Faron Young was one of the best-selling country artists of all time. Singer, songwriter, actor, and successful businessman -- there wasn't much this musical legend couldn't do.
This is a reminder to be a kinder person to everyone you meet because you never know what someone is carrying with them, even if their face is smiling.
I was in Nashville the day he shot himself and the radio stations stopped regular playing to pay tribute and play some of his songs. Really stunning. I'm not a huge country music fan but Young's an exception. This is real country music, not what's out today.
I visited with Faron twice back in my radio DJ days. He was a great story teller and easy to be around. He is still one of my favorite country singers.
It was really hard for me to believe that Faron had ended his own life. I love hearing his interviews because he had a great sense of humor and he could really tell a story.❤
Faron always said it as it was , a true & honest man to the core , with a big big heart & personality & one of the greatest singers to grace the stage he helped & encouraged so many also, worked tirelessly for the Country music industry....but I guess when that devil in the glass gets a hold, It eventually leads the best of people to depression & sadly, you just cant find lost success in the bottom of a glass.....He was a most loved & missed performer....
Back when I was small, I will never forget my father having both Farron and Darryl McCall at our house one evening late, after a performance in Peoria, IL. Has always stuck with me, as we were nobody. Still cannot believe to this day, he took his own life. 😪
My wife and I were in the "Lounge Scene" with Faron on Hee Haw and in his music publication "Music City News" in 1985. I always loved his voice. His death was indeed sad!
Absolutely adored him and his music after "Going Steady". After that until the sixties I memorized every song of his..Saw him in Atlanta twice. At the old Opry on Peachtree, he stopped, sat and chatted briefly with my husband and me. He had a quick sense of humor. So sad he never got to meet our Savior, he would be with us now. He is missed even today. Guess as a teenager I was secretly in love with him.
I remember watching Faron Young on TNN’s “Nashville Now”. He always sang so great and told great stories. Faron had a great connection with the audience too. I was so shocked that he took his own life. Faron Young is still sadly missed to this day.
I met Faron a few times back in my radio DJ days. He was quite the story teller, feisty as could be and fun to be around. It is a shame that he left us so soon, he really was a major talent.
Worked at a McDonalds between an elderly woman and wild teenaged girl who wanted to tell all her teachers exactly what she thought of them upon graduation. I started singing “Burning bridges behind me” then turned to the older woman and said, “Bet she doesn’t know who Faron Young is.” The woman replied. “I sure do. He used to date my sister.”
I worked one of the shows they called package shows which had two or three well-known stars on the bill,I showed him the flyers and poster myself and a buddy put in the towns they would be appearing, I asked him what record did he want me to leave with the radio DJs and he said, any of them that will make me some money and he laughed,He ask me what other acts I was doing and I told him I would be doing CHARLIE LOUVIN, lefty frizzel with an up and coming act MR.T.G.SHEAPARD, HE said tell lefty and charlie I am buying a ticket to see them because I will be the only one their, FARON YOUNG is still missed today and was part of NASHVILLE my hometown on what it has become today WE ALL OH HIM FOR THAT AND THE MUSIC HE LEFT US, RIP,
As I write a book with country star Johnny Rodriguez, Johnny told me some wild stories about Faron. He said he could out drink anyone and sometimes was a mean drunk. RIP, Mr. Young.
I'm a life long fan, thanks for the informative short bio to share his story with his fans old and new. It's hard to pick a favorite song, but I'll go with Four in the Morning. ❤️
Robert, Who else was in the band ? I remember him telling one time about when a woman left him and he said,( and I use this still today) " I cryed like a starving rat eating a purple onion"
Karen Wall Thank you for your post! You just solved a 48 year old mystery. My dad loved Gene Autry, Faron Young, and others. One of his sayings was, “I cried like a rat eating onions”. I never knew where he got that saying from! Now I know, thank you.
@@donaldewert2402 oh my I remember her also as a child. She dated my brother(Jimmy Myers) at times when we was living at lake James in Angola Indiana. She sang down in the boondocks😁
in deed he was, but his legacy carries on, my father sang a many of his songs here in the dance clubs of Texas, i got to know Jones and Price thru my father, i wish i could have met faron.
I had the good fortune of meeting him several times... Strangely, he and I shared the same sense of humor and could crack each other up easily. He was and always will be one of my Country Music heroes.
Oh geeze, I cried when I heard this in the narration, "Haunted by the hard times and plagued by illness and depression, Faron Young died of a self inflicted gunshot in 1996. His ashes were scattered on Old Hickory lake on June and Johnny Cash's estate" (by his family while the Cash's were away. AKA: "Hillbilly Heartthrob", his singles reliably charted for more than 30 years prior to the advent of greedy corporate pop country. Note: the word 'western' is no longer part of the new, counterfeit country.
I know right, that was a clobbering piece of bad news out of left field in this clip. Could there not have been a better end for Mr. Young, whose music we so knew and loved?
So did I. No idea, I listen to him with my Father when I was young. So sad so talented. Old country was much better than today. The CMA is not country.
Saw Faron in Saint John NB. some time around 1970 when he was touring with Merle Haggard. Merle was good, Faron Young was very good! What a voice He had.
He was always a favorite of mine. I worked in Wash. D.C. in the mid 1980's and used to eat lunch sometimes at a place called the Back Alley Lounge. Faron was supposed to play there and I always wished I had gone to see him then.
I absolutely love "Hello Walls"! And I was just listening to it yesterday (5-25-2019), and now this video just popped up on my YT Suggested Videos. Kinda spooky, if you know what I mean. He was an excellent vocalist! Thank you for the video upload!
Subscribed and thanks for a great video. I found my first Faron Young record at a record store for a dollar. The store couldn't sell to much country music to it's customers, so all the country records were listed for a dollar. I bought about 25 records that night and got some of the best artist ever recorded like Faron Young for a bargain.
Thank you for subscribing and for the compliment! I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I don't think you could find a record anywhere for a dollar nowadays.
Very well done. I remember seeing him a number of times on TNN's "Nashville Now" and noting that he seemed very appreciative of his guestings. As in the video, he made reference to old country being left out and forgotten. He had a great personality and tried to appear upbeat. Sad.
Thank you for watching and for the compliment! I'm glad you enjoyed it! He seemed like an interesting person and did so much in his life; it's sad he went out like he did.
I saw and talked to Faron one week before he died. He felt very under appreciated. He complained that his music was not being played on any radio..........now his songs are being played daily on Surius XM radio 24/7
Glenn Johnson One of the great country legends.Have a treasured letter from him back in the early 80`s.Sing a number of his songs in my stage show.Just so sad of his suicide.I`m 64 and continue to promote the early country music,in memory to Faron and all those who have gone before and after him.Thankyou for this video.
RIP to one of my favorite male country singers of all time. It’s too bad that he decided to end his life. Thinking of his family, friends and fans on the 24th anniversary of his passing tomorrow.
Faron and Ray Price define the sound that resonates with my memories of the true living in the late 60's early 70's in my world. A child of 8 - 12 during these years, my parents owned a successful successful Restaurant and Bar, born into the restaurant business, this establishment was unique to me, being in a small town in rural BE Tennessee and Our first to incorporate the "beer business". Necessary to achieve "the overhead and profit" necessary to maintain a family of 5 and our custom of lifestyle, after owning 5 restaurants that were all operating in tandem successfully in Chicago and having to had moved to achieve my Dad's personal goals, (he was from this area of judgemental awkward bigotry and fundamentalist Christian gossipy land referred to as "the Southerners Friendly Charm" (nosey and eager for any morsel of personal headline for the afternoon phone calls), I still shutter at the twisted reality of Country-South's bitter ways. The establishment includes a jukebox that provides what became the essence of the era and my early knowledge of some of the greatest music makers and vocal artist of both Country and Pop Standards. Clearly a classy sound of chart crossing music, Faron, Ray Price, and one that most forget accomplishing a sort of second career in this particular genre' Dean Martin (Send me the Pillow) they will always represent the style of the era and venue I hold as Class and Crossover in American Music of the 60's and 70's. Rock and Roll a separate and lasting presence, as well, with Sly, Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, and Clapton's amazing lineage -
THANKs enjoyrd very much.only saw him perform once in R I . Fav song of hubby &me was 4 IN THE MORNING.such a sad ending to life.but we will still enjoy his music. THANKs again
I saw Faron Young and Merle Kilgore perform at a police benefit show in Urbana ,Illinois in the summer of 1982. I was really impressed how Faron connected with the audience. He really enjoyed signing autographs and mingling with the fans.
Yes he was an awesome artist, I always loved his music. I knew he took his own life and that is sad. Many people think that if they had money all their problems are gone. It is usually the people with money who really have the problems sometime.
No it is pulling yourself out of poverty, then having a boatload of money, only to find yourself back I the same shape you started in, and finding yourself too old to start over in life once again, knowing how hard it was to climb the ladder to success, I guess he figured he had already been there, done that,.... So he probably figured that he had seen all that life has to offer, and decided to check out on his own terms, before cancer, or a debilitating stroke, or something similar lay in store for him.
Thanks for the great video on one of the real Country Greats!! All the great men and women of the True Country Music are about gone! So sad how country music has been kicked aside and changed so much....
My dad and him were in the army together. I got to meet him at a state fair in Wisconsin. My name is Billie Jean. We are not related. I'm name after my dad. He was a really nice guy.
Great singer, great voice, and he usually used a traditional country sound on records & live shows. My two co-favorites of his are "Country Girl" and "I Just Came To Get My Baby Out Of Here". I think the talking narrative is from an extensive radio show Faron did with country D.J. Biff Collie who way back when I was a kid was on KFOX 1280 AM from Long Beach California and who also owned a popular record store nearby selling C&W exclusively. The recording of Faron with Biff is the definitive story of Faron's life and career. It was a special program honoring Faron and I think it was over an hour long.
James Hepburn OMG! Someone who remembers Biff Collie and KFOX in Long Beach! My fav. DJ was a man who called himself Squeakin' Deacon. He came on from 3 PM to 6 PM each day. Until 1968, the only other country and western station with a signal strong enough to reach LA was KWOW in Pomona. KGBS came along in 1968 with a modern format that deep-sixed all the cornpone comedy, religious bs, sleazy car dealers and other flotsam that characterized KFOX. That little record store was called Nashville Records, and it opened in 1965. It was smaller than a 1-car garage. All four walls were stacked from the floor to the ceiling with the latest C&W 45s. I worked at Mel Burns Ford jockeying cars around the summer I turned 19 and would set each radio to KFOX. When they played something I instantly liked, I'd detour over to Nashville Records and blow my lunch money on 45s. I was addicted to records and music the way people are to drugs and booze. I bought every Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Hank Snow, Hank Thompson, Roger Miller, Connie Smith, Loretta Lynn, Bill Anderson, Glenn Campbell, Johnny Cash, Statler Brothers, Porter Wagoner, Jim & Jesse, Waylon Jennings, Johnnie & Jonie Mosby, and lots of ''One Hit Wonders''. I'm 75 now, and still have each one in its original sleeve.
When Faron came on the radio you knew immediately who it was. Not only Faron but Roger Miller, Marty Robbins, Ray Price, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard etc, etc. That's not the way it is today. Country music today is unlistenable.
I saw Faron Young perform at the NCO Club at Little Rock Air Force Base back in the late 60's. I was not a big fan of this kind of country, but I did like him.
What an American original, one of the top ten country singers in the history of the genre. I have played Hello Walls (youtube) to some famous foreign singers who had no clue as to American Country and they were in awe of Faron Young. Aside from all of this, he is looks so much to my beloved late Uncle Ike Davis. (Quanah, Texas to Long Beach, CA.)
Yip faron young anther great loss. Just shows you all these. Artists in them days had to struggle to make ends meet seems like it was so hard to get a song out there but that sounds quite familiar to these days where only one hit wonders manufactured from television idol programs seem to get through £££
hello walls on the wings of dove...as for country..it was pretty much considers rock n roll at the time...the early 60z was the greatest time for music..in my opinion and taste in music..
My cousin Bobby grew up in the 50's and was a huge Faron Young fan. He passed away in 99 and they played Live Fast Die Young at his memorial along with other FY songs.
I also referred to him as Uncle Faron. All of my childhood memories center around him. I remember Red Hayes his fiddle player and when he passed away. I remember Cootie his drummer and Ray Emmett. Uncle Faron was always in our home. He bought me my easy bake oven as a child. He sang this little girl of mine to me on Austin city limits. Me and my brother had the run of his bus. I will never forget at buck lake ranch in Indiana I brought my first boyfriend on the bus to meet uncle Faron and he totally embarrassed me by telling about changing my diapers. Uncle Faron is not some entertainer my best memories as a child included him on several occasions. I even have a in memory tattoo for uncle Faron is how much apart of my life he was and still is in my heart and in my memory he will always live. Love and miss you Uncle Faron RIP💕
How very sad, he was born with many gifts compared to others - very talented, a terrific set of vocal cords, healthy and handsome, yet, in a moment of despair, he took his own life. I wonder how much his father's disapproval of him affected his sense of worth, ot if it was something else ? Either way, very sad.
in the late 60s early 70s he played in Topeka,Ks...after the show is over most of the singers sat on folding chairs at the front of the stage signing autographs..a lady said to Faron that he hadn't done Hello walls..he said your roght a yelled back for someone to bring his guitar..he sat there and did the whole song for a handful of us standing there.!!.RIP Faron
