Skeeter Bonn (Junior Lewis Boughan, 6 April 1923 – 6 November 1994) was a singer and guitar player on several national country music radio programs and had several

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in the 1950s. He was known as the "pickin' and singing' boy". He was born in 1923 in Sugarville, a small settlement in Fulton County, Illinois. At age 13 he left the family farm for nearby

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. He joined the United States Navy in 1942, married Mary Louise Strode of Canton in 1945, and received an

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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) in Des Moines, Iowa. After that he was a regular on the WLS '' National Barn Dance'' from Chicago, WLW '' Midwestern Hayride'' from Cincinnati, and ''

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'' from Wheeling, West Virginia. In addition to his ten or so singles on

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, No. 325 "Let Me Be The One", backed with "Off To Vietnam (In The Green)".

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