Jimmy Brown the Newsboy - Flatt and Scruggs

[@lindseywalker6925]

Lester Flatt: best lead singer ever in bluegrass history.

[@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 :(

[@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

[@brianpope5243]

Best version by far

[@jeffhildreth9244]

The best and Scrugg's guitar playing is fantastic. If you get a chance look up Norman Blake's version.

[@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.

[@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

[@dadirtyone1461]

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

[@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.

[@reneethorpe]

My dad's favorite Flatt & Scruggs song.

[@donaldlewis4742]

Like the way Earl plays that guitar.

[@PaulBridgman-re1gu]

Great guitar player, Scruggs played better melodic fills and solos than many Nashville session players. No need for ckn picking garbage!

[@stargarnetmusic]

He was so good.

[@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

[@frankjennings-ey9hd]

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

[@patrickolaughlin6027]

Lester and Earl...no words needed .

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@brendaborden3154]

It's hard to beat this!

[@dennismoore7935]

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

[@matthewhanhauser5993]

Earl Scruggs is NOT underrated

[@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...

[@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

[@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.

[@davidholliday8341]

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

[@HikeColorado]

I’ve always loved this song ❤

[@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

[@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!

[@countrypaul]

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

[@captainpicard1701e]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@colesonstevens6139]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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...

[@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

[@packingten]

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

[@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 ~

[@rascalferret]

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

[@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

[@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!

[@Gitplicker]

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

[@mustafaciftci1989]

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.

[@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.

[@AlexColberg]

These guys made playing great music look so easy.

[@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.

[@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.

[@Footprints728]

This of course is a very famous video that actually received advance billing before it was released back during the 1950's probably.

[@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.

[@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

[@Tracywalden2424]

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

[@ChristopherOconner-nf5hb]

How cool

[@moragmacgregor6792]

I love it when Earl plays the guitar

[@frankseabolt9519]

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

[@packingten]

Earl playing you are my flower gives cold chills.

[@pauladams5595]

Lester Flatt is best singer of all time

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@sandracurrie5904]

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

[@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!"

[@Bhulo67]

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

[@ronandlili]

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

[@ezzie1262]

Remember them hollers I ran around and got in all kind of trouble 😂😮 America Romany outlaws ❤

[@johnmaisonneuve9057]

Super great!

[@CathyMae12345]

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

[@pizzanpepsi]

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

[@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 !

[@timcantrell5768]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@GarotaQueJoga]

Love Love ❤️😊

[@Calico5string1962]

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

[@KawasakiRamey]

Just what I was needed

[@johnmorris9080]

thank you for this wonderful playing and singing.

[@DelTangBrav]

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

[@BlueBassBoss]

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

[@robertbarrett6267]

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

[@pferguson6]

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

[@clarakling5789]

My Mother used to sing this. Newspapers cost 1.00 now once a week . The guy that sells them on the street has done this for a lot of years.

[@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.

[@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.

[@wadedavis7241]

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

[@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.

[@PeteBurns-xv2fz]

Ahh..just great..i love lester flatts voice

[@USNAVDC]

This is one of my favorite Flatt and Scruggs songs.

[@clay1883]

Just wonderful. What a sound!

[@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.

[@themusicman3223]

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

[@PLINKER]

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

[@kaydenburrage2014]

First reply

[@reneejames3325]

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

[@jimrkeener]

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

[@alexjosephbearboss8142]

I like this song , I play in turn table record player .

[@thomasashmore7907]

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

[@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.

[@billyspencer3269]

this is my favorite bluegrass band

[@CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL]

I love "'Til The End of the World Goes 'Round". Keep up with your flat-picking lessons. They will pay off in more ways than one. Merry Christmas!

[@DaisyMaeScragg]

@jojothebanjoman Earl Scruggs and his sons perform together. They were at Harrah's Casino in Cherokee, N.C. last year. My brother got Earl to autograph his banjo while he was there.

[@samueldavidrucker7514]

True masters