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 was inducted as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1978. More about Grandpa Jones
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Jones was born in the small farming community of Niagara in Henderson County, Kentucky, the youngest of 10 children in a sharecropper's family. His father was an old-time fiddle player, and his mother was a ballad singer and herself adept on the concertina. His first instrument was guitar. Ramona Riggins, one of several women who began to gain some recognition in a musical form long dominated by men was Grandpa's wife and musical partner of over thirty years. Ramona first started playing the mandolin when she was six or seven years old. Jones spent his teenage years in Akron, Ohio, where he began singing country music tunes on a radio show on WJW. In 1931, Jones joined the Pine Ridge String Band, which provided the musical accompaniment for the Lum and Abner show. By 1935 his pursuit of a musical career took him to WBZ radio in Boston, Massachusetts, where he met musician/songwriter Bradley Kincaid, who gave him the nickname "Grandpa Jones" when he was 22 years old, because of his off-stage grumpiness at early-morning radio shows. Jones liked the name and decided to create a stage persona based around it. Later in life, he lived in Mountain View, Arkansas. In the 1940s he met rising country radio star Cousin Emmy, from whom he learned to play the banjo.The most expensive item with a signature of Grandpa Jones (Minnie Pearl Grandpa Jones Signed Autographed Hee Haw Cast By Both) was sold in December 2023 for $150.00 while the cheapest item (Grandpa Jones Signed 8x10 Photo AG1291) found a new owner for $0.99 in March 2020. The month with the most items sold (2) was June 2012 with an average selling price of $5.00 for an autographed item of Grandpa Jones. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in August 2010 with $39.95 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was March 2020. In average, an autographed item from Grandpa Jones is worth $5.00.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Grandpa Jones were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
Item Title | Price | Store | |
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EVERBODY'S GRANDPA BY GRANDPA JONES - AUTOGRAPHED BY GRANDPA JONES | $6.50 | ||
Everybody's Grandpa: 50 Years Behind the Mike Autographed By “Grandpa Jones | $3.99 | ||
Grandpa Jones Autographed Picture Postcard - Picture From Laugh-In | $4.30 | ||
GRANDPA JONES COMEDY ACTOR AUTOGRAPH PHOTO ORIGINAL 8X10 SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED | $30.00 | ||
Grandpa Jones hand signed 8 x 10 photo | $7.01 | ||
Grandpa Jones Signed 8x10 Photo AG1291 | $0.99 | ||
Grandpa Jones signed 8x10 photo Country Music | $25.00 | ||
Grandpa Jones, Country Star, Signed Typed Note on Postcard Photo, COA | $34.99 | ||
Louis Marshall Grandpa Jones (Hee Haw Banjo Player) Autographed Signed Card | $5.00 | ||
Ramona Jones Recipes Cookbook The Grandpa Jones Family Mountain View AR Signed | $12.00 |