Mel Tillis Live In Branson "Ruby"

Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town was a huge hit for Kenny Rogers, but it was written by Country Music Hall Of Fame Superstar MEL TILLIS. Here Mel perfroms "RUBY" and "DETROIT CITY" live at a show in Branson MO

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[Rusty3659]

Wrong! Bobby Bare did have a hit with a Mell Tillis tune - but it wasn't Ruby. It's Kenny Rogers And The First Edition all the way. The Mel Tillis compostion that bobby bare recorded and took to the top was "Detroit City. I want to go home.... I want to go home...Oh how I want to go home....

[BransonMusicFactory]

Hi, Listen to the entire clip. Mel's doing BOTH SONGS here. So, you are both right.

BMF

[BransonMusicFactory]

There's no overdubbing or lip-syncing here. Live, one take, no sound check, six different shows in one day during these tapings.

Mel and his band, "THE STATESIDERS" performed almost 100 live shows across the US and Canada in 2007, and what you hear on this 1994compressed, digitized clip isn't even close to the LIVE sound Mel and the Statesiders sound like.

BMF

[oleobutter]

I never knew you wrote "Ruby". You're one of the World's greatest for doing so. My next Michelob is for you !

[ayronsmama05]

Mel is HOTTTTTT!

[JimFlynnMusic]

Two great songs by a great songwriter. Mel is one of country's best, and it's wonderful to see him have such a long and successful career.

[HunterMann]

Great music, but if you go to Branson, just remember that what they call the late show" starts at 5:30pm....zzzzzz.

[mogges1]

AAAAH man o man lot of time I drank my self nuts with this tune

[BambooLulu]

@ayronsmama05 LOL

[yearling4]

@yearling4 Oops, nevermind my comment about him acting like stuttering.....after seeing some other videos, I see he probably did get his words hung up, which makes sense for those songs where he's more or less talking than singing because that's how the song is performed....blah blah blah. :)

[yearling4]

wish I could find the clip of Mel and Kenny Rogers singin' Ruby together.....there's a part where Kenny sings the Ruby part and leaves the rest of the chorus for Mel to sing, but instead he acts like he's stuttering when it's his turn. I say acts like he's stuttering because I don't believe he has that problem when he's singin. But maybe he was really stuttering. Well whichever it was he made Kenny laugh......and me. ;)

[StvMcQueen1]

M-M-Mel Tillis did a much better job on "Ruby" than Mr. Rogers, in my humble opinion.

[asparwhite86]

I love this song.

[scason]

I like Mel, but Kenny's version is better.

[oleobutter]

Thank You Mel!  Kenny would not be Kenny without YOU!