Wreck On The Highway by Roy Acuff on 1942 - 1968 Harmony LP. video free download

James Gloeckner

These days it's more likely playing Chicken on speed.

tripledeee

"Great Speckle Bird" may or may not be named after Gavin Byrd,,,,I don't know

tripledeee

I just read some of the comments below and felt I should share the real story behind this song: Roy Acuff and his band were traveling to Nashville and happened upon a crash with my great uncle (Garvin Byrd, "Great Speckle Bird") being the driver and two women which lived, they were on Hwy. 27 near Spring City Tennessee, the accident was in 1940. The driver's son Robert Byrde was with me yesterday and we compared stories in which he corrected some of my assumptions. Robert Byrd and his mother who are still alive, told me this.

Charlie Howell

My pop bought a big Philco radio, and I can remember him in a rocker, with me standing in his lap, listening to Roy Acuff sing this song on the Grand Ole Opry rocking away.. I was born in '39. I didn't hear nobody pray is full of double negatives.... 

Daniel Collins

This is for Irh 1966 thanks dude and my name ant Daniel callins that's was my nephew that post that and he is on my phone and he is 10 years old and I let him read what you said 

Daniel Collins

This song reminds me of my uncle he died on October 9 2014 in a car crash at the lake in white pine tennessee he was doing donuts and fish tilling back and fourth and the gas pedal and went off a bank and died and I am on my uncles phone and I am 10 years old

Jim wheeler

“The Wreck on the Highway,” is based on a real-life accident in Rockingham, North Carolina near Charlotte around 1936.The melancholy song became a country-music classic and a staple of Acuff’s long career, but it was first recorded (as “Crash on the Highway” or “I Didn’t Hear Nobody Pray”) in Charlotte in 1938 by the Dixon Brothers.Many years later the Rev. Dorsey Dixon Jr. would recall: “My father wrote this song in 1936, when the ’36 Fords came out with a V-8 engine and began to kill people all over the nation. The wreck took place at the Triangle Filling Station. . . . Dad went down and seen the wreck, seen the whiskey, blood and glass on the floor of the car.”

lrh1966

Thanks for checking out The Roy Acuff record...Friends, Lloyd.

Two Rocka Four

A true american-music hero.

lrh1966

Thanks for checking out this Roy Acuff record...Friends, Lloyd.

usmcrifleman1991

I may not be old enough to remember when this came out but I'm damn sure old enough to know this is some good listenin'. God bless true country and Roy Acuff and Hank Williams Sr. and good whiskey.

lrh1966

Thanks for checking out this Roy Acuff recording, he was great...Friends, Lloyd.

glenndil

I first herd this song laying in bed in 1942 or 1943 in Tonkawa Oklahoma I was 8 or 9 yrs.old.I still r ember the words.

lrh1966

You are welcome and thanks for listening to this vintage record track...Friends, Lloyd.

Pam Clark

I remember car rides when My Momma and Daddy would sing this song. We were brought up on all these old "sad" songs as my family called them. I LOVE THEM..THANK YOU!

lrh1966

I apologize about what happened to your brother, I know the feeling. Thanks for checking out this vintage Roy Acuff LP record...Friends, Lloyd.

Thomas Carter

I grew up listening to this on an old 78. My Dad bought it before I was born. Irony or odds, when I was 18 my older brother died jsut as the song proclaims.

lrh1966

I agree! Thank you for checking it out...Friends, Lloyd.

lrh1966

@Adrekkk Thank you for listening to this oldies record by Roy Acuff...Friends, Lloyd.