Buckinghams - Don't You Care [Very Good quality]

[discoqueen1970]

You know, you look at these guys and other bands of the day and they all look like polite young men you would take home to daddy. Today's bands look like you are ready to take them to jail and book them.

[loverofgoodmusic23]

I care.

[Civitatuccillo]

Ah yes, A wonderful song that takes me back , This song was played all the time in high school. A great song to sing along to, especially with that someone special.

for a few minutes, I am a young fellow again!!

[Wacokid48]

love this song..The Buckingham's guitar player and I were in the same study class at Lane Tech in 1965. The rest of the group were from Shurz High School..our bitter rivals! how was that? Chicago in the 60's was the bomb...great groups...great friends..great times...but mostly...great music ! North Syde forever!

[suebee3490]

@Wacokid48 that is awesome - thanks for sharing

[Barking914]

What a super classic wonderful song about love. The horns in the background marks the Buckingham's sound. "The girl of your dreams standing there all alone, can't you see your hurting me, don't you care?", So well written and performed, Yep, you are right, not to be repeated today. Oh well......

[nochum4me]

love it...mymymymymy,,,,babbbbbyyyy­yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[larrydh57]

Sounds great



[godbless534]

brings back memories of the good old days....

[shellybellysf]

A1 quality thx you..sweet memories

[tolanstout]

The lead singer was not very good at double tracking his voice. I prefer Bruce Arnold of Orpheus who never had to double track.

[larrydh57]

@tolanstout Doubletracking his voice? Is that a term anyone knows? Actually, it is just a bunch of double BULLSHIT. How would anyone double track his voice? Stu fucking PITDITY.

[tolanstout]

@larrydh57 Wow what a complete moron you are. Everyone knows what double-tracking is and for the 8 year-old's and people with mild down syndrome (such as yourself) that don't know, there is wikipedia. Look it up boy and then marvel at the truly talented artists that don't have to use a crutch like double-tracking their voice - something this singer did poorly.

[larrydh57]

@tolanstout Yea, I have down syndrome. Funny. WHY DON'T YOU GO DOWN ON MY DOG....assmunch.

[deborahflory]

@larrydh57 Your dog is too good for him.

[larrydh57]

@tolanstout The only thing the singer did poorly was let double dipped DOUCHE BAGS like you listen to his music. How long have you been an "EXPERT?"

[tolanstout]

@larrydh57 Oh my God it's not mild down syndrome, it's full-blown. lol. Where are you quoting "expert" from you pedophile?

[TheIntruders]

@tolanstout Careful Tolan, Larry might have retard strength. Seriously this whole flame war started because a 55 year-old larrydh57 didn't know what double-tracking was. Grow up dude. You're 55!

[TheGoldvarg]

@TheIntruders LO> Even my 8 year-old knows what double-tracking is and can already operate an auto-tune. Too bad they didn't have that back when the Buckinghams were making music. The lead singer needed it.

[larrydh57]

@TheIntruders 55 is both of your IQs! TOGETHER.

[deborahflory]

@larrydh57 Shut the F*** Up! You're probably some fat ass, ugly, stinky, disgusting poor excuse for a man. What a stupid comment you posted. Shit for brains LOSER!

[deborahflory]

@tolanstout My son has Down Syndrome and I am extremely offended by your ignorant comment. You must really be a LOSER to say something rude and distasteful like you did. I'll bet my son is smarter than you and has a lot more friends than you do. Anyone who insults a handicapped person is lower than a snakes belly. Your a sad excuse of a person. Do us a favor and EAT SHIT AND DIE!

[larrydh57]

@tolanstout Double cracking? Isn't that what you do with both your sisters?

[Soulvigilante]

@tolanstout What's actually happening here is the studio version is being played (common practice then and now for TV appearances; you'll notice of course the horns are nowhere to be found), and he is singing the lead live over that (much rarer for the time). Yes, the "double-track" effect is a bit off-putting here, since the vocals on the original single were not double-tracked. It was likely the sound engineer was asleep at the wheel when the cameras rolled; I doubt the result was deliberate.

[JERRYTHECOG]

The Buckinghams rock!

[ggigie]

Dennis Tufano is the man!

[is2daytuesday]

Awesome. Thanks for posting this. Tis great quality.

[dunskie]

Killer killer tune.

[jcp0129eek]

I was in Chicago's Old Town in 1968 and had to duck into "The Empourium" to dodge many tornadoes going through the town and suburbs. I remember crawling into the store on my chest because of the wind and debris flying around outside. We all went back into a safer place and wouldn't ya know it. The Buckingham's were shopping in that store. I got to meet these guys. Yes they were very big in Chicago. Susan was one of my favorites...ya see I was in love with a girl named Susan at the time.

[suebee3490]

@jcp0129eek What a great story - thanks!

[rdcky1]

Fantastic song.

[essessessesq]

looks like a live lead vocal by Denny Tufano, sung over the recorded instrumental track....good for Denny!

[juan58102]

Al of you guys are getting old like me.. these song of our era makes us to feel we young again.. and our eyes beaming again for love! We really enjoyed our youth .. I grow up in Arica Chile.. But songs were so nice! Oh God my generation!

[BLUESMANRONCHICAGO]

they once played at my high school, New Trier East in Winnetka, along with Shadows of Knight, Pacific Gas and Electric and the Vogues. all those groups were big in the windy city, and were really pretty good bands

[motorcityquig]

@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO Man, what a line up.

[Raquel5750]

Yeah! 57 Highland, you're hot!! Absolutely, Dennis is a fantastic singer, great voice, not sure anyone else around like him! The 60's live on forever!! and to ed 917751, same goes for me, I was a kid in the 60's and didn't know about Dennis, I'm enjoying him now though, he's smokin', Peace + love to everyone

[jjwardma1]

great song, thx



[chuckbuckbobuck]

What's to dislike about this song? It's great!

[Tokewhichu]

You gotta dig those Do's,love the song and the other ones they sang.Mercy mercy mercy.Kind of a drag.

[nashvillesong1]

Cool song! always loved it.....awesome 2 1/2 minute masterpiece.....what great songs are all about.

[tolanstout]

Orpheus was better.

[57highland]

One of the best of songs of the 60s, including all those great Beatle and British Invasion songs.

[crazyhorse99999]

Love the Buckinghams. reminds of days down the park and the beach.

[greenpilgrim50]

WOW, over 60k views and not one dislike, I don't think I've ever seen that before. Anyway, I really dig this guys voice; always have, always will.

[starcharm]

ummm, the lead singer is really really hot O.O

[jojoneli76]

@starcharm I agree and he is still looking good at 65.

[Avillageidiot59]

I like the coachman collars.

[bryanbradford]

My VERY favorite Bucks tune... :0D

[irobot2009able]

all that no talent crap today this is real talent

[amsedelm]

Love it love it love it!

[Jany1954]

WONDERFUL!

[audiomez]

James William Guercio was honing his "CTA" chops using these guys' recordings increasingly as a "workshop" w/each successive session production.

Sessionists influentially related to individuals that eventually became formative in the inception of CTA. participated.

But mainly its the studio/production-mixing advances that Guercio and his production team were perfecting during their efforts w/Buckinhams that embellished their natural appeal & foreshadowed the dawning perfection to emerge as CTA

[sidguill]

Its good quality because it lip synced. That is a studio recording. That's mostly what they did in those days.

[hooptyhee]

Listening to this, on the CTA thing--the horns in the background sound distinctly like Pankow, Parazaider and Loughnane, or at least two of them.

[javelin1010]

thankyou so much for posting this.......great vocals and instrument mix

[TechnoPath99]

Wow they remind me of the beatles with their hair and instruments

[donuntboy25]

@TechnoPath99 one guys using a violin bass, someones using an epiphone casino, anothers 0plpaying a voz continental organ and the drummers using a ludwig black oyster pearl kit. it looks a lot like thde beatles

[ultraroadmap]

The lead singer would never have escaped the public eye as quickly as he did in the 60's if he had comparable hits in today's music world....that may be a blessing for him!

[texmexfan1]

The harmonizing on the chorus sounds great.

[beatlemania2006]

This has been stuck in my head all day. Better when the vocal's double-tracked IMHO. :-)

[skeechful]

what a great song, thanks for the Chicago connection, I can hear it.

[raiderdanCA]

Damn good performance, considering he was singing live over his own voice track --and now I've got the explanation of the background horns ( which provide such power for the melody ) ... Thanks guys, this is a great piece, backed up with some important notes from YOU !!

[yogini34]

Ah, love the '60's. This brings back some great, and not so great, memories. I loved The Buckinghams and The Beatles, and just about everyone else. In those days, here in So. Co., it wasn't either or, you listened to everything 'cause it was all good. I even remember watching this show, as the Smothers Brothers was one of my favorite variety shows. And no, Dennis is not lip-syncing, he's over-singing the dub track. They were cute, and they had hair and they weren't covered in tats.

[CruiseControlOne]

They were in a class in itself. No profanity or sloppy clothes. Just pure simplicity and incredible musical arrangements where the vibes of the tune just made you close your eyes and enjoy the moment and wonder how life was back when the song was just released. Fresh and new.

[dijagood]

thanks so much for one of the best ever and i noticed 0 weak thumbs

the 60s were so great, i'm glad we never have to leave thanks to people who take their time and talent and share these with those of us that just have great memories, thanks again, jg

[hurricanejohnson]

Great video. If you listen closely, you can hear the singer is actually singing over the top of the studio track....so no lip-sync, but you get doubled vocal. Actually sounds pretty cool. I always liked the Buckinghams.

[jflaugher]

Could they try harder to look like the Beatles?

[marnew08]

that's when guys were cute

[chloewalker8089]

@marnew08 agreed. not only were guys cuter back then, but they were respectful. i'd rather have a boyfriend back then when they respectful. now most guys crass, crude, and disrespectful.

[marnew08]

@chloewalker8089 i agree and guess what i thought when i got older it would get better ,no, they actually get worse. i have men 10 years younger than me talk more polite than men my own age.

[marnew08]

cool . these days they are rude and when you get older it gets worse i have had men 10 years younger treat me more polite than guys my own age

[hooptyhee]

As several people have mentioned, they have the Chicago horn section, and Guercio certainly contributed to both groups' sounds. Compare this one (w/ Guercio) to Kind of a Drag (without him, I think), and then listen to the first CTA album, and the harmonies on that. Whatever their backgrounds, I always thought early Chicago sounded like the very sophisticated, jazzified distillation of the Chicago area local pop group sound circa '65-'66.

[jillydo]

I've had this song on my iPod for months and just re-discovered it yesterday. I've been hooked on it ever since. Love this video - Dennis is just so adorable! And I love the pre-"Chicago" horns too! A real gem from the great 60's. Thanks for uploading.

[foxyroxstar]

Top Comments Are Cool but Meet Me At The Stained Glass Blue Crab (BWI) For A Fly Around!....what a question!..in my poetry questions 67 and 68 were What Is Love and What Is Life!....A Man about His..a Woman about Hers..SAE!

[67rml]

Back when the lead singer could actually SING!!!  What a concept. Check it out kids, you just do not know...

[dkthg]

@67rml Fuck you! Don't underestimate the power of auto-tune!

[gmlspends]

really great quality. thanks so much!!

[wouldntyoulike2know]

Dennis looks sooo good here. His suit is just so classy.

[clarkhudgens]

and CTA played horns on thier albums

[LesbianVampireLover]

Everyone should search on "Dennis Tufano" (original Buckingham's lead singer) and look at the stuff he's done the last couple of years. This man is incredible, sounds better than ever, and looks great. He's been doing a lot of Bobby Darin material, too. Check it out.

[vegasrocks5313]

What agreat song and group! Ahhh the sixties.....

[music4healings]

i do care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[foxyroxstar]

I'll bet that Many Women Loved THEM Better than The Beatles!

[MANUELFARINELLI]

ohhh what a good way to make music!!

[avmtech1968]

He is singing to his own vocal.....you can hear both of his voices...the live and the recorded. its lipsyncing out loud...lol

[fa0798]

Carl is rippin that guitar too much to match the song

[RP50]

the lead vocal is live.

[fa0798]

What an idiot...this was 60's lip synching at its best...FJA NJ

[uscpat]

@fa0798 This is definitely NOT the original hit recording. I think it is live. And well done. GREAT song.

[frankho99]

love the beatles presentation. organ player looks ghoulish. dead. drummer looks like frankenstein or marty feldman sure were uhhhgly. monkey looks like geoge harrison. lead singer must've been miserable surrounded by these buggaboos.

[motorcityquig]

When this band was at the top of their game, they had two things going. They were huge in Chicago and they partied at the Playboy Mansion.

[rockfan363]

@motorcityquig Hey, I am just getting into them. I am looking into them and when I saw this, holy fuck! The Playboy Mansion?!

[motorcityquig]

@rockfan363 As a matter of fact, the hit song of theirs, "Susan" was written by one of the bandmembers who was dumped by a Playboy bunny.

[motorcityquig]

@rockfan363 As a matter of fact, their hit "Susan" was written by one the of the bandmembers who was dumped by his Playboy bunny girlfriend.

[rockfan363]

@motorcityquig That's interesting and what a lucky bastard.

[Kyleprod]

Super song. Thank you Buckinghams.

[thattimeisnow]

great song. major collars!

[hooptyhee1]

You can see where the early Chicago Transit Authority sound came from--they shared a producer, after all.

[rayjr62]

@hooptyhee1 I don't think they had very much in common. All the musicians from Chicago came from either jazz or the blues.

[1986billyk]

@hooptyhee1 just thinking the same exact thought. CTA got a lotta game from these guys.

[uselessjoe]

@hooptyhee1 james william Guerico also produced Blood Sweat and Tears...all featuring horn sections...he later started CMT network and sold it for like $600 million....not bad...by the way, the think he is the reason Chicago IS NOT in the rock and roll hall of fame....somebody doesn't like him...just sayin...

[Treaty4]

Great memory from a band with a good looking lead singer and something beautiful to say.

[mzklover]

Wow, terrific! Looks and sounds great! Thank you!

[folz208]

One of my favorite songs from the mid 60's...Thanks for uploading. The Buckinghams were one of the best bands to come out of the chicago based bands of the era.

[oLdSkOoLkisS]

this really sounds good....thanks

[JakeANowhereMan]

Yup You Win BEST HQ