Oh, Harri…you have NO IDEA! Roy is known best as a country singer, and I would hope you’d dig a bit deeper into his work. Especially a song that was a huge hit “Yesterday When I Was Young”, not so much country though. He is best known as a host of the show “Hee Haw”
He played guitar, banjo, and violin. Most people remember him from the show HEE HAW. Clapton, Jeff Beck and many others claim he is the greatest guitarist they ever heard. I have seen him play this on an acoustic, electric (in this video), and a 12 string flamenco guitar
@@keithgraham9547 Uh, no sir. The late, great, Roy Clark played one for Johnny Carson many years ago. JC asked if he was going to play his Jew's Harp. Roy laughed and said it was a Juice Harp. I thought the same, but I'll take the word of Roy Clark.
One of those 'good guys' who was blessed with such talent. Quietly did many good works and lived a life of christian values. Must have been just the ticket as he was always smiling and laughing. RIP
Roy was mostly known as a Country/Western artist, but is really just one Hell of a talent. He plays about 30 different instruments, and plays them at a very high level. He was one of the greatest guitarists, of any genre in the world. Roy passed away a few years ago.
At the end of it all Roy was just a southern boy with talent and magic in his hands.The other players on the hee haw show used to say as a joke IF IT HAS STRINGS KEEP ROY OFF IT SO HE DON'T BREAK IT BEFORE THE SHOW STARTS.
He was mostly a country western singer from the US. He was a prolific guitar player who could cover all genres of music. He co hosted a show called Hee Haw for many years which was a southern country weekly TV show.
Roy Clark was a great player, and played just about anything with strings. He was also a great comedian / comic actor. He was a host of the television variety show Hee Haw forever. He passed a couple of years ago, in his late 80s I believe. Enjoy his comedy as you look into him, he was a good guy.
@@sixslinger9951 Slinger, for some reason Roy's down home comedy which was great by the way, kept folks from taking his music skills seriously. I'm trying to get a grip on this issue. Roy was one of the greatest musicians ever to be born. He played all of those stringed instruments at GOAT level.
My maiden name is Clark. Roy Clark was a cousin on my dad's side. My dad also played guitar, but of course never on that level. Roy really was a gentleman, kind and generous.
Actually "Malagueña" is a song written by Cuban American composer Ernesto Lecuona. It was originally the sixth movement of Lecuona's Suite Andalucía (1933), to which he added lyrics in Spanish. It is a genre of folk music from eastern Venezuela, most notably from the island of Margarita. (yes, THAT Margarita). He composed over 600 pieces, many of them of international fame. One of my favorite dance tunes is Siboney (a rumba). I've loved his music since the 1940s.
@@jamesforbes2871 Thanks. You're very musically erudite. Malaguena has always "been there" since I learn guitar as a kid, but I never heard anyone give the real story behind the song.
Along the same lines you should watch Glen Campbell do The William Tell Overture in front of an orchestra. Or watch Roy Clark and Glen Campbell together on Ghost Riders In The Sky.
The great Roy Clark. He passed a few years back. He would always astound me by his guitar prowess. He was especially well known for hosting the country variety show Hee Haw. He was born a Virginian and known as an expert stringman versed in guitar, banjo and the fiddle. He also was a good vocalist. He was also known for appearing in the TV show Beverly Hillbillies. He backed Wanda Jackson and also sub hosted for TV personality Johnny Carson on the Tonight show frequently.
Roy Clark was an *outrageously* gifted guitarist and entertainer. He was a successful recording artist, co-hosted/starred in Hee Haw for over 20 yrs plus appearances other numerous other TV shows, all while touring a fair bit and In 1983 he opened his own theater in Branson, Missouri and played there to packed houses until he sold it in the 1990s. Eddie Van Halen requested and was given lessons by Roy Clark! This is a rabbit hole well worth exploring. 🤘Rock On!🤘
Thanks, Harri - this is a classic! kind of "flamenco" -- the interesting thing is that Roy was known as a kind of "aw, shucks" country guy -- funny, self-deprecating, but a devastating musician who playing amazing banjo and violin (fiddle) as well -- very humble and kind... I knew him from that corny show "Hee Haw" when I was about 6-7 years old - but it took me years to realize how talented he truly was!
The father of a good friend of mine used to jam with Roy Clark on the TV shows Austin City Limits and Hee Haw. You need to check out the RUclips videos with Roy Clark and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. You will be totally amazed and pleased at the way these two greats could get down and jam with each other.
Roy is from Tennessee. He is one of my favorite guitarists. This is even better when he plays it on the 12 string acoustic. Thanks for these great musicians!
He is Roy Clark from tulsa Oklahoma USA. He plays around a dozen different instruments. He won some sort of BANJO competition at the age of 14. The man, the myth, the legend ROY CLARK passed away at his home in Tulsa Oklahoma from pneumonia in 2018 at the age of 85.
To do this on an electric guitar is really something special. Roy's right hand is like a hummingbird's wings at times. He plays it on the acoustic too!
Roy Clark's right hand pick control is just beyond next level. As a guitarist myself, I know it's an often overlooked part of a guitarist's arsenal, we tend to just work our left hand and make sure our picking hand keeps up. He truly is one of the greatest guitarists of all time. I first saw him on the show Hee Haw in the 70s, and liked his stuff, even as a kid, but it wasn't until much later when I started learning to play myself that I realized just how good he was. This man is one of those rare guitarists in his own class.
His right hand omg ...a blur. He also famously played this on the classic tv show “The Odd Couple” on an acoustic guitar. He gives Jack Klugman and Tony Randall an up close performance that I definitely envy.
He lived in Tulsa Oklahoma & my dad was a friend of his. Roy's known as "the man that can play anything with strings" & it's true!! You HAVE to hear him play banjo, fiddle, mandolin! They're all FANTASTIC!!
So cool Harri...I happened to be your first view. Roy Clark is an exceptional guitar player, so I was glad you listened to him. I'm out of Guelph, Ontario on Canada, and have been enjoying your reactions.
I remember when I was a kid about 11-12 Roy use to be a regular on a country show called Hee- Haw and I would be mesmerized by his guitar playing he was that good!!!!!
Harri,Roy was one of the very best there was.He could make you Laugh or cry with his playing.Try our Yesterday When I Was Young for one that can bring tears to your eyes.He was a good singer as well.Thanks my friend for this one!
I have listened to Roy Clark growing up on the TV show Heehaw but I have never heard him play this song. It was beautiful. I don't know how I missed hearing this song do thank you for this review.
Roy is his name. Born and raised in Virginia. Could play anything with strings. He does this on 6 and 12 string acoustic guitar. Look up him singing Yesterday, when I was young. Beautiful song.
Welcome to the world of Roy Clark! You will be amazed at his musical range and talent. Even more so he was an entertainer and humble (as another commenter pointed out). I grew up watching him on Hee Haw, a corny, country variety show. In addition to his straight up musicianship there a lot of clips of him hamming it up while shredding the guitar or banjo.
Watch Roy tear it up with the Texas great Clarence Gatemouth Brown and his band. All world class musicians and proof that Roy could sit in and play well in any genre!
He was a virtuoso on three instruments and yes he sings as well. I'm an old metalhead and love the technique and pure speed of metal, but when I saw this at the ripe old age of 16 it put me on notice. Hands down one of the best guitarists ever.
He's a great guitarist and all around talented man. Roy Clark is his real name. For more personal information on him, look him up on Wikipedia's website.
My favorite clip of roy was on the TV show the odd couple it's about 8 minutes and it shows a little more of his talent ,singing, violin , banjo, and a slightly different version of this song , in front of a live audience. He was a great talent r.i.p
Malagueña was always known as the hardest song to play on the guitar. Roy Clark has a song you should definitely listen to called ‘Yesterday’!! He was on a show in America called Hee Haw. He is a well rounded artist! Can act, he’s comedic! And can play a lot of different instruments!
Roy Clark can play just about anything he sets his mind to. There is a video of him and Johnny Cash playing and singing Folsom Prison Blues, playing Dueling Banjos with Buck Trent and playing Ghost Riders with Glen Campbell on guitar. You need to hear him do Thank God and Greyhound She's Gone.
He played anything with strings, sang beautifully, and was very funny as well. American country singer, known and loved beyond our borders. A virtuoso! Gone too soon.
"Roy Linwood Clark (April 15, 1933 - November 15, 2018) was an American singer and musician. He is best known for having hosted Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969 to 1997. Clark was an important and influential figure in country music, both as a performer and in helping to popularize the genre. During the 1970s, Clark frequently guest-hosted for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and enjoyed a 30-million viewership for Hee Haw. Clark was highly regarded and renowned as a guitarist, banjo player, and fiddler. He was skilled in the traditions of many genres, including classical guitar, country music, Latin music, bluegrass, and pop. He had hit songs as a pop vocalist (e.g., "Yesterday, When I Was Young" and "Thank God and Greyhound"), and his instrumental skill had an enormous effect on generations of bluegrass and country musicians. He became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1987, and, in 2009, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He published his autobiography, My Life-in Spite of Myself, in 1994. Clark was born April 15, 1933, in Meherrin, Virginia, one of five children born to Hester Linwood Clark and Lillian Clark (Oliver). His father was a tobacco farmer. He spent his childhood in Meherrin and New York City, where his father moved the family to take jobs during the Great Depression. When Clark was 11 years old, his family moved to a home on 1st Street SE in the Washington Highlands neighborhood of Washington, D.C., after his father found work at the Washington Navy Yard."
Continues to amaze me how Roy Clark could go from playing Spanish classical guitar so effortlessly you’d think he’d played that style all his life… only to switch to a banjo or mandolin & play in a completely different style so incredibly you’d think he had always played ‘that’. I don’t think I know of another musician who can do or ever has done this so readily, so easily, or so effortlessly. It’s an otherworldly level of talent. Masterful.
Roy Clark was highly proficient at a variety of other musical instruments, such as the Banjo. Violin. Ukelele and Mandolin. Roy was the host on the long running TV show "Hee Haw", which featured Country Musics finest musicians, singers and songwriters. The list of guest stars reads like the Who's Who of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
When Roy was coming into his own as an entertainer, it was the music stars that introduced their fans to other forms of music. As stated in the other comments Roy Clark and Glen Cambell were some of the BEST string players ever. Country music stars then had to know how to play as many of the different instruments as possible. Glen Cambell taught Edie VanHallen a few things about playing guitar.
Roy Clark does sing. I am not sure where he was born but he was a great guitarist but probably underrated by some. He could also play a fiddle (violin) and most anything with strings. Roy passed away in Oklahoma in 2020.
HE played that song on an acoustic guitar on a 1970's sitcom in the USA called "The odd couple" one of the best guitar performance I have ever seen and heard. You have reacted to the song alrady, look this version up just to enjoy it.
Roy Clark was a co-host with Buck Owens on a TV show call Hee Haw for over 25 years he can play any stringed instrument and he is a comedian as well and can sing I think he was named Entertainer of the Year once unfortunately Roy died a few years ago but he was an unbelievable musician guitar banjo violin you name it he could play it thanks Hillary I really enjoyed this video
Roy could play anything with strings, banjo, violin, guitar, and all at a master class level. Was a funny guy too if anyone remembers the show Hee Haw and various appearances on tv, etc.
Roy Clark could play anything with strings. He cut heads with Mark Knoffler of Dire Straits, great guitar man himself & he was in awe of Roy! They sat, facing each other. I saw him pick a tune & chord on a violin & he was pitch perfect, not close, not almost with a few error, but bang on the money. Roy, RIP, I was just in awe of your work. Picking a violin, wow
He played this song on an acoustic guitar on the sitcom The Odd Couple at the height of its popularity in the early 1970's and he was so amazing that he yanked the actors completely out of the scene. They just stared at him in amazement.
Roy was a superb stringed instrument Master of the violin banjo acoustic guitar electric guitar but he also had personality as a comedian and he even was on Hee Haw
Ive had the pleasure and privilege of watching Roy perform this song, and many others in an airplane hanger in N.E, Oklahoma . Roy was from Tulsa Oklahoma . @Harry , he was a star on the long running show Hee Haw . His talent was immeasurable.
Jimi Hendrix was once asked how it felt to be the greatest guitarist in the world. He said, "I don't know. You'll have to ask Roy Clark." Malaguena (pronounced mal a gain ya) was composed by a great classical guitarist named Celadonio Romero. His son Pepe Romero is the greatest classical guitarist in the world today. This song has a long and proud history. My Dad taught me to play a simplified version of it when I was a teenager. I'm fond of it in a big way. You owe it to yourself to listen to Pepe Romero's version of this.
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One of the most underrated musicians in history. I hope you do more. He’s very humorous and humble.
Just straight talent, man...an absolute master and one of the greatest of all time.
Oh, Harri…you have NO IDEA! Roy is known best as a country singer, and I would hope you’d dig a bit deeper into his work. Especially a song that was a huge hit “Yesterday When I Was Young”, not so much country though. He is best known as a host of the show “Hee Haw”
He played guitar, banjo, and violin. Most people remember him from the show HEE HAW. Clapton, Jeff Beck and many others claim he is the greatest guitarist they ever heard. I have seen him play this on an acoustic, electric (in this video), and a 12 string flamenco guitar
And Mandolin.
If it had strings, Roy could play it. Whether he had before or not.
And Juice Harp.
@@kxd2591 probably was autocorrect, should be Jews Harp.
@@keithgraham9547 Uh, no sir. The late, great, Roy Clark played one for Johnny Carson many years ago. JC asked if he was going to play his Jew's Harp. Roy laughed and said it was a Juice Harp. I thought the same, but I'll take the word of Roy Clark.
One of those 'good guys' who was blessed with such talent. Quietly did many good works and lived a life of christian values. Must have been just the ticket as he was always smiling and laughing. RIP
Roy played, "Both kinds of music; Country, and Western." Actually an understatement Roy Clark was a master, and could play whatever he wanted to.
Tahoe Mike Fantastic Blues Bros reference. Wai ... Was the bar owner named Roy??? I think so. Good memories. Cheers!
@@briandonovan1584 It was Bob's Country Bunker. Cheers
@@tahoemike5828 I was trying to remember ... But it was a 3 letter name. Lol. What a movie!!! Have a great one,
The good ol' blues brothers boys band.
@@Briansgate ...from Chicago...
Roy was mostly known as a Country/Western artist, but is really just one Hell of a talent. He plays about 30 different instruments, and plays them at a very high level. He was one of the greatest guitarists, of any genre in the world. Roy passed away a few years ago.
At the end of it all Roy was just a southern boy with talent and magic in his hands.The other players on the hee haw show used to say as a joke IF IT HAS STRINGS KEEP ROY OFF IT SO HE DON'T BREAK IT BEFORE THE SHOW STARTS.
If you want a humorous song by Roy Clark you should listen to his song ‘Thank God and Greyhound’
my favorite of his !
That song is an anthem for the modern man, especially in the U.S.
He was mostly a country western singer from the US. He was a prolific guitar player who could cover all genres of music. He co hosted a show called Hee Haw for many years which was a southern country weekly TV show.
...and he also filled in for the legendary Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show.
The 12 string sounds the best!
You can hear him singing in a crossover hit he had..."Yesterday When I Was Young" Very meaningful lyrics.
Beautiful song
Roy Clark was a great player, and played just about anything with strings. He was also a great comedian / comic actor. He was a host of the television variety show Hee Haw forever. He passed a couple of years ago, in his late 80s I believe. Enjoy his comedy as you look into him, he was a good guy.
One of the most underrated guitarist of all time. I would pit him up against any great and they would show respect.
not underrated with Guitar Players.
Eddie Van Halen was once asked “What it felt like to be the best guitar player in the world?” He answered “I don’t know, why don’t you ask Roy Clark.”
Amen
@@sixslinger9951 Slinger, for some reason Roy's down home comedy which was great by the way, kept folks from taking his music skills seriously. I'm trying to get a grip on this issue.
Roy was one of the greatest musicians ever to be born. He played all of those stringed instruments at GOAT level.
My maiden name is Clark. Roy Clark was a cousin on my dad's side. My dad also played guitar, but of course never on that level. Roy really was a gentleman, kind and generous.
One of the most underrated guitar players of all time. Unfortunately, most young people have no idea of who he is.
Roy Clark was one of the biggest old school country stars. And an actor and song writer
MALAGUENA is a traditional flamenco style guitar piece form Spain. There are several variations of this song.
There were 9 versions of this piece ... and just 1 Roy to rule (i.e. play) them all 😜🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 !!!
It did not actually originate from Spain.
Stan Kenton did it in a jazz style in the early 60s, with his band. Well worth listening to
Actually "Malagueña" is a song written by Cuban American composer Ernesto Lecuona. It was originally the sixth movement of Lecuona's Suite Andalucía (1933), to which he added lyrics in Spanish. It is a genre of folk music from eastern Venezuela, most notably from the island of Margarita. (yes, THAT Margarita).
He composed over 600 pieces, many of them of international fame. One of my favorite dance tunes is Siboney (a rumba). I've loved his music since the 1940s.
@@jamesforbes2871 Thanks. You're very musically erudite. Malaguena has always "been there" since I learn guitar as a kid, but I never heard anyone give the real story behind the song.
Roy Clark could play anything. Give him an instrument with strings, he would be more than proficient in minutes. A musical genius.
Along the same lines you should watch Glen Campbell do The William Tell Overture in front of an orchestra. Or watch Roy Clark and Glen Campbell together on Ghost Riders In The Sky.
William is dead on. Glen Campbell and Roy Clark were 2 of the best ever. Guitarists from all over the world wanted to play with them
Glen Campbell once joked that he doesn't do Malaguena and Roy Clark doesn't do William Tell Overture.
Don't overlook Jim Stafford or Jerry Reed either. They were also very good guitarists
Alice cooper was a good friend of Glen and had Eddie Van Halen ask him to have Glen teach him on guitar. So yeah, Glen was also amazing
The great Roy Clark. He passed a few years back. He would always astound me by his guitar prowess. He was especially well known for hosting the country variety show Hee Haw. He was born a Virginian and known as an expert stringman versed in guitar, banjo and the fiddle. He also was a good vocalist. He was also known for appearing in the TV show Beverly Hillbillies. He backed Wanda Jackson and also sub hosted for TV personality Johnny Carson on the Tonight show frequently.
Greatest guitarist of all time. No one else is even close.
Yesterday When I Was Young by Roy Clark is simply beautiful. Give it a listen.
Outstanding singer! "Yesterday when I was Young"
Roy Clark was an *outrageously* gifted guitarist and entertainer. He was a successful recording artist, co-hosted/starred in Hee Haw for over 20 yrs plus appearances other numerous other TV shows, all while touring a fair bit and In 1983 he opened his own theater in Branson, Missouri and played there to packed houses until he sold it in the 1990s. Eddie Van Halen requested and was given lessons by Roy Clark! This is a rabbit hole well worth exploring. 🤘Rock On!🤘
Roy Clark could play any style of music, with virtually anything that has strings.
One of the best to ever pick up an instrument.
Thanks, Harri - this is a classic! kind of "flamenco" -- the interesting thing is that Roy was known as a kind of "aw, shucks" country guy -- funny, self-deprecating, but a devastating musician who playing amazing banjo and violin (fiddle) as well -- very humble and kind... I knew him from that corny show "Hee Haw" when I was about 6-7 years old - but it took me years to realize how talented he truly was!
GOAT'S have to keep climbing to reach Roy Clark and Glenn Campbell
The father of a good friend of mine used to jam with Roy Clark on the TV shows Austin City Limits and Hee Haw. You need to check out the RUclips videos with Roy Clark and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. You will be totally amazed and pleased at the way these two greats could get down and jam with each other.
Roy is from Tennessee. He is one of my favorite guitarists. This is even better when he plays it on the 12 string acoustic. Thanks for these great musicians!
He is Roy Clark from tulsa Oklahoma USA. He plays around a dozen different instruments. He won some sort of BANJO competition at the age of 14.
The man, the myth, the legend ROY CLARK passed away at his home in Tulsa Oklahoma from pneumonia in 2018 at the age of 85.
Roy Clark was a musical genius! He could play any string instrument!
To do this on an electric guitar is really something special. Roy's right hand is like a hummingbird's wings at times. He plays it on the acoustic too!
He plays other instruments and sings too, one of the best and even better live. I was lucky enough to have seen him live truly gifted and amazing. SJ
Roy Clark's right hand pick control is just beyond next level. As a guitarist myself, I know it's an often overlooked part of a guitarist's arsenal, we tend to just work our left hand and make sure our picking hand keeps up. He truly is one of the greatest guitarists of all time. I first saw him on the show Hee Haw in the 70s, and liked his stuff, even as a kid, but it wasn't until much later when I started learning to play myself that I realized just how good he was. This man is one of those rare guitarists in his own class.
Self taught country singer. Expert on any instrument with strings. Genius
A huge inspiration and a lovely man. Guitarists know Roy.
His right hand omg ...a blur. He also famously played this on the classic tv show “The Odd Couple” on an acoustic guitar. He gives Jack Klugman and Tony Randall an up close performance that I definitely envy.
Roy all loved him in the usa. So humble and great talent.
American Legend.
Spanish Song. Classical Music. He learned to play on an old guitar with 3 strings. He grew up dirt poor. He’s amazing.
He lived in Tulsa Oklahoma & my dad was a friend of his. Roy's known as "the man that can play anything with strings" & it's true!! You HAVE to hear him play banjo, fiddle, mandolin! They're all FANTASTIC!!
All that... out of one instrument.
Absolutely amazing. 👏🏽
So cool Harri...I happened to be your first view. Roy Clark is an exceptional guitar player, so I was glad you listened to him.
I'm out of Guelph, Ontario on Canada, and have been enjoying your reactions.
I remember when I was a kid about 11-12 Roy use to be a regular on a country show called Hee- Haw and I would be mesmerized by his guitar playing he was that good!!!!!
He had a lot of good songs he's a good singer too, nd great all around entertainer.
Harri,Roy was one of the very best there was.He could make you Laugh or cry with his playing.Try our Yesterday When I Was Young for one that can bring tears to your eyes.He was a good singer as well.Thanks my friend for this one!
Roy Clark was one of the most versatile and talented players of all times, he literally could play anything
I have listened to Roy Clark growing up on the TV show Heehaw but I have never heard him play this song. It was beautiful. I don't know how I missed hearing this song do thank you for this review.
Roy is his name. Born and raised in Virginia. Could play anything with strings. He does this on 6 and 12 string acoustic guitar. Look up him singing Yesterday, when I was young. Beautiful song.
He does every kind of music. He plays guitar, banjo and violin and fiddle. He is the master of them all.
This is beautiful. Had no idea. I remember Roy Clark. I also know La Malaguena.
Roy was the real deal, very genuine.
Roy was way special. Peace, Love some more!
Roy Clark a legend in his on time.
Welcome to the world of Roy Clark! You will be amazed at his musical range and talent. Even more so he was an entertainer and humble (as another commenter pointed out). I grew up watching him on Hee Haw, a corny, country variety show. In addition to his straight up musicianship there a lot of clips of him hamming it up while shredding the guitar or banjo.
Watch Roy tear it up with the Texas great Clarence Gatemouth Brown and his band. All world class musicians and proof that Roy could sit in and play well in any genre!
He was a virtuoso on three instruments and yes he sings as well. I'm an old metalhead and love the technique and pure speed of metal, but when I saw this at the ripe old age of 16 it put me on notice. Hands down one of the best guitarists ever.
That man could play anything with strings, he was certainly one of the vest pickers the world has ever seen.
He is leaving all the quad picking that makes it so good.
He's a great guitarist and all around talented man. Roy Clark is his real name. For more personal information on him, look him up on Wikipedia's website.
Harri.... mate! i have not heard this in so long! thank you so much for this review! big love to all people :)
Roy Clark was a great entertainer. Singer, musician, and actor.
My favorite clip of roy was on the TV show the odd couple it's about 8 minutes and it shows a little more of his talent ,singing, violin , banjo, and a slightly different version of this song , in front of a live audience. He was a great talent r.i.p
Malagueña was always known as the hardest song to play on the guitar. Roy Clark has a song you should definitely listen to called ‘Yesterday’!! He was on a show in America called Hee Haw. He is a well rounded artist! Can act, he’s comedic! And can play a lot of different instruments!
I got to meet him once because I'm a paramedic in the city he lived in before he died. He was a very cordial man
Roy was incredibly talented and equally charming ❤❤
Probably the #1 underrated guitarist.
Roy Clark can play just about anything he sets his mind to. There is a video of him and Johnny Cash playing and singing Folsom Prison Blues, playing Dueling Banjos with Buck Trent and playing Ghost Riders with Glen Campbell on guitar. You need to hear him do Thank God and Greyhound She's Gone.
Roy was a country artist in the U.S. He was billed as the "the fastest guitar" when younger. Awesome guitarist, banjo nd fiddle player.
He played anything with strings, sang beautifully, and was very funny as well. American country singer, known and loved beyond our borders. A virtuoso! Gone too soon.
Roy was born and raised in a small town in Virginia called Meherrin. Its approx. 40 miles north of South Boston Va
Greatest guitar player ever in my opinion. He could play just about anything with strings. Check out him and buck trent dueling banjos.
"Roy Linwood Clark (April 15, 1933 - November 15, 2018) was an American singer and musician. He is best known for having hosted Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969 to 1997. Clark was an important and influential figure in country music, both as a performer and in helping to popularize the genre.
During the 1970s, Clark frequently guest-hosted for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and enjoyed a 30-million viewership for Hee Haw. Clark was highly regarded and renowned as a guitarist, banjo player, and fiddler. He was skilled in the traditions of many genres, including classical guitar, country music, Latin music, bluegrass, and pop. He had hit songs as a pop vocalist (e.g., "Yesterday, When I Was Young" and "Thank God and Greyhound"), and his instrumental skill had an enormous effect on generations of bluegrass and country musicians. He became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1987, and, in 2009, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He published his autobiography, My Life-in Spite of Myself, in 1994.
Clark was born April 15, 1933, in Meherrin, Virginia, one of five children born to Hester Linwood Clark and Lillian Clark (Oliver). His father was a tobacco farmer. He spent his childhood in Meherrin and New York City, where his father moved the family to take jobs during the Great Depression. When Clark was 11 years old, his family moved to a home on 1st Street SE in the Washington Highlands neighborhood of Washington, D.C., after his father found work at the Washington Navy Yard."
Amazing talent. Incredible. Virtuoso .
Born in Virginia grew up in Washington DC primarily played country and western music was an absolute beast on several other instruments.
Continues to amaze me how Roy Clark could go from playing Spanish classical guitar so effortlessly you’d think he’d played that style all his life… only to switch to a banjo or mandolin & play in a completely different style so incredibly you’d think he had always played ‘that’. I don’t think I know of another musician who can do or ever has done this so readily, so easily, or so effortlessly. It’s an otherworldly level of talent.
Masterful.
Roy is one of the two best guitar players to have ever lived both named Roy. Roy Clark and Roy Orbison.
Roy Clark was highly proficient at a variety of other musical instruments, such as the Banjo. Violin. Ukelele and Mandolin. Roy was the host on the long running TV show "Hee Haw", which featured Country Musics finest musicians, singers and songwriters. The list of guest stars reads like the Who's Who of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
When Roy was coming into his own as an entertainer, it was the music stars that introduced their fans to other forms of music. As stated in the other comments Roy Clark and Glen Cambell were some of the BEST string players ever. Country music stars then had to know how to play as many of the different instruments as possible. Glen Cambell taught Edie VanHallen a few things about playing guitar.
i love the video "Roy Clark can play any genre!" - RIP Roy & Quincy
Roy Clark does sing. I am not sure where he was born but he was a great guitarist but probably underrated by some. He could also play a fiddle (violin) and most anything with strings. Roy passed away in Oklahoma in 2020.
He was born here in Virginia, a little town called Meherrin. He grew up there and in Washington DC.
Roy Clark was from Virginia!! One of the greatest multiinstrumentalist of all time!!
He was just that great !
Wow! First time for me too, Harri! Thanks for this!
HE played that song on an acoustic guitar on a 1970's sitcom in the USA called "The odd couple" one of the best guitar performance I have ever seen and heard. You have reacted to the song alrady, look this version up just to enjoy it.
He played this because he COULD. One of the best to ever play a stringed insturment.
Roy Clark was a co-host with Buck Owens on a TV show call Hee Haw for over 25 years he can play any stringed instrument and he is a comedian as well and can sing I think he was named Entertainer of the Year once unfortunately Roy died a few years ago but he was an unbelievable musician guitar banjo violin you name it he could play it thanks Hillary I really enjoyed this video
Roy could play anything with strings, banjo, violin, guitar, and all at a master class level. Was a funny guy too if anyone remembers the show Hee Haw and various appearances on tv, etc.
If it had strings he could pay it - including piano.
I saw him and Buck Owens in concert many years ago. Amazing talent!!!
One of the best guitarists ever to live. Definitely from the south in the US. He was on a TV show from Nashville called Hee Haw
Roy Clark could play anything with strings. He cut heads with Mark Knoffler of Dire Straits, great guitar man himself & he was in awe of Roy! They sat, facing each other. I saw him pick a tune & chord on a violin & he was pitch perfect, not close, not almost with a few error, but bang on the money. Roy, RIP, I was just in awe of your work. Picking a violin, wow
He played this song on an acoustic guitar on the sitcom The Odd Couple at the height of its popularity in the early 1970's and he was so amazing that he yanked the actors completely out of the scene. They just stared at him in amazement.
He can play any kind of instrument with strings and any still of music...all he has to do is hear it and he can play it
Love your reactions Harry you do a great job glad I found your channel
An even better version done by legendary singer, writer, and awesome guitar player Jose Feliciano.🎸
I've been asking for Jose Feliciano for a while now.
I love Jose's version of "Light My Fire"!
Seeing him do this on a 12string Spanish guitar is amazing
We just listened to a master. He also is a great singer.
My father could play this but hated doing it!! We had to beg him big time and we were lucky if he agreed!! Beautiful song 🎶🎵
He was a country music artist but was a talented musician he could play banjo, fiddle and guitar all very well
Roy was a superb stringed instrument Master of the violin banjo acoustic guitar electric guitar but he also had personality as a comedian and he even was on Hee Haw
Ive had the pleasure and privilege of watching Roy perform this song, and many others in an airplane hanger in N.E, Oklahoma . Roy was from Tulsa Oklahoma . @Harry , he was a star on the long running show Hee Haw . His talent was immeasurable.
Sorry, he was born in Virginia and grew up in Washington DC.
A folk tune native to Malaga similar to a fandango. A Spanish dance for couples that is similar to a fandango. Absolutely breathtaking.
Jimi Hendrix was once asked how it felt to be the greatest guitarist in the world. He said, "I don't know. You'll have to ask Roy Clark." Malaguena (pronounced mal a gain ya) was composed by a great classical guitarist named Celadonio Romero. His son Pepe Romero is the greatest classical guitarist in the world today. This song has a long and proud history. My Dad taught me to play a simplified version of it when I was a teenager. I'm fond of it in a big way. You owe it to yourself to listen to Pepe Romero's version of this.