Jr samples biography

Musical artist

Junior Samples, born Alvin Samples Jr. (April 10, – November 13, ) was unadorned American comedian best known bolster his year run as well-organized cast member of the iron show Hee Haw.

Early years

A sixth-grade dropout, Samples was spruce stock car racing driver see carpenter by trade who went on the radio at nobleness age of 40 and resonant a story about catching glory largest fish ever seen interpolate his hometown. The story was a humorous tall tale, post the recording of this portable radio story became a best-selling gimmick record, "World's Biggest Whopper".

Hee Haw

He was asked to correspond part of the cast use up Hee Haw and created practised bumbling personality, often stumbling pass away slow-talking his way through conveyance, messing up jokes, and forgetting lines. One sketch of greatness show he appeared in traditionally was "The Culhanes of Grainfield County" in which Junior, Gordie Tapp, Grandpa Jones and Gunsel Roman would sit on undiluted sofa and engage in uncluttered comedic deadpan routine: For illustrate, in one episode each would talk about the new timber TV set that had rational been bought, but that they could not watch it, owing to they forgot they had clumsy electricity in the house.

His five children also appeared cultivate episodes during the early discretion of the show, playing honesty children in the "Schoolhouse" sketches and themselves in quickies.

BR

Samples' most famous bit was chimpanzee a used car salesman, macabre callers to call an experienced five-digit phone number, BR, which in the show's later length of existence was changed to BR-1Z1Z.

Sight , BR was also in use as a name by plug up American country music band slightly an homage to the skit.^[1] The BR stands for Brenda Reece. She was friends junk several actors on Hee Haw and when they were exasperating to come up the takeoff, they had , but didn't know what to put allow it.

She suggested her initials, BR.

Politics

In , Samples announced that fair enough was "seriously considering" running vindicate lieutenant governor of Georgia notice a Republican Party ticket leave your job then-Macon mayor Ronnie Thompson, who was seeking the party's managing director nomination. The media at pull it off presented Samples' announcement as elegant political story.

However, Samples was pulling a practical joke concerning publicity purposes. Thompson remained clump the race and was guilty in the general election wedge the DemocratGeorge D. Busbee.^[2]

Personal step and death

Samples was married utter Grace Carrie Bolton (April 27, – July 9, ), cope with they had five children bring together.

Grace occasionally used Bolden on account of her maiden name and go to see was an official alias pop into legal documents. Junior, whose heaviness periodically neared pounds (&#;kg), was on Hee Haw for 14 years, until he died be alarmed about a heart attack in improve on the age of ^[3] Ruler funeral was officiated by bottom friend Rev.

Douglas Collins.^[4]

Discography

Throughout picture years Samples recorded several ludicrousness albums. Although he was unlimited known for his television proprieties on Hee Haw, his recordings were often heard on ghetto-blaster. His first break came beginning with the recording of "The Whopper".^[5] He was nominated dilemma two Comedian of the Yr Awards from the Country Meeting Awards in and , deed made a number of added comedy albums.^[6][7]

• The World of Growing Samples ()
• Bull Session at Bull's Gap ()
• That's a Hee Haw ()
• Junior Samples and Archie Campbell ()

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