Hank Williams is the best, nothing today compares to the great country music back in the late 40,s and 1950,s

A person would never get tired of listening to Hank Williams Sr., his music could touch the Soul in so many ways , R.I.P. Hank Williams Sr. and God Bless all the Hank Williams and Family and Friends.

At my age of 15 I was able to get the Opry on my radio..I'm now 76 and still love classic country

Such a great lineup of musicians! I could’ve listened to Red Foley, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe Jimmie Rodgers and all the other greats from the 20s to the early 50s everyday! I heard that new country pop crap on the radio and the radio announcer said it was country music, and I scoffed and thought “this is not country music”. If only this stuff was still on the radio

A time forever gone. New country is awful and soulless. Achey break heart?? please. It had soul back then, because we shared the same misery of what it was to be country. Poor, hungry, and blissfully ignorant isn't a common thing amongst us country folk now. Country music was good up until the early 1970s. Country folk come a long way up until then. We have it good now a days. Rap music is what country was. Thats why its popular to so many. I'm sure eventually it too, will go as country and rock and roll have gone, to the formulaic, soulless, and bland. I sure do miss hearing these great songs, and thank you for uploading them for us all to hear.

I think Hank would be peeeeeeeved with most of todays country music

Hank is such a legend.

Man this stuff was GOOD! I wasn't born until 1957, but when I was just a kid, Hank Williams was still on the Juke Box!! That's a powerful statement considering The Beatles were on the juke box too!! And the lead guitarists were incredible! I see where Carl Perkins got it from now.

Who the heck would dislike this? This is cool!

Growing up in St. Louis in the 1940s I would listen to the Opry Saturday nights from Nashville; at night we could get Nashville clear as a bell. What I remember most is that the show would go on and on and on and on and every minute wonderful. So much great talent and great music and fun humor. The Opry operated with a very innocent yet saucy framework, clean as a whistle but also a bit naughty if you listened closely. A dream from long ago.

I love Hank Williams never will there be another.

I would give my right arm to have been there when he premiered on the opry, and witnessed all those encores.

Wish I could have been there forThat!!.❤

I remembered being up my grandma's house and listening to wsm grang ole Opry on Saturday night.good memories. Heard Hank Sr

AMAZING... Not an age thing but just adding context, I'm 20 born in the north but grew up in the south. I've always loved folk, bluegrass etc. But when I found this it was just the best music I've ever heard, I wish I can only with I was in that room that mighty fine evening with hank and his boys tearing it down.

hank was and still is the greatest country influence ever its hard to imagine he was only 29 when he died . R.I.P HANK

The Greatest country singer of all time.

I love it! I grew up on the grand ole opry. My pop was avid fan. So I had full exposure. You can keep your modern music. But give me the old time stuff. That's when music was at its best.

I don't understand all the negative comments. If you don't want to hear the Opry music of 1949, why are you listening?

I was actually 10 years old when i heard this on the old radio Ottawa Ont.Canada

Used to listen to the Grand Ole Opry oon radio when I was young and we realy enjoyed it. Thanks for putting this on here. Sure brought back memmories.

My mom and dad listened to this on the radio before they got a tv

Oh my St.Peter.. My grandma use to sing this to us.. Didnt know it was his song .. Made me 😃...I miss her so much...

His legend only continues to grow. Even to this day.

My mom and dad played all the old music at amvets post 32 elyria ohio for years and I grew up playing your cheating heart and lonsome I could cry.Great people great times great memories thank you.

Great Video ! I remember going into restaurants that had bars in the early 1950's with my parents. All I remember hearing on the juke box was Hank Williams !

My father was the southern region general manager for Ralston Purina (an Opry sponser) in Nashville from 1946 to 1951 so I was between the ages of 5 and 10. We saw many of the Grand Ole Opry performances usually from the raised control room at stage left. My strongest memory was the shear joy of the occasion and the kindness of everyone involved especially Minnie Pearl.

Hank Williams was the greatest of the country singers! Hank Jr. Is great also. Hope the grand ole opry lasts forever!

There is no better song as one that comes from the heart.

The year I was born hank was the king of county then

I wish it was still like that, but good music will always be around, you just gotta look and listen for it

It's Good to hear this Radio Broadcast with Red Foley as Host ... it's an Oldie but a Goodie. Thanks for sharing it ... lot'sa memories here.

A great old glimpse into the Golden Past of real country music at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. JERRY BYRD's fabulous steel guitar is easily recognizable from the very beginning of this fine old clip. This is the kind of music that made it what it was for decades.

a gift from god!!!

Glenn Johnson Growing up on Hank`s music in the 50`s,always great to hear vintage material for the first time,so to hear this is pure joy.Thankyou so much for this.

Listening in 2021. Would love to ditch this abomination and go back to this era

I probably listened to this broadcast as a kid on the little radio I had. Generally I listened to it in the summer out on the front porch because it was so hot inside. Great memories.

In the early 50's, in small town central Oklahoma, we could pick up 650 WSM loud & clear on a summertime Saturday night. Dad & Mom often got us in the car and drove to town where we joined 100's of other people in their cars parked on the town square, with about everyone tuned in to the Grand Ole Opry and the kids ran & played up & down the sidewalks.

For me Hank is number one and always will be, but there has been blues in country music from it's very beginning -- the work of greats like Jimmie Rogers, Bill Monroe, Merle Travis and many others way back before them demonstrates a lot of of blues influence. That reality doesn't take anything away from Hank though.

Thanks for this one,its great just like Hank!!

Brings back great memories! Thank you!!!

This video takes me back to better times. Good music and memories

Alright, the good old days :) !!!!

You know I don't think Hank would want to be reinstated to the current Opry, It's nothing like this. Hank was country music. Today's so called country music and Opry just doesn't compare #Cartersisterscountrymusichalloffame

one of the best in the business. I believe he still is.

Hank's music was on such a high level, that any compliment to it has to be so true that it would almost have to be an understatement. However, with the exception of country sounds produced by good bluegrass, and singers such as Waylon, Gene Watson, and Vern Gosdin, I can't see how "what music is today" is something that Hank should or would want to take credit for.

what an interesting time capsule.

I took my new wife to Ryman in 1947 for our Honeymoon, man it was hot there during the summer. I remember when I first heard the Opry Radio Show during the 1930s. Rod Brassfield didn't have his puppet Bocephus on this show. Ole Tater with "Country Boy". Great memories.

THE WAY THINGS WERE ARE BETTER THAN TODAY THAT'S FOR SURE CLEAN AND FAMILY ORIENTED REAL LIFE REAL PEOPLE

this is so cool!!!!

And yes...its real American music..

I’ve been to Nashville and the grand old opry loved it .

There is no doubt. Hank Williams was a blues singer.

This was recorded on my birthday, I was 10 years old.

I love this opportunity to step back in time and listen to the Grand Ole Opry in its heyday. Of course there are still terrific singers and musicians performing today, but it will never be the experience it was then.

Blues come From PAIN

The LEGEND

hank is what made music what it is today

That's Billy Robinson on the lap steel guitar. Great man and great steel guitarist.

We do t deserve this! Legend

whoa hold on up there blues been in country for a mighty long time 'fore ole hank, i heard country songs from the 20s on back got plenty blues in em, matterfact you could argue blues came from country music from what i seen it all comes from southern folk music

Hank was the best singer songwriter ever to be recorded if you know of anyone else on his level please drop a name I would really wanna listen to them

the Grand Ole Opry 1940 is the bomb the ninja today it sucks old music is better than today's music

To elc1960, How can we put enough pressure on the 'Nashville Establishment' to ReInstate Hank Williams. In the almost 60 years since his death, HOW MANY MUSIC ARTISTS (especially 'Country') HAVE BUILT THEIR CAREERS ON THE MUSIC OF THE ORIGINAL 'HANK WILLIAMS'.! ! ! ! ! !

I look back at Hank, Earnest Tubb, Bill Monroe, and so many more legends. Then I think about " country" today, sad that it's gone, nothing but pop and tractor rap absolute garbage now

Whenever you hear creation of rock and roll stole from the Blues. Add a 2/4 beat to any Hank Williams song and you get rock and roll.

This is awesome 🥰

Had the good fortune to catch the Grand Ole Opry a few years back when it was broadcast from the Ryman just for that night. Wonderful. Coulda been 1949...except I suspect the sound was a little better.

Good ole days bro.

great music

Gr8 music

hes got such a great since of humor!

WOW!!! LOVE THIS IS AWESOME !!!!! xoxooxoxooxxx

I agree 100 % Tracy. I don't think a lot of people realized that, but he started the blues in Country music.

I still love the WSM Grand Ole Opry.

Amazing to me that the history and legend of the Opry is so indebted to Hank Williams, and yet he was fired from it back in '52 and was never posthumously reinstated. The weird thing is that for a while they had a Hank Williams impersonator greeting people. So does that mean they'd rather have a fake Hank instead of the real deal? I guess to their way of thinking, at least the fake one is sober . . . maybe so, but at the end of the day the fake is still a fake. REINSTATE HANK WILLIAMS!!!

Grand ole opry is a great show with wonderful entertainment

Awesome!

The TRUE KING 🤴🏻 OF COUNTRY I'm sorry but Hanks music is a lot better thank George, he actually wrote all of his songs 🎵 unlike George and told stories. I love me some George Strait but if Hank wouldn't have passed away so young he would have probably had more #1 hits or at least top 10's than any other country singer. Hank Williams has been my favorite country singer since I was about 10 years old and my dad bought the Life Time Classic Country Cassette Collection back around 1998. I remember Hank and Patsy each had their own cassettes with nothing but their hits and the rest was a mix of other country hits/singer's starting from 1950 and it went all the way to 1975 or 1979. My brother's and sister's didn't care for this old country but I absolutely fell in love with it and am the only person my age (31 tomorrow on July 4th) that loves classic country or that knows half as many of the classic hits that I know. Actually I don't know anyone under the age of 70 that knows as many classic country/bluegrass songs/#1 hits or singers/artists as me. It's a shame classic country is dying off and being forgotten and it really pisses me off that it's "embarrassing " or you get picked on/made fun of for listening 🎶 or liking classic country/bluegrass especially when I was a kid in school. I got called a lit of racist name's and remarks from other's like (honkey, cracker, hillbilly, redneck, whiteboy, bolillo, guero etc. Smh I love our white heritage and roots (except slaveryand stuff). I wish more of us would too 😪 there is nothing wrong with being white and from the country

He looked so much older than he was alcohol will age you fast.

hank williams tu était le meilleur...in french!!!!

man is entitiled to his own opinion, i like hank too

Sin has taken the world: Far worse than we can know. Sin into the fires of hell.

I thoroughly enjoyed this and subscribed to your channel. I love old opry (WSM) clips when such legendary performances were still in their early careers. Lord knows, country music radio has changed so much since then. Thanks friend. Stop by and visit. ~BCK

i love this song

Being a Hank fan, I was surfing the past responses to this post and spotted yours, which I agree with. However, (and more significantly) my interest was peaked by the nature of your moniker because I am interested in old growth forests and associate the word Limberlost with an ancient forest somewhere in Canada. I also remember a movie I enjoyed watching as a child entitled "Girl Of The Limberlost." If you would like to comment concerning the above I am all eyes. Hank touches many bases.

Where does this come from? WOW! KZfaq does it again. This stuff would disappear if somebody somewhere didn't share.

i was born in the wrong time

the best

They cut out a circle out of that Ryman stage and stuck it right dab in the middle of the new grand ole opry. Survived the flood and it still sits there. If that old floor could talk.

Awesome Grandma Mary

Hank Williams "Low Down Blues"

Hey SammyAmps all these people you named are in The Grand Oprry Hall of Fame and rightfully so and they now sing and play for our Lord in Heaven and it's time for you to be nice and give these good folks creit for some of the finest counnnnntry music ever written 'Miriam Colden from Michign

This is real country music not want to be country

Thanks for the info, I do think I've heard of Hank Garland, I'll check him out, thanks again.

The Opry the show and tradition is still here jerry-----they moved to the Opry house in Music Valley Blvd......The Ryman Auditorium was resurrected after much restoration.....

I was in an arts and crafts museum near a welcome centre in Kentucky just off of I-75 a few weeks ago and was surprised to see that Red Foley came from Kentucky as I had never really thought about it. I thought he came from Missouri. I guess it's because he hosted the Ozark Jubilee TV show in the 50's when I was a kid. I know Pat Boone married his daughter. I guess that was the connection. Pat Boone is supposed to be a descendent of Daniel Boone. Ken, Toronto Ken, Toronto

i don't know about that i do know blues came from hard working southern feild hands and yes they were both white and black

I agree too, but also Jimmy Rodgers!

hells yea!