Ricky Nelson is probably one of the most underrated singers in American music history. He was the youngest singer ever to have a Number 1 album. From 1957 to 1962, Nelson had 30 Top-40 hits, more than any other artist except Presley and Pat Boone. His video of Travelin` Man is considered the first ever music video. He placed 53 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, and its predecessors, between 1957 and 1973, including "Poor Little Fool" in 1958, which was the first number 1 song on Billboard magazine's then-newly created Hot 100 chart. He recorded 19 additional Top 10 hits and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 21, 1987. Nelson is widely credited as a forerunner of the California-based country-rock scene of the 1970s. Ricky/Rick sold in excess of 500 million albums, and even today he is ranked the 4th biggest singles seller of all time. Check Out Believe What you say, Summertime, Mystery Train and Fools Rush In.
Seen him six months before he died. Been to hundreds of concerts. His was my #1. No one moved the entire time and I think the audience was in such awe that they forgot to applaud a couple times. We all just wanted to hear every little note and sound. Just magical.
@@andreadeamon6419 He crashed in DeKalb, Tx on his way to perform at a New Years eve celebration hosted by KLUV radio, at the time an oldies radio station in Dallas.
I was working as a waitress at Niles Country Music Hall in California when Ricky played there shortly before he died. He was super nice to all the workers! You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat wait staff. His death was a hugh loss. 💙
"Garden Party" was a true life song about Ricky's comeback in the 70s, as he hadn't performed since the 1950s. At the "Garden Party" he was singing at, Ricky started playing his old hit songs from the 50s, and some people weren't pleased, and they wanted some new stuff from him. It's a sad song about how cruel people can be. Well, the good news is Ricky had the last laugh. When he recorded "Garden Party," it was such a huge hit, that he became a star again, and to an entirely new generation of young people that didn't know about his career in the 1950s. It all worked out well, until his plane crashed while on tour. The girls just loved him, as you can see how handsome he was. He was so shy though. Maybe that's what they liked about him. Thanks India.
No he played new songs but they came for his older more recognizable hits. He grew up and changed, hence he expressed his feelings in Garden Party You Can't Please Everyone So You Got To Please Yourself.
Song is about his appearance at Madison square garden. They wanted his old hits he had new songs and they didn't like it. He wrote this song about it. Garden party his last beg hit. He died in an airplane fire
Ricky Nelson was an extremely talented musician who was gone too soon before his time. Lonesome Town was also featured in the movie Pulp Fiction. Garden Party is another great record that shows that he was able to evolve with the times and he was right about one thing- You can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself. Stay true to who you are.
These are two of my all-time favourites. Ricky Nelson's music has (sadly) fallen down the memory hole of late. I hope that videos like yours will reawaken folks to how great his music was.
Hearing great songs that you knew never existed is the 2nd best reason that i love this channel ..India's reaction's being the 1st of course.I just heard these 2 tracks ..and they're both going onto my playlist ..(can't get that 'Garden Party' song outta my head) ..and i'll be venturing into this guy's whole catalog of music as well.I thank the person who requested these songs of Ricky Nelson for India to react to.
Very sad, as he died in a plane crash shortly after he recorded "Garden Party." His entire family was raised on a TV show in the 1950s,in front of America. from age 7 until he was about 18 years old, Ricky Nelson and the family were like our next door neighbors. Ricky became a heart throb right about the time Elvis was discovered.
Okay, here's the story. Ricky Nelson was the FIRST tv teen idol. He was huge in the 50's. #1 TV show. Movies with John Wayne and Dean Martin. Concerts. Later in the early 70's he had to do oldies shows. The Johnny B. Goode reference is to Chuck Berry. Mary Lou was one of his old hits. But he was more country and rock n roll. Wore different clothes and had longer hair. So these oldie concert folks didn't like it. So he wrote Garden Party and it became a huge hit. He started touring again playing his new songs. Then one day his plan caught fire in mid air and crashed. He is in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.
Takes me way back to the 50's. Use to watch Ozzie and Harriet TV show and Ricky sang on that show. The first song was when he was a teen and the second was in his mid-40s right before he died in a plane crash. That's why the more mellow voice in the second song.
Regular watcher of Ozzie and Harriet here ... never missed an opportunity to watch Ricky play! I was probably 6, 7 or 8 when these episodes started where he played at tbe end. He was probably about 14 or so. He was the first man I had a gigantic crush on! I didn't care what he sang, just as long as I could see him! Really loved Ricky and was depressed when I heard when he died. (BTW, India, these two videos were years and years apart. In the first was in the 50's when he was just a teenager and in the second, he was a grown with a family of his own. That's why the 2 are so different.) RIP Ricky. 😭😢
Actually, you got it exactly backwards, India. It was his NEW stuff that wasn't working. He refers to the crowd enjoying the hits (name checking Hello, MaryLou), but starting to walk out when he started performing his new country songs. The "Garden Party" was an oldies show at Madison Square Garden in 1971, which was more than a decade after the heyday of the various performers(Nelson, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Bobby Rydell). Everyone else just played their hits, he was the only one to try to play new songs. He had also grown his hair long, and wore bell bottom jeans ("No one recognized me, I didn't look the same") The song was basically a big double middle finger to his fans from the 1950's who weren't down with his new country sound, and to oldies revival shows.
Yes - and it was an indictment of celebrity culture - 'Yoko brought a walrus' - look at pictures of John Lennon at the time, and how she led him around.
You selected 2 songs that cross a VAST cultural distance. Art is a mirror of society: it is impossible to minimalize how much America changed between 1963 & 1973. I like your unfiltered perspectives, but it might help to latch on to someone who lived through this time & still has all of their brain cells intact (I was there!). Love from France, & BE SAFE.
The guitarist on the far right of the screen is the legendary James Burton. He went on to be Elvis Presley's lead guitarist, and also played with John Denver.
Ricky Nelson, from the Ozzie and Harriet TV show. Poor guy died too early in a plane crash. This quasi-reality TV show was a wonderful family program, along with Leave it to Beaver and Father knows best (try having that as a title in 2020! lol)
"Lonesome Town" holds up well all these decades later. "Garden Party" still rings true. "Country Honk" by the Rolling Stones, now there's a song to check out...
My mom loved Ricky and with the name Richard, she called me.....don't laugh....Little Ricky! All through school they called me Ricky, until I joined the Marines, then it changed to "Maggot"...lol.
He holds the distinction of being next to Elvis Presley the only Act in the 1950's to never do American Bandstand. His Father wouldn't let him fearing they would lose sponsorship if his Son did a Show featuring Juvenile Delinquents dancing to that Colored Music. His Career sadly had a downfall in the 1960's and he got booed off of the stage. That inspired him to write Garden Party. His Family were TV Pioneers who were one of the first Folks to appear on the cover of TV Guide. In later years he would marry Kris Harmon (Mark's Sister) with whom he had Four Children, Tracy, Matthew & Gunnar (who were a musical duo as well), and Sam. Tracy would play Jennifer DiNuccio on a short lived show Square Pegs with Sarah Jessica Parker, before she did Sex & The City, she would marry and divorce Billy Moses who played Cole Gioberti on Falcon crest and did a independent Movie called Mystic Pizza with Julia Roberts where another Young Actor named Matt Damon played her Boyfriend's Brother.
I used to hang with Ricky a lot in the '70s and even got to jam with him on bass. A lot of people don't realize he was the real progenitor of Country Rock, not the Byrds. Garden Party was written after he sent to play a show at the Garden and no one knee who he was and thought he was some guy covering his own songs...
Where Elvis got the girls worked up, Ricky made them shed tears while swooning over him. Very tragic on his death, I think it was a New Year's Eve. Look at those eyes! Wow! And I grew up watching the TV show.
I Knew the Nelson family. They lived in Studio City, in the hills, next door to. My Aunt. Ricky, and my cousin also name Rickey, we're bffs in HS. Eventually his parents moved down by us in Laguna Beach. Ricky became as big a rock teen idol as Elvis. This was in the early 60's. He has so many hit songs. 10 years later, The Garden ( Madison Square Garden) in NYC, held a tribute to all the hit music & stars of 60's. Of course they asked Ric to please attend & play. It was related they were doing a 60's revival. So Ric gets on stage, starts singing his old hits. Everybody was happy, but we're surprised at his hairstyle, and Country style. Anyway, he tells the audience he was going to premier his new song. (In meantime In the back of arena, police were having trouble with some crazy arss people, and decided to kick them out, the surrounding audience started booing the police at what they were doing. At this time Ric was performing his new song. Hearing the booing, he naturally thought it was due to his new song, and country look. He was angry, finished his set, then left. A year or so later, he wrote a song about the experience at Madison Square Garden, and called it "Went to a "Garden" party. The song became a number 1 hit. Everyone thought it was brilliant. His band became very successful. He did a lot of touring. It was on one of his tours, in route to a tour date, Ric's private plane, with his new girlfriend, and band mates crashed when apparently the enteror caught fire. Causing the crash... with no survivors. This was in 1985. So sad.. His brother David died of Cancer, as did his famous father Ozzie. His momma Harriet live out her days in the Laguna Beach home. Ric had twin sons, (Matt & Gunnar) who created their own brand in their teens called Nelson. Check it out. The Nelson were known as America's family. And a huge hit in the 50's, 60's, 70's. The song Lonesome Town was shot in the living room of their home in Studio City. A little trivia for you. One of my favorite songs of his is called "Travelin Man" Loved all his songs. Nastalga, make me feel sad remembering the days. 🙏💞🕊️
Ricky Nelson made the big leap from 50's television 📺 to teenage heartthrob. He had many hits, garden party probably his last. Not so long after he died in a plane crash. Isn't that sounding familiar at that time.
I loved him. You should check out his sons, the band was called Nelson. They followed in their dad's footsteps, and had some great songs in the 90's....... not to mention they were excruciatingly gorgeous lol. I tried to send you the link to their song "Can't Live Without Your Love", but I couldn't figure out how to do it. But please have a look at it. I think you'd like it. You should also look at "After the Rain". I've seen them live, and they are still exceptional.
Ricky was born into an entertainment family. His dad, Ozzie Nelson, was an orchestra leader and singer (1930); and his mom, Harriet Nelson, sang with the orchestra. Here's their 1931 original recording of the classic song "Dream a Little Dream of Me" - ua-cam.com/video/tS5N0rg2Xm0/v-deo.html During the past 89 years, this song has been covered hundreds of times (including a nice version last year by Christina Perri.) Ozzie and Harriet became radio stars and made a smooth transition to TV in the early '50s. "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" was a popular family sit-com that invited us into the lives of the Nelson family. Week by week, we watched Ricky (and older brother David) grow up, take up music (the family business), and become America's first teenage heartthrob rock & roller. Ricky's hit songs were featured on the weekly show--giving him much greater exposure than other singers of '50s.
Ricky Nelson was the hottest thing in the 50's...my first teen idol crush! Was killed in a plane crash. He and his family were big TV stars in the 50's too.
@@kevinlay9902 The Beatles said he was the greatest singer ever. They befriended him especially John Lennon. Harry partied to excess which eventually affected his health. He not Mariah Carey made the song Without You great!
I loved his music and was extremely sad to learn of his tragic death. I feel his music underrated as was his talent since he didn't remain 'little Ricky" his entire life but like all the rest of us grew and changed through time.
My girl friend went on a date with Mr.Nelson back in the 1960.s she was a playboy bunny back then and she said he was a perfect Gentleman ! Great reaction's
Grew up with ricky nelson among a ton of great artists. He had a number of great songs including these two hits so many years apart. If you gonna keep him on channel you absolutely have to react to FOOLS RUSH IN. Watched many an OZZIE N HARRIET episodes. Nice interpreting girl.
Garden Party is about the the time Nelson and his band were booed off the stage at an oldies show at The Madison Square Garden because they looked like hippies and played his new Country Rock material....The tune was a huge hit for him in 1972 or so...
Wrote the last song about an experience he had touring with some other older R&R stars. Ricky Nelson kind of moved on from his old stuff and was putting out music , more country folk and had a new band. But at Madison Square Garden , (Garden Party) people did not like his new stuff. Sung Hello Mary Lou. One of his early hits. Johnny Be Good. was Chuck Berry. Yoko Brought as walrus. That was a reference to John Lennon. So from all that he learned you can't please everyone so you got to please your self.. La da da da da. La da da di..
"garden Party is an account of what he felt during a show he did at Madison Square Garden. People wouldn't pay attention to the new songs, and wanted only the old. This song is his reaction to that frustrating experience.
Ricky Nelson had twin sons. In 1990 they came out with a record. You should try songs like can't live without your love and affection and after the rain. If haven't already.
He was the only one who could keep up battling for #1 hit chart toppers in the 50s with Elvis ,like col.parker for Elvis, Ricks father has a lot of control on his sons image and music in the 50s and early 60s and unfortunately limited some of ricks talent ,rick did adapt and get with tne times of the changing music scene but people wanted 50s rick not modern rick ,his divorce affected him a lot and when his father died he felt free to play how he wanted but since his father was a great business man he didn't have that so promoters took advantage of him and got ripped off some times so he was having money problems and was trying to make a come back in the early 80s with a modern 50s rock sound but was that was cut short with his plane crash too bad because just a couple years after was a big resurgence in the 50s rockabilly and 50s rock and roll sound ..Elvis and rick are my 2 fave artists
"Yoko brought her Walrus." "Mr. Hughes hid in Dylan's shoes wearing his disguise". "And out stepped Johnny B. Goode playing guitar." There's a lot of hidden gems in this song.
Ricky was a great singer. He starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet with his real life family, and he turned 18 while filming Rio Bravo with John Wayne, Dean Martin & Angie Dickinson. Not bad.
a nice (and interesting) choice of songs. Lonesome Town was "Ricky"; Garden Party was "Rick". Both are great and show his maturing. He was a great artist who seemed to be "mom and apple pie". I think he was trying to rid himself of that image with Garden Party. One of his band members went on to help form The Eagles--Randy Meisner.
The 2nd song is a response to Ricky getting booed at Madison Square Garden in NY. this goofy ditty was a big hit in the early 70s. The ''Garden Party", was a clever play on words, as this was him being at MSG[a huge arena]; not, a Garden Party, in the traditional sense.
I was at that show at The Garden and it was billed as an Oldies Show. Ricky played old and new and did them great but most, not me, wanted just the oldies.
Reminds me of my step dad who was my dad for 33yrs god I miss him now he's been gone 2yrs I wanna call home and him picking up the phone and saying what's up liz and my mum on other line going her names Lisa not liz and then trying to interrupt that argument bless him I love BTW hearing your babies in background ❤️❤️ xx
I prefer "Travelin' Man" to "Lonesome Town". "Garden Party" is about a performance he and his band played at Madison Square Garden where he didn't receive the best of welcomes. The crowd loved his old songs such as "Lonesome Town", but loudly booed his new stuff. Many of Ricky's big hits, such as this, were performed on his parents show "The Ozzie and Harriet Show". His father Ozzie was a popular big band leader in the 40's. Ricky was really the first TV created pop/R & R star. Unfortunately soon after this became a hit, just like Ritchie Valens, Ricky died in a plane crash. Funnily enough, both pilots survived the crash.
@@caretaker158 So years ago after I became an adult I was listening to "Travelin' Man" and said to myself, "This song sounds like a Sam Cooke song, or one that he would have written". It turns out, and I found out perhaps just a few years ago, that the writer Jerry Fuller actually took the song to Sam first having written it with him in mind. Sam turned it down due to the racist sensitivities of the time. He though people in this country would respond negatively to the thought of a black man having a "Fraulien" in Germany. Ricky heard the song through the wall of the studio as it was being demoed and took it instead.
He looks identical to my son. I showed him a photo of Ricky when he was 40, and told him that’s how he’ll look in 12 years when he, will turn 40. Ricky was real big at the time. He died in a plane crash New Year’s Eve, he was only 40. Garden party lyrics have very interesting. His two sons confirmed the meaning. Google it’s worth it
Ricky Nelsons dreamy eyes were hypnotic.
Rick was a teen idol...but actually very talented, That voice was great, warm and melodic!
Ricky Nelson is probably one of the most underrated singers in American music history. He was the youngest singer ever to have a Number 1 album. From 1957 to 1962, Nelson had 30 Top-40 hits, more than any other artist except Presley and Pat Boone. His video of Travelin` Man is considered the first ever music video. He placed 53 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, and its predecessors, between 1957 and 1973, including "Poor Little Fool" in 1958, which was the first number 1 song on Billboard magazine's then-newly created Hot 100 chart. He recorded 19 additional Top 10 hits and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 21, 1987. Nelson is widely credited as a forerunner of the California-based country-rock scene of the 1970s. Ricky/Rick sold in excess of 500 million albums, and even today he is ranked the 4th biggest singles seller of all time. Check Out Believe What you say, Summertime, Mystery Train and Fools Rush In.
Seen him six months before he died. Been to hundreds of concerts. His was my #1. No one moved the entire time and I think the audience was in such awe that they forgot to applaud a couple times. We all just wanted to hear every little note and sound. Just magical.
Ricky Nelson was one of the first teenage hearthrobs, especially from the new media of television. Very tragic he died in a plane crash.
New year's wasn't it - to sing for it
@@andreadeamon6419 He crashed in DeKalb, Tx on his way to perform at a New Years eve celebration hosted by KLUV radio, at the time an oldies radio station in Dallas.
In the sixties only Elvis sold more records than Ricky.
Loved him in Rio Bravo. Him and Dean Martin singing "my rifle, my pony, and me" is a favorite on my playlist.
One of my favorites, too!
I'm watching it tonight! That's my favorite scene! Two great talents!
Robert Schneider - me Tooo !!! Love that Tune !!
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I love that two but I prefer cindy in that movie
He was just so pretty. And boy did he have a beautiful voice.
I was working as a waitress at Niles Country Music Hall in California when Ricky played there shortly before he died. He was super nice to all the workers! You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat wait staff. His death was a hugh loss. 💙
"Garden Party" was a true life song about Ricky's comeback in the 70s, as he hadn't performed since the 1950s. At the "Garden Party" he was singing at, Ricky started playing his old hit songs from the 50s, and some people weren't pleased, and they wanted some new stuff from him.
It's a sad song about how cruel people can be. Well, the good news is Ricky had the last laugh. When he recorded "Garden Party," it was such a huge hit, that he became a star again, and to an entirely new generation of young people that didn't know about his career in the 1950s. It all worked out well, until his plane crashed while on tour. The girls just loved him, as you can see how handsome he was. He was so shy though. Maybe that's what they liked about him. Thanks India.
I think you had that first story bass ackwards. India does explain it, sort of.
Garden as in Madison Square Garden.
No he played new songs but they came for his older more recognizable hits. He grew up and changed, hence he expressed his feelings in Garden Party You Can't Please Everyone So You Got To Please Yourself.
Thanks for that. It's always been one of my favorite songs but I never heard the backstory.
I love underrated singer
Song is about his appearance at Madison square garden. They wanted his old hits he had new songs and they didn't like it. He wrote this song about it. Garden party his last beg hit. He died in an airplane fire
My lady India, thank you so much for bringing back such beautiful music. You have made an old mans heart very happy. Namaste. Peter..
Iconic hit of the 70's. Everybody of a certain age, knows the words. ❤️❤️
Ricky Nelson was an extremely talented musician who was gone too soon before his time. Lonesome Town was also featured in the movie Pulp Fiction. Garden Party is another great record that shows that he was able to evolve with the times and he was right about one thing- You can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself. Stay true to who you are.
One of the best!!! Ricky Nelson 🇲🇽
These are two of my all-time favourites. Ricky Nelson's music has (sadly) fallen down the memory hole of late. I hope that videos like yours will reawaken folks to how great his music was.
ricky is so great!! Going to high school when i first heard this song!!!!
I was a kid when this song came out...Ricky had some great songs
Very underrated singer in the 50s! More Ricky!
Hearing great songs that you knew never existed is the 2nd best reason that i love this channel ..India's reaction's being the 1st of course.I just heard these 2 tracks ..and they're both going onto my playlist ..(can't get that 'Garden Party' song outta my head) ..and i'll be venturing into this guy's whole catalog of music as well.I thank the person who requested these songs of Ricky Nelson for India to react to.
Very sad, as he died in a plane crash shortly after he recorded "Garden Party." His entire family was raised on a TV show in the 1950s,in front of America. from age 7 until he was about 18 years old, Ricky Nelson and the family were like our next door neighbors. Ricky became a heart throb right about the time Elvis was discovered.
The song came out in 72 and died in 85. Sad night, heard the news when going out for New Years.
Rick Nelson started on the show at age 12 and ended 14 yrs later so he was 26 and not 18yrs old.
Great singer,underrated single,i love many songs
Ricky Nelson, an Idol from way back when for sure. Love, Poor Little Fool, by him.
Okay, here's the story. Ricky Nelson was the FIRST tv teen idol. He was huge in the 50's. #1 TV show. Movies with John Wayne and Dean Martin. Concerts. Later in the early 70's he had to do oldies shows. The Johnny B. Goode reference is to Chuck Berry. Mary Lou was one of his old hits. But he was more country and rock n roll. Wore different clothes and had longer hair. So these oldie concert folks didn't like it. So he wrote Garden Party and it became a huge hit. He started touring again playing his new songs. Then one day his plan caught fire in mid air and crashed. He is in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.
Rick so handsome and talented
Takes me way back to the 50's. Use to watch Ozzie and Harriet TV show and Ricky sang on that show. The first song was when he was a teen and the second was in his mid-40s right before he died in a plane crash. That's why the more mellow voice in the second song.
Song gives me chills
"you can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself" is my mantra
Regular watcher of Ozzie and Harriet here ... never missed an opportunity to watch Ricky play! I was probably 6, 7 or 8 when these episodes started where he played at tbe end. He was probably about 14 or so. He was the first man I had a gigantic crush on! I didn't care what he sang, just as long as I could see him! Really loved Ricky and was depressed when I heard when he died. (BTW, India, these two videos were years and years apart. In the first was in the 50's when he was just a teenager and in the second, he was a grown with a family of his own. That's why the 2 are so different.) RIP Ricky. 😭😢
All right now I learned my lesson well. See you can't please everyone so you got to please yourself.....nice message.
Actually, you got it exactly backwards, India. It was his NEW stuff that wasn't working. He refers to the crowd enjoying the hits (name checking Hello, MaryLou), but starting to walk out when he started performing his new country songs.
The "Garden Party" was an oldies show at Madison Square Garden in 1971, which was more than a decade after the heyday of the various performers(Nelson, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Bobby Rydell). Everyone else just played their hits, he was the only one to try to play new songs. He had also grown his hair long, and wore bell bottom jeans ("No one recognized me, I didn't look the same")
The song was basically a big double middle finger to his fans from the 1950's who weren't down with his new country sound, and to oldies revival shows.
I might call that Western, but not country.
Excellent summary of the song and Ricky's background!
Yes - and it was an indictment of celebrity culture - 'Yoko brought a walrus' - look at pictures of John Lennon at the time, and how she led him around.
Garden is a terrific song
You hit the nail on the head. People only wanted him to sing his old songs only.
Cool beanies! My "thumbs up"/like was your one-thousandth! Hope to see you roll up many more.
YOU PLAYED MY TWO FAVORITE R NELSON SONGS LOVED IT
You selected 2 songs that cross a VAST cultural distance. Art is a mirror of society: it is impossible to minimalize how much America changed between 1963 & 1973. I like your unfiltered perspectives, but it might help to latch on to someone who lived through this time & still has all of their brain cells intact (I was there!). Love from France, & BE SAFE.
He had a good clear voice. And a lot of hits
The guitarist on the far right of the screen is the legendary James Burton. He went on to be Elvis Presley's lead guitarist, and also played with John Denver.
He was a big big star in the 50s 60s etc
Ricky Nelson, from the Ozzie and Harriet TV show. Poor guy died too early in a plane crash.
This quasi-reality TV show was a wonderful family program, along with Leave it to Beaver and Father knows best (try having that as a title in 2020! lol)
I grew up watching those shows.
He was also in movies, including co-starring in the John Wayne classic Rio Bravo.
"Lonesome Town" holds up well all these decades later. "Garden Party" still rings true. "Country Honk" by the Rolling Stones, now there's a song to check out...
Love Ricky Nelson.
Ricky was part of one of my favorite movies, Rio Bravo, 1959. He was pretty cute. And i love Lonesome Town.
My mom loved Ricky and with the name Richard, she called me.....don't laugh....Little Ricky! All through school they called me Ricky, until I joined the Marines, then it changed to "Maggot"...lol.
One of my mom's favorites, he used to be on a show with his family. He died in a plane crash. RIP Ricky Nelson. 😇
So handsome !!!
Mercy he was gorgeous!!
He holds the distinction of being next to Elvis Presley the only Act in the 1950's to never do American Bandstand. His Father wouldn't let him fearing they would lose sponsorship if his Son did a Show featuring Juvenile Delinquents dancing to that Colored Music. His Career sadly had a downfall in the 1960's and he got booed off of the stage. That inspired him to write Garden Party. His Family were TV Pioneers who were one of the first Folks to appear on the cover of TV Guide. In later years he would marry Kris Harmon (Mark's Sister) with whom he had Four Children, Tracy, Matthew & Gunnar (who were a musical duo as well), and Sam. Tracy would play Jennifer DiNuccio on a short lived show Square Pegs with Sarah Jessica Parker, before she did Sex & The City, she would marry and divorce Billy Moses who played Cole Gioberti on Falcon crest and did a independent Movie called Mystic Pizza with Julia Roberts where another Young Actor named Matt Damon played her Boyfriend's Brother.
I used to hang with Ricky a lot in the '70s and even got to jam with him on bass. A lot of people don't realize he was the real progenitor of Country Rock, not the Byrds. Garden Party was written after he sent to play a show at the Garden and no one knee who he was and thought he was some guy covering his own songs...
Waitin in School great tune by Ricky
Where Elvis got the girls worked up, Ricky made them shed tears while swooning over him. Very tragic on his death, I think it was a New Year's Eve. Look at those eyes! Wow! And I grew up watching the TV show.
Ricky Nelson, definitely a talented individual. I loved his music.
'Garden Party' is such a lovely bitter-sweet song. Plays well with the John Stewart song 'Gold'.
I Knew the Nelson family. They lived in Studio City, in the hills, next door to. My Aunt. Ricky, and my cousin also name Rickey, we're bffs in HS. Eventually his parents moved down by us in Laguna Beach. Ricky became as big a rock teen idol as Elvis. This was in the early 60's. He has so many hit songs. 10 years later, The Garden ( Madison Square Garden) in NYC, held a tribute to all the hit music & stars of 60's. Of course they asked Ric to please attend & play. It was related they were doing a 60's revival. So Ric gets on stage, starts singing his old hits. Everybody was happy, but we're surprised at his hairstyle, and Country style. Anyway, he tells the audience he was going to premier his new song. (In meantime In the back of arena, police were having trouble with some crazy arss people, and decided to kick them out, the surrounding audience started booing the police at what they were doing. At this time Ric was performing his new song. Hearing the booing, he naturally thought it was due to his new song, and country look. He was angry, finished his set, then left. A year or so later, he wrote a song about the experience at Madison Square Garden, and called it "Went to a "Garden" party. The song became a number 1 hit. Everyone thought it was brilliant. His band became very successful. He did a lot of touring. It was on one of his tours, in route to a tour date, Ric's private plane, with his new girlfriend, and band mates crashed when apparently the enteror caught fire. Causing the crash... with no survivors. This was in 1985. So sad.. His brother David died of Cancer, as did his famous father Ozzie. His momma Harriet live out her days in the Laguna Beach home. Ric had twin sons, (Matt & Gunnar) who created their own brand in their teens called Nelson. Check it out. The Nelson were known as America's family. And a huge hit in the 50's, 60's, 70's. The song Lonesome Town was shot in the living room of their home in Studio City. A little trivia for you. One of my favorite songs of his is called "Travelin Man" Loved all his songs. Nastalga, make me feel sad remembering the days. 🙏💞🕊️
one of the first TV/Rock and Roll stars.
He was on a famous TV series and, had a legit music career.
It's not a group. It's Ricky Nelson a solo act
Ricky Nelson made the big leap from 50's television 📺 to teenage heartthrob. He had many hits, garden party probably his last. Not so long after he died in a plane crash. Isn't that sounding familiar at that time.
and the line "Yoko brought her walrus" meaning John Lennon was also there (the Beatles' song, mostly written by Lennon, "I Am the Walrus."
I loved him. You should check out his sons, the band was called Nelson. They followed in their dad's footsteps, and had some great songs in the 90's....... not to mention they were excruciatingly gorgeous lol. I tried to send you the link to their song "Can't Live Without Your Love", but I couldn't figure out how to do it. But please have a look at it. I think you'd like it. You should also look at "After the Rain". I've seen them live, and they are still exceptional.
Lonesome Town is easily in my top 10 songs of all time
Ricky was born into an entertainment family. His dad, Ozzie Nelson, was an orchestra leader and singer (1930); and his mom, Harriet Nelson, sang with the orchestra. Here's their 1931 original recording of the classic song "Dream a Little Dream of Me" - ua-cam.com/video/tS5N0rg2Xm0/v-deo.html During the past 89 years, this song has been covered hundreds of times (including a nice version last year by Christina Perri.)
Ozzie and Harriet became radio stars and made a smooth transition to TV in the early '50s. "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" was a popular family sit-com that invited us into the lives of the Nelson family. Week by week, we watched Ricky (and older brother David) grow up, take up music (the family business), and become America's first teenage heartthrob rock & roller. Ricky's hit songs were featured on the weekly show--giving him much greater exposure than other singers of '50s.
I was a child and like all of the females, had a strong crush on him.
He was so cute~ only saw him in reruns but loved this song as a kid~
It's funny to see your young reaction to these songs I grew up with.
Ricky Nelson was the hottest thing in the 50's...my first teen idol crush! Was killed in a plane crash. He and his family were big TV stars in the 50's too.
Garden Party is an old favorite.
I think you're my favorite reaction person. Great review.
Harry Nilsson Everybodys Talking is a great 70's classic!
And one of the few songs that was not actually written by Nilsson. I think hes got about 30 songs that are classics.
@@kevinlay9902 The Beatles said he was the greatest singer ever. They befriended him especially John Lennon. Harry partied to excess which eventually affected his health. He not Mariah Carey made the song Without You great!
I was thinking 'HEARTBREAK HOTEL' just before you said it..same theme..
I loved his music and was extremely sad to learn of his tragic death. I feel his music underrated as was his talent since he didn't remain 'little Ricky" his entire life but like all the rest of us grew and changed through time.
Ricky Nelson was huge in the 50s
My girl friend went on a date with Mr.Nelson back in the 1960.s she was a playboy bunny back then and she said he was a perfect Gentleman ! Great reaction's
Grew up with ricky nelson among a ton of great artists. He had a number of great songs including these two hits so many years apart. If you gonna keep him on channel you absolutely have to react to FOOLS RUSH IN. Watched many an OZZIE N HARRIET episodes. Nice interpreting girl.
Garden Party is about the the time Nelson and his band were booed off the stage at an oldies show at The Madison Square Garden because they looked like hippies and played his new Country Rock material....The tune was a huge hit for him in 1972 or so...
Wrote the last song about an experience he had touring with some other older R&R stars. Ricky Nelson kind of moved on from his old stuff and was putting out music , more country folk and had a new band. But at Madison Square Garden , (Garden Party) people did not like his new stuff. Sung Hello Mary Lou. One of his early hits. Johnny Be Good. was Chuck Berry. Yoko Brought as walrus. That was a reference to John Lennon. So from all that he learned you can't please everyone so you got to please your self.. La da da da da. La da da di..
"garden Party is an account of what he felt during a show he did at Madison Square Garden. People wouldn't pay attention to the new songs, and wanted only the old. This song is his reaction to that frustrating experience.
Ricky Nelson had twin sons. In 1990 they came out with a record. You should try songs like can't live without your love and affection and after the rain. If haven't already.
React to his twin sons. They sing as well, and they go under the name: Nelson or Nelson twins. My favorite is only time will tell.
I had their poster on my bedroom wall, lol
Lonesome Town was Ricky's answer to Elvis' Heartbreak Hotel.
I hope you react to more late 50's , early 60's music.
I believe the "Garden Party" was at Madison Square Garden.
this is the tv shows i grew up on .💚
love the second one
He was the only one who could keep up battling for #1 hit chart toppers in the 50s with Elvis ,like col.parker for Elvis, Ricks father has a lot of control on his sons image and music in the 50s and early 60s and unfortunately limited some of ricks talent ,rick did adapt and get with tne times of the changing music scene but people wanted 50s rick not modern rick ,his divorce affected him a lot and when his father died he felt free to play how he wanted but since his father was a great business man he didn't have that so promoters took advantage of him and got ripped off some times so he was having money problems and was trying to make a come back in the early 80s with a modern 50s rock sound but was that was cut short with his plane crash too bad because just a couple years after was a big resurgence in the 50s rockabilly and 50s rock and roll sound ..Elvis and rick are my 2 fave artists
First record I ever bought was " Be Bop Baby" by Ricky Nelson. 😃
"Yoko brought her Walrus." "Mr. Hughes hid in Dylan's shoes wearing his disguise". "And out stepped Johnny B. Goode playing guitar." There's a lot of hidden gems in this song.
Rick Nelson was good-looking. That's where he got famous. His whole family was actors.
Ricky was a great singer. He starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet with his real life family, and he turned 18 while filming Rio Bravo with John Wayne, Dean Martin & Angie Dickinson. Not bad.
You need to react to the clip of Ricky Nelson and Dean Martin singing My rifle, my pony and me. You will love it.
a nice (and interesting) choice of songs. Lonesome Town was "Ricky"; Garden Party was "Rick". Both are great and show his maturing. He was a great artist who seemed to be "mom and apple pie". I think he was trying to rid himself of that image with Garden Party. One of his band members went on to help form The Eagles--Randy Meisner.
The 2nd song is a response to Ricky getting booed at Madison Square Garden in NY.
this goofy ditty was a big hit in the early 70s. The ''Garden Party", was a clever play on words, as this was him being at MSG[a huge arena]; not, a Garden Party, in the traditional sense.
I was at that show at The Garden and it was billed as an Oldies Show. Ricky played old and new and did them great but most, not me, wanted just the oldies.
That clip, is actually a clip from the T.V. Citcom that was very popular in the late 50’s and early 60’s. His actual family was the cast.
Greatest session guitarist James burton on right
Reminds me of my step dad who was my dad for 33yrs god I miss him now he's been gone 2yrs I wanna call home and him picking up the phone and saying what's up liz and my mum on other line going her names Lisa not liz and then trying to interrupt that argument bless him
I love BTW hearing your babies in background ❤️❤️ xx
Madison Square Garden was the venue...Song based on a concert there.
He was such a babe, even if he was 20 or so yrs older than I was
Ricky Nelson is the brother in law of mark Harmon. his son Sam looks just like the Harmon family
I prefer "Travelin' Man" to "Lonesome Town". "Garden Party" is about a performance he and his band played at Madison Square Garden where he didn't receive the best of welcomes. The crowd loved his old songs such as "Lonesome Town", but loudly booed his new stuff. Many of Ricky's big hits, such as this, were performed on his parents show "The Ozzie and Harriet Show". His father Ozzie was a popular big band leader in the 40's. Ricky was really the first TV created pop/R & R star. Unfortunately soon after this became a hit, just like Ritchie Valens, Ricky died in a plane crash. Funnily enough, both pilots survived the crash.
You know, Travelin' Man was the first song to have a purposely crafted music video (courtesy of Ozzy) rather than just a clip of the song being sung.
@@caretaker158 So years ago after I became an adult I was listening to "Travelin' Man" and said to myself, "This song sounds like a Sam Cooke song, or one that he would have written". It turns out, and I found out perhaps just a few years ago, that the writer Jerry Fuller actually took the song to Sam first having written it with him in mind. Sam turned it down due to the racist sensitivities of the time. He though people in this country would respond negatively to the thought of a black man having a "Fraulien" in Germany. Ricky heard the song through the wall of the studio as it was being demoed and took it instead.
@@helgar791 I did not know that. Thanks. I love finding out things like that.
@@caretaker158 You're more than welcome.
Rick Nelson has a lot of great songs! How about "Easier said than done" by The Essex
He looks identical to my son. I showed him a photo of Ricky when he was 40, and told him that’s how he’ll look in 12 years when he, will turn 40. Ricky was real big at the time. He died in a plane crash New Year’s Eve, he was only 40. Garden party lyrics have very interesting. His two sons confirmed the meaning. Google it’s worth it