The Steel Guitar Forum

As a tribute to the Moon, I thought I'd start a thread where we could all make a concentrated posting of YouTubes (either audio only or videos) or other links to songs with Ralph Mooney on steel. We could keep adding them as people run across them.

I can't get enough of the Moon. I've been a Mooney fanatic since I was about 10 years old, like 47 yrs ago.

I'll start it off with some I've found. These cover a lot of the various styles he used with various artists over the years:

Excuse Me (I Think I've Got A Heartache) with Buck Owens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9yDlCC6SG0

Above and Beyond with Buck Owens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liX6eVZs ... re=related

Under Your Spell Again with Buck Owens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IIdlbqk ... re=related

Under The Influence of Love with Buck Owens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaNX55ol ... re=related

Getting Used To Losing You with Buck Owens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR-p8q0q ... re=related

Me and Bobbie McGee with Waylon circa 1970 + or -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1-_cZoUOEE

Good Hearted Woman with Waylon circa 1970 + or -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVG5wxEl-2E

A Couple More Years with Waylon (Beautiful playing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK9W_1Tt ... re=related

Turn Back The Years with Waylon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5UfOOX ... re=related

Honky Tonk Heroes with Waylon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ZhucMG ... re=related

The Last Letter with Waylon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z-dA1bb ... re=related

Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down with Waylon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7sT5K4BHBs

Rainy Day Woman with Waylon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1lhzi4u ... re=related
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqNtwU1lSN0
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu3YZNld ... re=related

Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down with Merle Haggard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVq27glkY_A

If Tomorrow Could Be Yesterday with Wynn Stewart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY8BAkPhDnQ

Sing A Sad Song with Wynn Stewart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbwWrKH7RIk

Playboy with Wynn Stewart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h2Lly-QWhw

Big Big Love with Wynn Stewart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoBermCA ... re=related

Judy with Wynn Stewart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n-9orqu ... re=related

Loversville with Wynn Stewart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rp7VTMC ... re=related

(I left out It's Such a Pretty World Today, since that was Jimmy Collins on steel and not Moon)

Sing A Sad Song with Merle Haggard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOtt2lg0 ... re=related

Apt #9 with Bobby Austin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2bydnjChlg

Here Comes the Bride with Bobby Austin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtiSDg7d ... re=related

Little Red Wagon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64-fltE47Jw

Because You Asked Me To
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnFj1Mae ... re=related

I know there are a lot more out there. If you find them, post them.

God Bless Ralph Mooney.

Bump to the top.

Ken,

He was a marvelous player indeed!

Thank you for posting these wonderful performances of Mr. Ralph Mooney.

Blue Skies to ya "Moon".........TX

Rgds,

Ron

I love the Moon's playing. My favorite steeler. Here's a fewof the more obscure ones he played on.

RIP Moon

Bud Crowder on the Toppa records label.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpKZ573v8KE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=290IV_JUtAY&

Two by Eddy Drake on the Toppa label.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FKV9y_YJKg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yniebHi962k

Janet McBride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMQIXNy4Cws

Jack Tucker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORt_xLk9lfU

Roy Counts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtsmmPWp1E4

Rose Maddox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG76Fcai8Hg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDBAjhzWjRo&

George Heffington
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qI-8bYQdTE

Dick Miller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUEJAk3urdM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0m_L19QFeU

Bobby Durham
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcV7SbGNYd8

Jan Howard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Abu6bw__AA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofAF18jkHY4

Warren Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWZTS01NmCw&

Great music Scott! Thanks for dredging that stuff up. That is some rare old music. I often wonder how many individual recordings Moon played on. It must have been tens of thousands.

Another thing, can you imagine how volumous tabs of Moon's bag of tricks would be?

Here's one I missed before:

Swinging Doors with Merle Haggard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVq27glk ... re=related

More Warren Smith:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB18oPe2 ... re=related

Thanks Ken, Can't get enough of the 'Master'.

Ralph playing the famous song that he wrote. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nn8T2AEy50