@u000drl .....Them best background singers are "The Blossoms" with the voice of Darlene Love in the lead. The Blossoms were also know as "The Crystals"...
ahh i see a few who vac on the m ,( close to the man,) delta when this sweet song hit the airwaves. yes, nice and hot, loved it!! folks didn.t seem to be friendly here,hm? maybe they didn;t like the song, orrrahh to (us) all,uh34-dog,aka,laos=chong mek,mekong river,s/o, , the man, lol, ho ho ho chin m, never got to meet him, , carry on, usmc here
como no me van a gustar,si fueron de mis primeros discos que escuchaba y que tenia como 10 años,esta es musica,tanto por los arreglos,el virtuosism y las letras lo de hoy,con todo respeto da,bueno me reservo,tengo nietos,las escucho y les da risa,en fin gracias por subirlas
I suppose you realize they won't let this guy into the "rock and roll hall of fame" cause jan wenner of rolling stone magazine black balls him. why? cause wenner once did an interview with phil spector in which spector used johnny rivers as an example of someone he didn't consider to be enough of an artiste. spector is now doing life for murder. wonderful reasoning, wonderful guy, jann the weiner.
DONT READ THIS CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. HOWEVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS COMMENT TO AT LEAST 3 VIDEOS YOU WILL DIE WITHIN 2 DAYS. NOW UV STARTED READING THIS DONT STOP. THIS IS SO SCARY. PUT THIS ON AT LEAST 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES. WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND THE NAME OF YOUR LOVER WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS
At first I did not like Johny Rivvers as I thought he was "ripping off" Black artists. Breaking News-- Music is not the possession of anyone race and not everyone of one race is a better musician than everyone of another race. Johnny Rivers is a fantastic singer who should command the respect of musicians, performers, and listeners of all races.
@DickAllen4HOF you might of thought that cause hes got a louisiana accent as he was raised there. and thats not a fakey black accent that a lotta white guys use today like shady and kid rock.
First time i heart this song was in nam 1966 on armforces radio counting the days when we returned stateside just back from the field getting ready to take a good bath at our basecamp
EVELYN I LOVE YOU AND I DON;T KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO GET A HOLD OF YOU I LOVE YOU LOU ADLER CO WROTE OUR SONG...I'M BACK THEY WILL PAY...WORST THAN YOU EVER IMAGINED U RE EX & BRO IN IT UP TO NECKS
I'm back from the packy with 2 jugs of arbor mist and 2 40 oz. "Missiles" of Budweiser or a pair of "ICBM's" as our small town Grafton calls them. Now it's time to drift back into the mellow era of the 1960's...Dan O'Niallain
Well, I have to go grab a couple jugs of Arbor Mist and 40 OZ. Buds so I can drift back to the music of the 1960's...A Generation that passed us by too quickly...Dan O'Niallain
@554jim: Sitting @Travis AFB 1968 awaiting World Airways flight to Clark AFB for FFT to Subic Bay and my ship and watching a new group of Marines in high spirits and wondering how many would make it back. This song and the Beach Boys video of "Don't Worry Baby" always gets to me. Haunting, beautiful songs. It's amazing what great music can conjure up. Sometimes joy, sometimes deep sorrow. I think that's why it's called "art."
@5CX1500 Right On Brother, I thought I was the only one who thought like that. I was heading to Ft Dix I had know Idea that one year later i would be in Cu-Chi Vietnam class of 69-71. I hear a song come over the radio on xm-60's i knew where and when, When I heard that Song..
I grew up with this music playing on the radio. I watched my mother and father dance to it. I took my little sisters hand and we danced. The family was important. Today the gap between what the parent listens to and the children hear is so far, there is no wonder that so many people are looking back to the 60's and 70's for a simpler way of life.
It was a time when people were real, and not just copies from a magazine.
And Johnny Rivers was one of the best. Also Gene Pitney, and many more.
Summer of 1966 Sitting on hill over looking the Ohio River just outside Ft Knox next stop Viet Nam this song on the radio thinking about home. Funny now I'm thinking about then. Not a day goes by I don't think about those guys. Word has it there are only 850,000 out 0f 1.2M of us VNV left. Bless they all.
@554jim Welcome home brother. I heard this song alot, going up and down the Mekong Delta '68-'69 with the Rivereen Force. I think the music of those days was the only thing that kept me alive and sain.
Now I'm living in the Myrtle Beach area where there are alot of Vietnam vets.
Lou Adler the man who brought ROCK STARS to BEL-AIR....Thank you Lou baby! I have had the revelation that you not only CO WROTE this but worked with Sam Cooke...this is my love of my life favorite song! How's Mario? Lost without EVELYN
@maknhay64 are you upset because this song reminds you of the good old days when your dad was alive and he played with your cock while you listened to this song.
I do a pretty good Johnny Rivers at the Karoake bar. I just figured out why. The Dude is talking through all his songs, lol. Hey I like the guys music but his basically talking.
@verbusen Verbusen you're crazy LOL........ the fishmiester says you have to be talking out of your ass, now ill pay to hear that LOLOLOL....................
after watching a few great Lonnie Mack videos I saw Jonnnt Rivers MEMPHIS wow this wonderful music yes I too grew up the 60s I lived in sw ohio where Lonnie mack played many small venues GREAT STUFF!!!!
I ALSO GREW UP IN THE 60'S THANK GOD FOR THAT, BECAUSE LIKE OTHERS SAID, IT WAS THE BEST DECADE OF THE BEST MUSIC EVER, ALSO THE DOO WOP ERA OF THE 50'S WERE ALSO GREAT WITH THERE GREAT HARMONIES, THANK THE INTERNET BECAUSE I SEE YOUNGER PEOPLE ENJOYING OUR OLDIE MUSIC ALSO.............................................
It's amazing (& in some cases, unbelievable) that this song was Johnny Rivers' only #1 hit on the Billboard Pop Charts back in the mid-1960s, considering the successful career he's had. Still a gem even now.
For me trying to re-establish a meaningful relationship,this song says it all! Diane is so special to me! We need each other! I can't stress that enough! Love her always and forever! Together we'll see the strength of true love!....Ron
This kind of music was when music had a meaning and the songwriters had talent. This era had no need to rehash/remix the older stuff. That's all you hear out of music these days...well, that and negative messages....with the few exceptions there are.
That woman certainly looks like she could "Light Your Fire" in the Summer of 1967...Let's all enjoy our 4 jugs of arbor mist wine today and go back to a different time happily...This song might be allowed even in Heaven and other songs will have to be, admittedly, purified before they enter the Kingdom of Heaven...Dan O'Niallain
Johnny Rivers é demais quanta saudade bons tempo , foi aquele, continua presente nas musica maravilhosa, continua nas nossas lembrança!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Como diria o saudoso Helio Ribeiro;este programa aqui é ouvido pela moça do karmam guia vermelho no seu radio johnni rivers canta o lado pobre da cidade
we moved to the house I grew up in, 1959 ,,, surrounded by cattle, horses, and corn ....... definately the poor side of town .,,,,,,,,, now, I'm pushing 60, living on a ranch, surrounded by cows, horses, and hay ,,,, definately not on the poor side of town, but i have never forgot what it was like .... and we take in kids that have troubles in this world, and we help them. The same with abandoned horses and cats .,,, who came from "That Poor Side of Town:",
@HGRPhotography1 So" you're a rich man,baby!" The only thing that we take to our next room are the good things we've done, the times we helped others because they are not others, but brothers.
I wish they would go back to playing the older music on the radio ..the new stuff just sounds so fake ..no real heart and soul in it ...I think back then you had to have a voice to sing ♪...something missing in music today
This was at the top of the charts on November 11, 1966, written and sung by JR and still relevant today........only now we all live on the poor side of town.
I'm only 34 years old but have loved classics like this all my life, having been exposed to it at a young age as my parents had scads of oldies cassettes lying around the house (I still have some of them today). Today's audience is really getting the short end of the stick with the present lousy music scene.
I heard many of JR's hits for the first time on KOFY 1050 here in San Francisco from 1989 to '91, when it went off the air. Two decades later, they continue to remain synonymous to me.
At the very end of R.E.M.'s "Don't Go Back To Rockville", Peter Buck plays the signature guitar lick from this song as a tip of the hat to Johnny Rivers.
If a guy with Johnny's talent showed up on "American Idol" today, every song like this he released would go straight to the Billboard Top 10 or even #1. But like Johnny will tell you, historically, I was in competition against the Beatles, Stones and British Invasion Group every year not to forget American groups like the Mamas and the Papas, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix and ofcourse, Janis Joplin etc...Dan O'Niallain, Grafton, Ma.
There's a reason songs like this won't go away. Older music had heart; group members found each other by chance; albums weren't formulated by corporate officers banking on the "hot" sounds of the day. 1965-1975 was the greatest 10 years in popular music history. Thank God for the digital salvation of these masterpieces!
@TheGabe1971 And Thank God to have been alive then (today too). If there was a market for "good music" it would come out.This fast,insensitive un-yoked life doesn't want more than a sound-byte and a provacative pose.
Ohh Mercy Mercy Mercy!!..can one song top this in the "Makin me cry" category?? Golly-Geee "No Mercedes" mis amigos, "No Mercedes"..soo soo beautiful!... I surely do loove this!!
Did Johnny Rivers bag Linda Carter of "Wonder Woman" fame? The first babe looks like her but the babe in the black bikini I can't tell who that is? Maybe Mr. Rivers had perhaps more than 1 girlfriend starting in 5th Grade...Dan O'Niallain, Grafton, Ma.
I use to sing this to my soon to be wife in Jacksonville, NC. She was dancing in a bar (Birdland) and I was playing in the band. It was '67. The audience was ALL Marines from Camp Lejeune...heading for "Nam. We got married, moved back to Detroit...and I was singing this to her at the Fort Street Tavern...as and after our marrage fell apart. One of J. Rivers best.
their should be more songs like these around today rather then yesterday ,but that shall never happen so lets go back to yester year where it was trully so dear; johnny rivers is the one
What an exquisite upload! Thank you manuelworker, this really is a sadly gorgeous poetic piece of real artistry! How very, very precious the words of love,..real love. Sister Chrissy..x0x.. thanx
i love this song i thank my friend fabio for getting me into this classic stuff being 15 i probally would of been liking this crappy rap shit where people cant sing and the only way they can is by modifing their voices greatly
Johnny Rivers in the "Hall"? This record from 1966 is a hell of a lot more than some "famers" can claim on their entire resume. My favorite Rivers recording.
@qb62ndmaintbn1967 Rivers deserving no doubt! And Jack Scott. and others deserve induction way over some others in there, but of all who should be in the Rock Hall is one never been, and who should have been FIRST.. the man who invented Rock, who made Elvis, and whose blues classics were covered by everybody and yet who NEVER got ONE royalty EVER and died poor and it's a international shame Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (who I played drums for at times and corresponded with is not yet honored
@howlingsandy Jack Scott !!! Now THERE was a voice. I had all his 45's and some albums. Loved "Burning Bridges". Gee, remember the old Sock Hops ? The school dances on th Gym floor where you had to take your shoes off to dance (walk) on it ?
@michaelgerarddejong Jack Scott is back performing can be found on YouTube. Where my sockhops were was a hardcore jr.high where many wore horseshoe heel plates and shoes stayed on. the Rock Hall (that should be called The Arthur Crudup Rock Hall of Fame has yet to induct HIM.. as well as Hubert Sumlin, Rivers, Jack Scott, Warren Zevon and others true musicologists I know will soon remind me of no doubt. My efforts to have Arthur Crudup inducted are just beginning but gaining recognition
I may be a minority of my age group, but being 25 years of age I totally appreciate these tunes compared today's heavy auto tone and synethezer crap. I really thank my parents for exposing me to these classics where people could actually sing!!! I really wish people of my generation would take the time to thank these artists for actually being able to sing! because singers now of days can't sing a note. Rather sad. My ears bleed hearing anyone live epecially JLO or Kesha
I grew up in the 60's ....so many people of all generations tell me it was the decade of the best music ever. You know what? I have to agree. I remember we just took it all for granted...the music that is. Beautiful music was just kind of expected. So many great acts and great musicians always in the top 40. People like Johnny Rivers for example. I don't think it is just a generational thing. I truly believe we were at a pinnacle in music and culture. I'm so glad i got to live it and see it.
@whathoney73 Absolutey true! Johnny Rivers and let's not forget "cousin Brucie " from WABC and the great Jean Sheperd from WOR! The Beach Boys, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Led Zepplinn, et al. It is most unfortunate that a lot of us ended up caryying M16's in a foreign land.
@whathoney73 ... I couldn't agree with you more I also grew up in the late 50 60s era of music and it is way different then todays stuff we didn't sing of killing we sang of love , lost loves and dreams
si es una super rola... muy bella...!!! que impacta por su contenido y bueno casi lo han dicho todo... ja. ja. ja.. fezlicidades por estas rolas...!!!
I have always loved this song, ever since I was like 5 years old. Music of the 1960's in my opinion is the greatest era of music, no question. This was a time when artists poured out their heart and soul and truly loved what they did and because of this, their music has been loved and cherished by milions. I can listen to these songs all day long and never get tired of them, their is something so very special to these songs on how it touches your soul. Please let it be 1967 again. Peace!!
What an excellent song. It sure hits home, how many are us have look across the tracks to the lovely lady(girl) we new we could never be with. Bring back songs like this...PLEASE:-)
A great song. So overlooked as the gem that it is. I want to dedicated this to all of my Atheist friends .. all 1.1 billion of them , most of them alienated and frustrated that what seems so logical to them can only actually hurts them in relationships. And to all the great religious and semi-religious people I know. It really doesn't matter to me that much. And to my MOM> gone but never forgotten.
Read the book, "My Name Is Love," by Darlene Love. Too much to post here, and too much to say about the thousands of songs on which she backed up hundreds of artists, with and without fellow Blossoms.
sorry , mr. motown .somethings are not to be . a lost love . tugs at one heart and this song o' my what this song dose to me an my heart .simply beautiful. good luck .
I want to record this song for my "Songs For Cindy" CD. Its. acollection of songs that describes my love for her when we were together from 1979 to 1982. These songs were like the sondtrack of my love lifr with Cindy . Songs that I actuly lived out like Poor Side Of Town.
Super singer but doesn't connect with the public as he should...
Morganfan59 2 weeks ago
please remove this video from my playlist !
kurt32189 1 month ago
How can you tell me how much miss me, when the last i saw saw you, you wouldn't even kiss me. Nuff said.
TheMustangsally75 1 month ago 2
always well produced and the best background singers ever!
u000drl 1 month ago
@u000drl .....Them best background singers are "The Blossoms" with the voice of Darlene Love in the lead. The Blossoms were also know as "The Crystals"...
....."Jagar"
ausfuhrpramienjagar 6 days ago in playlist My Fav.
What a voice, what a song!
JORGEPSOUSA911 1 month ago
ahh i see a few who vac on the m ,( close to the man,) delta when this sweet song hit the airwaves. yes, nice and hot, loved it!! folks didn.t seem to be friendly here,hm? maybe they didn;t like the song, orrrahh to (us) all,uh34-dog,aka,laos=chong mek,mekong river,s/o, , the man, lol, ho ho ho chin m, never got to meet him, , carry on, usmc here
summerbrezzeandwinds 2 months ago
his biggest hit.#1pop,1966.also one of his best.
wfarrar69 2 months ago
the best
fr32bme52 2 months ago
i first heard this song in sept 66 when i was in portsmouth naval hospital,was blown away,knew it would be no.1,wore out alot of tapes playing this
cookiie4112 2 months ago
the only one comparable is van morrison in musicality
vagabondrecon 3 months ago
como no me van a gustar,si fueron de mis primeros discos que escuchaba y que tenia como 10 años,esta es musica,tanto por los arreglos,el virtuosism y las letras lo de hoy,con todo respeto da,bueno me reservo,tengo nietos,las escucho y les da risa,en fin gracias por subirlas
darw357 3 months ago
johnny rivers. man, what can i say. the most beautiful, unique voice i have ever had the pleasure hearing.
2007bobcat 3 months ago
that huge two story house in the video looks haunted and abanded.
starrfisher 4 months ago
Money does not = Love
newarkcatholicfan 4 months ago
Backup female singers do a dynamite job. Very nice song production and performance.
kitthevideoman 4 months ago
I suppose you realize they won't let this guy into the "rock and roll hall of fame" cause jan wenner of rolling stone magazine black balls him. why? cause wenner once did an interview with phil spector in which spector used johnny rivers as an example of someone he didn't consider to be enough of an artiste. spector is now doing life for murder. wonderful reasoning, wonderful guy, jann the weiner.
zyxquark 4 months ago
Brings back so many good memories of my young day's
1ambyrd 5 months ago
Now this is music. So many memories, All I have to do is close my eyes, listen and I'm there.
karenruth1 5 months ago 13
@karenruth1 brings back a better time and a better life, at least I think so
hotmn4u 4 months ago 3
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DONT READ THIS CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. HOWEVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS COMMENT TO AT LEAST 3 VIDEOS YOU WILL DIE WITHIN 2 DAYS. NOW UV STARTED READING THIS DONT STOP. THIS IS SO SCARY. PUT THIS ON AT LEAST 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES. WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND THE NAME OF YOUR LOVER WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS
Baskahegan 5 months ago
this song is so great , it is life simply in perspective.
Ler627 5 months ago
YA MAN,U TOOK THE WORDS RITE OUT OF MY MOUTH.CLASSIC ROCK WAS THE ULTIMATE IN FEEL GREAT MUSIC.NOTHING CAN COMPARE.ROCK AND ROLL!!! BIGGDOGG 007.
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legalbeagle26 5 months ago
you just have to love the songs he singsHe has a beautiful voice
MsSherri48 6 months ago
At first I did not like Johny Rivvers as I thought he was "ripping off" Black artists. Breaking News-- Music is not the possession of anyone race and not everyone of one race is a better musician than everyone of another race. Johnny Rivers is a fantastic singer who should command the respect of musicians, performers, and listeners of all races.
DickAllen4HOF 6 months ago
@DickAllen4HOF you might of thought that cause hes got a louisiana accent as he was raised there. and thats not a fakey black accent that a lotta white guys use today like shady and kid rock.
1986billyk 4 months ago
Woman in the video looks a lot like Lynda Carter, Wonder Woman on TV!
Kellyolson 6 months ago
Wow !! This song brings back soo Many memories.
jessicavega1952 6 months ago 2
First time i heart this song was in nam 1966 on armforces radio counting the days when we returned stateside just back from the field getting ready to take a good bath at our basecamp
Falcon000013 6 months ago
God Bless Johnny Rivers &Manuelworker thanks. These songs bring back so many memories.
PYROPACKRAT 7 months ago
EVELYN I LOVE YOU AND I DON;T KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO GET A HOLD OF YOU I LOVE YOU LOU ADLER CO WROTE OUR SONG...I'M BACK THEY WILL PAY...WORST THAN YOU EVER IMAGINED U RE EX & BRO IN IT UP TO NECKS
freshstjohn 7 months ago
and Johnny is not in the Hall of fame
Byung7 7 months ago
I'm back from the packy with 2 jugs of arbor mist and 2 40 oz. "Missiles" of Budweiser or a pair of "ICBM's" as our small town Grafton calls them. Now it's time to drift back into the mellow era of the 1960's...Dan O'Niallain
oldiesbutgoodies67 7 months ago
Every body needs a dose of this song-and live it-SHe had the love of her life-and she woke up-she new other things didn,t matter-
On the poor side of Town.
sho be doo be.
jimmatera 7 months ago
Welcome home to you to Brother, music was the sain pill for sure. Enjoy your life my friend you deserve it.
554jim 7 months ago
Reminds me of Turi Chacon <3
bbrebek 7 months ago
Reminds me of turi
bbrebek 7 months ago
LOVE johnny rivers, thanks for posting
greenpilgrim50 7 months ago
socialist!
divisorplot 8 months ago
The most emotional , greatest song ever . This was my anthem while growing up
originalmatchgame 8 months ago 2
Well, I have to go grab a couple jugs of Arbor Mist and 40 OZ. Buds so I can drift back to the music of the 1960's...A Generation that passed us by too quickly...Dan O'Niallain
oldiesbutgoodies67 8 months ago
@554jim: Sitting @Travis AFB 1968 awaiting World Airways flight to Clark AFB for FFT to Subic Bay and my ship and watching a new group of Marines in high spirits and wondering how many would make it back. This song and the Beach Boys video of "Don't Worry Baby" always gets to me. Haunting, beautiful songs. It's amazing what great music can conjure up. Sometimes joy, sometimes deep sorrow. I think that's why it's called "art."
5CX1500 8 months ago 23
@5CX1500 We must be brothers, nearly identical experiences/feelings. Thanks for your service.
PawneeBill47 8 months ago
@5CX1500 Sempre Fi
Omaha76Steve 5 months ago
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brad04970 4 months ago
@5CX1500 Right On Brother, I thought I was the only one who thought like that. I was heading to Ft Dix I had know Idea that one year later i would be in Cu-Chi Vietnam class of 69-71. I hear a song come over the radio on xm-60's i knew where and when, When I heard that Song..
brad04970 4 months ago
i grow up in 72 great muci
veryshywoman 9 months ago
i mean great music
veryshywoman 9 months ago
OK kids, this is how to write a Top-40 hit.......beautiful......
terrryc 9 months ago
I grew up with this music playing on the radio. I watched my mother and father dance to it. I took my little sisters hand and we danced. The family was important. Today the gap between what the parent listens to and the children hear is so far, there is no wonder that so many people are looking back to the 60's and 70's for a simpler way of life.
It was a time when people were real, and not just copies from a magazine.
And Johnny Rivers was one of the best. Also Gene Pitney, and many more.
MyDaddyCool 9 months ago
odd video but great song...
irish89055 9 months ago
HALL OF FAME material. Nuff said.
jimbomacaroni 9 months ago
Tudo inesquecível: letra, melodia, arranjo, interpretação... Um hit de Johnny Rivers para a eternidade!
samuel63867 9 months ago
Summer of 1966 Sitting on hill over looking the Ohio River just outside Ft Knox next stop Viet Nam this song on the radio thinking about home. Funny now I'm thinking about then. Not a day goes by I don't think about those guys. Word has it there are only 850,000 out 0f 1.2M of us VNV left. Bless they all.
554jim 9 months ago
@554jim Welcome home brother. I heard this song alot, going up and down the Mekong Delta '68-'69 with the Rivereen Force. I think the music of those days was the only thing that kept me alive and sain.
Now I'm living in the Myrtle Beach area where there are alot of Vietnam vets.
surfside48 7 months ago
Lou Adler the man who brought ROCK STARS to BEL-AIR....Thank you Lou baby! I have had the revelation that you not only CO WROTE this but worked with Sam Cooke...this is my love of my life favorite song! How's Mario? Lost without EVELYN
freshstjohn 9 months ago
We could not deny this is a very good song with a very good singer Johnny Rivers,
look at others comment !
YCTANGHKGGG 9 months ago
Such a great voice from Johnny, fully filled up with country flavour.
Thanks a lot for sharing with us !
YCTANGHKGGG 9 months ago
@YCTANGHKGGG God this shit puts me to sleep and not in the good way either
paradoxparody 9 months ago
@paradoxparody go to sleep then
bry3921 9 months ago
@paradoxparody Then go back to listening to whatever crap you like shit-for-brains!
maknhay64 8 months ago
@maknhay64 zzzzzzzzzzzz...*snort* huh? what? how long have I been asleep
paradoxparody 8 months ago
@paradoxparody Not long enough!
maknhay64 8 months ago
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@maknhay64 are you upset because this song reminds you of the good old days when your dad was alive and he played with your cock while you listened to this song.
paradoxparody 8 months ago
Esta música além de maravilhosa me traz muitas recordações....
Recordações de um passado maravilhoso,onde eram realizados bailinhos até
mesmo nas garagens e esta música não poderia faltar
Foi uma década linda e todos que viveram nesta época lembram com saudades até hj.
suelicenturion 9 months ago
I do a pretty good Johnny Rivers at the Karoake bar. I just figured out why. The Dude is talking through all his songs, lol. Hey I like the guys music but his basically talking.
verbusen 10 months ago
@verbusen
The guy's good, and no he's not talking !
To say that, you would have to be talking out of your ass !
TheFishMiester 9 months ago
@verbusen Verbusen you're crazy LOL........ the fishmiester says you have to be talking out of your ass, now ill pay to hear that LOLOLOL....................
wreepeet 9 months ago
Welcome back baby to the "40 ounce Budweiser Side of Town..."Dan O'Niallain
oldiesbutgoodies67 10 months ago
ha.. I grew up in the 50's and then the 60's came along...what a time..I am still recovering...:)
theonlysaltspring 10 months ago 2
I grew up in 80s and 90s.I love music like this.So much feeling and meaning you wont hear music like this today much.
marsJOHNYmars 10 months ago
after watching a few great Lonnie Mack videos I saw Jonnnt Rivers MEMPHIS wow this wonderful music yes I too grew up the 60s I lived in sw ohio where Lonnie mack played many small venues GREAT STUFF!!!!
sylstimmbowman 10 months ago
I ALSO GREW UP IN THE 60'S THANK GOD FOR THAT, BECAUSE LIKE OTHERS SAID, IT WAS THE BEST DECADE OF THE BEST MUSIC EVER, ALSO THE DOO WOP ERA OF THE 50'S WERE ALSO GREAT WITH THERE GREAT HARMONIES, THANK THE INTERNET BECAUSE I SEE YOUNGER PEOPLE ENJOYING OUR OLDIE MUSIC ALSO.............................................
1badls6 10 months ago
Johnny did a lot of great covers, but this one he wrote. I love his stuff.
leofosse 10 months ago
Ah, this is just one of the countless, countless great songs of the 60's! What an era! I am so thankful that I grew up at the time I did!
sjnathan100 10 months ago
It's amazing (& in some cases, unbelievable) that this song was Johnny Rivers' only #1 hit on the Billboard Pop Charts back in the mid-1960s, considering the successful career he's had. Still a gem even now.
AnthonysDen 10 months ago
I've got my 2 jugs of arbor mist and 2 40 oz (Missiles) of Budweiser from the packy so let's so let's drift back in time to the 1960's...Dan O'Nealon
spearofdestiny1965 11 months ago
For me trying to re-establish a meaningful relationship,this song says it all! Diane is so special to me! We need each other! I can't stress that enough! Love her always and forever! Together we'll see the strength of true love!....Ron
shiftyron1 11 months ago
great
melissapurplebaby1 11 months ago
way more than I hear today ,as far as compositions ,voice, and rhythms ,either way love it
fallof68 11 months ago
I like this stuff, I'm not so much a fan of the drug-induced rock and roll the sixties is known for.
PantsFullofCorn 1 year ago
all true just a great time.
maloisbueno1 1 year ago
Classic !
MrTejano44 1 year ago
O lado pobre da cidade.
12 jan 2011
PRETINHAH64 1 year ago
This kind of music was when music had a meaning and the songwriters had talent. This era had no need to rehash/remix the older stuff. That's all you hear out of music these days...well, that and negative messages....with the few exceptions there are.
Theodorej1960 1 year ago
One of my parents favorite....Love it!
lippiatts 1 year ago
yes. linda carter
rdmc1957 1 year ago
yes linda carter
rdmc1957 1 year ago
i think that women is lina carter wonder women
mafiaman552003 1 year ago
That woman certainly looks like she could "Light Your Fire" in the Summer of 1967...Let's all enjoy our 4 jugs of arbor mist wine today and go back to a different time happily...This song might be allowed even in Heaven and other songs will have to be, admittedly, purified before they enter the Kingdom of Heaven...Dan O'Niallain
spearofconstantine1 1 year ago
That woman certainly looks like she could "Light Your Fire" in the Summer of 1967...Dan O'Niallain
spearofconstantine1 1 year ago
manuelworker which cartridge and needle are you using , it sound amazing!
MrAlexprm 1 year ago
Johnny Rivers é demais quanta saudade bons tempo , foi aquele, continua presente nas musica maravilhosa, continua nas nossas lembrança!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrApantonio 1 year ago
You say 65-75-not quite. The 50's and 60's were the greatest, not the 70's
kitchenrobert55 1 year ago 2
@kitchenrobert55 I would include the 50's and the first half of the 70's was quite good. 1976 Disco Began.
cooltooth112 11 months ago
la vberdad,me encanta el coro, de esta bonita canción" El lado más jodido del puebin del tiempo.lo"
es bellisima. me encantaría disfrutar de esta melodia hastya el f
Pancho8450 1 year ago
Como diria o saudoso Helio Ribeiro;este programa aqui é ouvido pela moça do karmam guia vermelho no seu radio johnni rivers canta o lado pobre da cidade
MsCarloswonder 1 year ago
I've got my 4 jugs of arbor mist wine and it's time to rock and roll to the 60's...Dan Nealon
swordofconstantine1 1 year ago
Beautiful lyrics so innocent can be a potent tool in spawning good will between cultures across the globe.Take care ADonovan43
ADonovan43 1 year ago
Recorded with Larry Knechtel, Joe Osborn and Hal Blaine.
nutleyguitar1968 1 year ago
we moved to the house I grew up in, 1959 ,,, surrounded by cattle, horses, and corn ....... definately the poor side of town .,,,,,,,,, now, I'm pushing 60, living on a ranch, surrounded by cows, horses, and hay ,,,, definately not on the poor side of town, but i have never forgot what it was like .... and we take in kids that have troubles in this world, and we help them. The same with abandoned horses and cats .,,, who came from "That Poor Side of Town:",
HGRPhotography1 1 year ago 7
@HGRPhotography1 So" you're a rich man,baby!" The only thing that we take to our next room are the good things we've done, the times we helped others because they are not others, but brothers.
RasMajnouni 1 year ago
Such good memories ♥
liketotube 1 year ago
60s and 70s were just incredible music. music with heart and soul, not like the trash made today.
reddog9401 1 year ago
Great harmony with Johnny Rivers and background vocals by Darlene Love and the Blossoms
koolbreeze31 1 year ago 2
I wish they would go back to playing the older music on the radio ..the new stuff just sounds so fake ..no real heart and soul in it ...I think back then you had to have a voice to sing ♪...something missing in music today
patriciaannpat 1 year ago
This was at the top of the charts on November 11, 1966, written and sung by JR and still relevant today........only now we all live on the poor side of town.
rogerrrubin 1 year ago
I'm only 34 years old but have loved classics like this all my life, having been exposed to it at a young age as my parents had scads of oldies cassettes lying around the house (I still have some of them today). Today's audience is really getting the short end of the stick with the present lousy music scene.
I heard many of JR's hits for the first time on KOFY 1050 here in San Francisco from 1989 to '91, when it went off the air. Two decades later, they continue to remain synonymous to me.
MizNelson 1 year ago
At the very end of R.E.M.'s "Don't Go Back To Rockville", Peter Buck plays the signature guitar lick from this song as a tip of the hat to Johnny Rivers.
gwxk 1 year ago
Hey Johny how's it.? Great.! chops...this song is one of the reasons iam a writer..all the Best..
marcloganmusic 1 year ago
If a guy with Johnny's talent showed up on "American Idol" today, every song like this he released would go straight to the Billboard Top 10 or even #1. But like Johnny will tell you, historically, I was in competition against the Beatles, Stones and British Invasion Group every year not to forget American groups like the Mamas and the Papas, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix and ofcourse, Janis Joplin etc...Dan O'Niallain, Grafton, Ma.
oniallain1965 1 year ago 2
@oniallain1965 So true...and that competition was known as the 60s. Greatest decade of music ever
whathoney73 1 year ago
Absolutely on of my favorites. Great song!
Tiannamaurina 1 year ago
There's a reason songs like this won't go away. Older music had heart; group members found each other by chance; albums weren't formulated by corporate officers banking on the "hot" sounds of the day. 1965-1975 was the greatest 10 years in popular music history. Thank God for the digital salvation of these masterpieces!
TheGabe1971 1 year ago 50
@TheGabe1971 I love your comment and agree!
NCWG76 8 months ago
@TheGabe1971
NCWG76 8 months ago
@TheGabe1971
These songs will be heard and re-released over and over again, life is in them and they are life. I agree with you.
BernardoBeck1 7 months ago 2
@TheGabe1971 And Thank God to have been alive then (today too). If there was a market for "good music" it would come out.This fast,insensitive un-yoked life doesn't want more than a sound-byte and a provacative pose.
RasMajnouni 6 months ago 3
Ohh Mercy Mercy Mercy!!..can one song top this in the "Makin me cry" category?? Golly-Geee "No Mercedes" mis amigos, "No Mercedes"..soo soo beautiful!... I surely do loove this!!
spanishsplash 1 year ago
This song is wonderful to hear i still remember this song when i had my young sweet heart
gramos1959 1 year ago
Them back-up vocals are so unbelivevably heavenly....
facereto 1 year ago 6
@facereto
Back-up singers were non other than The Blossoms - Darlene Love, Fanita James and Jean King.
koolbreeze31 7 months ago
I grew up on the poor side of townj. Now I life on 8 acres in the cloutryside. This song helped me get there.'
Jack Latham
soldierjack1 1 year ago
what the hell is wonder woman doing in the montage - i don't get it ... please explain
blueinfinite 1 year ago
1965 my husband and I danced. He went to Vietnam after that. Great tune
spencernali 1 year ago 4
@spencernali how many people live whithout reasons and your generation teach us like fight .answer me please.
maucon12 1 year ago
Great song, great voice, great back-up singers evokes great memories.
markathickory 1 year ago
Excellent song from one of my all time favorite artist. Brings back so many memories.
a51hawks 1 year ago
Did Johnny Rivers bag Linda Carter of "Wonder Woman" fame? The first babe looks like her but the babe in the black bikini I can't tell who that is? Maybe Mr. Rivers had perhaps more than 1 girlfriend starting in 5th Grade...Dan O'Niallain, Grafton, Ma.
oniallain1965 1 year ago
one of the better ones, with meaning, I love it
JusticeNoobish 1 year ago 2
I use to sing this to my soon to be wife in Jacksonville, NC. She was dancing in a bar (Birdland) and I was playing in the band. It was '67. The audience was ALL Marines from Camp Lejeune...heading for "Nam. We got married, moved back to Detroit...and I was singing this to her at the Fort Street Tavern...as and after our marrage fell apart. One of J. Rivers best.
Eels does a fantastic version of this also.
michaelgerarddejong 1 year ago 3
@michaelgerarddejong I thought your story was pretty cool.Except for the break up and your pain :0(
I should tell you that I grew up without a love of music until I bought a VERY used record of some guy named "Johhny Rivers" at a public School sale.
I went home and put that record on to see what kind of disaster I now owned ?
As the record played I was in bliss and and I can tell you that I quickly began to love music.
RETIREMESOON 1 year ago
Excellent!!
JackFlemingFan 1 year ago 2
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funboy0420 1 year ago
their should be more songs like these around today rather then yesterday ,but that shall never happen so lets go back to yester year where it was trully so dear; johnny rivers is the one
beckyboo11002008 1 year ago 3
What an exquisite upload! Thank you manuelworker, this really is a sadly gorgeous poetic piece of real artistry! How very, very precious the words of love,..real love. Sister Chrissy..x0x.. thanx
missycrissysissy008 1 year ago 2
My thanksto Johnny Rivers for so many wonderful memories. Great stuff that never got old.
bobreavis1 1 year ago 3
This is one of the greatest classics of all time. The arrangements with the fantastic back-up singers is truly a piece of art.
PVcat1 1 year ago
linda de mais ate mesmo para comentar
sracordeiro2010 1 year ago
Johnny Rivers, very unrated as artist.
KRM2231964 1 year ago
i love this song i thank my friend fabio for getting me into this classic stuff being 15 i probally would of been liking this crappy rap shit where people cant sing and the only way they can is by modifing their voices greatly
Conartist554 1 year ago
Johnny Rivers in the "Hall"? This record from 1966 is a hell of a lot more than some "famers" can claim on their entire resume. My favorite Rivers recording.
qb62ndmaintbn1967 1 year ago
@qb62ndmaintbn1967 Rivers deserving no doubt! And Jack Scott. and others deserve induction way over some others in there, but of all who should be in the Rock Hall is one never been, and who should have been FIRST.. the man who invented Rock, who made Elvis, and whose blues classics were covered by everybody and yet who NEVER got ONE royalty EVER and died poor and it's a international shame Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (who I played drums for at times and corresponded with is not yet honored
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howlingsandy 1 year ago
@howlingsandy Jack Scott !!! Now THERE was a voice. I had all his 45's and some albums. Loved "Burning Bridges". Gee, remember the old Sock Hops ? The school dances on th Gym floor where you had to take your shoes off to dance (walk) on it ?
michaelgerarddejong 1 year ago
@michaelgerarddejong Jack Scott is back performing can be found on YouTube. Where my sockhops were was a hardcore jr.high where many wore horseshoe heel plates and shoes stayed on. the Rock Hall (that should be called The Arthur Crudup Rock Hall of Fame has yet to induct HIM.. as well as Hubert Sumlin, Rivers, Jack Scott, Warren Zevon and others true musicologists I know will soon remind me of no doubt. My efforts to have Arthur Crudup inducted are just beginning but gaining recognition
howlingsandy 1 year ago
Ja fiz muitos bailes com esta musica, agora é DJs heheh.
Azobrab2009 1 year ago
I may be a minority of my age group, but being 25 years of age I totally appreciate these tunes compared today's heavy auto tone and synethezer crap. I really thank my parents for exposing me to these classics where people could actually sing!!! I really wish people of my generation would take the time to thank these artists for actually being able to sing! because singers now of days can't sing a note. Rather sad. My ears bleed hearing anyone live epecially JLO or Kesha
scottiehottie4u2 1 year ago 5
@scottiehottie4u2 Me too.
LOVEIsDasani 1 year ago
I grew up in the 60's ....so many people of all generations tell me it was the decade of the best music ever. You know what? I have to agree. I remember we just took it all for granted...the music that is. Beautiful music was just kind of expected. So many great acts and great musicians always in the top 40. People like Johnny Rivers for example. I don't think it is just a generational thing. I truly believe we were at a pinnacle in music and culture. I'm so glad i got to live it and see it.
whathoney73 1 year ago 42
@whathoney73 Absolutey true! Johnny Rivers and let's not forget "cousin Brucie " from WABC and the great Jean Sheperd from WOR! The Beach Boys, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Led Zepplinn, et al. It is most unfortunate that a lot of us ended up caryying M16's in a foreign land.
5CX1500 1 year ago 4
@5CX1500 Don't you wish you could just go back...just for a little while....don't you....don't you?
Appleholic1 1 year ago
@whathoney73 i totally agree with you :)
McCullyCrew 1 year ago
@whathoney73 ... I couldn't agree with you more I also grew up in the late 50 60s era of music and it is way different then todays stuff we didn't sing of killing we sang of love , lost loves and dreams
Jackcr33 1 year ago
@whathoney73
no doubt about it
SHAMROCK2982 10 months ago
Johnny Rivers should be in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame!
bluebywho 1 year ago
CLASSIC - Leonardo Rabbit
amirgoncalves 1 year ago
Johnny Rivers - Johnny Maestro - Leslie Gore - Lou Christie - Brian Hyland and a lot of others - belong in the Rock hall of fame ...
ahstc1973 1 year ago
esta rola.... me hace profundizar en el amor y sentimientos que encierra toda esta belleza drola... que ugg!!!
luiman20 1 year ago
si es una super rola... muy bella...!!! que impacta por su contenido y bueno casi lo han dicho todo... ja. ja. ja.. fezlicidades por estas rolas...!!!
luiman20 1 year ago
I have always loved this song, ever since I was like 5 years old. Music of the 1960's in my opinion is the greatest era of music, no question. This was a time when artists poured out their heart and soul and truly loved what they did and because of this, their music has been loved and cherished by milions. I can listen to these songs all day long and never get tired of them, their is something so very special to these songs on how it touches your soul. Please let it be 1967 again. Peace!!
AllAmerican1964 1 year ago 3
What an excellent song. It sure hits home, how many are us have look across the tracks to the lovely lady(girl) we new we could never be with. Bring back songs like this...PLEASE:-)
a51hawks 1 year ago
A great song. So overlooked as the gem that it is. I want to dedicated this to all of my Atheist friends .. all 1.1 billion of them , most of them alienated and frustrated that what seems so logical to them can only actually hurts them in relationships. And to all the great religious and semi-religious people I know. It really doesn't matter to me that much. And to my MOM> gone but never forgotten.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
De lo mejor, que felicidad oir la música de mi niñez. Gracias
Pancho8450 1 year ago
this is one of my favorite songs johnny ever wrote and sang i think hes a great singer lol
shebadawn49 1 year ago
Man this guy had a load of hits....ROCK on Johnny
goffbum 1 year ago
wow what a song soo unique
AntiAuthority55 1 year ago
Truly one of the best songs of all time. In a class with Chad & Jeremy's "Before & After and Bill Pursell's "Our Winter Love."
PVcat1 1 year ago
Dedicated to my mom & sisters we made it through the hard times growing up in the streets of Brooklyn, I love all so much.
lots of love.
Anthony Figgiani
afiggiani1558 1 year ago 2
There's something to be said for living on the poor side of town!! I've been there for 34 years on May 28...fortunately, with the right man.
ChrisCurtisFan 1 year ago 3
Those are the Blossoms (Jeanie King, Fannita James, and Darlene Love) on the back-up vocals.
SouLoveReal 1 year ago 2
@SouLoveReal You just answered my question! God, I said to myself, who's doing those backups? Fantastic.
carolletteriello 1 year ago
Read the book, "My Name Is Love," by Darlene Love. Too much to post here, and too much to say about the thousands of songs on which she backed up hundreds of artists, with and without fellow Blossoms.
SouLoveReal 1 year ago
great song. i love johnny rivers
yearsouza 1 year ago 2
"So tell me are you gonna stay now", you can almost hear the the tears in that line.
Sad how people are taken away by shiny trinckets, love can surpass and last long past the decades, as the shiny toys do rust .
all the deepest respect to Rivers, for one of his finest songs!!!
and I have felt the blows of losing a Woman i loved once.
Vstar4me 1 year ago
another 1 of the goldies
elizabethstimson 1 year ago
sorry , mr. motown .somethings are not to be . a lost love . tugs at one heart and this song o' my what this song dose to me an my heart .simply beautiful. good luck .
rdmc1957 1 year ago
I want to record this song for my "Songs For Cindy" CD. Its. acollection of songs that describes my love for her when we were together from 1979 to 1982. These songs were like the sondtrack of my love lifr with Cindy . Songs that I actuly lived out like Poor Side Of Town.
MrMotownmanny 1 year ago