Johnny Cash & The Statler Brothers - Daddy Sang Bass

[Callofduty6owns]

Why? I want on a concert with Johnny Cash!

[The6568]

does anyone knows when and where was it ?

[Diamondtesq]

it don't get any better than this.

[TheBenny402]

Great Video and Greetings from Nuremberg, Germany!

[gund2281]

Lew was good but Jimmy has a FAR better voice. The Statlers have just always been great. Doesn't matter who has sang with them.

[loveabelanger]

I miss Lew Too!!!!! The Statler Brothers complimented each other so well( and still do) Cashqueen has spoken!!

[DWhite2280]

What a TREASURE of a video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RhettRay]

Love this southern Gospel song

[RhettRay]

Love this suthern Gospel song

[princereggie1980]

Does anyone out there have "I Was There" by the Statler Brothers? Can't find it anywhere!!!!

[MrDlm2009]

DAMN What a tune

[papstbenni]

daaaamn, what a bass!

[MauiMedicineMan]

@papstbenni I agree!

[msymsed]

I never was a big Lew DeWItt fan. Jimmy Fortune is a much better singer...but I DO miss Lew. I hate that he had such a tough time and he did have a very distinctive voice.

[Ashmoleon2006]

ha my dad went to highschool with the statler brothers

[kimberly441967]

woohoo two of the best!!!! love it

[hoelital]

What a great performance, what a great song!!!

[baneskrbic]

Groovy!

:D

[betons7]

goooood i want to burn the dancefloor now!!!! :/

[5inthehole]

Nice to see Johnny really enjoying himself singing a song. The music buisness, while financially rewarding, can really be a grind and it did take alot  out of him. But not on this night...Miss ya JC!

[TheBenny402]

super, beautiful, a song for everyone whó likes Countrymusic

[SuperDave915]

would like to see more of johnny cash videos !!!!!!! great job on this video .

[Elizabeth1476]

I really like this song ! I have always like the Statler Bros. and Johnny Cash . I m iss their tv show and Johnny.

[Elizabeth1476]

I really like this song ! I have always like the Statler Bros. and Johnny Cash . I m iss their tv show and Johnny.

[edwint6820]

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­.........!!!! es super ...!!

[Elizabeth1476]

@edwint6820 I really agree with you.

[mollymitch1]

Music at it's best

[bigbam2wwf]

also lew diwitt retired from them because he thought it was the end for him but for a couple of years there was no sighn of his crohns desease so he made some hits and records of his own because the statler brothers already got a new tenor but aug 15 1990 it came back worse than ever killing him R.I.P lew and johnny

[hinnawi95]

I love this song! Statler Brothers and Johnny Cash...both great...put them together and they're invincible.

[robivrs]

Great Vido :}

[MrDlm2009]

Oh my GOD so AWESOME

[metalwoods69]

happy times at 1.27. Awesome!

[LeifEKSkate]

What is the name of the tenor?

[Carters01]

@LeifEKSkate Lew DeWitt,

[CashStatlerFan]

@Carters01 Lew Dewitt retired from The Statler Brothers in 1982 due to health problems, Jimmy Fortune was brought in to fill in while Mr. Dewitt was ill and took the spot permanently in 1982. Jimmy Fortune is the tenor in this particular video, this appears to be a late 80s to early 90s video. I believe Mr. Fortune has done a terriffic job after Dewitt retired. I've always enjoyed listening to this song with Johnny Cash, The Statler Brothers and The Carter Family.

[mssandy90]

@LeifEKSkate Jimmy Fortunes is the tenor.

[Carters01]

@mssandy90 You are correct; Jimmy Fortune is the tenor in this video. Jimmy Fortune, replaced original Statler Tenor, Lew DeWitt in the early 1980s due to the latter's ill health. DeWitt died on August 15, 1990 of heart and kidney disease, and complications of Crohn's disease.

[FLHKSBonYT]

@LeifEKSkate

jimmy fortune



[RevFlowerjoy]

2 great legends of Country music and how much we used to sit by our T.V on Saturday night to see these great legends. Love the Statler Brothers and Miss Johnny Cash RIP Johnny Cash,

[jooopwooop]

It upsets me to think that there will never be any music as important, wonderful and meaningful as johnny cash, long live the love for Cash

[Snobke89]

Harold Reid is frikkin' awesome

[daveeeee5]

country music is not music ....... its a way of life  keep it between the ditches

[numoneuncfan]

Awesome post, I thank thee. Grew up with this music and thanks to folks like you I get a second wind from it!!

[shalom2467]

beautiful heavenly

[anmaba3]

Hey Johnny, du bist der Beste!

[DarinErstad17]

One of the best performances ever!!!!

[slimfchance1]

I still miss Lew DeWitt.

[StarBus]

Wow! Terrific!

[cubcadetpuller]

that dude singing bass has a really deep voice. almost crazy deep lol

[CntryInVa]

That "dude" is of course Harold Reid..what a great self confessed clown on stage,--and the most important point of this video is fact that the Statlers backed Johhny up when he first started and they wound up being by his side.

[y00sta]

@CntryInVa well we just saw a legend god bless you tube

[CntryInVa]

@CntryInVa Course I meant to say that Johnny let them back him up when "they" first started...but they were there pretty early all the same.

[123EMOgirl100]

what a great song,i just found youtube and it has opened a fantastic range of tremendous music, absolutely wonderful

[drfever63]

Awesome vid! This was always one of my favorite Johnny Cash songs, and I,ve always loved the Statlers. Until I came across this vid, I didn't know they did this song together. 2 ledgends, 1 stage, endless memories...

Johnny & Lew - R.I.P.

[mohinderbauer]

I think that people who say they don't like country music never really listened to it.

[youdragon]

indeed

[ldsmith0426]

Very true! Hearing and listening are 2 very different things. And - imo - they definitely have not listened to old (original) county music, when the instrumental portion of a song was simple, and the voices were heard in pure clarity, and with beautiful harmonies.

[Band898]

i like both jonny csh ans the stat bros how funy

[smr61754]

This is a great rendering of this song. I always liked the version with June but this one is really special. :)

[yakkominniegoofy]

I've seen this video. My mom recorded it for me.

[GuitarMan027]

Thanks for posting! Love this one!

[macgirrl]

I'll never forget my dad's love of The Statler Brothers and I think that losing my dad so young, made me so much more appreciative of THE MAN in BLACK. His Ultimate Gospel is one of my favorite collections ever.

[2true2blue]

Oh , how I miss that great combination of harmony, of John and Stats.

[DasStuttgart]

It`s wondefull to hear this song,the world is not the same without J.R.Cash

R.I.P

[Johi2410]

This is somewhere in the 90s, and this is the first time in more than 20 years that Cash and the Statlers would sing together. This performance was never rehearsed :-)

Marshall Grant, who played bass for Cash until 1980, and then became the Statler's manager, recalled (in his book) being so glad to see them on stage together again, since it was Johnny who brought the Statlers big into business (and Grant himself heard them at a local gig and told Johnny he liked them).

[cutegrandma]

Great!!!!!!

[LittleJimmySouthern]

Giants. And a magical musical moment.

[HBKFAN515]

My grandma Lynne and my grandpa Gary used to sing this song al the time with me and my little brothers.... miss you Nana and Granddad.

[daddysbeutifulbaby05]

i love the statler brother's i grow up lisoning to them when i was littl and my family love's them and i love jhonny cash to

[Micki1958]

I remember watching this show. The Statlers were celebrating what I think was their 30th anniversary in the music business. This was the 1st time Jimmy met Johnny. June was sitting with the host (Ralph ?). After the song she made a funny comment about Jimmy singing her part in this song. This was a great show!!

[Carters01]

Harold Reid

[highwayman012]

Ok thanks!

[highwayman012]

Whats the name of the deep voiced guy?

[CashPresley32]

His name is Harold Reid, and the voice type is not called deep voiced, but bass. lol

[wompo67]

0:23, whos the guy that sings the high part?

[beanoandzingoz211]

His name is Jimmy Fortune

[Bribickhed6]

i really like this song

[Speedygonzoz]

This is Johnny Cash's song, so you really do kinda need him.

[tuktukskagal]

Super tenor!.

Love The Man In Black.

[bigbluemsp]

They are the Temptations of Country Music just cleaner, and friendlier

[xyrana]

this song makes me laugh and cry at the same time

[Hamster23NoOnions]

Jimmy Fortune's high voice is also just amazing

[ihunt17]

"Johnny Cash The Anthology" great DVD

[highwayman012]

One word....Legend!

[BuGGzFoShO]

the guy who says daddy sang bass has the best voice ever

[MAMsMom97]

That be the great Harold Reid, America's greatest 69-year-old sex symbol. A legend in his own mind.

[HBKFAN515]

I love this song. Me and my family sing it all time.

[broke2008]

is this why they say we are Gods instruments? i wanna find out which instrument i can be.

[70selvisfan]

buy yourself a guitar and join the fun, it's a blast trust me!!

[MAMsMom97]

Wow, that is the most beautiful comment I've read all morning, and spoken with so few words. I hope you are sincere and seek to find what instrument you can be. God knows--He knew us all in the womb. Half the fun is finding out for ourselves. Blessings!

[brandonricejr]

i sang realy deep :bass

[Pokechoppah93]

The best version, by far, of this awesome song.

[norwaystian]

Whats the name of this DVD? Must have!

[coolbeanjellybean]

watching this video and listening to these legends of country music warmed my heart and brought back wondeful memories of growing up listening to them. Thank you so much for sharing this!

[holyroller246]

this song is awesome!!!!!!!!!!

[jimmmmy41]

I like Johnny's pentacostal shout at 1:28

[Clarislombartsongs]

Superb!

[witchmom1973]

my dad and I would sing this all the time

he passed away sept 5th 2008 , This was one of our favorite songs

[Buckpenn]

The Statlers made their start in the recording business as a gospel group, then broke into folk and country under the auspices of Johnny Cash.

[liamfart41]

One of the funniest clips I have ever seen.

[EchoCannon89]

from a guy named liamfart...

[liamfart41]

I embrace the fact I inherited 'fart' as a surname and I believe feriously that if the great Cash was alive today, he along with the Statler brothers of course would have penned some sort of ballad about this occurence.

[EchoCannon89]

maybe they would have called it "the ballad of liamfart"

[leoseries]

I saw Johnny at our local cinema in London in 1968 shortly after Luther Perkins died. He and the brothers closed the show with this song and brought the place down, doing several encores.

[uglymoon78]

Johnny's voice is kinda shot here, good Harold took care of the bass part!

[karentex]

well john was not a bass, so good thing huh. john was a baratone.... "shot" ???... you know nothing about entertainment now do you?

[uglymoon78]

Aw shut up, I know more about JC than most people. Yes, he was a baritone (not baratone), but he usually sang the bass part ("daddy sang bass") in that song, when his voice was in shape for it. He was a deep baritone, or a bass-baritone if you like, and did occasionally sing low notes in the bass register. Listen and learn you fool!

[oledapra]

why be so hard on ignorant people?

[uglymoon78]

Sorry, admit I'm a little short tempered. "...know nothing about entertainment ..." Huh! I'm 50 now and have listened to JC since I was 13 and read just about every book about him or by him. Y'know, just couldn't let that pass ...

[oledapra]

i loved the peter guralnick books on elvis (other ones too) is there anything of that quality on JC (thought i'd ask a self-proclaimed expert) ps do you know the bono & U2 guitarist song 'elvis', where he sings 'elvis - would have been a sissy without johnny cash' i liked that

[uglymoon78]

The biographies by Steve Turner and Michael Streissguth are both very good, with facts not known to everybody. Streissguth's "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison - The making of a masterpiece" is also very interesting. Marshal Grant's "I was there when it happened" gives a good description of life on the road with Cash, his elusive, irrational behavior when on drugs, the living hell he sometimes put those around him through. These are just a few.

[loverofpink86]

also about a years ago i was like 12, and i thought that this song was like a response to the song that mary duff and daniel o'donnol sing will the circle be unbroken. so yer.

[loverofpink86]

ahahah at the start when they say dady sang bass, mumma sang tina, i was not expecting that man to sing the mumma sang tina bit. very cute.

rip mr cash. =]

[workanimal]

poor Johnny Cash he had a bad childhood

[ForHisGloryAlone]

More than likely, the words in the song may not have anything to do with Johnny Cash. I guess you'd have to find his bio.

[Camogirl911]

love this song so much Johnny Cash rocks!!!

[wikisenia]

Anyway.. That guy's singing pretty bass-ish :D

[richiegoosh]

RIP Johnny, RIP.......

YOU are the man!!!!

[VanMocen]

i love the tenor Lol

[hollowbastionlovr]

Forever Johnny Will Be the Best!

[P51ride]

The Statler Brothers and Johnny Cash and others like them were and are truly the class of Country music

[CrawlingTroughKnives]

The Man In Black is a legend.

[oldskoljams]

Rest In Peace Johnny. We all love you! and our love will never die for you and your love of music

[SmithOnVaio]

Omg the Tenor!

He is so good.

[SUEBRDSHW]

reminds me of the night i saw the great mr cash and his family in peterborough simply awesome

[Bobbytoo]

Hope Johnny is hanging out in heaven with

my Daddy! He DID sing bass!

[mrjjaaccjr]

Ladies and Gentelmen, MR JOHNNY CASH!!!!!

[WilfCarterFan]

Great Song Johnny's Voice seems aged in this song

[BigMacKinnon]

Whta happened to the days of singers wearing suits and with so much class as they are here?Simply fantastic.

[ragnoj]

this is wonderful song.

[Bobonor]

The tenor pwns!

[maoven]

So true

[Skeuk]

YEahhhhh Love it!

[sparky2k3]

great

[dad1717]

Love it!!!

[Thomasdada]

great!

[kakofatus]

That is a great version...

[kathleenrob]

Classic!

[Lfanatic13]

Cool. I finally found it!

[cmw611]

Awesome...f**king Awesome!!

[TrojanSkyCop]

Cool rendition, but it sounds like Johnny's voice is cracking!

[A1l2l2e2n4]

Well, he's no doubt getting close to the end of his life here. Also, he may be remembering his brother who didn't make it into adulthood.

[emufan23]

I can´t see what that has to do with this song, because this song was written by Carl Perkins. But of course he was thinking about it, it was a very tragic accident.

[karentex]

emufan, the death of jack cash has EVERYTHING to do with this song. Carl wrote this for John about his life and the death of his brother.

[jeeisenz]

This is a good song. Man, I wish they would have came out with this cut on disc.

[Gergear999]

didnt this song come out on cd last time i chcked i had it on cd lol but what do i know but then how would my sister put it on my mp3 player lol im going to find it on cd!!!!!!!!!!1111

[jeeisenz]

The actual song by Johnny/June is on GoldDisc, but not sure if this one is (Johnny/Statlers)

[Stickman123434]

it was on a cd it was on The Holy Land

[jeeisenz]

Really? Hmm...Back to the dusty archives in the studio I go...Thanks for the info!

[A1l2l2e2n4]

I think the first time Johnny recorded this song, the Statler Brothers were part of his road show. Of course, June sang along, too. But Jimmy Fortune didn't join the Statler Brothers until 1982. Before that, Lew Dewitt was the high tenor.

[M4d533n]

It´s weird how good this song is:D

[NedKLee]

The man in black and the brothers, it dorsn't come any better than that.

[sfo3000]

His circle will never be broken

[whyme1963]

Thanks for putting this up--I was raised on Cash and the Statler Bros. It's like mental comfort food to listen to this. And it always makes me think of the Perkins brothers--Carl wrote this after Luther died.

"Now little brother has done gone on..."

[Carters01]

Not brothers....Carl Perkins and Luther Perkins were not related.

[faronfan]

Carl probably meant his brother Jay who died in the late 50's.

[gjim10081]

Why aren't there artists like this today, they look like they are actually having fun instead of working.

[steveguy3]

This song is so awesome.

[bigdjindustriez]

When I looked at the list of CMT's top 40 most influential musicians of Country Music, I was certainly not surprised to see John sitting there at number 1. He was the best there was and always my hero. Rest in peace JR

[hirdy6]

Here,here. Beautifully put brother.

[punkochan]

flippin awesome!

[guitmaster777]

This man is the THE King of Country and the God of Gospel. what a beautiful tune. Rest easy and peacefully brother John.

[blimpopswebmaster]

I love this song. THANKS for posting it here.

[backbeat64]

I wish either the Statler's or The Oak Ridge Boys would have sang "Stay Up Late" by The Talking Heads. I can just hear the bass singer sing the part of "Little Toes" and "Fast Asleep"

[MissLiberty2007]

WHAT A CLASSIC !!!

[hippiefreak66]

johnny cash is a classic all on his own!

[twisterit]

great song!!!

[Lloydhl]

Wonderful, two very class acts, country at it's best!!

[gwbushfan1982]

awesome!

[geller111085]

fantastic!

[andu94bergen]

i love this video

[strawberryhillboy]

so cool! Nice one m8!

[tallaksen10]

EXELENT :D :)

[ken69n]

daddy would sing bass, an all the hound dogs would jion in

[u2fankc]

Man, this song brings back some memories. I think living in the middle of nowhere(central Kansas) when I was younger and coming from a farming family gives this song so much meaning to me.

[rjvonbokern]

What a great clip. The Man in Black, the Statlers and

Music City Tonight. I miss all 3. Thanks for posting.

[Lidakou]

Johnny Cash with his unique voice and talent makes us miss him all the more...He will be alive forever.

[faliali]

this was one of my most favorite songs that johnny cash did sing was daddy sang bass with the statler brothers which i too miss them boys dearly

thanks