| Alias | Skeeter Bonn |
|---|---|
| Birth date | April 6, 1923[1][2] |
| Birth place | Sugarville, Fulton County, Illinois[1][2] |
| Death date | November 6, 1994 (aged 71)[2] |
| Origin | USA |
| Instrument | Guitar; yodeling[2] |
| Genre | Country music |
| Years active | 1950s |
| Label | RCA Victor |
| Past member of | Shirley Starr[2] |
Skeeter Bonn (Junior Lewis Boughan, 6 April 1923 – 6 November 1994)[2] was a singer and guitar player on several national country music radio programs and had several singles on RCA Victor in the 1950s.[1][2] He was known as the "pickin' and singing' boy".[3]
He was born in 1923 in Sugarville,[1][3] a small settlement in Fulton County, Illinois. At age 13 he left the family farm for nearby Canton.[2] He joined the United States Navy in 1942,[2] married Mary Louise Strode of Canton in 1945,[3][2] and received an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1946.[2]
He won a singing championship in Illinois in 1949, and by 1951 he was on the Iowa Barn Dance Frolic on WHO (AM) in Des Moines, Iowa.[2] After that he was a regular on the WLS National Barn Dance from Chicago,[3][2] WLW Midwestern Hayride from Cincinnati, and WWVA Jamboree from Wheeling, West Virginia.[2]
In addition to his ten or so singles on RCA Victor,[1][2] he also had a single on Sims Records, No. 325 "Let Me Be The One", backed with "Off To Vietnam (In The Green)".[2]
References
- ^ "Skeeter Bonn". Vouécourt, Haute-Marne, France: Rocky Productions. March 8, 2009. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Skeeter Bonn". Hillbilly-Music.com. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Skeeter Bonn". Prairie Farmer WLS Family Album 1924-1954. Chicago: WLS (AM). 1954. Retrieved July 9, 2010.