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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.
"I'm My Own Grandpa" (sometimes rendered as "I'm My Own Grandpaw") is a novelty song written by Dwight Latham and Moe Jaffe, performed by Lonzo and Oscar in 1947, about a man who, through an unlikely (but legal) combination of marriages, becomes stepfather to his own stepmother. By dropping the "step-" modifiers, he becomes his own grandfather.
Grandpa Jones's 1962 version for Monument Records peaked at number five on Billboard 's US Hot Country Songs chart. [52] The Everly Brothers included their version on their 1968 album Roots . [ 53 ] It appeared as "T for Texas" performed by Tompall Glaser on the 1976 compilation album Wanted!
The song was recorded in 1959 by country music artist Grandpa Jones. The song was released as a single on the Decca label (9-30823) and peaked at number 21 on the US country music charts. A cover version was recorded by Bob Dylan and The Band in 1967, officially released November 4, 2014, on The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete.
Grandpa Jones toured the country with Minnie Pearl, Pee Wee King and other stars. He wrote more than 300 songs and recorded on the RCA Victor, King and Monument labels.
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]
[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.
"Jesse James" is a 20th-century American folk song about the outlaw of the same name, first recorded by Bentley Ball in 1919 [1] and subsequently by many others, including Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Vernon Dalhart, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, The Kingston Trio, The Pogues, The Ramblin' Riversiders, The Country Gentlemen, Willy DeVille, Van Morrison, Harry McClintock, Grandpa Jones, Bob Seger, The ...