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  • 'Ultra-rare' live performance ..is not live.

  • I used to walk to school my freshman (H.S.) year singing this song,wishing I was back in grade school,confused about my locker,the bells,the girls who looked like women...

  • I was a was 12 when this song came out. it was big. one of those songs that makes you feel good even on a rainy dark monday. perhaps one of a dozen or so songs so easy to identifie with the mid sixties.

  • my very first record played on my very 1st record player...& i was only 9. Never forgot 123 by Len Barry

  • Brings me back to my early college years at QCC

  • Your right, it's not as simple as thaar, wish it was

  • Hay un cover de 1980 ó 1981 de esta canción, ¿alguien me puede decir quién lo hizo?

  • back when falling in love was easy.....women these days suck lol

  • @GodschildJCE You're lucky if you can find women who suck!

  • This is the first record I ever bought.........

  • We were trying to think of what year this song came out just last night as four classmates from Malden High School Class of '66 got together. Those 45 years flew by but Len Barry's song brings back lots of good memories.

  • @soundslikefrank I think it was 1965. Can still hear it pouring out of my dad's car radio. I was eight at the time.

  • I've loved this song since I first heard it as a young child in the '70s. Thanks so much for uploading! :)

  • Len Barry was a callow 23 when he recorded this masterpiece.

  • Thanks for taking me back in to my youth. GREAT.  I am 62 years Young.

  • I'm married 41 years, I remeber at age 15 hearing this song by Len Barry who also sang with the Dovels, You Can't Sit Down 1963, Bristol Stomp 1962 both made it to #1 in NY WABC Cousin Burcie

  • PERFECT SONG!!!!

    IT'S JUST A 1-2-3

  • First thing my boyfriend ever bought for me when I was 16, we've been married 40 years tomorrow,I still love this song!

  • I sang this song when I was a lil kid while my dad was working on his house and I would sing it on the ladder.. I am 23 now and still love it!

  • Songs like this are why pop music from the 60's is the greatest of all time. The noise they call music today makes me want to vomit.

    This reached #2 in the US in '65, anyone know what was #1 at the time, The Beatles?

  • @shack8110 This got to number 2 Veterans Day week of 1965.The Supremes were at the top that week with I HEAR A SYMPHONY.

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  • was a baby but still remember this song being played at home. Well thanks for posting it....

  • I heard this was a reworking of The Supremes' "Ask any girl."

  • HANDSOME!!

  • QUE GUAPO!! SI FUERA DE SU EPOCA ME CASO CON EL:)

  • hmm baby i would die .. love this song y & t .. glad it came to mind after all these years

  • FANTASTIC SONG

  • Ever think you were born too late?

  • @randomchick861 you were! It's all us boomers that had this wonderful stuff and a softer, gentler, more sane country as well.

  • I feel the best three year's in music had to be 1965 to 1967. So, much of the music, including this still hold up very well -- with very little from that time period I wouldn't still listen to -- and it wasn't just about a few artists or songwriters, but many. I just wish I had been older than the 1-2-3 years old as in this song, like maybe 7 or 8 years old, at least, at that time.

  • @sneezyize Those 3 years I spent in the Army and Vietnam . I feel sorry for you their were decades of good music I especially loved the 50's.  I feel what years are good for you you'll remeber the music as being the best.

  • i love this song. i was an infant when this came out. born in 59 and it still sounds good today. thank you Mom.

  • I'm floating back in time ... what cosy terrific tune this was...lived it sooooo much :-)

  • Wonderful find; Glad to know that I am not the only person who still insist the best music occurred in the 60's to the mid-70's; I wish I could still hear this music but we have "aged out." Who would have thought that over 50 did not mean you could rock?

  • For some reason I cannot recall any more great pop music smash hits featuring the word combination of "how elementary."

  • Good Job Here.....You posted this video as EASY as he sung it....Good Job!!

  • That's some exceptional old video

  • As well it should have, Len. You were nothing less than awesome! And, it was difficult, back then- or now- to compete with the Beach Boys! And then there was that kid..Lou Christie...with "Lightening Strikes"......

  • Wonder if he remembers playing the Liberty Bell club in South Jersey and the foursome that was laughing all through this song, well two of them were my future wife and I. I do want to apologize, we were not laughing at you

  • This song took pretty good care of me... and still after soooo many decades the words are as simple for me as ABC :-)

    What a bunch of terrific music we were given in the mid 60s---hmmm ... nothing can beat those of to-day!

  • 0:49 - it's not so easy

  • @Efilnikufesin How would you know? Have you TRIED taking candy from a baby? LOL!

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  • To the viewers: Please don't ask question aimed at the poster of this video, SpindleRecords, as Marc Bird, founder and poster, Passed away Jan 6, 2009. I am currently downloading the video's just in case something happens to this channel. His computer with almost everything on it crashed a week after I hooked it back up. Guess not using it for a year while I sold our house and looked for a new one wasn't good for it. I can't get on his page cuz IDK his password. Gonna put on mine.

  • Is that Gary Pucket at the end- can you put that up too!?

  • @mikegerrish Right, the first note of Gary Puckett singing "Young Girl" - i've seen that on YT.. the Union Gap always wore those Yankee soldier costumes.

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  • I WAS 16 YEARS OLD WHEN HEARD THIS SONG BEING PLAYED IN A CLUB IN MONTERREY,MX. IN THE SO CALL PINK ZONE "THE HAPPY BOYS " AS THE GROUP CALLED IT'S SELF, BLEW ME AWAY. DOWN TO A T

  • Great and forever fresh!!

  • One of the best songs EVER

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  • How would that baby grow up having had its candy nicked? Maybe it wouldn't find love and trust so easy and so this metaphor/simile is self-defeating in the end! But who cares about the psychology - what a brilliant song!

  • How sweet this tune was for my ears.

    Just like he says ... like taking  candy for my baby :-)))

  • great song!

  • I seen len barry, earlier this evening on one of those rock,pop,and doo wop, specials that pbs puts on time to time. he sang this song and still sounded much the same, but time hasn't been good to him....he looks like he weighs 400 pounds or more. he was so lean and handsom in this video the way I remember him.

  • @TheBabyboomkidof53 the music business will do that to ya!

  • love this song

  • Brings back such good memories way back in 1965. Good times, and great music

  • Reminds me so much of Radio London who used to play it such a lot.

    Loved those BigL days of 64-67.

  • Class!

  • Fantastic song, but for the longest time I thought this was Smokey Robinson. ...No wonder it took forever to find! lol

  • @coyclown lol

  • great song, great voice I too thought he was a black singer brilliant

  • Indeed he has a Voice like a Black singer.

  • Reel to Reel still rocks. 

  • when l was 11, l danced this song alone, l loved it very much

    now l am 55, l still love it

  • @viole096 i am 21 , and i love 't too

  • I always thought he was black, just sayin

  • he is the best!!!! <3

  • A terrific song! I admit that I'm one of probably many who thought that, because of his unique voice, Len Barry was black.

  • I remember when this song came out and BLASTING it on my AM radio as we cruised Van Nuys Blvd, in The Vally, on Cruise Night!

    It was even better when The Wolfman would be howling!!!

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  • Len Barry sang with the Dovels, you can't sit Down 1963, then bristol stomp in 1964 and then 1-2-3

  • HIT IT, GREAT TUNE,  LEN BARRY A DIFFERENT GUY, WITH A DIFFERENT VOICE. colindaleradiosutch.

  • amo esta cancion es increible que voz tan bella gracias por subirla raul

  • fantastic song..still good today

  • One of the most underrated voices in the history of rock n roll-he was amazing!

  • I am 37 and play this for my 2 sons often. I sing the candy from a baby part with a mock overenunciated Scottish accent like Fat Bastard from the Austin Powers movies and they think it's hilarious.

  • This is a really good dancing record that I have loved from a long time.

  • When this song hit the charts, i was 8 yrs old, but i remember that sax riff, so well!! It's been in my head for 44yrs! and i still love this song!

  • I was like really little when my mom put music like this all the time

  • Starting at about 0:5. His confidence, bordering on the verge of arrogance, just shines through.He just knew, he was going to deliver.

    The epitamy of cool !!

  • Great song and year for ME

    1966, last year of high school!

    Now I wish I was starting back in high school!!!!

    Too many years has pass!

  • Thanks Foor Sharing.Song is timeless!!

  • yea i second that grandson comment!good on you.

  • 17 people cant take candy from a baby

  • So many good memories from this song and that time, 1966. Ft. Bliss, Tx and Houston and this incredible song during the British Invasion, Motown. I can play this over and over and never tire of it.

  • One of the Greatest One Hits! Da 60's, baby! Gimmie some 007 cologne!

  • @StoneFredFlint No way, i don't give it away........

  • I love this! thanks 4 posting!!!!! :D

    Wow, didn't know he had such a cute dimple!

  • I love this! thanks 4 posting!!!!! :D

  • Good morning all ! I play this song to wake up to and prepare for the day.

    I run a contruction busniess and have 26 employees; the girls in the office are

    from former precocious childhoods, and God bless them, as they quick to criticize

    music from the past...but they love this song.

    This song is timeless. And it's being used as background music in commercials.

    Len, you made masterpiece happin; only a few people have accomplished what's you've have done!

  • Used to cruise around in an old ford consul to this,with girls and mates,great times, :) but seems so long ago now :(

  • This guy's so hot! Len,....call me!  Seriously, one of my all- time favorite songs! You can hear that Motown sax in the back....and CUTE....this guy!

  • There is a commercial out that plays this song close to the end. The wife is pregnant and went shopping after seeing the doctor, and when the husband comes home from work, she shows him all the things she bought and goes to the baby's room shows the 3 of every thing, like car seats and cribs... he says we're having triplets with a smile on his face...lol... Don't know what the commercial is selling, but it is sooo cute!!!

  • I loved this song when I was 14 years old and nothing has changed now that I am 59 years old. Still sounds fantastic.

  • @Jimbo6493 same here!

  • @Jimbo6493

    I agree completely! :D

  • @Jimbo6493 Cool song

  • @Jimbo6493 sorry but that i meant to vote up lol

    oopps

  • I always just loved this sound....and how HOT is Lou! OMG, this kid could sell geese to chiickens!

  • Also the lead singer for the Dovells.

  • i'm 51 and black and grew up on this..i also so love led zepp ..elton..aerosmith...Stevie W JB .SMOKIE..MJ...

  • its a great song, i just love his voice and the meaning of this song.

  • The song is from the summer of 1965.. written by Motown writers I believe

  • @cantstopsinging actually len berry used to be a cartoon writer.. and he wrote this song himself... his one hit wonder..

  • If you love this, you love Lou Christie with Lightning Strikes and his stuff. Yup, wasn't all Motown-

  • @TheSiamesecat007 And I do!

  • can't say it any more easier than that...brilliant song :)

  • THANKS A MILLION for sharing this mega RARE find!! :)

  • I was a kid of 9 when I first heard this and now at 55 it still thrills me to the marrow, what an utter CLASSIC!  :)

  • Never knew who performed this. Wasn't sure about their race either. One thing's for sure though, it's a great song. Thanks for uploading this. 

  • He may well have given a live performance at the time but what we're hearing here is the record. Still, it's great to hear it. Definitely one of the spellbinding musical moments so rare nowadays.

  • This song is absolutely brilliant even though i weren't born in the 60s

  • I was 10 when this song came out and thought this was a black singer.....heard this on an oldies station today, looked it up and bam!!.....I was surprised...very soulful vocals from this guy....great memories.

  • GREAT SONG

  • I always loved this song.

  • This a great clip!!!!!!

  • The first song I ever remember!!!!

  • classic man i woz a dj playin dis shit yrs ago and it still fukin gd and my grandson is 11 and got it up for me coz im bit slow on dis fuckin slow computer

  • @jason0685

    Let's hope your grandson doesn't become as foul mouthed as you!

  • @jason0685 ...and more literate.

  • i am 25 and i hate today's music i love the old stuff

  • I've never known a girl like you before na na na na na na na...

  • Love it Beautiful voice.I was born then also LOL

  • great clip. coupla notes: len, you're supposed to take the ball out first, before you spin the wheel. it's easy, like taking candy from a baby (a disturbing expression btw). and what does a roulette wheel (looks like they bought that one @ a novelty shop. good job, props dept) have to do with the song? also, i remember when this song was a hit and wmca used to play booing every time the lyric 'abc' came on...wabc being their main competitor in the nyc market. btw his sequel, 4-5-6, didn't chart.

  • definately fruity, you think he couldve done something else rather than the limp wrist

  • Len's moves are a little fruity.

  • I love this song! Always sing it to myself. I was living in Japan; Yokohama when this song came out in 1965; I was 8 years old and this song has always been one of my favorite :) It's great to see the performance; match the face with the song. Boy was he handsome!

  • I'm not a big fan of music from this era, yet since my dog died and a stray cat wondered into our lifes one day (my daughters and me), I accidently play it and both my daughters and the cat simultaneously and unscripted started to dance...Wow! It's still one of their favorites.

    Would'nt world peace be obtainable if pepople could go beyond their political and predisposed hatred, and let their hearts take over and smile. My daughter's

    said: Their hearts smiled.

    Depswau, in San Diego

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  • Time to fire up the old '66 Impala...

  • thaks for the video i loveit one of the most beautifull songs

  • SpindleRecords Thanks for posting this track I heard this @ the end of a TV Commercial yesterday and remembered hearing this either when I was almost 2 ? still crawling around remembered the 123 part ;) Thanks for the memories !

  • What a great song and performance! Thanks so much for posting it.

  • re released this song would go allthe way to the top timless thanks for posting

  • 最高40年前を思い出します、ありがとう。

  • Heard just a few seconds of this in a commercial...I had to listen to it all, and love it all over again! THANKS for posting!

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  • one hit wonder? I was in Jr High School when this came out. LOVED IT THEN, LOVE IT NOW- Len wasn't bad looking either- most of thesingers back then were polished and wore suits. black and white

  • @gayle2020 yep now they dress like hobos and sing trash. How times have changed. Make you wonder what we did to deserve this nonsense.

  • i'm 22 and have loved this song since i could walk, i grew up on the golden oldies...if only music were still like this!

  • Krieger91, You are a rare breed. My nephew, who is 17 really digs the oldies too.

  • Len was formerly the lead singer from the Dovells (Bristol Stomp, You can't Sit Down). I hear he was quite the James Brown type showman.

  • love this music !!!

  • love this music

  • @6602carlos ME TOO! CHECK OUT "BEGGIN" 4 SEASONS, "RECOVERY" FONTELLA BASS. and EDWIN STARR'S "AGENT-DOUBLE-O-SOUL" DAVEDJ

  • this song brings back memories! and i became a loser :(

  • jeez, always thought this was a chick...

  • I'm 14 and for some reason I'm liking this song mad weird but awesome

  • i grew up on this music and i am only 23 years old lol

  • This is the first time I heared this song. I find this song and beat very very nice.

  • I sang the back up vocal along with my freind edith (ive lost touch with her now) 123 its easeeeeeey . ahh what fun we had after the shows

  • this is like the original rick-roll lol

  • GREAT SONG ! I USED TO TOOL AROUND IN MY 57 CHEBBY CONVERT LISTENING TO IT. ROCK ON !

  • Motownesque and loving it. This guy should have had so many more hits...I guess that he just didn't have the best managers. Anyway, I love you Len..

  • @ekocentric i think his image killed him he didnt think having long hair and rebel image mattered unfortunatly the record buyers did

  • @BigBishop1 After rereading your comment I can only say...damn. How many times has this happened to talented artists? You'd think that his hair would have mattered less than his ability to make hits.

  • Thanks for posting. Great song.

  • so glad my parents used to play these oldies in the car on the way to our cottage. otherwise mabye I would've been like everyone else and just dismissed it because it was older.

  • he sounds like Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.

  • We thought he was Black back in the day

  • i dont know this song.

    i know it from youtube:D

    i love it:D:D:D:D

  • u go Len

  • this video was made 2 year back on my birthday.

  • 15 thumbs down? all of you 15, DIRTBAGS!

  • @Machiavelli76

    but i like this song and im only 17 :)

  • I always loved his voice, I'm similar, I have a very frontal focused tenor 1 tone, and when people look at me they are like...you can sing? Len has the same look. You hear his voice, and you think...did that just come out of him????

    Rock on Len Barry!

  • I love this song, always have done, I also love the Cookies on background vocals. just a great song! xxx

  • Love this song, reminds me of my Aunti Chris and the girls, love em!

  • Im 30 and Ive been loving this since I was 13,brings back great memories,had to have it

  • @kickassfan Hahaha..Well im 14 and i love this more then you!

  • Good music is what it is...good music. Race, sex, age, country,...it don't matter one bit. Let your ears guide you!! Peace, people.

  • isnt it hard to believe that a 12 year old would listin to this most every kid listins to hip hop

    (im 12)DONT LET THE OLDIES DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  • @PMMJGRL14EV thats good,I was ur age when I started listening to these classics.......Hey huge Beatles and 60s classics fan here(kickasssfan)

  • DANCED TO THIS IN THE 60'S AND PLAYED IT AT NEARLY EVERY GIG I DJ AT PETE HEED