Boxcar Willie - Wabash Cannonball [POP Goes The Country 1982]

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10 жыл бұрын

Boxcar Willie has a chat with the show host Tom T. Hall, after which he performs his legendary "Wabash Cannonball"
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@stevenA44 4 жыл бұрын

People can say what they want, but I think Boxcar Willie does the best version of this song. I have always remembered his train whistle and always amazed at how he can make that sound with his mouth.

@richbutler7828 8 жыл бұрын

Gone but not forgotten R.I.P. Mr. Martin & Thank You For Your Service.

@marthahudson-lv2pq 16 күн бұрын

Always be one of the greatest

@lettylim5722 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting. We love Boxcar Willie.

@gerrybrown1043 4 жыл бұрын

Love this music God bless

@khanivore313 Жыл бұрын

There's more talent in Boxcar's WILLY than in all the pop stars put together today...

@mikelukes1798 3 ай бұрын

Love that song

@ArthurChase-ms4jb 6 ай бұрын

Great music .from arthur chase. Sackville n b canada

@DT-abcd 3 ай бұрын

The wabash cannonball is in Ft. Wayne, Indiana

@ArthurChase-ms4jb 6 ай бұрын

God music.

@sonnyceeplaylist6337 6 жыл бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤

@Diesel-ship23 6 ай бұрын

Country music when it was country.

@jackienichols8010 8 жыл бұрын

why is my music still not playing it keeps stopping

@nyquilcoma645 8 жыл бұрын

You know, Boxcar Willie never truly existed. He was a completely invented persona made up by Lecile Travis Martin for a talent show. This guy never hoboed, rode the rails, or did any such thing. He put on a few shows while serving in the USAF, chose the name Boxcar Willie, and rode Slim Whitman's coattails in that wave of low-budget, small label, TV commercial albums that sold by the millions back in the '70's and '80's. He got lucky by being one of the first to open his own place in Branson, MO, and died wealthy with a string of restaurants and hotels. FWIW, that info on the Slim Whitman commercials (he had "more number one hits than anyone, even Elvis, or the Beatles") was true. He did have more number one hits than Elvis or the Beatles-but only on the Canadian C&W charts!

@TheConsitutionBlues 8 жыл бұрын

+Nyquilcoma Today Larry martin and myself are going to visit Boxcar,s grave. he died 17 years ago today April 12th 1999. Boxcar Willie was far from being one of the first to have a theater here in Branson Mo. people love the Hobo gimmick he made up and still do !!! he made folks smile...

@clancykobane9102 8 жыл бұрын

all bullshit. Box was the real deal. why don't you fuck off you silly bitch.

@Endtimescoming 5 жыл бұрын

My uncle used to have one of those tv commercial albums loved Wabash Cannonball and You are My Sunshine and Where have you been Billy Boy on that cassette actually his was a cassette tape. Boxcar Willie may be a made up persona but I enjoyed the music he sang and the way he sang it greatly...OH also love his rendition of Bob Wills -San Antonio Rose, so good.

@Endtimescoming 5 жыл бұрын

and how could I forget King of the Road? His versions of these songs were the first I'de heard as a very young lad in the early 80s

@JakeWagler 4 жыл бұрын

You missed some very impotant facts...... he grew up beside the railroad tracks on a property owened by the railroad because his father worked on the railroad. He allways loved trains and never hid the fact that his Hobo persona was fictional. He was a very talented entertainer and story teller who was not fairly regognized in his own Country until very late in his career. I have a documentory of his life on my channel called BOXCAR WILLIE ( Gone But Not Forgoten) which is loaded with facts from Box himself.