This is based on a true story in terms of the crash but the driver of the truck carrying 4600 gallons of fuel was named Pete not big Joe and he died in a fire after the truck hit the guard rail at the overpass instead of hitting the bus full of kids it takes a brave person to sacrifice themselves for the safety of others like this driver did
@kenqb5450
Жыл бұрын
When you listen to "Teddy Bear", that song has a major tissue warning!!! I sometimes laugh at the line "In the seat is a big man, he weighs about 210", not quite that big for today.
@sharonkempf1276
Жыл бұрын
She did Teddy Bear about 6 months ago
@Redbikemaster
Жыл бұрын
I know, I'm 40 pounds more and I'm only 5'8" lol. I don't even have a big belly to show for it either!
@DavidNoble-o2t
5 ай бұрын
Right im 5'10 and weigh about 210 and even compared to other guys around here im about average
@cstarsfly
Жыл бұрын
Written by Tommy Faile - who has the best version - 1970. Written based on a true story of John "Pete" Trudele who made the ultimate sacrifice in 1963. Pete was traveling from Boston to New Hampshire with a full tanker truck. A school bus was stopped in the middle of the road and he had but seconds to make his choice. He aimed away from the school bus towards the bridge abutment. In his last seconds, he must have known his fate, as he aimed away from the bus. The scene was a fiery hell-hole - which claimed his, and the life of another man, but saved the kids on the bus. A plaque is written in his hometown; “Greater love hath no man than this … To lay down one’s life for his fellow man.” The oldest son of John "Pete" Trudele" is Joe.. Perhaps the naming of Big Joe and Phantom 309
@ricklabonte2775
Жыл бұрын
Red Sovine did a lot of trucking songs, I love listening to his songs because my grandpa drove truck from his return from WW2 till the early 1990’s and he had a few Red Sovine 8 tracks
@KimberlyMills67
Жыл бұрын
I'm a trucker. Been driving for 28 yrs. Love Red Sovine! I always get goosebumps listening to this one.
@americanman4508
Жыл бұрын
I'm a truck driver.. been driving for 8 years. My dad was a truck driver too. He use to tell me a story similar to this. He said back in the '80s, a friend of his drove a truck as well, and he was up in the mountains in West Virginia and was coming down a 11% grade hill and a activity school bus was broke down on the side of the road, but the driver side wheels was still in the lane, so he got over a little bit to pass them by, but a car was coming the opposite way, a elderly woman was driving it and he didn't have anywhere to go, so he had 3 options. Hit the bus, hit the car or go off the side of the mountain. The mountain had a elevation of more the 3500 ft. So he turned wheel back straight, and barreled through the guardrail and went flying off the side of the mountain. It smashed into the bottom of the mountain and smashed the cab into a big ball of metal, the truck and trailer caught fire as well. By the time rescuers got to him, there was nothing left but a burnt up hollow metal shell of a 18 wheeler. My dad swears its a true story. My grandpa who actually lives up in West Virginia says it happened as well... but that story and this song always gives me the chills...
@travisdean8794
4 ай бұрын
That story is true.
@restionSerpentine
Жыл бұрын
Country Music Ghost Songs, "Phantom 309" "Bringing Mary home" "Riding with Private Malone."
@crazyjack3357
Жыл бұрын
Some old school truckers keep a mack hood ornament on a little chain under the driver's running board like how bikers keep a guardian bell on there bikes
@jerrywalters8885
Жыл бұрын
Red sovine is a great storyteller. Some of his best are TEDDYBEAR. LITTLE ROSA. ROSES FOR MOMMA. LITTLE JOE. and my personal favorite is LAST GOODBYE
@Crazy_Caleb320
Жыл бұрын
Tasha. I looked it up it said: the riding in the truck part was not real but the crash part actually happened!!
@terryhawkins5585
10 ай бұрын
EVERY TIME I HEAR THIS SONG I STILL GETS CHILLS UP AND DOWN MY SPINE BUT I STILL LOVE 😍 THIS SONG ❤❤❤
@danielcrow9420
Жыл бұрын
So glad to see someone finally react to this classic.
@robertcarriker2301
Жыл бұрын
So glad you’re doing a classic country artist. Great song by this artist.
@kenqb5450
Жыл бұрын
Another ghost story "The Ride" by David Allen Cole.
@Code9
Жыл бұрын
Coe.
@TheMadeofhonor
Жыл бұрын
Finally, a reaction to a trucker song, such great songs by such great Artists.
@arthurbrumagem3844
Жыл бұрын
My dad was a trucker and as such I grew up with these songs . Still love them
@DracoDraconis-o5x
Жыл бұрын
This song really hits home to me I was born in 1966 when I was about nine years old my mom left a man who was my father really abusive and a truck driver that we knew as uncle Tom his name was Tom Robinson we called him uncle, because he was always around Because my father was also a truck driver but Tom was a cross country truck driver. He gave my mom when I was nine years old $1000 to help her leave my father so I hear a lot of truck driving songs, teddy bear phantom 309 several others that I can’t think of off the top of my head And they’ve always at home because my father stepfather came to our rescue. Helped my mom until I was about 16 from the time I was 9 to 16. He never asked for anything. He shared his money with my mom to help her. I didn’t know it then, but I do now the whole time he was gay and him and my mom never been intimate or anything.
@wadewaldron4035
Жыл бұрын
I heard this story when I drove 18wheelers. I did not know it was a song for a long time while I was driving Trucks. Just from the sound In the singers voice you can tell it is a TRUE STORY!
@jggraybill
Жыл бұрын
This song is very sad. My dad drove trucks and passed last yr. He listened to this kinda music and I still do. I miss dad pulling up to the house when he'd come back home. I know he in heaven still trucking away with my grandpa.
@calvintownley9089
Жыл бұрын
I've got cold chills everytime I hear it to hun still do
@bobuncle8704
Жыл бұрын
This song always gets me. Another one that does that as well, is Three Wooden Crosses, by Randy Travis.
@robertbowersock3471
Жыл бұрын
Just saw a story on the song. It was inspired by an accident in Massachusetts in 1963 about a tanker truck that swerved to miss a stopped school bus, killing himself. No ghost story but they built a memorial for him. I'm a truck driver myself and I would rather swerve than to hit a school bus.
@Redbikemaster
Жыл бұрын
Same here driver. I'll hit the ditch before I hit a school bus
@samf.6298
Жыл бұрын
Wow, hadn't heard this in probably thirty years! My step dad was a truck driver and used to to play this and other songs on his eight track player for us. Just pulled up a whole world of emotions tonight...thank you Tasha ❤
@virginiahopkins5735
Жыл бұрын
My husband was a long haul truck driver, back in the 60s and 70s, a lot of truck stops would give away country music 8 track tapes as gift with purchase of 100 gallons of fuel, He brought home all these 8 tracks.
@stevedahlberg8680
Жыл бұрын
There are so many fun and hilarious and emotional songs in the trucking music genre. Red Sovine is known for his storytelling. He does one called Teddy Bear which is heartbreaking. There is another one called Giddy Up Go that involves a little boy growing up into a man, and then there's a follow-up to it with a woman telling the story from her point of view. Red Simpson, Dave Dudley, Mac Wiseman, Claude Gray, Willis Brothers, the list goes on and on!
@paulweston2267
Жыл бұрын
I have had 44 years behind the wheel. This is before my time even. The way I have heard it, sometime in the early 1950's this happened along route 66 in Missouri. I believe the truck stop is the long-closed Diamonds. It is a legend; I don't suppose there is anyone left alive today that can say whether it is true or not. My mom was a waitress at the garbage can, yeah that was a real place, and they served pretty good food. That is how she heard it.
@leewatts5956
Жыл бұрын
This story is used in the movie Pee Wee's Big Adventure. But instead of Big Joe its a woman named Large Marge for the driver. Lol !!!!!!!
@vladyvhv9579
11 ай бұрын
There's a number of ghost story country songs. Not all are scary/bad. You've got ones like this, and The Ride, where they're helping people. And ones like Ghost Riders In The Sky, where they're a warning to straighten up one's behavior. And ones like Wooley Swamp, where they are indeed creepy.
@shelbyLwagner
Жыл бұрын
I love this song! It's one of my favorites
@melissagerber7231
Жыл бұрын
Id once read a supposedly true story,about a couple who were flagged down by a man standing by a big rig. Hw kindly warned them to be careful on that turn,because of the storm. The road got treacherously slick. At the truck stop they mentioned the nice man with the truck. The waitress told them that a trucker who was the best person in the world,lost his life on that turn,one stormy night. Now,when the night is stormy and the roads are slick,people say that they are warned to be careful,by a nice man with a big rig. You bet I thought of this record when I read that.
@Tar-Numendil
Жыл бұрын
I listened to this a lot as a kid on the road with my dad.
@navillusgren2024
Жыл бұрын
According to Google, that crash actually happened. Don't know about Ole Big Joe and Phantom 309, though?
@DarwinJones-uj2jh
Жыл бұрын
Red sovine had some great truck songs also red Simpson I'm a truck
@jamesreid3336
Жыл бұрын
A great song. A true classic. The story has even been spoofed in a movie. Peewee's big adventure. With a character named Large Marge I think it was in the place of Big Joe
@charlesphillips7822
Жыл бұрын
If that happened to me I'd let everybody know. I remember being an old country house a long time ago at night time. We're told nobody lived in it but it still was a nice house and well taken care of. Me and my other boyfriends that with me enjoy our tour around the house. We come back the next day around 10 a.m. can't find the house it's gone it's nowhere to be found. We find out from people about four miles up the road told us that house burnt down over 40 years ago. I just want to know how did it burn down forty years ago when we were in it and just described every room like it was just in mint condition. So yes I let anybody know I was in a semi like that
@concertjunkie973
Жыл бұрын
I never heard this one but I like it ! Love a good ghost story . And as everyone is saying you got to do the ride I thought someone requested it in the patreon post
@Glittersword
Жыл бұрын
Actually if you think about it he is riding along in a ghost truck.
@rosscampbell1173
Жыл бұрын
“Country music is the Blues for white people” Lighting’ Hopkins My dad listened to this guy, but he was born in 1926.
@bigmart77
11 ай бұрын
I love this sing
@ednafenton7558
Жыл бұрын
Good story song. Love Classic Country Music.
@steve-ph9yg
8 ай бұрын
My father who was a driver/mechanic during WWII and the 50’s - 70’s on and off love country and trucker music. I heard this for much of my life.
@patrigilligan2112
Жыл бұрын
I've forgotten about Red Sovine (pronounced "Sew vine, like grape vine) So awesome!
@mikeadams2677
Жыл бұрын
From what I read, the part about Joe being a ghost/phantom, is up to you, if you believe in the paranormal or not, but the story of the crash itself is true.
@kathyyoung9539
Жыл бұрын
It is a true story.
@terryhawkins5585
10 ай бұрын
I HEAR OF IT REALLY IS A TRUE STORY
@exilemike
Жыл бұрын
Based on a true story
@cb145
Жыл бұрын
His music touches your heart
@michaelledbetter9174
Жыл бұрын
This song is kinda fitting for Halloween. And you look amazing as always.
@stevenconkle6017
Жыл бұрын
No, I don't believe that it's a true story, but....I do believe that there is a legend in Tennessee I think of a truck driver that did something like that, I absolutely love Red Sovine, pronounced like it's spelled ( So-Vine.) Just fyi.😊
@robert45tn
Жыл бұрын
It is a true story about the wreck. The wreck did take place
@Bill-1370
Жыл бұрын
A really good Ghost Song, Red Sovine "Bringing Mary Home".
@ameyer1970
Жыл бұрын
Checkout “The ride” by david allen coe
@randydowdy182
6 ай бұрын
Teddy Bear is my absolute favorite of is.
@socalpaul487
22 күн бұрын
I recommend "Riding With Private Malone" Dave Ball, 2001. "Swamp Witch" Jim Stafford, 1973. "Ghost Riders in the Sky" Stan Jones 1948.
@kevinshilts2094
Жыл бұрын
Comment for the algorithm
@eddielovelace8551
Жыл бұрын
ANOTHER GOOD ONE TASHA
@philipdickey6460
Жыл бұрын
For a laugh…there’s a funny version of this song…called The Phantom Windbreaker, and it’s obvious what it’s about…
@frankiezzi1359
Жыл бұрын
The crack crash in the song is true
@robert45tn
Жыл бұрын
The wreck is a true story now sure about the phathom truck but the wreck did happen
@alj82
6 ай бұрын
Great song
@MichaelWilshusen-s8v
8 ай бұрын
Red riding hood by Sam Sham & the Pherros
@trentnance
6 ай бұрын
and ppl wonder how we got stories from 2000 years ago.... wow
@loganbloom6191
Жыл бұрын
you should react to rascal flatts changed
@philipdickey6460
Жыл бұрын
But I love this one as well as all Reds recitals
@ivandrago6131
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful song and nice girl
@Ilikeryche
Жыл бұрын
I thought witches weren't supposed to be pretty.
@raceflags
5 ай бұрын
Classic
@Just10boom
Жыл бұрын
It is real my moms dad was a trucker and went to Texas and Sean the truck
@ruthtaylor3564
Жыл бұрын
his last name is pronounced so-vine like flower vines, sovine,
@michaelgrant9669
Ай бұрын
You should listen to the song ( Swamp Whitch ) by Jim Stafford I think you'll like it too .
@charlesphillips7822
Жыл бұрын
I want to ask everybody and I like to have an honest answer. If that happened to any of y'all how many would you keep that dime & pass down to generation to generation to generation.
@jolenewitzel7919
Жыл бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤
@shelleytorok1406
Жыл бұрын
You gotta listen to Teddy Bear by Red Sovine
@sharonkempf1276
Жыл бұрын
She did Teddy Bear 6 months ago
@shelleytorok1406
Жыл бұрын
@@sharonkempf1276 I must have missed it. I love that song. I remember it from when I was very little
@sharonkempf1276
Жыл бұрын
@@shelleytorok1406 one of my favorites from my childhood too!
@robertcarriker2301
Жыл бұрын
If you like this one from this artist, you should listen to teddy bear.
@sharonkempf1276
Жыл бұрын
She did Teddy Bear about 6 months ago
@angelaeckhoff7374
Жыл бұрын
Hi you would like silver ghost song by merle haggard. Ghost train song.
@calvintownley9089
Жыл бұрын
Have you heard teddy bear
@SWATLEADERRYU
Жыл бұрын
DO TEDDY BEAR
@hillbillyhippie4235
Жыл бұрын
Awesome job young lady
@jerseycowboyfan1570
Жыл бұрын
Loved you're reaction you actually gave me goosebumps.
@carylawson-le7og
Ай бұрын
If u liked this, you HAVE GOT to chek out a song called ; giddy up go, youll love this one. B sure to wear your waders so the tears dont soak your feet
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