What happened to BUCK OWENS?

if you enjoyed this video on Buck Owens we encourage you to visit Buck Owens dot-com Buck Owens fans webs.com and if you're ever in Bakersfield California the Crystal Palace there's even an official Buck Owens channel right here on YouTube links provided in the video description below here's guy that we had with us a few months back and he broke it up pretty good and I said before he's one of my very favorite country singers and one of my favorite people also not only do the folks seem to enjoy him that watch in but the folks in the crew around here kind of dig old bucco and say howdy to him Aldous Edgar Buck Owens who at age four nicknamed himself after the family mule was born August 12th 1929 in Sherman Texas his father was a sharecropper and the family lived in deep poverty they headed toward California as part of the Dust Bowl migration in the late 1930s but when their trailer broke down they settled in Arizona near Phoenix Owens worked in cotton in my YZ fields and dropped out of school around the eighth or ninth grade well there was hardly any work you know I remember hearing him say that my daddy got $16 a month it always in a time with the Great Depression in the thirties yes I remember well it was tough in 1945 Owens who loved music and learned to play steel and string guitars started performing a local radio stations and in Phoenix area honky tonks that same year he met country singer Bonnie Campbell who would soon become his first wife around 1951 buck Bonnie and their two kids moved out to Bakersfield California where Owens would go on to pioneer the famous Bakersfield sound a rocking twangy version of country music that defied and rivaled the smooth instrumentations coming out of Nashville at the time during the early to mid 50s Owens played guitar for artists such as Faron young Tommy Sanz Wanda Jackson Tennessee Ernie Ford and gene vincent played on a gene Vincent's a lot a lot of love and Tommy sands and all those things and I and I really enjoyed it it was it was a big kick in 1956 Owens met singer Wynn Stewart with whom he would co-write such songs as excuse me I think I've got a heartache and fooling around [Music] start backfiring and I'll see in 1957 owen signed to deal with Capitol Records for whom he would record a cover of Tommy Collins 1954 hit you better not do that but that and another single with the label fizzled Owens gave up his country star dreams and moved it to coma Washington my only problem was I would work four or five days I might even work every day for two weeks and then but then all of a sudden you know I wouldn't you would get a call for three weeks you know and I was married and had a couple kids during a trip to Bakersfield Owens recorded the Ballad second fiddle it went on to reach the number 24 slot on the Billboard charts that single was followed by the top-ten hit under your spell again in the fall of 1959 in Washington a winds met sixteen-year-old fiddler Donald Eugene orach best known as Don rich who had become his musical alter-ego and a major contributor to his best recordings by 1960 Owens had moved back to Bakersfield and released his debut album Buck Owens a year later in 1962 Owens assembled the buckaroos which included Don Rich and a young bass player named Merle Haggard their first single act naturally shot to the top of the charts and paved the way for 15 consecutive number-one hits out of a total of 25 number-one hits most notably [Music] I won't pay much when you get bruised [Music] my heart [Music] work together [Music] and before you go it's continued his streak through the late 1960s with chart toppers such as waitin in your welfare line open up your heart and Sam's place you can in 1966 Owens began starring in his own syndicated TV show Buck Owens Ranch he was still working on the show when he signed on to host another variety show hee-haw in 1969 confusion he said well mr. you oughta know you're in the ladies room father's own show ran until 1973 Owens would remain on hee haw until 1986 he would later blame the show for the demise of his recording career however in a 1989 interview Owens reported that he went into a deep depression following the tragic death of Don rich in a motorcycle accident in 1974 after the incident Owens had one more top-ten hit with great expectations [Music] and gender temptations and brain yeah do you remain mostly out of the limelight and concentrated on hee haw and his many successful business ventures in radio and music publishing Owens music career was revitalized in the late 1980s following a duet with country superstar Dwight Yoakam Yocum had asked Owens to join him on a rear according of bucks 1972 song streets of Bakersfield [Music] following year owens and former Beatle Ringo Starr recorded a duet of action actually which Ringo had also recorded with the Beatles in 1965 all I have to do is act naturally I think Ringo is the most approachable famous person I've ever met as the 1990s approached Owens mainly performed at the Crystal Palace a country-western nightclub restaurant and Museum that he had built in Bakersfield in fact Owens who developed throat cancer in 1993 and suffered from other ailments was scheduled to perform at the Crystal Palace on March 25th 2006 but he felt ill and told the buckaroos to go on without him as he headed to his car he met a couple from Oregon who told him that they had traveled over 700 miles just to see him perform again moved by their enthusiasm Owens walked back into the venue and performed his full 90-minutes set that night Buck Owens passed away in his sleep he was 76 years old he was buried in a mausoleum at Green Lawn Cemetery in Bakersfield [Music] that same night [Music] hi was lost [Applause] [Music] was my Buck Owens the country music rebel who dared to buck Nashville's trends and write and performed the type of music he wanted was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996 thank you for watching don't forget to like the video and to 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Keywords: Buck Owens, Don Rich, Merle Haggard, Gene Vincent, Dwight Yoakam, Ringo Starr, Bonnie Owens, George Jones, Country Music, Country Music Hall of Fame, Crystal Palace

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Length: 9min 19sec (559 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 11 2017