I want to know what it is, exactly, that makes music so much more enjoyable in a car late at night! I swear the night air lends a mood that is magic to music. Bonus points for rain.
this comment is like shit floating in the ocean, no one chooses to be born beautiful or ugly, this is god's whoring with man, to condemn or save him for the rest of his life
I’m sorry brother..I know the feeling but you are better then her and him,you’ll find someone while in your stay in lonesome town.Stayed there for a while and I found someone,you will too.Hope all is okay.
@@mauzervuk5612 thank you. That is the kindest thing anyone has said to me since I discovered her affair. I hope I can get through this and leave Lonesome Town behind.
That's an incorrect generalization. If you think modern music is impossible to understand and has no meaning then I would say you're listening to the wrong stations. I love this kind of music but to say that all modern music is trash is just wrong. Now granted a lot of modern hip-hop and rap IS and a fair amount of modern pop but there's more than that out there.
@@glenngriffon8032 yeah, like theres still alot of good stuff in the indie and psychodelic rock scenes. Even with artists like Greta Van Fleet-who i honestly think are more criticized than they should be-on the rise. Theres more to modern music like pop and hip hop
1950s and early 1960s the best time period of my life. I always say that when I die, I have two wishes: To be surrounded by all animals, especially the ones I knew and loved, and to be back in that golden era....
People used to dismiss him because he started off as a manufactured teen idol, but he had real talent and made some truly great music. I'm glad people are discovering him now and appreciate him on his own merits.
What a sweet and talented soul. I remember those days. Ricky Nelson's name, should be listed - above - Paul McCartney's, re looking up this song! Just my logical opinion. And, so nice to read all the warm remarks, on this site for Ricky Nelson. Just a 50"s - 60's gal, here.
in 2018 i dated someone that looked so much like him, he told me his grandpa used to say that a lot to him growing up and when he showed me this video i was amazed by the resemblance. we broke up in 2020 and he got married to the love of his life back in september of 2023, i still think about him a lot and if he ever reads this, chris im sorry about everything but i hope you're happy, i heard you have the life you always wanted and i'm so happy for you, you deserve it.
It's so weird that even though he's gone, his voice stays with us forever. In fact, most people in this video are probably gone...this video might be the only thing to capture their lives, their existence.
We may have the same taste, you and I. But you're right, I wish I could find a girl that has my taste. In fact, I may have found one, but I'm not sure, I'll have to get to know her better. We'll see how it goes I guess.
Black and white is so much better than color, more realistic. Much more dramatic, period correct too. Beautiful watch and listen, magical, as you said hypnotic. As a kid I used to watch Ozzie and Harriet just so see him sing a song.
@@jimmyjazz4668 IT sucks ...Can you please critique my channel entitled, "Rasha Reacts". We cover a variety of topics, political, and nonpolitical and offer pure satirical comedy. We're not begging for likes were asking for critics because in 2020, they are almost impossible to get nowadays, Thank you!
Lyrics..... There's a place where lovers go To cry their troubles away And they call it Lonesome Town Where the broken hearts stay You can buy a dream or two To last you all through the years And the only price you pay Is a heart full of tears [Verse 2] Goin' down to Lonesome town Where the broken hearts stay Goin' down to Lonesome town To cry my troubles away In the town of broken dreams The streets are filled with regret Maybe down in Lonesome Town I can learn to forget (To forget) Maybe down in Lonesome Town I can learn to forget
it sad so many have not experienced the magic of Ricky Nelsons voice I will always love his music thank Ricky RIP my brother and thank you for the post
He is the closet I ever had to a brother. We are the same age, I grew up listening to Ozzie and Harriet on the radio, then watching them on that new thing called television. David was our big brother of course. We may have lived on opposite sides of the country and never met in person, but I still think of Ricky as my brother. I still miss him too. Ed
These people are around 80 now can you imagine. Time is a fast moving ,unstoppable , cruel thing. I wonder how many of them are still alive and even more how many of them got happy. I hope they all are/were
My wife's cousin, Baker Knight, wrote this song hoping that Elvis would perform it. Elvis recorded other songs by Baker Knight but Ricky Nelson picked it up and got the hit with it. Baker Knight also wrote for Dean Martin, Elvis, Ricky Nelson, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Sammy Davis Jr, Jerry Lee Lewis and many others. There is a long story behind this song. The short version is that he left Alabama where he had a band and some hits to go to Hollywood and make it big. He did not do well in Hollywood at first and thus Lonesome Town was born.
There's a place where lovers go To cry their troubles away And they call it Lonesome Town Where the broken hearts stay (Lonesome Town) You can buy a dream or two To last you all through the years And the only price you pay Is a heart full of tears (full of tears) Goin' down to Lonesome Town Where the broken hearts stay Goin' down to Lonesome Town To cry my troubles away In the town of broken dreams The streets are filled with regret Maybe down in Lonesome Town I can learn to forget (to forget) Maybe down in Lonesome Town I can learn to forget Lonesome Town
I was 5. I was watching Rio Bravo with my father and grandfather. Ricky made his entrance in the movie. My eyes widened, and I said, "who the hell is that hottie?" My grandfather laughed, saying, "haha, that's my Shirley!" And my dad went, "Goddammit Shirley Anne!" They both used those lines well with me. Then my father goes,"I knew it!" LOL. Then when the Nelson twins came out, there was more, "trouble," lol!
Couple facts about Ricky: He died when he was 45 in a plane crash He divorced his wife because of her substance abuse and she blamed many of her problems on him He was genuinely regarded as a gentlemen and a kind man
You were beautiful and good-natured, our America was then kinder and much happier in the 50s-60s. We fell in love, sang songs, enjoyed life together with Ricky. Thank you for your kind heart dear friend. Remember love grieve🙏😇
I grew up listening to Ricky on the Ozzie and Harriet Show, in case u dont remember where he got his start. It was a family show and fun to watch him and his brother, David, who had no musical talent but was a great brother to Ricky. So many memories and the saddest was hearing of his untimely death at age 45 in yet another airplane crash carrying one our heros from years gone past. RIP Ricky
Wish i could go back those same old places where we left our remnants our memories crampled by strangers forgotten, pushed away not cared for , unnoticed deep into the back seat of the mind where they stay lonely and aloof i dusted them today relived them again only to be reminded they could never be felt the same way again
There's a place where lovers go To cry their troubles away. And they call it lonesome town Where the broken hearts stay (for some time). You can buy a dream or two To last you all through the years. And the only price you pay Is your heart full of tears. Goin' down to lonesome town Where the broken hearts stay, Goin' down to lonesome town To cry my troubles away. In the town of broken dreams The streets are filled with regret. Maybe down in lonesome town I can learn to forget. Maybe down in lonesome town I can learn to forget.
If I could meet a guy just like this I’d be a happy girl. Even in black and white, his eyes are truly mesmerising (good soul too obvs, with the odd anxiety issue- because let’s face it if you don’t have anxiety nowadays then something ain’t right) lol Wish they made them like this still… I feel like I’m born to the wrong era
“Lonesome Town”...what a FANTASTIC song! It was common knowledge back in the 50’s that Ricky Nelson was jealous of Elvis (as if he needed to be!). At the time, while in his mid-teens, he was dating a girl who was a BIG Elvis fan. She raved about Elvis all the time! Ricky got tired of hearing her going on and on about Elvis, so he started singing and playing the guitar just to show her that he could do it, too...and do it just as well, I may add!
I cant listen to this song without crying, I want to get this out but I have no one to say this to. I regret not calling my paw paw I could have said good bye for the last time. But I was selfish and didn't want to call him because I was to "busy" now I would do anything to see him again. On his last day living on this earth I could have called him and tell him I love him, I could have said my last goodbye to him. And not it's to late, this song brings up all my guilt.
This was the first record I ever owned. Got it for Christmas in the 4th grade. It really is a classic and it sounds as great now as it did way back then. Hats off to this talented guy !
N O Y O U D O N 'T . . . . . . there is TOO MUCH PAIN. Be thankful you WEREN'T born back then. Because seeing and feeling the loss is more than one person's soul can endure. The key word of this song is: Maybe [" maybe down in Lonesome town, I can learn to forget"]. But what makes this song so sad is . . . that you can never forget. ((Either that era . . . or this era . . . But not both.))
This is why i love vintage songs....Imagining you are in 1950’s only black and white no problems happy life and just going to lonsome town to cry my troubles away🧘🏻♂️:((
For all those saying Ricky looks like Elvis, there's a reason for that. They both knew each other and started their solo show business around the same time. They quickly became friends. Elvis was 5 years older and had a huge influence on teen Ricky. But they were pals. There's a 1981 Tonight Show interview with him uploaded here on YT where David Letterman fills in for Carson and interviews him (and a reminder that Letterman really SUCKED as a late night TV host).
@@leom7 - Letterman sucked as a late night talk show host. Not funny, no talent in questioning guests, the list is long and distinguished. He lowered the bar of expectations post-Johnny. So perhaps you are correct if looking through that prism of post-Johnny. That's like saying Malaise era cars of the 1970s were among the greatest ever after the 1960s muscle cars got killed off.
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"The universal language is not music, nor love; it is loneliness."
There´s a permanent companion...solitude
True
It’s all
My teacher said it was math
gallantrycross what is love without loneliness?
Listening this in the car at night when it’s raining
Factsss
I want to know what it is, exactly, that makes music so much more enjoyable in a car late at night! I swear the night air lends a mood that is magic to music. Bonus points for rain.
That sounds great
I want to hug you 😢
Eyes on the road
Nice to meet you, new imaginary husband
Sorry honey his taken by me already
SAME HAHA
@@lorisanderson6833 By me too.
I feel you sis, what sadness
oh we're so many
Ricky was a strikingly handsome man but his essence of kindness and politeness made him a gentleman.
Ya
Cheryl Daniels Yup. Probably one of the 5 most handsome men ever to walk this planet! 🥴
Cheryl Daniels fuck off cuz I’ll come to ya ends inni
this comment is like shit floating in the ocean, no one chooses to be born beautiful or ugly, this is god's whoring with man, to condemn or save him for the rest of his life
@@Bakuah1 holy shit that was deep
can u like explain that bc im dumb and my own interpretation doesn't satisfy me
My wife has admitted she is having an affair with someone I called a friend. I am the newest resident to Lonesome Town. I think I am here to stay.
I’m sorry brother..I know the feeling but you are better then her and him,you’ll find someone while in your stay in lonesome town.Stayed there for a while and I found someone,you will too.Hope all is okay.
@@mauzervuk5612 thank you. That is the kindest thing anyone has said to me since I discovered her affair. I hope I can get through this and leave Lonesome Town behind.
Peadar Mac Connmhaigh no problem,you got this man.
im cheering you on, hope things get better !!
Youll get through this bro
Imagine listening to this in a 50/60s car on a never ending road ❤
@@doncorleone5677 yeah and enjoy the beautiful little things in life ✨🌌
@@doncorleone5677 with your teenage gf - but you're 48 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
And then stopping by in-n-out 😋
I would still blast this tune in my car even in 2019 ♥️🙃
Lost Highway action
Imagine being a girl in the audience and getting stared at by Ricky Nelson while he sings.
*My mind just rose to heaven*
I know I would have fainted!!
SIMP
I would’ve stared back and start tearing up
STOP i wish 😭😭😭😭
OK ladies, which of you would have been willing to kiss Ricky right on that mouth that sang all those beautiful songs?
I wonder if Heartbreak Hotel is in Lonesome Town
Mind = Blown
Holy shit 🤯🤯
listen to one way ticket by eruption
If there is I wanna book me room..
Dude 😱😱😱😱
They should make a movie about him and get Chris Evans to play him :)
Gracie Lou I WAS JUST THINKING THAT OMG
I WAS JUST THINKING HE LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE HIM
Mad. That's unreal
Yes! Perfect.
Yasssss bby
*sad girl hours*
Go away e-girl
UwU
lydia sad boi hours
Sad hick hours
Even tho I don’t have a reason to be sad but SAD GIRL HOURS YESS
I have a huge passion for 50s and 60s music. I dunno, everytime when I hear songs from these decades, Im exactly in another time zone....
Manu Flaash i feel like this was my era like I loved the fashion, the music, everything!
Same
@Heneral Antonio Luna I'm 15 to😂 I love 50s and 60s music
Me too, listening to older music feels like home in a way
Me too! I wish I could live a day in the 50s. Just one day
This is something I didn’t know I needed.
Also, who in their right mind would break HiS heart?
His wife, Kristin.
So true
Bitches b funny
Nobody, having a right mind isn't real, only somebody thoughtless and choked on their own narcissism.
Not sure if this is true but I heard once he was in the closet. That could explain a lot..
When a song had a meaning and you could understand what they said
There are still songs like that, mostly in what's left of traditional country music and there are a few artists.
That's an incorrect generalization. If you think modern music is impossible to understand and has no meaning then I would say you're listening to the wrong stations.
I love this kind of music but to say that all modern music is trash is just wrong.
Now granted a lot of modern hip-hop and rap IS and a fair amount of modern pop but there's more than that out there.
Mairzy Doates and Doazy Doates and Liddle Amzy Divey...
@@glenngriffon8032 yeah, like theres still alot of good stuff in the indie and psychodelic rock scenes. Even with artists like Greta Van Fleet-who i honestly think are more criticized than they should be-on the rise. Theres more to modern music like pop and hip hop
eileen jesmer so does gucci gang gucci gang
I’m only 17 but this song makes me feel something, new music can’t hit the same as this. ❤
Because real music-good music-is timeless and ageless.
True 💯
This was a timeless era the 60,s and 70,s had the best music
1950s and early 1960s the best time period of my life. I always say that when I die, I have two wishes: To be surrounded by all animals, especially the ones I knew and loved, and to be back in that golden era....
Holy shit, he's gorgeous!
Fr😍
I was thinking the same thing
He died :(((( younggg
Yes💖✨
😀💖👍🏼
I'd turn gay for Ricky
Shipster1912 id turn straight for him
I'm already gay so I'm gayer now
I'd stay straight for Ricky
Pedro Henrique Raitz I think you’re already gay
Mood!^^
how can one human be this beautiful
@Daniel S lol
@Daniel S 😂😂😂good for you then...
Right?!😄
@@Emel.2585 yes
All the girls were just mesmerized in the audience
So true..looking at the way those women looked at him..😄😁
Statistically, atleast 10 were lesbians, so no... they werent
They were playing a part
The men were too lol
What a singer Ricky was. He was gone too soon. This is such a beautiful song. Thank you Rick for your beautiful music. Thank you for this post.
Jeannie Lapointe Happy to share :)
Jeannie Lapointe they so only the good die young
@@jesmelric post more please...
@@jesmelric i'm hope that you still using this account.
1940-1985 :(
People used to dismiss him because he started off as a manufactured teen idol, but he had real talent and made some truly great music. I'm glad people are discovering him now and appreciate him on his own merits.
Like harry styles, lmao
What a sweet and talented soul.
I remember those days.
Ricky Nelson's name, should be listed - above - Paul McCartney's, re looking up this song! Just my logical opinion. And, so nice to read all the warm remarks, on this site for Ricky Nelson. Just a 50"s - 60's gal, here.
@@facelessdrone no
he was very popular back then
@@facelessdrone no way you're comparing ricky nelson to harry styles
Am i falling in love with someone who is either dead or as old as my grandfather??
Yes i am
Yes, he was handsome.
Yeah but he passed away at 45 in a plane crash😞
Sadly he died in 1985... in a plane crash
Same 💗🙁
In heaven we are forever21 for this guy and other people like him. Amen!!!.
I'm sure he's every girl's crush. Everyone is lonely during Covid shelter in place.
in 2018 i dated someone that looked so much like him, he told me his grandpa used to say that a lot to him growing up and when he showed me this video i was amazed by the resemblance.
we broke up in 2020 and he got married to the love of his life back in september of 2023, i still think about him a lot and if he ever reads this, chris im sorry about everything but i hope you're happy, i heard you have the life you always wanted and i'm so happy for you, you deserve it.
This song is becoming famous on TikTok and I hope to GOD they don’t come to this comment section and say nun ❌
i thought that
Didn’t you just do that
Mac / Wompp 🥴. Yeah but I’ve listened to this song as a child.
joey Parra I’m just playing but that’s how I found this song. It’s awfully familiar. ‘94 kid here. Wonder if my parents played it growing up.
joey Parra are you serious?! How’d it wind up there??
i cant get over this guys handsome face -
@sienna bishop
Your profile picture looks like that girl from the tv show Kim Possible
She‘s never going to see this. But I love her, I love you darling.
It's so weird that even though he's gone, his voice stays with us forever. In fact, most people in this video are probably gone...this video might be the only thing to capture their lives, their existence.
If only I could find someone with the same taste in music
We may have the same taste, you and I. But you're right, I wish I could find a girl that has my taste. In fact, I may have found one, but I'm not sure, I'll have to get to know her better. We'll see how it goes I guess.
Fifth Beatle, God bless our old souls
Lmao I wish I find a boy that loves this type of music
Hi
Totally agree 💯💯
what a gorgeous man i must say. especially his voice, it’s so low and manly
Imagine a midnight car drive with your friends, while its raining and just singing together. Then running in the rain after...
He just starts that slow blinking and it's like the girls fall into a hypnotic trance. Even in black and white and on a screen he has that effect.
Black and white is so much better than color, more realistic. Much more dramatic, period correct too. Beautiful watch and listen, magical, as you said hypnotic.
As a kid I used to watch Ozzie and Harriet just so see him sing a song.
Oh this is so beautiful. I think I might cry. And Ricky is so handsome.
Here's a song you may like " Forever's Much To Long " by go cat go check it out !
Im so glad i've found this song
Me too😭
Me too
I swear if tiktok ruins another song I'm gonna be so mad
Honestly, i hate it when they do it
@@jimmyjazz4668 IT sucks ...Can you please critique my channel entitled, "Rasha Reacts". We cover a variety of topics, political, and nonpolitical and offer pure satirical comedy. We're not begging for likes were asking for critics because in 2020, they are almost impossible to get nowadays, Thank you!
Nodre Plays yeah it’s good mate you cover a lot of decent topics
I love this song from tik tok they haven't ruined it.......yet
Slump3d Daniel i just saw another comment saying that this was on Tik Tok 😩 I just hope it goes unnoticed on there
Lyrics.....
There's a place where lovers go
To cry their troubles away
And they call it Lonesome Town
Where the broken hearts stay
You can buy a dream or two
To last you all through the years
And the only price you pay
Is a heart full of tears
[Verse 2]
Goin' down to Lonesome town
Where the broken hearts stay
Goin' down to Lonesome town
To cry my troubles away
In the town of broken dreams
The streets are filled with regret
Maybe down in Lonesome Town
I can learn to forget (To forget)
Maybe down in Lonesome Town
I can learn to forget
it sad so many have not experienced the magic of Ricky Nelsons voice I will always love his music thank Ricky RIP my brother and thank you for the post
Happy to share :)
He is the closet I ever had to a brother. We are the same age, I grew up listening to Ozzie and Harriet on the radio, then watching them on that new thing called television. David was our big brother of course. We may have lived on opposite sides of the country and never met in person, but I still think of Ricky as my brother. I still miss him too. Ed
For a song with zero percussive accompaniment, that drummer sure is playing his heart out.
These people are around 80 now can you imagine. Time is a fast moving ,unstoppable , cruel thing. I wonder how many of them are still alive and even more how many of them got happy. I hope they all are/were
Yeah :( Ricky sadly died in 1985
James Burton is still alive you ever heard of Rickey's 2 sons Matthew &nGunnar soo much like theirDad there on you tube too
Ricky doesn't sing this--he haunts this song. This is his best work--brilliant music.
NO but it's good
My wife's cousin, Baker Knight, wrote this song hoping that Elvis would perform it. Elvis recorded other songs by Baker Knight but Ricky Nelson picked it up and got the hit with it. Baker Knight also wrote for Dean Martin, Elvis, Ricky Nelson, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Sammy Davis Jr, Jerry Lee Lewis and many others. There is a long story behind this song. The short version is that he left Alabama where he had a band and some hits to go to Hollywood and make it big. He did not do well in Hollywood at first and thus Lonesome Town was born.
Wow!
This song is so beautiful
And so are you.
Agree. It's also haunting.
Classic
Gorgeous man, voice and song. He mastered the soft ballad, rock and country.
2024 , I have 28y and I still love them ❤️✨
im just saying as a straight 40 year old man, ricky is dreamy as hell. and that great voice.
you are missed ricky.
Wow! Ricky Nelson wasn’t ugly at all! He had the looks!!
There's a place where lovers go
To cry their troubles away
And they call it Lonesome Town
Where the broken hearts stay (Lonesome Town)
You can buy a dream or two
To last you all through the years
And the only price you pay
Is a heart full of tears (full of tears)
Goin' down to Lonesome Town
Where the broken hearts stay
Goin' down to Lonesome Town
To cry my troubles away
In the town of broken dreams
The streets are filled with regret
Maybe down in Lonesome Town
I can learn to forget (to forget)
Maybe down in Lonesome Town
I can learn to forget
Lonesome Town
I was 5. I was watching Rio Bravo with my father and grandfather. Ricky made his entrance in the movie. My eyes widened, and I said, "who the hell is that hottie?" My grandfather laughed, saying, "haha, that's my Shirley!" And my dad went, "Goddammit Shirley Anne!" They both used those lines well with me. Then my father goes,"I knew it!" LOL. Then when the Nelson twins came out, there was more, "trouble," lol!
Couple facts about Ricky:
He died when he was 45 in a plane crash
He divorced his wife because of her substance abuse and she blamed many of her problems on him
He was genuinely regarded as a gentlemen and a kind man
And I’m sittin’ here wondering why boys my age aren’t this beautiful.
This comment wins
Fr
bc celebrities are always hotter than the avg person
Gotta have your heart broken first
Because you're bias has you looking at the ugly ones
You were beautiful and good-natured, our America was then kinder and much happier in the 50s-60s. We fell in love, sang songs, enjoyed life together with Ricky. Thank you for your kind heart dear friend. Remember love grieve🙏😇
The way he's looking at the crowd it's like he knows he has everyone hypnotized
fits this quarantine madness
His voice was as pure as a Summer rain, it was also smooth as glass! Soothing and calming! I love his music!
love the diversity😍😍
this song hurts, but it makes me feel better.
i played this the night my grandfather passed on, miss him so much
Isaac Pillado I’m sorry for your loss mate. Remember, no one dies if they’re remembered :)
He's so beautiful and his voice is so nice :'(
Ricky deserved Elvis type of stardom
ooo baby he was fine 😂back then
Jessica Ospina ... ultra fine 😍
Jessica Ospina,he really was...his twin sons were goodlooking too..also great musicians..
It's so weird how music can mess up your emotions
True...it truly can leave you feeling gutted or elated!! Hence why it's so addictive!!
Or control them this makes me happy yet sad because im a resident at lomesome town
Man he really goin through it
daaaaaamn boi is effortlessly looking good
I grew up listening to Ricky on the Ozzie and Harriet Show, in case u dont remember where he got his start. It was a family show and fun to watch him and his brother, David, who had no musical talent but was a great brother to Ricky. So many memories and the saddest was hearing of his untimely death at age 45 in yet another airplane crash carrying one our heros from years gone past. RIP Ricky
Wish i could go back
those same old places
where we left our remnants
our memories
crampled by strangers
forgotten, pushed away
not cared for , unnoticed
deep into the back seat of the mind
where they stay lonely and aloof
i dusted them today
relived them again
only to be reminded they could never be felt the same way again
hello ! i did a cover of it ^_^ could you tell me what do you think about it ?
There's a place where lovers go
To cry their troubles away.
And they call it lonesome town
Where the broken hearts stay (for some time).
You can buy a dream or two
To last you all through the years.
And the only price you pay
Is your heart full of tears.
Goin' down to lonesome town
Where the broken hearts stay,
Goin' down to lonesome town
To cry my troubles away.
In the town of broken dreams
The streets are filled with regret.
Maybe down in lonesome town
I can learn to forget.
Maybe down in lonesome town
I can learn to forget.
All the ladies and gentlemen in that room fell in love simultaneously
If I could meet a guy just like this I’d be a happy girl. Even in black and white, his eyes are truly mesmerising (good soul too obvs, with the odd anxiety issue- because let’s face it if you don’t have anxiety nowadays then something ain’t right) lol
Wish they made them like this still… I feel like I’m born to the wrong era
it’s our duty as the new generation to keep songs like this poppin
Omg! This man was so handsome! 😍❤
Wow. He was extremely handsome 😮
slow dancing with your boo in your own room, blasting to this song while it's lightly raining.
“Lonesome Town”...what a FANTASTIC song! It was common knowledge back in the 50’s that Ricky Nelson was jealous of Elvis (as if he needed to be!). At the time, while in his mid-teens, he was dating a girl who was a BIG Elvis fan. She raved about Elvis all the time! Ricky got tired of hearing her going on and on about Elvis, so he started singing and playing the guitar just to show her that he could do it, too...and do it just as well, I may add!
He was soooo handsome!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I cant listen to this song without crying, I want to get this out but I have no one to say this to. I regret not calling my paw paw I could have said good bye for the last time. But I was selfish and didn't want to call him because I was to "busy" now I would do anything to see him again. On his last day living on this earth I could have called him and tell him I love him, I could have said my last goodbye to him. And not it's to late, this song brings up all my guilt.
so incredibly handsome!
Back when you actually had to be good at singing to have a career
"Maybe down in lonesome town I can learn to forget..."
I am too
Doesn't get much prettier than this.
Under the charm... I'm fascinated...
I pray TikTok doesn't find this song 🤦♀️
His voice is so hypnotic, the audience looks just so taken away to another land..
Everyone has someone.. and if it ain’t the someone you thought.. well then they can piss off..!! 🥰👍
He is so pretty and talented, omg-
bro ricky nelson was such an icon.
My current life situation can be best described by Rick Nelson
Going through a pretty rough breakup.
Hopefully lonesome town is pretty welcoming, cause here comes another resident
The saddest song in recorded music history. Beautiful.
This song made me shed a tear or two!!
This was the first record I ever owned. Got it for Christmas in the 4th grade. It really is a classic and it sounds as great now as it did way
back then. Hats off to this talented guy !
This is the definition of aesthetic
my God, he was so dreamy! look at all these girls staring at him as if they were hypnotized... i'd love to go back in time :'(
Back then music was good
Wish i was born in this era.
Same 💓😞
N O Y O U D O N 'T . . . . . . there is TOO MUCH PAIN. Be thankful you WEREN'T born back then. Because seeing and feeling the loss is more than one person's soul can endure.
The key word of this song is: Maybe [" maybe down in Lonesome town, I can learn to forget"]. But what makes this song so sad is . . . that you can never forget. ((Either that era . . . or this era . . . But not both.))
Now I know where do broken hearts go.
I love Elvis so much. And Ricky reminds me of him. Their music and appearance are so similar. I love them both. Icons
Me too
Lonesome Town sang by Ricky in 50'.No time limit, 70 years later, it still touched our lonely hearts.
This is why i love vintage songs....Imagining you are in 1950’s only black and white no problems happy life and just going to lonsome town to cry my troubles away🧘🏻♂️:((
Oh I miss him. And he resembles Elvis so much here. 💜
For all those saying Ricky looks like Elvis, there's a reason for that. They both knew each other and started their solo show business around the same time. They quickly became friends. Elvis was 5 years older and had a huge influence on teen Ricky. But they were pals. There's a 1981 Tonight Show interview with him uploaded here on YT where David Letterman fills in for Carson and interviews him (and a reminder that Letterman really SUCKED as a late night TV host).
thanks for the info but you're very wrong on Letterman, he was one of the best to ever do late night TV, ask around you'll see
@@leom7 - Letterman sucked as a late night talk show host. Not funny, no talent in questioning guests, the list is long and distinguished. He lowered the bar of expectations post-Johnny. So perhaps you are correct if looking through that prism of post-Johnny. That's like saying Malaise era cars of the 1970s were among the greatest ever after the 1960s muscle cars got killed off.