found: His Stutterin' boy, c1984:t.p. (Mel Tillis) p. 13 (Lonnie Melvin Tillis; b. Aug. 8, 1932, Tampa, Fla.)
found: McCloud, B. Definitive country(Tillis, Mel; given name, Lonnie Melvin Tillis; b. Aug. 8, 1932, Tampa, Fla.; singer, songwriter, guitar, drums, violin, music publisher, actor, author, comedy)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 20, 2017(in obituary published Nov. 19: Mel Tillis; b. Lonnie Melvin Tillis, Aug. 8, 1932, Tampa, Fla.; d. Sunday [Nov. 19, 2017], Ocala, Fla., aged 85; his career as a country singer and the writer of enduring hit songs like Ruby, don't take your love to town earned him a place in the Country Music Hall of Fame and a National Medal of Arts, but he was equally well known for the stutter he employed to humorous and self-deprecating effect onstage)