Buddy Jones (born Oscar Bergen Riley, December 25, 1902 - October 20, 1956)[1][2] was an American Western swing musician who recorded in the 1930s and 1940s.
He was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and after his father's death moved to Port Arthur, Texas as a child.
There he began performing on radio station KRMD, and met singer Jimmie Davis.
Some of his recordings were duets with Jimmie Davis, and he also recorded with his brother Buster Jones on steel guitar, and with a band including pianist Moon Mullican, fiddler Cliff Bruner and Bob Dunn (steel guitar).
[4] He joined the Shreveport Police Department Traffic Squad in the mid-1930s, and in the early 1940s married and ended his recording career.