You won’t find talent or entertainment like that these days . When I first found your videos I was up all night playing them over and over and I was sober I don’t drink .
They are good entertainment lol, I've been playing guitar most my life and couldn't hold a candle to that kid, but sure like hearing these kids perform.
This kid was before his time he could play a mean axes and that was in the early 50s before anyone else i still think ROY Clark and GLEN CAMPBELL and AC/DC guitar’s are the best l have heard l am 74 years old and I come from the land down under
Joe Bonamassa was playing with the greats B.B.King,Buddy Guy Etc at 11. This kid turned two or three cords,a weird guitar and the dancing energy into a career. But music subjective I respect your comment.
Sad that the Collins Kids are almost forgotten today, except by the Rockabilly crowd, who properly revere this pace-setting, brother-sister duo so loaded with talent and originality. This is the first televised Grand Ol Opry in 1956. The Collins Kids were the first "Special Guests"! That is how big the Collins Kids were in early TV, appearing on Steve Allen, Dinah Shore, Ozark Jubilee, etc!
I am 67 from Canada. I never heard of them until i came across them on you tube What talent I can now not get enough of them. Sorry to hear about Lorrie passing. Why they didn't become international stars is beyond me.
I think rock killed their careers. There's a clip of them in 1964 still performing rockabilly. 1964 was the year of the British invasion. Larry was only 20 years old and had the talent to change gears. I wonder why. When this clip was filmed, Jimmy Page was playing Skiffle. If he was still playing that type of music by 1964 we may not have him:)
@@jdubb500 He inspired surf and punk rock, but he never really capitalized on that. What I think really killed their career was Lorrie running off and getting married as well as the radio stations not playing their songs very often, if at all, despite many country and rockabilly fans liking them.
@@darthjarjarbinks8953 Lorrie's January 1959 marriage, (kept secret for about 3 months it appears) is exactly what derailed the Collins Kids success trajectory. In interviews Larry has said that there were several movie offers, TV deals and new record offers, active on the table, that were instantly pulled when news of Lorrie's marriage became public roughly around mid-April 1959. Lorrie was only 16 when she married Stu Carnull, who was acting as booking manager for Johnny Cash and the Collins Kids too. The truth is Johnny Cash had been smitten and obsessed with Lorrie since she was about 15 years old, and was after her to have an affair with him. Lorrie tactfully and gently refused the affair, but could not reject Cash totally because she and Larry were touring with Cash, and making income for their family. My take on Lorrie's marriage is that she viewed it as an escape hatch for her to keep Cash under control. I doubt Lorrie would have married Stu had she know the sidetracking effect it would have on the incredible career she and Larry were having. Lorrie at 16 was still only a young girl, so there is no way she could have realized how badly her marriage would hurt her and Larry. This is my interpretation of Lorrie's mindset, 1956-59, when Cash came into the lives of the Collins Kids, as read in Chapters 6 thru 11 of JOHNNY CASH; THE LIFE by Robert Hilburn,.These chapters detail Cash's first times in California, performing on TV at Town Hall Party and Tex Ritter's Ranch Party, where he met the Collins Kids, and when his obsession with Lorrie began to grow about the time she turned 15 in May, 1957. Being obsessed and making life miserable for a young woman is pretty disgusting behavior for a 26/27 year old man, married with 2 or 3 children as Cash was. Imagine what Sam Phillips at Sun Records could have done with Lorrie and Larry! Mitch Miller at Columbia Records never knew exactly what to do with the Collins Kids he had under contract, and that hurt their national exposure.
Found a Collins Kids 45 at an opp shop. Hop, Skip and Jump, thought it would be a child's record. I purchased it because of the Australian green hexagon label which I always liked. Got a bit of a surprise when I played it. This was about 30 years ago, been an avid viewer of them on YT.
It's actually later than 1956 because she's wearing a wedding band. She and Rick Nelson were in a relationship (and she was featured on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, singing with Rick (the first place I saw her, when episodes were on YT and did a little digging) and I'm thinking that the relationship was curtailed by his parents, because just after it ended she married her manager.
I thought I had seen all the video of the Collins Kids that were on RU-vid, but here is one I missed. That's June Carter and Hank Snow with them. Was this at the Grand Ole Opry?
+loverofcountry506070 This one is not on you tube-directly, it's a bleed over from channel 4, you need to move the rabbit ears and adjust the UHF knob to get it in clearly
@@shoknifeman2mikado135 She’s probably dead, but then again, the news media is fake a majority of the time. My guess is who you were talking to may not have been Larry and they are just posing as him.
