They played this song in the film "The 14" starring Jack Wild (1973), great movie, excellent kid actors, very emotional story, don't make them like that nowadays.
Yes the writing credits on the 45 are to J.S. Bach. i understand it's a virtual note by note interpretation. this version was recorded in England, maybe that's why it has a bit of a Celtic feel to it.
This song was released in late 1971 I could not hear it enough. It reminds me of another song that was released at the same time called "Softly Whispering I Love You" by a group called The English Congregation.
Although I LOVE the music, some of the visuals were NOT the 1970's. The Thomas kincaid stuff was late 80's to early 90's. And that McDonalds? C'mon!
That was the original design of their restaurant and they have been around a lot earlier than the 70's. It was the 1950's to 60's on that one. ( You must be kind of young). Anyway, the music is FABULOUS!
I remember training my ear to hear music when I was 15 after several years taking guitar lessons. This song was on an cheap 33 rpm lp&i slowed it down to 16 to pick out the notes&chords but I finally did it. From there I was good at standard music&later I learned to translate jazz chords but jazz is somewhat harder.
I remember hearing this on the radio while sitting all the way back in the jumper seats in mom and dad's Ford LTD station wagon (no seat belts)..... Great song.
I can still remember being in Junior High -- probably sixth grade, when the moon landings were still happening (about 1972). They rolled those TVs into the classroom so we could watch the historic launches. And this music played every time they went to a commercial break, to the film of an Apollo rocket launch taken from the tower. Those sounds and images are etched in my mind together forever.
I'm 27 years old and live in Brazil... my father used to listen this music when I was young... It's really beautiful... the keyboards are amazing... very nice to listen it again!
Amen to the coments of the uploader of this. Nice video too. the song was recorded by what were known as 'studio muscians' - they backed up other artists who were recording. it was done in England.
What 7 people dislike this? When it first came out, it was, in one word, tremendous! A truly highlighted moment of my life in 1970?, I think. Just married, playing strip poker with my wife, drinking Rolling Rock beer, smoking, well, you know. Just total fun weekends and Appollo 100 was a huge part of it. Thank you for posting this.
They used this to great effect in the documentary "One Day in September" about the terrorist murders at Munich Olympics - a cheerful prelude of sporting competition before the horror that ensued...
You read my mind as I'm listening to this song - first thing that I thought of was "One Day In September" and it is a great use of a great song in a chilling documentary.
I'll never forget the time I was in church. When the service was finished, the organist started playing this song. I was really flipped out. I was just a youngster, but I think I had a tear in my eye. It was/is heavenly!! That was many years ago, but I never forgot it! Thank God for the inspiration He gives to so many.
@womanwonder10 Actually the organ piece you probally heard your church organist play was the original version of this song. Jesu Joy Of Mans Desiring which dates back to 1716 written by Johann Sebastion Bach Its a popular organ piece often played in church.
@womanwonder10 Hi, if you're still around, I would like to ask, did the organist actually play this fast Apollo 100 version or was it Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desring?"
@womanwonder10 Hi, if you're still around, I would like to ask, did the organist actually play this fast Apollo 100 version or was it Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desring?"
Wonderful to hear this great record again. I don't know what happened to my copy but beeen pleasantly surprised to find that others remember and love it.
WHEW! I needed a cigarette after listening to this song! AND I DON'T EVEN SMOKE!!! Always loved this song. I remember this song playing as all us teenaged Catholics walked into the church, while we all filed into our row of pews. I heard the organ playing softly, and they actually played this. Excellent memories! Thank you for posting this. Angel hugs!
This song, "Popcorn" by Buttered Popcorn, "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield, the "Theme from the Rockford Files" by Mike Post all of which were rather heavy on the synthesizer, seem to have been released around the same time (early 70s).
OMG this brings back memories. I graduated from high school in 1972 and remember loving this album and all these things from that year like the old MacDonalds and Archie Bunker. There was ONE MacDonalds in our part of the state and riding there 40 minutes to get a hamburger was such a treat and the fries tasted good back then. I LOVE YOU TUBE. It's like a time machine!!!!!!!
@slshusker When you say he didn't come back, was it because he was dead.... or because his taste in music was utterly shit? And yes, you can spell rock without Bach tho it's much more fun to spell it with it.... Roch! Thank fuck for the Welsh!
I returned from Vietnam in the summer of 72 and remember this song being played on the radio. Great song! Sorry about your friend. I lost one in April of 72.
1972 was, historically speaking, the last year of the 60's. The 70's didn't really begin until 1973, when the Vietnam War ended, the Senate started investigating the Watergate breaking, and the Arab oil embargo was imposed on the United States.
There was good music made in the 70s, but musically it will be remembered as the Disco Decade. (Come on baby do the Locomotion! )<( )&&&
@streamingmadly You got that right. Disco dancing, disco balls, disco here and disco there...but still, there were some good tunes came out of the 70's. Too bad they were mostly over shadowed by the overwhelming flood of disco.
@streamingmadly The 1960's and 1970's were also the last full decades of the sex revolution before it waned with Herpes in 1982 and ended with AIDS in 1985( when heteros became afraid they would get it too after Rock Hudson died)
The pictures were wonderful and brought me back to my high school days. A time where instead of being on computers and MP3 players, we were out inventing games and playing. What a time it was.
Nice lines Bijeto, exactly right, simpler times, i hunger for them. Whewn a new racing bike was the biggest news on your estate (block) and all the kids rode round happy tha somebody else was happy, not jealous and embittered or scared of going outdoors. When a fight was ntohing more than a roll around in the dust, and some grazed knees, instead of being stabbed or shot. Loved my youth. But it is down to us to show the youngsters of today those simple ways again
I'm so glad I found it...just watched Boogie Nights the other day, and the scene this song is in fits so well with it - perfect movie, perfect soundtrack.
Music of the 60's? I remember how shocked my parents were to see the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. The long hair ( and for that time, it really was long), the yah yah yah, etc. Are we starting to sound like our parents, or in come cases here, our grandparents?
I may be young and all (13), but I don't want all of you 70s babies arguing over what music is like nowadays and whatever you guys are arguing about below. Just enjoy this and mellow out! :3
Too bad the kids of today don't have this kind of excellence being made. Maybe we can get all the retired musicians to come back and teach the 20 somethings something about music.
geez, can't we just get along? I enjoy this for what it is, a nice, simple little tune. as for IQ's and such: how smart you are (or aren't) depends on where you are, at any given moment. I'm on a plane with Hawking, Rushdie, Obama and Remy the Cajun and we go down in a Louisiana bayou. Guess which guy I'm going with? now, about this nice little tribute to Beethoven...
Knoxville, ol' chum, you're the one who started the rudeness. It's nice to see I was able to get under your thin skin so easily.
I will reiterate my original point a little more clearly for the benefit of those with open minds & ears:
If you are looking for classical influence or instrumental mastery in modern music, you will not find it on the radio, but you will find it in metal (most notably in the music coming out of Sweden & Finland).
What about the Fabulous cars of the 70's? the Cuda, Camaro, AMC - Gremlin, 442, Vega, VW, Charger, Catalina, Skylark and so on, you may need to re-edit this piece. The hand paintings you provided are from the 1990's, you probably used them for the themes and I can see that too.
I remember hearing this on the radio all the time when I was in Jr. High. It sounds so spontaneous and, you know, joyful! Thanks for putting this up.
If you don't like this, you're either deaf or brainwashed by all of that rap that you subject yourself to; in any event, the recording is nothing less than Joyous!
I was born during that decade and grew up mostly in the 1980's, but have heard many songs from my birth decade over the years and do believe music was much better then ( it was also great in the 60's ) . I prefer the retro period to today's stuff.
AND we did not have to rush to grow up....childhood lasted a very long time back in the 1970s. Kids did not have the pressures they have today. btw I LOVED this song and still do! Thanks for the great memories!
I love this song. Childhood without cell phones, PCs or Macs, plasma TVs, MP3 players, or DVDs. Instead, my parish was still open and thriving. Department stores were downtown and everybody went there. Confectionaries on every corner. People read books and told ghost stories. People planted flowers in their front lawns. Good times.
I'm pretty sure I saw a band performing a similar arrangement at a Portuguese hall in Cali in 1968,,,or maybe it was in 72 when this 45 was released,,,,,,
@vitoduval, I'm not sure when the Ventures version of "Joy" came out, maybe that one came out in '68.
I remember that this version, Apollo 100, was my favorite song when I was 5 or 6 years old. If I had a time machine and could pick a time to live, it'd have to be the '70s.
Thanks a lot, cable & MTV, for ruining television and music for everyone for all time.
Also very memorably used in Boogie Nights.
cinemavirtualis 2 weeks ago
I played this the first time I got laid.
Gromkar 3 weeks ago
Great Instrumental Song.. I was eighteen in 1972; I own the Two album set Superstars Greatest Hits LP and this song is the reason I bought it...
ongypma88 3 weeks ago
Awesome! They don't write music like this anymore. Greatest instrumental of all time.
salesboy1569 4 weeks ago
I have this on an 8-Track tape!!
SeberHusky 1 month ago
Where were you in '72?
cleancab 1 month ago
A timeless classic.
cleancab 1 month ago
So was this the beginning for you, huh? Nicely done! I enjoyed watching and listening. thanks
Lkatila 1 month ago
I wonder why the cars parked in front of the McDonalds all have tarps on them?
TypesALot 1 month ago
My only wish, is that this song was longer xxoxxxo(:
rockcande 1 month ago
love it love it
kbfhaunt 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
They played this song in the film "The 14" starring Jack Wild (1973), great movie, excellent kid actors, very emotional story, don't make them like that nowadays.
fluffybunny451 1 month ago
OMG! I finally found it!!!!
fluffybunny451 1 month ago
Love this! Thankyou for posting!
spacecadet1ful 1 month ago
This is fabulous. The song and the images that go with it. A labor of love, and a work of art.
kyoozoocanada 1 month ago
Nobody fucks with fuckers either
tspeirs100 2 months ago
The minute I hear this song, I am immediately taken back to 1972 and all the good things it was about.
TypesALot 2 months ago
Yes the writing credits on the 45 are to J.S. Bach. i understand it's a virtual note by note interpretation. this version was recorded in England, maybe that's why it has a bit of a Celtic feel to it.
jasonwheel 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@jasonwheel Yes, this is almost exactly as written, but double-time. A really nice take on a great piece of music.
jhunter1163 1 month ago
this sounds like it is from irish. this is not unquie.
rusher511 2 months ago
@rusher511 It's an old jam by Bach (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring). This version does it some real justice.
purplorange 2 months ago
This song resonated all thru the early-mid 70s. The keyboarding wins the day here.
jasonwheel 3 months ago
@LAJayDee big stinkin' deal! I'm not shocked--so much 4 that.
womanwonder10 3 months ago
This song was released in late 1971 I could not hear it enough. It reminds me of another song that was released at the same time called "Softly Whispering I Love You" by a group called The English Congregation.
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Ruairiymail 3 months ago
I first heard that song when the Vikettes were practicing a routine. The Vikettes were a female drill team at Hazel Park high school.
MrGreekdealer 3 months ago
@rafael0263 That's so cool!! Thanks for that! How sweet.
womanwonder10 3 months ago
Although I LOVE the music, some of the visuals were NOT the 1970's. The Thomas kincaid stuff was late 80's to early 90's. And that McDonalds? C'mon!
That was the original design of their restaurant and they have been around a lot earlier than the 70's. It was the 1950's to 60's on that one. ( You must be kind of young). Anyway, the music is FABULOUS!
dollsasscouts 3 months ago
I remember training my ear to hear music when I was 15 after several years taking guitar lessons. This song was on an cheap 33 rpm lp&i slowed it down to 16 to pick out the notes&chords but I finally did it. From there I was good at standard music&later I learned to translate jazz chords but jazz is somewhat harder.
RonSafreed 4 months ago
@patrick9648 Thanks! That's so cool! I appreciate the info!
womanwonder10 4 months ago
Wonderful...
MandrakeAudioVisual 5 months ago
I'M A STAR. I'M A STAR I'M A STAR I'M A STAR.
SomeBlokeLol 5 months ago
@SomeBlokeLol IT'S A LIVIN' THING.
coreymitchelhoulden 3 months ago
I was 5 when this came out. I had a crush on Olga Korbut
Mojomatrix 5 months ago
The best instrumental--and that includes Classical Gas.
fredoniaq 5 months ago
@theonlybandever1000 awww, why, what could possibly be wrong with that statement that I lost you on it?? seriously.
womanwonder10 5 months ago
I remember hearing this on the radio while sitting all the way back in the jumper seats in mom and dad's Ford LTD station wagon (no seat belts)..... Great song.
shookwood 5 months ago
This always puts me in a better mood! Awesome :)
unincorporated1 5 months ago
I can still remember being in Junior High -- probably sixth grade, when the moon landings were still happening (about 1972). They rolled those TVs into the classroom so we could watch the historic launches. And this music played every time they went to a commercial break, to the film of an Apollo rocket launch taken from the tower. Those sounds and images are etched in my mind together forever.
Nemesis980 6 months ago
I'm 27 years old and live in Brazil... my father used to listen this music when I was young... It's really beautiful... the keyboards are amazing... very nice to listen it again!
Tks!
marcelhmiranda 6 months ago
I can keep in time while humming this...great talent.
MrSportsnut100 6 months ago
70's definitely another era of great music that had meaning with lyrics. Great instrumentals like this song.
microminiskirt 6 months ago
The transition at 2:01 is truely remarkable -- you think it's time to take a breath ... clue: IT ISN'T. Great Stuff .... !
raiderdanCA 6 months ago
Ancient doesn't mean it can't be good! But you're right, a balance needs to be found..
714AD 7 months ago
Those were the best of times...
60srecords 7 months ago
There just isnt enough harpsichord in music these days. Great old tune.
turboharley 7 months ago
i wish i could play keyboards just so i could do this song.
jasonwheel 7 months ago
my parents danced to this song at their wedding!!!!!!!!! :)
FlavioGirl 7 months ago
40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN FTW
Iphoneandmac 7 months ago
18/06/2011 => 127.746
gliner 7 months ago
Great song. I was kid when this came out, but I love it then and now.
groundhog713 7 months ago
Amen to the coments of the uploader of this. Nice video too. the song was recorded by what were known as 'studio muscians' - they backed up other artists who were recording. it was done in England.
jasonwheel 8 months ago
IT'S MY DICK, JACK
hitdevil 9 months ago
What 7 people dislike this? When it first came out, it was, in one word, tremendous! A truly highlighted moment of my life in 1970?, I think. Just married, playing strip poker with my wife, drinking Rolling Rock beer, smoking, well, you know. Just total fun weekends and Appollo 100 was a huge part of it. Thank you for posting this.
Joseph F
Portland, OR USA
B52sguy 9 months ago
É simplesmente o melhor clássico já gravado pelo rock. Quem teve a brilhante idéia? Adorei.
zuleiderezendemirand 9 months ago
awesome. 70's were great.
mattym1961 9 months ago
I did a gymnastics solo to this song. I will always remember this...
gussygusabla 10 months ago
They used this to great effect in the documentary "One Day in September" about the terrorist murders at Munich Olympics - a cheerful prelude of sporting competition before the horror that ensued...
aliepally 10 months ago 6
@aliepally
You read my mind as I'm listening to this song - first thing that I thought of was "One Day In September" and it is a great use of a great song in a chilling documentary.
cindyinnew 8 months ago
I have the 45 of this song- haven't heard it in years!
johnnytheC 10 months ago
@johnnytheC Play that 45 at 78(RPM). It is way cool!!! :-0
MrDRUID27 7 months ago
I'll never forget the time I was in church. When the service was finished, the organist started playing this song. I was really flipped out. I was just a youngster, but I think I had a tear in my eye. It was/is heavenly!! That was many years ago, but I never forgot it! Thank God for the inspiration He gives to so many.
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turboharley 7 months ago
@womanwonder10 You had me...until the last sentence.
theonlybandever1000 5 months ago
@womanwonder10 Actually the organ piece you probally heard your church organist play was the original version of this song. Jesu Joy Of Mans Desiring which dates back to 1716 written by Johann Sebastion Bach Its a popular organ piece often played in church.
patrick9648 5 months ago
@womanwonder10 Yes, I feel tha same every time I hear it.
rafael0263 3 months ago
@womanwonder10 I was more inpired by dirk diglirs massive cock when i heard this song for the first time
LAJayDee 3 months ago
@womanwonder10 Hi, if you're still around, I would like to ask, did the organist actually play this fast Apollo 100 version or was it Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desring?"
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@womanwonder10 Hi, if you're still around, I would like to ask, did the organist actually play this fast Apollo 100 version or was it Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desring?"
Doolsey 1 month ago
Why do I think of the PBS television station when I hear this song?
burkey6664 10 months ago
@burkey6664 Yeah, really... right?!?
reelsioux 8 months ago
Wonderful to hear this great record again. I don't know what happened to my copy but beeen pleasantly surprised to find that others remember and love it.
tumshfibrox58 10 months ago
cute !
mobyboy 10 months ago
BOOGIE NIGHTS!
NobodyFucksWithJesus 10 months ago 32
i was in grade one when this song appeared. It stayed with me ever since.
EcksAddikMcAddik 11 months ago
i agree. technology is raping natural talent. if you like this you'd love some of the stuff by greenslade.
i have this record on 7" for sale £5
prycuk 11 months ago
Have you ever thought the reason music sucks now is because of the time we all waste with this supposed "great technology".
horngreen 11 months ago
@horngreen I bet plenty of people said the same thing when synths started showing up in pop music, but here we are.
eisernemann 10 months ago
i heard a marichi play this song, two words:
FUCKING EPIC
ElSaijinMink 1 year ago
Lets all make peace and dig the early synths...God bless Mr. Kurzweil
TheDavey222 1 year ago
LOVE LOVE LOVE. thank you!!
aliepally 1 year ago 3
WHEW! I needed a cigarette after listening to this song! AND I DON'T EVEN SMOKE!!! Always loved this song. I remember this song playing as all us teenaged Catholics walked into the church, while we all filed into our row of pews. I heard the organ playing softly, and they actually played this. Excellent memories! Thank you for posting this. Angel hugs!
fgoodroe 1 year ago
great song,i remember i bought the 45 from wallichs music city in lakewood,ca when i was in 5th grade,thanks for download !
auggdogrules 1 year ago
thingplate, thank you. Happy Holidays!
dayswordwerewindle 1 year ago
I love this song-Happy Christmas holidays everyone----!!!!!
thingplate 1 year ago
This song, "Popcorn" by Buttered Popcorn, "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield, the "Theme from the Rockford Files" by Mike Post all of which were rather heavy on the synthesizer, seem to have been released around the same time (early 70s).
shmuli9 1 year ago
@shmuli9 my mom has a playlist with all of these songs on it, three of them in that order.
iwlamb41 1 year ago
@iwlamb41 How serendipitous! You'll have to show her my posting... :-)
shmuli9 1 year ago
Bach turned into rock, dig it...
1957odie 1 year ago
Loobs666, clearly you're the leftover drippings of satans spooj.
What kind of tool would say something like that, dead or alive?
slshusker 1 year ago 2
I'd LOVE to slow This down and hear/find out the result!
1worriedman 1 year ago
OMG this brings back memories. I graduated from high school in 1972 and remember loving this album and all these things from that year like the old MacDonalds and Archie Bunker. There was ONE MacDonalds in our part of the state and riding there 40 minutes to get a hamburger was such a treat and the fries tasted good back then. I LOVE YOU TUBE. It's like a time machine!!!!!!!
cheshiremouse 1 year ago
A neighbor gave me this Apollo 100 record and others when he went to Nam...he didn't come back. I still have the vinly and won't ever cough it up.
You can't spell Rock without Bach, but this is Beethoven.
slshusker 1 year ago
@slshusker When you say he didn't come back, was it because he was dead.... or because his taste in music was utterly shit? And yes, you can spell rock without Bach tho it's much more fun to spell it with it.... Roch! Thank fuck for the Welsh!
Loobs666 1 year ago
@slshusker
I returned from Vietnam in the summer of 72 and remember this song being played on the radio. Great song! Sorry about your friend. I lost one in April of 72.
donehrhart 6 months ago
the theme song of wwc.(puerto rican wrestling show)..i like it...
dude075wm 1 year ago
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pleonic 1 year ago
Oh, cool, the song from "One Day in September"!
hotjack99 1 year ago
1972 was, historically speaking, the last year of the 60's. The 70's didn't really begin until 1973, when the Vietnam War ended, the Senate started investigating the Watergate breaking, and the Arab oil embargo was imposed on the United States.
There was good music made in the 70s, but musically it will be remembered as the Disco Decade. (Come on baby do the Locomotion! )<( )&&&
streamingmadly 1 year ago
@streamingmadly You got that right. Disco dancing, disco balls, disco here and disco there...but still, there were some good tunes came out of the 70's. Too bad they were mostly over shadowed by the overwhelming flood of disco.
witchums 1 year ago
@streamingmadly The 1960's and 1970's were also the last full decades of the sex revolution before it waned with Herpes in 1982 and ended with AIDS in 1985( when heteros became afraid they would get it too after Rock Hudson died)
MrJacMac1986 1 year ago
Ah, Yes, The music is lifeless today compared to the days of the 1960's & '70's!
The technology today is what drives the music, not the melodies.
What a shame! ...
Royal Castle, where are you when we need you! LOL...
musicalrich1 1 year ago
Ah, Yes, The music is lifeless today compared to the days of the 1960's & '70's!
The technology today is what drives the music, not the melodies.
What a shame!
musicalrich1 1 year ago
The pictures were wonderful and brought me back to my high school days. A time where instead of being on computers and MP3 players, we were out inventing games and playing. What a time it was.
macro1 1 year ago
Soda, you may have posted this tune but you have no clue about true music!! This is, by far, the best Bach I have heard!!!
Filboid2000 1 year ago
ah, childhood..........
TheBunnyist 1 year ago
I just have to add, that I love this tune and am so in love with my girlfriend that listening to this almost makes me cry with joy sorry guys lol
MegaThecolonel 1 year ago
Nice lines Bijeto, exactly right, simpler times, i hunger for them. Whewn a new racing bike was the biggest news on your estate (block) and all the kids rode round happy tha somebody else was happy, not jealous and embittered or scared of going outdoors. When a fight was ntohing more than a roll around in the dust, and some grazed knees, instead of being stabbed or shot. Loved my youth. But it is down to us to show the youngsters of today those simple ways again
MegaThecolonel 1 year ago
totally agree with you bijeto those were the days,now new generation is totally spoiled and taking everything for granted,thanks!
auggdogrules 1 year ago
Seems like Becket Academy East Haddam 06423 wonder who the ginger head is in the opening??????
Or try ship entering deluth harbor
MrDrw893 1 year ago
gr8 version
MrSportsnut100 1 year ago
Say what you want... the 70's were great!
UpnDowney 1 year ago
Mark Whalberg in his pants!
tinaturntable 1 year ago
WOW! - Talk about good times...
er6789er 1 year ago
awesome music
druyda1 1 year ago
like it!!!
MrSportsnut100 1 year ago
I saw the original EP of this for sale for 1 cent at sellcent
valcarni1 1 year ago
@valcarni1 - You should'a bought them all and sold them for 2 cents to lovers of old and good music - like old people such as me! :)
classiclistener01 1 year ago
@classiclistener01 still there i think
valcarni1 1 year ago
@valcarni1 Good answer, but I can't spend $3,000.00 to travel to Australia to buy a 1 cent EP - but thank you for telling me. Take care! :)
classiclistener01 1 year ago
@classiclistener01 it's their webpage i saw it on.. it's kinda like an ebay. Anyways no worries have a good one lol
valcarni1 1 year ago
this reminds me a bit of the score from "a clockwork orange"
silenced587 1 year ago 2
I love this song too- I hear this on my Sirus XM 70's on 7 station all the time. Now that I have this I want to find it for downloading.
mje1964 1 year ago
Bach himself would have loved this...
catchersmitt0 1 year ago
@catchersmitt0 that Bach guy could sure write some tunes, 3 centuries later they sound great.
ITILII 1 year ago
Love this song.Now I've found it, so beautifull as it was in 70.
zuleiderezendemirand 1 year ago
I used to listen to this as a child in the backseat of my parents car on holidays!
Memories!!!
gypsyturbo1 1 year ago
that song reminds me a bit E.L.P. !!
greaaaaaaaaatttttt !!!
FLORENT2222 1 year ago
I remember this song from my childhood. Never knew the name of it, glad I found it. Google rules!
kerryklu 1 year ago
This has to be one of the oldest tunes to hit the Top 40. Absolutely wonderful!
paddyosee 1 year ago
@paddyosee Oldest music--not lyrics. The Pete Seeger song Turn Turn Turn, performed by the Byrds has the oldest lyrics. Book of Ecclesiastes 3.2.
351460 1 year ago
One of the many songs to the soundtrack of our lives...
Thadesgal 1 year ago
I don't remember this in Boogy Nights; I definitely remember it in The 40 Year Old Virgin, during the wedding scene. :)
DevSodDribble 1 year ago
@DevSodDribble I remember it from my 40-year old transistor radio, as a 6-year old.
mthivier 1 year ago
This song kills me.
I'm so glad I found it...just watched Boogie Nights the other day, and the scene this song is in fits so well with it - perfect movie, perfect soundtrack.
ConoR177 1 year ago
finally found this song, it was in my head for the past hour. Finally got the name. I love this song.
Broderick85 1 year ago
ahh...yes....brings back memories....i had it on 45 too....thanks for putting this up! russ
lindaharris26 1 year ago
Vamo Cruzeiro Querido de Tradição Libertadores Ser Campeão
diegoascanio 1 year ago
alguien me puede decir si esta cancion es de bethoven?
es una chulada esta rrola como descompone los acordes hago rreverencia
como descompone los acordes menores me vuelve loco
LO MAXIMO LA MEJOR CANCION
saludos desde tlaxcala mexico
tlacalisto 1 year ago
@tlacalisto hablales en inglés pa que te entiendan no seas menso... saludos
raulsaenz 1 year ago
@tlacalisto Es de Bach, la cancion original se llama
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Cantata, BWV 147"
Buscala aqui. Hay muchas versiones.
Dogod463 1 year ago
Music of the 60's? I remember how shocked my parents were to see the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. The long hair ( and for that time, it really was long), the yah yah yah, etc. Are we starting to sound like our parents, or in come cases here, our grandparents?
afjudge 1 year ago
I may be young and all (13), but I don't want all of you 70s babies arguing over what music is like nowadays and whatever you guys are arguing about below. Just enjoy this and mellow out! :3
ADazzledDazzle 1 year ago
Too bad the kids of today don't have this kind of excellence being made. Maybe we can get all the retired musicians to come back and teach the 20 somethings something about music.
met12358 1 year ago
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HerodotoLos9Libros Disfruten una ingeniosa versión de una obra de Juan Sebastian Bach: Jesús Alegría de los Hombres. Gracias por compartir.
Con afecto: OCM
HerodotoLos9Libros 1 year ago
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HerodotoLos9Libros 1 year ago
Right On. Cool Man. In the groove.
TVrabbitears 1 year ago
haven't heard this in over 30 years .... nice easy listening music .... unlike today
frizzlefrap 1 year ago
geez, can't we just get along? I enjoy this for what it is, a nice, simple little tune. as for IQ's and such: how smart you are (or aren't) depends on where you are, at any given moment. I'm on a plane with Hawking, Rushdie, Obama and Remy the Cajun and we go down in a Louisiana bayou. Guess which guy I'm going with? now, about this nice little tribute to Beethoven...
evensout 1 year ago 2
I first heard this song in 1972 when I was 9 years old and loved it!
newalm 1 year ago
@evensout it's Bach, actually...........no offense intended.......
TheBunnyist 1 year ago
Knoxville, ol' chum, you're the one who started the rudeness. It's nice to see I was able to get under your thin skin so easily.
I will reiterate my original point a little more clearly for the benefit of those with open minds & ears:
If you are looking for classical influence or instrumental mastery in modern music, you will not find it on the radio, but you will find it in metal (most notably in the music coming out of Sweden & Finland).
Don't believe it? Check out Opeth & Wintersun.
SgtCrom 1 year ago
You guys are right, Metal is not %&$#..., though I don't know what it really is, certainly not music, some kind of noise, perhaps...
H842027 1 year ago
I like to imagine that JS Bach would be flattered with what Apollo 100 has done with one of his brilliant creations.
Thanks for the upload...and some of the cool (but slightly frightening) images of the early '70s... ;-)
Arkady63 1 year ago
74sodapop, Couldn't agree with you more about the music of yesteryear surpassing today's offerings!
This Baroque composition-turned-rock is fantastic!
musicalrich1 1 year ago
What about the Fabulous cars of the 70's? the Cuda, Camaro, AMC - Gremlin, 442, Vega, VW, Charger, Catalina, Skylark and so on, you may need to re-edit this piece. The hand paintings you provided are from the 1990's, you probably used them for the themes and I can see that too.
losky1 2 years ago
remember 1st time hearing this on amradio wqam in boca raton fl. on a zenith . such a blast from the past.
skipmahoney1 2 years ago
@skipmahoney1
Each of us here probably thinks that we're the only people who remember this great stuff. Ironic.
knoxvilleguy2 1 year ago
I remember hearing this on the radio all the time when I was in Jr. High. It sounds so spontaneous and, you know, joyful! Thanks for putting this up.
pleonic 2 years ago 5
@pleonic Don't you wish they still played music like this on the radio?
BostonBlowsBigTime 1 year ago
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@BostonBlowsBigTime Certainly do, Boston. That's why I'm so grateful for YouTube and Internet Radio.
pleonic 1 year ago
Joy is my first name and "Joy" is a timeless masterpiece. Thanks so much for posting!
jettwonder 2 years ago
If you don't like this, you're either deaf or brainwashed by all of that rap that you subject yourself to; in any event, the recording is nothing less than Joyous!
seanhata 2 years ago 3
100% agree
chupatelo11 2 years ago
omg. i remember playing with dolls when i was sixteen with my friend! it was like a last hurrah. nowaydays never happen
2giggle24 2 years ago
Being born in '63, I too have seen how they just aren't cranking out the good tunes like this, nowadays.
GandSAfan 2 years ago 3
I was born during that decade and grew up mostly in the 1980's, but have heard many songs from my birth decade over the years and do believe music was much better then ( it was also great in the 60's ) . I prefer the retro period to today's stuff.
dynasue77 2 years ago 3
reminds me of my 5th grade year when after for the 1st time hearing i went down to local record store and bought the 45! oh joy
auggdogrules 2 years ago
The title of this song couldn't be more accurate:JOY! That is exactly what I feel when I hear this. It is actually thrilling.
foxyroxytm 2 years ago
AND we did not have to rush to grow up....childhood lasted a very long time back in the 1970s. Kids did not have the pressures they have today. btw I LOVED this song and still do! Thanks for the great memories!
carouselgal 2 years ago 3
I love this song. Childhood without cell phones, PCs or Macs, plasma TVs, MP3 players, or DVDs. Instead, my parish was still open and thriving. Department stores were downtown and everybody went there. Confectionaries on every corner. People read books and told ghost stories. People planted flowers in their front lawns. Good times.
bijeto 2 years ago 8
@bijeto - God Bless - I remember those days - Peace be with you....
er6789er 1 year ago
This song is based on a J S Bach piece !
sagireblend 2 years ago 2
fantastic , very nice
enrique222buznego 2 years ago 2
I'm pretty sure I saw a band performing a similar arrangement at a Portuguese hall in Cali in 1968,,,or maybe it was in 72 when this 45 was released,,,,,,
vitoduval 2 years ago
@vitoduval, I'm not sure when the Ventures version of "Joy" came out, maybe that one came out in '68.
I remember that this version, Apollo 100, was my favorite song when I was 5 or 6 years old. If I had a time machine and could pick a time to live, it'd have to be the '70s.
Thanks a lot, cable & MTV, for ruining television and music for everyone for all time.
SgtCrom 1 year ago
"The music was so great but the technology was ancient. Now it's reversed, the technology is great and the music stinks."
You witty bastard...I have no good remarks now!
So right....
LPLandingZone 2 years ago 2
you're so right LP ..great comment
DabAndrew 2 years ago