As a bass player myself, I absorbed a lot of inspiration from Carl. That guy was ‘always’ listening to the band, playing off of all the other musicians, without crowding, or getting in the way. His playing was groove solid. I saw him with Leon, back in 72. Watching him play gave me a leg up on what an ensemble bassist is supposed to be. Bobby, thanks for keeping his memory alive-
I have a lot of Delaney and Bonnie and I had to get out The Gift of Love. Very impressed that Bobby could remember it and sing it so well a cappella. Always liked Bobby. Carl seemed like such a good guy, too. I was 14 in '70. Lost my dad in Vietnam and music was my refuge. Eric was one of my favorites in those days. Played pedal steel for a couple of George Harrison birthday gigs. The other guys were mainly Beatles fans but All Things Must Past was my teacher during the time of mourning my dad and I went back and learned the parts that Pete Drake played because I couldn't hear the songs in any other way.
My heart goes out to you, my father was in Vietnam he was a fighter pilot. I am so very sorry. Bobby's song A day without Jesus is about the nam war. The pain of that war was tragic and does not go away. It's touched my heart in a deep way that you wrote. Blessings to you.
@@BW-CC Thank you and blessings to you both. You are right about the pain never leaving you. I have been a proponent of peace ever since. Love to all people and animals on this living Earth!
I was 13 in 1970 and can remember buying ATMP like it was yesterday. Sorry to hear about the loss of your father but you were right to gravitate towards the light in ATMP. And thank you Bobby for your great story-telling.
My recently released album has a song dedicated to Carl. “Hey Carl” is dedicated to the great bassist who passed away at a very young age of 37, Carl Radle. When I was 11 years old I bought a single ticket to see Leon Russell perform at the Philadelphia Spectrum. I arrived a few hours before the show started so that I could get as close to the stage as possible. I was able to find a spot up front right near where the piano was set up. While I was waiting Carl Radle (Leon’s Bassist) walked on stage to check his equipment. When I saw him I yelled as loud as I could “HEY CARL”, he looked over at me I waved, he waved back and left the stage. About two hours later the show started. When Carl walked on stage, he looked over at me waved and smiled. I was so happy, he made my day. This song is dedicated to the memory of Carl Dean Radle. RIP Carl. ruclips.net/video/izqcOP6AORE/видео.html
What a memory Bobby has... I swear.. I think if you asked him what brand of strings he put on his acoustic in 1971, he would tell you the brand, gauge, and where he bought them.... Damn I love these stories.. I would love to have a sit down with him, but I know I would sound like a babbling idiot asking a zillion questions.. HAHA..
I ran into Delaney one night at Western-United in 1973 and he was working on a solo LP and was talking about wanting to do a Country song. I suggested to him your song "Country Life" and he kinda hemed & hawed and I said, It's a good song and that's where we left it..
I watched an interview with Rita Coolidge where she talks about Leon's monkeys-she said he started with one, but got a 2nd monkey for its company. Extremely funny!! For sure they were up to 'monkey business'...🐒🐵😂🤣
Look forward to your daily stories. Get you a stereo and enjoy an occasional listen to the great music you help create. Glad to know Carl wrote Never Ending Song of Love,one of my favorites.
That is despicable that Delaney stole that song from Carl Radle. I remember that song being a hit for Delaney and Bonnie in the 70's . Carle Radle was a great player.
I get so much from these videos. Don't look back. The message always seems to come to me at exactly the right time. Thank you guys. You are absolute legends ❤
I could listen to this all day & night . I used to be close to Bob Herman , Bill Graham’s stage mgr. , and he had tons of these type stories . I guess we lived through something like the Wild West . Never to be repeated again. I caught the tail end of it. The music was just impossibly good. Played my way through college. Still going, though the gigs depend upon micro breweries , colleges, usually like a restaurant gig, and the occasional small festival or small venue. It Could come back , but just not very likely . A labor of love , if you play . Rock On Bobby !😎
OMG! I can't tell you how many times I have played the Layla etc album. Maybe at least 100. It's just brilliant. I won't ever get sick of it. I can understand how as a musician who recorded it, you wouldn't want to sit & listen to it for personal reasons. Lots of musicians are like that too. If I were stranded on a deserted isle I would want that album with me. Thank you for doing it❤️
@@writerjmd i've played the layla album from start to finish so many times, in each edition that comes out. it's really flawless. from start to finish, incl the back side of the record jacket, with that type font and the credits. that's as good an album as ever made.
Really interesting to me. I always wondered about the Oklahoma connection. Gary Lewis and the Playboys? Wow.. Playing with you and Eric Clapton was quite a promotion I'd say. Have a great evening you guys✌
Bobby, I learned everything I know about being a Hammond player and singer from you, Brother. Thanks for always bearing and sharing your musical soul with us! Ever lock horns with a Hammond Porta-B? Thanks for these interviews, guys. Here's to a gigging 2021.
Thank You so much for sharing your history here. I hope you and CoCo get a chance to play here in Tulsa sometime. Love your music as well as your stories.
My wife and I performed this song at our wedding, alternating verses of the original lyrics with Renée Martel's Québec French lyrics. "J'ai un amour qui ne veut pa mourir."
Hey Bobby. Greetings from Tulsa. Don't know if you heard but Jimmy "Junior" Markham passed almost two years ago. Jimmy Karstein and Gary Gilmore are still with us. Chuck Blackwell has been gone goin' on 5 years. Hope you are well.
Really loving the backstories... I was shocked to discover how many *greats* subsequently recorded this song that was obviously, from your testimony, Carl’s... that he never received credit nor a dime for.
You still have the voice bw sounds like it was thievery rampant in your camp but it happened everywhere..Tulsa connection!!! My fave delaney and bonnie is the little richard version of miss anne love these videos
I am glad you do what you are doing today, but I still hope you find great joy and achievement at what you did “way back in the past“. I hope you can continue to smile…God bless and keep you safe.
Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel Uhm, we ARE listening Or we wouldn’t care to hear what you have to say, right? Keep letting your light shine!😂😎😊🎸👨🏼⚕️🎸🏴🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸🏴✌🏻💜😉😉😉
Delaney Bramlett seems to have been a blatant song theif. I know that you were front in center in the best music of The Bramlett's and Eric Clapton's carreer Bobby Whitlock and I thank you for all the music!
Seems like I'm late to the party here but better that than never fo' sure. Anyway, I had to go back and listen to some old Delaney & Bonnie after all this talk and stumbled on to a video It's a Good Thing, and I gotta say, that white girl could sing and dance, omg and she looked goood. There's Delaney with that caveman haircut with bangs and all like Bob Seger and Sonny Bono all had at the time but, man... those two had harmony down pat. They had some guy on the organ but I don't think it you you, Bobby, there was just too much hair involved all poofed up that obscured his face, whoever it was. Poor Carl though, went out like so many others ... like people I knew as well Glad you came out the other side and in good shape too looks like. Great stuff, really enjoying you two interacting. Peace.
Bobby Whitlock and CoCo Carmel - really enjoying all of Bobby’s stories and memories! But, would be great to hear about your memories too, CoCo, particularly about being married to Delaney Bramlett - especially since you’re not even mentioned in Wikipedia’s bio of Delaney?!
Probably his widow of three years..lol. They deserved each other. Delaney was fabulous when he wasn't drinking. I only saw that a few times in 13 years. It was very sad... plus he was under the influence of his mother who lived with us.
@@BW-CC sorry you had to endure 13 bad years but it seems you’re happy now and have a great life with a good man (good life with a great man?!)! When you and Bobby sing together you present the energy of late 60s/early 70s Delaney & Bonnie - that enduring marriage of southern gospel & soul! Wonderful to hear❤️
Get that man a stereo!! You deserve to be treated to that great music again! I can't presume to think or feel for someone else, so I should just hush. But that's mighty good stuff!
Would be interested in Bobby’s take on Rita Coolidge getting stiffed outta her credit for the Layla coda.. as credit stealing is the topic here (we’ve all heard the stories of Robert Stigwood bullying her over it.. and I seem to recall hearing that Bobby disapproved of the move as well) would be nice if that were legitimately rectified one day.. she deserves it.
I once owned a 1954 Goldtop that had it's original brown case and was marked "Mark Benno." I always wondered if this was the goldtop he used on the Doors record and other sessions. I sold it to help pay my student loans. I don't regret it.....but it was a great Les Paul.
Bobby and CoCo, just watched your performance of 'Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad', from the 'Road to Austin' (ruclips.net/video/sZPoeZSnp9M/видео.html), and loved your performances. I have to say, though, that I thought that David Grissom and Eric Johnson were working against each other, and against the song.
You guys don't need a television. In a lot of ways you're better off if you don't have one. But you SHOULD get yourselves a turntable and speakers -- music is life-affirming, even sad songs, and records are a path to enlightenment. Listening to music on RUclips is NOT the same as listening to a good stereo.
If I had to pick one Delaney and Bonnie song it would be Neverending Sing of Love (ok maybe it was the one that was most promoted but still). Also Patty Loveless and Dwight Yoakam did a fantastic job with that song. Secondly I have seen frst hand in a previous life the idea of a "great group of guys" working together, sharing, helping, teaching, learning only to stab each other in the back when chips are down and there was money on the line. The younger you think those two things are incompatible but as you grow older you find out no - someone can be a great guy AND an SOB at the same time.
Hey, if you want a good two-channel stereo, I'll give you one, and the speakers to boot. I don't know, DCM timeframes. You might wanna boot'em. I don't. I think they sound pretty good.
Bobby says that Carl wrote it - or at least that Carl told him that he had had the idea for the song - but we must be careful not to jump to conclusions.
@@BW-CC Thanks so much for the reply. You folks are surely in a better position than me to judge the man’s character! All I know is what I’ve read and Bobby has said. I have the greatest respect and admiration for Bobby. I am a big fan. Bobby has an amazing knowledge and memory, and I have absolutely no reason to doubt that he is recounting truthfully what Carl told him. I posted the note of caution because I was uncomfortable with people unequivocally accepting that Delaney was a thief, with him having passed and us not knowing the other side of the story - if there is one. To add to the intrigue, I believe that Bonnie has claimed that she wrote the song with Delaney.
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As a bass player myself, I absorbed a lot of inspiration from Carl. That guy was ‘always’ listening to the band, playing off of all the other musicians, without crowding, or getting in the way. His playing was groove solid. I saw him with Leon, back in 72.
Watching him play gave me a leg up on what an ensemble bassist is supposed to be.
Bobby, thanks for keeping his memory alive-
Love hearing Bobby singing like this - just for the joy of it, without any accompaniment.
I have a lot of Delaney and Bonnie and I had to get out The Gift of Love. Very impressed that Bobby could remember it and sing it so well a cappella. Always liked Bobby. Carl seemed like such a good guy, too. I was 14 in '70. Lost my dad in Vietnam and music was my refuge. Eric was one of my favorites in those days.
Played pedal steel for a couple of George Harrison birthday gigs. The other guys were mainly Beatles fans but All Things Must Past was my teacher during the time of mourning my dad and I went back and learned the parts that Pete Drake played because I couldn't hear the songs in any other way.
My heart goes out to you, my father was in Vietnam he was a fighter pilot.
I am so very sorry. Bobby's song A day without Jesus is about the nam war.
The pain of that war was tragic and does not go away. It's touched my heart in a deep way that you wrote. Blessings to you.
@@BW-CC Thank you and blessings to you both. You are right about the pain never leaving you. I have been a proponent of peace ever since. Love to all people and animals on this living Earth!
I was 13 in 1970 and can remember buying ATMP like it was yesterday. Sorry to hear about the loss of your father but you were right to gravitate towards the light in ATMP. And thank you Bobby for your great story-telling.
5:40 Damn I love when Bobby bursts into song like that!
My recently released album has a song dedicated to Carl.
“Hey Carl” is dedicated to the great bassist who passed away at a very young age of 37, Carl Radle. When I was 11 years old I bought a single ticket to see Leon Russell perform at the Philadelphia Spectrum. I arrived a few hours before the show started so that I could get as close to the stage as possible. I was able to find a spot up front right near where the piano was set up. While I was waiting Carl Radle (Leon’s Bassist) walked on stage to check his equipment. When I saw him I yelled as loud as I could “HEY CARL”, he looked over at me I waved, he waved back and left the stage. About two hours later the show started. When Carl walked on stage, he looked over at me waved and smiled. I was so happy, he made my day. This song is dedicated to the memory of Carl Dean Radle. RIP Carl.
ruclips.net/video/izqcOP6AORE/видео.html
What a memory Bobby has... I swear.. I think if you asked him what brand of strings he put on his acoustic in 1971, he would tell you the brand, gauge, and where he bought them.... Damn I love these stories.. I would love to have a sit down with him, but I know I would sound like a babbling idiot asking a zillion questions.. HAHA..
I ran into Delaney one night at Western-United in 1973 and he was working on a solo LP and was talking about wanting to do a Country song. I suggested to him your song "Country Life" and he kinda hemed & hawed and I said, It's a good song and that's where we left it..
Just proof that Delaney actually took Bobbys song and put his name on it.. thank you.
Yeah, hasn’t he always put his name on everyone else’s songs and song ideas...😱 He probably learned that from Mick & Keith...
"That monkey was up to no good". That made me laugh out loud. Truer words were never spoke! Lol
that would be a good song.
I'm writing it.
I watched an interview with Rita Coolidge where she talks about Leon's monkeys-she said he started with one, but got a 2nd monkey for its company. Extremely funny!! For sure they were up to 'monkey business'...🐒🐵😂🤣
Look forward to your daily stories. Get you a stereo and enjoy an occasional listen to the great music you help create. Glad to know Carl wrote Never Ending Song of Love,one of my favorites.
That is despicable that Delaney stole that song from Carl Radle. I remember that song being a hit for Delaney and Bonnie in the 70's . Carle Radle was a great player.
that was a top ten hit! The theft not have helped with Carl's intense drug addiction which killed him...
I get so much from these videos. Don't look back. The message always seems to come to me at exactly the right time. Thank you guys. You are absolute legends ❤
I could listen to this all day & night .
I used to be close to Bob Herman , Bill Graham’s stage mgr. , and he had tons of these type stories . I guess we lived through something like the Wild West . Never to be repeated again. I caught the tail end of it. The music was just impossibly good.
Played my way through college. Still going, though the gigs depend upon micro breweries , colleges, usually like a restaurant gig, and the occasional small festival or small venue.
It Could come back , but just not very likely . A labor of love , if you play .
Rock On Bobby !😎
Carl could make a song swing.
Great series, thank you for letting us listen to your stories.
How cool would it be to sit down with Bobby & Coco and listen to those albums together?!
Bobby's mention of Leon and Marc Benno having a 'thing' happening. That was the Asylum Choir. They did two albums.
Yes, we know
I remember Carl from Gary Lewis and the Playboys on Shindig he and Leon Russell , great bass player !!
OMG! I can't tell you how many times I have played the Layla etc album. Maybe at least 100. It's just brilliant. I won't ever get sick of it. I can understand how as a musician who recorded it, you wouldn't want to sit & listen to it for personal reasons. Lots of musicians are like that too. If I were stranded on a deserted isle I would want that album with me. Thank you for doing it❤️
That's awesome, thanks
I agree....it never gets old. It's brilliant.
@@writerjmd i've played the layla album from start to finish so many times, in each edition that comes out. it's really flawless. from start to finish, incl the back side of the record jacket, with that type font and the credits. that's as good an album as ever made.
@@jimmaculate5 And also the Tedeschi Trucks group playing some of the cuts is good.
My all-time favorite album ever since it first came out! Never been able to choose a favorite song on it, every cut is marvelous!
Really interesting to me. I always wondered about the Oklahoma connection. Gary Lewis and the Playboys? Wow.. Playing with you and Eric Clapton was quite a promotion I'd say. Have a great evening you guys✌
Thank you so much for these videos, these musicians were by heroes, just loved them all
Bobby, I learned everything I know about being a Hammond player and singer from you, Brother. Thanks for always bearing and sharing your musical soul with us! Ever lock horns with a Hammond Porta-B?
Thanks for these interviews, guys. Here's to a gigging 2021.
Nobody has ever mentioned Mark Benno in years!!!... I still listen to his Minnows album... please tell me more... big fan
Thank You so much for sharing your history here. I hope you and CoCo get a chance to play here in Tulsa sometime. Love your music as well as your stories.
My wife and I performed this song at our wedding, alternating verses of the original lyrics with Renée Martel's Québec French lyrics. "J'ai un amour qui ne veut pa mourir."
Hey Bobby. Greetings from Tulsa. Don't know if you heard but Jimmy "Junior" Markham passed almost two years ago. Jimmy Karstein and Gary Gilmore are still with us. Chuck Blackwell has been gone goin' on 5 years. Hope you are well.
Really loving the backstories... I was shocked to discover how many *greats* subsequently recorded this song that was obviously, from your testimony, Carl’s... that he never received credit nor a dime for.
i had a record Delaney & Bonnie & Friends on Elektra REcords. Great record.
best guy ever in any music thanks
Absolutely brilliant videos thank you so much for them !
You still have the voice bw sounds like it was thievery rampant in your camp but it happened everywhere..Tulsa connection!!!
My fave delaney and bonnie is the little richard version of miss anne love these videos
I am glad you do what you are doing today, but I still hope you find great joy and achievement at what you did “way back in the past“. I hope you can continue to smile…God bless and keep you safe.
Thank you..there's still joy in the music, you can only do so much when no one is listening.
Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel Uhm, we ARE listening Or we wouldn’t care to hear what you have to say, right? Keep letting your light shine!😂😎😊🎸👨🏼⚕️🎸🏴🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸🏴✌🏻💜😉😉😉
This is a pure gas watching and listening to you, thanks for this Bobby.
Love this. Better than a book.
It was a great song. Still is.
Delaney Bramlett seems to have been a blatant song theif. I know that you were front in center in the best music of The Bramlett's and Eric Clapton's carreer Bobby Whitlock and I thank you for all the music!
Seems like I'm late to the party here but better that than never fo' sure. Anyway, I had to go back and listen to some old Delaney & Bonnie after all this talk and stumbled on to a video It's a Good Thing, and I gotta say, that white girl could sing and dance, omg and she looked goood. There's Delaney with that caveman haircut with bangs and all like Bob Seger and Sonny Bono all had at the time but, man... those two had harmony down pat. They had some guy on the organ but I don't think it you you, Bobby, there was just too much hair involved all poofed up that obscured his face, whoever it was. Poor Carl though, went out like so many others ... like people I knew as well Glad you came out the other side and in good shape too looks like. Great stuff, really enjoying you two interacting. Peace.
Too bad Delaney wouldn't let that white girl sing.
Bobby has a great memory
Bobby Whitlock and CoCo Carmel - really enjoying all of Bobby’s stories and memories! But, would be great to hear about your memories too, CoCo, particularly about being married to Delaney Bramlett - especially since you’re not even mentioned in Wikipedia’s bio of Delaney?!
Probably his widow of three years..lol. They deserved each other.
Delaney was fabulous when he wasn't drinking. I only saw that a few times in 13 years. It was very sad... plus he was under the influence of his mother who lived with us.
@@BW-CC sorry you had to endure 13 bad years but it seems you’re happy now and have a great life with a good man (good life with a great man?!)! When you and Bobby sing together you present the energy of late 60s/early 70s Delaney & Bonnie - that enduring marriage of southern gospel & soul! Wonderful to hear❤️
@@jrh11254 I am a very thankful woman. Thank you
Get that man a stereo!! You deserve to be treated to that great music again! I can't presume to think or feel for someone else, so I should just hush. But that's mighty good stuff!
Who is shouting background "vocals" (hey! hey! heyeeeyyy!) I love it!
Man these are great brother!
wow!.....you just answered the question about Delaney that i just had asked,,i just asked if you though him a G.......thanks Bobby,,
Would be interested in Bobby’s take on Rita Coolidge getting stiffed outta her credit for the Layla coda.. as credit stealing is the topic here (we’ve all heard the stories of Robert Stigwood bullying her over it.. and I seem to recall hearing that Bobby disapproved of the move as well) would be nice if that were legitimately rectified one day.. she deserves it.
The Beach Boys grew up in Hawthorne, CA, too😊
They were great
Leon produced Gary Lewis & the Playboys.. Marc Beno: Asylum Choir 2
I once owned a 1954 Goldtop that had it's original brown case and was marked "Mark Benno." I always wondered if this was the goldtop he used on the Doors record and other sessions. I sold it to help pay my student loans. I don't regret it.....but it was a great Les Paul.
More of Bobby singing!
Bobby and CoCo, just watched your performance of 'Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad', from the 'Road to Austin' (ruclips.net/video/sZPoeZSnp9M/видео.html), and loved your performances.
I have to say, though, that I thought that David Grissom and Eric Johnson were working against each other, and against the song.
You guys don't need a television. In a lot of ways you're better off if you don't have one. But you SHOULD get yourselves a turntable and speakers -- music is life-affirming, even sad songs, and records are a path to enlightenment. Listening to music on RUclips is NOT the same as listening to a good stereo.
We have one...
If I had to pick one Delaney and Bonnie song it would be Neverending Sing of Love (ok maybe it was the one that was most promoted but still). Also Patty Loveless and Dwight Yoakam did a fantastic job with that song.
Secondly I have seen frst hand in a previous life the idea of a "great group of guys" working together, sharing, helping, teaching, learning only to stab each other in the back when chips are down and there was money on the line. The younger you think those two things are incompatible but as you grow older you find out no - someone can be a great guy AND an SOB at the same time.
Never-ending ending Song was actually written by Carl Radle
Yes!
that's TOO much stealing though 🥵
Hey, if you want a good two-channel stereo, I'll give you one, and the speakers to boot.
I don't know, DCM timeframes. You might wanna boot'em. I don't. I think they sound pretty good.
Bobby says that Carl wrote it - or at least that Carl told him that he had had the idea for the song - but we must be careful not to jump to conclusions.
Lol... You're funny
You obviously didn't know Delaney.
@@BW-CC Thanks so much for the reply. You folks are surely in a better position than me to judge the man’s character!
All I know is what I’ve read and Bobby has said.
I have the greatest respect and admiration for Bobby. I am a big fan. Bobby has an amazing knowledge and memory, and I have absolutely no reason to doubt that he is recounting truthfully what Carl told him.
I posted the note of caution because I was uncomfortable with people unequivocally accepting that Delaney was a thief, with him having passed and us not knowing the other side of the story - if there is one.
To add to the intrigue, I believe that Bonnie has claimed that she wrote the song with Delaney.
Does Bobby have any recollections of D&D's appearance on the Johnny Cash show?
He made a video about the Johnny Cash show if you search his videos. Very entertaining and detailed.
Did you ever hear who was doing the whoops on Never Ending Song of Love? Maybe sung from another room?
Not sure what you're referring to exactly... there were no whoops
how was it with klaus?
You know supposedly carl also wrote the song tossin and turnin ,IN wich he didnt get credit for?
No idea
Whitlock is GOD
Delaney....what an unethical man. What a messed up mix of talent and deplorable behavior.