Ricky Nelson - Hello Mary Lou (with solo by James Burton)
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- Rick Nelson was one of the very biggest of the '50s teen idols, so it took awhile for him to attain the same level of critical respectability as other early rock greats. Yet now the consensus is that he made some of the finest pop/rock recordings of his era. Sure, he had more promotional push than any other rock musician of the '50s; no, he wasn't the greatest singer; and yes, Elvis, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, and others rocked harder. But Nelson was extraordinarily consistent during the first five years of his recording career, crafting pleasant pop-rockabilly hybrids with ace session players and projecting an archetype of the sensitive, reticent young adult with his accomplished vocals. He also played a somewhat underestimated role in rock & roll's absorption into mainstream America -- how bad could rock be if it was featured on one of America's favorite family situation comedies on a weekly basis?
Nelson entered professional entertainment before his tenth birthday, when he appeared with father Ozzie, mother Harriet, and brother David on a radio comedy series based around the family. By the early '50s, the series was on television, and Ricky grew into a teenager in public. He was just the right age to have his life turned around by rock & roll in 1956 and started his recording career the following year recording a cover of Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin'" that went to number four. So far the script was adhering to the Pat Boone teen idol prototype -- a whitewash of an R&B hit stealing the thunder from the pop audience, sung by a young, good-looking fella with barely any musical experience to speak of. What happened next was easy to predict commercially but surprisingly satisfying musically as well.
Nelson was a fairly hip kid who preferred the rockabilly of Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley to the fodder dished out for teen idols, and over the next five years he would offer his own brand of rockabilly music, one with some smooth Hollywood production touches and occasional pure pop ballads. Nelson recruited one of the greatest early rock guitarists, James Burton, to supply authentic licks (another great guitarist, Joe Maphis, played on some early sides). Some of his best and toughest songs ("Believe What You Say," "It's Late") were written by Johnny and/or Dorsey Burnette, who had previously been in one of the best rockabilly combos, the Johnny Burnette Rock 'n Roll Trio. Ricky could rock pretty hard when he wanted to, as on "Be-Bop Baby" and "Stood Up," though in a polished fashion that wasn't quite as wild and threatening as rockabilly's Southern originators. Nelson really hit his stride, though, with mid-tempo numbers and ballads that provided a more secure niche for his calm vocals and narrow range. From 1957 to 1962, he was about the highest-selling singer in the U.S. except for Elvis, making the Top 40 about 30 times. "Poor Little Fool" and "Lonesome Town" (1958) were early indications of his ballad style; in the early '60s, "Travelin' Man," "Young World," "Teen Age Idol," and other hits pointed to a more countrified, mature style as he honed in on his 21st birthday (by which time he would shorten his billing from "Ricky" to "Rick"). He could still play rockabilly from time to time, the most memorable example being "Hello, Mary Lou" (co-written by Gene Pitney), with its electrifying James Burton solos.
Nelson was lured away from the Imperial label by a mammoth 20-year contract with Decca in 1963, and for a year or so the hits continued, at a less frenetic pace. Early-1964's "For You," however, would be his last big smash of the '60s. His country-rock outings attracted more critical acclaim than commercial success, until 1972's "Garden Party." A rare self-composed number, based around the frosty reception granted his contemporary material at a rock & roll oldies show, it became his last Top Ten hit. Nelson would continue to record off and on for the next dozen years and toured constantly, yet he was unable to capitalize on his assets. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
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The greatest guitar solo of all time. James Burton is still one of the greatest guitar players of all time.
James called it chickin-pickin
you said that right im a verry very big fan of mr james burton i wrote to him a bout 7 yrs a go asking him for a sighed photo 3 weeks after i recieved a photo of james and elvis personaly sighed
@@britisheagle9776 excellent. James was E’s favorite guitar player.
You got THAT right, and Mr. Burton is still going strong at 80
@@britisheagle9776 Wow! SOO good to hear that!
Ricky, gone too soon. Thanks for James Burton on guitar.
No one else back then could play like James because they hadnt figured out his trick of using four light banjo strings, and then just regular D and A strings for the fifth and sixth strings. So he could easily bend notes that were out of bounds with regular heavier strings.
I literally get chills Everytime I hear the Burton solo. definitely the best attribute to the song.
James Burton, lead guitar for both Ricky, and Elvis. The look Ricky gives James at 1:00 is like, many years later, Elvis saying "Play it, James!"
It happens the same to me. I've made a cover of this song (including the solo). Check it out if you want czcams.com/video/qmyqJDzTf28/video.html
@@ITILII when I first heard it, I loved the song with it's jaunty rythm but that James Burton solo seemed to come out of nowhere, so unexpected, almost as if it doesn't belong to the song but does at the same time. It's such a cliche of cliches but it really is such a kick-ass solo.
I think the solo is an essential part of the song. I listened to another version of this song that has the solo edited out and it didn't have the same high energy and flow as the solo version has.
Brilliant James Burton🖖
The solo that never dies!
Okay, I am 65 years old now, and when I was 6, I saw this on the Ozzie and Harriet show, and loved the song and Ricky's singing, but James Burton's (who was not identified on the show) guitar picking was what made me a rock and roll guitar and rockabilly singing fan for life. Sadly, I was among those who, a few years later, when those long haired blow dried Brits came over with even better music, lost all respect for anyone who looked like Rick, just because of the greasy slick hair that looked so different from my new heroes. Even though most of those guys were terrible, I was wrong. Much later, I came to realize that I still love James' guitar picking, and Rick's unique singing style. I was so wrong Rick, and I am so sorry now for my lack of respect for your great music, even though it is too late to tell you so. If Rick hadn't lost his life so soon, he would have been vastly more appreciated in his own life, by me and many others my age. Thanks Rick, Thanks James.
James Burton is the real star of this song. Unlike Ricky Nelson, he was able to capitalize on his assets for the next 50 years. I don't think James Burton ever changed his style either; he stayed the same and the world came to him. I'm not so much a fan of rockabilly and country music, but I'm a huge James Burton fan. If he's playing, I'm listening.
banjo bo
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Burton was and still is a guitar legend ,rip
Great singing by Ricki and a great solo by James Burton!!! 👏👍👏❤️
james Burton a much under appreciated guitar great
Back in the day James Burton was the " God Father of the Tele'''
He was never under appreciated. Perhaps you're too young to have a appreciated him
@@rc1564 RIGHT ON!!
Theres no denying that this little guitar solo was one small step for a guitarist, one giant leap for guitarists.
James Burton is the BEST!
James Burton ,an greatest Guitar-Player, He Looks very friendly and a fun Man.
As a child I loved watching James Burton play as Ricky sang. I have since come to know the unassuming bass player in back was none other than the late, great Joe Osborn. RIP.
I can still remember having to wait for the radio in my father's car to "warm up" so the tubes could conduct and for us to hear Ricky and James play music. What a GREAT time !!!!!
I remember waiting for the end of the show to see if Ricky had something new. Strange, I never bought a record.
Started watching him as a kid on the Ozzie and Harriet show, he would perform at the end separate from the episode. Fast forward, I was staying at the hotel in Dallas he was to perform at on Dec 31 1985 with my girlfriend but we didn't know he was to be there, we saw the poster after we checked in. His plane crashed en route to this performance.
Never missed an episode of Ozzie and Harriet, the end of the show was always the best, Ozzie Nelson was a genius, he was one of the first if not the first to present music videos, he new how to promote his son Ricky's music....Great back up band, James Burton a pioneer in Rock n Roll Guitar!
James Burton was and is one of the greatest guitar players to ever hit the stages...
He and Tommy Allsup (who recently passed away Jan. 11, 2017) were two absolutely fantastic guitar players of all time!!!
Good clean pickin'~N~playin'...
It's very difficult to play like guitarist James Burton, he has a unique style, firstly he listened a lot to the old guys, then he put everything together and made the perfect dish...he's a phenomenal guy, the bassist and the drummer, and James Burton was the backbone of the band. Brazil band 🇧🇷
More cowbell!
James Burton's solo was impeccable and perfect for the song. What an incredible talent. His work with Roy Orbison and Elvis was truely some of the best picking of the time.
Teenage James Birton back there, playing stuff people today can't play. And the people today playing low-action guitars with bendy strings. Rick Nelson was a beast
Ricky's parents had access to the very best people to promote their son. Everything they did was first class.
A clean, almost atmospherical, voice with the haunting guitar of James Burton. The rhytm section, the voice, guitar lines, everything is perfect here. Many artists, including Rick himself, have tried to recreate this song on several occasions. They have all failed. But I must admit that I like the second night rendition that Queen made on Wembley 1986.
Rick Nelson made some very pleasant and enjoyable songs that really sound great today. It's too bad that today's pop music can't even remotely compare to his work.
if you think "today's pop music" is what you hear on the radio, you'd be wrong
Michael Pop music is the popular music in a given era. The music you hear on the radio is the exact definition of pop music.
Heming Julner Except that nobody actually likes it. If you compare surveys from then and now you find many times the oarticipation rate back then. I saw a more recent one that showed 21% of people preferred 'pop' music. You can't call that 'popular'. Classical 2nd at 20%, country 3rd at 17%, etc. When I was a kid you couldn't move for Buddy Holly records, Beatles albums, etc. Never seen any pop music CDs lying around houses in last 35 years.
What's a Radio? Is that the Thingie you can turn on to get the weather report?
James Burton helped "write the book" on rock n roll guitar, along with several others. Chuck Berry , Scotty Moore, for example. We owe them a huge debt for inventing the style ...
Love Ricky who sang this song very well. Also love James Burton who played a legendary guitar solo here, Only one other solo was even better, and that was Burton's playing on :Fools Rush In!
😢😢🎉🎉❤❤ música lindíssima boa gosto Rick Nelson cantor faz muito sucesso até hoje faz muito sucesso até hoje faz muito
el ritmo es hermoso !!!
It’s been said a million times, but still I say, this is the greatest guitar solo of all time.
James Burton is the greatest solo guitar player.
Great foot-tapping rhythm on this song. Fantastic live performance, perfect vocals and THAT guitar solo.
Okay, so Ricky was never going to be another Elvis. But he could make music good enough to make Elvis say, "I want his guitar player." James Burton.
I remember watching James over Ricky's shoulder often during my childhood.
Good music never gets old. Good to hear always.
😮😢❤❤🎉🎉 música lindíssima boa gosto Rick Nelson cantor faz muito sucesso até hoje faz muito sucesso até hoje faz muito sucesso até hoje faz muito
Das war schon in meiner Jugendzeit ein großartiges Musikvergnügen. Heute ist es nicht andrrs
Bin begeistert ( 76 ).❤❤❤
Wow!,strike one for Jimmy Burton, one of the most heard but unheralded guitarists in pop music history He was playing roughly the same time as Cliff Gallup of Gene Vincent`s Blue Caps but Gallup did not like full time show business so he played week ends as a semi pro till he died in 1989.James is till with us I think.Both brilliant players ,influential and relatively unknown (except to millions of guitar players.!)
What a great Birthday Wish.....thank you Mark Linke!!! Loved it!!!!!
Freaking James Burton has always been one of my favorite guitarists....up there with Jeff Beck, Mick Ronson, Robert Fripp, Steve Hunter/Dick Wagner...all totally different but they have one thing in common...they never disappoint.
Keith Richards said he never bought a Ricky Nelson record. He bought James Burton records.
What would we have done without the KING & Ricky ? My teenage idols.....yeeeeezzzzzz..
Great song by one of the best , group, and of course Jame Burton,,thanks
Beautiful classic! Thanks.
The flip side "Traveling Man" went to #1. This one stopped at #9 but over the years radio has played this side a lot more. It's my favorite. Once again guitarist James Burton delivers nicely.
Yep! That solo blew everyone’s minds when they heard it. It is by far the best part of the song. He is a legend!
A true iconic legend America's son Ricky Nelson you are missed worldwide and you're loved worldwide The traveling Man Ricky Nelson your music not only remains in our hearts and generations to come as well
In 1961 some guitarist named James Burton accomplishes in 19 seconds what most shredders have been trying and failing to do ever since. Creating the perfect guitar solo while gaining a reputation of being "cool."
Timeless classic
One of the most intricate rhythms for a song ever recorded, along with Stevie Wonder's 'Superstition.' Masterful.
great song lv all his songs 🤩😍🤩😍😻😻 i have all his song
Burton invented country style guitar
Hank Garland, James Burton... Shoulda gotten the credit they deserved decades ago... 'Nuff said!!!
Ricky was really really ridiculously good looking.
This is the guitar solo that inspired Brian May to change his string gauge and switch to banjo 🪕 strings……a huge influence on Clapton, Brian May and so many great guitar players 👏👏👏
Ricky had those young babes bopping to the music all along.
I remember Rick, he was a great performer. Wonderful.....Don.
Music that lasts forever! Wonderful Ricky Nelson.
Thank you for sharing your videos with us. I was born the last year of the baby boomers and love the era these songs were created in.
Beautiful song with attractive voice of Rick
The song was written by Gene Pitney, that's probably why it's my favorite song by Rick Nelson.
One of my 2 favorite rock 'n roll songs of my early teen years. Both by Ricky Nelson and both because of the James Burton guitar break between the second and third verses. The songs are Hello Mary Lou and Believe What You Say.
James Burton is sooo great! Just listen to the break!!! He was on a lot of the Lew Chudd Imperial records rockabilly and he injected all that influence into rick's performances....
Wonderful memories from the unspoiled days...
This song is not the same without Burton's solo...Thanks for posting.
When I was 16 this is the music I got when I was right a the dance halls brilliant it brings back all the. Memories 'agh I wish I could go back to them days I'm now 62 were has the time gone
I'm 64. All I can think is we were so spoiled.
There was no Rock'n'Roll in my house. My parents were already in their mid-30s and wanted nothing to do with it. There was no family viewing of TV shows with Rock'n'Roll... Until 1964 when The Beatles came along and I insisted on watching them debut on the Ed Sullivan show.
My parents didn't think much of them, but I loved The Beatles, and that changed everything for me.
It was only The Beatles "pop" music that I paid attention to as a child.
The only crooners that I remember hearing in my home were Nat King Cole and Andy Williams. No teen idol crooners.
But by the time I was a teenager in 1968, the music world had changed forever with album Rock supplanting any desire for "pop" music on my part.
Inolvidable canciones del recuerdo
Lekker nummer,kun je goed op swingen.👍💕
Rick & James! This is a great song, Rick does it very well and the guitar solo was literally history making! I remember seeing this on Ozzie and Harriett with my musician friends and we went nuts! This was the first time I saw James play a Jazzmaster! Great post! Thanks!
Is that a Jazzmaster or a Jaguar? He should have had a Telecaster as we all know him by for the rest of his career. This video was the epitome of bad synching between video and audio, and some not so deft faking it by the musicians. Wouldn't it be great if we had a decent quality video of a live performance where he actually picked that solo and played it thru an amp instead of hamming it up for the camera to a recording?
the1realanalogman Funny you mention that. James played his 54 Telecaster on ALL of Ricks records, but on the show he used to mix up the guitars, like the Jazzmaster,and even 6120 Gretsch. It used to drive me nuts. “ How is he getting that sound out of a gretsch or jazzmaster. He wasn’t , it was the old red Telly with banjo strings on top so he could bend. James was sooo far ahead of the curve.
1:00-1:19 James Burtons guitar solo ... still incredibly!
Hey you guys...pleeease, don't forget Scotty Moore! Another "monster"! He played some precious solos in Elvis' gold records, to name a few, "Don't be cruel", "Hound dog", "I need your love tonight", Gotta lotta livin' to do", "Like a baby"! Superb solos! Great, just greeeat!!!
I'm havin all my geeetar students learnin this solo...a lesson in string- bending!
Sock it to em my friend, I love playing the solo too !!
That solo is really difficult. I can get the notes OK but I can"t get the right hand picking. James is a master for sure.
Finger chicken picken good !
When I was a kid I always hungered for R.Nelson to come on the radio, so I could listen to Burton`s licks. Some say they´re easy to play, but I say take a closer listen and try again. Left hand might be ok but most fail right hand to even get close to what Burton sounds like. Listened to a couple renditions here on utube, nothing even close there....
James Burton was a beast on guitar, this solo is so good
Written by the one and only Gene Pitney.
One of the true classics!
I can’t ever skip this!
The GREAT piano fills up the undertone and undefscores the whole song - besides the solo being great
Doesn’t get much better than this ! 😅❤
He was a great singer. RIP.
Thank you very much, John1948Ten, for your beautifully written, informative notes about Ricky Nelson. I'm 65 and I think a lot of us just loved him without appreciating what a hardworking, musical student and sophisticate he was. Accompaniment by James Burton. That must have been Rick's doing, yes?
I wish now there were a little "Open My Notes" button on your video. You have no idea how many times I've enjoyed this clip of Hello Mary Lou and now, this morning, I finally see your wonderful notes. Thank you so much!
Please note that the article is credited to Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide, so you can thank John1948Ten for posting it.
I second that!
Es toda una estrella en el lejano firmamento
que lo tenemos frente a nosotros ahí nomás
disfrutemos pues lo bueno lo mejor de lo mejor.
It's so cute seeing the girls' backs and how they r all moving & swinging. Now they may be in their 80s and 90s or have passed away. But I bet they had a wonderful evening back then.
James Burton is the greatest 👍👍👍
congrats and thanks for posting this version which actually gives James Burton the face time he deserves during his solo
God Bless RICKY NELSON...good to hear this one again...Joe Nania a.k.a. Hollywood Joe
No wonder Elvis was so great. Ricky Nelson was cold as ice and this was supposed to be a romantic song...
💛💛💛💛
Jumpin James Burton take a bow son
Good grief, James Burton.
Elvis then John Denver, what a life he's had and still having.
My grandads' favourite song. What a banger
Wooo my best song 🙌💖
That's so silky smooth....
More cowbell!!
I do believe that's Joe Osborne from The Wrecking on bass.
To Nelson's left is the amazing bass player, Joe Osborn. He and James Burton are both from Shreveport.
The fact that James Burton was even born makes me suspect that God is a lead guitarist, and just think - He doesn't even have to practice because all of His solos are perfect!
Wow, what a band THAT must be!
More cowbell!
i know, that guy is so steadyyyyyyyy!!!!
Love that cowbell!
I loved to listen to him. He was pretty easy on the eyes too.
Great,lively rendition of this song. Thank u for posting & sharing. Many well deserved comments are given to James Burton,but it does not obscure my appreciation of the rocking keyboard work that is going on here. I do not know the name of the keyboard player on this version, but whoever it was nailed it.
hot rhythmic band, only three piece yet so full...hot guitarist too, no overplay and perfect lead for this song, also like Fools Rush In
That was different to see James playing a Jazzmaster ! He's great ; one of the best !!