The Limelites "Daddys Home" www.limelites.homestead.com

[sleepytimegalz]

Thank you..This is Wonderful!!! 100*********

[sxi2212]

Listening to this again after Al Jr commented on my previous comment......god dont you just want to give them all a HUGE hug ! I feel embarrassed to have assumed they wouldn't be with us now.....Al....here's a huge hug and heartfelt thanks for touching our hearts with this fine song x

[sxi2212]

@altonhandfield. Al thank you so much for your reply. Every time I watch this I get goosebumps. Very sad to hear that two have died, makes it all the more poignant. You must be so proud of your dad : ) When was this video of them made ? The second I hear the first note, I just have to stop and listen. Tell your dad he has one excellent voice and a first class performer. All the best Tj x

[Kidflameshawty]

i love every version of this song that i have heard so far. Im singing it for my audition.

[0917gva]

I do remember hearing this. I always liked this one a lot. It really is a great song and it takes me way back to late elementary school. I listened to the radio every night; we had a program called "Night Train" and it played rock 'n roll. I loved this one a lot for certan. What a great job they are doing on this live version. That says a lot because normally the studio version is best. Kudos to their talen. Thank you for this post.

[illl7775able]

I love it, thank you so much for making real music.

[AriannaDominguez]

I love dad home ilese to this soga

[Flytownn]

I taught my dadughters this song when they were babies. They still remember all the words and have taught their children the words too. I guess this is our family's favorite......

Flytown

[65Jelly]

These guys are like fine wine,they get better as they get older :)

[SuperJester94]

that guy looks to young, to be shep.

but this song still kick ass :)

[altonhandfield]

@SuperJester94 That's because he's not Shep. Shep died and left the group in the hands of the lead singer in this video Al Handfield, my father! the reason he looks too young is our family line has a unique genetic trait of looking at least 10-20 yrs younger than our actual age! It happens to one child per family. I picked up this trait from him. He was around the same age as Shep!

[FanyLuv93]

Love this song! I danced to it in a dance recital with my daddy when I was 8 :')

[doowopman49]

so nice to hear this once again. thank you for the treat,tom d.

[7Know7Thy7Enemy7]

Always try to find a song it goes like "Sha hoo ba boo whoo,whoo,whoo".. I can't find it anywhere, and back up singers are in complete harmony with one another

[elisa412]

A tender classic song...sounds likes Jerry Butler is the voice introducing The Limellites...love that man...

[MrErnie408]

not bad 

[dorissherrer]

I love this song my daddy past and went home 2009. This was our song. R.I.P love you daddy Miss

[AggieUntilDeath]

I listened to this song, along with You're A Thousand Miles Away, while my dad was away in the Vietnam War... I still listen to these records... I thank God that I still get to spend time with my dad...

[Bashful4Love]

This is real music! Wow!

[FUCKPIGZ]

Dope!!...................RAT-A­-TAT!!!!

[Ms86elcamino]

just fabulous,thank you !

[MjstrTRUEBeLIEver11]

*sobs* Daddy used to sing this to me when I was a baby. I miss him so much :'(

[ibpink2]

Which one is playing that horn....amazing and the vocals. I've always loved this song

[someofem]

Man, just can't put it into words, completely transcends all that. Damn!

[DLuxPNW]

Yes! This!

[LittleSweety]

This song was 50 years ago no.8 in the world charts #shep #and #the #limelites

[etwaria1]

Look at the Brothers holding it down in the background...Classic..

[dolittle1949]

When my Son was a toddler I used to play this for him..hoping his Dad would come home safe from his Law Enforcement job..Now my Son choose the same profession..Now I play it for his children..

[mactaylorable]

@dolittle1949 how fortunate this has become a family song for you and your children..this song will last forever!keep on playing it for them.God Bless!

[tutu148368]

this song sends shivers down my spine its amazing that they can still sing as wonderful as they used too lets see wiz khalifa or lil wayne sing like that

[EveryoneCallsMeChris]

Close your eyes and listen to this song. That's natural-born talent. Amazing.

[ibpink2]

@EveryoneCallsMeChris Few today understand why it's better to close your eyes on a song like this. They think your weird. It will take you where ever your mind wants you to go with the music...FANTASTIC music this is

[bobbysha007]

very well done by the limelites considering that they are re mostly sr. citizens already? how would u compare it with jermaine jackson n d jackson 5's version?

[idali47]

Great blast from the pass

[elkavox83]

This is how it should be done... Fantastic harmonies... LIVE, no gimics... no choreography... just pure class... pure gold... well done guys...

[MrWhittier13]

music like thiz will never die

[verorich143]

WOW

[blackangel5555]

Butt naked in the kitchen, fixing breakfast then turned around with the breakfast tray...You know this scene? well it's the scene from 'Baby Boy' so you should! I wouldn't know this song if it wasn't for the movie 'Baby Boy'.

[FUCKPIGZ]

dope music to cruise around to!!

[Popnlock11]

@FUCKPIGZ fuk yea

[TDougout]

No doubt,pure talent.

[cloudy4ever]

I love it so much...such great memories for my generation...thanks for all the wonderful music. We treasure it.

[sxi2212]

What a fantastic song..... I was looking for the Cliff Richard version...but he said this version was better.....so I uploaded this version instead...and have to say it brought a lump to my throat.....sad to think those guys arent with us anymore, but their melodies live on x

[altonhandfield]

@sxi2212 That's my dad Al Handfield on lead and they are very much alive! Only two have died, Shep and Charles Baskerville. I'm Al Jr.

[08chimpu]

great music i loved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kiko3232]

Their voices is absolutely the same!!!

[coffeeman6]

Yes indeed love you Dad dedicated to my father!!!!

[therealraybaby]

I sing this song 2 my two daughters whenever i go visit them. They start laughing at me like i'm a fool when i sing it but when i keep singing, they start singing with me. :-)

[andrademeza]

@therealraybaby and they'll remember those times later on when their all grown up and your gone...keep making those great memories for yourself and for them.

[chriskiefer79]

fkn awesome!

[fpm229]

I remember the original. Too many artists get lazy and just go thru the paces. These guys stayed true to the original. God bless Shep and Limelites.

[66669PADRINO]

DO U REMEMBER?

[kp4wr]

PURE GOLD!!!

[57plymmie]

Men with real voices and real talent never die.....

[skipper8257]

Now this is what music is all about. One of the many greats from the past. I would love to see a doo-wop show in person and give groups like this standing ovations.

[lilman11081]

This is one of the songs we played at my Grandpa's funeral I wont ever forget

R.I.P Grandpa <3

[rodrigoraulsuarez]

Really great.

[duwah13]

incredible how they still sing so well....

[malmau1948]

Amazing stuff

[firechiefretired]

So nice to see so many groups of our day, era, are still going strong and sound GREAT !!!!! Music will never be the same again .

[DAL1989]

Their Harmonies are incredible...Beautiful song...

[sidartha1976]

WOW WONDERFUL...

[PrestonsRock]

Now you really didn't I'd forget you Dad's...so many had to work long hrs, 2 jobs and jobs away from home to provide for their family...I know you had to endure moments of longing to be closer to your family. Love and much respect to you. This was one the most loved songs by me.

[dylonvalentino]

love it god bless this guys.

[4wdRam]

So good to hear all these old songs again. The memories! Thank you for posting

[davidsonjones]

move the furniture, spike the punch, blue light in the ceiling, and dance slowly all night long...

[nyimtman]

Excellent, 5 by 5

[kotiro12]

bEAUTIFUL...I LOVE IT....COULD SOME ONE TELL ME WHO THE YOUNG SINGER IS PLZE!!!!! Hes has a beautiful voice & i love the way he sings, i know hes a nephew to James Sheppard....i love the harmoniers in the back ground doing all the rat-a-tat & shoo-wops...who are they & wher are they all from?????? thank you guy'z for your beautiful music...love you...xxxx

[brucer12]

Are these the orginal "Limelights"? but no Shep huh.

[Joebleezi]

@brucer12 Shep passed away long ago

[selestine1000]

this was my dads and my song before he passed on 15 yrs ago

[leonardgoodwin25]

SOUND AWESOME GREAT!!!!THNX!!!!

[Poprostujaola]

whose version was the first??

[fivehohopr]

oh, how sweet!

[Greenhornet270]

an ALL time GREAT....1961 was a GREAT year for music,...........

[hate420breed]

I use old spice deodorant

[shawnmoore1992]

this totally reminds me of my husband I love you you Shawn

[hunnylove84]

Wish I could find a sweetheart like this...

[thebigfist]

I believe this was the original bass singer of the Heartbeats(Shep`s first group) singing with the limelites here.Shep was murdered on the Belt parkway in New York, in the late 1960`s.

[rocknroll1955]

@thebigfist I believe their first recording was as the "Heartbeats quintet" on the Network label the name of the song was "Tormented" great stuff

ERIK VONDERLIETH

[thebigfist]

Erik,Shep had a totally different group:The four other Heartbeats did not become Limelites.Actually, two survivng members of the Videos("Trickle,Trickle") joined Shep as the Limelites.They had no bass singer as Shep and the Limelites but the original bass singer of the Heartbeats is one of two surviving Heartbeats that sometime will appear with the new Limelite group.

[MyREDTAIL]

@thebigfist Can you tell me about what happend to Shep,? I am from Brooklyn & don't remember reading about his murder, so what can you tell us about it ? Intreasting fact about him he had a marvolous voice I remember the hit 1,000 miles away with the Heartbeats.

[thebigfist]

@MyREDTAIL I don`t know the details but it may have been a road rage type incident.Shep had a bad alcohol problem. He was great guy but became very surly when under the influence, which purportedly is why the Heartbeats broke up.

[wjeva]

the biz

[kim36466]

I love every minute of this classic. Wish i was lucky enough to have attended any concert. I'll take this (MY) type of music any day over the nonsense that they call music today.

Rae

[thebigfist]

@kim36466 Right you are, Kim! This music STILL is the best!

[toreyaabron]

now that's what i'm talking about this is real singing singing now days it's just talking about sex and that's not what it suppose to be about

[krazytt9]

fo real

[liedowninthelight]

@toreyaabron i think a lot of this was still about sex but they just knew how to keep it PG! i love it.

[strafrag1]

I always wanted to be a background singer so I could do those rat-a-tats and shoo-wops, etc. I guess the shower will have to do! great music!

[wolfmanrick]

@strafrag1 oh so true.

[PrestonsRock]

@strafrag1 I feel you on that one strafrag :-) they were bad.

[arizonaghost1]

the leader sheppard was murdered in new york...sing here is his nephew...still sounds great

[blewis9505]

@arizonaghost1 Wow! He and the guys sounded great. Thanks for your comment. Very informative, Blessings ,...

[MICKEYSMONKEY]

@arizonaghost1 wow...did'nt know.....uncanny resemblance....thanks for trivia......he did a great job on it.

[cherokee902]

Hats off to all our milatary Guys away from home I hope you return home safely. Ladies he might be comming home to stay but keep the faith he is comming home safely.

[domingoalonzo46]

to fropen 1983 was a very good year thats about the time the lowrider made a comeback so did the oldies

[domingoalonzo46]

listen to the response to daddys home by a group the sweethearts : sorry daddy thats about the truth ask joe tex.

[vite96744]

much mahalo for this video!!!!!

aloha!!!!!

[domingoalonzo46]

yep the delfonics sound to much like shep and limelites , listen to acapella from spanish fly its also good but still nothing taken away from the limelites

[domingoalonzo46]

cruzing in my 58 chevy back then man those were the days

[123GentleTouch321]

thanks that was awesome..

[fropen]

I was only born in 1983, but I I can transport myself to the 50's crusing in a Bel-Air on a hot summer night listening to this on the radio. Maybe I was born in the wrong time- I respect a time back when people actually had to have talent to be famous. Not just a self-centered attitude, a pair of stupid sunglasses and an over-used autotune and vocoder used to make the garbage they push through the radio these days-seems like we're going backwards.

[oldies4ever1613]

now this is what im talking about

[tomkes100]

once again this historian on doo wop and rocknroll can tell you, DADDYS HOME is way way up there. An American classic. These guys are angels fro Heaven . this song like a prescious few will endure into ternity. what a song what a tune, . Its a trip back into a gentler time. god bless this song and the men Limelights . TOMK

[Lally162]

This is what I call quality music at its best.

[perk414]

Simply brilliant! God bless them all.

Wayne

[WhiskeySournotes]

...breath taking..

[starlitenureyez]

This song is special to me. My father danced this song with me at my sweet 16 party. He cleared the floor to dance with me.

[Rymdefixet]

Where and when was this?

[beefoneeto]

Limelites were the Five Sharps(?) of Stormy Weather fame and later the highly successful Videos who did Trickle Trickle.That's Big Al singing lead-saw himaAt many a UGHA show.RIP Ronnie I.

[kotiro12]

@beefoneeto Hi could you tell me who the young singer is????? Thanks

[altonhandfield]

@kotiro12 The "young" singer is my dad Al Handfield and he just turned 70 last month! We just have a genetic trait that makes us look 10 to 20 yrs younger than we are.

[prosciuttofighi]

This still makes me cry and feel good at the same time.

[ddsgabo]

Damn eses this was some rola back in the barrio. EastLos eses; I still play it when I'm lowriding in Cesar Chavez St aka Brooklyn St. Oldies for EVER batossss

[Chantravekin]

Splendid.

[michelescoones]

I bought this as a teenager for my Daddy by cliff richard as it was the only vesion i knew. This however is Fantastic. Thanks for enlightening me! x

[Saimaroimaru]

Classic.

[cookiedelgardo]

My husband singing DJ Bobby James sings this song every week...>>> What a great great song.....

Cookie

oldies 4-ever

[smilingnsingin]

I love this song every time I hear. Rest in Peace my brother Mark....

[92watkins]

true a big hit

[kmarc123]

My favorite Shep and the Limelights song is " it's all over now" blows me away! Can someone post this song please.

[BigBoiJC]

truly one of the biggest gems to ever come out of this era.  I'm a rock and pop drummer who loves a little throwback to the classics and this is definitely one of my lifetime favorites

[ladylittles]

That is not Shep. It's one of the new members.

[mumbleora]

The late great James Shepard was saddly found in his car on the side of a road. Few people know how much Shep and the limelites infuence what we hear today in music. A true giant.

[ladylittles]

Yes, I know. Still bothers me. Also know how they influenced today's music. I've been there through every decade.

[grifitti]

Shep looked so young....for a moment , I thought it was Johnny Gill. RIP Shet...you guys were truly stars

[donburnell]

As the Ice Man, Jerry Butler, puts it:

"Ladies and Gentlemen, harmony at it's best!"

No lie. The more I play this song, the more I simply love it!!!

A real "classic" from the Doo Wop Era!!

:-)

Dr. Don

[killastyle]

my god he looks like he's 12 years old...but wat an amazing voice

[007islander]

I wish I lived in their times when the music was REAL !!!

I hate hip-hop/rap...they are not music...

[rakeuiff]

Wow!!, that is Classy Harmony

[sergiomats]

Fantastic music. Remind me to sing it to my daughter-yet-to-be-born :p

[nickyjukebox43]

Amazing, this is a great singer, style, class phrasing he has it all backround singers are so tight close harmony

[tinkergirl410]

aww...thats my uncle and my grandfather

[miketribute1]

absolutely amazing......

[lala0578]

damn right he is

[hardsly]

Daddies home ...Im' not a million miles away !! what a GREAT GREAT song...and sang great

[Bass35744]

I loveee this song! I honestly can't remember how many times I've played this over and over!

[TRAINIAC19]

RIP James Sheppard! Fantastic.

[donnetocarr1llo]

This is music carnal3s

[tweet106]

My Lord! These Old Brothas still got it!

[zeke1312]

Excellent! The "sweet spot" of doo wop.

[arodomus]

I love it....

[smilingnsingin]

I have no doubt the back street boys or christina aguilera could ever match the classics. They just don't make them like they used to :(

[lecriveuse]

u are SO right. these contemporary folks have NO talent. they think they gotta squirm and lose clothes to make a buck

[moonrayz4]

super!--and one still gets goose bumps during the part 1:50-2:10 :) that part really drew the cheers in the old days..

[junior2817]

Dang man!! I remember watching this special back in '03. I heard this song. and had to go out and buy it. My baby girl and x-wife fell in love with it. It was a good choice, and I still have this C.D.

[Joeyfulco]

WOW!!!!! Fantastic!!!!!

[Wunpawng]

This is what music is all about! Fantastic!

[yilishihfu]

Now this is music!

[perk414]

How wonderful to see this. Clarence Bassett was my closest friend. How I truly miss him, but seeing him here is just great. I saw him in Virginia the Thanksging befored he passed away. Thanks again.

[wtesoro]

Just Fantastic!

[LABERIGUATA]

ORALE FIRME....

[macromi]

thank you so much for posting this video and please add more :)

[Mosdef2]

Classic.

[D00W0PBABE]

Great tune...... thanks for posting!