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Full Name: Jim Wayne Stafford
Description: Vocalist, Comedian, USA
Known For: Mainly known for the hit song “Spiders and Snakes”
Instruments: Voice
Music Styles: Easy Listening
Location: Branson, United States of America
Date Born: 16th January 1944
Location Born: Elouise, Florida, United States of America
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Jim Stafford
An American singer, songwriter, Comedian.
James Wayne “Jim” Stafford (born January 16, 1944) is an American comedian, musician, and singer-songwriter. While prominent in the 1970s for his records “Spiders & Snakes”, “Swamp Witch”, “Under The Scotsman’s Kilt”, “My Girl Bill”, and “Wildwood Weed”, Stafford has headlined at his own theater in Branson, Missouri, since 1990. Stafford is self-taught on guitar, fiddle, piano, banjo, organ and harmonica.
Stafford was raised in Winter Haven, Florida. In high school, he played in a band along with friends Bobby Braddock, Kent LaVoie (also known as Lobo) and Gram Parsons (of the Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers).
An American comedian, musician, and singer-songwriter, prominent in the 1970s. Stafford is self-taught on guitar, fiddle, piano, banjo, organ and harmonica.
Stafford was raised in Winter Haven, Florida. In high school, he played in a band along with friends Bobby Braddock, Kent LaVoie (aka Lobo (musician)) and Gram Parsons (of the Byrds).
Stafford’s first charted hit was “Swamp Witch”, which barely cracked the Top 40 in July of 1973. By early 1974 he had charted his biggest hit, “Spiders and Snakes”, which peaked at #3 on the American charts that March.
Stafford continued to have moderate chart success through most of 1975. Popular as they were, many of Stafford’s songs had a tendency to test the boundaries of censorship, which often times did not go unnoticed by some radio stations who would either censor the questionable lyrics, daypart the song, or just pull it from their playlist altogether.
He had his own TV vareity show in the mid seventies.
In the late 1970s, Stafford was married briefly to singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry and they have a son, Tyler. Stafford was also married to Ann Britt Stafford for 24 years. She co-owned the Jim Stafford Theatre in Branson, Missouri, until December 2013.
Hit singles include.
SWAMP WITCH – 1973
SPIDERS AND SNAKES – 1973
MY GIRL BILL – 1974
WILDWOOD WEED – 1974
YOUR BULLDOG DRINKS CHAMPAGNE – 1974
I GOT STONED AND I MISSED OUT – 1975
JASPER – 1976
TURN LOOSE OF MY LEG – 1977