I was too young to appreciate them in the day but man I'm glad I found them now! Buck is a seriously cool cat, Don is amazing, what a great band & song. I like how they are all dressed up, smiling, polite and act like they're happy to perform. Very different from the generally rude and disgraceful attitude of many of today's artists. Buck and his Buckaroos live on!
This is the peak of true country music... the professionalism of Buck, Don and the guys always shone through brilliantly. Happy to report that I saw them in concert back in the day ~ what a great evening's entertainment !
Saw Buck Owens with Don & the Buckaroos close the big Capitol Records show at the Hollywood. Bowl way back in 1967. Every country artist on Capitol was in the huge 3 hour show. After intermission, A young Merle Haggard opened the second half with his two big hits "All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers" & "Swinging Doors".
Being from Kentucky and having associated country music with Nashville TN and the big names from the locale: I am a bit flabbergasted to learn that Buck Owens and others were a product based/born and raised on the west coast! Just goes to show how stereotyping can work! Mr Owens was a true country singer of the time!
a REAL REAL NOTE REAL... COUNTRY STAR!. Buck Owens,Don Rich,Doyle Holly,Willie Cantu, Tom Brumley on a Fender 1000. ONE of the best Country Bands in HISTORY!.
WHEN I FIRST SAW DON RICH PICKING HIS FENDER TELECASTER I WAS HOOKED ON COUNTRY MUSIC AND THE FENDER TELECASTER AND HAVE BEEN PICKING TELES ALL MY LIFE !!
I'll bet Don never thought there'd come a day when his face and playing wouldn't need a name on his Tele's pickguard! :) Buck & Don together was a mighty force---no one until Dwight & Pete Anderson had that same sort of musical synergy. RIP guys---we miss you here today.
Ole Buck sure could do those Bakersfield shuffles like nobody else. And being a bass player, I am honored to get to play with the great Willie Cantoo (drummer)just about every weekend in Nashville, and he has taught me a lot and is awesome. And,, he makes a mean steak sandwich. Thanks for all the great timing Willie... You are the man ! Tim
Yep, Don Rich was fundamental to Buck Owens and his sound. Like a duo. Without Don Rich, it wouldn't have been the Buck Owens sound that people know and love. Billy Idol and Steve Stevens have had the same thing going on for their entire careers. A real tragedy that Don Rich passed at a young age. Without his musical collaborater, Buck Owens was never the same.
One of the greatest bands in country music, ever. Sadly, they are all deceased now, with the exception of the drummer, Willy Cantu. The pedal steel quitar player, Tom Brumley passed away recently.
I'm 15 and this is all the music I listen to old rockabilly (Elvis!) and country, along with some 50s-80s pop. I can't stand this new crap like Wrecking Ball and whatever else. Wholesome music like this inspires me so much.
Me too! I'm 13 and my favorite genre is rockabilly! I can't stand the new "music". It's all about money now. Back then it was the actual entertainment and the soul of the music. Check out my channel if you'd like!
An end to an era of music , but I would not be surprised if it did come back and will be received well. These posts speak to that . and I appreciate all the post .
Back then my college roommate was a Buck Fan...so I got to listen to all his music...it was all over the radio too. We were both livin' around that part of the country.
Thanks for the kind words, seans10...Don is / was simply the best & I've been blessed to have worked with many of them (including Buck and Don). My first country concert (actually, it was a 'show & dance') was in late '56 or early '57....Johnny Cash and The Tennessean Two..I was 12. Yep..just Marshall Grant, Luther Perkins and Johnny-no drummer-and what a show! Twenty-five years later JC was in my Nashville studio recording a Gospel album...talk about being truly blessed.. Yes, blessed.
Yeah he was. Amazing musician. When he crashed his motorcycle and died, Buck said the heart went out of making music for him, and it never held the same pure joy. So sad.
Don Rich put the miles on that Guitar. He didn't walk into a Guitar center or buy one from a "Boutique" builder for $2400 & pass it off as "Road Worthy".
I saw Buck Owens and the Buckaroos in Germany in the 60s, in fact many country singers visited Army stations in Europe. Jean Shepherd and Skeeter Davies did too.
This is a fabulous clip in particular how the group are introduced at the end my Lord these kids are barely out of High School what simply superb collection of musicians and artists absolutely the finest sound that came out of Bakersfield. Have a listen to the Secret Sisters tribute to this wonderful song. Paul N Linda Rue 2
I remember when I rediscovered Buck and the Buckaroos. It had been many years since I first heard them and I had put them aside when Don Rich died. When I got my first CD player, I needed material to play on it. I requested some box sets for Christmas that year and wound up with Patsy Cline’s set (still wonderful!) and a couple of Rock boxes. I pulled together the $ I got from folks and did a bit of shopping on my own. One of the boxes I bought was the Rhino Buck box. It was only three CDs but oh how packed they were! Hit after hit reignited my love for this man and his group. I went looking for more, but no Capitol reissues were forthcoming. So I started buying Buck’s vinyl albums sometimes two or three at a time, but there was one time I walked out of a store with Twelve titles under my arms! Laid down a couple of bucks for that Buck. Then I heard about a company called Sundazed Music out of Canada that specialized in reissue CDs. Buck had licensed most of his early albums to Sundazed and that’s where I started gathering Buck on CD. My college roommate had caught the Buck Fever so we were two crazy dudes who loved this stuff. Steve borrowed the Buck Box and taped it for the car (but as soon as we could, we both traded our cassette head units for CD car units. And as new titles came out I quickly acquired them. However, soon Sundazed lost the licensing rights and the Buck project ended just as the later material was being sought after. I found out that Omnivore Recordings (another reissue company) had grabbed the rights for the later Buck stuff. I even found out about a Don Rich solo album as well as the very last Buck album and how Capitol screwed him over in its release. Anyway, I acquired those CDs and started plotting how to grab the rest of the Buck albums. Unfortunately COVID came to live with us and priorities switched to other things. Fast Forward two weeks ago and I was just surfing the web. For fun, I called up Omnivore and they are still in the Buck business. I made a list and yesterday I pulled the switch and ordered up what I needed to complete my Buck collection. There might be another order, but it will be stuff that’s the “frosting” on top of the cake. For this Buck fan things truly are in a completion mode and I am very patiently waiting for the week to roll by when the order will show. My next project (which is nowhere near as large) will be finishing up my Willie Nelson collection. And in case you forgot or didn’t know Willie Nelson is also from Texas (Abbot) whereas Buck was from Sherman. At this point Willie Nelson is 92 and has outlived every popular singer out there. He even outlived both of his RCA producers Chet Atkinson and Felton Jarvis. Is it the weed or the golf? Willie isn’t telling but he’s still as great as ever and as far as this fan goes, he is still the greatest at his craft. I suspect that one day there’s going to be a whale of a concert somewhere with Buck, Don, Willie and many others who are in waiting for a blockbuster event to happen. And if it’s up to Heavenly Father to decide where to put it, just maybe the stadium will be a self-growing type to accommodate all of us fans who are yet to arrive. As Briscoe Darling said “you have time to breathe, you’ve got time for music.”
I was not too young for this. We watched them all the time. Fantastic!! Love Don Rich, too. Buck has great harmony. We couldn't get the Buck Owens show, or the Jimmy Dean show, etc. All of those artists with their specialized shows were not shown in our area.
This was an episode of the old JIMMY DEAN show....Dean was an established country singer in his own right....and later owned Jimmy Dean sausage company
Check out the drill rig behind them, which fits right in! Bucks Home-20 was Bakersfield, CA, which had a lot of oil rigs, as it had some productive oil fields. Ergo, the drill rigs! (lol)...
Wish people could see what Buck & the boys looked like in color. I think there's some YT posts of the Buck Owens TV show from almost this time period that were in color. Worth checking out.
I don't care who you are, if you don't think this is great and you don't think Don and Buck aren't havin' the time of their lifes, get the hell outta here.
Reminds me of my childhood, this is what my parents would watch. Just about every country show they televised. Kind of strange today that the only music they show is for people 18 or under but back in those days adult music played frequently on TV.
From "The Jimmy Dean Show", weekly 60 minute variety show on ABC-TV from 1963 to 1966. I used to love that show when I was a kid. It was produced and taped in New York City. This was the same year that Buck did his successful concert at Carnegie Hall in New York, which was recorded for an LP and is on CD now.
How the hell did we go from this to what's called country today!!! Now, I don't mind today's "hot country" but they should call it something else, and let country be country! I'm a country boy and I still play and sing this kind of music and love it ,and I'll never abandon it.
![Buck Owens & His Buckaroos - Act Naturally [Live] - 1966](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fOpgL4mqEis/mqdefault.jpg)
I'm from Bakersfield grew up watching buck grow ❤
Don Rich is ome of country music's unsung greats.
New country music don't hold a candle to the old country music
That's for sure.
YOU ARE EXCATELY RIGHT ✅️
They have next to nothing in common.
I’m 19 years old and this is the truest form of country as your gonna get
Don Rich was the best.
'Dangerous' Don Rich never stopped smiling. The joy with which he plays makes me happy every time I see these old clips.
I am blessed to be going out with one of Buck Owens Grand Daughter's.
How did it work out
Russell Prinz that was three years ago. How did that work out for you?
That is Awesome !
I’m calling bullsh!t
You look like Tom segura
Buck Owens,y favorite song, thank you so much, beautiful
I was too young to appreciate them in the day but man I'm glad I found them now! Buck is a seriously cool cat, Don is amazing, what a great band & song. I like how they are all dressed up, smiling, polite and act like they're happy to perform. Very different from the generally rude and disgraceful attitude of many of today's artists. Buck and his Buckaroos live on!
Agree 100%
Aa
Totally agree.
Buck was country music personified for real!
Don Rich was such a great musician and singer. Great fiddler too! What a great team they made. Buck was heartbroken when Don died.
Baci302 I pray that you are right. In my 60 years, I’ve never seen a talent like Don Rich. All my best to you and yours....
Bucks Owens' "sound" was definitely the harmony of him and Don Rich! The best side man of all time! RIP Don...
Buck and Don were the best duo ever. Buck had the best of the best musicians
This is the peak of true country music... the professionalism of Buck, Don and the guys always shone through brilliantly. Happy to report that I saw them in concert back in the day ~ what a great evening's entertainment !
Saw Buck Owens with Don & the Buckaroos close the big Capitol Records show at the Hollywood. Bowl way back in 1967. Every country artist on Capitol was in the huge 3 hour show. After intermission, A young Merle Haggard opened the second half with his two big hits "All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers" & "Swinging Doors".
Being from Kentucky and having associated country music with Nashville TN and the big names from the locale: I am a bit flabbergasted to learn that Buck Owens and others were a product based/born and raised on the west coast! Just goes to show how stereotyping can work! Mr Owens was a true country singer of the time!
@@timothymcdonald6913 Bakersfield was an interesting place!
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Nothing better than old music especially old country music like this
Real Music! Nothing is better than this!
a REAL REAL NOTE REAL... COUNTRY STAR!.
Buck Owens,Don Rich,Doyle Holly,Willie Cantu, Tom Brumley on a Fender 1000.
ONE of the best Country Bands in HISTORY!.
When I am having a bad day.......I just listen to Buck Owens on my iPod and life is good again:-)
I so agree
+StormLaker1975 I don't know but this is not working anymore with me :'(
This comment has aged like fine wine. It should be archived in the pages of history
I loved this song when I was a kid!
Buck and Don are such a bad ass pair they got so many hits
when Country Was country RIP Buck &Don
Don Rich was such a hot musician and had a great singing star too. I liked him as well as Buck! They sound fantastic together.
+Nunya Bidness He did! He and Buck had a really fun time playing together.
+Terri Lynn Merritts He should be in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
I miss him
WHEN I FIRST SAW DON RICH PICKING HIS FENDER TELECASTER I WAS HOOKED ON COUNTRY MUSIC AND THE FENDER TELECASTER AND HAVE BEEN PICKING TELES ALL MY LIFE !!
I'll bet Don never thought there'd come a day when his face and playing wouldn't need a name on his Tele's pickguard! :) Buck & Don together was a mighty force---no one until Dwight & Pete Anderson had that same sort of musical synergy. RIP guys---we miss you here today.
My heart skips a beat when I hear this song best example of what country really is!!
A true country icon. Boy, if only we could find 'em like this, again.
I always loved Tom Brumley playing steel guitar (even later with Rick Nelson); He was always my favorite steel player
You gotta love this. Especially the introductions at the end. "Them that he don't kill he cripples up." That's just great.
That's beautiful, man. That's the real stuff, right there. God bless ol' Buck and the Buckaroos.
Buck's Starlite eyes and his glancing smile. Things they can't teach. And you have it Buck! Now share it. They will love the kid Buck
I wonder what happened to all of his incredible suits after he passed... He had many. ❤❤❤
Ole Buck sure could do those Bakersfield shuffles like nobody else. And being a bass player, I am honored to get to play with the great Willie Cantoo (drummer)just about every weekend in Nashville, and he has taught me a lot and is awesome. And,, he makes a mean steak sandwich. Thanks for all the great timing Willie... You are the man !
Tim
Yep, Don Rich was fundamental to Buck Owens and his sound. Like a duo. Without Don Rich, it wouldn't have been the Buck Owens sound that people know and love. Billy Idol and Steve Stevens have had the same thing going on for their entire careers. A real tragedy that Don Rich passed at a young age. Without his musical collaborater, Buck Owens was never the same.
I miss you Buck. I listened to you in my childhood country home. I never appreciated you until I became and adult. RIP Buck
much LOVE
Havin a drink for Don and Buck. Thank you for your genius.
One of the greatest bands in country music, ever. Sadly, they are all deceased now, with the exception of the drummer, Willy Cantu. The pedal steel quitar player, Tom Brumley passed away recently.
RIP MR. DON RICH....YOU WERE AWESOME FOR SURE....
this whole band is something else. they are totally grooving here.
I'm 15 and this is all the music I listen to old rockabilly (Elvis!) and country, along with some 50s-80s pop. I can't stand this new crap like Wrecking Ball and whatever else. Wholesome music like this inspires me so much.
Me too! I'm 13 and my favorite genre is rockabilly! I can't stand the new "music". It's all about money now. Back then it was the actual entertainment and the soul of the music. Check out my channel if you'd like!
same I love the older country
Tabitha Beac
Well hope ya still Love this classic Country!
dannybflat I love this song so much it makes me feel like this when I see this girl and my knees Trimble
Boy oh boy what a band he had and all of em handsome fellers. I wish my parents would've raised me on country music..🙏❤
Hell of a Year 1966 Yes Sire. The best music ever.
This older country music can't be beat.
OMG so many memories,the LEGEND OF LEGENDS!!!!!!!!!!!! Miss you Buck!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did anyone see Buck Owens an play in the Saddlerack in San Jose California 1970's? Those were the days.
An end to an era of music , but I would not be surprised if it did come back and will be received well. These posts speak to that . and I appreciate all the post .
They were adorable.
R.I.P. Buck. Just had Jimmy"s funeral a little while back in Richmond, Va. Very large turn out. So R.I.P. Jimmy
Back then my college roommate was a Buck Fan...so I got to listen to all his music...it was all over the radio too. We were both livin' around that part of the country.
Yeah, that was on the old Jimmy Dean show. Glad to see Willie Cantu mentioned - one of the best and most underappreciated drummers in country music.
Never the same without the incredible talent of Don Rich.
Amen to that. Don is sorely missed.
R. I. P.
BUCK OWENS 🎸🇨🇱
Don Rich🎸
Miss you. Buck. Owens. Rest. In. Heaven. Country
Miss you. Buck. Bring . Bac . Memoories
Sweet song. Buck was a phenomenal.
Thanks for the kind words, seans10...Don is / was simply the best & I've been blessed to have worked with many of them (including Buck and Don). My first country concert (actually, it was a 'show & dance') was in late '56 or early '57....Johnny Cash and The Tennessean Two..I was 12. Yep..just Marshall Grant, Luther Perkins and Johnny-no drummer-and what a show! Twenty-five years later JC was in my Nashville studio recording a Gospel album...talk about being truly blessed.. Yes, blessed.
enjoyable rock and roll music.
1966 ❤❤ I was 6 yrs old started std 1.was a great time ,this times will never come back again. 31.08.24.
What's to say? Buck Owens and Don Rich: superior talent such as this doesn't just happen. These two finding each other had to be a miracle.
Don Rich was awesome
great entertainer and always smiling
Notton
Yeah he was. Amazing musician. When he crashed his motorcycle and died, Buck said the heart went out of making music for him, and it never held the same pure joy. So sad.
Bakersfield personified. Buck. damn. It didn't get any better than this.
Without Buck and the Electric Bakersfield Sound, you don't get to the Flying Burrito Brothers, The Eagles, or the entire "California Sound".
Billy Dec where did the Butthole Surfers come from?
+Grady Bledsoe Texas. San Antonio, specifically.
Andrew Millet Hahaha!
oxoxo yes!
Buck WAS the California sound. Nashville had NOTHING to do with his big hits in the 60s.
Look at all the wear on Don Rich's fretboard...that guitar had the livin shit played out of it by then
Love that steel guitar....the band is AMAZING.....❤😮
Nobody harmonizes like Buck and Don
Don Rich put the miles on that Guitar. He didn't walk into a Guitar center or buy one from a "Boutique" builder for $2400 & pass it off as "Road Worthy".
It sure was nice to drive about 2 miles to see Buck play. He would play every Friday and Saturday night. We were spoiled here in Bakersfield.
37...lets enjoy the best, raised on country, But alway had hip hop/Rap my whole life.
I saw Buck Owens and the Buckaroos in Germany in the 60s, in fact many country singers visited Army stations in Europe. Jean Shepherd and Skeeter Davies did too.
The guitar playing is out of this world but let’s not overlook Willie Cantù’s pounding drum work. Makes you want to get up and dance.
Takes me home back to the good old days !!
This is a fabulous clip in particular how the group are introduced at the end my Lord these kids are barely out of High School what simply superb collection of musicians and artists absolutely the finest sound that came out of Bakersfield. Have a listen to the Secret Sisters tribute to this wonderful song. Paul N Linda Rue 2
Paul O Don was about 25 here and Buck was 12 years older. Willie Cantu was 18 I think.
I remember when I rediscovered Buck and the Buckaroos. It had been many years since I first heard them and I had put them aside when Don Rich died. When I got my first CD player, I needed material to play on it. I requested some box sets for Christmas that year and wound up with Patsy Cline’s set (still wonderful!) and a couple of Rock boxes. I pulled together the $ I got from folks and did a bit of shopping on my own. One of the boxes I bought was the Rhino Buck box. It was only three CDs but oh how packed they were! Hit after hit reignited my love for this man and his group. I went looking for more, but no Capitol reissues were forthcoming. So I started buying Buck’s vinyl albums sometimes two or three at a time, but there was one time I walked out of a store with Twelve titles under my arms! Laid down a couple of bucks for that Buck. Then I heard about a company called Sundazed Music out of Canada that specialized in reissue CDs. Buck had licensed most of his early albums to Sundazed and that’s where I started gathering Buck on CD. My college roommate had caught the Buck Fever so we were two crazy dudes who loved this stuff. Steve borrowed the Buck Box and taped it for the car (but as soon as we could, we both traded our cassette head units for CD car units. And as new titles came out I quickly acquired them. However, soon Sundazed lost the licensing rights and the Buck project ended just as the later material was being sought after. I found out that Omnivore Recordings (another reissue company) had grabbed the rights for the later Buck stuff. I even found out about a Don Rich solo album as well as the very last Buck album and how Capitol screwed him over in its release. Anyway, I acquired those CDs and started plotting how to grab the rest of the Buck albums. Unfortunately COVID came to live with us and priorities switched to other things. Fast Forward two weeks ago and I was just surfing the web. For fun, I called up Omnivore and they are still in the Buck business. I made a list and yesterday I pulled the switch and ordered up what I needed to complete my Buck collection. There might be another order, but it will be stuff that’s the “frosting” on top of the cake. For this Buck fan things truly are in a completion mode and I am very patiently waiting for the week to roll by when the order will show. My next project (which is nowhere near as large) will be finishing up my Willie Nelson collection. And in case you forgot or didn’t know Willie Nelson is also from Texas (Abbot) whereas Buck was from Sherman. At this point Willie Nelson is 92 and has outlived every popular singer out there. He even outlived both of his RCA producers Chet Atkinson and Felton Jarvis. Is it the weed or the golf? Willie isn’t telling but he’s still as great as ever and as far as this fan goes, he is still the greatest at his craft. I suspect that one day there’s going to be a whale of a concert somewhere with Buck, Don, Willie and many others who are in waiting for a blockbuster event to happen. And if it’s up to Heavenly Father to decide where to put it, just maybe the stadium will be a self-growing type to accommodate all of us fans who are yet to arrive. As Briscoe Darling said “you have time to breathe, you’ve got time for music.”
I was in the hospital hooked up to a heart monitor and my heart skipped a beat. This song has been stuck in my head ever since.
I was not too young for this. We watched them all the time. Fantastic!! Love Don Rich, too. Buck has great harmony.
We couldn't get the Buck Owens show, or the Jimmy Dean show, etc. All of those artists with their specialized shows were not shown in our area.
Didn't grow up with country music, but learned of this gem thanks to The Secret Sisters.
I adore their version! Their song was how I learned the lyrics.
This was an episode of the old JIMMY DEAN show....Dean was an established country singer in his own right....and later owned Jimmy Dean sausage company
As far as I'm concerned every country singer today imitates Buck's voice. No doubt about it. That is the most beautiful Nocaster I've ever seen.
Tom Brumley is honey to my ears
Real Country Music!
Don't get any better than this Buck Owens .
Check out the drill rig behind them, which fits right in! Bucks Home-20 was Bakersfield, CA, which had a lot of oil rigs, as it had some productive oil fields. Ergo, the drill rigs! (lol)...
+oldcarboater This being the Jimmy Dean show, I'm sure the oil rigs were a nod to his west Texas roots.
owens loved how teles could get that real twangy country sound
Perhaps the greatest country music band ever. This version of the Buckaroos was the best ever. Don't forget Tom Brumley on pedal steel guitar.
Buck and "Dangerous" Don. It doesn't get any better than this.
Wish people could see what Buck & the boys looked like in color. I think there's some YT posts of the Buck Owens TV show from almost this time period that were in color. Worth checking out.
Buck Owens one of the nicest guys you could ever meet.
I don't care who you are, if you don't think this is great and you don't think Don and Buck aren't havin' the time of their lifes, get the hell outta here.
AMEN !!!!!!!!!!!
Look at the derricks in the background. Do they have oil in Bakersfield? Goddam right they do!
awesome!
Reminds me of my childhood, this is what my parents would watch. Just about every country show they televised. Kind of strange today that the only music they show is for people 18 or under but back in those days adult music played frequently on TV.
who are the 57 people who gave a thumbs down? Must be miserable.
Must be sad to have such an unhappy life..
Some folks have their brains in their underwear.
I kinda hate to pile on, but... could you imagine being married to one of those people? Or being his or her kid? What a joy that would be, huh?
May their posteriors be invaded by flaming porcupines.
god bless you don rich...If I dont nmeet in this life, i will be playin with you in the next!
Those are oil derricks in the background, Bakersfield being an oil field town back then. Pretty Cool!!
From "The Jimmy Dean Show", weekly 60 minute variety show on ABC-TV from 1963 to 1966. I used to love that show when I was a kid. It was produced and taped in New York City. This was the same year that Buck did his successful concert at Carnegie Hall in New York, which was recorded for an LP and is on CD now.
How the hell did we go from this to what's called country today!!! Now, I don't mind today's "hot country" but they should call it something else, and let country be country! I'm a country boy and I still play and sing this kind of music and love it ,and I'll never abandon it.
Buck, Don, Jimmy -- miss you all.
Hearing Don and Buck harmonize together on a chorus together is a damn thing of beauty
Thank You I'm a BIG Fan!
Buck Owens was awesome.
Never heard this one...WOW....LOVE IT....thank you for showing this.......😮❤❤❤❤
Really enjoyed it, I thank you for sharing.