Porter Wagoner Show - Stringbean Complete 1967 Performance

[@scottmurphy1563]

A better time with better people. I sure do miss them.

[@2tycade]

String was so relaxed on stage. He would bring the best out in anyone that was on stage with him. He was a very giving and caring person.

[@donnawheeler1716]

The bean was a master of the banjo. How sweet it was. There will NEVER be another one like the bean.

[@christopherjames9843]

@Keith Clark He was one of the best banjo players who ever lived you moron.

[@tnelson4593]

David ( String) and Estelle had no children. Although they admired and loved their nieces and nephews. They would travel often to Jackson County Ky to see their extended family.

[@dntlss]

"The mastering of an instrument" was a understatement when it came to this man.

[@evonwilson1292]

dntlss r to get

[@pablo9364]

dntlss he made his mark thats for sure

[@alexhickey5633]

I recon he had a very rare and exceptional talent to put 2 good things together. His banjo playing is basic but relaxed, a little like his stinging style. Just alright on their own but the 2 together is incredible. Most musicians can get either the voice good, or the instrument. But rarely both. Stringbean had the ability to dumb down 1 or the other in places which gives his songs a very cool personality that you dont hear much of today

[@Wootangtw]

String bean was awesome…

[@darrenwhite544]

Everyone there have sadly passed away but their legend will live on the internet

[@alangray9117]

I'm 57. I miss country music like these guys. Nowadays country music sucks eggs. I remember the Porter Waggoner Show when I was little. I always wanted one of Porter's rhinestone suits. They were the coolest.

[@baldy194859]

50s,60s and 70s were great years !

[@robertgreen9980]

A movie must be made of this great performer!

[@political-social]

100%. Yes!

[@Ralphieboy]

@@political-social It would have a rather tragic ending...

[@markkeneson6806]

​@@Ralphieboy, all the more reason to make a biopic movie about him.

[@cmcapps1963]

​@@RalphieboyIt's heartbreaking. His friend and neighbor Grandpa Jones noticed he was late for the fishing trip they had planned and found them dead the next morning. It would make a heck of a film.

[@timothygreen7708]

Sure do miss old string bean, he's one of my all-time favorites.

[@donnawheeler1716]

Those were the days. God bless stringbean. He really was the Kentucky wonder.

[@ryanrenken5062]

God bless you stringbean. Best banjo picker ever. No one today can pick a banjo like you

[@peytonstringbeanhamlett19P]

2 of my favorites. Roger Miller and Stringbean

[@donalddingler1263]

Porter always ended his show saying, " What is to be will be and what ain't to be just might happen.

[@political-social]

His story is so fantastic. Trading 2 chickens for his banjo at age 12 with a musical family and grandpa jones and friends. I can just imagine their back/front yard gatherings. Just fantastic taste of true Americana. Just love it!

[@robertbrouillette6767]

I remember being in western Tennessee in the summer of 1965 watching The Porter Wagoner Show on a black and white TV. We lived in Finley, an incorporated little town about five miles west of Dyresburg.

[@donnawheeler1716]

Porter thought alot of string. I was a young woman when string was around. But I remember. I was a teenager. A true living legend. He was amazing. He is truly missed.

[@karlfisher1864]

There will never be another one who can play the way string did! One of a kind! Karl

[@tnelson4593]

Roy, Stringbean, Bobby, Grandpa Jones. Four legends right there. I don’t see Buck Trent in on this video. But he’s also a very talented Banjo picker that was also on Hee Haw.

[@sfopaladin2661]

It must be the 3rd time I've watched this. The old time actors and players always intrique me. I love them all. Wish i could turn back the clock of time.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

What an immensely talented man.

[@rogerburton4880]

I can remember watching all those great country music shows as a kid. That was country music back then. This so called country music today isn’t worth listening to.

[@watchman1178]

Whole bunch of talent on that stage. Some of them left us too soon. Roger, String,.....

[@ronniechilds2002]

His comedy was painfully corny at times at times, but he's one of the best of that style of banjo I have ever seen

[@ricktempleton3415]

Great showman.

[@junkboxxxxxx]

String's getup onstage was something but just listen to him play -- this is no novelty joke act.

[@donnawheeler1716]

It didn't get any better than this. He truly was the Kentucky wonder. Amazing!. A living legend.

[@donnawheeler1716]

Don't you just love it? String was awesome! Amazing! So missed.

[@BeingRomans829ed]

"Bottlecap" banjo! Ol' Stringbean was a thrifty ol' country boy who knew how to guard that old solvency!

[@dmanwainright2132]

Thank you Randle!!

[@dmanwainright2132]

Randell!

[@jacquelinemilton6387]

He shld b in the hall of fame yes ago

[@marklandreth2197]

It's funny he used the clawhammer style on Pretty Little Widder, but on the "Heavy" he reverted to his old 2 finger roll like he used with Bill Monroe in the 40's..

[@3422dave]

String and Grandpa Jones was so showmen

[@donnawheeler1716]

If string is 6ft5, then porter Wagoner must have also been a very tall man. God love string. He was truly a good, gifted, modest, humble man. None like him then or now. Miss you string. You and Estelle are so missed.

[@ricktempleton3107]

I thought that also Porter was eye to eye with him.

[@twamonster5848]

Porter probably wearing platforms

[@tboudreau5239]

Oh freaking mazing!!! Thought I was the only one who remembers this greatness. Lucky to be an old geezer who saw this

[@donnawheeler1716]

It doesn't get any better than this! The Kentucky wonder Stringbean!

[@jeremyreagan9085]

God I play his style of banjo picking and I will never be as talented as he was!

[@markkammerer7527]

The great stringbean

[@LB-pg3no]

The beano was so talented at the banjo...wow....what an amazing talent...sings awesome too!! Ashame he was murdered!

[@Voirreydirector]

The classic costume, too perfect. But he knew they were cutting into his time, and was not impressed. Celebrity was never more important than the music. He could have taught us so much.

[@bobbymcfarland4386]

Holy cow that takes me back a long time good old string

[@donnawheeler1716]

Did anyone notice how fast strings fingers moved on his banjo?

[@Poppaea-Sabina]

Holy crap this dude can play banjo

[@elainesmith7512]

This is REAL country music not the trash that passes for "country" music these days.

[@sherryhannah498]

elaine smith you don't like Carrie Underwood??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!..... she good not trash

[@johnallison7358]

She's not trash but she also is not Real country.

[@jamesw535]

He was great, yep that was real country, what they call country now is pop music, all electronic music not as much skills

[@toscodav]

yup. "I went down to the river in my ford truck with a six pack of beer just looking for a fu*k." Just made that up but just as good as any lyric you would hear from country music today.

[@williambutler7312]

. . tru-dat

[@Johnny35130]

Growing up I had several albums of "bean". Also Dave Macon. I liked Bean for his whimsical act. But he hardly ever changed chords on live tv. He did on Run Rabbit Run but mostly he would play in open G and play melody only. Out of harmony. Great entertainer. Master of banjo??

[@tasherysmithers9776]

An outstanding shoow.

[@peterjarnes25]

The suit the guy has on initially is un believable I want one!

[@ericaconley4637]

Me too!! His rhinestone suit was so pretty!!😍

[@baldy194859]

Porter was one of my moms favorite singers !

[@DennisWelch-t6u]

Bless him and his wife x

[@danwingate7234]

Thank you string

[@philschuler9674]

I remember watching Stringbean on he ha when I was a kid. Couldnt believe it when he and his wife were murdered.

[@manoelluizteixeira8073]

Fantastic, demais - maneco - Porto Alegre -RS - Brasil.

[@donathantunraq2914]

Can his grand grandson play like him and let his love spread like 1960s

[@regiepirotarum2893]

I know why I feel sorry for this super country music singer as if he was killed yesterday

[@donnawheeler1716]

Thank you Randall. Love string. Got more string? He was my all time fave.

[@RandallHamm]

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[@timedwards8944]

Back when I wasn't even thought of lol the good ol days.

[@richardkroll8734]

He really could play that banjo great watching

[@donnawheeler1716]

Don't you just love it?

[@castercamber]

Flip that hat son!

[@glenndonahey918]

❤❤❤ Miss you buddy. six years old when I first saw you play. and every your actor with mom and dad.🫵💋 this day thank you.😊

[@healthcarethoughtleadership]

Y'all realize Stringbean was gangsta before gangsta was a thing? ha ha

[@flowergirl19690]

He was sagging his pants before any of these whippersnappers

[@josephambrose2852]

Granny couldn't get enough of this trash, and I couldn't get enough of granny R I P Porter, Stringbean and Granny 😫

[@styldsteel1]

This man was and is a Master at that banjer lol

[@oliverbohlender8746]

Die Bohnenstange ist ein exzellenter Musiker

[@billjenkins1441]

Stringbean got his first pair of pants like that from Little Jimmy Dickens

[@johnyoung9874]

That is true.

[@Vídeos-c5x]

Show 👏👏👏👏 Paulo Brasil muito bom👍

[@herbs275]

Love me Stringbean !1!!

[@tommyo8967]

Couple of tall boys

[@1easymoneyonline]

the first person that started saging there pants LOL

[@LB-pg3no]

He started a craze for the blacks in the ghetto! Lmao

[@wayneberry8226]

He is funie....

[@arcocola8183]

Mercy

[@jhrharrison]

Now I know where Ritchie Blackmore got his technique!!!

[@rustymullins6623]

Kinda like Merle Haggard said in one of his songs...” back when the country was strong”...

[@jimmychanbers2424]

Back when a song was still a song. By Davin James

[@paxivet]

Stringbean! The original "sagger"!

[@christopherdennis4280]

So hip hop cribbed from the stringbean

[@sartainja]

Other than String had talent.

[@tommickey4244]

Claw hammer banjo

[@benjimenfranklin7650]

When he died so did Nashville.

[@pricklypear5107]

The Original Gangsta! 😃

[@robertkinslow8953]

He was saggin before saggin was cool. Lol. His ways with the banjo more than made up for it tho. Can definatly see why he made the cut all those years ago.

[@rafaelmangrone721]

Nice jacket

[@sandytrosper7258]

😊😊😊

[@josevillanueva6992]

I like country music. But couldn't understand the song.

[@dawnperez2888]

That s. Funny

[@9019dd]

I don't think String appreciated Roger Miller butting in like that and also making that comment about Strings music improving.

[@vagabond719r]

First man to sag his britches.

[@robharris3481]

Piute Rancareia

[@shangumjones5216]

It’s his fault there’s saggin britches.

[@Ihuicatl]

What tune is this?

[@the32712]

Pretty Little Widow If you're from below the Mason Dixon it's "Pretty Little Widder" ;)

[@baldrickscunningplan6154]

lonny donegan "battle of new orleans"

[@ebonyhoward100]

his pants not sagging

[@brianhawkins6247]

String got the idea for the pants from little Jimmy Dickens.

[@LB-pg3no]

You mind is sagging!

[@posys5140]

it so sad you were murdered by your 2 cousins

[@anniegray1975]

Tje

[@ajsumi3263]

Who ever murder stringbean I don't like it