Buckaroo
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  • No one ever had a smile bigger then Don Rich, and the Buckaroo is still the best guitar instrumental ever written. This was recorded back in the early country days when it was Taboo in country to move around. Too much movement or life on stage was considered rock and roll, most times people expected you to just stand there motionless, but it's changed a lot with the modern music.

  • why are they all smiling? they look high.

  • @RalphCQ My question is why do they all look depressed? Sure they're smiling, but it looks like they're about to cry any minute.

  • @thest0rmyblu That's because they lost their Rhinestone suits....and they miss them very much :''(

  • Pre recorded "Pick-Syncing", but well done. Don Rich was one of the very best.

    I got to watch this when it first aired so many years ago. I didn't appreciate it

    nearly as much as I do now that I can play this great music.

    GITERDUN DON RICH !!!!!!

  • The pigs just help us to get a laugh while we enjoy Don and the Buckaroos.

  • What's going on here? Can they see the dancing pigs on some other screen? Or maybe the show's producer is dancing in a tutu off-camera to make 'em laugh so when they graft the animation on later it looks like they're goofin' at the hogs? Who knows...who cares? This music's good enough to enjoy no matter what the deal is.

  • The album this song came from is a classic!

  • We like to smile, in a fakey way, but, we loves to smile!

  • Absolutely incredible!!! I loves me some good ol boy chicken pickin. On a side note their performance is on the creepy side. They look like a religious cult. That being said, fantastic! ;)

  • Don Rich the greatest sideman of all time. For your information the steel player later became a member of the Desert Rose Band with Chris Hillman and John Jorgenson.

  • Come on people now!

  • Sorry about adding John to Buck"s name. I thought of John Lennon and lost my train of thought. Sorry Don. Love you

  • Don Rich is a Guitar Legend who is missed today when he died Buck's music was never the same

  • Was there an unwritten rule in 70s country that you had to stand stock-still and not move a muscle unless it was absolutely necessary? In the old kinescopes of the country music shows from the early sixties the performers weren't afraid to move around, but most of the footage from the seventies looks like their feet were nailed down. How do you play a tune this catchy and not so much as tap your toes? Maybe they didn't want to upstage the pigs.

  • Since I make this comment I found that Don died in a motor cycle wreck. So sorry he went such a horrible way. Love him very much and will never forget you and your great style in music and such an amazing voice.

  • WasJohn killed in a wreck? I'm not sure I heard it right. He is such a bundle of talent. The Lord got 2 good ones when he got Buck and John. I know they are happy gain. probably picking and singing for the Lord. Peace now we will see yous sonner than you think. RIP good men

  • Thank you so much for posting Don Rich and the Buckaroos. I never get tired of hearing them. I am flad someone till has his muic. It would be a shame if not.  Thanks heywoowjosh2 you are the best.

  • Did you ever get a tune in your head and try to tell someone how it sounds? I have been looking all over for this very one. Thanks so much for posting this. So smooth.

  • i want this as a ring tone.

  • How stoned are they? :)

  • Check out the old coiled cables. Sounds great.

  • @crorivpro Agreed I believe I have some laying around in a box, they are very pratcical, mine are black and not the classic white ones

  • Drummer: For the love of God, shoot me now, please!

  • The steel player is JayDee Maness. He joined in 1969 after Tom Brumley left.

  • Who's on steel here, it's not Tom Brumley anyway?

  • I went to see Buck practically every nite when he & the Buckaroos were playing the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas in late spring 1964. Buck played lead on this song, Don played mostly fiddle during those performances. They would come down off the stage during breaks and mingle & gamble with the crowd. Buck was a damn good guitarist in his own right.

  • Your Floor...Your Floor...Your floor is now clean

  • They sure can play!!!!!

  • A #1 hit for Buck Owens and The Buckaroos. It was the 98th #1 Country & Western song of the Rock Era. Well, 1965 is coming to a close and we prepare for 1966. It is obvious that Buck Owens is a force on the Country Music scene.

  • The facial expressions are genius!

    It's almost like they are taking the piss!

    Hahahaha

  • 1:02 the pigs mess up the steel player.

  • I love to see his smiling when he plays.A true guitar lesson.

  • Buck taught Don the sound. They were two of the best and still are

  • Country music lost a true genus when Don Rich died in a motorcycle accident on July 17, 1974. As Buck Owens stated years later, "My musical career ended that day. I carried on, but the real lightning and thunder was gone forever".

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  • hardoce shit

  • The drummer is hypmotized!

  • haha from idiocracy

  • awesome!

  • The champane of tele guitars

  • ive seen rocks who are more still than these musicians.

  • @smpetrey,

    This is from Hee Haw. All the music was pre-recorded. The Buckaroos are air-playing. If you notice when Doyle Holly is pointing there is still a bass line, but he isn't playing.

  • @gothardw I take issue with your statement regarding 'Air-Playing'. An Air Player is someone who cannot play and trys to get the positioning, etc as close as they can so as to try to convince the viewer that they can play. These guys COULD play - it was only the crap t.v. set-up and limitations as to audio quality etc, that stopped them playing for real. Please don't take this personally - but some people may assume from your writing that Don, et al hadn't the ability to play live. :-)

  • @Factnotfictionpeople

    No offense taken. Buck Owens called it Air-playing. I was just repeating what they called it on Hee Haw

  • Hey! I thought I saw my wife dancing!

  • @bkyoung1999

    That's a hoot!! But I'll bet you don't show her your post.

    Cheers for Buck , Don and The Buckaroos.

  • Good song, great suits, terrific haircuts all round

  • He had the most beautiful smile; I remember watching him as a kid and my mom was so crazy about him. Dad would holler, "hurry up woman, your man's on." She would come running from the kitchen just to see Don Rich! What wonderful memories that is for me.

  • Wow, that's nice! I only knew Kottke's cover of this song.

    Nice to sea/hear the original. Great upload!

  • the shit.

  • I love this song. When I was in Vietnam in 1966, country music hour on Armed Forces Radio started with this song and I got to hear country music for a while if the batteries in our radio held up One of my GOOD memories of Vietnam. Don was a special talent and what a loss so young.

  • Like the late, great Jimmy Gateley (who for years fronted Bill Anderson's Po' Boys), Don Rich was one of the most formidable and beloved musicians in all of country music. Both Gateley and Rick are greatly, greatly missed.

  • IDIOCRACY! greatest movie ever!

  • @MrMellingen random?

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  • Gotta love the scars and the scowls. Hard men.

  • JayDee Maness on steel!

  • Know why they look uptight? Someone passed the word that police were backstage searching for their band's large stash of homegrown" green grass of home"!

  • I was watching a really stupid movie with Owen Wilson called "Idiocracy" and this song was in it. I have never heard it before (not a country fan and a little before my time). I thought what a cool song it was. Had to look it up!

  • another great song written by bob morris

  • Don left this world too soon. What a talent. Thanks Don

  • OK, I see on here as to why Tom Brumley was not with them anymore at this time. What happened to Willie Cantu? He was the drummer before Jerry Wiggins.

  • @manny5442 Let me guess, the dancing pigs ? ...lol...

  • Awesome!

  • This tune works at many tempos

  • Even though I am a huge blues guy, I have always loved Buck Owens & The Buckaroos. Use to watch them a lot on TV in the 60's & 70's. These guys were really great players and musicians.

  • A sparkle grey Tele with a lipstick pickup!!!! Holy SHIT!

  • Idiocracy!

  • your wrong i'm 19 and i watch this

  • Ya gotta love the pigs. LOL

  • this is an example of country music back when it was TRUE country music. My family watched Hee-Haw every saturday night when I was growing up! love those matching outfits! thanks for posting!

  • i alwasy thought don rich had more charisma than buck.

    buck is a legend but i don't think don get's his due.

  • Don Rich is the reason I play a Telecaster.

  • wow, the guy on the drums looks like he needs to take a dump

  • I believe that the song on the album is better than the live version here. The percussion is a lot more solid and it all comes together in a much better fashion.

  • This is a great song but you can tell the producers just didn't know what to do with an instrumental number. it stands on it's own and I am sure the viewers would have enjoyed it with out the dancing pigs or the awkward closeups. If these guys aren't the house band in heaven, I am gonna be very disappointed.

  • My dad Bob Morris was the one who wrote Buckaroo and Made in Japan and several other number 1's. Buck features my dad and mom on one of his shows..the buck owens ranch show 5 of 9. My mom Faye Hardin is also on the show...yall should check it out. My dad died in 81, and to see and hear his work is such an honor!!

  • Wow, no KIDDIN? That so cool! A few years ago a good friend of mine gave me a CD with "Made In Japan" on it, and it instantly became my favorite Buck Owens song. It is a song that made me reminesce of when I was a young boy watching Hee Haw on my grandparents black and white TV., listening to my transistor radio

    and hearing them complain about how "everything is made in Japan now, and it's all cheap junk" Anyway, your dad wrote some TREMENDOUS songs!!

  • ..I can;'t believe you found a cd with Made in Japan on it..lol..yea, dad's purpose was to catch people's attention about everything being made in Japan...guess it worked:-)..I love some of the cover bands that do that song...

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  • I've got that episode on tape. Great!! And if memory serves me right, Don & Bob did a duet on twin fiddles.

    Didn't your Dad do studio work with Buck?? I think i seen some liner note were he played bass and guitar on some cuts??

  • Don Rich as the telecaster master. Of that there can be little doubt. I could listen to this guy pick all day long. Word was he was planning some solo stuff, before his tragic death. This song truly show cased Don, as more than just Buck's lead player.

  • can any one tell me who actually played lead on the original recording of Buckaroo was it Don or Buck? Slightly different sounds from the original recording

  • It was Don.....They had some extra studio time so Bob Morris showed them a tune he had been working on and they liked it so they recorded it. I believe it is the only instrumental to ever peak at #1 on the charts to this day. During live shows Buck and Don would both paly Buckaroo together, sounded great

  • Hey...Bob Morris is my dad..I have the old 45 records of Buckaroo and Made in Japan hanging on my wall along with his BMI awards...I was surprised to see his name in your comment....Dad passed away in 81...would like to chat with you more if you know anything else about my dad...I miss him greatly!!

  • hey, bobmorrisfan, i don't know about you but i am bookmarking all these. love to read and listen to uncle bob. miss him too, these are great. luv u cuz

  • thanks for the mention of bob morris. he wrote a lot of songs, all of which i am very fond of.

  • @heywoodjosh

    Yes, for example at Carnegie Hall - they played it with two guitars, fine harmonies!

  • @heywoodjosh

    Yes they did - great harmonies!!

  • @heywoodjosh Really would have liked to heard Don and Buck play it together.

  • @mosrite60 Don played lead.

  • Holy Crap, hey isnt that bass player playing with Marty Stuart right now?

  • no this is Doyle Holly , he has passed away

  • @bplayer47 I believe After Doyle Holly Passed away i think Buck filled his place with Doyle Curtsinger who he has till the end

  • @Mattea68

    Actually, Doyle switched to rhythm guitar at about 1970 and Buck hired Doyle Singer to play bass. Doyle Holly left the band in 1971 or 1972 to pursue a solo career. Doyle Singer played bass for Buck until Buck passed.

  • @bplayer47 the bass player you're thinking of is Paul Martin (he's the one with Marty)

  • Wow

  • Wow

  • The drummer almost looks like he's in pain...lol..or extremely nervous.

  • I'm not sure when Tom left the Buckeroos.

  • He didn't like the changes that Buck was making to the material they played. When Buck moved away from his freight train sound Tom moved away from Buck.

    Tom later said that Buck would've done better if they'd stuck to doing a similar style.

  • interesting as just about all of Buck's releases back in the 60-70's were hits most of them No 1. So I don't quite understand Brumley's comment

  • Buck's music started moving toward a more popish sound (Tall Dark Stranger, How Long Will My Baby Be Gone) and quit using pedal steel. During the mid 60's Buck was hitting #1 multiple times per year along with a bunch of top 10's but they were soon having to fight hard to get where they once were. Tom had enough of Buck moving away and gave his notice.

  • Yes I agree. Buck first started out using fiddle and heavy steel doing the Harlan Howard era. But when Don Rich joined the band the "Bakersfield" sound evolved which predominantly featured the driving sounds of Rich's tele. This utlimately ended the fiddle and to a lesser degree steel in Bucks band. Later he tried coming back to his roots with limited success.

  • 1969 - Tom joined Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band. I would highly recommend any of their recordings!

  • "Brumley played with Desert Rose"

    Hmmmm...... pretty sure JD played with 'The Desert Rose Band'.

  • Both JayDee Maness and Tom Brumley played with the Desert Rose Band.

  • Ahhhh..... I did not know that Tom did.

  • Awesome musicians. Don Rich is a great player.

  • that episode was on tonight on rfd tv

  • Who is playing the steel. This ain't Tom Brumley.

  • Playing the pedal steel is Jay Dee Maness who played later with the Desert Rose Band.

  • Brumley played with Desert Rose, JD went on to play with a lot of stars too, like Gram Parsons, Linda Ronstat, Eagles, etc. He was a wildman on the steel, where Brumley was a smooth, powerful "king" of the steel. Brumley just died a few months ago, sad sad sad.

  • You are correct, that is Maness on steel.

  • Don Rich and the Buckaroos....nothing better!!

  • and sadly the great tom brumley passed away last wk too..R.I.P

  • see his face at :31 lol love ya don R.I.P

  • Great, thanks for posting.

  • CLASSIC, WE MISS YOU DON AND BUCK!

  • Awesome

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