Scott went back to playing the medicine shows. The duo worked on WRDW Augusta, Georgia, and WSPA Spartanburg, South Carolina, sponsored by Vim-Herb Tonic, where they were known as Ramblin’ Scotty and Smilin’ Bill.Ī freak snowstorm destroyed their tent show and the duo split (although they would reunite for recordings). The following year he was hired as a member of Charlie Monroe & His Kentucky Pardners, appearing as Rambling Scotty on Wheeling’s WWVA.Īnother band member was Curly Seckler, who would become a partner and life-long friend. He was a member of various medicine shows working on radio stations in Greensboro, Greenville and Raleigh, wherein during 1938 he had a position on WPTF radio. Chamberlain’s Medicine Show and so began a life as a traveling showman that lasted six decades.Īfter two years of touring the South, Chamberlain passed all interest in his show over to Scott these included the medicine formulas for the laxative Herb-O-Lac, also called Man-O-Ree and Katona, and a liniment that Scott sold as Snake Oil. This led to his first job, working for ‘Doc’ M.F. He began playing at church socials, dances and on local radio – WAIM, in nearby Anderson, South Carolina – with his sister Cleo at the age of 16. Ramblin' "Doc" Tommy Scott (born on Jand died on September 30, 2013) of Toccoa, Georgia, USA, was taught to play the guitar by a neighbor. American film and TV, country music pioneer, and early Grand Ole Opry star
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