- The twins served in the Army together.
- While living in California, they played guitar and drums, and sang backup with John Denver, Kenny Rogers and The Carpenters.
- Jim was at a Nashville coffee shop when he suddenly collapsed. He was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he died.
- The only time the twin brothers were apart in their entire lives were for 3-1/2 years when Jon left Los Angeles and moved to Nashville. Jim eventually followed suit.
- While working and living in Los Angeles, they once had a recoding contract with Capitol Records. They played regularly at Disneyland and other niteries.
- Identical twin brother of Jon Hager.
- Both twins played guitar and drums and did comedy.
- The brothers were featured in the second preview issue of Playgirl, February, 1973.
- The twins had worked with Buck Owens and used this connection in getting on the TV show Hee Haw (1969). They eventually left the show in the 1980s and continued to perform on tour together.
- Raised in Park Ridge, a Chicago suburb. Starting out, they performed on a weekly Saturday morning teen show on WGN-TV in Chicago.
- Known as "The Hagers", Jim and Jon were part of the original cast of Hee Haw (1969).
- He and his twin brother were raised in Park Ridge, Illinois.
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