TIM ROSE - Hey Joe (1969)

[followthebeat66]

the name is Niela Miller - Baby Don't go Downtown....the girlfirend of Roberts at the time...

nearly the same line...

[followthebeat66]

neither Tim Rose nor Hendrix...

William T. Roberts has written it ...recorded it vin'62 ...

and there is a track from his girlfriend this time , which has nearly the same melody...

based on slavery progressions... but who the f*** cares...it's great....

[judgesmails200]

The mystery is solved. This song has been widely recorded by many artists. "Hey Joe" was originally an old, old African-American spritual song from the early 1800s (slavery era), hence the "Call and Response" nature of the lyrical phrasing, although in this song the Call and Response is done by one vocalist like Jimi, Joe, The Byrds, Traffic, XTC, Men At Work, REM, and Fab Five Freddy, just to name a few.

[blackdude57]

I HAVE HEARD ANOTHER VERSION BY THIS GUY SOUNDING ALMOST AS JIMI BUT A LITTLE MORE HUMAN NOT THIS ACOUSTIC ONE AND HE SANG THE EXACT WORDS JIMI SINGS

[girlgeorgeberk]

Billy Roberts wrote"Hey, Joe," which he copyrighted in 1962..

[rooker7993]

Love this song, well done tim.

[noel141000]

Yeh watched a programme about him other nite never heard of him till then and it was said he composed the music for HEYJOE i liked the Jimi version till i heard this

[NotRummy44]

@noel141000 Heir Hunters lol :3

[TheTwelly]

Better than Hendrix by miles.

[TheIrishViper]

RIP Real music , as for those who call that shit lol fuc off and watch your XFactor you fools ,

[bobodd5]

RUBBISH

[tracythebruce]

not the original...from the facts I checked, it cannot be traced to anyone, is considered a "traditional song" and can be recorded by anyone without paying royalties. I like this version!

[w0rdisbond]

ATTENTION EVERYBODY THAT CLAIMS BILLY ROBERTS WROTE THIS SONG;

WHOS VERSION IS BETTER? TIM ROSES. WHY? BECAUSE HE HAD KNOWN THE SONG SINCE HE WAS A KID!

[grandmafrank1983]

But this ISN'T the original at all!

[w0rdisbond]

@grandmafrank1983 It wasnt the copywrited one? I think Billy Roberts is a crook, he took a folk song and copy wrote it. Douchy. If he really was that brilliant and was the first person to ever out 5 chords together hed be bigger than Niel Young!

[68generation]

This was a big hit in the Us in the Sixties, great version! However the song is written by Billy Roberts.

[madmodpo]

Wow.

[captainphoenix]

if tim had mitch on the bridges...

[TheVincemartin37]

billy roberts absolutely wrote this song and taught it to me on bleecker st right after writing it--any other claims are bogus!---timmy learned it from either billy or myself:)--straight ahead:)

[cliffordsville]

@TheVincemartin37 As in Vince Martin and Fred Neil? If so, wow and very cool!

[TheVincemartin37]

@cliffordsville hey now--the very same vince martin--for better or worse::)))-i knew timmy well and he was no easy dude to deal with but a helluva huge energy and loved life-took him to criteria studios and i really don't recall all that happened--we might have recorded hey joe which i think was the plan--you could look it up:)))

[cliffordsville]

@TheVincemartin37 Now that is some history! Though I've read things, how was it to actually know/work with Neil? He seemed quite the complex person....

[yatah]

@TheVincemartin37 So, you knew Tim Rose and Billy Roberts? I call bs on this one.

[TheVincemartin37]

@yatah -you call bullshit?--why?

[eggmangoogoogoojoob]

@yatah To suggest that one can only know what someone said or did by knowing them personally seems to me to be a rather specious argument. I've a pretty shrewd idea as to what Hitler got up to, for example, but I can't say that I ever knew the man. Nor Napoleon, or indeed - and to my lasting regret - Jimi Hendrix.

[AbsoluteMonarchist]

@eggmangoogoogoojoob Specious is as specious does; that's what I always say.

[followthebeat66]

I guess the original is Niela Miller - Baby please don't go downtown...because there are some people who are saying, that William M Roberts was her boyfriend this time...and the line is pretty the same...and for a short time hey joe was out of copyright because William Roberts was a friend of Dino Valenti (quicksilver Messenge Service) and sold the copyrights to get his friend outa jail...

[micahcareyfilms]

@followthebeat66 Neila Miller did NOT write the original version! She wrote a song with same chord progression! A chord progression is not a song!

[TDS4UT]

I am playing this song at open mic nights. There are so many great versions. Tim Rose. Jimi Hendrix. The Leaves. The Byrds. Billy Roberts who copyrighted the song in 1962. The theory that it's a song from the hills as Hendrix and Tim Rose claim has been disputed but nice to talk about at the coffee houses.

[MarvinSkateboarding]

TREVOR COLDEN

[ElGreco55]

Love this version! Was this really originaly recorded before Hendrix, some quick online research certainy suggests so. I also stumbled upon Niela Miller's — Baby Don't Go Downtown on YouTube which was recorded in 1955. Don't particularly like her song but it's quite clear listening to it that it was an inspiration for whoever first came up with this song.

[32rd]

@bigrik2008, well that is old folk song, so... this is cover.

[piotrbalintchev]

Story by Rory's brother:"'Tim had a hit with “Morning Dew,” and the other side of the record was “Hey Joe,” which was a trad song he had contemporized. So he was on stage that night and spotted Hendrix at the back of the room and actually left the stage to go physically attack Hendrix because he felt Hendrix stole the song.(...) So anyway, Hendrix and Tim got talking, and Hendrix bought Tim a drink and told him how much he like his record. He told him that it inspired him to rerecord it."

[suze2012]

Tim, where are you now?

[allyn788]

@suze2012 Tim Rose passed away back in 2002 in London.

[AstroMockerSelector]

Why does he fucking plays it like Hendrix!?!? ...He should be playing Folk-rock style like the Byrds, LOve or the Leaves originally did!!! Why submit to late Fashions??? Fashion-rock sucks... even more so today but yesterday already!

[xorbah]

I remember this version from my youth and always thought it was the best....it was the first version I heard.

[spliter227]

While researching the origin of this song I came across this Niela Miller - Baby Don't Go Downtown

[mkworkman]

From Wikipedia: "Hey Joe" is an American popular song from the 1960s that has become a rock standard and as such, has been performed in a multitude of musical styles by hundreds of different artists since it was first written. "Hey Joe" tells the story of a man who is on the run and planning to head to Mexico after shooting his wife. However, diverse credits and claims have led to confusion as to the song's true authorship and genesis.

[thecaproni100]

Wow...!! So-o-o-o Beautiful Wonderful .. Let's Campaign to Re-release this Original of such a Fantastic Song by TIM ROSE .. pLEASE ...!!

[sfdrummer68]

Tim Rose has never claimed to have written this song, for obvious reasons .... cause he didn't!!! Hey Joe was performed and recorded many times before this Tim Rose version. That said, this is a great version, one of my favorites.

[BrooklynZBoyz]

this song was writen by billy Roberts mid 60s and was first recorded in 1965 by The Leaves. The Standells, The Surfaris, Love and The Byrds, also recorded it befor tim rose but i do love this version

[giacblanc]

@BrooklynZBoyz Dino Valenti did try to steal it. Talked to the manager of jesse Hahn, guitarist who got robertss his credit. Other versions are fast with high vocals so Hendrix version is like TR. ve's is best next to JH.

[indigohen]

oh wowwwwwwwwww

[ThePearson12]

nobody can play it like hendrix

[m8ar]

tjm rose liked taking credit for other peoples music.

[videomaxic]

I saw that video 1959 in Germany TV "BEAT CLUB"

[kharlos84]

the song autorship is unknow or unsure . Hey Joe was registered for copyright in the U.S. in 1962 by Billy Roberts. thats all in know . jimmy liked this song very much it wwas one or his favorites

[alcina5]

hey videomaxic!

Guess u mean 1969.

[rocknotpop1990]

all of it sounds like the hendrix version

[Gerinhadasdondokas]

This leach went too late. What an AH

[davecirca1955]

Is that a cameo appearance by English D.J. Dave Lee Travis?

[jacksonshakur]

Billy Roberts herd "Hey Joe" (his song) played by "The Leave" and had to clame royalties because he had it copyrighted in 1962.

[l0ph0nis]

the best version! Even though I'm a big fan of jimi :-)

[JimBR]

Definitely incredible! (from Brazil)

[MrHellzapoppin]

Okay, okay. This is the original SLOW version. Copyright to Billy Roberts ( whoever that is ).

[soulshinz]

sorry, wrong, the leaves version was the first recorded, all authorship rights go to Billy Roberts

[stonesharve]

wow this is great thanks for posting

[textwarrior]

haha 2:05 ... I SHOT HER !!! Ive always loved this thanks for posting

[bigrik2008]

great version,but there is a vid on youtube where tim says he didnt write it.he heard a guy play it a fair when he was a kid.

[this1timeatbandcamp3]

@bigrik2008 remember at all what video that is?

[bigrik2008]

@this1timeatbandcamp3 hey brother, its titled Tim Rose-Hey Joe(Blue Steel 44) peace.............

[christalmann]

@bigrik2008 As far as I know this one was written by West Coast musician Billy Roberts and covered in '65 by The Leaves and in '66 by Tim Rose.

[nhdaniele]

@bigrik2008 Original credits are from Billy Roberts. But I don't think there's a studio version of this song before Hendrix's version.

[OneBigRetard]

@nhdaniele

Love. '66

[TheKenney81]

@bigrik2008 thats intersesting. do you know anything more on this subject?

[henkah]

@bigrik2008

Tim Rose didn't wrote it, Billy Roberts did.

"Billy Roberts (born William Moses Roberts Jr., August 16, 1936, Greenville, South Carolina) is an American songwriter and musician credited with composing the 1960s rock music standard "Hey Joe"[1][2] (of which the best known version is the hit by The Jimi Hendrix Experience). (For further information on the authorship and genesis of "Hey Joe", see the article of the same name.)"

[PinkFloydForever100]

@bigrik2008 also its more confusing that the leaves supposedly wrote it in 1965

[micahcareyfilms]

@PinkFloydForever100 You must be VERY easily confused then! Billy Roberts copyrighted the song in 1962! Do the math!

[micahcareyfilms]

@bigrik2008 Yeah and he was full of shit! There was no version of this song until Billy Roberts wrote one! No version exists before 1962!

[solidarity4]

Rock on, Tim Rose!

[MrDiegoaranda10]

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