Up for auction "Spiders & Snakes" Jim Stafford Hand Signed 8X10 Color Photo.

ES-6073E

James Wayne Stafford (born January 16, 1944) is an American comedian, musician, and singer-songwriter. While prominent in the 1970s for his recordings "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.^[2] 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 called the Legends, along with friends Bobby Braddock, Kent LaVoie (also known as Lobo) and Gram Parsons (of the Byrds, and The Flying Burrito Brothers).  Stafford's first chart hit was "Swamp Witch", produced by Lobo, which cracked the U.S. top 40 in July 1973. On March 2, 1974, his biggest hit, "Spiders & Snakes", peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, selling over two million copies, earning a gold disc by the RIAA that month.^[4] Stafford continued to have moderate chart success through most of 1975.