Jimmy Brown the Newsboy - Flatt and Scruggs

[@brianpope5243]

Best version by far

[@powerface71]

I remember hearing my late Grandfather sing this song when he was puttering around in his workshop i.e the garage lol! I sure miss that Man, he raised me as his own, my Mom was just 17 when she had me in 1971, so she wasn't ready to be a Mom. Plus, my Grandpa always wanted a Son. I thank God for that Man!

[@LUCKYB.]

We have Simularates . Sorry about the spelling . My Mother had Me in 56 . She used my Dad to get out of the House . My GrandPairents ended up getting Me in 56 . As well. My GrandPairents . Were My Mom and Dad . My Real Mother Died a few years ago . Andre could never have a civil conversation.

[@gmiller1953]

Thanks for sharing. My grandpa was the closest thing to a father I had growing up. We didn't live together, although he was a musician. He played bluegrass and traditional country and southern gospel. He taught me how to play these different styles of music and how to hunt and fish etc. The fellas of that era were really great. I was born 1976.

[@Magicalwolfgamer]

I remember listening to this with my grandpa on my moms side of the family, god I miss him :(

[@dadirtyone1461]

This is AMERICA!!!! Ain't Nothing like it! We are the BEST!

[@lindseywalker6925]

Lester Flatt: best lead singer ever in bluegrass history.

[@jimcrawford5039]

Flatt & Scruggs we’re a real class act, I have loved them since the early 1960s ! Cheers from Australia.

[@impassable]

The whole band was class

[@JohnAdams-xc5yk]

I sold newspaper on the street in 1952 all night, I made $1.50, bought an RC Cola, moon pie, and money left to go to a movie

[@estebanmiguel6019]

I bet you’re a great man. You’re probably around daddy’s age. He picked up scrap metal from the town dump to help his family survive in the war years while grandpa was in France fighting. 😊

[@fuzzybutkus8970]

@@estebanmiguel6019You can tell all that by what he wrote?? Do you tell futures or anything?

[@BradleyKey-v7b]

​@fuzzybutkus8970 why are you like this

[@kingofoblivion1822]

Dang, you couldn’t even pay someone $1.50 today to read a newspaper

[@johnschreiber5163]

When I was about15 years old I was a Bluegrass/Banjo fan. I had learned to play some banjo and this was when Folk Music was big. Early 60s NYC area. My Dad shocked me by presenting me with two tickets to see Lester Flatt and Early Scruggs at Carnegie Hall in NYC. I went with my cousin Fred. The opening act was Grand Pa Jones. After the show the audience was invited back stage to meet the artists and get autographs. I still have my program signed by the entire Flatt and Scruggs Band and Grand Pa Jones. What a thrill.

[@bowmag803]

My uncle used to play and sing this song on his guitar every time he came over with his guitar I loved it and miss him

[@nippynf4l831]

My daddy played this one too.

[@Casey28027]

There is nothing like the sound and lyrics of old bluegrass and country. The music of today has lost a lot of sound and the lyrics aren't as fresh and don't tell the stories of like old music did. These musicians aren't just musicians they are masters of music. So that's why I like to listen to all of the old bluegrass and country because even in todays times it's still fresher than that of today.

[@parttimepicker]

This is the first "real" bluegrass tune I learned to pick. No one can top Earl when it comes to classic picking like this. Outstanding.

[@lindseywalker6925]

Earl's first love was the guitar. Doc Watson' first love was the banjo.

[@jamesbowen8960]

Lester was one of the greatest singers ever in any genre of music. Nobody could sing a story like Lester as he could have you hanging on his every word!!

[@TonyWud]

You are right, Jimmy Brown

[@patrickolaughlin6027]

Lester and Earl...no words needed .

[@frankjennings-ey9hd]

Just love these guys. When I was a kid their show came on every Saturday evening right after the news

[@HikeColorado]

I’ve always loved this song ❤

[@reneethorpe]

My dad's favorite Flatt & Scruggs song.

[@chipjones4500]

This is one of my favorite songs. It took a long time for me to learn it and 50 some years later it's still fun to play!

[@quorthonthegreat5649]

My Paternal grandfather loved these guys, their timeless, legendary performances. He was a Canadian, grew up in the Port Colborne/Sherkston countryside. He and his first wife (my grandmother) thoroughly enjoyed this style of bluegrass/gospel fusion.

[@marjoriebacon4627]

Love this old song. Brings me way back ❤

[@Jcboss422]

This is truly music to my ears , this generation needs this kind of peace and heart taking rhythms

[@opensourceanglers8291]

Without question this is the definitive interpretation of one of the greatest songs ever. They really had the midas touch with everything they did though. These guys really were the best of the best...

[@greenskeeper3000]

When i was 4-6 years old i remember that me and my cousin Misty would make by poor Grandpa play 2 song OVER AND OVER ! The songs ? Jimmy Brown the Newsboy , which was one of his favorite songs and Devos Whip It ! Being an adult now i can appreciate how much he HAD to love us , as an old Kentucky boy , to force himself through Whip-it a thousand times because WE liked it.

[@cngerms]

Truly blessed by Earl, Lester, and the boys. I'm very sorry to see these great men of musical history pass on. They are sorely missed, but we're so much richer for having listened to and learned from them.

[@donaldlewis4742]

Like the way Earl plays that guitar.

[@davidholliday8341]

This clip is amazing. Everyone knows that Earl was arguably the greatest banjo player in history. But his guitar playing is stellar.,

[@captainpicard1701e]

How could anyone dislike this video? Excellent classic, American song.

[@dylansabaliauskas812]

always will have a special place in my heart for these guys. Very short term group but i cant even bare to type this comment, tearing up already, I have a tribute band and we have won awards for our talents of reincarnating the music just like it was in the only good days. there will never be any respect for this music like there was in the good days. actually i have a place in my heart for lester, earl, and all the foggy mountain boys the size of texas. Love ya earl and lester. god bless yall

[@Ken-uo7iw]

I wouldn't call 20 years short term.

[@countrypaul]

These guys make it seem so effortless! It takes a lot of effort to do that well. Flatt & Scruggs had magic!

[@goneoverboard2]

Over here in the UK in the fifties it was covered by the fantastic Lonnie Donegan, We all called it Skiffle music back then {Bluegrass in the States I believe} Such a brill version. However,this is the first time I have heard and seen Flatt and Scruggs do this song, Wow! just knocked out!!! True American Legends. Love it.

[@davidholliday8341]

Earl deserves his place as one of the all-time banjo greats, but his guitar was sweet!

[@Pete-z6e]

david holliday , those little slide ups, harder than it looks.

[@packingten]

You are my flower wow!.

[@normanbranconnier2365]

7009

[@jj3449]

His son was a hell of a flat picker also.

[@Pete-z6e]

Smoooooth.

[@Gitplicker]

Earl Scruggs is my favorite guitar player. Seriously. So smooth and creative.

[@mustafaciftci2976]

I think he was better playing banjo

[@noyup]

I learn something new EVERY day. I'm 50 years old and grew up listening to Flatt and Scruggs. This is the first time I've ever seen this clip, though I heard this song as far back as I can remember and I never new it was Earl on the guitar, I always thought it was Lester.

[@mt3311]

There is a clip of his son Randy, about 10 years old on the Martha White Show, playing the autoharp. He plays it with crossed hands. A young Ricky Scaggs was on a different episode of that show. And there is a clip of a 13 year old Marty Stuart playing with Lester Flatt and band, on the Porter Wagoner show I believe, around 1972.

[@amywilkinson5330]

I love this song !! My Daddy sung this song a lot to my Brother and I when we were children and I just cried watching it brought back a lot of memories , because my Daddy passed on 17 years ago!

[@davidschomer9655]

Amy Wilkinson OMG . . my father passed 17 years also and he sung this song to myself and brother quite a bit when I was 8 or so . . I don't know why this song came back to me all these years ago, maybe I miss him.

[@donaldhicks3359]

This was one of my father's favorites too !

[@fredrogers2068]

Amy's Wilkinson

[@Adam_Baum]

Amy Wilkinson Same here. I grew up listening to my dad singing this I played this at my dads funeral when he passed away.

[@elvisslo]

God bless you and your daddy!

[@5stringkeith]

There'll never be another Flatt and Scruggs. Man, I gotta learn this one. Have always loved this tune cause it's so nostalgic. Thanks for posting...

[@Bhulo67]

Had paper route back in early 60's in East nastyville tn. Times have changed

[@HuntJumpSC]

This one brings tears to my eyes, one of my dad's favorites. We miss you, Earl and will always treasure your friendship with our family. Thank you, God, for loaning him to us for 88 years~ what a life well-lived and a precious gift he shared with the world.

[@colesonstevens6139]

These guys used to come play on my great great grandpas porch with him!

[@bsinbreed]

thats a great story, lester makes me think of my grandpa, and i cant remember a time in my life when i didnt LOVE this song

[@mungostjohn]

This was my Daddy's favorite when I was a boy. It is so special to me because I will always remember him singing it. Thanks for posting.

[@rhondaboncutter5812]

My Mom used to sing and play guitar to this song, when I was a kid! First time I have heard it in years! Brings back so many memories!

[@brendaborden3154]

It's hard to beat this!

[@DougHinVA]

'to sell the Gospel news...' that pretty well captures the main point of the song. Scruggs picking out melody with a thumb pick. And wrap up the song with a Martha White flour commercial ! Love it! It was REAL bluegrass from the early days of B&W TV

[@johnallison1942]

Great music.Don't understand how anyone could give thumbs down on it.

[@mikecinquen]

Fucking FOOLS !!!!

[@donaldhicks3359]

This type of music is not in their hearts.

[@neversurrender5976]

Thats 81 fools that hate cornbread too.

[@tonylangley2610]

all i can say is if they thumbs down this, im glad i dont know them, in this day when this music came was a great day to live and wasnt polluted with the such as these idiots ~

[@humpy936]

What class, how can anyone dislike this?

[@mikecinquen]

Fucking FOOLS !!!

[@bytwyzz]

+mike santoro new cuntry fktards

[@rasonjason4066]

It surely was an accident.

[@snakemansnakes1]

It's KZbin, Those initials YT stand for young trolls and all they do is patrol everything that's ever been posted and hit the thumbs down, some of them even progress to insults and interfering with good threads of decent posts. We just have to abide with them and ignore their brainless games. It keeps them off the streets at least

[@AlexColberg]

These guys made playing great music look so easy.

[@lane6407]

Peg, Let me tell, I appreciate this video a great deal. In 1973, I was listening to "You Are My Flower" on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" Album, and listening to the beautiful guitar licks inspired me to learn to play the guitar. It was years later that I actually learned it was Earl playing the guitar on that song. I still get my guitar out most every night. A lot of songs and a lot of friends later, it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

[@johnmorris9080]

thank you for this wonderful playing and singing.

[@dirtyolcanyanero]

I remember hearing this for the first time truckin' last year. It actually made me cry. That's when you know you TRULY love the music.

[@donking3020]

This is my favorite version of the song. I watched Flatt & Scruggs do this on their TV show back when they were on every week for Martha White flower.

[@rascalferret]

I like how they share the microphones...truly live band.

[@Tracywalden2424]

Listening to my Daddy play this and I am cooking 🙌🙌

[@Jerenator333]

My grandad said that he would wake up listenin to his mama sit on the porch justa pickin' this song away...His dad was Invited to go to the grand ole opry but he declined...Amazing!

[@TroyUpshaw-j5v]

One of the first songs I ever remember hearing. Lester had such a pure and wonderful voice.

[@robertbarrett6267]

I lived in Huntsville AL and watched these guys and Porter Waggoner on tv every Sat. morning. Miss it A LOT

[@clay1883]

Just wonderful. What a sound!

[@pttibg]

Lester had the voice...unmatched...especially on this, his best IMHO. There are a handful of revered voices in bluegrass & Lester stands tall.

[@powerface71]

He has that high lonesome sound in his vocal! Love it!

[@pauladams5595]

Best of all time! Charlie Waller is # 2

[@CathyMae12345]

I love this! I keep replaying it over and over. Thanks!

[@ronandlili]

I absolutely love this song! It brings back a flood of memories.

[@Patrick92272]

Mary Cage you are exactly right! There never has been and never will be another as great as Mother Maybelle Carter. So many musicians like Lester Flatt and so many more imitated her style. For the most part she taught herself! I can listen to Maybelle, Helen, June and Anita all day long!

[@packingten]

Earl playing you are my flower gives cold chills.

[@DelTangBrav]

I hadn't heard this F&S version before - it's a new favourite now. ☺

[@ronstewart3208]

What a great old group. Love Seckler. I love the fact they were not trying to be what they weren't. Just play the music and don't worry about anything else. Pure and sweet country at its best.

[@aroncevic]

+Ron Stewart I agree wholeheartedly.

[@frankenz66]

+Ron Stewart Mr. Curly Speckler turned 96 last Christmas and judging from the Face book images he appears to be going pretty strong still.

[@rayseckler7295]

Thank.u for you words, I am curly oldest son ray !

[@BlueBassBoss]

I love this version along Mac Wiseman's and Norman Blake's... it's all good! Thank you Martha White!

[@packingten]

MY Daddy loved L Flatt&Earl Scruggs esp Jimmy Brown RIP Dad see you on the other side.

[@timcantrell5768]

this is by far the best of the best. r.i.p lester and earl

[@themusicman3223]

I really can't stop listening to this version of this song I love it.

[@marvindockery-lo9cw]

I met J.E. Mainer at berea college, in Kentucky, in the mid 1980's. He told me the story about how he went north and got a job in a car factory after the second world war. I still have a business card he gave me and an invite to visit him and his wife. His group was very popular in the late 1930's and early 40's.

[@jimrkeener]

Earl and Lester--united again. In heaven. We miss you both.

[@thomasashmore7907]

Brings back childhood memories. Some good others bad. But I wish I could go back at times.

[@anitahillis9735]

My Mom said when she was a little girl in Tennessee her father played the banjo second to none. Lester Flatt & Bill Monroe stopped by their house after hearing how well my papa could play the banjo and offered him a job. My papa turned them down because he didn't want to miss church every Sunday. She said Bill Monroe started cursing and they made him leave. She said Lester was very nice and never raised his voice. They hired a young fellow from North Carolina named Earl Scruggs and the rest as they say IS HISTORY.

[@tombrown1796]

Johnny Cash came to Lansing, MI in the early Sixties along with June Carter, and Bill Monroe's name was well down among the bill of supporting performers. A college friend got backstage with his banjo, and Johnny & June were both gracious enough to autograph his banjo head. Bill Monroe, however, stood off to the side, totally ignored but looking surly and mean, almost daring anyone to attempt to speak to him. My friend worshipped Bill Monroe as a musician, but he left with the impression that the guy was mad as hell that he was no longer the focus of all the attention.

[@lw216316]

My grandma Peggie Margaret Flatt White 1877-1938 was related to Lester but I don't know the details. She lived a few miles from Sparta where Lester was from. She was on a farm just west of Cookeville. She married J.J. White. ....would like to know what her actual relation to him was.

[@sartainja]

Great story.

[@mt3311]

My aunt had a similar situation,where she was offered a job with Porter Wagoner as his girl singer. My grand mother would have had to go with my aunt on tour ( my aunt was 18, but not 21), but she couldn't because she had other kids to take care of. So my aunt missed out. The lady he got to be his "girl singer, ended up being Norma Jean.

[@frankferrgine9046]

Beautiful song, hello

[@pizzanpepsi]

Wow, Quality of this video is amazing, Thanks You Tube for bringing Lester and Earl into my living room!

[@annettanations7356]

Earl is the very best Banjo player. I love Earl Scruggs.

[@dennisraymond7996]

You're absolutely right... Good evening Annette how are you doing over there hope you're having a wonderful day it's a wonderful day that the lord has made.

[@Calico5string1962]

So cool to see Earl playing guitar... And his guitar is capoed to the 7th fret!

[@timcantrell5768]

i lived next door to flatt as a kid. he was great then as he is now!!!!!

[@ProfesserLuigi]

But he died like 30 years ago.

[@OrphanAnnieTrNb90]

Thank you, Mary Cage, for posting this video. It is one of my favorites and I love to hear Lester say, "Here's a song I like just to hear Earl pick it!"

[@airborneassasin]

Earl had the biggest pickguard I have ever seen, covered the top 3/4 of the guitar. he said it gave it the sound he wanted , by limiting the vibration of the top. amazing.

[@lw216316]

unusual...some people remove the guard saying it gives a better sound.... I guess its just a different sound....not better or worse...just what your ear likes to hear.

[@wadedavis7241]

My dad used to play this song. It’s one if not the first thing I learned to play on guitar.

[@moragmacgregor6792]

I love it when Earl plays the guitar

[@frankseabolt9519]

Morag MacGregor one of the best. Playing like a banjo finger style.

[@brianpope5243]

Absolute brilliant version of Jimmy brown the newsboy I loved the guitar solo & the casual look of the bass player, can't make my mind up who did this song best , it's such a wonderful song, cheers.

[@ralphlandress9165]

ANOTHER GOOD RENDITION OF THIS SONG IS MAC WISEMAN.

[@USNAVDC]

This is one of my favorite Flatt and Scruggs songs.

[@pferguson6]

Listening to Earl Scruggs and Maybel Carter was my inspiration to learn to play.

[@KawasakiRamey]

Just what I was needed

[@dennismoore7935]

bass player for Foggy Mountain boys is so underrated. perfect bass all the time

[@matthewhanhauser5993]

Earl Scruggs is NOT underrated

[@steveb1746]

Great song and picking 💗

[@reneejames3325]

My dad sang this song! His band Jim Delk and the Glenoby Boys from Fentress County TN Jamestown

[@sandracurrie5904]

I grew up near a guy named Jimmy Brown, and every time I saw him, I'd think of this song! 😂

[@PLINKER]

They were my all time favorites when it came to old time bluegrass!

[@kaydenburrage2014]

First reply

[@captinbeyond]

This show was a saturday night show we had to watch in the 60's.Provided we could get the reception and keep it.Also,the Wilbur brothers,Porter Wagner, the Rhodes Show,. Yeah,and we used Martha White,and Pet milk like staples.

[@johnmaisonneuve9057]

Super great!

[@aboutyabalmuanabi3103]

Flatt and Scruggs won a Grammy Award in 1969 for Scruggs' instrumental "Foggy Mountain Breakdown". They were inducted together into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985. In 1989, Scruggs was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship. He was an inaugural inductee into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1991. In 1992, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. In 1994, Scruggs teamed up with Randy Scruggs and Doc Watson to contribute the song "Keep on the Sunny Side" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization. In 2002 Scruggs won a second Grammy award for the 2001 recording of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown", which featured artists such as Steve Martin on 2nd banjo solo (Martin played the banjo tune on his 1970s stand-up comic acts), Vince Gill and Albert Lee on electric guitar solos, Paul Shaffer on piano, Leon Russell on organ, and Marty Stuart on mandolin. The album, Earl Scruggs and Friends, also featured artists such as John Fogerty, Elton John, Sting, Johnny Cash, Don Henley, Travis Tritt, and Billy Bob Thornton.

[@docsavage98]

@dh1366 I went to graduate school at UT, remember listening to Cas Walker early in the morning...by then he was pretty old and mostly talked about suing somebody and playing old Dolly Parton tapes...but great fun. I watched Flatt and Scruggs, Wilburns, and Porter Wagoner every Sat. Afternoon.

[@AlvaSudden]

Never fails to bring tears to my eyes. The story of the newsboys is tragic. This was way before insurance, public schools, and child labor laws when kids went into the streets to work. People don't understand how much we own to FDR and rights people acquired in the 1930s.

[@oldguy3255]

I wish they did.

[@frankenz66]

Love it ..always loved that version. Thanks for posting!

[@barryhossin1222]

I have spent the last week sifting through 2 thousand albums, and came across 2 Albums by these guys ,which was a nice find

[@gordieballantyne8601]

First time I heard this song, was at the Smiling Johnny Show at the Community hall here pelican , way back late 60s, or the early part of the 70s. Really love this song

[@pauladams5595]

Lester Flatt is best singer of all time

[@Samandrosajonesar]

Now this is great music !!!

[@whorewrangler]

Amazing. I know that when I put down my banjo and pick up my guitar, my fingers are lost for a few minutes. Not here, not with Earl Scruggs. That man is amazing.

[@herbjacque7035]

The big top ten when I was a biy boy u the back then binin 1960'

[@billyspencer3269]

this is my favorite bluegrass band

[@GarotaQueJoga]

Love Love ❤️😊

[@OrphanAnnieTrNb90]

I'm back again to hear "Earl pick it!" Plus, I love the half-covered guitar pick guard that Earl has on his guitar.