TEMA: Lefty Frizzell

Hola ante todo presentarme : soy Carlos y soy nuevo en esto de los foros.
Mi pregunta si hay alguien por ahi es :
He eschuchado en una cancion (Leonard)de Merle Haggard que hace referencia a un cantante que despues deja de cantar para hacerse "preacher" y despues vueve a cantar (ahora no recuerdo si muere en un accidente de carretera ó avión).
Creo que puede ser Lefty Frizzell pero no estoy seguro.
Saludos
Carlos

Bienvenido Carlos.

La canción está dedicada a Tommy Collins, cuyo verdadero nombre era Leonard Raymon Sipes, uno de los pioneros del Bakersfield Sound, autor de un buen número de canciones que grabara el propio Haggard y amigo personal de éste.



La letra habla de su vida real. Cantante, autor de canciones, predicador, alcohólico, adicto a las pastillas... Lo perdió todo (incluida su familia), menos la amistad sincera de Merle Haggard:

When LEONARD finally came to California
He was twenty-one years old as I recall
He loved to write a song and pick the guitar
And he came to hang a Gold one on the wall.

The town in which he lived is not important
But you'll know which town I mean by the time I'm thru
He soon became a famous entertainer
But LEONARD was a name he never used

He was on his way to having what he wanted
Just about as close as one could be
Hey! once he even followed Elvis Presley
And he wrote a lot of country songs for me.

But he laid it all aside to follow Jesus
For years he chose to let his music go
But preaching wasn't really meant for LEONARD
But how in the hell was LEONARD s'posed to know.

Well, life began to twist its way around him
And I wondered how he carried such a load
He came back again to try his luck in music
And lost his wife and family on the road.

SPOKEN:
[After that he seemed to bog down even deeper
And I saw what booze and pills could really do
And I wondered if I'd ever see him sober
But I forgot about a Friend that LEONARD knew.]

Well, LEONARD gave me lots of inspiration
He helped teach me how to write a country song
And he even brought around a bag of groceries
Hey! back before Muskogee came along.

Really I'm not trying to hide his showname
Or the town in which this episode began
SPOKEN: [Somehow I had to write a song for old Tommy]
If just to see the smilin' faces in the band.

When LEONARD finally came to California
He was twenty-one years old as I recall
And he loved to write a song and pick the guitar
And he came to hang a Gold one on the wall.

Mil gracias,
Voy a ver si oigo algo de "Tommy"
Carlos

una pregunta Rebel:
¿como haceis para poner el video (la foto)con la cacion en el chat?
Mil gracias..
Carlos

Voy a provar colocar una cancion de Tommy Collins que ya conocia sin saber que era "leonard"



Saludos
Carlos

Muchas gracias por el video de Tommy Collins

Espero que no importe que te haya corregido el intento de inserción

Es fácil a través del icono que parece un trozo de película del menú.

Pega la dirección donde esté el video en el apartado URL (asegurándote que eliminas el https que sale por defecto, o sea que sólo quede un https ).

Más fácil de hacer que de explicar, me temo