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 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!
@@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!
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
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 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 was 7 when this song came out. My Mom and Dad would take me to the record store every Saturday to get country records that was in the top 40 that week. This was one of them. I still remember seeing this record going around on the record player. That's how I got to love this and lots of other 70s country songs .also Sunday Morning Coming Down, Queen of The Silver Dollar, Rose Garden, Funny Face, Happiest Girl in The whole USA, Jolene, Play Guitar Play, You've Never Been This Far Before, I Love, Satin Sheets, Behind Closed Doors, The Most Beautiful Girl, Paper Roses and lots more. My Dad's Favorite Singer was Hank Williams Sr. I know all of Hanks hits from listening as a little boy. Then my Parents would start buying me 45s of songs I started liking, I can Help, The Night Chicgo Died, The Night The Lights Went out in Georgia, Seasons in The Son, Knock Three Times and many many more. The 70s had the best music.
I LOVED playing mom and dad's records! When I was a very young teen I LOVED singing Happiest Girl in the Whole USA. I was a skinny scrawny girl and had some neighbor kids over one time for a little mom and dad are away party (my friends idea but she did like getting me in trouble a lot, lol). I had a sliding glass door in my bedroom that let out to the back yard so kids could sneak in without my Grandmother hearing (plus she was hard of hearing). I played this record (which pretty much ZERO of my pals would play and sang and they said "WOW" you sing really good!" Made my whole year! Plus there was a boy I had a crush on there. lol but he liked my friend better since she wasn't so scrawny. LOL I still remember his name and I'm now 63 years old! AGH! Darren Blauert! I was friends with his younger sister Michelle (still have a pic of her and I). Haven't seen any of them since I was 13 but happened to be thinking about his sis Michelle and I was on Facebook old high school page and there was her name! I was absolutely floored AND she has barely changed though 50 years later! (Must be nice cause WOW have I changed and look so old. lol Yeah, these songs can bring a FLOOD of memories back for sure! I will ALWAYS love this song.. I miss my mom and my dad SO much it hurts...Easy Lovin' YES
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 ❤😂😊
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.
@@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!
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..
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!
My kids were 9 and 12 when this song came out and I wasn't a big country music lover at that time, but they must have heard it on the radio and they apparently loved it. I would hear them them singing the title line. Now they knew they weren't supposed use bad words, and other than the obvious words I don't know how they censored the list, but I would hear them singing "Easy loving, so beepsy looking" Lol!! Great memory!
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💃💖🕺🥂🎈😊🥂
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
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 )
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
🌹
Absolute pure solid country gold. RIP Freddie you were absolutely amazing
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
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 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 was 11 in 1971.How time passes.My Dads favourite passed away 2013 @ 84.
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 !
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.
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
I was 19 years old and in love with a beautiful sweet girlfriend 💕 😍 ❤️ ♥️
My father died in 1980 and this was his favorite song ❤️and I listen to it every chance I get to bring back memories
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.
My Grandpa Would Play This For My Grandma Ty For Sharing This 💖
One of the top five greatest country songs in history.
Still LOVE this song!!!
I was 7 when this song came out. My Mom and Dad would take me to the record store every Saturday to get country records that was in the top 40 that week. This was one of them. I still remember seeing this record going around on the record player. That's how I got to love this and lots of other 70s country songs .also Sunday Morning Coming Down, Queen of The Silver Dollar, Rose Garden, Funny Face, Happiest Girl in The whole USA, Jolene, Play Guitar Play, You've Never Been This Far Before, I Love, Satin Sheets, Behind Closed Doors, The Most Beautiful Girl, Paper Roses and lots more. My Dad's Favorite Singer was Hank Williams Sr. I know all of Hanks hits from listening as a little boy. Then my Parents would start buying me 45s of songs I started liking, I can Help, The Night Chicgo Died, The Night The Lights Went out in Georgia, Seasons in The Son, Knock Three Times and many many more. The 70s had the best music.
I LOVED playing mom and dad's records! When I was a very young teen I LOVED singing Happiest Girl in the Whole USA. I was a skinny scrawny girl and had some neighbor kids over one time for a little mom and dad are away party (my friends idea but she did like getting me in trouble a lot, lol). I had a sliding glass door in my bedroom that let out to the back yard so kids could sneak in without my Grandmother hearing (plus she was hard of hearing). I played this record (which pretty much ZERO of my pals would play and sang and they said "WOW" you sing really good!" Made my whole year! Plus there was a boy I had a crush on there. lol but he liked my friend better since she wasn't so scrawny. LOL I still remember his name and I'm now 63 years old! AGH! Darren Blauert! I was friends with his younger sister Michelle (still have a pic of her and I).
Haven't seen any of them since I was 13 but happened to be thinking about his sis Michelle and I was on Facebook old high school page and there was her name! I was absolutely floored AND she has barely changed though 50 years later! (Must be nice cause WOW have I changed and look so old. lol
Yeah, these songs can bring a FLOOD of memories back for sure!
I will ALWAYS love this song.. I miss my mom and my dad SO much it hurts...Easy Lovin' YES
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 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
Original music with out drama
( this song reminds me of my mom)
me too.. mom and dad.. I LOVE the song but it is a pain in my heart and a warm glow at the same time.. i will never forget what real LOVE use to be..
this song also went to #28 on the easy listening charts in 1971!!!
I hear this often on the Willie Nelson Channel on Sirius. A simple song. Great melody and lyrics. Sincere! I just love it.
Beautiful love song. ❤
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 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.
For me this real country
True country classic
But this is a pop country song?
Je suis nee en 71. Cette chanson toujours dans mon coeur❤❤❤❤
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 mom took me to see him live when I was a little girl , I have his autograph. 😁
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.
My favorite song by Freddie Hart! Thanks D!
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!
MY FAVORITE SONG BY FEDDIE HE HAS A LOVELY VOICE RIP
Mine too , Mary.
This song "Easy Loving" by Freddie Hart is absolutely awesome!!
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..
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.
2024 August and still love this
i actually lived this music back in the day
Was a teenager when this great song came out. Still love it.
I remember where I was and a troubled marriage like if was yesterday 😢1971when I heard that
Last Listen to this was with my late grandmother Thelma 😢 makes me think of her 😊 good memories miss an love you Kokom
I love this 1971 Freddie Hart hit, which peaked @ #17 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart!!!
Bravo and R.I.P., Freddie. :'(
Wow!!!, a 45 record never sounded so good 👍🏽 👏🏽 When music brought chills and still does! RIP Freddie
If there ever was a perfect honky tonk slow dance song.....
What a killer organ part opposite the repeating guitar riff
I learned this song among others alike that I'd grow up a music lover. You did good Mama. Rest easy ❤
Beautiful song and beautiful voice. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I love you, mom
Love Freddie. Little pervy. Great steel part
I remember this vividly riding through the night in my Dad's 1974 Peterbilt cabover. Felt like I was on top of the world
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!
I was 11 years old when this song was new
My kids were 9 and 12 when this song came out and I wasn't a big country music lover at that time, but they must have heard it on the radio and they apparently loved it. I would hear them them singing the title line. Now they knew they weren't supposed use bad words, and other than the obvious words I don't know how they censored the list, but I would hear them singing "Easy loving, so beepsy looking" Lol!! Great memory!
My Papa danced with a little girl to this song.
This was my dad's favorite song and I remember hearing it a lot on 1360 KMO in Tacoma, WA in the early 70s.
CMA Song of the Year two years in a row, '71 and '72.
Great song ❤😂
What a singer. We had a singer down in Beaumont, Texas who reminded me of Freddie.
My dad wishes our hometown country music radio station 95.3 KRTY in San Jose played this song! :)
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💃💖🕺🥂🎈😊🥂
I was four years old and my dad singing this to my mom
Excellent song Wicker Bill ❤ keep the great songs coming .
Now that is country music not the the bull$#@! Of today
You sure know how to help a gal feel 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
The guy knew how to do a love song ! My first girlfriend loved his music !
Here is an authentic legendary classic.. :-]
I think this was cma song of the year two years in a row.
This lovely song reminds us that our country has been taken over by our adversaries.
I was three years old in 1971, and I love this song. True country music.
I was only eight years old
I love my country music
I miss this kind of music 🎶
this is a good song to play real quietly in the background
Thank you for what you stood for, and all the great music.
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 )
Jack Eubanks, a family friend played guitar on this, one of my favorites
1 of my favorite
I was 7 years old exact music was awesome
#1 Country and Top 20 pop.
I wonder why this is one of the only Freddie Hart's songs not on any Streaming apps like Amazon Music, Spotify or Pandora?
The summer of 1971 was so good ❤
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.
One of my all time favorites
🎹💝🎵🎶🎻 I love this one too, it has just appeared on my screen. He really had a fantastic voice. Cheers Bill 🎸🎶🎵💝🎹
Love this Cw. Thank you
Thank you Wicker Bill
Lovely favorites.
My brother loved this song
The best country song of all time bar none.
It's a good one alright.
Lots of heroes are gone now...
Aww one of my mom's favorite songs. ❤
love this song and love Freddie's singing xx
Good music.....👍👍
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""!!!!
Beautiful song ♥️🎸♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️
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.