Del Reeves-Girl on the billboard.

[justicefmprice]

I heard this song when I was maybe 8 or 9, and I remembered it my whole life.

Awesome voice, beat, thwaking guitar, and the story is great.

When I learned to play guitar, I wanted to re-do this song and maybe do something with it, as I was sure not too many I knew had ever heard of it.

But..sure enough, eventually some country nobody did a remake of it and....slaughtered it.

Some songs should just be left alone, and this is one of them.

Thanks a lot for posting this, mrronniea.

[crashmaster57]

Ha Ha It's so funny, If you have a way to listen to this song backwards you will be surprised!

Something about ...sniff her little ass...! I'm not kidding, it's in there!

[ezramead]

This ain't nothin' but some right on old country.

[1busybeekeeper]

I keep looking for this girl, guess I will fall lucky one day

[Mattea68]

Definetly a classic

[DonovanSlippers]

I was a Pre-Teen when this song hit the record charts, and IT excites me "Just-as-Much"... Today!

...Thank You!

[rainylakewalleye]

Outstanding!!! Today's (so called) country singers could not hold a candle to Del or any of the country singers from the 60's to early 80's.

[emriederek]

Yep, the year I came to be in western Arkansas, daddie was jamming gears (still is) and momma was humming "King of the Road" on the way to the hospital.  Dave Dudley, Red Sovine, Roger Miller, Johnny Cash, hey, might as well say the whole "HEE HAW" gang too, they kept truckers like my dad alive and awake!

[Superdave1ize]

Reminds me of my dad and i rolling down the road without a care, happy as hell....man i miss them innocent days

[slovacek59]

Takes me back a ways.

[slovacek59]

THIS SONG TAKES ME BACK A WAYS.

[slovacek59]

THIS SONG TAKES ME BACK A WAYS

[tennis11ish]

Hey, I'm 55. I've been looking for this song since I was a little kid. 'Still holds up! LOVE IT! Long live REAL country...

[bentstraight]

spent many a night blowin down the highway hearing this on the all night trucker shows on the radio it's too bad both this kind of music and that kind of trucker are far and few anymore.

[bigideas3]

Can anyone tell me what the official lenght of the original recorded version is? I want to buy an MP3 of the song, but I want to make sure I get the original recording. In country it seems a lot of times people re-record songs later sounding very close so they get more money hoping consumers don't know. No idea if this has been re-recorded but some of the version on Amazon MP3 sound a little different. Any help would be appreciated!

[magbrown1]

This is a real classic. I enjoyed it very much.

[Mrpartsunknown]

For so long I thought it was Dave Dudley who sang this song. I don't know why.

[dieingiirdr2000]

3 dumb people must be homos heck with you ppl if you dont like it dont listen to the good music losers

[dieselducy]

I grew up listening to this song. I used to listen to it on my fisher price record player.

[TheEnforcer1971]

i grew up listening to music like this when i was growing up. i walked away from country when i was in my teens but by grace of god now that im 40 after listening to this and other great trucking music(WHAT WAS I THINKING)this music is still awsome.

[JulesElway07]

Loved It. Thanks. Do you know what year the actual video was made?  Please, let us know. Important.

[outlawlover1]

@JulesElway07 About (1989) There was a show on the old TNN channel called "Country Standard Time" The producers asked alot of the old Country artist if they would make Videos of their classic hits, Del was one of them. The show was on the air from 1989 to 1990. Each week a country star would host the show and introduce old clips of country stars. Sadly Dottie West hosted the show shortly before her death. I have Quite afew of the shows on VHS video. I Treasure them dearly.

[Orphanauto]

That was really great, Thanks for posting this video.

[BruceSager]

Man, they sho' don't make 'em anything like this anymore. Too damned bad.

[bex1036]

Love Del Reeves

[HonchoPoncho455]

All the old stuff is better, and without the 60's oldie goldies the commercials of today won't have any back ground music. Sure miss those days.

[brucew44guns]

This is a very unique and interesting song---ditto the man too, very interesting and unique. Great old tune.

[martyscott1234]

I grew up listening to this music when I was a little kid in the late 60's. I love the whole doodle-doo-doo-doo album this song was on. I always envisioned the Coppertone girl as this girl on the billboard.

[Fladavenue]

Wasn't it Coppertone? Nothin but a smile and a towel? Yah.

[kc9cgp]

@kathleenogrady I grew up far outside the time of this song but couldnt agree with you more.

For those of us who have driven the section of highway from Chicago to St Louis on many occasions, thoughts of this song always bring a laugh! At least to me!

[kathleenogrady]

Thank you for the reply, its nice to know that I am not the only one that believes this. I thought old fashioned values had gone by the wayside. Have a wonderful day.

[kathleenogrady]

I love this song, But the video is garbage. The video does not match the era of the song at all. It is to modern and sleezy to go with the song.

[poontwangdrifter]

@kathleenogrady hell yeah,nashville ruins everything they touch,"they could fuck up a cup of coffee"!!!!!!!!!!!

[rockyrmt]

Is there an official stretch of road honoring the girl wearing nothing but a smile

And a towel in the picture on the billboard in the field near the big old highway?

can't help but break out in a big smile everytime I hear this ...

[TruegrassBoy]

This is my favorite Del Reeves song! "I been on that road".

[FROSTmk0]

does he remind any ones else of bill clinton?

[TruegrassBoy]

@FROSTmk0 Actually Bill Clinton reminds me of Del Reeves.

[jlescelius]

Ya buddy!! Its a lonely job!!

[mactheref]

Tea Baggers .... shut the hell up and listen to the music!!!

[chubwright79]

Who was the woman in the video.

[54MURAI]

Brilliant!! A real country classic. I don't think they write truckin' songs like this any more... shame!

[FOMFFW]

@54MURAI It's a wholedifferent world now with air conditioning - cell phones - computers and cabs better furnished than some apartments. And kids who can barely drive a pickup getting their CDL's and terrorizng the highway.

My dad and great-uncle drove when you're 'sleeper' was a jacket rolled up between your head and window and the best friend anyone in trouble on the road could have - was a trucker.

[360deeman]

@FOMFFW

I still drive for the "Pony Express" or at lease the a contractor for them, they make me drive from Bloomington, Indiana to Des moines, Iowa with a 10 hour layover in a day cab. The jacket still come in handy.

[crockettslate]

ive looked for this billboard

[leftlanecharlie]

@crockettslate LOL me too neighbor for 45 yrs now and still lookin.been down just about every road in america that a semi can fit on and aint found it yet. the LORD willin ill just keep on lookin.keep on truckin yall

[ovdoballer87]

Our president is nothing but an uncle tom from Ethiopia. Anyone who voted for this COMMUNIST/MARXIST/SOCIALIST son of a bitch was an idiot. Hope you LIBERALS like your socialized medicine. F*@king Idiots!

[TheKyWarlock]

@ovdoballer87 The ONLY F*@king idiot Here is the son of a bitch who would mix his personal political beliefs with this kick ass music. ANYWAY, you probably have never voted in your life AND Your are a sore LOSER. Oh Yes, Socialized meds? Hell Yes! LONG LIVE CLASSIC COUNTRY!!!

[jlescelius]

@ovdoballer87 I agree,but whats that have to do with this song????

[restlessinamsterdam]

Great classic! Still looking for the Del Reeves version, haven't found it yet, but I'm sure I will.

[vetalltheway]

This song is a classic.

[sizzled28]

I used to date Del. We rode in the World 600 races in the pace car together, along with Susan Rey. Best times of my life!!

[SHELWATHEN]

Quite a talent! Met him in a 7-11 in Nashville where he was buying a 6 pack of Michelob bottles. (2004)

[rorysparrow1]

Does anyone who happens to be reading this know who wrote this clever song?

[rockinredneck57]

The late Walter Haynes is the songwriter. A member of the steel guitar hall of fame.

[hankjrimpersonator]

Hank Mills (aka Samuel Garrett) & Walter Haynes wrote this, Mills wrote other hits for Dean Martin & Jim Ed Brown

[85Traffic]

Never heard of this song until I heard it on the Time Life Music Commercial - now it plays on my I-Pod proudly

[utahutahutah1]

del  you were great . you are missed..

[leftlanecharlie]

that gal is a honeybear

[leftlanecharlie]

amen, truckin on when men wore tattoos and women wore earings

[rorysparrow1]

Regarding the earrings and tattoos, you can say THAT again, Left Lane Charlie!

[badandy2x]

great tune we used to listen to this  on family car trips

[rorysparrow1]

Bad Andy, did you by any chance pass that particular billboard?

[TonyForsyth]

Excellent post! It seems Del's parents wanted him to share more than just the initials of FDR. Happy New Year!

[flashbell]

Does anyone know when Del made this video?

[TonyForsyth]

@flashbell I he released the song in 1965, no idea about the video.

[flashbell]

Looks like something he may have did in 1999 or so, he died in 2007.

[khunboris]

They say, this is the only way for a driver in USA or wherever in N.A. - to look out at the girls on those billboards, then jerk off and just keep goin'. Is it true lads - is this the general way of doin' there? No hookers that are known as "the legs" here beyond the Ocean - 'cause they generally stay on the legs of the highway waiting for a drivers passing by. The curvy Ukrainian chicks with a huge titties!

Oh, hell, it's pretty hard if such a situation in N.A......

[flashbell]

@khunboris , man can you translate this?

[khunboris]

what do you want me exactly to translate man? I thought I've written this in English, haven't I?....

[flashbell]

khunboris, I don't understand your comment about the curvy Ukrainian chicks with a huge titties! The one I was married to had golf ball size ones, but she made up for it in other ways.

[khunboris]

It was just a joke about Ukrainian pussy - I meant if there is no girls on the road like on the other side of the ocean - then jerk off is the only way (as I was told....) - and that's pitty, man. There are different sizes of the boobs that girls in Ukrainia actually wear! Though golf ball size a little small I reckon.... anyway, glad for you that you got a chance to try the one, man! Even beying married...

[khunboris]

....my first wife also had Ukrainian roots by the way, and her tits was as big as an average grapefruit

[TonyForsyth]

@khunboris I think I recognize the dialect, is seems to be a mixture of Polish and Trailer Park. Just a guess.

[khunboris]

You've made it very close to the true, man!

[flashbell]

The girl on the billboard was Dolly Parton.

[TonyForsyth]

@flashbell Wow, did I do a doubletake when I saw your name on that comment! Unless we are seeing different billboards that was certainly not Dolly.

[flashbell]

@TonyForsyth, Let me clarify. The original Girl on the original Billboard which inspired this No. 1 song in 1965 was Dolly Parton.

[TonyForsyth]

@flashbell Thank-you for that! I was starting to worry about my favorite youtube hero! I knew there was an explanation. you are still the best of the best!

[flashbell]

TonyForsyth, TY!

[flashbell]

TonyForsyth, one thing for sure that chic is cute!

[TonyForsyth]

@flashbell Absolutely!

[vinnynumbnuts]

love it

[cromagno69]

i like this version better than the new one...

[ninise]

love the song

[almostavgjoe]

"Jimmy" refers to GMC, General Motors Corporation. At one time GMC made more than pickups and yuppie soccer-mom crossovers. Google GMC Astro, or General

[handinside]

She looks real enough to me

[leunameniet]

but a damn good song.

[jr8819]

awesome song... but no reason to double clutch ol trucks....

[Mostnorthern]

The song is from the 60s. Back then you did, nowadays they have synchronized transmissions so you dont have too. I learned from a 71 Mack. I still do, nothing wrong with doing it. Its all in the timing

[kanda444]

He's not talking about double clutchin old trucks like pickups, he said "jimmy" meaning semi-trucks, and I'm sure you know that double cluthing is sometimes required on older semi' s...

[vinnynumbnuts]

Good stuff. So true to life. Felt it many times.

[zaaritha]

This is so good! Can one say it´s after his rock-a-billy?

[Babyhowdy233]

I just adore this song and Del was such a wonderful talent and SOOO gorgeous too!

[99boddles]

doodledoodoodoo!

[theme2u]

you tube never ceases to warm me, with memories of days long gone and songs we used to be able to sing along and keep up with. ta mrronniea but ta much del boy.

[pat4137]

five stars forsure

[Goraiders75]

havent we all seen that girl on a billboard so sexy that you would cheat on your wife and so fing fine you would tell your wife bout it

[NickRatnieks]

This often gets described as a Novelty Song for some reason. Written by the guy- Hank Mills who wrote Kay and Little Ole Wine Drinker Me. I told Bill Kirchen he should do this song- he used to do Looking at the World through my Windshield- back in the Commander Cody days-he still does it. Anyway, I love the drumming on this cut. I suppose realcxountry music is a novelty, now.

[9786323]

My father wrote three time loser on this album.

[mleblanc35]

its a super hits and great song from del reeves

[CriticalListener]

God bless you for posting this song! I've been looking for it for years! They don't write 'em like this anymore!

[ollieisabellehaas]

real country let it burn it in thank god

[calpatty1808]

Drove an 18 wheeler for 20+ yrs. This song was a standard on my juke box and many a long night was blastin from my speakers. Catch you on the flip flop driver till then keep it safe!

[bpbrant]

del is the man . old country is still the best

[beagle5pup]

An awesome classic from 1965 that still gets the girls and ladies jumpin' on the dance floor. Thanks.

[txstoryteller]

Great song; five stars!

[peekingbeef]

yeah, three on the tree, straight six, four of us riding with no seatbelts causing a ruckus, hell on wheels, rebels without a cause. too bad living normal is outlawed now.

[peekingbeef]

i love this thank you. reminds me of my big brother driving, with myself and my two brothers riding shotgun singing along with the radio on our way home. crammed into a 1954 pickup seat, good times. ty

[Mattea68]

One of the all time legends that will never be forgotten

[ma267]

Del was a good family friend, its cool to see this video in youtube.

[Righty736]

Is the truck in the back a GMC?

[maryjaneadkisson]

Sorry Kari, I said he passed a year ago, I meant 2 years ago. Jan. 1, 2007. Luv Ya

[LarryMusicMan]

Del reminds me on my younger days. Helemute from Germany

[BloodNGutts]

Haha Del Has thousands of miles in lots of 8 track players Great voice This reminds me of the The Road Gang on WWL870 AM

[Galbraith4570]

You are SO right, haha. I first heard Del Reeves, and Dave Dudley, amongst others on an 8 Track called Road Music back in the '70s.

[qriusg]

Great Tune :)

[qriusg]

Killer Vid!!!

[MrRottenApple]

Thanks for the video, I sure hope you have a back-up on your 'puter.

I remember this song when I drove a rig along route 66 from Chicago to St Louis searchin' for the girl wearing nothing but a smile and towel on the billboard in the field near the big old highway... when I found her.. "A little doo doo doo!! heh heh.

Please don't remove it.

[snuffy3002]

Sorry my mistake he passed January New Years Day 2007. Still miss him, just getting older myself!

[snuffy3002]

A great man 2009 New Years Day I will raise a glass to Del. 12 months from his passing at age 74. R.I.P.

[sonnywestfan1]

Del was a friend of mine and i still miss him so much! He was a hoot to be around.

[highnrising]

This is weird. Del is lip synching to a recording that he made about 25 years before this video.

[Goldengoat23]

I just hope youtube does not take it down. I Love it.

[hank531229]

great!