And acted like an angel?

You just explained the reason she was called "The Appalachian Angel".

Have you ever seen an angel? Looks are deceiving I’ve been allowed to see satan and this applies It’s what I saw inside of him- evil Man idolizes another man- usurping God the Creators Rightful position- worship

@@mandycote5662 Stop talking religion here! I was using a metaphor to describe her artistic talents, not "real" angels. Such talk like yours is totally out of place here! Go preach somewhere more appropriate!

She looks like a turtle! Don't make me explain my metaphorical assumptions on her to turtles because why bring in biology!?!

What a wonderful wonderful God given talent it seems as though they were singing to and for him they didn't even know how many people they touched with their voices amassing i thank him for their talent Amen

Drives me nuts that they didn't sing the complete song...leaving out "Only Heaven knows just how much I miss you...I can't help it if I'm still in love with you."

This is literally terrible though lmao

It's pretty great, but, come on....... EVER?

So true

@@SacredHeart1700 - I truly hate when people exaggerate....

oh, i dunno, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers are so far beyond this . . .

yeah modern country sucks

...and no tattoos

Exactly

wow,what a natural beauty you cant blame anyone for wanting to be with her.

I agree. This is a great example of external connection and internal emotion being key. I didn't even like the song or here voice all that much, but it's not what's being said that's important. It's how.

And, I think that is Chet Atkins on the guitar at 1:29. There's a lot of musical talent and greatness on this clip.

You're right, the duet made it all-

This video has been on KZfaq for years... theres only a couple of Hank I, and this is one of them.

This is COUNTRY! This brings back so many good memories...Saturday night dances, warm summer evenings under the stars, every thing was new and an adventure , I had all my hair........😁

What a beautiful surprise! His harmony was excellent.

Toooo twangy

Social Distortion did a cover

Hank Williams was truly a musical genius he wrote these songs before he was 29 yrs old .genius

Rock and roll came from country. Ask Jerry Lee Lewis.

Thankyou I didn't knowthat

June debates you...

Roy Acuff and Stringbean are there too.

@@theSword- string bean made saggy pants COOL !

@@stevehardeman7209 ....And ONLY his are cool. Not these scumbags in the shtty neighborhood.

Of course. Chet got his start with the Carter family

0:59 What's he doing in a dress?

The Carter family is so talented, but I don't remember seeing Anita, did she drop out of the music scene?

There's a lot to discover out there, that's never played on the radio! Enjoy the ride!

because our culture and history are being suppressed and it has been going on for a long time. Guess what religious group is doing it?

@@samhessianthehessian815 Shut up. You're watching the video aren't you?

Because she wasn't Patsy Cline.

You should check out ‘One by one ‘ by kitty wells and Red Foley

It has dual purpose for the good and for the gods

Great comment!

The man that was her husband was a blessed man, I wrote a paragraph about how I felt just finally seeing her in 2021. If she was singing with Hank Williams then I wasn't born yet for another 5 years in 1957. The woman did not have to do anything but sing, she was stunning with her assurance of herself and a devoted wife!!!

You got that right! I believe she was in a different realm than June not to knock her but Anita's voice was off the charts! I'll never understand why Nashville or the record industry didnt give her her due?

Felt family group more important than single career

weapon grade level...that's classic

"weapon grade level"... what a perfect description!

Nope! Anita could sing, and she played the guitar passably well, but it was Helen, the oldest sister, who was the most musically talented of the three!! She not only sang backup, she played the piano, autoharp, accordion, guitar, and mandolin, all at the professional level, and she wrote all of the group’s vocal arrangements; when writing those arrangements, she mastered the art of sending one voice after another into the lead, all within the same verse, woven so seamlessly that you have to really know their voices to be able to discern who picks up the lead, and where. It gives the group their distinctive sound when they all sing together, not just backing up one of the sisters. I’m sure Helen could have sung lead all the time, bc she had a beautiful voice, too, but her personality kept her in the background.

Her voice would be "perfect" had she sang any other music as well as country. A nice voice is a nice voice. A good singer is a good singer. Just my 2-cents...

@@charleswhite7134 You and Pavarotti.

Always someone's dumb opion. She was truely.great singer.no 1 has to change their profile to please someone else who doesn't like her music

Anita is fine but Hank is the star here

sure she was

Her talent does not really shine through in the first part of the clip, when she is singing with the other Carters, but hang in there because it sure bursts through when she teams up with Hank Williams in the second part. What a voice!

Anita was decidedly _NOT_ the most talented of the three Carter Sisters. Historians rate Helen as the best overall musician/instrumentalist of the three, and I agree, wholeheartedly. She was also the most invested in keeping their history alive, and with her mother recorded songs for the Smithsonian. Anita may have had the best voice, but Helen chose not to carry the lead voice and instead sang harmony, and she was exceptionally good at playing the accordion, mandolin, guitar, piano and autoharp. She also was a master arranger, and did all of the arrangements of the songs they sang. I won’t go into technicalities for a vocal arrangement skill she was master of....you can read her Wikipedia article if you want to. Just bc a girl has a pretty face and a pretty voice doesn’t automatically translate to talent!

@@voraciousreader3341 Well, I sure as hell ain't gonna get into a debate about whether the Carter sister with what you describe as "the best voice" of the sisters, was the most talented of them. You say that Helen was more talented in playing various musical instruments and in the composing and arranging of music. I have no reason to doubt you. Heck, for all I know, one of the others may have been more talented with keeping the books or a more talented cook. But, I think we are talking about singing here. And if having the best voice is not the criteria for most talented singer, I'd sure like to know what "decidedly" is. It's really all a matter of opinion, anyway. I will tell you this, when it comes to considering opinions of experts, historians are way down near the bottom on my list of expert opinions on musical talent. How other musicians view the sisters would carry a lot more weight with me than how historians rate them on musical talent. One other note: how much you want to bet that Maybelle had a lot more to say about which sister would take the lead vocals than either Helen or Anita.

June said that also.

So, you're white and straight. Got it.

Me too

@@cogitaretoo so am I, whats your point

@@sharonrobinson3186 My point is that only white, straight men are nostalgic for America's past. The rest of us remember being discriminated against and subjugated and are therefore appreciative of what little social progress our country has made. Racist simpletons, afraid of change, minorities, immigrants, science, reason, atheists, gay people, anyone better educated than themselves, anyone who is eloquent and well-spoken, and anything they don't understand-which covers a lot of ground-long for times in which the bar was low enough that they could crawl over it. As a full-blooded Cherokee with a PhD in stable isotope geochemistry, I'm both better educated than most hillbillies and cognizent of their lack of mental ambition. Also, I actually know the difference between communism and socialism, which they consistently confuse while commenting from their double-wides.

​@@cogitaretoo Feel better doc? Hope you got it off your chest cuz uh...nobody cares.

Very sad life & ending for a beautiful woman

in the end every poets just a horn dog out to get some tail

One of the privileges of being a famous singer is banging hot chicks and perhaps being able to afford child payments if you knock one more or of 'em up. But wait...paternity tests didn't exist back then did they? Shotgun marriages did though right?

If I was married to his first wife I'd be in love with every woman I met too...😂

@@captainkrunchthewall I can't believe you would say such a terrible thing about these talented souls especially since some of them like Hank Williams are dead, are you so perfect that you can cast stones?

It was Anita that had a crush on Hank. Get your facts straight, and have more respect for the dead.

Don't forget Patsy Cline.

@@doncorleone8686 Well, sure. But she isn't on this video.

@@doncorleone8686 Yes, Patsy had not come to be known as of the early 50's. I think this video was taped in 1952 before Hank died!

What is this public roleplay

Trader....you nailed it! Watching that clip brought back old memories!

I'm that woman. I'm 66 and been looking for a man looking for that kind of woman.

Gary Mahon and Nancy Selzer ... a match made in heaven!

She's an older sister of June Carter who was married to Johnny Cash.

She was a younger sister of June...sorry

I'm 68 and just this year became aware of Anita. I am her new biggest fan. Of course I've been aware of the Carter Family, but not Anita by herself. Love these videos.

I'm 64 and just discovered Anita within the past year. Lucky to find so many videos of her songs on KZfaq. Beautiful woman. Beautiful voice.

I'm 67 years old and have never heard of Anita Carter. My loss completely. Lovely lady with a beautiful voice.

I recognized Chet too. Also think "Pig" sitting at piano and a young "Stringbean" on far right.

atkins not adkins. adkins was the diet person. Chet Atkins. I flew up (my arms are still killing me) the problem is all of them in the video were gone. But Flo wanted me to go to church and she was going to take me where AP met Sarah. I was not prepared and had to get to the plane. worst mistake I ever made. Carter fold was great. Sarahs house still sits to this day but its been 20 years I assume its still there. Maybelle watched over the girls like a hawk and almost killed Hank Williams when he almost run off the road with them she said "dont you ever call me mother again" he was the source of mother maybelle. Maybelle especially disliked Jimmie Rodgers who she viewed as a drunk and played grab ass with the girls. They did not meet at the Bristol Sessions but they did when they made the recordings of meeting each other. and she didnt like it. The mother of them all was a bit different when asked about AP father she said "when you get run through the briar patch so many times no way to know who stung ya"

So not a Cardi B "up" fan?

grumpybill you’d have to scrape up the pile of crap that passes for “music” nowadays and look underneath it to find that

So true you can actually hear the lyrics, not drowned out by loud music and no screeching half of todays singers only look n sound good due to technology

You know there is a whole lot of music, you just have to find a genre you like and look for like 10 seconds

@@sumlem there is a whole lot of garbage passed off as crap.

You are correct, sir. I'm surprised 100 trolls haven't bombarded you with their stupidity.

June briefly studied at the Actors Studio in NYC to polish her skills.

Not afeared of a real woman 😍

Fort Campbell, 1967. 101st Airborne Division.

@@christopherfranklin1881 , hi, yes my outfit 508th ARCT came back to Ft Campbell in 1956 to act as Cadre to reactivate the 101 which was brought back to Ft Campbell from Frankfort. I took my discharge, turning down Medevac Helicopter training at Ft Rucker. I’m kind of sorry I did but Dern the Dust-off Helicopter pilots from then were the first in to NAM. I did later re-enlist in the Air Force and did Medevac of NAM wounded from Clark AB, to Travis AFB from the 60s on thru to 1977. Got in on the POW returning to CONUS

Ok I'll wait for the 2nd song.

while I agree with you, it's not necessarily that they aren't talented, it's that the industry and current culture only wants braindead pop and boring pop tunes.

Naaaaah. She’s good but let’s not over exaggerate 😂

Shes ok, but her singing is nothing special, and the style is unoriginal, even for the era this was recorded. Its no wonder that the only way someone would ever heard of her is because of her connections with legends like cash. And this bashing of modern artists is so stupid. Some suck, but some sucked in every decade. In reality, most musicians and singers are much better today, at least from a technical point of view. The rest ist taste. But don't blame modern artist because you have lost interest in following modern sounds, or are only interested in one kind of musical style. It's ok to listen to this stuff, why not, but this disrespect and generalized statements are just annoying and stupid. Greetings from Germany.

100% agree, music nowadays is straight dog water

Well, Lady Gaga went to Juilliard, and not for nothing. Doesn't mean you have to like her music, but she's talented nonetheless.

Hank started boozing at 11, JR was sucked into addiction much later. I doubt even June could have persuaded Hank that life was worth living.

Mr. Cash had her on the side

@@finosuilleabhain7781 We will never know, shame.

Well without Miss Audrey we wouldn’t have Hank JR so don’t go messing with the timeline since you don’t know what you’re doing.

What red-blooded man would not fall in love with Anita Carter watching this little clip with Hank Williams?