Wilbert Harrison-Kansas City.wmv

[CL137626]

I might post a video of how to do this on piano.

[JCARPRED]

And I did, What a ride!!! Thanks Becky Sue Carpenter!!!

[ThePoonce]

what i would give to hear this on the radio today....

[ldubsd]

Old Gold is hella good 4 tha soul!!!

[therealraybaby]

#641

[BrianOgreen]

Crappy rappers talking about 'bitches' and self idolization make it to the radio. Not this. Smh

[turkenbatse1]

@BrianOgreen nope str (suck today's radio) however i doesn't listen to it, i listen to old gold :D

[Bishbud]

Back then (1959) Crazy and women had different meanings than they do today

[charlessavarese]

#1 song on the Billboard chart, week of May 22, 1959.

[Kenebutch]

No disrespect but when I used to hear this song on the radio I thought Wilburt was white. Boy was I wrong!

[BOTANYBAY37]

In my top 5 of oldies but goodies. A classic.

[zihuatenejocarlos]

This song represents a time in America that shall never be seen again. A song of hope written in a desperate time. Play it the next time you're on a highway through a wheat field drinking an ice cold coca cola, purchased from a hot metal red box, outside of a Flying A gas station. Then you'll understand the meaning of this song.

[Candy2Bossy]

I LOVE THIS SONG THIS IS MY DAD FAVORITE SONG HOWEVER FOR IDIOTS CLAIMING TO DISLIKE THE SONG SO DESPARATE FOR ATTENTION TO TAKE TIME OUT OF YOUR LIFE TO CLICK DISLIKE IS JUST POTHEDIC ANYTHING OR SONG I DO NOT LIKE I JUST GO ON TO SONGS I DO LIKE I WOULD NOT TAKE TIME TO EXPRESS ANYTHING TILL NEXT TIME EVERYONE I LOVE THIS SONG KANSAS CITY CHIEFS KEEP IT GOIN LOVE MD

[moose0drool]

@Candy2Bossy Ok crazy... time to turn off the caps lock. You just look like an ass.

[MizMackie]

Ah but cha know ya must-a! Killer bridge.

[CL137626]

Best 50s song ever. 

[BOTANYBAY37]

In my top 10 of Oldies ! Luv it !

[tekot60]

Wild Jimmy Sprull laying down that funky guitar rythmn and solo.I miss trading guitars with you and listening to your crazey jokes.RIP. My friend.

[714jada]

i love this song!! fun song to play drum's to..

[mega89vision]

songs like these make me wish i grew up when there was REAL MUSIC

[acetoned76]

@2LOUD2LOUD You sure got that one right---maybe the sickest groove ever !

[joinerisme]

This will always rock!

[tygre138]

SOLID!!!

[latykai]

for many years this was the most requested song in clubs and dance halls. greatto dance to. ty fr the post.

[electricnorseman]

"It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it" Chuck Berry Rock'n'Roll Music

[ShadyWolf25]

good cruisin song

[metalhartrockandroll]

You old heads were lucky to hear all this great music when it first came out, getting to hear it new and see it in concert... I'm 24 and all my friends listen to Katy Perry and Gwen Stafani and Lady Gaga. I'd rather kill myself. I miss the old days even though I missed by a few decades.

[lawild74]

@metalhartrockandroll all generations have good music amigo.even todays music has its good artists.im 36 and love music from since victorian era up to modern, spanish french italian and so on.look for the gems in each generation friend!youll be pleasantly surprised:)

[LES6723]

@lawild74 Rap is NOT MUSIC in any sense of the word!!

[marksoutof10]

@LES6723 Rap, in my opinion, is spelled with a silent 'C'.

[tmanziggy111]

@LES6723 amen to that!

[7jack7]

@metalhartrockandroll

It's all good

[knowallcity]

After Kansa City..Im walkin to New Orleans...

[ajaben]

Cool! 12th and Vine doesn't even exist anymore. It's just a street sign in the middle of a park!

[bwd81977]

@ajaben No kidding?  But they left it there as a tribute mabey?

[hapzap13]

I was born in Kansas city , Mo. in 1945 and everything he is singing about use to be very true next to new york and chicago it was the place to be for live jazz and r&b. The food was great to. the best soul food and the best rib joints in the country.

[INDIANAJESSE]

I'm a truck driver and everytime a get a order to Kanas I sing this LOL

[dancingofdream]

Michael Jackson sing this song then he was litlle boy

[kingMackson7]

this has gotta be a fun song to play, my dad did it in front of many people and rocked out the guitar. I gotta brother friend who just visited his folks in kansas city.strange, my best friend lipped the words to this before he passed away.rip RichardB

[synphl]

Hey, I just skyped my Aunty and she told me to look up this song & play it, I'd never heard of it before. I'm from New Zealand and moved to KC 11mths ago, we're here for 2-3yrs. What a kool song, I love it, I'm gonna play it to the rest of my family at dinner tonite! lol... KC is a great place, I love it here, I'll never forget KC & this song!

[morbashlurog]

It's so funny. My dad comes off as the most racist person you'd ever meet, but when it comes to music he dug of that time.. it's mostly black lol.

[morbashlurog]

@morbashlurog actually I guess I should specify for his sake, He just didn't  like race mixing.

[ftjax]

when i graduated from high school in 1959, this was popular on the juke box that summer. I was in a club & only 16 yrs. old & looked 12. no can do anymore !

[sunset1954]

@ftjax I also graduated in 1959. Wow am I glad I went thru the fifties. What a wonderful teenage life I had.  The best Music the best cars and no f in drugs.

[youngmindedman]

@sunset1954 I totally agree with You. I didn't gradute, but was there in the fifties. great music and CARS.

[khyropia]

HA! I leave for Kansas City tommorrow, and this is the perfect song for the trip.

Goin to kansas city, kansas city, here I come, they got crazy good BBQ and I'm gonna get me some.

[lilgam3s]

hell yea bad ass oldie killa city all day

[DenaL112]

Going to Kansas City, going to Kansas City here I come. They have some crazy little women there and I am going to get me one.

[therealraybaby]

@DenaL112 Going 2 Kansas City, Kansas City here I cum, dey got sum crazy lil hookers dere & I'm gonna get me1! LOL

[dave54303]

im Going to kc sunday

[madalinebarber43]

When I hear this song, the music and rythum makes me swing and sway.

[BusterBoudreau]

This was the first song I sang on stage in front of a crowd for a talent show. I won second place that was 1966 and just a few month ago I when back to the same hall for an invite and did the same song again what a thrill 42 years later and I am still singing. Great old song I love it check out my new video Buster kitchin party the song is We Had It All by Kieth Richards of the Rolling Stones. Cheers

[MrMotownmanny]

I love this song. I used to sing this song on Karaoke a few years back. It was my most requested song the patrons wanted me to do. AHHH BUT YOU KNOW YEAH MY STYLE, AHHH YEAH.

[optibottumus]

It's funny, really. You look at how music's changed over the years. This song, and other a-like made growing up in the mid to late fifties great.

[Blackfive1945]

Fantastic all time classic .An American No1 in 1959 yet not a hit here .That tells you something about our tastes .

[commonman80]

HEY!!!! any body out there know who MUSTANG is, He has a FREEKEN MEAN GUITAR.. Help!!!!!

[youvexme]

@commonman80 That would be Jimmy Spruill.

[dobrotnik]

fuckin' tr00!

[A1sausie]

Stay away from the white women!

[dobrotnik]

@A1sausie Why do you think so?:)

[therealraybaby]

@A1sausie Sorry potnar, I love dem sno's! U just make sure U stay away from them so there will be more left 4 me! LOL

[A1sausie]

@therealraybaby GO SUCK A DICK!

[hardrockersean]

I thought it was a white guy too! I love this song and I've loved it since I first heard it on my collection of 50's songs as a kid. I hope you older guys can rest easy knowing that even an 18 year old loves this song =]

[32a34a]

One of my all time faves. When I first heard this song

I thought this was a white guy singing.

[greenscout]

I'm embarassed to admit this, but I only discovered this song through an episode of the X-Files.

Great song regardless

[MrMotownmanny]

One of my favorite songs that I sing on Karaoke. Kansas City Here I come, ah but you know yeah MY STYLE.

[ndjln122]

This is the one that I remember!!! Wilbert Harrison-Kansas City!!!

[qbannnng]

Sorry for my English and my lack of knowledge. I discovered this song in a cd of nr ones through the 50s and 60s and I was amazed .... wow .... the old rock and roll is not too different in essence from the current ones

[FreshPrincess0h]

I'm 15 and it makes me smile seeing people talking about how young they were when they first heard this song. It makes me feel good inside to have discovered something like this. I really like Oldies!

[laborhead]

If more people today listened to music like this the world would be a better place. Thanks.

[AnahuacRising]

favorite song

[ezcarlyle]

i didnt need to go to kc for a crazy woman, i found one here in houston

[lobelifter]

To say "crazy" and "woman" in the same sentence seems redundant...

[ezcarlyle]

agreed.....maybe thats why i have an ex-wife? naaah

[greenscout]

At least the slang back then still makes some sense to us today. I doubt the slang used in todays musuc, such as "mama/hoe getting crunk and working that ass for ma dawgs" will mean much in a few years time, let alone a few decades

[marvy1118]

The way he says 'die' just kills me.

[M83Benz]

The only thing I would change about this song is in my opinion, it is too short. I would add more lyrics and make it even more fun! It would be cool to find all the lyrics written for this song and incorporate all of them into it.

[TheSpliffmon]

I must be nearing antiquity.,can remember this in mid fifties. While rhe other a.m.stations played "battle hymn of the republic" by the Mormon Choir, Wilbert rocked me with this one fo' I was old enough to know!

[therealraybaby]

Sippin' on a bud lite relaxing ta this!  LOL

[shackney709]

loll yeahh! i'm sippin on a microbrew though. tastebus don't like that budweiser business.

[donnowhonono]

....some crazy little wimen.....

....paar verrückte kleine frauen....

[saturnaspider]

0:23 Is he singing: "they've got some crazy loose women there"?

[Westbound70]

I`ve been to 12th and Vine !

[alzahad]

How do you spell classic ? Kansas City by Wilbert Harrison ! Accept no substitutes,Wilbert ,you 'own' this song !!! SUPERCLASSIC !

[LoGoPort]

Unbeatable!

[TheBluesguy62154]

Fantastic!

[2LOUD2LOUD]

I wore this 45 record OUT!! When I heard this as a KID , that was it. The groove, the attitude, I had to do somethin' with music.

Thanks Wilbur and thanks KC

AvB

[kielego]

is wilbert harrison the brother of george?

[MrGeocor]

Yes,Wilbert was tha Black sheep of the family.

[madalinebarber43]

May all time favorite dance song. Do the Dallas Push or West Coast Swing. Yea!

[ufothe3]

This Song is a Classic 12 Bar Blues Rocker, no doubt about it !! Considering the year,the electric guitar/piano impro part was years ahead of it's time Turn it up!!!

[lycanthrope1962]

YES!!! and that one note droning in the background adds to the beauty of the song!!!

[GabriellaAlly]

I like this song <3

[cuchicat]

a Golden Classic indeed !!!!

[MusicalLyrica]

I moved to KCMO on a "fluke" don't ask.

Without knowing anything about the city BUT this song.

[kjboogie]

ahhhhhhhhh, here I come. Thanks for the post,

ken

[alzahad]

Proof, once again, that the 50s and 60s were the 'peak' of classic Rock and Roll ! it-doesnt-get-better ! R.I.P. Wilbert...not even the Beatles could improve this song !

[ufothe3]

Too right!!

[alzahad]

YES....and,moreover,if the Beatles (greatest rock and roll group of all time ) couldnt improve on it,what does that tell ya' ? it tells ya : 'Wilbert,you 'OWN ' this song, my man ! C-L-A-S-S-I-C- !!!

[marvy1118]

The Beatles' version was of a different song by the same name.

[MrKrawuzikapuzi1]

@marvy1118 No it was the same song in a different style!

[dld3151]

Recordings like this made growing up in the late 50s even better. Thanks for posting!

[doubleotwentyone]

I've got this on a Top Rank vinyl 78 I found in a junk shop in Folkestone ~ great record. Love the guitar solo.

[lovethediscogirls]

Ahh, Yeah !!!! Kansas City here I come.....12th Street and Vine....Thanks for the posting. A great oldie....RIP, Wilbert....