Such a great lineup of musicians! I could’ve listened to Red Foley, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe Jimmie Rodgers and all the other greats from the 20s to the early 50s everyday! I heard that new country pop crap on the radio and the radio announcer said it was country music, and I scoffed and thought “this is not country music”. If only this stuff was still on the radio
A person would never get tired of listening to Hank Williams Sr., his music could touch the Soul in so many ways , R.I.P. Hank Williams Sr. and God Bless all the Hank Williams and Family and Friends.
Man this stuff was GOOD! I wasn't born until 1957, but when I was just a kid, Hank Williams was still on the Juke Box!! That's a powerful statement considering The Beatles were on the juke box too!! And the lead guitarists were incredible! I see where Carl Perkins got it from now.
Growing up in St. Louis in the 1940s I would listen to the Opry Saturday nights from Nashville; at night we could get Nashville clear as a bell. What I remember most is that the show would go on and on and on and on and every minute wonderful. So much great talent and great music and fun humor. The Opry operated with a very innocent yet saucy framework, clean as a whistle but also a bit naughty if you listened closely. A dream from long ago.
AMAZING... Not an age thing but just adding context, I'm 20 born in the north but grew up in the south. I've always loved folk, bluegrass etc. But when I found this it was just the best music I've ever heard, I wish I can only with I was in that room that mighty fine evening with hank and his boys tearing it down.
+Thomas Paine Nothing matters at the end, except what he did while on this earth...he left a legacy that will never be equaled, though his progeny make a very decent effort. Hank Williams is the epitome of everything country and American that will ever exist, now or ever...thank you very much!
+goulston36 Greatest country influence ever? Respectfully, that would be the Carter Family. Hank Williams was a great performer only by the mediocre standards of his era. Better than Red Foley and Little Jimmy Dickens for example. People who actually heard the Carters in the 1920's and 30's actually understood what country music had been and what this stuff from 1949 had become.
A time forever gone. New country is awful and soulless. Achey break heart?? please. It had soul back then, because we shared the same misery of what it was to be country. Poor, hungry, and blissfully ignorant isn't a common thing amongst us country folk now. Country music was good up until the early 1970s. Country folk come a long way up until then. We have it good now a days. Rap music is what country was. Thats why its popular to so many. I'm sure eventually it too, will go as country and rock and roll have gone, to the formulaic, soulless, and bland. I sure do miss hearing these great songs, and thank you for uploading them for us all to hear.
I love it! I grew up on the grand ole opry. My pop was avid fan. So I had full exposure. You can keep your modern music. But give me the old time stuff. That's when music was at its best.
Brenda McIntosh love it. GOD WHAT ID GIVE TO GO BACK.B4 VIETNAM.AND ALL THOSE DOPERS OF TODAY..WHEN AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE HONEST AND NOT BURNED OUT ON THEIR DOPE.only good dope dealer. is a dead 1
My father was the southern region general manager for Ralston Purina (an Opry sponser) in Nashville from 1946 to 1951 so I was between the ages of 5 and 10. We saw many of the Grand Ole Opry performances usually from the raised control room at stage left. My strongest memory was the shear joy of the occasion and the kindness of everyone involved especially Minnie Pearl.
Hank Williams was and will always be the King of Country Music He was an Icon a legend and a genius His music will continue to be enjoyed by generations both young and old We love and miss you Hank Williams Thanks for all your great songs Rest in peace May God bless you always
My mom and dad played all the old music at amvets post 32 elyria ohio for years and I grew up playing your cheating heart and lonsome I could cry.Great people great times great memories thank you.
This is Great great country music,I enjoyed pop country of years gone by like Glen Campbell,Bobby Goldsboro and Bobbi Gentry, but Hank Williams always was my country hero.The Opry looked like such fun back in those days.
Its not Hanks original. Shortenin Bread is a classic American folk song dating back at least to 1900, written by James Whitcomb Riley. God bless you and your grandma. She had great musical taste.
Great Video ! I remember going into restaurants that had bars in the early 1950's with my parents. All I remember hearing on the juke box was Hank Williams !
A great old glimpse into the Golden Past of real country music at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. JERRY BYRD's fabulous steel guitar is easily recognizable from the very beginning of this fine old clip. This is the kind of music that made it what it was for decades.
Believe it or not before nationalism there was regionalism. So if nationalist are Nazis, what were regionalist today ? The bubonic plague? Globalism aesthetically equals white noise.
@@roybodden9243 I am sorry but Jerry Byrd did play steel guitar. In fact he became THE greatest laptop steel player in the world. He played steel for so many stars that it would be impossible to name all of them; even for Bing Crosby no less to name just one. Jerry never played "lead" guitar in his life. Billy Byrd a great "Lead guitar" player; had not come on the scene when this recording was made.
Ray Montee: Yes you are absolutely right that Jerry Byrd was on this entire recording. Plus Jerry was playing steel for Hank Williams; when he appeared on this show. But Red Foley the MC and star singer on this weekly show hired Jerry to play on this show and all of Red's recordings; until Red Foley fired Jerry because of a "difference of opinion" one might say LOL. Red then hired Billy Robinson to be his steel player.
Glenn Johnson Growing up on Hank`s music in the 50`s,always great to hear vintage material for the first time,so to hear this is pure joy.Thankyou so much for this.
For me Hank is number one and always will be, but there has been blues in country music from it's very beginning -- the work of greats like Jimmie Rogers, Bill Monroe, Merle Travis and many others way back before them demonstrates a lot of of blues influence. That reality doesn't take anything away from Hank though.
It is hard to belive the grand Ole opery will be on air 100 years. Not many radio shows on that long. Radio was new technology in 1920s . The ryeham is still used today
In the early 50's, in small town central Oklahoma, we could pick up 650 WSM loud & clear on a summertime Saturday night. Dad & Mom often got us in the car and drove to town where we joined 100's of other people in their cars parked on the town square, with about everyone tuned in to the Grand Ole Opry and the kids ran & played up & down the sidewalks.
I probably listened to this broadcast as a kid on the little radio I had. Generally I listened to it in the summer out on the front porch because it was so hot inside. Great memories.
Hank's music was on such a high level, that any compliment to it has to be so true that it would almost have to be an understatement. However, with the exception of country sounds produced by good bluegrass, and singers such as Waylon, Gene Watson, and Vern Gosdin, I can't see how "what music is today" is something that Hank should or would want to take credit for.
You know I don't think Hank would want to be reinstated to the current Opry, It's nothing like this. Hank was country music. Today's so called country music and Opry just doesn't compare #Cartersisterscountrymusichalloffame
I took my new wife to Ryman in 1947 for our Honeymoon, man it was hot there during the summer. I remember when I first heard the Opry Radio Show during the 1930s. Rod Brassfield didn't have his puppet Bocephus on this show. Ole Tater with "Country Boy". Great memories.
Sorry that IS Jerry Byrd. Billy Robinson had not at this time become steel player for Red Foley. What happened was; Jerry and Red had a difference and Jerry was fired. Then Red hired Billy Robinson, but he was told that he must play like Jerry Byrd did. And Billy did just that but he could never fit the shoes of Jerry. Yet a great player of the laptop steel guitar. But all of this had NOT happened when this recording was made.
I love this opportunity to step back in time and listen to the Grand Ole Opry in its heyday. Of course there are still terrific singers and musicians performing today, but it will never be the experience it was then.
It was just hidden better, there’s always been evil in the world. Hank Williams’ mother ran a brothel because his dad was in a hospital and she was forced to do that to survive.
Had the good fortune to catch the Grand Ole Opry a few years back when it was broadcast from the Ryman just for that night. Wonderful. Coulda been 1949...except I suspect the sound was a little better.
To elc1960, How can we put enough pressure on the 'Nashville Establishment' to ReInstate Hank Williams. In the almost 60 years since his death, HOW MANY MUSIC ARTISTS (especially 'Country') HAVE BUILT THEIR CAREERS ON THE MUSIC OF THE ORIGINAL 'HANK WILLIAMS'.! ! ! ! ! !
whoa hold on up there blues been in country for a mighty long time 'fore ole hank, i heard country songs from the 20s on back got plenty blues in em, matterfact you could argue blues came from country music from what i seen it all comes from southern folk music
Being a Hank fan, I was surfing the past responses to this post and spotted yours, which I agree with. However, (and more significantly) my interest was peaked by the nature of your moniker because I am interested in old growth forests and associate the word Limberlost with an ancient forest somewhere in Canada. I also remember a movie I enjoyed watching as a child entitled "Girl Of The Limberlost." If you would like to comment concerning the above I am all eyes. Hank touches many bases.
I thoroughly enjoyed this and subscribed to your channel. I love old opry (WSM) clips when such legendary performances were still in their early careers. Lord knows, country music radio has changed so much since then. Thanks friend. Stop by and visit. ~BCK
Amazing to me that the history and legend of the Opry is so indebted to Hank Williams, and yet he was fired from it back in '52 and was never posthumously reinstated. The weird thing is that for a while they had a Hank Williams impersonator greeting people. So does that mean they'd rather have a fake Hank instead of the real deal? I guess to their way of thinking, at least the fake one is sober . . . maybe so, but at the end of the day the fake is still a fake. REINSTATE HANK WILLIAMS!!!
I look back at Hank, Earnest Tubb, Bill Monroe, and so many more legends. Then I think about " country" today, sad that it's gone, nothing but pop and tractor rap absolute garbage now
@@forestmullins761 there are some modern day real singers that do it for the love of the music, but they will never make it main stream super famous because like I said they do it for the music not the image, they still write the songs they work hard playing bars and clubs, and it's sad they won't make it on their talent because they just don't fit the modern day mold
@@freedomisntfree2089 yes I agree with you check out jake penrod he does some neo traditional stuff but he also does traditional country and he’s very talented I plan on doing something like him when I get older I’m only fourteen but I play and sing and I really like Hank Williams and I wanna try to give people who like that music something new to listen to weather I get popular or not
The TRUE KING 🤴🏻 OF COUNTRY I'm sorry but Hanks music is a lot better thank George, he actually wrote all of his songs 🎵 unlike George and told stories. I love me some George Strait but if Hank wouldn't have passed away so young he would have probably had more #1 hits or at least top 10's than any other country singer. Hank Williams has been my favorite country singer since I was about 10 years old and my dad bought the Life Time Classic Country Cassette Collection back around 1998. I remember Hank and Patsy each had their own cassettes with nothing but their hits and the rest was a mix of other country hits/singer's starting from 1950 and it went all the way to 1975 or 1979. My brother's and sister's didn't care for this old country but I absolutely fell in love with it and am the only person my age (31 tomorrow on July 4th) that loves classic country or that knows half as many of the classic hits that I know. Actually I don't know anyone under the age of 70 that knows as many classic country/bluegrass songs/#1 hits or singers/artists as me. It's a shame classic country is dying off and being forgotten and it really pisses me off that it's "embarrassing " or you get picked on/made fun of for listening 🎶 or liking classic country/bluegrass especially when I was a kid in school. I got called a lit of racist name's and remarks from other's like (honkey, cracker, hillbilly, redneck, whiteboy, bolillo, guero etc. Smh I love our white heritage and roots (except slaveryand stuff). I wish more of us would too 😪 there is nothing wrong with being white and from the country
Hank Sr is one of the greatest writers and performers in music history. This list of songs he wrote or co-wrote contains 167 songs including 35 Top 10 Country singles and 11 #1 hits, including "Your Cheatin' Heart" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.” In comparison, and I hate to do this, he was the Taylor Swift of his era in terms of popularity and writing ability. The yodeling technique that some are mocking was extremely popular in the early days and common among country music's greatest stars of the time including, Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers and Gene Autry.
Hey SammyAmps all these people you named are in The Grand Oprry Hall of Fame and rightfully so and they now sing and play for our Lord in Heaven and it's time for you to be nice and give these good folks creit for some of the finest counnnnntry music ever written 'Miriam Colden from Michign
i don't think hank wold have died at such an early age if he had had Dr.'s like we have today.i also think he was malnourished.i don't know if this is trure or not;but it seems folks around him cared more about making money than about hank's health.but like folks said when elvis died,how can you protect a grown man from himself.this is how i see it,but i was not there;so i just don't know.i love hank's songs.thanks for letting me post.
I was in an arts and crafts museum near a welcome centre in Kentucky just off of I-75 a few weeks ago and was surprised to see that Red Foley came from Kentucky as I had never really thought about it. I thought he came from Missouri. I guess it's because he hosted the Ozark Jubilee TV show in the 50's when I was a kid. I know Pat Boone married his daughter. I guess that was the connection. Pat Boone is supposed to be a descendent of Daniel Boone. Ken, Toronto Ken, Toronto
Exactly right, Edward...there's real country, and then there's everything else. Hank and Patsy set the standard, and many others come close, including Hank Snow and Ray Price ... but Hank and Patsy remain King and Queen of real country!
+Pale Rider Ya know that is my thinking too but then just look at the rest of the music world. everything changes even where you grew up I bet. I really do not like to think that people never forget the like of hank Williams johnnie cash merl haggard George jones the latest and the king of country. but there is never going to be another George jones and im thankfull for that cause I grew uplistening to him and a few and a few others. but time realy does change the way the world goes around but im thankful for what I grew up with. I love my country music
The Opry the show and tradition is still here jerry-----they moved to the Opry house in Music Valley Blvd......The Ryman Auditorium was resurrected after much restoration.....
Hank Williams is the best, nothing today compares to the great country music back in the late 40,s and 1950,s
Amen!
James Johnson nothing on that awful show compared with him either
Not counting the Carters
And that band that plays this show out
At my age of 15 I was able to get the Opry on my radio..I'm now 76 and still love classic country
Such a great lineup of musicians! I could’ve listened to Red Foley, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe Jimmie Rodgers and all the other greats from the 20s to the early 50s everyday!
I heard that new country pop crap on the radio and the radio announcer said it was country music, and I scoffed and thought “this is not country music”. If only this stuff was still on the radio
A person would never get tired of listening to Hank Williams Sr., his music could touch the Soul in so many ways , R.I.P. Hank Williams Sr. and God Bless all the Hank Williams and Family and Friends.
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Good. Stuf
Man this stuff was GOOD! I wasn't born until 1957, but when I was just a kid,
Hank Williams was still on the Juke Box!! That's a powerful statement considering
The Beatles were on the juke box too!! And the lead guitarists were incredible!
I see where Carl Perkins got it from now.
Growing up in St. Louis in the 1940s I would listen to the Opry Saturday nights from Nashville; at night we could get Nashville clear as a bell. What I remember most is that the show would go on and on and on and on and every minute wonderful. So much great talent and great music and fun humor. The Opry operated with a very innocent yet saucy framework, clean as a whistle but also a bit naughty if you listened closely. A dream from long ago.
I couldn't imagine what you felt when Hank died
AMAZING... Not an age thing but just adding context, I'm 20 born in the north but grew up in the south. I've always loved folk, bluegrass etc. But when I found this it was just the best music I've ever heard, I wish I can only with I was in that room that mighty fine evening with hank and his boys tearing it down.
hank was and still is the greatest country influence ever its hard to imagine he was only 29 when he died . R.I.P HANK
+Thomas Paine Nothing matters at the end, except what he did while on this earth...he left a legacy that will never be equaled, though his progeny make a very decent effort. Hank Williams is the epitome of everything country and American that will ever exist, now or ever...thank you very much!
+goulston36 Greatest country influence ever? Respectfully, that would be the Carter Family. Hank Williams was a great performer only by the mediocre standards of his era. Better than Red Foley and Little Jimmy Dickens for example. People who actually heard the Carters in the 1920's and 30's actually understood what country music had been and what this stuff from 1949 had become.
+Thomas Paine Alcoholism and popping pills killed Hank
no a bogus doctor did Hank in, he bought his medical license from a traveling salesman.
great movie but not very accurate.
A time forever gone. New country is awful and soulless. Achey break heart?? please. It had soul back then, because we shared the same misery of what it was to be country. Poor, hungry, and blissfully ignorant isn't a common thing amongst us country folk now. Country music was good up until the early 1970s. Country folk come a long way up until then. We have it good now a days. Rap music is what country was. Thats why its popular to so many. I'm sure eventually it too, will go as country and rock and roll have gone, to the formulaic, soulless, and bland. I sure do miss hearing these great songs, and thank you for uploading them for us all to hear.
+larkatmic Today's Country Music is glorified Southern Rock
Who the heck would dislike this? This is cool!
"Haters"
I remembered being up my grandma's house and listening to wsm grang ole Opry on Saturday night.good memories. Heard Hank Sr
I love it! I grew up on the grand ole opry. My pop was avid fan. So I had full exposure. You can keep your modern music. But give me the old time stuff. That's when music was at its best.
I think Hank would be peeeeeeeved with most of todays country music
I agree. but times change. I don't like today's "country"
Maybe, including his own son's.
I don't understand all the negative comments. If you don't want to hear the Opry music of 1949, why are you listening?
Brenda McIntosh love it. GOD WHAT ID GIVE TO GO BACK.B4 VIETNAM.AND ALL THOSE DOPERS OF TODAY..WHEN AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE HONEST AND NOT BURNED OUT ON THEIR DOPE.only good dope dealer. is a dead 1
cut me off a big ole hunka that shawtnin bread!
Brenda McIntosh “If you don’t like Hank Williams, you can kiss my ass!”
I'm not seeing any negative comments.You must have went very far out of your way to find them.
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I would give my right arm to have been there when he premiered on the opry, and witnessed all those encores.
I’d give my right and left
And how
My father was the southern region general manager for Ralston Purina (an Opry sponser) in Nashville from 1946 to 1951 so I was between the ages of 5 and 10. We saw many of the Grand Ole Opry performances usually from the raised control room at stage left. My strongest memory was the shear joy of the occasion and the kindness of everyone involved especially Minnie Pearl.
Hank Williams was and will always be the King of Country Music He was an Icon a legend and a genius His music will continue to be enjoyed by generations both young and old We love and miss you Hank Williams Thanks for all your great songs Rest in peace May God bless you always
My mom and dad played all the old music at amvets post 32 elyria ohio for years and I grew up playing your cheating heart and lonsome I could cry.Great people great times great memories thank you.
I was actually 10 years old when i heard this on the old radio Ottawa Ont.Canada
Used to listen to the Grand Ole Opry oon radio when I was young and we realy enjoyed it. Thanks for putting this on here. Sure brought back memmories.
This is Great great country music,I enjoyed pop country of years gone by like Glen Campbell,Bobby Goldsboro and Bobbi Gentry, but Hank Williams always was my country hero.The Opry looked like such fun back in those days.
Oh my St.Peter.. My grandma use to sing this to us.. Didnt know it was his song .. Made me 😃...I miss her so much...
Its not Hanks original. Shortenin Bread is a classic American folk song dating back at least to 1900, written by James Whitcomb Riley. God bless you and your grandma. She had great musical taste.
It's Good to hear this Radio Broadcast with Red Foley as Host ... it's an Oldie but a Goodie.
Thanks for sharing it ... lot'sa memories here.
Great Video ! I remember going into restaurants that had bars in the early 1950's with my parents. All I remember hearing on the juke box was Hank Williams !
A great old glimpse into the Golden Past of real country music at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. JERRY BYRD's fabulous steel guitar is easily recognizable from the very beginning of this fine old clip. This is the kind of music that made it what it was for decades.
I think you mean Billy Bird. Jerry Byrd didn't play steel. But yes, On the other hand, Jerry was Red's lead guitarist at this time.
Believe it or not before nationalism there was regionalism. So if nationalist are Nazis, what were regionalist today ? The bubonic plague? Globalism aesthetically equals white noise.
@@roybodden9243 I am sorry but Jerry Byrd did play steel guitar. In fact he became THE greatest laptop steel player in the world. He played steel for so many stars that it would be impossible to name all of them; even for Bing Crosby no less to name just one. Jerry never played "lead" guitar in his life. Billy Byrd a great "Lead guitar" player; had not come on the scene when this recording was made.
Ray Montee:
Yes you are absolutely right that Jerry Byrd was on this entire recording. Plus Jerry was playing steel for Hank Williams; when he appeared on this show. But Red Foley the MC and star singer on this weekly show hired Jerry to play on this show and all of Red's recordings; until Red Foley fired Jerry because of a "difference of opinion" one might say LOL. Red then hired Billy Robinson to be his steel player.
Hank Williams was the greatest of the country singers! Hank Jr. Is great also. Hope the grand ole opry lasts forever!
Mary, you’re 100% right and, as for Hank Jr. , he’s pretty damn good also. (Hank lll??...., not so much. He hasn’t earned his stripes yet)
Hank is such a legend.
I wish it was still like that, but good music will always be around, you just gotta look and listen for it
The Greatest country singer of all time.
Glenn Johnson Growing up on Hank`s music in the 50`s,always great to hear vintage material for the first time,so to hear this is pure joy.Thankyou so much for this.
I love Hank Williams never will there be another.
For me Hank is number one and always will be, but there has been blues in country music from it's very beginning -- the work of greats like Jimmie Rogers, Bill Monroe, Merle Travis and many others way back before them demonstrates a lot of of blues influence. That reality doesn't take anything away from Hank though.
It is hard to belive the grand Ole opery will be on air 100 years. Not many radio shows on that long. Radio was new technology in 1920s . The ryeham is still used today
My mom and dad listened to this on the radio before they got a tv
In the early 50's, in small town central Oklahoma, we could pick up 650 WSM loud & clear on a summertime Saturday night. Dad & Mom often got us in the car and drove to town where we joined 100's of other people in their cars parked on the town square, with about everyone tuned in to the Grand Ole Opry and the kids ran & played up & down the sidewalks.
His legend only continues to grow. Even to this day.
Wish I could have been there
forThat!!.❤
This video takes me back to better times. Good music and memories
I probably listened to this broadcast as a kid on the little radio I had. Generally I listened to it in the summer out on the front porch because it was so hot inside. Great memories.
There is no better song as one that comes from the heart.
This was the year I was born and miss these this old music and singing ❤🙏
Hank was the best singer songwriter ever to be recorded if you know of anyone else on his level please drop a name I would really wanna listen to them
Jimmy Rogers
He was yodeling breakman trains were a big interest in those days
Elvis Presley
Hank's music was on such a high level, that any compliment to it has to be so true that it would almost have to be an understatement. However, with the exception of country sounds produced by good bluegrass, and singers such as Waylon, Gene Watson, and Vern Gosdin, I can't see how "what music is today" is something that Hank should or would want to take credit for.
one of the best in the business. I believe he still is.
Thanks for this one,its great just like Hank!!
The year I was born hank was the king of county then
Listening in 2021. Would love to ditch this abomination and go back to this era
You know I don't think Hank would want to be reinstated to the current Opry, It's nothing like this. Hank was country music. Today's so called country music and Opry just doesn't compare #Cartersisterscountrymusichalloffame
a gift from god!!!
I took my new wife to Ryman in 1947 for our Honeymoon, man it was hot there during the summer. I remember when I first heard the Opry Radio Show during the 1930s. Rod Brassfield didn't have his puppet Bocephus on this show. Ole Tater with "Country Boy". Great memories.
Are you still alive?
That's Billy Robinson on the lap steel guitar. Great man and great steel guitarist.
Sorry that IS Jerry Byrd. Billy Robinson had not at this time become steel player for Red Foley.
What happened was; Jerry and Red had a difference and Jerry was fired. Then Red hired Billy Robinson, but he was told that he must play like Jerry Byrd did. And Billy did just that but he could never fit the shoes of Jerry. Yet a great player of the laptop steel guitar.
But all of this had NOT happened when this recording was made.
I love this opportunity to step back in time and listen to the Grand Ole Opry in its heyday. Of course there are still terrific singers and musicians performing today, but it will never be the experience it was then.
Brings back great memories! Thank you!!!
And yes...its real American music..
THE WAY THINGS WERE ARE BETTER THAN TODAY THAT'S FOR SURE CLEAN AND FAMILY ORIENTED REAL LIFE REAL PEOPLE
It was just hidden better, there’s always been evil in the world. Hank Williams’ mother ran a brothel because his dad was in a hospital and she was forced to do that to survive.
I agree 100 % Tracy. I don't think a lot of people realized that, but he started the blues in Country music.
Had the good fortune to catch the Grand Ole Opry a few years back when it was broadcast from the Ryman just for that night. Wonderful. Coulda been 1949...except I suspect the sound was a little better.
This was recorded on my birthday, I was 10 years old.
this is so cool!!!!
Whenever you hear creation of rock and roll stole from the Blues. Add a 2/4 beat to any Hank Williams song and you get rock and roll.
HamerSlammerSeries rock n roll my ass
It wasn’t all the blues, there was a lot of country in it.
To elc1960, How can we put enough pressure on the 'Nashville Establishment' to ReInstate Hank Williams. In the almost 60 years since his death, HOW MANY MUSIC ARTISTS (especially 'Country') HAVE BUILT THEIR CAREERS ON THE MUSIC OF THE ORIGINAL 'HANK WILLIAMS'.! ! ! ! ! !
Phil Giesbrecht
Who cares, anyone that cares about country knows hw anyway. What does a reinstatement matter.
what an interesting time capsule.
whoa hold on up there
blues been in country for a mighty long time 'fore ole hank, i heard country songs from the 20s on back got plenty blues in em, matterfact you could argue blues came from country music from what i seen
it all comes from southern folk music
There is no doubt. Hank Williams was a blues singer.
Hank was taught guitar by an older black guitarist with stronge blues influence .
Being a Hank fan, I was surfing the past responses to this post and spotted yours, which I agree with. However, (and more significantly) my interest was peaked by the nature of your moniker because I am interested in old growth forests and associate the word Limberlost with an ancient forest somewhere in Canada. I also remember a movie I enjoyed watching as a child entitled "Girl Of The Limberlost." If you would like to comment concerning the above I am all eyes. Hank touches many bases.
hank is what made music what it is today
I thoroughly enjoyed this and subscribed to your channel. I love old opry (WSM) clips when such legendary performances were still in their early careers. Lord knows, country music radio has changed so much since then. Thanks friend. Stop by and visit. ~BCK
Bob Coltrain Kennedy
Amazing to me that the history and legend of the Opry is so indebted to Hank Williams, and yet he was fired from it back in '52 and was never posthumously reinstated. The weird thing is that for a while they had a Hank Williams impersonator greeting people. So does that mean they'd rather have a fake Hank instead of the real deal? I guess to their way of thinking, at least the fake one is sober . . . maybe so, but at the end of the day the fake is still a fake. REINSTATE HANK WILLIAMS!!!
elc1960 they have a life size bronze of him at the entrance of the “Opry House.”
The Grand Ole Opry ain't so Grand anymore....
Dadburn hypocrites! They should all pray to the messiah of country music, Doc Watson..
Alright, the good old days :) !!!!
I’ve been to Nashville and the grand old opry loved it .
I look back at Hank, Earnest Tubb, Bill Monroe, and so many more legends. Then I think about " country" today, sad that it's gone, nothing but pop and tractor rap absolute garbage now
Yea it's all about image now, how you look in front of the fans.
Yeah it’s sad and there’s really good singers now days but they don’t get recognized because they make country music go check out jake penrod
Why I listen to all this old singing!!!
@@forestmullins761 there are some modern day real singers that do it for the love of the music, but they will never make it main stream super famous because like I said they do it for the music not the image, they still write the songs they work hard playing bars and clubs, and it's sad they won't make it on their talent because they just don't fit the modern day mold
@@freedomisntfree2089 yes I agree with you check out jake penrod he does some neo traditional stuff but he also does traditional country and he’s very talented I plan on doing something like him when I get older I’m only fourteen but I play and sing and I really like Hank Williams and I wanna try to give people who like that music something new to listen to weather I get popular or not
The TRUE KING 🤴🏻 OF COUNTRY
I'm sorry but Hanks music is a lot better thank George, he actually wrote all of his songs 🎵 unlike George and told stories. I love me some George Strait but if Hank wouldn't have passed away so young he would have probably had more #1 hits or at least top 10's than any other country singer. Hank Williams has been my favorite country singer since I was about 10 years old and my dad bought the Life Time Classic Country Cassette Collection back around 1998.
I remember Hank and Patsy each had their own cassettes with nothing but their hits and the rest was a mix of other country hits/singer's starting from 1950 and it went all the way to 1975 or 1979.
My brother's and sister's didn't care for this old country but I absolutely fell in love with it and am the only person my age (31 tomorrow on July 4th) that loves classic country or that knows half as many of the classic hits that I know. Actually I don't know anyone under the age of 70 that knows as many classic country/bluegrass songs/#1 hits or singers/artists as me. It's a shame classic country is dying off and being forgotten and it really pisses me off that it's "embarrassing " or you get picked on/made fun of for listening 🎶 or liking classic country/bluegrass especially when I was a kid in school. I got called a lit of racist name's and remarks from other's like (honkey, cracker, hillbilly, redneck, whiteboy, bolillo, guero etc.
Smh I love our white heritage and roots (except slaveryand stuff). I wish more of us would too 😪 there is nothing wrong with being white and from the country
This is awesome 🥰
We do t deserve this! Legend
Blues come From PAIN
I still love the WSM Grand Ole Opry.
hes got such a great since of humor!
Where does this come from? WOW! RUclips does it again.
This stuff would disappear if somebody somewhere didn't
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Hank Sr is one of the greatest writers and performers in music history. This list of songs he wrote or co-wrote contains 167 songs including 35 Top 10 Country singles and 11 #1 hits, including "Your Cheatin' Heart" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.”
In comparison, and I hate to do this, he was the Taylor Swift of his era in terms of popularity and writing ability. The yodeling technique that some are mocking was extremely popular in the early days and common among country music's greatest stars of the time including, Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers and Gene Autry.
Thanks for the info, I do think I've heard of Hank Garland, I'll check him out, thanks again.
great music
the Grand Ole Opry 1940 is the bomb the ninja today it sucks old music is better than today's music
Good ole days bro.
Grand ole opry is a great show with wonderful entertainment
Hey SammyAmps all these people you named are in The Grand Oprry Hall of Fame and rightfully so and they now sing and play for our Lord in Heaven and it's time for you to be nice and give these good folks creit for some of the finest counnnnntry music ever written 'Miriam Colden from Michign
WOW!!! LOVE THIS IS AWESOME !!!!! xoxooxoxooxxx
i don't think hank wold have died at such an early age if he had had Dr.'s like we have today.i also think he was malnourished.i don't know if this is trure or not;but it seems folks around him cared more about making money than about hank's health.but like folks said when elvis died,how can you protect a grown man from himself.this is how i see it,but i was not there;so i just don't know.i love hank's songs.thanks for letting me post.
The LEGEND
Grew up on this because of my Grandmother and have always respected the pureness and happiness. However...needs more cowbell.
Awesome!
He looked so much older than he was alcohol will age you fast.
I was in an arts and crafts museum near a welcome centre in Kentucky just off of I-75 a few weeks ago and was surprised to see that Red Foley came from Kentucky as I had never really thought about it. I thought he came from Missouri. I guess it's because he hosted the Ozark Jubilee TV show in the 50's when I was a kid. I know Pat Boone married his daughter. I guess that was the connection. Pat Boone is supposed to be a descendent of Daniel Boone.
Ken, Toronto
Ken, Toronto
This is real country music not want to be country
Exactly right, Edward...there's real country, and then there's everything else. Hank and Patsy set the standard, and many others come close, including Hank Snow and Ray Price ... but Hank and Patsy remain King and Queen of real country!
+Pale Rider Ya know that is my thinking too but then just look at the rest of the music world. everything changes even where you grew up I bet. I really do not like to think that people never forget the like of hank Williams johnnie cash merl haggard George jones the latest and the king of country. but there is never going to be another George jones and im thankfull for that cause I grew uplistening to him and a few and a few others. but time realy does change the way the world goes around but im thankful for what I grew up with. I love my country music
+Lisa Mcgrady holey craps bit drunk lol after proof reading that shit hope you can make some sence out of it lol
hey it's hard to beat!
Edward Massey
It’s real, but I don’t care to much for it, I’m more of a Josh turner type, but I like it, it’s just a little to old for me
Gr8 music
i don't know about that i do know blues came from hard working southern feild hands and yes they were both white and black
hank is part a true american native thats why he is such a great singer//
man is entitiled to his own opinion, i like hank too
The Opry the show and tradition is still here jerry-----they moved to the Opry house in Music Valley Blvd......The Ryman Auditorium was resurrected after much restoration.....
i was born in the wrong time
Me too!
I would set in my uncles old pickup and listen to it in Oklahoma. It sounded so far away. Hank set them on fire .?
i love this song