JIm Reeves-Streets of Laredo

[Rondee68]

What a voice it will never fade

[sprint382]

Dear @rockgor, we are still here, we'll never, never die. We just ain't seen from the highway. Tell you the truth, we don't care if we are seen or not. Come to the Texas High Plains or Wyoming, or the Dakotas or Montana during the cold Winter or the hot sun, we are here. Don't look for cowboys in the museums or the LA suburbs, look for us riding our horses or feeding our few cattle...

[missbish1000]

Amazing find, so rare and so beautiful. he was a true music artist that spoke to the heart of America, a wondeful find and should be a national treasure.

[blueboyron]

I haven't heard this version before, I love it! thanks

[SuperBking1340]

Oh too be born in those long ago days.

[Emmylie2]

Beautiful song and sweet video. Thanks for sharing

[BettyAlexander]

Lelboy: I intended to say Marty Robbins (not Mary) the "t" got left off Sorry. I don't know who first sang tis song, but just commented I liked the Marty Robbins version best on it, but Jim Reeves is my favorite singer of all; just not this one.

[lsoles69]

@BettyAlexander Have you ever heard Rex Allen Sr do this sing? He has a great version of this song. I used to think it was the best, but after hearing Jim Reeves sing "Streets Of Laredo", I'll have to say that Jim's version at least equals Rex Allen's. Maybe an edge better. Rex Allen Jr also sings a great version of this song also.

[plutosunshine]

wheres Cheyenne... Sugerfoot.... Broco Lane

[engraver41]

While I can envision your past references too Wyatt, the Youngers , and certainly some of the otherfamous, infamous, old gunslingers of the old west !! Roy Rodgers and Gabby Hayes, don't seem to fit in when I see their images when this song of Jim's starts...forgive me if you will.... thanks.

[plutosunshine]

omg Roy Rogers

[Sunflowers159]

I've always loved Jim Reeves' voice. It's like warm honey poured over chocolate. Oldie, but goodie!

[The2002Ford]

I had the pleasure of traveling with Jim Reeves and the Jackson band (not the jackson 5) in 1961 for a week-end in Michigan and you couldn't meet a nicer man. He deserves the name of "Gentleman Jim" and what a wonderful smooooth voice. BTW, Marty Robbins was one of the first to see Jim's plane go down near Nashville and was one of Jim Reeves' best friends.

[trunge522]

Has there ever been a better voice?

[1933goudey]

Is that Jesse James at 1:06?

[Jibbie49]

Had forgotten how handsome Yul Brenner was. 

[rockgor]

Cowboys were my heroes when I was a kid. Saw the Gene Autry rodeo

show in 1950. Now there's a Gene Autry Western Museum in Los Angeles.

Some of the figures of the Old West were still alive when my dad was

young. Frank James, Cole Younger, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Mark

Twain, Annie Oakley, etc.

Wyat's widow was alive when I was a kid. So was Doc Holliday's girlfriend,

Big Nose Kate. Thanks for posting.

[OKRhys]

@rockgor Hey sometime when you are in the vicinity of southern oklahoma visit the town of Gene Autry. There is a museum there of all Gene Autry memoribilia. He was from there originally. The original town name was Berwyn, in Carter County. It was renamed Gene Autry January 1, 1942. The movie Cowboy Tom Mix was also from Oklahoma. His museum is in Dewey Oklahoma just north of Bartlesville.

[grama37]

great video

[athenasword1]

this song is one of the easiest to play on the harmonica : harps.com. tabs try it?

[jamesojld]

Streets of Laredo" is a genuine American folk song. It started out as an Irish drover ballad called "Bard of Armaugh".

[ALFV8]

Not a Marty R. song. It's been around over 100 years in the US & the tune from Ireland is older than that.

[BettyAlexander]

Jim Reeves does pretty good. Didn't think he could do a good job on a Mary Robbin's song but what can I say--it's JIM REEVES

[lelboy]

@BettyAlexander Who is this Mary Robbins character? Never heard of her!

[9secondsflat]

I just heard Claude Akin sing this song on the great 60's tv show The Rifleman...wonderful