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Jimmy Boyd (born January 9 1939 in McComb, Mississippi) is an United States of America|American singer, musician, and actor.

Early life
Jimmy Boyd was born in an old farmhouse to Winnie and Leslie Boyd. In 1941 his father, Leslie, put his wife and their two sons (Kenneth, 4, and Jimmy, 2), on a train bound for Riverside, California for the second time. The family was sent back to Mississippi a year earlier by the California Welfare Department because Leslie didn't have the skills to get a good job. Having sold everything they owned, and only having enough money to buy tickets for his wife and the two boys, Leslie rode the rails. He hitchhiking|hitchhiked on freight trains to join his family in California, something he had done growing up through the Great Depression|Depression. Hoboing from Mississippi, Louisiana and as far as West Texas, he picked cotton to help support his own family of 21 brothers and sisters.

Leslie's father (Jimmy's grandfather) was known locally as "Fiddler Bill". He played fiddle at dances and family gatherings throughout the region of what was known as J.S. Mississippi in the late 1800s. He reportedly could play the fiddle and do a back flip at the same time. Most of Fiddler Bill's 21 children inherited his musical abilities, and all sang together and played musical instruments. Leslie played guitar and harmonica and started Jimmy playing th... read all