As long as there's been an idiom known as country music, there's been idiots milking the hay seed image of backwoods folk. Hee Haw is only the most recent and prominent example, but long before that immensely popular show, the duo of
Lonzo & Oscar (Lloyd George and
Rollin Sullivan) were opening for superstar
Eddy Arnold as a local yokel comedy/music act. When the duo scored a hit in 1947 with "I'm My Own Grandpa" (later the signature tune for
Grandpa Jones), however, they quickly stopped opening for
Arnold and set out to become popular stars of their own, doing exactly that as performers on the Grand Ole Opry. And proving that Lonzos (a derogatory term for someone who lives in a rural area) are interchangeable, Rollin "Oscar" Sullivan hired another partner when
George tired of the act, taking his aw-schucks comedy act into the 1970s. ~ Steve Kurutz, All Music Guide
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Lonzo & Oscar