In Memoriam: Buck Owens

[torker]

<p><font size="2"><strong>Country singer Buck Owens, who had a string of US hit records, has died at the age of 76.</strong> </font></p><p>Owens co-hosted US variety TV show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1986 and had hits with singles including I've Got a Tiger by the Tail and Love's Gonna Live Here. </p><p></p><p><img height="339" src="http://chronicle.augusta.com/images/headlines/051904/23977_512.jpg" width="512" border="0" /></p>

[bobrobot]

<p><strong><font color="#000099">&nbsp;I&nbsp;loved Hee Haw and I REALLY WANTED 1 of those red, white &amp; blue guitars. Buck Owens WAS the Bakersfield sound &amp;&nbsp;he influenced a LOT of great musicians like Gram Parsons &amp; Clarence White. ADIOS Buckaroo!!!</font></strong></p><p><img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/bobogolem/BuckOwensGuitar.jpg" border="0" /></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by bobogolem on 3-25-06 @ 5:26 PM</span>

[Gvac]

<p>I grew up watching &quot;Hee Haw&quot; with my dad, and I remember Buck and Roy Clark jammin' away.&nbsp; I'm sad to hear he's gone.</p><p>Buck
also wrote one of the most beautiful country songs ever - &quot;Together
Again.&quot;&nbsp; I don't think you'll ever hear anything as pretty as
Emmylou Harris singing it. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

[bobrobot]

<strong>Gvac</strong> wrote:&nbsp;I remember Buck and Roy Clark jammin' away.&nbsp;&nbsp; <p><img height="275" src="http://www.whatonearthcatalog.com/graphics/products/regular/AT5502T.jpg" width="275" border="0" /></p>

[FezPaul]

<p>&quot;listenin' to Buck Owens&quot; -John Fogerty</p><p>Anyone mentioned in a CCR song must be cool</p>

[El Mudo]

Buck Owens was great...One of the icons of the industry...

Pioneered the whole "Bakersfield Sound" which added electric guitars and a bigger drum sound to the music...essentially it was the mix of rock sounds with country harmonies...

He made it possible for guys like Merle Haggard, and my musical icon, Dwight Yoakam to become legends in their own right...Dwight himself helped pick Buck's career back up with "Streets of Bakersfield" in '86....one of my all time favorite songs...


See ya at the next rodeo big guy....





"I came here looking for something
I couldn't find anywhere else
Hey, I'm not trying to be nobody
Just want a chance to be myself

I've done a thousand miles of thumbin'
I've worn holes in both my heels
Trying to find me something better
On the streets of Bakersfield


You don't know me, but you don't like me
You say you care less how I feel
But how many of you that sit and judge me
Have ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?

Spent sometime in San Francisco
Spent a night there in the can
They threw this drunk man in my jail cell
Took fifteen dollars from that man
Left him my watch and my old house key
Don't want folks thinkin' that I'd steal
Then I thanked him as I was leaving, and
I headed for the streets of Bakersfield

You don't know me, but you don't like me
You say you care less how I feel
But how many of you that sit and judge me
Have ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?

You don't know me, but you don't like me
You say you care less how I feel
But how many of you that sit and judge me
Have ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?

How many of you that sit and judge me
Have ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?"


<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by El Mudo on 3-25-06 @ 11:27 PM</span>

[PapaBear]

<p>I used to love to watch his show when I was a kid. I loved the guitar.</p><p>Apparently, so did a certain gay Nirvana stand-in...</p><p><img height="275" src="http://www.bstuck.com/foogear/pat/pat10.jpg" width="364" border="0" /></p>

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

<p>Buck also wrote one of the most beautiful country songs ever - &quot;Together Again.&quot;&nbsp; I don't think you'll ever hear anything as pretty as Emmylou Harris singing it. </p><p>I have to agree. Emmylou Harris sends shivers down your spine.</p>

[JohnnyCash]

This is sad news. Buck Owens was a great musician. I really enjoyed his songs.

[FezPaul]

<p>&quot;they took some bark from a tree</p><p>dressed it up and called it me</p><p>now everybody's tryin' to be my baby&quot;</p><p>written by Buck Owens</p><p>covered by the Beatles</p>

[tele7]

<strong>FezPaul</strong> wrote:<br /><p>&quot;they took some bark from a tree</p><p>dressed it up and called it me</p><p>now everybody's tryin' to be my baby&quot;</p><p>written by Buck Owens</p><p>covered by the Beatles</p><p>Never knew that.&nbsp; Very cool.&nbsp; </p>

[FezPaul]

<p>Now that I think about it I think it was &quot;act naturally&quot; not ETTBMB</p><p>but the Beatles did cover one of songs</p><p>From wikipedia:</p><p>A few months later, &quot;Act Naturally&quot; became his first No. 1 hit. It was rock 'n' roll with a country feel. <a title="The Beatles" href="http://www.ronfez.net/wiki/The_Beatles">The Beatles</a> later covered it without changing much of anything. </p><p>Sorry about that.</p><p>research first, then post</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by FezPaul on 3-26-06 @ 12:50 AM</span>

[Billy Staples]

<p><font size="3">&nbsp;Buck Owens and Roy Clark</font></p><p><font size="3" /></p><p><font size="3">I'm pickin.....he's diggin</font></p>