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Happy 74th 🎂 Jimmy! (Original Post)
Floyd R. Turbo
Jan 2018
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Cirque du So-What
(25,811 posts)1. I had a feeling
you were referring to Jimmy Page. One of the greats!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,228 posts)4. Indeed! 👍🏻
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,886 posts)2. And he shares it with Grand Ole Opry great Rollin Sullivan,
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 stepmotherthat 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.
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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:
And now, for something completely different:
shenmue
(38,501 posts)3. Greatest guitar player ever, in my opinion