KEITH CARRADINE I'm easy REACTION - That voice is sooo soothing! First time hearing

KEITH CARRADINE I'm easy REACTION
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[@RandoReport]

This song won an Academy Award in 1976.

[@debbiechang5781]

His voice always reminded me of Jim Croce’s. Great request and review. Thanks Harri and Michael 🌸💐✌️

[@gioconda43]

He mainly was an actor, part of the Carradine family I believe.

[@CrustyRetiredMarine]

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[@garyarnett1220]

Keith is an actor, not really a singer. He did this song for the film Nashville, and the producers thought it good enough to release to promote the film, and it actually did fairly well I like it.

[@kevinfarrell3121]

One of my absolute favorite songs ALL TIME! (I own over 10,000 records, and this one stands above most)

[@mikecaetano]

I got the James Taylor too, but I'm also hearing John Denver. The year following Nashville, Keith Carradine's brother, David Carradine, played folk singer Woody Guthrie in Bound for Glory (1976) and sang all the songs in that himself. And their father, John Carradine, featured in dozens of classic Westerns, including Jesse James (1939) and Stagecoach (1939) as well as The Grapes of Wrath (1940).

[@donnakubiski5572]

Love this song! Nashville was also a great movie and this won the best song Oscar at the Academy Awards. Thanks Mike and Harri.

[@carolmartin4413]

Wow...remember him performing at the AA...beautiful song!

[@roadwary56]

That was startling because all these years i never knew Keith Carradine could sing yet I remember this song somewhere. If he's playing the guitar as well i am super impressed. I've seen many of his movies as well as his brothers films. So talented a family.

[@michael7191]

Keith played and sang this live on the Oscars telecast in 1976. No backing musicians. I remember it blowing me away at the time

[@RandoReport]

Keith Carradine has had a long acting career, and he was in two of my favorite movies -- Choose Me and Trouble in Mind.

[@Phoenix85006]

Me too! Choose Me is my favorite 🏆

[@Cynthia...]

Such a great song and I probably knew who did it back in the day, but I totally forgot that Keith Carradine sang it. Great choice, Michael, and good reaction Harri.

[@EShelby2127]

"Actor Keith Carradine introduced his hit song "I'm Easy" in the 1975 movie Nashville. Directed by Robert Altman, the satirical film follows a group of country and gospel musicians in the days leading up to a political convention. Carradine plays Tom Frank, a guitarist in a popular folk-rock trio who's hoping to become a solo artist. During an open mic, he sings the tender ballad, full of yearning for a special someone in the audience. Unfortunately, Tom is a cad who uses and abuses women, so many of the ladies in attendance think the song is about them. It's really aimed at his next conquest, gospel singer Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), who'd been resisting his advances. Altman insisted his cast write and perform their own songs for the movie, and Carradine was excited to dust off the love song. He wrote it to woo Shelley Plimpton, his castmate in the original Broadway production of the hippie musical Hair in 1968. It worked, but the relationship didn't stick (it did, however, produce a child - actress Martha Plimpton). At 19 years old, Carradine was mostly being genuine when he wrote the vulnerable lyrics about giving his heart to the woman he loves, though he admitted he was "just trying to get laid." Still, he was surprised when Altman spun the song into "an entreaty from an abject narcissist." "It wasn't the simple love song that I had written - it became something else. It became an incredible manipulation," Carradine explained in a 2013 documentary about the making of Nashville. "There was something kind of beautifully cynical about it, but that was Bob." Altman and Carradine previously worked together on the 1974 movie Thieves Like Us. During a party at the director's house, the actor busted out his guitar and started playing some of his original tunes, including "I'm Easy" and "It Don't Worry Me." Altman was blown away, and the seed for Nashville was planted. "When I heard them, I knew I wanted to base a whole movie around them, a movie that would simply give me an excuse to put them in," Altman is quoted in the 2003 book The Nashville Chronicles: The Making of Robert Altman's Masterpiece by Jan Stuart. Gary Busey was originally supposed to play the role of the womanizing musician, with Carradine acting as his bandmate Bill, but he pulled out to pursue a TV pilot. The song would have served an entirely different function in the movie from Bill's point-of-view as a singer struggling with his failing marriage. Busey was with the production long enough to provide the song "Since You've Been Gone," which ended up being sung by Bill, Mary and Tom (Allan F. Nicholls, Cristina Raines, and Carradine). In the movie, Carradine performs this as a spare acoustic-guitar ballad, but he re-recorded it in a slightly faster tempo with percussion, synthesizers, and keyboards added to the arrangement. That version was released as a single and went to #17 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the Easy Listening chart in 1976."

[@iandowney4630]

I thought Ronnie Blakey was superb and I still love the song “He’s Got A Tape Deck In His Tractor”.

[@RJ-oy7cq]

Harry...Keith is mainly an actor...has had a long movie and TV career.

[@howardhales6325]

Didn't he play Penny's father on Big Bang Theory?

[@cammygram1]

This was my beloved mother's favorite song. Rest easy Mom. I hear you singing this tune down here.

[@Nuerth]

Wow ~ I have always been an admirer of him & both of his brothers & his father as actors, but never knew he could sing ~ I knew David Carradine did sing

[@iandowney4630]

This is a great song from Nashville (which did have a fantastic soundtrack). He could have recorded more music, if he wanted to. Thanks Michael and Harri for the request and insightful reaction.

[@statusaeswave2979]

Keith Carradine comes from a famous family -- father John Carradine was a film actor and the list of children David Carradine, Robert Carradine, Keith Carradine, Bruce Carradine, Christopher Carradine all also carried the name with talent.

[@bowtangey6830]

The film is pretty good, too.

[@Marcus-Oh-really-yes]

I am listening to/viewing this very early Sunday morning ... so to tie in Lionel Richie's song, like you mentioned, I guess that makes it "I'm Easy Like Sunday Morning." :-) Beautiful song. Thanks Harri and Michael.

[@iandowney4630]

Well done!

[@wayneclendenen2036]

If you have watched any of Big Bang Theory, Kieth plays Penney's dad...

[@Keedeeg]

I was just telling someone about this song. Keith was acting on the TV show, Dexter. I've always found him kinda sexy.

[@elainemarsh5170]

I absolutely ADORE this song ❤

[@The5thGen]

I liked his father’s movies.

[@anidiquaojala1804]

❣️

[@dalemcmillan7231]

Love this ❤❤❤

[@ljre3397]

Good thing he could act.