Nick Lucas - Walkin' My Baby Back Home (1951)

[@unwrought9757]

I love the fact that he plays the same guitar in all of his videos here ranging from 20’s to 50’s. What a singer and a stylish guitar player he was!

[@LeoGaticaOfficial]

RIP Nick Lucas 1897-1982 you will never be forgotten...

[@Jam-m7m]

I own a 1936 Gibson Nick Lucas, Brazilian Rosewood Adirondack top, it is one heck of a guitar

[@silversrayleigh7624]

Listening to this in the year 2022 hats off to the legend Nick Lucas

[@何偉銘-t6o]

Classic so many memory in there!

[@Holly1960-]

Nick Lucas: (born August 22nd 1897 - died July, 28th 1982, age 84) Rest In Peace!

[@Supremesfan1]

Nick Lucas was fabulous in the fifties. This was one of my favorite 1951 songs. I bought the record immediately after it came out. I saw Nick Lucas many times throughout his career.

[@ggeorge4144]

I learned to play guitar taking lessons from the Nick Lucas guitar method in 1957. At 81 I still play, mostly classical and fingerstyle popular songs. I never could sing.

[@MrCliveDavies]

An historic performance! His vocals and guitar style are so interesting!

[@garry57]

What tasteful guitar playing and singing. I think every young guitar player today should spend a long time learning the Nick Lucas song book. We all did when I was young. What a joy! Thanks for sharing all of this great music

[@Lowdenjim]

Does music ever get better than this? Pure gold.....

[@300bluebooks]

I just watched him in Show of Shows and had no idea he had such a long film career... that's wonderful! he was one of the best parts of that film. What a talent!

[@gopetogle]

Just discovering these old Nick Lucas vids and it feels like I've found the original version of McCartney's 'granny music' (honey pie etc.). Pure gold!

[@gordonmorris6359]

I wouldn't be surprised if The Beatles covered this song, many oldies like it were in their repertoire as can be heard on their BBC recordings from 1963, Side By Side for example.

[@googleisretarded7618]

Nah, Paul's old-timey influence is earlier than this. 1920s/30s. Al Bowley would be an example. Listen to his 'Love is the Sweetest Thing.' (You won't regret it). Also, 1930s Fred Astaire.

[@derby2510]

@@googleisretarded7618 This is a 30s song, but the real Paul influence was the English vaudeville style, not this jazz-inflected pop music.

[@Goldenrod01]

@@googleisretarded7618 nick Lucas was at the peak of his popularity in the late 20s/early 30s. This performance is from later in his career. He originally recorded this track in 1931

[@bunkerman99]

An Original Guitar God.

[@howardstern666]

Nick Lucas was amazing, and I love checking out his videos spanning the '20s through the '80s. And he looks a bit like Kramer from Seinfeld here!

[@rogeralsop3479]

Wonderful song.

[@jamesewanchook2276]

pretty groovy dude in his day., an better than 99% these days... .Nick's a star!!

[@robertgreen3702]

My boyhood hero !! 🎸👍👍

[@organgrind]

Genius really.

[@shmuelpapirnikov1168]

'WHAT A GUITARIST!

[@OrlaQuirk]

Thank you. I had never heard that version before. My fave is still Annette Hanshaw's version from 2 decades before. She's here on KZbin.

[@thendrjazz]

Interesting that of the people that did this tune in the 1950s, Lucas was the only one who actually did it when it originally came out in the early 1930s.

[@IanDiansig]

Sinong nandito matapos mapanood sa Isang content creator 😊

[@sylviahacker6695]

He's wonderful!

[@Yverian]

He makes that guitar playing look so easy and effortless, but it isn't. And he has it tuned some way that I've never even heard of. Amazing performance.

[@tinpanalleystandards1780]

Just tuned up one whole step - sounds in D, plays in C.

[@vin.handle]

A good looking fellow and a unique interpretative style.

[@jeremyhenry7280]

All time great.

[@peraspera.4286]

I LOVE DIS SONG

[@Peter_Pepper_Love]

🎶"gee but it's tough when you don't get enough, walking yer baby back home"💞😏⚘

[@vAIERIEHARPER121]

great song were singing it in my choir class

[@Ezdduf4kuZ]

I've never heard of Nick Lucas, but I've heard of this song...oh yes. I might of heard it just once, just once is good enough for a song that I drool over, anyway to make a long story short, it was probably on my mother's kitchen radio that I heard it and I beliee it was done by none other than Johnnie Ray. Now Johnnie's version is unav. at this time, and I was surprized but that is the way with many doowop/early R&R era...unav. Great cover...3 1/2 stars but Johnnie's gets 5 stars! THX

[@dxmxo9427]

What a Talented Handsome guy :)

[@1024rocket]

My grandpa only sings this song. It's the only one he knows

[@itsdarkinhere]

Depends on what remake you're referring to. The adaptation to Swedish made by Beppe Wolgers and preformed by Monica Zetterlund not only captures the spirit of the original, it also captures the spirit of Stockholm as it used to be.

[@beatle9239]

He was a pretty good singer. This is the first I have heard of him.

[@ianboard544]

Interesting. Saw his 'tiptoe through the tulips' from 1929 and looked for more. Very good phrasing. Surprised I never heard of him before.

[@Peter_Pepper_Love]

🎶R.I.P Mr Tim💞😏⚘

[@tricolorpicks]

@Ezdduf4kuZ I've never heard of Johnnie Ray. Nick Lucas was one of the first, (if not the first), to record this song in Feb. 1931and it charted a #8 Hit for him in '31.

[@PiinkTuliip]

hahaha his face makes me happy.

[@Peter_Pepper_Love]

🎶⚘🥴💞

[@jerryking45]

He sounds like that lead singer from the Ink Spots most recently from Shawshank Redemption fame.

[@harrywongitbeso]

I just love this performance 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 available in cd format ????????????

[@BixLives32]

Fantastic! Lucas had one heck of voice! Why do people miss this? Also, he had James Taylor's open-string technique about 70 years before Taylor! Notice that Nick almost never leaves 1st position! All of you advanced Jazz players, -look, see?! You may have NOT thoroughly investigated the power of 1st position!? And all you new players; remember that first position made both Lucas and James Taylor big stars. -E.g. open strings combined with Jazz voicing can become a most powerful comping method. I studied with the late, GREAT Richard Lieberson. Richard, as a strict traditionalist, and would rightly reprimand me every time I tried to employ an open string while arranging a song. This is because traditional Jazz orchestra rhythm (what Mr. Lieberson was so patiently trying to teach me) does NOT allow for open strings. A open string breaks the Jazz voicing sound and prevents quick transposition of KEYS. In trad-Jazz playing, an open strings is usually a BIG no-no. Notice, that trad-Jazz players never use kapos. But here is Nick Lucas the grand daddy of Jazz playing in first position and COOKING! Nick Lucas had some great buddies. E.g.; Eddie Lang, Carl Kress, Dick McDonough, Eddie Durham, Lonnie Johnson, etc. Check out the guitar duos of these cats. The new electric recording technology that became the standard by 1926, was a similar technology leap as were CDs and home high-fidelity kits in the 1940s & 50s. This new recording technology allowed the acoustic guitar to be heard! The technology specifically allowed the guitar to be mostly a rhythm instrument for a combo or orchestra. The electric guitar had not been invented; -Lloyd Loar left Gibson in 1924 because Gibson turned down his design for a new ELECTRIC guitar. Single note leads were still beyond the technology of the day, yet notice that Lucas can be heard above the orchestra and plays several chords with single note picking. This can only be attributed to the great RCA/Westinghouse engineers of the day -No one beat RCA/Westinghouse! HOWEVER; the new recording technology allowed the guitar to play GUITAR DUETS which allowed the players to play just about anything they wanted. Often a single guitar would comp a great singer, E.g. Bessie Smith & Eddie Lang on "Kitchen Man" is required listening...and fun! Not until Eddie Durham ca.1936 would this begin to change. But it was Charlie Christian ca. 1941 who blew the lid off! Simply because he had a 4 watt class-A amp with a 12" dynamic speaker along with a primitive pickup using iron bar magnets that weighted over 5 lbs! There would be no ceramic magnets or AlNico for several years. I LOVE watching Lucas move. And, I sure wish this vid had more resolution so that I could see his hands better. But, just knowing approximately where his hands were in a song is sufficient . Much thanks to the person whom posted this video and PLEASE post more if you have them!

[@lazyrrr2411]

Kripes Jack (Bix) - write a Book - or PUT something on Your Own Channel Don't go giving away the secret of open position 😬 loudmouth !

[@curbmassa]

FYI, he's playing in "C" on the film but you're hearing it in "D" so he would have had a capo on the 2nd fret when he recorded the audio. No doubt done because it was a better key to sing it.

[@dantep4966]

@@curbmassa no he had his guitar tuned a whole step up all the time

[@longjonwhite]

So... Pop videos didn't begin with MTV then ? Or even Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues ? Or even this! I just noticed a bunch of earlier ones down the side bar.

[@janjohansenmusic]

Jon White Like Grimm bros folk tales didn’t start with Disney! 😄

[@LStrachey]

so fine!

[@musket-hc1fc]

This is Nick's song. No one does it as well as he did.

[@mitchrodee]

Have you heard James Taylor’s version? kzbin.info/www/bejne/ame9q32HdpKohaM

[@paulbariohay3213]

[@Dons166]

Early music video

[@shmuelpapirnikov1168]

WAS SUNG BY DONALD OCONOR IN THE MOVIE WITH THE SAME NAME.

[@archduncan]

The guitar seems to be tuned up a tone/step. Interesting.

[@res9249]

Came here beacuse Tiny Tim!

[@janjohansenmusic]

Is it possible to get hold of a copy of the transcript in the beginning? Snader Telescriptions?

[@suzphillips8162]

Yes, it's on ebay.

[@JMonk26]

Anyone catch the name on that guitar?

[@stepno]

"The Gibson" Nick Lucas Special model was the first "artist model" named instrument from Gibson, if I remember something I read somewhere long ago. Deeper body than usual, 12 frets to the body (later 13 and 14), distinctive inlays etc.

[@Darlexis]

Hilarious! He cut the second verse!

[@douggoodhill]

Dylan played a Nick Lucas guitar. It was longing to play a song with substance.

[@plixypl0x]

He has the largest upper lip I've ever seen.

[@Peter_Pepper_Love]

🎶☝🏻😆💞

[@whs1pmjazz]

Voice doesn't fit the song too well

[@musket-hc1fc]

Patrick Reilly: Why do you think not?

[@Peter_Pepper_Love]

@@musket-hc1fc 🦗🎵🦗🎵🦗🎵🦗