"This is evidence that his music is still having an impact on country music"- I still play Keith all the time. He was the best! So unfortunate that he died so young. Could you imagine if he had made 10 more albums???
What such a great loss in country music, and what a great shame what happened to him! I almost saw Keith. But he passed away right before the concert I was going to see him at. I truly miss Keith, but I still listen to his music and great country voice. He is one of a kind for sure! I wish there were more like him today instead of this so called country s**t. There is no more country music anymore. Just turn the radio on man.
I was and am a huge Keith fan, And what can I say about Miss Lori Morgan, also a large fan of yours I've watched you for years and you get better all the time!! May God Bless you always
Keith may be gone but the music this man made isnt going to ever be forgotten Keith still gets alot of radio play Only the great ones get that after they are gone
Keith Whitley will never be silent he was in a league of his own he could SANG Greetings from Dublin Ireland brother and sisters...in OUR HEARTS forever
It Strikes a cord in Southern California,All So,l got into to Keith's music at the time of his death?Which was so sad for us,with hard worker and hard living l ended up on the tail end,l listened to country all my life,my grandmother and l as a child watch The Grand Ol Oprey every Saturday and l loved it,the music was not only comin out of are den,but my Dad was listening to country in the garage.life was sweet
Not Lorrie's fault he had a drinking problem. She is so beautiful, and she can't help what happens to the husbands if you are not happy why stay! Some people are haters she can't help she can get anyone she wants!
@@tpowell453 nasty foul mouth person .did you live with them no so how'd you know what was going on .so easy to listen to nasty people show us prove and I'll believe because she had a career herself and 2 kids and Keith to look after so she must of been great to have time to screw around .
Some are incapable of grasping complete surrender through honesty he's not at fault he might of been born that way... that's alcoholism in a nut shell!rip KW
"We ask ourselves what might have been?"No need to ask anything. He is the best and always will be the best male vocalist in country music. None can hold a candle to his talent. Too bad he didn't have someone to take better care of him when he desperately needed it.
I just read your comment from 9 months ago. Having been there and done that. I can agree somewhat. You listed some people that were not worthty to be mentioned. I understand why. The message. I was in the business for 20 years. Yep, A boozer. Plain and simple. Loved it. Hooked on it. Couldn' t go on stage without it. Simple as that. Partied after the shows. Keith and I partied a couple of nights before his death. The Ville is a party town. Just have to go to the right places.
Please tell me how Lorrie made it worse? Had it not been for her he would have died sooner. I used to believe she was a bad influence on his life but I've come to realise I was wrong. They were good for each other and we certainly have no right judging complete strangers marraiges.
@@quentindugger5389 I sure think your right .look I think woman Sid as much as she could .she was juggling music career and two kids .she tried like mad to get out of going and promoting her music cause she had a bad feel about Keith but look he was a grown ass man and lorrie didn't pour the stuff down his throat .so she went to work 2 days after he died but she was grieving and I think anything to take your mind of things .No one knows what she went through .she's been married what 4,5 times now but I think Keith was true love and she was as ma's smash he'll about him leaving him .his little boy use to say when's daddy coming home .she blamed herself for years about his death and I think so does his family but people shouldn't throw stones .she tried her best she'll meet him again one day .
He didnt drink everyday he went months without drinking it pissses me off when people keep saying he was an alcholic no e wasnt he was binge drinker there are differnt layers to being alchocholic but everyone of those still. Means you cant go 24 hours without drink
One of the Greats destined to be greater. So sad that Lori and their kids have to carry on with this the rest of their lives. Please, please, please, I pray all you facing the struggles Keith and all in the spotlight face, do not succumb to the pressure of being rich and famous, thinking it cannot happen to you; it does, it has so many times: Hank Williams, Sr., Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, shall I go on...? Is the fame and fortune really worth the cost? Ask Lori...
@onelazydaizy At the end of the day the wife decides not the mother. Lets face it, none of us know what goes on within familys, sometimes familys do not know themselves. For this reason it is best we all keep stum !!!
{continued from previous post} In fact if Lorrie WAS "screwing around" it could be that it was HIM that drove HER to it with his alcoholism, right? I mean we don't know, so we can't assume anything. They are both great performers, I like both of them, so I try not to let their personal lives that I know nothing about influence my musical tastes.
itsahellofaname Is that why "Don't Close Your Eyes" won song of the year while Keith was very much alive? With 40 #1 hits would you say Merle Haggard was a slacker compared to Conway Twitty or George Strait? Commenter just said a run for his money not better than. Just sayin'.
@onelazydaizy I actually checked the blood alcohol level with the coroner's report. You are 100% right and that is 5 times the definition of intoxication plus he had cocaine and vallium in his system. The alcohol level could have don't it by itself and probably did. He was an all-time great and this is still a sad sad story.
read Cathy O'Brien's book. If true--and a lot of circumstantial behavior and conduct would indicate that it's true, the Nashville CM scene is full of satanists, pedophiles, CIA drug runners. Whitley was a good soul, and knew too much about all of it. Morgan and many others were participants in all of it.
Electric Cream Man the Yahoo person is correct about a side of Nashville we never hear about. I saw it on a show called drugs inc. on the Justice network. Don't know if Keith got caught up in it since I am in California but I do know it exists. I still believe his death is questionable. And the coroner in the case could be bought. Wow.
this is true, but, it could've been kept from the public. ALL stars, many are addicted to something. Alcohol, drugs, food, infidelity (Lorrie Morgan) but whos running them in the ground?? all the wortld needs to know is a talent is gone. One of the GREATEST ever~
If Lorrie Morgan is "responsible" for his drinking, how do you explain the fact that he had an alcohol addiction in his teens? As for the songs he wrote/sang, that's just country music. How many country songs have you heard that were about being happy? Compared to the thousands that are about being unhappy? I doubt that Lorrie was pouring the booze for him & if I HAD to live with a cheater or an alcoholic, (I wouldn't live with either, but if I HAD to choose one) it wouldn't be the addict.
Keith was a serious alcoholic. The real story in Nashville was he was locked in his room the day he died because his manager was trying to keep him sober. He drank an entire bottle of mouthwash with alcohol in it and died from dehydration. Lorrie, was never to blame for his downfall.
So Lorrie Morgan married a guy who was a alcoholic and thought everything would be great? and his brother in law leaves for a hour and then comes back to take him to play golf and in that space of time he drinks 20 shots of booze and dies? right, and Natalie Woods fell of the boat.
Hang on get this right his manager locked him in. Bedroom. Stop drinking but drank bottle mouthwash your saying since when do you keep mouthwash in bedroom also the manger locked him in with bottles hair spray i heard drank those as well
When one so much loves their wife that they cannot yell at her or anything and they try to accept their wife screwing around, they do try and drink theirself to the point that they are numb to it all
All I got to say is that Lori done him wrong, that’s why do think of me, she didn’t don’t won’t would not ever unless it for that almighty dollar that she was All about, all he wanted is to be loved…….
I used to think that for a lot of years. I blamed her for his death. Now, I don't know. I think she really loved him. Alcoholism -- real alcoholism -- is a terrible thing.
the sad fact is, HE chose to silence his voice! What a shame, he let the booze rule his life. He had so much to live for! Lorrie, his kids, his talent & his fans. I loved his voice & music the very first time I ever heard him. Yet he threw it all away, for the love of booze. Hell, he would even drink perfume & nail polish to get intoxicated. His blood alcohol level (at death) was .477 (20 shots of 100 proof whiskey). Truth be told, he committed suicide! RIP, Keith. you will be missed!
Multiple spouses, the more there are, the more it appears that the "marrier" has serious issues with tolerating even a little bit the foibles of other people, and just quits the marriage only to repeat the cycle all over again. There is the oversexed female: one man, 2,3,4,5,6, infinitum would never be enough). (LizTaylor?), that is obsessive about the need to cheat. Love her music but would chop off my right arm before I would ever be as fond of her as I am of Emmy Lou, Lucinda Williams.
Here is what I believe, this I say because I have been there... Perhaps he got tired of his wife screwing around so much that he could not leave her, but death was the only way out...
the sad fact is, HE chose to silence his voice! What a shame, he let the booze rule his life. He had so much to live for! Lorrie, his kids, his talent & his fans. I loved his voice & music the very first time I ever heard him. Yet he threw it all away, for the love of booze. Hell, he would even drink perfume & nail polish to get intoxicated. His blood alcohol level (at death) was .477 (20 shots of 100 proof whiskey). Truth be told, he committed suicide! RIP, Keith. you are be missed!
His voice is not gone.
He will remain a part of Country Music.
Absolutely.
Such a unique voice.....always remember Keith ....always (RIP)
Forever Keith , forever a piece of my heart.
"This is evidence that his music is still having an impact on country music"- I still play Keith all the time. He was the best! So unfortunate that he died so young. Could you imagine if he had made 10 more albums???
I still listen to a lot of his music today too.
Here it is 2021,
Keith’s presence is still felt.
The Kentucky blue bird lives on.
~7/1/1954 - 5/9/1989~
What such a great loss in country music, and what a great shame what happened to him! I almost saw Keith. But he passed away right before the concert I was going to see him at. I truly miss Keith, but I still listen to his music and great country voice. He is one of a kind for sure! I wish there were more like him today instead of this so called country s**t. There is no more country music anymore. Just turn the radio on man.
100% agree. Modern country music sounds like a badly done mixture of christian rock ,hip-hop, and pop music.
Just imagine how much he would’ve become had he lived. He is among one of the greatest country music stars to have ever lived.
I was and am a huge Keith fan, And what can I say about Miss Lori Morgan, also a large fan of yours I've watched you for years and you get better all the time!! May God Bless you always
Helen Gault c
a great singer and songwriter he is sadly missed and should be in the hall of fame
That interviewer was wrong. Keith's voice will NEVER be silenced!!!!!
You are so right in your comment I'll agree
One of the great voices of REAL COUNTRY ~ Keith, Rest and Peace and Happy Birthday !!
There will never be another Keith Whitley.
The 🐐
Keith may be gone but the music this man made isnt going to ever be forgotten Keith still gets alot of radio play Only the great ones get that after they are gone
He was one of my favorites...so sad to be gone at such a young age...RIP Keith
Think it's ONE OF THE BEST ❤️ SONGS!!!!!!!RIP brother
Keith Whitley will never be silent he was in a league of his own
he could SANG
Greetings from Dublin Ireland brother and sisters...in OUR HEARTS forever
His mom will see him again in Heaven no matter where he is buried
He was a great singer, would have to be my favorite. I hope he is in heaven singing to the angels.
It Strikes a cord in Southern California,All So,l got into to Keith's music at the time of his death?Which was so sad for us,with hard worker and hard living l ended up on the tail end,l listened to country all my life,my grandmother and l as a child watch The Grand Ol Oprey every Saturday and l loved it,the music was not only comin out of are den,but my Dad was listening to country in the garage.life was sweet
Not Lorrie's fault he had a drinking problem. She is so beautiful, and she can't help what happens to the husbands if you are not happy why stay! Some people are haters she can't help she can get anyone she wants!
@@tpowell453 nasty foul mouth person .did you live with them no so how'd you know what was going on .so easy to listen to nasty people show us prove and I'll believe because she had a career herself and 2 kids and Keith to look after so she must of been great to have time to screw around .
Some are incapable of grasping complete surrender through honesty he's not at fault he might of been born that way... that's alcoholism in a nut shell!rip KW
Wasn't just alcohol, he also was a drug addict
"We ask ourselves what might have been?"No need to ask anything. He is the best and always will be the best male vocalist in country music. None can hold a candle to his talent. Too bad he didn't have someone to take better care of him when he desperately needed it.
Sometime you can have every thing you need around you and still feel alone. Who’s to say if he had someone that he would be still with us.
He will never be forgotten. He was the BEST.
wasn't around long at all but he put out a lot of great songs, country music would be different for sure if he was around a few more years
I just read your comment from 9 months ago. Having been there and done that. I can agree somewhat. You listed some people that were not worthty to be mentioned. I understand why. The message. I was in the business for 20 years. Yep, A boozer. Plain and simple. Loved it. Hooked on it. Couldn' t go on stage without it. Simple as that. Partied after the shows. Keith and I partied a couple of nights before his death. The Ville is a party town. Just have to go to the right places.
This is your verson
It is a shame that he would not let go of drinking for just a day.
I hate that the bottle had a hold on him.
It is so tragic.
I hate he is gone.
+JustForBrieLarson - She made it worse. 1000 times worse. Like pouring gas on a fire.
Please tell me how Lorrie made it worse? Had it not been for her he would have died sooner. I used to believe she was a bad influence on his life but I've come to realise I was wrong. They were good for each other and we certainly have no right judging complete strangers marraiges.
@@quentindugger5389 I sure think your right .look I think woman Sid as much as she could .she was juggling music career and two kids .she tried like mad to get out of going and promoting her music cause she had a bad feel about Keith but look he was a grown ass man and lorrie didn't pour the stuff down his throat .so she went to work 2 days after he died but she was grieving and I think anything to take your mind of things .No one knows what she went through .she's been married what 4,5 times now but I think Keith was true love and she was as ma's smash he'll about him leaving him .his little boy use to say when's daddy coming home .she blamed herself for years about his death and I think so does his family but people shouldn't throw stones .she tried her best she'll meet him again one day .
He didnt drink everyday he went months without drinking it pissses me off when people keep saying he was an alcholic no e wasnt he was binge drinker there are differnt layers to being alchocholic but everyone of those still. Means you cant go 24 hours without drink
Everytime I hear "When you say nothing at All" I stop whatever it is I'm doing....I almost got fired from my job once because of it, but I don't care!
Keith loved his wife and I am sure was buried were he would have wanted were his wife would be.
One of the Greats destined to be greater. So sad that Lori and their kids have to carry on with this the rest of their lives. Please, please, please, I pray all you facing the struggles Keith and all in the spotlight face, do not succumb to the pressure of being rich and famous, thinking it cannot happen to you; it does, it has so many times: Hank Williams, Sr., Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, shall I go on...? Is the fame and fortune really worth the cost? Ask Lori...
@onelazydaizy At the end of the day the wife decides not the mother. Lets face it, none of us know what goes on within familys, sometimes familys do not know themselves. For this reason it is best we all keep stum !!!
What a loss😢
She's no longer married to Sammy.
{continued from previous post} In fact if Lorrie WAS "screwing around" it could be that it was HIM that drove HER to it with his alcoholism, right? I mean we don't know, so we can't assume anything. They are both great performers, I like both of them, so I try not to let their personal lives that I know nothing about influence my musical tastes.
How do you know this
He would have given George Strait a run for his money.
I doubt it - Whitley didn't top the charts till after he died (which was why he even topped the charts).
itsahellofaname Is that why "Don't Close Your Eyes" won song of the year while Keith was very much alive? With 40 #1 hits would you say Merle Haggard was a slacker compared to Conway Twitty or George Strait? Commenter just said a run for his money not better than. Just sayin'.
@@itsahellofaname I disagree, his death isn't the reason for his success. Plus Kieth Whitley wrote a few of George Strait's first hits.
George Strait is so overhyped it isn't even funny anymore. "King George" my ass. Keith is the King of Country Music.
Yes my dear he did it and in a major way in a short amount of time.
She went thru pure hell.
James Dewar had a great voice too. !!!!
Yes he sure did
@onelazydaizy I actually checked the blood alcohol level with the coroner's report. You are 100% right and that is 5 times the definition of intoxication plus he had cocaine and vallium in his system. The alcohol level could have don't it by itself and probably did. He was an all-time great and this is still a sad sad story.
I still wonder if something else happened to him.
I wonder that about famous people who died very young.
read Cathy O'Brien's book. If true--and a lot of circumstantial behavior and conduct would indicate that it's true, the Nashville CM scene is full of satanists, pedophiles, CIA drug runners. Whitley was a good soul, and knew too much about all of it. Morgan and many others were participants in all of it.
Mindspring Yahoo ridiculous
Electric Cream Man the Yahoo person is correct about a side of Nashville we never hear about. I saw it on a show called drugs inc. on the Justice network. Don't know if Keith got caught up in it since I am in California but I do know it exists. I still believe his death is questionable. And the coroner in the case could be bought. Wow.
this is true, but, it could've been kept from the public. ALL stars, many are addicted to something. Alcohol, drugs, food, infidelity (Lorrie Morgan) but whos running them in the ground?? all the wortld needs to know is a talent is gone. One of the GREATEST ever~
If Lorrie Morgan is "responsible" for his drinking, how do you explain the fact that he had an alcohol addiction in his teens? As for the songs he wrote/sang, that's just country music. How many country songs have you heard that were about being happy? Compared to the thousands that are about being unhappy? I doubt that Lorrie was pouring the booze for him & if I HAD to live with a cheater or an alcoholic, (I wouldn't live with either, but if I HAD to choose one) it wouldn't be the addict.
She was a cheater
@@annieaston2726 and you know this how?
@onelazydaizy how do you know this
Keith was a serious alcoholic. The real story in Nashville was he was locked in his room the day he died because his manager was trying to keep him sober. He drank an entire bottle of mouthwash with alcohol in it and died from dehydration. Lorrie, was never to blame for his downfall.
WTF?? Born and raised in Nashville. 49 years here and i've never heard that anywhere.
My boyfriend filled his prescriptions. It's not widely know but it should be.
owedeee
So Lorrie Morgan married a guy who was a alcoholic and thought everything would be great? and his brother in law leaves for a hour and then comes back to take him to play golf and in that space of time he drinks 20 shots of booze and dies? right, and Natalie Woods fell of the boat.
Hang on get this right his manager locked him in. Bedroom. Stop drinking but drank bottle mouthwash your saying since when do you keep mouthwash in bedroom also the manger locked him in with bottles hair spray i heard drank those as well
When one so much loves their wife that they cannot yell at her or anything and they try to accept their wife screwing around, they do try and drink theirself to the point that they are numb to it all
He was also screwing around as lorrie puts it with old trols is this a name for prositutes iv not heard it before
All I got to say is that Lori done him wrong, that’s why do think of me, she didn’t don’t won’t would not ever unless it for that almighty dollar that she was All about, all he wanted is to be loved…….
She's bad news
I used to think that for a lot of years. I blamed her for his death. Now, I don't know. I think she really loved him. Alcoholism -- real alcoholism -- is a terrible thing.
Problem with folks with drug,alchol tend to lie so good others think they are all good.So otgers get the blame for their scew ups
the sad fact is, HE chose to silence his voice! What a shame, he let the booze rule his life. He had so much to live for! Lorrie, his kids, his talent & his fans. I loved his voice & music the very first time I ever heard him. Yet he threw it all away, for the love of booze. Hell, he would even drink perfume & nail polish to get intoxicated. His blood alcohol level (at death) was .477 (20 shots of 100 proof whiskey). Truth be told, he committed suicide! RIP, Keith. you will be missed!
Agree
To choose drinking over your family-and he could have gotten alot more help.
Lori was hot!
Not anymore
Annie Aston well that’s why I said was 🤷🏻♂️
damn lori morgan was smoking back then
She's still smokin bud !!
Didnt know she smoked it
Multiple spouses, the more there are, the more it appears that the "marrier" has serious issues with tolerating even a little bit the foibles of other people, and just quits the marriage only to repeat the cycle all over again.
There is the oversexed female: one man, 2,3,4,5,6, infinitum would never be enough). (LizTaylor?), that is obsessive about the need to cheat.
Love her music but would chop off my right arm before I would ever be as fond of her as I am of Emmy Lou, Lucinda Williams.
Here is what I believe, this I say because I have been there... Perhaps he got tired of his wife screwing around so much that he could not leave her, but death was the only way out...
the sad fact is, HE chose to silence his voice! What a shame, he let the booze rule his life. He had so much to live for! Lorrie, his kids, his talent & his fans. I loved his voice & music the very first time I ever heard him. Yet he threw it all away, for the love of booze. Hell, he would even drink perfume & nail polish to get intoxicated. His blood alcohol level (at death) was .477 (20 shots of 100 proof whiskey). Truth be told, he committed suicide! RIP, Keith. you are be missed!