Merv Griffin Intro Jim Stafford for Cow Patti Branson, MO

[@sherimcdaniel3491]

What a great entertainer Jim was.

[@markrickerbyadventurestories]

Is! Is! He’s still performing, luckily for us. 😝

[@donniecastleman5701]

Good guy, met him while playing bass at Terry Fator Show in Vegas, was hoping he'd get up onstage and sing Spiders and Snakes with us!

[@sherimcdaniel3491]

What a nutjob! Love ya, Jim.

[@williehamburger]

I think I may be the first person to hear this song after Jim finished it. At the time he was living in Nashville where I live, and we had been friends since we met in 1965. We actually started out together in a music/comedy duo in 1967. Anyway, one day in the early 80s Jim called and wanted me to come over to his house and listen to this new song he had just finished to do in the Clint Eastwood movie. So he tried out "Cow Patty" on me, and I liked it. Jim is probably the most talented guy I have ever worked with, and I have worked with some great people. When he and I first started, one gig was in a topless go-go dancer club in Atlanta. We would do a 45 minute set and then bring on the 5 or 6 girls one at a time to dance for the room full of drunk business men in town away from their wives. When Jim and I would first start up, the men were hostile and would be yelling where's the girls..... Bring out the girls. Then after about 10 minutes or so, they forgot all about the girls, they were laughing and having so much fun with me and Jim. Jim deserves his success. He has always been a hard worker and practiced his butt off to be the best he could be. I would come over to his apartment sometime around 10 or 11 in the morning and he would be sitting on the side of his bed in his Jockey shorts underwear with a quart of milk on the end table and be practicing banjo or fiddle or something if not guitar. We wrote a lot of songs together. Two that he recorded were "Turn Loose Of My Leg" and "I Ain't Sharin' Sharon." There were others that I produced later with different artists. An amazing coincidence is that I went to high school with Fran Tarkenton who Jim was doing "Those Amazing Animals" TV show with at that time of "Cow Patty." Anyway, that's my looooong essay about Jim and how much I have always admired him.

[@rdowning60]

Great story..many of us who love him know he is one of the best guitarists in the business. He doesn't get the credit he deserves probably because he incorporates fun and laughter in many of his song...most of his songs are story telling masterpieces..my favorite was "swamp witch"

[@johnjurkewicz9925]

he is Great to listening to

[@TolKOZAK]

Love it!

[@MissLaurie40]

ah yeah, love it!

[@cornellwaters9089]

🐮 Music!

[@markrickerbyadventurestories]

I wonder if Jim was influenced at all by Jonathan Winters. There are moments when their voices, manner of speaking, delivery, etc., are identical. On a side note, I have never seen anyone ride a guitar like a horse so well. 😂 What a character.

[@automaticreply]

check out the version on the smuthers brothers on youtube. it's funnier 'cause he runs around his guitar.

[@darryllspalding9680]

the cow song stole from this?