Written and recorded by Freddie Hart. Released July 1971 from the album "California Grapevine", it reached #1 Country in U.S. & Canada #17 Hot 100.
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@k2kimbro2 жыл бұрын
Christmas 1971, I was 6 years old and didn't appreciate country music. My father bought this as a "gift" for me (truthfully, I think it was for him :)). I still have the 45 and cherish it now. I just wish he were still here to listen to it with me.
@ElronHumpperdink Жыл бұрын
I was born in 1993 but have very VIVID memories of this music and other classics, as well as Chipmunks Christmas and other goofy fun stuff at MawMaw and PawPaw’s house.
@robinmoudy8828 Жыл бұрын
My mother had the 45 also. Could you please tell me what song is on the flip side.
@bobjersey Жыл бұрын
@@robinmoudy8828 "Brother Bluebird," also written by Freddie. This is also on KZfaq kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y6qops6erraVh4E.html
@buford1st8 ай бұрын
Brother Bluebird
@vernonmurphy29125 ай бұрын
@@robinmoudy8828look-a here,Look-a here. Pretty good piece for a B side.
@ChrisWebb-ty6im10 ай бұрын
Absolute pure solid country gold. RIP Freddie you were absolutely amazing
@joehill80147 ай бұрын
Senior in high school, this song playing on the jukebox in the cafeteria, pretty girl sitting next to me. Now that is a memory worth keeping.
@PattyHaston26 күн бұрын
I learned this song among others alike that I'd grow up a music lover. You did good Mama. Rest easy ❤
@JismIsm-wp6so Жыл бұрын
The singers of yesteryear had so much 'pain' in their vocals - unlike today's plastic society
@crazyaces40428 ай бұрын
yes!
@ValreeShoe2 ай бұрын
Yep! Folks still had all the FEELS for real back then.
@rositachadronet6187Ай бұрын
🌹
@kentuckypreacher8 ай бұрын
My grandparents were in the coin operated machine business, so I had easy access to Juke boxes and 45s. This record was in a jukebox in the garage, and I played it over and over and over as a kid. Now, many years later, I’m living in my grandparents house with the same garage, and still listening to the same record - only on KZfaq now!
@frankcoffey4 ай бұрын
I remember my brother going to the juke box repair shop in the 70s and buying the used 45s. I think he still has some of those. Good times.
@ChristianKile Жыл бұрын
My Grandpa Would Play This For My Grandma Ty For Sharing This 💖
@OldMusicGuy Жыл бұрын
I would go back to 1971 if I could. Life and music and friends were great!
@crazyaces40428 ай бұрын
Definitely! The years went by too fast and things were much simpler then.. GOD how I miss it.
@OldMusicGuy8 ай бұрын
@@crazyaces4042 We will go back together! :)
@crazyaces40428 ай бұрын
@@OldMusicGuy I'm SO ready. There is nothing sweeter than memories of music that we loved and still do. Sound is one of the strongest memory triggers (as I've read and found out) and especially if it is associated with happy times and love. Happy Holidays! Take care and enjoy the memories!
@OldMusicGuy8 ай бұрын
@@crazyaces4042 No more family left so memories are all I have.
@OldMusicGuy8 ай бұрын
@@crazyaces4042 When I get my time machine ready, I will pick you up and we will meet at Midnight at the Oasis.
@mikerobinson912 Жыл бұрын
Takes me back to when we green 1969 Olds Cutlass with an under dash 8 track player and my late mother singing this song with Salem cigarette buts crammed around the tape so it wouldn’t drag when playing
@lisavaughn78172 жыл бұрын
I am 49 and i would rather listen to the older music anytime. The 1980s down to the 1940s is better than what they play in these days.
@TheThomasmoon2 жыл бұрын
Sad they don't make country songs like this anymore
@user-yx5rg2hn6f9 ай бұрын
The dual organ interplay with the plucking guitar riff is pure magic wrapped in a country western bent
@kentuckypreacher6 ай бұрын
Still LOVE this song!!!
@lonniebeavers77944 жыл бұрын
The 70s were a great time to be young and in love !!
@bradleyearl85583 жыл бұрын
Amen Well said
@JamesWilliams-iv6nl3 жыл бұрын
Hard times but great times, with all the struggles , heartaches id do it again
@bhadjarahul22852 жыл бұрын
couldn't agree more !
@jessestewart1692 жыл бұрын
Teenage years for me 😊👍
@bhadjarahul22852 жыл бұрын
@@jessestewart169 you were really lucky !
@normangoss87242 жыл бұрын
1/11/1972-1/11/2022 My Wife & My 50th Wedding Anniversary, This Was Our First Pick Song For The Way We Felt About Each Other, & Still Do To This Day!! We've Been Through A Lot, But Still Love Each Other, Have 4 Sons, About 40 Grandkids To Great Great Grandkids, Family All Over The United States, Blood As Well As Friends That Are Like Family Too!!
@eileenredmond78753 жыл бұрын
These older songs are so much better than the ones we hear today. The words have some meaning and I am so glad that we can still hear them today.
@barrysmith65572 жыл бұрын
My father died in 1980 and this was his favorite song ❤️and I listen to it every chance I get to bring back memories
@franhelms59542 ай бұрын
I remember where I was and a troubled marriage like if was yesterday 😢1971when I heard that
@rowdynation18103 жыл бұрын
One of the top five greatest country songs in history.
@ronlingron3894 жыл бұрын
My father had this in a collection of 45s. Definitely a part of my childhood I can remember disappearing into, stacking the records, listening to the mechanism drop the next one, the pop of the lead in, and then the music you’d sing along with. Yesterday was definitely better than today in every facet for some people like me.
@bhadjarahul22852 жыл бұрын
you're right past especially 70's to 00's was very charming, today social media and digital world have created mess.
@peterthurman93842 жыл бұрын
Yes, I recall this song, and it was a major one. A whole lot of memories. Country-western music, at it's finest.
@debbiepinkerton2787 Жыл бұрын
Same
@IlaLee-kw8hmКүн бұрын
I love this beautiful song. I love the words❤❤❤
@ruthboykin98734 жыл бұрын
My favorite song by Freddie Hart! Thanks D!
@allananderson9497 Жыл бұрын
I was 11 in 1971.How time passes.My Dads favourite passed away 2013 @ 84.
@GUNSnBACON318 Жыл бұрын
I can’t understand why country radio stopped playing real country music.
@HillbillyBoogie1Ай бұрын
This is a pop country song.
@ElronHumpperdink9 күн бұрын
@@HillbillyBoogie1it’s popular but it’s not manufactured cookie-cutter stuff of all music today. I get your rebuttal but the original comment does have a point, albeit overstated on here.
@johndorney48888 ай бұрын
Heard this great song many many times on the jukebox at my mother's beerjoint back in good old days. Rest in peace Albee. Have a cold one in heaven.
@tinabeck48764 жыл бұрын
great song I remember this one growing up
@WickerBillVintageCountryMusic4 жыл бұрын
It's a hard one to forget..thanks Tina for commenting
@tinabeck48764 жыл бұрын
@@WickerBillVintageCountryMusic yes it is I wish I was dancing to that song again
@WickerBillVintageCountryMusic4 жыл бұрын
@@tinabeck4876 i can relate to that.
@tinabeck48764 жыл бұрын
@@WickerBillVintageCountryMusic be nice to have someone dance with again
@cyndyrob3504 жыл бұрын
Beautiful song and beautiful voice. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@erickgarneau66129 ай бұрын
Je suis nee en 71. Cette chanson toujours dans mon coeur❤❤❤❤
@darrellsmith750710 ай бұрын
Great song ❤😂
@norrisdority364211 ай бұрын
I love you, mom
@alexchandler4350 Жыл бұрын
I Was Lucky To MEET Robert, When He Left Boss angeles For Chicago + It DIDN'T work Out, When He Returned He Went To KMPC+ THEY'RE SOFTBALL TEAM CAME TO SIMI VALLEY AND PLAYED OUR TEAM, HIS FAVORITE SONG WAS THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA, WHEN HE PASSED I TOOK THE DAY OFF OF WORK+ CRIED + CRIED LISTENING TO ALL THE PEOPLE IN LOS ANGELES SHARING THEIR MEMORIES ❤😂😊
@danielburns98711 ай бұрын
this song also went to #28 on the easy listening charts in 1971!!!
@marythompson5458 Жыл бұрын
MY FAVORITE SONG BY FEDDIE HE HAS A LOVELY VOICE RIP
@WickerBillVintageCountryMusic Жыл бұрын
Mine too , Mary.
@bubbasouth692 жыл бұрын
I had the honor and privilege to meet Freddie Hart in Nashville outside of the world famous Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge. He was such a nice man and when I told him Easy Loving was the greatest country song ever written he was touched.
@muffs55mercury61 Жыл бұрын
I wasn't much into country music in 1971 but this song crossed over to pop and was getting airplay on top 40 stations and I took an instant liking to it. What a beautiful song that never becomes outdated. Still got a 45 of it.
@davidwiner85716 ай бұрын
I was 19 years old and in love with a beautiful sweet girlfriend 💕 😍 ❤️ ♥️
@bangorborn61 Жыл бұрын
Wow!!!, a 45 record never sounded so good 👍🏽 👏🏽 When music brought chills and still does! RIP Freddie
@michaelcarinelli6785 Жыл бұрын
Love Freddie. Little pervy. Great steel part
@georgegregoryjr8644 ай бұрын
I was four years old and my dad singing this to my mom
@richardblayneamerican8149 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely love this song. Usually we associate songs with pleasant memories. But I remember this song (I was 16 years old) playing on a radio in the background in 1971 as my boss at the food store was reprimanding me in the backroom: ("You're not supposed to run home on your break, we have a breakroom here"). He was a good guy, though, and I went on to be a more conscientious employee!
@andywells61957 ай бұрын
For me this real country
@lulaj76953 ай бұрын
True country classic
@HillbillyBoogie1Ай бұрын
But this is a pop country song?
@dennisbiggerstaff1719 Жыл бұрын
Was a teenager when this great song came out. Still love it.
@danielburns9872 жыл бұрын
this song went to #17 on the pop charts in 1971!!!
@muffs55mercury61 Жыл бұрын
And it spent 12 weeks in the top 40 which was about the average stay for a top 10 or even a #1 at the time.
@davidhugaert80062 жыл бұрын
I love this 1971 Freddie Hart hit, which peaked @ #17 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart!!! Bravo and R.I.P., Freddie. :'(
@philmay1347 Жыл бұрын
If there ever was a perfect honky tonk slow dance song.....
@thomastarwater2989 Жыл бұрын
One of the best country songs EVER, and it shot to #17 on the pop charts. Aw, man, I gotta do something about those onions.
@user-yx5rg2hn6f9 ай бұрын
A timeless classic that emerges through the many years countless turns later as one of country's best singled ever recorded..thank God it shot to the top when released..and deservedly so..
@coreybrewer6278 Жыл бұрын
This song "Easy Loving" by Freddie Hart is absolutely awesome!!
@jimbotc20004 жыл бұрын
Here is an authentic legendary classic.. :-]
@marlenevernon9245 Жыл бұрын
You sure know how to help a gal feel good
@joycemeadows18214 жыл бұрын
I was so in luv...he was gorgeous & the best man...best time in my life. We luved to slow dance to this song in 1971...I have the 45.
@bhadjarahul22852 жыл бұрын
you were lucky America was a great county at that time, right now everything is a mess.
@dougworkman15252 жыл бұрын
Thank you for what you stood for, and all the great music.
@kecianugent5192 Жыл бұрын
I was 3 yo. Still my all time favorite song. Brings back good memories of my daddy. He is the reason I love music & learned piano. He played guitar. I think that’s one reason I loved Roy Clark. He looked a lot like my daddy.
@patsyjohnson17854 жыл бұрын
1 of my favorite
@user-yx5rg2hn6f9 ай бұрын
What a killer organ part opposite the repeating guitar riff
@davidhartley54392 жыл бұрын
This was my Dad's only favorite country song. He bought it on 45. He'd get me to call his girlfriend, and I handed him the phone, and he said hey baby, listen to this! Lol!
@stuwrightfrom534 жыл бұрын
#1 Country and Top 20 pop.
@margaretwright11042 жыл бұрын
Great Country song Bill 🎸♪♫♪♥ the kinda woman every man dreams about😊 .. Lucky guy who has that Beautiful Angel . Love his voice and the song♪♫♪♥ week end and it's party time woohoo💃💖🕺🥂🎈😊🥂
@lonniebeavers77943 ай бұрын
The guy knew how to do a love song ! My first girlfriend loved his music !
@peterhunt50723 жыл бұрын
This lovely song reminds us that our country has been taken over by our adversaries.
@peggyg27797 ай бұрын
I love my country music
@jasonhotomani6970 Жыл бұрын
Last Listen to this was with my late grandmother Thelma 😢 makes me think of her 😊 good memories miss an love you Kokom
@MrGlooo6 ай бұрын
i actually lived this music back in the day
@danielburns987 Жыл бұрын
this song also went to #1 on the country charts in 1971!!!
@crazyaces40428 ай бұрын
fantastic year... I always loved this song even though I was just a kid when it came out. My parents played it all the time. RIP mom and dad.. you had that Easy Lovin' down! Miss them so very much. RIP to Freddy Hart as well. He made it so close to 92 years old!
@DJHammerinhank3 жыл бұрын
My dad wishes our hometown country music radio station 95.3 KRTY in San Jose played this song! :)
@keithrichard50543 жыл бұрын
I was three years old in 1971, and I love this song. True country music.
@bobbieblake91742 жыл бұрын
I was only eight years old
@nightmareaccomplice58162 жыл бұрын
What a great old song!!!!!!! I'm 54 but my dad played this when I was little and I still love it!!!! Music isn't as good as it used to be for sure!!! This house of sand, If fingerprints showed up on skin, one more mountain to climb, Write it all in, everybody in the whole world Holding hands , the arms of love, California grapevine, Easy lovin , and my favorite "Trip to heaven" just to mention a couple of my favorite Freddy Hart songs... what a legend!!
@darylp99752 жыл бұрын
Thank you for leading me to those songs I'd never heard. I was raised on rock n roll along with my peers but, my dad always listened to country. I loved a lot of it. Easy Lovin was one of them.
@nightmareaccomplice58162 жыл бұрын
@@darylp9975 you are welcome! Had you ever listened to "Trip to heaven" before?
@darylp99752 жыл бұрын
@@nightmareaccomplice5816 No. That's a great song. Back in those days I listened to the rock and pop stations. Never went in the honky tonks much (after high school) but frequented the discos and college campus bars. I enjoy a lot of different styles of music. When head-bangin/punk rock started infiltrating the radio, I turned to country. I was always a more country-rock kinda guy anyway (Buffalo Springfield, Poco, Crosby Stills & Nash, The Eagles). Thanks Again, Daryl {:o )
@Leann688 ай бұрын
My mom took me to see him live when I was a little girl , I have his autograph. 😁
@daveb93423 жыл бұрын
The best country song of all time bar none.
@WickerBillVintageCountryMusic3 жыл бұрын
It's a good one alright.
@russvoight1167 Жыл бұрын
I remember this vividly riding through the night in my Dad's 1974 Peterbilt cabover. Felt like I was on top of the world
@Serinity_Bliss Жыл бұрын
I miss this kind of music 🎶
@patriciakimbrell37342 жыл бұрын
Beautiful song ♥️🎸♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️
@jason-qj9pu Жыл бұрын
What a singer. We had a singer down in Beaumont, Texas who reminded me of Freddie.
@lornebain38313 жыл бұрын
Good music.....👍👍
@brianmitchell5906 Жыл бұрын
This was my dad's favorite song and I remember hearing it a lot on 1360 KMO in Tacoma, WA in the early 70s.
@kevinboyd80333 жыл бұрын
I was 7 years old exact music was awesome
@ThePoobears3 жыл бұрын
dad sang this to mom on their 5th anniversary both have passed on but the memories live on love and miss you both...
@rebeccad59884 жыл бұрын
Thank you Wicker Bill Lovely favorites.
@NathanPinkerton-mm9fs9 ай бұрын
The plucking sucking guitar echoing off the organ is in s just dope
@harrywalker23394 жыл бұрын
Jack Eubanks, a family friend played guitar on this, one of my favorites
@amberrushing9173 жыл бұрын
My brother loved this song
@marykubicek75052 жыл бұрын
love this song and love Freddie's singing xx
@CodyShell3 жыл бұрын
this is a good song to play real quietly in the background
@jodylancaster87062 жыл бұрын
The summer of 1971 was so good ❤
@sandradurham Жыл бұрын
🎹💝🎵🎶🎻 I love this one too, it has just appeared on my screen. He really had a fantastic voice. Cheers Bill 🎸🎶🎵💝🎹
@phyllistschetter90022 жыл бұрын
Love this Cw. Thank you
@jeffj9322 Жыл бұрын
Remembering Freddie Heart born on December 21, 1926. He was an American country musician and songwriter best known for his chart-topping country song and lone pop hit "Easy Loving, " which won the Country Music Association Song of the Year award in 1971 and 1972. Hart charted singles from 1953 to 1987, and later became a gospel singer. He also performed at music festivals and other venues until his death in 2018. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Hart
@joelraab41684 ай бұрын
CMA Song of the Year two years in a row, '71 and '72.
@FAITH-FAY2 жыл бұрын
Aww one of my mom's favorite songs. ❤
@shirleycrawford37132 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS POST !!!! / THIS IS ''''MY VERY FAVORITE SONG''' !!!! / FROM THE FIRST TIME THAT I LISTENED TO IT ------ I HAVE LOVED IT !!! / and I LOVED '''FREDDIE HART""!!!!
@dianebaer6995 Жыл бұрын
One of my all time favorites
@bubbasouth692 жыл бұрын
This is the most beautiful country song ever written! If I could, I would love to do a remake!
@petelee9887 Жыл бұрын
Uh Uh you don't mess with perfection 🇺🇸🙏
@bubbasouth692 ай бұрын
@@petelee9887I had the privilege of meeting Freddie in Nashville right outside of Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge. He was such a nice man and was so touched by the fact I had such a fondness for this song. No remake could ever be as good as the original and that’s why no one has ever made one.
@ronnieclough48002 жыл бұрын
Now that is country music not the the bull$#@! Of today
@dougworkman15252 жыл бұрын
Lots of heroes are gone now...
@lornebain38314 жыл бұрын
thanks
@jessestewart1692 жыл бұрын
I loved the 70s.
@msj197066774 жыл бұрын
I like this version & Conway Twitty!
@marycagney17182 жыл бұрын
Beautiful enjoyed it
@thisguyhere66413 жыл бұрын
It's so easy to love this country song! Seeing is believing when easy loving is so sexy looking! Indeed!