Merle Travis - Too Much Sugar For A Dime
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- 1951 "Soundie" of Merle Travis & His Westerners featuring Merle on Bigsby guitar with Judy Hayden (vocals), Speedy West (steel guitar) Eddie Kirk (guitar), Jack Rogers (bass), Harold Hensley (fiddle), and Alex Brashear or Danny Auguire (trumpet) .
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Merle Travis was probably the most influential guitarist of the twentieth century.
Lmao really? So-called Travis Picking wasn't even invented by him, not even close. Elizabeth Cotton was picking for something like 30 years before Travis was in diapers. Left-handed on a righty guitar no less! No hate on Merle, but I think Doc Watson made a much greater impact on the sound of country music (and he loved Merle!)
Great old video. I did at least one show with Harold Hensley. His death was unusual. He pulled into his driveway at his new home in Paradise and died. He went to Paradise.
Merle Travis. one of my guitar heros, and what a great bunch of musicians backing him up, especially the man on steel. Amazing!
THE MAN- Speedy West
yea, and the camera could 've zoomed on him while his doing his sweet little thing, but hey, I'm happy with this well-polished diamond of a song
I was Merle Travis in a previous life. He died the day I was born and I've been playing guitar to his songs, Chet Atkins, up to Stones, Byrds, CCR, Petty, nearly my entire life
I invented the internet
Superb guitarist
And a genius songwriter!
Wow! Fab! So many styles jammed into 1 song! Love it....
I just read in the book "Story of Paul Bigsby, father of the solid body', that this guitar on this song is the ONE AND ONLY hollowbody guitar Bigsby ever made. It was later owned by Jack Parsons. Bet it's worth a fortune. Buy the book!!!
Cool shit
This vid has "Showmanship " just oozing out of it all over the place .. The tune , the presentation , Eddie Kirk and the boys backing Merle ( and his wife ? at the time ) . The coolest Bigsby guitar you can ever lay your eyes on .. The whole video drips with professionalism .... ....say Merle .. what a you know bout boats ??? he say ..... "They float !! " What a guy .. this is priceless .. thanks for posting .
I love this song. I love Merle and Judy is so sassy and great.
I love this. My Mamaw said this phrase to me the other day. I am glad I found this. :)
South Carolina or Kentucky?
Travis pickin, best in town!
Very cool. Virtuosity and showman/womanship at its best.
Real musicianship.
Love it and watched the whole thing and finally got to see Speedy's face at the last....you can tell it's him with just two chords.
‘Shut up and play guitar’
They all look like they're having a wonderful time
Yup
This is when country and western music was really music
@BillyGarland:
Billy, your father was such a wonderful musician... I consider myself lucky to have gotten one of the very first sets of his CD boxed set, signed by him. I even spoke with him on the phone briefly. I cherish that memory. His loss to that car wreck was a giant one to not only country music, but jazz.
Cool ty for sharing !
made me smile they were great
Me too funny
Brilliant! What an amazing era of talent
what a fantastic song !!!
Man. They could really get down in the early 50's.
Amazing music but just look at Merle's boots! And those two ladies sat in the corner knitting .... ha ha! That sure is some mean country pickin' at 1:55 and Judy Hayden is ABSOLUTELY fascinated by it! Who wouldn't !!!
I been listening to the guy for a little better the 50 years.im trying to find an album .we had .i dont see it.the one with the water wheel an mill
Sooo love Judy Haden...
Merle and Speedy both had custom made Bigsbys. Speedy later worked with Fender to test and promote their guitars and ditched the Bigsby. He said he regretted it because it never had the same tone the bigsby did.
Raw to the bone pure marrow
Just GREAT!
Merle Was a Great Guitarist! WooF!
VERY GOOD MERLE TRAVIS
This is wonderful.
brilliant showman
eddie kirk is sick in this
Look at that Bigsby Standard guitar Merle is playing, a rare bird.
Incredible
Top Notch!
Remember this guy
Just great!!Thanks.
Perfection
Great video! It used to be on here but they took it off before I could grab it. I won't make that mistake THIS time! Thanks a million!
Eventually Merle was married to both those women. The black haired one was Dorothy Thompson (Hanks ex). He was married to her when he died in Oklahoma in 1983.
Bigby guitar and great boots
Bought the DVD, best 19 dolar deal one can find.
That was handmade and great music !
Cool
I didn't know that guitar was so thick, it must way a ton!
@bigtoozly - I hear ya. After watching this thing dozens of times, now I can only fixate on Eddie's crack rhythm work.
That Bigsby guitar later went to Jack Parsons, who had a Bigsby Vibrato put onto it.
This is the first solid body guitar made by P.Bigsby
I don't believe this is that guitar. Bibsby also made some hollowed out, or semihollow body guitars, and I believe this is one.
uniqueguitar.blogspot.com/2015/11/paul-bigsby-his-guitars-and-inventions.html
If that's solid, it's probably heavy as hell. Chambered, maybe?
Eddie Kirk was a Django fan. Mark it down.
All I can find about Judy Haven is Judy Farell, actress, who appeared in MASH, gee that sucks, I love her as a singer , any info'?
Actually a Sander Telescription rather than a Soundie. Big difference being is that Sanders were live rather than lip synched!
Румянцева американского кино,только Румянцева у нас не пела,а жаль.....!!!
When he kicks into THAT YODEL ...
I'm a Tex Ritter man myself...
See where chat Atkins got his style
Who is playing steel guitar in this. Can't see his face.
Any one know the history on the guitar he is playing ? I know its a bigsby and i have seen his solid body bigsby this one is much thicker .
Who’s here from the Ranger Doug’s classic cowboy corral?
An early country music video.
The words are funny, the playing is perfect, All those fancy jazz singers mentioned in this song, could not play the guitar and Mel could,
I bet he got too much sugar for a dime.
that’s too many buttons on a sleeveeeee
I hear that train whistle blowing. Its coming round the bend. Johnny Cash.....well its actually Jimmie Rodgers. You should listen to the great train riders. The masters.....Woody Guthrie, Jimmie Rogers, Box car Willie,
Judy Hayden was Merles wife then.
Anyone know what became of Judy? Mot Many videos of her and an internet search doesn't turn up any bio on her. All I found was that she was one of two wives to Merle. (The other was Mary E. Johnson Edwards) Merle ended up being divorced from both. Only kids I know of he had by Mary. Would love to find out more about Judy just out pf curiosity, like where she was born, how long she was married to Merle, when she died, where she was buried etc. Can't seem to find any info on her.
I was born too late.
That certainly isn't Alex Brashear on trumpet.
the bigsby w/o the bigsby
Roy Rodgers on rhythm guitar.
Eddie Kirk, actually.
Chris Berry The huge "Eddie Kirk" inscription on the scratchplate kind of gives it away, doesn't it?
jic1 Tell that to T Bone.
I bet you ain't know nothing about boats. THEY FLOAT :v
when men were men and women were women. america today is as messed up as ever.
+Jeff Porcaro Groove Get off my lawn.....
Now most people seem to want to look and act like teenage lesbians, especially the guys.
Luckily since teens are usually rebellious, the new generation of SJW and feminine parents will be parenting some conservative children. So we have some hope. Some studies have even showed results that the Gen Z kids are already more conservative than the Millennial generation.
Speedy got cheated of his cameo here due to an inept cameraman
.. lol ... they are so deplorable ... funny !
super fucking corny... but nice :)
that's no trumpet it's a cornet