#waylonjennings #dukesofhazzard #reaction RAPPER Reaction to Waylon Jennings Theme from "The Dukes of Hazzard" (Good Ol' Boys) Join this channel to get access to perks: / @blackpegasusraps
@jcornman24 kinda, but it was easier to fight the companies back then. Less popular singers around forced these companies to lessen restrictions on things they didn't really like. So people like Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings could get away with a lot more back then because everybody wanted to listen to them. Don't have their music? Listeners change the station
He did write this for the show specifically. He also was the narrator and in the intro you see a pair of hands playing guitar, that was Waylon too. That's why he included that line in the song about showing his hands but not his face on TV.
I'm listening to your reaction and want to say as a woman born in Georgia in 1963 with a Dad born in 1940 in the North Georgia mountains, to us the rebel flag had nothing to do with racism and everything to do with independence, surviving on your on skills, having and keeping the right to own your own property, be yourself, do your own thing to survive without the oppression of the government establishment.
The Dukes Of Hazard is loosely based off a movie (Moonrunners) about a Southern family that bootlegs (smuggles home made alcohol = moonshine). Waylon Jennings was the narrator for that movie and was asked to return for the TV show. He was also asked to write and record a theme song for the TV series. Two versions of the song were recorded/ One version edited for the TV show intro and one longer version for radio airplay. The song went to #1 on the country charts and reached #21 on Billboard
And Moonrunners starred James Mitchum, who acted in his dad Robert Mitchum ground breaking movie Thunder Road about a country boy running shine. First car chase movie, way before Bullitt.
Met Jerry Rushing at DukeFest '04 at Bristol Motor Speedway.Cameo in the show as used car salesman "Ace Parker" trying to sell the wrecked "Richard Petty racecar" (which was "Lee-1" that jumped over Roscoe in the intro) to the boys.
You'll love his song Mama's don't let your Babies grow up to be Cowboys. His wife Jessi Colter is no slouch in the music department either. He wrote this song for the TV show
He wrote it for the show. One of the lines is “I know my momma loves me, but she don’t understand they keep showing my hands and not my face on TV.” Because the first scene of the opening theme. Was his hands on the guitar.
Waylon’s Mom was legitimately upset about the fact that when he was performing on TV that they didn’t show his face enough, and that’s why he wrote that last verse.
It was TOMMY ALLSUP that lost the coin toss. Waylon has said so and it's even referred to in the movie. Buddy calls the guy Tommy. No hate on your comment, just sharing info as well.
Waylon suffered for years with survivors guilt, anguished by the memory of his last words to Buddy. When Reba McEntire's band was killed in an airplane crash Waylon reached out to her and told her his experience. He knew what to say because he'd been there himself. (Reba was on a different plane or she would have lost her life.
Waylon Jennings reference the plane crash in his song Long Time Ago with the lyrics "Don't ask me who I give my seat to on the plane you already know I told you that Long Time Ago."
Everyone is mixing up the facts. Richie Valens won the coin flip against Tommy Allsup. Waylon voluntarily gave up his seat to the Big Bopper because the Big Bopper (JP Richardson) was sick with the flu.
If you like this form of young modern outlaw song then you should also give Merle Haggard's song "Mama Tried" and Johnny Paycheck's "I'm the Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)", that last one is also about religion, I think you'd especially appreciate it.
We country people will survive...will also help the city "folks" if allowed. It's WAY PAST time to ditch "their" DIVIDE and conquer programming...Left v Right, Democrat v Republican (two sides of same coin), Black v White v Brown v Red V Yellow, religion, urban v rural etc. Recognize our despotic COMMON ENEMY within...and their criminal allies without; render them irrelevant. A humbled and REPENTANT We the People PEACEFULLY UNGOVERNABLE and ZEALOUSLY NON-COMPLIANT? Yes, I said "REPENTANT"...the Founding documents, brilliantly crafted to DEFINE us were based on God's Word and Common Law. No, that doesn't mean everyone will believe in God, or worship God the same. Founders were predominantly Christian, believing ALL were Redeemed by Christ's Crucifixion and Resurrection, though NONE deserved Redemption. Redemption a PERSONAL CHOICE, not forced. They believed individual sovereignty is given/ordained by God...individual sovereignty to be protected at all cost; limitations by government NOT allowed. Stomping on each other's sovereignty not acceptable either... I appreciate you guys often "treading on thin ice." A favorite saying, "If you're going to tread on thin ice...you might as well dance."
John Schneider (Bo Duke) actually lives about 15 miles from me in a really small town of about 6,000 with only 1 red light. He has his John Schneider Studios’ there & makes movies there. He is a very big advocate for our local area & he has events there like ‘Duke Fest’ where other cast makes comes, they are jumping cars ( like the General Lee) & just having fun. He seems to love small town life.
Flags are symbolic. Different people interpret symbols differently. In 2024 I suspect a disproportionate number of people who fly the Confederate flag do it for racist reasons. After all, they waited until the Civil Rights movement to resurrect its popularity and build all those Confederate statues. Or maybe that was just coincidence. EVERYONE I know IRL who flies the flag or wears it is racist. But I’m sure that is not true of everyone. I watched the Dukes of Hazzard growing up, saw every episode, and never saw anything remotely racist in the show. Clearly the Confederate flag wasn’t used for racist reasons in that show. I know there are Southers who only view as a symbol of Souhthern pride. But as a Southerner who has existed 12 times longer than the Confederacy existed, it is REALLY weird to me that some some view that flag as a symbol of Southern pride. Like, chicken fried steak and biscuits&gravy are more representative of my Southerness than that traitor’s flag. But again, I don’t think that level of thought was put into using it in this show.
@@MiddleAgedBob Back when this show aired, it really was mostly a symbol of "southern pride", and the average southerner saw flying the stars and bars was simply doing so to differentiate themselves from those silly northerners and their big-city ways (lived in the Atlanta area for a year in my childhood having come from upstate NY and even then there was still a sense of simple difference that had nothing to do with racism). But yeah, if you fly it today it either means you're a racist OR you're simply a stubborn bastard who's gonna keep on flying it simply because people tell you not to. Either which way you're purposefully making a statement that has little to do with taking actual pride in your origins, since you could just as easily display that pride with the original flag of your state (none of which incorporated the confederate flag, obviously)... or just hang up a big Waffle House sign for that matter.
@MiddleAgedBob idk what people you're talking about cause around my area, we fly it to remember a better time in America. A time when 7 companies didn't hold stock or influence in 70% of companies. A time when you earned what you got. A time when $1.50 could buy your lunch and $5 could fill your car. A time when you knew your neighbors because you went to church together and they cut your meat when asked. To use, it's a reminder of a simpler but harder time. A time I personally wanna go back to and I'm only 28. Keep segregation out but bring back everything else from the past. Drink from a water hose. Have a cookout where the neighbors joined. Hear stories from the oldee generation about how things were harder because they worked 29 hours days, 9 days a week and had to walk 9 hours to school every day.
In Dukes of Hazzard, the rebel flag was mainly there because it had become a symbol of both moonshiners and those opposing political corruption in the South, especially the Appalachian South, which includes the Northeast Georgia mountains where the show was set. The Appalachians didn't even have slaves because they were too poor. Their only history with slavery was from their ancestors themselves being indentured servants for seven years to get to America in the first place.
@johncondon4081 Why do you think this region of the South, which had almost no slaves across the entire region, supported the South in the Civil War (except in Kentucky, where they were pro-Union)? They saw changing governments as a possible way to reset the political corruption that kept them poor, and, for better or worse, they saw the Confederacy as a mechanism for accomplishing this goal. As to General Lee, by all accounts from both sides of the war, Lee was a great and honorable man. Google him. He was a better human being than almost any of his opponents, so why wouldn't they honor him since they were also repurposing his battle flag? Not the Confederate political flag, but the battle flag. I know this is getting too deep in the weeds for a simple discussion about a song and TV show. Sorry about that. I'll hush now.
I am 69 years old. I had two young sons when this show originally aired. It was one of the first shows we enjoyed together. I still remember all of the words, and somewhere in my boxes of memories/memorabilia, I have eight hours of Dukes of Hazzard on Beta tape 😂. BTW, Daisy Dukes were called hot pants when I was a teenager in the late 60's early 70's. 😊
I got a reble flag sheet set just because it reminds me of the dukes of hazzard. It reminds me of hurrying off the school bus run into the house just in time to watch it. I love watching your videos. Thank you for the great work you do.
The car, the General Lee, was a moonshine car. Moonshine is how Nascar got it's start. You needed a fast car to run the back roads haulin the shine. A rebel flag was used in moonshining as well, especially during prohibition. It was a symbol of rebellion against authority and government during those eras.
I love Waylon!!! I would absolutely love seeing you do a reaction to a song for my dad. The anniversary to my dad's passing is coming up, and there's a song that he would request if he was still here. It's the song he named me after. It's by a band called Pure Prairie League, and the song is called "Amie". They still play this on the radio today. It's such a great song. Please please please do a reaction to this song. I would truly appreciate it! Much love!
I think Waylon Jennings wrote it for the show. The show was taken from a movie. There were several TV theme songs that were lengthened and became radio hits. For the longest time, the confederate flag just meant you were southern, it had nothing to do with racism, it was a southerner thing. You will see a lot of these country, Southern rock bands flying the flag. They were proud to be rebels. Trivia about Waylon. He gave up his seat on the plane that killed Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valens.
It's actually the other way around, It was always a symbol of hate and power over black people, They just tried to make it mainstream by using it in movies and toys, And now, the charade is over, and people like you start getting all freaked out cause you don't truly understand the origin of the flag.
@@Cchan53Mis construe what? The flag has always been a symbol of white people's power over black people, I'm sorry you've been Indoctrinated the way you have, but The truth is the truth and it's time for you to wake up
Great Reaction..... My Short List of Songs by Waylon Jennings... "I've Always been Crazy," "Luckenbach Texas," "I'm a Ramblin Man," "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean," "Only Daddy that will walk the Line," "Amanda," "I ain't living Long like this," "Wrong," "Good Hearted Woman," "Are you sure Hank Did it this away"......
Waylon was an original Country Outlaw and was one of the original members of the outlaw country. He has multiple great songs and has made many great songs with other artists. Catherine Bach who played Daisy Duke was the crush of every boy whoever watched the Dukes of Hazzard.
Now you've got to go down the Waylon rabbithole! Do, "Amanda", " Don't You Think This Outlaw S*it Done Got Out of Hand?" , and "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line" ! Great reaction guys! ❤
He wrote it for the show, and the last part where he says...my momma loves me but she don't understand they keep a showin my hands and not my face on tv....that refers to the intro to the Show Dukes of Hazzard when it shows Waylon Jennings playing the intro but they only show his neck down. he wrote it as a joke and to be silly.....Waylon Jennings Was the Man!!!! lol .
You may have done a reaction to it but the song "A Country Boy Can Survive" by Hank Williams Jr. is exactly about what you were talking about, who can survive.
I'm sure someone has probably pointed this out but Waylon Jennings was supposed to be on the airplane that Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper died on.
That last verse was referring to the intro to the show where they show the pianist's hands, which is Waylon's hands. His Mama doesn't understand why they keep showing his hands & not his face on TV. I think that line was only on Waylon's version, not on the series theme. Try Luchenbach Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) sometime.
When I pledged a fraternity in college, one of the active bros made us sing this whole song every time we ran across him. Another one made us do the theme from Gilligan's Island. Definitely enjoyed this one more.
"Let's go to Luckenbach, Texas With Waylon and Willie and the boys This successful life we're livin' Got us feuding like the Hatfields and McCoys Between Hank Williams' pain songs and Newbury's train songs and "Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain" Out in Luckenbach, Texas, ain't nobody feelin' no pain"
Dukes started filming in my hometown Covington Georgia in 1978 & I was fortunate enough as a 12 yr old kid to be in the 1st episode when the General Lee slides onto the square being chased by Roscoe, me & my dad where standing in front of Harpers Dime store {red brick building right when they come onto the square} & thats my dads '72 Plymouth Fury II parked in front {RU-vid video Dukes Of Hazzard : Chase From 1st Episode}! I was also on the other side of the square in 1981 when Burt Reynolds landed his plane to get beer in Cannonball Run, I was one of the folks getting out the way as the plane starts to take off {RU-vid video Cannonball Plane}! ✌💖☮
Waylon wrote this song for the shoe. The networks only agreed to the show because of Waylon and his presence as the balladeer. Greatest show ever! Greatest artist ever!
First things first love the channel Love watching yall take the journey Now to the topic no one’s cancelled a damn thing I live in the South I see more flags now than I ever have The internet bubble is not as big as people make it out to be
As a 7 years old boy when the Duke's of Hazards first time and watching the General Lee car making jumps has no idea what racism is along with Daisy Duke it was just a great show to watch
WAYLON CHANGED country music!!! His "Honky Tonk Hero's", He was the 1st million selling album in country!! - His "Don't Ya Think This Outlaw business Done Got Out of Hand" is a song about the true story of his drug bust in '77- we lived across the alley from the studio & saw it all!!! He is my absolute fav singer!!!
I used to run shine with my husband in North Alabama in the early 80’s, and this was the soundtrack to our crime. We were young and dumb, sowing wild oats.
Waylon broke the country industry wide open..Waylon was the first at everything he did...he had the first platinum and quadruple platinum album in country on his wall..he wrote it for the show after they hired him to narrate..
I love Waylon Jennings he can shred on the guitar!! He was one of my favorite when I was a kid and still is is as an adult!! Country music has always produced some of the best outlaw artists!! Now I’m going to beg you again.. Please react to Trace Adkins Til the Last Shots Fire!! And please do the one at the CMA… I promise you will be touched and you will get to put your own spin on what the song means!!!
Wayne Jennings has this joint called, "Don't you think this outlaw bit's done got out of hand". This song is classic banger, with lyrics that are a true story. Metal singer James Hatfield of Metallica also did a cover of this song that he played live as a tribute to Wayne at a Country Music awards show some years ago. You can find that on RU-vid as well. But you have to react to the original first. This is my favorite Waylon Jennings song.
Grew up watching them Duke boys every week myself. Loved Waylon Jennings singing the song and narrating. Always reminded me of the rooster bard in the Disney’s animated version of Robin Hood.
I just loved your comments at the end of this... I'm blessed to live on 150 acre farm off a dirt road.. I have to go 30 minutes to a grocery store.. but I'm happy here.. i know my freezer is full of venison meat for the next 2 yrs at least.. that's saying my hubby isn't going to hunt more deer next yr. We have our chickens, our dogs and a garden.. my pantry is full. I hate a city.. I will visit one.. and then say.. take me back to my farm.
My G-Grandfather was in the Minnesota 1st, the unit that captured the Battle Standard Of Virginia (the Stars & Bars) at Gettysburg, it resides today with the Minnesota Historical Society. My G-Grandfather lost an arm, and his brother lost a leg.
Check out Struggle Jennings' remix of Waylon Jennings' song called "Outlaw Shxt" featuring Yelawolf. Waylon is Struggle's step-grandpa.. Waylon married his grandma, Jessi Colter, before Struggle was born, I think.
All the stuff you guys talked about on here, we never had to think about. We just simply listened to the song, watched the show, enjoyed the boys' (Bo and Luke) camaraderie and laugh when Boss Hogg got stopped. No politics, just fun.
That warms my heart when you said feeding pigs, carrying slop. Man, that was cool.i haven't heard anyone talk about carrying slop. Nasty too. Humbles a person. I loved the commentary on this. Respect.
John Schneider Who played the blonde haired Bo Duke. Has an independent movie production company and does a lot of movies with that good old boys style thymes (good old US story lines). He also writes and performs county songs and the theme songs to his movies and was on the Masked Singer
I was born and raised,and still live in south Mississippi. Since I was a kid growing up in the 70s the rebel flag has always represented pride in being independent hard working people who are just proud of their family and where you live. I grew up in a quiet neighborhood with white and black neighbors who had rebel flags in their yard or tags on their cars. I went to my small neighborhood school with all kids from the neighborhood. Everyone got along and race was never mentioned. We were all taught to be proud hard working respectful people. If your neighbors needed help you helped them no matter what color they were. We all watched out for each other . If an elderly neighbor was sick my mom would make sure they had groceries and any medicine they needed. We didn't just help 1 color we helped everyone. Just small town folks who didn't depend on the government to step in and help we helped each other . God bless!
That's an amazing song, but one where the lyrics tell a story by insinuating the real story. I hope if they do it, they catch the nuance that makes the story so powerful.
living in the country as a kid when The Dukes of Hazzrd aired. we had to turn the antenna outside to get a clear picture. i come from a large family, and we Always ate meals together at the table, when Dukes of Hazzrd night came, though, we all rushed to the living room with our plates to enjoy the show. good memories
This is one of those songs where the video actually does it justice. Seeing the General Lee flying around along with the Daisy Dukes just really puts things together without thinking about it.
Hey Don!!.....I Lived in Lincoln, Nebraska and outer skirts of Lincoln in between Omaha 2000 to 2011. So I was just wondering when you were out there, man. I lived there for a long time and I did vinyl siding and multiple carpentry. And yeah, dude, it was a different life, and I liked it out there. Thank you🇺🇲⚜️🙏😎
