Just saw him again in Clearwater Fl. One again GREAT PERFORMANCE. Iv'e seen in many times over the years from NH to Fl. and I'm sure I'll see him again. THANKS TOM
I've had the joy of seeing / hearing Tom play this live many times. It's one of the most beautiful songs ever. Thank you, Tom, for all of your wonderful music.
I remember hearing two different Rush versions of this from the sixties. One was slower and stripped down, the other uptempo and slathered with schmaltzy strings. It really deserves to be slow and unadorned, nothing to distract from the profound emotion, haunting melody and powerful lyrics. In other words, precisely like this. Even if this were the only thing Rush recorded, he'd still deserve immortality for writing the very best breakup song ever.
So fortunate to have experienced the 60's. I'm 68. Thanks to my dad know quite a bit about 30's/40's music also. Would have loved to danced to the big bands, on leave of course from fighting hard for our freedom in WW2.
Thank you Tom Rush et al for keeping the 60's alive for youngsters especially.
@shepardman666 I know what you mean. I'm 66. I bought Circle Game after hearing his early recording on Acorn or Oak, or something like that.. Not available in UK but a friend brought it back from the States. I've got it on tape. Will try and upload it one day.
Just a beautiful song by overlooked Tom Rush. No regrets, no tears goodbye
Don't want you back, we'd only cry, again Say goodbye, again Beautiful heartfelt music. I really only had Circle Game .. what a great record : Tin Angel
2. Something In The Way She Moves 3. Urge For Going 4. Sunshine Sunshine
5. The Glory Of Love 6. Shadow Dream Song 7. The Circle Game 8. So Long
Thanks for posting - what a great song. I also appreciate his guitar work. Every song sounds different ... many guitarists even some real good ones always sound the same.
Snuck into a club in Toronto many years ago when I was about 13 and was just mezmerized by Tom Rush. All these years later I can close my eyes and I'm back in the Riverboat. Great Stuff!!!
How can a simple song create so much emotion? How I wish I'd known of Tom Rush 40 years ago but I'll console myself with hearing his words now. Please come to the UK Tom.
This is actually quite beautiful and by the man who actually wrote it (I always thought it was an original by The Walker Brothers). I do still love the Walker Brothers version though with the searing guitar solo, but this version's simplicity highlights the raw emotion behind the lyric.
To think James Taylor and Joni Mitchell were once lucky to have songs recorded by Tom Rush... And his versions still are definitive, for those who heard them.
Used to sit at the foot of the stage watching Tom Rush and other great folk artists at the Main Point coffeehouse in Bryn Mawr, PA back in the 60's and 70's. There was no better place to hear his music!! It closed in 1976 and I still miss it. Heard him sing this song live several times.
Saw Tom at the old Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis back about early 70's after listening to my sister's album of his about a million times. Used to play this instead of doing homework! Gave me great impetus to learn guitar. I love the color on the backside of that Epiphone! Thanks for the visual and the music!
I attended college in Maine in the late 1960s, when I was introduced to Tom's music . I always thought there was such soulful, meaningful, nostalgic though crystalline quality to his poetry and music. This song, and "Urge for Going" always take me back to the cold fall evenings in the Maine woods to simpler, more joyous times. I am able to say that I am beginning to realize one of my dreams, which is to play and sing both songs with one of my acoustic guitars.
I too was at that Livermore concert. I took a lifetime friend and it was pure joy to watch him enjoy Tom's stories. And this song was a special treat. My pal had no idea he was in for such a great eve,
Amazing concert last month in Livermore, CA, Tom! Your tremendous gift and your gorgeous voice are as good or better than ever... even after all the years. So rare!
Fantastic. I find myself waiting for the accompaniment from Trevor Veach, no offense Tom. It's just the burning impact of a song that I embraced a lifetime ago.
I've known Scott's version for ages, and then I came across a tribute record to Bleecker street, from 1999, where Curtis Stigers sings it, a few weeks ago, and since then, I find myself waking up in the middle of the night with the melody in my head, in the darkest hour; I'll play this in summer in my ' Fisherman's Cabin ' at the ancient port in my hometown; incredible beautiful.
I saw/heard him last night in Utica, New York. A reminder of how great the folk movement of the 60's was and still--for artists like Tom--is. A erudite and entertaining story-teller, superb musician and a marvelous interpretive vocalist...Hope he strays up here again sometime.
Hey Jim Stewart if u check out this vid reply to it it will go to me and I have been shearhin for u a long time lots of water since the trip out to cal in 71.
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Yes, I too like Tom Rush but you have to admit he makes (vocally) a right dogs wottsits of this really fantastic emotive song. That said, the song is always worth hearing ... but esp by Scott Walker. ... sorry...
Nice late live version of a song I used to play 30 years ago! My voice deeper than Tom's but his far better which explains why he gets to play this sort of venue!!
as a young man in the late 60s i first heard this song, it was a time when we protested against war, it was a time when we wanted to feel pain, pain was good, pain and hurt brought us closer to Leonard Cohen, pain was cool pain was good, little did i know that my then girlfriend my then love and i would split, only then would i realise what the lyrics of this song meant, Scot W sang it however give me the original any day
Yeh the Walker Bro's version isn't a patch on this one. This song is just perfect on solo acoustic guitar and vocal... with that sunset behind him... wow.
Never knew he wrote this... You know who had a major hit with this in the '60's. .. Great song. - In fact, I have an album of his (circa mid 60's.) It has " The Galveston Flood" on it, which is really great.
For the guitar players among you who are curious. Tom plays this in Open C tuning.
For the really curious, Tom's DVD "How I Play (some of) My Favorite Song's" (available from his Web site) includes this song. Best investment I ever made! And as Teddy said, Run, do not walk, to buy his new album "What I Know". Every song on it is a winner.
Success is fleeting, talent is everlasting, anyone who has not bought Toms new album "What I know" is missing out on more of the same from this truly gifted songsmith. Anyone living stateside, you dont know how lucky you are to be able to get to a concert. I would love the chance to see him unfortunately there is a rather large pond between Ireland and the states stopping me at the moment. Teddy O'Neill Dublin.
I will never forget this song. In the late 60's in Cleveland, Ohio, when our favorite FM station went off the air, this was the last song they played. So perfect. So sad. Thanks.
once again a performer of music that demonstrates that the love of of music and I do mean LOVE ...which gives a fudamental difference to not only the performance but the reaction to all that have the sheer god given luckto have chanced upon such performances...when listening to music being performed at what ever level if the performer is playing for the music
When I was a lad of 15, the Walker Brothers were only known to me for their rendition of perhaps their biggest hit, 'The Sun Ain' t Gonna Shine Any More'.
Along came '75, and they sing this song, a definitive wrenching rock ballad that I appreciated greatly.
Now, at the age of 48, I find this, and this, perhaps,is the way I always wanted to hear this song...
My words mean nothing, but this for me is superlative.
@ukgolfa I fully agree man , I'm 65 and understand what you feel . Scott Walkers version is absolutely great but this one FEELS deeper and better. Peace man , amen.
@MrALF423 Cheers mate, your comment was much appreciated. You say your age is 65, but your profile shows 67; hope the turmoil of the song hasn't aged you that much since your post..! Peace, brother. Andrew.
Although I love the "drama" of the Scott Walker and Midge Ure's versions of this song, this stripped to the bare-bones version is so much more poignant and touching. And this song obviously belongs to this guy. This made me tear up, more than the other versions. Just hearing it with only the acoustic guitar and vocals conveys the raw emotion so much more, without it being hidden by lots of instruments. Beautiful simplicity:(
He sings the best studio version of this song. If you haven't heard the studio version, you must hear it. He wraps his voice around each sad sentiment in an amazing way.
An amazing talent. But he was one of those 60s folkies who never did make it big- Tom Paxton is another one who comes to mind. Though they are no less talented than Dylan or Baez. Great stuff.
I think it`s unfair to compare this to the Walker Brothers` version. Scott has an incredible voice- unmatched anywhere. Their version IS exceptional. But this version has its own magic- which makes it just as unique. Tom Rush sings his song with unmatched sincerity- the song simply flows from his heart. And that really touches me.
Hey Karen,I remember watching your plane take off. 1977, We both knew we'd never see each other again. You were headed for Boca Raton. You shed a little tear. I almost did too. You run through my mind from time to time so after all I think you always will. Thanks for that gift. I wonder what you did with your life sometimes. We were in love once and it was really great. There's one chance in a million I'll ever see you again but I still said these things. Tom
Well a note in a bottle cast on the ocean would have a better chance of finding Karen again haha,but the music and my mood just took over there I guess. Karen and her brother shared a special meaning of their youth in the song "Sugar Mountain" but I never was privy to the details. I took her to see Ralph McTell at the Main Point,Ardmore Pa who she had never heard of and we had a grand time. If my posting showed up last week I'd be surely shocked as I don't recall having done it before. LOL
I hope you find Karen one day. Now with all the searches you can do on the internet, have you ever thought about trying to find her again? Looking up her family name or brother's name if you know it. Take that chance, Prrolg....try to find the once love of your life. No guarantee you will find her or that she will respond favorably (if you did find her) but there's always a chance that the outcome will be positive & she will be happy to see you too. All the best to you.
I first heard this song back in 1964. It was the first Tom Rush song I learned. THIS song is the ultimately saddest song I've ever known. When my totally beautiful wife left without reason seven years ago, it became the anthem of my loniless.
Somethings reach us for a lifetime, never to be forgotten. They change us. Integrated into our beingness, like the color of our eyes.
Thank You Tom. I'm sure did not have me in mind when you wrote this song, but you've been in mine since.
being out there in a car, driving alone with that music trough the desert world..it´s always a cliché, but they give it to life!! like love, of course a cliché in that way((:
greetings to all, that just travel away right know with their hearts listening to this song here..
Hi! My husband & I were at the concert in Chicago also. What A nice and humble man. We met him also. Did you stay after the performance to hear the additional songs? We had a long drive home and did not stay.
Four vote downs indicates 4 people with no grip on reality and/or no ablility to lighten up and/or possibly an Elvis or Beatles like devotion. Take it easy allready. I just didn't like the shirt.Tom is great and a real institution in music IMHO.
Mass Maritime Academy here....and we all went to sea and all the women broke our hearts..But..we had no regrets at all...Loved him at Merrimack College
well that's the same intervals but a semi-tone down - he's playing it in C here so the CGCGCE tuning would be correct...already figured out the chords but thanks anyway ;o)
"No regrets, no tears goodbye, don't want you back..." Some songs are powerful because of what you hear between the lines. That's sometimes the opposite of what the lines say, isn't it?
really have loved midge ure's version for years just came to the realization that it was not his,found this version and love it to,nice to hear the original.
I love the song and especially Tom's version of his own song. My only other comment is that the guitar sounds a bit tinny. Could be the sound system, but I bet my old 1952 D-28 Martin would sound better (with Tom playing it, of course.)
Great tunes Tom! My cousin sent me the clip of "Remember Song" and it really hit home! You are, and always will be, the "best of the best". Thanks Tom.
If you love the man and his music, and you can afford to spend a few dollars, go to Tom website and order the DVD "how I play some of my favorite songs" believe me you will love it, No regrets is on there as well as urge for going, childs song etc, and he teaches you to play these tunes exactly as he plays them and its also great fun learning.
This is one of the most poignantly beautiful songs to come out of a great era of songwriting. After forty years, it is as moving today as it was the first time I heard it. No one does it better than Tom.
This song belongs to my three all-time-favourites. There is no other song with such a simple but pure beauty. It still makes me cry almost everytime I listen to it. And I don't know any voice, that is more magical than Tom's.
By the way, I'm 25 and from Germany. So you don't have to be an 'old hippie' to enjoy the greatness of this music.
Just saw him again in Clearwater Fl. One again GREAT PERFORMANCE. Iv'e seen in many times over the years from NH to Fl. and I'm sure I'll see him again. THANKS TOM
cathtom2000 2 days ago
I've had the joy of seeing / hearing Tom play this live many times. It's one of the most beautiful songs ever. Thank you, Tom, for all of your wonderful music.
Donnaspiano 6 days ago in playlist tom rush
pure music
cec1030 6 days ago
Tom sounds exactly like he did 40 plus years ago!
artscriticXX 4 weeks ago
Happy Birthday Tom
nippegmt 1 month ago
I like Tom Rush. Why all the lol stfu and go to someone more to your liking
Jm01394 1 month ago
Ergh sounds like a cat dying
BenTheGuitarMan 3 months ago
@BenTheGuitarMan you poor thing...born without ears or a soul...lemme guess around 85 or so...
hocuspocusfocusable 2 months ago
@BenTheGuitarMan lol!
54taqiyya 2 months ago
I remember hearing two different Rush versions of this from the sixties. One was slower and stripped down, the other uptempo and slathered with schmaltzy strings. It really deserves to be slow and unadorned, nothing to distract from the profound emotion, haunting melody and powerful lyrics. In other words, precisely like this. Even if this were the only thing Rush recorded, he'd still deserve immortality for writing the very best breakup song ever.
MrFreako2010 3 months ago 2
This is lovely. Almost as if he`s writing from experience. Wasn't familiar with this version. Glad I discovered it
ryan9600 4 months ago
@Pauleglide Right on. I feel exactly the same. Always loved this song. I'm searching for the extended version of this song with guitar only ending
stl1ajh 4 months ago
I just wonder what tuning the guitar is in?
kettering1949 5 months ago
@kettering1949 The tuning is CGCGCE
banjodag 4 months ago
@kettering1949 The key of "capo"! :)
dgmoocher 1 month ago in playlist More videos from tomrush2
So fortunate to have experienced the 60's. I'm 68. Thanks to my dad know quite a bit about 30's/40's music also. Would have loved to danced to the big bands, on leave of course from fighting hard for our freedom in WW2.
Thank you Tom Rush et al for keeping the 60's alive for youngsters especially.
shepardman666 7 months ago
@shepardman666 I know what you mean. I'm 66. I bought Circle Game after hearing his early recording on Acorn or Oak, or something like that.. Not available in UK but a friend brought it back from the States. I've got it on tape. Will try and upload it one day.
Hanoverauto 4 months ago
Tears.
UncleCharlieOakley 9 months ago
I'll always remember the performance that Tom Rush gave of this at the Phil Ochs memorial concert in 1976(no, I wasn't there, but I saw it on PBS).
KennBurch 10 months ago
Like most people i asumed the w/b wrote it, Toms live version is by far the best....
TheFentonFamily5 1 year ago
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Just a beautiful song by overlooked Tom Rush. No regrets, no tears goodbye
Don't want you back, we'd only cry, again Say goodbye, again Beautiful heartfelt music. I really only had Circle Game .. what a great record : Tin Angel
2. Something In The Way She Moves 3. Urge For Going 4. Sunshine Sunshine
5. The Glory Of Love 6. Shadow Dream Song 7. The Circle Game 8. So Long
9. Rockport Sunday 10. No Regrets
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
Thanks for posting - what a great song. I also appreciate his guitar work. Every song sounds different ... many guitarists even some real good ones always sound the same.
cal92147 1 year ago
one word BEUTIFUL
ziggybin 1 year ago
one word BEUTIFUL
ziggybin 1 year ago
I've been a fan for WAY too many years. I remember dragging his album fron Madison, WI to Vietnam. A sanity saviour
forvee03 1 year ago
He's still got it. Amazing!
kingharvest11 1 year ago
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His voice, guitar and words make him the one the best of today's traveling troubadours.
I am a fan of MANY years.
This song touched my heart so long ago so personally that hearing it now has brought tears to my eyes.
skippertee1 1 year ago
His voice, guitar and words make him the one the best of today's traveling troubadours.
I am a fan of MANY years.
This song touched my heart so long ago so personally that hearing it now has brought tears to my eyes.
skippertee1 1 year ago 2
His voice, guitar and words make him the one the best of today's traveling troubadours.
I am a fan of MANY years.
This song touched my heart so long ago so personally that hearing it now has brought tears to my eyes.
skippertee1 1 year ago
Forty years since I heard this and a few others of Tom's songs.
Still as beautiful and brings back those soft, fond, bittersweet memories of my younger days.
I would not have it any other way.
Thanks Tom.
theloudhalo 1 year ago 2
Snuck into a club in Toronto many years ago when I was about 13 and was just mezmerized by Tom Rush. All these years later I can close my eyes and I'm back in the Riverboat. Great Stuff!!!
eleanor2012 1 year ago
How can a simple song create so much emotion? How I wish I'd known of Tom Rush 40 years ago but I'll console myself with hearing his words now. Please come to the UK Tom.
DT56DRT 1 year ago
What tuning is this?
nickandmikec 1 year ago
@nickandmikec its an open 'f''
homerskunk1 1 year ago
@homerskunk1
Open C
partymonsterri 1 year ago
@nickandmikec
Open C
partymonsterri 1 year ago
This is actually quite beautiful and by the man who actually wrote it (I always thought it was an original by The Walker Brothers). I do still love the Walker Brothers version though with the searing guitar solo, but this version's simplicity highlights the raw emotion behind the lyric.
thebritinoz 1 year ago
I'm afraid The Walker Bros RUINED this song. It's a beautiful, simple song and did not benefit from adding full orchestral backing.
genesisisok 1 year ago
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11xzxzxz 1 year ago
One of my most favourite songs, to hell with The Walker Bros, nothing compares to you. Brilliance at ts best.....Mike
mvo5720 1 year ago
To think James Taylor and Joni Mitchell were once lucky to have songs recorded by Tom Rush... And his versions still are definitive, for those who heard them.
tintosangre 1 year ago
Used to sit at the foot of the stage watching Tom Rush and other great folk artists at the Main Point coffeehouse in Bryn Mawr, PA back in the 60's and 70's. There was no better place to hear his music!! It closed in 1976 and I still miss it. Heard him sing this song live several times.
freesia0 1 year ago
Saw Tom at the old Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis back about early 70's after listening to my sister's album of his about a million times. Used to play this instead of doing homework! Gave me great impetus to learn guitar. I love the color on the backside of that Epiphone! Thanks for the visual and the music!
JayBo308 1 year ago
Great song!!!
rakeuiff 1 year ago
I kind of don't like to listen to this song. It makes me cry.
georgert 1 year ago
simply a great version
peterfam100 1 year ago
I think one hell of singer!!!!!!!!!!
peoplestandup 1 year ago
I attended college in Maine in the late 1960s, when I was introduced to Tom's music . I always thought there was such soulful, meaningful, nostalgic though crystalline quality to his poetry and music. This song, and "Urge for Going" always take me back to the cold fall evenings in the Maine woods to simpler, more joyous times. I am able to say that I am beginning to realize one of my dreams, which is to play and sing both songs with one of my acoustic guitars.
Unidente02 1 year ago
I too was at that Livermore concert. I took a lifetime friend and it was pure joy to watch him enjoy Tom's stories. And this song was a special treat. My pal had no idea he was in for such a great eve,
Rancanfish 1 year ago
Agree with all POZ comments on this page. Q: Is he playing in an open E tuning?
neurofire 1 year ago
@neurofire No. It's C open tuning. Tune up and try it. Follow his finger work and you'll find it comes out great!
johnjc 1 year ago
@johnjc Will do - thnx for reply.
neurofire 1 year ago
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@johnjc Will do - thnx for reply.
neurofire 1 year ago
Amazing concert last month in Livermore, CA, Tom! Your tremendous gift and your gorgeous voice are as good or better than ever... even after all the years. So rare!
dtgutman 2 years ago
Saw Tom perform this last year at Pepe's Cafe in Key West.
Sad to learn he could not make it this year...its was one of the few things I looked forward to.
This man is amazing. I have nothing but respect for him
Bartender AL
alnelson72 2 years ago 3
Fantastic. I find myself waiting for the accompaniment from Trevor Veach, no offense Tom. It's just the burning impact of a song that I embraced a lifetime ago.
alancayn01 2 years ago
Tom, it's 1968 all over again - outstanding performance...timeless, ageless.
shadyhillsdennis 2 years ago 2
I've known Scott's version for ages, and then I came across a tribute record to Bleecker street, from 1999, where Curtis Stigers sings it, a few weeks ago, and since then, I find myself waking up in the middle of the night with the melody in my head, in the darkest hour; I'll play this in summer in my ' Fisherman's Cabin ' at the ancient port in my hometown; incredible beautiful.
totovillefranche 2 years ago
Great job. I love Tom's music. Nadine
williedb47 2 years ago 2
top song which can be covered in any style and work ; Walker Bros, Midge Ure etc
kenfig 2 years ago
This has to be one the saddest and most poignant songs ever written. Every line is so simple, yet rings so true...
meredithbryan 2 years ago 6
I saw/heard him last night in Utica, New York. A reminder of how great the folk movement of the 60's was and still--for artists like Tom--is. A erudite and entertaining story-teller, superb musician and a marvelous interpretive vocalist...Hope he strays up here again sometime.
keyjack100 2 years ago 8
It's true you live and learn. An hour ago I would have sworn this was a Scott Walker original. Brilliant
legspin 2 years ago
Hey Jim Stewart if u check out this vid reply to it it will go to me and I have been shearhin for u a long time lots of water since the trip out to cal in 71.
COUNTRY
Cervicconstruction 2 years ago
Haunting and wonderfully sensitive...
GuitarDummy10cubed 2 years ago 2
Thank God I was on earth at the same time as this genius.
ScooterNerd 2 years ago 2
Tom is great at covers but this is a fine original.
11xzxzxz 2 years ago
i never knew this was the original artist. Brilliant!
monkeycrud 2 years ago 2
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juslookin3 2 years ago
Rekindled some long-dormant memories. Wow.
deecee1409 2 years ago 2
Nothing short of wonderful
5****for sure....Mel
amazongift 2 years ago 2
does anyone know what tuning tom uses here?
mxerbezn 2 years ago
never mind, i figured it out :-)
it's open C
mxerbezn 2 years ago
open C
WindyBillAZ 2 years ago
This song brings back bittersweet memories of the sixties. Beautiful. Nadine
williedb47 2 years ago
This song bring back so many memories...he still sounds great after al these years. I hope I can see him play in person sometime.
shiprock24 2 years ago 5
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Yes, I too like Tom Rush but you have to admit he makes (vocally) a right dogs wottsits of this really fantastic emotive song. That said, the song is always worth hearing ... but esp by Scott Walker. ... sorry...
surreal12 2 years ago
Nice late live version of a song I used to play 30 years ago! My voice deeper than Tom's but his far better which explains why he gets to play this sort of venue!!
charliedehaven 2 years ago
on a nice littel epi texan, wow open tuning etcetera, what a songsmith
dylanizer1 2 years ago
Boy does this bring back memories of the angst of past relationships. What a great, painful song!!
MrCharlesDog 2 years ago 5
as a young man in the late 60s i first heard this song, it was a time when we protested against war, it was a time when we wanted to feel pain, pain was good, pain and hurt brought us closer to Leonard Cohen, pain was cool pain was good, little did i know that my then girlfriend my then love and i would split, only then would i realise what the lyrics of this song meant, Scot W sang it however give me the original any day
ibrosonkeers 2 years ago
Yeh the Walker Bro's version isn't a patch on this one. This song is just perfect on solo acoustic guitar and vocal... with that sunset behind him... wow.
FulchesterUnited 2 years ago
This was my theme song during my divorce in 1989. Still makes me cry so thanks Tom!
Solarshoji 2 years ago
One of the 10 hurtingest sad songs ever. Ever.
martygrahamattic 2 years ago 4
Never knew he wrote this... You know who had a major hit with this in the '60's. .. Great song. - In fact, I have an album of his (circa mid 60's.) It has " The Galveston Flood" on it, which is really great.
viking1au 2 years ago
For the guitar players among you who are curious. Tom plays this in Open C tuning.
For the really curious, Tom's DVD "How I Play (some of) My Favorite Song's" (available from his Web site) includes this song. Best investment I ever made! And as Teddy said, Run, do not walk, to buy his new album "What I Know". Every song on it is a winner.
sjbaldwin11 2 years ago
Success is fleeting, talent is everlasting, anyone who has not bought Toms new album "What I know" is missing out on more of the same from this truly gifted songsmith. Anyone living stateside, you dont know how lucky you are to be able to get to a concert. I would love the chance to see him unfortunately there is a rather large pond between Ireland and the states stopping me at the moment. Teddy O'Neill Dublin.
teddyoneills 2 years ago
A noble and dignified performance of an achingly gorgeous song
danielmcallaghan 2 years ago
Tom, you're terrific, as always! I love your new CD...keep em coming! With affection, Martha, ( your cousin in Maryland).
mtwrtymti 2 years ago
I will never forget this song. In the late 60's in Cleveland, Ohio, when our favorite FM station went off the air, this was the last song they played. So perfect. So sad. Thanks.
retiredqueen 3 years ago 5
once again a performer of music that demonstrates that the love of of music and I do mean LOVE ...which gives a fudamental difference to not only the performance but the reaction to all that have the sheer god given luckto have chanced upon such performances...when listening to music being performed at what ever level if the performer is playing for the music
BryanMRoland 3 years ago
When I was a lad of 15, the Walker Brothers were only known to me for their rendition of perhaps their biggest hit, 'The Sun Ain' t Gonna Shine Any More'.
Along came '75, and they sing this song, a definitive wrenching rock ballad that I appreciated greatly.
Now, at the age of 48, I find this, and this, perhaps,is the way I always wanted to hear this song...
My words mean nothing, but this for me is superlative.
Many, many thanks for this. Peace.
ukgolfa 3 years ago 30
@ukgolfa I fully agree man , I'm 65 and understand what you feel . Scott Walkers version is absolutely great but this one FEELS deeper and better. Peace man , amen.
MrALF423 10 months ago
@MrALF423 Cheers mate, your comment was much appreciated. You say your age is 65, but your profile shows 67; hope the turmoil of the song hasn't aged you that much since your post..! Peace, brother. Andrew.
ukgolfa 10 months ago
I always like the original over covers. Not sure why.
joehawk520 3 years ago
The Walker Brothers version had great guitar played by Alan Parker and Big Jim Sullivan.
Alan Parker wrote the ITN's "News At Ten" theme !
youoverzealtube 3 years ago
Although I love the "drama" of the Scott Walker and Midge Ure's versions of this song, this stripped to the bare-bones version is so much more poignant and touching. And this song obviously belongs to this guy. This made me tear up, more than the other versions. Just hearing it with only the acoustic guitar and vocals conveys the raw emotion so much more, without it being hidden by lots of instruments. Beautiful simplicity:(
ralucagymnast 3 years ago 4
He sings the best studio version of this song. If you haven't heard the studio version, you must hear it. He wraps his voice around each sad sentiment in an amazing way.
rockyracune 3 years ago 2
I wish I still had that album... his voice was layered right on top of a crack band..the guitar solo was/is incredible..
a great memory
greygland 3 years ago
An amazing talent. But he was one of those 60s folkies who never did make it big- Tom Paxton is another one who comes to mind. Though they are no less talented than Dylan or Baez. Great stuff.
rayjr62 2 years ago
Hi, I must admit that after watching this video, this has been my first exposure to Tom.
md770 3 years ago
saw this man many times in Cambridge...
Club 47.
He wrote the song, and he owns it.
marthaegan 3 years ago
Yeah, I saw him also in Cambridge in the fall of '64
seeitnoww 3 years ago
Very Nice with Good guitar playing. This is the first time I hear this song by the writer himself and not The Walker Brothers.
LilNiceWolf 3 years ago
Tom Rush performs the version of this song. Simply the best!
rockyracune 3 years ago 2
Brilliant song, I love it. I would agree that his version may not be quite as good as the Walker Brothers' version. But 2 things about it.
1. He wrote the song so deserves the ultimate credit.
2. His version is still brilliant just at a slower tempo.
To be honest the first time I heard this song was from an Irish Blues musician called Don Baker and it's still my favourite version.
Doniedaff 3 years ago
I think it`s unfair to compare this to the Walker Brothers` version. Scott has an incredible voice- unmatched anywhere. Their version IS exceptional. But this version has its own magic- which makes it just as unique. Tom Rush sings his song with unmatched sincerity- the song simply flows from his heart. And that really touches me.
PS- I also love Midge Ure`s version!
willembez 3 years ago 4
midge ure's is the best. ultravox reunion tour!
genesis112681 3 years ago
much better the walker brothers version!!
sorry Tom.
piadinaconmortadella 3 years ago
Hey Karen,I remember watching your plane take off. 1977, We both knew we'd never see each other again. You were headed for Boca Raton. You shed a little tear. I almost did too. You run through my mind from time to time so after all I think you always will. Thanks for that gift. I wonder what you did with your life sometimes. We were in love once and it was really great. There's one chance in a million I'll ever see you again but I still said these things. Tom
prrolg 3 years ago
I'm sure I saw this exact posting from somebody else last week. Is there a message here, Tom?
Charsal
charsalutube 3 years ago
Well a note in a bottle cast on the ocean would have a better chance of finding Karen again haha,but the music and my mood just took over there I guess. Karen and her brother shared a special meaning of their youth in the song "Sugar Mountain" but I never was privy to the details. I took her to see Ralph McTell at the Main Point,Ardmore Pa who she had never heard of and we had a grand time. If my posting showed up last week I'd be surely shocked as I don't recall having done it before. LOL
prrolg 3 years ago
BTW you play pretty well. Anyway thanks for commenting..
prrolg 3 years ago
thanks for that, and BTW for you. I agree with everyting I have seen on your site.
Charsal
charsalutube 3 years ago
Thank you sir. And I'll prolly check your channel now and then as I enjoy listening to some nice music now and again. Take care now and thanks again
prrolg 3 years ago
I hope you find Karen one day. Now with all the searches you can do on the internet, have you ever thought about trying to find her again? Looking up her family name or brother's name if you know it. Take that chance, Prrolg....try to find the once love of your life. No guarantee you will find her or that she will respond favorably (if you did find her) but there's always a chance that the outcome will be positive & she will be happy to see you too. All the best to you.
folkmusicgirl 3 years ago
I first heard this song back in 1964. It was the first Tom Rush song I learned. THIS song is the ultimately saddest song I've ever known. When my totally beautiful wife left without reason seven years ago, it became the anthem of my loniless.
Somethings reach us for a lifetime, never to be forgotten. They change us. Integrated into our beingness, like the color of our eyes.
Thank You Tom. I'm sure did not have me in mind when you wrote this song, but you've been in mine since.
moabrob 3 years ago
such a music gives happyness and sense to life!!
being out there in a car, driving alone with that music trough the desert world..it´s always a cliché, but they give it to life!! like love, of course a cliché in that way((:
greetings to all, that just travel away right know with their hearts listening to this song here..
dococolo 3 years ago 2
Really great!
bush1tman 3 years ago
I haven't seen him since the 70's and he still has "IT" Beautiful voice, great guitar work and perfect performance.
bastpro 3 years ago
Just fantastic
cuzinkevin 3 years ago 3
see you there. last time I saw him was Smales Place in London Ont. in 1972
81ancaster 3 years ago
anyone know what the guitar is tuned to, i play the walker bros version on electric but i love this open tuned accustic
ziggybin 3 years ago
Hi
Its open c tuning
jkh54 3 years ago
He reminds me of the relatively new singer/songwriter...Tim Easton. Another great writer if you have not seen/heard him.
FXMAN66 3 years ago
Hi! My husband & I were at the concert in Chicago also. What A nice and humble man. We met him also. Did you stay after the performance to hear the additional songs? We had a long drive home and did not stay.
carolliner 3 years ago
I am looking forward to seeing Tom for the first time LIVE this Friday night... His music, and even his look is very Gordon Lightfoot like...
Saw Gordon in 2005, and I know Friday will be a great show too...
God Bless the great storytellers!!!
elvisapresley68 3 years ago
I wish he had a different shirt on but great song anyway
ThatsmyYokoOno 4 years ago
Different shirt? WTF? Who cares if he's dress as the San Diego Chicken.
FXMAN66 3 years ago
Four vote downs indicates 4 people with no grip on reality and/or no ablility to lighten up and/or possibly an Elvis or Beatles like devotion. Take it easy allready. I just didn't like the shirt.Tom is great and a real institution in music IMHO.
ThatsmyYokoOno 3 years ago
None of the above. Just could not understand how on such great performance, his shirt was all you could thing to talk about.
FXMAN66 3 years ago
Stop being so sensitive or see you family doctor.
ThatsmyYokoOno 3 years ago
I love hearing Waylon sing this as well!
cathead77 4 years ago
Anybody know what happened to his "Circle Game" vid that was on here? I can't seem to find it anymore.
paullie56 4 years ago
Truly a timeless classic....
pcretard 4 years ago
Mass Maritime Academy here....and we all went to sea and all the women broke our hearts..But..we had no regrets at all...Loved him at Merrimack College
Ahoy1012 4 years ago
love the guitar work - does anyone know what is open tuning that is being used?
rgriff29 4 years ago
try CGCGCE not sure name what that goes by but I think that does the trick :-)
buttholeboyz 4 years ago
it is B F# B f# B D#
in a book i have.
message me if you want the chords etc
later
robdude5000 4 years ago
well that's the same intervals but a semi-tone down - he's playing it in C here so the CGCGCE tuning would be correct...already figured out the chords but thanks anyway ;o)
buttholeboyz 4 years ago
Yes, I agree it be a open C tuning. But no way am I gonna put my guitar thru the stress of tuning it down and back up. Prolly bust the neck.
HandShock 4 years ago
Does anyone know how Waylon did this song?
walrus108 4 years ago
fantastic - reminds me of my first girlfiend who dumped me just a this song came out
rgriff29 4 years ago
"No regrets, no tears goodbye, don't want you back..." Some songs are powerful because of what you hear between the lines. That's sometimes the opposite of what the lines say, isn't it?
grastog1313 4 years ago 2
ALSO - MY FAVE SAD SONG too....
ALWAYS makes me cry....
Even - now !
So many Memories.
aristockings1 4 years ago
really have loved midge ure's version for years just came to the realization that it was not his,found this version and love it to,nice to hear the original.
gomezpopi 4 years ago
my favorite sad song!
theoriginaljonnyox 4 years ago
Beautiful
nannerbj 4 years ago
Good to see this great man and his great song being introduced to a new audience (ie You T)
Wonderful
crowlas1 4 years ago
Thanks for posting! Was "No Regrets" on the "Wonder Boys" sound track a new recording for that project?
toftmf 4 years ago
A new friend I still never had. Thanks for sharing your music here.
JamJells 4 years ago
NO REGRETS has been a favorite for so many years.Always a great New England hero along with
the '75 SOX.
harveyowenbond 4 years ago
My only regret is that I lost my Tom Rush CD in the divorce.
deardusky 4 years ago
I love the song and especially Tom's version of his own song. My only other comment is that the guitar sounds a bit tinny. Could be the sound system, but I bet my old 1952 D-28 Martin would sound better (with Tom playing it, of course.)
diogeron 4 years ago
I would love to buy that old guitar of yours to play my venues with... Maybe you could will it to me. LOL......
jarejewl 4 years ago
AWESOME!!!This "old hippie" is in love all over again!!
katlover40 4 years ago
Tom, you've still got it going! Been listening to you since 1970 and you have soothed many a broken heart. Come to Iowa City!
ICsockermom 4 years ago
Can't get enough of Tom's amazing tunes. Keep on putting them out ol buddy.
loybanks 4 years ago
i am stuned this is an art he plays that guitar like no other (o_O)
megabladez 4 years ago
Tom you have been my favorite musician for 40 years.
PAPOS 4 years ago
beautiful...
reasonablerobinson 4 years ago
Your masterpiece!!!
monkeyboy1955 4 years ago
Great tunes Tom! My cousin sent me the clip of "Remember Song" and it really hit home! You are, and always will be, the "best of the best". Thanks Tom.
usaveteran 4 years ago
Tom has always played No Regrets (and Rockport Sunday) in Open C tuning: CGCGCE
I've seen it in a recent book a halfstep down in B tuning: BF#Bf3Bd#
which may be a function of him losing the upper end of his singing range.
BlueSun4886 4 years ago
Thanks Tom. Last time I heard the song was at Colby College in 1978 when I carried your guitars for you.
Your songs are in my soul
iis102 4 years ago
I start to cry 20 seconds into this song. I always have.I always will. Thank you.
FunnyHaHaFunnyHaHa 4 years ago
Still so hauntingly beautiful.
agnesmoorhead 4 years ago
To leftysteve43,
If you love the man and his music, and you can afford to spend a few dollars, go to Tom website and order the DVD "how I play some of my favorite songs" believe me you will love it, No regrets is on there as well as urge for going, childs song etc, and he teaches you to play these tunes exactly as he plays them and its also great fun learning.
Teddy O'Neill
Dublin
gralus 4 years ago
This is one of the most poignantly beautiful songs to come out of a great era of songwriting. After forty years, it is as moving today as it was the first time I heard it. No one does it better than Tom.
jks305 4 years ago
This is beautiful music, a great singer and a a song that has meaning for every generation
evelynolive 4 years ago
This song belongs to my three all-time-favourites. There is no other song with such a simple but pure beauty. It still makes me cry almost everytime I listen to it. And I don't know any voice, that is more magical than Tom's.
By the way, I'm 25 and from Germany. So you don't have to be an 'old hippie' to enjoy the greatness of this music.
Love you Tom.
danb97 4 years ago
Hi danb97, You are so right.I would encourage you to help others of your generation in Germany to discover this man music and get th