When country was country!! Merle, Bonnie and Connie, three of the best!

@bettybox2372

2 жыл бұрын

Merle was the best rip merle

@jimmyrandall9233

Жыл бұрын

yes he was the very best ,but there are so many bests out ther

@jimmyrandall9233

Жыл бұрын

Connie ,my opinion was just dam great ,I just don't know what to her recognition, she's awsome

Two of Country's very best singers! The junk being pushed today is NOT Country Music.

Now this is the REAL country! Connie Smith is the BEST voice! Merle Haggard.....legend....so good looking!

It don't get better than this 🎻🎻🎶🎶

Connie Smith is so talented and beautiful.

4 Country Music Hall of Famers on one show!! Merle Haggard (inducted 1994) Ralph Emery (2007) Connie Smith (2012) Johnny Gimble (2018)

Two great performances from two bright stars. I've followed Merle for years and always liked his style and his music. Connie I was aware of from her early days but I never saw her singing live till i saw this clip- what a fantastic live singer she is! Truly outstanding. Johnny Gimble too, know him well.. well only from reading his name on liner notes for years of course , Just always knew he was a top fiddle player. Great to see him for real for once! What a fantastic show this was. Pure country magic. Many thanks.

@zeekthomas3350

2 жыл бұрын

I'm an old man now, I'm alone living in sw FL. I set and watch the shows like this one. I was a decent singer/ entertainer back up east. I played music with ,or knew many of the very people I see on this show, in closing conny. I was provided to work with her 3 or 4 times. Talk about our country music taking us back.... I sat her and cryed like a baby, when dolly sang the song she wrote for porter the nite she said she was leaving to go on her own. I remember it like it was yesterday. ," Zeke Elliott Thomas "

best rendition of Workin 'Man Blues I've ever heard. Strangers were on fire.

Merle is in his comfort zone on a show like this it seems..Great stuff.. Boy that Connie Smith had a mouthful with that Louisiana Man song...geepers..lots of words..

@contour157

8 жыл бұрын

+Hagfan789 I think it's because it's recorded and he knew if he flubbed something they would redo it.. but Merle was so damned good they probably never had to do more than 1 or 2 retakes on anything.

Hard to believe this era will have such a rememberd and revered legend 30+ years from now. Imagine the kids looking back in 2060 at Thomas Rhett lol

Thank you for the memory. As you know we lost our beloved Merle this year and what a shame he is gone. All who knew him will miss him So very much.

Two of the super Talent's Real Country Music thanks Lester

@latokatn506

9 жыл бұрын

Back To The real Country Music They Sho Don't know Country Now Day's

Merle Bonnie Connie and the Strangers. The Best on the Planet !!!

Connie Smith is beautiful, excelent, perfect, simply the best.

never get tired of listening to merrle or connie go hiontach

@carollake8883

7 жыл бұрын

o ceallaigh

This is a great video! Thanks for posting. Merle Haggard was a great artist. They don't make them like him anymore.

Whoop Love Loved Mr Merle Haggard & Sweet Bonnie & The Strangers. Also Ms Connie Smith. 4-10-2024 5:55 pm MABS

Fantastic talent and vocals thanks for sharing enjoyed :-)).

merle is a precious baby doll

I was fortunate to see Merle years ago and he put on a great show!

One of the best videos ever! Think my favorite part was the end with Merle singing and Bonnie Owens and Connie Smith on backup vocals.

@jerrymodjeski1273

3 жыл бұрын

Connie and Bonnie together! both great, underrated!

This has to be Merle,s best song ever

great Haggard!!!!

This Is Real Country...

The architect of the Bakersfield sound- MERLE HAGGARD!

You don't find music like this anymore Connie smith is awesome and of course the other shows also

Back when country artists had talent. The crap they sing today has the same tune with different words.

Using what Bonnie says this must have been a 1974 recording.. It's 2015 & Connie is still very pretty with a great voice after several kids and a few marriages. Terrific.

@leifhansson8488

9 жыл бұрын

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Thanks for putting this on. Two of my favourite country singers. Love it!

@carollake8883

7 жыл бұрын

Geoffrey Parker

Excellent video. Thanks for the post

Roy Nichols wow, super guitar lick or what!. That's why Merle had him in his band for many years as The Strangers

@carolggudmundson9774

7 жыл бұрын

mosrite60 wq

@soundguy5813

3 жыл бұрын

He's no james burton

@CiscoDuck

2 жыл бұрын

@@soundguy5813 Yeah, and Burton is no Roy Nichols on his best day! Jim's a one trick pony with the chicken pickin' he didn't invent by the way. Nichols could cover a helluva lot of ground musically from Jazz to Blue to hard core western swing AND that Bakersfield sound that HE helped create.

@drewbarries

7 ай бұрын

@@CiscoDuckso true

Connie is the best singer ever.

Hag one of the greatest ever!. He could dish out the best at any time

@macmillanlavety2101

6 жыл бұрын

You

this is the first time I ever heard connie sing this with merle plating the fiddle

Thanks for sharing I really love to hear Merle.

Great show!

She is so beautiful singing about her “baby on her mind”, and that was actually true. She was very pregnant at the time f this show. You can tell her belly and her glow.

Thx I grew up with pop goes to country

Great video

What a voice so deep and so effordless and should I mention sexy?????!!!!!!!

I’ve watched this 100 times. 2 of my all time favorites, Connie and Meryl. I just wished they’d done more together in those years.

loved this show

Back when pop country was damn good

Ain't that just awesome!

Have they done a movie about his life, they should.

@corir1045

2 жыл бұрын

Fr

Fantastic the three of them never saw them before ,that Connie great and pregnant,,Bonnie also very good,enjoy them all,

Merle is a God. Wonderful music.

I NEVER WAS INTO MERLE, ALTHOUGH HE COULD OBVIOUSLY SING. BUT THIS SONG AND THE BRILLIANT ORCHESTRATION KINDA WON ME OVER.🌟🌟🌟🌟 (HOW ODD THAT WHEN MERLE WAS ASKED WHAT HIS MOTHER'S NAME IS, HE REPLIED:"MY MOMMA?"😩🤔🤐😟😖)

@suewalker3600

Жыл бұрын

Milton Moore. He ask my momma making sure HE IS THE ONE BEING ASK

Man, Merle can sing, and Connie, is she purty or what?

REAL country! YEE haw! 😘👍👏🥰

❤❤❤

Mary Sarha from the voice landed me here somehow!,,,

MERLE WAS HOT, BAD BOY LOOKING.

Hi, I'm looking for the song Connie sang a song on the Marty Stuart show. Guest was John Anderson. I don't remember the name of the song. Do you have the show to upload?

@robinsnest60

6 жыл бұрын

After some research it was called "You Crossed My Mind a Thousand Times Today" do you have that clip?

Miss Connie, will you come up and visit us up here in Machiasport?....I sing good, well not as good as Marty

I want to hear John Anderson

Oh, who was it that imitated all the good singers? He did a great Merle....

@rwallace1964

5 жыл бұрын

OH IT WAS MERLE!

Wonder if this was when she met Marty Stuart?

Is the guitar very small or is he 5 ft tall?

@cheyennevanover781

9 жыл бұрын

He is a pretty tall guy so it's just him.

@bausin

9 жыл бұрын

That's Tiny Moore playing an electric mandolin.

@CiscoDuck

2 жыл бұрын

Merle's playing a small Martin guitar here and he was 5ft 7 inches. I know because I knew him and I have worn his clothes.

"The Hag"

Hag says, "We're gonna do 'Holding Things Together' - a song about Alice M___" WHO? (Mangee? Mangie?) Anyone know this story? I knew Merle & Bonnie, Norm and Roy, Tiny, Biff & Mark and Don AND Johnny Gimble (as well as a lot of other Strangers bandmembers for many years and never heard this one.

@bradfordsmith2897

2 жыл бұрын

A song about Alice and Angie!!

@CiscoDuck

2 жыл бұрын

@@bradfordsmith2897 Alice WHO? He says "Alice Mangee" or "Mangie" or something like that - it's hard to understand.

where the ear plug to tell then the words of the song pure country they new the words skill not this crap you hear today

Well now Merle you can’t get by with 2 kids and a working wife. We have become a country of working poor, and I’m not bringing politics into this. Both parties are horrible, neither have the best interest of the working middle class.

@marilyncarson1783

Жыл бұрын

Holding things together is about Alice his ex and little girl Angie

@marilyncarson1783

Жыл бұрын

Ex wife Alice and little girl named Angie in holding things together

Is Connie pregnant?

@lynnandersonfan

6 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't have been surprising. She has five children.

@erinfraser7949

2 ай бұрын

Yes