Phil Phillips - Sea Of Love

[12Krys]

To My Sisters & Brothers Thanks for teaching me how to Dance ~ Know I know Why Your Feet & Legs Hurt ~ You let me stand on them to teach me ~ 24/7

[12Krys]

This is another Special Golden Oldie for me

I still Love it a lot

Just thought I'd share another Special Memory

Gosh I was such a little girl back then

And I still remember all of the words ~

24/7

[Easttexasbaby1]

I'm so glad I found out the name of this song! I used to just call it the sperm song from Look Who's Talking haaah

[TheHorseguard1]

Dont Make em like this anymore when you can HEAR and interprate the words LONG LIVE ROCK N ROLL

[faithfulkat77]

my mom and dad met at a dance and this was the song they danced to. love u mom and dad xoxo RIP<3

[123rachyb]

Love this song

[sharonkayb]

One of my faves and I always thought he was white.

[MRBORGHEAD]

greatest verse ever, falls apart at the chorus. the "bridge" is the chorus. very strange... why do people pretend to be racist?

[ballzymgee]

@YnnisGlytyr You're a real troll man

[StickWarrior]

It's hard to describe how this song makes me feel. It's happy, I guess, but there's this melancholy behind it or something.

[ilugo54]

@tommyjk99 Sea of love with Al Pacino and beautiful Ellen Barkin!

[tommyjk99]

Sea of love film with al pacino :)

[LueVandacar]

Replace Met with wet and sing it your wife she loves it!

[LueVandacar]

@LueVandacar Correcting I knew I got you wet!

[prometheuslv426]

pacino

[perditachavez]

well i'm speechless in front of that ...

[perditachavez]

@deltastrike81 they knew their place ?? fuck u racist cunt

[PissofCanada111]

@perditachavez can't deny the truth bro...

[LaMnchaUrbana]

why i hate cat power ver.? Phil Philips is Better btw :) !!!

[ChrisLeWhite]

Rocking soon good I'm taking a shit right now and this song makes it better

[jor99912]

When I hear this, don't know why but I think of (SEA CRUISE, ROCKING ROBIN). Then slow it down like this one, with a real tear jerker, hard to find tear jerker called (A TREE). (I NEVER THOUGHT THAT I WOULD SEE, A POEM AS LOVELY AS A TREE).

[PissofCanada111]

This is the shit

[PurpleGhost]

A really beautiful song.

It is really sad that even though this sold over a million copies when he sung it, he wasn't paid royalty fees, despite he's clearly fantastic performance. (In 1959 he was paid $6800.00, and nothing more)

I've really come to enjoy the music of the 50's, it's so melodic and human. (as opposed to the manufactured plastic most songs are today - I love techno, but human voices, /should/ sound like human voices.)

[floydpink36]

One more thing, Robert Plant covered this song. In my opinion the lead singer of "Led Zeppelin"(maybe you have heard of them) helped keep this song alive for other generations to listen to.

[floydpink36]

@bilby53 Some liked the covers and some didn't, that doesn't mean he was trying to make money off of the original pieces. Oh, and I suppose no one has ever covered artists like Elvis, or The Beatles; get a clue who ever you are, look in the mirror, and try to figure out a way to increase you IQ...or maybe cut out the reverse racism and work for a change. With all of that being said, great song by Phil Phillips...a classic.

[floydpink36]

@bilby 53: Can I say...reverse racism? Or lack of knowledge? Covering songs is noted as a piece of respect to the artists who originally composed them (not to mention artists get a share of the money after it is covered). Lets talk about the HORRIBLE covers by the "hip hop" world today. You're going to sit on your a** and say a certain color (white) made money of of these originals. Seal has covered a number of songs done by the great Otis Redding.

[julioarroyo751]

This kind of music makes my days shiny:)

[GeneStewart71269]

Great song by a great artist! I am a country artist, but I do appreciate quality music!!

[MegaQuantumleaper]

just seen the al pacino movie sea of love . brought me here .

[TheAnonymousNick]

This song reminds of a horror movie....boy, this song is so much better than that!!!

[surfcityproductions]

Pay Phil Phillips his royalties! Too many in the music business have been cheated. It's time for justice. Do what's right! One of the best records ever.

[teniente134]

To all the people that talks: why dont we do something?? If we love this guy, why dont we help him not just complain, I know there are more than one

[teniente134]

Such a beautiful song

[bilby53]

All the cover versions of black artist songs in this era by 'clean cut' American white boys was a disgrace. Phil Phillips deserves to be compensated by the industry that denied him his rights. Shame on all those white executives who unjustly and unscrupulously syphoned the money into their own pockets. He is now 85 and what would it take to make his final years more comfortable as well as his family? Not much at all. Don't leave it until it is too late but I feel it will never happen.

[BenaiahLLC]

Magnificent!

[TheBlueoverthemoon]

This is a Classic! They dont make them like this anymore!

[Alikah1]

Let's remember that Phil Phillips was a working stiff when he recorded this song, for which he was paid a salary. He was not Nat King Cole. Show business is a bitch. How many actors in NY and LA wait tables and drive cabs to pay the rent? This man made a beautiful song, but he was not a star, nor did he ever become one. He never had another hit. That does not entitle him to a life of riches.

[daninfinity]

Does he have wings like a fly too?

[rustyhopp]

For years I have enjoyed singing this song in Karaoke Bars in Japan ... This is the version that gave me my pipes, not the the Honeydrippers as most of the young Americans thought ... Now that I'm back in the States, I have to admit I miss those time in Japan ...

[petereyg]

louisalit,don't blame capitalism.you may get an argument from michael jackson's family or elvis and all the rest.mr. phillips had bad management and probably was a nice trusting soul.many other recording stars from this generation made plenty on residuals and some got "screwed".always easy to blame the system but today's generation seems to always play the victim and not take any personal responsibility.i feel bad for mr.phillips but most of the fault lies within.

[112yrs]

Greedy oink-oink pigs are the problem with so-called capitalism. Capitalism is not God; yet for many it is a false religion, the banner of which has become the phony justification for their avarice! Saw something the other day: $40 thousand spent on a baby's first birthday party. Where are our brains? Anyone know how to spell sick "excess"? How about "ethics"? Consciousless, we plot and plot; one day we'll rot! Excess and lack of morality--self--that's why we're going down.

[Thedanner1000]

Sad how they treated him.

[schmittyc1993]

The Tom Waits cover is also beautiful. Totally different feel though

[Dubhands1]

@ dogcat126 THE HARDER THEY COME, THE HARDER THEY FALL is a awesome movie! Saw it as a 17 yr old girl my first date with my now husband at an art house theater - to this day the soundtrack is my all time favorite music

[s90skank]

thank you, great post!

[albeelat]

I remember this song back in the 50's I Thought he was a white guy. Great song. I got a lot

of loving from a certain girl listen to this song, Sea Of Heartbreak from Suzie Baby'

Reminds me of one Saturday Night after midnight driving home went around a curve.

My door came open, all my records went out all over the side of the road. Some of  the white guys sounded black. It was all good. You can't beat the music of the 50;s.

[evetsgolb]

I remember..what a great song..

[dogcat126]

i am 63 and i got to hear this song when it first came out! so many soul artists got screwed on the royalties-really horrible as they deserved them!! it was even worse in jamaica-jimmy cliff did a movie about how bad it was for the musicians down there-THE HARDER THEY COME, THE HARDER THEY FALL. he is great too as are so many soul artists from there and of course here and all over the world!!! i was so lucky to have grown up hearing them all!!! thanks soso much for posting!!!!

[1969dano]

Thanks.  Just great hearing this again.

[razorbak16]

Fogged up the windows in my '56 Chevy many a night to this tune. Sweet memories!

[DeAztec62]

@razorbak16 Eww not an image I wanted Grandma!

[roynelson96]

Its of the simpsons D'oh

[47yesican]

How sad that this "great singer" didn't get

what is "rightfully" His!!! Darlene Love waited for

"years" before she got "royalties".

Shame on Whoever Stole their Money!!!

[727chitown]

yeah........ feels good don't it....

[kykdaar]

This timeless song seems to have been tailor-made for Ellen Barkin ...

[peacelovebeatles]

Love this. Thanks ;)

[moonspots01]

Great !!!!

[accarvalho79]

Plant of love.

[TheCoverHeaven]

Great song!

[Watchessailormoon]

my god what has happened black music??? Used to be so much better.

[SpaceBambino]

@Watchessailormoon same as everything else that has turned into crap: market research

[KennyCollins1962]

@Watchessailormoon So true.

[PissofCanada111]

@Deltastrike81  Yes.

[TheSweatyfatguy]

@Deltastrike81 hahah yeah in the tree

[TheSweatyfatguy]

@Deltastrike81 hahah yeah in the tree

[Easttexasbaby1]

@TheSweatyfatguy Hahah so funny especially after you said it three times in a row. NOT you're a retard.

[TheSweatyfatguy]

@Deltastrike81 hahah yeah in the tree

[TheSweatyfatguy]

@Deltastrike81 hahah yeah in the tree

[YnnisGlytyr]

@Watchessailormoon ....They lost all respect for themselves and their race.

[keeljoy247]

@YnnisGlytyr Don't sound so racist

[YnnisGlytyr]

@keeljoy247 - sorry having to sound this way, but this is just a fact. Saggy pants where you can see ass cracks and underwear, cussing and cursing in every sentence, calling each other nigger, ho, bitch, motherfucker, not a single rap/hip-hop song I have heard in the past 15 years that doesn't have some sort of derogative words against cops, family, own race in it, robbing, killing an every day occurrence, high unemployment cuz it's easier to live of welfare, lost morality, drugs...

[YnnisGlytyr]

@keeljoy247 Believe me, I wish I could talk different about the black race - but I can't. I am pretty sure MLK would be ashamed if he'd see what happened to his people. And every upstanding black person should be too, because they are being put down because of the 95% of blacks that just can't get a grip on their lives.

[TheMrIvanyvienen]

my first joint with this songa in JUARITOS ese!!!!

[Richardweijens023]

Nice

[9honschu]

Thumps up if you heard this song in THE SIMPSONS.

[Perkerr]

@9honschu thumps? lolz

[brandonaliwarga]

If there was only a HD version :(

[anniest2010]

I <3 You

[sarahh2009loved]

My grandma and grandpa's favorite song...

[fuzzedoutmama]

This song is beautiful and timeless!

[MANIKIBORDELLO]

adoro el DOO WOP

[MANIKIBORDELLO]

<3

[staff50ord]

An ageless great classic

[GPCMUTTERFICKER]

One of my favorites.. so old and not antiqued anyway..

beautiful

[aaronb825]

"that's when I knew you were my PET"

he sang it not once but three times

I don't think that line would fly today lol

[averill922]

Great Great song-great Great Movie !!!

[Quattrofjall]

Cat powers version is, em, better. In my opinion.

[TheThroney]

@sophia72 not trying to be rude but i think you may be tone deaf.. because all singers on this track are in tune.. take care

[samnjond]

do you remember when we met....?

[KenAkaTheWG]

i thought the dude was white...

[ilovecookaysxP]

@KenAkaTheWG

why does it matter??

[KenAkaTheWG]

@ilovecookaysxP i didnt say it mattered but still im pretty sure hes white

[ilovecookaysxP]

@KenAkaTheWG

oh ok,but he isnt



[YnnisGlytyr]

@ilovecookaysxP -it does matter. why do you think blacks have such a high unemployment rate....RIGHT, cuz nobody understands anymore what the heck they are saying....not even those blacks who enjoyed a good education but grew up in the ghetto.

[unaisarasola]

if somebody is interested in a cover version...

/watch?v=LwKWj_TZIKU&feature=f­eedu

[Sophia72]

Those backing singers ruin it for me... Completely out of tune!

[jivejstar]

@Sophia72

You are so wrong, they were right on! That was the sound and they did it great!

[uniited7]

WATCH THISS!! <3

/watch?v=O0a6xDLZRWs&feature=p­layer_embedded#!

[DutchCookieSlayer]

i don't know but now i love the sea

[TheJoeshmoer]

I've listened to this song since I was in the 6th grade and I had my first crush on a girl. Valentines day came along, left a bear w/ chocolate on a desk before school started and It had a not specifically for her. Finally told her that I did it in 9th grade. Thank you for the enthusiasm of love Phil! I guess the Penguins helped too with Earth Angel.

[Mylifeismusic97]

no.. i didnt find this on JUNO.

[TheStamplover]

Have this song on an album compiled by a local radio station. I never get tired of hearing it.

[uncommonK]

THE BEST SONG EVER

[louisalit]

Beautiful song! A bit scary though, for us who saw "Sea of Love". The singer has been very badly treated economically. Wikipedia quote:

" In 1959 it sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[3] Nonetheless, Phillips was paid only $6800, and received no further royalties for the song or its recording.[4]." .

Can nobody help him to get his right??!!

[StoogeWatcher]

@louisalit That was the thing about 1950s and 1960s performers, especially blacks, who were screwed over and received little for their work.

[Adjei88]

@louisalit thats not very shocking, it's a well known fact that black singers during this era where very much short-changed for their money!

[jab3785]

@Adjei88 While it might seem that this only happened to black singers, there were plenty of white singers who were also short changed. The record companies and their lawyers of that time were equal opportunity crooks. Not surprisingly, the artists were not sophisticated enough to understand that they were often signing away most of their rights in order for a shot at stardom.

[TheHernan1955]

@louisalit injustice

[crackerkiller89]

@louisalit According to inflation rates and supposing that selling $13 dollar CD's at a number of a million nets you $5,000,000, he was paid a little over ONE PERCENT of what he was owed. Of course this is not accounting for the difference in tax rates, but if those are taken into account, he probably got paid a little over two, maybe three percent of what he was owed. What a fucking travesty.

[thugthumper1]

@crackerkiller89 Does Crackerkiller89 mean that you hate white people and want to kill them?

[crackerkiller89]

@thugthumper1 Its a name a dumb young kid picked years ago. It was actually meant to show that people only read the cover and not the book the vast majority of the time.

[crackerkiller89]

@louisalit I mean less than one percent because hed have to get paid more to get the same thing because of higher taxes. 

[mercury904]

@louisalit capitalism&racism has made it that way

[NAYUKITRA]

al pacino ellen barkin

[Jsnowboard]

@hope11ification this song is 30 years older...

[FUKFAKES]

Amazing song wish the music now a days had meaning like the old days.

[gummiibearz1]

this is the best version out dur...

[DivineCord]

very Good, once in a life time hit, good to be rememberd

[emilijus08]

Genijalna stvar......

[molkomolkomolkomolko]

thumbs up if vintage gay porn bought you here

[Gothicguitarpixie]

@molkomolkomolkomolko Lmao XD

[firebreather333]

@molkomolkomolkomolko thats just you..

[Davross]

@molkomolkomolkomolko

Lol!

[yaiwolf1]

a classic memory...

[misscarly12]

Just watched the movie of this. It's really good!!!

[JayleeSpieler]

One of the best songs of all time!

[Evster2012]

Funny how Robert Plant felt covering this song made him feel like a "white, clean and neat crooner". He considers it the biggest "fail" of his career. Yet it was a hit for him. His love of this music bit him in the behind. The MTV video didn't help (embarrasing). But kudos to him for keeping this music in our collective ears.

[GrandMasterPotSmoker]

@Evster2012 thanks for posting this comment.without it i wouldve probably never found Plant's cover

[ZROMY32]

Just watch at cinemax Astro

[ZROMY32]

Just watch at cinemax Astro

[BennyCadillac]

There's something so melancholy about this song, and I can't put my finger on why.

[JailyandJazz]

mr caplocks lol me too

[MrCaplocks]

Just heard this on the simpsons in the episode the burns and the bees!

[UBARxxGAMAR]

@MrCaplocks ME TOO thats why i came to listen to this

[nerysramirez1]

that movie that you mentioned its amaizing



[DaveWollenberg]

Phil hit #2 in Billboard, 8-24-59. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx! Have a great week!

[Ezdduf4kuZ]

Now here's a memory from '59 that was covered by the Honeydrippers in 1983/84. It sounded so similiar to Phil Phillips that you'd honestly think that Phil was still the lead vocalist many years later. Thx4 postin'

[scholesy1000]

@hope11ification dumbass

[razieltalos]

@hope11ification that movie didnt inspire this song, the song was from the 50s and the movie is from the 80s

[AsmodeusDAstarath]

@hope11ification wich is the name of that film?

[MultiVitaminBB]

@AsmodeusDAstarath Same as the Song. "Sea of Love"

[drtitislash]

damn! this a beutiful song but i have broken heart!

it's soo sadd! but i really love this song!

[notsovelvet]

Beautiful 

[nickelbacking13]

i still think that this should've been the music of bioshock

[powerslave887]

@hope11ification hell yes man, sea of love, with the psycho. awesome stuff but then again Pacino's shit has always been great.

[timnemeth1]

@hope11ification i thing if u like al pacino... u seen sea of love.. really good movie

[BarbieKenc]

<3 this is great

[The2Fake]

2011 and i listen to this song

[McLovin800869]

@heliumexplosion420 I'm here thanks to the honey drippers

[samnjond]

im in my 20s and i love this fukkin song!!! love the oldies!

[vanessamcarrillo]

@pallatanga A band? Durr. Lol ;o) YouTube search: Cat Power - Sea of Love. I guess you could catagorize it as typical "hipster" music. It sounds pretty different than this version.

[heliumexplosion420]

Thumbs up if your here because of CAT POWER!!!

[pallatanga]

@hope11ification yes, and if anything, it was the song that inspired the movie. Pacino was ok, but nothing spectacular. Was better in Dog Day Afternoon

[pallatanga]

wow, this song is beautiful.

[juxhesx]

i can't wait for the day when I first lay my eyes on a girl, and just know that she would be my bitch.

[josieatpc]

@juxhesx can i guess ur american good luk with ur search bitch

[juxhesx]

@josieatpc it was a fucking joke, because when he sings this song it sounds like his saying bitch, bitch.

[undeadrising2]

@juxhesx you sir just PWND him

[TheAllen37]

A classic,bring's back so many memorie's,some painfulbut so many fond memorie's.

[kosmischesynth]

@TheAllen37 cough - apostrophes - cough

[planexxjane]

haha i'm watching the al pachino movie right now :)

[jb200008]

this song gives me hope :)

[dontkillmeful]

@jb200008 yes it gives me hope too

[vanessamcarrillo]

WHOA, "Cat Power" did a cover of this song... which is how I know it and thought it was an original of theirs.

Obviously, the actual original always is the best. :o) Very good song!