Ronnie Hawkins "Forty Days" 

I would love to travel back in time to be there. Northern Scotland. Rock n roll. Good gawd lol Peace and best from North Carolina USA.

An awesome comment. Coming from a Texan with Scotland ancestry.

Originally 30 Days...by Chuck Berry meant as a tribute to Hank Williams. Ronnie even enters doing the Chuck Berry duck walk. I love both versions though.

@@stacyblue1980 just play good music and join the time warp club

Watt ? Im in los angeles when i was young there was two watts in the phone book my dad and my uncle ha ha never stop rocking,cheers j watt

Good bye to Hawk , Robbie Robertson now too.

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My whole family used to watch the Dick Clark from the Little Theater in Manhattan. And I remember this show where everyone was dresses up in Western clothes...they had the sky- liners on this show....great times.....

You couldn't even hear any piano at all, but this still sounds good.

I know it just shows how brilliant the Beatles were, they never had no one to teach them like the band did and never traded on anyone like Dylan! It's crazy to think the Beatles and the stones had to go to America to teach rock n roll and the band were still doing nothing...crazy

Thanks for your comments. I was wondering who was on piano and guitar; didn't look like Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson.

So it was Levon. I knew The Band backed Ronnie in their beginnings. I hope the piano player received mileage also.

@@lawrencetaylor4101 Will Jones was replaced by Stan Szelest and then by Richard Manuel. Jones was a flat out rock and roll pianist as was Szelest. Richard really added to the hawks with his vocals and he was a damn fine pianist who left us too early.

​@@recordguy4321 Cheers! Still so sad to think of the passing of the angelic.

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How old are you now?

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@@nandhanakrishnanr4990 Thanks kid! I would trade my wisdom for youth if I could. A pleasure to meet you too!

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Rompin Ronnie was one of a kind! Would it be interesting to know how many people in that studio audience are watching this video on RU-vid and then suddenly realizing "hey, that's me!"!!

Not only recorded by Chuck Berry, Chuck wrote it. Apparently as a tribute to Hank Williams.

As did I. First at the Coq Door Tavern on Yonge St. and then at the Concord Tavern up on Bloore St. near "Honest Ed's store. Still lives on his farm in Peterborough, Ontario, one hour north-east of Toronto. Ken, Toronto

It's for sale. Probably sold by now. I have a hunch he's either not long for this world or heading to a seniors home or nursing home. Just been a lot of gatherings that have a farewell kind of vibe to them.

@@dreadnought45 Those were the days, that block on Yonge street was full of night clubs, just above Dundas , wasn’t it? Unfortunately he’s passed away. Guess we’ve all gotta go sometime. We’ll be, the oldest rockers in Toronto, although I’m in the UK, for the last 40 years.

Dwayne Ford played piano for Ronnie Hawkins while in Toronto....

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Great book!

Robbie's book brought me here and these guys sucked.

Man! Next time I'm around a bookstore, I'll be looking for it. That sounds like it really would be a FANTASTIC, entertaining, compelling autobiography! I'm sure ol' Ronnie Hawkins (along with The Band) lived some wild and crazy days in their youth....Man....I've got to get that book immediately!

Me tooooo!

Best rock and roll autobiography I've ever read....on my 5th read now.

Wow... holy crap... do you know him personally?

So you live near Peterborough On.

What's the point of your story?

Sorry to disappoint you, the guy was NOT playing the piano, he was just acting. How do I know? I am a musician and anyone who bangs on a piano the way that HE did will just make a ROWDY DIN. That is NOT the way to play a tune on a piano, keyboard, whatever. The SAME applies to guitar playing, it has to be precise. What he did was JUST FOR SHOW. There probably weren't any connection to the keys that he was banging, otherwise it would have sounded TERRIBLE.

@@janicesusanjones9312 Read Levon's book - he was such a nut on piano that he could make the hammers fly off during a show! Yes, it fked up the pianos, and yes he was that nuts! Levon remarks upon it enthusiastically.

Chuck Berry wrote it and recorded it before Ronnie. Both great versions though

@@davidlamb7524 thanks for the further deeping inside, David! Actually Chuck Berry, whom performance I didn't listent to, recorded it as 30 days, and I don't know why Ronnie Hawkins preferred titling this song 40d.. By the way my favourite, since my little boy days, is the slow rocking 'one of these days' might I ask you a favour you might help me with.. In so many years I wasn't able to translate a part of the song when it becomes 'syncopated' and couldn't find a lyric test in the web..would you help me, please? I ignored Ronnie was such a long survivor from a terrible killer, pancreas Krebs, tks also to mental&herbal med, and even more surprised he died, apparently, from its recurrence almost 20 years later! When I wrote my msg He was still alive! By the way He lived a full&meaningful life! Great great singer in a word RIP!

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Robbie Robertson

@@jimbo1959 Exactly! My mistake..... My mind ain't what it used to be. Too much sex, drugs, and Rock N Roll, I guess. 😁

@@jimw.4161 Thats exactly how I want to lose my mind!!!

This is a superior remastering - I had the original album, and essentially you couldn't hear the bass or drums. Sold it on Ebay. Bear Family CD sounds great!

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antarctic me too! it's been great to find these old clips as I read along

Gotta be in my top 5 favorite rock autobiographies...in fact, right now only one other comes to mind, Dion DiMucci 😻

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No Levon Helm played for the hawks, so did Robbie, Rick, Richard and Garth eventually then they started the band.

Levon was also in the original group and stayed with Ronnie where they recruited the rest of the members that you speak of. The video shows levon on drums. Robbie, rick, richard and garth would come later.

Basically when Ronnie came to Canada they could play everyday of the week without getting ripped off and beer bottles thrown at them..one by one the band members got homesick and being replaced by the young Canadian players til only Levon was left

That looks like Richard on the 88's

@@koylesmasterpeice So that's really Levon Helm at the drum kit in this video?

Yes it is

The Hawks eventually left Ronnie and become The Band.

not here. garth and robbie hadnt joined the hawks yet. that is however mark lavon helm on drums.

Chuck Berry's song. Recorded as 'Thirty Days' made number 2 in the charts.

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There are videos of Robbie Robertson speaking with Chuck Berry and I beleive Chuck did mention the fact that Hawkins had borrowed his Thirty Days theme. Chuck was no doubt used to being undercut by others, especially those who hired him but refused to pay him,thus his insistance for his pay up front. Sad reality for the true king of rock 'n' roll.

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