Old time Country Music for Seniors Thread

Prefer the "old" Country myself. I have a ton of cd's of the old ones. Listen to them everyday or on the youtube channel while I am on the computer!! I like the old country and Motown music along with the "old gospel" music.
 

hollydolly said:
One of my fave Ferlin Husky's...I know it's of it's time, but I still like it and I was a baby when it was released... ...


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I can remember when this song was on the country hit parade. I believe it was the # 1 song for 21 weeks. Correct me if I'm wrong. It was a very popular song.
 
terry123 said:
Prefer the "old" Country myself. I have a ton of cd's of the old ones. Listen to them everyday or on the youtube channel while I am on the computer!! I like the old country and Motown music along with the "old gospel" music.
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The original Carter Family did a lot of Gospel songs. I think I know because I got 2 boxed sets of their original recordings which amounts to 10 CDs. Remember: River of Jordan, God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign, No Telephone In Heaven, When The World's On Fire, The Church In the Wildwood. I could go on. Their music was great because there were no electric guitars with strange sounds. Dido for Jimmie Rodgers; the Mississippi Blue Yodler. Love that stuff & will until the day I die.
 

oldman said:
Don Gibson was one of the best songwriters of his time. Not many people knew that he was a great songwriter as well as singer.
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Well, I know he was a great song writer for sure. Some of his great songs Blue Blue Day, Just One Time but my favourite was & still is "Oh Lonesome Me."
 
Was always listening to WWVA growing up. Wheeling, West Virginia. Grand Ole Opery and all the great old country singers. Have tons of them on my playlist on my phone and iPad and play them through my wireless speakers. Love the old stuff....
 
My dad loved his Country music, no matter where he was. In the car or at home, Country music was playing. My dad was lucky enough to have met several of the musicians back in those days. He always wanted to meet his man, Hank Williams, but never did.

On Saturday nights, dad would play the Wheeling Jamboree on our big old radio. They had some really great talent on the show and it was much like the Grand Ole Opry, which we would also try to tune in from time to time. That was strange. If it was a clear night, we could generally get some parts of the Opry, but if the weather was bad, no way.

Anybody here remember the Wheeling Jamboree?
 
Dang, was just looking thru this thread and see all of these old, old country singers. What ever happened to George Strait, Garth Brooks, Terry Clark, Alan Jackson, Diamond Rio and those others from the mid 80's up until 2000? And, Brooks & Dunn, one of the hottest country groups with tons of awards.
 
ClassicRockr said:
Dang, was just looking thru this thread and see all of these old, old country singers. What ever happened to George Strait, Garth Brooks, Terry Clark, Alan Jackson, Diamond Rio and those others from the mid 80's up until 2000? And, Brooks & Dunn, one of the hottest country groups with tons of awards.
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Those are modern day country singers, Cody. Good singers but not from the good old days of country music. Think about Hank Snow, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Marty Robbins, etc.
 
rkunsaw said:
Those are modern day country singers, Cody. Good singers but not from the good old days of country music. Think about Hank Snow, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Marty Robbins, etc.
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For you "the good old days", but definitely not for us. We like the modern old stuff. Actually, neither of us ever listened to any of those "old" singers. Those artists were never played in any country-western nightclub we went into. Heck, even the ones we know, and like, aren't played much in nightclubs today, due to the age bracket that goes. Today's age bracket wants to see the beards, holey jeans and on and on. Exactly what the song that George Strait and Alan Jackson done about "killing country music".
 
rkunsaw said:
Those are modern day country singers, Cody. Good singers but not from the good old days of country music. Think about Hank Snow, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Marty Robbins, etc.
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The way I see it is that Alan Jackson, George Strait & Brooks & Dunn are pretty modern. I would say that Hank Williams, Hank Snow, Marty Robbins & Johnny Horton to be traditional. But for true roots of country music you gotta go back to the 1920 with The Carter Family & Jimmie Rodgers. Don't forget Uncle Dave Macon & then there was Carson Robertson, Roy Acuff & Vernon Dalhart; just to mention a few. None of them guys had fancy electric guitars with vibration pedals.
 
Packerjohn said:
I can remember when this song was on the country hit parade. I believe it was the # 1 song for 21 weeks. Correct me if I'm wrong. It was a very popular song.
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LOL..I can't correct you , because it wasn't a hit in the uk...and anyway I was only 3, so I believe you when you say it was a hit for 21 weeks .... :LOL:.. I came to know the song much later in my life...
 
ClassicRockr said:
Dang, was just looking thru this thread and see all of these old, old country singers. What ever happened to George Strait, Garth Brooks, Terry Clark, Alan Jackson, Diamond Rio and those others from the mid 80's up until 2000? And, Brooks & Dunn, one of the hottest country groups with tons of awards.
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yes we post their music but not on THIS thread, this is a thread mainly for the Older more original country music...that of which evolved from hillbilly ( appalchian /folk) music from the '20's and earlier .. Singers and musicians such as roy acuff, lefty frizzell, Bill Munroe, jean shepard, Earnest Tubb, Carl Smith , kitty wells, Ray price...and many more, from around the 40's to the late 60's or evn early 70's ... when it became more popularly known as country western with music from singers such as Glen Campbell , Lynn Anderson, Loretta Lynn, The Browns, Johnny Cash, Margo smith, Billie Jo Spears , Tammy Wynette, George Jones, Dolly Parton, Willie nelson and many more..

Then came the 90's & 2000's where the name changed again and evolved much to the chagrin of the older artists.. to just ''Country''.. and the music became more of a pop/country/ rock /folk mix, with stars like...

Carlene Carter, Roseanne Cash, Alabama, Vince Gill, trisha Yearwood , Billy Ray Cyrus , Diamond Rio, Josh Turner, Rascal Flatts, Billy Currington, Blake Shelton, Shania Twain, Teddy Thompson ...and many more...
 
ClassicRockr said:
Dang, was just looking thru this thread and see all of these old, old country singers. What ever happened to George Strait, Garth Brooks, Terry Clark, Alan Jackson, Diamond Rio and those others from the mid 80's up until 2000? And, Brooks & Dunn, one of the hottest country groups with tons of awards.
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Read the Title again!!
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Old time Country Music for Seniors Thread
 
hollydolly said:
yes we post their music but not on THIS thread, this is a thread mainly for the Older more original country music...that of which evolved from hillbilly ( appalchian /folk) music from the '20's and earlier .. Singers and musicians such as roy acuff, lefty frizzell, Bill Munroe, jean shepard, Earnest Tubb, Carl Smith , kitty wells, Ray price...and many more, from around the 40's to the late 60's or evn early 70's ... when it became more popularly known as country western with music from singers such as Glen Campbell , Lynn Anderson, Loretta Lynn, The Browns, Johnny Cash, Margo smith, Billie Jo Spears , Tammy Wynette, George Jones, Dolly Parton, Willie nelson and many more..

Then came the 90's & 2000's where the name changed again and evolved much to the chagrin of the older artists.. to just ''Country''.. and the music became more of a pop/country/ rock /folk mix, with stars like...

Carlene Carter, Roseanne Cash, Alabama, Vince Gill, trisha Yearwood , Billy Ray Cyrus , Diamond Rio, Josh Turner, Rascal Flatts, Billy Currington, Blake Shelton, Shania Twain, Teddy Thompson ...and many more...
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The reason I mentioned about the music is, from the Seniors that we have met (our age), none of them listen/listened to the really old music. I didn't start listening to country music until the mid 80's and my wife in the mid 90's. That was when both of us, before we met, started going to country nightclubs. When Line Dancing, 2-Step, Cowboy Cha Cha, California Swing and Texas Swing were extremely popular dances.
 

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