Still better than the "new country music" of today.

This song was a cover to Dear John with Ferlin Husky and Jean Sheppard. This version was written by Jack Cardwell of Mobile, Alabama. Jack Cardwell and my Dad Boots Barnes were Hot Dogs of Mobile, Alabama Radio for years.

Cousin Jody was the bomb!

Beautiful! Very talented musicians.

Half the people who see this don't realize it was BEFORE HeeHaw was on TV and comedy skits like this along with music were a staple at the Grand Ole Opry long before TV... In fact half the people seeing this were born decades after black & white TV, and HeeHaw...

My name is Aidan Sullivan and I’m there great nephew. It’s great to see how awesome they are.

My dad played a Gibson mandolin just like the one Oscar is playing. I still have it.

Talked to a man who knew Oscar and he said that Oscar told him that they practiced eight hours a day so they could make that look like they were just flying off the cuff. Wow

@billystyron3941

5 ай бұрын

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@brianblaylock5328

4 ай бұрын

And what happened with cousin Jody then they had another guy ( he wasn’t a good as cousin Jody)

Love it

They were great musicians as well as funny guys.The lady in the background cracks me up watching her crack up.Wait does that make any sense?

Very funny and great musicians!!!

Dear Joan,già di suo è stupenda, ma eseguita da questo impagabile trio,acquista una valenza in più, anche se fa sorridere:sono bravissimi!!!!!!!!!

TOO Darn cute. Love it.

A parody of the 1953 country song "A Dear John Letter". This was written and recorded by Jack Cardwell.

Bons por natureza. maneco - Porto Alegre - RS -Brasil.

They were so funny :)

Cousin Jody would be perfect for "Dentures While You Wait" commercial.

@henry44mag.26

6 жыл бұрын

Brian Zachel ha ha that ain't no lie

@garyrasberryjr.552

10 ай бұрын

Would you believe that Jody (real name James Clell Summey) was roughly 39 when these were filmed? He was a dobro/steel player for Roy Acuff in the 1930s.

THIS WAS MY KINFOLK

thanks for uploading my mom and i had a good laugh

Great stuff.😂😂😂

A good laugh

I agree 100%

These guys could have been Hollywood stars.

John Benn - Clell Summey aka Cousin Jody (playing his "biscuit board" Gibson steel guitar)

@Ron-jd4th

7 жыл бұрын

Showbizz Pizza Cousin Jody lost his fingers in an accident, while attempting to level up a house trailer which he and his family were preparing to move into, in a trailer park off of Dickerson Rd. in Nashville. This story was told by the late musician, and music publisher, Buddy Killen, in his autobiography, entitled: "Flying By The Seat of My Pants." Buddy related that he and his wife already lived in a trailer at that park, and it was he who talked Jody into moving there. Anyway, Buddy wrote that apparently, Jody had jacked is trailer up with some sort of jack, and was attempting to place some sort of blocks under it, and just as he was placing the last, uppermost, block underneath it, the jack kicked out, pinning Jody's hand between the block, and the trailer frame!! Buddy related that he was next door, in his own trailer and heard Jody's "blood curdling screams," and ran to his aide, jacked the trailer back up & freed Jody's hand, then called an ambulance for him! I just can't imagine how awful the pain of that was, nor the stigma of loosing 2 a couple of fingers!!!

@OfficialHankIII

7 жыл бұрын

I never knew that about cousin J. I spent almost 20 years living off of Dickerson and tryin to get back to it...

@garyrasberryjr.552

4 жыл бұрын

@@OfficialHankIII Jody was Roy Acuff's original dobro player in the Smokey Mountain Boys.

cousin jody.....

Cousin Jody

Oscar Sullivan

Who is the singer in the middle with the long nose?

Ctv

Charlie Louvin called them a poor imitation of Homer and Jethro.

@banjobandit3270

7 жыл бұрын

they were better than Homer and Jethro. Most would agree. Love Charlie Louvin though

@darrelltiencken2194

5 жыл бұрын

I like both groups!

@robertguilbeau1705

Жыл бұрын

Apples & Oranges.

Real tallent, could you do it???

Super talented musicians. Too bad they had to be clowns to get work.