Ramblin' Tommy Scott

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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.

[edit] Diskographie

Year	Title	Record label
1951	Rockin’ and Rollin’ / You Done Me Wrong	Federal Records
1955	Dance With Her, Henry / Jumpin’ From Six To Six	4 Star Records
1955	Dig Me Little Mama / Cat Music	4 Star Records
1960	Cats and Dogs / Here Today and Gone Tomorrow	Request Records
196?	Lovesick and Lonesome / Rainbow In My Dreams	Katona Records
196?	Nobody But You / Juke Joint Girl	Katona Records
196?	Bay Sho Del / Thibodeaux	Katona Records
196?	EP: Don’t You Go Chicken Alone With A Memory Four Tired Cat Bay Sho Del Flea Circus Rosebuds	Katona Records