Wow, both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, have exposed me to some truly great music, music I would have never found by myself, and I have to give huge credit to the writers for not only using great music but to the excellent way that they have implemented the songs throughout both series.
Well if you like discovering music here’s the original from 1928, the first version I heard. ruclips.net/video/NMAPOQedRxA/видео.html Here is another interesting recording of The Prisonair’s song ‘Don’t Say Tomorrow’. This was actually recorded in the Memphis State Penitentiary (they were actual prisoners) and recorded with field recording equipment by Sam Phillips of Sun Records fame (Elvis’. ‘That’s Alright Mama’.) ruclips.net/video/RZceVY2Wib0/видео.html I know it’s out of the blue but you did say you like discovering music! 😉😄
I’m 58 now and just 2 years ago I lost my dad suddenly. Healthy 80th year then gone within 10 days. Anyway, this song just chocks me up because when I was a kid he’d sit on the end of my bed with his guitar and sing this and others until I fell to sleep. I was 10 minutes late when he died 2nd sept 2018 and I remember holding his hand and whispering in his ear. “Thank you for being my dad.!” This song just so reminds me of him. I never open up like this but this song just kicked me in the gut and brought back a memory
Hahah I’m a carer for the elderly in Scotland, and I go to a 91 year old man who sings this song every single morning without fail, so much so I started signing it with him, and this is me just now finding where he gets it from.
I remember it as a kid,on one of our 78 records. Haha must have been Mom or Dad's, if it was turn of last century, early 1900s. Great ...so glad to find it, since I wanted to prove to my husband this song existed. Mom taught us a lot of folk songs, since we had a 4th generation musical group in our family (in Indiana). But this one, this was from an old 78. Memories . . .
Back in the late 1980's while living in Mt. Vernon, Wa, I worked for a company named Visiting Nurses as a home health aide, and having a meeting of the day, a call came in to care for an elderly guy named Burl Ives , for home care, no one knew who this guy was ,except me, as it turned out a R.N. received the honors of caring for him on a eight hour shift,I grew up listening to his music , later after he passed, the R.N. had said said he was a delight to be around, I can only imagine,
My 7 year old grandson who has autism and is non verbal.. loves to listen to Burl Ives . Especially Mr. Ives Christmas album. He is able to sing/ humm along. 🥰
mindsaglowin How incredibly spot on your comment and the one above is! Because we understand there is such a shift away from this means that we will recapture the better side of our humanity in years to come.
Simpler my ass. His handling of phrasing and line here is complicatedly masterful -- made to seem simple. This is pretty much the same skill as the best Bel Canto singers.
My parents bought me one of those little record players back in the early 60's. They gave me a few 45's and this song by Burl Ives was one of them. I recall this tune was different from the Pete Seegar version. However, I recently underwent a triple by-pass operation, and this song from long ago popped into my head. I couldn't remember all the lyrics. But, I could remember the tune and the opening lyrics. I'm 65 now, and I had not thought of this tune in almost 60 years. It's funny how we remember things from our past.
Harry McClintock brought me here. Burl Ives’s version of the song used a few of Harry’s original lyrics, but is otherwise a very different song in feel and narrative. It’s no surprise Burl made this new song of the same name as Harry’s original still good, and still very enjoyable and nice! Burl’s singing and music style always hit close to home for me, especially around Christmas time. He’ll always be a favorite of mine!
Love of Burl brought me here. I honor my ancestors; family, history, music and all the rest. Listen to the original. It’s now used in a tv commercial. Doesn’t diminish the coolness of this song. Peace.
There is such a purity to this man's voice. It is odd, because he sings of worldly things, but somehow Ghost Riders in the Sky, being a homeless bum, and itty bitty tears all seem so friendly and "just right".
My children all love this song. We play Burl Ives songs on car trips. He really has a special speaking and singing voice and his phrasing is wonderful!
My Grandparents gave my brother and I a small suitcase record player for Christmas when I was 7. My mother gave us a Burl Ives record the same year. This song was on it. I didn’t know anything about the hobo life during the depression so the song puzzled me until I got older. I’ve heard a hundred versions, some I even prefer to this, but this one is closest to my heart.
Big Rock Candy Mountain is here in Utah. My parents took us kids there every Easter. It was a couple hours away from where we lived. Over the years it went downhill. The "lemonade springs" dried up and most the little shops closed. It's still there but nothing like when I was a kid in the 70's. There's beautiful scenery there though. The state of Utah is all beautiful. I live by Park City now and it's absolutely gorgeous here!
@@mikeresendez5151 The locale you are referring to was a tourist cash-in to a song that already existed. This is a very enjoyable version of the song and it is the version I grew up with (before idiots turned it into a purely kiddie song and substituted "lollipop trees" for "cigarette trees"). However, even this version is heavily bowdlerised from the orginal song sung by bums in the 1890s. Look up any reliable folkways manual and you will find that the original was quite specific about the homosocial nature of the world of bums and hoboes, and how stories about the fabulous "big rock candy mountains" (plural) were tales spun by older hoboes to entice younger and more gullible men to come along with them, probably with a sexual relationship in mind. I could quote specific verses of the original words here, but do not wish to upset more sensitive readers.
Had this song on a 45 record as a kid with Jimmy crack corn on the flip side. Burl Ives was a great singer and actor. The movie Summer Magic with the song the ugly Bug Ball was good with all the bugs in it. The greats are gone and the great movie makers.
My great uncle has just passed away and this was one of his favourites it was played at his funeral yesterday He used to sing it to the kids when we were all wee he loved it ❤
Americana-Folk. American Culture At Its Best. Similiar To Canadian Cultural-Musical Icons Stompin' Tom Connors & Gordon Lightfoot. Very Similiar Musical Style. I Really Enjoy North American Folk Culture.
This is a very enjoyable version of the song and it is the version I grew up with (before idiots turned it into a purely kiddie song and substituted "lollipop trees" for "cigarette trees"). However, even this version is heavily bowdlerised from the orginal song sung by bums in the 1890s. Look up any reliable folkways manual and you will find that the original was quite specific about the homosocial nature of the world of bums and hoboes, and how stories about the fabulous "big rock candy mountains" (plural) were tales spun by older hoboes to entice younger and more gullible men to come along with them, probably with a sexual relationship in mind. I could quote specific verses of the original words here, but do not wish to upset more sensitive readers.
yes they did didn;t they are one of my childhood memories, watching childrens tv on a tv made by my grandfather from a 9inch radar tube from an ex army navy store
One of my daughter’s faves. When she was little! It wasn’t Burl Ives but kidsongs rendition (and I don’t think it was cigarette trees but don’t remember what they said instead....) Anyway she’s 19 now and when I think of her sitting in her car seat saying “again again big rock candy mountain please!” It just makes me smile.💕
It was Burl Ives and he used to sing "Oh the buzzin' o' the bees in the lollipop trees and the ice cold soda fountain"...I remember those lyrics from when I was a kid too (back in the 50's-60's). Never heard the cigarette trees version until many years later and thought those were the wrong lyrics. We also liked his other nonsense songs, Quack Quack Paddle-Oh, and Bongo lived in the Belgian Congo, and maybe others I can't remember now.
My mom put a tape of his in the tape player every night so that me and my sister would fall asleep. It was wonderful. If me and my sister couldn't sleep we would just sing to each other until we did.
Just drove by here yesterday, returning from a long weekend at Ruby's Inn by Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. We all stopped, got the instruments out and played a few rounds of this song for Hobos, where ever they may roam.
I know the page is already littered with these comments but I still feel inclined to add my own words of appreciation. Thank you BCS showrunners for introducing me to all these great old-timey tunes. My previous favourite was Sugartown
Wow, both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, have exposed me to some truly great music, music I would have never found by myself, and I have to give huge credit to the writers for not only using great music but to the excellent way that they have implemented the songs throughout both series.
Here to make 70.
Couldn't say it better.
How could you not know burl Ives?! Wow. He’s a legend! Especially Christmas songs 😊 🎅🏻
Well if you like discovering music here’s the original from 1928, the first version I heard.
ruclips.net/video/NMAPOQedRxA/видео.html
Here is another interesting recording of The Prisonair’s song ‘Don’t Say Tomorrow’. This was actually recorded in the Memphis State Penitentiary (they were actual prisoners) and recorded with field recording equipment by Sam Phillips of Sun Records fame (Elvis’. ‘That’s Alright Mama’.)
ruclips.net/video/RZceVY2Wib0/видео.html
I know it’s out of the blue but you did say you like discovering music! 😉😄
I’m 58 now and just 2 years ago I lost my dad suddenly. Healthy 80th year then gone within 10 days. Anyway, this song just chocks me up because when I was a kid he’d sit on the end of my bed with his guitar and sing this and others until I fell to sleep. I was 10 minutes late when he died 2nd sept 2018 and I remember holding his hand and whispering in his ear. “Thank you for being my dad.!” This song just so reminds me of him. I never open up like this but this song just kicked me in the gut and brought back a memory
This song makes it feel likes it's all good man even when it isn't.
S'all good, man!
Ashwin Raj
That was pretty clever of the writers!
Hahah I’m a carer for the elderly in Scotland, and I go to a 91 year old man who sings this song every single morning without fail, so much so I started signing it with him, and this is me just now finding where he gets it from.
SimqleHD ha thats awesome. music man
I remember it as a kid,on one of our 78 records. Haha must have been Mom or Dad's, if it was turn of last century, early 1900s. Great ...so glad to find it, since I wanted to prove to my husband this song existed. Mom taught us a lot of folk songs, since we had a 4th generation musical group in our family (in Indiana). But this one, this was from an old 78. Memories . . .
What a lovely tone in his voice real smooth very easy on the ears.
What a sweet voice - a grandpa telling his brood a story.
I remember this song from mt childhood in the late 1950s
I wish I were in 50s or 60s in the U.S
@@jezza8998 me too but I’m black 😂
@@joshs1541 😂🤦🏼
@@joshs1541 dude it would be better for you to be not there at that period of time 😂🤝
This will hold me ‘til Christmas. I really like Burl Ives.
A Holly Jolly Christmas- one of my very favorites🎅❤
Better Call Saul landed me here also.... much appreciated
season 4 , ep 7 :))
Back in the late 1980's while living in Mt. Vernon, Wa, I worked for a company named Visiting Nurses as a home health aide, and having a meeting of the day, a call came in to care for an elderly guy named Burl Ives , for home care, no one knew who this guy was ,except me, as it turned out a R.N. received the honors of caring for him on a eight hour shift,I grew up listening to his music , later after he passed, the R.N. had said said he was a delight to be around, I can only imagine,
That's outstanding.
Wow :)
No one knew who Burl Ives was? That seems crazy to me.
That's so awesome! I knew he used to live up in Port Angeles at one point.
From a nurse- my older clients are the best of us.
My Mom sang this around the house at times. A wonderful memory.
My father loves this, he's 90 years young
Great Song
The only verified comment I've seen which doesn't have hundreds of likes
I feel like going back in '50s and enjoy this song with people in that era
My 7 year old grandson who has autism and is non verbal.. loves to listen to Burl Ives . Especially Mr. Ives Christmas album. He is able to sing/ humm along. 🥰
Greetings from Germany all the long way to all of you!!
>German
>Listening to Big Rock Candy Mountain by Burl Ives
Alright, where's this laundromat you work at? I wanna see it for myself.
@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 :D
@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 🤝 :D
Brilliant singer from a time when things were much simpler.
Both simpler and much more profound, ironically.
mindsaglowin How incredibly spot on your comment and the one above is!
Because we understand there is such a shift away from this means that we will recapture the better side of our humanity in years to come.
Nobby clark Listen to Harry Mclintocks original. There's no Disney castle in there.
Simpler my ass. His handling of phrasing and line here is complicatedly masterful -- made to seem simple. This is pretty much the same skill as the best Bel Canto singers.
Time's weren't simpler. You grew older and life became more complicated. This very song creates a fantasy for people to momentarily escape that life.
My favorite song when I was 5 years old! I thought there really a Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Burl Ives had the best voice ever. I loved when he was the Snowman in
Rudolph The Red Nosed Raindeer.
So glad I got to see him live as a kid in the 80’s
Haven't heard this for years.
“Werrrnerrrr ZIEGGGGLErrrrr.”
My parents bought me one of those little record players back in the early 60's. They gave me a few 45's and this song by Burl Ives was one of them. I recall this tune was different from the Pete Seegar version. However, I recently underwent a triple by-pass operation, and this song from long ago popped into my head. I couldn't remember all the lyrics. But, I could remember the tune and the opening lyrics. I'm 65 now, and I had not thought of this tune in almost 60 years. It's funny how we remember things from our past.
My best to you. Similar situation here, CHF, amputated below right knee. And yes it is strange how important some memories are.
Yep!!! Me too...what an innocent Era we lived in, no? Wish I could go back just one more time...😔
Me too.. Burl Ives. Unmistakeable.
Listening to this is like goin' home.
Harry McClintock brought me here. Burl Ives’s version of the song used a few of Harry’s original lyrics, but is otherwise a very different song in feel and narrative. It’s no surprise Burl made this new song of the same name as Harry’s original still good, and still very enjoyable and nice! Burl’s singing and music style always hit close to home for me, especially around Christmas time. He’ll always be a favorite of mine!
Love of Burl brought me here. I honor my ancestors; family, history, music and all the rest. Listen to the original. It’s now used in a tv commercial. Doesn’t diminish the coolness of this song. Peace.
What a voice absolutely marvellous
Mike and his german workers from Better Call Saul brought me here.
I have a bad feeling about the future prospects for those German workers...
maddog167:
Don‘t worry.... We get paid and go home 😜
Mr. Ziegler is out getting some fresh air and watching the New Mexican sky.
So many stars in New Mexico...
Oh Brother Where Art Thou brought me here. I was delighted to see it featured in BSC.
Catchy old tune knew the voice emeadently love the nostalgia in the vocals... Better call saul ;)
There is such a purity to this man's voice. It is odd, because he sings of worldly things, but somehow Ghost Riders in the Sky, being a homeless bum, and itty bitty tears all seem so friendly and "just right".
This ROCKS!!! 👏🎼🎸👍🇺🇸❤️
NO ONE CAN IMITATE HIM !!!
i can :>
Whoever sang "Happy Happy Joy Joy" can.
Oh God please bring back those days when things were simpler. We're in trouble here.
Takes me back soo many years. Thank you
My children all love this song. We play Burl Ives songs on car trips. He really has a special speaking and singing voice and his phrasing is wonderful!
Big Daddy, what a fella !
I ALWAYS LOVED HIS BEAUTIFUL SONGS AND BALLADS.
A voice like cut crystal beautiful Burl rip what a great AMERICAN XX JOHN FROM SCOTLAND
John Sawers oh love this song xxxjs xxxcp
My grandfather was acquainted with Mr. Ives long ago.
Oh?
Just another Better Call Saul fan who found their way here.
same here
Yea lmao
I was shocked when I heard this classic tune
DITO
Got to thinking about this song. I remember it from my childhood. The good old days.
Just discovered this... AMAZING !!!!
My Grandparents gave my brother and I a small suitcase record player for Christmas when I was 7. My mother gave us a Burl Ives record the same year. This song was on it. I didn’t know anything about the hobo life during the depression so the song puzzled me until I got older. I’ve heard a hundred versions, some I even prefer to this, but this one is closest to my heart.
Same here James! Those were the good old days for sure!!!
Watched Better Call Saul and got this song stuck permanently in my head. I thought if you listen to the stuck song it breaks the spell, but no soap.
Big Rock Candy Mountain is here in Utah. My parents took us kids there every Easter. It was a couple hours away from where we lived. Over the years it went downhill. The "lemonade springs" dried up and most the little shops closed. It's still there but nothing like when I was a kid in the 70's. There's beautiful scenery there though. The state of Utah is all beautiful. I live by Park City now and it's absolutely gorgeous here!
You know as well as I do then, the pictures in this video don't do justice to the colors on the mountain...
@@mikeresendez5151 The locale you are referring to was a tourist cash-in to a song that already existed. This is a very enjoyable version of the song and it is the version I grew up with (before idiots turned it into a purely kiddie song and substituted "lollipop trees" for "cigarette trees"). However, even this version is heavily bowdlerised from the orginal song sung by bums in the 1890s. Look up any reliable folkways manual and you will find that the original was quite specific about the homosocial nature of the world of bums and hoboes, and how stories about the fabulous "big rock candy mountains" (plural) were tales spun by older hoboes to entice younger and more gullible men to come along with them, probably with a sexual relationship in mind. I could quote specific verses of the original words here, but do not wish to upset more sensitive readers.
Wonderful video and song Burl Ives was great and his music lives on.
wonderful memories of childhood and innocence.
I’m in love with this song
Better Call Saul brought me here.
JCHGaming69 ..... it’s all good man.
Found it.
Me too
same.
Same here. It actually took a little while until I found the right version.
Had this song on a 45 record as a kid with Jimmy crack corn on the flip side. Burl Ives was a great singer and actor. The movie Summer Magic with the song the ugly Bug Ball was good with all the bugs in it. The greats are gone and the great movie makers.
I love the song good and nice 😊
I cant think of a more hauntingly beautiful voice for a man than that of Burl Ives.
My dad played Burl Ives all the time when I was a kid. I was so excited to hear this on BCS!! 😍
Such a nice gent who as an actor could play a real villain. I love his singing.
My great uncle has just passed away and this was one of his favourites it was played at his funeral yesterday
He used to sing it to the kids when we were all wee he loved it ❤
Man, that guy had a voice! What a range
Better call saul brought me here. Remember listening to this song when I was a young boy.
What a special voice Burl Ives had and he was a great actor too!
A lot of singers have covered this song over the years. But No one dose quite as good as Good ol Burl Ives.
A great American song.
Always heart-warming, this song....and Burl Ives, of course!!
This song and it's story are pushing 100 years. Love the Gilligans and Odenkirks of the world that keep it alive.
What a fantastic lovely song, absolutely amazing musical choices for BCS
Burl, such a GORGEOUS voice
have always loved him and his songs grew up singing his songs when I was a kid
Americana-Folk. American Culture At Its Best. Similiar To Canadian Cultural-Musical Icons
Stompin' Tom Connors & Gordon Lightfoot. Very Similiar Musical Style. I Really Enjoy North
American Folk Culture.
nice collection of photos, great song and THAT voice. Thanks!
Oh my goodness , how could I have forgotten what fun these songs conjure up!
Oh what a beautiful voice
memories of Children's Favourites on the radio on Saturday Mornings 100 years ago......
Uncle Mac. Derek Mc Cullouch.
This is a very enjoyable version of the song and it is the version I grew up with (before idiots turned it into a purely kiddie song and substituted "lollipop trees" for "cigarette trees"). However, even this version is heavily bowdlerised from the orginal song sung by bums in the 1890s. Look up any reliable folkways manual and you will find that the original was quite specific about the homosocial nature of the world of bums and hoboes, and how stories about the fabulous "big rock candy mountains" (plural) were tales spun by older hoboes to entice younger and more gullible men to come along with them, probably with a sexual relationship in mind. I could quote specific verses of the original words here, but do not wish to upset more sensitive readers.
l think this was the first 'hit' in my very early coming up. This and Tubby the Tuba.
Great song, great artist. I still have the78rpm disk I listened to as a boy !
M M Roguski
During the 50's, the BBC radio Saturday morning children's request program played this song at least once every 2 weeks.
Yes. It was very popular.
Uncle Mac
yes they did didn;t they are one of my childhood memories, watching childrens tv on a tv made by my grandfather from a 9inch radar tube from an ex army navy store
@@alfching2499 Later became 'Junior Choice' with Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart.
@@karenblackadder9446 he's a bit late for me but I seem to recall he played more pop songs than the children's songs of uncle Mac.
SWEET.
*Burl was such a great talent!*
My ( late ) father's best loved song ( ! ) ...... DAVE™ ........
one of those whistle along songs
One of my daughter’s faves. When she was little! It wasn’t Burl Ives but kidsongs rendition (and
I don’t think it was cigarette trees but don’t remember what they said instead....)
Anyway she’s 19 now and when I think of her sitting in her car seat saying “again again big rock candy mountain please!” It just makes me smile.💕
It was Burl Ives and he used to sing "Oh the buzzin' o' the bees in the lollipop trees and the ice cold soda fountain"...I remember those lyrics from when I was a kid too (back in the 50's-60's). Never heard the cigarette trees version until many years later and thought those were the wrong lyrics. We also liked his other nonsense songs, Quack Quack Paddle-Oh, and Bongo lived in the Belgian Congo, and maybe others I can't remember now.
He made it! RIP Burl Ives
berle was first
What a song, and what a tv show BCS was
My mom put a tape of his in the tape player every night so that me and my sister would fall asleep. It was wonderful. If me and my sister couldn't sleep we would just sing to each other until we did.
The last time I visited they said the FDA was pulling all the cigarette tree's? Last I checked they were still there but that was 2014
What a great song, I loved his music. Nice to sing along to.
I can't stop listening to this song and I don't know why. Bum at heart?
Just drove by here yesterday, returning from a long weekend at Ruby's Inn by Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. We all stopped, got the instruments out and played a few rounds of this song for Hobos, where ever they may roam.
Burl Ives covered and recreated this song. I am using it as college curriculum. My students and I appreciate this.
My pleasure ;o)
Mark.
a wonderful singer actor with a great sense of humour great post j vincent edwards
Fantastic song beautifully sung. Must check out more Burl Ives! Thanks for sharing
Oh my I can still remember my older sisters singing this song as we traveled to the Big Rock Candy Mountain. This was back in the 1950's
Robert
No voice has shook my life like Burl
Another favourite. When being a kid was good stuff and for me not demanding!
What a man , my 2 favourite songs of his . Big rock candy mounting. I know an old lady 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧😂😂😂
My dearest mom sang this to me, patiently, over and over.. fascinating to a little girl...
Truly a superb talent :)))
I know the page is already littered with these comments but I still feel inclined to add my own words of appreciation. Thank you BCS showrunners for introducing me to all these great old-timey tunes. My previous favourite was Sugartown
Brings back fond memories ❤
1st heard in the 70s as a kid in the 70s, born May 23rd 1968 , from northern Ireland UK,
Burl was a man and a half - singer and actor and did everything well.