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  • Papa Rodgers ,what can you say about the Father of Country Music,The guitar Jimmie is playing in this video is beleived to be the most valuable guitar on the planet,jimmie loaned it to Ernest Tubbs and Ernest Played it for 30 yrs,upon Ernest Tubbs death it was returned to the Rodgers Family and Its now on display permanantly at the Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Museum in Merridia.I played that guitar and it was one of my most memorable expirences in life.

  • maybe the oldest music video of the world?

  • @pleasureman666 just about. Sound came to films in the latter part of 1928 and when that happened, music was the big craze in films until it wore out its course in 1930, only to come back later on.

  • He still makes me giggle. :) Favorite person to go to when I'm upset.

  • this guy was more badass than any mainstream rapper nowadays

  • Good Lord, this takes me back to my boyhood days, I was 6 years old when Jimmie died. I haven't seen this picture show in many years. Excellent memories.

  • I wish I could have shown this to Grandpa before he passed. He turned me on to the great Jimmie Rodgers. Wow a 1929 music video.

  • So gangster. Gonna shoot his ex but dont worry cause he can get so much trim he could fill a train with it.

  • @dgabbor He is the Father of Country, Rock, and Rap whether people know it or not.

  • gutttes

  • An American Legend,the best!!

  • I just love jimmy rogers........wonderful.......­..alot better then the music nowadays....great ! I bought the double album in 1977 merle haggard later recorded him. I bought that one too........He is so great !

  • I just heard this on satellite radio Willies Roadhouse channel. It was so cool to hear it.

  • This is good stuff.

  • america for whites africa for blacks mexico for wetbacks

  • @ThePotPersona: Shut up you give Pot a bad name. Even the Bible says pot is good and your opinion sinful.

  • This is quickly becoming my favorite song. Sheer brilliance.

  • If you've never been, check out this guitar at the Jimmie Rodgers Museum in Meridian, Mississippi. There's a lot of memorabilia & is worth the look.

  • 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 That's very interesting, thanks for the info.

  • 31 niggas!

  • If yer toes ain`t tappin we can`t help ya.... 

  • thumbs up if you saw this on The BEATLES ANTHOLOGY

  • @jonnoble53

    Yep, George Harrison called it "the first music he ever heard that was guitar oriented, Jimmie Rodgers--the singing brakeman". George and Jimmie are probably sharing guitar licks in heaven right now.

  • @ucbookman George obviously had an appreciation for this. Check out "Rocking Chair In Hawaii" from BRAINWASHED. Very similar and something that George had been running through in various incarnations since the "Let It Be" sessions where he did a very brief send up "Blue Yodel"

  • Duplicate comment? No matter.

    Love it !!!

  • Great

  • somebody save me i do not know  Is this blues?? OR hillbilly ??or country????

  • @ICRA95 this is hill billy C&W islater type of hill billy

  • @ICRA95 It's a great question because noone sounded like him. Consider in his day (1920s), the music of that era was jazz, ragtime, and broadway tunes. Given the tragedy of many of his songs, he's heavily influenced by blues - yet, it doesn't sound like blues.

  • @ICRA95 Country music - or Country and Western - at first derisively called hillbilly - more or less started in a big way commercially with The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers. Rodgers' music is definitely Country and Western in a form that was clearly influenced by the blues. And it began a tradition in Country that led to Bob Wills and to the Texas Honky Tonk Country Sound of Ernest Tubb. Rodgers's music sounds like it belongs in a barroom. The Carters often sound like they belong in church.

  • @ICRA95 Depends who you ask.

    I consider it a hybrid of blues and bluegrass.

  • Excellent!

    Thanks!

  • This is the best!! Im 28, but grew up around my grandma, she loved him. We used to dance in the living room to Elton Britt when I was a kid. Check out She taught me to yodel by Elton Britt!

  • This is great music.

  • this is great!

  • This guy rules.  Holy crap.

  • I wonder how many men have actually lived this song. I think I've had some gals worse than ol' Thelma. Atleast I haven't had to resort to that long tall pistol yet!

  • I'll be the 667th one to comment on this. Fuckin' right. This is the cream of the crop!! It figured Ronnie Vant Zant would want to cover this.

  • Now I understand why this man was worshipped as a god in some parts of the world!

  • has anyone noticed the weird creepy faces on the door behind him @ 0:14

  • This is the only type of country I like. The Original. jimmy rodgers a HUGE influence on rock and roll. He even influenced Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf and Howlin really was tryin to be Jimmy but Howlin's yodels were growls or howls. Thats how he became Howlin Wolf. But respect to all the greats.

  • This is wonderful!

  • Great, thanks. Just bought this song on 78.

  • I had this stuff surrounding me from birth (65) a cousin who was a blues player then I gave ten years singing in a rock and roll and blues band, I consider myself fortunate for the influences I have had, however, my 6 yr old daughter is into blues, rock and roll swing and local folk, so I reckon when she comes of age she's gonna be a fountain of knowledge of all things good in music long before she was born. As for the 27 dislikers, they dont know shit from toilet paper. Amen

  • WOW! No one quite like the late great Mr Rodgers. Truly the father of country music. THANKS for posting this cool clip. I fell in love with his music as a kid in the 60's, thanks to my mom constantly playing an RCA album of his. CHEERS, mate!

  • @JubalCalif My dad used to have an old Jimmie Rodgers RCA album also and played it a lot when I was a kid (I was born in 66)...along with Ernest Tubb and Hank Williams. I didn't realize how great it was at the time, but when I hear these old songs today, I appreciate so damn much that my dad exposed me this great music. We're lucky our parents had good taste in music, eh? CHEERS!

  • @retroeddie

    Well said & well put, Retro Edward! I certainly second that emotion! I too didn't appreciate at the time the great classic tunes I was exposed to in the 60's as a youngster. As you wrote, I feel so blessed we had parents with wonderful taste in music!!! CHEERS to you too, amigo !!! :-)

  • Best Blues Song ever!!! Skynyrd does a awesome cover too

  • lawdylawd

  • father of country music :)

  • we have 26 dickheads and 1386 folks that know good music.

  • @Homerseven7 amen to that

  • that's right!

  • we have 26 dickheads and 1386 folks that know good music

  • The guitar he is playing is on display at Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tn.

  • I hereby nominate THIS SONG as the very first Rock and Roll recording.

  • i heard this when i was 11 from the beatles anthology disc 1

  • This is killer!

  • Man, he played that guitar!

  • that Martin guitar'd be worth $1+ mil today! what tone and intonation.

  • @cliffworks4321 I know that back in the 40's or 50's ...Jimmie Widow gave one of his guitar's to Ernest Tubb..

  • @SteveGaines over the years a lot of vintage US guitars found their way to Japan where they sell for top dollar,

    a buddy of mine has 2 stores that specialize in them.

  • Takes me back when I was a kid setting on the porch listening to my dad play hisold flat top. He played the same cord runs I love it .

  • It's just wonderful. I love his way of guitar picking, his voice, his yodeling....

  • Came to this through Half Man Half Biscuit - "T fo Toxteth"!

  • Came to this through Half Man Half Biscuit - "T fo Toxteth"!

  •  ' Sublime - ! Knockout - ! !

  • Mostly listen to metal and rap but certainly think Jimmy Rodgers is amazing!!

  • Mostly listen to metal and rap but certainly think Jimmy Rogers is amazing!!

  • ..see her jump and crawl..

  • IT IS AN HONOR TO SEE & HEAR JIMMIE RODGERS.

  • ~2:20 yodel of "Gal" DAMN!

  • @gmartinz01 amen

    

  • @gmartinz01 TO HELL WITH THE HATERS!!!! lol

  • @gmartinz01 I'm saying!

  • The missisippii blue yodeler

  • Ralph Peer shows up in this context a lot. He had conducted the famous Bristol Sessions of 1927 that "discovered" both Rodgers and The Carter Family. And he produced Rodgers and the Carters for RCA Victor. There was then some controversy over the Carter songs that were jointly copyrighted by A.P. Carter and Peer. A.P. Carter would locate very old songs which had long been in the public domain, rework them, and then copyright them under his and Peer's names, as if totally original.

  • He's in E# standard tuning playing a G shape chord. He's in the key of G#.

  • my father in law used to fish with this guy in camas and washougal wa.

  • what tuning is he on?can anyone tell?

  • @MrArtfreako Some of the older country artists tended to have their guitar tuned to a sharper key or a flatter key. It looks like a G key he's using, but it's very likely either F# or G#.

  • @Joeykm1972 if I tune my guitar to G and then tune all the strings a half tone higher could I then get a G# turning?or can you tell what the notes are on each string for a G#tuning?

  • @MrArtfreako You do not need to tune your strings higher. That is what a capo is for. Just put the capo on the 1st fret and you get an instant G# key, when you do a normal G fingering. G# chord is G#, D# and C.

  • this guy started it all!!

    

  • I'd really like to know - WHO WROTE THIS SONG?? In the first few seconds of this clip, Jimmie seems to credit it to someone else - Willie Ohms, Bluey Ohms?  Is there anyone out there who knows? It seems likely that someone else wrote it - authorship was something people kept track of a lot less back in 1927.

  • @LucyLehmann Yes, he says "that old Blue Yodel song." "T For Texas" was originally issued on the Victor label as "Blue Yodel No. 1." He is credited with writing all thirteen of the "Blue Yodels." ("Mule Skinner Blues" was famously "Blue Yodel No. 8.") When "T For Texas" passed into Public Domain in 1989, the only child of Rodgers was listed, along with "Peer International Corp.," as parties. This suggests that the original copyright was shared with his record producer at RCA, Ralph Peer. 

  • Amazing at all the young people who enjoy Jimmie's music. I thought that the youngest might be the 6 month old baby, until I read the post from the fetus.

    But not sure about the one who doesn't exist at all. Perhaps pre-conception? Just a gleam in his daddy's eye?

    ;-)

  • I don`t exist and I love it!

  • I am 21 wat is this

  • @breakingthe4thwall good ol' country.

  • I'm dead and i love this music!! ♥

  • LOVE this. Now if he just didn't yodel quite so much.

    KIDDING!!!

  • I'm 8.5 months in my Mom's womb, not yet born to the world, floating blissfully in the warm amniotic ocean inside my Mom. She's playing this Jimmie Rodgers music loud so I can hear it, & hey I love it! Can't wait to join the world & maybe pick up & play one them geetars one day! (Thanks Mom for letting me dictate this message so you could type it for me). -a precocious Jimmie Rodgers fan.

  • 15 and I love this music!!

  • yodaleeeheyloledeledeleyyyyyyy­yyyyyyyyyyy

  • There´ll never be another Jimmie Rodgers! His tunes will live forever - and, thanks to recordings, his voice!

  • Ah yes the singing brakeman, one of my favorites.

  • Good to see the young folk findin' this music. Young folk if you listen to tunes today they use many of the words from Jimmie's tunes.

  • im 12 and what is this

  • you don't wanna be that guy... he had tuberculosis

  • Is he frailing that thing?

  • It doesn't matter how old you are, it's about taste, and this music never dies,

  • was jimmy the first country singer in movies?

  • i'm 23 and Jimmie Rodgers is my favorite.

  • That shit rocks the yodeling is awesome

  • im 14 and this is the music i was born listenin to an will pass it down generations!

  • Awesome... J/R

  • The only country song I like! Mainly, because of the way he yodels! (hehe)

  • Yeah, was singing along with this in my hippie days at UT Austin. Ahh, Austin in the 70's, the "Better" San Francisco of the South(west)... cowgirls and pot... and anybody that was anybody.... (from reading some other comments..) did a version of this song. At least that's what us homegrrown Texas cowboy hippie types believed. Not there now physically, but always there in soul...

  • @richardcwood1

    If I remember correctly Earnest never did get to meet Jimmie,

    but don´t take my word for it, look it up.

    The first song Earnest heard by Jimmie was "In the jailhouse now".

    His sister came home singing this song, but she couldn´t yodel,

    so she said to Earnest, "Well he does a little howlering in here".

    That was when Earnest Tubb first fell under the spell of

    the legendary Jimmie Rodgers.

    .

  • NOW, THAT WAS A REAL TREAT !

    "T FOR TEXAS, T FOR TENNESSEE...."

    LONG LIVE GOOD OLE JIMMIE RODGERS !

  • he looks like Don Knotts

    ............

  • @whitesox1970

    Barney Fives looks like Mick Jagger 

  • i had to get country music for my hw. but when i heard this. i got sucked into the music somehow...

  • Lynyrd Skynyrd does a great version of too. A tad different.

  • Doc watson has a great version of this song.

  • I want to shoot these 19 people.

  • Johnny Cash does a great version of this song also.

  • Yezum

  • I'm learning about this guy in my "History of Rock and Roll" class in college right now. This was basically the beginning of rock and roll.

  • @mle011 ha im taking the same class. gotta study up on him for the test im taking tmrw haha

  • I just listened to this and sang along 5 times in a row. It doesn't get old.

  • I'm 14 and i heard this song for the first time today. and i absolutely love it! it is amazing!!! <3 My favorite part if the song is from 00:00 to 02:58!!!!

  • @Chelsie12191 Check out the complete 1930 Columbia Pictures fiim short, posted in its entirety on YouTube, and titled "The Singing Brakeman". This version of "T for Texas" is one of three songs that Rodgers performs in the film, the others being "Daddy and Home" and "Waiting for a Train." Bad acting......but GREAT early country music...LOL. The complete film is 9:16 long and is about fourth in the list when searching "Jimmie Rodgers."

  • @Dannys998877 Thanks for the info. I'll have to look that up! (:

  • "I'm going where the water tastes like cherry wine"

    Canned Heat anyone?

  • I want a shot gun !!

  • It's "Hey Joe", arranged for Old White Guy w/ gee-tar!

    Love me some Jimmie Rodgers, but good grief.

  • His was the natural sound of a Free Man, which makes him most unique to our ears.

  • Smokin' Hot!

    " I'd rather drink muddy water, and sleep in a hollow log.

    I'd rather drink muddy water, and sleep in a hollow log.

    Than to be in Atlanta treated like a dirty dog!"

  • What year was this recorded?

  • @oldtrk November 30, 1927

  • I like this video thanks for making this video available. when I was a kid I woke to Jimmie Rodger playing on a 33 every morning. My father really liked Jimmie Rodgers. He sang Jimmie's songs with his guitar.

  • @richardcwood1 I remember when Jimmie come on the Radio, my Parents loved him. I do remember when Tubb traveled with Jimmie, I also know Earnest has Jimmie's Guitar.

  • terrrrrrrible le mec!!!

  • U guys r old! I'm only 12 and I know this song by heart.

  • i would give a limb to be stuck in a room with him and his guitar!!! And a second limb to have a quality mic with me!!

  • Freakin love Jimmie

  • I'm 17 and I just felt like telling everyone how old I am.

  • @JugglingUnicycler.... I like you, because you're 17...And you can like me, cause I'm 71........Reversed numbers!

  • @MrTheimaginator

    TS for Terrible Spelling.

  • My favorite version by far!!!! Merle did it nicely as well!

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  • @MrTheimaginator

    Ah, Mr. Theimaginator, you have all your taste in your mouth....

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  • Would you believe that custom Martin he was playing still exits!

  • I have this song on pause right now..because if I play it it will cut up at diff. parts throughout the vid. I just listened to the first 10 seconds or so but right now I'm debating as I write this whether or not I should actually listen because I can already tell that when I do there may be no going back as far as listening to country music goes.

    damn I fucked myself this is incredible

  • My Ex-wife's papa listened to this ole timey stuff. We will miss you PAPA, God I love this stuff, sing it boy sing it.

  • I'm 31, and I want to be this guy.

  • dang shore glad ole jimmie was here to got er did

  • I'm 17 and I looove this music !! ♥

  • @kkozovska So happy to hear that people your age still know good music and appreciate it .....way to go .....love you for that.

  • @kkozovska

    Wanna cookie!?

  • @kkozovska I'm 6 months old and i fucking love this song.

  • @arabianzeppelin I'm born today and is my favorite song.

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  • @arabianzeppelin i'm fucking dead and i love this song!

  • @arabianzeppelin a baby that types and in bad language. awesome.

  • @arabianzeppelin i love this

  • @arabianzeppelin I am 3 months old, living in the antarctic, listening this song through a toaster and jerking off to it.

  • @arabianzeppelin

    That's gotta be one of the funiest comments I've ever read...but I get your meaning, brother! Jimmie Rodgers was The Man!

  • I hope someday they restore this footage.

  • Great video!

  • LOVE!!!

  • I`ve owned a Bos set of Jimmies` CDs for some time and want to know how to share them with You tube ?

  • @lilmisscarriage First you have to digitize them into audio files like .wav or .mp3. This is known as "ripping" when audio is grabbed right off a CD. Lots of programs can do it, including itunes and Windows Media Player. Next you use a video editing program to put in either video or still pictures and add a digitized song to it. Windows movie maker can probably do that for you. Then save that as a movie file like .mpg, .avi, .flv or .wmv and upload to YouTube.

  • What a great singer!! and a great musical feeling! Look at the way he modify the bars. That thing give that crazy rhythm!!

  • Best yodeler EVER!