Quick Hillbilly Jim Question

[Guest MillenniumMan831]

I've noticed on CV releases, Hillbilly Jim's entrances are always either overdubbed / clipped. This was before he came down to "Country Boy". What song did he come down to before that? Thanks.

[Guest Daredevil21]

I don't believe he even had an entrance theme before "Don't Go Messin' With a Country Boy." He got that some time in 1985, and before that time, the only guys who had themes were the BIG stars like Hogan, JYD, and Piper. I vaguely recall watching a match on CV's Country Boys where Jim comes down to the ring with no music at all.

[Guest Eagan469]

Well, he was originally Hogan's protege, so perhaps the song being overdubbed was "Eye Of The Tiger"?

[Guest Daredevil21]

Jim never came out to Eye of the Tiger, I'm sure of that. Fact is, Jim was only paired off with Hogan so he'd get over right away. Of course, it worked, and mere months after Jim's in-ring debut in the WWF, you rarely saw Hogan and Jim together in the ring or even out of the ring, with a few rare exceptions. They tried to the same formula when the Honky Tonk Man debuted in late 1986, but even claims that he was a close friend of Hogan's couldn't get him over, thus resulting in the infamous crowd survey, followed with his official heel turn shortly thereafter.

[Guest dreamer420]

thus resulting in the infamous crowd survey

can you elaborate on this?

[Guest Daredevil21]

Certainly. After several weeks of failing to get over as a face, the WWF ran an angle where the Honky Tonk Man came out and told the crowd that he was taking a survey, in which he'd ask them if they wanted him to stay or go away (or something similar to that). When he came back the next week and they had voted against him, it triggered his eventual heel turn, at which point, he acquired the services of Jimmy Hart as his manager, and became one of the most hated heels of the 80's (which wasn't too much of a change since he had been up to that point, one of the most hated faces of the 80's).

[Guest dreamer420]

Certainly. After several weeks of failing to get over as a face, the WWF ran an angle where the Honky Tonk Man came out and told the crowd that he was taking a survey, in which he'd ask them if they wanted him to stay or go away (or something similar to that). When he came back the next week and they had voted against him, it triggered his eventual heel turn, at which point, he acquired the services of Jimmy Hart as his manager, and became one of the most hated heels of the 80's (which wasn't too much of a change since he had been up to that point, one of the most hated faces of the 80's).

Was this stuff aired on TV or was it at a couple of MSG shows or something?