Fresh-Faced Waylon Jennings Performs One Of His Biggest Hits
on Feb 07, 2017 โข Updated Oct 24, 2018
Itโs hard to imagine that there was a time when Waylon Jennings performed without a hat or a full beard. Believe it or not, in his early days, Jenningsโ hair was always perfectly coiffed and his face was always freshly shaved, but his voice was just as amazing.
During a performance on The Johnny Cash Show, Jennings performed his hit song โBrown Eyed Handsome Man,โ which climbed to number three on the country charts, making it Jenningsโ third Top Five solo hit.
โBrown Eyed Handsome Manโ was written by Chuck Berry, who released it in 1956. According to Rolling Stone, Berry wrote the song after he toured several heavily populated Latino and African American cities in California. โI didnโt see too many blue eyes,โ Berry said. He witnessed a Hispanic man being arrested by a policeman for loitering when โsome woman came up shouting for the policeman to let him go.โ
Jennings released the tune as a single off his 1970 album Waylon, which is remembered as the beginning of his displeasure with the way his record label was taking his career.
Recording for โWaylonโ began in October 1969, and was released in January 1970! The album reached #14 on Billboards Country Albums! pic.twitter.com/gkUeholci2
โ Waylon Jennings (@ol_waymore) October 16, 2017
A few albums later, he went from the poster boy of the Nashville Sound to a real country outlaw.
Although โBrown Eyed Handsome Manโ was one of his last recordings as a clean-cut country singer, it is remembered as one of the best of his career.
Brown Eyed Handsome Man was recorded by Waylon on his "Waylon" album released in 1970. It peaked as a single at #3 on the Billboard country singles chart.https://t.co/RTi8UBRRPl pic.twitter.com/7z0AlvCGXA
โ T. Tex Edwards (@ttexed) May 10, 2018
Watch his performance below.
