Heard this song this morning on the oldies show broadcast from a local country station. It brought back memories of my Dad singing this when I was younger. Dad is 79, still singing in a pretty fine voice. Mr. Hawkins may not have been one of the most famous country stars that left us too soon but he was surely one of the best.
Mr. Tarquin, where did you find such a perfect version of this song? It is a rare thing to find such a perfectly clear sound of this recording. Much thanks for posting!
This was played on BBC Radio 2, this morning 7th May 2011, and not having heard of the singer or the song before I just had to get on to U tube and find out more, I loved the voice, in many ways just like Jim Reeves, what a voice and I shall now listen to a load more of my discovery of Hawkshaw Hawkins thanks for posting this one.
My sister (10 years older than me) was crazy about Hawkshaw and always went to see him at the Jamboree in Wheeling W V. Now that I am older I can understand why she loved his singing so much. He had a great voice!
@jenga1011 He looks just like my Dad, too, because he WAS my Dad. And, yes, he was a great man in so many ways... Check out my site at marlene with .org on the end of it.
My song, "Daughter's Prayer" is in memory of my Dad...your Grandpa. Hope you like it and all my songs.
Raised Country/Singin` Gospel ... Susan Marlene Hawkins Gilliam ... Your Aunt
When I was in the first or second year of High School, 1952 or maybe 53, Hawkshaw came up the Ohio River about 40 miles from Wheeling West Virginia (where he was doing the WWVA Jamboree) and made a personal appearance at the Liberty Theater in my hometown of Wellsville, Ohio. He was standing at the back of the one story theater waiting to go onstage and I was close. He was up there, way up there above me and checking online I have found out that he was either six five or six six.
I remember playing this on the radio when I was 19 years old. I was a kid working at a small local radio station that played a mixture of country music. I was a metalhead at the time, not knowing much about the genre. Within six months I was in love with vintage country, playing stuff from the 40's through the early 70's. The 50's and early 60's era is my favorite. Today's stuff cannot compare.
So sad that he didn't know how big this song became. He had so many great songs, but this one is the song that always bring on the smile when we hear it.
Anybody knows what kind of voice(vocal range) was Hawkshaw? In wikipedia they said he was bass, but I suppose that sounds more like bass baritone. What do you think about this , fellows?
He is one of the real greatest. Sad he didn't know how big he hit it with this song. I was a late comer to country music but this has always been one of my favorites by far. He and Patsy are with the angels and they still sound as sweet as they did when they were with us. We miss you Hawk, and always will
When my father (who played himself in 'Sweet Dreams', 1985, with Jessica Lange) spoke with his lead singer, the yet-undiscovered Patsy Cline at a Brunswick, Maryland high school show alongside Hawk, he mentioned several times Patsy's prophetic words while both watched Hawk perform: 'One of these days, I'm gonna be right up there with him." Indeed she did just that, though in the fateful plane ride of March, 1963.
@OdieJunior I knew your dad well, I grew up in the West End Hagerstown and even picked a time or two with him. A friend of mine, a driver at the Western Enterprise lived across the street from the Winter Street School where the opening scene was filmed. Your dad was a regular at the Taylor's Landing Club on Sundays and at the VFW in Hagerstown on Sunday evenings.
Old Hawkshaw sang some songs entitled : I suppose, Sunny side of the mountain, Im waiting just for you, Teardrops on your letter, Dog House Boogie, I wasted a Nickel, Be my lifes companion, im slowly dyin of a broken heart and rattlesnake daddy!!
While I'm not a country music fan I can still appreciate the man's talent and readily admit that he was as good as anyone else in the business at the time and a helluva lot better than most of them. Just a note: It was 47 years ago today that Hawkshaw got on that damned plane with Cowboy, Randy and Patsy.
Can't we all just get along....? I remember the name (Hawkshaw Hawkins) from the '50's but I can't remember any of his song's. ?Wasn't there one about "Looking over my Shoulder"...?? The first time I can remember this song is by Tony Booth, back in the '70's. I must have sang this song about a thousand times when I was playing in a band back then....
@wastefulldan I remember " Send me the pillow that you dream on". Hawkshaw used to visit our house when I was a kid...in Huntington, Wv...he had a crush on my aunt
Anybody got his "Put a Nickel in the Juke Box"? Please upload if you do.I remember actually putting nickels in jukeboxes, pinball machines, etc. Nickel for one play, dime for two, quarter for six. Happy Days/Laverne and Shirley early shows era. Early Arnold's jukebox in Happy Days probably took nickels, when Fonzie wasn't beating on it.
@CasherD I only know one CasherD and that is my nephew. Are you named after your grandpa? (and great-grandpa)? I didn't know you were a country music fan....
Great song, so nice and simple. Takes you back to better days.
p.s. There's not an ounce of political undertone in this song, folks. But since everyone is making hateful comments about today's generation & society, I'd just like to say that the basic condition of the human soul hasn't changed since the beginning of time; it's as it always was. The only thing that has changed is the resources it now has to manifest its basic condition.
Great country music and a wonderful example of how uncomplicated music was back then. Listen to the few instruments that it took to make this. They don't over-ride the vocals and you can really hear the smooth sounds coming from a very talented man. Nothing fake and his voice was the same on record as when you heard him live !!
Oh My! THIS is Country Music! Country Music really lost something when we lost Hawk; and I know you lost a great friend Carol. Thank you for posting this song from a wonderful man and artist from an era in the music industry that I don't think we will ever see again. Lord, did he ever sing this one! By the way Carol, did you know today is Kitty Wells' 90th birthday? Hard for me to believe that I've been listening to her for 54 years! Take Care Carol! Your Friend, Mike FIVE STARS
I just now noticed the comments by Tarquin45 about that plane crash in Tennessee and was reminded of the time I nearly crashed a little Cessna 172 at Beech Mountain Airport, N.C. it's right there where TN and NC meet...up in the hills and only one way in and one way out. A 172 will float forever in ground effect if you come in too hot. I'll never forget Beech Mountain. thanks for posting this great song.
Once upon a time I worked as a disc jockey at WAGF, a little radio station in Dothan, Alabama. We were the only country station there at that time. I got many requests for this song and others by Hawkshaw Hawkins.
Flowerkitten1967........ So country music today sucks ass? Hell, it aint that good! I could listen to 50's-early 60's country all day long. What a classic this one is.
Hey!! Read flowerkitten's comment again..it seems she agrees that today's CM is a lot less than in the days of Cline, Williams, Reeves, Frizell, Tubb, et. cet.,...and she is right...50's-early 60's CM is the greatest to ever be....
No doubt my favorite All-Time song by Hawk!!Country radio should play these classics,then these new guys will know how to REALLY sing a country song!Great video!!
Great song, one of my favorite country songs from high school. I and one my friends actually listened to country back in high school. I think there were only the two of us in the whole school.
I remember this song kept the Wilburn Brothers "Roll Muddy River" from going to #1 on KFDI radio in Wichita.
wow this for me is amazing, when i was young i used to sing country, and this is the first time i,ve heard this guy sing, his name was in a song i did called, the country hall of fame, i love your choice of music thankyou,
Hawkshaw was one of our greatest country singers and artists from the time he started at the WWVA Jamboree in Wheeling thru his time at the Opry. Great gentleman who will be forever sadly missed by all. Very sad that he never lived to see "Lonesome 77203" hit No. 1 on the charts. RIP Hawk.
i love this song that he does. i love how his voice is...wish more country music stars wud man up and be like my grandfather....im tired of loking on tv and seeing ripped jeans in country music..u dnt c hawkshaw wearing those jeans..but i miss grand dady hawkshaw very much :D thanks for postin this
What did I do all I said is that it's a shame he's not remembered much how does that make me a jerk. You want to start something we'll start something.
Oh you thought I said he sucked didn't you? I think that late 40's-1979 is was the best era for music I love Hank snow hank williams hawkshaw cowboy copas patsy cline I understand I shouldn't have acted like that either friends?
Oh My GOSH!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for posting this......I still have my dad's 45 and believe it or not, the single has background singers added....Hawkshaw only recorded it once but boy do those singers just add to his perfect performance....AGAIN THANKS,BLESS YA FROM TEXAS!!!!
Hawkshaw Hawkins had, without a doubt, one of the finest male voices country music had to offer. Lonesome 7-7203 is a classic and will endure forever. Thanks so much fo posting it, and here's to all Hawkshaw fans everywhere!
Man, I miss the days before area codes took all those great old telephone numbers away. I'm dating myself here, but I remember when phone numbers had words in them. Mine growing up in New Orleans was "audubon 53809".
Along with Hank Williams, Hawkshaw, Cowboy Copas and Patsy Cline were the greatest country singers ever! I was 15 years old when Hawkshaw, Cowboy Copas and Patsy Cline's plane went down and I still have vivid memories of the loss, but we still have their songs to listen to, thank God for small favors.
I can listen to this song so many times. This si a great song to dance to .I don't even watch the CMT awards on TV. No Jim Reeves , Bill Monroe, Patsy , Loretta , Kitty ..Taylor Swift ???? OMG...........Now I feel like going honky tonkin and dancing .. LOL Thanks again for song.
I agree with all the good comments. Especially about THIS being country. Not Taylor Swift or Carrie Underwood. These stars paid their dues and rode cross country in old busses and ate baloney sandwiches. Not catered to like some spoiled brats who think they are country !
You are right on the mark. The "Old" Country Stars are the very best. They were real entertainers and they didn't rely on special effects, computers and the rest of that junk.They could really sing and let you know that they were glad you came to listen
My nickname is "LOCKJAW HAWKINS" my dad always SWORE I was HAWKS'kid as my mom was a SUPER FAN. We went to to the WWVA JAMBOREE many many times to see him and BIG SLIM THE LONE COWBOY and WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER & RUSTY & DOUG.
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why don'tyou take the louisville slugger out of you ass first you old bitch before you see any pictures!!!!Hawkshaw Hawkins deserves to burn in hell and rott for all of eternity i hope he died a slow painfull death!!!!
Oh, my goodness. That's great! Your mom's name isn't Theresa, is it? I knew your dad when he was in high school. He was dating the daughter of a good friend of mine.
Thank you for posting this wonderful song. No one could have sung this as well as Hawkshaw Hawkins. I used to listen to these country songs over Radio Ceylon which still broadcasts these songs for listeners in India. From Bangalore, India.
Back in the late `50's and early `60's throughout the greater NYC metropolitan area songs like this always played on the AM radio ~ Thank God! ... It was obvious they were Country and everybody knew it but they just fell under the heading of good ol' Rock & Roll. I'd like to know WHY they don't have a Ralph Emery / Country station here now? Can anybody tell me?
If I had looked carefully at the picture I would have seen that the names of these celebrities with Hawkshaw are written on the picture. I always thought he looked the picture of country/western royalty plus having such a terrific voice. The outfits worn back then were so colorful and attractive. I've always wondered if Hawkshaw's and Jean Shepard's son has had a music career. If so, I don't recall ever hearing anything about him. Thank you for this. - Paula
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhooooooooooo!...Like the man said~~~ CLASSIC COUNTRY!...That's what I'm talkin' `bout!...Play it again, Hoss! An' this time~~~ PLAY IT LOOOOOUD!!!...thank you~~~ tarquin45 SIR!
great sound!!!!
bobbycharles80 1 week ago
great music of our time thank's for posting the past
latokatn506 2 months ago in playlist Old Country 2
Thanks for uploading this song by Mr. Hawkins
3Wander6ing 2 months ago 2
Thanks for this. I used to do this song, his Rattlesnakin Daddy and I Wasted A Nickel. Love his singign and songs.
memphist1 4 months ago 3
Thanks so much for adding this, Love your dad Hawkshaw Hawkins and always will. They don't make county music like this anymore!
MothersPills 4 months ago 2
Heard this song this morning on the oldies show broadcast from a local country station. It brought back memories of my Dad singing this when I was younger. Dad is 79, still singing in a pretty fine voice. Mr. Hawkins may not have been one of the most famous country stars that left us too soon but he was surely one of the best.
mizbuggie72 5 months ago 3
Hi,real country at its very best.
What a loss to country music.
Thanks skymore.
BABSINUK 6 months ago 2
Mr. Tarquin, where did you find such a perfect version of this song? It is a rare thing to find such a perfectly clear sound of this recording. Much thanks for posting!
grayghost1861 9 months ago
This was played on BBC Radio 2, this morning 7th May 2011, and not having heard of the singer or the song before I just had to get on to U tube and find out more, I loved the voice, in many ways just like Jim Reeves, what a voice and I shall now listen to a load more of my discovery of Hawkshaw Hawkins thanks for posting this one.
roumsiki 9 months ago
What a great song. Don't think I ever heard Hawkshaw sing this one until now. Thanks for the wonderful music. Cheers.
Wayne..
Seazer009 11 months ago
If i was a drinking man, this would be a good song to drink to. It is a sad song and tugs at one's heartstrings.
lerebs 11 months ago
wow i remember my father singing this song when i was a kid and it brought back alot of memories thanks for posting
myangeltjb6368 1 year ago
My sister (10 years older than me) was crazy about Hawkshaw and always went to see him at the Jamboree in Wheeling W V. Now that I am older I can understand why she loved his singing so much. He had a great voice!
ittybittyjr 1 year ago
2:09, he looks JUST like my dad.
hawkshaw hawkins jr.
jenga1011 1 year ago
@jenga1011 He looks just like my Dad, too, because he WAS my Dad. And, yes, he was a great man in so many ways... Check out my site at marlene with .org on the end of it.
My song, "Daughter's Prayer" is in memory of my Dad...your Grandpa. Hope you like it and all my songs.
Raised Country/Singin` Gospel ... Susan Marlene Hawkins Gilliam ... Your Aunt
smarleneh 1 year ago
i wish could have meet my grandpa, i heard he was a great man
love you grandaddy hawkshaw <|3
jenga1011 1 year ago
When I was in the first or second year of High School, 1952 or maybe 53, Hawkshaw came up the Ohio River about 40 miles from Wheeling West Virginia (where he was doing the WWVA Jamboree) and made a personal appearance at the Liberty Theater in my hometown of Wellsville, Ohio. He was standing at the back of the one story theater waiting to go onstage and I was close. He was up there, way up there above me and checking online I have found out that he was either six five or six six.
OldWriter205 1 year ago
I remember playing this on the radio when I was 19 years old. I was a kid working at a small local radio station that played a mixture of country music. I was a metalhead at the time, not knowing much about the genre. Within six months I was in love with vintage country, playing stuff from the 40's through the early 70's. The 50's and early 60's era is my favorite. Today's stuff cannot compare.
ijosef 1 year ago
This version is minus the chorus. There is also a stereo mix out there somewhere.
joelraab 1 year ago
TAKEN WAY TO SOON, A VOICE LIKE VELVET! R.I.P.
mrlilray1960 1 year ago
A truly wonderful country song - and country as it was and should be these days.
Come back real country!!
twoteles 1 year ago
Another great singer along with Cowboy Copas, & Patsy Cline ,who all died together in plane crash in 1963. Thanks for posting these videos,.
arinvests 1 year ago
So sad that he didn't know how big this song became. He had so many great songs, but this one is the song that always bring on the smile when we hear it.
LadODell 1 year ago
Gooooood country music
9mayberry 1 year ago
A great song by a great artist.
WinstonWallace 1 year ago
Anybody knows what kind of voice(vocal range) was Hawkshaw? In wikipedia they said he was bass, but I suppose that sounds more like bass baritone. What do you think about this , fellows?
ElliotRocker 1 year ago
This is real country!
norbie6 1 year ago
Well, there's a real voice back before all this new rock/country crap of today---too bad they had the terrible plane crash near or in dyersburg
micmoable 1 year ago
@micmoable damn right
unstopedpiano 1 year ago
@micmoable
The plane crash was about 5 miles out of Camden, Benton County, Tennessee. It's a little over 100 miles from Dyersburg.
grammie0301 1 year ago
@grammie0301 Thought it went down in Dyersburg?
micmoable 1 year ago
@grammie0301 Thought it went down in Dyersburg? That's what a vid on the subject said--one on youtube about the crash--
micmoable 1 year ago
@micmoable
The video is wrong. It went down in Camden. I am originally from Camden and have been to the spot where the plane was found.
grammie0301 1 year ago
@grammie0301 thanks, I was just going on what I saw in one of the vids---
micmoable 1 year ago
He is one of the real greatest. Sad he didn't know how big he hit it with this song. I was a late comer to country music but this has always been one of my favorites by far. He and Patsy are with the angels and they still sound as sweet as they did when they were with us. We miss you Hawk, and always will
LadODell 1 year ago
Great song!
jpcountrymusic1 1 year ago
When my father (who played himself in 'Sweet Dreams', 1985, with Jessica Lange) spoke with his lead singer, the yet-undiscovered Patsy Cline at a Brunswick, Maryland high school show alongside Hawk, he mentioned several times Patsy's prophetic words while both watched Hawk perform: 'One of these days, I'm gonna be right up there with him." Indeed she did just that, though in the fateful plane ride of March, 1963.
OdieJunior 1 year ago 10
@OdieJunior
Thanks for that very interesting insight about Hawk and Patsy, Odie Junior.
tarquin45 1 year ago
@OdieJunior So true it is---I've watched that movie a few times and have read Patsy's biography---is there a Hawkshaw biography out there?
micmoable 1 year ago
@OdieJunior I wished they would've used Beverly D Angelo. When she sang in the movie Coal Miner's Daughter she sounded very close to Patsy Cline.
MrSkynyrd59 1 year ago
@OdieJunior
You refer to Odie Palmer?
There was a Chrisman there also. A third cousin.
snakewrithing 1 year ago
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seonfox 10 months ago
@OdieJunior I take it your dad was "Odie Palmer ... Kracker Band: Electric Guitar .." Awesome!
seonfox 10 months ago
@OdieJunior I knew your dad well, I grew up in the West End Hagerstown and even picked a time or two with him. A friend of mine, a driver at the Western Enterprise lived across the street from the Winter Street School where the opening scene was filmed. Your dad was a regular at the Taylor's Landing Club on Sundays and at the VFW in Hagerstown on Sunday evenings.
pro3tlb 4 months ago 3
Thank you for keeping true C&W alive and in circulation. Lenny Waller NYC
smdad 1 year ago
Love this song.Classic country......the best !!
CasherD 1 year ago
They inducted patsy into the hall of fame hawshawk and cowboy should be put in aswell
MyJustified 1 year ago
Justin Tubb was a great song writer. I am so sorry he didn't write more!
flashbell 1 year ago
Old Hawkshaw sang some songs entitled : I suppose, Sunny side of the mountain, Im waiting just for you, Teardrops on your letter, Dog House Boogie, I wasted a Nickel, Be my lifes companion, im slowly dyin of a broken heart and rattlesnake daddy!!
thepersecuted 1 year ago
Get working on that time machine please.
murphymog 1 year ago
I can remember listening to this song on the radio...many thanks for sharing.
One of the giants of country music, Hawkshaw Hawkins, one of my favorite
country artists.
deaster2 1 year ago
GOOD MUSIC
slovacek59 1 year ago
Pure country. Fantastic Hakwshaw Hakwkins.
janetiz1 1 year ago
This guy is good...
largos33dude 1 year ago
What a wonderful moment.
bbuteo 2 years ago
While I'm not a country music fan I can still appreciate the man's talent and readily admit that he was as good as anyone else in the business at the time and a helluva lot better than most of them. Just a note: It was 47 years ago today that Hawkshaw got on that damned plane with Cowboy, Randy and Patsy.
wandrian50 2 years ago
This guy was damn near Hank Williams. Why isnt he given more credit? LEGEND.
ThisYoungLibertine 2 years ago
@ThisYoungLibertine Because Nashville has dropped a lot of names.
richardcwood 1 year ago
Can't we all just get along....? I remember the name (Hawkshaw Hawkins) from the '50's but I can't remember any of his song's. ?Wasn't there one about "Looking over my Shoulder"...?? The first time I can remember this song is by Tony Booth, back in the '70's. I must have sang this song about a thousand times when I was playing in a band back then....
wastefulldan 2 years ago
I was unaware of the nature of some the comments that appeared so I have removed them.
tarquin45 2 years ago 5
@wastefulldan I remember " Send me the pillow that you dream on". Hawkshaw used to visit our house when I was a kid...in Huntington, Wv...he had a crush on my aunt
ButchRunyon 5 months ago 3
Anybody got his "Put a Nickel in the Juke Box"? Please upload if you do.I remember actually putting nickels in jukeboxes, pinball machines, etc. Nickel for one play, dime for two, quarter for six. Happy Days/Laverne and Shirley early shows era. Early Arnold's jukebox in Happy Days probably took nickels, when Fonzie wasn't beating on it.
ronaldt491 2 years ago 3
Ladies, ladies, settle down. I think most of us are here for the music, not your childish banter.
commodoresivar 2 years ago 3
Country music at its finest!
lancers46 2 years ago
Great song done nicely, you know he was a good man..look at the pictures with his dogs.
MrJeffnow 2 years ago
I like this better than Lefty's version...possibly because I have heard it much, much more...
curlingto 2 years ago
Great video I loved the pictures on it, Hawkshaw seemed like a genuinely nice guy
MrHondaguy1 2 years ago 2
This is what country music should sound like..... not that crap they record and play today.
CasherD 2 years ago 9
@CasherD I only know one CasherD and that is my nephew. Are you named after your grandpa? (and great-grandpa)? I didn't know you were a country music fan....
onthewater23 1 year ago
@CasherD your uncle Randy whole-heartedly agrees..... Keep in touch....!
wastefulldan 1 year ago
This is a lovely song by Hawkshaw, if you close your eyes and listen to it he almost sounds like the great Hank Snow!
countrybible 2 years ago
Great song, so nice and simple. Takes you back to better days.
p.s. There's not an ounce of political undertone in this song, folks. But since everyone is making hateful comments about today's generation & society, I'd just like to say that the basic condition of the human soul hasn't changed since the beginning of time; it's as it always was. The only thing that has changed is the resources it now has to manifest its basic condition.
DMANBellCamp 2 years ago 3
Great country music and a wonderful example of how uncomplicated music was back then. Listen to the few instruments that it took to make this. They don't over-ride the vocals and you can really hear the smooth sounds coming from a very talented man. Nothing fake and his voice was the same on record as when you heard him live !!
blujeanswm03 2 years ago 3
i agee. one sad fact is that this song charted just after he was killed. i never
knew who the singer was until i was older. i have a 45 record of this song
oldermusiclover 2 years ago
maby if we could go back to this place and time NOBAMA would be in his goddamn place!!!!!
bigpaulie67 2 years ago
Different time.....different era........wonderful voice.....how nice to hear music where you can understand the words they are saying.....best wishes
k9henrydog 2 years ago 2
i'm pretty sure this is the best song i've ever heard!
fourbagger 2 years ago
Might be the recording
unstopedpiano 2 years ago
Anyone else hear the vocoder esk quality his voice has when he says hurts for the first time in the song just an observation.
unstopedpiano 2 years ago
Something needs to happen and soon so that we hear stuff like this on the radio instead of the modern country rock CRAP they play today!
unstopedpiano 2 years ago
Welly said unstopedpiano, modern country is known across the country but its CRAP!
VilquinProductions 2 years ago
Wonderful slide-show. A fine performer who is sadly remembered more for dying in the crash that killed Patsy Cline than for his music.
Thanks for posting this.
softshoes 2 years ago
Good stuff !!!
CasherD 2 years ago
Oh My! THIS is Country Music! Country Music really lost something when we lost Hawk; and I know you lost a great friend Carol. Thank you for posting this song from a wonderful man and artist from an era in the music industry that I don't think we will ever see again. Lord, did he ever sing this one! By the way Carol, did you know today is Kitty Wells' 90th birthday? Hard for me to believe that I've been listening to her for 54 years! Take Care Carol! Your Friend, Mike FIVE STARS
MoJoPiano 2 years ago
I just now noticed the comments by Tarquin45 about that plane crash in Tennessee and was reminded of the time I nearly crashed a little Cessna 172 at Beech Mountain Airport, N.C. it's right there where TN and NC meet...up in the hills and only one way in and one way out. A 172 will float forever in ground effect if you come in too hot. I'll never forget Beech Mountain. thanks for posting this great song.
SpeedyNeutrino43 2 years ago
i believe this went #1 the week he was killed..
yedon68 2 years ago
Once upon a time I worked as a disc jockey at WAGF, a little radio station in Dothan, Alabama. We were the only country station there at that time. I got many requests for this song and others by Hawkshaw Hawkins.
SpeedyNeutrino43 2 years ago
Flowerkitten1967........ So country music today sucks ass? Hell, it aint that good! I could listen to 50's-early 60's country all day long. What a classic this one is.
wrotenwasp 2 years ago 2
Hey!! Read flowerkitten's comment again..it seems she agrees that today's CM is a lot less than in the days of Cline, Williams, Reeves, Frizell, Tubb, et. cet.,...and she is right...50's-early 60's CM is the greatest to ever be....
curlingto 2 years ago
The nickles I dropped in the jukebox .
Humpfester 2 years ago
This is what it's all about,Country music today SUCKS ASS!!!!
flowerkitten1967 2 years ago
Thank you so much for this record.
5*****
Kind regards,
Gerard
Amsterdam
Gdb1945 2 years ago
No doubt my favorite All-Time song by Hawk!!Country radio should play these classics,then these new guys will know how to REALLY sing a country song!Great video!!
ThePossumboy89 2 years ago
Great song by such a great talent. Rest in Peace Hawkshaw. We miss you
cmsdude2222 2 years ago
Somehow I don't remember this song, but I love it. 5*****
Naomi
NaomiWadsworth 2 years ago
Great song, one of my favorite country songs from high school. I and one my friends actually listened to country back in high school. I think there were only the two of us in the whole school.
I remember this song kept the Wilburn Brothers "Roll Muddy River" from going to #1 on KFDI radio in Wichita.
NcicHit 2 years ago
Mom cared for you deeply growing upi. and what makes her smile warms my heart.. Love Jamie R.I.P. Hawk
JamieLRouse 2 years ago
Thanks Jamie, I'm glad I warm your heart, because when I think of Hawk, I do smile a lot!
sweetthing77203 2 years ago
wow this for me is amazing, when i was young i used to sing country, and this is the first time i,ve heard this guy sing, his name was in a song i did called, the country hall of fame, i love your choice of music thankyou,
rotwiler50 2 years ago
great song thanks for posting it.
moutainbluebird 2 years ago
Hawkshaw was one of our greatest country singers and artists from the time he started at the WWVA Jamboree in Wheeling thru his time at the Opry. Great gentleman who will be forever sadly missed by all. Very sad that he never lived to see "Lonesome 77203" hit No. 1 on the charts. RIP Hawk.
yalehd 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing this nice song!
plattform5163 2 years ago
yep older country was definately better
ghettowitebois 2 years ago 14
Someone please invent a time machine so I can go back and see all the great country singers perform
modela30sedan 2 years ago 21
@modela30sedan If you ever get a time machine, please take me with you..
seonfox 10 months ago
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sweetthing77203 3 years ago 2
i love this song that he does. i love how his voice is...wish more country music stars wud man up and be like my grandfather....im tired of loking on tv and seeing ripped jeans in country music..u dnt c hawkshaw wearing those jeans..but i miss grand dady hawkshaw very much :D thanks for postin this
jenga1011 3 years ago
You & Me both Rachael, he had class! By the way, where have you been gal?? I miss him so much too.
sweetthing77203 3 years ago
Carol..
A beautiful song...and thanks because you will share it with me:)
Smiles and hugs to you.
hysonly 3 years ago
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sweetthing77203 3 years ago
You are so welcome Dorte, thanks for listening to Hawk.
sweetthing77203 2 years ago
Sucks he's not remembered that much.
DragonBallZfan1989 3 years ago 2
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sweetthing77203 3 years ago
What did I do all I said is that it's a shame he's not remembered much how does that make me a jerk. You want to start something we'll start something.
DragonBallZfan1989 3 years ago
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sweetthing77203 3 years ago
Oh you thought I said he sucked didn't you? I think that late 40's-1979 is was the best era for music I love Hank snow hank williams hawkshaw cowboy copas patsy cline I understand I shouldn't have acted like that either friends?
DragonBallZfan1989 3 years ago
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sweetthing77203 3 years ago
And think before you say something.
DragonBallZfan1989 3 years ago
You are so right, he should be remembered more, he was a great singer and enternainer. Also a dear friend. Sadly missed!
sweetthing77203 3 years ago
@DragonBallZfan1989
You're exactly right. He isn't given the attention that he deserves. He was a really good singer.
grammie0301 1 year ago
Oh My GOSH!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for posting this......I still have my dad's 45 and believe it or not, the single has background singers added....Hawkshaw only recorded it once but boy do those singers just add to his perfect performance....AGAIN THANKS,BLESS YA FROM TEXAS!!!!
I'll play this all day!!!!!!
Wayne
LaVerne37 3 years ago 3
One of the first songs I heard when I came to the US from Scotland. Still
one of the ones I remember the best.
He really had a voice that you remember
with a smile. RIP we miss you
LadODell 3 years ago 4
Thanks so much for sharing !
zener39 3 years ago 4
One of the great ones from my younger days. What memories this brings back. This guy could sing...too bad today's singers can't.
YellowstoneJoe 3 years ago 5
What a voice.... My favorite song by Hawk
GracieFleury 3 years ago 5
Big hunky galoot with a giant smile. He's totally darling!
KittraKittra 3 years ago 2
Hawkshaw Hawkins had, without a doubt, one of the finest male voices country music had to offer. Lonesome 7-7203 is a classic and will endure forever. Thanks so much fo posting it, and here's to all Hawkshaw fans everywhere!
mczimmerman1 3 years ago 6
Man, I miss the days before area codes took all those great old telephone numbers away. I'm dating myself here, but I remember when phone numbers had words in them. Mine growing up in New Orleans was "audubon 53809".
kcope001 3 years ago 2
thats my grand father!!love ya granday hawskhaw
jenga1011 3 years ago
yea uh hu thats OUR granddaD remember cuz haha lol well n e ways i love you rachael and i love you grandpaw
numm6 3 years ago
Along with Hank Williams, Hawkshaw, Cowboy Copas and Patsy Cline were the greatest country singers ever! I was 15 years old when Hawkshaw, Cowboy Copas and Patsy Cline's plane went down and I still have vivid memories of the loss, but we still have their songs to listen to, thank God for small favors.
lwcrocker 3 years ago 5
Beautiful voice, beautiful smile.. and a chin dimple that's the second sexiest in the world!
prairielily25 3 years ago
I think # 1
sweetthing77203 3 years ago
I can listen to this song so many times. This si a great song to dance to .I don't even watch the CMT awards on TV. No Jim Reeves , Bill Monroe, Patsy , Loretta , Kitty ..Taylor Swift ???? OMG...........Now I feel like going honky tonkin and dancing .. LOL Thanks again for song.
kath6112002 3 years ago
I'm glad that I'm still on this side of grass to be able to hear some of these great old tunes.He may be gone but definitely never forgotten.
1Sousedlouse 3 years ago 2
I agree with all the good comments. Especially about THIS being country. Not Taylor Swift or Carrie Underwood. These stars paid their dues and rode cross country in old busses and ate baloney sandwiches. Not catered to like some spoiled brats who think they are country !
kath6112002 3 years ago 4
You are right on the mark. The "Old" Country Stars are the very best. They were real entertainers and they didn't rely on special effects, computers and the rest of that junk.They could really sing and let you know that they were glad you came to listen
LadODell 3 years ago 5
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sweetthing77203 3 years ago
thanks; what great recording quality and wonderful video!
milehighcherrypie 3 years ago
One of our greatest musicians RIP Hawkshaw, Patsy, Cowboy, Randy
May this music carry forever.
AND IT WILL
capt777737 3 years ago 5
That was a great comment!
sweetthing77203 3 years ago
My nickname is "LOCKJAW HAWKINS" my dad always SWORE I was HAWKS'kid as my mom was a SUPER FAN. We went to to the WWVA JAMBOREE many many times to see him and BIG SLIM THE LONE COWBOY and WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER & RUSTY & DOUG.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 3 years ago
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sweetthing77203 3 years ago
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why don'tyou take the louisville slugger out of you ass first you old bitch before you see any pictures!!!!Hawkshaw Hawkins deserves to burn in hell and rott for all of eternity i hope he died a slow painfull death!!!!
HolierThanThou777 3 years ago
I hope you all check the comments this guy wrote to me, it is so trashy!
johnfiler 3 years ago
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you're moms cunt is so trashy!!!
HolierThanThou777 3 years ago
If you keep making these comments,I'm going to turn you in.
johnfiler 3 years ago 3
This is my husband,I wrote the reply.
johnfiler 3 years ago
hey thats my grandgdfather ur talking about..and if u got to say ne thang about him yu need to take it up with me!
jenga1011 3 years ago
You got that right Honey, and I'll be there to help you!!!
sweetthing77203 3 years ago
@jenga1011
Are you Hawkeye's daughter?
grammie0301 1 year ago
@grammie0301
yess ma'am.
jenga1011 1 year ago
@jenga1011
Oh, my goodness. That's great! Your mom's name isn't Theresa, is it? I knew your dad when he was in high school. He was dating the daughter of a good friend of mine.
grammie0301 1 year ago
I was talking about "The mojoman's picture"
sweetthing77203 3 years ago
This is a nice video and song. Thank you for sharing and thank you Jude for sending.5*****
Shirley
broncose1 3 years ago 4
My favorite SAD SONG...
cumaar27 3 years ago
Mine too, except for Jean singing "Think I'll go somewhere and cry myself to sleep"
sweetthing77203 3 years ago
Thank you for posting this wonderful song. No one could have sung this as well as Hawkshaw Hawkins. I used to listen to these country songs over Radio Ceylon which still broadcasts these songs for listeners in India. From Bangalore, India.
davidbng 3 years ago 5
Hawk was born and raised on Camp Creek Road just south of Huntington,WV -he was friends with my grandpa.
mtnroads 3 years ago
This is one of my favorites,there's just something so special about it,and what it means to me.He sure could sing, haven't heard anyone like him.
sweetthing77203 3 years ago 4
Back in the late `50's and early `60's throughout the greater NYC metropolitan area songs like this always played on the AM radio ~ Thank God! ... It was obvious they were Country and everybody knew it but they just fell under the heading of good ol' Rock & Roll. I'd like to know WHY they don't have a Ralph Emery / Country station here now? Can anybody tell me?
BigIronOnHipMan 3 years ago
Absolutely awesome. Thanks for posting.
KyBabe44 3 years ago 7
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sweetthing77203 3 years ago
'50's radio did not play much country in boston. this was an was exceptioal.
deckerduck 3 years ago
Wonderful song and artist. I love classic country music. Thanks for posting this video.
dare2dream23 3 years ago 6
Wonderful singer - love this song. In the group picture are the celebrities Cowboy Copas, Stony Cooper, Audrey Williams and Jim Reeves?
PaulinaRena 3 years ago 4
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sweetthing77203 3 years ago
If I had looked carefully at the picture I would have seen that the names of these celebrities with Hawkshaw are written on the picture. I always thought he looked the picture of country/western royalty plus having such a terrific voice. The outfits worn back then were so colorful and attractive. I've always wondered if Hawkshaw's and Jean Shepard's son has had a music career. If so, I don't recall ever hearing anything about him. Thank you for this. - Paula
PaulinaRena 3 years ago
check out Cody Mccarver& Hawkshaw Hawkins Jr. on you tube
sweetthing77203 3 years ago
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhooooooooooo!...Like the man said~~~ CLASSIC COUNTRY!...That's what I'm talkin' `bout!...Play it again, Hoss! An' this time~~~ PLAY IT LOOOOOUD!!!...thank you~~~ tarquin45 SIR!
BigIronOnHipMan 3 years ago 3
Great Video, one of my fav old country songs
5 *****'s
AlanPaladin 3 years ago 5