Jimmy Brown the Newsboy - Flatt and Scruggs
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2009
- Earl Scruggs is the great innovator and master of the 5-string banjo; but many do not know that he was (is) also excellent on the guitar. This song, Jimmy Brown the Newsboy, features Earl on lead guitar.
Earl said that he learned a lot about guitar from his friend and neighbor, Mama Maybelle Carter. His style is very similar, except for finger movement. Enjoy!
If you are interested, you may purchase DVDs of these old Martha White Grand Ole Opry shows at earlscruggs.com, click on Merchandise, and scroll down to find them. I have no association with them or with Flatt and Scruggs, except as a long-time fan. 
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I sold newspaper on the street in 1952 all night, I made $1.50, bought an RC Cola, moon pie, and money left to go to a movie
I bet you’re a great man. You’re probably around daddy’s age. He picked up scrap metal from the town dump to help his family survive in the war years while grandpa was in France fighting. 😊
Flatt & Scruggs we’re a real class act, I have loved them since the early 1960s ! Cheers from Australia.
Lester Flatt: best lead singer ever in bluegrass history.
Lester and Earl...no words needed .
When I was about15 years old I was a Bluegrass/Banjo fan. I had learned to play some banjo and this was when Folk Music was big. Early 60s NYC area. My Dad shocked me by presenting me with two tickets to see Lester Flatt and Early Scruggs at Carnegie Hall in NYC. I went with my cousin Fred. The opening act was Grand Pa Jones. After the show the audience was invited back stage to meet the artists and get autographs. I still have my program signed by the entire Flatt and Scruggs Band and Grand Pa Jones. What a thrill.
I remember hearing my late Grandfather sing this song when he was puttering around in his workshop i.e the garage lol! I sure miss that Man, he raised me as his own, my Mom was just 17 when she had me in 1971, so she wasn't ready to be a Mom. Plus, my Grandpa always wanted a Son. I thank God for that Man!
We have Simularates . Sorry about the spelling . My Mother had Me in 56 . She used my Dad to get out of the House . My GrandPairents ended up getting Me in 56 . As well. My GrandPairents . Were My Mom and Dad . My Real Mother Died a few years ago .
Andre could never have a civil conversation.
Thanks for sharing. My grandpa was the closest thing to a father I had growing up. We didn't live together, although he was a musician. He played bluegrass and traditional country and southern gospel. He taught me how to play these different styles of music and how to hunt and fish etc. The fellas of that era were really great. I was born 1976.
This is the first "real" bluegrass tune I learned to pick. No one can top Earl when it comes to classic picking like this. Outstanding.
Earl's first love was the guitar. Doc Watson' first love was the banjo.
My uncle used to play and sing this song on his guitar every time he came over with his guitar I loved it and miss him
My daddy played this one too.
My dad's favorite Flatt & Scruggs song.
Best version by far
I’ve always loved this song ❤
This is one of my favorite songs. It took a long time for me to learn it and 50 some years later it's still fun to play!
Earl deserves his place as one of the all-time banjo greats, but his guitar was sweet!
david holliday , those little slide ups, harder than it looks.
You are my flower wow!.
7009
His son was a hell of a flat picker also.
Smoooooth.
Lester was one of the greatest singers ever in any genre of music. Nobody could sing a story like Lester as he could have you hanging on his every word!!
You are right, Jimmy Brown
This is AMERICA!!!! Ain't Nothing like it! We are the BEST!
How could anyone dislike this video? Excellent classic, American song.
Without question this is the definitive interpretation of one of the greatest songs ever.
They really had the midas touch with everything they did though.
These guys really were the best of the best...
Truly blessed by Earl, Lester, and the boys. I'm very sorry to see these great men of musical history pass on. They are sorely missed, but we're so much richer for having listened to and learned from them.
Just love these guys. When I was a kid their show came on every Saturday evening right after the news
This clip is amazing. Everyone knows that Earl was arguably the greatest banjo player in history. But his guitar playing is stellar.,
These guys make it seem so effortless! It takes a lot of effort to do that well. Flatt & Scruggs had magic!
When i was 4-6 years old i remember that me and my cousin Misty would make by poor Grandpa play 2 song OVER AND OVER ! The songs ? Jimmy Brown the Newsboy , which was one of his favorite songs and Devos Whip It ! Being an adult now i can appreciate how much he HAD to love us , as an old Kentucky boy , to force himself through Whip-it a thousand times because WE liked it.
There'll never be another Flatt and Scruggs. Man, I gotta learn this one. Have always loved this tune cause it's so nostalgic. Thanks for posting...
Love this old song. Brings me way back ❤
My Paternal grandfather loved these guys, their timeless, legendary performances. He was a Canadian, grew up in the Port Colborne/Sherkston countryside. He and his first wife (my grandmother) thoroughly enjoyed this style of bluegrass/gospel fusion.
Over here in the UK in the fifties it was covered by the fantastic Lonnie Donegan,
We all called it Skiffle music back then {Bluegrass in the States I believe} Such a brill version. However,this is the first time I have heard and seen Flatt and Scruggs do this song, Wow! just knocked out!!! True American Legends. Love it.
Lester had the voice...unmatched...especially on this, his best IMHO. There are a handful of revered voices in bluegrass & Lester stands tall.
He has that high lonesome sound in his vocal! Love it!
Best of all time! Charlie Waller is # 2
Listening to my Daddy play this and I am cooking 🙌🙌
This was my Daddy's favorite when I was a boy. It is so special to me because I will always remember him singing it. Thanks for posting.
I love this song !! My Daddy sung this song a lot to my Brother and I when we were children and I just cried watching it brought back a lot of memories , because my Daddy passed on 17 years ago!
Amy Wilkinson
OMG . . my father passed 17 years also and he sung this song to myself and brother quite a bit when I was 8 or so . . I don't know why this song came back to me all these years ago, maybe I miss him.
This was one of my father's favorites too !
Amy's
Wilkinson
Amy Wilkinson
Same here. I grew up listening to my dad singing this
I played this at my dads funeral when he passed away.
God bless you and your daddy!
My Mom used to sing and play guitar to this song, when I was a kid! First time I have heard it in years! Brings back so many memories!
always will have a special place in my heart for these guys. Very short term group but i cant even bare to type this comment, tearing up already, I have a tribute band and we have won awards for our talents of reincarnating the music just like it was in the only good days. there will never be any respect for this music like there was in the good days. actually i have a place in my heart for lester, earl, and all the foggy mountain boys the size of texas. Love ya earl and lester. god bless yall
I wouldn't call 20 years short term.
I learn something new EVERY day. I'm 50 years old and grew up listening to Flatt and Scruggs. This is the first time I've ever seen this clip, though I heard this song as far back as I can remember and I never new it was Earl on the guitar, I always thought it was Lester.
There is a clip of his son Randy, about 10 years old on the Martha White Show, playing the autoharp. He plays it with crossed hands. A young Ricky Scaggs was on a different episode of that show. And there is a clip of a 13 year old Marty Stuart playing with Lester Flatt and band, on the Porter Wagoner show I believe, around 1972.
This one brings tears to my eyes, one of my dad's favorites. We miss you, Earl and will always treasure your friendship with our family. Thank you, God, for loaning him to us for 88 years~ what a life well-lived and a precious gift he shared with the world.
thats a great story, lester makes me think of my grandpa, and i cant remember a time in my life when i didnt LOVE this song
What class, how can anyone dislike this?
Fucking FOOLS !!!
+mike santoro new cuntry fktards
It surely was an accident.
It's RUclips, Those initials YT stand for young trolls and all they do is patrol everything that's ever been posted and hit the thumbs down, some of them even progress to insults and interfering with good threads of decent posts. We just have to abide with them and ignore their brainless games. It keeps them off the streets at least
These guys used to come play on my great great grandpas porch with him!
'to sell the Gospel news...' that pretty well captures the main point of the song. Scruggs picking out melody with a thumb pick. And wrap up the song with a Martha White flour commercial ! Love it! It was REAL bluegrass from the early days of B&W TV
Peg,
Let me tell, I appreciate this video a great deal. In 1973, I was listening to "You Are My Flower" on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" Album, and listening to the beautiful guitar licks inspired me to learn to play the guitar. It was years later that I actually learned it was Earl playing the guitar on that song. I still get my guitar out most every night. A lot of songs and a lot of friends later, it was one of the best decisions I ever made.
Earl Scruggs is my favorite guitar player. Seriously. So smooth and creative.
I think he was better playing banjo
Great music.Don't understand how anyone could give thumbs down on it.
Fucking FOOLS !!!!
This type of music is not in their hearts.
Thats 81 fools that hate cornbread too.
all i can say is if they thumbs down this, im glad i dont know them, in this day when this music came was a great day to live and wasnt polluted with the such as these idiots ~
This is my favorite version of the song. I watched Flatt & Scruggs do this on their TV show back when they were on every week for Martha White flower.
I love this! I keep replaying it over and over. Thanks!
I like how they share the microphones...truly live band.
This is truly music to my ears , this generation needs this kind of peace and heart taking rhythms
I hadn't heard this F&S version before - it's a new favourite now. ☺
I absolutely love this song! It brings back a flood of memories.
I love it when Earl plays the guitar
Morag MacGregor one of the best. Playing like a banjo finger style.
There is nothing like the sound and lyrics of old bluegrass and country. The music of today has lost a lot of sound and the lyrics aren't as fresh and don't tell the stories of like old music did. These musicians aren't just musicians they are masters of music. So that's why I like to listen to all of the old bluegrass and country because even in todays times it's still fresher than that of today.
These guys made playing great music look so easy.
Earl playing you are my flower gives cold chills.
Wow, Quality of this video is amazing, Thanks You Tube for bringing Lester and Earl into my living room!
bass player for Foggy Mountain boys is so underrated. perfect bass all the time
Earl Scruggs is NOT underrated
My Mom said when she was a little girl in Tennessee her father played the banjo second to none. Lester Flatt & Bill Monroe stopped by their house after hearing how well my papa could play the banjo and offered him a job. My papa turned them down because he didn't want to miss church every Sunday. She said Bill Monroe started cursing and they made him leave. She said Lester was very nice and never raised his voice. They hired a young fellow from North Carolina named Earl Scruggs and the rest as they say IS HISTORY.
Johnny Cash came to Lansing, MI in the early Sixties along with June Carter, and Bill Monroe's name was well down among the bill of supporting performers. A college friend got backstage with his banjo, and Johnny & June were both gracious enough to autograph his banjo head. Bill Monroe, however, stood off to the side, totally ignored but looking surly and mean, almost daring anyone to attempt to speak to him. My friend worshipped Bill Monroe as a musician, but he left with the impression that the guy was mad as hell that he was no longer the focus of all the attention.
My grandma Peggie Margaret Flatt White
1877-1938
was related to Lester but I don't know the details. She lived a few miles from Sparta where Lester was from. She was on a farm just west of Cookeville. She married J.J. White.
....would like to know what her actual relation to him was.
Great story.
My aunt had a similar situation,where she was offered a job with Porter Wagoner as his girl singer. My grand mother would have had to go with my aunt on tour ( my aunt was 18, but not 21), but she couldn't because she had other kids to take care of. So my aunt missed out. The lady he got to be his "girl singer, ended up being Norma Jean.
Beautiful song, hello
I grew up near a guy named Jimmy Brown, and every time I saw him, I'd think of this song! 😂
i lived next door to flatt as a kid. he was great then as he is now!!!!!
But he died like 30 years ago.
Earl is the very best Banjo player. I love Earl Scruggs.
You're absolutely right... Good evening Annette how are you doing over there hope you're having a wonderful day it's a wonderful day that the lord has made.
I love this version along Mac Wiseman's and Norman Blake's... it's all good! Thank you Martha White!
this is by far the best of the best. r.i.p lester and earl
I remember hearing this for the first time truckin' last year. It actually made me cry. That's when you know you TRULY love the music.
Thank you, Mary Cage, for posting this video. It is one of my favorites and I love to hear Lester say, "Here's a song I like just to hear Earl pick it!"
Mary Cage you are exactly right! There never has been and never will be another as great as Mother Maybelle Carter. So many musicians like Lester Flatt and so many more imitated her style. For the most part she taught herself! I can listen to Maybelle, Helen, June and Anita all day long!
They were my all time favorites when it came to old time bluegrass!
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My grandad said that he would wake up listenin to his mama sit on the porch justa pickin' this song away...His dad was Invited to go to the grand ole opry but he declined...Amazing!
Just wonderful. What a sound!
MY Daddy loved L Flatt&Earl Scruggs esp Jimmy Brown RIP Dad see you on the other side.
I really can't stop listening to this version of this song I love it.
This is one of my favorite Flatt and Scruggs songs.
My dad used to play this song. It’s one if not the first thing I learned to play on guitar.
Absolute brilliant version of Jimmy brown the newsboy I loved the guitar solo & the casual look of the bass player, can't make my mind up who did this song best , it's such a wonderful song, cheers.
ANOTHER GOOD RENDITION OF THIS SONG IS MAC WISEMAN.
This show was a saturday night show we had to watch in the 60's.Provided we could get the reception and keep it.Also,the Wilbur brothers,Porter Wagner, the Rhodes Show,. Yeah,and we used Martha White,and Pet milk like staples.
What a great old group. Love Seckler. I love the fact they were not trying to be what they weren't. Just play the music and don't worry about anything else. Pure and sweet country at its best.
+Ron Stewart I agree wholeheartedly.
+Ron Stewart Mr. Curly Speckler turned 96 last Christmas and judging from the Face book images he appears to be going pretty strong still.
Thank.u for you words, I am curly oldest son ray !
Lester Flatt is best singer of all time
Listening to Earl Scruggs and Maybel Carter was my inspiration to learn to play.
Now this is great music !!!
Earl had the biggest pickguard I have ever seen, covered the top 3/4 of the guitar.
he said it gave it the sound he wanted , by limiting the vibration of the top. amazing.
unusual...some people remove the guard saying it gives a better sound....
I guess its just a different sound....not better or worse...just what your ear likes to hear.
Flatt and Scruggs won a Grammy Award in 1969 for Scruggs' instrumental "Foggy Mountain Breakdown". They were inducted together into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985. In 1989, Scruggs was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship. He was an inaugural inductee into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1991. In 1992, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. In 1994, Scruggs teamed up with Randy Scruggs and Doc Watson to contribute the song "Keep on the Sunny Side" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization. In 2002 Scruggs won a second Grammy award for the 2001 recording of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown", which featured artists such as Steve Martin on 2nd banjo solo (Martin played the banjo tune on his 1970s stand-up comic acts), Vince Gill and Albert Lee on electric guitar solos, Paul Shaffer on piano, Leon Russell on organ, and Marty Stuart on mandolin. The album, Earl Scruggs and Friends, also featured artists such as John Fogerty, Elton John, Sting, Johnny Cash, Don Henley, Travis Tritt, and Billy Bob Thornton.
Love it ..always loved that version. Thanks for posting!
this is real music.imo.
thank you for this wonderful playing and singing.
I lived in Huntsville AL and watched these guys and Porter Waggoner on tv every Sat. morning. Miss it A LOT
this is my favorite bluegrass band
I'm back again to hear "Earl pick it!" Plus, I love the half-covered guitar pick guard that Earl has on his guitar.
Earl is practically making love to that guitar, the way he places his head on it while playing.
You can hear the tones better by putting your ear right on the body of the guitar like that. Especially helps in a room full of other acoustic instruments with no amplifiers or monitors to hear yourself.
True musical genius’s there the kings of grass as far as I’m concerned 👑👑👑👑👑
First time I heard this song, was at the Smiling Johnny Show at the Community hall here pelican , way back late 60s, or the early part of the 70s. Really love this song
It's hard to beat this!
I remember my school bus driver singing this song when I was a child
RIP Earl and Thanks!
Brings back childhood memories. Some good others bad. But I wish I could go back at times.
Thank you for posting this gem of a video.
I used to go to Grandfather Mountain when I was a kid for the singing on the mountain and hear groups like this one. That was almost 50 years ago, don't remember if they were there, just remember going. After the white liquor, do you?
LOL
lol dont remember the liquor but I remember the Homecomings on the mountain in the 60s? Lot of great Bluegrass music.
Amazing. I know that when I put down my banjo and pick up my guitar, my fingers are lost for a few minutes. Not here, not with Earl Scruggs. That man is amazing.
The big top ten when I was a biy boy u the back then binin
1960'
i love this song♡ inJapan
I love "'Til The End of the World Goes 'Round". Keep up with your flat-picking lessons. They will pay off in more ways than one. Merry Christmas!
I have spent the last week sifting through 2 thousand albums, and came across 2 Albums by these guys ,which was a nice find
you damn 85 people that hit dislike, need to stop carrying the Paper !!
I know! What in the hell is wrong with those people!?
Just what I was needed
I love how casual they are, no glitz no BS, just real music. Then it's off to the kitchen for Martha White's Self Rising Flour with Hot Rise! BTW, has anyone ever had a knick knack? I didn't grow up in the south. What are they? I guess I can Google it.
***** As someone told you it's a snack. Also used as a derogatory word.. When your mate only cooks what you consider "junk foods". Southerners are spoiled on their own version of good food and something else is frowned upon. For me it (decent food) was the only good thing we had going being poor. That and a loving family. Which is about you really need anyways.
I am expressing my opinion.. sorry things were difficult for you there Wang0. However that doesn't detract from my experience. If your a decent person who doesn't steal, kill, swindle people, spread gossip, or dope etc. Someone still did right by you even if was only yourself. Be proud.
If you are any of that, or more, you can still fix yourself by first not blaming others for your own troubles. I was surrounded by about 40 cousins and their parents who most were severe alcohols, some drugs, and some sexual abuse. I avoided that by not having it in my immediate, but large family. As I did say already you can get past a lot when you have a decent inner voice and especially one that you listen to as well. I avoided a lot of all that by listening to mine and when I didn't I got in trouble, and I am grateful that I had older siblings and parents to guide me back to listen to my inner voice.
It boils down to personal responsibility. I do understand I had a lot of trouble relatives all around who vacillated from being friends to being jealous enemies which was a mind screw and hurt ( for good reason they wanted what I had I came later to realize and even some who admitted to my sisters later on that that was what they were longing for). Everyone wants a happy family life.
I have cousins that have died one household away from their own addictions. They saw better choices around them, but chose a wrong path. I certainly could have went down many wrong paths and did as an adult, but have learned from them. I attracted the very things I was taught to avoid in my life. An alcoholic (who'd hide it) spouse the first time around for example.
It's a little late to talk about what happened growing up and time to do the best with what you have for the past can not be redeemed completely Wang0. God knows I have had to. Wishing you the best of luck.
WTF does this have to do with knick knacks? Weird.
***** Ask Wang0 there he's the one wanting to dramatize everything so I let them have it.
aint nothing but the Best!!!!