"She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye" Mickey Newbury

[snakemelon1]

One of the best songs by one of my main influences as a songwriter. He literally raised the bar for me as a writer... John Fowler

[btaylor1931]

And the rest of us call ourselves "song writers" HA!

[MrRazorblade999]

Jerry Lee Lewis did the ultimate version of this great song.

[bevisponcho]

Flora Bama Lounge, Frank Brown Songwriters, drinks remained on the tables, unable to move, frozen like an insect in an amber , Mickey's words, and beautiful voice had grown men, dripping tears down their faces, sharing common remembrance of a lost love, each of us floating with the rhythm, riding on beautiful vocals with angelic whistling, we each looked inside, found a piece of our self we had forgotten, picked up our glass and took another drink between before the next song began.

[photoeng1]

Waylon and Willie always liked Newbury's train songs.

[slydogmania]

A total revelation....just when you think you've seen them all, here's another great artist....took 15 seconds of this video to realise this guy is completely brilliant,,,I kmew this song from Jerry Lee Lewis's version, didn't know who wrote it...what a masterful performance...I salute you Mickey Newbury, RIP.

[McGarVision]

@slydogmania Nice Comments. Mickey is a sadly overlooked genius from the 60's. His songs were hits for others, but I never heard anyone perform a Newbury song better than Mickey himself.

[datsmay]

Love him!!

[etreemuffinman]

this is most definitely deep good.

[ecor1988]

geweldig!!!!! Greatings from Holland.

[nougher]

The perfect combination of lyrics and vocal!

[67jkerr]

Deep good is with feeling!!

[brimac44]

having listened to jerry lee singing this, i was unaware it was one of mickey's songs, and this is the first time i have heard this version, and i must say its brilliant

[Foxyarse2]

Fantastic!

[miehaga]

Love this tune and Mickey..Sorry I'm too late, almost always..but appreciate Kris has him in his heart, and mention him, so we can love him after his death.. He was great...I really miss him, Johnny, Waylon and all the great ones..They all left too early..Thanks for this one from Marie.

[benadmin]

Great!

[goffbum]

Not many in Mickey's class. Plus he was a fine man cuz I was there. Sad he couldnt beat the booze cigaretts the other stuff. Miss you man.

[dowling1981]

@goffbum What happened til him?

[goffbum]

@dowling1981 you might check wikepedia [might a speller that wrong]....for info on Micky Newbury....

[dowling1981]

@goffbum But Wikipedia is kenned for its buckets of mung, nay?

[bothway91]

yeeee....i dont really like this kind of song but this man sang it with deep good..

[McGarVision]

@bothway91 Thanks for the new insights with your comment. What is "deep good??"...

[BigEvinrude]

He sings to the pain in my soul...

[kentxx12]

This is from a album called:Looks Like Rain (1969) Among one of the best "concept" album ever made,along whit Van Morrisons:Astral Weeks,The Beach Boys:Pet Sound and The Beatles:Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band....etc. This is a Magic album.Buy It.

[RickTNRebel]

The best version I ever heard was by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition...If you love this song, listen to their version!

[letitialee]

the most amazing music ever...ever!

[verbaud]

God needed a vocal cello in his band. He gave Mickey a call.

[SteveSSU]

When it comes to songwriting, Mickey was THE BIGGEST INFLUENCE in my life. I even wrote a song in hopes I could get it to him and talk him into recording it. I have a very cherished book of his sheet music that was given to me many years ago, and some of the songs he never recorded. What a gem it is to me. What a loss he is to the world.

[jkeeling1955]

Anyone know If that restraunt still exists.

[jkeeling1955]

Saw a big guy with a golden voice sing Mickeys Sweet Memories in Captains Table Nashville when I took my 3 daughters on a visit from U.K in the mid 80s. I have the vidio absolutly brillient.

[KingofRoath]

@jkeeling1955 Then get it up on Youtube for God's sake! What are you thinking about? :)

[bandintheattic]

I got to meet him in Nashville when he was on Nashville Now. During a break in the show, I had someone else back stage take a picture of us and they promised they would send it to me when they had it developed . . . yeah, right - I'll be waitin' by the mailbox. Oh well, I got to meet him anyway - very nice man, gone too soon.

[tracyb934]

Does anyone have a clip of Mickey singing,'Cortelia Clarke'?

If you do would you mind putting it in here please?

I think it's just about the most beautiful love ever

[jimincairns]

A national treasure; America should be proud of a man who was one of the greatest singer/sonwriters of our times.

Sleep sweetly, Mickey; you are sorely missed.

[joexski]

wow he really is great, im glad i stumbled on to his music

[BloozeDaddy76]

One of the finest country songs ever written by one of the most overlooked singer-songwriters in American music. Newbury had three times more talent than any cookie-cutter clown on the country charts today and yet he is literally unknown to most music fans today. Glad to find him on youtube.

Jerry Lee Lewis had a great hit with this song in 1969, but Newbury sings it as well any anyone, including the great Ronnie Milsap who had an obscure recording of this song as well.

[BloozeDaddy76]

One of the finest country songs ever written by one of the most overlooked singer-songwriters in American music. Newbury had three times more talent than ayone cookie-cutter clown on the country charts today and yet his is literally unknown to most music fans.

Jerry Lee Lewis had a great hit with this song in 1969, but Newbury sings it as well any anyone, including the great Ronnie Milsap who had an obscure recording of this song as well.

[DeeJayDiavollo]

this song is like my shit

[jmdm1957]

Much Missed Mickey R.I.P

[Elv1s4ever]

This man arranged the best song of all time, both Elvis & Mickey's version are genius

[McGarVision]

Mickey's "American Trilogy" came first of course, and was the best--with that "Nashharmonic" backing. Elvis did nothing new with it at all--except give Mickey more recognition out there. Then, he got help from Waylon's plug in "Luchenbach Texas"

[definitivemusictube]

Elvis gave the song power, you can't deny that. Mickey's version is great, and so is Elvis'

[jmdm1957]

Pure Class.

[paganmaestro]

I appreciate reading the comments here. Other than on Harlequin Melodies, Mickey retained artistic control. He was fierce about that. And it was all worth it, no matter how much popular success it may have cost him, he always stayed true to his muse.

[alpaters1]

I only had one of his albums in the 1970s,but i'm just beginning to see how good he really was.

[1mirkat]

i got to see mickey in berkeley at least twice. ill never forget the american trilogy or frico mabel joy.....

[verbaud]

Like I've always said about Mickey....Out on the Avenue, we were all Mick Jagger and Johnnie Cash and Waylon and big and bad and kick ass, but no one would ever admit the real truth....when we stumbled home at 4am, we were all really Mickey Newbury deep down inside. (Buy Mickey's Box Set, you will NOT regret it! Then buy everything else.)MY favorite CD? "Lulled by the Moonlight".

[LarryGeeLewis]

Wow... this is great... knew Lewis' version... great in itself... but this...

[imadouchebag65]

Genius

[1952ARONIA]

Wow what a performer, what a poet.

[JerrysTube]

I was so suprised to see this video of Mickey. It seems really hard to find his videos nowadays. I wish I had just one copy of the CD of his entitled "Frisco Mabel Joy" but hs told me one night during one of his concerts how some of his recording tapes had been destroyed in a fire. IF you ever listen to Mickey sing "American Trilogy" with a full orchestrated backup like on this one CD....it will take you into a whole nuther world. I promise. I miss Mickey.

[McGarVision]

The tapes weren't in a fire-they were erased by Elektra. But all of his CD's are available in the box set "Mickey Newbury Collection"...great remastering job

[evegpt]

Me too.

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