Buck Owens - 1966 - My Heart Skips a Beat

[BWNadeau]

road-worn, that is...

[BWNadeau]

No custom shop toad-worn job on that Tele neck - lol.

[OoOSaraaOoO]

:-)



[michael17415]

The don guy reminds me of my grandfather :)

[bekabooster101]

Dude! The host looks like Scotty Mc Creery Maybe his grandpa?

[RubyW00]

Don Rich is so damned cute! I can't stand it. And talented to boot!

[Noldi400]

Yeah, that was on the old Jimmy Dean show. Glad to see Willie Cantu mentioned - one of the best and most underappreciated drummers in country music.

[starflowerfantasy]

who's that guy at the beginning? He sounds suspiciously familiar

[rancherodave]

@starflowerfantasy Don't quote me on it but I think it is jimmy dean.

[rancherodave]

I love just how all of his songs just flow so nicely.

[JackFrizzy]

lol



[mandohat]

smallest guitar body with largest headstock ever.

[reverbie65]

@mandohat you got that reversed smallest headstock not body.

[bol316]

@mandohat The body isnt that small, Standard dreadnought size. 12 string headstocks are just so big

[trampolinegirl29]

youtube has CHANGED

[bartalonzoatjuno]

Don Rich as ever putting on a clinic. There may be other tele tones but I can't seem to think of any better.

[aaronbeltrancabron79]

Dangerous Don and his killer Fender!!!!!

[CorvusDreams]

I love studying different guitar styles and find it interesting that the roots of many modern day songs and guitar styles can be traced back to early artists. Buck Owens may not be the sole inventer of the bakerfield sound but he sure helped shape it and influenced not only country music, but pop and rock too.

[crazeedriver2005]

Boo for this no longer being the very first result for a search on "my heart skips a beat"....

[JamesRobertSmith]

The older I get the more I love Buck Owens' work. He was flat out amazing.

[crunchie83]

@JamesRobertSmith Dang right!

[crazeedriver2005]

The 5 people who disliked this oughta be taken out the back and harshly taught a lesson about what real music is.

[aaronbeltrancabron79]

Im Mexican,and I listen to Buffalo Springfield to Buck Owens,music has no race. Keep rockn!!!!!!!!!!

[siuhneet]

The other guy is Don Rich. 

[bandued]

thanku bugmella i didnt know jimmy dean actually started that brand though

[bandued]

i agree with nicomateo23 this is real country music & im a big fan of buck but can someone tell me who the other guy is

[bugmella]

@bandued  The introduction is done by show host Jimmy Dean, the guy who sang Big Bad John. He's probably known more for the Jimmy Dean sausage brand however.

[towne777]

I just adore Buck and Don and the Buckaroos ! Me encanta muchissimos !

[captivatedlady]

omg what the crap is Jimmy doing at 3:46, he was such a goof ball, great video

[winson790615]

lenka brings me here  good country song

[misternef]

This doesn't sound like the version Lenka sings.

[LosInvasoreSconLalo]

♬♬ OOooh that Buck!! 100★'s♬♬♬

[cessna207]

how i wish i could play steel gat like that bugger...

[edgardesouza27]

Who can top this??

[markellendean]

Efortless guitar picking

[mkl62]

A #1 hit for Buck Owens on the Country & Western charts. It was the 75th #1 song of the Rock Era. My cousin had this on 45 and we would listen to it when I visited him.

[StevieB1362]

Great raw talent. It just don't get any better than this!

[funnylittlelion]

Buck, Don, Jimmy -- miss you all.

[ilovecooking86]

he keep frowning.lol

[Bingopeterson]

Willie Cantu!!! Wow!!!

[hihats]

@Bingopeterson

TCB

[macvatu]

I saw Buck Owens and the Buckaroos in Germany in the 60s, in fact many country singers visited Army stations in Europe. Jean Shepherd and Skeeter Davies did too.

[ralphblasi]

Don't ever remember seeing the Buckaroos performing without a tie, how refreshing. Still miss Don.  Chetfan

[Mendon87]

Thanks for posting this, great to see and hear Rich and Buck together.

[texiban001]

Just listen to the way they harmonized. You don't hear that in today's so called "country" music. Buck & Don were some of the best ever.

[rayjr62]

@texiban001 And Bucks' band was probably the best country band in the business back then. They could play the sh*t out of anything Buck wanted.

[edgardesouza27]

There will not be another Buck Owens or Don Rich. Most enjoyable music.

[jaronee]

@edgardesouza27 never say, never ;)

[mojoMaureen59]

Chris Isaak has better sparkly suits,  yowza

[CrackerKen1]

Perhaps the greatest country music band ever. This version of the Buckaroos was the best ever. Don't forget Tom Brumley on pedal steel guitar.

[arndtsusan]

They were adorable. 

[kentucky9000]

Sir:

thats a good'en

[ponchocervantes]

love the oil derrick background...texas tea...

[jayham1970]

These guys were America's version of the Beatles...just shorter haircuts. They were great guys with loads of talent.

[speck444]

don rich in b flat nothin better

[RickinFLA07]

The Dynamic Duo !

[pnuckle492]

this is the best these guys ever did !!!

[silowhore]

who's the guy playing guitar and singing with buck?

[mopac1]

@silowhore

That's Don Rich....Buck's lead guitar player and harmony singer. Don was Buck's sidekick until his death in 1974. Superb side-man.

[rayjr62]

@silowhore Don Rich. Sadly, Don died in a motocycle accident in 1974 while traveling up the California coast. Buck never really did recover from that- until he met (and recorded with) Dwight Yokum some 14 years later.

[silowhore]

couldn't agree more dude, give me some buck, some merle and a bit of hank and i'm happy man

[houshawn]

I have listened to a lot of electric steel videos. Nothing comes close to Bromley's talent. RIP Tom.

[rayjr62]

@houshawn Sadly, Willie Cantu is the only surviving member.

[peterpterodactyl]

I like the oil derricks in the set, a nod to the Bakersfield heritage.

[McAlmanac]

The Tom Bromley pedal steel bit at the end is outstanding.

[TTmaniax]

@McAlmanac His tone is impeccable. I never hear that kind of steel tone anymore. Bummer.

[2bwhiteproud]

@McAlmanac Brumley... Tom Brumley he died a cpl yrs ago Great Man!!!. I met him in the 80's...Nice man!!!.

[teerexness]

@McAlmanac, agreed 100% on the steel guitar! It's called "Bud's Bounce" and it's on "The Instrumental Hits of Buck Owens and his Buckaroos" which is now finally available on iTunes. Stellar recording, every single song. I always found it interesting that a band with such vocal strengths as Buck and his Buckaroos would choose to do an instrumental album, but it certainly works. Kind of like the band Queen in the rock realm doing an instrumental album!

[Efrasnel]

Don Rich...Briliant!

[mackolee]

I'm just getting into country music But when i was younger i wouldnt even dare listen to country but that just shows that kids dont know any better because this music has given me some thing i've been missing.

[SuperAcab666]

Buck Owens and his Buckaroos is the real sound of country-music:-)

I got sad when I learned about his death

R.I.P

[Motorskallen]

I love Buck Owens.

PS! There's something about his face, especially his nose and cheeks, that never changes. Just saw "Satans better deal without me" or whatever its called. Good song. But he looked more or less the same.

[acrucialdood]

love the oil wells on the set. CALIFORNIA CRUDE

[LJH70122]

Great song. One of my all-time favorites.

That bass player looks just like Dennis Quaid in "The Right Stuff".

The so-called outlaw country is closer to the real thing than the bullshit coming out of Nashville these days. I forgot who it was that said "It's hard to tell the country from the pop without a program" , but that sure rings true today. I do not listen to country music radio for that very reason.

[anyzany]

I never listen to radio anymore,Can't find any country music on it ,not even from Nashville.I have around 2000 country albums of all the true country artists of the past.That's what I listen to now.The ones that don't like country music never listened to the message that was in the lyrics.The lyrics of today make no sense whatever.

[kevinph2]

We need this back there is no country music like this anymore just pop music .God bless you Don Rich and Buck Owens

[tenken1981]

lol, 'old school' would be an understatement, but this is pretty awesome :)

[hiphopcarmen1235]

Thanks for the kind words, seans10...Don is / was simply the best & I've been blessed to have worked with many of them (including Buck and Don). My first country concert (actually, it was a 'show & dance') was in late '56 or early '57....Johnny Cash and The Tennessean Two..I was 12. Yep..just Marshall Grant, Luther Perkins and Johnny-no drummer-and what a show! Twenty-five years later JC was in my Nashville studio recording a Gospel album...talk about being truly blessed.. Yes, blessed.

[uglymoon78]

@hiphopcarmen1235 you just named the greatest!

[seans10]

I hate to pile on, but it breaks my heart to see/hear what's happened to country music. It's like some beast broke from the ether and swept down and wrenched the sould from the music in, like, 1972.

[edgardesouza27]

enjoyable rock and roll music.

[thevoiceoftheBBs]

You are looking at two of the greatest country entertainers of all-time. You all know Hall of Famer Buck Owens, but the guy on the left (Buck's right) is the greatest band leader and 'front man' of all-time, Don Rich. Don was killed tragically in a motor cycle accident--and it destroyed Buck, who pretty much retired until he was convinced to record "Streets of Bakersfield" with Dwight Yokum. With another #1 under his belt, Buck was back! So, here's to Don and all the unsung heroes of music!

[seans10]

@thevoiceoftheBBs You said it. Don Rich was an INREDIBLE talent in his own right. And deeply missed.

[asbtcedlelfa]

What they call country music today doesn't measure up to what these guys could do with a song. With the old singers you could tell who was singing, nowadays they all sound the same. Thanks for uploading.

[huskernloper]

Don Rich was terrific on harmony and played that Telecaster great!

[thresher4]

@huskernloper To bad he passed in a motorcycle wreck after leaving the studio.

[dirkpitt77]

great 1 of the best

[TheFarmerfitz]

How the hell did we go from this to what's called country today!!! Now, I don't mind today's "hot country" but they should call it something else, and let country be country! I'm a country boy and I still play and sing this kind of music and love it ,and I'll never abandon it.

[rayjr62]

@TheFarmerfitz Buck was also a man of principle. Early on, when the Buckaroos were to perform at the Grand Ol' Opry, the hotel where Buck and his bandmates were staying refused accommodations to Willie Cantu. Cantu, being Mexican-American, was refused lodging. Buck stood his ground and told the Opry people that if Willie could not stay in the same hotel as the others, He and the band were leaving Nashville and would not perform there. The hotel acquiesced. I have always respected Buck for that.

[CrazyCoach]

@rayjr62 I didn't know that about Buck. Always loved the guy and his music. Would love to read more about him. He had such a big influence not only on country music, but rock music as well.

[spliffinit1]

@rayjr62 its funny how people say mexican-american!! mexico is central america everybody from mexico is american

[towne777]

@spliffinit1 Not really funny. More Sad. There's SO much racism in this country that nobody even recognizes !

[2bwhiteproud]

@towne777 Take your Speech to the Peter Paul and Mary Video Pal We're SICK and TIRED of Hearing about the Poor Por Minorities! this is a BUCK OWENS video I bet you wouldn't find anything Pro White on Chris Rocks video Stow it!.

[tuskedbeast]

@2bwhiteproud We who? Speak for yourself.

[tonytarheel55]

@rayjr62 i'm black and always liked buck too.

[ben33603]

@rayjr62 Great story.

[Stumbler1able]

@rayjr62 It's California country

[55terriblegasser]

my heart skips a beat everytime I listen to this song!

[TheZepmeister]

I'd like to have that Telecaster.



[AtlantaSpike]

Good lord, that little bit of Bud's Bounce at the end is hot.

[MissAustinA]

R U KIDDIN?! Love my BUCK! Love Keith too.

Plus Keith loves Buck so SETTLE DOWN! ;-)

[notbendable]

polio lion ...them that he don't kill he cripples up so bad

;D

[dkrulesj]

this is how country music is meant to be!!

[kentucky9000]

Yeah!

[ioriorioriorio]

god bless you don rich...If I dont nmeet in this life, i will be playin with you in the next!

[MoxieChan]

buck angel is much better

[KickazzRedhead]

I just found out about Don Rich today and DAAAAAMN! That man could sing & pick! :O

[againstidiots1]

Don's expression at 1:30–1:40 is priceless.

[idgoback]

Doesn't get any Better than Buck Owens and Don Rich.

[keca1430]

From "The Jimmy Dean Show", weekly 60 minute variety show on ABC-TV from 1963 to 1966. I used to love that show when I was a kid. It was produced and taped in New York City. This was the same year that Buck did his successful concert at Carnegie Hall in New York, which was recorded for an LP and is on CD now.

[SunburstTeleman]

I think Don Rich would appreciate Keith Urban's guitar playing. It really sucks that Don died so young when he had so much music left to make with Buck.

[SunburstTeleman]

I think Don Rich would appreciate Keith Urban's guitar playing.

[sargedirt]

IS that Jimmy Dean in the first part?

[guimarboy]

The absolute dogs bollocks. 110% maximum Bakersfield country.

[wyo13]

Whats wrong with our country music?!?!?!?!?!?!? This is soo better!!!!!

[jockojonson17]

Damn gotta love the mariachi band coat that sparkles black light.

[guimarboy]

This is real 100% country music. A lot of 'modern' country like lady antebellum Taylor swift isn't country at all. In fact it's country for people who don't like country. A lot of Irish people got into garth brooks in the 90s but when he went away they didnt keep listening to country cuz they didn't like it in the first place. He wasn't called the anti-hank for nothing.that said there is a lot if new stuff out there which is proper country like the crazy heart ost.

[therealraybaby]

Who da hell was that, that kept whistling from the audience at the end? They should have got an introduction too. Ol' Bucko was suave n' kool!

[mosrite60]

Buck and Don were the best duo ever. Buck had the best of the best musicians

[vic0mark]

@mosrite60 Buck and Don, Paul and John. You're right. They gave to country music what McCartney and Lennon did for pop.

[MrGeorgios2020]

The song defines the words COUNTRY MUSIC!

[StevePetno]

@MrGeorgios2020 I agree!!! Amen.

[whatthehellbrosef]

Wow don't miss the last 20 seconds... spotlight on the inimitable Tom Brumley and his psg. Rest in peace, Tom.

[bldguard]

Buck You Rock!!!

[nicomateo23]

Real Country Music!

[Kenebutch]

Bass player looks like Bill Paxton a bit.

[smartmandakota]

His wonderful voice reminds me o Saturday mornings with my grandpa....listening to the radio out on the front portch while wisps of smoke waved from his cigarette.....wow...great memories right there.

[nbtblues]

If only my dad were around to hear this he might have went mountain dew and ended up peekin' thru the knothole in daddys' wooden leg...definitely pull up a stump music. This ones for you dad.

[dylanthomaszimmerman]

i love this song so much

never forget real american country music

[idgoback]

this is pure magic....nobody will ever touch the sound of Buck Owens and Don Rich....print that:)

[67dodgepolara]

Wow, love that steel guitar playing at the end !!

[dukeofmjatsenove]

you started it...you don't really impress me...grow up

[MusicDude86]

I'm not here to impress you, douche bag...enjoy the music and quit leaving asinine comments.

[dukeofmjatsenove]

You've started it, get a life sucker, i enjoy the music without your retarded opinions,Yeez LOSER !

[MusicDude86]

I was responding to rayjr62's comment, agreeing with him that today's "country" music isn't really country music. After that, you took a jab at me...in no way did I attack you, I defended myself...if my joke was in bad taste....TOO Fuckin' BAD....ignore it....lastly, I am grown up, are you?

[dukeofmjatsenove]

Ok,fine for me, you may live.....lol

[CodyCEngdahl]

So did Don put his name on his guitar so he could identify it from someone else's telecaster.

[vader6972]

Dangerous Goddamm Don Rich rockin' it with good ol' Buck! Superb!

[bamsocal]

Bucks Owens' "sound" was definitely the harmony of him and Don Rich! The best side man of all time! RIP Don...

[jodygrind69]

Don Rich is awesome but Chet Atkins is the first sideman to make a name for himself in country music.

[RattlerMan33]

Thats right nobody knows who the sidemen are its all went down the drain nowadays its all about money and looks.

[anthony1962]

Although not as technically skilleda picker as Don Rich was, ole Luther Perkins did a pretty good job making a name for himself during the 13 years he was with Johnny Cash. I was fortunate to have seen both Luther and Don perfom live back in the 1960s. These days who the hell knows the names of Country music sidemen anymore?

[Todd6120]

Don Rich was the first sideman who made a name for himself.....amazing and a huge part of Bucks sucess...R.i.p. don

[whipkeys]

OH MY! My heart skipped a beat when I saw this!! I remember all this great music.(shows my age,huh?) THANK YOU!

[pear5555]

WA- hoo =D

[fulls787]

these guys are slick, smilin' natural C&W artist. love 'em

[paperchasin23]

Jimmy dean comes off as an asshole

[BurningMartyrCarcass]

Jimmy Deeeean sausageee!

[goffbum]

Sadly Tom Brumley passed in the past 2 years.....

[alantmac]

these guys were naturals, made it look so easy

[alabamaboy69]

i dont know if yall are gonna belive me but my name is shawn sikes i wanna thank you for posting this because buck owens was my fathers dad so he is my grandpa i just wanna thank you again

[flatpick4eadg]

@alabamaboy69

Nice to meet you Shawn, your Grandpap sure made a lot of people happy with his music.

[starchief59]

@alabamaboy69 Why isn't your last name Owens?

[5148655550]

@alabamaboy69 you should be a great singer and guitar player....in 1966 i was in my mother's tummy and they were stoning me with this,,,,I am so glad...

[grainofsandfan]

I love it, his name on his guitar.

He's so sweet and it's clear they are working as one.

[DaveRification]

Hi there and Thanks much for posting this gem! 5***** from an eclectic music lover :-)

My Mom & Dad, Grandpas & Grandmas, etc. loved Buck Owens & Mom & Dad always turned me on to this great classic country as I'm the baby. My two older Bros. hated this music @ that time.

Now they luv it...Go fig?...LOL :-)

[jennadyann]

love it so much!!! miss ya Mr. Owens ton...we need your sunshine!!!

[CrazyCoach]

I love seeing these old clips, especially Don Rich smiling that goofy smile at the end of his solo. Like Buck would say, "Boy you talk about a ham. That must be pure pork!"

[RayAnthonyFun107]

Every Country artist today, owes a debt of gratitude to Buck Owens. Buck was a true music pioneer.And a great man!

[dodge575]

rest in peace buck owens

[julieyard1]

god bless don rich and buck owens.

is there anything better than a "well worn" guitar?

[mavis41558]

I've been sliding a few old country songs into the set with classic rock all the way up to Stone Temple Pilots and my drummer's 27 year old boy who plays lead guitar with us loves it.

[dayeekiiins]

Outstanding =) what is all this bullshit country music today?? haha now THIS is what it's ALL about!

[rayjr62]

@dayeekiiins A-fucking-men. I hate this new country crap. . . and it is just that. . CRAP !!!! It Aint country.

[MusicDude86]

it's cuntry music....

[dukeofmjatsenove]

if you have nothing smarter to say please just shut up...