Jimmie Rodgers - Years Ago (The last recording of Jimmie Rodgers) video free download


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May 1933, Rodgers, suffering from Tuberculosis, traveled to New York City for a group of sessions beginning May 17, 1933. He started these sessions recording alone and completed four songs on the first day. When he returned to the studio after a day's rest, he had to record sitting down and soon retreated to his hotel in hopes of regaining enough energy to finish the songs he had been rehearsing. The recording engineer hired two session musicians to help Rodgers when he came back to the studio a few days later. Together they recorded a few songs, including "Mississippi Delta Blues". For his last song of the session, however, Jimmie chose to perform alone, and as a matching bookend to his career, recorded "Years Ago" by himself.

Jimmie Rodgers died two days later on May 26, 1933 from a lung hemorrhage. He was 35 years old.

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8 years ago

Oscar Kipperberg

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8 years ago

Jim Sharp

Great classic country!

9 years ago

Jackson Tattam

I read on a website that Jimmie Rogers had to be wheeled in on a cot bed to the Victor Recording Studio in order to record this song. His TB disease hurt him so bad that the recording engineers had to resort to that.

9 years ago

pegknife

I grew up on this this fella ,and old hank of course ,quite strange i s'pose for an Englander lolMakes you wonder how he sounded so good ,with being so ill and all ?? LEGEND !!

9 years ago

Jessica Ramey-Gillam

Sgt. Rob Roy Ramey sung All Around the Watertank hold up in a castle in WWII. Next night in a fox hole. Loved that song my daddy all his life. Trains & Texas.

9 years ago

Peter Shenkin

Jimmie died in the old Taft hotel, 7th Ave. and 50th St. in NYC, three blocks from where I live today. It's now called the Michelangelo. There's a book called "Hotel Boy" by a man who, as a kid, son of the manager, grew up in the hotel. The book doesn't mention Jimmie, but it does mention a death in the hotel and moving the body out through the freight elevator. I always wondered if it might have been Jimmie. (But I suspect Jimmie's death was actually before the writer was born.)

9 years ago

Shane Wright

If rock and roll, like humans, evolved from a common ancestor at some point in antiquity, for rock and roll, that common ancestor may well be Jimmie Rodgers.

9 years ago

Lee Johnson

Jimmie Rogers was a great talent, the first Super Popular Country Music Vocalist. It would be years later, around 1939, that Country Music Vocalist would become Popular. 

9 years ago

TexanOutlaw11

I was born in the wrong generation

9 years ago

Joe Jackson

Life is a series of loss...

9 years ago

ALLEN TALLEY

Jimmy and Babe Ruth were two of the highest paid entertainers during the great depression. I remember winding my grandparents record player to play Jimmy's songs. We had no electricity until after WWII.

9 years ago

Faith Edwards

i love his songs i first heard him when he sung hobo bills last ride because i liked Jonny Cash and did a report about him and it mentioned that song

9 years ago

Bernhard Hofacker

yodele!.....

10 years ago

paul annison

Tom! country music seems to bridge age and time and relate to emotions and experiences like no other genre I know, I love it and Jimmy, he is the original.

10 years ago

Tom Blundell

Hello all, I am a Music student at the University of Southampton (UK) conducting a paper on authentic country music, and what makes country music “real”. If you class yourself as a country music fan, it would be great if you could reply to this saying what you think makes country music authentic and why. It would help my research a lot, thanks!

10 years ago

Russ Smith

Jimmie Rodgers

10 years ago

joe blow

Clint Eastwoods's movie "Honky tonk Man" was loosely based on Jimmie Rogers, including his last session.

10 years ago

john burner

my grandpa likes Jimmie Rodgers he will listen to his music all day long and never stops listening to it all day long he loves Jimmie Rodgers allot.

10 years ago

LT1HILLINGHOE

Hank Jr. modeled lot's of his style from Jimmie.

10 years ago

DefyPhysics

Don't tie everything to some god. He was a great guy but everyone dies sometimes.

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