Both Gene Autry and future Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis (said to have been author of "You Are My Sunshine") began their careers as Jimmie Rodgers copyists, and Merle Haggard, Hank Snow, and Lefty Frizzell later did tribute albums. Haggard's, titled "Same Train, A Different Time: Merle Haggard Sings The Great Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers", was released in 1969. Haggard also covered "No Hard Times" and "T.B. Blues" on his best-selling live albums "Okie from Muskogee" (1969) and "Fightin' Side of Me" (1970). Ernest Tubb considered Rodgers an idol and began each episode of his radio show "Midnite Jamboree" with a Rodgers recording, a tradition that the "Jamboree" has continued after Tubb's death.