True but imagine if this happened to you irl what would you do in that scenario lol 😅if you got a lift to a truck stop only to discover that you were dropped off by a ghost
My late father was a trucker back in the day. He had a couple of trucker records in our collection, and this song was on one of them. It always captivated me. Your animation earned some nostalgic tears from me this evening. Thank you.
My dad was a truck 🚚driver and he drove a truck 🚚for over 47 years, this is just why I at times think of and about the songs teddy bear 🧸and teddy 🧸's last ride and it brings back some memories of when and where my dad 👨would drive a truck 🚚 he started driving his truck just after he got out of the United States of America 🇺🇸 navy before he retired from driving a truck 🚚 he was twice nearly killed in two separate tragic truck 🚚accidents and it is the reason why I listen to songs like phantom 👻309- teddy bear 🧸and teddy 🧸's last ride and every time I listen to these 3 songs it does bring tears to my eyes 👀,I'll sign off before I start to cry 😢 10-4 and goodbye.
I agree but it really shows one of the risks that truckers face although rare compared to some other jobs they sometimes sacrifice their own lives to avoid costing others theirs but making the choice to give up your own life is a lot more difficult than it sounds as instinct for self preservation often kicks in
👍🖐🇺🇲🇨🇭🏴☠️🙂 Heard this on radio while driving from Reno through Donner Pass & Truckee I never knew what a big hit it was I had always liked it myself.The same station also played Hotel California songs are more where you are I suppose .
The animation was amazing and really good quality and detail on the B model! Really great work, I've found my new favorite video to watch for this song.
Jeff, Red Sovine has always been one of my favorite singers. I'm sure he's smiling from Heaven at the way you have provided this video to demonstrate his awesome song. Thank you so very much, Jeff. 🙂 (Chase)
This song and true story really pulls at a guy's heartstrings. My granddad started trucking in an old Mack just like this back in the early 50s. Several decades later, I've taken up the torch and continued on the family legacy. Keep the rubber rollin' and the shiny side up fellow drivers!
I have never had a song , especially the Midwest style tiny diners, truck stops and country music. A Song that brought a tear to my eye. Truckers can be the most assine people on earth, or the most gracious, giving,and the most selfless people on earth.
FANTASTIC!! I always thought of Phantom 309 as a '53 Mack LT, and all black & chrome. But Damn if that ain't close! Dude. You gotta animate Giddy-up Go, Gearjammer & the Hobo and Convoy. Just for starters.. This is amazing!
I'm glad you enjoyed it Cammi. I did start out with it black, but it didn't show up well on the dark and rainy parts of the video. So I colored it ghostly grey. I used red to show the difference in the truck before and after the wreck.
God bless the North American trucker. My great grandpa Floyd used to own a trucking company back in the late 50’s and early 60’s. But He died of a heart attack when my grandma was in high school. And I never got the chance to meet him. R.I.P. great grandpa Floyd
@@crushingvanessa3277 I'm working on a video called "Bringing Mary Home" It's not exactly a Trucker song. but it's a great old country song. Come back in a few months.
@@justjeff53 I forgot about that one. Love Red's tear jerker songs, don't know how he never teared up when singing them. That'll be a good one, keep it up.
GREAT JOB with the animation and video! Here's the scary part of this. This video was nearly how I've always pictured this um encounter happening. Yes I always pictured Big Joes beloved Phantom 309 as a B or L Model Mack.
I remember when this came out on the radio. I have to say that it still makes the hair on my neck stand up. On top of it this video paints the picture of the way it happened in my mind.
I’m just here from Trailer Park Boys. I usually listen to hip hop but I think imma start listening to this style of country music. Btw you’re a legend for animating this.
I seem to have recently become fascinated by this song 🎧. I cried about it, when I heard it as a child 🧒 of 8 years old (1978). It reminded me of my stepmother, which was in the hospital 🏥 for a big operation then. I was afraid 😱 of the outcome. She was fine, but I seemed to have forgotten about this song until about February of 2020. It came 🆙 on my videos quite often. I never 👎 picked it. I was afraid 😱 I’d cry 😢 if I heard it, being in my Phoenix, Arizona apartment, alone. I know that there’s a great 👍 many 👨 different individuals, and a great 👍 many 👨 ways Big Joe crashed 💥 Phantom 309. I nearly cried over this song 🎧, playing it in October, 2021. It is so different in the 40 years since I heard it, reminding me of my real mother, which died August 12th, 2016, of bladder cancer ♋️. The same goes for my stepmother, which died September 28th of 2020. We think 🤔 she died of a brain 🧠 aneurysm, or a stroke. Red Sovine puts this song 🎧 in a “I know what’s going to happen before it happens” mentality, but in a good 😌 way. It speaks of a “ghost” truck 🛻 driver, that has to let his passenger out, just 🆙 the road. His name is Big Joe (the driver), and he has to make a big turn, 🆙 the road. Yes 👍 the ghostly 👻 sound of “Phantom 309”. I imagine a very steep ascent into the night, in a jumbo jet ✈️, getting away from an employee who was troubling me at work. I also noticed the UA-cam handle name as “Justjeff 53”. I coincidentally use this saying with my brother’s girlfriend. I tell her that the person coming in, is “Just Jeff “, such as when I come home 🏠. The animation on this song 🎧 was really great 👍. The dime in the end, that Big Joe’s passenger got to keep. Once again, as the song 🎧 hauntingly trails off, “From Big Joe and Phantom 309”. We lived in Gakona, Alaska in 1978, and my stepmother’s stomach operation was performed in Anchorage, Alaska. I was so torn up 🆙 over this. Once again guys, and gals, I seem to get a thrill out of this, the trailing off, “From Big Joe and Phantom 309”. Happy 😊 Thanksgiving!!🦃. Your friend, Jeff.
My friend who I’ve known for a few years now told me about his uncle that used to be his best friend. He told me that he is a legend and a hero. Godbless this poor soul.
Our son Steven, was given a little book called "Big Joe the Truck Driver" For story time he would invariably pick it out for me to read. The story followed Big Joe from home to the terminal, pre-trip his rig, hook a load and be off. We saw him in the coffee shop chatting with his pals, driving the road, just a "typical day", making the drop at the customer , pulling the empty back to the yard and signing out. He loved that book. He'd say "me Joe truck driver" and point to his younger brother and say "he little Joe". I would pretend I was a TV reporter and interview Joe truck driver, giving him choices..... Is your truck a Kenworth or a Mack?- it was always a Mack. Is your engine gas or diesel?-always diesel. He always picked the Roadranger transmission. We'd cover the whole rig. He grew up to become a physicist. We lost him 3 1/2 yeas ago, age 43, a ruptured brain aneurysm. I've still got his little book.
I have always pictured Phantom 309 as a B Model with a diesel or maybe a gas engine backed up by a Quad Box or a Triplex. That’s not to say that there aren’t any out there that have a Cat or a Cummins and a Roadranger. I am so sorry for your loss. I can’t imagine the pain you are going through losing a child. God Bless. 🤠
Very nice animation! Brings a tear to my eye everytime I hear this song. Your animation is pretty close to how I pictured this in my mind for the past 40 years of listening to this song.
Awesome job, especially the drawings of the B model interior. Props for the truck stop exterior and the trucks passing by the diner windows as well. Tres cool!
Oh man, that’s awesome! Found this song on a Spotify playlist, and can’t say I ever heard it, although I’d say it’s definitely one of the best old country story songs. Thank you so much for this! Really great work! 🤗☕️
Anfang der 90er Jahre hatte ich mir eine Kassette mit Truckersongs am Grenzübergang von Belgien zu den Niederlanden gekauft. Daruf war auch "Phatom 309". Während ich das Lied hörte, habe ich oft geweint, obgleichich schon fast 50 Jahre alt war.
I wrote a short story based on this song. It is the centerpiece for the book of truck driver related dark fiction short stories I hope to publish one day. I was a long haul trucker back in the day and I got to meet Red Sovine at the 76 Truckstop south of Nashville on I-65. He drove a older model tour bus with his logo on it. He had a CB in it and would sing bits of his songs over the air if the radio traffic was light. He also sold his records and 8 track tapes and would autograph them for you.
Amazingly well done and much appreciated. Great animation, and pared well to the lyrics too. This is also the best version of the song that Red Sovine recorded (in my opinion) with the erie, and appropriate reverb ending. LOVED IT!!!
The animation is incredible and the timing is perfect. I've seen a lot of videos of this song and this one is absolutely the best one. This one took place in a time when the B-61 was king of the road.
All these years I've always visualized "Phantom 309" as being an R Model (Think Rubber Duck's truck only sporting ten times as much chrome and covered in about a million chicken lights). Probably because it was the most common when I first heard this song as a kid. But a B Model makes much more sense, in the grand scheme of things. Also dig the Seeburg B as well as the 3W1 wallboxes in the Truck Stop. Nicely done!
Imma a radio hobbist anf i came upon this on my search for phanton 309 and i talked to a gentlemen for hours on the cb and it was great made me happy. Thanks
This animation for the song really captures the backstory of the song, my grandpa used to drive truck across country and now he’s at the ages where those days are just memories and he’s just getting older. My grandpa is something special to me, when his day comes I’ll be thinking about him driving truck and maybe he’ll pick some people up like big Joe
@@justjeff53 You're welcome. So many people fail to properly recognise the work that goes into providing both the music and animations such as yours on this and other channels. :-)
An 8-track tape in this day and age? WTF? Geez, you hardly ever see those things around anymore! Do you even have an 8-track player? They're hard to find nowadays, you know.
finally someone else that calls em chicken lights ive been driving for over 10 years now and the newer guys and even a few of the older ones who were driving for about 20 years didnt know what i ment when i was talking about the chicken lights though i did get one of the newer guys to start calling em chicken lights
Me fascina todo lo antiguo(el que comenta en el celular de mi querida mamá es su hijo), nunca he tenido camiones o arrastres pero soy entusiasta de estás bellezas rodantes sean Mack,Kentworth,International,Diamond Reo,Peterbuilt,Freightliner(mi inglés es fatal al deletrear)GMC,Brockway,Detroit Diesel,Caterpillar,Cummins etc...acá en el País donde vivo de habla hispana según tengo entendido si alguien es historiador y conocedor de estos ambientes en lo cuáles se desarrollaban todo tipo de anécdotas increíbles,interesantes,que son historias veraces que no te permiten enzorrarte por qué para mí es genuino de interés como en este ejemplo de la canción PHANTOM 309 de 1967 lo más cercano a esto y no fue tanto involucrando a un chófer de camión con la alegoría de un camión Mack creo B-51 no sabría que año y un autoestopista (primera vez que leo que a una persona pidiendo un aventón en la carretera le llaman así) y por lo que entendí lo dejo a este "autoestopista"en una parada de camiones no sin dejarlo con un centavo o algún valor monetario para que se comprara un café y más tarde en esa carretera este chófer del B-51 en un cruce de esa carretera venía un autobús escolar contrario a él y en embestida en ese cruce chocaron y de aquí está canción que más es una narración de un personaje en primera persona con un fondo musical propio del lugar en que ocurrió este evento en el lugar que vivo hay unas carreteras que zigsaguean en curvas entre montañas y en una de esas curvas cerradas hay un cuento de camino que más parece tema de UFO que de una alegoría de un objeto rodante en este caso de un camión de 18 ruedas pues aquí fue de un accidente no se si involucró medios de transportación pero que si se cuenta de una figura fantasmagórica que aparece a altas horas de la noche y quizás se podrán percibir ruidos en esa área y por lo angosto de esa curva cerrada el que vaya por ahí está obligado por la geografía del terreno del lugar reducir a velocidad lenta de su vehículo por lo que tengo entendido en esa área que ocurrió tal suceso de quizás un accidente automovilístico y que resultó en la aparición supuesta de una figura fantasmagórica han cerrado tal curva haciendo en esa carretera donde estaba esa curva otro trayecto donde el transeúnte sea de a pie o en auto o camiones etc no tengan que entrar obligadamente a esa curva y pasen de largo y eviten el lugar a diámetros de distancia de esa curva cerrada sin embargo son una de esas carreteras que cuando antes que existiera las nuevas autopistas estás carreteras rurales y todas sus curvas era lo que había para comunicar a los pueblos y son carreteras pintorescas conectadas con la bella naturaleza y especialmente los lugares donde los comensales en esos vehículos van a satisfacer sus necesidades gastronómicas de ricos platos autóctonos de mi país y está curva en esta carretera importante de mi pais donde obligadamente las personas visitan a diario existe un cúmulo de restaurantes y lugares para estar que siempre estará corriendo en las mentes de los lugareños tal cuento de camino y lo más curiosos y quizá valientes irán allí buscando degustar los alimentos autóctonos del lugar,estar en sus alrededores quedándose en lugares de alquiler en esa carretera y principalmente tener cercanías con ese evento fantasmagórico,se que en mi País de habla hispana por lo menos ya estoy terminando mi comentario como dije antes aquellos conocedores de historias americanas del transporte de camiones de marca americanas como las que mencioné hace un ratito en mi País con esa alegoría en representación de un camión Mack B-51 en esa carrera estadounidense aquí en mi País según registros si es que al traducir del ingles al español para que mi persona entendiera en los anales de la historia de la manufactura de camiones Mack para aquellos años(creo) sería de los 50's a los 60's leí que debido a lo agreste del terreno geográfico en mi País de muchos terrenos de elevada altura y de bajadas y lugares rurales de caminos difíciles, está marca de camión Mack tuvo que desde ese tiempo hacer ajustes en sus bellezas rodantes no se si fue en su tren motriz o chasis o motor no se en que parte de esos camiones pero por lo que pude entender así ocurrió (me corregirán los conocedores de la historia americana del transporte)un último ejemplo que se sale un poco de este tema del PHANTOM 309 pero que si tiene que ver con los camiones por mi genuino interés en ellos fue la experiencia de un modelo Mack de los modernos de estos años 2000 frente a mi casa en mi País de habla hispana,era la primera vez que veía un camión Mack de volteo de cemento venir en reversa cambiando velocidades en plena cuesta empinada y con cuántos quintales de peso en su chasis por lo enorme del camión y arriba de este el peso del cemento en volteo en su urna que le construyeron en su factoria para estos efectos de mezclar el cemento,me quede estupefacto y lo diestro del chófer en esa pendiente empinada que si no anda con todos sus sentidos alertas por lo menos a un lado de esta cuesta hay una caída de varios pies de profundidad cercana a una quebrada,pero lo mejor fue venir en carrera subiendo esa pendiente en reversa (yo digo)y subiendo cambios,fue increíble....
I have a few of red sovine's albums one of the greatest songs is phantom 👻309 and I also have the songs titled: teddy bear 🧸and teddy bear's 🧸last ride all three of these song's are very very sad 😥 one is about a truck driver who willingly gave his life up for a school 🏫bus 🚌 of children and two more sad 😥songs about a boy who was dying from a disease plus he was in a wheelchair ♿ he tragically lost his own father in a very tragic truck 🚚 accident and he just liked to sit by his mom's window and talk with the trucker friends he had made while his mother 👩was at work and he knew that he didn't have much more time left in this world so he wanted to go for a ride in the truck's of his own trucker friends while he still had the chance to go but he was getting more weaker by both the day and the night and he knew that his time was almost up and one day while his mother was at work all of his trucker friends stopped by to fulfill his last and dying wishes before his mother came home from work this boy's trucker friends took up a collection of money and told his mom that they would catch him again soon, but they would never catch him again for late one night the angels came and took him home to heaven, I want everyone to know that if I never live to see happiness again I want you to know that I saw it in the face of this little boy at the end of teddy bear's last ride, I'll sign off before I start to cry 😢 10-4 and goodbye.
Touch of vintage "Twilight Zone" to The Narrative circa "One For The Angels" or "Night of The Meek." That it's based on the selfless act of an actual 1961 Trucker makes it downright eerie.😇😔B.W.
I like this song. I'm also kind of curious, what is the year and model of this truck? I know it's a MACK and I think the model is a b-61, but whats the year? And I could be wrong about the model. Sorry for sounding rude I'm just curious as a old school truck enthusiast. What kind MACK is Phantom 309 in this video? Pls leave a like and let me know as soon as you can. Please and thank you.
I basically modeled it from the early to mid-1950s Mack B-61 Single Axle Tractor. . The sheet metal is basically the same from 1953 to 1966. They are good looking trucks.
It would be about as coincidental as what this accident would be at random, to meet a group of 25 or so people somewhere. A bar, restaurant, or store 🏬 (for example). Although they’d be about 72, to 80 years old now, it would be very much a surprise to hear 👂 them start ⭐️ talking about being on a school 🏫 bus 🚌. Like 👍, “Hey, we were on that bus🚌”, when a truck 🛻 swerved to miss us. He was such a great 👍 person to sacrifice his life to save us all, and the name of the truck 🛻 was Phantom 309”. I’ve never 👎 met these people, (ranging in age from 6 years old, to being teenagers), but it probably would make my jaw drop to. I’d be completely speechless 😶. Once again, here we go, my favorite 😻 verse, at the very end of the song 🎧, as it echoes out so hauntingly, “Big Joe and Phantom 309”. Your friend, Jeff.
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FINALLY! A proper video showing a MACK instead of a Peterbilt or Kenworth.
Thanks. I did a lot of research on this one.
The best part of this song is the very end, where the music comes to an abrupt stop, with an echo of "309". Kind of creepy, but in a good way
I always thought that too. Creepy, but in a good way
True but imagine if this happened to you irl what would you do in that scenario lol 😅if you got a lift to a truck stop only to discover that you were dropped off by a ghost
Love this. Thank you.5-15-2023
Thanks, Westley. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
My late father was a trucker back in the day. He had a couple of trucker records in our collection, and this song was on one of them. It always captivated me.
Your animation earned some nostalgic tears from me this evening. Thank you.
This is the most heartfelt comment I've ever received on any of my videos. God bless you, and God bless your Dad.
Yes, I got a lump in my throat watching this as well.
My dad was a truck 🚚driver and he drove a truck 🚚for over 47 years, this is just why I at times think of and about the songs teddy bear 🧸and teddy 🧸's last ride and it brings back some memories of when and where my dad 👨would drive a truck 🚚 he started driving his truck just after he got out of the United States of America 🇺🇸 navy before he retired from driving a truck 🚚 he was twice nearly killed in two separate tragic truck 🚚accidents and it is the reason why I listen to songs like phantom 👻309- teddy bear 🧸and teddy 🧸's last ride and every time I listen to these 3 songs it does bring tears to my eyes 👀,I'll sign off before I start to cry 😢 10-4 and goodbye.
Im not even a trucker and this song hits hard every time I hear it.
Right?? Tom Waits’s version was the first one I ever heard, couldn’t compare em tho… anyone know if Red Sovine originally wrote it?
I agree but it really shows one of the risks that truckers face although rare compared to some other jobs they sometimes sacrifice their own lives to avoid costing others theirs but making the choice to give up your own life is a lot more difficult than it sounds as instinct for self preservation often kicks in
I’m a mystic and seen and heard many ghost 🙏🕊🙏❤️🎉🎊🕊🙏love that still Do. 🥰
This video deserves an academy award.🏆🏆
Damn straight ol'son
This is one of my all-time favorite songs! I just played it the other day. Really enjoyed it old music never dies.
👍🖐🇺🇲🇨🇭🏴☠️🙂 Heard this on radio while driving from Reno through Donner Pass & Truckee I never knew what a big hit it was I had always liked it myself.The same station also played Hotel California songs are more where you are I suppose
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I’m only 20 and I love Red Sovine
Im 14 and i like him
@Wolfy Nail howdy
I am 10 and I like it
don't let age tell you what to listen to, my father has been listening to this song his whole life and now he drive a line haul.
I’m only 13
The animation was amazing and really good quality and detail on the B model! Really great work, I've found my new favorite video to watch for this song.
Thanks, I tried to make a video worthy of the song. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@@justjeff53 the first time I heard this song I was in tears honestly 😢 that's a good man my prayers go to him
Love this!! Thank you!! 5-15-2015
Jeff, Red Sovine has always been one of my favorite singers. I'm sure he's smiling from Heaven at the way you have provided this video to demonstrate his awesome song. Thank you so very much, Jeff. 🙂 (Chase)
Fifty-two years after Red Sovine made this record it continues to find a new audience; I didn't see that coming.
This song and true story really pulls at a guy's heartstrings. My granddad started trucking in an old Mack just like this back in the early 50s. Several decades later, I've taken up the torch and continued on the family legacy. Keep the rubber rollin' and the shiny side up fellow drivers!
I cry every time I listen to this and Teddy Bear... "Good ole songs to take at heart, even on the day we have to part..." My papa's favorite quote.
I have never had a song , especially the Midwest style tiny diners, truck stops and country music. A Song that brought a tear to my eye. Truckers can be the most assine people on earth, or the most gracious, giving,and the most selfless people on earth.
Great job been listening to that song for almost 50 years and that's just the way I always pictured it.
I'm glad you enjoyed it MrMarthasville.
FANTASTIC!! I always thought of Phantom 309 as a '53 Mack LT, and all black & chrome. But Damn if that ain't close!
Dude. You gotta animate Giddy-up Go, Gearjammer & the Hobo and Convoy. Just for starters..
This is amazing!
I'm glad you enjoyed it Cammi. I did start out with it black, but it didn't show up well on the dark and rainy parts of the video. So I colored it ghostly grey. I used red to show the difference in the truck before and after the wreck.
I thought of a r model
God bless the North American trucker.
My great grandpa Floyd used to own a trucking company back in the late 50’s and early 60’s. But He died of a heart attack when my grandma was in high school. And I never got the chance to meet him.
R.I.P. great grandpa Floyd
I agree completely.
Thanks man
Very good animation!! I love this, and the attention to detail on the b model is amazing. Thank you sir!!!
Good job with this Jeff.
I think Big Joe would be proud.
This video is really awesome, I enjoy this video.❤️🧡♥️⭐
Beautifully done for such a good song. Finally a good video for an old truck song.
Thanks, Vanessa. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@@justjeff53 I love these old trucking songs so this sets them off nicely.
@@crushingvanessa3277 I'm working on a video called "Bringing Mary Home" It's not exactly a Trucker song. but it's a great old country song. Come back in a few months.
@@justjeff53 I forgot about that one. Love Red's tear jerker songs, don't know how he never teared up when singing them. That'll be a good one, keep it up.
Wow, that’s spot on with what the message is about in the song! There needs to be more videos like this.
Well done...thanks!
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks.
Great men. Thanks for this
GREAT JOB with the animation and video!
Here's the scary part of this. This video was nearly how I've always pictured this um encounter happening. Yes I always pictured Big Joes beloved Phantom 309 as a B or L Model Mack.
Well done. Awesome job thank you
this song gives me goosebumps lol
Me to.
I remember when this came out on the radio. I have to say that it still makes the hair on my neck stand up. On top of it this video paints the picture of the way it happened in my mind.
This song makes me cry everytime I play it man would I love to ride along Phantom 309.
I’m just here from Trailer Park Boys. I usually listen to hip hop but I think imma start listening to this style of country music. Btw you’re a legend for animating this.
I think I love this so much because it’s not a song it’s an epic. Like a really long poem but it’s still amazing.
I'm speechless.. Thank you
OMG!!!!!!!!!! This should be in the Smithsonian! What a marvelous piece of work! Hope you do more. You are a true genius!
I seem to have recently become fascinated by this song 🎧. I cried about it, when I heard it as a child 🧒 of 8 years old (1978). It reminded me of my stepmother, which was in the hospital 🏥 for a big operation then. I was afraid 😱 of the outcome. She was fine, but I seemed to have forgotten about this song until about February of 2020. It came 🆙 on my videos quite often. I never 👎 picked it. I was afraid 😱 I’d cry 😢 if I heard it, being in my Phoenix, Arizona apartment, alone. I know that there’s a great 👍 many 👨 different individuals, and a great 👍 many 👨 ways Big Joe crashed 💥 Phantom 309. I nearly cried over this song 🎧, playing it in October, 2021. It is so different in the 40 years since I heard it, reminding me of my real mother, which died August 12th, 2016, of bladder cancer ♋️. The same goes for my stepmother, which died September 28th of 2020. We think 🤔 she died of a brain 🧠 aneurysm, or a stroke. Red Sovine puts this song 🎧 in a “I know what’s going to happen before it happens” mentality, but in a good 😌 way. It speaks of a “ghost” truck 🛻 driver, that has to let his passenger out, just 🆙 the road. His name is Big Joe (the driver), and he has to make a big turn, 🆙 the road. Yes 👍 the ghostly 👻 sound of “Phantom 309”. I imagine a very steep ascent into the night, in a jumbo jet ✈️, getting away from an employee who was troubling me at work. I also noticed the UA-cam handle name as “Justjeff 53”. I coincidentally use this saying with my brother’s girlfriend. I tell her that the person coming in, is “Just Jeff “, such as when I come home 🏠. The animation on this song 🎧 was really great 👍. The dime in the end, that Big Joe’s passenger got to keep. Once again, as the song 🎧 hauntingly trails off, “From Big Joe and Phantom 309”. We lived in Gakona, Alaska in 1978, and my stepmother’s stomach operation was performed in Anchorage, Alaska. I was so torn up 🆙 over this. Once again guys, and gals, I seem to get a thrill out of this, the trailing off, “From Big Joe and Phantom 309”. Happy 😊 Thanksgiving!!🦃. Your friend, Jeff.
My friend who I’ve known for a few years now told me about his uncle that used to be his best friend. He told me that he is a legend and a hero. Godbless this poor soul.
Here's a playlist of some of my animated videos. ~ ua-cam.com/video/PEkTjXqFTRQ/v-deo.html
Our son Steven, was given a little book called "Big Joe the Truck Driver" For story time he would invariably pick it out for me to read. The story followed Big Joe from home to the terminal, pre-trip his rig, hook a load and be off. We saw him in the coffee shop chatting with his pals, driving the road, just a "typical day", making the drop at the customer , pulling the empty back to the yard and signing out. He loved that book. He'd say "me Joe truck driver" and point to his younger brother and say "he little Joe". I would pretend I was a TV reporter and interview Joe truck driver, giving him choices..... Is your truck a Kenworth or a Mack?- it was always a Mack. Is your engine gas or diesel?-always diesel. He always picked the Roadranger transmission. We'd cover the whole rig. He grew up to become a physicist. We lost him 3 1/2 yeas ago, age 43, a ruptured brain aneurysm. I've still got his little book.
I have always pictured Phantom 309 as a B Model with a diesel or maybe a gas engine backed up by a Quad Box or a Triplex. That’s not to say that there aren’t any out there that have a Cat or a Cummins and a Roadranger.
I am so sorry for your loss. I can’t imagine the pain you are going through losing a child.
God Bless. 🤠
Love it. When i think of the song i think of a red mack superliner with a bunch of lights
Or a Jet Black petterbilt super cab
Wonderful job! Everything worked out fantastically in this tale of working class, everyday heroes, and the supernatural! Thanks for posting!
Very nice animation! Brings a tear to my eye everytime I hear this song. Your animation is pretty close to how I pictured this in my mind for the past 40 years of listening to this song.
This is amazing I love it especially the 50s big rig.
Thanks.
Awesome job, especially the drawings of the B model interior. Props for the truck stop exterior and the trucks passing by the diner windows as well. Tres cool!
I watch it everyday single day
Love this. Great animation and I figured Joe drove a B-Series Mack.
Oh man, that’s awesome! Found this song on a Spotify playlist, and can’t say I ever heard it, although I’d say it’s definitely one of the best old country story songs. Thank you so much for this! Really great work! 🤗☕️
This is a magnificent animation, so dang accurate with the story
Anfang der 90er Jahre hatte ich mir eine Kassette mit Truckersongs am Grenzübergang von Belgien zu den Niederlanden gekauft. Daruf war auch "Phatom 309". Während ich das Lied hörte, habe ich oft geweint, obgleichich schon fast 50 Jahre alt war.
Nice! Enjoyed it thoroughly.
A great animation that this song deserves! So good.
I wrote a short story based on this song. It is the centerpiece for the book of truck driver related dark fiction short stories I hope to publish one day. I was a long haul trucker back in the day and I got to meet Red Sovine at the 76 Truckstop south of Nashville on I-65. He drove a older model tour bus with his logo on it. He had a CB in it and would sing bits of his songs over the air if the radio traffic was light. He also sold his records and 8 track tapes and would autograph them for you.
Amazingly well done and much appreciated. Great animation, and pared well to the lyrics too. This is also the best version of the song that Red Sovine recorded (in my opinion) with the erie, and appropriate reverb ending. LOVED IT!!!
The animation is incredible and the timing is perfect. I've seen a lot of videos of this song and this one is absolutely the best one. This one took place in a time when the B-61 was king of the road.
All these years I've always visualized "Phantom 309" as being an R Model (Think Rubber Duck's truck only sporting ten times as much chrome and covered in about a million chicken lights). Probably because it was the most common when I first heard this song as a kid. But a B Model makes much more sense, in the grand scheme of things.
Also dig the Seeburg B as well as the 3W1 wallboxes in the Truck Stop. Nicely done!
What a great job!! Thanks good buddy!!
Hearing from people who enjoy videos like this makes it all worthwhile. Thanks...
Great animation you did a very good job. I would like to see more of your work.
Glad you enjoyed it. Here's another one I did you might like called " Bringing Mary Home" from 2021. ~ ua-cam.com/video/gh4ylj9_3D0/v-deo.html
Imma a radio hobbist anf i came upon this on my search for phanton 309 and i talked to a gentlemen for hours on the cb and it was great made me happy. Thanks
Great stuff here, showed you to some friends. Really hope you get more recognition. Happy new year!
Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it. and Happy New Year!
thanks, Jeff and Tommy, and my rig will now be phantom 309
Good idea. Just keep an eye out for those school buses.
If I become a trucker, I call Phantom 315
This video was pretty good
Great job 👍
Thanks Anthony.
Awesome work! I bet Red would have been proud!
Stories like these make life beautiful
Love the video it’s damn good make sure you keep making them this good
This animation for the song really captures the backstory of the song, my grandpa used to drive truck across country and now he’s at the ages where those days are just memories and he’s just getting older. My grandpa is something special to me, when his day comes I’ll be thinking about him driving truck and maybe he’ll pick some people up like big Joe
Nice animation - well done. :-)
Thanks George.
@@justjeff53 You're welcome. So many people fail to properly recognise the work that goes into providing both the music and animations such as yours on this and other channels. :-)
English is not my first language. I learned this song by heart. Now, I am an OTR truck driver in the USA.
And it needs one more drive axle))
I just found an -unused- 8 Track at a thrift store with this song on it. Had to buy it.
An 8-track tape in this day and age? WTF?
Geez, you hardly ever see those things around anymore! Do you even have an 8-track player? They're hard to find nowadays, you know.
Incredible work man!
Thanks, Tyler.
This is fantastic
How does this have so few views?!
I love the chicken lights through the diner windows
Thanks. I just figure the right people will find this sooner or later.
finally someone else that calls em chicken lights ive been driving for over 10 years now and the newer guys and even a few of the older ones who were driving for about 20 years didnt know what i ment when i was talking about the chicken lights though i did get one of the newer guys to start calling em chicken lights
@@neon5162 I've only driven for 2.5 years but grew up listening to stuff like this from growing up around trucks.
First thing I noticed in the diner scene. Excellent detail!
Make crying this truthfully song
Nicely done.
Red Sovine was a great artist.
This animation was great, keep up the great work!
Thanks, Aidan.
Me fascina todo lo antiguo(el que comenta en el celular de mi querida mamá es su hijo), nunca he tenido camiones o arrastres pero soy entusiasta de estás bellezas rodantes sean Mack,Kentworth,International,Diamond Reo,Peterbuilt,Freightliner(mi inglés es fatal al deletrear)GMC,Brockway,Detroit Diesel,Caterpillar,Cummins etc...acá en el País donde vivo de habla hispana según tengo entendido si alguien es historiador y conocedor de estos ambientes en lo cuáles se desarrollaban todo tipo de anécdotas increíbles,interesantes,que son historias veraces que no te permiten enzorrarte por qué para mí es genuino de interés como en este ejemplo de la canción PHANTOM 309 de 1967 lo más cercano a esto y no fue tanto involucrando a un chófer de camión con la alegoría de un camión Mack creo B-51 no sabría que año y un autoestopista (primera vez que leo que a una persona pidiendo un aventón en la carretera le llaman así) y por lo que entendí lo dejo a este "autoestopista"en una parada de camiones no sin dejarlo con un centavo o algún valor monetario para que se comprara un café y más tarde en esa carretera este chófer del B-51 en un cruce de esa carretera venía un autobús escolar contrario a él y en embestida en ese cruce chocaron y de aquí está canción que más es una narración de un personaje en primera persona con un fondo musical propio del lugar en que ocurrió este evento en el lugar que vivo hay unas carreteras que zigsaguean en curvas entre montañas y en una de esas curvas cerradas hay un cuento de camino que más parece tema de UFO que de una alegoría de un objeto rodante en este caso de un camión de 18 ruedas pues aquí fue de un accidente no se si involucró medios de transportación pero que si se cuenta de una figura fantasmagórica que aparece a altas horas de la noche y quizás se podrán percibir ruidos en esa área y por lo angosto de esa curva cerrada el que vaya por ahí está obligado por la geografía del terreno del lugar reducir a velocidad lenta de su vehículo por lo que tengo entendido en esa área que ocurrió tal suceso de quizás un accidente automovilístico y que resultó en la aparición supuesta de una figura fantasmagórica han cerrado tal curva haciendo en esa carretera donde estaba esa curva otro trayecto donde el transeúnte sea de a pie o en auto o camiones etc no tengan que entrar obligadamente a esa curva y pasen de largo y eviten el lugar a diámetros de distancia de esa curva cerrada sin embargo son una de esas carreteras que cuando antes que existiera las nuevas autopistas estás carreteras rurales y todas sus curvas era lo que había para comunicar a los pueblos y son carreteras pintorescas conectadas con la bella naturaleza y especialmente los lugares donde los comensales en esos vehículos van a satisfacer sus necesidades gastronómicas de ricos platos autóctonos de mi país y está curva en esta carretera importante de mi pais donde obligadamente las personas visitan a diario existe un cúmulo de restaurantes y lugares para estar que siempre estará corriendo en las mentes de los lugareños tal cuento de camino y lo más curiosos y quizá valientes irán allí buscando degustar los alimentos autóctonos del lugar,estar en sus alrededores quedándose en lugares de alquiler en esa carretera y principalmente tener cercanías con ese evento fantasmagórico,se que en mi País de habla hispana por lo menos ya estoy terminando mi comentario como dije antes aquellos conocedores de historias americanas del transporte de camiones de marca americanas como las que mencioné hace un ratito en mi País con esa alegoría en representación de un camión Mack B-51 en esa carrera estadounidense aquí en mi País según registros si es que al traducir del ingles al español para que mi persona entendiera en los anales de la historia de la manufactura de camiones Mack para aquellos años(creo) sería de los 50's a los 60's leí que debido a lo agreste del terreno geográfico en mi País de muchos terrenos de elevada altura y de bajadas y lugares rurales de caminos difíciles, está marca de camión Mack tuvo que desde ese tiempo hacer ajustes en sus bellezas rodantes no se si fue en su tren motriz o chasis o motor no se en que parte de esos camiones pero por lo que pude entender así ocurrió (me corregirán los conocedores de la historia americana del transporte)un último ejemplo que se sale un poco de este tema del PHANTOM 309 pero que si tiene que ver con los camiones por mi genuino interés en ellos fue la experiencia de un modelo Mack de los modernos de estos años 2000 frente a mi casa en mi País de habla hispana,era la primera vez que veía un camión Mack de volteo de cemento venir en reversa cambiando velocidades en plena cuesta empinada y con cuántos quintales de peso en su chasis por lo enorme del camión y arriba de este el peso del cemento en volteo en su urna que le construyeron en su factoria para estos efectos de mezclar el cemento,me quede estupefacto y lo diestro del chófer en esa pendiente empinada que si no anda con todos sus sentidos alertas por lo menos a un lado de esta cuesta hay una caída de varios pies de profundidad cercana a una quebrada,pero lo mejor fue venir en carrera subiendo esa pendiente en reversa (yo digo)y subiendo cambios,fue increíble....
I have a few of red sovine's albums one of the greatest songs is phantom 👻309 and I also have the songs titled: teddy bear 🧸and teddy bear's 🧸last ride all three of these song's are very very sad 😥 one is about a truck driver who willingly gave his life up for a school 🏫bus 🚌 of children and two more sad 😥songs about a boy who was dying from a disease plus he was in a wheelchair ♿ he tragically lost his own father in a very tragic truck 🚚 accident and he just liked to sit by his mom's window and talk with the trucker friends he had made while his mother 👩was at work and he knew that he didn't have much more time left in this world so he wanted to go for a ride in the truck's of his own trucker friends while he still had the chance to go but he was getting more weaker by both the day and the night and he knew that his time was almost up and one day while his mother was at work all of his trucker friends stopped by to fulfill his last and dying wishes before his mother came home from work this boy's trucker friends took up a collection of money and told his mom that they would catch him again soon, but they would never catch him again for late one night the angels came and took him home to heaven, I want everyone to know that if I never live to see happiness again I want you to know that I saw it in the face of this little boy at the end of teddy bear's last ride, I'll sign off before I start to cry 😢 10-4 and goodbye.
Big Joe and Phantom Freddy online may they rest in peace
Great animation
Touch of vintage "Twilight Zone" to The Narrative circa "One For The Angels" or "Night of The Meek." That it's based on the selfless act of an actual 1961 Trucker makes it downright eerie.😇😔B.W.
"Large Marge sent me..."
😂😂
I like this song. I'm also kind of curious, what is the year and model of this truck? I know it's a MACK and I think the model is a b-61, but whats the year? And I could be wrong about the model. Sorry for sounding rude I'm just curious as a old school truck enthusiast. What kind MACK is Phantom 309 in this video? Pls leave a like and let me know as soon as you can. Please and thank you.
I basically modeled it from the early to mid-1950s Mack B-61 Single Axle Tractor. . The sheet metal is basically the same from 1953 to 1966. They are good looking trucks.
So I was right about the model? COOL! But what exactly is the year? Just asking. Sorry for being a bug.
Ryan Poulin They didn't change much, especially the early models. Let's just call it a 1953. model.
Okay. 1953 sounds really old but AWESOME! The 50s were cool for trucks. By the way, Sorry for being a bug.
It would be about as coincidental as what this accident would be at random, to meet a group of 25 or so people somewhere. A bar, restaurant, or store 🏬 (for example). Although they’d be about 72, to 80 years old now, it would be very much a surprise to hear 👂 them start ⭐️ talking about being on a school 🏫 bus 🚌. Like 👍, “Hey, we were on that bus🚌”, when a truck 🛻 swerved to miss us. He was such a great 👍 person to sacrifice his life to save us all, and the name of the truck 🛻 was Phantom 309”. I’ve never 👎 met these people, (ranging in age from 6 years old, to being teenagers), but it probably would make my jaw drop to. I’d be completely speechless 😶. Once again, here we go, my favorite 😻 verse, at the very end of the song 🎧, as it echoes out so hauntingly, “Big Joe and Phantom 309”. Your friend, Jeff.
Love it!!
Sweet...
This song reminds me of the time I was hitch hiking and got a ride from a ghost trucker
Large Marge sent me
As a kid I always imagined Big Joe was Teddy Bear's Dad
When I hear this song, I think of either a Bright Red Mack B61 or a Bright Red Mack RS700L
Fuckin’ Way She Goes
Do I see John Steinbeck's "Rocinante" in the parking lot? 😀
This animation is fantastic and just perfect for the song.
Do you have a website or anything where I could see more?!
Sorry, I'm a year late with this. A playlist of my animated videos. Some are certainly better than others. ua-cam.com/play/PLPdJF6QKnScxXt29gGAcQxEgg5LrnuuGT.html
got 309 likes
Cool!
@@justjeff53 well it had
Only 5 dislikes think it's Freight Shaker drivers?
I’ve always been fond of older Mack rigs now I want to recreate the song in beamng drive
I knew my Pete was the one when I saw on the hood it was #309. It’s black with a C-15 and leaves EVERYONE in the dust.
I tear up to this song is that ok lmao 🤣
I always imagined Big Joe was Teddy Bear dad, as kid.
Actually I'd like to know where that time went that the got back from the the dime
Please do animation for Moonshine Hollow by Jimmy Martin
Make the CWmcCall convoy animation
I just realised the writer for Pee wee Herman must’ve used this song as the story of large marge