Tommy “Butterball” Paige replaced Jimmy Short as Ernest Tubb’s (and the Texas Troubadours) lead guitarist in 1947. I was unable to find additional information but did find a song on YouTube.

“We were always trying to figure out who could draw the most mail, me on my Old Camp Meetin’ and Butterball on his personal appearance show. So we had a contest. In that two or three week period I drew something in excess of twenty-five thousand cards and letters. Butterball lost. So on a given Saturday, which was preannounced, Butterball pushed me down Main Street in a wheelbarrow. There was an estimated thirty thousand people in town to see that and they came from I think about seven states.” — Ray Van Hooser

This promotion was revived several years later that invited listeners to vote for “pop” music (John Mays) vs. “country” music (Jimmy Haggett) by postcard. The loser had to push the winner in a wheelbarrow the length of the annual Fall Festival Parade. While wearing a skunk suit.