October 16, 2008 08:03 PM
C&L's Late Night Music Club with Buck Owens and The Buckaroos
I Don't Care (Just As Long As You Love Me) from The Very Best Of Buck Owens, Vol.1
Has there ever been anyone in the world who smiled more than Buck Owens? Well, besides Owens' guitarist/backing vocalist/best friend Don Rich, that is?
I Don't Care (Just As Long As You Love Me) was the band's fourth straight single to top the Billboard Country charts. Chart success, playing great music with great friends and the suits- check out the wardrobe!- what's not to smile about?
Love the tune, and I especially love the clothes! Buck Owens and the boys rule.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO0eR47WuLY
Was a really decent man, a true mensch. RIP, Buck.
C'mon, Evolution, you can do better than this...
Now this is true classic country. The kind I was forced to listen to every morning of my youth and that turned me to rock and roll way back when. I eventually overcame my hatred of country music but only for the old classic Country. Bob Wills is still the king, I can listen to Merle, George (Jones and Strait), Dolly, Emmylou and Chet all day long.
Buck deserves his place in the country music legends. Only Buck and Don Rich could make that kind of sound.
Hank, Sr.
C'mon, Evolution, you can do better than this...
I apologize. Hank SR is definitely in that list. He was my Dad's favorite.
I guess I'm not the only one who went back and realized that real country isn't that bad.
I was a tween in the late '70's, just feeling my oats, getting into The Cars and Blondie as a Country wave hit. Took too many camping trips listening to Don Nelson, Ronnie Milsap and Dolly Parton- hell, pops almost od'd me on Willie Nelson, too.
But I grew up and opened my ears...and realized there was a lot of good music that came out of the Country scene!
Dwight Yoakam
Guitars, Cadillacs
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
I sure would like to have that Fender Mustang. Glitter............ mmmmmmm..........
Mustangs look like this.
And Mustangs don't give that deep tone, either- as I recall anyhow.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
That's a Telecaster with a lipstick pickup, a solid body. :ater Don showcased the Thinline Telly, a semi-hollow-body with an F-hole.
I played one of those for a long time, had to sell it to pay an electric bill (single mom in college), then later got a Squire Telly when I was a working musician again. However, I gave that to my son-in-law when my brother gave me a Holly Keyser Malden!
I didn't like Buck when I was a teenager, although I watched Hee Haw mainly for Roy Clark. Now, though, I LOVE those old-timers!
With a drop D tuning.
Loooooove Buck(and Don). Watching Hee-Haw is the whole reason I begged for (and got) a guitar at age 8. Still playing!
My life is a hollow, empty shell, and will remain so until I too own a gold Telecaster. Or maybe the gold Strat in the background.
Actually a half step down below concert pitch to E flat across the board.
So you always have to retune your guitar when you play along with
your Buck LPs (& I do mean vinyl).
Snif ...another Fender addict here ...
I bought my 1969 Thinline Tele in 1983 from a kid for $300.00 (with case :-)
Used it for years but never appreciated it cause the bridge pickup would howl ...I was one of those idiots that stripped the Sunburst finish and trashed the tourtise-shell pickguard ...
sold it for 500.00 ...just saw it for sale at the Twelfth Fret in Toronto for $4400.00. Not sure if the case was included.
I'll never learn.
I have a similar tale of a Tele sold too early, too cheap. It was a piece of crap playability-wise, but nowadays would be worth a few grand.
Really sad part is I practically gave away a Sunburst '73 Hardtail Strat a few years later ...
Ah well, New baby comes ---> guitars gotta go ...
The real Soggy Bottom Boys.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Especially love those strings.
It looks like a gitar!
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Thanks, Andy. Buck and Don were just magic together - a pair of artist on the same wavelength, having fun doing what they loved. Their voices matches so well weaving together
A few more:
Loves Gonna Live Here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEKBxbzKjbU
Crying Time Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg4vj4SI3bU
Together Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayS01cjBaB8
My favorite of Buck and Don working the twin Telecasters:
Sam's Place
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y_dzyMYCCY
One of his most beautiful sad songs:
Sweet Rosie Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUky6_FKEfE
Their second top 10 hit. It's a version later in their time together, and they're still performing it with joy:
Above and Beyond
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MWdTw5Dl9w
Andy cited The Very Best Of Buck Owens, Vol.1. If you like Buck, go whole hog and get the Rhino box set "The Buck Owens Collection (1959-1990)". One of the best box sets out there, just loaded with great songs.
John
I need to track down every disc from their Soul Hits Of The '70's collection.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
My father was a Buck fan..As a child I do recall dad playing Buck on the old Lp's..My fav. was "tiger by the tail"...Thanks C&L for the link...
Honky Tonk Man
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Any relation to Tim?
:D
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
;D
Goodnight, calgarylady.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
mrs.skippy & i would drive up to bakersfield for our anniversary and have dinner at the crystal palace, and enjoy buck's show. he would take requests, and once, after reading our request card, made a joke using our anniversary as the straight line (something about marriage being longer and more boring than the show that night). we were so incredibly pleased.
we always luved the show buck & his band put on, even when he was getting long in the tooth. we were incredibly sad when he died.
here's buck & the buckaroos doing act naturally, the song we always requested, presented at skippy.
I wish i'd been able to make the trip out west before Buck passed on.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Silver sparkle Teles and suits by Nudie (or was it Manuel?). And those harmonies. Life must have been really good. I really like it that Don and Buck loved the Beatles and the Beatles loved them back (Ringo covered "Act Naturally" on Help). My favorite musicians don't respect boundaries.
Man, i love phantom thirds, and Buck and Don hit many of 'em.
One more before I go to bed. Country-Swing gone Uptown:
Ella Mae Morse
Cow Cow Boogie
He was raised on loco weed...
GNA!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Cow Cow Boogie rawks and so do you.
LNMC is smoking hot tonight. Sleep tight, mon ami!
Well, if you like Buck Owens and the Beatles (or at least Ringo), you'll love this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHeRq6DdxHE
Totally freaking fabulous!
gna
When I was ten years old WJJD in Chicago became one of the first northern urban radio stations to switch to a country & western format, and the first song they played was "Tiger By The Tail."
I rediscovered Buck years later when Schuba's would hold an annual Buck Owens Birthday Bash that featured folks like Jon Langford, Robbie Fulks, and other members of the city's alt-country scene, along with legends like Otis Clay and Mavis Staples.
Fantastic music.
Don't see too many of those any more. What is funny is, at the time, this music was running smack into Led Zep and Jef. Airplane, Doors, Hendrix, et al. What a mash up!
It's not hard to see why these gems might be overlooked. As a kid, I thought these songs were corny, now compared to the "new" country crap they seem so much more authentic. As a some time and lousy guitar player I'm gonna put this on repeat and rip off a few more Don Rich guitar licks :-)
Mr. Hoffman, you mentioned this one showing that you're truly a gentleman of impeccable taste! Buck Owens & The Buckaroos...with Dangerous Don Rich..."A Tiger By The Tail!"
"I'm a-losin' weight and a-turnin' mighty pale..."
But thats the heehaw guy!
Way back when I was a little kid and had only 3 channels on the tv I would watch Hee-Haw. I also came to love Roy Clark. One of the best songs that stuck with me was his Thank God and Greyhound You're Gone.
When I was a young thing my parents had three albums that I would listen to:
The Best of Peter, Paul and Mary
The Best of Simon and Garfunkel
and
The Astounding 12 String Guitar of Glen Campbell which was all acoustical except for one line in one song (walkin' down the line, feeling mighty fine, thinkin' 'bout my troubled mind.) It was just Glen and his 12 string, and a studio banjo player by the name of Roy Clark.
Good shit, Maynard, if you can find it. If you do, check out their Ballard of Jed Clampett.
That also reminds me of the Glen Campbell Show with Johnny Hartford, the writer of Gentle on my Mind. Still one of the best song lyrics I've ever heard. I'd love to hear a hard rock version of that song.
My uncle was a classmate of the legendary Don Rich at Olympia (WA) H.S. in the late 1950s. Rich was not even the most famous musician at the school - he achieved success with Owens in the 60s while his former classmates The Fleetwoods had already achieved chart hits with 'Come Softly To Me' and 'Mr. Blue.' Pretty good collection of musical talent for one little High School in the Pacific Northwest.
'Come Softly To Me' - One of the prettiest songs ever,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKaW4HSnmDU
My uncle was a classmate of the legendary Don Rich at Olympia (WA) H.S. in the late 1950s. Rich was not even the most famous musician at the school - he achieved success with Owens in the 60s while his former classmates The Fleetwoods had already achieved chart hits with 'Come Softly To Me' and 'Mr. Blue.' Pretty good collection of musical talent for one little High School in the Pacific Northwest.
'Come Softly To Me' - One of the prettiest songs ever,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKaW4HSnmDU
Dam - their voices go together like Lennon and McCartney. II would even go as far to say that Harrison was influenced by that style of guitar work.
The Beatles were big Buck Owens fans. They even recorded Act Naturally.
This guy builds what he calls Buck-o-casters - All different colours of sparkley telecasters a la Buck Owens:
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/telecaster-discuss...
How about a tribute from an angel (Emmylou)
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=XnwiA_igYD
Malformed ...I gots to get Veri-fied ...
Roy Clark, "Tico Tico"
The late great. We lost a great one there. Why do the good ones always die young?
I've been wondering who the pickers are here.
68 Coronado
98 Toronado - Deluxe - MIM
02 Tele - Deluxe Nashville - MIM
06 Strat - Standard - USA
-Fender guy-
Roland GK 505 Strat
Ibanez Artcore AF75 jazzbox
Ovation Custom Legend
Seagull A6
Dominion 192? Mandolin
Harmony Roy Smeck acoustic
Various Japanese Nylons
Traynor AM150 acoustic amp
Gone but not forgotten :-( .....
'69 Thinline Telecaster
'73 Hardtail Strat
'73 Silverface Twin
Nice eclectic collection man.
(going to edit my entry)
68 Coronado
98 Toronado - Deluxe - MIM
02 Tele - Deluxe Nashville - MIM
06 Strat - Standard - USA
rest of my stuff
Crap Squier Strat (use for slide)
Seagull S6
Takamine G330S
Martin Backpacker
Classical from some little shop in Paracho
81 Music Man HD212 150
various stompboxes
And in the gone but not forgotten category:
USA Tele
couple of USA Strats
Valley Arts Strat
Roland JC120
Silverface Champ
Vintage EH Memory Man
I sold all that to buy a wedding ring.
'doh!
Still married though.
--
I want a good acoustic and a low wattage amp.
... I didn't keep the ring.
I have seen a few used Larivee acoustics coming up in my area.
Beautiful guitars ... reasonable price.
(my brother has one that I lust after)
I played my cousin's $800 Washburn over the weekend, it was fantastic!
It practically played itself. Those Larivees are NICE. I forgot to mention earlier that I'd sure love to have a sparkle finish guitar. I think a purple or orange jazzmaster would be groovy.
> Nice eclectic collection man
Thanks man,
Here they are in action
(vibes, bass, snare, and keys are synth on the Roland strat)
http://www.myspace.com/svingabrothers
Love Buck Owens. One of many, many, many great tunes. I always meant to go to the Crystal Palace to see him live but never got around too it.
way back in the '70s. It's a dance place, and he played and sang for hours without a break, it seems like, while everybody danced our fool heads off and got drunker. He was a trouper, that's for sure. The Hee Haw days were so much more innocent than now.
...but, if you mute the sound, you might think you were watching Sabado Gigante! :)
Is because they were usually high.
I actually bought this best of and the vol 2 and they are really good.
Thought they would have also nicely fit on one cd, the price was ok.
Some songs might have also been exchanged.
I grew up as a military brat with a country loving father and we watched heehaw religiously. Well it was the only thing we did religiously.
Listening to the CDs brought back a lot of memories!!
I have really found a lot of artists here and on the tube and bought cds.
Artists such as Jim Croche and Etta Jones. The latter was a gift to my wife who loves to sing and I told her that if she wanted to learn how to sing right, to learn from the best.
Man, that's good.
Merle Haggard if not for Buck. His best song is 'Together Again'.
For all those TeleGeeks out there- I have a 1972 Telecaster Bass with a maple neck. Played it proudly for almost 35 years. I call it 'My lady'.
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