Grandpa Jones

Welcome Folks!

2009-03-15T15:02:00.000+01:00

Welcome to the one (and unfortunately only) official Grandpa Jones Fanpage!

Here you find biographies, pictures, videos, songtexts, links and much more about one of the greatest Country Legends!

Old Grandpa

2007-08-01T08:00:00.002+01:00

A short one out of the early 70s..

Apple Jack

2007-08-01T07:56:00.000+01:00

This video is probably out of the later 80s or the 90s. Grandpa Jones looks very old here but he still had the power to sing and laugh!

Night Train to Memphis

2007-08-01T07:55:00.001+01:00

This video was just added to the Internet a few weeks ago in June 2007. It is a very old video of Grandpa Jones singing one of this greatest songs called "Night Train to Memphis" - watch it, it is great!

Are you from Dixie

2007-08-01T07:54:00.000+01:00

A very old TV-Show with Grandja Jones out of the 50s - must see!

Joke and Sunny South

2007-08-01T07:53:00.000+01:00

A very old video of Grandpa Jones. Here you can see that one of this most famous songs "Good old Sunny South" is more than 50 years old. And his humor to that time was a little bit dirty ;) Enjoy!

Old Dan Tucker

2007-08-01T07:44:00.000+01:00

A new - but very old - video of Grandpa. Maybe from the 50s.

Grandpa Jones - Old Rattler

2007-03-15T13:43:00.000+01:00

Here I found a shourt but great and very funny Video of Grandpa Jones at the end of a TV-Show, singing "Old Rattler". The Show was called "Billy Walkers's Country Carnival"

Banjo Sam

2007-03-15T13:40:00.000+01:00

Another Video of Grandpa Jones playing in a TV-Show his famous song "Banjo Sam" - it was recordet in the later 60 ths.

Grandpa Jones - old Video from the Grand Ole Oprey

2007-03-10T13:48:00.000+01:00

Here I found a very old Video of Grandpa Jones. It's from the Grand Ole Oprey and to the time, where he wasn't aged in his makeup so far. I think it was in the 50 ths, 1952 maybe.

Interesting is that this Song is not included in any of his later released albums - it's an unicate!

About this Site

2007-03-09T14:08:00.000+01:00

First of all, let me intruduce myself. I am not an american as some people might think - i am from europe. From germany.
Why did I create this fanpage? Well i think the question should be:

Why did nobody before??

I came to Grandpa Jones and his wonderful songs, his great humor, warm and happy kind not long ago.
Grandpa Jones left us 1998 - and the homepage "grandpajones.com" is forgiven since this time to my regret. But nobody did post any content on this domain until the time I am writing this.
I can't understand this. Grandpa Jones was such a great and pleasant person that I think it is the duty of every old or new fan to keep him - that, what he gave away to us - alive!

Where are all his fans gone? Why must I - a young german man who was only a child when he died - create a fan homepage for him?

Well, I think he has diserved this site.

This is a memorial for Grandpa Jones!
Everybody who want to take part on keeping him alive can contact me, e-mail me etc. Don't let me be the only one, don't let me think that I am the last fan of Grandpa Jones in this whole world!

On this site you can find old videos of him als well as Songtexts, a biographie, pictures, interessting links to other sites about him and much more.

I beg all of you who love Grandpa Jones as much as I do: Let us kepp him alive! Contact me, let us work together on this project!

I habe a dream: The dream that one day "grandpajones.com" is filled with content - this content or something else! But let us work together on this dream - don't let me stand here alone!

I wish to finish this little explanation of this site with a quote of Grandpa Jones Titel "Falling Leaves", that is also on his gravestone:

"When you leave this earth for a better home someday
the only think you take is what you gave away..."

You are not dead until you are not forgotten! If only one person reminds on you, you have a place in his heart and live on in the minds of the people who think of you!

About Grandpa Jones

2007-03-08T14:55:00.000+01:00

Louis Marshall Jones, better known as "Grandpa" of Grand Ole Opry and "Hee Haw" fame, died at the McKendree Health Care Center in Nashville Thursday from complications of a stroke suffered Jan. 3. He was 84.

Jones is survived by his wife,Ramona, two daughters, Eloise and Alisa and a son, Mark. His funeral is February 23 at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.

Jones, who played the guitar and banjo on the leading U.S. country music showcase for 46 years, picked up the nickname at the age of 22 at a radio station in Boston because of his bushy eyebrows and a voice that made him sound older, supposedly by hillbilly crooner Bradley Kincaid.

A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Jones was born in Niagra, Ky., the youngest of 10 children in the family of a sharecropper.

His family was constantly on the move and he got his first break in Akron, Ohio, when his guitar earned him a talent competition victory over 450 other amateurs.

He played guitar regularly on Station WJW in Akron, then teamed up with harmonica player Joe Troyan. The two played in the house band for the popular "Lum and Abner" radio show, and then joined another troupe as "Zeke and Harve".

After the act broke up, Jones served as a Military Police officer during World War II. He organized a band called the "Munich Mountaineers" playing daily on the Armed Forces Radio Network.

When the war ended, Jones moved to Nashville in 1946 where he worked with Pee Wee King on a tent show and appeared on the Grand Ole Opry. He was made an Opry member the following year. During this period, Jones turned to banjo playing, using the "drop-thumb technique" which he interspersed with humorous remarks to his audience.

In 1969 he joined the immensely popular TV series "Hee Haw". He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1978.

During his lengthy career, Jones recorded numerous albums and toured extensively with his wife, Ramona, an accomplished fiddler. Jones was associated with such songs as "Old Rattler," "Good Ole Mountain Dew," and his version of the Lonzo and Oscar hit "I'm My Own Grandpa".

Guestbook of "GranpaJones.dl.am"

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