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  • Drive through Des Moines playing this from a loudspeaker from your car at the end of the world. ;)

  • In 1899 Ada Blenkhorn was inspired to write the Christian hymn by a phrase used by her nephew. Blenkhorn's nephew was disabled and always wanted his wheelchair pushed down "the sunny side" of the street

  • Holy divinely inspired music.

  • Incredible, imagine what they would have sounded like behind todays production technology! Classic country, none of this country rock/pop we hear on the cm charts these days

  • atsigin dot guztiz

  • Oh shit, I found it. My 3rd grade teacher was having us sing songs for a school play, and this was supposed to be mine.

  • I tell ya, 30 years and beyond the music world used to be green, lush, beautiful wit

    trees and birds and the sun used to come out most of the time, fast forword to 60

    years later, the music world looks like berlin when the allies droped the bombs on it.

    The other side of the music world of today looks even more grimmer: it looks like

    rat lsland and that barren land from the movie the book of Eli.

  • @Addiskrilla The grass is always greener, man.

    There's still good music, you just have to look harder (e.g. not on the radio).

  • 11 people should keep on the sunny side of life.

  • I was on the train today, and the train came to the park st station. When the doors opened there was a small blue grass group at the station playing this song. It made my day soooo much better, love this song

  • Why aren't my grandparents and Mee-Maw into them as much as I am?

  • 11 people are on the dark side.

  • @ptpike1 Maybe they don't like how A.P. was credited with writing every song he cared to cover. In the 1920's, he had Leslie Riddle, a black man, go around the south and find songs for him. All subsequent recordings were credited as written by A.P.. Research shows, despite his claims, he probably only had one song published which he wrote. If he pulled that now, he'd be in court. That being said, I love this old music. It takes me back.

  • I"m teaching this song today. 

  • beautiful ,i love the carter family ever since i was a little girl

  • julie ivers is obsessed with this video. such good quality.

  • Country music at its best, The Original Carter Family !

  • great song

  • Great up- lifting song by the Carter family!!!

  • Y'all need to chill out, all of you. Take this argument somewhere else. It doesn't belong here with this beautiful, harmonious music the Carter Family devoted their lives to. Just listen to the song once or twice. It'll make you forget that there's anything "offensive" in the world for a little while.

  • 11 people keeps on the stormy side

  • That Maybelle really attacked that guitar with gusto! These are real people, real lovers of song, singing with simplicity and honesty. More polished versions could never match this beautiful old counry song. Carters forever!

  • goooooooood old times!

  • @mourningwoody67 i wasnt going to jump off abridge until i heard this

  • great song

  • @mourningwoody67 hey u!!!! so glad i found this!.........sending hugs my friend! it will get better!

  • :-)

  • honestly, I prefer movie version (oh brother, where art thou?) to this.

  • @inFLUence2508 This one's the original. So many traditional musicians today got their music from the Carter family.

  • @MarthaH605 Time to do some research! Please check out where A.P. got all of his songs. To help you, add Leslie Riddle to your A.P. search. It will shed a light on your assumption. Bluegrass is kind of like rock and roll......it's all taken from black peoples music.

  • @freetickeys No, bluegrass as a genre was created by Bill Monroe and people of his era. The Carter Family's music is not bluegrass. Bluegrass is relatively young, having come late to the scene. The Carter Family's music is older and is among the roots of bluegrass, but is not bluegrass itself.

    Bluegrass today and in Monroe's time pulls from many different influences, so it's not accurate to say, "it's all taken from black music." Some may be, but not all.

  • It's much happier than today's music :)

  • Fantastic video wonderful song I love it.

    I like the 1930's music it seems to be. Much better then Todays music.

  • @MrDeCorey This music is still around.

  • sounds good

  • If you throw this in garage band with the auto tune it's so ridiculous, I'm pretty sure it's techountry!

  • well I trying to keep on the sunny side, but in El Aaiun, its 50 deg on the sunny side...

  • i was in nj for 3 years. they treat country like sh*t... im so into old stuff like this...

    im in austria

  • @nusdorfer i've lived in jersey my whole life ,not all of us are like that p.s. i'm 20 mins from nyc

  • @enduroracer199 I agree. Jersey is not as bad as people portrait it. Hello from Brazil.

  • alien fucks predator up

    lmao

  • Alvin Carter had some of the most melodic vocals in the history of recorded music. Most people never pay any attention to his contributions.

  • @curt8789 His contributions are more like a compiler than an original artist.

  • oh, Mother Maybelle, if I could just get that bass string melody like you got!

  • RIP denis, this was played at my bro nd mentor's funeral. I fucking love this song and love the fact it reminds me of deep belly laughs with my old boy. Bless ya bro, near forgotten xxxxx

  • @Mathertron NEVER forgotten, not near forgotten ffs *cry*

  • Every time I hear this I have to sing. This song is the best there is.

  • HICKS :D

  • haha. when I was younger, my brothers boy scouts had to learn this and sing it. lol. I think they changed some of the words though.

  • Does anyone else notice that they consistantly drop one beat right before they start the refrain? This is an interesting musical device. You don't hear it used very often.

  • Doesn't get better than this, many thanks for sharing!

  • Somebody needs to start a good ole timey radio station somewhere on the AM band that I could listen to on my Philco or crystal set.

    Comedy programs on saturday night sponsored by a tobacco company, live jazz/dance music for the teenagers on friday nights played by a band named and sponsored by a car company, sweet soothing country music every evening for mother and father to dance to,

  • @DeLorean4 radio dramas for the whole family, intelligent and captivating programming, "News bulletin" interruptions, real local news, real local music, a cowboy show on saturday mornings for the kids....

    Oh, and I'd also need someone to start producing radio tubes again.

  • @DeLorean4 They HAVE an old timey radio program...Prairie Home Companion on NPR. Families gather, sing, laugh, dance, remember those good old days. Even if you haven't lived in the good old days, PHC is as close as it gets.

  • @iamda1949 And for some reason I can't stand that program. I guess I listened to it too often when I was a child and my preconcieved notions have stuck with me regardless of how much I adore the idea behind that radio show.

  • It's all where you look for the music you want to hear. With technology comes access. You're watching this on YouTube

  • They don't put stuff like this on the radio anymore because of a thing called PROFIT.

    Under laissez faire capitalism - the sort that makes bankers obscenely rich and arrogant - the only thing that matters is money. However there is a perception that the record/disc/music buying public - that is the sort who actually part with cash for music are teenagers and not older non-computer- literate consumers. the ostriches who run radio stations are unaware that younger people download it for free.

  • Saw the Carters on a old Wilburn show...They looked exhaused and needing of sleep.I bet Ol'A.P caught hell from the women,didn't look like a happy camper in pictures I seen of him.

  • There is something about old recordings that is missing in today's music. No pun intended, we lost something with technology.

  • @DeepDeltaBlues Soooooo true! Old records have life in them!

  • Wooooow! Can she play the Guita.

  • keep on the sunny side - true art is rarely popular art, but always lives on, by hook or by crook, as they say

  • Yes Maybelle invented the Carter Scratch one of the most fundamental techniques in modern guitar playing

  • I used to sing this song to my baby sister to put her to sleep. It worked every time.

  • awesome song&singing,,I like listing too these old songs

  • American music. Unique to the world.

  • This song is loaded with wisdom.

  • aye, proper country, eh! neen o' aat ither shite.

  • keep on the suuny side of life baby

  • love this

    reminds me of mom & dad. i miss you..

  • How does she pronounce 'clear'? lol.

    No disrespect, the Carters are brilliant.

  • @AlexDCl May of the folks who settled in the Southern Appalachians were of Scotch-Irish ancestry. The unique pattern of old-time mountaineer speech can be traced directly to ancient Scots dialect, crossed with a bit of Irish and Elizabethan English; the King James Bible was a powerful influence in those hills!

    Sadly, those speech patterns were "educated" out of modern generations, and are a distant boyhood memory of old folks talking in long-gone country stores of the 50's & early 60's.

  • Deeply touching; a song that reaches into the depths of your being

  • tis true

  • I love this old song. To listen to The Carter Family here is to listen to true, honest and down to earth music. Their harmony here is precious. Mother Maybelle's guitar playing is the best. My little grannie played the fiddle when I was a little girl and she sang like Mother Maybelle. She was born and reared in the hollers here in Kentucky and she and grandpa took care of a family of nine children. Her old wind up victrola was her pride and joy . Thanks for posting. - Paula

  • I have a Carter Family album on tape somewhere. Sweet

  • I have a cassette of the Carter Family's songs. I have not listened to it since I wrecked my 1979 Camaro.

  • my friend song this at school and i fell in love with it. I heard about it in a book my class is reading, Come Sing Jimmy Joe

  • My motto for this life!

  • i love it good song!

  • Great! I love it!

  • Why can't we have music like this nowadays?

  • @VideoGameNerd777 You have to search harder for it these days. It does exist.

  • @VideoGameNerd777

    The reason we don't have such music nowadays is, because we love to listen to gangstaz who "sing" about their b*tches and guns and other things they don't have.

  • @VideoGameNerd777 Are you saying this music is not around right now?

  • @VideoGameNerd777 Because Lady GaGa ate all of the good musicians

  • @VideoGameNerd777

    We can and we do. Just look around your neighborhood and you will find folks playing and singing. Get a guitar and join in. You can have some fun.

  • @VideoGameNerd777 because one SINGLE autotuning nigger will completely destroy this song

  • @b1e1r1t1ah woah woah woah

    Is it really necessary to use the word "nigger" here? I'm sorry if you really feel that much hate. Please try to be less offensive.

  • @d00dicus did i say i hate black people? i'm from europe so i don't know why this should be offending. as far as i know every black rapper uses this word right?

  • @b1e1r1t1ah It's a racial slur that calls upon hundreds of years of the oppression and killing of a race. A lot of rappers do use the word, and so do many others, but just because they use it a certain way doesn't mean that it stops meaning hateful things to me. If you want to use it though, that's up to you.

  • hey old country fans, check out the creameries! we're new and hip! and not anything like taylor swift! go to "mynameything" channel!

  • From a time in American culture when songs were written and sung with feeling, passion and a purpose other than money.

  • @JeevesReturns --why did they accept numerous record contracts if they werent interested in money?

  • this is a strange song

  • This is the old carter Family, they are great!!! martinmary555 catch my video

  • I'm related to the cash family I'm named after Sara

  • We need more happy, optimistic songs like this one. So sick of today's dark, moody, sulky selections.

  • im 11 and injoy this muic very very very much

  • @michaelramsay100

    This is just a part of what is the real America, what people should remember and sherish

  • @michaelramsay100 Good for you ..

  • @michaelramsay100 Im 11 too and im related to these fine people, i can listen to this all day

  • this is from the 30s aint it

  • @MrCodyman1234

    Well, the Carters started recording in the 1920s. but I don't know when they recorded "Keep on the Sunny Side".

  • my gpa loves this song!

  • just your voice and guitar..awesome!!

  • this is what its all about folks no ear splitting drums or amps or lasers just pure simple country music it aint rocket science

  • Simply awesome.

  • music in its purest form. may the carter family never be forgotten!

  • real great american music amen onforgettible

  • i love this sunnyside music

  • Carter Family was first and best. Love how their guitar and autoharp sound like a little orchestra.

  • AP Carter was a master of Harmony. Tough to do considering Sarah's powerful voice

  • My great grandma was asked to sing with them and that and j.r. Is what got me into the family(cater not the cult)

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  • I'm a huge metal fan (Judas priest, Iron Maiden) but hearing stuff like this is truly incredible. Blazing the trail for modern western music of all types, I can only be grateful

  • My Saturdays when young were spent listening to Opry all day. In the afternoon, the Metropolitan Opera and later before bedtime, the Grand Ol Opry. Could not live with either.

  • I can wakeup EVERYDAY with this....

    I am mocked daily for liking country music.

    I think the problem is that people dont know I refer to this and not the radio stuff they call country.

    ...

    Who's with me??? Did anyone check the video "THIS is country music" ?? It's great too!

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  • im with you

  • nusdorfer, I'm with 'ya! Outstanding in every sense. Although I do like a small pct. of modern country, nothing equals the originals. Great sense of family and purpose. Something that is lost in most traditional music today.

  • AGREED! taylor swift ruined country music

  • country was ruined decades ago...dont blame an 18 year old little girl for the ruin of country music. thats ridiculous

  • @whipchops

    Country music is like a planaria (pardon the analog): You can cut it up, but that won't kill it.

  • I wouldn't say she she ruined country music, but she definitely put the last nail in the coffin. hehe

  • @arcona7 Ruined it? She made country!

  • @coldfusiongames Sorry for the confusion. The "she" I was reffering to was not the singer of this song. I was replying to a comment on this thread by puppwuv1 who said that TAYLOR SWIFT ruined country music. I think the Carter family is great! cheers! ;-)

  • @arcona7 : Ah okay. :) Sorry for misunderstanding you.

  • @puppywuv1 No she didn't. It was ruined long before that, and not by any one person.

  • @nusdorfer where do you live?

    where im at it seems like country is one of the most popular genres...you should move to the US

  • @nusdorfer I'm with you. This is proper country music and it can't be beat.

  • The foundation of country music............doesn't get any better than this. Wish there was video of them as a group..................

  • No, it does not get any better.Now I am nearly 70 and have loved the Carter Family along with Hank Williams [There is only one Hank] Jimmy Rogers, Pete Pyle, Wilf Carter , since I heard them on my brothers wind up gramophone when I was about 7 years old.

    Graeme Wilson

    Tasmania

    Australia...VK7HO

  • Does it really get any better than this? I mean, really. My Grandmother is 98 years of age and still recalls these classics. I'm fortunate to have her and this fantastic post! Absolutely Perfect!!!!! Grandma is two years younger than Maybelle was and lived a hard, coarse, life. It was this music that kept her spirits up through what most of us alive today could not even comprehend.

  • we are singing this at my winter chorus concert. even though it has nothing to do with christmas (we have a new music teacher this year and she picks songs that don't even have to do with christmas) it is still a good song to sing to!

  • Consider yourself very fortunate Wizardly. I 've lived in the UK all my life and we never had anything as pleasurable as this to sing at Christmas .. apart from possibly Silent Night.

  • i live in sunnyside, love this song

  • Very good song. for another cool country sound, check out the Blue Sky Boys' songs.

  • this was played at my uncle's funeral. still gets me everytime

  • One of the best country tracks, this folk, country song will make you long for trips through the south with a banjo, a girl, and a dream in your head

  • LOL Oh Brother Where Art Thou. I love this song.

  • Why can't they put stuff like this on the radio anymore?

  • I AGREEE

    even tho i like other artists i still miss these things :)

  • @jaimeraim Because it won't sell... :-(

  • @jaimeraim because all the talent went out when the 60's were over it went down hill from there.

  • @allenshepard It went out when all the pop crap came in

  • @jaimeraim

    because no radio station has the guts to play this stuff

  • @jaimeraim WDVX in Knoxville, TN does all day! I's awesome!

  • this is REAL country music... Not that crap called country music that is nothing more than twangy pop

  • hehe twangy pop

  • Amen.

  • an apt description of current country, actually..

  • @dashriprock20001 Twangy pop describes it perfectly.... and I'm also under the impression that few songs go without mentionning some sort of pick up truck.

  • @dashriprock20001 - from what little I know about country I would say you are absolutely right!

  • Those of you that would like to hear more of the original Carter Family, don't waste money on anything less than the JSP 10-record import set, available online.

  • So superior to the junk that currently passes for "music."

  • That is true

  • Thank you

  • good stuff

  • pure gold

    reet proper now, y'all!

  • Thank you for posting!

  • I am learning this one!!! martinmary555 catch my video

  • Pure music

  • yea...

  • ♥

  • outstanding!!!!

  • Wow, this is music.

  • Brilliant.

  • Great!!...I'm an Italian American who grew up in New England on a diet of the Carter Family..I love love love them!

  • this was this song used in a commercial for days inn