Tommy Scott

Singer, actor, comedian, and head of one of America’s last travelling Medicine Shows, Ramblin’ Tommy Scott, was a regular on the radio show Wheeling Jamboree in the early '30s before joining the Herb-O-Lac Medicine Show. In 1939 he joined Charlie Monroe’s Original Kentucky Partners, where he performed serious vocals, but regularly turned his hand to comedy. In 1941 Scott played the Grand Ole Opry, where he sang, did comedy and performed ventriloquism with a dummy known as Luke McLuke. He subsequently toured the act across the U.S. with his old-time medicine show, which was still on the road in the '90s. He recorded for various labels, including 4-Star and King, and in 1976 was inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame.