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  • I sing that song everyday, 5 or more times a day!

  • love that bass: my last cup o' tea

  • I'm in the process of writing my Autobiography for my children, and these songs of my youth have been a great help.............many, many memories. :-)

  • Thank you so much!!! great lead singer...used to enjoy their "The Teacher." What a confident expanding United States it ws in those days. The foreign music came in 1963--just about clean bowling American music. Later the foreign cars just about clean-bowled the City of Detroit!

  • You're right denisjl100, but the movie itself was nothing special, it was the soundtrack that was outstanding and put it on the map forever. :-)

  • It damn near has a reggae beat with the guitar chording right behind the beat...a fabulous song!

  • This is not Joe Jackson, this is JoJo Stubbs, Levi Stubbs of the 4 tops brother.

  • It was a time of real rock and roll. Today's is alright I just like this era better.

  • @LYFEcanbGR8- Thanks, i wasn't sure. I'd read something a while back.

  • if i didnt have this great music i dont know where i would be

  • Is Joe Jackson, Michael's father, on this record?

  • @merseymain Yes, this Joe is Michael's father.

  • this song makes me picture a really awesome beat up car with its wheels all messed up and wobbling all over the place.. but it's still got enough swagg to be one of the coolest looking things youve ever seen, plus it's got this song playing.

  • I think its a good idea that everyone like this should put our money together and buy a small town and make it into some where with just 50'-60's stuff but it would never happen, saddley.

  • 59 FOREVER!!!!! That year was SO FINE!!!! Great year to be a teenager!!

  • im 15 and im in love with this music!

  • @stevenking94 i hate todays music

  • The bass guitar is out of tune.

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  • what is name of this film that appear in the photos??Thanks

  • @diegoer  The movie was American Graffiti.

  • @dorchestergirl41 that movie had more to do with the rejuvination of 50's rock than any other influence. rock and roll kind of fell by the wayside in the 70's until this movie came out. thank you mr lucas

  • dont you wish it was 1959 agian?

  • @TheBabyboomkidof53 No because I'd be non existent

  • @TheBabyboomkidof53 no, because I'd be an egg. wish I hadn't missed it tho.

  • @TheBabyboomkidof53 Absolutely, living before when my parents were born! :)

  • So many good memories. I would love to hear songs like that today. No one would understand what it meant to love like that unless the right love came along. Good cuddling song too.

  • Sandra Dee Lawson.

  • I loved Fast Dancing ( Hand Dancing ) to this song. If you had smooth turns this is the song that makes you look " Extra Good ".

  • Thanks- got it straight now

  • So really fine!!!!

    Thanks, and keep this music alive please!!!

  • Was this the original or was it a cover of the Fiestas?

  • @rellimnor7 I think this is the original. It's the version I remember.

  • @rellimnor7 This is the original, the title is a typo. Should be Fiestas vice Falcons.

    

  • @rellimnor7 Forgive me, I am wrong. This song is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT then the Fiestas. Fiestas song is simply titled "So Fine."

  • I was about 7 when this song was popular. my oldest sister who was 14 danced to this song in the living room with her friend nancy over and over. then american bandstand would come on in the afternoon weekdays after school, and they'd do all the dances they did on the show. I knew this song by heart even then. still love it!

  • What a song from the end of an era! Sweet, honest and full of hope and love. My, my, my. Thanks. Love the sax solo and chugging beat.

  • I was lucky enough to have a sister that was 5 years older than me. She loved this music and lived the quintessential 50's teenage years. I got to see from the sidelines how it was and all of the scuttlebut of who and what. The cars (her boyfriend drove a bad '57 Chevey(327, 4 speed) the hairstyles, the clothes, the talk, all of it . It was wonderful and exciting and really cool.

  • Thanks - Dj

  • If you can't dance to this song, Then you JUST CAN'T DANCE..LoL

  • @B4BoomersBlockBoy7 What kind of dance did people do to this one? Did it have a name?

  • @titostacos You could wiggle and shuffle. You could take the hand of your date or whoever and stroll to it. You could even slow dance to it.

  • this guy's voice is sooooo.seeeexy!

  • AK YOU ROCK MAN YOU HAVE THE VERY BEST SONGS ON YOU TUBE

  • There will never be any thing that comes close to the 50s ever

  • This ones for you Moma,your Favorite To Dance Too. Love You and Miss You More Then Youll Ever Know. But One Day we all will be Together and Dancing Once Again

  • 50s music rocks

  • I really enjoyed this song....right away(It's new to me). I thought of The Fiestas and "So Fine", but this is definetly a different song altogether. I don't know what else to say other than "I'll Be Back!". Thx4 postin'

  • There's one problem with this video and song that have been put together; although it's a wonderful presentation of some photos from a great movie, THIS SONG WAS NEVER IN THE MOVIE!!! There's a song, "She's So Fine," but this one is simply not in there. Yes, the effect is still very good, but if some of you are going to debate who was the lead singer, how did you miss my point?

  • Summer 1959; Dodgers, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, Chevy ..So Fine & You're So Fine...

  • Brings back a lot of memories!! Thanks for posting!!

  • I forgot this song!! Thanks for posting it.

  • i could wake up to this song every morning.

    

  • This was the year I graduated PS 64 in Ozone Park , Queens New York . It was a great time, an innocent time to be alive.

  • American Graffiti......Jesus, they'll never make a better movie than this (apart fron A Clockwork Orange possibly). I love it , watched it I dont know how many times, and never get tired of it...and I'm British!!! A real work of art.

  • @TheBlueoverthemoon this was a great film because they stayed true to the times and what teens did during them, at least in america. I dont know if they crused drive-in's and such in britian, but they certinly did here in america....all night long on weekends. a car ment freedom and independence. the star of this film was the automobile and all it gave the youth culture of those days.

  • @TheBlueoverthemoon american history (40s-80s) was pretty beautiful..i love anything having to do with those times, i.e movies, music, artwork, etc. i wish all the time that i was able to live through those times...it even gets me depressed sometimes cause i'm growing up in an aweful era. i'm 18

  • Great, great song.

  • My mom used to confuse this song "so Fine" that was out at the same time.

  • Listening to Scott Muni on Wmca & Wabc in the day..and Uncle Bruuucccceee. on the east coast.. loved it all.

  • Listen to funky broadway by dyke and the blazers.

  • Should be:

    I Found a Love, w/ Pickett lead (out on Lu Pine #103 (b/w SWIM - FEB ‘62)

  • @MJLatora is right: Joe Stubbs lead. Wilson Pickett not on this… he joined up the next year; they had I Found a Love, w/ Pickett lead (out on Lu Pine #103 (b/w Swing - FEB ‘62); also on Lu Pine 136, 1003, + 5896). Some other Wilson w/ Falcons on Lu Pine, too.

    The Falcons, so like the Del Vikings.

    That sweet taste of sax! (1:39) Makes the tune - love it!

    JAN ’59 You’re So Fine orig. on FLICK 001; a few months later, it pops up on UNART 2013.

    Our world is better with. Thank you! :I:

  • This song is like a mellow, sweet wine! Thanks!

  • Classic combination of understated music with a beat and romantic lyrics. What being young was all about done in two minutes. Thanks!

  • I LOVED being in High School in LOUISIANA in the early 60s; heck we would get Fats Domino for our school dances back then; a GREAT time to be alive!! Then Came Vietnam and the end of my innocence.

  • ccasis: this is why you should stay in China. You wouldn't know how to appreciate freedom if it slapped you in your face.

  • @Tritonprince who would want to apprecitate something that slapped you? i understand your point though. as a teenager myself, i hate all the crappy music on the radio today. i wish i had lived in the time of the true greats:)

  • isnt this just some of the best sounding stuff you ever heard! I feel like I'm sitting at the a&w drive-inn agian having fried pickles and onion rings in my 54 pontiac.

  • Joe Stubbs, Eddie Floyd, Lance Finnie and Willie Schofield - you all are SO fine!!!

  • Oh man do i love this song! We use to go to a place near Columbia,Illinois called "Radisson's back in 1962. The band played this one a lot. Loved it then, still do. But, when the lead-in to the song starts it sounds just like another old song i loved. Wondering if anybody else noticed. To me it sounds just like the beginning of ":A White Sports Coat and a Pink Carnation" by Marty Robbins. Listen to both and see if you don't think so. Anyway, thanks for posting this.

  • Real Rock 'n' Soul. A gem. Thanks for uploading

  • So. Cal. 1956-1965 -Vietnam 1965-1969, It's this music that got me home. And through a lot of shit since . Thank you ROCK AND ROLL

  • oh lord and now it's gone

  • best music ever. thanks so much for sharing it.

  • this makes one want to get up and dance, a special time period in music, the late 1950s through the 1960s

  • I ,Was in Eastern Jr High,school in Louisville, Kentucky

    1960-1963!!!!

  • YES !!!!

    America Graffiti was and still is one of my favorite Movies, The music was GREAT IN THIS MOVIE!!! oNE OF THE best SONGS TO DANCE TO IN THE 60'S!!!!

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  • Another gem from Detroit's Fortune Records.

  • Mel Torme,Tony Bennett,Elvis,Billy Eckstine,Frank Sinatra had their fans ,but 14 years old and living in the Cochran Garden public projects in early 50s and 60s this is what was playing on KATZ AM radio , from the Rocking Mr G in St Louis and WLS out of Chicago..until Midnight. Blue Moon-The Marcels-1961, Sam Cooke, Coasters, Jackie Wilson,Drifters,Larry Williams,Lloyd Price,Esther Phillips,Jimmy Reed,Dinah Washington,Etta James,- Brook Benton,Chuck Jackson, Falcons - You're So Fine ..

  • @jusatyro Remember Jimmy Bishop on the radio. "Hey mommy-o Ho Daddy-o Jimmy Bishop on the radio, and i'm back with my stacks of wax sayin' oopapado and a how duh ya do, e tiddly-ock ho let's rock"?

  • this is the greatest music ever..

  • S-o-o  F-i-n-e!

    R & B started out as good Negro music ~

    Thank you for giving us all good tunes & good times!

  • 8 people aren't so fiiiiine....

  • Wonderful Negro music

  • Wilson Pickett on lead on this, I believe! Back in the day.

  • @calwaite  It's either Pickett or Eddie Floyd.

  • @calwaite It's Eddie Floyd.

  • @canyon091 I do not think Eddie Floyd EVER sang with the Falcons, but could be wrong. I would practically stake my life on the fact that it's Pickett.

  • @calwaite From Doo Wop 2 cd set booklet: In 59 the group consisted of Floyd, Schofield, Rice, and lead Joe Stubbs.(Levi's brother). They recorded "You're So Fine". A year later, Pickett joined them and sang lead on "I Found A Love". It seems we were both wrong. My apology!

  • @canyon091 You know, if you live long enough you learn something new every day. I had no idea Eddie Floyd ever sang with the Falcons, or that Levi had a singer brother. Amazing, and thank you for the update. I shall now spread this newfound information around as if I'm the only person in the world who knows it!

  • @calwaite That's cool. If you find anything more or anything contrary to this, please feel free to let me know. Have a good one!

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  • Just simple good ol' rock n roll dancin' music. Good memories.

  • Im two weeks old and love this music

  • WHAT GREAT MUSIC...THANKS

  • I am happy to say that from the late grades through HS this kind of music was part of my growing up. I remember when Elvis hit the stage in the mid-50s and my folks hated him! In spite of them I loved Elvis' music and the so-called "race" music that came along on the mainstream airways, at least in central PA where I lived which had the heavy influence of Dick Clark's Bandstand in Philly and his show on Saturday's. We had straight R-n-R, doo-wop, rockbilly, country crossovers, you name it.

  • @njva17420 You can't be braggin on chickenshit whitebread payola taking Dick Clark SO MANY OTHER DJ's had their lives ruined,, he lied and got off. He practicall owned Chancellor Records thus we got Frankie Avalon,,Bobby Rydell,,Fabian SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS. Payola ruined ALAN FREED who was one of the originators YET  DC got off. PEOPLE REMEMBER.

  • Man that bathroom tile sound. A lot of artists used bathroom to record vox cause acoustics were so good. The good old days. Simple ... Three chords and the truth.

  • Out of all the ...So Fine songs, this is my favorite. Thanks

  • whole different national 'attitude' for sure..

  • yet another of my all time favorite tunes. I grew up in those times and would'nt trade it for another even if I could ! I was 7 and remember the cool cats with hair greased up and white socks showing beneath skin tight black slacks. and this song coming out the jukebox at bill's drive-in. eating a footlong coney island and feeling all was right with the world.

  • @TheBabyboomkidof53 you have no idea haw much i envy you! the only songs i'll remember from my childhood when I'm older is crap like "who let the dogs out"! shoot me now!

  • @omarskats3000 yea, I really dont understand how this present generation will look back on the 2000's with any degree of fondness or feelings of musical accomplishments. my generation has such an unlimited and vast qunity of richness in theser things. 1955 to 1973 was just a boom in talent ,immagination,and creativity. music really started down in the 90's with rap and just got worse from there.

  • @TheBabyboomkidof53 I'm with you on this, Babyboom, except I think the slide began in the 80's, not the 90's. I can't think of more than 10 songs I've heard in 20 years that I would go buy. The real musicians playing real instruments were so badass, and the vocals so full of passion and emotion...vocals by singers who could SING, by the way, not trill up and down the register over and over without saying shit! I love that line above, "3 chords and the truth!" I'll be using it in the future!

  • @calwaite when disco came out in the late 70s I knew music was in trouble. a silly concoction like " disco duck ", did'nt only sell it became #1. that means the mentality of the next generation was dumming down, as they were buying such swill. danching replaced music as the objective of a recording. danching is fine,but not at the sacrifice musical integrity. for a while it looked like the first years of mtv would restore it. then it caved in on it's only rock formatt to appease black artists.

  • @TheBabyboomkidof53 Fortunately with the evolution of the Net and the arrival of sites such as this, REAL music is preserved for ever, so it wont disappear as we once feared it might and every day youngsters are surfing and discovering it and loving it and realising that once upon a time it was ALL real music.

  • @reelingreggie good points, and I agree for the most part. I am concerned however if younger people being so high tech oriented see the use of gadgets to make a singer in tune who is'nt the natual evolution and therefore acceptable. or keyboards that can sound like any instrument or an entire orcastra desirable. and then the issues of taste and diffinition of an " artist ". is a rapper a recording artist or music artist. if their a recording artist dont give them music awards, or rock awards.

  • @TheBabyboomkidof53 As they say; it's the music that counts and though"Pseudos" may win awards and momentary fame it will be the music that's remembered and then, only if it's good music and OUR music IS good music!!!!

  • Really good song.

    Love it.

    Thanks for keeping this music alive.

    Best,

  • This movie was my imaginary life. I grew up in the deep south too young to be old enough to participate in "the fifties" . I went to sleep every night clandestinly listening to the family tube radio until I fell asleep. It's a wonder I didn't burn the house down. This music goes straight to my core. It is as much a part of me as my bones. I love this song and the "thrill of life" that it captures for me. I only wish everyone could enjoy it as much as I.

  • @cryrocker I loved this stuff also and the movie, "American Graffiti" is one of my all time favorites. Though set in the early '60's, most of the tunes are '50's classics. I also listened to my own transistor radio during the '60's before falling asleep, but I also remember many tunes from the '50's when I was still a kid [ pre-adolescent]. There are more of us out here who love this era than you might think. I was glad to have grown up then.

  • @cryrocker It is indeed good music.I am now 69 years old,still remember all these good tunes.Wish I could relive them.

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  • @wildhorses773377

    I'm 70 ,like you I grew up with all these old songs. Really does bring back the memories .We had it good didn't we?

    It was a great time and I'm glad I lived it.

    Thanks ,who ever, for posting this music

  • @bob6023

    I'm 69 and your sooooo right

  • @cryrocker i love this record and i love your comment..

  • @cryrocker You are so right my friend,I was a middle teenager when this GREAT music played and life and love was good!

  • Check out the flip side "Goddess of Angels"

  • wow!!..I felt in the 50's again....again? I never was ...but ..it doesn't matter..jejejje

  • GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOO

  • A blast from the past. I just love this song. BEAUTIFUL wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Great just fantastic loved listening to tune in the fifties and I still get goose pimples. Thank you.

  • hnksnw,  My parents used to call rock and roll rubbish.

  • You did it again Ak47bandit, another great song from a not so well known group but one that had a beat and instrumentation that keeps your foot tapin'. Released in 1959 according to my sources, this was a national hit for them. In 1961 Wilson Picket joined the group as lead singer but they never had another big hit after that. Ron--Highway Stars Magazine

  • What I'd give to go back to 1959, as I was 10 yo & the world was great! My mother would say "You're too young for that music." But, I was THERE & loved every minute of it.

  • Really cool. Love it. thanks for the post. Reminds of little biddy days and discovering good music. The comments are right. Simplicity ruled. Not a whole lot of background either. Just pure rhythm and talent is what made songs like this great!

  • I was knee high to a duck's butt when this song was first released and use to sing it all the time, can't imagine how I sounded being that I couldn't have more four or five years of age, ha ha. So great to hear it again, talk about memories.

  • Thanks for posting.  Great tune!

  • So sweet sound! ahhh...make one be in heaven. Thanks posting.

  • we were kings..........once.

  • Just the very beginning of this song gives me chills!

  • Way before I was born but the sound of these old doo whop songs remind me of growing up and just watching the folks dancing to this stuff...

  • The main quality of a record was the ability to dance to it. No dance; no sale. Some where between 60-63 the rock of the 50s was dead. British groups took over RnR forged from R&B hits and rock took on a turn of events that still are strong today from music from 55-89. I wish could say the same about the majority of music 90-10 but the stuff just isn't there just plastic; sorry groups, lots of skin and a tiny amount of new rock and as ever R&B wating to forge the base of a new wave of music.

  • My R&R died about 1963. The Beatles were great but they were the beginning of the end of that sound that I loved. It's hard to explain. Starting about 1965 it would have been impossible to have had a hit such as,Purple People Eater or Apache or Wipe Out,Doo Wop of any sort or Teen Idols. My R&R had many sounds. Or maybe i'm to old to remember correctly?

  • @arkyron1947 -- I agree, there's a big difference between soul and rock n roll. I miss soul music ... it was some good lovin' music!

  • @arkyron1947  Alan Freed died in 1964....

  • it'll all about elvis

  • love this song, released long before I was born but I like American Doo Wop - great beat, great lyrics, simple yet soooo effective

  • Remember when the simplest lyrics made the greatest songs ?

    You're SOOOOOOOOO Fine...the lead singer's vibrato sets the stage for the great R + B to come.....The O'Jay's, The Four Tops.....

    Thank God. Thank God for this music.

  • In the future there will be Cyber Archaeologists who will be accessing our servers to learn about us, just like we did with the Egyptians and their hyroglyphics... They will find this music, and play it.. Isn't that WONDEFULL! Literally it will live forever.

  • That's a great, provocative, and very happy point, Gwhite. In some way, it shows hope for the future, as it will show those who come after us that we weren't so bad after all.

  • @MJLatora That's because the lead voice, Joe Stubbs, is the brother of Four Tops lead singer, Levi Stubbs.

  • @MightyZoom

    NOW that I didn't know, and I never made the connection. Incredible voices both. I like to call Levi Stubbs ( rest in incredibly powerful peace ) the Rock of Gibraltar of R & B.

  • @MJLatora I saw a concert the other day on Paladium and the girl sang your so fine (Hey Mickey)

  • We in Asia enjoy the old American negro music they got that jungle rhythm and that's a complement

  • @ccasia2008 I lived in Asia and the people enjoyed the music. You have to overlook some of the words. The rythem  and beat is what most important if it moves you or not. USA

  • @MJLatora It is so interesting to me that you mention The Four Tops in your post since the lead singer on this song is none other than the legendary late great Joe Stubbs.....who is the brother of Four Tops front man the legendary late great Levi Stubbs

  • Your right Cathy, you should not be getting thumbs down. This music is called DooWop the best of the best Rock And Roll. In the early 60's with the British Invasion Rock And Roll was definitely reinvented by the Beatles, Stone, Kinks etc.

  • Great, great, and even greater!!

    Thank you.

    Love it.

  • I grew up in Louisiana with this Music; the 60's were a wonderland in New Orleans; now it is all gone; destroyed bye drugs and gangs...

  • @Greenhornet270 Unfortunately, that most (if not every) city. Even suburbs (though some like to pretend) It's heartbreaking.

  • "The Hierophant Of 100th Street" - a two-time award winning novel speaks to this. The '60's with its Doo-wops, Rock & Roll, and Rock music changed the course of history FOREVER, man!

  • Rock and roll has gone through many changes over the years, that's the best way to describe it. I believe commercially rock and roll doesn't exist anymore. Only garbage does.

  • @hnksnw It's still out there, it's just harder to find.

  • @hnksnw You should listen to The Black Keys

  • From Chinese in Asia! We agree most American negro music is banned on our radio because of its content! Why do you allow that horrible language! We don't

  • lol. mystery google brought me here

  • The Beatles and The Rolling Stones helped to shape and define rock and roll as we know it today. They took classic rock and roll, R&B and Blues from America and put their own personal stamps on it, bringing to the next level. The Stones, The Yardbirds and Bluesology ( a unit formed by Elton John and who backed up American acts like Patti La Belle and the Bluebelles),were actually BLUES bands-- -- they just happened to be from across the continent and have white skin. That is the truth.

  • They took rock and roll to the next level.The only thing is there is no rock and roll being done today,or not any that i like.

  • the beatles destroyed rock and roll???

    are you guys fucking crackheads

  • ahhhhhhhh, I love it !!!!!

    Thanks,

    kj

  • This ones for you Mama,I can see you dancing to this song,you loved it. Miss you more than anything in the world.I know you are dancing in heaven with Dad.One day we will all be together again. Love You, Patricia & Peter

  • Wilson Pickett was a member later member of this Falcons group and sang lead on I Found A Love from 1962.....

  • Joe Jackson's played there!

  • hey guys do any of you guys that saw this movie please write back what is the name of the song when the guy see's that blonde girl that tells him she loves him and takes off the song in the background it starts like

    mba,mba.mba,mba

    please respond and tell me the name of that song

  • MrAntone, the song in that scene of the movie is Why Do Fools Fall In Love by Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers.