Shuffler played bass for Sopnny and Bobby in between gigs with the Stanleys and with Bill Harrell and Don Reno. He also played bass on many of the Stanley brothers 1950's recordings and dubbed the guitar work in at another time. He's amazing !
I'm a rock n roller from the 60s & 70s who's loved her bluegrass ever since the early 70s. Don't know what it is about this video but everything, the visual and the audio just keeps bringing me back to listen again and again and again ad infinitum. 🪕
I met Bobby at a bluegrass festival a few weeks back. He's a really nice guy, even signed my CD for me. He did this one that night... Should have heard the cheers.
We watched them perform many times. These guys were hard working. And Sonny kicks it on the banjo on this song. Thanks for all of those long, long held notes Bobby. RIP and God Bless.
The Osbornes always had to fight the "bluegrass tribes" over their use of electric/amplified instruments, including bass and steel. The "establishment" said that they were not true bluegrass. In my opinion, it was simple and pure jealousy.Same ol' same ol'-resistant to change.If you weren't blowing in a jug for a bass, you weren't true blugrass I guess - and that was TABOO. AWESOME VIDEO! I love 'em! - and that IS BLUEGRASS AT IT'S FINEST
Ever since Ruby's husband got his 500 watt stereo.... and a certain little 45 RPM vinyl record... Ruby has been very careful not to get mad at him anymore.
Used to listen to them and Red Allen, from Toronto, on the WWVA World's Original Jamboree in West Virginia on Saturday nights whem I was a teen. Still have the "45' of Ruby and a '78' rpm of Down in the Willow Garden.
Osborne Bros at 64' (?) Newport Folk Festival. Bobby-mando/voc (solo) & Sonny-banjo/voc (trio)...obviously. Benny Birchfield on rhythm gtr/voc (trio) [and, yes, he was married to Jean Shepard & a bus driver, but also a great banjo picker & played harmony banjo with Sonny on that old MGM Osborne Bros instrumental album] and George Shuffler on ELECTRIC bass...Newport allowed that?!
"...nor did this group ever use one." Not true. This was taped in the mid 60s. Maybe not many groups had switched to electric bass yet, but the Osborne Brothers was one of the first group to use full electric instrumentation, in the late 60s-early 70s. This includes electrically amplified banjo, guitar and mandolin, and electric bass. They used electric bass extensively in the 70s and also 80s also.
There is plenty of good music of different varieties but Bluegrass is music in high gear. And the best Bluegrass (like this) cannot be surpassed anywhere or at anytime. Thanks for posting.
I'm sure it's an electric bass. George played guitar with the Stanleys, but also played bass with the Osborne brothers, and later with Don Reno and Bill Harrell. The sound you hear is clearly not an upright bass, and if you look closely at the end of the video, and listen to those bass notes, they are coming from George...and he's doing them by plucking the G and D strings on the bass.
Still strange to me to see George Shuffler on electric bass, even though he was quite versatile from what I understand. I guess I'm just used to hearing & seeing him pick that classic cross picking guitar style of his. Benny Birchfield has been married to Jean Shepard for many years & used to be Roy Orbison's bus driver & model building buddy.
Thats an electric guitar the doghouse bass is in the background. George can platpick quite well as well as his crosspickin...weird seeing him with them...used to seein him with ralph and carter.
Ralph and Carter at Newport Folk Fest that year and that's actually a Gibson Firebird ELECTRIC bass George is playing. Musta borrowed it some somebody on the Fest?
I stumbled upon this video ... Wow ... OH EM GEE! Nope ... Nope ... I am NOT satisfied ... I'm not mad at my man ... I gotta HAVE a man 1st ... 'fore I CAN be mad at him. :)
No. George is playing an electric guitar. There are 6 tuners on it and he is holding a pic. During that time there was no electric bass in bluegrass period nor did this group ever use one. I can very clearly hear a dog house in the background and can very easily play one like that. I have 3 electric basses and one doghouse and have been playing them since i was 7. Theres no doubt the bassfiddle is in the back and george did not move his fingers and they are in the "D" chord on the guitar.
@@dannyc1174 you are quite mistaken. That isn't even a Gibson, and doesn't even resemble a Thunderbird bass or either (reverse or non-reverse) version of the Gibson Firebird guitar.
I didn't make this comment. I managed to log on in the office of a bar that a friend of mine manages and now there are all these comments all over the place that I didn't make. Cool video though.
Now that I have seen him at various ages on youtube, I have come to the opinion that he was never fat. But he did have a huge double chin. Obviously he had a face lift. It sure made him good looking. I don't blame it at all.
well i've never seen sonny put a pickup in his banjo especially his 32 grenada he played for 100 years nor his stelling banjo;s he endorsed for a while. One of the Only "big" musicians ive ever seen with an electric banjo is buck trent and it sounded like crap. If you want to think otherwise maybe you should call sonny himself like I did and talk to him about it. His numbers on his website. His banjers are awesome too bout to try one of those suckers out. Take care, Mike
The more I look the more it looks like a bass....is confusing tho.only gives u one split second of him and its not good lol. U know they had a different style..seems like they played more bluegrass later in their career...sonny is definantly one of the best banjo players ever and learned from watchin the master!...I really like sonny's banjo player style and capabilities, they definantly could do rocky top better than anyone else..seems a lot are playin electric bass these days..we do..later!
That's a Gibson Firebird ELECTRIC bass George is playing. He is using a pick but you can see 4 strings and listen to his bass notes that you can see him playing at the very end as "man" fades
RIP Bobby. Truly a bluegrass legend. My dad knew these guys back in the early days and says they were some really great people.
Shuffler played bass for Sopnny and Bobby in between gigs with the Stanleys and with Bill Harrell and Don Reno. He also played bass on many of the Stanley brothers 1950's recordings and dubbed the guitar work in at another time. He's amazing !
RIP Bobby, the sweetest tenor to ever lift his voice up to the heavens.
that banjo sounds so good
i just found out about these guys like 4 days ago noe i can't get enough of them, blow me away
Sonny's banjo break is epic!
I AGREE. They look GREAT here
some of the best harmony anywhere, in any genre. as always sonny is creative...tasteful.
I'm a rock n roller from the 60s & 70s who's loved her bluegrass ever since the early 70s. Don't know what it is about this video but everything, the visual and the audio just keeps bringing me back to listen again and again and again ad infinitum.
🪕
I'm with you!
This is my favorite rendition of Ruby
No one sings it high the way this guy can!
I met Bobby at a bluegrass festival a few weeks back. He's a really nice guy, even signed my CD for me. He did this one that night... Should have heard the cheers.
We watched them perform many times. These guys were hard working. And Sonny kicks it on the banjo on this song. Thanks for all of those long, long held notes Bobby. RIP and God Bless.
Yes, it was George Shuffler playing bass.
This is one of my favorites!!!!
what a clear perfect voice!
Still sounds so good to my ears.
My grannies cat was named ruby and she used to call her name like this song
The Osbornes always had to fight the "bluegrass tribes" over their use of electric/amplified instruments, including bass and steel. The "establishment" said that they were not true bluegrass. In my opinion, it was simple and pure jealousy.Same ol' same ol'-resistant to change.If you weren't blowing in a jug for a bass, you weren't true blugrass I guess - and that was TABOO.
AWESOME VIDEO! I love 'em! - and that IS BLUEGRASS AT IT'S FINEST
Your wrong.
Love this!
Incredible!
The Osborne brothers were from Kentucky, not far from where my family is from, Hazard. They are so young here, WOW
Ever since Ruby's husband got his 500 watt stereo....
and a certain little 45 RPM vinyl record...
Ruby has been very careful not to get mad at him anymore.
Used to listen to them and Red Allen, from Toronto, on the WWVA World's Original Jamboree in West Virginia on Saturday nights whem I was a teen. Still have the "45' of Ruby and a '78' rpm of Down in the Willow Garden.
Perfect.
SWEET MUSIC!!!!
awesome
I love!!!!!
excellent !
Osborne Bros at 64' (?) Newport Folk Festival. Bobby-mando/voc (solo) & Sonny-banjo/voc (trio)...obviously. Benny Birchfield on rhythm gtr/voc (trio) [and, yes, he was married to Jean Shepard & a bus driver, but also a great banjo picker & played harmony banjo with Sonny on that old MGM Osborne Bros instrumental album] and George Shuffler on ELECTRIC bass...Newport allowed that?!
Man check shuffler out back there dude was a legend all of em are
"...nor did this group ever use one."
Not true. This was taped in the mid 60s. Maybe not many groups had switched to electric bass yet, but the Osborne Brothers was one of the first group to use full electric instrumentation, in the late 60s-early 70s. This includes electrically amplified banjo, guitar and mandolin, and electric bass. They used electric bass extensively in the 70s and also 80s also.
It’s George shuffler!!
I never knew there was a time when Sonny was skinnier than Bobby!
RUclips is good for my education.
The Good Stuff!
Having fun
There is plenty of good music of different varieties but Bluegrass is music in high gear. And the best Bluegrass (like this) cannot be surpassed anywhere or at anytime. Thanks for posting.
the silver apples version uses them,sampled,back in 1968 both great imo.
Why did bobby change the words later, I like this version best
Interesting because it looks like George Shuffler on Bass who played with The Stanley Brothers. Thanks for the upload.
It sure is George Shuffler - and on a Gibson Firebird ELECTRIC bass!
@@dannyc1174 incorrect
Nice post
I'm sure it's an electric bass. George played guitar with the Stanleys, but also played bass with the Osborne brothers, and later with Don Reno and Bill Harrell.
The sound you hear is clearly not an upright bass, and if you look closely at the end of the video, and listen to those bass notes, they are coming from George...and he's doing them by plucking the G and D strings on the bass.
Yup - a Gibson Firebird Electric!
Oops - my mistake. A Gibson THUNDERBIRD electric bass; Epiphone made the Firebird, but basically the same thing.
@@dannyc1174 incorrect, you need to research what Gibson Firebird guitars look like, plus Gibson Thunderbird basses.
@jaimev21 Yep that's him!
Lord, lord.............
DYN-o-MITE! A Classic to be sure. Was BOBBY really that ...er, rotund in the early days?
Is that George Shuffler on bass? Wow! Very cool!
Yeah - and playing a Gibson Firebird ELECTRIC bass!!
Oops, my mistake...Gibson THUNDERBIRD; Epiphone made the FIREBIRD but basically the same thing.
@@dannyc1174 incorrect
Help me here...I'm incorrect that George Shuffler is playing electric bass or the type of bass?
@@dannyc1174 It's a Premier bass with a scroll like an F5 and a pearloid covering like is common on lap steel guitars.
awesome video....great to see Sonny spanking that thing...They both looked like they were having a real good time.
@bigmrclean It's a bass. Freeze it at 1:32
Still strange to me to see George Shuffler on electric bass, even though he was quite versatile from what I understand. I guess I'm just used to hearing & seeing him pick that classic cross picking guitar style of his. Benny Birchfield has been married to Jean Shepard for many years & used to be Roy Orbison's bus driver & model building buddy.
sonny osborne (banjo) is my favorite
I've become a huge Bluegrass fan. I hate country music, but love Bluegrass.
@baloo7979 Yeah.....I finally seen that. My Bad!!
Thats an electric guitar the doghouse bass is in the background. George can platpick quite well as well as his crosspickin...weird seeing him with them...used to seein him with ralph and carter.
Ralph and Carter at Newport Folk Fest that year and that's actually a Gibson Firebird ELECTRIC bass George is playing. Musta borrowed it some somebody on the Fest?
Oops - my mistake - a Gibson THUNDERBIRD bass; Epiphone made the Firebird, but basically the same thing.
@@dannyc1174 incorrect
Is that George Shuffler playing bass?
Yup - and on a Gibson Firebird ELECTRIC bass!
Oops - my mistake. It's a Gibson THUNDERBIRD bass; Epiphone had the FIREBIRD, but basically the same.
@@dannyc1174 incorrect
Please, name another tenor that ranks up on Bobby. Don’t think so. Those boys are legendary.
Do they change the words around to this song? Their ain't two versions alike
I stumbled upon this video ... Wow ... OH EM GEE! Nope ... Nope ... I am NOT satisfied ... I'm not mad at my man ... I gotta HAVE a man 1st ... 'fore I CAN be mad at him. :)
No. George is playing an electric guitar. There are 6 tuners on it and he is holding a pic. During that time there was no electric bass in bluegrass period nor did this group ever use one. I can very clearly hear a dog house in the background and can very easily play one like that. I have 3 electric basses and one doghouse and have been playing them since i was 7. Theres no doubt the bassfiddle is in the back and george did not move his fingers and they are in the "D" chord on the guitar.
It is some off-brand four string electric bass.
Nope, A Gibson Firebird
@@dannyc1174 no such thing as a Gibson Firebird BASS ever existed.
@@dannyc1174 you are quite mistaken. That isn't even a Gibson, and doesn't even resemble a Thunderbird bass or either (reverse or non-reverse) version of the Gibson Firebird guitar.
Hey its fats domino
@riverbelle81 He was still cute as h***!!!
I didn't make this comment. I managed to log on in the office of a bar that a friend of mine manages and now there are all these comments all over the place that I didn't make. Cool video though.
Now that I have seen him at various ages on youtube, I have come to the opinion that he was never fat. But he did have a huge double chin. Obviously he had a face lift. It sure made him good looking. I don't blame it at all.
I never knew Bobby was such a porker before them side burns.
To vistadelmar999: Please watch your language.
To pnisimor: Please try and edit out the gutter language from your site. I agree with bluegrasscannuk.
well i've never seen sonny put a pickup in his banjo especially his 32 grenada he played for 100 years nor his stelling banjo;s he endorsed for a while. One of the Only "big" musicians ive ever seen with an electric banjo is buck trent and it sounded like crap. If you want to think otherwise maybe you should call sonny himself like I did and talk to him about it. His numbers on his website. His banjers are awesome too bout to try one of those suckers out. Take care, Mike
The more I look the more it looks like a bass....is confusing tho.only gives u one split second of him and its not good lol. U know they had a different style..seems like they played more bluegrass later in their career...sonny is definantly one of the best banjo players ever and learned from watchin the master!...I really like sonny's banjo player style and capabilities, they definantly could do rocky top better than anyone else..seems a lot are playin electric bass these days..we do..later!
That's a Gibson Firebird ELECTRIC bass George is playing. He is using a pick but you can see 4 strings and listen to his bass notes that you can see him playing at the very end as "man" fades
Gibson THUNDERBIRD, not Firebird...Epiphone made the Firebird
@@dannyc1174 incorrect again
When did Bobby lose the weight? He was fat at that age!
chubby? ... that aint the word
man, the singer lost weight and kept it off
Why did they change the words, I like this version better