The 1950's. The golden age of country music?

[@Olde-Tymer1893]

I wish I was around when this music was at this time. This is what needs to be played today

[@CountryMusicTimeMachine]

I agree

[@Olde-Tymer1893]

Yes Hank Williams is the King of Honky tonk music. I want to sing with Hank Williams' style

[@ernestcruz6316]

Hmmm...why were the 1950s the Golden Age of Country Music? Allow me to illustrate: Hank Williams Eddy Arnold Hank Thompson Kitty Wells Little Jimmy Dickens Faron Young Hank Snow Lefty Frizzell Jean Shepard Ferlin Husky Carl Smith Sonny James Porter Wagoner Jumpin' Bill Carlisle Pee Wee King Johnny Cash Webb Pierce Johnny Horton Red Foley Ernest Tubb Patsy Cline Homer & Jethro Any questions? Edit: Oops, left off George Jones, Jim Reeves and Marty Robbins. Sorry!

[@jdramsey2492]

And Buck Owens and Tommy Collins and Onie Wheeler

[@matthewgroff433]

And many others!! 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@Nicole_Jewell]

Great video. Thank you for this.

[@CountryMusicTimeMachine]

The 50s were magical.

[@Nicole_Jewell]

@CountryMusicTimeMachine My parents listened to this music and I was raised on the classics. My parents both died in 2016 I lost my dad December 2nd and my mom December 23rd. But I still rather listen to the classics then most of the country today.

[@frankchilds9848]

The 1950s country was great because it was REALITY MUSIC, it spoke to the lives of real people ❤

[@Olde-Tymer1893]

Johnny Horton bridged the gap with Elvis as well. If you listen to Cherokee Boogie and Golden First Train Headed South, You can kinda hear Elvis' style

[@matthewgroff433]

I would like to see videos on the 1930' and 1940's country music. How the country music evolved from the singing cowboys of the 1930's through the early 1940's before WW2 and then when a lot of them either volunteered or were drafted into the military services, how the music industry changed to sound closer to start sounding what we start to hear in the beginning of the 1950's.

[@CountryMusicTimeMachine]

I did do the decade of the 40s. The thirties are possible it's just a little harder to pull up those songs. But the 40s decade I did did have many thousands of views. It's strange you mention those in the military. Two hours ago I started writing an episode about that! You're psychic!

[@glennso47]

What about the WLS National Barndance? It preceded the Grand Old Opry. In fact the Grand Old Opry was started by George Hay who had started the WLS Barndance. I know the Barndance is not on anymore but it was on earlier than the Grand Old Opry.

[@CountryMusicTimeMachine]

Yep, you are 100% correct.

[@countryfan73]

@@CountryMusicTimeMachine There were also the Louisiana Hayride (KWKH), Wheeling Jamboree (WWVA), and the Old Dominion Barndance (WRVA).

[@glennso47]

Brenda Lee was accompanied on many of her recordings by Boots Randolph

[@KatieT-gf5ti]

You never mentioned Marty Robbins.

[@CountryMusicTimeMachine]

Thanks Katie. I really could have. Marty Robbins was gold but the 60's were bigger for him as he had more number ones in the 60s than he did in the 50s, by a little bit. Possibly his biggest, "El Paso" was released late in 59! Nobody can match Marty!

[@37BopCity]

I don't agree with the 1950s as the "Golden Age"---- I would prefer to historically unite the 1950s and '60s together as its "Golden Age". The '50s was definitely the post-war boom with Hank Williams and all those Grand Ole Opry/Nashville artists and recordings that laid the foundations for everything that came later. But the 1960s was simply more fantastic performers and songwriters adding to the mix, and even greater quality Nashville studio recordings. That was the era of the most productive and creative Nashville songwriters, when so many classic songs were written. We've never had anything like it since. The peak was around the time Bob Dylan came to record "Blonde On Blonde" and really put Nashville musicians on the map as among the very best in the world, not just as country players. That's as much a Nashville album as George Jones or anyone else. The Golden Age began to taper off in the '70s, although there have been some wonderful and legendary performers in every decade since ---- unfortunately except for the last 20 years or so when "country" music has become inferior, watered-down, recycled, canned digital drums/AutoTune vocals/ forgettable Country Shlock. 95% isn't even worth listening to.

[@CountryMusicTimeMachine]

Very well said!

[@37BopCity]

@@CountryMusicTimeMachine Thanks! I'm a very serious, long-time country fan going all the way back to Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family and Uncle Dave Macon, and I am saddened by how it has lost so much of its original heart today, except for a few people struggling to keep it alive.