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Live broadcast of tornado on Raycom during Alabama vs Mississippi State game on WTTO Channel 21 in Birmingham.
NOTE: This is best listened to with a good set of speakers and subwoofers. If you have the right equipment, you can hear the roar of the tornado from about :19 until about 1:20. It peaks around :50.
On Thursday February 28, 2008, Crook and Chase aired a one hour special on RFD TV featuring Harold and Don Reid of the Statlers, Grandstaff, Will and Langdon Reid, Harold and Don's sons, along with Jimmy Fortune.
At the end of the show they played this clip from 1973. Watch after the song as they conclude the show.
On Thursday February 28, 2008, Grandstaff performed this song live on the Crook and Chase show on RFD-TV. This was a one hour special featuring Harold and Don Reid of the Statlers, Grandstaff, Will and Langdon Reid, Harold and Don's sons, along with Jimmy Fortune.
Lester "Roadhog" Moran and his backup band, the Cadillac Cowboys, are the legitimate talents of country music vocalists the Statler Brothers and are arguably the most successful lampooning of country music ever. This is from their 1975 appearance on "Pop Goes the Country" with Ralph Emery.
On April 1, 2008 Ralph Emery aired the television debut of the Grandstaff video for the "Statler Brothers Song" on RFD TV. This clip includes Ralph talking with Harold and Don Reid of the Statlers and their sons Will and Langdon of Grandstaff.
On Thursday February 28, 2008, Jimmy Fortune performed this song live on the Crook and Chase show on RFD-TV. This was a one hour special featuring Harold and Don Reid of the Statlers, Grandstaff, Will and Langdon Reid, Harold and Don's sons, along with Jimmy Fortune. Jimmy sings the Statlers' 1988 hit.
Jason Simpson and James Spann provide coverage from ABC 33/40 in Birmingham as the storm that later produced an EF4 tornado in Lawrence County approached from the southwest.
On Thursday February 28, 2008, Jimmy performed this song live on the Crook and Chase show on RFD-TV. This was a one hour special featuring Jimmy, Harold and Don Reid of the Statlers, along with "Grandstaff", Harold and Don's sons. Jimmy still has an outstanding tenor voice!
This is from their June 1981 performance at the Country Music Awards. I will never forget that this was the first cassette tape I listened to in my first car, a '76 Mustang, in my parents' garage in Huntsville, Alabama.