims to " preserve and expand the Louisiana tradition.

The first student chapter was founded in 1961 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

" In this way, the common law was eventually incorporated into the legal systems of every state except Louisiana ( which inherited a civil law system from its French colonizers before the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, adopting a code similar to but not directly based on the Napoleonic Code of 1804 ).

Contrary to popular belief, the Louisiana code does not directly derive from the Napoleonic Code, as the latter was enacted in 1804, one year after the Louisiana Purchase.

The record for the largest continuously placed underwater concrete pour was completed 18 October 2010, in New Orleans, Louisiana by contractor C. J. Mahan Construction Company, LLC of Grove City, Ohio.

What was to become the modern American version of the game was brought to New Orleans by Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville, scion of wealthy Louisiana landowners, a gambler, and politician.

After successfully participating in the Louisiana Maneuvers, he was promoted to brigadier general on October 3, 1941.

He was educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where his classmates included five future Democratic senators ( Solomon Downs of Louisiana, Jesse Bright of Indiana, George W. Jones of Iowa, Edward Hannegan of Indiana, and Jefferson Davis of Mississippi ).

At thirteen, she was recording ( the single " Puppy Love ") on a small Louisiana label, Goldband Records, and appeared at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.

The film was a huge success in American theaters, earning $ 383, 744 in its first three days in Texas and Louisiana alone.

Parsons ' body disappeared from the Los Angeles International Airport where it was being readied to be shipped to Louisiana for burial.

Two accounts claim that Bob Parsons stood to inherit Gram's share of his grandfather's estate if he could prove that Gram was a resident of Louisiana, explaining his eagerness to have him buried there.

Parsons body was eventually buried in Garden of Memories of Metairie, Louisiana.

In 1906, the Caddo-Pine Island Field in northern Caddo Parish, Louisiana was discovered, and a rush of leasing and drilling activity ensued.

Their dialect was regarded as the typical language of white lower classes, while Louisiana Creole French developed as the language of the black community.

In 1924, Congress incorporated Inland Waterways Corporation, which is generally regarded as beginning of modern water carrier operations, and in 1925 Congress authorized construction of a " Louisiana and Texas Intracoastal Waterway ", as well as surveys east of New Orleans to Apalachicola Bay ; this was the first legislation to treat the ICW as a continuous whole.

His early life is somewhat mysterious, with dates of his birth given in various sources ranging from 1887 to 1897 ; if the later date is correct he was evidently a prodigy, regarded as one of the best in New Orleans, Louisiana, in his early teens.

The statue is regarded as being a symbol of peace and unity for all citizens and faiths of southwest Louisiana.

They are regarded as a band of the Atakapa Indians, closely related to the Atakapa of Lake Charles, Louisiana.

The left-handed virtuoso banjo player was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of well regarded string bass player Henry Kimball.