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Grandpa and Ramona Jones
Biography
Country performer. Born October 20, 1913. Died February 19, 1998. Real name: Louis Marshall Jones. Performer, banjoist, and comedian. Career active 1930s-1990s. During early career worked with Bradley Kincaid who gave him the “Grandpa” nickname. Recorded for the King, RCA, and Decca record labels. Regular cast member of the popular Hee Haw television show. Grand Ole Opry performer for over fifty years. Member, Country Music Hall of Fame®.
Interview Summary
1975 March 10
(1 hour, 35 minutes)
Country entertainer Grandpa Jones talks about the start and early years of his career. Discussion includes childhood and early musical influences; his early performing experience, including his billing as “The Young Singer of Old Songs”; his experiences as a traveling performer during the late 1930s; working with Bradley Kincaid; development of the Grandpa character; his career as a radio performer; comments on the popularity of country music; memories from the WWVA Wheeling Jamboree, a barn dance radio show; his association with Cousin Emmy; recording for King Records, including his work with the Brown’s Ferry Four; memories of performers he worked with, including Merle Travis, and Curly Fox & Texas Ruby; his career after World War II; c
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Ramona Jones
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Grandpa Jones
Musical artist (1913–1998)
For other people named Louis Jones, see Louis Jones (disambiguation).
Musical artist
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.[1]
Biography
[edit]Jones was born in the small farming community of Niagara in Henderson County, Kentucky, the youngest of 10 children in a sharecropper's family.[2] His father was an old-time fiddle player, and his mother was a ballad singer and herself adept on the concertina.[3] His first instrument was guitar.[4] Ramona Riggins, one of several women who began to gain some recognition in a musical form long dominated by men[4][5] was Grandpa's wife and musical partner of over thirty years.[6] Ramona first started playing the mandolin when she was six or seven years old.[6] Jones spent his teenage years in Akron, Ohio, where he began singing country music tunes on a radio show on WJW. In 1931, Jones joined the Pine Ridge String Band, which provided the musical accompaniment for the Lum and Abner show. By 1935 his pursuit of a