50's TV: Hank Snow performing "Music Makin' Mama From Memphis" on CBS-TV

[Ajen1959]

Now thats music to my ears!

[eonvee375]

is it me or 50s 240p rez is much better than 2011s ? ^^

[MattTheSaiyan]

@eonvee375 YouTube generally has very poor encoding. I've seen some 1980s music videos that were shot on cruddy video tape and they manage to have amazingly lower-than-TV picture quality even at 480p.

[SteelguitarLane]

@bobbeseymour

I love the banjo effect of muting with the ball of the hand. I also love your instructional videos (only been steeling for 32 years. Still lots to learn)

[SteelguitarLane]

@cmallon135

As far as I know, Hank always used standard.

[TheNashvilleNetwork]

Sry didn't mean to hit the inappropriate icon on iPhone. Great clip!

[IGOROZKARSKY]

GOOD OLE HANK SNOW & HIS BAND THE RAINBOW RANCH BOYS !

[renger29]

If I see and listen to this song, the arrangement and also the performance I really don't understand why so many elderly people depend on this type of country. Maybe because their -memories flowes-.....? In those years these music was just as modern and different as now the -so called contemporary country- is. What I'm trying to say is: Country Music will always be to-day's music. To me: I love all kinds of CW, also Hank Snow

[MrRecordbuyer]

Tremendous! So it's Tommy Vaden on Fiddle, Big Joe Talbot on Steel, Hillous Butram on Guitar and Howard Watts a.k.a. Cedric Rainwater on Bass? What an incredible lineup! Hank Snow was also a tremendous guitar player. Awesome performance!

[savgal1211]

My Mom was a very good friend of Hanks. Hank called My Grandmother "Momma", as he did not have a mom growing up.. My Mom was a rodeo singer on the Calgary Stampeded, Hank is from Nova Scotia. He moved my Canadian Mom and Austrian grandmother to Nashville, I was born there! Hank used to drink Vodka and oJ and sit at our kitcvhen table and sing and play!! Great memories!

[23EliBrown23]

i love being from the south!

[sandybfine]

Love the violin player too! Such a happy bunch!

[Aliceumbrella8]

@sandybfine The Fiddle player is my husbands grandfather, Tommy Vaden. Glad you love him, we did too!

[MrRecordbuyer]

@Aliceumbrella8 You have a proud family tradition. Tommy Vaden was a tremendous fiddle player. Very highly regarded.

[baldy194859]

we need more singers like hank.

[thegodmotherm]

Matt, you cared enough to send the very best. Thanks so much.

[1nightstorm]

5 stars to you! This gifted man got a horrible start in life and managed to rise above the abuse and become a music legend (similiar story to Anita O'Day). His contributions to music cannot be understated. It was a joy to see him perform live like in this TV clip. This is truly a treasure & hats off to you for sharing it with a global audience, some just learning of this great artist for the first time. Cheers...

[baldy194859]

another good singer from canada

[briartlaw]

@baldy194859 Much better than good 5**********..

[missionrd100]

Hankj Snow lives ! The Rolling Stones covered I'M MOVING ON. Hank Snow, perhaps the first rock'n'roller?

[Memphis1943]

Listening to Hank in Memphis. Great song. Great artist.

[sandybfine]

@Memphis1943 Love the violin player as well....ah, for the sweet and simplier times!

[IGOROZKARSKY]

LADIES & GENTLEMEN THE GREAT HANK SNOW !

[TheHillbillyHermitt1]

Hank should of had a Drummer instead of another guitarist but hillbilly music didn't like drums

[jrbryce3]

@TheHillbillyHermitt1 It's not "hillbilly music," it's Americana music.

[glipzik]

Hank Snow had such a unique style. He kept the same style from the begining to the end of his career. Not many can claim that. I love the intros to such hits as "Im Movin On" and "I Don't Hurt Anymore." And that unique steel guitar sound on all his records. That's what country music is all about.

[cmallon135]

are they using standard tuning?

[baldie194859]

this is what i call country music

[whiteswan72]

Hank Snow was one of the best singers that there ever was.I really enjoyed listening to him sing and play guitar.He was one of the best singers that there ever was.

[KarlDavidson1]

Why doesn't some DVD company put out a DVD of all these great old video clips of HANK SNOW, the absolutely greatest country singer of all time. And with the best sounding guitar, too.

[glencoe6305]

This was the Perry Como Show.

[rskurow]

Who is the fiddler?

[Aliceumbrella8]

@rskurow Tommy Vaden. He is my husbands Grandfather.

[Lsbud]

Thanks, I wonder who are the backup guys?

[bobbeseymour]

Nice!

[bobbeseymour]

The steel player is the famous Big Joe Talbot. A big wheel in the music biz in Nashville. Mercury records, BMI, Hall of Fame, and many other endevors. He was a great studio steel player on top of every thing else. Personality???? You bet. Bobbe Seymour

[FonziesFavourites]

Perry Como Show from 1952. Thanks for posting, it's brilliant !!!

[FonziesFavourites]

Fantastic clip from The Perry Como Show in 1952. Thanks for posting, it's brilliant !!

[DouglasUrantia]

He was one of the greats. His songs were number one on many bar Juke Boxes. People would play them all night long in the '50s and '60s. Such sweet memories.

[Lsbud]

You made my day. I forgot, what year was this?

[MattTheSaiyan]

@Lsbud It might be 1952, though I could be wrong.

[JackGrider]

@MattTheSaiyan 1954 I think.

[BrickPa]

Listen carefully and you'll hear the foundations of Rock & Roll being laid down.

[jimkuppers]

THe pride of Liverpool, Nova Scotia !!!

He is as good as Hank and Johnny.

[rfvgh]

thanks very much they dont make it like they used to

[DelTangBrav]

Great video - thanks for posting. *****

[baldie194859]

it don,t get much better then hank snow and the rest of the older singers.

[jennadyann]

2 cool!!! love it!!!

[hankedful]

Good stuff, you can see where rock and roll came from.

[skydogz1]

Hank was best.

[xadoj]

Believe that is Benny Martin playing the fiddle...

[welshhillbillyful]

@xadoj  Tommy Vaden is the fiddle player.

[buckedwards1]

This is the guy I listen to! :) Buck

[sarniesandwich]

One of the greats of country music and always underated! Only guitar players can realize how intricate, creative and trailblazing Hank's guitar style was. It was the forrunner of the rockabilly riffs of Scotty Moore, Eddie Cochran etc.

[stuart1648]

Just wonderful!

Note the expression of the steel guitarist at the very end..a happy man!

[dkfelix]

So is the bass player after his solo!

[supermanbass]

The bass player is Howard Watts,,aka Cedric Rainwater,,one of the greats,worked with Bill Monroe,and Hank Williams before Snow

[CashPresley32]

He was also on the Johnny Cash Show and did a version of his I'm Moving On with Willie Nelson on an album he did with Willie. Willie got his phrasing from Hank Snow, and his guitar playing is similar to Hank's too.

[ToddCMorgan]

My favorite Hank Snow song!

[zombiega1]

nice!!!!!!

[nohank]

Tommy Vaden plays fiddle, Joe Talbot steel, Hillous Butram guitar, but is it Sleepy McDaniel on bass ?