First Time Hearing George Strait - Amarillo By Morning Reaction - THESE HORSES DO NOT PLAY AROUND!

[@mikerobertson4041]

"I ain't got a dime, but what I've got is mine, I ain't rich, but Lord, I'm free," pretty much describes my life! A knowledge of rodeo really helps with this song.

[@barsandbarbells2022]

Great line!

[@williamcottrell1919]

quintessentially an American lyric. Rugged individualism. As long as I have my freedom I can remake and redeem myself and succeed

[@justlookin11]

One of a few Rodeo Cowboy ANthems.

[@dontworrybehappy8080]

"Lost my wife and a girlfriend, somewhere along the way". Huh! : 0

[@busymom4kc]

There’s a reason we call him King George. The song that’s a tribute to his daughter is: Baby Blue. One of my favorites.

[@cog4life]

Love this one❤

[@sda6691]

Also, You'll Be There is one about his daughter as well

[@lousawho]

@@sda6691 i saw god today

[@TexasMagnolia]

Guys, this footage is clips from the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Cannot explain all the greatness that comes with, not only a Professional Rodeo competition but, the nightly concerts. This was from the times when it was held in the Houston Astrodome and, was George’s first appearance.

[@barsandbarbells2022]

So he actually got all those injuries?!

[@anthonybalistreri5226]

I was there, but didn't appreciate the greatness on display.

[@anthonybalistreri5226]

And I really miss living in Houston

[@texan2u]

Ever been to Detroit Michigan? Houston looks just like it now.

[@ronclark9724]

@@barsandbarbells2022 George Strait grew up on a cattle ranch, does rodeo, as does his son Bubba. There is a KZbin video of George Strait arriving at the start in a Lincoln Continental, but leaving riding on his streak faced bay. Bubba wrote "Arkansas Dave" among other songs George has recorded. George and Bubba are true cowboys...

[@robertg7396]

George is definitely the goat of country! One of my favorites by him is a song called "The Chair" but, like you said, he has over 60 #1 hits. So no matter what song choose, you won't be disappointed. 🤠

[@barsandbarbells2022]

Seems like a popular request!

[@dakotaconners107]

Strait is a rodeo champion team roper. I also read he ranked #21 out of top 30 wealthiest singers in history. Also; holds more #1 hits in music history with 60.

[@joecoffey4199]

And ironically, this song, which is my favorite country song of all time, did not go to number 1. It was very early in his career, his third or fourth single. If it had come out later when he was well established, it would undoubtedly have been #1

[@donaldstewart8342]

A violin has stings,a fiddle has strangs

[@RLKmedic0315]

No one cares if you spill beer on a fiddle!

[@tonycampbell4982]

George Straight is a real cowboy competed not just a Kmart cowboy like many back then he was the real deal.

[@jwmson7791]

This is classic George Strait. I’ve always loved it! Those sweet Texas twin fiddles. Doesn’t get any better! ♥️🎶🎶

[@ronclark9724]

If you gonna play in Texas you gotta have a fiddle in the band...

[@tonycampbell4982]

At the height of his career watch his one movie Pure Country very good!

[@lindaslater7782]

George Strait has an arena in Texas where they have team roping contests. It's been quite a few years since my kids and I went, but George and his son, Bubba, competed... one's a healer and one's a header. Not sure if they still compete or not, but it was fun to watch, and, yep, we were cheering for George and his son.

[@gretamckenzie4245]

Another one of our favorite singers... as noted previously, "The Chair" is a good one...

[@kimberlyosborne1977]

This song is about the rodeo life style. George is also a real cowboy he did the rodeo circuit for a while also. Loved this reaction. All My Ex's Live In Texas is a great song by him.

[@Jdwray12]

Baby Blue is about his daughter. Carrying your love with me, I cross my heart, chech yes or no, I get carried away, are some good George Strait songs. But one of my favorites and most underrated is Best Days. It takes you thru the life of a boy and his dad

[@roberthooper1238]

That was 1984 in the Astrodome. The guy in the blue shirt hung up on the bareback horse that there are three clips of in the video, was a guy named Bubba Harris. Bubba was one of my roommates in college. He won the "hi flying hard luck" award that night which was a years worth of plane tickets on Southwest airlines I believe.He said he made around $10,000 dollars selling airline tickets that year! Unfortunately he is not with us anymore. Bubba was a great guy, he spent his life doing what he loved riding bulls and bucking horses. R.I.P. Bubba you're thought about often!

[@duke2651]

The song's perspective is that of a rodeo cowboy's life. :) Saw him live back in the 80's. A good singer who knows how to choose future hit songs... Be well, be happy, Duke

[@texan2u]

King George has a cattle ranch in the Hill Country of Central TEXAS. I understand that on any given day you can find him building fence or "working cattle or hauling hay - just another ranch hand.

[@scottdarden3091]

George Strait, Three Nails and A Cross will get you in the feels.

[@waynefontaine5533]

This is basically a cover of the Chris LeDoux (Luh-due) song...Chris LeDoux was a 3X Bareback Bronc Rodeo Champ who used to sell cassette tapes in the parking lots of the rodeos he was ridin in...I saw him perform in 1994, he was incredible...sadly, he died from non-alchohol related liver cancer a couple few years ago...😔

[@patticriss2238]

I just got home from the State High School Rodeo finals last night. 10 advanced to National high school Finals. My Grandaughter was # 11. Rough time, but we are gearing up For next year already. Rodeo is our life and I wouldn’t know another way to travel There without listening to George.

[@PK-VLOGG]

His voice is this is just amazing

[@757optim]

With the power of a hit maker like George Strait, songwriters bring you the best stuff. That symbiotic dynamic gets us an unprecedented number of #1s. With George essentially retired and Allen Jackson experiencing health issues - who's gonna fill their shoes?

[@susanpeterson9947]

😢😢😢

[@geneaustin5151]

Nobody.

[@stratcat3216]

My cousins are all Pro Bull Riders.. .crazy little dudes tough as nails. Crazy is the operative word.. those bulls are immense.

[@jenniezamek2849]

I could listen to this song all day.❤

[@gazoontight]

Asleep at the Wheel does a great version of this song.

[@daphneduryea9136]

Yes, they do! Live at Billy Bob's... Jason Roberts and the Wheel giving George Strait a run for his money.

[@laurogarza4953]

This is a teaching opportunity that I would like to exploit. Mr. Strait, like myself, is from south Texas and the real thing in that he, too, was raised on a cattle ranch and is not, as the saying goes, "All hat and no cattle." It is important to mention at this point that he had been singing in dance halls in and around Texas for years before having his first recording published and released in 1981. Prior to that time, there had been on the radio, "Country and Western" music and there were "C&W" clubs and dance halls too. Great vocalists from Texas like Dan Seals, Paul Davis and elsewhere, including Michael Martin Murphey, were told to "...loose the hat!" They did and experienced success, in the 1970s, as vocalists singing popular romantic songs with orchestrations not unlike modern interpretations of compositions for Sinatra, Martin, Como and Andy Williams of the 50s and 60s. Thus, Western music was relegated to the trash heap of modern radio played music. It as about 1980 when all that changed...in a big way! Radio stations no longer played "Western" music like Marty Robbins great western hits like "Saddle Tramp," "Tumblin' Tumble Weeds" or "El Paso." Radio stations stopped calling themselves "Country and Western" but simply "Country music stations." However, this movement which reportedly began in Nashville, disenfranchised Texas artists like Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and more and together they began what became known as the "Outlaw Country" music movement. They refused to be what the Nashville publishers wanted of them and went on to play music they enjoyed and that praised Texas and the south west. They also praised their predecessors of the 40s and 50s including Ernest Tubb and Bob Wills who were famous for "Western Swing" which was dance music so popular in all over Texas and nearby states. At the start of the 1980s, those artists who had previously put away their hats, put them back on and went on to have great success in Country music and with more than a few Western music songs including Dan Seals who, with his hat on, recorded hits like "Meet me in Montana" with the beautiful and talented Marie Osmond and "Everything that Glitters in Not Gold" and the retro sounding dance song, "Bop!" Paul Davis recorded an album of western hits and Michael Martin Murphey who had recorded a beautifully orchestrated song entitled "Wildfire!" which had been a popular music hit in the late 1970s leveraged that success to build a truly great western music singing and touring career with several western music hits including, "Tie Knots in the Devil's Tail," "Red River Valley" and the fun song "Cowboy Logic." It is my opinion that the unknown singer from south Texas named George Strait, who refused to "....loose the hat" and who had his first country music hit in 1981, served as the catalyst for these older artists to express more fully themselves and opened doors for a whole new set of artists including Garth Brooks, Mark Chesnutt, Clint Black, Toby Keith and Alan Jackson, all of them wearing hats! All of these artists went on to have many great country music hits and many of them included in their albums at least one classic western music hit including George Strait who, early in his career, recorded "Amarillo by Morning" which was another western swing song popular in the dance halls. Singing in Spanish went away in 1980 with Western music where it had been previously appreciated. Without a radio venue, Tejano artists sought, like Willie and Waylon, to publish their own music and charter their own radio stations with "Tejano" music. Many singing artists from Texas have had great success in Country and Western music but only a few had success singing in Spanish which includes Marty Robbins, Freddy Fender, Johnny Rodriguez, Emilio Navaira and George Strait who sang the classic Mexican romantic song, "El Rey" with beautifully articulated Spanish. Thus, Mr. Strait, who now resides outside San Antonio, did much more than have more number one hits than any other American recording artist, more than 60, he helped to preserve Western music and Western Muisc sung in Spanish as well. I encourage you to continue this journey into country AND western music and also enjoy some "Cajun" music from our good neighbors in Louisiana and "Tejano" music from my relatives in south Texas, neighbors with Mr. Strait.

[@laurashelton5942]

George Strait sings about rodeo because he competed. He owns a ranch where he breeds horses

[@barsandbarbells2022]

Was that actually him in the video?

[@laurashelton5942]

@@barsandbarbells2022 there were a few images that were him.

[@ronclark9724]

@@barsandbarbells2022 Not all, but some where George...

[@johnraygun9868]

Can’t really go wrong with any George Straight, the movie “Pure Country” is awesome with a great soundtrack of him❤

[@mtdreams72]

I grew up in a small Montana town. So I find it interesting when you talk about not knowing rodeo. I grew up loving bull riding. Never done it myself but certain nights we’d watch wrestling then bull riding on tv. I live in a very rural area and grew up riding horses. It’s just need to get an outside perspective on something to natural to me. Love hearing your points of view.

[@Brandon-sw5ob]

King George!! I got a song I know Sam will like I'm almost positive the chair peace-and-love guys✌❤🙏🤜🤛

[@kevinsharpjr]

One of my favourites from George Strait is " Baby Got Good At Goodbye"is worth checking out the music video . .

[@johnathanstruble1064]

King of Country.

[@orangeandblackattack]

I was a truck driver for 14 years and my trucking buddies gave me the nickname "Amarillo" because I loved the song, but also because i lost my wife and my girlfriend along my way and I had to drive from LA to Amarillo, you guessed it, by morning...every week for years. lol

[@ronclark9724]

Its a long drive along I-40, formally US-66 from Albuquerque and Amarillo with almost nothing in between but truck stops, gas stations, and motels...

[@johnthegreek5836]

George Strait is definitely the King of Country, love his voice and his music, react to The Chair

[@theashrook6129]

So my dad and brother are a part of a trail rider group. Who goes out a week or so before the San Antonio (up from San Antone lyric early in the song) Stock Show & Rodeo and they ride all week and end the trail ride by going to the Rodeo. There are other trail ride groups here that do the same. It’s pretty cool.

[@LadyGator1983]

My favorite George Strait song!!!

[@bonniethurman3771]

Y'all should listen to RUN. It's my favorite and a little different tune for him.

[@scottdarden3091]

As a former bull rider in the IRA this is one of my favorite of all time songs. While surprisingly it is one of his most well known, it did not make #1

[@joecoffey4199]

It came out very early in his career, probably about his fourth or fifth single. If it had came out later, after he was established as a superstar, it would have undoubtedly been #1.

[@timcaldwell5241]

As well as Marina Del Rey and The Cowboy Rides Away…There were several (well, several may be a stretch) monster hits for Strait that didn’t make it to number 1…. A testament to his greatness!!!

[@joecoffey4199]

@timcaldwell5241 For some reason I've been on a 3 or 4 day binge of George Strait reactions. I went to Wikipedia to look up his singles discography from when he first started in the early 80s. So many great songs, some I hadn't thought about in years. In addition to the ones you listed, Amarillo By Morning, If You're Thinking You Want a Stranger, A Fire I Can't Put Out, Let's Fall To Pieces Together, and others. What an amazing career this man has had.

[@timcaldwell5241]

@@joecoffey4199 Without a doubt…I used to see him in Dancehalls around San Antonio in the early 80’s…finally it got where the dance floors were covered by people standing packed together just to hear him sing! Dancing was out of the question…lol

[@joecoffey4199]

@timcaldwell5241 one of my favorite songs of his from that Era is The Only Thing That I Have I Have Left, which was never a single. There's an amazing video of a live performance from Austin City Limits in 1982 here on KZbin. You should check it out, assuming you haven't seen it already. Sounds like you're a pretty big fan of his.

[@lawrencecollier1268]

Saw him live in the 1090's Great singer, served in the Military, and has been in the rodeo as well.

[@AH-em3zl]

Beautiful voice...

[@alankoemel3168]

Texas Forever. Third generation Texan here. King George grew up on his family’s ranch at Pearsall, Texas. Eloped to Mexico. I’ve danced a million miles to Terry Stafford’s version. For the Texas sound, check out Jerry Jeff Walker, Gary P Nunn, and Robert Earl Keen.

[@timothybuchanan662]

George has some great songs like " the chair" i like " the heartland" he also has a couple movies " pure country" and a sequel ( which hes not in nearly as much maybe even a camio if i remember)" pure country 2 the gift"

[@mikeallen7942]

Makes me cry. That's real country

[@cog4life]

Love it!! STRAIT country!! 🎶🎶🎶❤

[@duke2651]

Good old fellow Texan.

[@willieb3765]

my band plays this and it is one I really enjoy playing, wish it was longer in fact, a song about life, fits whatever career you can bring up, We have used a harmonica for the violin part

[@GGMASherry]

My all time favorite song ❤❤❤

[@mikeallen7942]

He is the goat. Country royalty

[@brewswillis9783]

This one is/was a karaoke staple for me, he is the king!

[@user-kg7co9vi5r]

Another rodeo related song of his is "Cheyenne " a couple of good love songs "Check yes or no" " I cross my heart" on the lighter side "All my exes live in Texas" " Ocean front property in Arizona "

[@oldmcdonald3376]

george. babys got good at goodbye or i know me. both great songs. your in my top 2 reactors now. but i only listen to your country and classic rock reactions

[@craigholt3485]

The Grand Entry was the best part. I rode rough stock for the better part of my life, and every word to this song hits.

[@erniesteele3164]

I love the fiddle playing in this!

[@andrewcastillo9558]

Grew up on king george. So many #1s and soo many that should have been.

[@gloriaricarte1622]

Omg thanks for this song and reaction loved it ❤

[@robertshaner7841]

This is his fovorait song as tolld by him

[@tonycampbell4982]

Now getting into some American history music classic!

[@CarlosG806]

King George 🙌🙌 I would recommend Texas Country y’all shouldn’t worry about copyright issues! Either.. Cross Canadian Ragweed- Mexican sky Whiskey Myers-Dogwood Cody Johnson- Till you Can’t

[@NUp-rl3bz]

Y'all are beautiful. Wow

[@CodyCloudWalker]

This one is a must, "The chair ".

[@quintondees4501]

This was king George's first hit, hes the GOAT

[@donnaneville192]

It is a Fiddle when played in Country or Bluegrass, violin in most other genres!

[@62impalaconvert]

One of my favorites from George is The Fireman.

[@MarySlack-m2w]

One of my favorite dingers

[@mikeallen7942]

He's a real cowboy

[@terereynolds698]

When I lived in Lakeside California I used to go to the rodeo all the time, I loved it. I went to mortuary college in Indiana with a guy that was a bull rider. My daughter and I saw her friend get killed by the bull he was riding. He was only 19 years old

[@darrinlindsey]

A song of his that I've only seen one other channel react to is The Chair. Classic story song, with an amusing twist at the end. I don't think you're going to find many of his songs that are much more than 3 minutes and change. He did have 2 hits from a movie that he starred in (Heartland), that might be close to 4 minutes.

[@LegenDairyRacing]

You should check out "The Chair" by George Strait

[@dusty4835]

This was originally written and performed by Terry Stafford, but George owns it.

[@wheelmanstan]

Dang, now y'all gotta see Clay Walker singing "where do I fit in the picture (Live)". It's also performed at the rodeo and he sings his heart out. Yeah George Strait is HIGHLY respected. He just sings country and ranches and never gets involved in drama or trying to reinvent himself. He single-handedly has kept mainstream country music alive IMO. He's like the gold standard in a world where money is printed. Traditional country music. Steel guitar and fiddle for all your Texas Two Step needs. George Strait kinda took the country by storm and in a new direction. By the mid-80's early 90's it hit a peak. I think it had a few peaks but man it was great around that time, lots of different sounds, sub-genres of country.

[@carolyncostner9619]

George isn't a country singer, he's a cowboy who happens to sing.

[@CreepinDeath359]

Cowboys Like Us is a great song

[@la_rebel6595]

Ya'll need to watch pure country he's in that movie it's a good movie.

[@ShelbyFarrow]

63 number one hits.

[@shannonherb2048]

Fiddle and violin are the same just played differently. Some strings are different but not really a big difference. Great reaction y'all from NC.

[@MarySiddell]

Love George! You should listen to "All my exes live in Texas"

[@BrigidSamhain]

Baby George hahaha - cracks me up - compared to Grown Up George - suave George . "You look so good in love" is also a hit.

[@susanfranks-craun811]

This song has aged like fine whiskey. Listen to this when it first came out and later on, like 30 years later. Then compare them. It makes you feel as if you have been sitting in your favorite chair and just had the best glass of whiskey ever.

[@bluedogguy]

Comment. Great selection.

[@StrongStyleFiction]

Amarillo, the home of the greatest man who has ever lived. Terry Funk. Pure Country is a pretty good movie by the way. At least from what I remember.

[@sailinbob11]

The shores of old Mexico

[@texan2u]

Heavy Metal ? Oh, you mean George Straight's stock trailer, that he hauls his broncs in, Gotcha !

[@steveostrander5182]

He has been in a couple of movies. The best known is Pure Country. He is so devoted to his wife that he would not kiss his co-star in the movie. He considered that cheating on his wife.

[@85wildangel]

Check yes or no, I cross my heart, carrying you love with me are great songs

[@victoriarios3726]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@williambertelsen4924]

Y'all really need to check out 'I cross my heart' by the king. It's actually from a movie he played in...Pure Country

[@scotthunt2479]

You are correct. 'Amarillo By Morning' peaked at #4 on the Billboard Country chart in 1983. "Baby Blue" is the song that is 'rumored' to remind Strait of his daughter, who was killed in a car crash at the age of 13. But that has never been verified (as far as I can tell) by George, himself, nor has he publicly dedicated that song to her. The song was written by Aaron Barker, so we know George didn't write it, and we know Barker didn't write it with Strait's daughter in mind since it was written well before her death. Regardless, 'Baby Blue' is a beautiful song, and no one could have sung that song any better than George.

[@tjwendel4676]

"Love without End" and "Ace in the hole"

[@rickwelch8464]

"The Cowboy Rides Away" "Marina Del Rey" and my personal favorite, "I Got A Car" . Can't go wrong w George. Maybe do a George Strait day once a week for 60 weeks lol. This song is about the rodeo life: "looking for 8 when they pull that gate" 8 second bull ride. "They took my saddle in Houston, broke my leg in Santa Fe" Broken bones are part of the game. Regardless of what the sport takes from him, he'll show up in Amarillo by morning to do it all again. Violins and fiddles are the same instrument used differently. Violins are used for more classical music and has strings. A fiddle is for country/bluegrass etc and it has STRANGS. :)

[@orangeandblackattack]

If you haven't, react to Aaron Watson "July in Cheyenne". Tribute to Lane Frost who died in 1989. While the song was written about Lane, he wrote it after holding his baby girl in his arms as she died.

[@geoffmorgan2794]

Is this the way to Amarillo by Tony Christie first released in 1971 and re-released in 2005 By the same artist!

[@caretaker158]

Oh he was so young... but then again, weren't we all back then. Love me some George, and love me some rodeo songs. Here's another example of just how much of a "good ol' boy" George is. In the movie "Pure Country" (highly recommended) he never once kissed the girl ;). If you find yourself wanting to do more rodeo geared songs, I highly recommend checking out Chris LeDoux. Champion bareback rider who used to sell 8 track tapes of his music (that his folks produced in their kitchen) out of the back of his pick up truck. Then Garth Brooks' song "Much Too Young" mentioned him and introduced the country to his music. Garth even admits to this day that his stage show came from Chris.

[@MrTech226]

George Strait was semi-retired from touring, as he mostly toured in home state of Texas. Now, George is doing touring around the country. Rodeos such as the professionals here (Pro Bull Riding or PBR) risked their lives for 8 seconds. Their protectors aka "Bull Fighters" risked their lives to protect the riders. I know some were offended if some called them "Rodeo Clowns". But in some rural areas, there are protectors dressed as Clowns to entertain kids there.

[@ShelbyFarrow]

I have the CD of his and it consists of all of his hits that didn't make it to #1 like this one and Marina Del Rey, another great song. I just read online that George Strait is worth 500 million dollars. That is more than Garth Brooks and Dolly Parton have. I heard he is a good friend of Alan Jackson.

[@kevinsimpson8336]

I was a cowboy in the 80s

[@BartMcKay-q8b]

Pure Country sound track, is aces. Watch the movie then listen

[@jeffbolton9699]

I had a friend who rode bulls in the 70's. One night he used what was called a suicide wrap, 99.9% of him got bucked off, his hand was still wrapped on the bull.

[@RichardEklund-g9s]

try Amarillo in the rear view mirrow.

[@mikephotos225]

Another somewhat similar one that I would recommend to you is "All That Glitters (Is Not Gold)" by Dan Seals

[@superdrummergaming]

Mildly fun fact: A violin and a fiddle are the same thing. It's just how you play them that makes the difference.

[@HateTheGameTX]

Texas’ Anthem!