Just think of Huey's reaction of his BIG meme status on the internet and the various recordings of his "favorite" tune, every man a king, he took part in, both a blessing and a curse but never forgotten. God bless Louisiana!
The more I read about the guy, the more I suspect that he would have loved the internet. He wrote a lot of his own stuff (he worked in a print shop as a kid so he learned about formatting and composition, advertising flyers, etc.). Being able to publish material for millions of people to read, without having to wait for printing and distribution ... I think he'd have been excited by that. And podcasting, and vlogging! He wasn't intimidated by new technology -- he was one of the first politicians to make regular radio broadcasts and go nationwide. If he'd had access to social media, he'd have been tweeting at FDR constantly.
@@lukatomas9465 -- it's interesting, from his books and interviews back then it seems like he had some overlap with today's social democrats (and democratic socialists) but on some issues like civil rights he could be quite conservative. Also he used to like debating leftists (like socialist leader Norman Thomas) even though he had supported Eugene Debs when he was a teenager. Some of that might have been him trying to rile people up because he enjoyed it -- he used to go after short-tempered colleagues from his own party (like Kenneth McKellar from Tennessee) because he liked making them lose their cool in public. I'm guessing he'd have a lot of fun with Trump.
Huey Long: a great man. He did what he said. That makes him different to ten a penny politicians who say the right things but do nothing to help the people. Thank you to this channel for finding and posting great material in one place. We can have massive wealth: or we can have fairness. But we can't have both.
That got my hopes up too! It wouldn't have been too farfetched to see him do that -- I've read that Long played the mandolin/mandolinetto and sometimes the jaw harp in public, though I haven't been able to find any pics. (No photos of him doing roller skating tricks as a youth either, unfortunately!)
@@thebrutusmars Hi Brutus - yes, I’ve been reading about Huey Long’s life and times, and there are some surprising stories about the guy. I thought I’d give some sources for anyone who’s curious. It’s interesting how widespread it was for families to put on concerts and plays for their neighbors, back before WWI - I’ve read a bunch of accounts from that time that describe this. I guess they were used to making their own entertainment. There was no radio or TV and if you lived way out in the country and didn’t have much money, you probably didn’t get to town very often to see live shows (or movies, which didn’t have sound until later anyway). So saving up for a banjo or mandolin, or even making your own out of a cigar box, was a pretty good investment.
Huey must have come to that conclusion too - his high school friend Harley Bozeman described watching Huey learning how to pick out chords on a secondhand mandolin in the summer of 1908. He’d have been almost 15 at the time. It didn’t occur to me until recently that “Red Wing”, one of the songs he was learning, had only been published in 1907. So the song had managed to make it from a New York publisher to the backwoods of Louisiana in only about a year - not bad when they didn’t have RUclips or Top 40 radio (or even decent roads). Harley wrote a series of articles about growing up with Huey, that were published in the 1950s by their hometown newspaper (the Winn Parish Enterprise) - they still reprint them sometimes. archives.etypeservices.com/Winnparish1/Magazine50941/Publication/Magazine50941.pdf Garry Boulard’s book Huey Long Invades New Orleans (1998) describes him playing “a tiny guitar” (p. 131). It could have been a guitar, or even a ukulele (they were becoming popular around then), but my guess is that it was a mandolinetto, tuned the same way as a mandolin but more compact. That would have been useful for a guy like Huey who was on the road a lot. The Jaw harp (jew’s harp) is mentioned in “Voices of Protest” (1983), Alan Brinkley p. 36. Huey used to play it for reporters when he was Governor. I think the wildest thing I’ve heard about Huey is the roller-skating. Even his main biographer Williams missed that bit, though he won a Pulitzer for his book. The story’s told on p. 61 of Buncome Bob (a biography of Huey’s Senate colleague Robert Rice Reynolds, by Julian M. Pleasants, 2003). I’ve also seen it in reports like LIFE magazine (Sept 8, 1941). Out of all the onscreen versions of Huey I’ve seen, John Goodman’s Huey from the 1990s made-for-TV movie is the only one I can imagine on roller skates - he's surprisingly nimble, and breaks into a 1920s-style dance at one point.
Lisa Kadonaga I haven’t seen John Goldman’s TV movie. I’m glad someone like you is doing all this research. I’m really interested in Huey & all this was actually really cool to hear with sources and everything.
Regardless of what you think of him, this man had a charisma unparalleled to any nowadays American politician. What a political beast the world lost...
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My boy Huey out here on suicide watch
I wonder what he was thinking. Maybe he was just stone cold drunk.
Long's like "Just shoot me, already."
Well, he got his wish.
"Is it 1935, yet?"
Degenerate Prodigy too soon.
@@timesnewlogan2032 yea
“Can I just head to the Kaiserreich Universe now?”
FDR: nah idc
Just think of Huey's reaction of his BIG meme status on the internet and the various recordings of his "favorite" tune, every man a king, he took part in, both a blessing and a curse but never forgotten. God bless Louisiana!
The more I read about the guy, the more I suspect that he would have loved the internet. He wrote a lot of his own stuff (he worked in a print shop as a kid so he learned about formatting and composition, advertising flyers, etc.). Being able to publish material for millions of people to read, without having to wait for printing and distribution ... I think he'd have been excited by that. And podcasting, and vlogging! He wasn't intimidated by new technology -- he was one of the first politicians to make regular radio broadcasts and go nationwide. If he'd had access to social media, he'd have been tweeting at FDR constantly.
@@lisakado So he would be a social democrat version of Trump.
@@lukatomas9465 -- it's interesting, from his books and interviews back then it seems like he had some overlap with today's social democrats (and democratic socialists) but on some issues like civil rights he could be quite conservative. Also he used to like debating leftists (like socialist leader Norman Thomas) even though he had supported Eugene Debs when he was a teenager. Some of that might have been him trying to rile people up because he enjoyed it -- he used to go after short-tempered colleagues from his own party (like Kenneth McKellar from Tennessee) because he liked making them lose their cool in public.
I'm guessing he'd have a lot of fun with Trump.
@@lukatomas9465
He was economically left but culturally right.
Very interesting politican.
@@DaelinZeppiTheComputerGamer culturally right? he was one of the only democrats in the south supporting racial equality
0:25 Huey Long is literally not paying attention he’s in his own world right now beating the second American civil war
I love his little hand dance
I sometimes do this
@@Sir._Arthur_Jaeger Same 😎👍
Huey Long: a great man. He did what he said. That makes him different to ten a penny politicians who say the right things but do nothing to help the people. Thank you to this channel for finding and posting great material in one place.
We can have massive wealth: or we can have fairness. But we can't have both.
Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.
E V E R Y M A N A K I N G
Waiting for Huey to pull a Bill Clinton and start blasting that sax
That got my hopes up too! It wouldn't have been too farfetched to see him do that -- I've read that Long played the mandolin/mandolinetto and sometimes the jaw harp in public, though I haven't been able to find any pics. (No photos of him doing roller skating tricks as a youth either, unfortunately!)
Lisa Kadonaga
Damn that’s really interesting
@@thebrutusmars Hi Brutus - yes, I’ve been reading about Huey Long’s life and times, and there are some surprising stories about the guy. I thought I’d give some sources for anyone who’s curious.
It’s interesting how widespread it was for families to put on concerts and plays for their neighbors, back before WWI - I’ve read a bunch of accounts from that time that describe this. I guess they were used to making their own entertainment. There was no radio or TV and if you lived way out in the country and didn’t have much money, you probably didn’t get to town very often to see live shows (or movies, which didn’t have sound until later anyway). So saving up for a banjo or mandolin, or even making your own out of a cigar box, was a pretty good investment.
Huey must have come to that conclusion too - his high school friend Harley Bozeman described watching Huey learning how to pick out chords on a secondhand mandolin in the summer of 1908. He’d have been almost 15 at the time. It didn’t occur to me until recently that “Red Wing”, one of the songs he was learning, had only been published in 1907. So the song had managed to make it from a New York publisher to the backwoods of Louisiana in only about a year - not bad when they didn’t have RUclips or Top 40 radio (or even decent roads).
Harley wrote a series of articles about growing up with Huey, that were published in the 1950s by their hometown newspaper (the Winn Parish Enterprise) - they still reprint them sometimes.
archives.etypeservices.com/Winnparish1/Magazine50941/Publication/Magazine50941.pdf
Garry Boulard’s book Huey Long Invades New Orleans (1998) describes him playing “a tiny guitar” (p. 131). It could have been a guitar, or even a ukulele (they were becoming popular around then), but my guess is that it was a mandolinetto, tuned the same way as a mandolin but more compact. That would have been useful for a guy like Huey who was on the road a lot. The Jaw harp (jew’s harp) is mentioned in “Voices of Protest” (1983), Alan Brinkley p. 36. Huey used to play it for reporters when he was Governor.
I think the wildest thing I’ve heard about Huey is the roller-skating. Even his main biographer Williams missed that bit, though he won a Pulitzer for his book. The story’s told on p. 61 of Buncome Bob (a biography of Huey’s Senate colleague Robert Rice Reynolds, by Julian M. Pleasants, 2003). I’ve also seen it in reports like LIFE magazine (Sept 8, 1941). Out of all the onscreen versions of Huey I’ve seen, John Goodman’s Huey from the 1990s made-for-TV movie is the only one I can imagine on roller skates - he's surprisingly nimble, and breaks into a 1920s-style dance at one point.
Lisa Kadonaga I haven’t seen John Goldman’s TV movie.
I’m glad someone like you is doing all this research. I’m really interested in Huey & all this was actually really cool to hear with sources and everything.
Ina Ray Hutton: Every Girl A-
Huey: It’s my time to ruin this lady’s whole career.
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Huey Long, Oswald Mosley, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Juan Peron. My political inspirations
Ah yes, Kaiserreich Boys
Huey looks like he doesn’t wanna be there.
and they said he didn’t need anti depressants
Regardless of what you think of him, this man had a charisma unparalleled to any nowadays American politician. What a political beast the world lost...
He is not liking the "Every women a queen" part
What a gamer
My man Huey ain't no simp
bro does not look like hes enjoying the female version of this song
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