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Happy 74th 🎂 Jimmy! (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2018 OP
I had a feeling Cirque du So-What Jan 2018 #1
Indeed! 👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2018 #4
And he shares it with Grand Ole Opry great Rollin Sullivan, mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2018 #2
Greatest guitar player ever, in my opinion shenmue Jan 2018 #3

mahatmakanejeeves

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2. And he shares it with Grand Ole Opry great Rollin Sullivan,
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 10:32 AM
Jan 2018

per a book I snagged at the library book sale about two months back.

"I'm My Own Grandpa" (sometimes rendered as "I'm My Own Grandpaw" ) is a novelty song written by Dwight Latham and Moe Jaffe, performed by Lonzo and Oscar in 1947, about a man who, through an unlikely (but legal) combination of marriages, becomes stepfather to his own stepmother—that is, tacitly dropping the "step-" modifiers, he becomes his own grandfather.

Lonzo and Oscar were an American country music duo founded in 1945 originally consisting of Lloyd George (1924-1991) as "Lonzo" and Rollin "Oscar" Sullivan (1919-2012), best known for being the first to perform the 1948 song "I'm My Own Grandpa". George departed in 1950, and Lonzo was later portrayed by Johnny Sullivan (1917-1967)[1] from 1950 to 1967 and by David Hooten from 1967 to 1985, when the band retired (with some final shows performed by Sullivan and first Cleo C. Hogan, then Billy Henson, the latter of which eventually bought the rights to the name).
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Biographies

Lloyd George


Lloyd George was born to parents Austin and Myrtle George in a duplex house in Cordova, Alabama on June 27, 1924.
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Rollin Sullivan

Rollin Sullivan was born in Edmonton, Kentucky, one in a family of ten. Rollin (born January 9, 1919) and brother Johnny Sullivan (born July 7, 1917) toured together in the 1930s; they were also in a local group known as the Kentucky Ramblers.

Anyway, here they are:



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