Skeeter Bonn (Junior Lewis Boughan, 6 April 1923 – 6 November 1994) ^[3] was a singer and guitar player on several national country music radio programs and had several singles on RCA Victor in the 1950s. ^{[1] [3]} He was known as the "pickin' and singing' boy". ^[2]

He was born in 1923 in Sugarville, ^{[1] [2]} a small settlement in Fulton County, Illinois. At age 13 he left the family farm for nearby Canton. ^[3] He joined the United States Navy in 1942, ^[3] married Mary Louise Strode of Canton in 1945, ^{[2] [3]} and received an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1946. ^[3]

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. ^[3] After that he was a regular on the WLS National Barn Dance from Chicago, ^{[2] [3]} WLW Midwestern Hayride from Cincinnati, and WWVA Jamboree from Wheeling, West Virginia. ^[3]

In addition to his ten or so singles on RCA Victor, ^{[1] [3]} he also had a single on Sims Records, No. 325 "Let Me Be The One", backed with "Off To Vietnam (In The Green)". ^[3]

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