GRANDPA JONES SING GOOD OLD MOUNTAIN DEW 1

[@joevs21001]

There will never be another "Grandpa". This man is a true American Icon. Such an important part of our American Musical Heritage.

[@mqbitsko25]

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?

[@sarahmoviereviewer4109]

not many most might thinks its just a soda

[@TheStapleGunKid]

Mickey Bitsko Perhaps he is singing about the soda and not the moonshine, you never know

[@acemay3]

+TheStapleGunKid listen the words it moonshine hello not soda

[@kimscakes22]

Mickey Bitsko

[@josephchampagne9134]

It'll tickle your innards.

[@alanwest6035]

Now Mountain Dew is your dentist's best friend.

[@videografx]

he's young here! i remember him older on hee haw, always a treasure seeing these old country performers. thank you for uploading

[@mankind2112]

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.

[@mrgrady9460]

when i first saw it i thought it was the 62 opry. johnny cash was on 62 with a background like this

[@davidholliday8341]

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!

[@GeekBoy03]

Steve Martin plays banjo

[@eddielafollette9122]

david holliday amen

[@johndavidbaker12345]

I am the new generation of banjo picker. Stringbean and Grandpa will be clawhammer legends forever. Right there with Scruggs and his style.

[@Stentor7]

@@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.

[@swordthrower2035]

He was strings next door neighbor

[@quailshootr6389]

Grandpa Jones hat had better be in a museum.

[@Rebelcowboy2]

And his boots

[@JuliaPaul-l9o]

❤

[@smitty54017]

This is a great example of a real ENTERTAINER! You can tell he LOVED what he was doing! Miss you Grandpa!

[@chasbodaniels1744]

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!

[@patrickjamessimpson7268]

this was when life was good, you were happy with what you had, and tv was really good. i miss that world

[@666madmonk]

Amen!

[@rshrsh5420]

I'd hate to see Grandpa Jones after drinking a Five Hour Energy after all the energy he showed here

[@Rebelcowboy2]

He singing about moonshine

[@bamacopeland4372]

​@@Rebelcowboy2He's talking about if you gave him a 5-hour energy drink that supposedly gives you a boost of energy.

[@Rebelcowboy2]

@@bamacopeland4372mountain dew was slang for moonshine back in those days

[@bamacopeland4372]

@@Rebelcowboy2 I know had "allegedly" knew people who did

[@hollywoodgraham4046]

What a showman, what a Banjo player, what singer. Never another like him......

[@alanwest6035]

That guy could play with his teeth if he didn't have arms. Crazy talent...

[@HollybushHunnie07]

If anybody wonders how he can hop & jump around while playing. He was a badass in WWII 😉💖

[@mrgrady9460]

i suppose lol

[@MichaelMowl-kh1pm]

He was only in his mid 50s here. Not that old.

[@mtlyb]

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.

[@aqualung2092]

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.

[@jasonskinner1555]

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.

[@jiveAt5]

id pick this party over any Rave or club, this is where is at.

[@ghostlylover98]

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!

[@ScottShuster]

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!!

[@fatkidincoat]

HE IS A LEGEND! he was the best with banjo and no one will match it

[@erwinschonfeld8975]

MY CHILDHOOD YEARS WERE SPENT IIN TENNESSEE. SO I REALLY LOVE THIS! GRANDPA JONES WAS A GREAT SHOWMAN AND BANJO PLAYER.

[@isorokudono]

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.

[@christopherjames9843]

Yeah, that sucked. They were gonna go hunting that day.

[@Honkytonkitis]

Grandpa was the best, he was EVERYBODIES Grandpa! The emcee is T. Tommy Cutrer.

[@amywhite9972]

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.

[@TheFallenSniper]

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!

[@GravelGrunt]

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. :)

[@KatiHathor]

i've never heard of grandpa jones before but he sure knows how to put on a fun performance!

[@colleenrogers3512]

You should try to catch some episodes of Hee Haw. He was actually a young man hear. Grandpa Jones was his persona for performing

[@amywhite9972]

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.. 🤠

[@kellyinderrieden3609]

Look up a show called HEEHAW

[@edennicole2902]

Amen brother! I raised on good country music.

[@Stevo343]

Grandpa was born in 1913, so he would have only been about 48 when this show aired.

[@111Chance]

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.

[@bacsi19461]

that clawhammer banjo is the most joyful music in the world. i grew up on this stuff and love it to death.

[@mischelle321968]

@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.

[@jennamacneill1868]

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.

[@robertking1333]

We're has these great days and people gone

[@joshuabrooks4907]

One of country music's many classic characters.

[@fester73666]

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.

[@balddad76]

The way entertainment ought to be done...a man and and instrument making us sing along and laugh!

[@CharliePalmer-e3b]

There's a lot to be said for that style of banjo playing, friends and neighbors. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@km2711]

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?"

[@kybigd1]

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

[@donwaltman4276]

Grampa and String bean were neighbors and good friends for many years, RIP to them both

[@tommanning4927]

A great entertainer and an outstanding banjo player

[@hotone23]

As a mandolin player I can only just love this guy! I was knee high to a grasshopper when he was on the tube...

[@gravityangel1225]

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

[@ricktempleton3415]

I was actually drinking one as I was listening to this. It'll tickle your Innards.

[@philbell7952]

👍👍There is only one of these guys, and that’s grandpa Jones, they broke the mold my name a.m.

[@kalmanizer]

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!! :)

[@liltingtune]

He's amazing!!!!!!!!!!!! It's the best banjo song performance I ever seen!!!

[@lanlesnee]

I wish he was my grandpa. I love his music.

[@patrickdaly5068]

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.

[@wanderingsemantics7266]

i hope one day i can play the banjo like him one of the best rip grandpa and string your music will live forever

[@frankkoller8833]

Claw hammer style banjo.

[@Anaheimfan]

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?

[@clockguy2]

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.

[@edejan]

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!

[@hollywoodgraham4046]

What a showman, wish I had seen him in person.

[@antaries75]

i loved watching good ole grampa on heehaw when i was a kid!!!

[@tromtacular]

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.

[@ngzcaz]

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.

[@moviebuff1234567]

Grandpa Jones! givin the name Grandpa at the ripe OLD age of 25!

[@makingmemad06]

he plays it with some of the most character ive ever seen, noone else compares

[@TheSUPERred11]

Wish my grandpaw was still alive so he could enjoy this with me.

[@jocelynn62985]

I always loved Grandpa Jones..Notice he treats the banjo like a rocker! He was definitely a bluegrass/punk!

[@roberthunerberg1509]

A National Treasure theres only One Grandpa Jones!!!

[@robertking1333]

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

[@MrBuckshot44]

thanks for uploading this ! they threw away the mold for this kind of entertainment.

[@calebsmith9993]

hes grandpa all right like they always say hes everyones grandpa this is awsome

[@BeingRomans829ed]

The definition of showmanship 👍🏻

[@jonnymurder]

my 2 favorites.. grandpa jones and moonshine

[@Bluebonnett52]

Look at old Grandpa work that banjo... Classic!

[@barfyspitz]

That's the greatest.....nuff said

[@rowdysinghs]

The best song evaaaa !! What a happy go lucky guy .....I feel like dancing to the tune !!!!

[@markusalcudia]

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 !!!!!!!!!

[@user-wp8yx]

this guy rocks! what a performance! I think this is the best rendition of the dew on the tube.

[@raceway0]

Love it, my Dad used to copy his style & was always a crowd pleaser here in Canada

[@mildredrharmon4032]

Grew up on this song...❤

[@bcostin]

Love the casual transitions to one-handed playing.

[@djdannye3064]

Glad to see I wasn't the only one. :D

[@Brigham007]

Happy Birthday, Grandpa Jones! Thanks for the tunes.

[@dbd1353]

love this s@#t!!!.I haven't been around the old-time/Bluegrass scene for awhile now, but do they anymore guys this anymore? the scarity of great entertainers like Grandpa Jones are one reason I quit going..They sure don't make 'em like this anymore..

[@Gilligan346]

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.

[@3watchit]

Man love to have that old fender amp sitting back there.

[@DarkDizzle845]

I'm pretty sure Grandpa Jones invented most of the hardcore dance moves there are today

[@StephenHardyMusic]

this brightens my heart right before finals week!

[@marlenalinne7958]

I sure wish I could play the banjo like he did.

[@gbisaga]

"I may forget the words ... I don't do it very often." Ha!

[@michaelnero8189]

Yes, he barely could remember every word😂🤷🏻‍♂️

[@christopherjames9843]

Grandpa was a showman par excellence.

[@edgarkoshatka3767]

Most people fail to realize that virtuoso's like Grandpa Jones put on the hillbilly act because that is what got them stage time.

[@rtpoe]

Or that some of those "hillbillies" were damned fine entertainers.

[@larrysnyder3475]

One of the greatest entertainer's of all times

[@JoeSmithAu]

Three dislikes !?! Why did you three people even bother to watch and listen. This stuff is great. Pure reality; no auto-tone here. To the others ... enjoy

[@williamgable7554]

Always brings a tear to my eye!

[@wackybruce]

Hands down best part is at 1:40 the buzzards in the sky GET SO DRUNK THEY CANT FLY I love it

[@BlackKaweah]

"No description available" -- Ain't that the truth! There's no description available for Grandpa! :-)

[@olstar18]

@Zjizkyr I wish I coulda seen that show. One of the few country singers I actually enjoy listening to.

[@DrDave-yl1ov]

ahh grandpa Jones, beautiful times

[@tyme4mike]

Grandpa Jones makes me wants ta run nekked aroun' ma neighberhood singin' like a fool and dancin' like a three-legged mule when he singses his tunes!

[@goatpappy49]

Only one Grandpa. God bless him . . .

[@loganestillshenanigans]

1:49 makes me think of Les Claypool with the knee bounce. This is awesome

[@dhaeze]

i love the host's laugh at the ending, exactly how i felt during this video. awesome entertaining music!

[@rogerwright8093]

cool I like him when I watch him when I was 6 years old on hee haw

[@Duckdogz]

He is the coolest guy ever

[@joebrim6076]

Damn right.... Rise And SHINE forever