Jimmy Boyd

Jarvis immediatly announced Jimmy would be a regular on the show. In 1974 he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as an elderly man going on the road with his pet cat in Harry and Tonto. Al Jarvis had a five hour talk show everyday on KLAC with a few regulars on it, including Betty White called "Make Believe Ballroom". He was nominated for seven Emmy Awards. Upwards of twenty thousand telegrams and phone calls. Art Carney also had many screen and stage roles, including the portrayal on Broadway of Felix Unger in The Odd Couple (opposite Walter Matthau as Oscar). Jimmy to his astonishment won the talent show, and the next day Al Jarvis and KLAC were literally deluged in telegrams and telephone calls from viewers. Born Arthur William Matthew Carney in Mount Vernon, New York, he gained lifelong fame for his portrayal of upstairs neighbor and sewer worker Ed Norton opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the popular television comedy show The Honeymooners.

Jimmy auditioned for Al Jarvis and was such a hit they put him on the show that night. Art Carney (November 4, 1918 - November 9, 2003) was an American actor. they were told about auditions being held for the Al Jarvis Talent Show on KLAC-TV. While in L.A. Cataract surgery in the forties was a serious operation, and had to be done in Los Angeles.

Leslie had cataracts in both eyes and had to have surgery. Fifty dollars was a lot of money for the Boyds, but Jimmy enjoyed performing and would have done it for nothing. They offered to pay Jimmy fifty dollars every show. After the dance was over, Texas Jim Lewis and the manager of a local radio station came to Jimmy's parents and asked if he could come sing every Saturday night, and be a part of the hour long radio show they planned to broadcast from the dance.

Jimmy sang and played and the crowd went wild. Texas Jim Lewis, the band leader, called little Jimmy up on the stage. Jimmy's older brother Kenneth, about nine years old at the time, went up to the bandstand and told the band leader he should hear his little brother sing and play the guitar. Leslie and Winnie ocassionaly took the kids with them to a Country and Western dance, held in a barn in Colton, California a few miles from Riverside.

Leslie got a meanial job cleaning up construction sites. Although there was no cotton in California to pick, this time they were determined to stay. The family after being sent back to Mississippi a year earlier by the Welfare Department for not having any skills to get a good job. Leslie had been a farmer when the draught hit and there were no more crops, he picked cotton, he could pick over five hundred pounds of cotton a day himself, and was paid twenty five cents. Hoboing from Mississippi, Louisiana and as far as West Texas, picking cotton to help support his own family of twenty-one brothers and sisters.

He hitchhiked on freight trains to join his family in California, something he had done growing up through the Depression. Having sold everything they owned, and only having enough money for his wife's ticket and the two toddler boys, Leslie rode the rails. In 1941 his father Leslie Boyd put his wife Winnie, their two sons Kenneth four years old, and Jimmy two years old on a train bound for Riverside, California. He was born January 9, 1939 in an old farmhouse in McComb, Mississippi.

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