This is the ONLY video on RU-vid to NOT have a thumbs down!!! There is a reason for this....it is a perfect song. Please keep this going! Anyone who doesn't like this song does not appreciate anything...including life!
Very special song for me...always will be...brings me back to one of the happiest times of my Life. At that moment in time it seemed like I had it all...little did l know! Mr. bojangles thanks man!
This brings a tears to my eyes. This was the good 'ol days. They don't make songs like this anymore. I will listen to this song when I am old and sitting on my front porch in my old wooden rocker longing for those old days.....
This song was all over AM radio in the 70s when I was a kid and it really grew on me. Also I'm noticing a lot of comments here about dads and how this song reminds people of their fathers--very touching.
When I was about 12 years old I started staying up nights and listening to the radio. They had a show call the All Nighters Club on this new format called Classic Rock. One hot night about 2 or 3 AM I heard this for the first time. Blew me away. As a 12 year old I could not imagine 30 years later I would be able to listen to most of the music made in the 20th century for free on a computer. Many changes since then have been bad. The internet has been good.
My favorite version of this song. The most memorable of the lines in this song for me is. "The dog up & died, he up & died...after 20 years he still grieved" ...I can relate..it alway reminds me of my baby....after 25 years I still grieve... I remember when Nitty Gritty Dirt Band recorded this song..."Goddess" was still living, but I knew that when her time came....I would grieve forever for her....thanks for the video, & the memories of wonderful pet that worth every tear i've shed for her.
this is truly one of my all time favorites no matter who sings it, whether it's Jerry Jeff Walker, David Bromberg or the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band it is one of those songs that always warms my heart there!
Tons of folks have put out amazing renditions of this song but this is far & away my favourite.I saw them perform it at a concert in southern Alberta last year and they remain amazing!
so many memories........I remember going to work with my Dad when i was like 7, bored as hell all day....but after lunch we just drove, and listened to music....good stuff
This was one of my favorite songs as a child - never knew who sang it until 20 later when I meet my late husband. He turned me to this wonderful band. They are the bomb!!! Love you BABY DOLL!!!!!!
huggggggggggggggggggggg i know that feelin.. we just buck up and keep movin .. even with the gaping hole of loss is whistling with every step... God bless you... may he ease the pain... i had my own buddy for yrs... he was so weird.. no one got him but me... im sure godzilla is taking good care of skeeter.. now in thier honor... ill do a soft shoe...
We saw NGDB on October 24th 14 years ago, they were so fantastic, they were excellent! They did the Weight in honor of Levon Help, the true Southern man❤❤❤❤❤
Going to see them live this Friday! So excited! I think I'm the only ten year old who would volunteer to see them live. Kids today don't understand REAL music.
Such a great song, I went from Florida to Oregon with Pepperschmepperz she stayed with me for 16 years and a now she's gone, it hard but I got a place and she died not far away in front of me, after all that this song breaks me in half, I'm sorry to act pitiful.
+Stephen Prusinski I saw them at least 8-10x back in the 70-80s. With other Awwsome Band/Groups too. Such as Bread, Bad Company, CCR, BTO, ELO, REO Speedwagon, Journey, Kansas, Styx, Lynyrd Skynyrd too many to mention!! Bread, who had out some Great Songs/Hits like "Everything i Own, IF, It Don't Matter to Me, Guitar Man, Aubrey, Look What You've Done, Baby I'm A Want You" & Soo many other Great Songs that are still being Played today on Most All Really Good Radio Stations that Play the Classic Hits. These Bands/Songs will still be playing Long After we're Gone. There Will NEVER be Any Music like the Music of the 60-70s Era...Neverr? If, you Didn't grow up in this Era? Then you Really Have Not Lived? Right Stephen!!
On this day in 1971 {May 29th} the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band performed "Mr. Bojangles" and "House at Pooh Corner" on the late Dick Clark's American Bandstand... Six months earlier on November 21st, 1970 "Mr. Bojangles" entered Billboard's Hot top 100; eventually it peaked at #9 and spent 19 weeks in the Top 100... And one month earlier on April 24th "House at Pooh Corner" entered the Top 100 and it reached #53 and stayed 13 weeks in the Top 100... R.I.P. Mr. Clark...
On this day in 1971 {February 14th} "Mr. Bojangles" by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band peaked at #9 {for 3 weeks} on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it had entered the chart on November 15th, 1970 at position #92 and spent 19 weeks on the Top 100... It reached #2 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart... Was composed by Jerry Jeff Walker; his original version peaked at #77 on the Top 100 in 1969... In 1966 Jackson Browne was a member of the band... And in 1978 the band released "In For The Night" under their new name 'The Dirt Band'...
So sad to hear about the passing of Jerry Jeff Walker. Mr Bojangles was his finest song. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band rendition was the one I remember in High School. I loved that song then as I do now. They did a great job. It takes me back to a time that was at its essence, pure and innocent. Can't seem to find that today. Regardless, the memories wash out the stink of today's culture.
This is a great song, written by Jerry Jeff Walker. In days of old I saw The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in Texas. I was a fan from the beginning and seeing & hearing them was a blast, especially when it was the orignal line up. Vince Filogomo
On this day in 1971 {March 28th} the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band performed "Mr. Bojangles" on the CBS-TV program 'The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour'... Four months earlier on November 21st, 1970 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #9 and spent 19 weeks on the Top 100... It reached #2 on the Canadian RPM Tracks chart... Was composed and 1st recorded in 1968 by Jerry Jeff Walker, his version peaked at #77 on the Top 100 and #51 in Canada... May God bless Mr. Campbell...
i herd a commercial for the singers and song writers cd collection, and i have heard every song on this entire commrecial, i like old stuff like that, and im only 14!
Heard a version done by someone...sounded like Neil Young's voice & phrasing. Anyway, he told about the real Mr. Bojangles. He lived down in New Orleans and went to bars, put a song on the juke box and danced. Others in the bar bought him a drink or gave him change for the performance. He'd go to other bars and do it over and over till he got good and drunk. Occasionally the police would pick him up and hold him in the parish jail for a while Jerry Jeff Walker, the guy who wrote the song, was a jail mate of his for a while and ended up writing the song about him. The story of the dog and all the traveling he did, you can really hear this guy telling his story in that jail cell. Here's Wikipedia's story. Walker has said he was inspired to write the song after an encounter with a street performer in a New Orleans jail. While in jail for public intoxication in 1965, he met a homeless white man who called himself "Mr. Bojangles" (who, in turn, presumably took his pseudonym from performer Bill Robinson, who was likewise nicknamed "Bojangles") to conceal his true identity from the police. He had been arrested as part of a police sweep of indigent people that was carried out following a high-profile murder. The two men and others in the cell chatted about all manner of things, but when Mr. Bojangles told a story about his dog, the mood in the room turned heavy. Someone else in the cell asked for something to lighten the mood, and Mr. Bojangles obliged with a tap dance.
The version you reference was by NGDB from their 3 disk album "Dirt, Silver and Gold" album, side two, first album and first cut... "Uncle Charlie Interview". Immediately following the interview "Mr. Bojangles runs.
Love The Nitty gritty Dirt Band One of My All Time Favorite Song's Mr.Bojangles .. Thanks for the first comment who provided the background Story to this Song..Very Interesting
Such a beautiful song. There is a homeless man in Savannah Georgia. If you are ever there and you see him playing his guitar in the square in front of city hall. Ask him to play this song. He does a beautiful version that will bring tears to your eyes. His name is Bob. Every time i hear this song i imagine him out in that square picking away singing this song with his raspy voice.
This drummer looks a little bit like the Journey's drummer with their newest singing. The Journey's drummer sings so well its suprising they didn't use him as the new singer. I got the album of the Dirt Band's Uncle Charlie and it was really great. Included an old wire recording from the 1800's of a calypiso or something. Plus getting to hear "Uncle Charlie" play with his guitar and his dog right before Mr. Bojangles was simply suprising and delightful. I suspect I'm not alone in admiring it.
shew your comment struck a nerve. I appreciate your honesty. I still haven't changed our youtube description from 3 great danes down to 2....and I love our 2 but the one that left us is without a doubt the greatest canine it has ever been my privilege to meet on any level!
