The Oakridge Boys and the Statler Brothers were THE country groups when I was a kid (70s-80s)

They brother do the videos over and call them a review.

I'm going to have to listen to more from that. They definitely sound great to me.

@@DanFromHali Oak Ridge Boys were popular in the late 70's, Statler Bros were from late 60s to mid 70's, one more group would be Alabama

They also do some VERY amazing gospel music! 💖

They also replied to a significant portion of the comments on the Home Free video.

@@steveeverett1736 He should listen to Home Free's Good Old Country Harmonies to get an overview.

and please watch all the way through to the end.. Kenny talks about how they came to do the song together.

@@kathysnyder876 Will do!

Yes, yes, yes!! SO good!!

Wow, what a long and storied career. Can't wait to hear more of them.

Well as a kid, my mom blasted Country music to the point where I just wasn't interested in anything Country/Western/Southern/Bluegrass, anything in that direction. So I'm still kind of discovering what I like in that area, as an adult. Also, keep in mind a Maritime Canadian, and a good bit of that music is foreign to me. I love what I hear though.

absolutely!!!

I should have included Jeffrey East. He is also featured. Great young singer who was featured in a recent Home Free collaboration called PEOPLE.

I agree. Its as live as they could get during the pandemic. It was recorded in November and also has Jeffrey East. It was part of their Christmas Special.

Beautiful Star of Bethlehem is incredible!!

@ Terri Spurling I agree with you on suggestion " Beautiful Star of Bethlehem"! The Oak Ridge Boys are country royalty!♥️🍟

Gaia, If others want me to I will, but I got enough flack with not having the video up on "Butts" and the volume being too low on "Your Man".

We will still thumbs up the video!

@@DanFromHali Yes please, I would say most of us fans already know the song by heart. Would love to see your reaction.

@@DanFromHali Dan, you know what they say . . . You can please all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can't please all the people all the time! Reaction videos are to see/hear the reaction of others after all. And as the girls have stated, it's your reaction we want. We know the songs! If nothing else, precede the reaction with a disclaimer or superimpose it.

Yes please!

I actually prefer listening to covers first, so I don't sour the reaction with comparison, instead of judging the performance on its own merit.

Yeah, as a kid (I was born in the later 80s) my mom inundated me with Country music to the point where I actually couldn't stand it. It wasn't until literally 2 years ago, when I started looking at Country/Western/Southern Gospel/Bluegrass or anything with that sound that CMT would play all day. So I am still kind of discovering what I like. Mind you, there's some artists, I've grown up with, that I oved all along. Denver, Hagard, Twitty, Jennings, stuff like that. But mostly, I listened rock, pop, and as I grew up a little, Metal. So yeah, Elvira, and The Oaks were nowhere on my radar. Glad thats changed. Going to be listening to more. Maybe even react to some.

@@DanFromHali You know, I get it. I grew up way before you, back in the '6s and hated any country music, always made sure the radio was changed! But somewhere last 10 years or so started getting into some of it, maybe from watching The Voice and Blake Shelton. I loved Shania Twain first, so maybe from her songs that crossed into pop from just country. So anyway, glad we can appreciate some other types of music and Home Free does a lot of stuff not country. End of the Road (Boys II Men cover), a bunch of things during the pandemic, When a Man Loves a Woman, Never Gonna Give You Up, I Swear, Sunday Best, Meet in the Middle. Then Can't Stop the Feelin' (Just Timberlake cover), Try Everything (Shakira/Trolls song). Of course, country all the way, a favorite Hillbilly Bone! Wow, great bass lead by Tim. Enjoy the journey!! Take care.

Thats exactly what it looked like too aha.

I've since listened to the original, and I'm not sure which I liked more. Both have a great sound to them.

Being a big fan of the Eagles, I was really looking forward to seeing your reaction to Seven Bridges Road. Of course, I love when Chance takes lead on anything, so I wouldn’t mind seeing either/both reactions. Low audio was a little difficult to hear, but I’ll just crank up the volume some! ☺️ (I am happy you resolved that issue, though.) Excited for the live 9 to 5 reaction!! Evenness Hollens is as amazing as her husband! I just watched her “Evolved Disney Princesses” video and it was excellent! I never saw the original one, but the redo is amazing.

No, just don't really like this kind of music really. There was a period of time where I went out of my way to avoid it at any cost. So I didn't care who sang what. We all have our musical preferences, and if you aren't in to a music genre, you aren't going to take the time to acknowledge artists of that genre. That's all.

I'll definitely check out some Kenny. I still have to get around to The Gambler

@@DanFromHali React to Kenny Rogers' "Lady" too. Written by Lionel Ritchie, it was a huge crossover hit for Kenny and gave him a ton of new fans. The video of his live performance in the white suit was when the song just came out, and it was a great performance.

How did I know you were going to suggest Heaven and What we Aint Got. I promise at the very least they will get listened to.

@@DanFromHali hmmmm well that's the point, except I bet it also made you laugh a little 😆. Have a good day Dan and I am really sorry Seven bridges road was one that got burned, beautiful harmonies

I will eventually get around to doing Beautiful Star of Bethlehem, but probably not until later in the year. But I agree, this is one of my favorites as well.

I may or may not have started listening to the Alabama Sampler a few days ago, before thinking of reacting to it.

Apparently.

so they are just returning the admiration and love of each other

That's really cool. Love Geoff! Thank you very much Angelo, hope you like the ones still to come as well!

I haven't watched that yet, but I will be. There's a lot on my list. There's so many songs that you have all requested that are really interesting to me. By the end of this, I'll be listening to them all, I dare say.

@@DanFromHali you really can't go wrong with any HF you choose!

Hope the recover is going well, in spite of the pain Steffi! And it is a really fun song. Really entertaining, and a great vocal showcase!

Did Kenny reach out to them also? I think i read he did and I think Billy reached out them also.

@@staceysmith465 I think so

Oh that awesome that they toured together. I will have to do that absolutely! Thank you Wireless.

@@leftalone4264 They sound GREAT together. I really like their sound. I think I might react to a song or two, before adding them to my spotify.

I'd say that there is a 100% certainty of that coming soon.

Well I'm Canadian, also I'm a little younger. Even at 34, growing up in house of Country and Southern Gospel, this was never it. And myself, because of what my parents made me listen to as a kid, I went in the opposite direction. I was all about rock, contemporary rock at the time, and growing up in the 90s, while classic rock may have intersected with Oak Ridge Boys, a lot of what I was exposed to would have been Alternative or even Grunge by the standard. I mean, really if you aren't looking or aren't exposed to something, you're not going to find it... especially with popculture. If there is no cross section between genres, there are artists you just may never discover because you have no interest to discover them. So yeah, its easy to say as someone who is well aware, or a fan of, or just grew up with an artist or group. It's easy for them to say, you must have lived under a rock. Because they are or were a part of their life in some form. But interests, tastes, and even location matters. I mean Tennessee means nothing to me. I'm Nova Scotian. There are plenty of Canadian groups that I am constantly surprised when people say they've never heard of them. I mean if I ask 10 people if they know who The Tragically Hip or Gord Downie are, 9 of them aren't going to have a clue.

Woah, I didn't know that. Maybe I have heard him.

@@DanFromHali look up interviews he has done he talks about Elvis

I actually have Bobbie Sue on my to do list!

@@DanFromHali - Great, looking forward to it!

Thank you so much.

Well Alabama, I do know!

Someone else mentioned placing a disclaimer about the missing audio beforehand. I might just do that. And thank you!

No kidding!

Well, again, if you spend your life avoiding exactly this kind of music, you aren't going to be familiar with a lot of artists that perform in the genre. It's like rhyming off contemporary hip-hop artists for somebody that doesn't like hip-hop. Chances are, the names I'm listing are going to go in one ear and out the other.

I 100% agree. I don't think I meant not meshing with the bass line was meant to be negative. I loved that song, and enjoyed how the percussion was modernized to fit in with the classic sound. I think if you are going to redo a song like this, especially a song as well loved as American Pie... (Even if you are doing it with Don), you should add in enough originality to separate it from the original. Otherwise it can just come off as an emulation. Home Free and Dong slayed that song together. Also I think I'm going to react to a couple Oak Ridge Boys songs, because I really dug their sound here.

I'm with Rod I usually go listen to the original because alot of times I've forgotten the video or how it sounds and there have been a few songs I hadn't heard of. I like to compare the 2 songs Live your reactions

When / If you do All About that Bass (if you haven't done it yet, I'm a bit forgetful), do check out Megan Trainor's original video. HF's video is a shot-for-shot homage to hers. (And then check out the behind the scenes / blooper reel for it.)

@@lrfcowper I've seen her video before actually!

@@DanFromHali Awesome. I hadn't seen it before I saw HF's, so I had to go check it out after someone mentioned the homage. It makes it all the funnier. Might be worth rewatching to refresh your memory if it's been awhile or you've only seen it once or twice. It's definitely one of their "Video is silly, vocals are still amazingly brilliant" productions. A lot of reactors get confused by those for some reason, like they can't conceive of a song being perfectly sung but still being done for the humor. "I Swear" and "Never Gonna Give You Up" are their most recent examples. They're both so on point on the vocals and so completely cheesy on the video. You'd think on "I Swear" once someone has clocked what Adam Rupp is up to, that would be abundantly clear...

Thats like me saying, i dont know why somebody that doesnt listen to heavy metal, doesnt know a popular heavy metal song. Its not something i paid attention to. Not everybody like this music, or grew up around this music