Don’t forget John Anderson. He sounds so much like lefty. Go back and listen to John perform Long black veil with Merle haggard as a ghost vocalist as they called it when recorded. That version of lefty’s song is solid country gold friends.🎶
@James greene I've listened to thousands of hours of C&W music since the late 70's. My very favorite singer is Lefty. George, Merle, Ray Price and Keith are next in line. I have every song Lefty ever recorded; several hundred and several demos. He was simply unbelievable.
Nothing like the old Opry & Louisiana Hayride days. Its not hard to model after these instrumental & vocal arrangements. There's just one problem: R E A L talent is required! 😪
@trevsmusicchannel8958: Among the backup Singers you will find a young Conway Twitty lookalike named Lin Brown who was part of Sonny James's backup Singers for awhile. And I am resolutely convinvced that the Legendary Guitarist James Burton appears on here as well. He backed Rick Nelson and Elvis Presley.🤔😉🎤🎼🎵🎶🎸🎹🎻🥁B.W.
My family were very early settlers along Saginaw Bay , Bay Port, Sebewaing, Caseville and Fair Haven Township .Many of them were involved in fishing near Bayport Mr. Frizzell did a great job capturing their spirit.
What you and many others know has been replaced by counterfeit country. The artists dressed respectable and creative. Todays singers come out wearing their cleanest dirty shirt and stand there with there pants covering their footwear. It will change in time to the traditional way as we knew it
I remember so well sitting in my daddy's lap as he sat on the recliner humming to this song while sipping a beer..... He passed away a long while ago, and hearing this song both makes me remember those wonderful memories, and it also causes my heart to ache as well.... Love ya, dad !!!
I was was but a boy living just North of Detroit when Lefty released this song. Everybody loved it! He was a great story teller in song. Willie Nelson said Lefty influenced him to write in a similar style.
Cambrola Some people would beg to differ with you. Left died early in life due to a massive addiction to alcohol. He was also one mean, evil, dangerous animal when he was drunk.
I agree with the Power Lefty Frizzell had on the music of the country artists Merle Haggard etc, and we pray RIP. they gave us so much of brilliant work that will last for years in USA history. Brilliant artists, writers and bands
100% including randy travis who sings leftys songs so good and Merle Haggard, johnny cash. I'm listening ri george and Merle Haggard now and every day. RIP king legends
for a year or so my family lived next door to an older couple. he had been wounded on omaha beach and wore a leg brace. he had a great collection of country records acquired from the end of the war on to the early 1960s. somewhat scratchy 78s and i'm telling you, the scratches gave the songs character. he had alllllllllllllll those folks, from the war on, and i listened to every one of them. this one's for you mr. martin. rip luther e. martin, jr.
This song is four generations old. My maternal grandpa loved this song. My Dad wisely said he also liked this song. He told me the story of how he came to appreciate this sort of country music. I love story songs, regardless of era or genre, and have fond memories of my Grandpa humming along to this song or my Dad reminiscing about courting my Mom and listening to this song via a record. Grandpa liked to talk about how smart the man in the song was. Thanks to satellite radio, my son knows this song.
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I love old, classic country songs that tell a story. Lefty's voice captivates me. I have been listening to his other songs.he surely influenced many of the great country singers. George Strait and Alan Jackson sang it right when they sang Murder on Music Row.
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I have no idea what reminded me of this song just now, as the last time I heard it was when I was playing one of my LPs with a compilation of country music - about 40 years ago. Haven't a clue why it dropped into my head, but I so enjoyed listening to it again, and the fact her daddy was clawing the ground for gold when there was none, just goes to show that the love of money isn't as powerful as the love of another person.
My nephew was born in Saginaw, Michigan. Not too long after that my brother, wife & kids moved to Alaska for work. That made me think of this song. I'm a proud Michigander.
Remember in late 60s and 70s singing along with my dad to this song and many others on road trips. Lefty,Hank, and so many other great artists back then.
Lefty is one of the four pillars of what country music is supposed to be. I truly believe that the greats all encompassed the values of Hank Sr, Lefty, Ernest Tubb and Roy Acuff (whom are the direct successors of Jimmie Rodgers). The best are the ones who mastered the Acuff Voice Projection, The Tubb Drawl, The Williams Yodel, and the Frizzell Vibrato. Everyone from Haggard, Jones, Pride, Rodriguez, Cash, Waylon and Willie to Strait, Jackson Travis and Whitley all encompassed these techniques to pay tribute to their predecessors as well as establish their own sound. Nashville is great at making a building look good from the outside, but has forgotten that without a solid foundation and strong supporting walls, that sucker is gonna crumble to the ground with no contractor and crew to build it back up, let alone fix it.
Pretty much agree with you . Each of those legendary pioneers had their uniquely idiosyncratic vocal style . As to who I think had the best singing voice , both genders , I reckon Faron Young , and Patsy Cline .
This is one of my favorite songs to bad they don't play them anymore sure do miss the good old days when you go to a bar and have a great time listening to music like this
Lois,you can thank the panty waist pop country people for that! The don't write a song unless every other word is repeated half a dozen times! Really no talent is the problem!
I'm a local Cash tribute artist, and Cash loved Lefty's music so much that he covered Long Black Veil after Lefty died, as a way to honor him. Lefty and Johnny's versions of that are my all-time favorites.
I was born in Saginaw, Michigan I grew up in a house on Saginaw Bay My dad was a poor, hard working Saginaw fisherman Too many times he came home with too little pay I loved a girl (I loved a girl) In Saginaw, Michigan (Saginaw, Michigan) The daughter of a wealthy, wealthy man But he called me that son of a Saginaw fisherman And not good enough to claim his daughter's hand Now I'm up here in Alaska, looking around for gold Like a crazy fool, I'm a-digging in this frozen ground, so cold But with each new day, I pray I'll strike it rich and then I'll go back home and claim my love in Saginaw, Michigan I wrote my love (I wrote my love) In Saginaw, Michigan (Saginaw, Michigan) I said, "Honey, I'm a-coming home, please wait for me And you can tell your dad I'm coming back a richer man I hit the biggest strike in Klondike history" Her dad met me (Her dad met me) In Saginaw, Michigan (Saginaw, Michigan) He gave me a great big party with champagne Then he said, "Son, you wise, young, ambitious man Will you sell your father-in-law your Klondike claim?" Now he's up there in Alaska, digging in the cold, cold ground The greedy fool is looking for the gold I never found It serves him right, and no one here is missing him Least of all the newlyweds of Saginaw, Michigan We're the happiest man and wife in Saginaw, Michigan He's ashamed to show his face in Saginaw, Michigan
The greatest set of understated, smarty-pants rhymes in any song, anywhere. How many phrases can YOU come up with to rhyme with "Saginaw, Michigan"? Are they any more clever than the ones Lefty uses? And despite all that cleverness, you are never once taken out of the heartfelt narrative of this classic "story-song". That is some first-class tune-smithing right there folks and an example of one helluva song.
