A true first class act. You never hear the respect of singers to their bands . I love the respect of introduction of players

That voice. Roy's voice never aged, despite him aging. His chipper and joyful voice never faultered when singing his classic train song. Truly a legend among music, it's easy to tell why Hank Sr. Idolized him. May he rest in peace.

This is my favorite song of all time. It's an American classic without comparison. It speaks of generations of pride and conviction you can feel. It's not about me, it's about us, and about our heritage, faith and convictions. This song is sancrocinct with American pride.

I hope Mr. Acuff's family will be able to read this. My father was born in 1933 and as a young boy was placed in an orphanage near Nashville. Mr. Acuff use to spend time with those kids, take them to his farm and Vanderbilt football games. My father died in 2002 thought the world of Roy Acuff and he made a huge positive influence on my father, thank you.

Amazing how the one man could mimic a train whistle with his voice.

Nov 9, 1962 _ Roy Acuff became the first LIVING person inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame!

As a member of his family I appreciate the comments

George Jones was right when he sang....."Who's gonna fill their shoes." There will NEVER be another Mr. Roy Acuff!

I always loved Roy Acuff for honoring Daddy Claxton ..a turn of the century Black farmer in Alabama who fought against the railroads charging sky high fees to haul all farmers crops to market ..he stole the Cannon Ball and got his crops to market ..he actually drove it as the engineer ..tried in the courts of Alabama ..the White farmers on the jury aquitted him .. setting him free ..Thank you Roy Acuff ..you and Daddy Claxton live on..

The purity of Roy Accuf's consecrated soul is clearly sensed thru the hauntingly beautiful words, tributes to persons & places, his well-modulated voice and natural diction of his rendition of this immortal song. Truly inspiring. Played over & over.

One of the very last true Country Mucic Showmen, an old timer that is often immitated but never surpassed.

One of the best of country songs is the Wabash cannonball but only one man could bring it to life and make it work like this gentleman Mr Roy Acuff. Hes a professional and a generous man, if you look him up and see what he's done for orphan kids and other have nots...he gave back to his community .I could go on and on. They just don't make them like this man anymore !!!

Long live the King of Country Music, Roy Acuff!

He was a living legend. I saw him as a kid on b&w TV and we laughed at his hillbilly music (I lived in east Tennessee), but we knew easily that he was a national treasure

They were, above all, gentlemen, gentlemen and true performers of the best kind. Not a sour note within a hundred miles. Wonderful.

This makes today’s music look sick

I was born in '57 and grew up listening to wonderful music like this. I'm like the other folks my age wondering just what happened to country music. So thankful for KZfaq's Time Machine.

My dad was inspired by roy acuff, and sang this song very proudly in his local and regional bands.

Roy a cuff was the real deal. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤rest in peace

listening to this just makes me want to cry...reminds so much of my Mom and when I was a little thing running around with her while she cleaned and listened to this. :) Miss you so much Mama.

I love to watch the great ones perform. Even at this age, Roy still performs this song best.

Roy acuff and George Jones and Hank Williams tunes sooth my soul!

I grew up watching Hee Haw. I remember Roy Acuff as the one of many greats on that wonderful show. It’s obvious that I’m among the younger generations who was around when Acuff was alive.

The greatest train song ever written. There is nothing to compare to the sights and sounds of a steam locomotive. A massive living, breathing, huffing, puffing and wailing steel behemoth.

Extemely emotions run through my body as i remember my grandmother who passed last march talk about roy, roy was her 2nd cousin but she always talked about how the too familys always wanted to reunite but she live in OK during the great depression so money was scare and they lived on the east coast and travel wasnt so an option and ended up moving to california later. Her favorite HeeHaw show is still recorded the one with roy

This is my Daddy's favorite song. He's 93. I love him so much.

This was a request by my Uncle at my wedding. I had a friend of mine William "Tex" Doyle played country music at my wedding and it went over real good. It was very different and so many of the people loved it. My Uncle always loved this song and I had them play it for him.

This version and its lyrics is the version that I learned many years ago. Love this version.

Went on tour with a group when I was a little girl. Stood on the Grand Ole Opera stage I didn't understand it bk then and couldn't appreciate it. But I'm so glad I have those memories. 💯👍🎶🎼

Roy and Hank are what every true country singer strive to be. They are the two kings of country.

My Grandpas Favorite song of all times.. Every time i played this for him he would be like Look i got goose bumbs and starts singing it.... Brings tears to my eyes thinking about him 4 years since we lost him

I used to listen to the grand ole Opry with my dad on the radio, we didn't have a TV, my dad would just cry when wabash cannon ball played

Missing my grandpa I never really got to meet. And my father. Favorite songs of theirs... This song is a real tearbreaker.

Roy acuff was one of the greats in country music

Seen him years ago and his band. Man I miss them good Ole country singers. There the real deal. Bless them all.

Now this is country music. Please keep it alive. This bull butter crap you hear today is not country music

I can remember as a little boy when my dad use to listen to these old songs on his old radio. A day at home couldn't sound any better.

Every time I hear this song, I see my parents dancing. In the house I grew up in, there was a vent in the floor upstairs that you could see into the living room. Back in the day, that's how the upstairs were heated. (No, it didn't work. Ha ha). All 8 of us kids slept upstairs . We watch our parents dancing around the living room looking through that vent while this song played. Dad's been gone since '88, mom a few years back. Every time I hear this song, tears of sadness because they're gone, tears of happiness for the memory. 💗💗💗

One of the most evocative lines in American music: "Hear the mighty rush of the engine, hear the lonesome hobo's call You're travelin' through the jungles on the Wabash Cannonball"

Mr Roy was such a fine man used to go to the Grand ole opry 10 r 12 times a year back in the 60's threw early 80's. he would set and talk to you for hours he was really nice to my dad. each time we went and if he saw dad he would talk to him

One of the best songs of all times the humanity and the railroad which it speaks volumes takes me back to when my grandmother talked to me about country music and the good old days

Mr Acuff seemed like a stand up guy. I sure do miss these guy's and gal's .

my grandfather. very proud of him

The 👑 of country music Mr. Roy Acuff

One of my favorite songs.

This is (I think so) the best, greatest video on youtube. Picture and sound quality are awesome. Each musician is nice (not only behind Roy) with his name. God bless you all. From France : Jo luttringer

How true Country Music today is sick. Bring back the old time singers. They should have a station where they play all oldies!!!!

Looked this song up Spending time with my sister we used to watch with grandpa and grandma. 💃

I don’t think a lot of the new country artists appreciate those who came before them. It’s all about them! Roy Acuff was a true gentleman!

No one else (in the past or future) will ever be able to do this song any justice!

My granny loved Roy Acuff

Thanks for posting this! --Donald J. "Daddy" Claxton, born Dec. 6, 1965. Many from my dad's side of the family hail from Athens, Alabama. When I worked for Gov. Guy Hunt in the late 1980s and throughout much of the 1990s, one of my chiefs of staff called me "Daddy Claxton," every time we were in the same room. A few years later, I got married and we had three daughters. At different times, I get called "Daddy" by each of them. During the re-election campaign of Gov. Fob James in 1998, the governor's campaign chartered a train that began in Athens, and down the very tracks the fictional train would have followed, we rolled on into Birmingham and knowing the lyrics, the chief of staff's proclivity to call me "Daddy Claxton," it felt surreal.

Just discovered Roy , he was a friend of my family up the road a ways from Maynardville. Gave an old uncle a bunch of guitars and banjos one time I heard.

This is my favorite song of all time.... Many different ones does it like boxcar Willie but it doesn't matter who does it, it's still walbash cannonball....... Let me hear the choo choo...... Trains was my favorite when I was growing up, I always wanted to drive a train......

Little to no change in his voice between this performance and one he did in 1940. Have to love true, classic, country and singers like Mister Acuff.

I love you papaw . I cant wait to play this again with you when i get up there Amen. RIp jimmy crowder. Ill dance bare🦶foot with you on that golden road ❤

What a treat! Thank you.

A truly lovely rendition that really does this great railway song justice❤❤❤

Roy’s life was a testimony of his belief in Jesus Christ.

Good 'ole song!

Brilliant I knew this because Dizzy Dean mentioned it while broadcasting baseball games

I first heard him on radio when am radio was the only music we had country will live forever

Got a chance years ago to go the Nashville & see the Grand Ole Opry one Thanksgiving. That was the week Roy Acuff passed away, so I never got to see him live. Thankfully we have videos

When Roy introduces Onie Wheeler on harmonica, it should not be forgotten that Onie is also the person responsible for the human train whistle on Acuff's 1947 re-recording of this song. This performance came from the 1978 special 50 Years of Country Music.

This video is one reason I love KZfaq. Omg this is amazing and so many wouldn’t have ever seen this. Such a treasure.

Roy acuff was a real class act and a true legend. R.I.P Roy

I'm looking for a KZfaq video from March 16,1974 when Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys performed The Wabash Cannonball on the opening night of the Grand Old Opry House at Opryland.

Now that was awesome!

Real!!! Country!!! Music!!! Wooooooo 🎶🎶🎶 Johnny from Alabama wooooooo 🎶🎶🎶

Medlin family from.Shreveport. Louisiana thanks you Mr. Roy!

Great song and video footage, thanks for sharing your video with us !

I used to listen to this and other roy acuff songs when I was younger while playin with my lionel pennsylvania flyer freight set... ironically I was born in 2001, not 1951

I have loved this all my life. ❤

Legendary

Bashful Brother Oswald made the great sound on the Dobro that made Roy so popular.

Mr. Roy Acuff looks like my late grand father, doppelganger 💖🎶✨

My friends you have just witness the best in this business Roy Acuff.

I love Roy. One of the Greatest.

My dad's side was and is from Maynardville Tennessee. God bless that volunteer state

The best of the best!!

He was my Granny Kelly's favorite singer

The Wabash cannonball was a line of the Wabash Railroad. I'm checking to see if the railroad relates to the Wabash River in Indiana, I think. There is a street in Chicago, or south of it, called Wabash.

I was camping with my dad and asked what he wanted to hear and it was this song because of his memories with his dad.

Comments TOP. .....Newest 1day ago.....That says it all ,never to be forgotten ,he says as I go now to Johnny Cash vesion...... all day !!! 😊😎

Amazing

Who else pushed RW to hear "Onie Wheeler and his harmonikee!" ?

I hope Mr Acuffs family will be able to read this my great uncle was a conductor for the southern pacific from I think the 30s to the 60s he has unfortunately passed away and my late grandfather was a railroad spike layer for the mccloud river railroad

The Wabash Cannonball was a Detroit to Saint Louis train. It died when the last major source of income was put on trucks. US Mail. It should never have gone away! It was a important cross line .

Very proud to say I saw him live at the Opry

OMG, so good.

Roy was simply the best

The greatest train song EVER

Smokeys favourite song. Shame he never got to play it . Did most other things though!

One of the greatest ❤️

From the great Atlantic ocean to the wide Pacific shore She climbs a flowery mountains o'er the hills and by the shore She's mighty tall and handsome she's known quite well by all She's a regular combination on the Wabash Cannonball Listen to the jingle, the rumble and the roar As she glides along the woodland o'er the hills and by the shore Hear the mighty rush of the engine hear those lonesome hoboes call Traveling through the jungle on the Wabash Cannonball Well she came down from Birmingham one cold December day As she pulled into the station you could hear all the people say She's from Tennessee she's long and she's tall She came down from Birmingham on the Wabash Cannonball Here's to daddy Claxton may his name forever stand And always be…

Awesome!

Yes he was the best of the best ever and many tried to imitate him but failed.

I really can't stop my fingers from bomping.

word POWER!!!

GOOD STUFF !