R and I ended it today. We agreed at the beginning that it wasn't going to go anywhere. It wasn't quite a year, but I'll always think about him and this is what I'll say.
I shared this to my daughter Tina Rivera Slater when she was telling me about her latest boyfriend...just before she committed suicide at age 14 in Comox, BC, Canada on October 11, 2011.
I'm a senior in college and I'm moving home (other side of the country) next year---this song always pops into my head when I go on a date with someone from here.
1964, I was eleven years old and in love with Gale Garnett. It's because of songs such as these that I became a romantic and began my life long love affair with women.
I was 20 years old and an apprentice in a small engineering factory in the UK when I first heard this song. I was always dating the girls but often felt devastatingly lonely. I learnt the words by heart and now I think I understand the meaning behind them. I met a great girl in 1970 and we fell in Love and married and our life together is all that it should be; but this song will always remain deep in my psyche to remind of how things were back then.
@SSRifleman I lost two sons , both in their twenties in separate car crashes. We sang in the sunshine..you know, we laughed everyday...we sang in the sunshine and they went on there way. Kristeen
in toronto we have a radio station am 740 that plays all theese great old songs and i turn up the volume everytime i hear this song long live the 60,s
I have a best friend for 42 years, she has lun cancer. I asked God how long will she live? Thenn Ia started humming this song . Really did not know the words. I hummed it for a month then I looked up the lyrics. Then I felt like God was possibly amswering me about Linda living 1 year. MAY or JUNE. I camt bare it but we sang in the sunshine,too bad it started to rain! Suzy
@Greenhornet270 What can I telll Linda to help her with her lung cancer. I been in the sunshine for 42 years with my friend. I cant bear to let her go. I will pray for you hornet.Beautiful memories and a great God to recieve us. I love you I willl see you again one day,,, suzymeme7
1964, just turning 14 years old Calgary Alberta Canada , and I was caddying in a ladies national golf tournament when this came out in August.. I remember walking to the course those beautiful mornings and singing along with Gale and feeling that nothing could make me seem more alive than at those moments. When I hear the song today those same feelings come flooding back, gives me chills. Like a flashback , the scene is there and I hear the birds chirping and the sun round and hot in the sky.
@vanislefan I turned 14 in March, 1964, and remember this song playing in early September of that year. I had just begun my freshman year in high school. The gentle, warm, sunny afternoons of that month could never be described. I love this song now as much as I did then...
@50Emerald ..Wow you really touched my heart..I turned 12 in May of 64...This was my fathers favorite song...He died in 1973 at the young age of 46...I was in my late 20's...Just crushed my world...I had a new girlfriend...a 67 Chevelle SS-396...And my dad died...A very "Bittersweet" time in my life...I too loved this song now, as much as I did then..It was my fathers song, and I can see his face as it lights up while this song played...We'll Sing in the Sunshine and then we'll laugh every day.
I remember sitting in a lawn chair on the patio at my folk's place in Hemet California and listening to this song. It was so relaxing. I back in time everytime I hear it and get that same feeling.
It's not my intent to spark generational warfare here, but to the folks who are like "everything was so much better in the 50s and 60s, I pity you folks you weren't alive back then"...well, have you ever stopped to think whose fault it is if that's true?!?! If the world's so bad now, spend your time thinking about making it better rather than moaning for your lost glory days.
In other news, this is a beautiful song and I love it.
Thanks for posting this sweet song I remember when growing up while listening to the radio. No - one can sing this original like Gale Garnett with her beautiful folksy voice along with the back ground music...keep 'em coming!
Life wasn't perfect when songs like this were being sung but it was definitely a kinder world that it is today, I know because I grew up in the 60's. Man, they'll never make music like this again, I feel priviledged to have been a part of it.
I agree- back then we all seemed to think we could make a difference now it seems few even try. but lately I see that starting to turn around. Pray that it continues, we need to sing in the sunshine and forget the negativity...
SO BEAUTIFUL, I WAS BORN IN 1962 AND NEVER HEARD THIS UNTIL MY MID-FORTIES, PICKED UP ON IT, FROM A COMPILATION CD IN MY COLLECTION, WHERE MANY GEMS ARE FOUND FROM ALL GENRES. I' M A PROFESSIONAL, MOBILE DJ, WITH A PASSION FOR MUSIC WHICH GOES BEYOND KNOWLEDGE OF THE USUAL PARTY FAVOURITES. ONCE DISCOVERED, I FIRST PLAYED THIS SONG AT A LOCAL NURSING HOME, TO THE APPROVAL OF THE RESIDENTS, IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL MOMENT, FOR THE ELDERLY RESIDENTS AND ALSO FOR ME, IN MY DJ CAREER. THANKS TO GALE.
When I was little we stayed in the country with a family friend. She was just like everybody's country "grandma" -silver hair and a bit heavy (just the way you'd want one to be). She lived in a house almost exactly like the one at 1:12 in a rural town with people shooting the breeze in front of a store just like at 1:04. I remember looking at pictures framed on the wall in her kitchen while this song played on an old style radio as she made breakfast. These images fit this song perfect.
I'd never heard this until around three years ago, when I borrowed a Time Life Music CD set called "Lifetime Of Romance" from my next door neighbour. It's a great song which for me really does capture the spirit of the 60's, and yet shamefully it didn't even make a dent in the UK charts.
love this song.... as a kid, this was the most current song played at the Jefferson City ice arena & can remember skating many a nite to this song.....brings back many memories.....
FOR GLENN.........wherever you are......you were right!!!! We sang in the sunshine and laughed every day......we gave what we could and we moved on...Always in my heart......Roses
1964...I was 9, yes I was 9...............OK, I'm back. I listened then and I listen now. And I forward these songs to those young ones today who are interested in hearing good music. Those of us from that time were truly blessed to have these artists.
I am 34, and was raised listening to all kinds of music. I thank my parents dearly for opening my eyes to a diverse world. I knew all of the protest songs, barbershop quartets, big band, classic country, soda shop..
@suicidaldreams8756 Sorry to hear that. I hope that you remember the fond memories you had with him as you hear this song and other songs from the era. Its hard to lose someone after all these years, trust me.
@moozz2 me & mom too, did u ever flip the b side & listen to prism song? itts a great story song , not avail on utube, try 2 find it , its a knock out song!
I spent 23 yrs in the Army, 7 of them single and mostly overseas. More that once I was in this exact situation. Although this came out before I was called to service, it rang true to me more than once. Profound and beautiful.
I listened again and realized that this is about a lovely sweet innocent woman who is so confident in herself and what she has to offer that she trusts herself and the universe completely moreover she knows she can live in the sunshine ♥inviting♥ others to join her in the sun
I clicked on Gale in the 'Neverwas' video tags and this video was among many suggestions ...I remember hearing this for the first time and thinking that it was a radical statement especially for a female ...yet it rang true ~ oh so true for what was happening at that time in history ...I remember thinking so how do I live this
i was six when this song came out.. i can remember my moms transistor radio sitting in the window .this played as i splashed in my kiddie pool .and you best know i was singing in the sunshine and laughing evryday....man there is nothing good about being old
@arnoldkevin1 ...one thing about being old is that we can remember how we felt when we heard songs such as these ...another is that we could hear the lyrics of songs ...and ...only elders comment as we do with respect and appreciation ...perhaps I spoke in haste regarding 'only elders' ...anyways I'm sure you catch my drift ...one can easily say it is ♥ly to be old 'cause the option I've heard is grim : )
@arnoldkevin1 Yes there is something good about being older, I do not think any generation but ours has these types of memories,I was 12 then and I still know all the words to the songs. be blessed getting older is just a number.
I remember this with great fondness. Memories come flooding back now that I've retired its as good now as it was the 1st time I heard it. POWER TO THE 60s!
@arnoldkevin1 Well, you survived! There's that! Still alive to reminisce on all those buds of youth, hopeful inspirations, blossoming, and... bore fruit - OK well maybe not... opportunities missed, misunderstanding, wasted time, misguided notions, cultural & personal manipulations damaging spirit and physical - you know maybe you're right. Bittersweet memories - I look forward to losing my mind along with everything else - but even then, it seems those losing it sense their loss. Insidious song!
My mum died in August, 64 when I was 11. I must have listened to this song around that time frame as every time I heard it thereafter, it evoked (and still evokes) feelings of sadness & nostalgia.
Anybody remember that monster cartoon from the 60's? I think it was called monster bash? I remember when Gale was the voice of one of the girls on that cartoon.
lol, i met and flipped for a young woman that really reminded me of gayle, she could sing too... we spent some time together, then she was on her way. i think of her every time i hear this song and smile as i think we did sing in the sunshine :)
I have loved this song since i was 6 or 7 years old--great memories in this beautiful and unusually progressive ballad (for the times) of a happy drifter ( i use that term in the best of possible ways ) who happens to be female. A most refreshing song of a woman who desires independence and refuses to live life in the shadow of her mate...so unlike the usual "my life is nothing withour you" fare of that era... God bless Gale for writing and recording this song!!!
@thirdpositionist You must mean the America of Jim Crow and lynchings and firebombing churches-the Viet Nam war and paranoia about commies under every rock-no thanks.
My husband was whistling this song tonight. I knew exactly what song he was thinking of but we couldn't remember when it was recorded or who recorded it. Great song, one of the timeless ones
Whenever I hear this song it always makes me smile. Although it is melancholy, it reminds me that the good old days are right now. Whenever now happens to be. Thanks
I'm 22 years old. I got a job at a grocery store that played 50's and 60's music all the time. I absolutely hated it for the first few months. Eventually, it grew on me. I can understand why people look at music today and see that something was lost along the way. Its true. But that doesn't mean we still cant enjoy stuff like this. So many songs that grew on me, I just won't forget. Sometimes i imagine what it was like back then. Consider yourself lucky to have been there.
@underlinedbluetext Lucky... I worked at a grocery store in the late 90s (County Market) that played garbage day in, and day out. Example: Believe by Cher. Holy shit, I'm still traumatized! (Shudder) Luckily, THAT never grew on me...
This is such a beautiful song by a great lady vocalist. I've loved this tune since I first heard it on radio at age 14 in September, 1964. Does anyone know who the harmonica player is in this recording? I love his/her work here, as I am a chromatic harmonica player myself...
@esb1250 It most certainly isn't you, esb. This song, as pretty as it is has a very grim message, delivered by a coward. "Don't fall in love, the cost's too dear." F*** that! What about the reward? Never give up, no matter how many times you wind up on the rocks. The next run could be "It". And, of it isn't, so what? As the other song says, "Weren't you king for a day?" Remember. broken hearts mend. Every time.
Didn't know till the other day this was a Hoyt Axton song....his orig version featured Gale on backing vocals. Both were played on Vermont Public Radio's "My Place" show
(Wikipedia: "Garnett had been inspired to write the song by the end of her relationship with Hoyt Axton, who recorded the song before Garnett herself did.")
I was in the 8th grade when this song was on the top 40 along with the Shangri-las, the Pixies Three, Leslie Gore and the Shirells. It was a great time for female "rock" singers. I sure miss those days!
Just heard this song for the very first time on the oldies channel on the digital TV...glad to see it here...world would be a better place if everyone listened to this song or if music was like this today...I never take the internet for granted for a second for giving someone like me the ability to listen to a song like this for the 2nd time immediately after hearing it for the first time. Thank you sodapop. That reminds me that I once tried to fill up my date's belly with cotton candy & sodapop
Does anyone know who the harmonica player is in this song? As one myself, I'd love to know -- great touch to the recording. No one could ever sing this like Gale does...
yes i can still recall places like the ones in your pictures on this vid!
but so vry sadly most of them are gone ow and those that are still left just do not look and feel the same way at al as they did when i ever did frsit see them something has been lost over thee time since i frist ever knew them and the way it is ever going back and trying to se them once agasin as they ever were in that time maybe it is the time itself that is forever lost now pity that!?
now that i found this again--i can go back in time whenever i want--my dad still alive mom he and i listening to old records-thank you for posting my Dadddy says thx too
What a sweet voice. Reminds me of Mama Cass Elliot. This was the sixties, and love was free in the hippie days. . So Actually, a year was a long time back then. Some of us realized the sixties kids were giving up some of the best years of their lives. Nice song
This song makes me cry. If the cost of love is 2 dear & she just stays for 1 years of fun. Hell that is not fun - like knowing you girlfriend has cancer and will die in 1 year. Just leave all ready I'm depressed the first day. Hey if I don't cling to U will you stay more than a year? This is why love is screwed up & women are so fussy when it comes to mate/date selection. Education, money, brains, sociability, charm, humor, looks (though women hide the truth by calling it Chemistry) etc.
I heard Dean Martin sing this song on one of the Dean Martin CDs I have. I thought, I remember a lady singing this song. Didn't know who.Glad I found it here. Now this is the way I remembered and enjoyed the song.
you are absolutely right. wow. this song always made me sad as a kid but i never quite knew why, did i see what life would soon be like but didnt know it yet? thanks for your perceptive comments, 74.
Pardon me, Bapakeith, I misspelled your name in the previous post. Isn't the harmonica accompaniment in this song great? Such soulful singing by Gale Garnett -- great album, by the way -- I have the CD...
I was 6 years old when I first listened to this
guitarbob58 4 days ago
wow what a song,,why can`t they write them like this now??
KRUGE67 3 weeks ago
A Top 5 hit for Gale Garnett in the fall of 1964. It would hit #1 on what is now the Adult Contemporary charts.
mkl62 3 weeks ago
R and I ended it today. We agreed at the beginning that it wasn't going to go anywhere. It wasn't quite a year, but I'll always think about him and this is what I'll say.
Nanafieable 3 weeks ago
Ronnie Lloyd and Willow Park geez what a feeling this brings back to me.I left but the menories have not.Love you Ronnie.
englishsandy 1 month ago
I shared this to my daughter Tina Rivera Slater when she was telling me about her latest boyfriend...just before she committed suicide at age 14 in Comox, BC, Canada on October 11, 2011.
DoItYourselfGuy 1 month ago
Ammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmazing song.
LiannaAG 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
I heard this song for the first time with Trini Lopez, in the sixties...Really a nice song!
marinilce 1 month ago
6 people are singing in the rain!
iw32 2 months ago
great song, one-hit wonder
nellie2581 2 months ago
This song is exactly that that movie "Sweet November". The original 1968 version, not the 2001 hack job.
MrBalrog64 2 months ago
one thing about getting old: it isn't for sissies
latykai 2 months ago 4
had my first one night stand to this song lol...
forgetfull40 2 months ago
Can tears ruin a keyboard? *SNIFF*
TheShadowFX 3 months ago
Actually kind of suggestive for 1964....a song about shacking up for a year...
Real good tune though...
stuwrightfrom53 3 months ago
Sounds as good today as it did when it first came out way back when. I should know, I was there. Good songs are timeless.
brkat818 3 months ago 2
I'm a senior in college and I'm moving home (other side of the country) next year---this song always pops into my head when I go on a date with someone from here.
SimuLord 3 months ago
I loved this song and am performing it to this day.
robshuss 4 months ago 2
Great song back in 1964/1965 and times @ the beach. Brings back wonderful memories.
dandydee1000 4 months ago
1964, I was eleven years old and in love with Gale Garnett. It's because of songs such as these that I became a romantic and began my life long love affair with women.
rexdemex 4 months ago
I was 20 years old and an apprentice in a small engineering factory in the UK when I first heard this song. I was always dating the girls but often felt devastatingly lonely. I learnt the words by heart and now I think I understand the meaning behind them. I met a great girl in 1970 and we fell in Love and married and our life together is all that it should be; but this song will always remain deep in my psyche to remind of how things were back then.
Goingback1944 4 months ago
I come here this song every day and think of Linda and how long does she have will it be a year Lord?
suzymeme7 5 months ago
God bless you always GREENHORNET
suzymeme7 5 months ago
When you consider the alternative, getting older is not so bad.
I graduated high school in 1964. This song was great then, and it is now.
kayak4651 5 months ago
Thank God for all the time we have here on Earth with all of our loved ones. Take No One for granted.
SSRifleman 6 months ago
@SSRifleman I lost two sons , both in their twenties in separate car crashes. We sang in the sunshine..you know, we laughed everyday...we sang in the sunshine and they went on there way. Kristeen
kristeenlee1 5 months ago
in toronto we have a radio station am 740 that plays all theese great old songs and i turn up the volume everytime i hear this song long live the 60,s
510rotten 6 months ago
I have a best friend for 42 years, she has lun cancer. I asked God how long will she live? Thenn Ia started humming this song . Really did not know the words. I hummed it for a month then I looked up the lyrics. Then I felt like God was possibly amswering me about Linda living 1 year. MAY or JUNE. I camt bare it but we sang in the sunshine,too bad it started to rain! Suzy
suzymeme7 6 months ago
Bless you Greenhornet270! May whatever time you have left be full of happiness & sunshine!
nashtndawg 6 months ago
Greenhornet - we are all dying. You just have a better idea how soon. Make this year one of your best. Keep singing in the sunshine.
kcfirepits 6 months ago
God what I wonderful song; I am dying of Lung cancer; and I will make it one more year; to tell everybody I knew goodbye....
Greenhornet270 7 months ago 2
@Greenhornet270 What can I telll Linda to help her with her lung cancer. I been in the sunshine for 42 years with my friend. I cant bear to let her go. I will pray for you hornet.Beautiful memories and a great God to recieve us. I love you I willl see you again one day,,, suzymeme7
suzymeme7 5 months ago
1964, just turning 14 years old Calgary Alberta Canada , and I was caddying in a ladies national golf tournament when this came out in August.. I remember walking to the course those beautiful mornings and singing along with Gale and feeling that nothing could make me seem more alive than at those moments. When I hear the song today those same feelings come flooding back, gives me chills. Like a flashback , the scene is there and I hear the birds chirping and the sun round and hot in the sky.
vanislefan 7 months ago
@vanislefan I turned 14 in March, 1964, and remember this song playing in early September of that year. I had just begun my freshman year in high school. The gentle, warm, sunny afternoons of that month could never be described. I love this song now as much as I did then...
50Emerald 6 months ago
@50Emerald ..Wow you really touched my heart..I turned 12 in May of 64...This was my fathers favorite song...He died in 1973 at the young age of 46...I was in my late 20's...Just crushed my world...I had a new girlfriend...a 67 Chevelle SS-396...And my dad died...A very "Bittersweet" time in my life...I too loved this song now, as much as I did then..It was my fathers song, and I can see his face as it lights up while this song played...We'll Sing in the Sunshine and then we'll laugh every day.
RICKzzSANDS 6 months ago
thanks 4 the song and clip.
MrLions49 7 months ago
@MrLions49
All together now......This is a catchy number, isn't it?
Jennie.
Kittielips 7 months ago
I remember sitting in a lawn chair on the patio at my folk's place in Hemet California and listening to this song. It was so relaxing. I back in time everytime I hear it and get that same feeling.
261joanne 8 months ago
A special time - a special place. You had to be there!!! This song takes me back there.
taxman14072 8 months ago 14
It's not my intent to spark generational warfare here, but to the folks who are like "everything was so much better in the 50s and 60s, I pity you folks you weren't alive back then"...well, have you ever stopped to think whose fault it is if that's true?!?! If the world's so bad now, spend your time thinking about making it better rather than moaning for your lost glory days.
In other news, this is a beautiful song and I love it.
99mscoco 8 months ago 2
Great song and great pictures thanks for having it on.
The2ndinfdiv 9 months ago
maybe that's the way it should be?
kittysbloodypaws 9 months ago
this song is haunting and i can't figure out why? just cruzin round you tube to experience something different... and wow i sure have.
kittysbloodypaws 9 months ago
Happy melody, profoundly sad message.
luvey44 9 months ago
A hippie girl song without the psychodelia?
maveric23100 9 months ago
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
moidounltd2 10 months ago
Thanks for posting this sweet song I remember when growing up while listening to the radio. No - one can sing this original like Gale Garnett with her beautiful folksy voice along with the back ground music...keep 'em coming!
northgagal100 10 months ago
Good Lord! I haven't heard this song in a quarter century!
pbanta62 10 months ago
Life wasn't perfect when songs like this were being sung but it was definitely a kinder world that it is today, I know because I grew up in the 60's. Man, they'll never make music like this again, I feel priviledged to have been a part of it.
rustyboy0262 10 months ago 27
@rustyboy0262
I agree- back then we all seemed to think we could make a difference now it seems few even try. but lately I see that starting to turn around. Pray that it continues, we need to sing in the sunshine and forget the negativity...
joanie1054 5 months ago
@rustyboy0262 all i can say is your lucky to have lived at this time
ScotsmanRex 1 week ago
I cried my heart out over this song.
hilvldruid 11 months ago
SO BEAUTIFUL, I WAS BORN IN 1962 AND NEVER HEARD THIS UNTIL MY MID-FORTIES, PICKED UP ON IT, FROM A COMPILATION CD IN MY COLLECTION, WHERE MANY GEMS ARE FOUND FROM ALL GENRES. I' M A PROFESSIONAL, MOBILE DJ, WITH A PASSION FOR MUSIC WHICH GOES BEYOND KNOWLEDGE OF THE USUAL PARTY FAVOURITES. ONCE DISCOVERED, I FIRST PLAYED THIS SONG AT A LOCAL NURSING HOME, TO THE APPROVAL OF THE RESIDENTS, IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL MOMENT, FOR THE ELDERLY RESIDENTS AND ALSO FOR ME, IN MY DJ CAREER. THANKS TO GALE.
melodiantime 11 months ago 2
@melodiantime
Why are you YELLING at us?
TGS556 9 months ago
When I was little we stayed in the country with a family friend. She was just like everybody's country "grandma" -silver hair and a bit heavy (just the way you'd want one to be). She lived in a house almost exactly like the one at 1:12 in a rural town with people shooting the breeze in front of a store just like at 1:04. I remember looking at pictures framed on the wall in her kitchen while this song played on an old style radio as she made breakfast. These images fit this song perfect.
fletchergatsby 11 months ago
@fletchergatsby ...meant to say while looking at framed pictures almost exactly like at 1:45.
fletchergatsby 11 months ago
I'd never heard this until around three years ago, when I borrowed a Time Life Music CD set called "Lifetime Of Romance" from my next door neighbour. It's a great song which for me really does capture the spirit of the 60's, and yet shamefully it didn't even make a dent in the UK charts.
MisterTrimble 11 months ago
Beautiful voice and wonderful rural images. Thanks for sharing!
dshulze 11 months ago
love this song.... as a kid, this was the most current song played at the Jefferson City ice arena & can remember skating many a nite to this song.....brings back many memories.....
cynrb1955 1 year ago
FOR GLENN.........wherever you are......you were right!!!! We sang in the sunshine and laughed every day......we gave what we could and we moved on...Always in my heart......Roses
calgal2hulagal1 1 year ago
You just brought back the Delco radio in my "Chevy II"
PlainzRyder 1 year ago
Just beautiful. Makes me think of those days long gone.
MrGardman 1 year ago
is gale still around----
studeystudebaker50 1 year ago
Born in New Zealand and moved to the USA with her parents.
rorigiles 1 year ago
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Only song that makes me cry,even after 45 years.
curwinga 1 year ago
Only song that makes me cry. Even after 45 years.Amazing.
curwinga 1 year ago
1964...I was 9, yes I was 9...............OK, I'm back. I listened then and I listen now. And I forward these songs to those young ones today who are interested in hearing good music. Those of us from that time were truly blessed to have these artists.
jmsweeney1 1 year ago
This song reminds me of those glorious, sunny, warm afternoons in September, 1964...
50Emerald 1 year ago
Nice song thank you for sharing 74 sodapop.
southamerican888 1 year ago
この曲の編曲盤が日本のラジオで1980年代に、いつも流れていました。当時の高校生にとって思い出深い曲です。
shikokuboy 1 year ago
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@shikokuboy speak fucking english
wayneb137 1 year ago
I have always loved this song. It has a kind of joyful sadness about it that has haunted me for a very long time.
Tempusviator 1 year ago
Love this..an all time fav! Thankx for great post! best wishes, Willemina
auntiewewe2 1 year ago
Oh wow this was always a favorite of mine. So good to hear it again.
TheLondonLassie 1 year ago
man, that is a beautiful song... sure packed with memories,
thanks for sharing sodapop :)
MrBuckwilliam 1 year ago
idk y but for some reason im in love with this song!!! its catchy
angelchick2me 1 year ago
I am 34, and was raised listening to all kinds of music. I thank my parents dearly for opening my eyes to a diverse world. I knew all of the protest songs, barbershop quartets, big band, classic country, soda shop..
keltycphoenyx 1 year ago
I lost my first love today i will always love you kelly moran till the end of my days
sgilling 1 year ago
My husband passed away 10 months ago this was our favorite song.
suicidaldreams8756 1 year ago 2
@suicidaldreams8756 aww im so sorry!! well everytime u listen to it im sure hes up in heaven singing right along with it
angelchick2me 1 year ago
@suicidaldreams8756 Sorry to hear that. I hope that you remember the fond memories you had with him as you hear this song and other songs from the era. Its hard to lose someone after all these years, trust me.
mrrab20 1 year ago
For me this is a true story.
94577butt 1 year ago
the cost of love's too dear
suziQ27 1 year ago
Nice flute playing. Nice vocal harmonies, too.
CincyDude5 1 year ago
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wish I could tell her how much this song meant to a 6 year old.. 44 years ago thanks....
moozz2 1 year ago
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wish I could tell her how much this song meant to a 6 year old.. 44 years ago
moozz2 1 year ago
wish I could tell her how much this song meant to a 6 year old..
moozz2 1 year ago
@moozz2 me & mom too, did u ever flip the b side & listen to prism song? itts a great story song , not avail on utube, try 2 find it , its a knock out song!
tommieparch 1 year ago
HATE HATE HATE this song!!! sorry for those who do, no offense. I hear it at least twice a day at work.
ABCDCBA856 1 year ago
I believe she sang this often on "The Lloyd Thaxton Show" and I always liked her voice and thick black hair. Thanks for the memories!
AtlantaGymFan 1 year ago
I hate these words but I love the melody and Gale Garnett had a great voice..........I hope Gale Garnett got married and is very happy today.
BobbyDelRiv 1 year ago
Sweet
someoneme9 1 year ago
I spent 23 yrs in the Army, 7 of them single and mostly overseas. More that once I was in this exact situation. Although this came out before I was called to service, it rang true to me more than once. Profound and beautiful.
lookingback62 1 year ago
this is the most valuable stuff that the human race has ever created, This beautiful music.
JerrySpringerisCool 1 year ago
I've had this song in my head all evening.
sandinmyears1 1 year ago
@sandinmyears1 im in love wit this song..i cnt get it out of my head
angelchick2me 1 year ago
I listened again and realized that this is about a lovely sweet innocent woman who is so confident in herself and what she has to offer that she trusts herself and the universe completely moreover she knows she can live in the sunshine ♥inviting♥ others to join her in the sun
gaiagale 1 year ago
I clicked on Gale in the 'Neverwas' video tags and this video was among many suggestions ...I remember hearing this for the first time and thinking that it was a radical statement especially for a female ...yet it rang true ~ oh so true for what was happening at that time in history ...I remember thinking so how do I live this
thank you so much for sharing
gaiagale 1 year ago
i was six when this song came out.. i can remember my moms transistor radio sitting in the window .this played as i splashed in my kiddie pool .and you best know i was singing in the sunshine and laughing evryday....man there is nothing good about being old
arnoldkevin1 1 year ago 19
@arnoldkevin1 ...one thing about being old is that we can remember how we felt when we heard songs such as these ...another is that we could hear the lyrics of songs ...and ...only elders comment as we do with respect and appreciation ...perhaps I spoke in haste regarding 'only elders' ...anyways I'm sure you catch my drift ...one can easily say it is ♥ly to be old 'cause the option I've heard is grim : )
...just a thought : )
gaiagale 1 year ago
@arnoldkevin1 Amen to that. The old saying, ' Getting old isn't for sissies ' is true.
Nabokov50 1 year ago
@arnoldkevin1 -- mee too, exactly 6 years old
smffeb58 1 year ago
@arnoldkevin1 Yes there is something good about being older, I do not think any generation but ours has these types of memories,I was 12 then and I still know all the words to the songs. be blessed getting older is just a number.
deanna777777777777 1 year ago
I remember this with great fondness. Memories come flooding back now that I've retired its as good now as it was the 1st time I heard it. POWER TO THE 60s!
grancop1 8 months ago
@arnoldkevin1 Well, you survived! There's that! Still alive to reminisce on all those buds of youth, hopeful inspirations, blossoming, and... bore fruit - OK well maybe not... opportunities missed, misunderstanding, wasted time, misguided notions, cultural & personal manipulations damaging spirit and physical - you know maybe you're right. Bittersweet memories - I look forward to losing my mind along with everything else - but even then, it seems those losing it sense their loss. Insidious song!
mythtree 4 months ago
OK ...from the sixties...I love the music...do not pay attention to the words!
gounc71 1 year ago
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Gale Garnett recently died from heart failure after performing Oral sex on a well hung mountaingoat.
fawkyou3 1 year ago
I'm a rocker at heart. But this song has that certain something. Kinda like you can plant me 6 feet under, but play that song first.
mrREDBIRDFAN 1 year ago
My mum died in August, 64 when I was 11. I must have listened to this song around that time frame as every time I heard it thereafter, it evoked (and still evokes) feelings of sadness & nostalgia.
53Canadian 1 year ago 2
@53Canadian , That's a very touching story. I can see why this song has occupied such a deep place in you.
I was only eight when it was first popular, and it touches me for different reasons, none as serious as losing your mother at such a young age.
ShunyamNiketana 1 year ago
Anybody remember that monster cartoon from the 60's? I think it was called monster bash? I remember when Gale was the voice of one of the girls on that cartoon.
Manongjojo 1 year ago
@Manongjojo I think your refering to "Mad Monster Party" with the voice of Boris Karloff>
56kanaka 1 year ago
songs werebtw i am 73 more elegant during that time. gale is such a talent. ty for posting.btw im 73
latykai 1 year ago
doesn't sound like she's from Kiwi land
Nabokov50 1 year ago
lol, i met and flipped for a young woman that really reminded me of gayle, she could sing too... we spent some time together, then she was on her way. i think of her every time i hear this song and smile as i think we did sing in the sunshine :)
thanks for the post soda :)
MrBuckwilliam 1 year ago
I have loved this song since i was 6 or 7 years old--great memories in this beautiful and unusually progressive ballad (for the times) of a happy drifter ( i use that term in the best of possible ways ) who happens to be female. A most refreshing song of a woman who desires independence and refuses to live life in the shadow of her mate...so unlike the usual "my life is nothing withour you" fare of that era... God bless Gale for writing and recording this song!!!
msgmaui 1 year ago
i havwe loved this song since i heard at the age of 11 yrs old . carry cd in my car to listen when i need a lift.
ksand0311 1 year ago
Another haunting reminder of the pre-jerry rubin America.
thirdpositionist 1 year ago
@thirdpositionist You must mean the America of Jim Crow and lynchings and firebombing churches-the Viet Nam war and paranoia about commies under every rock-no thanks.
ehairgrove 1 year ago
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@ehairgrove Since the 60s, nigger apes have mass murdered over a quarter of a million white people. I suppose you think they deserved it.
thirdpositionist 1 year ago
My husband was whistling this song tonight. I knew exactly what song he was thinking of but we couldn't remember when it was recorded or who recorded it. Great song, one of the timeless ones
lbriggs92 1 year ago
Whenever I hear this song it always makes me smile. Although it is melancholy, it reminds me that the good old days are right now. Whenever now happens to be. Thanks
mausolos8 1 year ago
This song is still great no matter how old it is. Go Gale, go.
willkarry 1 year ago
I think it was a very honest song..At least you knew the ground rules..The year was over.. Hats and horns, baby..!
zipper179 1 year ago
I'm 22 years old. I got a job at a grocery store that played 50's and 60's music all the time. I absolutely hated it for the first few months. Eventually, it grew on me. I can understand why people look at music today and see that something was lost along the way. Its true. But that doesn't mean we still cant enjoy stuff like this. So many songs that grew on me, I just won't forget. Sometimes i imagine what it was like back then. Consider yourself lucky to have been there.
underlinedbluetext 1 year ago 48
@underlinedbluetext Thank you, it was a great ride ! Wish you could have been there !
kimsanda 1 year ago
@underlinedbluetext I do consider myself lucky. : ) There are no other days like it.
deanna777777777777 1 year ago
@underlinedbluetext Lucky... I worked at a grocery store in the late 90s (County Market) that played garbage day in, and day out. Example: Believe by Cher. Holy shit, I'm still traumatized! (Shudder) Luckily, THAT never grew on me...
AbyssDeathGhost 11 months ago
@underlinedbluetext Word man...word
SiggiPulsa 11 months ago
@underlinedbluetext well spoken ...
irish89055 10 months ago
The only sentimental songs that can be dug up nowadays come from the 60's !
This is one of those gorgeous old sentimental songs. Thank the lord 4 Gale B-!
tangerine908 1 year ago
This is such a beautiful song by a great lady vocalist. I've loved this tune since I first heard it on radio at age 14 in September, 1964. Does anyone know who the harmonica player is in this recording? I love his/her work here, as I am a chromatic harmonica player myself...
50Emerald 1 year ago
Love that some who rue the music of today call a song about not loving someone but living with them for a year nostalgic.
williefogle 1 year ago
This truly is MY song-and my life. Seems I am only good for about a year and then I,too,have to be on my way.
DiscoBlair 1 year ago 2
@acampbellgirl
That's true. We just have to keep hanging in there and trust in The Lord no matter how bad things may seem. He is in control.
I'm glad you think that way too.
Isabel1956 1 year ago
Gone are the days when they used to have clean-cut music like this. Oh, how I wish those days would come back again.
Isabel1956 1 year ago 2
Gale actually recorded this in September 1963, almost a full year before it was released as a "45" single, and became a hit song...
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
love this one:O)
fridaysrockinmarysue 1 year ago
One of my favorite songs.... I loved it as a kid (I am now 45).... Timeless.... So much better than the garbage being created today......
sterlinged 1 year ago
Memories galore. THANKS
TheDragline288 1 year ago
Is it me or is this a really really sad song? E verytime I listen closely to the words...I am crying by the end of the song and feeling very sad!
esb1250 1 year ago
@esb1250 It most certainly isn't you, esb. This song, as pretty as it is has a very grim message, delivered by a coward. "Don't fall in love, the cost's too dear." F*** that! What about the reward? Never give up, no matter how many times you wind up on the rocks. The next run could be "It". And, of it isn't, so what? As the other song says, "Weren't you king for a day?" Remember. broken hearts mend. Every time.
Norm
theshadow1932 1 year ago
Its great to find the orignal song. I always thought Helen Reddy sang this...I love that Helens version sound almos the same!
hockeyham3 1 year ago
Hi,been trying to find this song for ages,love it. I was thought it was sung by someone else.Just found it by chance.
Thanks for posting.I see there are several recordings by different artists, it was very popular so long ago I can't remember when.
BABSINUK 1 year ago
The album pictured at the beginning of this video is an outstanding one -- I own it and love it. If this song is country, give me country.
50Emerald 1 year ago
Didn't know till the other day this was a Hoyt Axton song....his orig version featured Gale on backing vocals. Both were played on Vermont Public Radio's "My Place" show
foxvermont 1 year ago
she may have written though but Hoyt may have recorded it first.,.,?
foxvermont 1 year ago
(Wikipedia: "Garnett had been inspired to write the song by the end of her relationship with Hoyt Axton, who recorded the song before Garnett herself did.")
foxvermont 1 year ago
Brings back wonderful memories
Rockyspence 1 year ago
I was in the 8th grade when this song was on the top 40 along with the Shangri-las, the Pixies Three, Leslie Gore and the Shirells. It was a great time for female "rock" singers. I sure miss those days!
drjay1116able 1 year ago
Beautiful video montage and I don't say that lightly. Not much sunshine, but I still enjoyed it.
Bluntfacts 1 year ago
Just heard this song for the very first time on the oldies channel on the digital TV...glad to see it here...world would be a better place if everyone listened to this song or if music was like this today...I never take the internet for granted for a second for giving someone like me the ability to listen to a song like this for the 2nd time immediately after hearing it for the first time. Thank you sodapop. That reminds me that I once tried to fill up my date's belly with cotton candy & sodapop
jake83777 2 years ago
Love this song from day one. I like the thornbirds version best.
VenusBlue4u 2 years ago
Does anyone know who the harmonica player is in this song? As one myself, I'd love to know -- great touch to the recording. No one could ever sing this like Gale does...
50Emerald 2 years ago
The sixties must have been a strange time.
whpw 2 years ago
Yep, too bad if you missed it! ;-0
TexasGuy78704 1 year ago
Her daddy messed her up GOOD. What an emotionally retarded girl. Sad.
Norm
theshadow1932 2 years ago
yes i can still recall places like the ones in your pictures on this vid!
but so vry sadly most of them are gone ow and those that are still left just do not look and feel the same way at al as they did when i ever did frsit see them something has been lost over thee time since i frist ever knew them and the way it is ever going back and trying to se them once agasin as they ever were in that time maybe it is the time itself that is forever lost now pity that!?
eleventhdr 2 years ago
what ever happened to gale?
roaringwaterbay 2 years ago
Grammy Winner--"Best Folk Recording" 1964; Well-deserved!
hesterpie 2 years ago 2
i first remember hearing this around 12 years ago, wen i was four, and it made me so happy that i cried. Still does
scarface2148 2 years ago 2
now that i found this again--i can go back in time whenever i want--my dad still alive mom he and i listening to old records-thank you for posting my Dadddy says thx too
bapakeith 2 years ago
Rocker at heart but this is soooooo good
mrREDBIRDFAN 2 years ago
this is the best song love them and leave them.
mauiholder 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this song. What great memories!
abelwellness 2 years ago
This song was played in 1964 and I had a tremendous emotional down as "my summer girl" left. She was a good one.
qb63 2 years ago
yes will
tonytarheel55 2 years ago
What a sweet voice. Reminds me of Mama Cass Elliot. This was the sixties, and love was free in the hippie days. . So Actually, a year was a long time back then. Some of us realized the sixties kids were giving up some of the best years of their lives. Nice song
DIANNEELEE 2 years ago 2
This song makes me cry. If the cost of love is 2 dear & she just stays for 1 years of fun. Hell that is not fun - like knowing you girlfriend has cancer and will die in 1 year. Just leave all ready I'm depressed the first day. Hey if I don't cling to U will you stay more than a year? This is why love is screwed up & women are so fussy when it comes to mate/date selection. Education, money, brains, sociability, charm, humor, looks (though women hide the truth by calling it Chemistry) etc.
11xzxzxz 2 years ago
Nicely done, thanks.
wildwoodsrule 2 years ago
2ndyearhigh
nancyfloressantos 2 years ago
Thanks
tdorsett7 2 years ago
a wonderful song from the past :)
added to my favs......!!
EverElizabeth 2 years ago 5
what a beautiful song,,,,ilove the sunshine xxbabsie
blondiebabs 2 years ago
I grew up listen to this with my Mom, fond memories and it makes me smile.
TheBeergod99 2 years ago 3
I heard Dean Martin sing this song on one of the Dean Martin CDs I have. I thought, I remember a lady singing this song. Didn't know who.Glad I found it here. Now this is the way I remembered and enjoyed the song.
LittleLordLoftin 2 years ago
you are absolutely right. wow. this song always made me sad as a kid but i never quite knew why, did i see what life would soon be like but didnt know it yet? thanks for your perceptive comments, 74.
bobbyb826 2 years ago
Pardon me, Bapakeith, I misspelled your name in the previous post. Isn't the harmonica accompaniment in this song great? Such soulful singing by Gale Garnett -- great album, by the way -- I have the CD...
50Emerald 2 years ago