I think of this song every time my wife wears a skirt with a honeycomb pattern on it. I sing what I know of it. So today I called it up on RU-vid and played it for her while she finished getting ready. She is the love of my life. She is beautiful and everything this song embodies.
I used to love Jimmie Rodgers. I loved his voice, songs, and looks. I wondered what happened to him. Come to find out he had a sad heartbreaking life. But his music was great and bring back such wonderful memories.
This song meant so much to me as an 11 year old! Life was tough back then (three schools in one year... and so much more) so I felt moments of real joy while listening to this happy, snappy song. Thanks, Jimmie Rodgers.
Mike Snyder I was 12 years old and this was one of my favorite songs 🎵. R I P Jimmie 😢 💔. He was such a powerful singer. I will miss him very much 😢 😥😢😢😭😭😭. God has his angel 😇 back.
Hello, Mike. I also was 11 and things were not what they should be at home. I adored this song, and music....and it made life look good in the future. I wish Rodgers could know that.
Genuinely excited people! I LOVE the way the audience rises to their feet instantly engaged with this terrific song and performer. I watched this show live, I was 10. My god.
We bought a collie...the full size breed in 1976...her name was HONEYCONE...different spelling...I used to sing this to her...then she learned the tune and we sang it together. Great memories of that beautiful girl. She loved the song and I think of her very often. The kids in the neighborhood hung out the car windows and yelled " Lassie"...LOL
On this day in 1957 {September 10th) Jimmie Rodgers performed "Honeycomb" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'... At the time "Honeycomb" was at #5 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, two weeks later it would peak at #1 {for 2 weeks} and it spent over a half-year on the Top 100 {28 weeks}... It peaked at #1 {for 4 weeks} on Billboard's Most Played by Jockeys chart... And on September 23rd it peaked at #1 {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart... Between 1957 and 1967 he had twenty-five records on the Top 100 chart, five* made the Top 10 with one reaching #1 {"Honeycomb"}... Besides"Honeycomb", his four other Top 10 records were "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" {#3 in 1957}, "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling In Love Again" {#7 in 1958}, "Secretly" {#3 in 1958}, and "Are You Really Mine" {#10 in 1958}... James Frederick Rodgers will celebrate his 84th birthday in eight days on September 18th {2017}... * He just missed having a sixth Top 10 record when "Bimbombey" peaked at #11 {for 1 week} on December 15th, 1958...
He lived to a ripe old age, despite those awful head injuries he got in 1967. The legend of rock & roll is made not only from all the young dead stars, but also from those artists who still stay with us into the eighth decade of rock music. Thank you for the show, Jimmie. And Jerry Lee Lewis, Lloyd Price, Don Everly, Duane Eddy, Dion DiMucci, Wanda Jackson, Connie Francis, Brenda Lee, Leon Hughes and a number of others - may you survive the Tough Twenties as you've survived all decades before!
I guess my loving this song is a bit late, as it was the #1 album the week I was born. And here I was a fan 20-30 years later without realizing he lived right out here in Woodland Hills for a n umber of years. He has since moved back to Missouri-I think Branson...pretty cool...a place where he can suddenly sneak out and make appearance for the rest of his life. God Bless you Jimmie...you are/were a fine entertainer. I still love and just returned to listening to said album esp. including "The Preacher"...and better still, "Scarlett Ribbons", whose writer later became my own teacher for a while-another terrific talent, Jack Segal. Alas, those were the times ;-)
This music is the music of my youth. The audience is a reflection of the times. Everything was so much simpler then... I miss those days. Jimmie Rodgers had a wonderful voice and I loved his music. 🎼🖤
Was in the 2nd grade when this became so popular. My kind of music I grew up with...50's 60's and 70's are the best years of my life! Also love his song "soldier, soldier, will you Mary me" that came out in the same year, 1957.
What's amazing today is that none of the kids and especially the girls don't try to touch (or grab) any of the artists who did the sing down the aisle type entrance DC used on several shows. Imagine if some of the top artists today tried to do that at some the concerts I've been to in the last decade. Yipe!
When life was simple, music was hip, kids were respectful and wholesome. I was born in 1953 so I've been through all kinds of music and i have to say that music in those days was easy to understand and made sense. Don't get me wrong there has always been good music but i guess it's just that those years seemed so innocent. Please, someone build a time machine I guess for now this will have to do
One of the first records my family bought was Kisses Sweeter than Wine and we played it so much that I still remember the words to this day. What a voice.
Jimmie F. Rodgers passed away on January 18th, 2021 in Palm Desert, California at the age of 87... Between 1957 and 1967 the Camas, Washington native had twenty-five records on Billboard's Top 100 chart, four made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Honeycomb", for two weeks in September of 1957... Besides "Honeycomb", his other three Top 10 records were "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" at #7 in December of 1957, "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling In Love Again" at #7 in February of 1958, and "Secretly" at #3 in June of 1958... He just missed having a fifth Top 10 record when his "Bimbombey" peaked at #11 in December of 1958... May he R.I.P.
Who wants to go back to the late 50s were people were better, cities were cleaner, where jobs were plentiful and families can buy a house instead of being forced to rent small studio apartments. And most of all no homeless encampments living in front of your home.
He had some weird stuff happened 1967. Supposedly some cops attack him. beat him up pretty bad. But then according to Tommy James who was also on roulette records he seems to think Maurice Levy who was the owner had him whacked for some reason crazy
Eatin that early mornin cereal by the same name, and rememberin the fad around it 64-65 somewhere in there. The hit was still smoldering aas late as 65-66
What is it that some of the kids are stretching there arms out when clapping. I have seen that in some other old clips like this. Was it some craze back then?
It's a shame what the LAPD DID TO HIM.. IM HAPPY TO HERE HIS LAST MARRIAGE LASTED THE MOST.HES A REAL STAND UP MAN RARE BREED..KEEP UR RIGHT HAND UP AND UR ASS OFF THE FLOOR..
I wasn’t sure at first, but that was definitely Dick Clark. Fascinating to see him so young, and he had such a long, storied career. Does anyone under 30 even remember him, though?
Santina Rainey .....pepperrrrrrrmint , gum. 😂I remember a commercial with a cowboy putting his gun up on the salon bar, in exchange for gum, . 😅, Fruitstripe had the animals, singing.
The program was sponsored by the company that made Beech-Nut chewing gum and they handed it out before every show! In hindsight, they shoulda handed it out *after* the show coz it looks terrible with all the kids chawwing on what looks like an entire pack (5 sticks!) at one time!
Today (October 15) is my dear, sweet Mom's birthday, so I dedicate one of her favorite 50s songs to her today. It's a nice scene here, but it begs the question just where is the mic that is supposed to pick up Jimmy's voice? (There's no mic on his lapel, in his hand, or a boom mic hanging around his head as he made his way to the stage.) Oh well, it's fun to watch and hear this special moment with Dick Clark and the kids, anyway.
Hi Ricky. Jimmie Rodgers is my father. Just curious how the family relation comes about. Who are the relative connections and where are they all from. All the best.
MME Corbett Lol...you read my mind. I'm thinkin did all teenagers chew gum back then. One thing very noticeable they are all having fun and appear more confident than today's youth. I think shows like this so important. It's a down right shame what kids are missing sitting alone in bedroom on their phone.
