Ramblin' Tommy Scott

Ramblin' Tommy Scott (b. June 24, 1917) is an American country and rockabilly musician.

Scott was born outside of Toccoa, Georgia and began playing the guitar at age ten. After high school he played in traveling medicine shows for a few years, and got his first job in radio on WTFL out of Athens, Georgia in 1933. By 1937 he was making regular appearances on the Uncle Pete and Minervy show on Raleigh, North Carolina's WPTF, and soon after this he was offered a spot playing on the WWVA Jamboree in Wheeling, West Virginia. Tommy was a frequent soloist there, and did skits involving ventriloquism and blackface.

In 1939 he joined WHAS out of Louisville, Kentucky, where he did the early morning show. That same year he married, and soon the two had a child; both became part of his stage show. In the 1940s he did radio transcriptions which were broadcast nationwide, and by 1948 he had his own show, "Ramblin' Tommy Scott's Hollywood Hillbilly Jamboree".

In the 1940s he recorded with Curly Seckler, and released a number of solo sides in the 1950s and 1960s which branched into rockabilly.

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References

* [http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/index.php?id=11998 Ramblin' Tommy Scott] at Hillbilly-Music.com