@DailyBrusher I believe it is called The Singing Brakeman. I think it was a short film that was played before a feature film. It was done around 1929.
@DailyBrusher Yes, it was indeed a movie short titled "The Singing Brakeman" produced by Columbia Pictures with a copyright date of 1930. In it, he does three songs, including "Waiting for a Train", "Daddy and Home", and "Blue Yodel No.1", ("T For Texas.") A fine print of the entire 9 1/4 minute film is posted on YouTube under the title: "Waiting for a Train/Daddy and Home/Blue Yodel." A YouTube search on "Jimmie Rodgers" brings it up fourth in the list of hits.
bah, i love this song. My daddy showed it to me the other day, and i'm learning it by ear on the guitar♥ Apparently, my grandpa played this ALL the time. So, tribute to my grandpa♥
Jimmie indeed imitated a steam engine's whistle. It's a signature sound on many of his recordings. On the railroad call board behind JImmie are the names Strobel and Martin--R.J. Strobel and J.M. Martin--two of Jimmie's oldest pals who would later serve as Pallbearers at Jimmie's funeral on May 29, 1933.
last I saw the video is available on a compilations of old country music shorts & videos thru Amazon. It was several years since I looked for it so sorry I can't tell you the name of the DVD. Try using a search engine with the Singing Brakeman as the title or maybe IMDB (Internet Movie Database)
At 82 I obviously had heard of Jimmie Rodgers, but could not recall hearing him. So, I decided to search for his music. Fantastic! What a great performer and what wonderful songs and records. His works should be kept before the public so that young people can hear real talent.
I almost can't hear this without crying for my Dad. He was one of the millions of men who rode the freight trains looking for work during the Great Depression. Many a time he was far from home, starving, and broken hearted. He once ate magpie eggs to survive. This could be a biography of him during that time. Thank you, Jimmie Rodgers. And thank you, psteve, for posting.
AMAZING stuff! I'm gald he was able to appear in some musical shorts before his untimely demise due to TB. A truly unique talent. He's called the father of country music. I can see why! Back in the 60's, my mom had an album of his recordnings & I and my siblings fell in love with his talent. THANKS for posting! You've made my day & my weekend! CHEERS, mate! :-)
Ernest Tubb, Ray Price, Kity wells .. I could go on and on . Country just aint country anymore just marketing . Remember when Garth Brooks did that Chris Gains thing? Absolutely wretched...
jimmy seemed right at home in this movie,he had to be very popular to sing country songs in the movies back in them days because most of hollywood frowned upon country music. here he showed them what country music was all about.
@Pentagonshark666 : The listeners today if they are over 30 they can't appreciate true talent and forget asking any radio station to play this. They probably would think you were talking about the Jimmie Rodgers from the 60's
@jarhead4God Im 28. I grew up around my grandparents, which are dead. She would play Elton Britt 78 records, along with Frankie Yankovic! I love this music. It sounds so much better than this new shit.
@jarhead4God Im 28. I grew up around my grandparents, which are dead. She would play Elton Britt 78 records, along with Frankie Yankovic! I love this music. It sounds so much better than this new s...
I can't help but comment about how wonderful it would be if we also had a sound film of the original Carter Family. Seeing AP, Sara, and Maybelle Carter, RCA Victor's other great "country" artists of the 1930's, in live performance would be simply awesome. The only spoken dialog we have of the Carters is on a couple of Victor records which they cut WITH Jimmie Rodgers. Producer Ralph Peer, at RCA, teamed his two big country acts for these interesting recordings.
My dad used to drag out his old j45 gibson and play this one, now I've got the guitar but not the talent, rest in peace Alex Burnay, (Dad) and Jimmy Rodgers
Always love this film and Jimmie Rodgers, but this crazy notion popped in my head.
Jimmie sang both railroad songs and hobo songs. So the big question is which side was he on? Would his brakeman kick his hobo off the train? Now I can't sleep.
@1958wvpicker This is from his 1930 Columbia Pictures film short titled "The Singing Brakeman." The entire 9 minute 16 second film is posted in its entirety here on YouTube. Just search "Jimmie Rodgers." He performs three songs on the film...."Waiting for a Train", "Daddy and Home", and his signature song, "T For Texas."
@1958wvpicker Actually I did not post it. "Psteve" did that and deserves our thanks. I just did a YouTube search on "Jimmie Rodgers." The complete 9:16 Columbia Film short comes up as item four in the list. It includes both the opening and closing credits of the film, and the brief non-musical dialog. It's great to hear Rodgers in spoken speech. Generally we only hear the old Victor records of course. And of course it's wonderful to hear his immortal "T for Texas."
@1958wvpicker If you'd care to hear audio clips of the famous Carter Family-Jimmie Rodgers recordings search "Jimmie Rodgers Carter Family." Both recordings are posted. It's also interesting that MRS Jimmie Rodgers made a recording with AP and Sara Carter about 1952, after Maybelle left. An audio of that recording is also posted. These combined recordings are historic reminders of Ralph Peer's "Bristol Sessions" of 1927, in which both Rodgers and the Carters made their test cuts for RCA.
Love it, remember listening to this when i was a child. My father played the old 78"s often, and we all enjoyed. I was named after him, but my last name is spelled without the d, Jimmy Rogers.
Lovely! What a treat to see Jimmie sing and play. Always loved this song since hearing Hank Snow's version decades ago. Good to hear the original at last. Thanks so much.
i am 14 and i love this ! sometimes i wish i was born 70 years ago...because then i would live in a world with good music and good musicians instead of the boring untalented so-claimed " artists" who need lights, special effects,dancers and weird clothes etc. just to distract people from the fact that they are simply not talented !
@Pentagonshark666 My grandad loved Jimmie Rodgers, had all his records. He told me about his ability to make the sound of a train whistle. It was amazing to be able to see him do it. I wish my grandad could see this. I love Jimmie Rodgers sing, no artist even comes to singing.
@BarerMender True, perhaps a few....they were all learning back then. Cant dig country blues without loving country music in general. Muddy learned a few licks from Jimmie and was proud to say he was his friend. I love this stuff. Check out the Documentry on bluegrass from about 1999 or so. It was a good lesson in roots music. Peace to ya Bro
@bakedsushi Not a new or an old thing. Musicians love one another, and race doesn't matter much. John Jackson, the blues man from Virginia, told me he taught Marvin Rainwater his first guitar chords.
@BarerMender Very nice, I met him back in the late 80's at the folk festival in D.C. he was playing chesterfield blues. Thats a cool story, never knew he did that. I know that Piedmont style is a interesting style Mr Jackson plays. My folks were from hazard county KY and my great grand dad played something that sounded alot like it. He never discussed it but I remember pops said it was Cincinnati style. I only imagine its because by that time he never talked about KY ever
@bakedsushi Here's a tribute to John Jackson you might enjoy. The Amoco station mentioned is the same place he said the gave Marvin Rainwater lessons. dubdubdub.bluesworld.cee oh em/ JohnJackson.html
Wow! The Whistling Brakeman in action. Where else but on YouTube could you see this? And what is heartening to see is that this has had nearly 1/2 million views. This man and his music will never die.
I am from Brazil. 59 years old. I have all his recordings (all those I could put my hands on). He and Hank Williams I consider the best country singers and simbol of an era!!! benedictowilsonporto@gmail.com
This is one of three songs he performed on the Columbia Pictures film clip from 1930 titled "The Singing Brakeman." This is "Essential stuff" indeed......the very tap root of the country music tradition. So wonderful that we can see him in a sound film clip.
What seems amazing is that this has more than 450,000 hits on YouTube. Can it be that the Lady Gaga generation appreciates real talent?
Some of us definitely do! (I know the next sentence is YouTube cliche) But I'm 19 and thanks to the likes of Wayne Hancock and Hank III I got into real country (I hated it before then because I only heard radio pop "country") But listening to those two guys got me into Hank Sr, Waylon, Cash, DAC, Jimmie Rodgers, etc.... I also think that the younger kids who like delta blues/trad country like more dedicated genres such as metal. At least that's what happened for me :)
@nyrangers731 Great comment. I agree that the likes of Ernest Tubb, Hank Sr., Waylon, Cash and the others are the lineal musical descendents of Jimmie Rodgers. And there was a second branch of the origin of country music in the persons of the Carter Family, who ironically made their test cuts for Victor Records, as did Jimmie Rodgers, in the famous Bristol, Tennessee, sessions of 1927.
The entire Columbia Pictures short, "The Singing Brakeman", is posted on YouTube. Includes "T for Texas."
@richardcwood1 George Harrison's father returned to England with a JImmie Rodgers record. George Harrison cites "Waiting for a Train" as the song that inspired him to learn to play guitar.
I grew up in the 50s and 60s with a father who was a Jimmy Rodgers fanatic and played every note on his guitar along with the recordings.In Nashville there's a statue of him that says he was the father of country music,but he was more than that.His lyrics and sound is pure blues. Like Elvis25 years later,there was no one like him before he came along.Wonderfull stuff. Thanks Dad
You cant possibly listen to Jimmie and have a care in the world...I havent sucessfully found a way to do it. Its almost like a therapy that actually WORKS!
Id like to see Drake, rhianna, lil wayne, or any of these other 'musical' (if you can call it music) failures try to write ANYTHING with as much meaning as any of jimmie rodger's songs
Thumbs Up if you like country music.Real country like : Johnny Cash, Ed Bruce, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, Marty Robbins,Waylon Jennings, Eddy Arnold, Kenny Rogers, Ernest Tubb, Gene Autry, Jimmie Rodgers...
@mmmbrunommm3 I was right with you until you mentioned Kenny Rogers. Are you serious? That terrible 70s/80s schmaltz he recorded is "real country music" to you?!
@mmmbrunommm3 Big thumbs up from me! And in the Jimmie Rodgers era, I'd add the Carter Family, who were with Jimmie Rodgers at the 1927 Bristol Sessions...the "Big Bang" of country music. AP Carter was instrumental in defining the repertoire of traditional Country, and Maybelle Carter added a signature virtuoso guitar style. The Carter Family recordings influence traditional Country Music to this day.
When my dad was a lad, he ran away from home. He traveled by train in the early 40's and made his way to Texas.... He would talk about hopping a freight train and how it made him feel. He said he had never felt as free as he did then. So this song reminds me of him..... Thank you so much for posting, Jimmie Rodgers has a way of putting a tear in my eye!
Thank God for Jimmie Rodgers and the tiny handful of true country artists active today pseudo country like faith hill( I used small case on purpose) don't deserve to be his toilet paper.
ahhhhhh, it´s so damn good!!!!!!
zingo530 1 week ago
Great song. I grew up with the Jim Reeves version of this.
WpgLwr007 1 week ago
Thanks for the upload. This is about as real as real music gets.
jerlan23 2 weeks ago
I love Jimmie Rodgers. My Dad & I were always amazed at how he did the train whistle.
robinbobbin75155 2 weeks ago 2
Anybody know the date on this? What movie is it from?
DailyBrusher 2 weeks ago
@DailyBrusher I believe it is called The Singing Brakeman. I think it was a short film that was played before a feature film. It was done around 1929.
robinbobbin75155 2 weeks ago
@DailyBrusher Yes, it was indeed a movie short titled "The Singing Brakeman" produced by Columbia Pictures with a copyright date of 1930. In it, he does three songs, including "Waiting for a Train", "Daddy and Home", and "Blue Yodel No.1", ("T For Texas.") A fine print of the entire 9 1/4 minute film is posted on YouTube under the title: "Waiting for a Train/Daddy and Home/Blue Yodel." A YouTube search on "Jimmie Rodgers" brings it up fourth in the list of hits.
Dannys99887 20 hours ago
I love it!! Thanks so much for posting!
jedmarum 1 month ago
aye check out my viedo response of me waiting for the train
PrettyBoyKOfficial 1 month ago
peach picking time is a good one also.
altogetherb 1 month ago
great old song by Jimmy Rodgers --- thanks for sharing
3Wander6ing 1 month ago
bah, i love this song. My daddy showed it to me the other day, and i'm learning it by ear on the guitar♥ Apparently, my grandpa played this ALL the time. So, tribute to my grandpa♥
Gotta love oldies.
xMakeAJoyfulSound16x 2 months ago 8
JERRY LEE LEWIS #1
MrEnglandxx 2 months ago
Jimmie indeed imitated a steam engine's whistle. It's a signature sound on many of his recordings. On the railroad call board behind JImmie are the names Strobel and Martin--R.J. Strobel and J.M. Martin--two of Jimmie's oldest pals who would later serve as Pallbearers at Jimmie's funeral on May 29, 1933.
John55son 2 months ago 5
20 people are 1000 miles from home sleeping in the rain
RustyBanks 2 months ago
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This is the real deal. Fantastic.
99424380 2 months ago
Telling my age, but I used to listen to this on an old 78 record R N P
rebelrandle 2 months ago
One of the greatest voices of all time
DoctorRazzArea4 2 months ago
last I saw the video is available on a compilations of old country music shorts & videos thru Amazon. It was several years since I looked for it so sorry I can't tell you the name of the DVD. Try using a search engine with the Singing Brakeman as the title or maybe IMDB (Internet Movie Database)
hoss73ford1 2 months ago
it gets better every time i here it
Homerseven7 2 months ago
At 82 I obviously had heard of Jimmie Rodgers, but could not recall hearing him. So, I decided to search for his music. Fantastic! What a great performer and what wonderful songs and records. His works should be kept before the public so that young people can hear real talent.
GX Hillbilly
banjodonnie 2 months ago
a clip from his only film 'the Singing Brakeman" in 1929. Its available on DVD
hoss73ford1 3 months ago
@hoss73ford1 I've looked for this on DVD. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks!
GuitarzanOO50 2 months ago
Dodie o Doe...Dad sang tit rittie tit.
Is it the same?
Nobody likes a smart ass...sorry...dad
Lowell Lee Morse
LLMorse1 3 months ago
Love it.
GroesbeckAvenue 3 months ago
daddy and home is the other song on the film and jimmy played the guitar on LET ME BE YOUR SIDEKICK.
ike2729 3 months ago in playlist Country
T for Texas is one of the other songs in the original film. What is the third?
Also, anyone have any idea who the studio musician was on guitar in Jimmie's Let Me Be Your Side Track? Can't find the info on my own. Any clues?
John55son 3 months ago
@John55son "Daddy and Home". It's been uploaded here alone, and as part of the 9 minute film "The Singing Brakeman", which is here too.
GuitarzanOO50 2 months ago
@GuitarzanOO50 I haven't been able to listen to that one since my Daddy passed in 2003, but I do love that song.
robinbobbin75155 2 weeks ago 2
does this remind anyone of sandy cheeks from spongebob? i wanna go hoooome, i wanna go home.
steenbeanxo 3 months ago
I almost can't hear this without crying for my Dad. He was one of the millions of men who rode the freight trains looking for work during the Great Depression. Many a time he was far from home, starving, and broken hearted. He once ate magpie eggs to survive. This could be a biography of him during that time. Thank you, Jimmie Rodgers. And thank you, psteve, for posting.
jerlan23 3 months ago
@jerlan23 hello im jimmie rodgers great great grand-son, and ive redonr a hip hop version of waiting for a train
tuskdimeola 3 months ago
@tuskdimeola Have you uploaded your hip hop version?
jerlan23 3 months ago
My granpa was born in 1917 and always used to sing this song when I was little
madjackthepirate1974 4 months ago
I love this old time Music.I lived in the hills of Kentucky.living in washington and Mercer Co on an old Battery Radio.
Smoothpeach37 4 months ago
One of the greatest!
Tugsmoe 4 months ago
one more like
MrPedalSteelplayer 4 months ago
@Fonno88 : You could have been more abrupt if you would have tried really REALLY hard.
jarhead4God 4 months ago
eye dee do da la he oh da la he oh da la he oh
curbshoppin 4 months ago
Who are the nineteen people that did not like this? Are there really trolls walking the Earth?? Monsters among us??
onebaud 4 months ago
Probably the most valuable guitar on the planet.
signjay 4 months ago
Jimmie truely was the father of country, this song is amazing...i love his yodel and the twang in his voice
driftingsinger 4 months ago
Where are these clips from???????
vootie99 5 months ago
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tAkETM 4 months ago
@vootie99 what were these clips filmed for? were they part of a movie? or a musical short subject?
vootie99 4 months ago
I had no idea this movie existed. Thanks so much for bringing it to us.
jwbhomer 5 months ago
An American Icon....
ctdraper2 5 months ago
THIS GUY HAS BEEN HERE SINCE COUNTRY MUSIC BEGAIN THEY DONT CALL HIM THE FATHER OF COUNTRY MUSIC FOR NOTHING HE INVENTED IT
9521johnnyboy 5 months ago
levis,lee,wrangler are bringing back the old time work gear as we speak! be warned though cheap it aint!" would cost more now than his almond rocks!
bigchiv67 5 months ago
A blast from the past. Utterly fabulous!
davcreed 5 months ago
love jimmie
smeltedcheese 6 months ago
Great video. This is also the oldest footage i've seen of someone with his name across his guitar fretboard.
pedrogoldfinger 6 months ago
@pedrogoldfinger I did not notice his name on the fretboard until I read you post; good eyes!
b26marauderpilot 5 months ago in playlist Country Titles
My dad made a record of this in 1936 he sounded just like Jimmy
carpyl 6 months ago
AMAZING stuff! I'm gald he was able to appear in some musical shorts before his untimely demise due to TB. A truly unique talent. He's called the father of country music. I can see why! Back in the 60's, my mom had an album of his recordnings & I and my siblings fell in love with his talent. THANKS for posting! You've made my day & my weekend! CHEERS, mate! :-)
JubalCalif 6 months ago
this is first time hearing jimmie rogers but i love this. Heard him from waymores blues waylon jennings' song. Good stuff
MrDonnyboy420 6 months ago
priceless!
skipwaytube 6 months ago
OMG, how did he imitate a steam engine's whistle at the beginning of the song like that? Amazing!
b26marauderpilot 6 months ago 26
@b26marauderpilot I know right...
JammyJoh 3 weeks ago
He Died Way Too Young. I Love His Music
Countrymusicnut45 6 months ago
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CaptainWetNipples 7 months ago
Pretty good how he made that train whistle sound himself, very tallented man he was
Turkeydoodlers 7 months ago
You dig Kenny Chesney, I dig Jimmie Rodgers
You like Shania Twain, I Like Anita Carter
You dig Tim Mcgraw, I dig Hank Williams
You like Carrie Underwood, I Like June Carter
You dig Toby Kieth, I dig Johnny Cash
You like Kid Rock, I Rather See Hank Williams III Live
You dig Goerge Strait, I dig George Jone
OutlawCowboy1988 7 months ago 2
@OutlawCowboy1988 i like all
roy93936 6 months ago
Great song!!
Conrail2576 7 months ago
Boz Scaggs does a great version of this.
Poordumbcracker 7 months ago
o please pentagon shark enough o that nonsense
mckennar 7 months ago
fantastico
francescocusato 7 months ago
dodie ohoh dodie ohoh dodie ohohohhhh
dmefford86 8 months ago
How can one not like this song? Beats me.
ThatContainerGuy 8 months ago 10
17 PEOPLE got hit by a train!!!
Aquid987 8 months ago
what year is this?
RankielGuitar 8 months ago
@RankielGuitar - i would wager a guess of maybe around 1930...? since jimmie rodgers died in 1933....?
calcio777 8 months ago
@RankielGuitar i would wager a guess of maybe around 1930...? since jimmie rodgers died in 1933....?
calcio777 8 months ago
@calcio777 he actually died in 1933, god this is old as hell but that's good :)
RankielGuitar 8 months ago 2
i grew up listing to this .and still love it 40 yrs.later
MegaBuffalojoe 8 months ago
Ernest Tubb, Ray Price, Kity wells .. I could go on and on . Country just aint country anymore just marketing . Remember when Garth Brooks did that Chris Gains thing? Absolutely wretched...
jeffrey19621 8 months ago
Did he really whistle a train toot?
DaveWreckingCrew 8 months ago
elvis presley made me listen to this!!
setyouback 9 months ago
Without Jimmie, We wouldn't have Merle Haggard's inspirations... Without Merle Haggard, Country Music would be missing a vital piece.
This footage pays a great homage to one of the men who got country moving!
wisaint 9 months ago
dont forget jerry lee
wilkevwilkev 9 months ago
Very good
fisherman846 10 months ago
you de man, jimmie - bravo!
jehovahuponyou 10 months ago
I remember seeing Seasick Steve sing this on a BBC HD trailer last year. I've searched all over YouTube and Google for it, but cannot find it.
Does anyone else know where it is?
dermotdevlin 10 months ago
So real he lived the life wrote and sung about it.
fngrpkn06 10 months ago
How rare ar
Turkeydoodlers 10 months ago
jimmy seemed right at home in this movie,he had to be very popular to sing country songs in the movies back in them days because most of hollywood frowned upon country music. here he showed them what country music was all about.
ike2729 10 months ago
I love the singing breakman
TheRebel183 10 months ago
And Only Half Million Views In 5 years is shame to live in this decade.
Pentagonshark666 10 months ago 18
@Pentagonshark666 yea mississippi in the 20's was awesome
good call
AgentCarter 4 months ago
@Pentagonshark666 : The listeners today if they are over 30 they can't appreciate true talent and forget asking any radio station to play this. They probably would think you were talking about the Jimmie Rodgers from the 60's
jarhead4God 4 months ago
@jarhead4God Im 28. I grew up around my grandparents, which are dead. She would play Elton Britt 78 records, along with Frankie Yankovic! I love this music. It sounds so much better than this new shit.
johncashfan82 3 months ago
@jarhead4God Im 28. I grew up around my grandparents, which are dead. She would play Elton Britt 78 records, along with Frankie Yankovic! I love this music. It sounds so much better than this new s...
johncashfan82 3 months ago
I can't help but comment about how wonderful it would be if we also had a sound film of the original Carter Family. Seeing AP, Sara, and Maybelle Carter, RCA Victor's other great "country" artists of the 1930's, in live performance would be simply awesome. The only spoken dialog we have of the Carters is on a couple of Victor records which they cut WITH Jimmie Rodgers. Producer Ralph Peer, at RCA, teamed his two big country acts for these interesting recordings.
Dannys998877 10 months ago
im 28 and think that most new music sucks...
Alabama98284 10 months ago
My dad used to drag out his old j45 gibson and play this one, now I've got the guitar but not the talent, rest in peace Alex Burnay, (Dad) and Jimmy Rodgers
theroadbeckons 10 months ago
One of my favorites.
fngrpkn06 11 months ago
Always love this film and Jimmie Rodgers, but this crazy notion popped in my head.
Jimmie sang both railroad songs and hobo songs. So the big question is which side was he on? Would his brakeman kick his hobo off the train? Now I can't sleep.
qivideo8 11 months ago
Excelent
don't know where you ever found this but it's pure country gold
thanks for posting
Rich in WV
1958wvpicker 11 months ago
@1958wvpicker This is from his 1930 Columbia Pictures film short titled "The Singing Brakeman." The entire 9 minute 16 second film is posted in its entirety here on YouTube. Just search "Jimmie Rodgers." He performs three songs on the film...."Waiting for a Train", "Daddy and Home", and his signature song, "T For Texas."
Dannys998877 10 months ago
@Dannys998877
Howdy Danny
hey man thanks
I appreciate it
and thanks again for posting this great old song
1958wvpicker 10 months ago
@1958wvpicker Actually I did not post it. "Psteve" did that and deserves our thanks. I just did a YouTube search on "Jimmie Rodgers." The complete 9:16 Columbia Film short comes up as item four in the list. It includes both the opening and closing credits of the film, and the brief non-musical dialog. It's great to hear Rodgers in spoken speech. Generally we only hear the old Victor records of course. And of course it's wonderful to hear his immortal "T for Texas."
Dannys998877 10 months ago
@1958wvpicker If you'd care to hear audio clips of the famous Carter Family-Jimmie Rodgers recordings search "Jimmie Rodgers Carter Family." Both recordings are posted. It's also interesting that MRS Jimmie Rodgers made a recording with AP and Sara Carter about 1952, after Maybelle left. An audio of that recording is also posted. These combined recordings are historic reminders of Ralph Peer's "Bristol Sessions" of 1927, in which both Rodgers and the Carters made their test cuts for RCA.
Dannys998877 10 months ago
Love it, remember listening to this when i was a child. My father played the old 78"s often, and we all enjoyed. I was named after him, but my last name is spelled without the d, Jimmy Rogers.
jimr1951 11 months ago
lovely historic clip!----I'm a railroad bum,,,,(awanna be, anyway)this mighta been the highlight of my day...:-)
cinderellalifestyle 11 months ago
Lovely! What a treat to see Jimmie sing and play. Always loved this song since hearing Hank Snow's version decades ago. Good to hear the original at last. Thanks so much.
GrandpaBones 11 months ago
i am 14 and i love this ! sometimes i wish i was born 70 years ago...because then i would live in a world with good music and good musicians instead of the boring untalented so-claimed " artists" who need lights, special effects,dancers and weird clothes etc. just to distract people from the fact that they are simply not talented !
quetontasoy3 11 months ago
@quetontasoy3 iam 23 years old,but i must agree with you.nowadays 95% sucks.
Pentagonshark666 11 months ago
how can someone dislike this? Man, that's some great stuff you got there fella!
Rocketfing3r 11 months ago
One of the best songs in 20th century.
Pentagonshark666 11 months ago 3
the first time I saw this I didn't realize how cool it was for him to whistle like the train like that.... !!!! wish I could do that :( hah
allendupras 11 months ago
them names on the chalkboard are the names of the men he use to work with when he rode trains
ike2729 11 months ago
>running water: No, my friend, there are many thousands of us .....
CaptRhett1 11 months ago
how come there are dislikes?!
zz1988 11 months ago
@zz1988 Because those are by people who don't appreciate real music.
john45544 11 months ago
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PhAlecAlec 1 year ago
This man is nonpareil.one of my favorites singers of all times.and 16
people are a total idiots.
Pentagonshark666 1 year ago 18
@Pentagonshark666 My grandad loved Jimmie Rodgers, had all his records. He told me about his ability to make the sound of a train whistle. It was amazing to be able to see him do it. I wish my grandad could see this. I love Jimmie Rodgers sing, no artist even comes to singing.
richard5852 7 months ago
You Say Taylor Swift I Say Jimmie Rodgers
You Say Miley Cyrus I Say Hank Williams
You Justin Bieber I Say Queen
You Say Owl City I Say Jimi Hendrix
You Say Village People I Say Johnny Cash
You Jonas Brothers I Say Robert Johnson
Pentagonshark666 1 year ago 83
@Pentagonshark666 Wait, Hank Sr or Jr cause Jr hates black folks. Sr. was not a dork and played many a black juke joint.
bakedsushi 10 months ago
@bakedsushi Sr Of Course man :)
Pentagonshark666 10 months ago 4
@bakedsushi Hank Sr. also learned to play guitar from a black man.
BarerMender 10 months ago
@BarerMender True, perhaps a few....they were all learning back then. Cant dig country blues without loving country music in general. Muddy learned a few licks from Jimmie and was proud to say he was his friend. I love this stuff. Check out the Documentry on bluegrass from about 1999 or so. It was a good lesson in roots music. Peace to ya Bro
bakedsushi 10 months ago
@bakedsushi Not a new or an old thing. Musicians love one another, and race doesn't matter much. John Jackson, the blues man from Virginia, told me he taught Marvin Rainwater his first guitar chords.
BarerMender 10 months ago
@BarerMender Very nice, I met him back in the late 80's at the folk festival in D.C. he was playing chesterfield blues. Thats a cool story, never knew he did that. I know that Piedmont style is a interesting style Mr Jackson plays. My folks were from hazard county KY and my great grand dad played something that sounded alot like it. He never discussed it but I remember pops said it was Cincinnati style. I only imagine its because by that time he never talked about KY ever
bakedsushi 10 months ago
@bakedsushi Here's a tribute to John Jackson you might enjoy. The Amoco station mentioned is the same place he said the gave Marvin Rainwater lessons. dubdubdub.bluesworld.cee oh em/ JohnJackson.html
BarerMender 10 months ago
@Pentagonshark666 hell yeah, i agree with you 100%,
adam21ish 9 months ago
@Pentagonshark666 ahahah why would you?
estderoma 9 months ago
@Pentagonshark666 AMEN my friend, today music doesn't ha soul, like the oldies. LONG LIVE THE OLDIES:)
Aquid987 8 months ago
@Pentagonshark666 Stick your heels in if you want, but the wheels will keep right on turning. Now repeat after me; 'In my day ...'
RustyfFender 8 months ago
@Pentagonshark666 ya thats what all the young kids are listening to these days The village people...
Epimpin101 7 months ago
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"You Say Village People I Say Johnny Cash"
HAHA who the fuck says Village People?
niktp 6 months ago
@Pentagonshark666 man u r right
pradyuminater 6 months ago
@Pentagonshark666 Where are The Beatles? :(
chocolatedonut31 5 months ago
@chocolatedonut31 "You say any musician ever and I say The Beatles." :)
TadRaunch 5 months ago
@Pentagonshark666 village people? really?
danepstein138 5 months ago
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yeah yeah but village people are also nice.
ekremkarahan 5 months ago
@Pentagonshark666 You say intolerance, I say tolerance for the new music as long as it won't push away the old. Be open
lookatmycommentplz 5 months ago
@Pentagonshark666 Hey fuck you I like the village people
PartyBoy64 5 months ago
@PartyBoy64 i like peanut butter butter i don;t act stupid about it.
LES6723 4 months ago
The dislike button should be taken off for this man
dom0tron 1 year ago 2
George Harrison was quoted as saying when he heard his father play this song(record) he wanted to play guitar.
ROADAPPLE756 1 year ago 3
Wow! The Whistling Brakeman in action. Where else but on YouTube could you see this? And what is heartening to see is that this has had nearly 1/2 million views. This man and his music will never die.
kingpleasure 1 year ago
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I am from Brazil. 59 years old. I have all his recordings (all those I could put my hands on). He and Hank Williams I consider the best country singers and simbol of an era!!! benedictowilsonporto@gmail.com
bwilsonporto 1 year ago
How can 15 ppl not like Jimmie Rodgers? I just wish I could be alive back then to see them perform...Amazing !!!
fr33k3r 1 year ago
What a great movie take of historical value, I love music and movies like this.
Itsagasdude 1 year ago
Who in the world dislikes this?!?! show yourself, NOW!
brodank 1 year ago
I just love hearing this and seeing Jimmie preserved.
jimmyfromfleming 1 year ago
I played this guy's records until I wore them out when I was a young boy. Try playing a record during the Dirty 30s and having dirt everywhere.
MrCraig1930 1 year ago
This is one of three songs he performed on the Columbia Pictures film clip from 1930 titled "The Singing Brakeman." This is "Essential stuff" indeed......the very tap root of the country music tradition. So wonderful that we can see him in a sound film clip.
What seems amazing is that this has more than 450,000 hits on YouTube. Can it be that the Lady Gaga generation appreciates real talent?
Dannys998877 1 year ago
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Some of us definitely do! (I know the next sentence is YouTube cliche) But I'm 19 and thanks to the likes of Wayne Hancock and Hank III I got into real country (I hated it before then because I only heard radio pop "country") But listening to those two guys got me into Hank Sr, Waylon, Cash, DAC, Jimmie Rodgers, etc.... I also think that the younger kids who like delta blues/trad country like more dedicated genres such as metal. At least that's what happened for me :)
nyrangers731 1 year ago
@nyrangers731 Great comment. I agree that the likes of Ernest Tubb, Hank Sr., Waylon, Cash and the others are the lineal musical descendents of Jimmie Rodgers. And there was a second branch of the origin of country music in the persons of the Carter Family, who ironically made their test cuts for Victor Records, as did Jimmie Rodgers, in the famous Bristol, Tennessee, sessions of 1927.
The entire Columbia Pictures short, "The Singing Brakeman", is posted on YouTube. Includes "T for Texas."
Dannys998877 1 year ago
Fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
arndtsusan 1 year ago
He's a cool sumbitch!
pds3939 1 year ago
@richardcwood1 George Harrison's father returned to England with a JImmie Rodgers record. George Harrison cites "Waiting for a Train" as the song that inspired him to learn to play guitar.
SKEnterprisesInc 1 year ago
It was this artist and this very song that George Harrison cites as being the impetus for wanting to learn the guitar.
SKEnterprisesInc 1 year ago
I would love to know how he did the train whistle sound..This was not a sound effect! He could really make this sound!
bradpricemusic 1 year ago
Sorry! didn't mean to hit the dislike button!!!
bradpricemusic 1 year ago
15 people are a thousand miles away from home waiting for a train.
reelforreal 1 year ago
Jimmie Rodgers sure could sing.
Country at its best.
I love his music.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 1 year ago
The Father of Country Music. The best of the very best (along with Hank Williams).
Photograph1974 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing this footage.
CherryTwist66 1 year ago
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this song sucks
igotflatspots 1 year ago
HE'S MY MAN! AMERICA SOULD BE SIMPLE...THAT'S WHAT MADE US GREAT!!
pds3939 1 year ago
I grew up in the 50s and 60s with a father who was a Jimmy Rodgers fanatic and played every note on his guitar along with the recordings.In Nashville there's a statue of him that says he was the father of country music,but he was more than that.His lyrics and sound is pure blues. Like Elvis25 years later,there was no one like him before he came along.Wonderfull stuff. Thanks Dad
geomay1 1 year ago
Now this is real country.....
WRECKEDEMWRECKORDS 1 year ago
You cant possibly listen to Jimmie and have a care in the world...I havent sucessfully found a way to do it. Its almost like a therapy that actually WORKS!
Id like to see Drake, rhianna, lil wayne, or any of these other 'musical' (if you can call it music) failures try to write ANYTHING with as much meaning as any of jimmie rodger's songs
Zebco96 1 year ago
Thumbs Up if you like country music.Real country like : Johnny Cash, Ed Bruce, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, Marty Robbins,Waylon Jennings, Eddy Arnold, Kenny Rogers, Ernest Tubb, Gene Autry, Jimmie Rodgers...
mmmbrunommm3 1 year ago 84
@mmmbrunommm3 I was right with you until you mentioned Kenny Rogers. Are you serious? That terrible 70s/80s schmaltz he recorded is "real country music" to you?!
FishwichFetish 1 year ago
@mmmbrunommm3 Big thumbs up from me! And in the Jimmie Rodgers era, I'd add the Carter Family, who were with Jimmie Rodgers at the 1927 Bristol Sessions...the "Big Bang" of country music. AP Carter was instrumental in defining the repertoire of traditional Country, and Maybelle Carter added a signature virtuoso guitar style. The Carter Family recordings influence traditional Country Music to this day.
Dannys998877 1 year ago
@mmmbrunommm3 and hank williams and merle haggard :D
silowhore 1 year ago
@mmmbrunommm3 oh, you already had hank :P
silowhore 1 year ago
@mmmbrunommm3 wow thanks for the list :D why not the carter family?? my fav
allendupras 11 months ago
@allendupras Sorry, but I forgot them hehe
Well I hope that by this list people can know what real country means.Specially the new folks like me, I'm only 20 but I love Country :D
mmmbrunommm3 11 months ago
@mmmbrunommm3 for sure :D I'm 19.... I get what yah mean, old time country is pretty amazing!!!
I'll let you get by this once... but don't be forgetting the carters again... alright?? haha
allendupras 11 months ago
@mmmbrunommm3
You forgot Merle Haggard ;-)
KernriverMerle 10 months ago
@KernriverMerle Haha sorry, everytime I get here someone tells me that I forgot an artist.That's nice ! Let's keep real country alive folks :D
mmmbrunommm3 10 months ago
When my dad was a lad, he ran away from home. He traveled by train in the early 40's and made his way to Texas.... He would talk about hopping a freight train and how it made him feel. He said he had never felt as free as he did then. So this song reminds me of him..... Thank you so much for posting, Jimmie Rodgers has a way of putting a tear in my eye!
tiranchula 1 year ago 2
Thank God for Jimmie Rodgers and the tiny handful of true country artists active today pseudo country like faith hill( I used small case on purpose) don't deserve to be his toilet paper.
PATKRENWINKLE 1 year ago