With the insincerity and self-centered crap 💩 of today's artist's and music 🎶... they couldn't hold a candle to the traditionalists and true 👌 pioneers of country music 🎼...Lefty Frizzell is a prime example of many that had it... bring back traditional country it stands the test of time 💯👌 .
This is my favorite song from Lefty. Country Music sucks nowadays. Lefty is a better singer than any modern singer on today's country radio in my opinion.
My dad played with him in Verona, Pennsylvania 1961. I was only 5, but I’ll never forget playing with my friends while they did music together. I have 6 boxes of pictures from back then that is hard to go through, and I know there is a picture of them. My dad played every instrument, but mainly his Mandolin, which I gave to one of my cousins so he’ll learn to play. Thanks for the wonderful memories ♥️
This voice changed country music. The best ever. These albums came out when I was a about 12 or so. Lefty I think had 2 albums in the early 70s. This particular song I think was his best ever. .
+Terry Martin You got Bud, Pure Old Time Southern Country Singin Voice, one and only Lefty Frizzell. Thanks Quarante Quartre 44 for puttin out this Great song but one of the Greatest Country singers.
I heard that song this week, “The Way It Was In ‘51” by Merle Haggard, a really good song! I got the “Down Every Road” Merle Haggard album for Christmas nearly 2 weeks ago.
A great voice taken too soon by Alcohol. You can here the pain in his voice and really believe he is living this song. That is what is missing in country music today.
Now a days they make too much money, travel in million-dollar air conditioned bus, and have one number one hit and retire. In the old days 16 hour rides from one job to the next in an old station wagon with the bass tied on top of the vehicle. Might make a few hundred bucks and then have to travel a couple thousand miles to get back to Nashville for the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday. Tom T Hall said for his first number one hit he made $3,000. Having one of today's so-called country music stars singing about about hard times is like having Madonna sing about virginity.
It is interesting they act like Lefty was washed up by the 70s. However," I Never Go around Mirrors "and "Thats the Way Love Goes" came out 73/74. In my opinion, 2 of his very best songs.
Joe, Glad I read your post. I have been hearing that "tic-tac" sound on several recordings and wondered what it was, now you say it is a bass. I sometime wonder if it was in the original song are was added later. Thanks for the answer.
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Real county music from the heart! This crap played on radio today doesn't have any heart into it! Be bobin crap!
Keith Whitley's favorite song. He would sing it at the drop of a hat. It was Keith who got Sanger Shafer to write a second verse. Keith was often criticized for sounding exactly like Lefty. Keith however took that as the highest praise. If you are going to sound like someone he would say, its good to sound like the best.
Great voice and he knew how to use it. None better, wish he had lived to a ripe old age. Imagine what he would have left us with after another 20 years.
Lefty was at the top when I was a girl and every song was a hit and still is as far as I am concerned. The new one have ruined Country Music but we still have it on RUclips.
I think that's one of the reasons why I love the Hag so much. Has a tremendous amount of admiration for the greats that preceded him in music. I heard Merle's version first and thought it couldn't be topped but this is awesome.
Lefty was the template who created a new style of singing in 1949. With pauses, breaks, and sustaining notes with the lyrics he sung. And his style was copied not only by most Country Music singers afterwards, but also imitated by singers of R&B and Pop.
my late husband and lefty were first cousins, their moms were sisters... lots of talent in the cox and frizzell family. lefty was incredible, what a voice!!!!! i never tire of hearing his music. it brings backs memories of the music we loved together, of course i will always love traditional country music. it stirs your soul..
My favorite Lefty song and one of the best alcoholic regret songs of all time. Bet a friend of mine he wouldn't have heard of it and to my amazement he sang it word for word. Never bet him again on old obscure country music songs
@@chadjustice8560I'd say both .. more Lefty as he came a little earlier. Johnny Paycheck and Jones sang together rubbed off of each other ..so yes Johnny Paycheck very underrated
a great song writer and singer.....looking back now, he had the right voice for the right songs....something you can not say for a lot of these so called singers today
I had to look up who wrote this after listening to merle haggards version. This is a great experience discovering these musicians. I will be listening to more Lefty Frizzel for sure
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music🎷 today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
Ugh, Merle got the song from Lefty. There's a story knocking around out there that when Lefty played the song for Haggard, he asked Merle to cut it as he knew Haggard would sell more records on it, thus bringing in a bigger royalty check.
And every other Country Music singer after him. Back in 1949 Lefty created a new style of singing. Instead of phrasing the syllables of the lyrics in a steady regular flow, Lefty was the first to employ pauses, breaks and sustained notes. George Jones was a Lefty clone, among others.
My parents set the seeds of Bluegrass and these old Country singers in the 60s and 70s! Seems they all came back to me while in my 50s and have stayed with me since! Thank God for Hee Haw and the VFW Hall or else it may have been my moms Lawerene Welk! ☹️
There was only one Lefty...never will be another one like him...there's a tribute by Big George Moody...wrong title on the file, but great song, originally from Haggard. Check out Big George Moody on Number One West.
let's take our hats off to Mark Chestnutt's cover of this. It almost that you have to be from Texas to get the metre of this tune and hold the emotion. Mark got it in his cover . after Lefty....Mark . on this one.
Can you imagine one of these male " country singer's " today saying how it tears them up to see a grown man cry ? Today they just want to sing about there pickup and all the other stereotypes. No other music gets out emotion like old country
Darla Haines: No, that song is early-2000s country. A better example of the stereotypical country music is pretty much country music after maybe 2010 or so, though definitely also some in the past 5 years.
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music🎷 today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
I had the privilege of meeting his brother Allen and getting to watch him perform at our local cowboy church a couple years back and he sounded just like lefty.
10 million Luke Bryan’s couldn’t compare with one Lefty Frizzell
You said it brother
You said it the best of all.
This should have millions of views. Lefty one of greatest of all time.
That’s the damn truth.
Who is Luke Bryan?
With the insincerity and self-centered crap 💩 of today's artist's and music 🎶... they couldn't hold a candle to the traditionalists and true 👌 pioneers of country music 🎼...Lefty Frizzell is a prime example of many that had it... bring back traditional country it stands the test of time 💯👌 .
This man sang some of the best country ever recorded
This is country not that new country
Merle haggard hero
John he was Merle Haggards idol
I agree👍
Without a doubt! Peace
This is my favorite song from Lefty. Country Music sucks nowadays. Lefty is a better singer than any modern singer on today's country radio in my opinion.
You are right.
Obviously not even close
No comparison today’s so called country music is just wannabe country boys singing noise pollution.
I don’t listen to modern country. As a matter of fact I don’t even know the artists.
I hate today's country!!
My dad played with him in Verona, Pennsylvania 1961. I was only 5, but I’ll never forget playing with my friends while they did music together. I have 6 boxes of pictures from back then that is hard to go through, and I know there is a picture of them. My dad played every instrument, but mainly his Mandolin, which I gave to one of my cousins so he’ll learn to play. Thanks for the wonderful memories ♥️
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This voice changed country music. The best ever. These albums came out when I was a about 12 or so. Lefty I think had 2 albums in the early 70s. This particular song I think was his best ever. .
No one can sing this like Lefty. Love it.
Keith was an Excellent singer But He was lacking against Lefty. I can not name One singer as good a Vocal as Lefty.
I am shaking my head with a huge smile.. Lefty was one heck of a stylist. Just love this man's singing
This guy taught all the rest of the performers to sing...what a set of pipes!
David Frizzelll would agree, He said his brother came about that curl in his voice naturally but he had to learn it and it took a lot of practice.
Merle is the best of all time , total package, lefty deserves lot of the credit , Merle loved Lefty !!!!!
Lefty had what I call. a Real country voice.FABULOUS.
Hey how are you doing today..?😮
Fantastic! The more I listen to his songs the more I realize what a true county legend he was!
one of the greatest country songs ever...that voice ...plus a great song...
+Terry Martin You got Bud, Pure Old Time Southern Country Singin Voice, one and only Lefty Frizzell. Thanks Quarante Quartre 44 for puttin out this Great song but one of the Greatest Country singers.
"Hank and Lefty crowded every Jukebox!"
I heard that song this week, “The Way It Was In ‘51” by Merle Haggard, a really good song! I got the “Down Every Road” Merle Haggard album for Christmas nearly 2 weeks ago.
By far the best version of this song. I could listen to this all day.
I'm gonna have to say though this is the original and inspiration for all the ones after it I think Keith Whitley does the best version
@@austincampbell3388 have you heard George Jones version of this song, it's outstanding
Old Lefty knew how to do a real country song!!!! RIP Lefty.
Loretta Lynn: You're looking at country
Lefty Frizzell: You're listening to country
Country at it's FINEST!!!! RIP Lefty 🙏😢💔
A great voice taken too soon by Alcohol. You can here the pain in his voice and really believe he is living this song. That is what is missing in country music today.
Lefty lived into his *80's. My friend went fishing with him in 2009 at Brookville Lake near Dayton Ohio
@@keithnorris8982 Lefty Frizzell died July 19, 1975.
Now a days they make too much money, travel in million-dollar air conditioned bus, and have one number one hit and retire. In the old days 16 hour rides from one job to the next in an old station wagon with the bass tied on top of the vehicle. Might make a few hundred bucks and then have to travel a couple thousand miles to get back to Nashville for the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday. Tom T Hall said for his first number one hit he made $3,000. Having one of today's so-called country music stars singing about about hard times is like having Madonna sing about virginity.
@@keithnorris8982 You are confusing Lefty with David, I think.
I'll have to take your word for it. My friend has moved away. Thanx:-)
I've heard this song by a lot of artists, but once you've heard it from Lefty, you know 'It's been sung'.
wow, how well you've said, it says it all.
Thank you.
Damn right !!
Agreed
Connie Higgins Keith Whitley does a good rendition
I grew up on these songs, nothing comes close today.
Travelling from California to kansas via the mother road rt 66 lefty on am radio...a memory that will never fade
Now this is the music I grew up on. True country :) Why can't radio play this again. Favorite music ever :)
Hello Joy how are you doing?
Hi Joy
Hello Joy 👋
Holy smokes...what a voice! Just wow..!!!
It is interesting they act like Lefty was washed up by the 70s. However," I Never Go around Mirrors "and "Thats the Way Love Goes" came out 73/74. In my opinion, 2 of his very best songs.
Lefty sets a standard of excellence for every country singer to emulate. Sure love that Tic-Tac bass that nobody does any more.
Joe, Glad I read your post. I have been hearing that "tic-tac" sound on several recordings and wondered what it was, now you say it is a bass. I sometime wonder if it was in the original song are was added later.
Thanks for the answer.
Real county music from the heart! This crap played on radio today doesn't have any heart into it! Be bobin crap!
Lefty and Hag remind me of each other. Love em both.
'cause Merle idolized Lefty...love 'em both too!
Merle often said that he thought that lefty hung the moon. High praise indeed
Keith Whitley's favorite song. He would sing it at the drop of a hat. It was Keith who got Sanger Shafer to write a second verse. Keith was often criticized for sounding exactly like Lefty. Keith however took that as the highest praise. If you are going to sound like someone he would say, its good to sound like the best.
Except Keith didn't sound exactly like Lefty. Just listen to him cover I Love You A Thousand Ways in 1982 and then 1988. Keith was just Keith by 1988.
Rossm3838 Keith was humble and he was the best country singer ever!!!
Was it Sanger who wrote it's so easy for the blues to get me down ? The great Gene Watson does a very good version
Keith sings it better than all the rest,slower,and a much better voice for this song.
My favorite Keith song, ever.
Country music greatest singer!
Great voice and he knew how to use it. None better, wish he had lived to a ripe old age. Imagine what he would have left us with after another 20 years.
Lefty was at the top when I was a girl and every song was a hit and still is as far as I am concerned. The new one have ruined Country Music but we still have it on RUclips.
Hello Shirley 👋
That voice, man. It's as slippery as a steel guitar and just as expressive.
You see where the Hag got it.
I think that's one of the reasons why I love the Hag so much. Has a tremendous amount of admiration for the greats that preceded him in music. I heard Merle's version first and thought it couldn't be topped but this is awesome.
+Ebenezar , If you like Slide Guitar Blues listen to Ry Cooder " Feelin Bad Blues"
Clyde Dahler yeah? Cooder is somebody I have listened to in passing, enough to where I asked "who is that ?" So, yeah. I'll go check that out. Thanks!
I had to listen to this song three times today. This is country music.
Lefty was absolutely the Best of the Country Tear jerkers. Wow a Great Voice.
Lefty, you for sure are one of the greatest in country community, will see you sooner or later, RIP
Lefty was the template who created a new style of singing in 1949. With pauses, breaks, and sustaining notes with the lyrics he sung. And his style was copied not only by most Country Music singers afterwards, but also imitated by singers of R&B and Pop.
my late husband and lefty were first cousins, their moms were sisters... lots of talent in the cox and frizzell family. lefty was incredible, what a voice!!!!! i never tire of hearing his music. it brings backs memories of the music we loved together, of course i will always love traditional country music. it stirs your soul..
Grew up listening to him
Hello how are you doing today…?😮
Real Country Music At It's Best by one of the All-Time Greats, Lefty Frizzel. Smokey Binion, Jr.
My favorite Lefty song and one of the best alcoholic regret songs of all time. Bet a friend of mine he wouldn't have heard of it and to my amazement he sang it word for word. Never bet him again on old obscure country music songs
Daryle Singletary did a pretty darn good rendition.
but was still no Lefty
No one better than Lefty what a voice ...
This can make a grown man cry🤧
Hey how are you doing today…?😊
No one could do this song like Lefty.
This is real country music! We love and miss you Lefty!
This man could sing anything.WOW
A definitive country music song.
This is the heart of country music.
Incomparable voice. Forerunner of George Jones with his ability of voice inflexion within a single sentence. Real country here.
I get where your coming from but the way Jones sang was created by Johnny paycheck.
Of course... Lefty was the forerunner to George Jones as far as being a stylist goes.. they were two of country music's best.
@@chadjustice8560I'd say both .. more Lefty as he came a little earlier. Johnny Paycheck and Jones sang together rubbed off of each other ..so yes Johnny Paycheck very underrated
Such a great singer.
Another great miss his singing❤
greatest voice in country ever
Ya' got that right!!
brian cursley r
@@steveroberts8719 tied with George Jones.
Merle Haggard #1 to me.
@@AustinRogers1 I love Lefty but you think even better than George?
Could listen to him for ever
This is simply one of his very best songs...
Wonderful singing
I love classics like this one......
Nobody ever sings like lefty
This is the first time, that I have ever heard the original version of this song! Very Nice! Classic!
No one can beat lefty doing this .
What more need be said this is a great country song ❤❤❤❤❤
one of the very best
Just heard this now for the first time. Respect from cork Ireland.. lovely song
I miss these guys the
Ol.country musis 2
Day country is a joke
U got that right
I love his voice!
Lefty was a master of real country music, unfortunately not appreciated till he left us!
What can I say ? Don't mess with LEFTY!!!
Hello how are you doing today….?
lefty sure owns this song !!
all these yrs and still a favorite
Hello how are you doing..?
a great song writer and singer.....looking back now, he had the right voice for the right songs....something you can not say for a lot of these so called singers today
I had to look up who wrote this after listening to merle haggards version. This is a great experience discovering these musicians. I will be listening to more Lefty Frizzel for sure
I first looked up Lefty watching The Hard Part Begins, a Canadian film about a country singer King who was influenced by Lefty at an early age
I love Merle Haggard's rendition, but this is my favorite. 💙
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music🎷 today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
The late great Lefty such a talent.
I never knew this wasn't a Keith Whitley original.
Good to find the original.
Love them both.
this actually made me cry
I Never Go Around Mirrors, this one by Lefty sounds a little like Merle Haggard, both singers were Great.
Lefty was one of Haggards biggest influences.
Merle would say that he thought that Lefty Hung the moon.
@@RossM3838 because he did
Ugh, Merle got the song from Lefty. There's a story knocking around out there that when Lefty played the song for Haggard, he asked Merle to cut it as he knew Haggard would sell more records on it, thus bringing in a bigger royalty check.
I love this song & Lefty fabulous
Hello how are you doing…?
He certainly influenced Ol' Merle.............
oden hakansson Merle's hero...can see why...Merle then took it to the next level...one nobody has exceeded...
And every other Country Music singer after him. Back in 1949 Lefty created a new style of singing. Instead of phrasing the syllables of the lyrics in a steady regular flow, Lefty was the first to employ pauses, breaks and sustained notes. George Jones was a Lefty clone, among others.
To say the least
Both great books,a slight correction,David is Lefty's brother.
'ya think?
Nobody does this song like Lefty..nobody
Love this guy. He's country and I want it back. Lefty I hope you knew how wonderful you
The 3 greatest country artist ever sing this song.R.I.P lefty Frizzell george Jones(a.k.a.) the possum and the great Keith whitley.
My parents set the seeds of Bluegrass and these old Country singers in the 60s and 70s! Seems they all came back to me while in my 50s and have stayed with me since! Thank God for Hee Haw and the VFW Hall or else it may have been my moms Lawerene Welk! ☹️
Grown man cry this song brings tears
My fav song all time.
There was only one Lefty...never will be another one like him...there's a tribute by Big George Moody...wrong title on the file, but great song, originally from Haggard. Check out Big George Moody on Number One West.
One the greatest singer ever
I Love this song ♥️
Hello how are you doing..?
Facein' fear since 80'
His voice is haunting
Hello how are you doing today..?😊
i love his voice! Real country!!!
I hear a bit of Jimmy Rogers, the singing brakeman in Lefty. I never really noticed it before. Probably because I never listened to him a lot.
love the music
let's take our hats off to Mark Chestnutt's cover of this. It almost that you have to be from Texas to get the metre of this tune and hold the emotion. Mark got it in his cover .
after Lefty....Mark . on this one.
Explain the Kentucky bluebird Keith Whitley doing it so well then.
Can you imagine one of these male " country singer's " today saying how it tears them up to see a grown man cry ? Today they just want to sing about there pickup and all the other stereotypes. No other music gets out emotion like old country
Amen! "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" is the most obscene country recording of the 21st century!
Darla Haines: No, that song is early-2000s country. A better example of the stereotypical country music is pretty much country music after maybe 2010 or so, though definitely also some in the past 5 years.
Love listening to this man..
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music🎷 today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
The way he phrases the song....... the melody....... the highs and lows....... the tempo....., reminds me of THE HAG.......!!!!!!!!!
I had the privilege of meeting his brother Allen and getting to watch him perform at our local cowboy church a couple years back and he sounded just like lefty.
He was a great singing talent. So many wonderful songs from him. Shame he messed his life up so badly.
Lefty and hank are my favorites