I can't listen to Jimmy without crying. It brings back memories of our life in the 1930s at the end of the Great Depression. I remember being grateful for meals of grits with a little salt, of white blocks of oleo margarine that we sprinkled the yellow powder into so it would look like butter. I remember the milk bottles on our front porch with the cardboard caps and the cream floating at the top. I recall the ice box with the drip pan under it and the scrubbing board. Too many memories to list here. Nobody has time to read that much.
just remember one thing the goal of one generation is to make it easier for the next one so it cant be said the we youngsters don't work hard to get some of the things we have and that is because that was the past generations goal but some people do get things way to easily.
I am Chinese, I heard his name from my music class.. and now i can’t stop listening his songs .... I finally understand that Music is much more universal than words......
While music is universal is true, not everyone likes the same musics. I like/love country music, but not every country song. I like/love both olde and newer rock and roll, but not every song. Rap and music do NOT belong side by side. What it really is, is rhythm and rhyme. And I like none of it.
@@carterc9171 Just because you love it means NOT it is music. Two can play this game. The female I live with done pissed me off, DUDE! So dont get in my crosshairs!!!!!!!!!
Jimmy Shirley I don’t even really like rap that much, but I’m a musician and I have respect for it. Hope you sort things out, these internet threats hold no weight though.
I am 80 years old, and I've never heard a better recording of Waiting for a Train. My Dad used to sing this song to me when I was a little boy. This song brings back many good memories of my Dad. Thanks for the post.
@The greatest to never live I’ve listened to a few bob wills songs that history is pretty interesting to like the introduction of the steel guitar to country music
I’ve listened to Jimmie Rodger’s music most of my life, and I can easily hear his influence on the music I play today. A little J.R. history, if I may: Rodger’s Dad was a foreman with the Railroad which caused Jimmie to grow up around trains and train yards, where he learned to sing and play the guitar. Being taught by white and black railroad workers, he merged Country music and the Blues. And by adding his distinctive yodel to the sound, he made it his own. By the time he was 14, he was a full-fledged brakeman and was riding trains all over the country. He incorporated his train knowledge and railroad travels to different states into the songs he wrote. For instance, in “T for Texas,” he sings about Texas, Tennessee, Georgia and Atlanta, and in many of his other songs, he sings about several other cities and states that he visited. By adding his many train adventures; his happy-go-lucky confidence; love travails in various cities; and his sassy sense of humor to his Bluesy Country music; he endeared himself to millions of people all over the country during the hard times of the Depression. But it was the trains and the Blues that made the difference between him and other singers and connected him so well with the public by singing about their cities, their states, and their troubles. He was the Elvis Presley or Beatles of his day and remains to be the greatest, single influence on American music. But let's not forget Rodger's sister-in-law, Elsie McWilliams of Meridian, MS, who wrote the majority of Jimmie's songs. Even though Rodger's eight years of popularity was during the depth of the Depression, Jimmie's simple man's songs, being highly influenced by Elsie's lyrics of faith, family, home and sweethearts, made their songs of hard times and heartaches treasured by the American public. Sorry for being so long winded. . .
My dad is 93 years old and was only 5 when Jimmy Rodgers died but today when you ask him who his favorite singer is he calls out Jimmie Rodgers. The man was an original.
Jimmie was the first music star for the cameras. Everyone else from that period is accessed just through the audio recordings. But Jimmie basically pioneered the idea of the musician, on-screen performer, leading to Elvis and everyone after that. And this can be basically seen as the start of music videos. He had natural onscreen charisma. Its a shame he never did any films or shorts after this.
When the lady at the window asks Jimmie if he ever "thinks of his old daddy", it always instantly brings a tear to my eye. LIstening to the song then brings a flood of memories of my dad, who I still love, over thirty years after he died....I wonder if my boy will ever think of me in the same way...
I was raised by my grandmother. I was born 1959, she was born in 1900. She raised me when I was only two weeks old. Over the years she would tell me about her life. As a. teenager she ones told me about Jimmie Rodgers. She passed away in 1998. This is the second time I've hear his music. I thank God, thank that I can listen with her today. What she heard yesterday. God is Good. Amen
One thing I love so much about Rodgers songs are that they are legit. He was a real rail worker.Jimmy's music has traveled thousands of miles with me on old roads and mountains and highways. I bet heaven has the greatest concert right now...Jimmy, Hank, Johnny, Waylon, and a ton more. I hope when my time comes many years from now I get a front row seat.
I didn't come of age in the 30's. I was born in 59. I grew up on classic rock and heavy metal. I'm so glad I expanded my musical tastes. This guy is respected and praised by everyone from George Jones, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams(senior, Jr, and 3),Merle Haggard etc. Check out more of him. This is American roots music at its best.
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity and love all over the world, i would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust if you don't mind. I'm Doctor Christopher Johnson from Minneapolis, Minnesota and you where are you from if I may asked?
‘59 here too. I am fortunate to have had all grandparents around too that I loved being with more than my friends and siblings. Guess I am an old soul.
You're absolutely right... Good morning how are you doing over there hope you're having a wonderful day it's another lovely day that the lord has made.
My grandmother had a stack of Jimmie Rodgers records and an old wind up victrola with a broken spring (Mississippi in the1950's). But I found that I could play the records by spinning them using my finger. I spent many hours listening to them. What would the music world be if we never had this man and his music?
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity and love all over the world, i would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust if you don't mind. I'm Doctor Christopher Johnson from Minneapolis, Minnesota and you where are you from if I may asked?
I’m 60 and this is the first music I learned to play on guitar when I was five my dad showed me all sorts of music as this hank bob wills fats domino little Richard Merle Willie George Jones Elvis beatles. May more thanks dad❤️
This video will become immortal when someone who's twigged bothers to tell the rest of the world who that cheeky old one-eyed cornet player is at the intro and the outro.
I got into an old box that belonged to my grandmother about 22 years ago and found old letters to her from Jimmie. I asked her who he was and she told me that he was our cousin. First cousin to my great grandmother who was also a Rodgers. In the letter he was saying how he was coming to visit when he had a chance. Some pretty cool family history.
The Country Music Hall of Fame and the Jimmie Rodgers Museum would be very interested in those letters. Email them please, those are historic documents that should be preserved and seen!
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity and love all over the world, i would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust if you don't mind. I'm Doctor Christopher Johnson from Minneapolis, Minnesota and you where are you from if I may asked?
Jimmy Rodgers was my father's absolute favorite. He could play and sing everything Jimmy ever wrote. My dad passed away at 90 in 2008. He would have LOVED this video. Thanks for posting.
I’m so sorry your dad never got to see this. My dad passed in 2016, but with poor sound, and on my tiny cell phone, I was able to show him this recording. He loved it! Growing up with my dad playing along on his guitar and banjo to Jimmie Rodgers music is my greatest memory.
My grandmother told me that when this man died they put his casket on a train and took ot all across the country so people could say their goodbyes to him
That is what they did when President Abe Lincoln was killed. The funeral train was made to travel through cities that weren't part of the shortest way back to his hometown of Springfield, Illinois. Telegraph lines were utilized to let rail stations along the way know if the train was on schedule. At each major city, the train would stop and the coffin would be taken to a place where people could file past to pay their respects. And a memorial service could be held. A timetable would be published in newspapers, so mourners could gather along the railroad tracks in rural areas to view Lincoln (a special rail car with glass walls enabled them to see him). Poet Walt Whitman wrote a vivid description of the spectacle in his poem "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed." Those of us who are old enough to remember the assassination of JFK have experienced something similar.
THE FATHER OF COUNTRY MUSIC - JUST WONDERFUL MUSIC COMPARED TO THE CRAP SUN TODAY. THIS IS LIKE MUSIC TO MY EARS AND PUTS ME IN THE MOOD TO FALL ASLEEP. IF THESE OLD TIME SINGERS CAME BACK TO THIS COUNTRY NOW, THEY WOULD GO BACK IN THEIR COFFFIN - THIS COUNTRY IS UNRECOGNIZABLE . LOVE THIS OLD TYME MUSIC.
Jimmie Rodgers will never be duplicated, he will always be the godfather of country. He is the one and only. I hope whatever brought you here, you stay and bring ppl here like you've been brought. God bless
This is just a glorious performance by a legend. The guitar playing is perfect and for an early soundie the quality of sound is still amazing after all these years..RIP Jimmie.
My mom was very close with Hank snow.Hank called my grandmother his MOTHER.Hank spent alot of time with us in Nashville my hometown.Hank idolixes Jimmie. My mom met Jimmie several times. My mom was from Alberta.Hank from Nova Scotia. My mom sung at the Opry back when country was country...she would have become famous but married and had 4 kids.The Solemn Olde Judge was also close friends. I have many ketters and pictures of him personal stuff. The judge died broker...he discovered the Opry and never got monetized
Excuse me I'm mexican man i.work in a farm. In wisconsin..my boos just pass away october 16 2022 he give me 3 CD music of Jimmie Rodgers..my boost told me I never never hear a mexican man like and love a American country music and understand the words of the music what I answer him boos I always love this music since I was 7 years old the frist singer I hear in English it was George jones jonny cash jonny paid cash willie Nelson and hank Williams he said I got a good gifth for you I said what is that he told me 3 cassettes of the father of country music I meant the frist singer of country music...***** Jimmie Rodgers*****..he it's the frist American sing country music..my boos told me you I'll deserve it just because you really love country music
My dad played Jimmie Rodgers songs and had this video recorded by his friend Jim Evans who was the Founder of the Jimmie Rodgers Fan Club, I was able to appreciate his work at a young age, I never get tired of watching and listening to it. To this day I still believe Jimmie Rodgers Is one of the top musicians to ever perform.
This is a beautiful, and authentic movie set. A makeup of a real “Beanery” and railroad boarding house. I got to experience a few of these during my railroad career. Pretty much gone now.
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WOW!!! I didn't think footage of Jimmie Rodgers existed...what a treat!! I must show this to my dad as he is a huge Jimmie Rodgers fan...this will blow him away! Thanks soooooo much for posting this!
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity and love all over the world, i would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust if you don't mind. I'm Doctor Christopher Johnson from Minneapolis, Minnesota and you where are you from if I may asked?
@@barbfye158 so tell me where are you originally from and you’re looking so bright, with a beautiful smile on your face and I would love to know more of you..
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity and love all over the world, i would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust if you don't mind. I'm Doctor Christopher Johnson from Minneapolis, Minnesota and you where are you from if I may asked?
The man is the King of Country. Singing and performing while deathly ill withTB which eventually took his life. People need to study there history. This man is a legend!. Respect. Rip
Yeah your right Robert Bailey--ALL Jimmie Roger has WAS talent. Your correct Robert , little Jimmie couldn't make it today---he wouldn't grind his ass on some naked looking whore, he probably wouldn't use the popular F -word.No, his shows would simply be ALL about talent.
I'm a fifty niner too and the lyrics chords and timing ran through to all the rock and blues of the 60/70s and beyond. Only found this recently. Soothes my soul.
The songs are amazing! A person who can sing the struggles of common people has to have kindness, selflessness, and creativity through the roof. What a wonderful music! As a non-American, I am so glad I discovered this great music!
Darn it, this is so great. The summer of 1971 my family spent traveling around campgrounds in the Midwest- Indiana, Illinois Missouri. The best culture this country ever produced was the culture of the South, Midwest and the West.
I miss you daddy👼🏼, he loved Jimmie- and could play guitar like him. Yes- that is actually Jimmie's own voice imitating the train whistle! I have all his records now- what a treasure.
USA has always been miles ahead from the rest of the world. Just look at this, what year is that, like 30s? No questions asked, this is America, golden land of popular music.
Jimmie was my dad's favorite singer. He was a young man during the time that Jimmie was popular. I grew up listening to this music and I really appreciate the posting of this. My dad would have loved it. It is a shame that this technology wasn't around when he was alive 32 years ago. RIP, Daddy...
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity and love all over the world, i would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust if you don't mind. I'm Doctor Christopher Johnson from Minneapolis, Minnesota and you where are you from if I may asked?
They don't call him the father of modern country music for nothing. Every country singer who came after owes him a debt. Without Jimmie Rodgers there couldn't have been a Hank Williams, a George Jones, a George Strait or any of the others.
I guy named Harmonica Frank told me about Jimmie Rodgers coming to Memphis. He said the line for tickets was several blocks long, more than any line he had ever seen for anyone.
First saw and heard the blue yodel extract somewhere near 2001, when I was a kid. Thanks to first part of the Beatles Anthology that my parents bought me then (as I loved old stuff including Beatles, as much as classical music). Even I didn't understand the lyrics at that time --- i am french ---, I have never forgot this strange guitar singer and his way to reach us directly with a few simple things. I have only recognized recently the Blue Yodel resurgence in George Harrison's posthumous album, in "Rocking chair in Hawaii". Proof of the deep influence he could have had over nearly one century.
The Father Of Country Music. When it comes to a list of the greatest Country singers, Jimmie Rodgers belongs on a list all by himself. This is Country music as pure as it'll ever be. Thanks you so much for posting these three songs in their entirety.
@Dannys998877 - The Martin 000-45 Jimmie used in that film is currently on display at the Jimmie Rodgers Museum in Meridian, Mississippi. Carrie Rodgers loaned it to Ernest Tubb after Jimmie's death and forty years later it was donated to the Jimmie Rodgers Museum.
I feel like I was wandering along and searching when suddenly I found this invaluable treasure. Took me back to a time and place that I've never been before and will never forget. I've heard Jimmie Rodgers many times but this visual is absolutely priceless.
I love his line "gimmee that old guitar"..... That old guitar is probably worth a cool million by now!! I had this video since the late 80's on a video tape. If you had it it in any form you were setting on a real collectors item. The digital age and all that hadn't come along yet and made stuff like this inaccessible. I would break this out and play it for people and they would just be in a trance for about 10 minutes!! Now How 'bout that coffee"..... This is by the way, the only known film footage of Jimmie Rodgers....
Interesting comments about the Martin, because Tubbs gave it back to the Rodgers family. They offered it to the Smithsonian, but when they wouldn't guarantee it would even be on display the family put it in a tiny private museum in Mississippi. They do keep it in a vault but the front of the vault is see-through and you can look at it. I may need to drive down someday, it's in the same town as Peavey. ua-cam.com/video/42doMPob76E/v-deo.html
My grandfather passed away January 2015, when I was younger he would always play his cassettes of Jimmie Rodgers and Jerry Clower for me. Just hearing these old songs bring back so many memories of my time with the man that raised me, I know it's been 10 years since this video was posted but I just want to say thank you so much.
Hell, yes Roger! It goes back to the 1927 recordings made by Ralph Peer, a talent scout for the Victor Talking Machine (which later became RCA) Company. Peer came to Bristol, Tennessee where he ran an newspaper ad for local artists in the East Tennessee / Southwest Virginia / Western North Carolina area to come and record their music into Peer's recording device. Bristol is on the Tennessee-Virginia state line; and North Carolina was only a short distance away. (Although one artist came from Florida!) He recorded about 100 groups or individual artists during the week he was there. At the time Rodgers was living in Asheville, NC, when he heard about Peer's recording Appalachian Old Time Music Artists. Asheville was just over the mountains from Bristol. The 1927 Peer recordings is considered the birth of country music. (Old Time Country music was born in Bristol, grew up in Knoxville, had a career in Nashville, and retired to Branson.) Rodgers, the Carter Family (Mother Maybell, A.P. and Sara Carter), Blind Alfred Reed, Ernest Stoneman & his Dixie Mountaineers (which lead to the founding of the Stoneman Musical Family that dominated country music for four generations), Charles McReynolds (grandfather of Blue Grass artists Jim & Jesse McReynolds) and The Shelor Family were just some of the Artists recorded in Bristol. Rodgers and the Carter Family were the first "break-out" artists from these records. In early 1928, Peer invited Rodgers to NYC for more recordings which is probably where this "short film" was shot. During his time in Bristol and NYC Rodgers was slowly dying of TB. Today Bristol hosts "Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion" (BR&RR) the third weekend of September. Started in 2000, and held annually ever since, Bristol closes six blocks of State Street, to auto traffic, and sets up 24 stages (six outdoor and the rest indoor) to feature 130 acts over a three day period. These groups played Old Time, Bluegrass, Newgrass, Blues, and Celtic music. There is also a permanent giant mural about the 1927 recordings which feature Peer, Rodgers, the Carter Family, and other artists. Check it out. I've been to the BR&RR six times and I go whenever I can.
This is actually a clip from a promotional film that Jimmie Rogers did for the Columbia Film Corporation in 1930. He recorded the disk record of this song for Victor Talking Company talent scout Ralph Pier in 1928.
+andrew kramer I don't know if what you said was a question or a statement, but for the record, this Jimmie Rodgers died in 1933. There is another singer James Frederick, who went professionally by the name Jimmie Rodgers born that same year that became a very successful "pop" singer and is indeed still alive. But the man singing in this little movie is dead. In fact, if he were alive today, he would be 118 years old.
I was only born in ‘70 in Lpool, and not brought up on Country. But I love it now, and this is superb, so evocative makes you wish you weee around back then. Thanks for posting ❤
Us kids used to sit on the floor with our Daddy and listen to his Jimmie Rodgers albums with him. He loved that music so much. Brings back lovely memories of a simpler time. Miss you, Daddy! ❤️
Love Jimmie Roger....81yrs old. Listened all my life...grand old Opry and Louisiana Hayride..only music played....no television at our old shotgun house....I worked for Southern Pacific RR.... a brakeman...conductor for the T&NO division. Understand where and what Jimmie is referring to and singing about...lot's of memories ..Good memories ...
Wow what a treat that was. Good quality, good sound and most importantly great acting by the ladies! I wish I had a cup of that coffee. I can smell it brewing even now.
He only lived til his mid 30's and yet his songs infiltrate all of country music and some early blues as well! Imagine if he'd have lived a few decades more!
As Ken Burns' documentary makes clear, this father of country music got his style and many of his melodies from black musicians who sang and played the blues! That's America, folks: we're all in this together.
I’m only 13 now and I don’t like the music nowadays it just ain’t have the same feeling as the older songs bring and so I listen to older songs because it’s the only thing that is more real and honest than songs now.
I can't listen to Jimmy without crying. It brings back memories of our life in the 1930s at the end of the Great Depression. I remember being grateful for meals of grits with a little salt, of white blocks of oleo margarine that we sprinkled the yellow powder into so it would look like butter. I remember the milk bottles on our front porch with the cardboard caps and the cream floating at the top. I recall the ice box with the drip pan under it and the scrubbing board. Too many memories to list here. Nobody has time to read that much.
Your memories are delightful, and we are happy to read any you'd share.
Thank you for sharing your memories. Young people need to learn from what elders have gone through.
Dont be shy. Tell us some more. It's priceless knowing of your experiences.
How are you doing these days?
just remember one thing the goal of one generation is to make it easier for the next one so it cant be said the we youngsters don't work hard to get some of the things we have and that is because that was the past generations goal but some people do get things way to easily.
I am Chinese, I heard his name from my music class.. and now i can’t stop listening his songs .... I finally understand that Music is much more universal than words......
That's cool!
While music is universal is true, not everyone likes the same musics.
I like/love country music, but not every country song.
I like/love both olde and newer rock and roll, but not every song.
Rap and music do NOT belong side by side. What it really is, is rhythm and rhyme. And I like none of it.
Jimmy Shirley just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s not music. This shows me you don’t know what music really is.
@@carterc9171
Just because you love it means NOT it is music.
Two can play this game. The female I live with done pissed me off, DUDE! So dont get in my crosshairs!!!!!!!!!
Jimmy Shirley I don’t even really like rap that much, but I’m a musician and I have respect for it. Hope you sort things out, these internet threats hold no weight though.
I am 80 years old, and I've never heard a better recording of Waiting for a Train. My Dad used to sing this song to me when I was a little boy. This song brings back many good memories of my Dad. Thanks for the post.
your most welcome sir
*over here wondering if youre still alive.....
your welcome sir
your welcome sir
Im 14 and I love his music. Jimmie really is loved by people of all ages
I am only in my teens but I think this music can't be beat, From Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams to Cash, and haggard. Country is the best.
@The greatest to never live just stumbled across ‘if no news is good news’ and instantly knew Bob Wills and his boys were maestros.
I Guess you're a country MUSIC lover?
@The greatest to never live I’ve listened to a few bob wills songs that history is pretty interesting to like the introduction of the steel guitar to country music
It's great that you can educate your heart and ears with the great sounds we grew up on.
What does age have to do with a love of music?? If I'm 4 yo is that a big deal? Get serious
I’ve listened to Jimmie Rodger’s music most of my life, and I can easily hear his influence on the music I play today.
A little J.R. history, if I may:
Rodger’s Dad was a foreman with the Railroad which caused Jimmie to grow up around trains and train yards, where he learned to sing and play the guitar. Being taught by white and black railroad workers, he merged Country music and the Blues. And by adding his distinctive yodel to the sound, he made it his own.
By the time he was 14, he was a full-fledged brakeman and was riding trains all over the country. He incorporated his train knowledge and railroad travels to different states into the songs he wrote. For instance, in “T for Texas,” he sings about Texas, Tennessee, Georgia and Atlanta, and in many of his other songs, he sings about several other cities and states that he visited.
By adding his many train adventures; his happy-go-lucky confidence; love travails in various cities; and his sassy sense of humor to his Bluesy Country music; he endeared himself to millions of people all over the country during the hard times of the Depression. But it was the trains and the Blues that made the difference between him and other singers and connected him so well with the public by singing about their cities, their states, and their troubles. He was the Elvis Presley or Beatles of his day and remains to be the greatest, single influence on American music.
But let's not forget Rodger's sister-in-law, Elsie McWilliams of Meridian, MS, who wrote the majority of Jimmie's songs. Even though Rodger's eight years of popularity was during the depth of the Depression, Jimmie's simple man's songs, being highly influenced by Elsie's lyrics of faith, family, home and sweethearts, made their songs of hard times and heartaches treasured by the American public.
Sorry for being so long winded. . .
My dad is 93 years old and was only 5 when Jimmy Rodgers died but today when you ask him who his favorite singer is he calls out Jimmie Rodgers. The man was an original.
Today I am 78 years old. This brings back memories of my daddy singing Jimmie’s songs to me and my brothers. Thank you for this.
Jimmie was the first music star for the cameras. Everyone else from that period is accessed just through the audio recordings. But Jimmie basically pioneered the idea of the musician, on-screen performer, leading to Elvis and everyone after that. And this can be basically seen as the start of music videos. He had natural onscreen charisma. Its a shame he never did any films or shorts after this.
Walter~ What blessed memories! I share them, except my daddy just played guitar ~ sounded just like him to me! 🥰
@@BillyBob-wg8gr Agree Billy
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thank you brother. those songs brought some back some great memories of my father.
Who's still listening to this in 2021 the Father of country music
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I STILL LISTEN TO JIMMIE RODGERS MOST EVERY DAY I HAVEN'T SEEN NO ONE THAT CAN MATCH HIS PICKENS ON THE GUITAR, BAR NONE. NO ELECTRONICS AT ALL..
I am still listening to Bach as well and to mediaeval music too. Fine is fine, old or new.
WELL I AM I HAVE 8 ALBUMS HIS MUSIC I GREW UP LISTEN TO HIS MUSIC....AND NOW ITS 2021...!!
Hell yea I just schooled my gf about him cause she didn’t know
When the lady at the window asks Jimmie if he ever "thinks of his old daddy", it always instantly brings a tear to my eye. LIstening to the song then brings a flood of memories of my dad, who I still love, over thirty years after he died....I wonder if my boy will ever think of me in the same way...
My dad quietly sang this to me as a bedtime song when I was a little boy.
I loved it. Waiting for a train..
I am 45 years old.
What a blessed childhood memory! What a wonderful daddy! God bless you!🙏🏼
I like how the lady bobs her head and smiles when he's singing about shooting Thelma just to see her die.. lol. Jimmie was such a great artist.
I was raised by my grandmother. I was born 1959, she was born in 1900. She raised me when I was only two weeks old. Over the years she would tell me about her life. As a. teenager she ones told me about Jimmie Rodgers. She passed
away in 1998. This is the second time I've hear his music. I thank God, thank that I can listen with her today. What she heard yesterday. God is Good. Amen
You were blessed!!
Awesome
I wish that you would have been able to record her voice telling you those stories of her growing up. I was born in 59, too.
One thing I love so much about Rodgers songs are that they are legit. He was a real rail worker.Jimmy's music has traveled thousands of miles with me on old roads and mountains and highways. I bet heaven has the greatest concert right now...Jimmy, Hank, Johnny, Waylon, and a ton more. I hope when my time comes many years from now I get a front row seat.
Me, too. My parents and brother, and an uncle will be jamming with them.
I didn't come of age in the 30's. I was born in 59. I grew up on classic rock and heavy metal. I'm so glad I expanded my musical tastes. This guy is respected and praised by everyone from George Jones, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams(senior, Jr, and 3),Merle Haggard etc. Check out more of him. This is American roots music at its best.
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity and love all over the world, i would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust if you don't mind. I'm Doctor Christopher Johnson from Minneapolis, Minnesota and you where are you from if I may asked?
‘59 here too. I am fortunate to have had all grandparents around too that I loved being with more than my friends and siblings.
Guess I am an old soul.
I Guess you're a country MUSIC lover?
@@joshuajelly4901 I am a MUSIC lover of most genres.
@@jimmywayne623 yeah that's true, same here I grow up listening to country songs. Where are you from if I may ask?
Listening to Jimmie on my 1919 granfanola ❤️
Wow!
You're absolutely right... Good morning how are you doing over there hope you're having a wonderful day it's another lovely day that the lord has made.
My grandmother had a stack of Jimmie Rodgers records and an old wind up victrola with a broken spring (Mississippi in the1950's). But I found that I could play the records by spinning them using my finger. I spent many hours listening to them. What would the music world be if we never had this man and his music?
Pretty much the best music video ever 💕
I do enjoy listening to Jimmie and it a true country music i love and also my favourite, so how is life so far with you candace..
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity and love all over the world, i would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust if you don't mind. I'm Doctor Christopher Johnson from Minneapolis, Minnesota and you where are you from if I may asked?
This is one of those videos I hope stays on UA-cam forever.
long as i live , my dad sang these to me im 74 years old.
dont count on it i can stop it , lots of assholes here im done
I’m 60 and this is the first music I learned to play on guitar when I was five my dad showed me all sorts of music as this hank bob wills fats domino little Richard Merle Willie George Jones Elvis beatles. May more thanks dad❤️
I couldn't agree more I love the tribute to his dad
This video will become immortal when someone who's twigged bothers to tell the rest of the world who that cheeky old one-eyed cornet player is at the intro and the outro.
I got into an old box that belonged to my grandmother about 22 years ago and found old letters to her from Jimmie. I asked her who he was and she told me that he was our cousin. First cousin to my great grandmother who was also a Rodgers. In the letter he was saying how he was coming to visit when he had a chance. Some pretty cool family history.
Raider Girl you sure are lucky.
That is just so cool. I love JR's music - always have.
The Country Music Hall of Fame and the Jimmie Rodgers Museum would be very interested in those letters. Email them please, those are historic documents that should be preserved and seen!
Very cool. Are you from Mississippi too? One of my cousins was Elsie McWilliams, the writer of a lot of his songs.
@@mysteryjesus actually my grandmother passed away in 08' and her belongings I'm sure are with my uncle. I could ask him about her stuff.
Me too ! My Dad was a great yoddler THANKS
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Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity and love all over the world, i would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust if you don't mind. I'm Doctor Christopher Johnson from Minneapolis, Minnesota and you where are you from if I may asked?
Jimmy Rodgers was my father's absolute favorite. He could play and sing everything Jimmy ever wrote. My dad passed away at 90 in 2008. He would have LOVED this video. Thanks for posting.
I’m so sorry your dad never got to see this. My dad passed in 2016, but with poor sound, and on my tiny cell phone, I was able to show him this recording. He loved it! Growing up with my dad playing along on his guitar and banjo to Jimmie Rodgers music is my greatest memory.
My uncle bob played and sang these songs when i was growing up as a child.
I miss him in heaven now 😢 great memories
the original jimmie rodgers the real father of country music
he's more like an uncle, or second cousin.
Jimmie Rodgers is real country, he'd never make it today.
mohitoness how so?
doesn't twerk or have gold teef or (c)rappers in his music
Is there another Jimmie Rogers besides the original?
I am 50 I grew up listen to Jimmie Rodgers. Thank u dad
My grandmother told me that when this man died they put his casket on a train and took ot all across the country so people could say their goodbyes to him
That is what they did when President Abe Lincoln was killed. The funeral train was made to travel through cities that weren't part of the shortest way back to his hometown of Springfield, Illinois. Telegraph lines were utilized to let rail stations along the way know if the train was on schedule. At each major city, the train would stop and the coffin would be taken to a place where people could file past to pay their respects. And a memorial service could be held. A timetable would be published in newspapers, so mourners could gather along the railroad tracks in rural areas to view Lincoln (a special rail car with glass walls enabled them to see him). Poet Walt Whitman wrote a vivid description of the spectacle in his poem "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed." Those of us who are old enough to remember the assassination of JFK have experienced something similar.
THE FATHER OF COUNTRY MUSIC - JUST WONDERFUL MUSIC COMPARED TO THE CRAP SUN TODAY. THIS IS LIKE MUSIC TO MY EARS AND PUTS ME IN THE MOOD TO FALL ASLEEP. IF THESE OLD TIME SINGERS CAME BACK TO THIS COUNTRY NOW, THEY WOULD GO BACK IN THEIR COFFFIN - THIS COUNTRY IS UNRECOGNIZABLE . LOVE THIS OLD TYME MUSIC.
This is great!
Stop yelling
his playing style is so oldschool and rad
Jimmie Rodgers will never be duplicated, he will always be the godfather of country. He is the one and only. I hope whatever brought you here, you stay and bring ppl here like you've been brought. God bless
Greatest country music singer hands down,also one of the best blues singer and guitarist too.He reminds me of Robert Johnson the way he sings.
This is just a glorious performance by a legend. The guitar playing is perfect and for an early soundie the quality of sound is still amazing after all these years..RIP Jimmie.
My mom was very close with Hank snow.Hank called my grandmother his MOTHER.Hank spent alot of time with us in Nashville my hometown.Hank idolixes Jimmie. My mom met Jimmie several times. My mom was from Alberta.Hank from Nova Scotia. My mom sung at the Opry back when country was country...she would have become famous but married and had 4 kids.The Solemn Olde Judge was also close friends. I have many ketters and pictures of him personal stuff. The judge died broker...he discovered the Opry and never got monetized
Excuse me I'm mexican man i.work in a farm. In wisconsin..my boos just pass away october 16 2022 he give me 3 CD music of Jimmie Rodgers..my boost told me I never never hear a mexican man like and love a American country music and understand the words of the music what I answer him boos I always love this music since I was 7 years old the frist singer I hear in English it was George jones jonny cash jonny paid cash willie Nelson and hank Williams he said I got a good gifth for you I said what is that he told me 3 cassettes of the father of country music I meant the frist singer of country music...***** Jimmie Rodgers*****..he it's the frist American sing country music..my boos told me you I'll deserve it just because you really love country music
Love Jimmy Rodgers!
My dad played Jimmie Rodgers songs and had this video recorded by his friend Jim Evans who was the Founder of the Jimmie Rodgers Fan Club, I was able to appreciate his work at a young age, I never get tired of watching and listening to it. To this day I still believe Jimmie Rodgers Is one of the top musicians to ever perform.
The good old days 🥰🤩🎶📻🎻🎸
The man, the legend, the great Jimmie Rodgers. A UA-cam comment can’t express how much I love his music
This is a beautiful, and authentic movie set. A makeup of a real “Beanery” and railroad boarding house. I got to experience a few of these during my railroad career. Pretty much gone now.
Great!!! grew up with Jimme Rodgers music
Hello, Mary how are you doing?
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity and love all over the world, i would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust if you don't mind. I'm Doctor Christopher Johnson from Minneapolis, Minnesota and you where are you from if I may asked?
I'll be 80 in December and i heard my dad sing this song when I was a small boy. I used to sing it when I first started singing. Great memories. 😊
WOW!!! I didn't think footage of Jimmie Rodgers existed...what a treat!! I must show this to my dad as he is a huge Jimmie Rodgers fan...this will blow him away! Thanks soooooo much for posting this!
This made me feel great instantly. I've never seen or heard Jimmie Rodgers until watching this video. Thanks for posting this!
Hi how are you doing?
A treat for sure!
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity and love all over the world, i would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust if you don't mind. I'm Doctor Christopher Johnson from Minneapolis, Minnesota and you where are you from if I may asked?
I really treasure these early musical videos . My mom and her brothers liked Jimmie and used to sing his songs.
My Dad pick up Jimmie ‘s art of playing and singing back in in 20’s, his was born in 1903, sounded just like Jimmie
I do enjoy listening to Jimmie and it a true country music i love and also my favourite, so how is life so far with you Barb..
@@nicolasaleksandra6722 good miss my Dad , he always entertained us , those were the good old days
@@barbfye158 That’s right and memory has been made
@@barbfye158 so tell me where are you originally from and you’re looking so bright, with a beautiful smile on your face and I would love to know more of you..
@@nicolasaleksandra6722 I am from Missouri, living in Indiana now , and you
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A master of the pick 'n' strum guitar - great stuff
great music,my mama used to sing jimmie rodgers songs to us children
i'm 84yrs.i love his music.🧡🧡💙💙🤍🤍🧡🧡
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity and love all over the world, i would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust if you don't mind. I'm Doctor Christopher Johnson from Minneapolis, Minnesota and you where are you from if I may asked?
I Guess you're a country MUSIC lover?
This is priceless, l hope it is in the Library Of Congress.
WOW 🤩
I just discovered this American 🇺🇸 Classic from the 1930s here on you tube. Thank you 🙏 for posting
It is quite the "find" and I'm drawn to it.
My daddy loves all his song and has all his records and he picks that guitar just like Jimmy Rogers ❤️ this bring back memories
I Guess you're a country MUSIC lover?
So much of what we came to love about Hank Williams!
Both Hank and Johnny looked up to Jimmy Rogers.
bobby jett after watching the Ken Burns special I realized a lot of what I thought was hank Williams was Jimmie rogers
WELL I HAVE 8 ALBUMS OF JIMMIE RODGERS AND STILL LISTEN TO THEM ITS THE WAY I GREW UP ....!!!!
You had Wonderful parents!
He'd never make it today. All he has is talent.
yup, and doesn't play that stupid gino beat stuff
u guys are dumb he basically started country culture
The man is the King of Country. Singing and performing while deathly ill withTB which eventually took his life. People need to study there history. This man is a legend!. Respect. Rip
Yeah your right Robert Bailey--ALL Jimmie Roger has WAS talent. Your correct Robert , little Jimmie couldn't make it today---he wouldn't grind his ass on some naked looking whore, he probably wouldn't use the popular F -word.No, his shows would simply be ALL about talent.
not worth an answer punk
I'm a fifty niner too and the lyrics chords and timing ran through to all the rock and blues of the 60/70s and beyond. Only found this recently. Soothes my soul.
This guy really is the greatest.
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The songs are amazing! A person who can sing the struggles of common people has to have kindness, selflessness, and creativity through the roof. What a wonderful music! As a non-American, I am so glad I discovered this great music!
Darn it, this is so great.
The summer of 1971 my family spent traveling around campgrounds in the Midwest- Indiana, Illinois Missouri.
The best culture this country ever produced was the culture of the South, Midwest and the West.
South, Midwest and the West - The true America! F^ck california and NYC. And I'm from CA. It'll soon be a good place to be from for me.
I love the opening music! Of course Jimmie is the greatest and earns the title as the King of Country music
I miss you daddy👼🏼, he loved Jimmie- and could play guitar like him. Yes- that is actually Jimmie's own voice imitating the train whistle! I have all his records now- what a treasure.
USA has always been miles ahead from the rest of the world. Just look at this, what year is that, like 30s? No questions asked, this is America, golden land of popular music.
One of the greatest singers of 20th century.no doubt.
Grew up listening to Jimmy Rogers,dad loved his music and gave it to me.This video is priceless.
Jimmie was my dad's favorite singer. He was a young man during the time that Jimmie was popular. I grew up listening to this music and I really appreciate the posting of this. My dad would have loved it. It is a shame that this technology wasn't around when he was alive 32 years ago. RIP, Daddy...
Hello I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity and love all over the world, i would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust if you don't mind. I'm Doctor Christopher Johnson from Minneapolis, Minnesota and you where are you from if I may asked?
They don't call him the father of modern country music for nothing. Every country singer who came after owes him a debt. Without Jimmie Rodgers there couldn't have been a Hank Williams, a George Jones, a George Strait or any of the others.
I guy named Harmonica Frank told me about Jimmie Rodgers coming to Memphis. He said the line for tickets was several blocks long, more than any line he had ever seen for anyone.
First saw and heard the blue yodel extract somewhere near 2001, when I was a kid. Thanks to first part of the Beatles Anthology that my parents bought me then (as I loved old stuff including Beatles, as much as classical music). Even I didn't understand the lyrics at that time --- i am french ---, I have never forgot this strange guitar singer and his way to reach us directly with a few simple things. I have only recognized recently the Blue Yodel resurgence in George Harrison's posthumous album, in "Rocking chair in Hawaii". Proof of the deep influence he could have had over nearly one century.
The Father Of Country Music. When it comes to a list of the greatest Country singers, Jimmie Rodgers belongs on a list all by himself. This is Country music as pure as it'll ever be.
Thanks you so much for posting these three songs in their entirety.
Absolutely stunning special effects here.
9 minutes 15 seconds. Priceless!
The Late And Great Jimmie Rodgers. The Iconic Singing Brakeman. Sing It Boy. Love your music. Rest In Peace. Smokey Binion, Jr.
Jimmie Rogers: The king of county music, never to be beaten. What we have here is true talent
@Dannys998877 - The Martin 000-45 Jimmie used in that film is currently on display at the Jimmie Rodgers Museum in Meridian, Mississippi. Carrie Rodgers loaned it to Ernest Tubb after Jimmie's death and forty years later it was donated to the Jimmie Rodgers Museum.
So basically I'm listening to a musician who was born almost 100 years before I was born (I'm 27) and I like it!!. Thanks UA-cam
Well, don't ever feel bad about it Gustavo He had a short life, and a long message.
I feel like I was wandering along and searching when suddenly I found this invaluable treasure. Took me back to a time and place that I've never been before and will never forget. I've heard Jimmie Rodgers many times but this visual is absolutely priceless.
I love his line "gimmee that old guitar"..... That old guitar is probably worth a cool million by now!! I had this video since the late 80's on a video tape. If you had it it in any form you were setting on a real collectors item. The digital age and all that hadn't come along yet and made stuff like this inaccessible. I would break this out and play it for people and they would just be in a trance for about 10 minutes!! Now How 'bout that coffee"..... This is by the way, the only known film footage of Jimmie Rodgers....
he had many more songs look him up
more than that friend
cant be bought tubbs locked it in a vault
that will be up to earnest tubbs heirs because tubbs is long time dead
Interesting comments about the Martin, because Tubbs gave it back to the Rodgers family.
They offered it to the Smithsonian, but when they wouldn't guarantee it would even be on display the family put it in a tiny private museum in Mississippi. They do keep it in a vault but the front of the vault is see-through and you can look at it.
I may need to drive down someday, it's in the same town as Peavey.
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Grew up on this, and I appreciate my folks for teaching me real music. I remember playing this with papa on guitar.
My grandfather passed away January 2015, when I was younger he would always play his cassettes of Jimmie Rodgers and Jerry Clower for me. Just hearing these old songs bring back so many memories of my time with the man that raised me, I know it's been 10 years since this video was posted but I just want to say thank you so much.
John.. I can't shoot up there.. I might hit you...
Jimmy Rodgers set the stage for country artists. Just need to write that down somewhere in your songbook.
Hell, yes Roger! It goes back to the 1927 recordings made by Ralph Peer, a talent scout for the Victor Talking Machine (which later became RCA) Company. Peer came to Bristol, Tennessee where he ran an newspaper ad for local artists in the East Tennessee / Southwest Virginia / Western North Carolina area to come and record their music into Peer's recording device. Bristol is on the Tennessee-Virginia state line; and North Carolina was only a short distance away. (Although one artist came from Florida!) He recorded about 100 groups or individual artists during the week he was there. At the time Rodgers was living in Asheville, NC, when he heard about Peer's recording Appalachian Old Time Music Artists. Asheville was just over the mountains from Bristol. The 1927 Peer recordings is considered the birth of country music. (Old Time Country music was born in Bristol, grew up in Knoxville, had a career in Nashville, and retired to Branson.) Rodgers, the Carter Family (Mother Maybell, A.P. and Sara Carter), Blind Alfred Reed, Ernest Stoneman & his Dixie Mountaineers (which lead to the founding of the Stoneman Musical Family that dominated country music for four generations), Charles McReynolds (grandfather of Blue Grass artists Jim & Jesse McReynolds) and The Shelor Family were just some of the Artists recorded in Bristol. Rodgers and the Carter Family were the first "break-out" artists from these records. In early 1928, Peer invited Rodgers to NYC for more recordings which is probably where this "short film" was shot. During his time in Bristol and NYC Rodgers was slowly dying of TB. Today Bristol hosts "Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion" (BR&RR) the third weekend of September. Started in 2000, and held annually ever since, Bristol closes six blocks of State Street, to auto traffic, and sets up 24 stages (six outdoor and the rest indoor) to feature 130 acts over a three day period. These groups played Old Time, Bluegrass, Newgrass, Blues, and Celtic music. There is also a permanent giant mural about the 1927 recordings which feature Peer, Rodgers, the Carter Family, and other artists. Check it out. I've been to the BR&RR six times and I go whenever I can.
This is actually a clip from a promotional film that Jimmie Rogers did for the Columbia Film Corporation in 1930. He recorded the disk record of this song for Victor Talking Company talent scout Ralph Pier in 1928.
Actually, this is the whole short film. You can buy it on the Times Ain't Like They Used To Be DVD sold on Amazon, etc.
This footage of Rodgers and also that of Bessie Smith in "St. Louis Blues" are priceless pieces of American popular music's history.
The very first pop star in American music. His songs make me smile and sometimes cry.
Jimmie Rodgers is the first superstar.
+Robert Kennedy he's still alive.
+andrew kramer I don't know if what you said was a question or a statement, but for the record, this Jimmie Rodgers died in 1933. There is another singer James Frederick, who went professionally by the name Jimmie Rodgers born that same year that became a very successful "pop" singer and is indeed still alive. But the man singing in this little movie is dead. In fact, if he were alive today, he would be 118 years old.
+andrew kramer what you gots to says nows boy?
+Eason Abraham wrong andrew kramer. Must be 2
seeing is beleivin
For those looking for this on DVD, get the DVD "Times Ain't Like They Used To Be" on Amazon, etc.
I was only born in ‘70 in Lpool, and not brought up on Country. But I love it now, and this is superb, so evocative makes you wish you weee around back then. Thanks for posting ❤
Us kids used to sit on the floor with our Daddy and listen to his Jimmie Rodgers albums with him. He loved that music so much. Brings back lovely memories of a simpler time. Miss you, Daddy! ❤️
Thank you for posting this. My parents loved Jimmie Rodgers, and so do my husband's parents - both from Meridan, Mississippi. We love him too.
great ty
so amazing
Love Jimmie Roger....81yrs old. Listened all my life...grand old Opry and Louisiana Hayride..only music played....no television at our old shotgun house....I worked for Southern Pacific RR.... a brakeman...conductor for the T&NO division. Understand where and what Jimmie is referring to and singing about...lot's of memories ..Good memories ...
He was such a great songwriter and it’s great to relate to when you’re feeling blue
awesome and greatness!!
Wow what a treat that was. Good quality, good sound and most importantly great acting by the ladies! I wish I had a cup of that coffee. I can smell it brewing even now.
He only lived til his mid 30's and yet his songs infiltrate all of country music and some early blues as well! Imagine if he'd have lived a few decades more!
As Ken Burns' documentary makes clear, this father of country music got his style and many of his melodies from black musicians who sang and played the blues! That's America, folks: we're all in this together.
True that buddy !
Lol nope
Amo a Jimmie ! Me hace viajar.
Lo miro hipnótica....
Cuenta historias de las que huelo el hierro de las vías del tren. Solo el en esto lo logra.
I love his guitar and playing
Jimmy was the best,I tried to do this song when I was doing concerts. Nobody could ever come close to Jimmy Rogers.
How many of you old timers remember Moon Mullican he was my grandmother's brother .Back then it was about the music and culture it's all gone now !
Thank you so much for posting this. Jimmie truly was an American treasure.
I grew up listening to this
I’m only 13 now and I don’t like the music nowadays it just ain’t have the same feeling as the older songs bring and so I listen to older songs because it’s the only thing that is more real and honest than songs now.
I’m from Bristol Tennessee me and Jimmie were good friends sometimes I was in his songs
wow that second song mock key chng is splendide