GENE TRACY: "Truck Stop #1": A Truck Stop Is The Best Place To Eat
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- Gene Tracy's Truck Stop #1: "A Truck Stop Is The Best Place To Eat" (1974).
The legend begins here, with loads of classic--and filthy!!!--jokes, including "Hurricane Gussy", "Cup Of Coffee And P.I.S.S.", "Full Of Ice Cream", and the legendary "Piccolo Player" joke.
Taken from an 8-Track cartridge, doubtless the way you first heard it (hence the occasional hiss, defects and "cross-talk").
I do not claim any ownership or copyright on the recording or material. Fair Use Act, 1976.
I'll keep an eye out for you Sonny!!!!!!!!!! Started listening to Gene on 8 Track when I was 15 in 1971. I now have over 30 Truckstop CDs. Been telling his jokes all my life. People tell me I should be a comedian. RIP Gene, you put the laghter in my life.
My dad has cancer, I showed this to him yesterday and he listened and remembered he had this when he was younger, we laughed and laughed and he told me alot of stories of him and his friends driving down the roads listening to gene, thank you for putting it on here, glad he could laugh and forget his troubles for a little while.
+Charles Brown Sorry to hear about your dad,but glad to hear that Gene's works are still bringing back laughter and good memories.
+Charles Brown You have my sincere condolences Charles....
Sorry your Dad is ill, but bless you and your family. I recall this tape and my Dad too :)
My dad hid his 8-track tapes of Gene Tracy. Just not good enough. I was 10 or 11 at the time. The weather vane joke is my all time favorite joke
Sorry about your dad, man. Your post is two years old, I hope all is well. I remember coming across an 8-track my uncle had. He passed away and in 2003 at 50. Funny how I come around to remembering Gene Tracy after I forgot his name but could remember truck stop:
My brother emailed me (in December) about Cheech and Chong's Santa and His Old Lady and was bit surprised it was released in '71. Then I told about the time we were listening to Richard Pryor in another uncle's truck. That's what got me started. My uncle that passed away in 2003 was a truck driver.
As a 27 year old in 2021 Gene Tracy will never get old !
Gene Tracy and Jerry Clower,,,,2 ABSOLUTE LEGENDS of the SOUTH!!!!!! Their work is totally Timeless!!!! THEY both should have MADE it HUGE in the Comedy business but were content doing simple shows, pleasing Simple people who appreciate a down to earth performer!!!! Amazing AND gave so much joy to Millions of people over the years! Maybe 10's of Millions!!!???
I still remember riding with my father in his copper colored KW and him playing this and just laughing his ass off and popping pills. That was back when trucking was trucking.
I know that's right
I DID TOO
I been there Brother. ( Mr. NEVERHOME )
Back in 76, my dad was selling bootleg 8-tracks to truckstops and mom-n-pop gas stations all over the Pacific Northwest...including several Gene Tracy. I'd listen to them when he was gone and laugh my butt off....til tears were streaming down my face. I was 15 that summer. I still tell several of these dirty, old jokes to this day.
Never gets old hearing old Gene Tracy jokes.
Nope!
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He was my neighbor at Radio Center Apartments in Charlotte NC. I remember taking him to the hospital Emergency Room in the early morning hours when he was suffering from Congestive Heart Failure.
You the piccolo player?
Radio center is a dump. I don’t know how it was back then. You must have some stories to tell about the late great Gene Tracy!!
Didn’t you run the Double Door Inn?
@@rapman5791 Yes my brother and I had the Double Door. This incident was almost 50 years ago. Radio Center was all I could afford without a roommate back then. It was mostly older people, quiet, and well maintained.
@@fiddlyphuk6414 Not me.
@@rapman5791 Central Piedmont bought the land the Double Door occupied. The Double Door is no more. I miss the people who patronized us.
I grew up around trucking in the 70's. My dad was an owner operator, leased to Carolina Western. It was before Pilot's or Flying J's. Lots of mom & pop truckstops had bars that only opened at night. Or they'd be nearby and Gene would tour around to them. I'd go back to school & tell my friends these jokes. Pampered kids that'd never heard a filthy joke in their life. But would nearly be rolling on the floor. I miss the old days of trucking though.
lol...my brother and i would listen to my father's gene tracy tapes when we were kids...laughed our butts off. we are 59 and 60 yrs. old now and still laugh about that.
Cool! I uploaded tape #7 on my other channel...look for it! ;)
Same here. My step dad was a long haul trucker.
I'll be 57 on the 29th
So hilarious and I hiked cross country mostly by truckers what fun.
If I never hiked cross country 48states would not heard Gene Tracy
I used to sneak into my dad's old cab-over White Freightliner and listen to his Gene Tracy tapes when I was a kid - lol. Good times and great memories!
My Dad used to tell me all his jokes from this tape from memory, and I heard them that way for *years* before finding the old 8-Tracks again.
+Trace Miller Remember all the girly mags under the bunk? I sure do my brother and i would stay out in his truck for hours at a time..... Looking and listening>>>>
Oh yeah, Harlan Mote. The trips my stepfather would occasionally take me along on got a lot more interesting when I found the mags under the mattress!
It was 1978 I believe the first time I heard Gene Tracy heading to S. Carolina for summer break with my father. I remember him laughing so hard at his comedy. One of my best road trips with my dad. Lost dad this year to alzheimers. Miss you dad but Summer of "78" will always be one of my greatest moments in my life & Mr. Tracy is part of that.😄💛
Hurricane Gussy is one of the funniest jokes I’ve ever heard. Thank you for uploading this!
Leroy the swamper is great too!
“First thing I’d do is wake up Leroy.”
“Me and Leroy been together 17 years and he ain’t never seen no mother-trucking’ wreck like we fixin’ to have.”
I remember listening to this I high school and memorizing his jokes and reciting them to my friends, causing all kinds of disruptions!
I did same, also with all rodney dangerfield one liners, my teacher wrote on my report card, needs to be a comedian
Love this guy, remember my dad pulling this 8 track out when his friends were over and playing it. Of course my sister and I were in bed then. Got ahold of it when he was gone to work and played it. Played it for all my friends.😆😁😄
Discovered Gene Tracy in 1989 and I must have told the Hurricane Gussy joke a couple hundred times since then. Great stuff!
1974 for me. In 6th grade
About 23 years ago I worked a graveyard shift. Out of boredom I would go to the tape store to look at the new music. I enjoyed looking at the comedy section. I picked up a tape of Gene Tracy and figured I'd give it a shot. I have been a fan since.
Cool! Always great to hear there's some Gene fans out there!
@@ShadesBelow03 Quick question for You. What’s wrong with the audio??? I can hear like another track playing in the background like the 2 shows were like playing at the same time.
Remember listening to this exact 8-Track back around 74-75 when I was 8-9.years old used to laugh my butt off..
Me as well
I remember my grandfather listening to this stuff on the old 8 track and is laughing our asses off.
“It’s gonna have to get better’n this before I learn to like it” I’m from Tennessee and only southern folk understand. Once again, thank you for uploading this.
You southern folk, and us kids back in the day that was lucky enough to get our hands on one of his 8 tracks and learned to recite these jokes like we new and understood the southern lingo. There was no better comedian in North or South my friend.
He was great. No doubt about it.
I found Truck Stop #14 and #21 today, unopened for 75 cents each...!!!
Lucky S.O.B.!!!
Gawd Dam Daddy
Treasures
Ah, the memories! My dad, a salesman of 8-track tapes to many a truck stop and other mom n pop shops in the Pacific Northwest in the 70s had a stash of Gene Tracy tapes that I found when I was 15. I listened to 'em all...over n over again. Funny stuff...and I used many of these jokes in the course of 21 years in the Navy.
+Michael Moss I did 23 years in the Army, now I do VA disability claims -- always for the veteran. I always wondered what it meant when a Navy evaluation of a CPO said :"masterful command of the English language",
Thanks Red...that's especially true in the Chief's Mess.
Thank you gentlemen for your service !!!
Gene tracy me and my grandpas favorite god bless who shared these! Brings back great memories.
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GO REST HIGH ON THE MOUNTAIN. THANK GOD 4 GRANDDADS. THANKS POPPIE
My mom was an Avon Lady, love the Avon Lady one😂😂😂
Always have a"wild time."every time I listen to Gene tracy.
I remember listening to this guys tapes when I was a kid LOL
I haven't heard this in about 40 years and its stil one of the best ever ehhh
I actually Saw Gene several times in 1979 at the Cheetah III lounge in Pompano Bch., Florida he was an riot, I was 17 back then.
Charles Schwable the cheetah in Pompano was legendary I have so many great memories there of looking at those gorgeous girls and I would have loved to have seen Gene
Gene died November 3, 1979... 😏❓
1978 truck stop off I-40, laughed my ass off all the way to Showlow AZ.
Thanks so much ... remember listening in my Dad's shop when I was a kid. Great memories!
He ain't joking about Carolina Freight drivers, now is he?
Man, does this bring back some memories! Thank you for posting this.
That's what I thought.
Very funnym my grandpa loved listening to this. Gave him nostalgia from growing up!
Been listening to Gene Tracy for years always funny even after I've heard it many times
Nothing got popular as fast as the 8-Track or vanished overnight when the cassette player came along.
My dad used to drink beer and play these out in his truck when I was 6 or 7 LOL
Discovered Gene in the 80’s. Funny stuff!
I always wondered what jerry clower would be like drunk
I love listening to this Whoever put it on TH-cam I’m glad they did because if They didn’t a lot of people would not know about it 2019 fixing to go into 2020 and Its still funny love it and you can Pick up on some of where the comedians now days got some other material
I love to hear this man hes so funny he makes me laugh so hard I start to cough my head off
Oh man, I remember stumbling onto a stack of these 8-tracks as a kid; never heard anything like it, since.
wow i remember to listening to these when i was a teenager. we would get drunk and roll around listening to these jokes. thanks for sharing.. lost all my 8 tracks when i left them on the roof of my car.
Super dirty jokes and funny for sure. Thanks for the post here.
I had 3 or 4 Gene Tracy 8 tacks I bought at auto parts store, while my mom was in the bar. My mom loved it lol
Gene tracey is the best I love to listen to him
The white Dolomite!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Someone did a really good job putting these together on tape. There's no fade between track changes, but rather just a (very short) pause between...[CLICK]... words.
I'd be willing to bet that he's one of the most bootlegged of all time. I've seen far more boot carts of his stuff than official.
DriveInFreak Thanks! Did it myself. Some of the other ones I posted were not done as nicely, but they are here in their complete form. And, yes, you see more boot versions of them than the original legitimate copies.
Hurricane Gussy ..That woman will Hurt you ..That's what I've heard
Remembering Gene Tracy, 35 years later:
April 8, 1927 - November 3, 1979.
Only 52 when he went?
@@MisterMikeTexas yes.. imagine how famous he wouldve been if he had gotten signed by Laff Records...
Well, they used to be. Every truckstop in America had a
family style sit down restaurant where drivers could get
good home cooked meals served up by cute waitresses.
But some years ago all the truckstops got rid of those
and put in fast food joints.
!
Found one of my brothers Gene Tracy 8 track tapes when I was about 9 years old. Had the entire tape memorized by the time my dad found and burned it
For anyone wondering, the intro song at the beginning is called Outa Space by Billy Preston.
Thanks, I couldn't put my finger on it.
I, too, used to listen to my dad's 8-tracks of several of Tracy's albums....loved them and used many of these jokes for years!
My Dad used to tell me all of his jokes for years, long before I started finding some of the old tapes at the Goodwill and thrift stores, so I knew most of them by then, but Gene's way of telling them was a riot, especially the "harelip" jokes!
My brother's name was Tracy. When we were teens, we lived in a tiny farm town in Utah, he bought all the Gene Tracy tapes (on 8 track) he could. My brother is gone but I'm still telling Gene Tracy jokes!
"Hey lady, want a bite of my sandwich?"
God help us without comedians like Gene.
Really funny tape and super dirty as well. Thanks for posting this on youtube.
Glad you enjoyed it
You're welcome! Glad to see some Gene Tracy fans out there! I have some other ones on here on my channel, and maybe some more sometime soon.
Shades Below, I’m trying to find the tape that has Gene telling the story about the Klondike Club. It involves drinking a gallon of whiskey, jumping into the icy river, a bear, and a woman. Do you know which tape that story is on and do you have it posted on TH-cam? These tapes bring back great memories of my daddy.
My gawd and thank you 50 times. Just had a wild hair and came looking. You DID it! I listened to these filthy things when I was a teenager. And ever after I have carried around about a half dozen of his jokes to use whenever the opportunity arrives. Thanks for your super work!
@Mel Phillips You can find them cheap on eBay and Amazon.
@@jwjva very funny Gene Tracy
Smoke a dube and listen to Gene. Your life will be transformed.
Facts
wow, never heard of or knew of this guy but his jokes are well traveled, heard a bunch of them and now i know they came from this guy. it's funny because my dad and his brothers would tell jokes the same way gene would, my uncle did amazing "hair lip" jokes, as a kid i would laugh my ass off to them, some 3 decades later i find out they were doing gene tracy. now i know why my dad and his brothers were so funny...
2019 and still here
A friend of mine I grew up with his dad was a trucker and he had some of Gene Tracys stuff on 8 tracks and I used to laugh till I cried a some of those jokes
Le Roy's my Swamper!🤣🤣🤣
Man oh man do I love me some Gene Tracy. Thanks for the quality content!
I used to sneak in my dad's truck and listen to this.
Cool good job ,
thanks man
This man is the Godfather of blue collar comedy.
i heard this in 75 and it warped my fragile little mind
Just shared this with all my truck driver friends
Apparently Norm MacDonald knew Gene Tracy backwards and forwards. RIP Norm.
Thanks... I listened to this when I was a teenager and I'm still laughing my fucking ass off
40 years on, I wonder how he would fare today if he came onto the scene now...?
He'd be considered tame with some of the stuff now. But he was funny as hell back then. I still laugh when I listen to these
I grew up listening to truck stop number 11 by the time I was a junior high I could speak it fluently with accent I haven't heard any Gene Tracy in years and I've never heard hurricane Gussy. I about fell out of my chair I'm so glad for TH-cam because I don't think there's any way you could find these on a track or dvd CD I don't think this stuff's in print anymore but I'm so thankful and share this share it because comedy is not the same is it used to be. It's some fucked-up Twisted shit just like me and I love it
My friend turned me on to this exact 8-track in 1978! I was in 7th grade.
Him and Dolomite do some of the same style of jokes .
L.M.A.O. WITH GENE FOR 45 YEARS !
Bro, I've only seen these on 8-Track. If you converted these to here, you tha man! :)
I remember my dad had one of his 8 track tapes it was hilarious
i wanted to hear Leroys my Swamper.thats one i remember.
OMG!! i had completely forgot about this guy.My best friend Mike RIP... dad was a trucker(Former Fighter pilot flew with Chuck Yeager when was stationed at Seymour Johnson AFB)dad a tape of Gene Tracy and we used to listen to him and just laugh our asses off.I miss those days wish i could go back just for one night.The only problem is if i could i wouldn't want to come back.
Cant take 67more of them😅😊😅😊😅
Thanks for uploading these!
In 1974, when I was 13, my mother was remarried to a wild-assed trucker who would occasionally take me along on short runs. While he flirted with the truck stop waitresses, I'd roam the trucker's store checking out all the CB gadgets and related trucker stuff and remember well seeing the Gene Tracy 8-Track bootlegs. My stepdad had most of the releases but this one really stands out in my memory. Recall listening while kicking back in the sleeper bunk and checking out the adult magazines that I discovered under the mattress.
Coffee P-I-S-S!!! PUT IN SOME SUGAR!!!
i had all these loved them all
I believe I've figured out where my dad learned his jokes.
Ya this guy is funny as hell my old man has a couple 8 tracks Sounds like this is off 8 track
It is...doubtless the way many people heard these!
@@ShadesBelow03 Do you have any Gene Tracy and Wildman Steve that's a good 8 track
I remember this from my teens..still hilarious
I'm only 55.Heard this when I was just a kid
No it just don't get old.
That’s just a gawd damn travesty. Thank ya much
The funniest man I have ever heard. Nasty tho!!!
i love how you can tell this is an 8track you can hear the other tracks bleeding through... you can hear where he got the match book shim put in
Matchbooks, cardboard, paper...every little bit helps! ;)
Amen another wild time at the truck stop
Ting a Ling, that's some funny shit
Great comedy
Comedy at it's best!
Had a nerdy buddy at work listen to this and his only comment was "He sure cusses a lot". I'm Like Really? That's all you got out of this you dork ?
Typical. Or something like, "Eww, that's old-time humor".
@@ShadesBelow03 Or else "What's so funny about that? There's no anti-Trump jokes in it and he makes fun of black people and hairlips. It hurts my little snowflake feelings. Waaaaaah. "
"after dinner speaker" Lol!!
One of the backs of the 8-track labels said that "he can work any type of audience, from Sunday School to Stag". I can just imagine Gene sneaking in some dirty jokes to the kids at a church picnic!
His promo team may have been stretching a bit thinking he could work those type of venues. Lol! :)
He does tell a story at the end of "Truck Stop #4" where a hall manager warns him about using dirty language onstage, but ends up blurting it out himself!
And she let a fart right in his face. And two or three minutes later she let another one !
Rip gone too soon at 52 years old
he autograped an 8 trac for me at taladegarace track one satuurday night
Very clever jokes.