Wherever corn gets a sock hand - and that's about everywhere - the Hoosier Hot Shots are kings and do a lot of sheckelschucking. A whacky-playing foursome, the boys are really the hot shots of the folk music field.
The Shots - their real names are Ken and Hezzie Trietsch, Gabe Ward and Gil Taylor - are a standby every Saturday night. Dial-twisters for eleven years have been spinning their dial pointers to the National Barn Dance to get a load of them. The boys have also gone on the air several times for special servicemen segs, such as Command Performance, Overseas Mail Call, Armed Forces Radio and Jubilee.
In addition to the airwaves the Hot Shots have turned out some platters that sell like hotcakes. The Shots cut for Decca with a dozen V-Disks on the side for Army Special Services to be distributed to G.I.'s overseas.
In between p.-a.'s all over the country, they have managed to play in four full length films for Columbia Pictures during the past few months. and are inked for four more. They go before the cameras in July for the next one, Song Of The Prairie.