There will never be another "Grandpa". This man is a true American Icon. Such an important part of our American Musical Heritage.
@davidholliday834110 жыл бұрын
I wish the new generation of banjo pickers were more aware of him. He deserves a place on the Mt Rushmore of Banjo along with Earl. Stringbean too!
@GeekBoy0310 жыл бұрын
Steve Martin plays banjo
@eddielafollette91227 жыл бұрын
david holliday amen
@johndavidbaker123456 жыл бұрын
I am the new generation of banjo picker. Stringbean and Grandpa will be clawhammer legends forever. Right there with Scruggs and his style.
@Stentor75 жыл бұрын
@@johndavidbaker12345 You've got that right, I've never seen anyone who could do Clawhammer banjo better than Grandpa & String. I'm also in that generation of banjo pickers with you.
@swordthrower20354 жыл бұрын
He was strings next door neighbor
@mankind211213 жыл бұрын
It's funny at the end when Grandpa get a burst of energy and starts kickin' them knees up and down. These old Grand ol Opry clips are priceless.
@mrgrady94602 жыл бұрын
when i first saw it i thought it was the 62 opry. johnny cash was on 62 with a background like this
@smitty5401713 жыл бұрын
This is a great example of a real ENTERTAINER! You can tell he LOVED what he was doing! Miss you Grandpa!
@chasbodaniels17445 ай бұрын
Yep, Grandpa was a real entertainer alright. You can see from his gestures and movements, that he’d been on stage in front of a live audience a time or two!
@quailshootr63893 жыл бұрын
Grandpa Jones hat had better be in a museum.
@Rebelcowboy25 ай бұрын
And his boots
@videografx7 ай бұрын
he's young here! i remember him older on hee haw, always a treasure seeing these old country performers. thank you for uploading
@patrickjamessimpson72683 жыл бұрын
this was when life was good, you were happy with what you had, and tv was really good. i miss that world
@666madmonk2 жыл бұрын
Amen!
@HollybushHunnie077 жыл бұрын
If anybody wonders how he can hop & jump around while playing. He was a badass in WWII 😉💖
@mrgrady94602 жыл бұрын
i suppose lol
@MichaelMowl-kh1pm9 ай бұрын
He was only in his mid 50s here. Not that old.
@erwinschonfeld897510 жыл бұрын
MY CHILDHOOD YEARS WERE SPENT IIN TENNESSEE. SO I REALLY LOVE THIS! GRANDPA JONES WAS A GREAT SHOWMAN AND BANJO PLAYER.
@mqbitsko2510 жыл бұрын
How many kids today know that "mountain dew" was slang for moonshine whiskey, and that a toothless hillbilly was the original mascot for Mountain Dew soda in the 1940s?
@sarahmoviereviewer41099 жыл бұрын
not many most might thinks its just a soda
@TheStapleGunKid9 жыл бұрын
Mickey Bitsko Perhaps he is singing about the soda and not the moonshine, you never know
@acemay39 жыл бұрын
+TheStapleGunKid listen the words it moonshine hello not soda
@kimscakes228 жыл бұрын
Mickey Bitsko
@josephchampagne91347 жыл бұрын
It'll tickle your innards.
@mtlyb13 жыл бұрын
If this doesn't make you smile, I sure hope I don't ever have as bad a day as you are having. Thank you for posting this.
@KatiHathor11 жыл бұрын
i've never heard of grandpa jones before but he sure knows how to put on a fun performance!
@colleenrogers35124 жыл бұрын
You should try to catch some episodes of Hee Haw. He was actually a young man hear. Grandpa Jones was his persona for performing
@amywhite99724 жыл бұрын
Aw man.. See back in the 1970's & 1980's, there was a tv show named Hee-Haw. Featured country music. I've saw George Strait on it when he first started. I've saw Alan Jackson, Loretta Lynne and many more. Grandpa Jones was a huge star on that show. Anywho.. If you ever get board, do yourself a favor and pull it up on KZbin or something. One of my favorite shows of all. It makes fun of country folk, i guess but i love it anyway.. 🤠
@kellyinderrieden36093 жыл бұрын
Look up a show called HEEHAW
@hollywoodgraham4046 Жыл бұрын
What a showman, what a Banjo player, what singer. Never another like him......
@GravelGrunt13 жыл бұрын
I've always loved Grandpa Jones. He was from the same town as my grandmother and he could frail a banjo with the best of them. RIP Grandpa. :)
@aqualung20926 жыл бұрын
My old auntie Peg had an old wooden leg, she filled it with a gallon or two. And my does she slosh when shes hanging out wash with that good tasting mountain dew.
@rshrsh54204 жыл бұрын
I'd hate to see Grandpa Jones after drinking a Five Hour Energy after all the energy he showed here
@Rebelcowboy25 ай бұрын
He singing about moonshine
@TheFallenSniper6 жыл бұрын
Well my uncle Hugh, has a lady or two, at his house, there is quite a few, you should see their eyes, when he gives a surprise, just talkin' 'bout good ole mountain dew!
@kalmanizer14 жыл бұрын
AWESOME! I've heard of this guy for less than a half hr and already I'm a fan! AWESOME Bluegrass Music!! Thanks Grandpa Jones!! :)
@fester7366614 жыл бұрын
granpa jones is the best! one of the all time greats in country music, the funniest 2.11 i,ve seen in a very long time! brilliant.
@wanderingsemantics726610 жыл бұрын
i hope one day i can play the banjo like him one of the best rip grandpa and string your music will live forever
@frankkoller883310 жыл бұрын
Claw hammer style banjo.
@Anaheimfan10 жыл бұрын
A good-looking girl my age that's into Grandpa Jones....Are you for real? Or just a hallucination from lack of sleep and too much caffeine?
@patrickdaly50684 жыл бұрын
As I said on another Grandpa Jones video, what a legend and great performer Grandpa Jones was! How could you NOT get excited when he has such energy and he's bouncing and stomping those feet like that???!!! Thanks for posting this.
@edennicole290211 жыл бұрын
Amen brother! I raised on good country music.
@fatkidincoat14 жыл бұрын
HE IS A LEGEND! he was the best with banjo and no one will match it
@isorokudono5 жыл бұрын
GrandPere Jones was TOO punk rock for words. The man set the world ON FIRE. He didn't deserve to find Stringbean and hi's wife the way he did..... tears.
@christopherjames98434 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that sucked. They were gonna go hunting that day.
@mischelle32196813 жыл бұрын
@MarkEaster The boots Louis "Grandpa" Jones wore were given to him by Bradley Kinkaid, a fellow Kentuckian that he worked with at WBZ in Boston. He was also the man who gave Louis the moniker, "Grandpa" because he really sounded older than his twenty-two years and was extremely grumpy in the mornings after playing late shows the night before. Grandpa never eluded to knowing where Bradley got the boots so it is entirely possible they were from the civil war era.
@bacsi1946111 жыл бұрын
that clawhammer banjo is the most joyful music in the world. i grew up on this stuff and love it to death.
@liltingtune11 жыл бұрын
He's amazing!!!!!!!!!!!! It's the best banjo song performance I ever seen!!!
@tommanning492710 жыл бұрын
A great entertainer and an outstanding banjo player
@bcostin8 жыл бұрын
Love the casual transitions to one-handed playing.
@antaries7511 жыл бұрын
i loved watching good ole grampa on heehaw when i was a kid!!!
@kybigd113 жыл бұрын
Every time I go to Kentucky to visit my sisters my brother-in-law Jimmy always sets me with some good ole Kentucky moonshine. I love the stuff. I am retiring and moving there next month. I'll be listening to Grandpa a lot. LOL
@Brigham0078 жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday, Grandpa Jones! Thanks for the tunes.
@ghostlylover9813 жыл бұрын
In all reality, there are many groups still playing acoustic instruments. I'm one of them. I have a bluegrass band called The Mountain Laurel Acoustic Band, out of Yorktown Indiana. So it still exists, just getting harder and harder to find!
@jennamacneill18683 жыл бұрын
i’m only fourteen but this is one of my favourite songs as well as “are you from dixie” and Grandpa Jones is one of my favourite singers along with Johnny Cash, George Jones, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, etc.
@jiveAt58 жыл бұрын
id pick this party over any Rave or club, this is where is at.
@hotone2314 жыл бұрын
As a mandolin player I can only just love this guy! I was knee high to a grasshopper when he was on the tube...
@km271114 жыл бұрын
What a great posting!!-- Thanks for it... He came to Ft. hood, TX back in '69 when I was stationed there after a year's deployment in S.Vietnam--- One of the first things I wanted to hear was Grandpa sing this and "Are You From Dixie?"
@edejan10 жыл бұрын
Used to take my mother to see Grandpa Jones back in the day. He was a hell of an entertainer and a good musician! Love him!
@user-wp8yx6 жыл бұрын
this guy rocks! what a performance! I think this is the best rendition of the dew on the tube.
@philbell79522 жыл бұрын
👍👍There is only one of these guys, and that’s grandpa Jones, they broke the mold my name a.m.
@alanwest6035 Жыл бұрын
Now Mountain Dew is your dentist's best friend.
@williamgable75544 жыл бұрын
Always brings a tear to my eye!
@alanwest6035 Жыл бұрын
That guy could play with his teeth if he didn't have arms. Crazy talent...
@gbisaga9 жыл бұрын
"I may forget the words ... I don't do it very often." Ha!
@michaelnero81893 жыл бұрын
Yes, he barely could remember every word😂🤷🏻♂️
@raceway013 жыл бұрын
Love it, my Dad used to copy his style & was always a crowd pleaser here in Canada
@111Chance13 жыл бұрын
Thank you sooo very much for posting this vid. Not that old(40ish) :), but I love this old time music, it puts this so called music of today to shame.
@amywhite99723 жыл бұрын
Just thinking about him driving up to his best friend's house and finding him and his wife murdered breaks my heart. They were going fishing that morning. It was truly horrible what happened to them. Growing up, i never knew what Grandpa had went through because i was 3 or 4 when it happened. I remember watching him on Hee Haw but i never knew about Stringbean and his wife. I also learned that the famous crow on Hee Haw was actually kept in remembrance of Stringbean. Stringbean played the scarecrow. Don't believe me?? Look it up. I looked and found the earlier episodes. Stringbean was an amazing performer and i truly missed out as a kid.
@robertking1333 Жыл бұрын
We're has these great days and people gone
@hollywoodgraham40466 жыл бұрын
What a showman, wish I had seen him in person.
@balddad7613 жыл бұрын
The way entertainment ought to be done...a man and and instrument making us sing along and laugh!
@StephenHardyMusic14 жыл бұрын
this brightens my heart right before finals week!
@jasonskinner15552 жыл бұрын
I just can’t understand why people think folds with a hillbilly accent are dumb. I knew a guy that couldn’t read or write and could build a house from the ground up. I think people from the mountains have the most common sense to this day.
@Honkytonkitis11 жыл бұрын
Grandpa was the best, he was EVERYBODIES Grandpa! The emcee is T. Tommy Cutrer.
@ScottShuster13 жыл бұрын
Grandpa Jones was only 47 when this video was made, not very old at all. But that's nothing: The truth is, he had been doing this same "old-guy" schtick since he was 22 years old!!
@donwaltman4276 Жыл бұрын
Grampa and String bean were neighbors and good friends for many years, RIP to them both
@ricktempleton34154 жыл бұрын
I was actually drinking one as I was listening to this. It'll tickle your Innards.
@dhaeze13 жыл бұрын
i love the host's laugh at the ending, exactly how i felt during this video. awesome entertaining music!
@rowdysinghs12 жыл бұрын
The best song evaaaa !! What a happy go lucky guy .....I feel like dancing to the tune !!!!
@robertking1333 Жыл бұрын
I was in Rosina Kentucky jamboree Abt 20 something years ago and bought a CD from some grandson or nephew but no longer have it .but I was also recently down Rosina Kentucky and the barn and jamboree is still going on in which is great good old bill Monroe hometown
@ngzcaz12 жыл бұрын
I missed him at the West End Fair in NE PA many years ago. I'm still kicking myself. He was one of a kind.
@lanlesnee13 жыл бұрын
I wish he was my grandpa. I love his music.
@orangehornet5710 жыл бұрын
What an entertainer! He sure got a lot of verses off, and even an instrumental solo, in just over 2 minutes. The soda people never made a deal with him. This song would sound different with Scruggs style 3 finger picking. Thankfully we can enjoy both styles. He and Stringbean played clawhammer, while the rest of the Hee Haw banjo players did 3 finger.
@Redmann010 жыл бұрын
Mountain Dew is Moonshine, just FYI. Probably why the soda company never made a deal, just saying, LOL.
@orangehornet5710 жыл бұрын
I knew that. Pepsi recently made some cans with the original design. They included a hillbilly character. So Grandpa's product inspired theirs.
@Redmann010 жыл бұрын
I hope we get those kind of cans here. It would be cool if they had Grandpa Jones on the front of them : ) .
@DavidGiblerpeilimocom10 жыл бұрын
Redd Mann And Coca Cola was made with Cocaine at one time.
@gravityangel12253 жыл бұрын
0:13 There’s a big holler tree down the road hea from me Where you lay down a dollar or tew When you come down the bend and you come back again There’s a jug full 'o good ole' mountain dew 0:27 Oh they call it that ole mountain dew And them that refuse it are few I’ll shut up ma mug if you fill up ma jug With some good ole mountain dew 0:41 My uncle Nort, he’s sawed off and short He measures about four foot tew But he thinks he’s a giant when you give him a pint Of that good ole mountain dew 0:54 My old aunt June bought some brand new perfume If had such a sweet smelling pew But to her surprise when ya' had it analyzed It was nothing but good ole mountain dew 1:20 The preacher rolled by with his head haisted high Said his wife been down with the flu And he thought that I 'ort just to sell him a quart Of that good ole mountain dew 1:34 My brother Bill got a still on the hill Where he runs off a gallon 'er tew The buzzards in the sky get too drunk they can’t fly From smelling that good ole mountain dew 1:47 Oh they call it that ole mountain dew And them that refuse it are few I’ll shut up my mug if you fill up my jug With some good ole mountain dew
@tromtacular13 жыл бұрын
I'm 35 and love it! If we could start a Banjo revival the world would be a better place. Respect to Billy Conolly for keeping it going. I'm sure there are other modern artists worth a mention too. Anyone got any suggestions? I'm thinking of buying a Banjo and learning.
@barfyspitz11 жыл бұрын
That's the greatest.....nuff said
@MrBuckshot4412 жыл бұрын
thanks for uploading this ! they threw away the mold for this kind of entertainment.
@joshuabrooks4907 Жыл бұрын
One of country music's many classic characters.
@Bluebonnett5213 жыл бұрын
Look at old Grandpa work that banjo... Classic!
@BeingRomans829ed Жыл бұрын
The definition of showmanship 👍🏻
@makingmemad0611 жыл бұрын
he plays it with some of the most character ive ever seen, noone else compares
@dustinharlow75838 жыл бұрын
No lip sync like these frauds today
@jocelynn6298514 жыл бұрын
I always loved Grandpa Jones..Notice he treats the banjo like a rocker! He was definitely a bluegrass/punk!
@larrysnyder34756 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest entertainer's of all times
@roberthunerberg1509 Жыл бұрын
A National Treasure theres only One Grandpa Jones!!!
@Duckdogz10 жыл бұрын
He is the coolest guy ever
@moviebuff123456711 жыл бұрын
Grandpa Jones! givin the name Grandpa at the ripe OLD age of 25!
@KevinKomonyi13 жыл бұрын
@MrSoundman67 The amp is for the band. All Grandpa Jones has is a mic in front of him for the vocal.
@lindafields461310 жыл бұрын
An ultimate performer and he sure can frail that banjo.
@calebsmith999312 жыл бұрын
hes grandpa all right like they always say hes everyones grandpa this is awsome
@BlackKaweah12 жыл бұрын
"No description available" -- Ain't that the truth! There's no description available for Grandpa! :-)
@christopherjames98434 жыл бұрын
Grandpa was a showman par excellence.
@crabtrap3 жыл бұрын
I miss the HillBilly invasion of late 60's 70's
@djdannye306411 жыл бұрын
Glad to see I wasn't the only one. :D
@greenskeeper300010 жыл бұрын
I am hammered off my tits from some genu-WINE Mountain Dew right now and that host was correct; this IS the greatest!
@DrDave-yl1ov12 жыл бұрын
ahh grandpa Jones, beautiful times
@TheSUPERred1112 жыл бұрын
Wish my grandpaw was still alive so he could enjoy this with me.
@griankay10 жыл бұрын
I really love this one.
@mildredrharmon4032 Жыл бұрын
Grew up on this song...❤
@markusalcudia13 жыл бұрын
Now this is real live music !!!!!! Not that Justin Bieber and friends lip sync the youngsters listen to (okey, i m 38). And this is real music, too... All the best from Germany !!!!! Bluegrass rocks !!!!!!!!!
@jamief71026 жыл бұрын
Friggin love this
@clockguy213 жыл бұрын
Those boots he has on are over 100 years old and have been resoled several times. Grandpa Jones reckoned they were 50 years old when he started as Grandpa at age 22.
@3watchit12 жыл бұрын
Man love to have that old fender amp sitting back there.
@Gilligan34614 жыл бұрын
Follow Highway 41 outside of Nashville turning onto Old Springfield Pike. Grandpa Jones is buried in the Luton Cemetery at the end of the road. His tombstone, which I've visited, says "The only things you take with you are the things you give away." Or something to that effect.
@Stevo34311 жыл бұрын
Grandpa was born in 1913, so he would have only been about 48 when this show aired.
@GravelGrunt13 жыл бұрын
@Insectionx When he was a young entertainer, he was once asked to play an old man. He was so popular as a Grandpa that he just kept doing it for the rest of his life.
@jonnymurder12 жыл бұрын
my 2 favorites.. grandpa jones and moonshine
@rjb0738 жыл бұрын
You rock, Grandpa!!
@edgarkoshatka37675 жыл бұрын
Most people fail to realize that virtuoso's like Grandpa Jones put on the hillbilly act because that is what got them stage time.
@rtpoe3 жыл бұрын
Or that some of those "hillbillies" were damned fine entertainers.
@DarkDizzle84514 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure Grandpa Jones invented most of the hardcore dance moves there are today
@rogerwright809310 жыл бұрын
cool I like him when I watch him when I was 6 years old on hee haw