Louis Marshall Jones (October 20, 1913 - February 19, 1998), known professionally as Grandpa Jones, was an American banjo player and "old time" country and gospel music singer. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
I'm 35 and when I listen to music like this makes me say we have gotten so far from good music and left with the garbage now to fill the shoes of real artists like these real musician
This was one of my grandfather's favorite songs and he would sing it around us all the time. He passed last year a day after Thanksgiving and his death still hurts, but I can still enjoy the same music he did thanks to uploaders like this.
i came here exactly for this comment for the same exact reason as you. My grandfather passed away last month and this is one of the songs he always used to sing to us when we were out on his farm. Thank you🫶🏼
This was the first song I ever learned in the 1950's taught to me by my Grand Daddy. He was a Milam county pioneer from Sharp Texas and a lover of good music and dance! Duke Gilleland, Belton Texas
Some of my earliest memories are my Mom and Dad teaching us Dan Tucker and singing it through the house! We were huge Grandpa and Grandma Jones fans. Still to this day...nobody brings it like Grandpa!
I'm a city boy but my mom, who grew up in the Ozarks, used to sing this to me. When I was a little boy I just thought it was a funny song. Now I'm so thankful to have that connection to generations before me!
And he wore a fake mustache for much of his career. Later on "Hee Haw" he had a real mustache. He said he wore the same pair of boots his entire career, and had to have them resoled multiple times.
I remember Mr. Edwards on "Little House On The Prairie" used to sing this all the time. Also, there used to be a fast food barbecue joint in the Hulen Mall's (Fort Worth, Texas) food court called "Old Dan Tucker's Smokehouse". If I remember right, they served quite good barbecue, and they served beer on tap. Anyhoo, Grandpa Jones applies his great talent on this classic folk song.
Little House On The Prairie Mr. Edwards sang this song and it belonged to him! Loved him for it!!! Sorta SameCharacter with Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer. Good Memories.
Grandpa Jones definitely was a character. Some of his stories about how he learned the songs he was about to perform, as well as the expressions he made while performing them were classic.
We had to sing this during Catholic grade school music class as kids. My cousin and I called it "Old Damn Fucker" and happily sang that. Ah memories...
This is so great! We sang songs like this in grade school music time! Every week some of the oldest songs from the country and the sea, this amazing woman Mrs.Wallace, would spend every morning teaching music at the middle school in town, fifth n sixth grade then spend afternoons with her trusty autoharp going around to all the little tiny k-4’s in the countryside and so forth teaching a little bit of notation reading in her own way, but mostly the old songs of our heritage, Micmac, French, Appalachian, sea chantries, and songs that went down in history. She didn’t change many of the lyrics either, though I knew more things to do with a drunken sailor than she played from listening to all the old men who would get together to play on the Common, the big Central Park in town, and so forth. Then on Saturday nights Stringbean and Grandpa Jones were like heroes! Singing the songs we knew and playing so well. Thank you for this, I hope these tracks or at least these songs make it forward to a new generation.Mrs. Wallace would have really loved you for it.
Grandpa Jones (October 20 1913 - February 19 1998)... He married Romana in 1946 . Rip " Romona Jones (nee Riggins) (January 28 1924 - 18 November 2015)
Thats why i looked up this song. Im watching the pilot episode of little house and it was played there but i had also heard it on the Andy Griffith show before .
I remember Pa singing these songs to Laura in her books, it must have been great fun, much better than sitting around on a computer or TV watching some crappy show.
Buddy in high school recorded some old albums on to tape for me , took me a long time to figure out who recorded Run little Rabbit Run , it’s was Stringbean
kevin forth Cool! Mine also used to sing Hey Mister Custer, Running bear, stuff like that... That's my favorite thing about seeing him, especially if I can get him to sing those songs
Louis Marshall Jones (October 20, 1913 - February 19, 1998), known professionally as Grandpa Jones, was an American banjo player and "old time" country and gospel music singer. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
That ain't the way Opie and Andy sang it.
@@eramorgan7375opie and Andy’s is a made up version
@@liamsmith1371 Aren't all songs made up? Seems pretty similar to this version, anyhow.
Знатный дед и его красавица жена Рамона.
Я узнал о НЕМ лет 10 назад и когда плохое настроение включаешь Дедулю и все ОК, он действительно Высочайшего уровня талант имел это Дух Америки.
Banjo, harmonica, cowbells, singing, telling jokes and stories--Grandpa Jones was a born entertainer.
Grandpa Jones was a badass on the banjo. I love this.
String smoker for sure
I'm 35 and when I listen to music like this makes me say we have gotten so far from good music and left with the garbage now to fill the shoes of real artists like these real musician
True. I love the old bush yarns of the bullock carts & pioneering times.
This was one of my grandfather's favorite songs and he would sing it around us all the time. He passed last year a day after Thanksgiving and his death still hurts, but I can still enjoy the same music he did thanks to uploaders like this.
i came here exactly for this comment for the same exact reason as you. My grandfather passed away last month and this is one of the songs he always used to sing to us when we were out on his farm. Thank you🫶🏼
He lived like 80 years? It happens at that age.
@@bobgomez9481shut up
This was the first song I ever learned in the 1950's taught to me by my Grand Daddy. He was a Milam county pioneer from Sharp Texas and a lover of good music and dance! Duke Gilleland, Belton Texas
First song I ever learned to play too, only on harmonica, also in the 50's. I can still get through it, if I can find my harmonica.
Some of my earliest memories are my Mom and Dad teaching us Dan Tucker and singing it through the house! We were huge Grandpa and Grandma Jones fans. Still to this day...nobody brings it like Grandpa!
Ramona Jones was a great performer in her own right... probably what attracted Grandpa.
I'm a city boy but my mom, who grew up in the Ozarks, used to sing this to me. When I was a little boy I just thought it was a funny song. Now I'm so thankful to have that connection to generations before me!
Grandpa lived quite some time in the ozarks.met Ramona in Mountain View in 1982
Love how Grandpa Jones just lets *loose* in the last chorus 🪕🔥
I read this comment as soon as he started doing it. You weren’t kidding 😂😂😂
Fabulous entertainer I was blessed to see him live in person! RIP ❤️🙏
Everything grandpa jones does is great!
This guy is great. I’ve been a city slicker all my life, but I love this guy’s act.
It is amazing once you hear this song when you were a kid, the words still stick in your head, when you are older.
My dad sang this to me and my brothers, Rest in Peace.
This is talent that people can actually appreciate.
These So Called New Country Stars Will NEVER Come Anywhere Near As Good As Grandpa, George, Tammy, Loretta etc etc etc.
As the song had ask. No one will ever fill their shoes.
IrishMusicCountry whatevs
IrishMusicCountry whatevs dude
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Well, you’re missing out on a lot of good stuff. Have fun boxing yourself in!
I visited Dan Tucker's grave in Elbert County, GA only 20 miles from where I live in SC. The original headstone from 1818 is still there
I pass by that marker all the time headed north to the mountains from Lincolnton GA.
I love this vintage Opry stuff. I love the classic country music and that down home banger pickin' a lost art indeed.
Fun fact: Grandpa Jones was 24 when he first introduced this "Grandpa" character!
He grew into it well
And he wore a fake mustache for much of his career. Later on "Hee Haw" he had a real mustache. He said he wore the same pair of boots his entire career, and had to have them resoled multiple times.
We saw Grandpa Jones and his wife live about 45 years ago. Best live show I ever saw, and I saw a lot of them.
I remember Mr. Edwards on "Little House On The Prairie" used to sing this all the time. Also, there used to be a fast food barbecue joint in the Hulen Mall's (Fort Worth, Texas) food court called "Old Dan Tucker's Smokehouse". If I remember right, they served quite good barbecue, and they served beer on tap. Anyhoo, Grandpa Jones applies his great talent on this classic folk song.
My grandmother taught me this song❤
😍😍😍wooow real country I would love to see this greetings from Costa Rica
Grandpa Jones. He was one energetic guy for his age.
He was about 40 years old in this clip 😅
My grandfather would occasionally sing this song to me in my younger years God how I miss him so
I love listening to all the different ways Old Dan Tucker has been sung!
This man never fails too make me smile
Little House On The Prairie Mr. Edwards sang this song and it belonged to him! Loved him for it!!! Sorta SameCharacter with Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer. Good Memories.
Grew up on this stuff, man times have changed
Grandpa Jones
This song reminds me of my favorite uncle, gone these 10 years. Uncle Bob did enjoy this kind of music, and he'd have enjoyed Grandpa Jones.
to bad they don't have shows like this on TV today
This one here, and battle of New Orleans my Grandpa who raised me , made sure I could sing them both by age three. Great memories
Grandpa Jones definitely was a character. Some of his stories about how he learned the songs he was about to perform, as well as the expressions he made while performing them were classic.
Старая музыкальная школа никогда не будет скучной. Это была настоящая игра.
That Little House on the Prairie guy with the beard was obsessed with that song!
now THIS is the good stuff
We had to sing this during Catholic grade school music class as kids. My cousin and I called it "Old Damn Fucker" and happily sang that. Ah memories...
I Love Grandpa Jones.
grandpa and ramona were both really good singers but they were absolutely great banjo and guitar players.
Miss this part of our country's history. Fun to see. Good clean entertainment
This is so great! We sang songs like this in grade school music time! Every week some of the oldest songs from the country and the sea, this amazing woman Mrs.Wallace, would spend every morning teaching music at the middle school in town, fifth n sixth grade then spend afternoons with her trusty autoharp going around to all the little tiny k-4’s in the countryside and so forth teaching a little bit of notation reading in her own way, but mostly the old songs of our heritage, Micmac, French, Appalachian, sea chantries, and songs that went down in history. She didn’t change many of the lyrics either, though I knew more things to do with a drunken sailor than she played from listening to all the old men who would get together to play on the Common, the big Central Park in town, and so forth. Then on Saturday nights Stringbean and Grandpa Jones were like heroes! Singing the songs we knew and playing so well. Thank you for this, I hope these tracks or at least these songs make it forward to a new generation.Mrs. Wallace would have really loved you for it.
Grandpa Jones (October 20 1913 - February 19 1998)... He married Romana in 1946 . Rip " Romona Jones (nee Riggins) (January 28 1924 - 18 November 2015)
What an entertainer !!....his banja playing is impressive to boot...i love these old time acts, just fantastic 🍻
My mawmaw taught me this along with Little Brown Jug. What a treat to see this video.
This song brings me back to my childhood
mr. Edwards was a fan too used to sing this on Little House on the Prairie
Yes back when television shows and music had decency
Great memories!
Thats why i looked up this song. Im watching the pilot episode of little house and it was played there but i had also heard it on the Andy Griffith show before .
THATS WHY IM HERE NOW. DARN MR EDWARDS
I heard it there too and I never knew it was an actual song, I thought he made it up. A bit anachronistic to the storyline though now.
my grandfather had the honor of performing with Grandpa jones
Love Grandpa Jones rest in peace greatest banjo player ever love you Grandpa Jones
Claw hammer style at its finest, always enjoyed them especially falling leaves
I will.Always Love him and his Music.
I miss those days I was little
Thank God I can listen to this old
My Granpa could do this song really good. When he was a young guy in the early 1920's in SE MO he was a well known square dance caller.
I love this song.This rendition of old man tucker is the best one I've seen.American folk people,thankyou. p.s.will Trump get in?!
I went to his dinner theater in mountain view Arkansas many times. The food was as good as the music
I remember Victor French would sing this playing his character on Little House on the Prairie.
Ernest Tubb and Grandpa jones... legends
This the country music I know….
How do you follow THAT up?!
What a showman!
Was introduced to Grandpa by Hee Haw. A great performer and his recording of Are You From Dixie? is a true American classic full of dynamic energy.
Now this is true country music
You know you've made it in the music business when Ernest Tubb has no problem giving you the stage.
need more show like this on T V
Grandpa Jones was a great entertainer.
Always loved hearing grandpa jones on hee haw, never knew he was born on my birthday and died on my wife’s
Love the song, always heard it on "little house on the prairie" never knew the full lyrics, lol
That song Old Dan Tucker actually became the theme song for the character Isaiah Edwards from Little House on the Prairie
good old Grandpa Jones I liked his clawhammer banjo . he started that Grandpa act when he was in his 20s.
I love this song!
A wonderful look at simpler and better days than the, so called, “progress” has given us today.
So Happy I heard this.
Grampa and banjos go together like biscuits and gravy!
Gramps and E. T. fine Americans.
And wasn't Ramona a dish!
Bill Bright
Like hardtack and coffee.
Bill Bright That's the strangest thing I've heard today
The Isaiah character from the TV show Little House On The Prairie always sing that song anytime he was on the show
When i hear "Old Dan Tucker" my head:
Mr. Edwards...
Yes ❤️
I remember Pa singing these songs to Laura in her books, it must have been great fun, much better than sitting around on a computer or TV watching some crappy show.
Fr this video Lol it so well it's so old
This songs makes think of Mr. Edward𝚜.
That's is exactly my memory!!😂 Mr. Edwards
R.i.p. Grandpa Jones.
such a good song
This is a very good performance !
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Joanna allen
sung this in music class in elementary school in the 90s xD in
love it,from england
High on that mountain...he still sings.
Buddy in high school recorded some old albums on to tape for me , took me a long time to figure out who recorded Run little Rabbit Run , it’s was Stringbean
A showman first class.
Grampa out there shredding. Damn hes good
always loved one grand parents he lived just a few miles from me.
11/23/2022,,23:05HRS,,Needed to Hear something with Spirit🎸
My grandpa used to sing this a lot :) but he sang it differently... I can't remember how he used to sing it
Mine to he sang it old dan tucker was a mean old man
kevin forth Cool! Mine also used to sing Hey Mister Custer, Running bear, stuff like that... That's my favorite thing about seeing him, especially if I can get him to sing those songs
+kevin forth Wheras in this version he just seems kind of eccentric, acident prone, and a little out of it.
Grandpa was a great banjo player.
PHENOMENAL!
My Oupa, was die Beste🐎
Music is not the same as when he was with us
Some of grandpa's facial expressions were laugh out loud funny.
Holy crap I remember learning this in kindergarten /first grade.....
YASSss my new favorite song
Lester and Earl were legendary
Learnt this song from Mr.Edwards on Little House On The Prarie
you are so right, love this,