My father became a member of Lefty's band after setting in on a recording session after his bass player had resigned prior to that recording session. Once the session was over with, Lefty, along with his wife and road manager drove to Shreveport. After reaching there, he had his manager call back to Dallas and hire my Father.
Lynn you must be named after one of my favorite singers. I especially love Rose Garden. That must have been cool and i am sure your father had some stories to tell. I thank you for watching and i just want you to know there are more videos in the works so stay tuned.
The Sad Life and Death of Lefty Frizzell 0750am 9.7.24 the poor man's johnny cash, perhaps? that's not my slurring him. i was wondering how he was seen or viewed by his peers and the country music audience.
I was born in 1965, My dad was a year older than Lefty and a big fan as well. We lived in Southern California and as I grew up I really became a fan of Lefty. My personal favorite album of his is “The sad side of love” from 1965. This album has aged well and I feel it’s the best start to finish record Lefty ever made. Give it a spin and see what you think. Listen to John Anderson and Keith Whitley. They are and were huge Lefty fans and you can hear Lefty in they’re vocal deliveries. Anyway Lefty is missed and is without a doubt deserving of his legendary status. It’s hard to measure lefty’s impact in music. Suffice to say it is vast.
Until tonight, respectfully, I had never heard of Lefty Frizzell. But, this video led me to other videos where I heard him sing and saw him perform for my first time. Then and there a new fan was born.
Frank, one of the things I love about country music is the story telling. The best form of that is classic country. So, I agree with you 100 percent. This is real music.
There's one little story that you probably know, David, that no doubt came from that early tour with Hank. It was in Lefty's words, and I may have got the numbers slightly wrong, but it's not far out. Hank said to him about how he needed to get on the Opry, "You need Opry" is what he said, I think. Lefty says "I got the Number One record in the nation. I got the Number Two record in the nation. I got the Number Three record in the nation. I got the Number Five record in the nation. Now what the hell do I need Opry for?" Hank said "Boy, you got a powerful argument."
So sad he had such a short life only 54 when he died. I still remember hearing his music when I was a child growing up my parents had all his records. And still today I love his music. Rest in peace Lefty Frizzell❤🌟
@@t4texastom587 you probably could be right about that, I’m not sure if I got that information from a video or Wikipedia but regardless, he died too soon. Have a good day, sir.🙂
I first heard lefty in the early fifties and immediately became a fan , still my favourite is of course "I love you a thousand ways" it's unfortunate that back then success in a lot of cases led to alcohol abuse and lefty was not immune to that, when I leave this world my one regret will be that I didn't get to see this great singer and the great Jim Reeves perform live ,my first trip to the U S was not until 1979 , I feel very fortunate that I have accumulated a great collection of their music to remind me of what we once had and what we will never see again, cheers from Tasmania
@@t4texastom587 to t4 Texas tom , thanks for your reply, I did my first trip to the U S in 1979 ,and again in 1990 & 2009, I have been fortunate enough in that time to have seen many of the greats of country music live especially in Nashville , Orlando , Branson , Houston and many more, we've also been blessed with the presence of many of them in Australia, now with most of them gone I'm lucky to have a great collection of their music to listen to and remind me of what we once had, the crapp they dish up to us today and call it country is simply not worth listening to , hope you agree, cheers from Tasmania,
Great job with this video. Lefty hands down was the greatest Honky Tonk singer of all time in my opinion. His versatility was amazing. No wonder George Jones, Merle Haggard, Keith Whitley and many others said he was not only their favorites singer, but that he had a huge influence on them. My very favorite singer of all!
Not to mention he was a hell of a song writer. I will venture to say that you have great taste in country music. I thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts.
I was born in '67, and sometime during the late 70's or early 80's, I borrowed many of my uncle's records. One of these were a box set of old country hits. I already loved the few records by Johnny Cash and Jim Reeves that my father had, but I later realized that the fact that so many of these old actual country hits could be termed novelty songs, is why I learned to love that era of country music so much. Left Frizzell's Saginaw Michigan was a favorite even while I only knew enough English to really understand half of it (I'm a Norwegian, and we only started learning English when we were around ten years old). There is so much fun and comedy in these old songs, and no matter how good the later Nashville hits were, they tended to drown in their own seriousness. It came as a pleasant surprise that as my father's old records actually included one "Best of" record by Buck Owens, I also turned out to a (juvenile...) devotee of the Bakersfield Sound! Happy days, but Lefty Frizzell was one of the ones who taught me to listen for the non-regular country music.
I have what I think is a fairly neat Lefty Frizzell story. In 1951, while my Dad was in the service, my Mom, with some friends, went to see Lefty Frizzell perform in what my Mom described as a small honky-tonk in Gladewater, Texas. This was, of course, very early in Lefty's career, and right at the time he had the STILL unprecedented 4 songs in the Top Ten of Billboard's Top-Forty record charts. I believe at the time the country music charts were called Hillbilly Hit Parade. Other than Frizzell, no solo artist, not even Elvis Presley.....has ever achieved that feat. I have heard or read that possibly the Beatles may have duplicated this feat in the early 1960s.
The Beatles beat him. They had the top five positions on the billboard charts the week of April 4th. Interestingly, the Wailers accomplished the same feat in Jamaica before anyone in US even knew who Bob Marley was.
I'm related to Lefty Frizzell. Family Tree History. I don't know much about the relation I just know he's on the list of names of famous people I'm related to. Along with lord and lady Frizzell from isle of wight who were exiled from their castle because they were catholic or something like that. William the conqueror Royal blood and James Wilson who signed the Declaration of Independence. I also know somehow Nixon is involved in all of this family history stuff. But I like learning about those involved in my family history. Thanks for this video on Lefty. 😊
Whereabouts was that castle? I crossed over from Southampton a lot for a while, delivering to Coop shops mostly, but never knew I was on Frizzell territory. A bit more impressive than hearing that Alvin Stardust lives there.
If I was married and got caught cheating on my wife with an underage girl and then jailed for it I would be too ashamed and embarrassed to write a song saying how much I love my wife!
It's sad and strange that Lefty didn't have more success during the 60's. He recorded some great songs. I got his complete box set released by Bear recording a few years ago. It pretty much has every song he ever recorded from the late 40's until 1973. Songs like to Stranger, When the grass grows green again, Silence, She's gone and Writing on the wall are just a few of the gems he recorded during that period. This box set is a must for any old school C&W listener. It also has a wonderful hard cover book all about Lefty with a ton of great pictures.
On my first tour to Viet-Nam in December 1966 I remember a guy was taking a guitar with Lefty Frizzell's name printed on it. Outened wondered who this person might have been and if he made it back. Flights were very crowded so one could not move around very much.
Great video, a lot of stuff I didn't know about Lefty, though I've admired him for years. He was equal to Hank in my and many people's opinion, both of them having some elusive something, that others, Webb Pierce for instance, didn't quite have. Good as Webb was, don't get me wrong. Lefty's story shows how hard it can be, somehow his colossal talent wasn't enough to get him through. I guess Elvis etc didn't help. Even Hank wouldn't have surmounted that one. A sad, sad story.
I'm binge listening and watching Lefty, been at it for a week or two and not ready to stop yet. (Can you think of a better way to spend my time?) I've saved this story this time so it's on my regular Frizzell playlist and I can listen to David's gravel voice whenever I want! By the way David, you're not also known as Big Bill Lister are you? (kidding,it just came into my head)
His recording in 1973 of That's the way love goes and I never go around mirrors were great songs. He wrote them both with Whitey Schafer. Lefty's voice was still top notch even up until the end!
He would know. lol. From what I could find out or not find out. They never stated her age. He was 19 but they didn't say if she lied about her age or what her age was.
@Edward Brown I miss read what you said. I thought you said minors because of him serving two years for being with one. I've been sick lately and it has effected my eye sight. Got diagnosed with Diabetes on Thursday and have been trying to lower my sugar levels.
@Edward Brown. Changed my diet the same day I was diagnosed and I will do my part. The rest I leave in God's hands. Thank you my friend. God bless you and yours.
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My father became a member of Lefty's band after setting in on a recording session after his bass player had resigned prior to that recording session. Once the session was over with, Lefty, along with his wife and road manager drove to Shreveport. After reaching there, he had his manager call back to Dallas and hire my Father.
Lynn you must be named after one of my favorite singers. I especially love Rose Garden. That must have been cool and i am sure your father had some stories to tell. I thank you for watching and i just want you to know there are more videos in the works so stay tuned.
What a neat, historical
story and obviously great memories of your Dad.👍
The Sad Life and Death of Lefty Frizzell 0750am 9.7.24 the poor man's johnny cash, perhaps? that's not my slurring him. i was wondering how he was seen or viewed by his peers and the country music audience.
My granddaughter is engaged to Lefty’s cousin! We are Blessed by his music talent. ❤️👍❤️
I agree with you whole heartedly Lynn
I was born in 1965,
My dad was a year older than Lefty and a big fan as well. We lived in Southern California and as I grew up I really became a fan of Lefty. My personal favorite album of his is “The sad side of love” from
1965. This album has aged well and I feel it’s the best start to finish record Lefty ever made. Give it a spin and see what you think. Listen to John Anderson and Keith Whitley. They are and were huge Lefty fans and you can hear Lefty in they’re vocal deliveries. Anyway Lefty is missed and is without a doubt deserving of his legendary status. It’s hard to measure lefty’s impact in music. Suffice to say it is vast.
I agree 100%. Thanks for sharing
Until tonight, respectfully, I had never heard of Lefty Frizzell. But, this video led me to other videos where I heard him sing and saw him perform for my first time. Then and there a new fan was born.
I am glad you enjoyed the video He is truly one of the greatest artist of country music. Thanks for watching.
I can't thank you enough for this! He was truly unique and irreplaceable. We won't see any one like him again for sure!
I am glad that you enjoyed it.
Thanks for making this video for us fans of real music 🎶
Frank, one of the things I love about country music is the story telling. The best form of that is classic country. So, I agree with you 100 percent. This is real music.
No never.
Wonderful singer sadly no longer with us rest in peace lefty frizzell 💚
Amen
There's one little story that you probably know, David, that no doubt came from that early tour with Hank. It was in Lefty's words, and I may have got the numbers slightly wrong, but it's not far out. Hank said to him about how he needed to get on the Opry, "You need Opry" is what he said, I think. Lefty says "I got the Number One record in the nation. I got the Number Two record in the nation. I got the Number Three record in the nation. I got the Number Five record in the nation. Now what the hell do I need Opry for?"
Hank said "Boy, you got a powerful argument."
That sounds like Lefty. And no I didn't know that story. I thank you for sharing it.
🤠
So sad he had such a short life only 54 when he died. I still remember hearing his music when I was a child growing up my parents had all his records. And still today I love his music. Rest in peace Lefty Frizzell❤🌟
I have to agree with you 100%.
Not trying to be or sound like a know-it-all.... but if my
memory is right, I believe Lefty was actually only 47 when he passed away.
@@t4texastom587 you probably could be right about that, I’m not sure if I got that information from a video or Wikipedia but regardless, he died too soon. Have a good day, sir.🙂
@@kattrakee
Yessir, you are welcome 👍
And thanks again for the great video!
Love LEFTY FRIZZELS REMARKABLE TALENT....THE BEST
I never get tired of listening to Lefty.
I first heard lefty in the early fifties and immediately became a fan , still my favourite is of course "I love you a thousand ways" it's unfortunate that back then success in a lot of cases led to alcohol abuse and lefty was not immune to that, when I leave this world my one regret will be that I didn't get to see this great singer and the great Jim Reeves perform live ,my first trip to the U S was not until 1979 , I feel very fortunate that I have accumulated a great collection of their music to remind me of what we once had and what we will never see again, cheers from Tasmania
As George Jones once sang, "Who's gonna fill their shoes."
Michael Colgrave
Howdy👋🤠
from Tom
in🇨🇱 Texas 🇨🇱.....
the home state of
both Jim Reeves and
Lefty Frizzell
@@t4texastom587 to t4 Texas tom , thanks for your reply, I did my first trip to the U S in 1979 ,and again in 1990 & 2009, I have been fortunate enough in that time to have seen many of the greats of country music live especially in Nashville , Orlando , Branson , Houston and many more, we've also been blessed with the presence of many of them in Australia, now with most of them gone I'm lucky to have a great collection of their music to listen to and remind me of what we once had, the crapp they dish up to us today and call it country is simply not worth listening to , hope you agree, cheers from Tasmania,
Great job with this video. Lefty hands down was the greatest Honky Tonk singer of all time in my opinion. His versatility was amazing. No wonder George Jones, Merle Haggard, Keith Whitley and many others said he was not only their favorites singer, but that he had a huge influence on them. My very favorite singer of all!
Not to mention he was a hell of a song writer. I will venture to say that you have great taste in country music. I thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts.
oh and I agree with you 100 %
@@CMSProductions Yes Sir. He was inducted into the Nashville songwriters hall of fame in 72'!
I was born in '67, and sometime during the late 70's or early 80's, I borrowed many of my uncle's records. One of these were a box set of old country hits. I already loved the few records by Johnny Cash and Jim Reeves that my father had, but I later realized that the fact that so many of these old actual country hits could be termed novelty songs, is why I learned to love that era of country music so much. Left Frizzell's Saginaw Michigan was a favorite even while I only knew enough English to really understand half of it (I'm a Norwegian, and we only started learning English when we were around ten years old). There is so much fun and comedy in these old songs, and no matter how good the later Nashville hits were, they tended to drown in their own seriousness. It came as a pleasant surprise that as my father's old records actually included one "Best of" record by Buck Owens, I also turned out to a (juvenile...) devotee of the Bakersfield Sound! Happy days, but Lefty Frizzell was one of the ones who taught me to listen for the non-regular country music.
Thank you for sharing your story. It is so similar to my own. What I love about classic country music is the stories in the songs.
I have what I think is a
fairly neat Lefty Frizzell
story.
In 1951, while my Dad was in the service, my
Mom, with some friends, went to see
Lefty Frizzell perform in what my Mom described as a small
honky-tonk in Gladewater, Texas.
This was, of course,
very early in Lefty's career, and right at the time he had the STILL
unprecedented 4 songs in the Top Ten
of Billboard's Top-Forty
record charts.
I believe at the time the
country music charts were called Hillbilly Hit
Parade.
Other than Frizzell, no
solo artist, not even Elvis Presley.....has ever achieved that feat.
I have heard or read that possibly the Beatles may have duplicated this feat in the early 1960s.
Sweet. Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching.
The Beatles beat him. They had the top five positions on the billboard charts the week of April 4th. Interestingly, the Wailers accomplished the same feat in Jamaica before anyone in US even knew who Bob Marley was.
the first timeI heard the song Long Black Veil as a child that steel guitar gave me the shivers
It does doesn't it
He was a STAR before Johnny Cash..... very GOOD!
Glad you like. He influenced a lot and I mean a lot of artist including Johnny Cash
He was born in Corsicana, where I live and they have a big monument dedicated to him here.
There should be. He was a hell of singer and a hell of a song writer. I like your name btw. Runswithwind is better than passeswithgas (Mine)
Buck griffin was born there too
I'm related to Lefty Frizzell. Family Tree History. I don't know much about the relation I just know he's on the list of names of famous people I'm related to. Along with lord and lady Frizzell from isle of wight who were exiled from their castle because they were catholic or something like that. William the conqueror Royal blood and James Wilson who signed the Declaration of Independence. I also know somehow Nixon is involved in all of this family history stuff. But I like learning about those involved in my family history. Thanks for this video on Lefty. 😊
I am glad you enjoyed the video and I thank you for watching. There are more coming.
Whereabouts was that castle? I crossed over from Southampton a lot for a while, delivering to Coop shops mostly, but never knew I was on Frizzell territory. A bit more impressive than hearing that Alvin Stardust lives there.
If I was married and got caught cheating on my wife with an underage girl and then jailed for it
I would be too ashamed and embarrassed to write a song saying how much I love my wife!
Hmmm
Just introduced myself to this cats music. I watched three of his videos.. Keep expanding my music world there Dave
Will do.
Man, you're heading in the right direction.
It's sad and strange that Lefty didn't have more success during the 60's. He recorded some great songs. I got his complete box set released by Bear recording a few years ago. It pretty much has every song he ever recorded from the late 40's until 1973. Songs like to Stranger, When the grass grows green again, Silence, She's gone and Writing on the wall are just a few of the gems he recorded during that period. This box set is a must for any old school C&W listener. It also has a wonderful hard cover book all about Lefty with a ton of great pictures.
I will go so far as to say that if you don't love Lefty's music you don't love country music
Lefty Frizzell is my great uncle, interesting to learn more about my family through TH-cam 😂
I am glad you enjoyed it.
George Jones book ( I lived to tell it all ) he speaks highly of Lefty Frizzell.
Yes Lefty was one of George's Heroes.
On my first tour to Viet-Nam in December 1966 I remember a guy was taking a guitar with Lefty Frizzell's name printed on it. Outened wondered who this person might have been and if he made it back. Flights were very crowded so one could not move around very much.
Thanks for sharing. I also wonder who that was?
I like the record Lefty did with June Stearns. They recorded it as Agnes & Lefty, theyre real first names.
sweet
"Lefty can't sing the blues, all night long like he used to. The dust that Pancho met down south, ended up in Lefty's mouth. ...."
Hmmm
Great video, a lot of stuff I didn't know about Lefty, though I've admired him for years. He was equal to Hank in my and many people's opinion, both of them having some elusive something, that others, Webb Pierce for instance, didn't quite have. Good as Webb was, don't get me wrong. Lefty's story shows how hard it can be, somehow his colossal talent wasn't enough to get him through. I guess Elvis etc didn't help. Even Hank wouldn't have surmounted that one. A sad, sad story.
I am glad you enjoyed the video and i thank you very much for watching.
BTW I am not a robot..lol
@@CMSProductions sorry, I read the other comments and realised I was wrong, and deleted as fast as I could. But you beat me.
@@stewartfenton7660 It's all good. I am good at droning sometimes. it comes from having a deep voice and being southern. lmao.
I'm binge listening and watching Lefty, been at it for a week or two and not ready to stop yet. (Can you think of a better way to spend my time?) I've saved this story this time so it's on my regular Frizzell playlist and I can listen to David's gravel voice whenever I want!
By the way David, you're not also known as Big Bill Lister are you? (kidding,it just came into my head)
Nope but I have been called Sam Elliott lol
@@CMSProductions shit, hope you can't punch like that
Born in Corsicana Texas
Yep
I can definitely understand the merle haggard inspiration connection. Somewhat of a similarity there.
Yeah. A lot of artist were inspired by Lefty Frizzell
The Hag loved Lefty.
Did you know that he is buried in the same town as the headquarters of Dollar General.
No I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching
His life may have been sad but what he left behind certainly isn’t
True
What about his final recordings? I think were easily his best. His voice got better, much more suited to the better songs and musicians he was using.
I agree. My favorite song by him is Long Black Veil. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment
I like it all, but I love that old honky tonkin' sound he had, would never have thought of them as inferior musicians.
His recording in 1973 of That's the way love goes and I never go around mirrors were great songs. He wrote them both with Whitey Schafer. Lefty's voice was still top notch even up until the end!
Never go around mirrors is my favorite
He would know. lol. From what I could find out or not find out. They never stated her age. He was 19 but they didn't say if she lied about her age or what her age was.
@@CMSProductions he was a kid himself so couldn't be to bad
@Edward Brown I miss read what you said. I thought you said minors because of him serving two years for being with one. I've been sick lately and it has effected my eye sight. Got diagnosed with Diabetes on Thursday and have been trying to lower my sugar levels.
@@CMSProductions God bless take care of yourself and your video was epic I loved it David
@Edward Brown. Changed my diet the same day I was diagnosed and I will do my part. The rest I leave in God's hands. Thank you my friend. God bless you and yours.
he was nothing but a Jimmy Rogers imitator. but the time he was 1 year old he was a year overdue for replacement.
Guess there is no accounting for taste