Real name: Anthony Slater

American country music singer, yodeler, guitarist, harmonica player, & songwriter.
Stage name of Anthony Slater.
Born May 11, 1915 in East Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
Died March 19, 1980.
Member of the WWVA Original Jamboree He performed standards and yodel-filled ballads using the stage name Smiley (or Smilie) Sutter (he won the West Virginia state yodeling championship in 1938), he was best known as Crazy Elmer Squeezix, "King of the Country Comics." Every Saturday night Crazy Elmer treated the Jamboree audience to a hilarious twenty-minute sketch, often co-starring Monte Blake as his straight man. During one Jamboree show in 1941 Crazy Elmer performed a comedic rifle presentment drill that had the audience roaring with laughter.