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!
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?
@@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.
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.
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 RUclips or something. One of my favorite shows of all. It makes fun of country folk, i guess but i love it anyway.. 🤠
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!
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.
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!
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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?"
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.
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
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 !!!!!!!!!
@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.
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!!
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..
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Grandpa Jones hat had better be in a museum.
And his boots
There will never be another "Grandpa". This man is a true American Icon. Such an important part of our American Musical Heritage.
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.
when i first saw it i thought it was the 62 opry. johnny cash was on 62 with a background like this
This is a great example of a real ENTERTAINER! You can tell he LOVED what he was doing! Miss you Grandpa!
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!
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?
not many most might thinks its just a soda
Mickey Bitsko
Perhaps he is singing about the soda and not the moonshine, you never know
+TheStapleGunKid listen the words it moonshine hello not soda
Mickey Bitsko
It'll tickle your innards.
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!
Steve Martin plays banjo
david holliday amen
I am the new generation of banjo picker. Stringbean and Grandpa will be clawhammer legends forever. Right there with Scruggs and his style.
@@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.
He was strings next door neighbor
this was when life was good, you were happy with what you had, and tv was really good. i miss that world
Amen!
If anybody wonders how he can hop & jump around while playing. He was a badass in WWII 😉💖
i suppose lol
He was only in his mid 50s here. Not that old.
I'd hate to see Grandpa Jones after drinking a Five Hour Energy after all the energy he showed here
He singing about moonshine
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.
he's young here! i remember him older on hee haw, always a treasure seeing these old country performers. thank you for uploading
i've never heard of grandpa jones before but he sure knows how to put on a fun performance!
You should try to catch some episodes of Hee Haw. He was actually a young man hear. Grandpa Jones was his persona for performing
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 RUclips or something. One of my favorite shows of all. It makes fun of country folk, i guess but i love it anyway.. 🤠
Look up a show called HEEHAW
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!
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.
id pick this party over any Rave or club, this is where is at.
MY CHILDHOOD YEARS WERE SPENT IIN TENNESSEE. SO I REALLY LOVE THIS! GRANDPA JONES WAS A GREAT SHOWMAN AND BANJO PLAYER.
Amen brother! I raised on good country music.
What a showman, what a Banjo player, what singer. Never another like him......
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.
Yeah, that sucked. They were gonna go hunting that day.
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. :)
HE IS A LEGEND! he was the best with banjo and no one will match it
that clawhammer banjo is the most joyful music in the world. i grew up on this stuff and love it to death.
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!
i hope one day i can play the banjo like him one of the best rip grandpa and string your music will live forever
Claw hammer style banjo.
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?
A great entertainer and an outstanding banjo player
He's amazing!!!!!!!!!!!! It's the best banjo song performance I ever seen!!!
Grandpa was the best, he was EVERYBODIES Grandpa! The emcee is T. Tommy Cutrer.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As a mandolin player I can only just love this guy! I was knee high to a grasshopper when he was on the tube...
i loved watching good ole grampa on heehaw when i was a kid!!!
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.
We're has these great days and people gone
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
Grandpa was born in 1913, so he would have only been about 48 when this show aired.
Most people fail to realize that virtuoso's like Grandpa Jones put on the hillbilly act because that is what got them stage time.
Or that some of those "hillbillies" were damned fine entertainers.
Love the casual transitions to one-handed playing.
I was actually drinking one as I was listening to this. It'll tickle your Innards.
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!! :)
What a showman, wish I had seen him in person.
I'm pretty sure Grandpa Jones invented most of the hardcore dance moves there are today
"I may forget the words ... I don't do it very often." Ha!
Yes, he barely could remember
every word😂🤷🏻♂️
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.
The way entertainment ought to be done...a man and and instrument making us sing along and laugh!
Now Mountain Dew is your dentist's best friend.
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
Grandpa Jones! givin the name Grandpa at the ripe OLD age of 25!
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
👍👍There is only one of these guys, and that’s grandpa Jones, they broke the mold my name a.m.
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!
Love it, my Dad used to copy his style & was always a crowd pleaser here in Canada
hes grandpa all right like they always say hes everyones grandpa this is awsome
this guy rocks! what a performance!
I think this is the best rendition of the dew on the tube.
Always brings a tear to my eye!
Grampa and String bean were neighbors and good friends for many years, RIP to them both
Happy Birthday, Grandpa Jones! Thanks for the tunes.
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.
The definition of showmanship 👍🏻
If Grandpa Jones don't make you smile, somebody better check your pulse......
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.
this brightens my heart right before finals week!
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?"
The best song evaaaa !! What a happy go lucky guy .....I feel like dancing to the tune !!!!
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.
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
I wish he was my grandpa. I love his music.
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!
That guy could play with his teeth if he didn't have arms. Crazy talent...
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 !!!!!!!!!
The Introducer about crapped his pants at the start and pissed them at the end,Grandpa knocked that one out of the cornfield!
One of the greatest entertainer's of all times
That's the greatest.....nuff said
Grew up on this song...❤
he plays it with some of the most character ive ever seen, noone else compares
A National Treasure theres only One Grandpa Jones!!!
I always loved Grandpa Jones..Notice he treats the banjo like a rocker! He was definitely a bluegrass/punk!
@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.
i love the host's laugh at the ending, exactly how i felt during this video. awesome entertaining music!
love it. thanks for sharing..
I really love this one.
One of country music's many classic characters.
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!!
i love this music !!!!
Look at old Grandpa work that banjo...
Classic!
He is the coolest guy ever
An ultimate performer and he sure can frail that banjo.
Wish my grandpaw was still alive so he could enjoy this with me.
ahh grandpa Jones, beautiful times
I miss the HillBilly invasion of late 60's 70's
No lip sync like these frauds today
my 2 favorites.. grandpa jones and moonshine
Friggin love this
My west coast friends were speechless 😅
Grandpa was a showman par excellence.
@Zjizkyr I wish I coulda seen that show. One of the few country singers I actually enjoy listening to.
Damn right.... Rise And SHINE forever
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..