I just saw Buck Owens passed away. I grew up watchinh Hee Haw every Saturday night. It was on right before Adam 12. As corny as it was, I rarely missed it.
He was a real tribute to the American Dream.
Posted by Deb Fowler (Member # 1039) on :
Bruce, He was part of our childhood too. You couldn't help but find a few grins from Hee Haw. Buck was a legend. Sorry to hear about it, we'll miss him.
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
when i lived in sarasota i hada run in with one of HEEHAWS other stars....GORDY TAPP, he was the guy who did the skit with the straw hat and hay fork...in front of the fence, he would sing i thought i found true love ...and now shes gone...did some lettering on his boat and got to be a freind....some of the stories he told about the people on that show....old buck was a constant on our JUKE BOX in the bar my parents owned.
Posted by Carl Wood (Member # 1223) on :
Hey Joe I remember that guy but never knew his name - he would jab the other singer in the side when it wuz his turn to sing - he usually had a different "Guest" sidekick every week - I miss Hee Haw....Buck & Roy , String Bean, Lulu, remember Junior Samples?
Posted by Russ McMullin (Member # 5617) on :
I was sad to hear that Buck Owens died. He was a great entertainer and love his music.
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
while in California 2 december's ago, my wife and I stopped at Buck's "Crystal Palace" in Bakersfield, with Francisco Vargas and his mother Della. Buck saved the huge old Arched Sign welcoming people to Bakerfield and he restored it and moved it to the gate entrance at the Crystal Palace.....Buck knew the GOOD stuff!! I always liked Buck and seeing the Palace was great, thanks CISCO! He always wore his Bibs BACKWARD!
Posted by FranCisco Vargas (Member # 145) on :
I just saw the news last night. Yeah Mike, I'll never forget our trip there. Pretty nice looking place, even had Hookers hangin over the balconey waving at us! hahahahahaha Can't forget Zinkers! Or what was the name where we had pies in good ole Bakersfield?
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
ZINGOS!!!!!!!
Zingos will be having a moment of silnce for the Buckster!
Posted by John Deaton (Member # 925) on :
Buck Owens was a true american music legend. Never conforming, always doing his thing, and entertaining all of us in the meantime. IVe got a recording of one of his live shows somewhere on cassette, when guitar player and singer Don Richmond was with him. It was great music. Buck Ownens and the Buckaroos!
Posted by Frank Magoo (Member # 3950) on :
How old was ol' Buck when he passed? Anyone know?
He was a character, had a vision and ran w/it, lots of country artists owe their careers to Ol' Buck... Once at his office in LA, an office filled mostly w/men, Linda Ronstandt came to visit Buck, whose glass enclosed cubicule was in rear of whole office and required passing all these typists and phone operators...you could hear a pin drop as she made her way to rear office, all eyes following every move...then back to din of working office, that is until she started to depart, again, total quiet...when she reached the door, she looked over her shoulder, ran her right hand down front of her pants, and w/right hand in extended position to room, blew all those boys a kiss!!! Then left!!! It seemed like an hour before din returned...lol
I'm sorry to hear Buck is gone, he is one of a few that made a bigger impact behind the scenes, then in front, as big as life as he was to public, his work for his industry in form of paving the way for many a career of talented types that normally wouldn't have that chance was done w/o fanfare or reward other than signing some of these to his own labels, but for most part, Ol'Buck just wanted to do good... I first met him personally in Bakersfield at the Blackboard, a very rowdy cowboy bar of reknown for years there... also, Mike, that sign? It used to be part of a walkway across, I think, Union Ave, linking the Bakersfield Inn w/bungaloes they had on other side and a hell of a steak house, unoffical headquarters of drag racers during the 60-70's...heheh, also source of many ladies of the nite....joke around there was, "I don't want services of a truck stop lot lizard, I'm a Union man!!!" lol Sure going to miss Ol' Buck........ Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
Our little 'backyard band' played a lot of his songs.
Kind'a like a favorite uncle passing away . . .
Did you ever hear that Buck Owens was Dwight Yokum's father?? There really is some resembalance . . .
Buck was indeed a huge influence and help in getting Dwight signed and cutting music.
[ March 26, 2006, 04:46 PM: Message edited by: Sheila Ferrell ]
Posted by jack wills (Member # 521) on :
Do you remember some of his songs? I was always ready to hear... "I've got the hungry's for your love and I'm wait'n in your welfare line!"
He and Dylan, did some gigs awhile back during a tour out here along with Merle Hagard. He was also on a radio show in the 50's with a DJ called "Cottonseed Clark" out of the Palo Alto, area.
CrazyJack
Posted by Eric Barker (Member # 2972) on :
Here's an article with some particulars. Buck will be missed.
BUCK OWENS | 1929-2006
Singer Found Gold and Inspiration in California By Randy Lewis, Times Staff Writer March 26, 2006
Buck Owens, the Bakersfield rebel who brought a distinctly California flavor to country music in the 1950s and '60s and built a Central Valley-based multimedia empire belying his "Hee Haw"-bred bumpkin persona, died Saturday. He was 76.
Owens died at his home in Bakersfield, said Jim Shaw, the family's spokesman and longtime member of his Buckaroos band. The cause of death was not immediately known, but the country music giant who charted 21 No. 1 country singles from 1963 to 1988, among them "Act Naturally," "I've Got a Tiger by the Tail" and "Streets of Bakersfield," had been in declining health for years after undergoing surgery for throat cancer in 1993.
Just hours before he died, Owens was on stage Friday night with the Buckaroos singing at his $5-million Bakersfield nightclub and restaurant, Buck Owens' Crystal Palace, something he'd done routinely since opening it almost 10 years ago.
"He had come to the club early and had a chicken-fried steak dinner and bragged that it's his favorite meal," Shaw said. After dinner, Owens told band members he didn't feel up to performing and decided to drive home. On his way to his car, fans on their way in told him that they had come from Bend, Ore., and that they were really looking forward to hearing him sing. Owens turned around and did the show.
"He mentioned that onstage: 'If somebody's come all that way, I'm gonna do the show and give it my best shot. I might groan and squeak, but I'll see what I can do,' " Shaw said. "He died in his sleep — they figure it was about 4:30 [a.m.] — probably of heart failure. So he had his favorite meal, played a show and died in his sleep. We thought, that's not too bad."
Posted by Dusty Campbell (Member # 4601) on :
I never see a red white and blue guitar without thinking of him.
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