The Waltons "I'll fly away"

[sherman546]

Hey, thats Pam Beasley's mom!!

[dinosammy1]

@VeronicaWuChannel Jews ARE GOD's CHOSEN PEOPLE ..AND YOU ARE NOT...Jealousy...DUH!!!! Shall I draw you a picture????DUH???..CHRISTIANS UNITED FOR ISRAEL...PLEASE JOIN THIS FINE WORTHWHILE GROUP....

[scorp8pus]

This is Awesome!

[dinosammy1]

@VeronicaWuChannel Go to Russia... I'll pay for your air fare.....JEWS ...GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE... YOU ARE JEALOUS......

[inthekitchen2]

you know i'm as cynical as the next guy but what's really wrong with a show about nice people being nice to each other?

[dinosammy1]

@inthekitchen2 Yeah but we don't need people on here being Anti-zionists...They are on here furthering their agenda and has nothing to do with this show

[inthekitchen2]

@dinosammy1 don't involve me in your zionist/anti-zionist crap.my comment had nothing to do with it at all.

[leflipmo]

"I'll die away" is a great song!!!

[grofys]

i can't remember another actress that appeared twice on the show to play two characters. the other was the spoiled rich girl.

[YARANAYR66]

I'd swear to Oh Glory that was Ashley Judd.

[PrinceRavensword]

i remember watchin' reruns of this show back in the early 90s! ah nostalgia. great show, loved John Boy! i love that song too! old timey but still a great song!!

[1976maxson]

love the waltons

[whatarewelivingfor]

she is so cute :D

[Democrat64]

This sort of programming did something magical to heart, mind, and soul. Just look now what we have, the polar opposite.

[DummDiddlyDaDaDa]

I Love This Show <3

[btfresno2]

you know what, they ARE pretty dang good!

[ilovesushii94]

Over the summer I went to visit Pennsylvania. One day we went to Harrisburg (the state capital) to visit the capital building. There, there were some actors dressed as some people from the Civil War era talking about Harrisburg and it's role in the Civil War. After the presentation, the actors sang this song, and I turned to my mom and said, "I heard this on The Waltons!" haha

[BuckeyeSecretary]

Bless their hearts!! I'm southern honey and I bless a lot of hearts!!!

They sound great together!! Love The Waltons

[paranormal33]

She broke up with Ben and later became Fonzie's girlfriend.

[96madelaine]

@paranormal33 She's with Jason.... but I like where ya went with it haha

[effilhcnih]

Hey Wilford Brimley, were you in the back stocking the Liberty Medical diabetes supplies?

[TheSouthernSunshine1]

Any Walton fan has to read Earl Hamner's book, "Good Night John Boy". All the actors give interesting little behind the scenes stories and Jon Walmsley wrote something about this boat scene here. I'd tell you but instead I'll say read the book. :)

[lillyshak]

3 people can't fly.

[TheDadrobb]

id like to say im a walton and this never happen in my house, and the way we said good night was my dad go to bed son then turn off the tv dam it and go to sleep if u dont go to sleep im going comeing in witht the belt

[TheSouthernSunshine1]

I love the episodes where Jason sings. :)

[TheSouthernSunshine1]

At 0:21, Jason (or should I say Jon Walmsley) looked at Vanessa (don't know her real name) and told her real quick and sorta quiter that she, "might fall". Then watch "Vanessa". Look at her face, and then she repositions. I don't think that whole scenario was planned. And then after that, Jason has to go, "um..uh.uh...when the shadows".

[TheSouthernSunshine1]

At 0:21, Jason (or should I say Jon Walmsley) looked at Vanessa (don't know her real name) and told her real quick and sorta quiter that she, "might fall". Then watch "Vanessa". Look at her face, and then she repositions. I don't think that whole scenario was planned.

[MathLessonsForFree]

The guy who plays the guitar is the Mad Magazine dude incarnate.

[TheSouthernSunshine1]

That girl has a good voice.

[Juliaflo]

Sound the alarm. The Waltons is coming back to The Hallmark Channel on March 21, 2011.

[aburleigh93]

@Juliaflo I watch it every day after school :D

[stereokid]

The way she glances to the side while singing reminds me of Nataly Dawn from the duo Pomplamoose.

[DarkKnightsPrincess]

Confession: I have a huge crush on Jon Walmsley now thanks to my sister letting me borrow her DVD sets of the series :D I love this clip!

so much talent! <3

[bomberry1117]

sounds better after you've had some of the recipe

[TheCINDYBATES]

SO SO GREAT!!

[kenfruit]

What a great version of this song. I love it.

[redneck452004]

I took a vacation in Califorina in 2009. The series was filmed entirely in California on the grounds of Warner Brothers.

[TheStrazy]

Good god when is this type of programming going to return to my TV set? these times made us what we are and now the reality crap is killing us.

[blacksamcooke]

The Walton family was obnoxious.

[oldbuchster]

@blacksamcooke You sir do not know what you are talking about. The Waltons was a very good clean show. We need more like it.

[MorganHillChristine]

She's still on TV, as cute as ever. Just on The Office last year....

[shkeni]

Lovely :)

[cadborobay]

It would be awsome if you could post other videos of jason singing and playing guitar

[nognilk]

Damn, Wilford Brimley was born old.

[Lisarata]

That's an audition for the "Dew Drop Inn," right?

[crazylove1610]

Jason won the guitar in a contest in one of the earlier seasons...season 1 I believe. He took very good care of it, and in several episodes he is seen buying guitar strings from Ike's.

[hazelnow]

This is a good song.

[MyCrazyRockingWorld]

My Mum and Dad bought the box set and we watch an episode every night.

[MrToadMaster]

I used to watch this show every Thursday night at eight o'clock. Corny, yes, but I think I acquire much of my sense of family from the Waltons. I'd forgotten that Ben played the guitar.

[moproducer]

I was a huge fan, and the 'corny' aspect hit home when I wrote a paper about the program for a broadcasting class in college. Just mentioning the title got moans and groans from classmates and teacher.

I remember the series was not without anachronisms and inconsistencies, and this scene shows Ben playing an expensive Martin guitar (certainly out of reach for Pa Walton) and singing a song that wouldn't be popularized for several years, when the Selah Jubilee SIngers recorded it in 1941.

[MrToadMaster]

You have to watch the whole episode, Mo. In an earlier scene, Ben built a time machine out of old Model T parts, traveled into the 1940's, and returned with all sorts of knowledge of the future. They were running out of story ideas near the end of the series.

[moproducer]

Was that when Marty McFly showed up and tried to make everyone think his name was Clint Eastwood? I remember Ben Walton making a cameo in "Back To The Future" (along with Mary Ellen posing nude for Playboy, John-Boy going deaf and Erin making the news when her breast implants leaked silicone), so this must have been the flip side.

Here's one for ya...

Q: Who mows the grass on Walton's Mountain?

A: Lawn-Boy.

[paulyvi]

haHA! @ Lawn Boy!

[Justinian21c]

Ha, I think you're kidding about the time machine. But as even Earl Hamner (THE "Mr. Walton himself) admitted in an interview, the show did gradually lose energy in the final years.

[moproducer]

What on earth made you think anyone was kidding about the time machine? Don't you have one?

[Justinian21c]

Ben's not in this scene. That's Jason. Besides, Jason got paid working at the Dew Drop Inn as the piano player and working in the Haystack Gang band. I figure that for a musician, he would have nice musical instruments, so him having a nice guitar is not out of the question. Maybe Pa Walton wouldn't buy such a guitar, but Jason would.

[MrToadMaster]

Wow, Justin -- you're right. I had forgotten which Walton I was seeing. I remember Ben now. Moproducer, another fan of the show, went right along with my error. My apologies to Jason (it's not every day that fictitious characters receive an apology!).

[moproducer]

I remembered the name sequences after I wrote that, you're correct there, but probably not about the Martin guitar. You have to remember that farm people during the Depression simply had no cash at all.

Case in point: My grandmother was a musician in a similar fashion during the Depression, and the best she could do was to swap a hog for a Gibson knock-off (which I still have). I don't believe anyone could swap a hog for a D-18, not even in 1935. It was a $300 instrument then ($2500 now).

[lelly1399]

The song was known at the time because it was a standard in some church hymnals. I wish some of those old songs would be re-recorded with a little updating.

[moproducer]

@lelly1399 Not in the back hills of Appalachia. The old hardcore Baptist & Methodist churches didn't have hymnals (a lot of folks couldn't read) and they had a leader 'line-by-line' the hymns from memory. My grandfather did that for years in the hills of rural southwest MO.

"I'll Fly Away", written by Albert Brumley in 1932 in Powell, MO, didn't make it to the radio until 1941, when it was first widely popularized. This is just another TV anachronism.

[msjosephine2]

@lelly1399 Try the version by jars of clay here on youtube:)

[JimBobWaltonLover]

are you kidding?? They are freakin' amazing singers! I wish Jon Walmsley and Linda Purl had more songs together. It's a pity she didn't become a permanent character =(

[HortensiaBubbles]

Who plays the woman who hires Vanessa in the end of this clip? She looks familiar and has such a kind face.

[applesweeter]

Dear All,

I have some question about psychology and sociology:

(1) Why do we want to we like birds in the sky?

(2) Why do we dream about flying?

(3) what is the "magic of flying" that motivate people to write a song about it?

(4) How does flying related to Americans' culture? Is that about freedom?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for your creative ideas and brainstrom!!! :)

[MrToadMaster]

What a sweet and unexpected note. I'll do my best in 500 characters.

1. Why wouldn't we?

2. As mortals, we're always limited in mobility by physical constraints: gravity, friction, inertia. But our souls aren't. Bird flight is the closest thing we've seen in this world to the complete freedom for which our souls yearn.

3. See #2.

4. America is all about individual freedom, in theory. Flight is all about freedom, too. We look to the lone eagle, not the flock of geese.

Bless you.

[moproducer]

@applesweeter 1) Because we'd be walking on them, otherwise. 2) I dream about...well, you know... 3) Most flying songs are written when the writer is already high. It's just a perspective thing. 4) Not really. Just spend 10 minutes in an airport & you'll be ready to strangle someone.

[Franklintwo]

Linda Purl.

[OnlineSpellChecker]

Goodnight Jim Bob

[MarthaH605]

I never saw this. It's great.

I always loved this show.

[masanderson]

her name is linda purl

[BGTrrrrrocks]

I remember this actress! (Waltons too of course) Does anyone know what happened to her?? Linda something wasn't it?? I always thought she was sooo beautiful.

[biffnix]

Linda Purl was recently on "The Office" cast as Pam's mother!

[ilovetetleystea]

love it are all them waltons still alive? :D

[MelanieLouM]

Most of them are. ^_^

[Crystal58415]

great show!!

[chagojojo]

Blew me away!

[maxboehner]

great! never seen this before.

[BassGuy78]

This is awesome. I wish there were more TV shows like this.

[kbirdusa]

The worst thing about this episode is that Linda Purl does her role with this really awful fake "Southern" accent, while the actor who plays her brother - Mary Ellen's husband Curt - has a northern accent.

[29vjGKfg783Gownc]

Amen to that!

[Justinian21c]

True. Curt her brother says that he's from West Virginia. The two of them sound nothing like each other, accent wise.

[bartssue]

I wish there were good shows like this now on tv. This was very enjoyable.

[Democrat64]

@bartssue -

So do I. I think it speaks to the direction our country in going, and it ain't good.

[MADELUCO]

the waltons was one of the best television shows ever made

[EvieJK]

Just wondering why is Jim Bob your favoriet Walton? Don't get me wrong I love The Waltons, even have the collection

[willyolesonsgirl]

"I'll fly away. When I die hallelujah by and by"

classic.

[xLaura81x]

love Jason's songs

[xofuntimeox]

Thanks again!! was this song written for the waltons? i know the guy who played jason wrote will you be mine.so just wondering :)

[JimBobWaltonLover]

It wasn't written for The Waltons. It was written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley.