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He married Ramona Riggins on October 14, 1946. As an accomplished performer herself, she would take part in his performances. Jones' vaudeville humor was a bridge to television. His more famous songs include "T For Texas," "Are You From Dixie," "Night Train To Memphis," "Mountain Dew," and "Eight More Miles To Louisville."
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 ]
Lunsford's original recording of "Good Old Mountain Dew" was used as the first advertising theme for the newly created Mountain Dew soda. He sold the rights to the song for a train ticket home. [citation needed] In 1964 Lunsford was the subject of a documentary film, shot with a 16mm hand held camera, by New York City filmmaker, David Hoffman.
‘Hee Haw’ debuts in 1969. 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 ...
David Akeman (June 17, 1915 [1] – November 10, 1973) [2] better known as Stringbean (or String Bean), was an American singer-songwriter, musician, comedian, and semiprofessional baseball player [3] best known for his role as a main cast member on the hit television show Hee Haw and as a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
In 1935 [3] he was working at WBZ-AM in Boston, Massachusetts, where he performed with a band that included young singer and banjo player Marshall Jones. Kincaid teased the 22-year-old fellow Kentuckian for always being grumpy when he came to the studio to do the early morning broadcast, nicknaming him "Grandpa" Jones .
Recently, a photograph of a Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew tasting event at Kent State University was posted on Reddit. The poster explained that the drink — fittingly called Dewitos — was ...
Hard Mountain Dew, a hard seltzer-esque alcoholic beverage made by Dew and the good people at Boston Beer Company. Naturally, I needed to know what these were like, so I grabbed a variety pack and ...