Grandpa Jones hat had better be in a museum.

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!

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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. :)

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!

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.

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

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

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.

Amen brother! I raised on good country music.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!! :)

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

A great entertainer and an outstanding banjo player

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.

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

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!

We're has these great days and people gone

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 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.

Love the casual transitions to one-handed playing.

Happy Birthday, Grandpa Jones! Thanks for the tunes.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

Always brings a tear to my eye!

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

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

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

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

this brightens my heart right before finals week!

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

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

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?"

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

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

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

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

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

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 missed him at the West End Fair in NE PA many years ago. I'm still kicking myself. He was one of a kind.

Grew up on this song...❤

The definition of showmanship 👍🏻

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Now Mountain Dew is your dentist's best friend.

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

One of country music's many classic characters.

One of the greatest entertainer's of all times

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

A National Treasure theres only One Grandpa Jones!!!

I really love this one.

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.

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

Friggin love this

Damn right.... Rise And SHINE forever

What an entertainer! He sure got a lot of verses off, and even an instrumental solo, in just over 2 minutes. The soda people never made a deal with him. This song would sound different with Scruggs style 3 finger picking. Thankfully we can enjoy both styles. He and Stringbean played clawhammer, while the rest of the Hee Haw banjo players did 3 finger.

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 this music !!!!

He is the coolest guy ever

Shine, shine, shine!!!

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

No lip sync like these frauds today

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

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

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

ahh grandpa Jones, beautiful times

If Grandpa Jones don't make you smile, somebody better check your pulse......

Grandpa was a showman par excellence.

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!

An ultimate performer and he sure can frail that banjo.

love it. thanks for sharing..

Go grandpa Jones!

The Introducer about crapped his pants at the start and pissed them at the end,Grandpa knocked that one out of the cornfield!