 Mainer performed in a series of live radio shows with The Mountaineers , sponsored by Crazy Water Crystals laxatives . In 1934 , J.W. Fincher , the head of the company , observed their popularity at the first gig , the Crazy Water Crystal Barn Dance , a radio program out of Charlotte . Under the name J. E. Mainer 's Crazy Mountaineers , they toured the American South on live radio shows and recorded fourteen songs for Bluebird Records . Maple on the Hill , which according to the National Endowment for the Arts was their biggest hit , had originally been composed in the 1890s by Gussie L. Davis . 
