I'm glad they did tbh as my dad started singing along and when I asked how he knew he reminded me of my grandad's love of country western and he used to play this one alot
I was born in 1977' .. Mexican American born in Chicago Illinois and i just wanted to say this song strikes a chord in my soul and I sing it out loud with joy and sometimes cry when I hear it.
Took my son to see Buck at the Crystal Palace in Bakersfield a month or so before Buck passed on. To say Buck was a "Hometown Hero" would be the understatement of the century.
I was there also about a month before his passing and I was driving past Bakersfield listening to his funeral service on the radio. He was a great performer and I still listen to his music daily
Craig Dias don't torture yourself defining country music by what's on the radio. country is alive and well, but it's not on preprogrammed, corporate radio. we've got 5 or six gigantic companies that own most of the stations in this country, and when they find a reliable formula they roll it out everywhere, coast to coast and they go looking for the right sort of artists that can feed them the reliably listenable pop schlock they need to fuel their FM monster... yeah, the radio is mind-numbing nitrous, but you bypass that now. we are on the interwebs right now. we have the buttons and AOL free trials, Je suis la tondeuse à gazon, Vous êtes le tondeuse à gazon.
I'm a 60-year-old from West Texas (now living in Oregon). Country music has never been my scene, but my father loved all that stuff, and this fellow in particular. We'd all sit around and watch TV in the evenings, and if there wasn't anything on that we all wanted to watch, then he'd break out his old Gibson and entertain us. He liked to (try! :D) to play songs by The Buckeroos, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Hang Williams, Roy Orbison, and many others. Those were turbulent times in my life, but I remember the good times too.
A station break in the country station in Grand Theft Auto V (aptly called "Rebel Radio") described today's excuse for country music perfectly: "frat-boy country." Leave it to R* to hit the nail on the head like that!
I grew up listening to this music, but it's so cool that new media (Fallout) is bringing this music to more and more people. Good old Bakersfield sound is what more people need these days.
What is there not to like about Buck Owens. He was a great entertainer and a great singer. I love the man and his music. He is a legend of country music and I recognize his excellence. Hee Haw was a great show and wish it was still on tv.
i played in a band with Willi Cantu and Buck came and played with us a couple of times. Buck sat with his arm around my shoulders in a booth at Denny's and stole my french fries
Yeah buck owens is perfect if you're not familiar or don't like much country music!! OvO plus his voice is one of a kind ovo it's easy for the ears ⭐️v⭐️
i watched buck owen's show back when i was a kid in the 60's. i remember being fascinated watching them play the guitars. it really amazed me. i grew up as a teenager in the 70's, when rush, boston, all the classic rock stuff came out. i became a rock and r&b fan. still am...but i always hark back to my childhood when i hear a buck owens tune. it sounds like home somehow. R.I.P. buck.
Inmy lifetime ive seen all the great music come to life. Country rock blues you name it. Thank you God Thank you Jesus. For my life and simple pleasures
To all the fallout fans, make sure to check out tiger by the tail as well. Back when I was knee high to a grasshopper and had peach fuzz, this was the first song that played when I involuntarily had to dance with a girl for the first time at Buck owens crystal palace in Bakersfield.
I was born in 66, & as I grew up I remember listening buck,(with others) play on the radio. Hey, anyone remember the radio?oh, let's not 4get Bob wills & hank Williams SR.&dolly & Patsy.well let's never 4get the greats, they will B with us allways. Code 4.
Don Rich from Olympia WA! Don originally was a fiddle player and Buck taught him on the electric guitar. A very talented guitar player and vocalist! Buck and Don, the best Country harmonies ever! RIP Boy's.
When Don first joined The Buckaroos he was a fiddle player and back up rythym guitarist. Buck taught him how to play lead and "Act Naturally" was the first song Don played lead on. (1963).
A #1 hit for Buck Owens on the Country & Western charts. It was the 66th #1 C&W hit of the Rock Era. Growing up, Hee Haw was one on of my favorite shows. Our family would draw names at Christmas and one year, my cousin drew my name and gave me The Buck Owens Show: Live in Vegas LP. I still have it. It's hard to believe that he's no longer with us. To you C&W artists of today: Remember who set the table for you.
Loved Hee Haw! It was often on in my house as well, and I think it sowed the seeds for my love of bluegrass music later in life. I remember being wowed by Buck and Roy Clark on that show as a kid. (Edited for typo correction).
I love these guys, just look at the love between Buck and Don these guys died and went to heaven long before they actually did!!! Nobody has more fun than these two!!
Sadly,when I was a kid, I only knew Buck as that guy from "Hee Haw" Only shortly after he left us, did I realize what a true force he was in country music. I love this early stuff.
@shakey64 Thanks for buying and reading the book. I appreciate it. Bryce Martin, pioneer music critic of the Bakersfield Californian emailed me today and said: "Eileen Sisk wrote -- finally -- what every citizen in Bakersfield had already known for years, or should have known, the truth about Buck Owens, the truth local journalists apparently feared to tread -- even after Owens' passing....She has mined the past in a city where others in her trade feared to even shake the timbers."
I would have to say that seeing Don Rich play on this Buck Owen's Ranch House Show, was what "spiked" my interest to learn and play guitar. Still playing, but not near as smooth as ole Don. RIP Brother.
That's so cool buck and the buckaroo singing hit after hit my late parents seen him in Las Vegas when they got married and he was so cool when they seen him as the man in black was there too j c in the early 60 s so cool you dont see that kind of talent nowadays in country music ect
Wow, incredible vocal harmonies and understated guitar playing! That guy in the blue suit is killing it, but he's so casual about it you almost don't notice what he's doing the whole time. Excellent!
@@j.p.fitting9226 Yes, indeed. Buck was so heartbroken by Don Rich's untimely death that, yes, he went into semi-retirement until Dwight Yoakam lured him out of it in 1988 for a version of "Streets of Bakersfield."
Loved Buck and Don together. Those outfits? Just the times...remember when country singers like Porter Wagner and others all dressed in western attire?
I have pics of this NUDIE suit from the Crystal Palace in Bakersfield. Saw the Buckaroos play this there too. I covered this song on my latest album ( 3 years ago) One of the best country songs ever! - Kitchen Dick Jones.
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