It's amazing to think that the sound at 1:27 was the mainstream's first real introduction to the 'fuzz-tone' sound that later went on to define a ton or rock and roll, yet it came from here in a country hit. We just had Marty Robbins discussed on our show last month about Country but here he comes again in an upcoming episode about rock sounds. Think of the buzz of the guitars that kick off The Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" and you can hear the origin here. There's a fun article about this sort of history - check out William Weir's piece "50 Years of Making Fuzz, the Sound that Defines Rock n' Roll".
True. You would think they would give it another take. As far as the Stones - that wasn't supposed to be there. Keith was making a guide track for a horn section if I'm not mistaken. Seems like one needs two mistakes to make it right
A similar thing happend during the recording of Rocket 88 by the Delta Cats. They had a speaker cone go out on their way to the studio. They tried fixing it,but it still sounded funky. People liked the effect so they left it in.
@@TaxingIsThieving My grandfather was born 1889 which made him 72 when this came out and he loved it. He died in 1978 @ 89. And BTW he was one of the last great American cowboys. Also was in WW1, was one of the few surviving members of the WW1 lost battalion, wounded twice and received a Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Silver Star! But loved listening to MR.
Brilliant song. Maybe, just maybe, one day the Rock and Roll HOF will open its doors to the likes of Marty Robbins, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristopherson and Patsy Cline.
Funny enough without this song Hendrix wouldn’t have sounded the way he does!!! That tuba sounding bass led to the development of the first ever guitar/bass effect pedal!
One of the best country music artists to every grace this Earth. His voice is beautiful and smooth. I've loved his music and entertainment starting in the early '60's and reruns of TV shows from the late '50's. His own TV shows were some of the best. Great entertainer
Marty Robbins is a fabulous singer! I was a tiny tot when my parents began playing his albums on the hi-fi. I loved all his ballads and songs from the cattle trails. And to this day, his version of "The Ballad of the Alamo" never fails to make me cry, and swells my heart with pride at being a native Texan. I saw him once live at a dinner theatre in the late '70's and he brought the house down. With his melodic sound and instilled emotion, no other singer had ever been able to render me spellbound. Although I am a rock and roller now.....still.....I have every album he ever made, and listen to them all the time. I miss you, Mr. Robbins.
I've been listening to a lot of Marty lately because he was a favorite of my grandparents to listen to and dance together with his music playing on vinyl, they are both gone now so it's very touching to try and connect the lyrics that they both cherished together to a modern context
"Don't Worry" is an early example of guitar distortion after session guitarist Grady Martin, using a faulty channel in the mixing-desk for his six-string bass, created a distorted sound. Although Martin didn't like the sound, Robbins' producer left the guitar track as it was.
Me too Betty….Ever since I was 13 , when this first came out , I fell in love with Marty…he just got better and better over the years….cried like a baby when he passed .
Man, that is one clean recording. Sounds great coming through my "made in Japan" 1980 JVC receiver complete with 1980 sansui 3 ways. It's like Marty is playing in my living room. That unique guitar solo is the coolest sound.
@@culturalforensicsprofessor7990 I can dig that Professor. I grew up on a horse farm in Michigan in the 60s-70s and this classic was on our old 1957 Rock Ola for a time. Man , I miss those days.
@@wrotenwasp I'm going to try and find some Marty Robbins vinyl. Either that, or some brilliant businessman should start reissuing Country recordings on high-quality vinyl.
Marty Robbins was An Amazing Singer & Song Writer 🎵 Used to Listen to ALL of his Vinyl Records when I Was Young Kid - Both Marty Robbins & Gene Piney Was My Mom's favorite Music Singers 🎶 . 🎶
I wonder if the sudden fuzz of the bass in that specific location was intentional, I know the sound came from a faulty amp, but the part where it breaks is the perfect spot
First digital distortion in a record. Marty Robbins recording session in 1961, a busted transformer cast a wooly, distorted tone over guitarist Grady Martin's 6-string Danelectro bass. Robbins and engineer Glenn Snoddy recognized the novelty, opted to keep it. 1:26
Randy Bachman: "Well it wasn’t a fuzz pedal it was a distortion unit where I was trying to copy the sound of Marty Robbins in the song "Don’t Worry About me." He had a little Fender amp with a handle and in the studio, it fell down the stairs. The funnel insert was ripped in half. In the solo on this song, the speaker was ripped in half. It made a distorted low noise. Nobody had foot pedals back then."
Fender amps.......ALL Fender amps had speakers in a cabinet or an enclosure. I find it highly unlikely the speaker/s were damaged from a ride down the staircase or at the landing. Broken tubes or damaged cabinet sure.
@@Rocketman88002Maybe a dislocated magnet? A friend had a Fender Champ like that. We found that lightly tapping the magnet with a rubber mallet at the right point would realign it with the voice coil. But then again is sure didn't sound as raunchy as this recording but more of an unpleasant scratchy buzz.
the amp was a 59 Bassman that had been in the studio forever. no stairs involved & it's a bass line played by Grady Martin. first song ever recorded with 2 bass lines.
@Rocketman88002 have you ever taken the tour of Sun Studio? Rocket 88? That was a busted Amp! They dropped it out of a car trunk & Sam Phillips would spend next 10 years creating effects, echo & distortion!
@@Rocketman88002 March of 1951, a guitar amp got damaged on Highway 61 and the distorted fuzzed out sound was recorded by Sam Phillips on Jackie Brenston's hit Rocket 88
What a talent he was! I remember listening to his music as a tiny tot, ad my parents lived him and had every album he made. I learned to appreciate the beauty of his voice...the heartfelt emotion his voice contained...the many wonderful songs he sang. Lots of decades later, his songs still sound as wonderful as they did when I was a child, and the albums my folks had are now mine....I still get tears in my eyes every time I hear him sing "The Ballad of the Alamo", and I sit transfixed listening to his trail songs and songs of the old west. I know the world misses Marty.....I sure do. There will never be another like him. Period.
True. And I read once that someone thought that if Marty had come along a few years earlier during the day of the singing cowboy, he would have even been a bigger star! This song is so great that it ought to be in the Smithsonian!
@@stevenpollard5171I couldn't agree with you more! He was truly a singer like no other. Such a beautiful, rich voice packed with passion and a depth of feeling.. .I have never heard another balladeer that can hold a candle to Marty. I don't think he ever really got the recognition he deserves! I am so glad I have his LPS....and I have them all on CD as well. ♥️
Es un exelente cantante Criollo y creo a a.ciencia cierta para mi concepto.de los Mejores y tiene ese toque del.americano Tipico rustico.Gracias Marty eres buen musico de Contry.Me.gusta oirlo mucho Y le pongo.atencion.a letra.Good music Marty.thanks.
I do not think Marty ever used his great voice to better effect than in this song. On a side note, the guitar fuzz was not the first time the first time that electronics effects showed up in a pop tune. Toni Fisher's 1959 hit, The Big Hurt, was intentionally distorted by mixing the master with a slightly off-phase duplicate, giving it a fading effect.
The Toni Fisher effect is called a phaser these days. It is not the same as distortion. Phasing was heavily used in funk music. So it might have been the first use of a phaser.
@@rileyyyyhIf you're unfamiliar with Ween, listen to some of their albums (The Mollusk is a good starting point bc it has a wide variety of genres in one album, and has arguably their most famous song, Ocean Man); their characteristic sound can only be described as ...BROWN
His Lucky the let luck come in thier life the dont, look for it i look for him to be luck person simple is that i know him dont know me but the lucky come to him amen bless you all amen
@@lazrpo your correct, yes I meant the first pedal is modeled after this but first 'guitar fx' used in a song. There was also that guy that poked holes in his amp but I'm not sure if he was after or not
Here for the first ever Fuzz!!!! Just awesome!!!!
That might actually be the heaviest riff ive ever heard......madness...
It actually goes insane. Like fucking bonkers
When a faulty amplifier makes music history along side one of finest singers in American history.
Who says it was faulty, i dont think so.
@@grindfreakmike5754the amplifier had a blown out tube. Thats what made the distortion effect.
@@KHolt22 Not distortion, but Fuzz
@@farhanlol7 ☝🤓
Wasn't an amp, it was the mixing console.
you might not be ready for that yet... but your kids are gonna love it
It's amazing to think that the sound at 1:27 was the mainstream's first real introduction to the 'fuzz-tone' sound that later went on to define a ton or rock and roll, yet it came from here in a country hit. We just had Marty Robbins discussed on our show last month about Country but here he comes again in an upcoming episode about rock sounds. Think of the buzz of the guitars that kick off The Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" and you can hear the origin here. There's a fun article about this sort of history - check out William Weir's piece "50 Years of Making Fuzz, the Sound that Defines Rock n' Roll".
Yeah!!
All due to a tube giving up the ghost at the right time. Just amazing to realize.
👍🎶🎸
He got that thang fixed at the racetrack finally.
True. You would think they would give it another take. As far as the Stones - that wasn't supposed to be there. Keith was making a guide track for a horn section if I'm not mistaken. Seems like one needs two mistakes to make it right
Happy accidents for the win!
A similar thing happend during the recording of Rocket 88 by the Delta Cats. They had a speaker cone go out on their way to the studio. They tried fixing it,but it still sounded funky. People liked the effect so they left it in.
lmao that fuzz came outta left field, I was like "..huh?" haha
This has been my favorite song since he recorded it and I am 67 years old.
Same age as me.Same i like.
Came for the fuzz, stayed for the feelz.
Marty has some slept on bangers.
I grew up with Marty Robbins. My parents sang together and my Dad had a beautiful tenor and Mom would sing sweet contralto harmony.
I think it's wild that someone born in the 1880s would have been listening to this.
Unlikely
@@TaxingIsThieving if a man was born in 1887, he would have been 74 when this song came out. Average life expectancy at the time was 77..... 🤷♂️
@@TaxingIsThieving My grandfather was born 1889 which made him 72 when this came out and he loved it. He died in 1978 @ 89.
And BTW he was one of the last great American cowboys. Also was in WW1, was one of the few surviving members of the WW1 lost battalion, wounded twice and received a Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Silver Star!
But loved listening to MR.
Brilliant song. Maybe, just maybe, one day the Rock and Roll HOF will open its doors to the likes of Marty Robbins, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristopherson and Patsy Cline.
Funny enough without this song Hendrix wouldn’t have sounded the way he does!!! That tuba sounding bass led to the development of the first ever guitar/bass effect pedal!
One of, if not THE most important song for modern guitar.
Yeah, I'm sure with Robbins doing ain't I right Hendrix was listening to a lot of his work.
Hippy fuzz rock sound!!!!!!
Who was the musician playing the fuzz baritone guitar?
@@grantkoeller8911Grady Martin
Wow. If Marty Robbins doesn't belong in the R&R HOF, at least this song does.
One of the best country music artists to every grace this Earth. His voice is beautiful and smooth. I've loved his music and entertainment starting in the early '60's and reruns of TV shows from the late '50's. His own TV shows were some of the best. Great entertainer
Gets better with every spin - thank you.
his voice is an insturment on its own - fuzz guitar adds a lot too.
This is luscious.....just absolutely perfect.
Marty Robbins is a fabulous singer! I was a tiny tot when my parents began playing his albums on the hi-fi. I loved all his ballads and songs from the cattle trails. And to this day, his version of "The Ballad of the Alamo" never fails to make me cry, and swells my heart with pride at being a native Texan. I saw him once live at a dinner theatre in the late '70's and he brought the house down. With his melodic sound and instilled emotion, no other singer had ever been able to render me spellbound. Although I am a rock and roller now.....still.....I have every album he ever made, and listen to them all the time. I miss you, Mr. Robbins.
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@@brantleysellars9987 what does that mean?
@@barbarabeesley7451 i replied to the wrong person sorry
Marty's son Ronny sounds JUST LIKE HIS DAD! 🤯
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His son most certainly does NOT sound like Marty.....not even close!
I've been listening to a lot of Marty lately because he was a favorite of my grandparents to listen to and dance together with his music playing on vinyl, they are both gone now so it's very touching to try and connect the lyrics that they both cherished together to a modern context
"Don't Worry" is an early example of guitar distortion after session guitarist Grady Martin, using a faulty channel in the mixing-desk for his six-string bass, created a distorted sound. Although Martin didn't like the sound, Robbins' producer left the guitar track as it was.
A voice like butter
The best country singer ever. I have loved Marty all my life.
Me too Betty….Ever since I was 13 , when this first came out , I fell in love with Marty…he just got better and better over the years….cried like a baby when he passed .
Bobby Sykes and Don Winters put the finishing touch on this great Marty performance.
Man, that is one clean recording. Sounds great coming through my "made in Japan" 1980 JVC receiver complete with 1980 sansui 3 ways. It's like Marty is playing in my living room. That unique guitar solo is the coolest sound.
Sounds great out of a jukebox playing the 45 in a beer bar.
@@culturalforensicsprofessor7990 I can dig that Professor. I grew up on a horse farm in Michigan in the 60s-70s and this classic was on our old 1957 Rock Ola for a time. Man , I miss those days.
@@wrotenwasp I'm going to try and find some Marty Robbins vinyl. Either that, or some brilliant businessman should start reissuing Country recordings on high-quality vinyl.
fuzz bass.
1 take
One of his best but they are all Topic, this men could wrote so well and sing them so so well, love you Marty, listening your hits regularly! 🎉💕
Marty Robbins was An Amazing Singer & Song Writer 🎵
Used to Listen to ALL of his Vinyl Records when
I Was Young Kid
- Both Marty Robbins
& Gene Piney Was My Mom's favorite Music Singers 🎶
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I love Marty Robbins music
Wow this studio mishap became legend which is why I'm here.
Wow. Listening to music history right there
Nice old song 😍❤
❤❤❤❤😊😊🎉🎉❤❤❤❤ 3:15 I have always loved Marty's music and him. Linda Brown
Beautiful voice!! Man was full of life all the good die young.
Loved this man u could always tell on the radio when he came on cause of his voice
I wonder if the sudden fuzz of the bass in that specific location was intentional, I know the sound came from a faulty amp, but the part where it breaks is the perfect spot
The first time it was not intentional but they liked the way it sounded
*Dope stuff.*
Love this song. My favorite song of all. Love. Love love
Great song sung with feeling
First digital distortion in a record. Marty Robbins recording session in 1961, a busted transformer cast a wooly, distorted tone over guitarist Grady Martin's 6-string Danelectro bass. Robbins and engineer Glenn Snoddy recognized the novelty, opted to keep it. 1:26
Nothing “digital” about it!
Digital lul
Yea a fried analog tube in the console invented digital technology, ask nasa or wesley or any other cuck that dont know wtf they are talkin about
Analog baby.
Where do you hear any distortion in this Gold piece of music??
God I forgot how much the bass actually shreds in this song
Randy Bachman: "Well it wasn’t a fuzz pedal it was a distortion unit where I was trying to copy the sound of Marty Robbins in the song "Don’t Worry About me." He had a little Fender amp with a handle and in the studio, it fell down the stairs. The funnel insert was ripped in half. In the solo on this song, the speaker was ripped in half. It made a distorted low noise. Nobody had foot pedals back then."
Fender amps.......ALL Fender amps had speakers in a cabinet or an enclosure. I find it highly unlikely the speaker/s were damaged from a ride down the staircase or at the landing. Broken tubes or damaged cabinet sure.
@@Rocketman88002Maybe a dislocated magnet? A friend had a Fender Champ like that. We found that lightly tapping the magnet with a rubber mallet at the right point would realign it with the voice coil. But then again is sure didn't sound as raunchy as this recording but more of an unpleasant scratchy buzz.
the amp was a 59 Bassman that had been in the studio forever. no stairs involved & it's a bass line played by Grady Martin. first song ever recorded with 2 bass lines.
@Rocketman88002 have you ever taken the tour of Sun Studio? Rocket 88? That was a busted Amp! They dropped it out of a car trunk & Sam Phillips would spend next 10 years creating effects, echo & distortion!
@@Rocketman88002 March of 1951, a guitar amp got damaged on Highway 61 and the distorted fuzzed out sound was recorded by Sam Phillips on Jackie Brenston's hit Rocket 88
one of the best scenes of "A perfect world" (clint eastwood, 1993)
I came for the fuzz, stayed for the voice
What a talent he was! I remember listening to his music as a tiny tot, ad my parents lived him and had every album he made. I learned to appreciate the beauty of his voice...the heartfelt emotion his voice contained...the many wonderful songs he sang. Lots of decades later, his songs still sound as wonderful as they did when I was a child, and the albums my folks had are now mine....I still get tears in my eyes every time I hear him sing "The Ballad of the Alamo", and I sit transfixed listening to his trail songs and songs of the old west. I know the world misses Marty.....I sure do. There will never be another like him. Period.
True. And I read once that someone thought that if Marty had come along a few years earlier during the day of the singing cowboy, he would have even been a bigger star! This song is so great that it ought to be in the Smithsonian!
@@stevenpollard5171I couldn't agree with you more! He was truly a singer like no other. Such a beautiful, rich voice packed with passion and a depth of feeling.. .I have never heard another balladeer that can hold a candle to Marty. I don't think he ever really got the recognition he deserves! I am so glad I have his LPS....and I have them all on CD as well. ♥️
Love this song from the fantastic marty the greatest singer of all time
Es un exelente cantante Criollo y creo a
a.ciencia cierta para mi concepto.de los
Mejores y tiene ese toque del.americano
Tipico rustico.Gracias Marty eres buen musico de Contry.Me.gusta oirlo mucho
Y le pongo.atencion.a letra.Good music
Marty.thanks.
I do not think Marty ever used his great voice to better effect than in this song. On a side note, the guitar fuzz was not the first time the first time that electronics effects showed up in a pop tune. Toni Fisher's 1959 hit, The Big Hurt, was intentionally distorted by mixing the master with a slightly off-phase duplicate, giving it a fading effect.
The Toni Fisher effect is called a phaser these days. It is not the same as distortion. Phasing was heavily used in funk music. So it might have been the first use of a phaser.
Love this song
geetar = Grady Martin = magics.
This Released 1961 ; "Rumble" by Link Wray and his Ray Men was released in 1958
Link didn't use a fuzz because they weren't invented yet. The sound came from an overdriven speaker.
The Best Music 🍷👍
The song that invented distortion.
Along with the Beatles "revolution".
@@grindfreakmike5754 I think you meant The Kinks - You Really Got me (Which came out 3 and a half years BEFORE Revolution was released).
Song did not invent distortion and was totally an accident , was caused by the vibration of needle when cutting/recording the song.
To think of what happen next after this was released to the public 😂❤🎉
The best
I really wanna hear what Ween would do with this song. That solo is B R O W N af
I'm sure they've done it live, somewhere.
brown?
@@rileyyyyhIf you're unfamiliar with Ween, listen to some of their albums (The Mollusk is a good starting point bc it has a wide variety of genres in one album, and has arguably their most famous song, Ocean Man); their characteristic sound can only be described as
...BROWN
I love all country songs
My grandpas favorite song ❤ he passed away in 2017 and I miss him everyday of my life ❤️❤️❤️
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My favorite ❤️
1:26 Aw yeah
Who else is here to hear the history of distortion / fuzz ???
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His Lucky the let luck come in thier life the dont, look for it i look for him to be luck person simple is that i know him dont know me but the lucky come to him amen bless you all amen
Thia is the birth of Metal 👽🐕🚵♀
I'm told the amp malfunctioned but the producer liked the sound and left it in.
Kind of surprised they kept the fuzz actually. So out of place. But glad they did
Woah, you can hear him clear his throat at the beginning of the recording
Can you give the time marking for that? I can't hear it. Thanks.
@@The22on :06
@@michaelpaulcorder Thanks!
fuzz bass
The part with the faulty amplifier sounds good. But for some reason it stresses me out and I don't know why.
From this cute romantic song to stuff like Wh_res. 😂 I love guitar
Mooi !!! Nice voice like the song,and the singer 😍🥰
Please excuse me;
I’m just here for the bass 😎
Shoutout to Marty Robbina for accidentally inventing the doom metal bass tone
Dead Wax brought me here.
How Many More Times
The all good
Historic bass/guitar effect pedal moment. But damn,...that fuzz is terrible. It does sound like a blown and broken circuit!
Like God i know God in my young ages i always dreams God i said one day i talk to you i did here i am true yeah i talk to him in the SkY
The very 1st bass effect.
who else was sent here from dead wax? 1:26
I just read it was the recording console that was wired wrong caused the distortion.
Lmao if you put on headphones and listen to 0:05, you can hear him clear his throat before starting
I BEENING LOOKING FOR THIS BY MARTY😂
First use of a fx pedal used in the world on guitar!
Not quite - it was a faulty channel on the mixing desk, but after they recorded it they were quick to reproduce the sound in a pedal!
@@lazrpo your correct, yes I meant the first pedal is modeled after this but first 'guitar fx' used in a song. There was also that guy that poked holes in his amp but I'm not sure if he was after or not
bass guitar
Heard some fuzz in haggards the running kind. Know they were close. Wanna know who was first
"it's just a fart, no one will notice"
the fart: 1:26
A google ad brought me here lol
i like this uwu
20 6c
Happy little accidents.
THALL
Neil Young told me to come here.
I'll found out later but I think this is a song where they used a ripped speaker to get that the bass sound weird buzzing
It is not - the solo was recorded on a faulty channel on the recording deck.
Just think.. bands like Cannibal Corpse and Deicide are direct descendants of Marty. 😂
That’s just how music works fuzz or not
1:27 B A S S
1:27 changed music forever
If THIS doesn't do it for you, I recommend you seek medical advice - you broken!
why the background sounds like farts
Noice
I came for the fuzz, stayed for the voice
how is this not in Fallout the show