Skeeter Bonn was a singer and guitar player on several national country music

Country music

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 radio programs and had several single

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s on RCA Victor in the 1950s. He was known as the "pickin' and singing' boy".

He was born in 1923 in Sugarville

Sugarville, Illinois

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, a small settlement in Fulton County, Illinois

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. At age 13 he left the family farm for nearby Canton

Canton, Illinois

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. He joined the United States Navy

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 in 1942, married Mary Louise Strode of Canton in 1945, and received an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1946.

He won a singing championship in Illinois in 1949, and by 1951 he was on the Iowa Barn Dance Frolic on WHO (AM)

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 in Des Moines, Iowa

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. After that he was a regular on the WLS

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 National Barn Dance

National Barn Dance

National Barn Dance, broadcast by WLS-AM in Chicago, Illinois starting in 1924, was one of the first American country music radio programs and a direct precursor of the Grand Ole Opry...

from Chicago

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, WLW Midwestern Hayride

Midwestern Hayride

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from Cincinnati

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, and WWVA Jamboree

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from Wheeling, West Virginia

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In addition to his ten or so singles on RCA Victor, he also had a single on Sims Records

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, #325 "Let Me Be The One", backed with "Off To Vietnam (In The Green)".