Montego Bay- Bobby Bloom- 1970

[centralparocker]

5 people aren't allowed in Montego Bay.....

[harvey1954]

This is the album version with the snippet from "Oklahoma".

[lucysicons]

Oh yeah...Gets up and dances...excellent song. Thank you for bring it to you tube.

[MonsterRockstar2012]

i went to montego bay and its awsome there i sang this song all the time i was there and people where like looking at me like what a tourist move lol

[archiewawa]

looks like judge Alex's daddy ♫

[harvey1954]

I heard he took his own life.

[AnnaAnnaYes]

@harvey1954 No,he was shot.Very Sad story.

[YUTE001]

the picture at 0:43 is not Montego Bay - but is still very nice there :)

[malvolegendary]

that cant be montego bay, the place well develop as much,bobby bloom u done a great song

[TheWaller79]

happy music

[beefoneeto]

Bloom sang in the doo wop group The Imaginations.The lead singer sang with the Florida Legends.

[ActorRod]

Has anybody got this in MP3 or MP4 format?? Would love to get this song but it's not on iTunes.

[Youngajizz7]

sometimes you can only sing happy. everytime i here this song, i'm happy. i will never go to montego bay, but it will always be a happy place for me, only beause of this this young man:)

[mandymore24]

He shot himself cleaning a gun

[AnnaAnnaYes]

@mandymore24 No,someone shot him

[LORRIEVIVALASVEGAS]

Love this song!

God bless Bobby Bloom!! (( RIP))

Miss you!!!

[nathanmacintosh]

Right now, I'm at an airport waiting to board a plane to Montego Bay. I wish every place had a happy song to go with it. Too great.

[archer118]

Lord God bless youchube, I knew this tune from radio but didn't know the name so I typed montego bay song and there you go, tuuuuuuuuuuune!!!

[TheDavey222]

What a voice....I always thought it was a dude from the Temptations..go white boy

[stevg8liverpool]

WIKIPEDIA said he died by his own hand and left everything he had to Jeff Barry

[yamahonkawazuki]

@stevg8liverpool wiki can be edited by anybody. BUT i believe its right in this case. idk about what he left to whom, just his death

[shinyapples]

come on! the three people who dislike this have no souls.

this is such a great song!

[MsDark1123]

were can i find this version of this song

[teddibearsworld]

Such a great, unique jam. Still think the outro "Beautiful Morning".. cut from the 45 release ,,, makes the song!

[shinyapples]

@teddibearsworld

abso friggin lutely!

that's the best part of the song!

[pbatommy]

I owned the original 45 on MGM records

[Drewster58]

Reminds me of southern California beaches in the early 70's summertimes. Happy times.

[andymooney]

I've been to Montego Bay and I don't think the shot at 0.43 is actually it.

[doctordoowop]

This is NOT his only recording . He sand with a Long Island doo wop group-- the Imaginations- & sang lead on their last release or two.

[bahianut]

I don't want to put a damper on this song ...wow...I just read a bio on Bobby Bloom he suffered from depression so at the ripe old age of 28 he shot himself....wow it just goes to show you that sometimes you may think you have it rough but someone has got it worse than you. If you feel down please folks reach out and talk to someone

Love this song and your voice and hope where ever you are you will have found the peace that you have so shared in this song with the world...peace

[bahianut]

I don't want to put a damper on this song ...wow...I just read a bio on Bobby Bloom he suffered from depression so at the ripe old age of 28 he shot himself....wow it just goes to show you that sometimes you may think you have it rough but someone has got it ever rougher. If you feel down please folks reach out and talk to someone

Love this song and your voice and hope where ever you are you will have found the peace that you have so shared in this song with the world...peace

[bahianut]

wow...what a great voice...its sad that this is his only record

[saobangpo]

D'yer Maker!

[zomglikewow]

wow someone might of said this already but i just looked at the picture at 2:12, and if u dont see what im talking about, look harder lol

[Ramona817]

@zomglikewow don't you mean at 1:24? Yes it is there in the clouds, I see it also appears at 2:12, but not as long. You are right

[1961slam]

This is freakin' MUSIC now!

[fp4vols]

BEEN and going back This Oct for 10 days! Love this place and the music and of course the people!!!!!!!!!!

[JoshSchrank]

shv90210, yep that's classic Montego Bay.

[savollo]

Is this Bobby Bloom singing?

[RyuichixCMZ]

Love this song! I first heard it on the radio on Sirius XM 70s on 7, my favorite radio station! :)

[shv90210]

the picture at 0:43 is that in Jamaica, is that montego bay cause i live in kingston and i have never been to montego bay so i am wondering if that is a real picture of mobay, please reply thanks, great video by the way.

[74sodapop]

@shv90210 It is, it's a long shot. Darn. I wanna go there one day.

[14mbs]

@shv90210 There are some similarities to Mobay on the picture. But I don't think so. Ive never seen that many tall buildings in MoBay. But I could be wrong.

[MrMontegobay]

@shv90210 That is not MontegoBay by a long shot at 0.43 sec it is far too developed and lacks the beauty that MontegoBay has to offer. I heard this song when I was a kid and always wanted to go there. Now I've been and have been again and again and each time I goIi love it that much more. 

[shakadolphin]

@shv90210 I don't think that is Montego Bay. Looks like an old Kingston to me.

[Dan77able]

Hi everyone, I live in Canada, does anyone know where I could listen to these great songs on the Radio? I just love this kind of music.

Thanks,

Dan

[midwinterphoto]

@Dan77able What are you 60? Just download them.

[TheDavey222]

I thought he was a Jamaican Jew ????..

[Herby1989]

like the Freddie Notes & The Rudies version better....

[rabe56]

Two revelations for me: I thought he was alive and black. Live and learn trivia.

[tobesograteful]

Thanks so much for playing the full rendition of this song, with "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" at the end!!

[sharona1981]

I never knew Bobby Bloom was dead...I've always loved this song, very sad.

[derek4ur]

whatever happened to Bobby Bloom?

[cobray2000]

he was shot and killed years ago .... conflicting stories as to what really happened

[staticbear76]

this is a super awesome song my mom got me hooked on it when she bought this tape in 1993 from the olympia mall it was the capital mall back then.

[TheSteverino1]

love it

[katie7714]

So sorry to hear that's what happened. I had no idea. What a good voice he had though,and what a great song! God bless Bobby bloom.

[reneetoday]

He was a sweet but depressed young man. I knew him.

[Celiecinema1]

!!!

[jayamaw]

I love this song.....it's a nice jam to dance to...

[23chilled]

in a stupid world would Montego Bay have a big pile of Austin/Rover Montego's washed up all over the place be funny in its ways not for the environ of course but cool just to see a pile of dismal cars just sitting there rusting

[MsDawnflower]

How warm and sunny :) The pictures are great..It's too bad he died,but his happy song lives on.

[Choungui]

the pic at 0:43 is of Hobart, Tasmania, nearly the other sie of the world! where I live incidentally, strange to see it in this montage!

[bobmarleypkr]

yeah my parents loved him they said he suffered from depression or something and committed suicide.

[Lujacos]

Bloom was killed on February 28, 1974, at the age of 28 after charging into a room in a fight over a girl, and was accidentally shot in a scuffle with a man who was never identified.

Thats a tragedy!

[gendres1]

@Lujacos

Wow !! I never knew this. I was just nine years old when this song hit the airwaves. And I loved it. It's good to hear this again, But sad to hear this about Bobby Bloom.

[TheDavey222]

@Lujacos God bless him and thank him for the funky recordings

[rayjr62]

@Lujacos I had read that Bobby committed suicide (he suffered from clinical depression).

[kasey0716]

@Lujacos

Not true. Bloom died of a self inflicted gun shot wound to the head. He suffered from depression for years supposedly.

[SailBeyondTheStars]

@kasey0716 That's right. It is so sad to hear him singing such a happy song, then knowing he suffered from depression. Poor guy.

[BufordStone]

@kasey0716 According to Jeff Barry he was shot in a fight over a girl.

[TheBoom121]

montego bay roks mr whitehead

[ronneeron]

in frame 1.26 you can see christ in the clouds. cool

[MrGeocor]

I ,like TLew, thought he was black too!For almost 40 years,since I heard the song in 1970,when I was 17.I recall the DJs of the time called him Bobby Bloom Bland or was It Bobby Bloom Band?

Never the less the song mezmorized me then & still does.These songs of today can't even come close to this.Bobby Bloom will live forever in this song, a true masterpiece of 70's pop rock!

[goodtogonow3]

Well said. I was 22 and I felt the same way exactly

[hiphopbwwsoccer]

I think they were calling him "Bobby Bloom Bland", b/c at the time Bobby "Blue" Bland was a soul singer.

[divaenvy]

Um... Bobby Bland was black... Bobby Bloom was white... I don't think they were the same person... I'm just sayin'

[hiphopbwwsoccer]

@divaenvy yeah, I know, it was a response to somebody else's comments. If they were the same person, the case could be made that he was the one that inspired Micheal Jackson to get his racial reconstructive surgery..... I'm just sayin.

[TLew01]

hell i thought he was a black man until i saw this video! 5 stars

[kc768]

that song should be a party song. I was listening to it on the radio on Sept. 1, 2009, and it brought me back memories. Great song. Bobby Bloom 1945-1974

[Apsu72]

He was only 29. what a tragedy. Anybody know how?

[brothertee1017]

Suicide...gunshot wound to the head...

[MrGeocor]

No, I heard he was shot by a man who was assaulting a woman in a bar.Bobby Bloom tried to break up the mele,the man shot him & was never apprehended...

[ajptaylor]

I found it amusing that the bass tone is pure distorted "Fart Tone" ala Jack Bruce of Cream, particularly considering how 'clean' the rest of the track is. Not the usual treatment for this genre of song.

Its a prime example of how the "Norms" were still loose enough back in the day that it COULD be this way and get pressed. And guess what...IT STILL WORKED! Try and get that bass tone passed today in a similar setting and the producer would shit his pants not to mention the label...

[chiefbeefofficer]

Definitely ahead of it's time. I really didn't hear the fart bass too much until Parliment Funkadelic in late 70's.

[ajptaylor]

Hey Chiefbeef,

Dig what u are saying, though I was arguing this Bass Fart tone was OF its time. In fact, by 1970 when this was released "fart bass" was usually poo-poo'ed (pun fully intended!) by music producers. Everybody forced the 'slick' modern sound. Particularly in terms of pop stuff like this...nearly unheard of by 1970.

The bass fart on this song would send Black Sabbath's producer to say "Geezer, clean up the bass man, otherwise I'll lay the bass track myself after a can a beans!"

[pbatommy]

I had the original 45 on MGM records.

[Jupiterconjunct]

I LOVEd it in '70. Found the album second hand many years later...WHAT a score...the whole album BRILLIANT!!

[Patel10314]

I had goosebumps listening to this. Pop music simply can't produce tuneful songs anymore for whatever reasons.

[CanesNova4]

poor guy died young breaking up a domestic problem

[antiann52]

Really,  I didn't know he was dead. I guess I'd better go to Wikipedia.

[likesspice73]

did you really think he was black? did you listen to the song?I Iay on the beach till I am lobster red?

[antiann52]

Tell him, man, boy people don't listen. However, I knew he was white because I grew listeing to this kind of music and of course I've seen him before;

[LocoRico89]

funny, we all thought he was black!

[sleepyhollowboy27]

So did I!

[KACarnahan]

We did too! Lol! =)

[my58chevy]

hey guys Bobby and I were in the same group he always wanted to be black check out Mamma's Little Baby thats him singing lead with the Imaginations

[nohinton105]

I would like all the songs on his 1st albums, but for those who didn't know..he wrote " heavy makes you happy" recorded by The Staple Singer. and several commercial jiggles. He was a tremedous talent.

[malikisvelocity101]

i sampled this and made a track. if you want to hear it go to my chanell or go to video responses for this vid. it called beutiful morning

[kob7890]

I love this song. Been humming it for a couple of days now. I, too, thought this dude was black! Great soulful sound - too bad met an untimely end!

[sexymama1966]

i thought i was the only one who thought he was black and yes, he died way too soon

[peteboy1113]

me too i thought he was black too. anyway i was grovin to this in the fall of 1970, in the 8th grade.

[itend2012]

i like this song

[BrianHamiltonTV]

Wikipedia says: "Robert "Bobby" Bloom (1946 28 February 1974) was an American singer-songwriter. He is known best for being a one-hit wonder with the 1970 song "Montego Bay," which was co-written and produced by Jeff Barry. Bloom was killed on February 28, 1974, at the age of only 28 after charging into a room in a fight over a girl and was accidentally shot in a scuffle with a man who was never identified."

[rayjr62]

I knew he was deceased but I didn't know when or from what. Thanks for the info.

[ericteed]

thats just messed up yo.wut a voice.

[rattan6969]

I WAS 15.

[SurfieInACT]

It's a shame Bobby Bloom died so young, he had a great voice... Anyway I'm off to Montego Bay in afew weeks and no doubt this song will be booming from my ipod as I'm flying into Jamaica mon!

[WWDC74]

74sodapop, you rock

[sandpanther]

WTH is lilo or whatever?

[dbwindhorst]

It's an air mattress or pool float. I only know that because, after wondering the same thing for decades, I finally looked it up.

[clapton1337]

jamaica mon. if you've never been there,go. beautiful. great people. paradise

[shinyapples]

Great song! Always puts me in a good mood and now I can't wipe the smile off my face. I always thought he was a black dude too! What a set of pipes this guy had. Thanks for including the end of the song. That's my favorite part.

[dtimm612]

Nice to see this one has the ending in tact (Oh what a beautiful morning...) I love that part

[Guinnie]

great vid thanks for posting. the sound is perfect

[Choungui]

That photo at 0:42 is of Hobart, Tasmania, Aus.

Any idea why its in the clip?

[BigBird1017]

Choungui - no idea, except lots of other shots are also not of Jamaica (ie, 1:07 & 2:08) .. I never saw any waves like that anywhere in the Caribbean!

[74sodapop]

My mom said she heard this on the beach in San Diego in 70 when it was out.Some shots are of Montego but I just wanted to exemplify this marvelous beach song.

[mvv8383]

I didn't know Bobby Bloom was dead. I kept on picturing him singing in nightclubs around the USA.

Why not post more of his songs?

[BOOGIEBOPP1]

Bobby was a great guy.....and a wonderful singer. Sad Sad Sad he is not be with us. He would would still becharting songs over these last 36 years since he is gone. I understand he died from s "gun accident". What a shame. Live on good Bobby....

[YesOzzy]

Bobby Bloom was murdered in 1972. To this day the case is unsolved.

[spaceage66]

It was 1974, not 1972.

[marvalhat]

This song got me hooked on calypso/reggae music! Poor baby,I didn't even know he was white!!Great pipes, he should have done more, great phrasing and vocals.A truly great feel good song.

[quirpco]

You're not the only one...I didn't know he was white either! This song never fails to put me in a good mood.

[Viznel137]

you take a guy pushing fifty back-thanks for posting!

[pbatommy]

Interesting trivia--it was released both on MGM and it's subsidiary label L & R. My mom bought two copies when it came out--she got the L&R one, and I got the MGM one.

[maxwelld1961]

This is just a real feel good song/And we all need that.

[Darlene1125]

Bobby grew up in Wantagh NY,Would love to know where his other 2 brothers are, Mitchell and Victor, my brother Roy would love to get in touch. Thanks for having this video...

[raatoons]

Man You take me back to 1971 body surfing almost every weekend hanging at the beach with all my friends ...

[paisleypower30]

*sings along* Oh yeah! excellent choice! I never knew who it was before, love the whistling part , so happy!