Skeeter Bonn

Junior Lewis Boughan[1][2]
Also known as Skeeter Bonn
Born (1923-04-06)April 6, 1923[1][3]
Sugarville, Fulton County, Illinois[1][3]
Origin USA
Died November 6, 1994(1994-11-06) (aged 71)[3]
Genres Country music
Instruments Guitar; yodeling[3]
Years active 1950s
Labels RCA Victor
Associated acts Shirley Starr[3]

Skeeter Bonn (Junior Lewis Boughan, 6 April 1923 – 6 November 1994)[3] was a singer and guitar player on several national country music radio programs and had several singles on RCA Victor in the 1950s.[1][3] He was known as the "pickin' and singing' boy".[2]

He was born in 1923 in Sugarville,[1][2] a small settlement in Fulton County, Illinois. At age 13 he left the family farm for nearby Canton.[3] He joined the United States Navy in 1942,[3] married Mary Louise Strode of Canton in 1945,[2][3] and received an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1946.[3]

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.[3] After that he was a regular on the WLS National Barn Dance from Chicago,[2][3] WLW Midwestern Hayride from Cincinnati, and WWVA Jamboree from Wheeling, West Virginia.[3]

In addition to his ten or so singles on RCA Victor,[1][3] he also had a single on Sims Records, No. 325 "Let Me Be The One", backed with "Off To Vietnam (In The Green)".[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Skeeter Bonn". Vouécourt, Haute-Marne, France: Rocky Productions. March 8, 2009. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Skeeter Bonn". Prairie Farmer WLS Family Album 1924-1954. Chicago: WLS (AM). 1954. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Skeeter Bonn". Hillbilly-Music.com. Modesto, California: Hillbilly-Music.com. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
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