One of those 'good guys' who was blessed with such talent. Quietly did many good works and lived a life of christian values. Must have been just the ticket as he was always smiling and laughing. RIP
Oh, Harri…you have NO IDEA! Roy is known best as a country singer, and I would hope you’d dig a bit deeper into his work. Especially a song that was a huge hit “Yesterday When I Was Young”, not so much country though. He is best known as a host of the show “Hee Haw”
He played guitar, banjo, and violin. Most people remember him from the show HEE HAW. Clapton, Jeff Beck and many others claim he is the greatest guitarist they ever heard. I have seen him play this on an acoustic, electric (in this video), and a 12 string flamenco guitar
@@keithgraham9547 Uh, no sir. The late, great, Roy Clark played one for Johnny Carson many years ago. JC asked if he was going to play his Jew's Harp. Roy laughed and said it was a Juice Harp. I thought the same, but I'll take the word of Roy Clark.
Roy was mostly known as a Country/Western artist, but is really just one Hell of a talent. He plays about 30 different instruments, and plays them at a very high level. He was one of the greatest guitarists, of any genre in the world. Roy passed away a few years ago.
At the end of it all Roy was just a southern boy with talent and magic in his hands.The other players on the hee haw show used to say as a joke IF IT HAS STRINGS KEEP ROY OFF IT SO HE DON'T BREAK IT BEFORE THE SHOW STARTS.
He was mostly a country western singer from the US. He was a prolific guitar player who could cover all genres of music. He co hosted a show called Hee Haw for many years which was a southern country weekly TV show.
@@sixslinger9951 Slinger, for some reason Roy's down home comedy which was great by the way, kept folks from taking his music skills seriously. I'm trying to get a grip on this issue. Roy was one of the greatest musicians ever to be born. He played all of those stringed instruments at GOAT level.
My maiden name is Clark. Roy Clark was a cousin on my dad's side. My dad also played guitar, but of course never on that level. Roy really was a gentleman, kind and generous.
Roy Clark was a great player, and played just about anything with strings. He was also a great comedian / comic actor. He was a host of the television variety show Hee Haw forever. He passed a couple of years ago, in his late 80s I believe. Enjoy his comedy as you look into him, he was a good guy.
He is Roy Clark from tulsa Oklahoma USA. He plays around a dozen different instruments. He won some sort of BANJO competition at the age of 14. The man, the myth, the legend ROY CLARK passed away at his home in Tulsa Oklahoma from pneumonia in 2018 at the age of 85.
The great Roy Clark. He passed a few years back. He would always astound me by his guitar prowess. He was especially well known for hosting the country variety show Hee Haw. He was born a Virginian and known as an expert stringman versed in guitar, banjo and the fiddle. He also was a good vocalist. He was also known for appearing in the TV show Beverly Hillbillies. He backed Wanda Jackson and also sub hosted for TV personality Johnny Carson on the Tonight show frequently.
To do this on an electric guitar is really something special. Roy's right hand is like a hummingbird's wings at times. He plays it on the acoustic too!
Along the same lines you should watch Glen Campbell do The William Tell Overture in front of an orchestra. Or watch Roy Clark and Glen Campbell together on Ghost Riders In The Sky.
Actually "Malagueña" is a song written by Cuban American composer Ernesto Lecuona. It was originally the sixth movement of Lecuona's Suite Andalucía (1933), to which he added lyrics in Spanish. It is a genre of folk music from eastern Venezuela, most notably from the island of Margarita. (yes, THAT Margarita). He composed over 600 pieces, many of them of international fame. One of my favorite dance tunes is Siboney (a rumba). I've loved his music since the 1940s.
@@jamesforbes2871 Thanks. You're very musically erudite. Malaguena has always "been there" since I learn guitar as a kid, but I never heard anyone give the real story behind the song.
Roy is from Tennessee. He is one of my favorite guitarists. This is even better when he plays it on the 12 string acoustic. Thanks for these great musicians!
Watch Roy tear it up with the Texas great Clarence Gatemouth Brown and his band. All world class musicians and proof that Roy could sit in and play well in any genre!
He played anything with strings, sang beautifully, and was very funny as well. American country singer, known and loved beyond our borders. A virtuoso! Gone too soon.
Roy Clark was an *outrageously* gifted guitarist and entertainer. He was a successful recording artist, co-hosted/starred in Hee Haw for over 20 yrs plus appearances other numerous other TV shows, all while touring a fair bit and In 1983 he opened his own theater in Branson, Missouri and played there to packed houses until he sold it in the 1990s. Eddie Van Halen requested and was given lessons by Roy Clark! This is a rabbit hole well worth exploring. 🤘Rock On!🤘
Roy Clark's right hand pick control is just beyond next level. As a guitarist myself, I know it's an often overlooked part of a guitarist's arsenal, we tend to just work our left hand and make sure our picking hand keeps up. He truly is one of the greatest guitarists of all time. I first saw him on the show Hee Haw in the 70s, and liked his stuff, even as a kid, but it wasn't until much later when I started learning to play myself that I realized just how good he was. This man is one of those rare guitarists in his own class.
He's a great guitarist and all around talented man. Roy Clark is his real name. For more personal information on him, look him up on Wikipedia's website.
He lived in Tulsa Oklahoma & my dad was a friend of his. Roy's known as "the man that can play anything with strings" & it's true!! You HAVE to hear him play banjo, fiddle, mandolin! They're all FANTASTIC!!
Thanks, Harri - this is a classic! kind of "flamenco" -- the interesting thing is that Roy was known as a kind of "aw, shucks" country guy -- funny, self-deprecating, but a devastating musician who playing amazing banjo and violin (fiddle) as well -- very humble and kind... I knew him from that corny show "Hee Haw" when I was about 6-7 years old - but it took me years to realize how talented he truly was!
The father of a good friend of mine used to jam with Roy Clark on the TV shows Austin City Limits and Hee Haw. You need to check out the UA-cam videos with Roy Clark and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. You will be totally amazed and pleased at the way these two greats could get down and jam with each other.
Roy is his name. Born and raised in Virginia. Could play anything with strings. He does this on 6 and 12 string acoustic guitar. Look up him singing Yesterday, when I was young. Beautiful song.
I remember when I was a kid about 11-12 Roy use to be a regular on a country show called Hee- Haw and I would be mesmerized by his guitar playing he was that good!!!!!
So cool Harri...I happened to be your first view. Roy Clark is an exceptional guitar player, so I was glad you listened to him. I'm out of Guelph, Ontario on Canada, and have been enjoying your reactions.
Roy Clark can play just about anything he sets his mind to. There is a video of him and Johnny Cash playing and singing Folsom Prison Blues, playing Dueling Banjos with Buck Trent and playing Ghost Riders with Glen Campbell on guitar. You need to hear him do Thank God and Greyhound She's Gone.
Roy was a superb stringed instrument Master of the violin banjo acoustic guitar electric guitar but he also had personality as a comedian and he even was on Hee Haw
Harri,Roy was one of the very best there was.He could make you Laugh or cry with his playing.Try our Yesterday When I Was Young for one that can bring tears to your eyes.He was a good singer as well.Thanks my friend for this one!
His right hand omg ...a blur. He also famously played this on the classic tv show “The Odd Couple” on an acoustic guitar. He gives Jack Klugman and Tony Randall an up close performance that I definitely envy.
Malagueña was always known as the hardest song to play on the guitar. Roy Clark has a song you should definitely listen to called ‘Yesterday’!! He was on a show in America called Hee Haw. He is a well rounded artist! Can act, he’s comedic! And can play a lot of different instruments!
"Roy Linwood Clark (April 15, 1933 - November 15, 2018) was an American singer and musician. He is best known for having hosted Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969 to 1997. Clark was an important and influential figure in country music, both as a performer and in helping to popularize the genre. During the 1970s, Clark frequently guest-hosted for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and enjoyed a 30-million viewership for Hee Haw. Clark was highly regarded and renowned as a guitarist, banjo player, and fiddler. He was skilled in the traditions of many genres, including classical guitar, country music, Latin music, bluegrass, and pop. He had hit songs as a pop vocalist (e.g., "Yesterday, When I Was Young" and "Thank God and Greyhound"), and his instrumental skill had an enormous effect on generations of bluegrass and country musicians. He became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1987, and, in 2009, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He published his autobiography, My Life-in Spite of Myself, in 1994. Clark was born April 15, 1933, in Meherrin, Virginia, one of five children born to Hester Linwood Clark and Lillian Clark (Oliver). His father was a tobacco farmer. He spent his childhood in Meherrin and New York City, where his father moved the family to take jobs during the Great Depression. When Clark was 11 years old, his family moved to a home on 1st Street SE in the Washington Highlands neighborhood of Washington, D.C., after his father found work at the Washington Navy Yard."
Roy could play anything with strings, banjo, violin, guitar, and all at a master class level. Was a funny guy too if anyone remembers the show Hee Haw and various appearances on tv, etc.
I have listened to Roy Clark growing up on the TV show Heehaw but I have never heard him play this song. It was beautiful. I don't know how I missed hearing this song do thank you for this review.
When Roy was coming into his own as an entertainer, it was the music stars that introduced their fans to other forms of music. As stated in the other comments Roy Clark and Glen Cambell were some of the BEST string players ever. Country music stars then had to know how to play as many of the different instruments as possible. Glen Cambell taught Edie VanHallen a few things about playing guitar.
Welcome to the world of Roy Clark! You will be amazed at his musical range and talent. Even more so he was an entertainer and humble (as another commenter pointed out). I grew up watching him on Hee Haw, a corny, country variety show. In addition to his straight up musicianship there a lot of clips of him hamming it up while shredding the guitar or banjo.
Roy Clark was a co-host with Buck Owens on a TV show call Hee Haw for over 25 years he can play any stringed instrument and he is a comedian as well and can sing I think he was named Entertainer of the Year once unfortunately Roy died a few years ago but he was an unbelievable musician guitar banjo violin you name it he could play it thanks Hillary I really enjoyed this video
Roy Clark also had a very simple book , on how to play, the guitar. My son wanted to learn, and could read music. But being a single mom, could afford a guitar. A brother of mine died, and my son was given his guitar. He would practice in his room. I told him if he could play my, then favorite song I would buy him a new one with our income tax. The day I received my in come tax. He sat me down and played for me. He still has both guitars today.
Roy Clark was highly proficient at a variety of other musical instruments, such as the Banjo. Violin. Ukelele and Mandolin. Roy was the host on the long running TV show "Hee Haw", which featured Country Musics finest musicians, singers and songwriters. The list of guest stars reads like the Who's Who of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
He was a virtuoso on three instruments and yes he sings as well. I'm an old metalhead and love the technique and pure speed of metal, but when I saw this at the ripe old age of 16 it put me on notice. Hands down one of the best guitarists ever.
One of those 'good guys' who was blessed with such talent. Quietly did many good works and lived a life of christian values. Must have been just the ticket as he was always smiling and laughing. RIP
One of the most underrated musicians in history. I hope you do more. He’s very humorous and humble.
Just straight talent, man...an absolute master and one of the greatest of all time.
Roy played, "Both kinds of music; Country, and Western." Actually an understatement Roy Clark was a master, and could play whatever he wanted to.
Tahoe Mike Fantastic Blues Bros reference. Wai ... Was the bar owner named Roy??? I think so. Good memories. Cheers!
@@briandonovan1584 It was Bob's Country Bunker. Cheers
@@tahoemike5828 I was trying to remember ... But it was a 3 letter name. Lol. What a movie!!! Have a great one,
The good ol' blues brothers boys band.
@@Briansgate ...from Chicago...
Oh, Harri…you have NO IDEA! Roy is known best as a country singer, and I would hope you’d dig a bit deeper into his work. Especially a song that was a huge hit “Yesterday When I Was Young”, not so much country though. He is best known as a host of the show “Hee Haw”
He played guitar, banjo, and violin. Most people remember him from the show HEE HAW. Clapton, Jeff Beck and many others claim he is the greatest guitarist they ever heard. I have seen him play this on an acoustic, electric (in this video), and a 12 string flamenco guitar
And Mandolin.
If it had strings, Roy could play it. Whether he had before or not.
And Juice Harp.
@@kxd2591 probably was autocorrect, should be Jews Harp.
@@keithgraham9547 Uh, no sir. The late, great, Roy Clark played one for Johnny Carson many years ago. JC asked if he was going to play his Jew's Harp. Roy laughed and said it was a Juice Harp. I thought the same, but I'll take the word of Roy Clark.
Roy was mostly known as a Country/Western artist, but is really just one Hell of a talent. He plays about 30 different instruments, and plays them at a very high level. He was one of the greatest guitarists, of any genre in the world. Roy passed away a few years ago.
At the end of it all Roy was just a southern boy with talent and magic in his hands.The other players on the hee haw show used to say as a joke IF IT HAS STRINGS KEEP ROY OFF IT SO HE DON'T BREAK IT BEFORE THE SHOW STARTS.
Roy Clark could play any style of music, with virtually anything that has strings.
One of the best to ever pick up an instrument.
Roy was incredibly talented and equally charming ❤❤
Roy Clark was a musical genius! He could play any string instrument!
Greatest guitarist of all time. No one else is even close.
He was mostly a country western singer from the US. He was a prolific guitar player who could cover all genres of music. He co hosted a show called Hee Haw for many years which was a southern country weekly TV show.
...and he also filled in for the legendary Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show.
The 12 string sounds the best!
One of the most underrated guitarist of all time. I would pit him up against any great and they would show respect.
not underrated with Guitar Players.
Eddie Van Halen was once asked “What it felt like to be the best guitar player in the world?” He answered “I don’t know, why don’t you ask Roy Clark.”
Amen
@@sixslinger9951 Slinger, for some reason Roy's down home comedy which was great by the way, kept folks from taking his music skills seriously. I'm trying to get a grip on this issue.
Roy was one of the greatest musicians ever to be born. He played all of those stringed instruments at GOAT level.
My maiden name is Clark. Roy Clark was a cousin on my dad's side. My dad also played guitar, but of course never on that level. Roy really was a gentleman, kind and generous.
If you want a humorous song by Roy Clark you should listen to his song ‘Thank God and Greyhound’
my favorite of his !
That song is an anthem for the modern man, especially in the U.S.
GOAT'S have to keep climbing to reach Roy Clark and Glenn Campbell
One of the most underrated guitar players of all time. Unfortunately, most young people have no idea of who he is.
Outstanding singer! "Yesterday when I was Young"
Roy Clark was one of the biggest old school country stars. And an actor and song writer
Roy Clark could play anything. Give him an instrument with strings, he would be more than proficient in minutes. A musical genius.
Roy Clark a legend in his on time.
Spanish Song. Classical Music. He learned to play on an old guitar with 3 strings. He grew up dirt poor. He’s amazing.
Roy Clark was a great player, and played just about anything with strings. He was also a great comedian / comic actor. He was a host of the television variety show Hee Haw forever. He passed a couple of years ago, in his late 80s I believe. Enjoy his comedy as you look into him, he was a good guy.
Roy was the real deal, very genuine.
Self taught country singer. Expert on any instrument with strings. Genius
All that... out of one instrument.
Absolutely amazing. 👏🏽
Yesterday When I Was Young by Roy Clark is simply beautiful. Give it a listen.
A huge inspiration and a lovely man. Guitarists know Roy.
Roy all loved him in the usa. So humble and great talent.
That man could play anything with strings, he was certainly one of the vest pickers the world has ever seen.
You can hear him singing in a crossover hit he had..."Yesterday When I Was Young" Very meaningful lyrics.
Beautiful song
He is Roy Clark from tulsa Oklahoma USA. He plays around a dozen different instruments. He won some sort of BANJO competition at the age of 14.
The man, the myth, the legend ROY CLARK passed away at his home in Tulsa Oklahoma from pneumonia in 2018 at the age of 85.
The great Roy Clark. He passed a few years back. He would always astound me by his guitar prowess. He was especially well known for hosting the country variety show Hee Haw. He was born a Virginian and known as an expert stringman versed in guitar, banjo and the fiddle. He also was a good vocalist. He was also known for appearing in the TV show Beverly Hillbillies. He backed Wanda Jackson and also sub hosted for TV personality Johnny Carson on the Tonight show frequently.
To do this on an electric guitar is really something special. Roy's right hand is like a hummingbird's wings at times. He plays it on the acoustic too!
Along the same lines you should watch Glen Campbell do The William Tell Overture in front of an orchestra. Or watch Roy Clark and Glen Campbell together on Ghost Riders In The Sky.
William is dead on. Glen Campbell and Roy Clark were 2 of the best ever. Guitarists from all over the world wanted to play with them
Glen Campbell once joked that he doesn't do Malaguena and Roy Clark doesn't do William Tell Overture.
Don't overlook Jim Stafford or Jerry Reed either. They were also very good guitarists
Alice cooper was a good friend of Glen and had Eddie Van Halen ask him to have Glen teach him on guitar. So yeah, Glen was also amazing
Probably the #1 underrated guitarist.
He played this because he COULD. One of the best to ever play a stringed insturment.
Roy was way special. Peace, Love some more!
Roy is one of the two best guitar players to have ever lived both named Roy. Roy Clark and Roy Orbison.
Best player to ever pick up a guitar.
MALAGUENA is a traditional flamenco style guitar piece form Spain. There are several variations of this song.
There were 9 versions of this piece ... and just 1 Roy to rule (i.e. play) them all 😜🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 !!!
It did not actually originate from Spain.
Stan Kenton did it in a jazz style in the early 60s, with his band. Well worth listening to
Actually "Malagueña" is a song written by Cuban American composer Ernesto Lecuona. It was originally the sixth movement of Lecuona's Suite Andalucía (1933), to which he added lyrics in Spanish. It is a genre of folk music from eastern Venezuela, most notably from the island of Margarita. (yes, THAT Margarita).
He composed over 600 pieces, many of them of international fame. One of my favorite dance tunes is Siboney (a rumba). I've loved his music since the 1940s.
@@jamesforbes2871 Thanks. You're very musically erudite. Malaguena has always "been there" since I learn guitar as a kid, but I never heard anyone give the real story behind the song.
Roy is from Tennessee. He is one of my favorite guitarists. This is even better when he plays it on the 12 string acoustic. Thanks for these great musicians!
Amazing talent. Incredible. Virtuoso .
Watch Roy tear it up with the Texas great Clarence Gatemouth Brown and his band. All world class musicians and proof that Roy could sit in and play well in any genre!
He had a lot of good songs he's a good singer too, nd great all around entertainer.
Most lists of the 19 greatest guitarists ever have Roy Clark.
Roy Clark was one of the most versatile and talented players of all times, he literally could play anything
Roy Clark was a great entertainer. Singer, musician, and actor.
He played anything with strings, sang beautifully, and was very funny as well. American country singer, known and loved beyond our borders. A virtuoso! Gone too soon.
We just listened to a master. He also is a great singer.
Roy Clark was an *outrageously* gifted guitarist and entertainer. He was a successful recording artist, co-hosted/starred in Hee Haw for over 20 yrs plus appearances other numerous other TV shows, all while touring a fair bit and In 1983 he opened his own theater in Branson, Missouri and played there to packed houses until he sold it in the 1990s. Eddie Van Halen requested and was given lessons by Roy Clark! This is a rabbit hole well worth exploring. 🤘Rock On!🤘
He plays other instruments and sings too, one of the best and even better live. I was lucky enough to have seen him live truly gifted and amazing. SJ
He is leaving all the quad picking that makes it so good.
Roy Clark was from Virginia!! One of the greatest multiinstrumentalist of all time!!
He does every kind of music. He plays guitar, banjo and violin and fiddle. He is the master of them all.
Roy Clark is famous as a country singer, but he can SHRED!!!
Roy Clark's right hand pick control is just beyond next level. As a guitarist myself, I know it's an often overlooked part of a guitarist's arsenal, we tend to just work our left hand and make sure our picking hand keeps up. He truly is one of the greatest guitarists of all time. I first saw him on the show Hee Haw in the 70s, and liked his stuff, even as a kid, but it wasn't until much later when I started learning to play myself that I realized just how good he was. This man is one of those rare guitarists in his own class.
I got to meet him once because I'm a paramedic in the city he lived in before he died. He was a very cordial man
He's a great guitarist and all around talented man. Roy Clark is his real name. For more personal information on him, look him up on Wikipedia's website.
This is beautiful. Had no idea. I remember Roy Clark. I also know La Malaguena.
He was just that great !
He can play any kind of instrument with strings and any still of music...all he has to do is hear it and he can play it
He lived in Tulsa Oklahoma & my dad was a friend of his. Roy's known as "the man that can play anything with strings" & it's true!! You HAVE to hear him play banjo, fiddle, mandolin! They're all FANTASTIC!!
Thanks, Harri - this is a classic! kind of "flamenco" -- the interesting thing is that Roy was known as a kind of "aw, shucks" country guy -- funny, self-deprecating, but a devastating musician who playing amazing banjo and violin (fiddle) as well -- very humble and kind... I knew him from that corny show "Hee Haw" when I was about 6-7 years old - but it took me years to realize how talented he truly was!
The father of a good friend of mine used to jam with Roy Clark on the TV shows Austin City Limits and Hee Haw. You need to check out the UA-cam videos with Roy Clark and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. You will be totally amazed and pleased at the way these two greats could get down and jam with each other.
Roy is his name. Born and raised in Virginia. Could play anything with strings. He does this on 6 and 12 string acoustic guitar. Look up him singing Yesterday, when I was young. Beautiful song.
One of the greats
A folk tune native to Malaga similar to a fandango. A Spanish dance for couples that is similar to a fandango. Absolutely breathtaking.
Roy Clark was his real name and he was from Virginia. The virtuosity is unbelievable, multiple instruments too.
I remember when I was a kid about 11-12 Roy use to be a regular on a country show called Hee- Haw and I would be mesmerized by his guitar playing he was that good!!!!!
He was a country music artist but was a talented musician he could play banjo, fiddle and guitar all very well
So cool Harri...I happened to be your first view. Roy Clark is an exceptional guitar player, so I was glad you listened to him.
I'm out of Guelph, Ontario on Canada, and have been enjoying your reactions.
Roy Clark can play just about anything he sets his mind to. There is a video of him and Johnny Cash playing and singing Folsom Prison Blues, playing Dueling Banjos with Buck Trent and playing Ghost Riders with Glen Campbell on guitar. You need to hear him do Thank God and Greyhound She's Gone.
Greatest guitar player ever in my opinion. He could play just about anything with strings. Check out him and buck trent dueling banjos.
Roy was a superb stringed instrument Master of the violin banjo acoustic guitar electric guitar but he also had personality as a comedian and he even was on Hee Haw
Harri,Roy was one of the very best there was.He could make you Laugh or cry with his playing.Try our Yesterday When I Was Young for one that can bring tears to your eyes.He was a good singer as well.Thanks my friend for this one!
Search for him playing the banjo and then for the fiddle. The guy was an incredible musician.
Seeing him do this on a 12string Spanish guitar is amazing
What can Roy Clark play?
Yes.
His right hand omg ...a blur. He also famously played this on the classic tv show “The Odd Couple” on an acoustic guitar. He gives Jack Klugman and Tony Randall an up close performance that I definitely envy.
Born in Virginia grew up in Washington DC primarily played country and western music was an absolute beast on several other instruments.
My father could play this but hated doing it!! We had to beg him big time and we were lucky if he agreed!! Beautiful song 🎶🎵
Malagueña was always known as the hardest song to play on the guitar. Roy Clark has a song you should definitely listen to called ‘Yesterday’!! He was on a show in America called Hee Haw. He is a well rounded artist! Can act, he’s comedic! And can play a lot of different instruments!
Thank God and Greyhound your gone is a good one to react to with vocals by Roy Clark
Roy was born and raised in a small town in Virginia called Meherrin. Its approx. 40 miles north of South Boston Va
"Roy Linwood Clark (April 15, 1933 - November 15, 2018) was an American singer and musician. He is best known for having hosted Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969 to 1997. Clark was an important and influential figure in country music, both as a performer and in helping to popularize the genre.
During the 1970s, Clark frequently guest-hosted for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and enjoyed a 30-million viewership for Hee Haw. Clark was highly regarded and renowned as a guitarist, banjo player, and fiddler. He was skilled in the traditions of many genres, including classical guitar, country music, Latin music, bluegrass, and pop. He had hit songs as a pop vocalist (e.g., "Yesterday, When I Was Young" and "Thank God and Greyhound"), and his instrumental skill had an enormous effect on generations of bluegrass and country musicians. He became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1987, and, in 2009, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He published his autobiography, My Life-in Spite of Myself, in 1994.
Clark was born April 15, 1933, in Meherrin, Virginia, one of five children born to Hester Linwood Clark and Lillian Clark (Oliver). His father was a tobacco farmer. He spent his childhood in Meherrin and New York City, where his father moved the family to take jobs during the Great Depression. When Clark was 11 years old, his family moved to a home on 1st Street SE in the Washington Highlands neighborhood of Washington, D.C., after his father found work at the Washington Navy Yard."
Roy could play anything with strings, banjo, violin, guitar, and all at a master class level. Was a funny guy too if anyone remembers the show Hee Haw and various appearances on tv, etc.
If it had strings he could pay it - including piano.
American Legend.
I have listened to Roy Clark growing up on the TV show Heehaw but I have never heard him play this song. It was beautiful. I don't know how I missed hearing this song do thank you for this review.
When Roy was coming into his own as an entertainer, it was the music stars that introduced their fans to other forms of music. As stated in the other comments Roy Clark and Glen Cambell were some of the BEST string players ever. Country music stars then had to know how to play as many of the different instruments as possible. Glen Cambell taught Edie VanHallen a few things about playing guitar.
An even better version done by legendary singer, writer, and awesome guitar player Jose Feliciano.🎸
I've been asking for Jose Feliciano for a while now.
I love Jose's version of "Light My Fire"!
He was on a show called "HEE-HAW"
Welcome to the world of Roy Clark! You will be amazed at his musical range and talent. Even more so he was an entertainer and humble (as another commenter pointed out). I grew up watching him on Hee Haw, a corny, country variety show. In addition to his straight up musicianship there a lot of clips of him hamming it up while shredding the guitar or banjo.
Roy Clark was a co-host with Buck Owens on a TV show call Hee Haw for over 25 years he can play any stringed instrument and he is a comedian as well and can sing I think he was named Entertainer of the Year once unfortunately Roy died a few years ago but he was an unbelievable musician guitar banjo violin you name it he could play it thanks Hillary I really enjoyed this video
Roy Clark also had a very simple book , on how to play, the guitar. My son wanted to learn, and could read music. But being a single mom, could afford a guitar. A brother of mine died, and my son was given his guitar. He would practice in his room. I told him if he could play my, then favorite song I would buy him a new one with our income tax. The day I received my in come tax. He sat me down and played for me. He still has both guitars today.
Roy Clark was highly proficient at a variety of other musical instruments, such as the Banjo. Violin. Ukelele and Mandolin. Roy was the host on the long running TV show "Hee Haw", which featured Country Musics finest musicians, singers and songwriters. The list of guest stars reads like the Who's Who of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Roy Clark is best known for his song, Yesterday When I Was young.
You mean he wasn't best known for his role on "The Odd Couple"? (I jest of course) lol.
Check out Roy Clark singing Yesterday When I Was Young
Elvis sang "Guitar Man"; Roy WAS the Guitar Man! Roy Clark (1933-2018) RIP!
i love the video "Roy Clark can play any genre!" - RIP Roy & Quincy
He was a virtuoso on three instruments and yes he sings as well. I'm an old metalhead and love the technique and pure speed of metal, but when I saw this at the ripe old age of 16 it put me on notice. Hands down one of the best guitarists ever.
Love your reactions Harry you do a great job glad I found your channel