Buck Owens & His Buckaroos - Act Naturally [Live] - 1966

[LebonheurLynda]

IT S BUCK RANCH TV SHOW CLIP

[toejam498]

time to pull out my sparkle tele

[audiotrax2000]

The guy in the back on the Fender bass just looks so cool. This was when entertainment inspired you to feel happy :)

[kempsmith7]

I Like Them Both Beatles and Buck Owens

[nadiyahz]

Awsome!

[Weestofteim]

Oh man, I love his voice!

[chanchalarescue]

this song should have buck ownes voice and the beatles guitar...the best combo ever

[D0peMoney]

classic.. can't beat them jackets son..

[SmallTownES]

This is the best song ever!

[sippingwhisky]

remember the titans

[zoranest]

hahah i really dig this song

[structualfitter]

I never could understand why Buck,or Ken Nelson let that lame bob morris play bass on most of their records. Doyle was a far superior bass player.

[dwc64tx]

Love that cats Tele...

[willturth]

Ringo loved country and western music and anything to do with the old wild west! he was also a Buck Owens fan!

[willturth]

he's playing a Fender Accoustic!

[lolimfranco]

wow, that acoustic looks really weird with at electric-strat looking headstock

[lyon406]

That was a low blow, bumbleblockhead, The Beatles had total respect for other musicans and their music. They asked for a were given permission to to covers, Carl Perkins, Buck Owens and others.

I believe this is a "set" used on his TV show.

[mollyfender65]

DangerousDon

You may have better info, but I don't believe this is the Carnegie Hall appearance. This appears to be one of Buck's "Ranch" shows that were done in Oklahoma City. The tracks were prerecorded in California and the guys faked the playing and singing for the broadcast.

[BEATDOWNBANKER]

Don Rich helped sale a lot of Telecasters.

[der2035]

I remember this song and Buck owens from my early childhood. Looks like this is my theme song and I love his singing too.

[thewind1408]

This song was featured twice in two of the greatest Documentaries ever, "For All Mankind" and "Capturing the Friedman's"

[punin10dead]

Posters here are silly. Just because the Beatles reached more people with the song and it became associated with Ringo doesn't mean there's anything wrong with them or their version. They didn't steal it either... they went through all the proper channels to record and perform it. Most people tend to favor songs the way they first heard them... it doesn't necessarily mean it's better. I like both versions, but I have many memories tied up in the Beatles version.

[james3662]

HEE HAW rules!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gatorman1067]

@bumblingblockhead The Beatles did it better??..You are a first rate moron...The Beatles were a profoundly overrated, market driven gimmic who achieved success back when one could grow their hair a bit and fart dixie, and they would just wow the television hyped crowds...Now, if you're talking The Stones, or Led Zepplin, I might relent........

[omega190e]

@gatorman1067 LOL looks like this guy is this the biggest fool i ever seen, beatles got nothing on buck owens!

[curvy71]

my father in law made an advertisment with this song in the 1960's when he lived in Michigan

[omega190e]

@curvy71 what kind of commercial was this? wait let me guess he was a cadillac salesman?

[curvy71]

@omega190e nope he sold transmissions on 8 mile. in the 1960's

[omega190e]

@curvy71 i knew it had something to do with cars -__-

[curvy71]

@omega190e yep true

[newby5719]

Best Version is Ringo Starr's Solo cover

[websoupe]

@bumblingblockhead

Obviously not composed by The Beatles but one can’t say they stole the tune. The rights and royalties were paid, I presume. Anyway, on the french SACEM (authors and composers society) website one can find 3 composers:

ACT NATURALLY

Compositeur-Auteur : RUSSELL JOHN BRIGHT, MORRISON LAVONIA INEZ

ACT NATURALLY

Compositeur-Auteur : WILSON DANIEL DODD

ACT NATURALLY

Compositeur : D ARCY MARLON LEONARD, DEONIK CRAIG WILLIAM

[MrAmazingAnimals]

...the beatles did it better

[TylerKG123]

@bumblingblockhead

Man, you got it all wrong. Neither did Buck or The Beatles write it, it was written by Johnny Russelll.

Each of them has their own version.

[FagosaurusRex]

@TylerKG123 Buck Owens performed it first, though.

[TylerKG123]

@FagosaurusRex

Yep.

[ejdj1234]

what a legend

[amk0171]

countryboy66 Well said. I so agree. This is a great piece of history we're able to see. I'm thankful for the upload and to YouTube for making this possible.

Been to Bakersfield to see Buck Owen's Crystal Palace. Oh my, no words will describe it all. Love it there. Make it a yearly trip now. :) Thanks DDD

[stepperliz]

Excellent!

[lennonzappa71]

@countryboy66 A lot of today's "country music" about marketing and lifestyle. It's not about the music-it's about reinforcing your lifestyle with the Wal-Mart mentality music of your favorite cowboy-hat wearing "country-music" "performer".  A lot of the current "country music" scene is just so dumbed-down and people buy into it and they become more dumbed-down.

[Staxrock]

@lennonzappa71 That is why I listen to Steve Earle!

[Staxrock]

@lennonzappa71 and Lucinda Williams and the Dixie Chicks.....and so forth!

[lennonzappa71]

@countryboy86 A lot of today's "country music" consists of "People Magazine"-mentality "celebrities" sporting a cowboy hat with a moustache and goatee and a lot of focus on their "lifestyle"-forget about the music; let's see who Blake Shelton is dating! Woo-hoo! You get the picture.

[Blueflesh4]

miss Buck.. worked for him for a number of years @ the radio station.... had the privilege of jamming with a few of the buckaroos on 2 occasions.. had a lot of fun. If there's an afterlife.. hope he smoking his Macanudo's and strumming hard..

[BigAlum]

@bumblingblockhead

The Beatles and Buck Owens had a great respect for each other, and in fact, The Beatles repeatedly talked about buying ALL Buck's releases. Likewise, Buck was checking out all The Beatles stuff. That's how it came to be that The Beatles ASKED Buck Owens for his approval to cover this song. - From The Beatles Archives and Buck's own comments in various interviews. Stole? Not by a long shot.

[papafirst]

@BigAlum I can recall watching this when I was just a little boy. Maybe 1971 or so, in Canada. What show was this from ?

[BigAlum]

@papafirst This was recorded at their famous Carnegie Hall Concert in 1966. Also released as "The Carnegie Hall Concert" album later that same year. Excellent work, too.

[MRFABIAN2009]

@bumblingblockhead I thought it was only one Beatle...Ringo Starr. I thought Ringo Starr alone made the remake of this song.

[mjnr1fan]

As good as The Beatles.

[WelcometoZyWokCity]

Remember the Titans!

[TheCross72]

I think Waylons talkin bout ol Buck in the beginning of his song "Are you sure Hank done it this way?" Idk just matched the cute rhinestone suits......

[rstlgh1]

texas i thought this was CA country

[jaime58ify]

Another timeless classic:--)

[metalblond1]

@stonegrooved this song is not better than the beatles version ringo sang the shit out of it

[missysmom2]

Still love Buck and his band.

[wdeatonjr]

I rememkber this song as a boy still love it

[countryboy9003]

Who ever disliked this is insane these are the classics it the best years for country back then now its alldone on the computer, it was just after the yodeling stage of country music witch was not the best with some exceptions.

[MjgbS]

So damn corny but so damn good.

[RussX5Z]

@MjgbS No ways man! This stuff is CLASSIC!!!

[MjgbS]

@RussX5Z Oh dude I love it, but I just can't help but notice how corny it is. All the costumes and the way dude "cools" his guitar off after a little three bar lick. It's great!

[Godskid66]

It's so sad to see where "country" music has gone, which is down the crapper. Today's country music is trash for one. Some of it is ok, but it ain't like it was when I was growing up. My parents and I would watch the grand ole opery watching Minnie Pearl, Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow...etc. I sure do wish the performers would wear those beautiful costumes on stage they wore back then. I'd love to have a bright sparkly suit like that!

[LesbianVampireLover]

Back in 1969 or 1970, I'd play my "Buck Owens Live at the London Palladium" album in the dorms at Ga. Tech. Quite a switch from the psychedelia of the era. The neat thing is that cuts from that album were in general airplay on the cool FM stations around Atlanta.

[Experiences112]

this makes me happy.

[MsBones1950]

hee haw was great i watched it myself and got a kick out of it i grew up loving country music and my country i guess that is why i joined the army in 1969 and served with the 101st airborne in vietnam and i have seen men killed by rockets mortars and gunfire but the crulest thing i ever saw was done by a couple of doctors working in one of the largest hospitals in Tulsa for more info please go to[ msbones1950 a waiting grave

[BiasIsDaMan]

true music

[chevy662]

I remember watching hee haw as a kid and had no idea who he was but I sure think hes cool now

[Godskid2009]

Country music had class at one time. Even the costumes had class. Today's country "music" is trash.

[captmclain]

Buck & Don = greatness

[jimhere1]

Too bad Buck was such an asshole. Great music though.

[sunnyDj2]

@jimhere1 was he really?

[jimhere1]

@sunnyDj2

Yes he was. Read the recent biography.

[rayjr62]

@jimhere1 Yes, he was. And I am not apologizing for Buck, but sometimes the music industry can turn decent people into assholes. Case in Point: Chuck Berry.

[cooltooth112]

@rayjr62 Chuck Berry shows up at all his gigs wih his guitar and that's it. He expects a backup band that knows all his songs.

[rayjr62]

@cooltooth112 I know. And he gets paid his fee (in either 20 or 50 dollar bills for each performance). . . in cash and right before the gig. If he gets a encore, he demands to be paid up front before he re-takes the stage. All in cash- No bullshit, no frills. . . that's it. Chuck usually has some goon carry / hold on to the money (it's in a briefcase) backstage during the gig. After the gig, he re-counts all the money. If everything is kosher, then he leaves.

[edgardesouza27]

Just Great!

[MYheroMJrip]

Ryan Gosling in ''remember the titans'' lmfaoooooooo

[idgoback]

This is EPIC....the Carnegie hall concert is the greatest live album ever....for sure!

[kdj29]

I have pics of this NUDIE suit from the Crystal Palace in Bakersfield. Saw the Buckaroos play this there too. I covered this song on my latest album ( 3 years ago) One of the best country songs ever! - Kitchen Dick Jones.

[LetMyPeopleThink]

No autotune, 1 microphone, and those harmonies are still dead on! This is real music...not that mass produced, studio sterilized, Lady Gagarbage.

[BeatlesGeorgeJohn]

Now I see why the Beatles covered this.

[mkl62]

A #1 hit for Buck Owens on the Country & Western charts. It was the 66th #1 C&W hit of the Rock Era. Growing up, Hee Haw was one on of my favorite shows. Our family would draw names at Christmas and one year, my cousin drew my name and gave me The Buck Owens Show: Live in Vegas LP. I still have it. It's hard to believe that he's no longer with us. To you C&W artists of today: Remember who set the table for you.

[funnymyke]

BUCK OWENS is the shit!!! I love his music!! And i am a very young guy, thanks grandma!

[dmsw2]

to waynealarsen..I believe Buck eventually gave the Silver Bound Tele to Marty Stuart.Might want to follow up on this though .

[Kurland44]

The best version of this song i`ve ever heard. Thank you.

[Goldengoat23]

1:20 don busts a string?

[RamJamable]

I was a little creeped out by that, but I realized that my nephew didn't do anything but talk, and that there are people out there who are still old school, and give candy and change to children, not looking for anything in return. That's what people used to do, before pervs made that their M.O.

[RamJamable]

I took my nephew to the Co-op. We were going to leave, when I told him to wait outside the bathroom for me. When I came out he had money. I asked him where he got it, and he said a man gave it to him after talking to him. I then realized, that all this boy had to do was Act Naturally, and people would realize he was something special!

[kevin95611]

@RamJamable That's a great little life lesson.  Talk nicely to the stranger and he might give you a dollar, or maybe even a ride in his van to help him look for his puppy.

[yummymummy100100]

@kevin95611 I too found a kid getting money off strange men a tad strange!

[steelfitter50]

I never could figure out why Buck tuned down to Eb.

[waynealarsen]

ahhh the silver Bound Tele , the one Buck asked Don Rich's wife to send back after his death. is it in the Crystal Palace now????

[dmsw2]

@waynealarsen If memory serves me correct ,Buck eventually gave the Silver Bound Tele to Marty Stuart.

[waynealarsen]

@dmsw2 Thanks for the info

[ACORNSUCKS]

Get it Buck!

[flatblackbsa]

Don Rich rules !

[SUNRISERICH]

Love this clip,especially the over the top outfits.

[TheSaguaro22]

this version is obviously country-the beatles version was still country-but that slightly less obvious

[seans10]

There is no greater Beatles fan than I. But this--this, sorry Ringo, is just stupendous.

[SlingBlade79]

no way Ringo Starrs version tops Buck Owens!!

[SlingBlade79]

YES!!! I love this song!!!

[StayMagic]

Handsome stuff !!!

[gwatson678]

I think it's 1966

[juanitabful]

They sounded so great together!

[ChinaCat34]

Buck Owens and the killer twang of Don Rich! Now that's how it's done. These Nashville posers of today need to go back to school. The music coming out of that town sucks....

[cowpunk118]

@shakey64 Thanks for buying and reading the book. I appreciate it. Bryce Martin, pioneer music critic of the Bakersfield Californian emailed me today and said: "Eileen Sisk wrote -- finally -- what every citizen in Bakersfield had already known for years, or should have known, the truth about Buck Owens, the truth local journalists apparently feared to tread -- even after Owens' passing....She has mined the past in a city where others in her trade feared to even shake the timbers."

[rustyjonesjr]

It seems the country music of today has nothing on this stuff! Im not a big country fan, but i enjoy this old school "country western" sound. Buck, slim whitman, the statler brothers, merle haggard, etc., you can tell they were really putting emotions in their music. Where as todays country music like everything else its all about money.

[MrAntone97]

what year is this?

[randytelecaster]

This version is off of the Carnegie Hall album.

[starguy2718]

"How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"

"Practice!"

Obviously, Buck Owens followed that advice, and it got him there.

[TheYouguy09]

Buck Owens

[wtfisit25]

I am seriouisly realated to him on my dad's side of the family

[5posom]

@wtfisit25 cool i could be related to king arthur

[cowpunk118]

@nicklesaj Actually, it shows how little YOU know about Buck. The video is in fact from a Buck Owens Ranch show. Clint said so himself. He merely overdubbed the Carnegie Hall track so there would be a visual with it. So sorry you won't get your wish about my book being a flop. It has already made it to #14 in Amazon.com pre-sales.

[krenzcar88]

Took my son to see Buck at the Crystal Palace in Bakersfield a month or so before Buck passed on. To say Buck was a "Hometown Hero" would be the understatement of the century.

[cowpunk118]

Hey Clint, this is guitarzan, good job Syncing without time-stretching ! Not an easy task !

[DangerousDonRich]

@cowpunk118

Eileen, the video is from the Buck Owens Ranch but the audio is ripped directly from the Carnegie Hall Concert and placed over the video track so we have a visual instead of a just a black screen.

[Vahilias]

@DangerousDonRich Easily noticeable by the difference between the audio and video, particularly for us lip readers.

[JackGrider]

@DangerousDonRich nice! it works.

[jonathan1stewart]

@DangerousDonRich Amazing that the tracks can synch so closely. They really could keep the beat.

[edgarcia4]

@DangerousDonRich what happened to the original audio?

[edgarcia4]

@DangerousDonRich to the vid I mean.

[nicklesaj]

@cowpunk118 haha, shows how much you know about Buck. Hope your book flops.

[shakey64]

@cowpunk118  totally right...the audio is not from the origindal audio clip. Just got finished reading the book, by the way.

[steelfitter50]

@cowpunk118 This is the Carnegie Hall version . I know, I bought the album in 1968.

[cowpunk118]

@steelfitter50 Yes, it is the CH version synced to a video of the Buck Owens Ranch show.

[MegaPianoplayer1]

@cowpunk118 I am reading your bio of Buck and I love it. Thanks for writing such a no-holds-barred account.

[cowpunk118]

@MegaPianoplayer1 Thank you! I appreciate that. All I did was write the truth as the people who knew, loved, and hated him told it to me. It's too bad he didn't treat people who worked with him as well as he treated the fans. There is much, much more to the story, of course. This book is basically an overview. I got three calls already today from his national promotion director telling me of the screaming matches he would get into with her. I don't think I could've taken the stress.

[Durwood73]

@cowpunk118 Surely Buck treated Don fair didn't he? Don was such a huge part of his sound. What talent died when he got killed.

[Durwood73]

@cowpunk118 Surely Buck treated Don fair didn't he? Don was such a huge part of his sound. What talent died when he got killed.

[cowpunk118]

@Durwood73 Not particularly well, Durwood. You can read about it in the book, but Buck kept promising Don he would make him VP of the company but never did. Then after Don died, he snubbed Don's family and the widow was once Buck's secretary. Not to mention, the widow only got one check for Hee Haw for $72. Two years after Buck died, the widow began to get residuals from Gaylord, so all that money that should have gone to Don's family went in Buck's pocket.

[CavenEdwards]

Man, those suits were stellar!!!

[RedIron1066]

Long live the "Bakersfield Sound."

[bowlin3483]

i love this song!! Buck and Don have such great harmony!!

[dodge96neon]

great outdoors

[bluehazer]

They cut Don's solo! I saw them live years ago, he'd blister that Telly!

[buzzclick500]

Saw him live in '62! Gosh, I'm old...now I'm depressed. ;]

[phillyjaymoney]

"the biggest fool to ever hit the big time" sends chills down my spine mmmhmm good ol texas country

[packodenton]

Awesome! Buck Owens purchased land in my hometown of Paso Robles.

[fredkoning]

Thank you for posting. Brings back good memories!

[acrowwing]

ahhhhhhhh!

[Paulmancieri67]

@obitobi100 Love Ringo and the Beatles but Owens performance was an original. The Beatles emulated Owens version....and did a damm good job (especially McCartney's imitation of Don Rich) but Owens deserves credit where it is due.

[pakee64]

@Paulmancieri67 ...Big beatle fan here!!,,,but your right,,it's all Buck!!..with this song,,he's the man,,,

[nerdflanders8710]

@Paulmancieri67 hmmi prefer the beatles version.ringo starrs voice is suited well to this song.

[DapperDanP]

Buck is playing a fender kingman, my dad had one he got when he was a kid in the 60's...they got a bolt on neck and a strat style headstock..there real cool, but fendr discontinued it.

[PrudenceNumberNine]

What make is the guitar Buck is playing? Fender, it looks like?

[smitty54017]

Yup...it's a Fender.

[PrudenceNumberNine]

Interesting, I've never seen a Fender acoustic before. I think I may need to get around more!

[laslos3]

johnny cash played a black one

[spabrat]

now THAT was real country music!!!!

[jimmers1221]

@spabrat amen!!! i agree 150%

[tommylord]

Glad that someone put this great audio to a video. Sounds great, and fun to watch.

Good job editing.

[ThomasFMPayne]

That big Fender acoustic is different looking.

[acrowwing]

this rocks

[MrRon5150]

wow did buck and don sound great together.

[jimcoxster]

Buck died on the 40th anniversary of his Carnegie performance. Tom was a buddy from Branson Mo, will miss him.

[ibjsk]

buck and don. ringo did this in honor of buck.

[ledhead1978]

Who recorded this song first? Buck and Don or The Beatles?

[beeto11]

Buck did.........