Driving from San Antonio to Marfa Texas not too long ago, we stopped into a little mom&pop gas station and they were listening to this album...keep hope alive, my friends...keep hope alive.

Jimmy was the first guy to ever own a Telecaster (Broadcaster at the time). Leo Fender and George Fullerton gave him the earliest made one and TV and Radio was the start of it. Soon everybody wanted one.

These guys still set the standard for hot electric guitar-steel guitar more than fifty years after they first recorded... that's amazing! Leon Rhodes and Buddy Charlton of the Texas Troubladors came close, as did James Burton and Ralph Mooney, and also Danny Gatton and Buddy Emmons.... Love the humor with which JB and Speedy played; they were clearly having a great time. Bryant had perhaps the most advanced right hand picking technique ever, and impecable country-jazz chops and taste.

if peope only knew how historic this is....the first telecaster

possibly the best steel and guitar due EVER

I'm reading a book entitled "Six decades of the Fender Telecaster. Jimmy Bryant was mentioned. That's why I'm here.

I couldnt think of a better duo than these two they are insane.

WOW... My first time hearing either of them

Never heard of these men until 6 minutes ago....and I've played it 3 times already. This is great stuff! Thx!

Wouldn't it have been great to have this recorded with todays' technology. I remember hearing these guys on radio when I was growing up (40's 50's).

Awesome sounds!!

This just makes me smile! The clothes and set may be corny, but these guys were brilliant musicians. This is the stuff of genius.

awesome footage of these 2 great pickers...Jimmy Bryant the epitome of Country Jazz

Priceless!

The clowns that flagged this only wish they could play as well as Speedy and Jimmy.

This was Cliffie Stone's Hometown Jamboree. Cliffie's dad, Herman the Hermit, played stand-up bass every week in the house band. Ernie Ford made his 1st TV appearance, ever, on Cliffie's show, and I can remember watching it that night. I also remember Mollie Bee's very 1st TV appearance, also on Cliffie's show. I also remember Cliffie, the 2nd week that Mollie was on the show, screwing up pronouncing her last name, and saying, "let's just call her Mollie Bee." Her last name is Beachboard.

Finally! Some one put the whole clip on! I have a copy of this on a VHS tape that I haven't been able to play in years! Your copy is quite clear, but the tracking gets funky in the same spot as mine. A friend of mine has a very clean tape of this - he claims that he got it from Cliffie Stone's wife. Anyway, the internet is forever grateful for your work, Pappy...

Love this stuff! Jimmy and Speedy doin' their thing.

they are greaaaaaaaaat,,,,,,,,,,,

that kicked ass. if they had a P-Bass walking the bottom end on that song it would have rocked even harder.

That's some beautiful playing.

Amazing - they were so much in sync in many ways - fabulous.

I have never seen anything like this!!! It is soooo great!!!

Friends and Competitors.............these guys were the real deal.

i believe every time west played the steel . he looked and felt as excited as a little kid on christmas morn' .. and jimmy was so cool , , tickling his tele ..

Mental! Call the fire brigade ❤️‍🔥

Super great stuff.. Kinda hard to tell with the video quality but looks like Jimmy is doing both up and down sweeps around 1:38ish.. don’t think many country guitarists do sweeps.. really cool

this IS music

Fantastic

thanks for this clip these two guys were so fantastic it's hard to believe even when you see it! Jimmy Bryant has been a huge inspiration for me as a guitar player (I'll never get anywhere near his level, though...) and the sheer take-no-prisoners musicianship of Speedy and him as a team makes me downright speechless.

i love how speedy west always seems like hes having the time of his life, dude cant quit cheesin

Halloween night and a cool intro by Speedy! This is great !! I must have watched it ten times. First generation pickers are awesome!!!

Speedy West plays on slot of Sheb Wooley's early songs at MGM. Listen to Sheb. He is great!

As a Jazz Guitarist born 1949 these guys were Jazz done Country Style. "Jazz of the Southwest" By Jean A, Boyd university of Texas Press, Austin tells the Whole Daddgumb Story.

Brilliant!

Thanks for sending, vladgomek, it's real fun seeing these guys playing together, and as you say: this is lot's of improvisation going on and could well be placed in a nice Jazz context, they certainly would be able to handle that, very nice Vid with historic value,greets Vic.

My uncle was speedys best friend in school. They reunited in the 80s.

Now thats Rock

Not a CW fan but I know mad skills they are awesome !

what a lovely telecaster sound

Just got turned onto Speedy by my friend, Terry Wood, an accomplished pedal steel guitar player from Marshfield, Missouri. Speedy was a maverick!

Pretty damn cool!

Wow! These were two baaaaaaaaaaaaad boys. I've really started getting into their music lately. So much jazz and swing in there! Thanks for posting this!

Mind Boggling! Thanks Pappy

Amazing! Two great guitar players!

Charlie Christian, Jimmy Bryant, Hendrix , my favorite.. It's all about this unique sound..

Ed Sullivan would have asked them to change the name of the song if they were on his show!

Indeed.. :)

love it!

Jimmy Brtyant helped popularize the Telecaster with these sorts of performances. One of the first guitar virtuoso Fender endorsers.

Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant had some pretty fun stuff.

god the tone on Bryant's blackguard tele!!!

Icons!love it

Fantastic, thanks for the post .

That's right; playing music is supposed to be fun.

Licks galore! And I sure miss Cliffy. What a great gentleman. Met him at the Palomino Club when he was emceeing the weeknight talent shows. Mr. Smooth with a cigar. Johnny Pal

Thanks for this!!

nice man very nice thanks pappy!!!!!

Pure talent

The source of this video is a kinescope so the quality is so-so even if you had the film print itself, HJ an Cliffie made this recording for a special Armed Forces film to entertain our soldiers, at least that is what I read once. The complete original has a lot of songs and musical skits of the various performers that worked on the Jamboree and of course Ernie Ford steals the show for the most part.

absolute fire!!

Holy Shit! Speedy West was the first Punk Rocker!!

Related from the big town of moultrie ga

Love it.

January 10, 1951.

Often imitated but never equaled!

i went to school with his son gary, also a good guitar player

F A N T A S T I C!

Hot damn!!!

JIMMY RIVERS ~ BRISBANE

Too good

This is what "country pickin' " is all about. That kind of music is fast becoming a lost art because modern country music is all about the next "country/pop crossover" hit and getting behind the next Taylor Swift/Carrie Underwood/Shania Twain to come along, and forget about actually learning your craft as a musician or singer/entertainer. Support people like Junior Brown and Brad Paisley (a real throwback if there ever was one).

The ubiquitous Telecaster !

Excelente

Word is that Jimmy was one of the first card to play prototype Tele’s and helped with the design... com.

Well I thought I could play guitar. Lol! Wow!

jimmy bryant is STILL the king of them all

Ask Zac brought me here.

Who is the announcer in the massively shoulder-padded suit ?

thats my cosine jimmy

Anybody know what the two lines were on Jimmy’s Telecaster?

Did Jeff Beck ever acknowledge JB. I can’t help but think this must have been a template for Jeff’s Boogie.

no sound with this video!

That was Cliffie Stone who announced them!

Looks like a Tele with the ashtray cover

Sell that toothpaste, Speedy!

What 7 idiots did not like this, and why?

Awesome! Is it Fender Proadcaster or early Tele?

1:17 that microtonal stuff isn't easy.

When was this taped?

I had to dig so deep for this shit in the '90s it's not even funny

What year?

Jimmy plays some Charlie Parker in there

what are the stripes on the upper bout of jimmy's tele?

Songanddanceman - never did what?

I have heard that Jimmy Bryant was very difficult to work with.

:) :) :) :)

Not their best tune, but a fun one! Jimmy Bryant, the prototype. Danny Gatton, the perfected product. Josh Smith, today's modern model.

Mr. West keeping time, chomping on some chewing gum.

I'm guessing "Speedy" was flyin' high most of the time.