This is one of those songs that we listened to on our little AM radios in the early 70's. It was a great tune back then. But to hear it in stereo, HQ audio, makes it that much better!
Those leisure suits and the plaid coat bring back memories of a time when that is what I was most focused on -being in style. As much time that has gone by , it still seems almost like yesterday 1976.!! Thks for posting murphicus. I'm with you ycanada- your comment is so right.
Very pretty hit song from 1971, yet the group's native Canada thought it too intimate.....tsask task. BTW the male vocalist is Cliff Edwards, as in the old time American vaudevillian and Jiminy Cricket voice.
Such a lovely song. It's got that moment in my life that I cherish so. Brings me back to a time where things just are. The sounds are tender, the voices pure and simple. I remember them on TV...two innocent kids. Has hope. What life/love could be if our hearts desired so...
I was putting washing on the line and singing this song from 40 years ago. Looked on you tube and saw your post. I am in Australia but the kids in your yearbook could have been my friends, they look so much alike. Funny how songs bring back memories! This was 'our song' for my first love and I in our teens. Thanks for the post.
Why do i get so sad and melancholy looking at those faces? Knowing those frozen in time gazes, overflowing with hope are now thirty years past their best moments. So sad indeed.
@ycanada No, I think that for most, the best moments are after high school - they have been for me at least. Yes, I'd love to have my hair back and yes, I wish my body was in the same shape it was in 1976, but there are more than enough experiences to make up for it.
A video that does make me feel a bit like that is Youth Group's cover of Alphaville's "Forever Young" with footage from the 1975 Australian skate board championships: /watch?v=rQi8wEHMm5Y
@ycanada Thirty year's past their "best moments?" "So sad, indeed?" I graduated from high school just a few year's before these young people and, I can tell you, their adventure is only beginning at this age!! I look at these youthful faces and remember that I was young once, ready to set-out on life. For me, a good kind of melancholy.
This is a actually sad song...it sounds as if a beautiful love that never became and both girl and boy went different ways for no reason at all. Someday, they marry but are unhappy, only to wonder as to where each one are went.
@planetrob555 Yes, but she likes it. The song has lust, no doubt but doesn't all teenage love have a pretty large dose of lust to it? But the lust is justifiable because it is the first real experience of young love.
Solo quienes hemos vivido algunos añitos podemos apreciar la grandeza de esto, una lagrima y una sonrisa así es la vida. PERO VALE LA PENA...QUE BELLO AMIGO GRACIAS POR PUBLICAR ESTA RELIQUIA.
Check out Amazon.ca - there is a best of album that includes this track. I can also probably pull some pics of my old vinyl albums.
We used to see them regularly at the old Edgewater Hotel in Pointe Claire, QC back in the 70's. Jacki often would drop by the table to chat between sets. Cliff too on occasion.
I love this voice so sensual, feminine feel that transports me an ecstasy and seduction world that excites me sex and fantasy create me a thousand thanks for uploading this beautiful and divine melody greetings from Argentina with all my love zeus atte ivan
Thanks for posting this. I was class of '76 TPHS in 29 Palms California. Its amazing how so many of your classmates could pass for mine. We are all more alike than we want to admit. Beautiful job.
@luxwolf It's Hawley High School in Hawley Minnesota 56549.
Unfortunately, we recently lost our third classmate out of 54 who graduated. Terri (@ 0:48) just passed away of cancer. Most of us are 52 or 53 years old now.
I understand about the homogeneity. I grew up in Queens in the 60s and 70s. Neighborhoods were really segregated even though it was New York - the so called melting pot. Come to think of it...not much has changed! Great song and great memories.
Wow... okay what a night, I just found some Poppy Family music , Good Friends, You Don't know What Love Is, with Susan Jacks and her beautiful voice; and now this brings ya right back ... don't it; to when the world was younger and gentler ! And oh yes .. what great music .. Thanks to murphicus for posting this !
you brought the biggest smile to my face as my heart,i was 16 years old then,best year of my life,im 49 now,and all you people in this are beautiful,remeber sweet,bay city rollers,terry jacks,gerry rafferty,and al stewart?if these days could even come close to then,i would not have a complaint,it was my first doobee,my first drink,first girlfriend and love,and i did,cried for a month when we grew apart,took a year to get over,and my 1st ???lol and there will never be another like her,to laura.
Thank you Murphicus ! You ignited many fond memories of that time in my life with this song. Growing up in rural Wis. (class of '77), It's easy to relate. Though I never knew them, my heart goes out to you and the friends & families of Patti & Greg ...loosing friends & classmates in the prime of their lives is a sad and painful thing to live with. They will never be forgotten.
....OMG!! I almost forgot, about this song!! I have this on 7" single, somewhere in my massive record collection. Beautiful pop song, I especially love the male vocal parts, & piano keys. Canada produced many wonderful pop hits in the 70's. *****STARS out of 5. Peace Gary in PA USA.
Edit: i.e., ...that they (this youth) be useful pieces 'of the puzzle' for a better society. Thanks again. All the best to you young people! In age or at heart, God bless indeed.
Thanks Murphi! Really enjoyed the song (nice memories), seeing the innocent faces of this youth - some perhaps naive but good'n kind nevertheless. Great to see that from them arose a potential to become engineers, scientists, teachers, moms / housewives, coaches and other professional, fine citizens - providing they had the right mentors. God bless the common yet indispensable blue collar worker too, that they be useful pieces for a better society.
Yup, all of the above from our class of 55 - many educators and nurses. My rough count is that 15 of the guys (myself included) and 10 of the girls were from farm families - and I think that only one of the guys is still farming.
When we were in 10th grade we built a new football field; cut, hauled and laid all the sod, planted the trees and built the press box, concessions, storage and rest room buildings in Industrial Arts, Ag & PE classes. Hard to imagine today with liability!
@secordman So very romantic looking back at this and hearing that song again. It always causes me to feel like the young girl I once was who danced her very first slow dance to this song. Life and music sure do go together nicely.
Thanks! One photographer did all the photos (in small town MN we did not comparison shop!) and I remember having some taken with my letterman's jacket on too - and one showing my (NOW LOST) class ring! The nature shots were new our year I think... dressing for driftwood? I also think that the large collage that they always hung in the school office for the year was in color for the first time with our class.
What a great idea for a video!! I love seeing these terrific pictures of you and your classmates - and listening to a song I haven't thought of in too long!! Being a '71 graduate, I'm also wondering what happened to all that hair!! Five stars!!
Really a nice video. I recently had my 40th reunion and was taken aback by the number of deceased classmates. Earlier this week a young lady who went K-12 with me passed on.
Your video of your class is very nostaligic & fitting, particularly with this song. One of the other posts commented about how attractive your classmate at the 22 second time is, & certainly I wouldn't argue with that, however, I think she doesn't hold a candle to the one at the 59 second time. I don't know if any of you have kept in touch or how everyone looks these days, but she is has an absolutely beautiful face in my opinion. She practically glows in that photo. Does she still?
Thanks for the comment! The answer is yes! I've just added a couple of links under "more info" to clips from our 10 year reunion in 1986 and our 30 year reunion in 2006 - one is the same as the "video response" above.
Another band member, Doug Gravelle put hardwood and ceramic floors in a couple of houses I've owned. I'll have to ask how he and Cliff ended up in our little town. Both are from Montreal.
Thank you Murphicus for the memories. It looks just like my high school yearbook and brings up lots of 50 something angst but it feels good......means I'm still alive....lol
Some of the band gets together and plays still. One of them, Cliff Edwards owns MacNeils Landing restaurant in my hometown of Gananoque Ontario in the 1000 Islands. They do shows in the restaurant regularly but they don't call themselves the Bells. Usually they cover other artists.....don't forget they are in there late 50s and 60's. But Jackie is still hot and Cliffs a player still.
Totally agree with Lakings. Great job Murphi. The song may not be of total innocence but I prefer to see an innocent character of young people in their mid / late teens with all of their future ahead, hopefully for good ... just like these young faces in your video. Really brought back some nostalgic memories. Thank you.
@blooduhz You would have only one little problem that I could think of.These pictures were from the class of 1976.There is a small chance that she might not look the same now.
This was probably one of the few easy listening songs I'd have given the time of day to during the 70's. It was really Jacki's voice that did it for me especially at the end when she whispers '...I guess I'm gonna stay'. Oh yeah and the Susan Jacks ending of her hit, 'I want you to love me' . Nice vid too! Go Ken and Go Canada!
Thanks for posting this one. I almost forgot about it. You are right it is a good song from our generation of hits. I'm from the class of '75 and it is sad when you look back at classmates that are no longer with us. Stay well my friend.
The song is dreadful; the woman's voice is particularly horrid. But the whole thing is very touching--all those young faces looking out on their futures. I wonder what happened to those kids?
Greg (1:44) and Patty (0:55) have passed away; Greg, shortly after graduation and Patty, just after getting her law degree. The rest are still with us. I have much less hair (1:32) but am still kicking. If you poke around in the video responses & hhs76, you will see others.
I totally disagree about the song (That's why I used it!) as it was a favorite song of mine in Jr high. Good slow dance songs were a bonus in the early 70's; Chicago "Color My World" was another fave.
A great song about classmates is "The Class of 57" I'm starting to feel like that! In our class of 55 people, I think that most of us are mostly happy with our lives. I moved away 20 years ago & it's hard for me to imagine still being in a small town. Truth be told, I was out dancing with last night with the daughter of one of my high school teachers; go figure? We never know what life has in store. Small town life has many positives and negatives. Growing up where fashion & $ was not a priority
beautiful tribute video ,great memories for you I bet , this great song brings great memories of the summer of 71' when I first came to Canada at 15..
Just waiting on someone to do a country remake of this.....Since most of today's country stars grew up on George Jones, Johnny Cash, Beatles and Journey.....Allison Krause with Paisley????
WOW! Heard this on our honeymoon at the St Bonaventure in Montreal - and the year after at the Holiday Inn at Richfield Ohio. Still happy after all these years...just where are the Bells these days?
When I was a kid I thought it was a little creepy, but enjoyed it. Kinda like Roberta flacks 'The first time ever I saw your face'. Kinda creepy but cool. Ah Lou Reed huh?
Thx for posting this wonderful song. In 1971 - newlywed and was 20 yrs old. Good songs back then. They also had another hit "I Love You Lady Dawn". I am also looking for that one.
This song was written by Ken Tobias from Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Hit # 1 on the charts in Canada and # 7 in USA. Sold over 4 million copies. The band playing this song is from Montreal called The Bells. Canadian musicians are superb.
I was reading your comment. We graduated 105 that was a huge class for our school.lol
Most started in first grade. We had a big drop out because the boys back then went shrimping and at that time could make pretty good money. lol then their were some of us that went to college. It is still so good to have reunions. We started with the 5 year one. Kept on...
Thanks for sharing.... class of '76 ! :) btw I sure wish I had saved my shoes! lol
It is fun - though it seems like those who still live in the town are the hardest "make" attend!
I think that my town is having an all school reunion this summer... as always, most had flames for people from other classes!
Most all the guys in our class were farmers, so they stuck it out... A good thing, with what happened to farming shortly after 76.... I think that one is still a farmer!
Thanks for sharing this video. Whenever I hear this song, I am reminded of my highschool days here in the Philippines. I graduated from highschool in 1976.
I am from the Philippines. This song is so famous during our highschool days. I graduated from highschool in 1976. It's one of my favorites. Thanks for sharing this video.
Greetings Murphicus from the EHS Class of '71 in Ky. I can appreciate the small classes since only 33 in our class of '71. Thanks for posting this great song about the time of our graduation; one of the songs played at Senior prom. Only 100-150 or so students in all our four high school grades during '70's; have several good friends from our school class of '76, most of whom are still living nearby as do I. Great time to be a teen in the '70's! Thanks again
I remember my boyfriend introducing me to this song about 17 years ago, I thought what a sweet song from a sweet guy, I used to sing it to him then, after a break up and back 2gether, I guess I'm gonna sing it to him again.
im 28, and have not heard his song before. I hope you are all doing well. Im smart enough to know i will be there, and the inuendo of this song, 4 years before i was born
Thanks for the comment! All except for Patty (@ 0:56) and Greg (@ 1:44) are still with us - I am missing a few photos in this clip - Cali, Doug, Terry, Lori - I'm sorry! I'll work on it for our 40th!
I think that out of the 55 in our graduating class @ 40 of us started in 1st grade together.
i remember hearing this on am radio in milwaukee and thinking i'd like to feel this way about someone some day. i was 8 years old then, now i'm 46 & still love this song & found someone who i'd like to stay awhile with. such inoscence in those memories. :)
I'm class of '77 myself. It's amazing how you can look at these photos and be reminded of a similar person in your own school. I can almost sense how these students were, the cliques they hung with, etc. You got me diggin' out my old photos now! Very cool song too. Great job Murphicus.
I'm sure that pictures of the Bells are around somewhere. Unfortunately, on the album covers that I own of the group, there are none. I recall, when I saw the Bells, circa 1970, performing at our local university pub, that Jackie Ralph was quite attractive and had a hauntingly sexy whisper of a voice.
This is one of those songs that we listened to on our little AM radios in the early 70's. It was a great tune back then. But to hear it in stereo, HQ audio, makes it that much better!
KLOU1580 2 weeks ago
was the weed any good back then?
t1mTV 1 month ago
BEAUTIFUL LOVE SONG. THIS SONG AND WONDERFUL TONIGHT BY CLAPTON ARE THE TWO BEST IN MY OPINION.
LLcoolDel 1 month ago
I was 15 years old when this song came out.
asiantrolls 2 months ago
Now the question is, what do these people look like today?!!
FischerFan 2 months ago
Lovely song, nice photos but I pray that no one puts up pictures from my high school years!
2661960 3 months ago
Those leisure suits and the plaid coat bring back memories of a time when that is what I was most focused on -being in style. As much time that has gone by , it still seems almost like yesterday 1976.!! Thks for posting murphicus. I'm with you ycanada- your comment is so right.
Jander4031 3 months ago
I fell in love with this song the first time I heard it.
888810able 3 months ago 3
@888810able Agreed! I never heard this until 1999! They played it on a oldies station in New Jersey and I loved it right away.
workmatters77 3 months ago
is this band from montreal
melfriend7 3 months ago
Very pretty hit song from 1971, yet the group's native Canada thought it too intimate.....tsask task. BTW the male vocalist is Cliff Edwards, as in the old time American vaudevillian and Jiminy Cricket voice.
SteveCarras 4 months ago
really nice song & nice people. remind me to the past. God bless you all.
patricknet100 4 months ago
this song makes me smile'' :)
LegnaMcCartney 4 months ago
Such a lovely song. It's got that moment in my life that I cherish so. Brings me back to a time where things just are. The sounds are tender, the voices pure and simple. I remember them on TV...two innocent kids. Has hope. What life/love could be if our hearts desired so...
PhantomRider613 5 months ago
I was putting washing on the line and singing this song from 40 years ago. Looked on you tube and saw your post. I am in Australia but the kids in your yearbook could have been my friends, they look so much alike. Funny how songs bring back memories! This was 'our song' for my first love and I in our teens. Thanks for the post.
boc1953 7 months ago 6
@boc1953 Very Cool! Thanks!
murphicus 5 months ago
i really love this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MyAmeliarose 7 months ago
Why do i get so sad and melancholy looking at those faces? Knowing those frozen in time gazes, overflowing with hope are now thirty years past their best moments. So sad indeed.
ycanada 8 months ago
@ycanada No, I think that for most, the best moments are after high school - they have been for me at least. Yes, I'd love to have my hair back and yes, I wish my body was in the same shape it was in 1976, but there are more than enough experiences to make up for it.
A video that does make me feel a bit like that is Youth Group's cover of Alphaville's "Forever Young" with footage from the 1975 Australian skate board championships: /watch?v=rQi8wEHMm5Y
murphicus 8 months ago
@ycanada Looking at "BrooksRobby5 " page, it looks like he has some issues... They have been blocked and the comments removed.
murphicus 7 months ago
@ycanada Thirty year's past their "best moments?" "So sad, indeed?" I graduated from high school just a few year's before these young people and, I can tell you, their adventure is only beginning at this age!! I look at these youthful faces and remember that I was young once, ready to set-out on life. For me, a good kind of melancholy.
dlpine71 5 months ago
This is a actually sad song...it sounds as if a beautiful love that never became and both girl and boy went different ways for no reason at all. Someday, they marry but are unhappy, only to wonder as to where each one are went.
2003Brad 2 weeks ago
I truly with all my heart "HATE" this song! :(((((
drummingjohn4u 8 months ago
@drummingjohn4u Then why in the world would you come here to listen to it?
Alikah1 6 months ago
awesome. thanks, murph.
JesusConvictScorpion 8 months ago
This is creepy. Sneaking into my room without making a sound?
planetrob555 8 months ago
@planetrob555 Yes, but she likes it. The song has lust, no doubt but doesn't all teenage love have a pretty large dose of lust to it? But the lust is justifiable because it is the first real experience of young love.
boc1953 5 months ago
AWSOME
airofthenight865 9 months ago
Solo quienes hemos vivido algunos añitos podemos apreciar la grandeza de esto, una lagrima y una sonrisa así es la vida. PERO VALE LA PENA...QUE BELLO AMIGO GRACIAS POR PUBLICAR ESTA RELIQUIA.
solangeballet 10 months ago
Check out Amazon.ca - there is a best of album that includes this track. I can also probably pull some pics of my old vinyl albums.
We used to see them regularly at the old Edgewater Hotel in Pointe Claire, QC back in the 70's. Jacki often would drop by the table to chat between sets. Cliff too on occasion.
They were a special group.
rdvqc 10 months ago
Good Canadian band from Montreal....
neopreneca 10 months ago
wow. half of them look like my 76 grad class. them clothes . . . them hair lol. some things were universal back then i guess. thx for posting.
flibideegibbit 11 months ago
Muy bonito, me encanta.
belenperegrina 11 months ago
HILARIOUS! Thank you, so much!
timjonesart 11 months ago
70's suits, shirts and long hair. Nice video.
NcicHit2 11 months ago
OMG. I haven't heard this in decades. Oh, high school days. When life was simple & free.
Thank you.
4APJourney 11 months ago
I love this voice so sensual, feminine feel that transports me an ecstasy and seduction world that excites me sex and fantasy create me a thousand thanks for uploading this beautiful and divine melody greetings from Argentina with all my love zeus atte ivan
honesto100 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this. I was class of '76 TPHS in 29 Palms California. Its amazing how so many of your classmates could pass for mine. We are all more alike than we want to admit. Beautiful job.
1mongorock 1 year ago 2
@1mongorock Thank you! My pleasure - and here is to your 35th this spring! We are waiting for next years "All School" reunion to get together again.
murphicus 11 months ago
@murphicus
I've waited 35 years to hear this song again. It meant so much to me when I was a kid.
I could never find it, but now, after all these years, here it is.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
mnmb01 11 months ago
@1mongorock I stumbled on this because I was looking for the song, and I agree ~ most of these kids went to my high school in Maine too!
Kackthy 6 months ago
awww.. this makes me feel nostalgic about my own hs class.. this is excellent work.. :)
tydaLane 1 year ago
Rhyming "quiver" and "give her" still blows me away after all these years!
handballr15 1 year ago
do hhs indicate hampton high school..^
luxwolf 1 year ago
@luxwolf It's Hawley High School in Hawley Minnesota 56549.
Unfortunately, we recently lost our third classmate out of 54 who graduated. Terri (@ 0:48) just passed away of cancer. Most of us are 52 or 53 years old now.
murphicus 1 year ago
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1mongorock 1 year ago
@murphicus
I just posted some other class photos on Facebook:
tiny(dot)cc/HHS76 - and I posted the entire link under "more Info" chevron
murphicus 11 months ago
my parents' theme song :) very nice..
kylefoxcat11 1 year ago
This song actually came out in '71, but oh well, still nice to see historical photos.
scottbaino 1 year ago
I understand about the homogeneity. I grew up in Queens in the 60s and 70s. Neighborhoods were really segregated even though it was New York - the so called melting pot. Come to think of it...not much has changed! Great song and great memories.
boomerlady 1 year ago
so multi cultural.
boomerlady 1 year ago
@boomerlady *LOL* - Well, we did have a few Non-Norwegians! I myself am half Irish & half Norwegian.
In the 70's farm towns in Northern Minnesota tended to be a bit homogenized!
murphicus 1 year ago
Wow... okay what a night, I just found some Poppy Family music , Good Friends, You Don't know What Love Is, with Susan Jacks and her beautiful voice; and now this brings ya right back ... don't it; to when the world was younger and gentler ! And oh yes .. what great music .. Thanks to murphicus for posting this !
shottut 1 year ago
wonderful job
link71711 1 year ago
you brought the biggest smile to my face as my heart,i was 16 years old then,best year of my life,im 49 now,and all you people in this are beautiful,remeber sweet,bay city rollers,terry jacks,gerry rafferty,and al stewart?if these days could even come close to then,i would not have a complaint,it was my first doobee,my first drink,first girlfriend and love,and i did,cried for a month when we grew apart,took a year to get over,and my 1st ???lol and there will never be another like her,to laura.
knight1768 1 year ago
@knight1768 thanks for the great comment on "Stay Awhile" - you might enjoy this too... my favorite Gerry Rafferty song
youtube com/watch?v=uA20Z_6H4v4
murphicus 1 year ago
@knight1768 sorry-but you were 14. I am the same age and I was 14 in 1976.
quickstar71 1 year ago
What an amazing video. You should take some of the pictures of your reunion and match them with the year pics.
I did not go to your high school, and I am from another part of the country, but those show how alike we all are.
Thank you.
booknplays 1 year ago
@booknplays Thank you! I'm working on reunion pics - some older ones are in the video responses above.
murphicus 1 year ago
Canadian music at its very best - still unknown to so many
FUNJLSLIKE 1 year ago
Thank you Murphicus ! You ignited many fond memories of that time in my life with this song. Growing up in rural Wis. (class of '77), It's easy to relate. Though I never knew them, my heart goes out to you and the friends & families of Patti & Greg ...loosing friends & classmates in the prime of their lives is a sad and painful thing to live with. They will never be forgotten.
Kodiak8066 1 year ago
....OMG!! I almost forgot, about this song!! I have this on 7" single, somewhere in my massive record collection. Beautiful pop song, I especially love the male vocal parts, & piano keys. Canada produced many wonderful pop hits in the 70's. *****STARS out of 5. Peace Gary in PA USA.
gary56victor57 1 year ago
@gary56victor57
Frank Mills (think "Music Box Dancer" was the keybordist for "The Bells"
Remember Terry jacks - "Seasons in the Sun"?
murphicus 1 year ago
Why they all loook either left or right :D? Was that how u taken a picture back in the days?
ThisIsDream 1 year ago
@ThisIsDream
One photographer
murphicus 1 year ago
Edit: i.e., ...that they (this youth) be useful pieces 'of the puzzle' for a better society. Thanks again. All the best to you young people! In age or at heart, God bless indeed.
Querencias 1 year ago
Thanks Murphi! Really enjoyed the song (nice memories), seeing the innocent faces of this youth - some perhaps naive but good'n kind nevertheless. Great to see that from them arose a potential to become engineers, scientists, teachers, moms / housewives, coaches and other professional, fine citizens - providing they had the right mentors. God bless the common yet indispensable blue collar worker too, that they be useful pieces for a better society.
Querencias 1 year ago
@Querencias
Yup, all of the above from our class of 55 - many educators and nurses. My rough count is that 15 of the guys (myself included) and 10 of the girls were from farm families - and I think that only one of the guys is still farming.
When we were in 10th grade we built a new football field; cut, hauled and laid all the sod, planted the trees and built the press box, concessions, storage and rest room buildings in Industrial Arts, Ag & PE classes. Hard to imagine today with liability!
murphicus 1 year ago
Aww, so sweet! I remember those hairdos n clothes and the civil(mostly), politeness of that generation. I'm class of '66. Major dif n the style.
LindaLuigi 1 year ago
what a video it remind me of my high school
metairiela2001 1 year ago
Anyone who went to high school in the early 70's can relate to those yearbook pics. Well done.
secordman 1 year ago
@secordman So very romantic looking back at this and hearing that song again. It always causes me to feel like the young girl I once was who danced her very first slow dance to this song. Life and music sure do go together nicely.
Such a wonderful video too.
xx
ValsHere 1 year ago
@ValsHere
Thanks!
"Color My World" was my first slow dance : ]
murphicus 1 year ago
@secordman
Thanks! One photographer did all the photos (in small town MN we did not comparison shop!) and I remember having some taken with my letterman's jacket on too - and one showing my (NOW LOST) class ring! The nature shots were new our year I think... dressing for driftwood? I also think that the large collage that they always hung in the school office for the year was in color for the first time with our class.
murphicus 1 year ago
Those 70's styles are groovy
troyhenderson1964 1 year ago
What a great idea for a video!! I love seeing these terrific pictures of you and your classmates - and listening to a song I haven't thought of in too long!! Being a '71 graduate, I'm also wondering what happened to all that hair!! Five stars!!
dlpine71 1 year ago
Cool video, Far Out even.
Hard to find nice soft music anymore.
Piewacket53 1 year ago
sad that nowadays wont made these musics anymore...
josephinejosiejean 1 year ago
I've been looking for their album. Does anyone know how I can get it?
arimbi320 1 year ago
i graduated 1976 HS in my country.....this song was a hit during our time
morninggirls 1 year ago
Really a nice video. I recently had my 40th reunion and was taken aback by the number of deceased classmates. Earlier this week a young lady who went K-12 with me passed on.
By the way, where was your HS located?
WHA73 1 year ago 2
@WHA73
Hawley MN - We are at 53 or 55 still with us.
watch?v=-r7J-Umj1LE
murphicus 1 year ago
this is by far the sexiest and sweetest female voice I've ever heard.... !!!
krome50 1 year ago
this song sounds familiar... i heard this when i was little, my mom used to sing this alternately with her harmonica...
emeraldgreen17 1 year ago
too beautiful song, great memories, the bells did it big with this treasure
beethomozart 1 year ago
you video its cool, i remember the 70´s year, thanks
DrMefis 1 year ago
people had funny hair back then
mrtyles 1 year ago
This was ALWAYS my favorite BELLS song!
Onewitnessus 1 year ago
Nice in every respect. Nostalgic for sure. Well done.
TOCS268 1 year ago
I am thankful to youtube for making the memories that we all have possible. A way to escape just for awhile.........Ty Youtube.
Carolinacross1 1 year ago
RDREYNOLDS47 GREAT LOVE SONG
MegaMUSE23 1 year ago
what class was this i know it was 1976 but what town
metairiela2001 1 year ago
Muy buena cancion
kaprix13 1 year ago
Nothing short of brilliant :0)
RETIREMESOON 1 year ago
Number 0303, what a hotty!
lasalleguyp3 1 year ago
OMG, thank you for this... brings back wonderful memories
dudong921 1 year ago
photos on you tube go to the bells-oh my love its a beatles song pictures are at 42 sec and 110 sec
TerriLynnish 1 year ago
Murphicus,
Your video of your class is very nostaligic & fitting, particularly with this song. One of the other posts commented about how attractive your classmate at the 22 second time is, & certainly I wouldn't argue with that, however, I think she doesn't hold a candle to the one at the 59 second time. I don't know if any of you have kept in touch or how everyone looks these days, but she is has an absolutely beautiful face in my opinion. She practically glows in that photo. Does she still?
illyshin 1 year ago 2
Thanks for the comment! The answer is yes! I've just added a couple of links under "more info" to clips from our 10 year reunion in 1986 and our 30 year reunion in 2006 - one is the same as the "video response" above.
murphicus 1 year ago
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the video its cool, i remember the 70´s year, thanks
DrMefis 1 year ago
Lots of polyester leisure suits on the guys but all in all a great looking bunch of kids set to a beautiful song!!!
zoggy1950 1 year ago
Awesome brings back memories
BUDDIESII 2 years ago
Another band member, Doug Gravelle put hardwood and ceramic floors in a couple of houses I've owned. I'll have to ask how he and Cliff ended up in our little town. Both are from Montreal.
Thank you Murphicus for the memories. It looks just like my high school yearbook and brings up lots of 50 something angst but it feels good......means I'm still alive....lol
nitemoovs 2 years ago
Some of the band gets together and plays still. One of them, Cliff Edwards owns MacNeils Landing restaurant in my hometown of Gananoque Ontario in the 1000 Islands. They do shows in the restaurant regularly but they don't call themselves the Bells. Usually they cover other artists.....don't forget they are in there late 50s and 60's. But Jackie is still hot and Cliffs a player still.
nitemoovs 2 years ago
1:56 I think his name is Ron Nixon.
bbsupersport 2 years ago
*Bzzzzt!* Incorrect, but thanks for playing!
Jeff.
murphicus 2 years ago
Wow...he must have a twin!
bbsupersport 2 years ago
WOW!! Flashback time.....
ford2n2003 2 years ago
Beautiful people, BTW. God bless.
Querencias 2 years ago 6
Totally agree with Lakings. Great job Murphi. The song may not be of total innocence but I prefer to see an innocent character of young people in their mid / late teens with all of their future ahead, hopefully for good ... just like these young faces in your video. Really brought back some nostalgic memories. Thank you.
Querencias 2 years ago 2
Nice!!! Thanks for posting.
It would be great if someone posted The Bells' version of "Simple Song of Freedom"!
fogville 2 years ago 2
0:22 I'd love to Date that woman. she got a beautiful face.
blooduhz 2 years ago 2
@blooduhz You would have only one little problem that I could think of.These pictures were from the class of 1976.There is a small chance that she might not look the same now.
fruitman13 2 years ago
I bet these people are still beautiful though..
lakings13 2 years ago 9
@blooduhz I know that woman -still beautiful, she's hardly changed a bit!
paulnmargi 2 years ago
great job, its such a cool song and the way you did your classmate photos is just awsome. thanks for posting.
tanline10 2 years ago 7
when i heared this,i remember those past of my life,it so lovely sweet this song
Themarvin76 2 years ago 3
This is cool. I also graduated from High
School in 1976.
LICKING HIGH My Cousin Bryan Friend is our class president.
Hopefully the powers that be will have the reunion in 2011. Request has been made
Wow are we that far away from 1976!
trailboyus66 2 years ago
This was probably one of the few easy listening songs I'd have given the time of day to during the 70's. It was really Jacki's voice that did it for me especially at the end when she whispers '...I guess I'm gonna stay'. Oh yeah and the Susan Jacks ending of her hit, 'I want you to love me' . Nice vid too! Go Ken and Go Canada!
Manwithjeep 2 years ago 2
Some songs have a hidden catch, like this one. A combination of voices, lyrics, melody and a wee bit of nostalgia I quess...
harhom 2 years ago
The voice of the girl is really so sweet. Are the photographs individually refer to the group called The Bells ?
wafu2dati2eh 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this one. I almost forgot about it. You are right it is a good song from our generation of hits. I'm from the class of '75 and it is sad when you look back at classmates that are no longer with us. Stay well my friend.
rickcw14 2 years ago
70's is the best love songs!
nicadz 2 years ago
I really love this song - it reminds me of a boyfriend I had years ago - the collage of photos is lovely - thanks for posting.
Rosina57NZ 2 years ago
The song is dreadful; the woman's voice is particularly horrid. But the whole thing is very touching--all those young faces looking out on their futures. I wonder what happened to those kids?
endora60 2 years ago
Greg (1:44) and Patty (0:55) have passed away; Greg, shortly after graduation and Patty, just after getting her law degree. The rest are still with us. I have much less hair (1:32) but am still kicking. If you poke around in the video responses & hhs76, you will see others.
I totally disagree about the song (That's why I used it!) as it was a favorite song of mine in Jr high. Good slow dance songs were a bonus in the early 70's; Chicago "Color My World" was another fave.
These were of out time
murphicus 2 years ago
A great song about classmates is "The Class of 57" I'm starting to feel like that! In our class of 55 people, I think that most of us are mostly happy with our lives. I moved away 20 years ago & it's hard for me to imagine still being in a small town. Truth be told, I was out dancing with last night with the daughter of one of my high school teachers; go figure? We never know what life has in store. Small town life has many positives and negatives. Growing up where fashion & $ was not a priority
murphicus 2 years ago
beautiful tribute video ,great memories for you I bet , this great song brings great memories of the summer of 71' when I first came to Canada at 15..
lakings13 2 years ago 2
I was 1976 grad too! but not from your HS. I just loved this song...still do.
magpieeye 2 years ago
This is a perfect duo, there voices are awesome together, i'm 18 and i consider this one of the ultimate love songs.
5aintLink 2 years ago 3
Just waiting on someone to do a country remake of this.....Since most of today's country stars grew up on George Jones, Johnny Cash, Beatles and Journey.....Allison Krause with Paisley????
skippertthomas 2 years ago 2
WOW! Heard this on our honeymoon at the St Bonaventure in Montreal - and the year after at the Holiday Inn at Richfield Ohio. Still happy after all these years...just where are the Bells these days?
mentorsally 2 years ago
It was a wonderful time growing up in those days. We had the best and most diverse music playing on the radio.
acdeucee 2 years ago 4
No kidding! You could understand the lyrics
2l3821 2 years ago
I was 11 when this song was released and I loved it. Havent heard it in 39yrs until just now. Im having a wonderful flashback
acdeucee 2 years ago 3
You should listen the rendition by Hong Kong singers Theresa Carpio. Very sensual and oohh....
mermanly 2 years ago
kinda creepy not gonna lie! but lou reed is great
shrekjet68 2 years ago
When I was a kid I thought it was a little creepy, but enjoyed it. Kinda like Roberta flacks 'The first time ever I saw your face'. Kinda creepy but cool. Ah Lou Reed huh?
acdeucee 2 years ago
Thx for posting this wonderful song. In 1971 - newlywed and was 20 yrs old. Good songs back then. They also had another hit "I Love You Lady Dawn". I am also looking for that one.
zoggy1950 2 years ago
still love this tune, i have the best of the bells on cd, it brings me back i love it
nilsdrew 2 years ago
mmmm...
thenshekissedme 2 years ago
To all the Canadians out there - Happy Victoria Day!
murphicus 2 years ago
a very sweet song.
Kennyz023 2 years ago
Glad to hear this song. I'd forgotten all about it til now...I was fourteen then.
gdwmontg 2 years ago
i think the guitarist is my guitar teacher
cHEESEYlegoman 2 years ago
This song was written by Ken Tobias from Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Hit # 1 on the charts in Canada and # 7 in USA. Sold over 4 million copies. The band playing this song is from Montreal called The Bells. Canadian musicians are superb.
patm4u 2 years ago
Thanks! I just added the info!
murphicus 2 years ago
I will check out that! At the time I was sick of it. Now I'm glad ..we had it a little special then the other classes and binds us all together.
alagumbo 2 years ago
Did all the classes f 1976 have the same picture for the bicentinial?? lol All through the yearbook.:)
alagumbo 2 years ago
Probably! If "Josten's" had it's way.... My guess is that class rings/pendents etc... all look familiar!
Doing a google search of "Bicentennial Class of 1976" is interesting... also, youtube has some gems!
murphicus 2 years ago
there not their(below) lol
alagumbo 2 years ago
I was reading your comment. We graduated 105 that was a huge class for our school.lol
Most started in first grade. We had a big drop out because the boys back then went shrimping and at that time could make pretty good money. lol then their were some of us that went to college. It is still so good to have reunions. We started with the 5 year one. Kept on...
Thanks for sharing.... class of '76 ! :) btw I sure wish I had saved my shoes! lol
alagumbo 2 years ago
It is fun - though it seems like those who still live in the town are the hardest "make" attend!
I think that my town is having an all school reunion this summer... as always, most had flames for people from other classes!
Most all the guys in our class were farmers, so they stuck it out... A good thing, with what happened to farming shortly after 76.... I think that one is still a farmer!
murphicus 2 years ago
Hi Marphicus,
Thanks for sharing this video. Whenever I hear this song, I am reminded of my highschool days here in the Philippines. I graduated from highschool in 1976.
Francis Magdalera
mish04 2 years ago
Hi Murphicus,
I am from the Philippines. This song is so famous during our highschool days. I graduated from highschool in 1976. It's one of my favorites. Thanks for sharing this video.
mish04 2 years ago
Lord have mercy, the clothes that were sold back then... give me classic black and white any day.
uzielis 2 years ago
Wow I was second grade in 1976.
uzielis 2 years ago
This song gave me a boner in 1970 that I havent ever lost. I pictured this chick singing it was naked - wooooo hoooooooooooo!
franklinrocks1 2 years ago
Richard Gere? 1:48? : )
Hadreus 2 years ago
Greetings Murphicus from the EHS Class of '71 in Ky. I can appreciate the small classes since only 33 in our class of '71. Thanks for posting this great song about the time of our graduation; one of the songs played at Senior prom. Only 100-150 or so students in all our four high school grades during '70's; have several good friends from our school class of '76, most of whom are still living nearby as do I. Great time to be a teen in the '70's! Thanks again
Darb071 3 years ago
I remember my boyfriend introducing me to this song about 17 years ago, I thought what a sweet song from a sweet guy, I used to sing it to him then, after a break up and back 2gether, I guess I'm gonna sing it to him again.
lasalleguyp3 3 years ago
im 28, and have not heard his song before. I hope you are all doing well. Im smart enough to know i will be there, and the inuendo of this song, 4 years before i was born
davo171 3 years ago
Thanks for the comment! All except for Patty (@ 0:56) and Greg (@ 1:44) are still with us - I am missing a few photos in this clip - Cali, Doug, Terry, Lori - I'm sorry! I'll work on it for our 40th!
I think that out of the 55 in our graduating class @ 40 of us started in 1st grade together.
murphicus 3 years ago
Thank you so much for bringing tears to my eyes!
excusemaker 3 years ago
very nice song and video ....great song for yearbook and year 1976....thanks,
meck444 3 years ago
i remember hearing this on am radio in milwaukee and thinking i'd like to feel this way about someone some day. i was 8 years old then, now i'm 46 & still love this song & found someone who i'd like to stay awhile with. such inoscence in those memories. :)
blatz1851 3 years ago 2
You hit it on the head....
excusemaker 3 years ago
Oh and the whispy blonde too!!!
lasalleguyp3 3 years ago
The last guy makes me quiver!!!!!
lasalleguyp3 3 years ago
yea, he's pretty damn cute. but so are you lasalle guy.
blatz1851 3 years ago
the song made me quiver. how sweet it is to sing a song to one you adored and seen forever
wickedfebie 3 years ago
Those days were simple. They had such an incredible beauty inside.
snowy312 3 years ago
I thought I was the only person that liked
this song! I did download it somewhere but
it was several years ago. Great tune...
pattykad 3 years ago 2
I'm class of '77 myself. It's amazing how you can look at these photos and be reminded of a similar person in your own school. I can almost sense how these students were, the cliques they hung with, etc. You got me diggin' out my old photos now! Very cool song too. Great job Murphicus.
fndrbss 3 years ago
Can you tell which one of the young guys is the picture of me...
JohnnyGolom 3 years ago
Well, if you are 43 (as your profile says) your picture is not in this video.
And secondly, if your name is really John, or Johnny, your picture is not in here. There is only one "John" in the class - and you ain't him!
murphicus 3 years ago
I'm sure that pictures of the Bells are around somewhere. Unfortunately, on the album covers that I own of the group, there are none. I recall, when I saw the Bells, circa 1970, performing at our local university pub, that Jackie Ralph was quite attractive and had a hauntingly sexy whisper of a voice.
unclecolt 3 years ago
All such nice looking young people.
unhooked25 3 years ago
Great song. I posted here a million months ago and gave up trying to find it, not that it was very memorable.
I can't find this song on Itunes! Here, I am trying to play by the rules and download music legally and no luck...
Well, it gives me another reason to come here, I guess.
Class of '78 myself...Hair down the middle and over the ears, etc...Tux for prom was a hideous color...My generation too.
PowlettJones45 3 years ago