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Louis Marshall Jones (October 20, 1913 – February 19, 1998), known professionally as Grandpa Jones, was an American banjo player and old time/country music singer. He was inducted as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1978.
Television producers recruited 56-year-old Grandpa Jones to join the original cast of “Hee Haw,” a variety show that premiered on CBS in 1969 and later went into syndication.
[7] In the later seasons, Grandpa wore a chef's hat with his head peeking out of an open kitchen doorway, but the menu recitals remained the same. Grandpa and Minnie's Kitchen – This sketch, which ran throughout most of the 1970s, spoofed TV cooking shows in which Grandpa Jones and Minnie Pearl delivered hilarious recipes that made no sense.
Travis' string of 1940s' chart topping, honky tonk hits did not continue into the 1950s despite the reverence of friends like Grandpa Jones and Hank Thompson with whom he toured and recorded. He was lead guitarist in Thompson's Brazos Valley Boys during the time when Billboard magazine rated them the number one Country Western band for 14 years ...
[citation needed] The first, Old Time Pickin' & Grinnin' with Stringbean (1961), included folk songs (especially humorous animal songs), tall stories, and country jokes. In 1969, Akeman and Grandpa Jones became cast members of a new television show entitled Hee Haw. [5] One of his regular routines was reading a "letter from home" to his friends.
Since 1935, "Good Old Mountain Dew" has been rerecorded and covered by a wide variety of folk, old time, and country musicians, including Grandpa Jones, [3] Glen Campbell, and Willie Nelson. [10] Nelson's cover reached number 23 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs and stayed there for six weeks. [11]
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