Music - 1980 - ACL Live - Mel Tillis - Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town & Orange Blossom Special

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[@ronchamberlain8392]

Love this song! Great version

[@cincinnatipedalsteel4347]

A young Paul Franklin with a mustache and a perm playing as good as ever on pedal steel! Not only a great player and musician but a wonderful teacher and an even better human being and friend!

[@rebeccad5988]

Thank You very much Magnificent show 💕🎼🎶💯🎶 Mel Tillis and band 💞💯 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🎸💯

[@edhintz7438]

RIP Mel and Larry!

[@wayne_twentyfive]

Brilliant song-writing, and this performance is very good .. But Kenny Rogers and The First Edition undisputedly own this song now .. That version never fails to send a shiver up my spine .. Thanks Mel for making it all possible.

[@ronniebishop2496]

I turned 21 in Phu Cat S Vietnam. Mel Tillis and the State Siders.

[@traviscoonrod185]

I bet it would've been cool to see him live back then!

[@imasportsphile6247]

Travis Coonrod, thanks for your comment....cuz after posting 1900 vintage videos on our ImaSportsphile webpage....we think the next best thing to seeing Mel Tillis live back then....is seeing him live in concert on several of our videos in our music section

[@ernestgunter2726]

Good show, very entertaining.

[@justinlapointe408]

The Best in ever been

[@wags3016]

My favorite version of Ruby is Johnny Darrell's, but I also love Mel's version. Especially the harmony on the end "For God sake's turn around." Love it!

[@mosrite60]

Listen to Mel sing "Old Patches" found on KZbin.

[@mosrite60]

Mel & The Statesiders used 2-3 twin fiddles. Unique sound. Great music. mos60

[@dicktingley8909]

mosrite60, thanks for your comments....as we at ImaSportsphile are glad you enjoyed this video.....cuz since Mel Tillis just passed.....the multiple Mel Tillis videos that we have posted in our music section on our webpage are now even more of a treasure to us. Also, the twin fiddles always created a unique sound....be it Tillis & The Statesiders or Haggard & The Strangers or Gimble & The Texas Swing Pioneers....the twin fiddles always created a wonderful unique sound.....as we already have more than a few videos posted on our site that bring that uniqueness of sound to our viewers.

[@1111pianoman]

what do 3 twin fiddles sound like?...is that 6 fiddles?...i would love to hear that!!...

[@dicktingley8909]

that would be great to hear....but the 3 fiddles on Orange Blossom Special is pretty awesome!!!

[@gamcdo602]

Fiddle player in the middle looks like Carroll Hubbard

[@dicktingley8909]

Ga McDo, thanks for the comment....as we at ImaSportsphile are wondering if you are saying that the middle fiddle player looks like Carroll Hubbard the Congressman from Kentucky in the 1980's?

[@jankarlsen9223]

there is a great version gary holton/casino steel from 1981

[@ronniebishop2496]

He was the best singer Bob Wills ever had.

[@AdairTorres]

What more can I say about Paul Franklin that hasn't been said yet....?

[@rssempresas9699]

We at ImaSportsphile responsible for posting this Mel Tillis video and the 2000 other vintage videos on our webpage at ImaSportsphile usually understand the 1000's of comments that we respond to....but not this one....so who is Paul Franklin?.....as we assume that is Mel Tillis' given name.

[@AdairTorres]

Ok...Thank you for the comment...Paul Franklin is the Steel Guitar Player , If you guys don't know who Paul Franklin is, sorry then you don't know Mel Tillis Legacy and history....On January 31, Paul Franklin, at the Mel Tillis Memorial, set in for a couple songs with some of the old statesiders.

[@AdairTorres]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Franklin_(musician)

[@rssempresas9699]

Thanks for the clarity....and know this....we consider this video to be a real "nugget of gold" in our treasure chest of memories at ImaSportsphile

[@AdairTorres]

I Thank you for posting this treasure........

[@1111pianoman]

someone help me---i've played this things 10 times and a STILL haven't heard "Don't Take Your Guns to Town"...what is UP??

[@dicktingley8909]

John Hopkin, thanks for your comment...cuz we at ImaSportsphile appreciate when folks bring our mistakes to our attention....so, we changed the title to Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town....afterall, we who are in charge of taking this 2300 hrs. of vintage video from Sony Betamax cassette to digital in order to be able to post this awesome video library on our webpage, were not even a gleam in our daddy's eye when these videos were recorded way back in the day....so we have indeed made some mistakes in the 1800 videos currently posted on our site....but by the time we post the remaining 7000 videos, our site will be a reference library for The Greatest Generation and The Baby Boomer Generation....cuz these folks deserve their place in history....and we want to be as accurate as possible....so, thanks for the help.

[@annetterichards4072]

Don't take your love to town.

[@allengardner7194]

A%

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[@greg7656]

Not a particularly good version, but interesting to note that Mel seems to concede that this song is indeed about Vietnam - he'd previously said it was about WWII or Korea, but the 'a war I didn't think should have been fought' reference seems to confirm Vietnam, which everyone had always assumed anyway.

[@greg7656]

@@edy1361 Ed, he actually never said that. In fact, tillis said the song was inspired by a WWII vet he knew, but only as a character study. Later in life, he would say, as in this video, that it was about "a war I didn't think should have been fought." Tillis was a teenager when Korea started - unlikely he would have already developed anti-war opinion at that point

[@normanrogers541]

Right before he sings the song he says a war that never should have been fought