@Garon Elliott this has 1.5 million views versus WAP which has 310 million. We may not forget this America, but most have and even more will in the future. We're dinosaurs, just waiting waiting for the meteor.
Great artist. Natural voice - no need for electronics or voice modification. Not many singers who sound (or look) like him. What a shame he left this world too soon.
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 heartful 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 paved with regret Maybe down in lonesome town I can learn to forget (to forget) Maybe down in lonesome town I can learn to forget
This was the first rock 'n roll song to gave me chills when I was 11 in 1958. Rick(y) was more than just a pretty face. He could rock with the best of 'em too.
When your hearts bleeds. When somebody stabbed the dagger of unresponded love into your heart. When you feel that the world is an empty jar. Then nothing and nobody helps you out of that misery. Despair and sadness will turn you into a wreck. And only time might heal these wounds. Experience is the poison that makes our hearts turn into stone. Bitterness is the crop. We are not stronger after. We only gain guilt and thus loose our innocence.
I an 65 years old and I remember this and all his songs. I grew up with Ozzie & Harriet. This song just tugs at my heart and lets me remember when times were good...
My friend and I were in the front row which was only a few feet from the stage. Before he started singing he had to move a cord out of his way...he bent over and we got the best look at his awesome tush. He was wearing dark green pants and I can still see that tush in my mind. His singing was beautiful, he was beautiful...his eyes were all sparkly, his hair was perfect and those lips were dreamy. Oh my, I was in a trance. He was RICKY and I couldn't believe I was right in front of him.
Thanks for posting this. I was 7 years old when Ricky did this song. It was the second record I owned and I played it on a little portable Victrola record player. Over, and over. And over and over. And I sang along with him, and when he died, a part of me died. But I've sung and played his songs off and on for years, and played his albums; in that sense, he's still with us.
Ricky's best song. I remember watching it on tv and being blown away. What a talent that didnt get the credit he deserved as one of the best rock and roll singers of all time!
I'm dreaming, I'm in the Monument Valley, in the middle of the night... I stop the car and looking to the stars in the sky I hear this song in the radio. The infinite is over my head and Ricky's voice seems to sound everywhere, in the big lonely plains. I'm crying there, but that's great because is the only moment I feel beauties that I can't explain with words.........I'm sad......... mourn is all I can do...
A great one to end the long day. A song that I can relate to, far to often. Use to enjoy the holidays and looked forward to them. But that was a past life. He sadly died 35 years ago tonight
Ricky Nelson was the man in the 50s... From 1957 to 1962, Nelson had 30 top 40 hits, more than any other artist at the time, except Elvis Presley (who had 53) and Pat Boone (who had 38). Many of Nelson's early records were double hits with both the A side and the B side hitting the Billboard charts. When Billboard introduced the Hot 100 chart on August 4, 1958, Nelson's single "Poor Little Fool" became the first song ever in the #1 position on that chart.
Dear Ricky, You left this world 22 years ago, but we still remember you and love you dearly. There are many songs of yours that I like very much, but I love this "Lonesome Town" most of all. May your soul rest in peace. From Miwako, Japan
I became a teenager in 1957, so I had the tremendous privilege of enjoying artists and music like this. None of the nonsense that we have to listen to today. I'd take one Ricky Nelson over 10 Lady Gaga's, thank you.
So beautiful! Nobody else can sing like Ricky. You just can't believe the song is from the '50s. It is one of the most lovely ballads I've ever heard. Fan from Japan
Ricky Nelson is one of my all-time favorite artists & this is one of my favorite songs (along with Poor Little Fool), I even have it as a ringtone! He was truly blessed with a remarkable voice & stunning good looks (David was just as handsome). We hear so much about how he died too young (like so many others) but I believe it doesn't matter how you die--only that you lived and touched others. And Ricky did just that. RIP, Rick. You are not forgotten.
Thats exactly my point man. Music is for all time all genrations, it just can mean more to certain people of social groups at one point in time or another.
I was seven in 1958 but grew up listening to Ricky Nelson´s songs into the 1960s because the radio stations also had "Down memory Lane" programs and played all these old songs. Oldies but goldies. Thanks!
I cant belive that the kids in the video are smiling and swaying, that song is depresive, maybe back then they didnt listen to the lyrics and hear and feel what it says, If i were in the video i would cry, I can relate to it. Im a drepresive person.
Of all the songs I "attempt" to sing - this is the one I sing most of all - since I first heard it in 1958 ... Is it not strange how we can remember every pause - every inflection of these golden oldies ... This lad died way before his time ... sigh ...
Ricky must have been a teenage idol even here in Japan back then. My oldest sister brought back his record one day and I listened to it and became his fan. That was 45 years ago. I still love his music and this is one of my favorites. It is so sad he died young. I will be thinking of him on the 31st, with a lot of affection and thanks. Fan from Yokohama, Japan
This is probably my favorite song from Ricky Nelson & it's been over 27 years now that he's been gone. That day he died, I went to a New Years Eve social that night & found out the next morning about the plane crash.
WOW !!! This makes me sad and happy. I am so glad I found this. I have always loved his voice.I think he should of gotten more recognition as a performer. He's right up there with Elvis in my book.
Rick Nelson was one of those few people blessed with a God given perfect voice... Rick, Roy Orbison.. a few others.. but not only did Rick have the voice, but he was an amazing song writer and a very, very good looking man. This song and Let It Bring You Along are my favs. My band plays Let It Bring You Along, I sing it as my own little tribute, and in my heart always dedicate it to his kids...
Little known information. This song and cut from the television series, was lampooned in, David Lynch's weird series, "Twin Peaks" in a song called "Just You" The music for Just You was done by Angelo Badalementi and lyrics by David Lynch. The song was sung by actor, James Marshall, and backed up by Lara Flynn Boyle, and Sheryl Lee. Although Ricky Nelson didn't have back up singers for Lonesome Town in his "home" appearance the similarities between Ricky Nelson and James Marshall's moody heavy lidded and drawn out "dreamy" vocals plus the similarity of melody is evident enough to note that Lynch was doing a round about mock up nod towards this song and performance. Just You was performed in the original series of Twin Peaks in 1989 and then again in the return series, in 2017 sung once again by James Marshall but with different back up singers. In spite of how anyone tries to spin it, and I am also including all of the "Twin Peaks Fests" that the cultists follow, and the actors and such get paid a great portion of the entry and merchandising proceeds, will always avoid being functionally factual about such things. It is after all, fantasy fiction, so their purpose is to embody the surrealism of the fantasy and not the relevance of reality. To give you a comparison, in the 1999 bio movie about Andy Kaufman, Man on the Moon, Jim Carrey who played Andy Kaufman drove everyone including director Milos Forman up the wall by staying in character the entire time during filming. Although the movie itself was not a huge hit or success, it had a profound effect/affect on the people who had known Kaufman who were part of the production, such as some of the cast from Taxi, not to mention family members of Andy. He also got on the nerves of pro wrestler, Jerry "The King" Lawler who had a long feud with the real Kaufman. Carrey's portrayal of Kaufman's fictional character, Tony Clifton was so freakishly bang on it was likely one of Jim"s most in depth performance that was too far under rated and over looked. I think the reason it wasn't a success was because Carrey was too much like Kaufman, that it most likely created too much of a bizarre uncomfortable feeling or sensation since Andy had only passed away 14 years previously and Taxi was still heavily still being broadcast in syndication. It still is. It was all surreal enough that Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd were cast members of 1975's "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" which was directed by Milos Forman, and those two went on to be main characters on the sitcom Taxi, where Andy Kaufman gained his fame, and then Milos had to direct these two original "nut jobs" into the mix with Jim Carrey, playing Andy Kaufman. The film industry can be a mad circle at times. It gets down right weird and bizarre at times. Of course it uses its own history to mimic and lampoon, and then hide them like Easter eggs without any acknowledgement. It's what they do, it is how they honor and pay tribute ..... without having to actually paying royalties, because artists don't really sue other artists for plagiarism, it is the producers, managers, agents, and bloodsuckers who make money off of the artists who make all of the noise and cause all of the commotion so that they can collect their stipends and small percentage fees. You see, they work on the aggregate. which is the total of the collective of all generated said stipends and small percentage fees that in the bigger scheme is a great deal of money because they represent more than just one act. Lonesome Town was a song written by songwriter Baker Knight, who wrote for a number of different genres, but later settled into Country Music because, the simple fact is, Country Music is the one constant genre that has always been stable era after era, and also the easiest one to write for.
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this kind of culture america lost forever
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It was inevitable, it was too cool to last.
It's not lost, it will always be remembered for its greatness
@Garon Elliott this has 1.5 million views versus WAP which has 310 million. We may not forget this America, but most have and even more will in the future. We're dinosaurs, just waiting waiting for the meteor.
This video is proof that some of it lives on
i think he’s properly beautiful.
if someone sang this to me, i’d cry.
I love how the girls are smiling like "he's so dreamy" and the guys are just there like "shit I know where this guy is coming from"
Hello weezer guy
Thats deep :(
I'm a male but I can admit I'm feeling both of those.
@Spooky Surplus uhm like no-
@Spooky Surplus ok is not fair bc I’m a lesbian, but i swear that not all of womens are basic
Can you feel that?
It's something like... PEACE.
i feel the same.
Same
Uncomfortable silences
Oscar Perdomo this was during the Vietnam war
Ricky Nelson Passed Away On This Day, On New Years Eve, Back in 1985... God Bless Him
Great artist. Natural voice - no need for electronics or voice modification. Not many singers who sound (or look) like him. What a shame he left this world too soon.
His later live versions of this song are more emotional .. more Life experience if Heart ache an dissapountment to draw from when singing it by then
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 heartful 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 paved with regret
Maybe down in lonesome town
I can learn to forget (to forget)
Maybe down in lonesome town
I can learn to forget
damn i don’t need the lyrics to knwo
"Maybe down in Lonesome town.......
I can learn to Forget"
what's the point to not like such a song ?
being a dick
This was the first rock 'n roll song to gave me chills when I was 11 in 1958.
Rick(y) was more than just a pretty face. He could rock with the best of 'em too.
Hope all is good good man. I agree with you as a younger soul of the world. What a great time in history.
When your hearts bleeds. When somebody stabbed the dagger of unresponded love into your heart. When you feel that the world is an empty jar. Then nothing and nobody helps you out of that misery. Despair and sadness will turn you into a wreck. And only time might heal these wounds. Experience is the poison that makes our hearts turn into stone. Bitterness is the crop. We are not stronger after. We only gain guilt and thus loose our innocence.
Well I was havin a good mornin
I an 65 years old and I remember this and all his songs. I grew up with Ozzie & Harriet. This song just tugs at my heart and lets me remember when times were good...
I'm also 65 and was thinking the same thing. What a great show and artist.
Still one of the greatest songs ever written.
+1
@@doremicartoon3965 Yes, at least way better than 90% of music today!! :)
incredible
The kings: Elvis, Nelson, Roy And Everlys
Emre Koç the best singers ever :)
Emre Koç the Everly Brothers..!😍❤️
Cliff Richard
Emre Koç ...and don’t forget Buddy!
I don't think I've heard this song for several decades - wondeful to hear it again
Hope you have a blessed day and life!
Ricky Nelson was a heart throb in my preteen years.
I was never Alyssa's protector. She was mine.
alex thelizardking
💔
Ricky was a hot boy!
Sameeeeeee 😍😍
THE END OF THE F**KING WORLD BROUGHT ME HERE lol
omg me too ahaha!
loyiso sobazile same
I bet you weren't ready for 2020.
noob
Me too in 2024 binge watched both seasons and it was an amazing ride!
My friend and I were in the front row which was only a few feet from the stage. Before he started singing he had to move a cord out of his way...he bent over and we got the best look at his awesome tush. He was wearing dark green pants and I can still see that tush in my mind. His singing was beautiful, he was beautiful...his eyes were all sparkly, his hair was perfect and those lips were dreamy. Oh my, I was in a trance. He was RICKY and I couldn't believe I was right in front of him.
Wow, as someone in his 20s, I think older classic American songs such as these are timeless treasures to be protected and cherished forever! :)
I just love his voice. I love the way he close his eyes slowly, when his singing..
I love this guy. Im only like 22 but i respect music from people like him in his era more than anything today.
You’re almost 40 now?
@@lukeswall5999 i hope he´s still alive
Happy Birthday to Rick Nelson REST IN POWER 🎈🎇🎊🎈🎂🎊 Blessings and Hugs 💖💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕!
Thanks for posting this. I was 7 years old when Ricky did this song. It was the second record I owned and I played it on a little portable Victrola record player. Over, and over. And over and over. And I sang along with him, and when he died, a part of me died. But I've sung and played his songs off and on for years, and played his albums; in that sense, he's still with us.
I SWEAR TO GOD, THIS SONG IS PURE GOLD.
I remember playing this a lot on an old 45 when I was a kid and it was new back in '58 & into the 60's.
+ Thanks for Sharing
I've looking for this song for 10 years or longer!!!!!!!
Ricky's best song. I remember watching it on tv and being blown away. What a talent that didnt get the credit he deserved as one of the best rock and roll singers of all time!
I'm dreaming, I'm in the Monument Valley, in the middle of the night... I stop the car and looking to the stars in the sky I hear this song in the radio. The infinite is over my head and Ricky's voice seems to sound everywhere, in the big lonely plains.
I'm crying there, but that's great because is the only moment I feel beauties that I can't explain with words.........I'm sad......... mourn is all I can do...
A great one to end the long day. A song that I can relate to, far to often. Use to enjoy the holidays and looked forward to them. But that was a past life. He sadly died 35 years ago tonight
Ricky Nelson was the man in the 50s...
From 1957 to 1962, Nelson had 30 top 40 hits, more than any other artist at the time, except Elvis Presley (who had 53) and Pat Boone (who had 38). Many of Nelson's early records were double hits with both the A side and the B side hitting the Billboard charts. When Billboard introduced the Hot 100 chart on August 4, 1958, Nelson's single "Poor Little Fool" became the first song ever in the #1 position on that chart.
i wish elvis would cover that....with his deep powerful voice and backround gospel inspired vocals it would be godlike!
The best ballade ever...and ever.....
Dear Ricky,
You left this world 22 years ago, but we still remember you and love you dearly. There are many songs of yours that I like very much, but I love this "Lonesome Town" most of all. May your soul rest in peace. From Miwako, Japan
I'm a teenager also and love Ricky Nelson. You just don't see alot of artists like this anymore. ( I also love Bon Jovi!!)
he is so beautiful and his voice is hitting me to my core!!! they just dont make music like this anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I could look at those eyes and listen to that voice over and over.
I became a teenager in 1957, so I had the tremendous privilege of enjoying artists and music like this. None of the nonsense that we have to listen to today. I'd take one Ricky Nelson over 10 Lady Gaga's, thank you.
this is beautiful...
i wish i was born in the 50's to experience great music like this.
me too
My mother born 70 years ago and me 40 years ago and she with grandma introduced me to this as a little one
It's sad he died so young, I just love every of his songs, such a wonderful singer...
Truly ahead of its time
Incredible Song Song by an Incredible Singer
true... even the title says it all...
god bless ricky...
thnx to my Em Kon Melanie for sendin me this memories song. and Ricky your candle extinguished too soon but your songs shall endure !
So beautiful! Nobody else can sing like Ricky. You just can't believe the song is from the '50s. It is one of the most lovely ballads I've ever heard. Fan from Japan
So beautiful!
Ricky Nelson is one of my all-time favorite artists & this is one of my favorite songs (along with Poor Little Fool), I even have it as a ringtone! He was truly blessed with a remarkable voice & stunning good looks (David was just as handsome). We hear so much about how he died too young (like so many others) but I believe it doesn't matter how you die--only that you lived and touched others. And Ricky did just that. RIP, Rick. You are not forgotten.
Thats exactly my point man. Music is for all time all genrations, it just can mean more to certain people of social groups at one point in time or another.
I was seven in 1958 but grew up listening to Ricky Nelson´s songs into the 1960s because the radio stations also had "Down memory Lane" programs and played all these old songs. Oldies but goldies. Thanks!
I was born in 1953 and grew up watching Ozzie and Harriet every week. I had a big crush on Ricky, he was so good looking, and his singing was great!!
There's another rare song 'I Need You',if it's here I'd be much excited! Anyway it's wonderful enough to share the romantic voice of Ricky, thanks!
.....i remember this from his tv show...never missed an episode...he was special...had a beat of his own...thanks
I cant belive that the kids in the video are smiling and swaying, that song is depresive, maybe back then they didnt listen to the lyrics and hear and feel what it says, If i were in the video i would cry, I can relate to it. Im a drepresive person.
He was a (Teenage Idol) that we can't forget.
I remember the Ozzie and Harriet show and watch him and his brother growing up on TV. Good show. Rick was a great singer.
One of Nelson's best!
"That's swell, Rick!", he saw like 8 seconds of the performance.
THAT'S SWELL RICK!!!
Lovely song.. Thanks.
unbelievable handsome and talented. RIP Rick Nelson you are missed. xoxoxo
Voice of an Angel I'd say!!
And very cute too!!
WOW!!!
Ricky Nelson was GREAT!!!
such a sweet way to make music. a better time.
One beautiful, haunting song.
He was such a cutie.. Soo adorable when he sang...
Super-cool Ricky, I've just discovered your music
Beautiful song, more songs like that please, is very sadly but i love it
how pure is that?!
This music is giving me the feeling to life in an other Galaxy!!!
You make me feel like I am living in an other galaxy ✨👁👄👁✨
Alma Welk :D
My life-38 years of broken hearts and broken dreams brought me here. Oddly it’s so peaceful
OMG! This song is in an movie i quite cant remember, but its soooo sweet:D
Thank god i found this
So awesome!
Of all the songs I "attempt" to sing - this is the one I sing most of all - since I first heard it in 1958 ...
Is it not strange how we can remember every pause - every inflection of these golden oldies ...
This lad died way before his time ... sigh ...
thanks for post.........
i love him soooooooooooooooooo........
Rest in peace, man
Ricky must have been a teenage idol even here in Japan back then. My oldest sister brought back his record one day and I listened to it and became his fan. That was 45 years ago. I still love his music and this is one of my favorites. It is so sad he died young. I will be thinking of him on the 31st, with a lot of affection and thanks. Fan from Yokohama, Japan
He was adorable!
i love this music,it was better than now.
This is probably my favorite song from Ricky Nelson & it's been over 27 years now that he's been gone. That day he died, I went to a New Years Eve social that night & found out the next morning about the plane crash.
Powerful song
I didn't grow up in the 50's but I still love Rick. That voice...ahhhh And so handsome....
one of his best songs and to think he died so young
WOW !!! This makes me sad and happy. I am so glad I found this. I have always loved his voice.I think he should of gotten more recognition as a performer. He's right up there with Elvis in my book.
i love tarantino and his films
what would we do without his classics in his films
This is, like, the most beautiful thing ever.
What a wonderful song! Rick left us all in lonesome town.
Rick Nelson was one of those few people blessed with a God given perfect voice... Rick, Roy Orbison.. a few others.. but not only did Rick have the voice, but he was an amazing song writer and a very, very good looking man.
This song and Let It Bring You Along are my favs. My band plays Let It Bring You Along, I sing it as my own little tribute, and in my heart always dedicate it to his kids...
I remember watching Ozzie and Harriet with Ricky, and his brother so many years ago. .... I never thought I would still be alive.
IMO, his best ballad. He hits all his marks, and he's completely sincere. Can't ask anyone for more than that.
Ozzie and Harriet's little man. Way to go Ricky!
Oh my god. Those blue eyes, that voice! I'm in love!!
i thought i was the only person that thought like this ..this is absolutely what i think look at America now......so sad..those were the good old days
beautiful.
This songs amazing 😔❤️
Little known information. This song and cut from the television series, was lampooned in, David Lynch's weird series, "Twin Peaks" in a song called "Just You" The music for Just You was done by Angelo Badalementi and lyrics by David Lynch. The song was sung by actor, James Marshall, and backed up by Lara Flynn Boyle, and Sheryl Lee.
Although Ricky Nelson didn't have back up singers for Lonesome Town in his "home" appearance the similarities between Ricky Nelson and James Marshall's moody heavy lidded and drawn out "dreamy" vocals plus the similarity of melody is evident enough to note that Lynch was doing a round about mock up nod towards this song and performance.
Just You was performed in the original series of Twin Peaks in 1989 and then again in the return series, in 2017 sung once again by James Marshall but with different back up singers.
In spite of how anyone tries to spin it, and I am also including all of the "Twin Peaks Fests" that the cultists follow, and the actors and such get paid a great portion of the entry and merchandising proceeds, will always avoid being functionally factual about such things. It is after all, fantasy fiction, so their purpose is to embody the surrealism of the fantasy and not the relevance of reality.
To give you a comparison, in the 1999 bio movie about Andy Kaufman, Man on the Moon, Jim Carrey who played Andy Kaufman drove everyone including director Milos Forman up the wall by staying in character the entire time during filming.
Although the movie itself was not a huge hit or success, it had a profound effect/affect on the people who had known Kaufman who were part of the production, such as some of the cast from Taxi, not to mention family members of Andy. He also got on the nerves of pro wrestler, Jerry "The King" Lawler who had a long feud with the real Kaufman. Carrey's portrayal of Kaufman's fictional character, Tony Clifton was so freakishly bang on it was likely one of Jim"s most in depth performance that was too far under rated and over looked.
I think the reason it wasn't a success was because Carrey was too much like Kaufman, that it most likely created too much of a bizarre uncomfortable feeling or sensation since Andy had only passed away 14 years previously and Taxi was still heavily still being broadcast in syndication. It still is.
It was all surreal enough that Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd were cast members of 1975's "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" which was directed by Milos Forman, and those two went on to be main characters on the sitcom Taxi, where Andy Kaufman gained his fame, and then Milos had to direct these two original "nut jobs" into the mix with Jim Carrey, playing Andy Kaufman. The film industry can be a mad circle at times. It gets down right weird and bizarre at times. Of course it uses its own history to mimic and lampoon, and then hide them like Easter eggs without any acknowledgement. It's what they do, it is how they honor and pay tribute ..... without having to actually paying royalties, because artists don't really sue other artists for plagiarism, it is the producers, managers, agents, and bloodsuckers who make money off of the artists who make all of the noise and cause all of the commotion so that they can collect their stipends and small percentage fees.
You see, they work on the aggregate. which is the total of the collective of all generated said stipends and small percentage fees that in the bigger scheme is a great deal of money because they represent more than just one act.
Lonesome Town was a song written by songwriter Baker Knight, who wrote for a number of different genres, but later settled into Country Music because, the simple fact is, Country Music is the one constant genre that has always been stable era after era, and also the easiest one to write for.
Stunning..
You guys all should buy Ricky's DVD, like I did -) This song is there too.
I first heard this as a small child, on the Pulp Fiction album, and I've loved it ever since
Me too lol wow same here