When you fell in love with Patsy Cline’s song Crazy, you were also falling in Love with Willie Nelson because he wrote the song Crazy. He is an ICONIC musician and entertainer.
Willie is one of the last old old legends that's thankfully still around. He's a great songwriter. He wrote a hit song called "Crazy" for a late legend named Patsy Cline. Recorded around 1961-62. That's over 60 years ago, and he was already an accomplished artist! Mind blowing to think about. I wish someone would interview him about all the interactions he's had with all of the old legends. There's probably so many awesome experiences that he's had that we'll never know. 😕
My funny Willie Nelson story: My grandpa liked Willie's music until he saw Willie on some TV show. From that point on until the old geezer died, Willie was "that dirty looking bastard" LOL
We have to remember this was written sometime in the late 60 early '70s civil unrest and ty Vietnam war movement. Today they definitely sing it tongue and cheek. Love your channel! May your path always rise up to greet you!
Okay .. Okay.. all right Miss Britt !! You are finding the real, real, real Country Music 🎼🎸🎼🎸🎼 .. you can not go wrong with the Kings - Merle Haggard or Willie Nelson ! This is one of Merle's great old fashion tunes ! Love it 🤍🤍🔥🎼🔥🤍🤍
The actual line in the song is "the kids here still respect the college dean". Fightin' Side of Me by Merle Haggard is another roundabout patriotic song. Another great reaction Britt and yes an Okie is from Oklahoma
Yes, Willie is a huge deal! My wife, Denise, and I especially love his Stardust album - we listen to it at least twice a week- and his song "On the Road Again " has been our road trip theme song for decades.
Willie nelson 90 years old now still with us today brilliant song okie from muskogee yer ive got loads of merle and willie albums carnt beat them r.i.p merle haggard
One minor correction. Nothing against you because if you've never heard of him you would have no way of knowing but just for your future reference, Merle's name is pronounced to rhyme with "curl" or as if it were spelled MURL. Merle is such a HUGE star in the country music field that I would love to hear the name of this legend pronounced correctly. BTW, I love your reactions because you are choosing some of the GIANTS in the country music world. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for telling her it's pronounced Murl, she's so cute and adorable I can't bring myself to do it but I cringe inside every time she mispronounced it
Willie Nelson is an extraordinary song writer and singer, and in the world of country music he is a god. This man knows how to live a life and he has lived his to the fullest. You will never go wrong reacting to any of his classics.
You are one of the most well spoken reactors on YT. Meaning; youre sharp. You thoughtful in what u say. Oh and for the record, best smile on YT. "Seven Spanish Angels" Willie Nelson/Ray Charles is his best.
Jimmy Dean was a respected country music singer, who also had a lot of success with his own brand of sausage and other breakfast items. His career spanned from 1957-2010, when he passed away. Willie Nelson had some huge hit records, and is a cultural icon. He wrote more hits for others than he actually did himself. He was more popular for his RV, The Honeysuckle Rose, and his special blend of the whacky weed, than anything else.
This song was written in the 60's and reflects what was going on - Vietnam, smoking dope, demonstrations on college campus. Willie changed the lyric from respect the college dean to Jimmy Dean. It was a joke.
This was a wonderful and fun performance but it does little to showcase the brilliance of either singer’s voice. For Willie I suggest BLUE EYES CRYING IN THE RAIN and ALWAYS ON MY MIND. For Merle, I suggest MAMA TRIED and THE FIGHTING SIDE OF ME.
Before Jimmy Dean made sausage, he was an artist, songwriter, and a promoter. I vaguely remember hearing him tell a story about how a young Elvis Presley was backstage on his show, and was nervous about going out.
When you talked about seasoned voices, it reminded me of my maternal grandma. I loved hearing her sing, she had amazing vibrato 😍 thanks for the memory 💖🦋
Willie Nelson is Country, through and through. He is a corner stone, and you will love this journey. He is also known for smoking herb, and I believe Snoop even said that he couldn't keep up with Willie. When I was a kid, he had an biography written. He told the authors many stories, both on and off the record. One of the of record stories found it's way into the book of him visiting the white house and smoking weed in the balcony with an unnamed secret service agent. It started an investigation, and when he refused to reveal the agent's name, the IRS ran him through the ringer. He was in a long battle and lost a lot, but never snitched. You mentioned his guitar. There is a documentary about that guitar. It has been through a lot, but as far as I know, he still hasn't retired it. The documentary was fascinating.
It may only be 7am in Minnesota but let me get a log in the fireplace and crack a beer!!! My dad was a country singer back then so this just makes it feel like a big hug from dad! I might have to put his CD in and have a beer tonight!!!! Thanks Britt for the warm fuzzies lol
@@douglashayes3167 From Anoka now in cowland up by Hinkley on a cute lil farm! You're right I have never seen another MN here! See... MN people not have good taste in who they watch on RUclips but are too! Lmaoooo
@@MyAngelsRock That is awesome... Hinkley is a great area... I'm from just NW of the Twin Cities...born and raised, its a great place to live that is still kind of "In the Country".... so know Anoka well... :) Went to the Tech College there......umm... back in the late 80's.... shhhh..hahaha....
@@brittreacts OMG BRITTTTT..... Same concert he brings up Sheena Easton for the soft amazing ballad Then Kim Carnes for a gritty ballad! Both women chart toppers themselves. Sheena had a song with Prince and 2 songs he wrote! I knew Prince !!! Name dropper Ice T too Oops! lol(one of my best friends mom dated Prince off and on all through Jr.High and High school I also spent over a week with Ice T) LOL I'm over here yelling to myself shut up already! hahaa! So now Kim was famous for her song Betty Davis Eyes! Their growling voices together are amazing! Now you have 2 more rabbit holes to go down! You will not regret I promise you!!!
The irony to Willie singing this song is that he was a big pothead then and still is a pothead today, in his 80’s '😂. But Merle & Willie make a great duo. Oh, Willie is a great songwriter as well as a singer. Stay safe and stay well. 😎✌🏻🤟🏻🤙🏻🖖🏻
I loved it when these guys did Poncho and Lefty. Check out the Highway Men. I loved the way Waylon's name was shown on his strap at the beginning of The Dukes of Hazard. This GG4 is getting me sidetracked. For Willie I like Blue Eyes Cryin' In The Rain, Always on My Mind, It's All Going To Pot, and Rainbow Connection. I tried to give you songs that others might not. Good luck.
Willie ad libed "Jimmy Dean". The original lyrics were "the college dean". You'd probably like the original recording. The live version was many, many years after Merle recorded it.
Funny to hear Willie sing this song with Meryl about not smoking dope when he’s all about smoking joints. He’s also known for caring for old horses which he collects and lets them retire at his ranch in Texas.
'The kids here still respect the college dean' are the actual words to the song, but Willie changed the words, as he often adlibs. Yes the sausage guy Jimmy Dean was a singer/balladeer first. Merle refers to Oklahoma ppl as Okies.
Willie Nelson is the biggest pothead ever in country music. There are several country stars that have sung "I won't smoke weed with Willie any more" Jimmy Dean was also a very big country music star.
A really awesome Willie Nelson Classic is "Blue eyes crying in the rain"! Before Jimmy Dean got into Sausages, he was a Country Singer! Two of his songs could make Great Reactions... For Story telling, There was "Big John" and for a Sentimental "Talk instead of Singing", there's "Mom, I owe you". Have tissues ready and your Mama on Speed dial for that one.
My dad listened to this song when I was a child. 1969 Nebraska. The original release says, "The students still respect the College Dean." Not Jimmy Dean.
And Ray is Ray Benson. Love him. Check out his music too. I can’t think of anyone that knows more about music than Ray Benson. He has a Sunday morning music show. All kinds of music. He’s from my neck of the woods in Texas. He is pure FUN.
3:00 You couldn't be further off with Willie Nelson. This guy is old man but as far as I know he's still kicking, I saw him here in my hometown in Lawrence Kansas maybe as recently as even seven years ago or so and he had his sister with him who apparently they both started playing music together when they were like four and six years old. He was a huge part of the so-called Outlaw country movement and also they called him the red headed stranger. He's known for smoking lots of pot and not giving a fuck. But what's even more interesting to me as a musician is that in the 50s when he was very young, he would have shorter hair and kind of Glen Campbell sideburns any would wear pleated slacks and a nice polyester shirt and he had more of a jazz upbringing and you can still hear it in his acoustic guitar playing today. He's a stand-up guy man he really is. He's one of the Towering Giants in country music and he was a fantastic songwriter, who not only wrote huge hits like Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, but he wrote the Patsy Cline mega-hit, Crazy.
You have heard Willie's music. Patsy Cline had her biggest hit with his song "Crazy". Jimmy Dean also was a country star before he became a sausage maker. He was also an actor. He was the James Bond Villain Willard Whyte in ' Diamonds Are Forever".
1:38 I know it's early into it but I just had to pause it after your last comment and say, you know what man I have actually met Merle Haggard before and I've even spoken directly with him maybe twice I would say but he's one of my heroes in terms of storytellers in country music but what a lot of people don't realize actually is that this song has quite a bit of irony to it. He was doing the endless tour bus thing that you do on a tour when you're rolling around the country playing gigs and he had fallen asleep and the Greyhound bus was rapidly moving past yet another little highway sign with the name of a small town, and he saw that it was Muscogee, and he looked out his window and he was on an overpass and he could see downtown flashing bye, like the you know that two-block long Main Street that I know so well from having grown up in rural areas at least some of my life. And he just had this whole sleepy kind of vision of, man nobody fucks around here man; they're not going to put up with any of that long-haired shit, laugh. It doesn't mean that he was 100% sympathetic to that so much as he felt sorry for them. On the other hand he is a good old boy himself so. It all kind of works.
"It doesn't mean that he was 100% sympathetic to that so much ad felt sorry for them." - ...felt sorry for who, exactly? Merle told The Boot in 2010 that he "wrote the song to support those (Vietnam) soldiers." It was a protest towards the protesters of the Vietnam War. Haggard's family was from the area, and that's where he first performed the song in 1969.
@@Gutslinger I have interacted with him directly about that back in the early 1980s and yes, it's just not quite as black-and-white as you are thinking. 100% he was very supportive of the soldiers because that was a difficult time. I was only in grade school but I remember guys for my neighborhood literally just disappearing and some of them coming back really super messed up. And I Heard lots and lots of first-hand stories. So I think a lot of people are against it including me ultimately but that was more about the politics of it and not the people that were actually having to go through that mess. For them, I still have a huge place in my heart and always will. And yeah he obviously felt the same way definitely.
Willie Nelson... One of Music's greatest stars. Wrote hundrets (thousands?) of songs, 89 years old, still touring, in March he'll releases his 99th Studio-Album! :-D Saw him live on stage about 20 years ago here in Germany. Great show! :) Check out Willie's "Always on my mind". ;) This was from the "Last of the Breed"-Concert Tour, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Ray Price (check out his music!) and featuring Asleep at the Wheel (with Band-Leader RAY Benson ;) ).
Willie singing a song about not smoking weed is so ironic. Check out their version of Poncho and Lefty. Willie did a lot of duets with Waylon Jennings and both were part of The Highwaymen.
Jimmy Dean is the Sausage guy, but he was also a country singer in the 50s and 60s, he even had a TV variety show. I think his biggest was Big Bad John.
okie is a word for someone who is "okay in my book" and it rhymes with muskogee. its the foundation for the whole song that is about life in a town where everything good clean fun with no violence or crime and everyone knows and respects everyone else......the perfect place to live
Okie is a nickname, sometimes pejorative, for someone from Oklahoma. It was especially used for those who migrated from Oklahoma to California during the Dust Bowl. Muskogee is a city and a county in Oklahoma, and also the name of a native American tribe which was relocated to Oklahoma. It is also a county in Georgia very near to where I live. The song about the town where everything is “good clean fun” and so on is also satire.
Britt, I love you passion for, and knowledge of, music. It is pronounced “Murl” like hurl. The way you say is spelled Merrill. You are awesome! Keep the reactions coming!
Okie is a term for people from Oklahoma. White-lightning is moonshine. Jimmy Dean was a famous country singer before he took his family’s sausage making recipe and turned it into a business.
Today (April 29) is Willie Nelson's 90th birthday. Happy Birthday, Willie. Jimmy Dean, who owned the sausage company, had been a country music performer. Jimmy Dean is no longer living. Willie was just playing around. The line is: the kids still respect the college dean. This song is an anti-hippie song. There is a lot you have not heard. Yes, okie is slang for a person from Oklahoma. Merle Haggard was born in California, but his parents were from Oklahoma. They moved to California in 1934, and Merle was born in 1937. Many people moved from Oklahoma and surrounding states to California in the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Bakersfield area where Merle Haggard grew up was home to many of these people. Listen to the song "Streets of Bakersfield".
Willie broke the Muskogee rules with his long hair and weed. And, yes, 'Okie' is a slang term for someone from Oklahoma. It was a popular term used during the Dust Bowl and Depression days when "Okies" were migrating to other states. John Steinbeck kind of memorialized the term in his 1939 book, The Grapes of Wrath.
Willie - Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain You Were Always on my Mind Smoke Weed with Willie - Willie has a life long pot party. Has his own factory and sales 😂Roll me Up and Smoke me WHEN I Die❤❤ Angel Flying too Close to the Ground❤❤ There are so so many that were huge hits
I love your reactions to country music. I literally laughed out loud when you said "people have good teeth that grow in their head." I've never heard that expression and thought it was funny!
Jimmy Dean was a Country music singer. I think his most famous song was "Big Bad John". Merle's parents were from the Muskogee area before they moved to California. Willie is from Texas. He is now 89 years old. Merle left us in 2016. Merle left behind several sons and they are all good singers. Ben, Marty and Noel are my favorites. They look and sound like Merle. By the way, Merle rhymes with girl!!
Ray (with his name on his guitar strap) is Ray Benson, another country legend. Maybe not on the same par as Willie and Merle but right up there himself.
Willie's guitar is one of the most infamous guitars. He named it Trigger. He's had it for decades, and once sent it overseas so that the Feds couldn't confiscate it. I think something to do with taxes.. It's a unique guitar that he partially customized. It's had a hole in the front side for years. I watched a highly viewed RUclips video of a guitar repairman repairing it. I think he had a bunch of famous signatures all over the guitar, but I may be wrong. Willie and his guitar, Trigger, was in an episode of King of the Hill where Willie and Hank played together.
You want a good chuckle, check out the video called "Willie Nelson - Toby Keith - Scott Emerick". The song is called "I'll Never Smoke Weed with Willie Again". But be sure to select the video titled "Willie Nelson - Toby Keith - Scott Emerick". It's a song about what really happens on Willie's tour bus after a gig. Very funny stuff! You'll get a kick out of it.
I first heard of this song around the 6th grade around 2002, when my best friend started singing it. He altered the lyrics, after we both got caught smoking random stuff in the tree house on the playground at school. (Dumb decision, I know.) We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee. 🎶 - to - We don't smoke marijuana in tree houses at Moseley. 🎶
Jimmy Dean was a country singer for decades before he sold his first package of sausage. He died about 20 years ago. One of his more famous songs is Big Bad John. Willie Nelson is a famous song singer and writer. He started off in the 1950s and is still working. One of his famous songs is Blue eyes crying in the rain. He has a very long extended catalog of songs. More than you would consider being included in a meer list. He has a fondness for herbal remedies and likes to roll his own. Many artists like to tell stories about smoking with Willie. Toby Keith has a song called Smoking with Willy that is on par with Red Dixie cup. One of Toby's more famous songs is How do you like me now. He has many famous songs but that is as good of a place to start as any.
Before Jimmy Dean lent his name and likeness to breakfast sausage he was a HUGE Country music performer with records still hard to find even long after his death. He's in the CMA Hall of Fame.
Seven Spanish Angels with Ray Charles and Willie Nelson is an amazing song. Also, just a friendly heads up, Merle rhymes with pearl. 😊 Has anyone suggested you react to Coward of the County yet? It's another Kenny Rogers, and one of the greats as far as story songs go.
When you fell in love with Patsy Cline’s song Crazy, you were also falling in Love with Willie Nelson because he wrote the song Crazy. He is an ICONIC musician and entertainer.
You have a beautiful smile that matches your beautiful face , you are a stunning and talented young lady .❤️❤️❤️🏴🏴🏴
In terms of Willie songs, "Seven Spanish Angels" with Ray Charles is an absolute must (the official video is live and the best version imo)
Between that one and Pancho and Lefty. They are up there next to each other.🤘🤘
@@kevina4789 absolutely!
I know them both well and they both have/had dentures
Yes, yes, yes!!!!
Seven Spanish Angels with Willie Nelson and Ray Charles performing live is a must see!!
Yes, please!
Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain is the next Willie song you should react to. Jimmy Dean died years ago but his sausage lives on 😎❤️☮️👵🏼
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain has been my favorite from the first moment I heard it!
I grew up to outlaw country both parents were huge fans so this like being home. Blessings Sweehtheart.🙏🏼🌹
Britt White lightening is moonshine
Willie is one of the last old old legends that's thankfully still around. He's a great songwriter.
He wrote a hit song called "Crazy" for a late legend named Patsy Cline. Recorded around 1961-62. That's over 60 years ago, and he was already an accomplished artist! Mind blowing to think about.
I wish someone would interview him about all the interactions he's had with all of the old legends. There's probably so many awesome experiences that he's had that we'll never know. 😕
My funny Willie Nelson story: My grandpa liked Willie's music until he saw Willie on some TV show. From that point on until the old geezer died, Willie was "that dirty looking bastard" LOL
Thanks for sampling this. It’s a pleasure to meet you.
These are two of the greatest country singers of all time. They are truly country music legends.
Do more willie. He's so good. I'm not a big country fan but he's one of my favorite singers period.
We have to remember this was written sometime in the late 60 early '70s civil unrest and ty Vietnam war movement. Today they definitely sing it tongue and cheek. Love your channel! May your path always rise up to greet you!
The first line by Willie was hilariously ironic and funny. Willie is famous for the amout of Marijuana that he smokes.
Toby Keith , I'll Never Smoke Weed With Willie Again and Toby Keith Wacky Tobaccy
LOL!!!
@@brittreacts A smoke off between Snoop and Willie would be epic. And a tie I think. 😆
@@Misenschattment nope. Snoop came out a couple years ago that Willie was the only one who had ever smoked him under the table.
Okay .. Okay.. all right Miss Britt !! You are finding the real, real, real Country Music 🎼🎸🎼🎸🎼 .. you can not go wrong with the Kings - Merle Haggard or Willie Nelson ! This is one of Merle's great old fashion tunes ! Love it 🤍🤍🔥🎼🔥🤍🤍
Hank Jr. Waylon Merle and Willie!🥰
The actual line in the song is "the kids here still respect the college dean". Fightin' Side of Me by Merle Haggard is another roundabout patriotic song. Another great reaction Britt and yes an Okie is from Oklahoma
This was a very cool duet. Also, you do an awesome job!
Yes, Willie is a huge deal! My wife, Denise, and I especially love his Stardust album - we listen to it at least twice a week- and his song "On the Road Again " has been our road trip theme song for decades.
Willie nelson 90 years old now still with us today brilliant song okie from muskogee yer ive got loads of merle and willie albums carnt beat them r.i.p merle haggard
One minor correction. Nothing against you because if you've never heard of him you would have no way of knowing but just for your future reference, Merle's name is pronounced to rhyme with "curl" or as if it were spelled MURL. Merle is such a HUGE star in the country music field that I would love to hear the name of this legend pronounced correctly. BTW, I love your reactions because you are choosing some of the GIANTS in the country music world. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for telling her it's pronounced Murl, she's so cute and adorable I can't bring myself to do it but I cringe inside every time she mispronounced it
Willie Nelson is an extraordinary song writer and singer, and in the world of country music he is a god. This man knows how to live a life and he has lived his to the fullest. You will never go wrong reacting to any of his classics.
This was my dad's favorite song, classic!!!!
You are one of the most well spoken reactors on YT. Meaning; youre sharp. You thoughtful in what u say. Oh and for the record, best smile on YT. "Seven Spanish Angels" Willie Nelson/Ray Charles is his best.
Jimmy Dean was also a musician and singer.
Jimmy Dean was a respected country music singer, who also had a lot of success with his own brand of sausage and other breakfast items. His career spanned from 1957-2010, when he passed away. Willie Nelson had some huge hit records, and is a cultural icon. He wrote more hits for others than he actually did himself. He was more popular for his RV, The Honeysuckle Rose, and his special blend of the whacky weed, than anything else.
This song was written in the 60's and reflects what was going on - Vietnam, smoking dope, demonstrations on college campus. Willie changed the lyric from respect the college dean to Jimmy Dean. It was a joke.
@txplowgirl2596 I did see him in a few acting gigs. But, Daniel Boone was before my time.
Can't talk about Jimmy Dean and not recommend a reaction to "Big John." Every reactor is obliged to do this song eventually.
This was a wonderful and fun performance but it does little to showcase the brilliance of either singer’s voice. For Willie I suggest BLUE EYES CRYING IN THE RAIN and ALWAYS ON MY MIND. For Merle, I suggest MAMA TRIED and THE FIGHTING SIDE OF ME.
Check out "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean. It was arguably his signature hit.
PLUS Low-Bass-Singer Geoff Castellucci's Cover of it! :)
Willie's known for setting his own pace for singing and Guitar Playing.
Legendary Britt ❤ and the Song is Legendary too 😉
Willie is an amazing guitarist and wrote so many hits like "Crazy" for Patsy Cline & "You Were Always On My MInd" etc
Willie didn’t write “You Were Always On My Mind.” It was written by Johnny Christopher, Mark James, and Wayne Thompson.
Willie wrote the iconic classic Crazy in 1960 for the great Patsy Cline that made her famous.
willie is a legend!!!
Before Jimmy Dean made sausage, he was an artist, songwriter, and a promoter.
I vaguely remember hearing him tell a story about how a young Elvis Presley was backstage on his show, and was nervous about going out.
When you talked about seasoned voices, it reminded me of my maternal grandma. I loved hearing her sing, she had amazing vibrato 😍 thanks for the memory 💖🦋
Willie Nelson also did "you belong to my heart" a l duet in Spanish and English with Little Joe and La Familia ❤️❤️❤️
Willie Nelson is Country, through and through. He is a corner stone, and you will love this journey. He is also known for smoking herb, and I believe Snoop even said that he couldn't keep up with Willie. When I was a kid, he had an biography written. He told the authors many stories, both on and off the record. One of the of record stories found it's way into the book of him visiting the white house and smoking weed in the balcony with an unnamed secret service agent. It started an investigation, and when he refused to reveal the agent's name, the IRS ran him through the ringer. He was in a long battle and lost a lot, but never snitched.
You mentioned his guitar. There is a documentary about that guitar. It has been through a lot, but as far as I know, he still hasn't retired it. The documentary was fascinating.
Willie and Merle also sings a song together called ""Pancho and Lefty" that is real good
7 spanish angels from Willie & Ray 👍👍👍
I love them so much. The loss of Merle was great. Willie should be discovered and tribute now, not after his death.
Willie has done a duet with almost everyone on earth. He had the Willie Nelson Picnic every year
It may only be 7am in Minnesota but let me get a log in the fireplace and crack a beer!!! My dad was a country singer back then so this just makes it feel like a big hug from dad! I might have to put his CD in and have a beer tonight!!!! Thanks Britt for the warm fuzzies lol
I LOVE THIS!!!
A neighbor!! so good to see a fellow MN on here.... you never see that... :) great comment!
@@douglashayes3167 From Anoka now in cowland up by Hinkley on a cute lil farm! You're right I have never seen another MN here! See... MN people not have good taste in who they watch on RUclips but are too! Lmaoooo
@@MyAngelsRock That is awesome... Hinkley is a great area... I'm from just NW of the Twin Cities...born and raised, its a great place to live that is still kind of "In the Country".... so know Anoka well... :) Went to the Tech College there......umm... back in the late 80's.... shhhh..hahaha....
@@brittreacts OMG BRITTTTT..... Same concert he brings up Sheena Easton for the soft amazing ballad Then Kim Carnes for a gritty ballad! Both women chart toppers themselves. Sheena had a song with Prince and 2 songs he wrote! I knew Prince !!! Name dropper Ice T too Oops! lol(one of my best friends mom dated Prince off and on all through Jr.High and High school I also spent over a week with Ice T) LOL I'm over here yelling to myself shut up already! hahaa! So now Kim was famous for her song Betty Davis Eyes! Their growling voices together are amazing! Now you have 2 more rabbit holes to go down! You will not regret I promise you!!!
Willie Nelson and Toby Keith, Beer for My Horse. Hilarious music video.
I'm an Okie and I've been to Muskogee many times and I promise you, they do ALL that. 🤣
And I love your reactions!!! And your doing great
The irony to Willie singing this song is that he was a big pothead then and still is a pothead today, in his 80’s '😂. But Merle & Willie make a great duo. Oh, Willie is a great songwriter as well as a singer. Stay safe and stay well. 😎✌🏻🤟🏻🤙🏻🖖🏻
I loved it when these guys did Poncho and Lefty. Check out the Highway Men. I loved the way Waylon's name was shown on his strap at the beginning of The Dukes of Hazard. This GG4 is getting me sidetracked. For Willie I like Blue Eyes Cryin' In The Rain, Always on My Mind, It's All Going To Pot, and Rainbow Connection. I tried to give you songs that others might not. Good luck.
Love your review!
Jimmy Dean also was a singer, did a most popular song you'd love for a song that tells a story: "Big John"
Willie ad libed "Jimmy Dean". The original lyrics were "the college dean". You'd probably like the original recording. The live version was many, many years after Merle recorded it.
Funny to hear Willie sing this song with Meryl about not smoking dope when he’s all about smoking joints. He’s also known for caring for old horses which he collects and lets them retire at his ranch in Texas.
Willie's the king of the outlaws, saw him 14 times. Jim
Willie Nelson is the grandfather of country music. He's 90 yo and still tours every year.
'The kids here still respect the college dean' are the actual words to the song, but Willie changed the words, as he often adlibs. Yes the sausage guy Jimmy Dean was a singer/balladeer first. Merle refers to Oklahoma ppl as Okies.
Willie Nelson is part of the Genre called outlaw Country!
Willie Nelson is the biggest pothead ever in country music. There are several country stars that have sung "I won't smoke weed with Willie any more"
Jimmy Dean was also a very big country music star.
Willie Nelson has such a great voice, Please listen to "Blue eyes crying in the rain" or "Always on my mind" is my favorite.
The "Jimmy Dean" reference was a substitute for the real line: "The kids there still respect the college dean".
A really awesome Willie Nelson Classic is "Blue eyes crying in the rain"!
Before Jimmy Dean got into Sausages, he was a Country Singer! Two of his songs could make Great Reactions... For Story telling, There was "Big John" and for a Sentimental "Talk instead of Singing", there's "Mom, I owe you". Have tissues ready and your Mama on Speed dial for that one.
My dad listened to this song when I was a child. 1969 Nebraska.
The original release says, "The students still respect the College Dean." Not Jimmy Dean.
And Ray is Ray Benson. Love him. Check out his music too. I can’t think of anyone that knows more about music than Ray Benson. He has a Sunday morning music show. All kinds of music. He’s from my neck of the woods in Texas. He is pure FUN.
The tall guitar player is Ray Benson. He's 6 foot 7. He's the lead singer of western swing band Asleep At The Wheel. They're worth a listen.
Jimmy Dean, the Sausage Maker, was a Country Singer originally
This song has long been an anthem for the "beads and sandals" crowd. They love it.
3:00 You couldn't be further off with Willie Nelson. This guy is old man but as far as I know he's still kicking, I saw him here in my hometown in Lawrence Kansas maybe as recently as even seven years ago or so and he had his sister with him who apparently they both started playing music together when they were like four and six years old. He was a huge part of the so-called Outlaw country movement and also they called him the red headed stranger. He's known for smoking lots of pot and not giving a fuck. But what's even more interesting to me as a musician is that in the 50s when he was very young, he would have shorter hair and kind of Glen Campbell sideburns any would wear pleated slacks and a nice polyester shirt and he had more of a jazz upbringing and you can still hear it in his acoustic guitar playing today. He's a stand-up guy man he really is. He's one of the Towering Giants in country music and he was a fantastic songwriter, who not only wrote huge hits like Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, but he wrote the Patsy Cline mega-hit, Crazy.
I like when Willie walks out with his ponytail as Merel sings about not growing their hair long.
And he doesn't smoke marijuana! Yeah, right!
You have heard Willie's music. Patsy Cline had her biggest hit with his song "Crazy". Jimmy Dean also was a country star before he became a sausage maker. He was also an actor. He was the James Bond Villain Willard Whyte in ' Diamonds Are Forever".
1:38 I know it's early into it but I just had to pause it after your last comment and say, you know what man I have actually met Merle Haggard before and I've even spoken directly with him maybe twice I would say but he's one of my heroes in terms of storytellers in country music but what a lot of people don't realize actually is that this song has quite a bit of irony to it.
He was doing the endless tour bus thing that you do on a tour when you're rolling around the country playing gigs and he had fallen asleep and the Greyhound bus was rapidly moving past yet another little highway sign with the name of a small town, and he saw that it was Muscogee, and he looked out his window and he was on an overpass and he could see downtown flashing bye, like the you know that two-block long Main Street that I know so well from having grown up in rural areas at least some of my life.
And he just had this whole sleepy kind of vision of, man nobody fucks around here man; they're not going to put up with any of that long-haired shit, laugh. It doesn't mean that he was 100% sympathetic to that so much as he felt sorry for them. On the other hand he is a good old boy himself so. It all kind of works.
"It doesn't mean that he was 100% sympathetic to that so much ad felt sorry for them." - ...felt sorry for who, exactly?
Merle told The Boot in 2010 that he "wrote the song to support those (Vietnam) soldiers." It was a protest towards the protesters of the Vietnam War. Haggard's family was from the area, and that's where he first performed the song in 1969.
@@Gutslinger I have interacted with him directly about that back in the early 1980s and yes, it's just not quite as black-and-white as you are thinking. 100% he was very supportive of the soldiers because that was a difficult time. I was only in grade school but I remember guys for my neighborhood literally just disappearing and some of them coming back really super messed up. And I Heard lots and lots of first-hand stories. So I think a lot of people are against it including me ultimately but that was more about the politics of it and not the people that were actually having to go through that mess. For them, I still have a huge place in my heart and always will. And yeah he obviously felt the same way definitely.
Willie Nelson... One of Music's greatest stars.
Wrote hundrets (thousands?) of songs, 89 years old, still touring, in March he'll releases his 99th Studio-Album! :-D
Saw him live on stage about 20 years ago here in Germany. Great show! :)
Check out Willie's "Always on my mind". ;)
This was from the "Last of the Breed"-Concert Tour, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Ray Price (check out his music!) and featuring Asleep at the Wheel (with Band-Leader RAY Benson ;) ).
Willie singing a song about not smoking weed is so ironic. Check out their version of Poncho and Lefty. Willie did a lot of duets with Waylon Jennings and both were part of The Highwaymen.
Jimmy Dean is the Sausage guy, but he was also a country singer in the 50s and 60s, he even had a TV variety show. I think his biggest was Big Bad John.
The original "try that in a small town" couldnt resist the comparsion...
okie is a word for someone who is "okay in my book" and it rhymes with muskogee. its the foundation for the whole song that is about life in a town where everything good clean fun with no violence or crime and everyone knows and respects everyone else......the perfect place to live
Okie is a nickname, sometimes pejorative, for someone from Oklahoma. It was especially used for those who migrated from Oklahoma to California during the Dust Bowl. Muskogee is a city and a county in Oklahoma, and also the name of a native American tribe which was relocated to Oklahoma. It is also a county in Georgia very near to where I live. The song about the town where everything is “good clean fun” and so on is also satire.
I’m surprised you didn’t notice Willie Nelson‘s wore out hole in his guitar named Trigger named after Roy Rogers horse.
Jimmy Dean, the sausage guy did a song called ....Big John!! Great story song!!
Willie wrote the song Crazy when he played guitar in patsy Cline's band huge hit for her......
Good classic Willie is Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain.
This song and The Fighting side of me just 2 songs that made him a hit entertainer for 50 plus years.
Britt, I love you passion for, and knowledge of, music. It is pronounced “Murl” like hurl. The way you say is spelled Merrill. You are awesome! Keep the reactions coming!
Okie is a term for people from Oklahoma. White-lightning is moonshine. Jimmy Dean was a famous country singer before he took his family’s sausage making recipe and turned it into a business.
Today (April 29) is Willie Nelson's 90th birthday. Happy Birthday, Willie.
Jimmy Dean, who owned the sausage company, had been a country music performer. Jimmy Dean is no longer living.
Willie was just playing around. The line is: the kids still respect the college dean. This song is an anti-hippie song.
There is a lot you have not heard. Yes, okie is slang for a person from Oklahoma. Merle Haggard was born in California, but his parents were from Oklahoma. They moved to California in 1934, and Merle was born in 1937.
Many people moved from Oklahoma and surrounding states to California in the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Bakersfield area where Merle Haggard grew up was home to many of these people. Listen to the song "Streets of Bakersfield".
Jimmy Dean is a good Ol' whiskey. But, the original lyric was the 'College Dean', a reference to the to College campus drama of the 60s
Willie broke the Muskogee rules with his long hair and weed. And, yes, 'Okie' is a slang term for someone from Oklahoma. It was a popular term used during the Dust Bowl and Depression days when "Okies" were migrating to other states. John Steinbeck kind of memorialized the term in his 1939 book, The Grapes of Wrath.
Willie - Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
You Were Always on my Mind
Smoke Weed with Willie - Willie has a life long pot party. Has his own factory and sales
😂Roll me Up and Smoke me WHEN I Die❤❤
Angel Flying too Close to the Ground❤❤
There are so so many that were huge hits
That same sausage Jimmy Dean actually had a hit. A great one. It's called Big John!!
I love your reactions to country music. I literally laughed out loud when you said "people have good teeth that grow in their head." I've never heard that expression and thought it was funny!
Being an Okie from the city Muskogee...
Loved your reaction!!
You need to do the song Never been to Spain by ELVIS.
Jimmy Dean was a Country music singer. I think his most famous song was "Big Bad John". Merle's parents were from the Muskogee area before they moved to California. Willie is from Texas. He is now 89 years old. Merle left us in 2016. Merle left behind several sons and they are all good singers. Ben, Marty and Noel are my favorites. They look and sound like Merle. By the way, Merle rhymes with girl!!
Ray (with his name on his guitar strap) is Ray Benson, another country legend. Maybe not on the same par as Willie and Merle but right up there himself.
Willie's guitar is one of the most infamous guitars. He named it Trigger.
He's had it for decades, and once sent it overseas so that the Feds couldn't confiscate it. I think something to do with taxes.. It's a unique guitar that he partially customized. It's had a hole in the front side for years. I watched a highly viewed RUclips video of a guitar repairman repairing it. I think he had a bunch of famous signatures all over the guitar, but I may be wrong.
Willie and his guitar, Trigger, was in an episode of King of the Hill where Willie and Hank played together.
"the kids still respect Jimmy Dean" He started the sausage company but he was also a singer and even had his own tv show. Maybe react to him sometime?
You want a good chuckle, check out the video called "Willie Nelson - Toby Keith - Scott Emerick". The song is called "I'll Never Smoke Weed with Willie Again". But be sure to select the video titled "Willie Nelson - Toby Keith - Scott Emerick". It's a song about what really happens on Willie's tour bus after a gig. Very funny stuff! You'll get a kick out of it.
Merle Haggard: Are the good times really over. You should do reaction video on that song.
Exactly what was meant youngster. Old song that, Welllll, some of us may have heard before.
I first heard of this song around the 6th grade around 2002, when my best friend started singing it. He altered the lyrics, after we both got caught smoking random stuff in the tree house on the playground at school. (Dumb decision, I know.)
We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee. 🎶
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We don't smoke marijuana in tree houses at Moseley. 🎶
You have heard Willie Nelson's music before when you reacted to Patsy Cline singing "Crazy." Willie wrote that song. :)
Jimmy Dean was a country singer for decades before he sold his first package of sausage. He died about 20 years ago. One of his more famous songs is Big Bad John. Willie Nelson is a famous song singer and writer. He started off in the 1950s and is still working. One of his famous songs is Blue eyes crying in the rain. He has a very long extended catalog of songs. More than you would consider being included in a meer list. He has a fondness for herbal remedies and likes to roll his own. Many artists like to tell stories about smoking with Willie. Toby Keith has a song called Smoking with Willy that is on par with Red Dixie cup. One of Toby's more famous songs is How do you like me now. He has many famous songs but that is as good of a place to start as any.
Willies guitar “Trigger” has a hole beside the strings where his fingers have drawn across it all these years
Would love to see you react to Willie Nelson. Try to get some early footage as well as some more recent.
According to Merle himself this song was a parody they wrote on the bus while driving through Oklahoma smoking weed and drinking whiskey.
Before Jimmy Dean lent his name and likeness to breakfast sausage he was a HUGE Country music performer with records still hard to find even long after his death. He's in the CMA Hall of Fame.
Willie Nelson is a walking talking singing National treasure
Jimmy Dean Is Also A Country Icon. Check Out One Of His Hits Called "Big John"
Seven Spanish Angels with Ray Charles and Willie Nelson is an amazing song. Also, just a friendly heads up, Merle rhymes with pearl. 😊
Has anyone suggested you react to Coward of the County yet? It's another Kenny Rogers, and one of the greats as far as story songs go.