I challenge, nobody can play guitar like this genius kid.
@fuzzybutkus89703 ай бұрын
Joe Bonamassa was playing with the greats B.B.King,Buddy Guy Etc at 11. This kid turned two or three cords,a weird guitar and the dancing energy into a career. But music subjective I respect your comment.
@kennethnorman807912 күн бұрын
Saw these guys live right before the Palomino Club closed. They were incredible. Still dressed in the outfits and had the guitar. They played every note of music they ever recorded and the show was less than an hour.
@nancyallen8497 Жыл бұрын
That little Larry was a real little ball of fire and Lauri sure was a beauty
@bradleycolbrese68745 ай бұрын
I just discovered these 2 about a year ago. I'm not sure why they never got the recognition they deserve.
@63DW89A4 жыл бұрын
Sad that the Collins Kids are almost forgotten today, except by the Rockabilly crowd, who properly revere this pace-setting, brother-sister duo so loaded with talent and originality. This is the first televised Grand Ol Opry in 1956. The Collins Kids were the first "Special Guests"! That is how big the Collins Kids were in early TV, appearing on Steve Allen, Dinah Shore, Ozark Jubilee, etc!
@GeoShep4 жыл бұрын
I am 67 from Canada. I never heard of them until i came across them on you tube What talent I can now not get enough of them. Sorry to hear about Lorrie passing. Why they didn't become international stars is beyond me.
@jdubb5004 жыл бұрын
I think rock killed their careers. There's a clip of them in 1964 still performing rockabilly. 1964 was the year of the British invasion. Larry was only 20 years old and had the talent to change gears. I wonder why. When this clip was filmed, Jimmy Page was playing Skiffle. If he was still playing that type of music by 1964 we may not have him:)
@darthjarjarbinks89533 жыл бұрын
@@jdubb500 He inspired surf and punk rock, but he never really capitalized on that. What I think really killed their career was Lorrie running off and getting married as well as the radio stations not playing their songs very often, if at all, despite many country and rockabilly fans liking them.
@63DW89A3 жыл бұрын
@@darthjarjarbinks8953 Lorrie's January 1959 marriage, (kept secret for about 3 months it appears) is exactly what derailed the Collins Kids success trajectory. In interviews Larry has said that there were several movie offers, TV deals and new record offers, active on the table, that were instantly pulled when news of Lorrie's marriage became public roughly around mid-April 1959. Lorrie was only 16 when she married Stu Carnull, who was acting as booking manager for Johnny Cash and the Collins Kids too. The truth is Johnny Cash had been smitten and obsessed with Lorrie since she was about 15 years old, and was after her to have an affair with him. Lorrie tactfully and gently refused the affair, but could not reject Cash totally because she and Larry were touring with Cash, and making income for their family. My take on Lorrie's marriage is that she viewed it as an escape hatch for her to keep Cash under control. I doubt Lorrie would have married Stu had she know the sidetracking effect it would have on the incredible career she and Larry were having. Lorrie at 16 was still only a young girl, so there is no way she could have realized how badly her marriage would hurt her and Larry. This is my interpretation of Lorrie's mindset, 1956-59, when Cash came into the lives of the Collins Kids, as read in Chapters 6 thru 11 of JOHNNY CASH; THE LIFE by Robert Hilburn,.These chapters detail Cash's first times in California, performing on TV at Town Hall Party and Tex Ritter's Ranch Party, where he met the Collins Kids, and when his obsession with Lorrie began to grow about the time she turned 15 in May, 1957. Being obsessed and making life miserable for a young woman is pretty disgusting behavior for a 26/27 year old man, married with 2 or 3 children as Cash was. Imagine what Sam Phillips at Sun Records could have done with Lorrie and Larry! Mitch Miller at Columbia Records never knew exactly what to do with the Collins Kids he had under contract, and that hurt their national exposure.
@blueycarlton3 жыл бұрын
This would be 28 April 1956 first Grand Ol Opry telecast.
@mirozapletal9428 Жыл бұрын
Beautifull. Februar 2023. Slovakia. I'm 75.
@mobilegoat14 жыл бұрын
You won’t find talent or entertainment like that these days . When I first found your videos I was up all night playing them over and over and I was sober I don’t drink .
@haitiansouljadex31863 жыл бұрын
I hate when yall boomer saying those shit there's plenty talented like that your time wasnt eo good racist, sexist bruh
@williamsherman1089 Жыл бұрын
They are good entertainment lol, I've been playing guitar most my life and couldn't hold a candle to that kid, but sure like hearing these kids perform.
@tjslaboratoryofrockrootsof11162 жыл бұрын
Two of the architects of rock 'n' roll. 👍👍
@coinneachmaclellan3121 Жыл бұрын
Check out Bob Wills' 1940 recording of Corinna Corinna for an even earlier example of the roots of rock 'n' roll.
@EatScrabbleGoo Жыл бұрын
And yet so country at the same time! California Country was ROWDY!
@blueycarlton11 ай бұрын
Found a Collins Kids 45 at an opp shop. Hop, Skip and Jump, thought it would be a child's record. I purchased it because of the Australian green hexagon label which I always liked. Got a bit of a surprise when I played it. This was about 30 years ago, been an avid viewer of them on YT.
@braedonplasztan5710 Жыл бұрын
This kid was before his time he could play a mean axes and that was in the early 50s before anyone else i still think ROY Clark and GLEN CAMPBELL and AC/DC guitar’s are the best l have heard l am 74 years old and I come from the land down under
@Sunmoon-gj9gy Жыл бұрын
I absolutely love them , 💕 RIP sweet Laurie
@stevenfd12313 жыл бұрын
Wow! June Carter and Hank Snow on the intro.
@ChukwudiOgugua-ff3rr Жыл бұрын
I never knew i was missing a lot before . The Collins Kids were so excellent in all their performances ❤️.
@SK70Ply34013 жыл бұрын
I think the Collins Kids are great!
@geinikan1kan7 ай бұрын
This is really the transition from blues country and rock and roll.
@jenflights9 жыл бұрын
Wow! They are really amazing and way ahead of the times! Thanks, Jen
@Foxxie55 Жыл бұрын
Just ran across these two a few minutes ago, and WOW, what a great act that they had..
@stefanijakrivaja6068 Жыл бұрын
Yes
@dc64 Жыл бұрын
I had never heard of them in the UK, till last year. 1:43
@Анискиняншин Жыл бұрын
У них сейчас появляются новые поклонники вроде меня и многих моих знакомых и друзей. Браво Коллинс!!!!!
@SpringfieldGuy Жыл бұрын
The kid was a heck of a guitar player.
@kellylewis476610 ай бұрын
They were the best and I'll always be the best
@moviemagg3 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Laurie Collins.....
@Ric613-u1cАй бұрын
RIP Larry Collins now as well.
@jozefnovak7750 Жыл бұрын
Super! Thank you!
@routeclarksdale6 жыл бұрын
now days the parents would have larry on Ritalin
@michaelbarnhart25935 жыл бұрын
Good point. :-/
@andyZ3500s4 жыл бұрын
That kid is acting like a kid. We better do something about it.
@krystynakowalska15646 жыл бұрын
Pieknie kiedys spiewali i bawili sie swietnie,a teraz haltura
@loverofcountry5060709 жыл бұрын
I thought I had seen all the video of the Collins Kids that were on KZbin, but here is one I missed. That's June Carter and Hank Snow with them. Was this at the Grand Ole Opry?
@SuperChuckRaney8 жыл бұрын
+loverofcountry506070 This one is not on you tube-directly, it's a bleed over from channel 4, you need to move the rabbit ears and adjust the UHF knob to get it in clearly
@lynnlobliner39335 ай бұрын
It's actually later than 1956 because she's wearing a wedding band. She and Rick Nelson were in a relationship (and she was featured on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, singing with Rick (the first place I saw her, when episodes were on YT and did a little digging) and I'm thinking that the relationship was curtailed by his parents, because just after it ended she married her manager.
@Sunmoon-gj9gy Жыл бұрын
Wow , Larry is shredding it better than Link Wray here
@markthomas97036 ай бұрын
Link Wray had very little except some cool chords on rumble
@nickjervis8123 Жыл бұрын
First they were signed by Columbia not renowned for R & R. Second they split in 1960. Third they were drowned in Country Music.
@Wladimir.M. Жыл бұрын
В 1960 Лорри было 18 лет и она похоже вышла замуж.И поэтому они распались?Как вы думаете?
@ИгорьВоронин-л6й6 жыл бұрын
Вот это классно было
@patriciozuniga9084 Жыл бұрын
Oohh una joya 💎
@pamelacharbonneau31152 жыл бұрын
Who are these other people on the Collins kids dime.
@manz78609 ай бұрын
Man i wish the crowd couldve kept the applause contained until the end. I dont blame them though. If i saw that live, i would start swinging too
@manz78609 ай бұрын
1:26
@TheRobertpiotr2 жыл бұрын
😍😘
@robertcochran38834 жыл бұрын
I believe Laurie has passed away.... sad...
@shoknifeman2mikado1354 жыл бұрын
Well, some reports had her dying in 2018, but, when i asked Larry on his FB page 6 months ago, he said she was fine... Who to believe?
@darthjarjarbinks89533 жыл бұрын
@@shoknifeman2mikado135 She’s probably dead, but then again, the news media is fake a majority of the time. My guess is who you were talking to may not have been Larry and they are just posing as him.