| Junior Lewis Boughan | |
| Alias: | Skeeter Bonn |
| Birth Date: | 6 April 1923 |
| Birth Place: | Sugarville, Fulton County, Illinois |
| Origin: | USA |
| Instrument: | Guitar
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| Genre: | Country music |
| Years Active: | 1950s |
| Label: | RCA Victor |
| Past Member Of: | Shirley Starr |
Skeeter Bonn (Junior Lewis Boughan, 6 April 1923 - 6 November 1994)[1] was a singer and guitar player on several national country music radio programs and had several singles on RCA Victor in the 1950s.[2] [1] He was known as the "pickin' and singing' boy".
He was born in 1923 in Sugarville,[2] [3] a small settlement in Fulton County, Illinois. At age 13 he left the family farm for nearby Canton.[1] He joined the United States Navy in 1942,[1] married Mary Louise Strode of Canton in 1945,[3] [1] and received an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1946.[1]
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.[1] After that he was a regular on the WLS National Barn Dance from Chicago,[3] [1] WLW Midwestern Hayride from Cincinnati, and WWVA Jamboree from Wheeling, West Virginia.[1]
In addition to his ten or so singles on RCA Victor,[2] [1] he also had a single on Sims Records, No. 325 "Let Me Be The One", backed with "Off To Vietnam (In The Green)".[1]