Mel wrote this song about a neighbor that live by him in Florida. He talks about it in an interview. Kenny Rodger started as a Rock Band with a big hit called "Just walked in to see what condition my condition was in".. This song Ruby came out right after I returned from the Vietnam War. It was my 1st tour out of three!!

This song is about a veteran who is paralyzed from combat in Vietnam. His wife leaves him laying in his bed while she got us out and shares her affections with others than him. He knows that his injuries are going to kill him shortly and he just wants her to stay with him until then. That's why the last lyric is for god sakes turn around. She's breaking a broken man's heart.

@davidbeckham4523

2 ай бұрын

Actually it was written by Mel Tillis. He says it was written about a veteran of the Second World War.

That song is a masterpiece especially when Kenny Rogers and the first Edition play it, a really catchy tune that you don't get bored of, the singing, the instrumentation, awesome!!!! Your female friend there seems a bit tone deaf, or maybe she's not really a music person, there are people out there that like music, but they're not crazy about music like us 😂

@JohnRodriguesPhotographer

Жыл бұрын

I love this song as kid when it came out I was 11 years old. I still love the song and think it's one of his best. I never new Mel Tillis wrote it though.

My favorite Kenny Rogers song is probably “Coward of the County”. I like this one, too. He’s got a lot of greats.

@thomasnesmith5684

2 жыл бұрын

Damn this is a great one, dude.

My mom use to play Kenny Rogers in the car and I'm glad she did. He has a lot of hits with different genre's .

This is REALITY for MANY veterans!

It says in the song that he didn’t start that old crazy Asian war but he was proud to go and do his patriotic sure; he and Ruby were obviously boyfriend and girlfriend before the war but he came back paralyzed and the ones in the needs of a woman her age and he tells her Ruby I realize; but he also tells her that he won’t be long because he’s heard that he won’t be around he’s going to pass away and he just wants Ruby to stay with him until he dies Ruby is going out at night to find other men to fill her wants and needs! This sadly happened to a lot of men who came home disabled from Vietnam!

@myreviews8099

3 жыл бұрын

Thank God you were here to translate English

@willieboy3011

Жыл бұрын

These lyrics applied to so many back then.

@hhhgfcvjk7999

Жыл бұрын

It’s actually about the Korean War

@willieboy3011

Жыл бұрын

@@hhhgfcvjk7999 Yes, I know that, but the song was on the radio in the Vietnam War. "Ruby" was first recorded by Waylon Jennings in 1966. Johnny Darrell reached number nine on the country charts with the song in 1967,[1] and Kenny Rogers and The First Edition released it in 1969.

i always seem to come back to this when im drunk lookin for first edition stuff byt this time thumbs up

I got the album for xmas many years ago, loved the album. My favorite was "Somethings Burning". Good to see a reaction to early Kenny Rogers

Search for and enjoy the songwriter, Mel Tillis, performing it solo with acoustic guitar on the Porter Wagoner show in 1967. Kenny Rogers did a most famous cover as shown here. But to paraphrase a famous movie saying, "We don't need no stinkin' bandzes!" 🙂

Mel Tillis wrote this song? I had no idea. You learn something new everyday.

@myreviews8099

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, my favorite part of the reaction

@dennisflury6942

2 жыл бұрын

About a true story written and sung about the Korean War!

I know what's its about I have been listening to it since the 1970's

Dude give her a chance to listen to & absorb it. She's not stupid give her a chance. I'm not saying that to be mean but it's such a powerful song you got to be a little patient if you want her to appreciate it.✌️

(a Canadian Singer/Songwrite). As fate would have it, I married a Canadian in the mid 70's and lived in Toronto for several years. My husband was very fond of Gordon Lightfoot's music. Being exposed to it on a daily basis, I soon realized that I actually, very much enjoyed his music. To this day he is still one of my favorite musicians. I enjoyed your reaction videos.

Love when he sang “ I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in”! Very cool song.

Life is rough. Soldiers coming back from wars always got the short end of the stick.

Mel Tillis said it's a true story,but he never said who the war vet was ✌️❤️R.I.P Mel Tillis

God I love this song . Heard it for the first time when I was 8, on my street from a house . 1969. Written by country star of the 60’s-70’s, mainly . Great sad story

@ericskivers6643

2 жыл бұрын

Mel Tillis , songwriter. Sorry forgot his name 😁.

i just luv the accents

This Pop song is more Country then than Country is now. I prefer this song to his later Country songs. Probably my favorite by him. They lyrics rang so true.

It was life thru the 60s wars was ruff.

Buddy, PIPE DOWN and just let her listen to it!

Kenny is Great 👍 look up "The cold hard facts of life" by Porter Wagner. It's a great murder ballad 😎

This song was written as our boy’s were coming home from the Vietnam war.

Love Kenny. R.I.P

Favorite Kenny Rogers song, "Love Will Turn You Around". A great Mel Tillis song, 'Who's Julie". Plus a great war related song Glen Campbell's "Galveston".

I hate it that he keeps stopping the song. Just listen to it and comment at the end.

Also, John Denver & Olivia Newton John were cross overs way back in the 70's : )

@myreviews8099

3 жыл бұрын

Sho nuff

This is about a soldier that was wounded in action during the time of the Vietnam War. I saw this type of stuff happening during my tour in US ARMY. Many guy's killed themselves after coming back to the world. This stuff continues to happen to Soldiers from the Vietnam War, Desert Storm, Afghanistan and Gulf War 2. The war on terror.

It happened ALOT!

This happened a lot to veterans from Vietnam who came home disabled! That’s the crazy Asian war he was speaking of! He could no longer satisfy the wants and needs of young Ruby; so, Ruby went out and got her wants and needs filled by other men!

@myreviews8099

3 жыл бұрын

Song was about the Korean war, doesn't change the message though

I've always liked the sound of this song, partly because of the very simple, appropriate accompanying music. Have you showed her the other side of Kenny Rogers? How about his psychedelic 'Just Dropped In' with the First Edition?

Sad but this stuff happens alot😢

That last line just kills me

If you're a gentleman the lady's always wright! 😂This song is like the Tom Jones song Dahlia. Sounds cheerful,but it's about a murder ✌️❤️

@CJ-ft9yo

5 ай бұрын

Delilah about sexual jealousy

HE gets it!!!

A good theme song for your channel is Billy Joel's, You May be Right

Try Kenny and The First Edition.. .Just Dropped In.. But You Know I Love You Rueben James

This is my favorite song of his. I always thought it was the Vietnam War.

@PanSearedRibeye68

Жыл бұрын

It had the most relevance to people during Vietnam in 1969 so to most people it’s a Vietnam song.

How did someone come up with this??? Veterans deal with this all the time!

Finally...very few reactions to this song... . A line in the song about a "crazy Asian war" and the time of the song's release led to the assumption the song was about a veteran of the Vietnam War-though this was never stated in the lyrics-although Tillis stated that the song was about a veteran of World War II.[3]

@Whosrightwhoswrong

3 жыл бұрын

Ah ok because I stated at the beginning it was about the Korean War , I thought that’s what Mel said?

You might try "don't take the Girl" by Tim Mcgraw or James Blunt's "Monsters."

Poor guy, his legs weren’t just paralyzed but Bent...

Not a complaint, but that audio track is incorrect. No audience sounds, Kenny's Telecaster bass playing doesn't match the video, etc. Check out the same video on the allallallthetime channel titled "Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town" for the actual live performance audio. in case you are interested.

The song would ring more true if you lived during the Vietnam war. Back then as you grew up in high school you learned of people a year or two older than you that graduated and got killed or maimed in an unpopular war. Each year there was a lottery based on birthdays that helped decide who would have to go to war. The scale of the war meant everyone knew a least a few people that were drafted and sent to the war. I have gone to the Vietnam War memorial in Washington D.C. and have seen the names of buddies that were killed. Did you know that you can fire a 50 cal from a helicopter and cut a running man in half and the bottom half can keep running for 10 yards? I don't know what memories you have of your senior trip. I wish I could forget mine.

Unfortunately a lot of songs at that time are not as happy as they sound. It was a way to protest.

Please play finally by T.G. Sheppard if you get a chance. Thanks!

This isn't exactly rare for deployments unfortunately. If you get deployed, prepare to slowly lose everything you love that year away.

I realize that stopping a song is the nature of the beast of reaction channels, but when you stop it, make sure to have something to say worthy of the stoppage. If one must mansplain, at least have a mansplain where the audience might learn something. You are so enthusiastic to make sure she understands the song, your disruptions make it more difficult for her to understand the song.

This is the saddest song ever written in my opinion!

Are ever going to say your names?

Could y’all please react to Michael jackson I can’t help it video you guys would love it

This is my first time to watch one of your reaction videos so I don't know the whole backstory of where the two of you are coming from but from what I see I assume the two of you prefer different genres of music. Music has ALWAYS been a big part of my life. I was a teenager in the 60's and 70's, which was an amazing era of different kinds of music that all managed to cross over, whether it was Easy Listening, Motown, Pop Rock, Soft Rock, Hard Rock, Acid Rock, or Country! There was very few recording artists that I did not like. I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and listened to all music. However, for some reason, I DID NOT LIKE Gordon Lightfoot (a Canadian

the sound on my end. 🤦‍♀️ Fix that and more people will listen. Says a women who don't know about this technical s*^"t. Yeah, big lady just sits and comments. No. Actually grew up in the '70 with Kenny and trying to help you. Sorry if I have overstepped my mark.

Can you just play the song.

Have you heard 👂 Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey?” 🥃 An Amazing song 🎧 and Performance.

A story that has been told too many times

Not korean, vietnam. First song recognizing plight of viet vets.

If she doesn't like Kenny then she is Wrong

The two of you don't really get it. Too many interruptions. He was a viet nam veteran who came back crippled and does not have long to live. His wife was cheating on him with other men.

I wish you'ld talk some

Lady

@5667hall

2 жыл бұрын

Written by Lionel Ritchie

The constant stopping gets annoying. Know you have to pause for copyright, but damn. 4 bars, stop. 6 bats stop. Stopping once or twice and giving your thoughts is fine. I almost quit watching because of the constant interruptions. Just advice, take it as you will. But some will write you off just for that.

@PanSearedRibeye68

Жыл бұрын

You have to stop it several times anyway to avoid being demonetized by KZread for using another artist’s content.

you stopped it toooooo much. let your wife hear it

You’re interrupting too much dammit!

Why oh why do you have to keep stopping this song?Cant you wait till the end to comment?You are ruining what is a nice listen.Stop doing that.

To many start and stops it looked like even she was getting annoyed with him

Hello, I watched, more listened to this video, love Rodgers. And let's just say dude, shut up. Here at home we say hush. Either way, produce a better show and let the more talented lady speak.

You don't give her a chance to listen stop and let the song play.

How to ruin a song? Keep stopping and explaining it!

I know you excited to share this song with her.. But you got to give her a chance .. You stopped it waaaaaay too much.I know you really love the song so do I . i was 13 when it came out ,it played on radio constantly. I understood it at 13, she understood it too, it's just so dark that he has thoughts of killing her cause he feels so abandoned as many disabled vets sadly were.. But he married the wrong girl or maybe just a too young immature girl.. The whole thing is sad & He's dying to boot but ...no one should rely on another for their happiness... That's not right or healthy for anyone.

Kenny is hardly recognizable

You talk too much

I would like to give this guy my reaction to his constant interruption of a great song and lyric. Never again with this guy.

I detest this song. The character of the song lost all my sympathy as soon as he said he would like to get his gun and murder her. Sorry, we don't dole out the death penalty just because someone is having an affair. It will mostly be men who say "Aw, heck it's just locker room talk." Yeah.