Big Bill Broonzy-Baby Please Don't Go

[vaibanez17]

I love Big Bill Broonzy, easily one of my top five blues legends of all time. Plus he was born in Arkansas like me so that's a plus.

[clubsandwich22]

someone disliked the song! :0 how can this be?

[DAVO1984FI]

Da  real blooz

[grannys14]

First heard this in the late 50's..............good enough to last forever.

[BruceJC75]

Wait scratch that. I meant to say Christ is the greatest gift to the world. Blues is the greatest gift man kind has given the world. oops.

[BruceJC75]

Out of one of man kinds greatest travisties arose the greatest gift to the world besides Christ that is the blues!

[LeandroTrak]

fuck you all talk too much.Big Bill RULES.Simply.

[samswank]

0 dislikes - damned right!!!

[Erlo3]

@samswank

Simply AMAZING! ZERO dislikes?!? Where are all the Justin Bieber fans???

[Froggboots]

I miss these old blues guys. Thank god we have them on record. Priceless heirlooms.

[Myytmovies]

i read some where that this song is public domain,

if so

finally there is 1 good song on youtube that the copyright nazis can't remove

[Earthdancer46234]

Youtube should have a super like button.

Great music.

[awshucks]

Cat Stevens takes some vocal and musical inspiration from Big Bill and Baby Please Don't Go, on the song Pop Star.

[henryfire]

CooL

[stephen25uk]

madFlam is correct, Broonzy was a professional entertainer able to adapt to many audiences. That´s what is so great about him, he could sing and play almost anything and make it sound good. Midnight Special is not strictly blues, Glory of love was a pop song but who cares? just enjoy a great troubador plying his trade. Thank God for YouTube

[theoriginalbadbob]

I have an amazing confession to make:

I have been a very big blues fan since about 1955. How big? Among many others, I've seen Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Witherspoon, Albert Collins, Sonny and Terry, and Josh White, IN PERSON.

THIS is the first time that I've listened to a recording by Big Bill Broonzy. I, of course, knew of him, but had never heard him sing a single tune.

GREAT STUFF.

[RainCityBlues]

@theoriginalbadbob I was amazed when I first heard this guy. Watch some of his live stuff. It's amazing.

[theoriginalbadbob]

@RainCityBlues Thanks. I've also "discovered" Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie, Charlie Patton, the Mississippi Sheiks, and Blind Blake here on YouTube. I knew all about "The Singing Brakeman," but it's great to see him on videos. I love to listen to music, but I enjoy it a lot more when I can watch the artist performing a given song. For example: I've watched "Clapton Unplugged" 72 times. If you haven't watched the whole thing, check it out.

[Froggboots]

@theoriginalbadbob You have seen sonny terry & brownie Mcghee? I am sooooo jealous!

[theoriginalbadbob]

@Froggboots It was at the "Lighthouse" in Hermosa Beach in late '65 or early '66. I was sitting so close to Sonny that I could have reached out and touched him. He was wearing his big leather belt, which held about a dozen of his harps. A friend of his had made it for him, and he had received it only about two weeks before that show.

[lurch6stringsdown]

I wish I could go back in time just to hear the stories these guys would tell.

[henryfire]

CooL

[madFlam1]

yeah his styles part piedmont, part delta, part rag and some of his own extra stuf, he was a real innovator.

i just don't think it was cynical, and calling something cabaret where i'm from is kind of an insult

[PeluMaad]

@madFlam1 ....Bill Broonzy along with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Leadbelly, Josh White and others fell in with the NYC leftist caberet crowd in the 40s and 50s. Where you're from they're probably called "commie, pinko, fag artists" or something similar. Broonzy wasn't an innovator at all...more a synthesizer. His style changed from really country to Chicago Melrose-Tampa Red to caberet folk singer. He was a professional entertainer able to adapt to many audiences. Read "Big Bill Blues".

[Derek105Huey]

isn't this song public domain?

[himynamesryan]

@Derek105Huey I thought so, I'm using it in a film.

[Derek105Huey]

@himynamesryan I was gonna use it in a film too, but i don't understand why they have the song name and who made it on the description.

[himynamesryan]

@Derek105Huey I think you'll be alright. It was on a copyright/public domain website, and it stated it was in public use.

[islamsuxs]

Nice video, good job !  doughboy

[HandofDoom01]

AC/DC sent me here.

[MrGoldenshowers420]

anyone ever heard big joe williams' take on this song? that was the first version i heard

[martinaxman]

Wow. I can finally understand the lyrics! lol. Love Big Bill!!

[madFlam1]

i really need to stop being scared and learn this style

[everysinglenamesgone]

These photos are awesome.

[elfpagesmusic]

Great recording, great photos too. Thanks

[milascave]

Now this is some blue blues.

Great pics, to.

[elswano1]

Love his version of this song about the best... play it alot on the blues part of station jazz.com

[rosesredvioletsblue]

love this!!! ty!

[UNCLEMOMMY]

i like your video. thank you for this.

[nenesporps]

Hoje na @CASSAROLAqToKa do #ChefPaulinho, só rolando Blues - Big Bill Broonzy

[namnoiz]

This is one of the few versions i can actually hear the lyrics!!! Nice goin BBB!!!

[JoeKooL25]

kush, purple, and soud deez stays in the air, bangin these tunes all night..fuck hip hop and im a MC/DJ, my heart is here!!

[suzesrc]

great version ...

[GODisTRUTH3000]

Youtube Documentary - They Sold Their Souls For Rock And Roll

[jcook44u]

@GODisTRUTH3000 Do you believe every documentary you watch verbatim?

[nicodagger]

I hate the fact that I first heard this song performed by "Them". It was a nice attempt, but this is the real thing!!

[TheACDCjonas]

så jävla bra, so fucking great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rayjojo54]

Big bill for ever !!!

[dannpenn]

the put man!

[lalootmapp]

I´ll take some f***** daniel´s drinks

[MrLeadbelly]

big bill sounds like a porn star ,however im so glad he turned his talents into making sweet music ,one of the best most powerful blues dudes

[Bumblebee38]

@MrLeadbelly

BIG BILL a SOUND ING PORN STAR ????

Fuck the IGNOT RANTS and ARSE HOLES

[LeftForBlues]

Great song!

[mountaindogarrow]

The guitar part is very similar to Hey,Hey Baby.

[mudspud01]

hell yea it is , its just doubled the verse with a lil more licks !

[eoj2495]

Love this music!! Thanks for putting this up..

I miss my old Big Bill Broonzy records!!!

[starrchild99]

He really is a legend.

[buffalobilly]

from what record is this version? I can't find it anywhere

[starrchild99]

I reckon it's on 'Big Bill Broonzy: Absolutely the best'. As it sounds like the version I have - I got the album from iTunes.

[2menace]

nice song and awesome pictures! nice work right there!

[donottawaguitar]

nice

[afairlylongnameisay]

does the side window of the truck at 1:20 look like a nose, cheek and eye to anyone else?

[guitarslim56]

No.

[bluesgurugod]

Some people say -Big Bill's blues ain't that bad...

must not have been Big Bill blues they had...

[ezekielwahwah]

Nice picture at 1:09. :-)

[mianphila]

for me he is the greatest.

[ezekielwahwah]

Probably.

[Urbano38]

Fuckin' Great !

[wegesrand]

Augen zu und durch...hammer...!

[dodgybolan]

Check out big bill's worrying you off my mind,as covered by LAZYTWO well worth a play

[Leomailman]

oh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[SonnyREast]

Thats real blues.What blues came from.

[easyfriend71]

I have this dope shit on 78 rpm.

[duvaldallas]

hahah lucky bastard

[easyfriend71]

Yeah, the Delta blues stuff is sacred. Many a night spent puffin' on Kush and spinning these stories; so much story here. Peace.

[duvaldallas]

agreed man

straight up mystical

[LTmattYT]

@easyfriend71 lol, im about to do that

[InvisibleChorus]

@LTmattYT Hey man, check out recent kick ass 78s, one word, if you like 78 rpm recordings. And really, its probably time to post some Big Bill anyway. Peace from

Chicago:::::::::::::

[PeluMaad]

@easyfriend71 ...this ain't Delta.....

[PeluMaad]

@easyfriend71 ...this ain't Delta.....more like caberet folk blues, for the "crossover" crowd.....still excellent.

[madFlam1]

@PeluMaad piedmont blues.

this isn't fake

[PeluMaad]

@madFlam1 ....the Piedmont is Va, NC, SC and GA.....Big Bill was born in Arkansas and grew up in Mississippi. He did most of his recording as a resident of Chicago and isn't really considered a Piedmont stylist. He plays this song in a monotonic bass style usually associated with Texas but mostly Big Bill is Big Bill.

[empathic11]

@PeluMaad "mostly Big Bill is Big Bill." Yup. Sui generis.

[PeluMaad]

@empathic11 ...Thanks for knowing...it's amazing how many people consider themselves blues fans and informed and don't have a clue. I'm getting the impression that most people think "Delta blues" means blues played acoustically.

[empathic11]

@PeluMaad I don't worry too much about "origins" and "influences." I slid into an appreciation of Big Bill Broonzy after absorbing the unique guitar stylings of Lightnin' Hopkins of Texas. Probly didn't hurt that Broonzy at times adopted the "monotonic bass style usually associated with Texas."

[PeluMaad]

@empathic11 ....OK...now you're talking...Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, Funny Paper Smith, Little Hat Jones, Texas Alexander.....Texas country blues as distinct from the Delta, Memphis or the Piedmont.

[PeluMaad]

@madFlam1 ...dude...you're fake.

[PeluMaad]

This has NOTHING to do with Piedmont blues...You're fake.

[madFlam1]

@PeluMaad whatever you say

[EyesShineLikeTHC]

@easyfriend71 preach brotha preach

[UJAXMAN]

Oh Yeah, that's what it's all about rite dare..