Christmas 1971, I was 6 years old and didn't appreciate country music. My father bought this as a "gift" for me (truthfully, I think it was for him :)). I still have the 45 and cherish it now. I just wish he were still here to listen to it with me.
I was born in 1993 but have very VIVID memories of this music and other classics, as well as Chipmunks Christmas and other goofy fun stuff at MawMaw and PawPaw’s house.
@@OldMusicGuy I'm SO ready. There is nothing sweeter than memories of music that we loved and still do. Sound is one of the strongest memory triggers (as I've read and found out) and especially if it is associated with happy times and love. Happy Holidays! Take care and enjoy the memories!
1/11/1972-1/11/2022 My Wife & My 50th Wedding Anniversary, This Was Our First Pick Song For The Way We Felt About Each Other, & Still Do To This Day!! We've Been Through A Lot, But Still Love Each Other, Have 4 Sons, About 40 Grandkids To Great Great Grandkids, Family All Over The United States, Blood As Well As Friends That Are Like Family Too!!
My grandparents were in the coin operated machine business, so I had easy access to Juke boxes and 45s. This record was in a jukebox in the garage, and I played it over and over and over as a kid. Now, many years later, I’m living in my grandparents house with the same garage, and still listening to the same record - only on UA-cam now!
Takes me back to when we green 1969 Olds Cutlass with an under dash 8 track player and my late mother singing this song with Salem cigarette buts crammed around the tape so it wouldn’t drag when playing
I wasn't much into country music in 1971 but this song crossed over to pop and was getting airplay on top 40 stations and I took an instant liking to it. What a beautiful song that never becomes outdated. Still got a 45 of it.
My father had this in a collection of 45s. Definitely a part of my childhood I can remember disappearing into, stacking the records, listening to the mechanism drop the next one, the pop of the lead in, and then the music you’d sing along with. Yesterday was definitely better than today in every facet for some people like me.
I had the honor and privilege to meet Freddie Hart in Nashville outside of the world famous Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge. He was such a nice man and when I told him Easy Loving was the greatest country song ever written he was touched.
A timeless classic that emerges through the many years countless turns later as one of country's best singled ever recorded..thank God it shot to the top when released..and deservedly so..
@@HillbillyBoogie1it’s popular but it’s not manufactured cookie-cutter stuff of all music today. I get your rebuttal but the original comment does have a point, albeit overstated on here.
I was 3 yo. Still my all time favorite song. Brings back good memories of my daddy. He is the reason I love music & learned piano. He played guitar. I think that’s one reason I loved Roy Clark. He looked a lot like my daddy.
Absolutely love this song. Usually we associate songs with pleasant memories. But I remember this song (I was 16 years old) playing on a radio in the background in 1971 as my boss at the food store was reprimanding me in the backroom: ("You're not supposed to run home on your break, we have a breakroom here"). He was a good guy, though, and I went on to be a more conscientious employee!
I Was Lucky To MEET Robert, When He Left Boss angeles For Chicago + It DIDN'T work Out, When He Returned He Went To KMPC+ THEY'RE SOFTBALL TEAM CAME TO SIMI VALLEY AND PLAYED OUR TEAM, HIS FAVORITE SONG WAS THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA, WHEN HE PASSED I TOOK THE DAY OFF OF WORK+ CRIED + CRIED LISTENING TO ALL THE PEOPLE IN LOS ANGELES SHARING THEIR MEMORIES ❤😂😊
Great Country song Bill 🎸♪♫♪♥ the kinda woman every man dreams about😊 .. Lucky guy who has that Beautiful Angel . Love his voice and the song♪♫♪♥ week end and it's party time woohoo💃💖🕺🥂🎈😊🥂
What a great old song!!!!!!! I'm 54 but my dad played this when I was little and I still love it!!!! Music isn't as good as it used to be for sure!!! This house of sand, If fingerprints showed up on skin, one more mountain to climb, Write it all in, everybody in the whole world Holding hands , the arms of love, California grapevine, Easy lovin , and my favorite "Trip to heaven" just to mention a couple of my favorite Freddy Hart songs... what a legend!!
Thank you for leading me to those songs I'd never heard. I was raised on rock n roll along with my peers but, my dad always listened to country. I loved a lot of it. Easy Lovin was one of them.
@@nightmareaccomplice5816 No. That's a great song. Back in those days I listened to the rock and pop stations. Never went in the honky tonks much (after high school) but frequented the discos and college campus bars. I enjoy a lot of different styles of music. When head-bangin/punk rock started infiltrating the radio, I turned to country. I was always a more country-rock kinda guy anyway (Buffalo Springfield, Poco, Crosby Stills & Nash, The Eagles). Thanks Again, Daryl {:o )
This was my Dad's only favorite country song. He bought it on 45. He'd get me to call his girlfriend, and I handed him the phone, and he said hey baby, listen to this! Lol!
Remembering Freddie Heart born on December 21, 1926. He was an American country musician and songwriter best known for his chart-topping country song and lone pop hit "Easy Loving, " which won the Country Music Association Song of the Year award in 1971 and 1972. Hart charted singles from 1953 to 1987, and later became a gospel singer. He also performed at music festivals and other venues until his death in 2018. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Hart
@@petelee9887I had the privilege of meeting Freddie in Nashville right outside of Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge. He was such a nice man and was so touched by the fact I had such a fondness for this song. No remake could ever be as good as the original and that’s why no one has ever made one.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS POST !!!! / THIS IS ''''MY VERY FAVORITE SONG''' !!!! / FROM THE FIRST TIME THAT I LISTENED TO IT ------ I HAVE LOVED IT !!! / and I LOVED '''FREDDIE HART""!!!!
Christmas 1971, I was 6 years old and didn't appreciate country music. My father bought this as a "gift" for me (truthfully, I think it was for him :)). I still have the 45 and cherish it now. I just wish he were still here to listen to it with me.
I was born in 1993 but have very VIVID memories of this music and other classics, as well as Chipmunks Christmas and other goofy fun stuff at MawMaw and PawPaw’s house.
My mother had the 45 also. Could you please tell me what song is on the flip side.
@@robinmoudy8828 "Brother Bluebird," also written by Freddie. This is also on UA-cam ua-cam.com/video/-DxskmIP1WM/v-deo.html
Brother Bluebird
@@robinmoudy8828look-a here,Look-a here. Pretty good piece for a B side.
Absolute pure solid country gold. RIP Freddie you were absolutely amazing
Senior in high school, this song playing on the jukebox in the cafeteria, pretty girl sitting next to me. Now that is a memory worth keeping.
I hear this often on the Willie Nelson Channel on Sirius. A simple song. Great melody and lyrics. Sincere! I just love it.
I would go back to 1971 if I could. Life and music and friends were great!
Definitely! The years went by too fast and things were much simpler then.. GOD how I miss it.
@@crazyaces4042 We will go back together! :)
@@OldMusicGuy I'm SO ready. There is nothing sweeter than memories of music that we loved and still do. Sound is one of the strongest memory triggers (as I've read and found out) and especially if it is associated with happy times and love. Happy Holidays! Take care and enjoy the memories!
@@crazyaces4042 No more family left so memories are all I have.
@@crazyaces4042 When I get my time machine ready, I will pick you up and we will meet at Midnight at the Oasis.
My father died in 1980 and this was his favorite song ❤️and I listen to it every chance I get to bring back memories
The singers of yesteryear had so much 'pain' in their vocals - unlike today's plastic society
yes!
Yep! Folks still had all the FEELS for real back then.
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These older songs are so much better than the ones we hear today. The words have some meaning and I am so glad that we can still hear them today.
Sad they don't make country songs like this anymore
One of the top five greatest country songs in history.
Heard this great song many many times on the jukebox at my mother's beerjoint back in good old days. Rest in peace Albee. Have a cold one in heaven.
1/11/1972-1/11/2022 My Wife & My 50th Wedding Anniversary, This Was Our First Pick Song For The Way We Felt About Each Other, & Still Do To This Day!! We've Been Through A Lot, But Still Love Each Other, Have 4 Sons, About 40 Grandkids To Great Great Grandkids, Family All Over The United States, Blood As Well As Friends That Are Like Family Too!!
My grandparents were in the coin operated machine business, so I had easy access to Juke boxes and 45s. This record was in a jukebox in the garage, and I played it over and over and over as a kid. Now, many years later, I’m living in my grandparents house with the same garage, and still listening to the same record - only on UA-cam now!
I remember my brother going to the juke box repair shop in the 70s and buying the used 45s. I think he still has some of those. Good times.
Takes me back to when we green 1969 Olds Cutlass with an under dash 8 track player and my late mother singing this song with Salem cigarette buts crammed around the tape so it wouldn’t drag when playing
The dual organ interplay with the plucking guitar riff is pure magic wrapped in a country western bent
I am 49 and i would rather listen to the older music anytime. The 1980s down to the 1940s is better than what they play in these days.
The 70s were a great time to be young and in love !!
Amen
Well said
Hard times but great times, with all the struggles , heartaches id do it again
couldn't agree more !
Teenage years for me 😊👍
@@jessestewart169 you were really lucky !
I wasn't much into country music in 1971 but this song crossed over to pop and was getting airplay on top 40 stations and I took an instant liking to it. What a beautiful song that never becomes outdated. Still got a 45 of it.
I was 11 in 1971.How time passes.My Dads favourite passed away 2013 @ 84.
I was 11 years old when this song was new
Still LOVE this song!!!
I remember where I was and a troubled marriage like if was yesterday 😢1971when I heard that
My father had this in a collection of 45s. Definitely a part of my childhood I can remember disappearing into, stacking the records, listening to the mechanism drop the next one, the pop of the lead in, and then the music you’d sing along with. Yesterday was definitely better than today in every facet for some people like me.
you're right past especially 70's to 00's was very charming, today social media and digital world have created mess.
Yes, I recall this song, and it was a major one. A whole lot of memories. Country-western music, at it's finest.
Same
I love this beautiful song. I love the words❤❤❤
I had the honor and privilege to meet Freddie Hart in Nashville outside of the world famous Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge. He was such a nice man and when I told him Easy Loving was the greatest country song ever written he was touched.
Beautiful song and beautiful voice. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
My favorite song by Freddie Hart! Thanks D!
My Grandpa Would Play This For My Grandma Ty For Sharing This 💖
A timeless classic that emerges through the many years countless turns later as one of country's best singled ever recorded..thank God it shot to the top when released..and deservedly so..
Was a teenager when this great song came out. Still love it.
I can’t understand why country radio stopped playing real country music.
This is a pop country song.
@@HillbillyBoogie1it’s popular but it’s not manufactured cookie-cutter stuff of all music today.
I get your rebuttal but the original comment does have a point, albeit overstated on here.
One of the best country songs EVER, and it shot to #17 on the pop charts. Aw, man, I gotta do something about those onions.
MY FAVORITE SONG BY FEDDIE HE HAS A LOVELY VOICE RIP
Mine too , Mary.
great song I remember this one growing up
It's a hard one to forget..thanks Tina for commenting
@@WickerBillVintageCountryMusic yes it is I wish I was dancing to that song again
@@tinabeck4876 i can relate to that.
@@WickerBillVintageCountryMusic be nice to have someone dance with again
this song also went to #28 on the easy listening charts in 1971!!!
2024 August and still love this
Wow!!!, a 45 record never sounded so good 👍🏽 👏🏽 When music brought chills and still does! RIP Freddie
I love this 1971 Freddie Hart hit, which peaked @ #17 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart!!!
Bravo and R.I.P., Freddie. :'(
Here is an authentic legendary classic.. :-]
Thank you for what you stood for, and all the great music.
This song "Easy Loving" by Freddie Hart is absolutely awesome!!
I was 3 yo. Still my all time favorite song. Brings back good memories of my daddy. He is the reason I love music & learned piano. He played guitar. I think that’s one reason I loved Roy Clark. He looked a lot like my daddy.
I was three years old in 1971, and I love this song. True country music.
I was only eight years old
Absolutely love this song. Usually we associate songs with pleasant memories. But I remember this song (I was 16 years old) playing on a radio in the background in 1971 as my boss at the food store was reprimanding me in the backroom: ("You're not supposed to run home on your break, we have a breakroom here"). He was a good guy, though, and I went on to be a more conscientious employee!
Je suis nee en 71. Cette chanson toujours dans mon coeur❤❤❤❤
this song went to #17 on the pop charts in 1971!!!
And it spent 12 weeks in the top 40 which was about the average stay for a top 10 or even a #1 at the time.
I was four years old and my dad singing this to my mom
I learned this song among others alike that I'd grow up a music lover. You did good Mama. Rest easy ❤
I was so in luv...he was gorgeous & the best man...best time in my life. We luved to slow dance to this song in 1971...I have the 45.
you were lucky America was a great county at that time, right now everything is a mess.
This lovely song reminds us that our country has been taken over by our adversaries.
Great song ❤😂
dad sang this to mom on their 5th anniversary both have passed on but the memories live on love and miss you both...
1 of my favorite
I Was Lucky To MEET Robert, When He Left Boss angeles For Chicago + It DIDN'T work Out,
When He Returned He Went To KMPC+ THEY'RE SOFTBALL TEAM CAME TO SIMI VALLEY AND PLAYED OUR TEAM, HIS FAVORITE SONG WAS THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA, WHEN HE PASSED I TOOK THE DAY OFF OF WORK+ CRIED + CRIED LISTENING TO ALL THE PEOPLE IN LOS ANGELES SHARING THEIR MEMORIES ❤😂😊
My dad wishes our hometown country music radio station 95.3 KRTY in San Jose played this song! :)
I love you, mom
I was 7 years old exact music was awesome
Last Listen to this was with my late grandmother Thelma 😢 makes me think of her 😊 good memories miss an love you Kokom
#1 Country and Top 20 pop.
I remember this vividly riding through the night in my Dad's 1974 Peterbilt cabover. Felt like I was on top of the world
I was 19 years old and in love with a beautiful sweet girlfriend 💕 😍 ❤️ ♥️
If there ever was a perfect honky tonk slow dance song.....
love this song and love Freddie's singing xx
Love Freddie. Little pervy. Great steel part
Great Country song Bill 🎸♪♫♪♥ the kinda woman every man dreams about😊 .. Lucky guy who has that Beautiful Angel . Love his voice and the song♪♫♪♥ week end and it's party time woohoo💃💖🕺🥂🎈😊🥂
For me this real country
True country classic
But this is a pop country song?
What a singer. We had a singer down in Beaumont, Texas who reminded me of Freddie.
i actually lived this music back in the day
Jack Eubanks, a family friend played guitar on this, one of my favorites
The best country song of all time bar none.
It's a good one alright.
This was my dad's favorite song and I remember hearing it a lot on 1360 KMO in Tacoma, WA in the early 70s.
What a killer organ part opposite the repeating guitar riff
this is a good song to play real quietly in the background
Thank you Wicker Bill
Lovely favorites.
What a great old song!!!!!!!
I'm 54 but my dad played this when I was little and I still love it!!!! Music isn't as good as it used to be for sure!!! This house of sand, If fingerprints showed up on skin, one more mountain to climb,
Write it all in, everybody in the whole world Holding hands , the arms of love, California grapevine, Easy lovin , and my favorite "Trip to heaven" just to mention a couple of my favorite Freddy Hart songs... what a legend!!
Thank you for leading me to those songs I'd never heard. I was raised on rock n roll along with my peers but, my dad always listened to country. I loved a lot of it. Easy Lovin was one of them.
@@darylp9975 you are welcome! Had you ever listened to "Trip to heaven" before?
@@nightmareaccomplice5816 No. That's a great song. Back in those days I listened to the rock and pop stations. Never went in the honky tonks much (after high school) but frequented the discos and college campus bars. I enjoy a lot of different styles of music. When head-bangin/punk rock started infiltrating the radio, I turned to country. I was always a more country-rock kinda guy anyway (Buffalo Springfield, Poco, Crosby Stills & Nash, The Eagles). Thanks Again, Daryl {:o )
I miss this kind of music 🎶
Beautiful song ♥️🎸♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️
You sure know how to help a gal feel good
The plucking sucking guitar echoing off the organ is in s just dope
The guy knew how to do a love song ! My first girlfriend loved his music !
I love my country music
Good music.....👍👍
My brother loved this song
This was my Dad's only favorite country song. He bought it on 45. He'd get me to call his girlfriend, and I handed him the phone, and he said hey baby, listen to this! Lol!
Aww one of my mom's favorite songs. ❤
The summer of 1971 was so good ❤
Remembering Freddie Heart born on December 21, 1926. He was an American country musician and songwriter best known for his chart-topping country song and lone pop hit "Easy Loving, " which won the Country Music Association Song of the Year award in 1971 and 1972. Hart charted singles from 1953 to 1987, and later became a gospel singer. He also performed at music festivals and other venues until his death in 2018. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Hart
CMA Song of the Year two years in a row, '71 and '72.
My mom took me to see him live when I was a little girl , I have his autograph. 😁
thanks
🎹💝🎵🎶🎻 I love this one too, it has just appeared on my screen. He really had a fantastic voice. Cheers Bill 🎸🎶🎵💝🎹
One of my all time favorites
It's so easy to love this country song! Seeing is believing when easy loving is so sexy looking! Indeed!
Bless Your Heart, you are absolutely right.
I loved the 70s.
Lots of heroes are gone now...
This is the most beautiful country song ever written! If I could, I would love to do a remake!
Uh Uh you don't mess with perfection 🇺🇸🙏
@@petelee9887I had the privilege of meeting Freddie in Nashville right outside of Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge. He was such a nice man and was so touched by the fact I had such a fondness for this song. No remake could ever be as good as the original and that’s why no one has ever made one.
Love this Cw. Thank you
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS POST !!!! / THIS IS ''''MY VERY FAVORITE SONG''' !!!! / FROM THE FIRST TIME THAT I LISTENED TO IT ------ I HAVE LOVED IT !!! / and I LOVED '''FREDDIE HART""!!!!
I like this version & Conway Twitty!
Beautiful enjoyed it
The echoing organ pRts aewebeyond unique