A wonderful piece of music history, and of the history of what happened to a lot of men during the Great Depression. My Dad was one of those men, who rode the freight trains around the country, looking for work.
I love this song and the rest that he did. I sung this song to my grandson when he was a baby and he asked me to sing it to him just before he went to bed tonight,he's 6. I showed him the video he said wow. My favorite singer and has been since I was a teenager,I'm 63. I've got a 5CD set of all his recordings.
Ryan Kelly got to know that he experimented with tuba's in the band , and did songs with Louie Armstrongng, but not bad for a person who created county music
Without Jimmie, We wouldn't have Merle Haggard's inspirations... Without Merle Haggard, Country Music would be missing a vital piece. This footage pays a great homage to one of the men who got country moving!
Absolutely priceless! My Grandpa used to hold me on his lap and sing these songs to me. I just became a Grandma 7 days ago for the first time. I thought I should brush up on Grandma school and get these songs down. Such dear memories they hold for me. I had to go find a Kleenex box. My Grandpa was a wonderful bunch of fun.
According to tradition, Rodgers' birthplace is usually listed as Meridian, Mississippi; however, in documents signed by Rodgers later in life, his birthplace was listed as Geiger, Alabama, the home of his paternal grandparents. Yet historians who have researched the circumstances of that document, including Nolan Porterfield and Barry Mazor, continue to identify Pine Springs, Mississippi, just north of Meridian, as his genuine birthplace. Rodgers' mother died when he was about six or seven years old, and Rodgers, the youngest of three sons, spent the next few years living with various relatives in southeast Mississippi and southwest Alabama, near Geiger. In the 1900 Census for Daleville, Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Jimmie's mother, Eliza [Bozeman] Rodgers, was listed as already having had seven children, with four of them still living at that date. Jimmie ["James" in the Census] was next to the youngest at that time, and was probably born sixth of the total of seven children. He eventually returned home to live with his father, Aaron Rodgers, a maintenance-of-way foreman on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, who had settled with a new wife in Meridian.
I came upon this song when going through my mother's memoirs. She wrote the words in a notebook as if it was one she wanted to remember. She even had the "yodel" written down. Haha. I love it. Not knowing what this song was like or the tune, I decided to do a search online and found it here. I'm so glad we have RUclips for this very reason, because I can find out what songs my mother listened to and enjoyed.
Sorry to hear of your loss. Lost my mom as well in the past year or so. I hang on to those little glimpses into her mind and soul like you do. Your post touched me deeply thank you for sharing that. I am crying again.
I love this, sitting on the porch after supper, Jimmie playing and singing, someone in the kitchen finishing chores and granny darning socks. I can tell what she is doing by her hand movements and the yarn being pulled through the stitches she is anchoring the mend with. I grew up listening to Jimmie's music and my mom taught me how to darn socks. ❤
I wish Jimmie Rogers was here today to hear country songs with "ba-donk-a-donk". I am only 25, but Jimmie Rogers is still the king of country. Him and Johnny Cash
Jimmie Rodgers countrified the blues of the 1920s, and then people like Howlin' Wolf re-bluesified his country in the 40s and 50s. His howling was originally trying to do Jimmie's yodel.
Cool factoid. Love Howlin' Wolf. I am inclined to say that if it had not been for Jimmie we might not have Elvis or Steely Dan or Bob Dylan.....interesting is it?
Jimmy Rodgers was a railroad man before he was accidentally discovered. He had TB and during the 20's there was not much treatment in the South. He grew weaker and they put a cot in the recording studio where he could rest between record recordings. He made records right up until his death..I forgot the year.
My dad used to drag out his old j45 gibson and play this one, now I've got the guitar but not the talent, rest in peace Alex Burnay, (Dad) and Jimmy Rodgers
o37tmx you should hear some of his recordings His sideman included Sachmo, Fletcher Henderson and other Jazz greats. He was so progressive R. Peer was not going to include him at Bristol Sessions
@bakedsushi Not a new or an old thing. Musicians love one another, and race doesn't matter much. John Jackson, the blues man from Virginia, told me he taught Marvin Rainwater his first guitar chords.
Are you certain about the year being 1929? That would make this a very early talkie. My belief about this without seeing the films intro and outro footage (the soundtrack of which is on the Bear Family box set) dates this film from 1931.
haha i love jimmie rodgers and i love that spongebob squarepants got inspired by this song. Dont know what im talking about check out the song texas by sandy cheeks is clearly inspired by this
That is so cool. I bet you are an extraordinary young person. Most of your class mates would not have any desire to find the original version much less learn it. Good for you Kid. You keep up the above and beyond extra work. It will take you to great success one day.
I almost can't hear this without crying for my Dad. He was one of the millions of men who rode the freight trains looking for work during the Great Depression. Many a time he was far from home, starving, and broken hearted. He once ate magpie eggs to survive. This could be a biography of him during that time. Thank you, Jimmie Rodgers. And thank you, psteve, for posting.
My dad use to sing it, when I was a child. I just happen to remember some of the words and googled it, this morn, seems to me he use to call him little jimmy rodgers.
@@Tob1Kadach1 No, that'd be Vernon Dalhart, who recorded the first million-selling record in _any_ genre with his version of "The Wreck of the Old 97" in May of 1924. Rodgers was first recorded in 1927 in the same Bristol recording session which introduced The Carter Family to prominence.
@@Tob1Kadach1 Well Vernon Dalhart was the first to have a country record to sell a million, but he really had a pop music background, which is what he had come to be known for in the 15 years prior. Jimmie was the first to really leave a big mark.
Jimmy Rogers is the "Father" of country music. Hank Snow's and Ernest Tubb's favourite singer. The country singers (so-called ) of to-day should get down on their knees and thank this man for their careers. Ken, Toronto
Damn. This is one of the best things I've ever seen on youtube. We are so lucky to actually have hi-quality footage of Jimmie Rodgers playing music... for so many of his contemporaries (Woody Guthrie, Carter Family, all the early acoustic bluesmen) there's basically nothing.
Well.............Jimmie Rodgers.. in his grave..... still singing.. ... tuberculosis...and ..says omg...... 1.5 million views... he knew someday he'd be known as a legend.. .. You'll never die. Love ya.. Jimmie...Wish you survived till 1952.....or more... ya know??? .. blessings to younger generations...
So pure. The lines about Texas make me tear up. It’s his gratitude in the simple things that sustain him despite his misfortune. Simple lyrics but the theme cuts so deep. Perhaps one can only understand it after living for a while.
I'm from Meridian, MS. I noticed none of the comments mention the Jimmie Rogders Memorial Festival they hold in the spring each year. I've seen almost everyone in country music playing there. I've seen Willie, Waylon, Hank Jr, Conway, and all the greats! They come to pay tribute to the Father of Country Music!
I just lost my mother recently. She and I would listen to Jimmie Rodgers, and the tribute album that Merle Haggard did on Jimmie Rodgers when I was a child. "Waiting For a Train" brought her back to me for a moment tonight. I thank you.
This footage is from the 1929 Columbia short "The Singing Brakeman," in which Jimmie sang "Waiting for a Train", "Daddy and Home" and "T for Texas", all his own compositions. This film was his ONLY motion picture appearance. Rodgers died of TB in 1935 at the age of 33.
James Charles "Jimmie" Rodgers (September 8, 1897 - May 26, 1933) was an American country singer in the early 20th century, known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling. Among the first country music superstars and pioneers, Rodgers was also known as "The Singing Brakeman", "The Blue Yodeler", and "The Father of Country Music"
@@workingguy6666 Why would Jimmie Rodgers be in the rock and roll hall of fame, since that style of music didn't appear until 20 years after his death?!
I can see my Dad sitting at the table singing along with Jimmy Rodger particularly Waiting for a Train, it’s something that has stayed with me. I just love it. What an incredible talent Jimmy was. So many memories of my Dad who was so full of emotion and love he played all the old country artists music but Jimmy was his favourite.
Oh what a precious memory of your Daddy. I miss mine so much, too. My Daddy would sing Hank Williams Sr. I thought he was singing about my Momma....and it made me sad for him and mad at Momma for treating him so mean.
Hey we need to credit Jimmie with not only inventing country music but also inventing the Music Video. Wonder if his estate could get a little kick-back from MTV
mr. warmth Not to seem overly scrutinizing here, but to ever refer to any artist as a ‘father’ of anything connotes one individual alone creating and establishing a new school to dig. One of the reasons ‘grandfather’ or even ‘godfather’, terms indicating generational time and clearly movements not only taking time to go through a metamorphosis, but that the players involved in an Argos of movement and much more numerous than meets the eye. I more than concur with your sentiment, but a cat like JR deserves as specific language as possible.
I agree that musical genre's are developed over time and most certainly by more than one man alone. But eck really is the godfather, 'Sallie gooden' is revered as the first country music recording ever, if the man to make the first country music recording in history can't be called the godfather of the genre then you are right, there is no godfather. For the record I love Jimmie and meant no disrespect to his music.
american music owes a ton to j.r. so glad music history is found here on you tube - everything from folk / country to jazz / rock / r & b / and the big bands / thanks for posting this one
i was left some Jimmy Rogers records (about 10 of them) when my Grandfather passed. I remember him telling me that they were coming my way when he died. I crank them once in a while, Great music!
I never knew till now that Jimmie Rodgers made the train whistle sound with his voice and not with a harmonica!!! I've no idea how a person could do that.
This is the first time I knew Jimmie blew the train whistle himself here. I have always loved all of his music and his guitar playing is quite unique. The guitar sounds beautiful. It's wonderful that Jimmie got to live his life the way he wanted. Entertaining and also working on the railroad with his father sounds like an interesting life though a short one. He was one of the greatest talents - true blues sung like no one else. Thank you for posting this. - Paula
Thanks, psteve. I wore out records of his singing and I remember some photographs, but having actual film footage , very professionally done and beautifully preserved ... !! where on Earth did you find it. The song is one of my faves, more polished in this version than on the record and a good bit faster, but that's as it should be -- different every time. I'm lucky I can't wear out the video, I guess.
This man almost is responsible for what getting Country Music so popular is his best ever feat. Yodeling like no other combined with down to earth country singing. Thank you Jimmy for ever in our hearts and mine gathering more country music and bring to popularity. Joehuddleston10
Wow! What an influential musician, and prolific. 100 Songs written by him within a very short time frame. Roots music is the foundation of all other genres. Americans in general do not appreciate our Roots music. Mr. Rodgers left us quite an impressive catalog and seeing him here in person as it were is very cool. He died so young. Thank you for posting this amazing singer/song writer.
This is what country music was meant to be, not the glitz and glam being shown today!
Well, everything moves forward. Be it good or bad.
Who else is here in late 2024 just appreciating this masterpiece
Hi! I'm loving hearing this again.❤
My first time hearing Mr, Rogers. I had to hear what all the fuss was about. Now I know. The man was a unique sorta special, for sure.
Me
That's one of the first songs I ever learned, thanks to my grandpa.
A wonderful piece of music history, and of the history of what happened to a lot of men during the Great Depression. My Dad was one of those men, who rode the freight trains around the country, looking for work.
I love this song and the rest that he did. I sung this song to my grandson when he was a baby and he asked me to sing it to him just before he went to bed tonight,he's 6. I showed him the video he said wow. My favorite singer and has been since I was a teenager,I'm 63. I've got a 5CD set of all his recordings.
They don’t make music like this no more. The first concert I ever went to. At 107 years old I still love to yodel.
Troll?
Today I went home...and listened to jimmie rodgers in my lunch break..
This is real country.
Ryan Kelly got to know that he experimented with tuba's in the band , and did songs with Louie Armstrongng, but not bad for a person who created county music
how can you call it country?
How can you not?
+Lembit Punapart: Easy. Jimmie Rodgers was the Father of country music. He came before Hank Williams, Sr., before Ernest Tubb, before everyone.
But his music dosn't sound like Country.
Guys like him come around once in awhile.dont you wish they would come all the time.man there music I miss.
It is wonderful to listen to this...a pure pleasure.
Without Jimmie, We wouldn't have Merle Haggard's inspirations... Without Merle Haggard, Country Music would be missing a vital piece.
This footage pays a great homage to one of the men who got country moving!
Absolutely priceless! My Grandpa used to hold me on his lap and sing these songs to me. I just became a Grandma 7 days ago for the first time. I thought I should brush up on Grandma school and get these songs down. Such dear memories they hold for me. I had to go find a Kleenex box. My Grandpa was a wonderful bunch of fun.
According to tradition, Rodgers' birthplace is usually listed as Meridian, Mississippi; however, in documents signed by Rodgers later in life, his birthplace was listed as Geiger, Alabama, the home of his paternal grandparents. Yet historians who have researched the circumstances of that document, including Nolan Porterfield and Barry Mazor, continue to identify Pine Springs, Mississippi, just north of Meridian, as his genuine birthplace. Rodgers' mother died when he was about six or seven years old, and Rodgers, the youngest of three sons, spent the next few years living with various relatives in southeast Mississippi and southwest Alabama, near Geiger. In the 1900 Census for Daleville, Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Jimmie's mother, Eliza [Bozeman] Rodgers, was listed as already having had seven children, with four of them still living at that date. Jimmie ["James" in the Census] was next to the youngest at that time, and was probably born sixth of the total of seven children. He eventually returned home to live with his father, Aaron Rodgers, a maintenance-of-way foreman on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, who had settled with a new wife in Meridian.
Don't let your baby grow up to be cowboys
I took a couple of classes from Nolan Porterfield while he was working on his biography of Rodgers. I read the book some years later: it's great.
Thank you Tom for the info
I came upon this song when going through my mother's memoirs. She wrote the words in a notebook as if it was one she wanted to remember. She even had the "yodel" written down. Haha. I love it. Not knowing what this song was like or the tune, I decided to do a search online and found it here. I'm so glad we have RUclips for this very reason, because I can find out what songs my mother listened to and enjoyed.
Sorry to hear of your loss. Lost my mom as well in the past year or so. I hang on to those little glimpses into her mind and soul like you do. Your post touched me deeply thank you for sharing that. I am crying again.
Hi there!
I love this, sitting on the porch after supper, Jimmie playing and singing, someone in the kitchen finishing chores and granny darning socks. I can tell what she is doing by her hand movements and the yarn being pulled through the stitches she is anchoring the mend with. I grew up listening to Jimmie's music and my mom taught me how to darn socks. ❤
This is real music. Old is gold. New songs are garbage.
Preach
Listen to Sierra Ferrell and Billy Strings. They are far from garbage with an old school sound. And phenoms.
Juust seen Jimmie he's fantastic ! Can't stop watching his stuff! Love old stuff and i'm 55 !!!!
One of the best songs in 20th century.
easy & powerful. that's how songs should be written.
lumaz791
I wish Jimmie Rogers was here today to hear country songs with "ba-donk-a-donk". I am only 25, but Jimmie Rogers is still the king of country. Him and Johnny Cash
Rodgers/ "Waitin of a Train"/ country, blues, folk/ ATL/ 28//
Thanks for the upload. This is about as real as real music gets.
this one is featured at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, a world class museum. They have tons of stuff like this archived.
Telling my age, but I used to listen to this on an old 78 record R N P
They do traditionally have a talent show.
I don't know what all is planned this year.
They also have a golf tourney and a fishing competition.
Jim Croce learned from artist such as Mr. Rodgers here. Legends truly do learn from one another.
Jimmie Rodgers countrified the blues of the 1920s, and then people like Howlin' Wolf re-bluesified his country in the 40s and 50s. His howling was originally trying to do Jimmie's yodel.
Cool factoid. Love Howlin' Wolf. I am inclined to say that if it had not been for Jimmie we might not have Elvis or Steely Dan or Bob Dylan.....interesting is it?
The only word I could use to describe this is: AMAZING!!!
Thank you
So good
An American Icon....
Classic!!!! and awesome!!!!
@GuitarzanOO50 I haven't been able to listen to that one since my Daddy passed in 2003, but I do love that song.
jimmie was the best got all his alblums
Jimmy Rodgers was a railroad man before he was accidentally discovered. He had TB and during the 20's there was not much treatment in the South. He grew weaker and they put a cot in the recording studio where he could rest between record recordings. He made records right up until his death..I forgot the year.
Great song!!
My dad used to drag out his old j45 gibson and play this one, now I've got the guitar but not the talent, rest in peace Alex Burnay, (Dad) and Jimmy Rodgers
jimmie was the best.
white man blues did not get any better.
buzz
That was Jimmy Rogers, Chicago Blues singer who played with Muddy Waters.
when Jimmie makes the train sounds is that gravely sound from TB? everytime i hear that i think that.
I thought the same thing.
fantastico
1 of a kind
Who can forget Boz Scaggs' magnificent cover on his first album?
Waylon Jennings brought me here when he sang waymore blues
o37tmx you should hear some of his recordings His sideman included Sachmo, Fletcher Henderson and other Jazz greats. He was so progressive R. Peer was not going to include him at Bristol Sessions
@bakedsushi Not a new or an old thing. Musicians love one another, and race doesn't matter much. John Jackson, the blues man from Virginia, told me he taught Marvin Rainwater his first guitar chords.
research brought me here, Jimmy Rodgers was a fav of Bonnie Parker of the Barrow Gang.
@calcio777 he actually died in 1933, god this is old as hell but that's good :)
Are you certain about the year being 1929? That would make this a very early talkie. My belief about this without seeing the films intro and outro footage (the soundtrack of which is on the Bear Family box set) dates this film from 1931.
haha i love jimmie rodgers and i love that spongebob squarepants got inspired by this song. Dont know what im talking about check out the song texas by sandy cheeks is clearly inspired by this
Yes it's actually him about 1928 ish
Oh btw I have learnt the MJH version of this just to keep its memory (and Jimmie's) alive ...
That is so cool. I bet you are an extraordinary young person. Most of your class mates would not have any desire to find the original version much less learn it. Good for you Kid. You keep up the above and beyond extra work. It will take you to great success one day.
Proper ! Now if everyone could act like they acted in tho
se days this would be a way better country to live in . .
A-fucking-men brother. Too many folks don't realize that, sadly. We have things in common.
I almost can't hear this without crying for my Dad. He was one of the millions of men who rode the freight trains looking for work during the Great Depression. Many a time he was far from home, starving, and broken hearted. He once ate magpie eggs to survive. This could be a biography of him during that time. Thank you, Jimmie Rodgers. And thank you, psteve, for posting.
Gandy dancers
Impressive credentials. Folks that came before us certainly had a harder life than we do.
I remember Jimmie, he past away when I was 6 years old in 1933. My parents and all my brothers and sisters and me loved listening to him.
How often would you listen to music back then? I'm young and just curious since I listen to music a lot but it is a lot easier nowadays
@@overratedprogrammer hes probly dead, was born in `27
My dad sang this when I was a child, I just happened to remember it this morning.
@@lassejohaneira9641 my dad was stationed at the navy base Alameda in san fransisco.
My dad use to sing it, when I was a child. I just happen to remember some of the words and googled it, this morn, seems to me he use to call him little jimmy rodgers.
The original country badass.
Grew up hearing my grandad sing these songs.
@@Remembering-rq6si Badass is profanity? Are you happy whining about insignificant shit?
Lol
Remembering 1992, what is it that you are remembering about 1992?
My grandfathers yodel sounded just the same.
@@Remembering-rq6si Okay he sweared so what? Swearing doesn't make you a middle school kid, I'm 15 and I swear once in a while still
0 voice lessons. 0 sound effects. 100% talent
Indeed
He sure had perfect pitch.
Such beautiful voice. I love his guitar, too. His yodeling didn't hurt either.
Thanks for the upload.
@@patriciajrs46 Nor did the train whistle coming from his soul.
"O sound effects"? Didn't you hear that lonesome whistle blow?
This is the father of country music plain and simple
Hello Cindy, How are you doing?
Disputed by some but I do agree, he may not of founded country but he was it's 1st star
@@Tob1Kadach1 No, that'd be Vernon Dalhart, who recorded the first million-selling record in _any_ genre with his version of "The Wreck of the Old 97" in May of 1924. Rodgers was first recorded in 1927 in the same Bristol recording session which introduced The Carter Family to prominence.
@@Tob1Kadach1 Well Vernon Dalhart was the first to have a country record to sell a million, but he really had a pop music background, which is what he had come to be known for in the 15 years prior. Jimmie was the first to really leave a big mark.
That a high quality video clip of the great Jimmie Rodgers has survived is nothing short of answered prayer. Absolutely phenomenal and indispensible.
Jimmy Rogers is the "Father" of country music. Hank Snow's and Ernest Tubb's favourite singer. The country singers (so-called ) of to-day should get down on their knees and thank this man for their careers.
Ken, Toronto
Every child should be taught about Jimmie Rodgers.
@Nishan B same
Nah
@Nishan B Same Here!
Why ?
I’m teaching myself, very happy I am
Damn. This is one of the best things I've ever seen on youtube. We are so lucky to actually have hi-quality footage of Jimmie Rodgers playing music... for so many of his contemporaries (Woody Guthrie, Carter Family, all the early acoustic bluesmen) there's basically nothing.
Well.............Jimmie Rodgers.. in his grave..... still singing.. ... tuberculosis...and ..says omg...... 1.5 million views... he knew someday he'd be known as a legend.. .. You'll never die. Love ya.. Jimmie...Wish you survived till 1952.....or more... ya know??? .. blessings to younger generations...
I'm 15 now and I love jimmy
Why did you write it like that
Can u please tell me I really want to know.
I'm 33 and he's one of my faves!
+Billy Murray fan I'll check em out!
So pure. The lines about Texas make me tear up.
It’s his gratitude in the simple things that sustain him despite his misfortune.
Simple lyrics but the theme cuts so deep. Perhaps one can only understand it after living for a while.
I'm from Meridian, MS. I noticed none of the comments mention the Jimmie Rogders Memorial Festival they hold in the spring each year. I've seen almost everyone in country music playing there. I've seen Willie, Waylon, Hank Jr, Conway, and all the greats! They come to pay tribute to the Father of Country Music!
Depression time, This was one of my Father's favorite songs. Reflected the status of the unemployed. 1929.
Man, the woman next to him probably lived through the Civil War. Rodgers is an Icon - love this!
The woman you identified was an English actress with beautiful diction and the carriage of a Shakespearean trouper
I just lost my mother recently. She and I would listen to Jimmie Rodgers, and the tribute album that Merle Haggard did on Jimmie Rodgers when I was a child. "Waiting For a Train" brought her back to me for a moment tonight. I thank you.
This footage is from the 1929 Columbia short "The Singing Brakeman," in which Jimmie sang "Waiting for a Train", "Daddy and Home" and "T for Texas", all his own compositions. This film was his ONLY motion picture appearance. Rodgers died of TB in 1935 at the age of 33.
James Charles "Jimmie" Rodgers (September 8, 1897 - May 26, 1933) was an American country singer in the early 20th century, known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling. Among the first country music superstars and pioneers, Rodgers was also known as "The Singing Brakeman", "The Blue Yodeler", and "The Father of Country Music"
Thank you for adding this. I had no idea he was inducted to both the country music and rock & roll hall of fames. Incredible.
@@workingguy6666 Why would Jimmie Rodgers be in the rock and roll hall of fame, since that style of music didn't appear until 20 years after his death?!
Someone told me he's African American is that true?
This has got to be one of the history's first music videos
It is the first ever
I can see my Dad sitting at the table singing along with Jimmy Rodger particularly Waiting for a Train, it’s something that has stayed with me. I just love it. What an incredible talent Jimmy was. So many memories of my Dad who was so full of emotion and love he played all the old country artists music but Jimmy was his favourite.
Oh what a precious memory of your Daddy. I miss mine so much, too. My Daddy would sing Hank Williams Sr. I thought he was singing about my Momma....and it made me sad for him and mad at Momma for treating him so mean.
@@holleefielder4100 hi there!
the real father of country music and the first video 1928
Hey we need to credit Jimmie with not only inventing country music but also inventing the Music Video. Wonder if his estate could get a little kick-back from MTV
Confirmed
Eck Robertson is the godfather of country music. Country music would be nothing without the fiddle.
mr. warmth Not to seem overly scrutinizing here, but to ever refer to any artist as a ‘father’ of anything connotes one individual alone creating and establishing a new school to dig. One of the reasons ‘grandfather’ or even ‘godfather’, terms indicating generational time and clearly movements not only taking time to go through a metamorphosis, but that the players involved in an Argos of movement and much more numerous than meets the eye.
I more than concur with your sentiment, but a cat like JR deserves as specific language as possible.
I agree that musical genre's are developed over time and most certainly by more than one man alone. But eck really is the godfather, 'Sallie gooden' is revered as the first country music recording ever, if the man to make the first country music recording in history can't be called the godfather of the genre then you are right, there is no godfather. For the record I love Jimmie and meant no disrespect to his music.
american music owes a ton to j.r. so glad music history is found here on you tube - everything from folk / country to jazz / rock / r & b / and the big bands / thanks for posting this one
I love Jimmie Rodgers. My Dad & I were always amazed at how he did the train whistle.
Hi there!
Hi 👋
My mothers family name is Barry
I heard somebody yodel and a hobo moan, Jimmie he's dead, he's been a long time gone...
That's what led me here, lol.
One of my favorite Waylon songs.
i was left some Jimmy Rogers records (about 10 of them) when my Grandfather passed.
I remember him telling me that they were coming my way when he died.
I crank them once in a while, Great music!
What an amazing inheritance!
He looks like a cross between Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire.
King Ward Lol. I can’t unsee it now
Who do you think they copied??
@@charlaville7658 Really no telling. Did they SAY who they copied?
OMG, how did he imitate a steam engine's whistle at the beginning of the song like that? Amazing!
Jimmie Rodgers sure could sing.
Country at its best.
I love his music.
George Vreeland Hill
I’m 17 and love this, we’re not all bad
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18 from swisszerland 😍
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That’s awesome, hun.
RIP James Cobb
Love his pick and strum style - he was an absolute legend
and still is.
My dad would sing this when I was a kid
Mine too, and it always made me cry!
Mine too.
Hi there!
Hi winnie
I never knew till now that Jimmie Rodgers made the train whistle sound with his voice and not with a harmonica!!! I've no idea how a person could do that.
Hi there!
"Heard somebody yodel and a hobo moan
Jimmy he's dead, he's been a long time gone." -- Waylon Jennings
I love that old song, too. Simplicity in all its perfectness.
In very loving memory of Mr. James Charles Rodgers (1897 - 1933 R.I.P. // Gone but NOT forgotten).
But first and foremost...he was a railroader.
..
Even back then, collecting the first class Martins ... And wow. What a great song and performance.
This is the first time I knew Jimmie blew the train whistle himself here. I have always loved all of his music and his guitar playing is quite unique. The guitar sounds beautiful. It's wonderful that Jimmie got to live his life the way he wanted. Entertaining and also working on the railroad with his father sounds like an interesting life though a short one. He was one of the greatest talents - true blues sung like no one else. Thank you for posting this. - Paula
It was his brother he worked with. Not his father.
I love this song. It's great how he makes the train whistle at the beginning too. :)
I'm 40. Jimmie is a legend!!
🎸🎶🎶😁♥️
what're you hoppin' on about now?
you wanna get political do ya?
fine, you don't like this country, then you can go right straight and leave it
i dont discuss politics , race or religion, thats your buisness
I got to agree with you there. Don't like where ya are then move. Problem solved.
Great stuff! My Grandparents probably listened to this. My father may have too. He was born in 1930. Passed on.
Thanks, psteve. I wore out records of his singing and I remember some photographs, but having actual film footage , very professionally done and beautifully preserved ... !! where on Earth did you find it. The song is one of my faves, more polished in this version than on the record and a good bit faster, but that's as it should be -- different every time. I'm lucky I can't wear out the video, I guess.
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This man almost is responsible for what getting Country Music so popular is his best ever feat. Yodeling like no other combined with down to earth country singing. Thank you Jimmy for ever in our hearts and mine gathering more country music and bring to popularity. Joehuddleston10
My daddy used to sing this to us kids when we were young. When I played it just now, my dad's voice and jimmies merged in my mind.
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How can 15 ppl not like Jimmie Rodgers? I just wish I could be alive back then to see them perform...Amazing !!!
Biden trash will never accept Jimmy Rodgers, Roy, Will Rodgers. They don’t know or deserve to what they’ve giver up.
Wow! What an influential musician, and prolific. 100 Songs written by him within a very short time frame. Roots music is the foundation of all other genres. Americans in general do not appreciate our Roots music. Mr. Rodgers left us quite an impressive catalog and seeing him here in person as it were is very cool. He died so young. Thank you for posting this amazing singer/song writer.