EVERY GENERATION HAD IT'S GOOD AND BAD POINTS, IT DEPENDS ON WEATHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO DWELL ON THE POS OR THE NEG. THATS WHY M,USIC IS MY PERSONAL TIME MACHINE
The 60's was the best era ever!. God said everything will be ok, My husband of 30 yrs,died in 2004. I have had several of his friends call me lately saying they have had dreams where they actually woke up in a cold sweat as my ex told them Please take care of my wife as she is going through rough times right now, so please be there for her! .I've even had the visions..I need to leave my home in 1 mo..If you know of anyone in the Mpls, MN area, Call Linda @ 612-963-0953, OR flash52155@aol.com...
Now THIS is a love song of saddness. Man, what a song! It grabs your heart while it's breaking and turns you around. We've all been there, I'm sure. I know I have. I used to drive by her house long after she left town, just for the wonderful memories we shared.
The 60s were when people started protesting Vietnam (even as Johnson escalated the war), and it was also when major steps forward were taken to demolish racism...as for the Cold War, that was a part of Life for about 40 years, and finally ended happily, with the fall of the Soviet Empire.
Wish we COULD go back to this time....I loved it! We did without a lot of the things that are here today...and it was way better. We didn't want for much. Music kept us busy and happy. It was a trip to just go to the music store and thumb thru the albums. Hanging out at the burger stands. Not sitting by and glued to the tv. No electronic gadgets to tie up our time. GREAT music!!!! Even better memories.
Wish we COULD go back to this time....I loved it! We did without a lot of the things that are here today...and it was way better. We didn't want for much. Music kept us busy and happy. It was a trip to just go to the music store and thumb thru the albums. Hanging out at the burger stands. Not sitting by and glued to the tv. No electronic gadgets to tie up our time. GREAT music!!!! Even better memories.
Damn. It's so easy to get Peter & Gordon confused with Chad & Jeremy. And if John Lennon hadn't vainly avoided wearing glasses during this period, he and Paul McCartney could have been another such duo.
we used to enter our elementary school (Sackett) through the basement and practice a "nuke" drill every morning until about 1963....heavy stuff for kids.
In terms of popular music: This moment was the very highest point in human history. No matter what happened after that, nothing could ever equal the sublimity of it. It was the very moment when Heaven touched the earth...
YEahhh REAL MUSIC just good voices and nothing electronic !!! The GREAT SIXTIES !!! I am a lucky fellow who really lived those years !!!!!!!!!! :-) Thank you GOD !!!!
@ritared236@wavygr obviously misses the troubling weight of expecting nuclear missiles to rain down any day... but glad people today don't know that fear. That was the war won without firing a nuke, thanks to a strong and ready massive deterrent capability.
@ritared236 Perhaps "why" they were considered so innocent is people practiced so many horrible things without any real sense of their consequence. The 60s seem to be magical more because they were a waking point....that place in one's life when people realize Santa Claus isn't real, but Mommy and Daddy had done it solely to give you joy and magic for 'just a little while longer'.
No, the 60s were pretty terrible, but they were powerful too.
@ritared236 //Been there done that but it does not seem as bad now with immigration and race problems with the white race seems doomed from extinction. this is from a Vietnam vet infantry 68/69 11b10 Phu Bai.
@ritared236 I agree about your comment re: the music of the 60's and Heaven touching the Earth. A profound observation.
I kept thinking--was it just that I was a teen during that decade that I'm so obsessed and taken away with the music and the ambience of the era or was it something really unique and as you said, "sublime"? I believe it was more than just the fact that I was there.
@wavygr Excellent point, and it always blows my mind, that people could be bold an expressive, in that world - it seems figuratively, as if WW2 was 100 years ago in 1965, not just 20 it really was and that nuclear destruction didn't really bother people as much as superannuation does now.
@wavygr I think I know what you're saying. Even though we had civil disturbances, Viet Nam and the cold war, it was a time of relative innocence. People were idealistic, they demonstrated for what they believed in (not done today). And it was still possible to hear uplifting music like this.
Takes me back to my old flame Beverly B. on a friday crusiing in my 55 Ford, great days the sixites. no political correctness and our country being ruined by illegal aliens to the South.
O how refreshing it is to watch this kind of performance and listen to this kind of music! It was unpolished, but oh how voices sang with passion and genuine hearts still dreamed with unjaded minds. Today from Pop Music to Politics, we've got finely tuned, technologically polished stagecraft but no soul, or honesty.
O how refreshing it is to watch this kind of performance and listen to this kind of music! It was unpolished, but oh how voices sang with passion and genuine hearts still dreamed with unjaded minds. Today from Pop Music to Politics, we've got finely tuned, technologically polished stagecraft but no soul, or honesty.
I feel so rich when I think back as young kid growing up with this music. And nothing brings back the feel of those days like music. And today is great because technology has made it so that there isn't a song I can think of that I can't find some where on youtube. This is too cool. Thanx for the upload.
great song! Great guys! But like all the other brit groups,,,they were often over shadowed by the fab4, and the stones...This songs story is very similar to ;Patsey Clines,"I fall to pieces" I love both songs!!!
These are the GREAT times compared to now days! Things just seem to simpler then. We had the greatest music in the 60's. RIP Gordon, you and Peter gave us some GREAT Music!!!
If I had to pick my 5 top songs of all times. This would be one of them. It reminds me of a time long ago when I was young and this song was popular. It was a time I had I broken up my very first girl friend. It seemed like this song played every time I was out driving around in my hot rod Chevy. It would start me thinking all over again about "her". lol
Don’t know what ever happened to her or the hot rod Chevy, but this song is still one of my favorites.
I was lucky enough to be in my teens during the greatest music decade ever...the 1960's.So much great stuff made *before* the British Invasion and so much more from Britain.At least 95% of my 4,000 song library (thank God for CD burners) is 60's music.
I am soooo glad this was the music of my youth.. I was watching VH1's One Hit Wonders of the 90's. Every other song was how about a woman's ass and how big it was. It was a pathetic display of bad music !!
The Greatest Music, The Greatest Cars, The Dancing, the whole 60's decade was insane. For us that were fortunate enough to have grown up in the 60's it was time that can never be replicated. I was 10 years old in 1960 so that decade was my growing up years. By 1970 I was married, graduated college, had a daughter, drafted, and on my way to Viet Nam. As I sit and look back I would do it all over again. The best times of my life; the 1960's RIP, Gone but not forgotten. We were the Lucky Ones!
This is a classic piece of video! In the age before digital character generators, Peter and gordon's name was cut out of plywood, painted white, and hung from very thin wire, so the producers stage hand could "fly it out on cue". In addition, Peter and Gordon are on an "infinity" parallax stage. The stage is not really deep, it is an illusion.
Thanks for posting the great songs of the 60s! Takes me back to those night cruising with the guys, or better yet, THE girl! Love those black glasses. Of course, that's all that was offered for so long. Keep those song going.
I agree with the gkrewerl person that the sixities was the greatest era for music, and we were blessed to be able to get to grow up in and experience that era. This great song performed by this great British invasion duo, plus the girls screaming just added to the excitement of these times.
I totally agree with gkrewer1 that the sixities music was the greatest music of all time and never to be challenged by any era. This great song well done by this great British invasion duo was just many of the great songs we enjoyed then and still enjoy now. The girls screaming just adds to the excitement of the songs and the times! What a great era to be alive and to experience first hand!
Great song written by Del Shannon. When you hear songs like this, you go back to the 60s, the best time for music. You stay younger when hearing the music of the 60s. You can never grow old.
@gkrewer1 Easy to sing to, built for comfort. Thanks, Del. It sounds just like one of your great songs! Del Shannon had such a great voice. Peter and Gordon were big in the 60's and we all listened to their music long before we realized other great artists were writing their songs! Lamar
@gkrewer1 "You can never grow old"; the very message of "Street Life" as sung by Randy Crawford. "You'd better not grow old"; more like an admonition I'd assert.
what beautiful im from coloma michigan and im 20 years old and own alot of old records from the past and i love the way the music sounded then todays music is just so dang vulgar
People don't listen they don't seem to care. The best music ever was in the 60s. I'm so lonely I think about the sixties only. I go to peace-ville pieces every-time I think of the great music back then.
@sjtom57 : Very well said. Yes, great times, but also awful. War, drugs, rage. Family, friends, neighbors often at each others' throats. Generational war... A decade full of love and hate.
Everytime in the past someone had to die, or someone was crazy or didn't have to much money in the bank, OBVIOUSLY ...but people had high hopes in the 60's . Do you really love this time? The World Has Seen Better Days and the Music TOO!!!
@ritared236 Read about Del Shannon, who wrote this song for Peter & Gordon. He was mis-diagnosed, given the wrong "drug", that caused him to take his life. So Sad. rip Gordon & Del.
now there lil wayne and eminem and all that crap like seriously u can even understand what the hell there saying they sing with no emotions they just spill the words out like shit. i so wish teens from our decade would open there eyes to real music !!!!!
The vocals here are definitely a live take of this song. I think Froggboots might well be right about the backing track used here. That much seems synched. But that's them singing. There is no other take of this song by them that sounds like this one. Nice! I love finding old gems when some were still done live. Thanks for the post! I saw these guys at some roller rink gig in Atlanta, Feb 1968. Complete with 2 go-go dancers in cages! Mini skirts. See the panties. Teenage erotic! So classic.
"Peter Asher" Was On Our Local Channel 11, Fox, This Morniang, Sept. 5, & Told Amazing Stories Of Him, Paul McCartney & Others. Peters Sister, Jane Asher, Went With Paul For A Few Years. Peter Was Very Instrmental In Producing Popular Groups- He Still Does. Does Anyone Remember Jane Asher????
The fifties & sixties were the best times of our lives. The best cars, the best people, the greatest songs, the simplicity of life. No Cell phones, I-Pads, I Phones, No Computers, No AIDS, no drive bys, just good times at the beach, the pool, the skating rink, the Drive-In theaters, Carvel Ice Cream Stands in the summer and ice skating on the lake in the winter. We left our doors open at night and the milkman, Dugans Bread & Cakes and the sodaman were all I needed to get by. Great Times!
The fifties & sixties were the best times of our lives. The best cars, the best people, the greatest songs, the simplicity of life. No Cell phones, I-Pads, I Phones, No Computers, No AIDS, no drive bys, just good times at the beach, the pool, the skating rink, the Drive-In theaters, Carvel Ice Cream Stands in the summer and ice skating on the lake in the winter. We left our doors open at night and the milk man, Dugans and the soda man was all I needed to get by. Great Times!
I'm willing to bet my life that this performance is NOT lip synched... There is an accompaniment track in the background, but there voices and strumming is LIVE!!!!!!!!!
They aren't lip-synching. Anyone who's listened to the original studio version can tell. You can hear the guitars live. Why would they record a different version to lip-synch on stage. And the so-called techie doesn't know what he's talking about - that's not a cardioid mike; its most likely a bidirectional. Who cares! The audience enjoyed themselves and Peter and Gordon still heard themslves/
The 50s were not good. They seemed so nice but they weren't. Women had little choice in how they lived and what they did and racism was accepted as the norm.
what about today? millions die of hunger in Africa... drugs and terrorism had made the world smaller and much more terrifying than the 50's. By the way... this music was made in the fabolous 60's
@ritared236 - I was born Jan 1950 and grew up with this music. The 60's were turbulent but exciting and I believe that we, the youth of the day, changed the world forever - for the good. Is the world a better place now than back then? Let's leave that to future generations - in the meantime, let's enjoy tunes like these and enjoy the memories that they bring back. Hugs and Luv to all!
@nelbrewster The fifties were wonderful. Social engineering has destroyed the family unit & you say it's better? Our children & families are devastated. As far as racism, who are you kidding? It's worse today than it's ever been against all races and religions. People today are selfish, rude, criminal, filthy and without direction.Young people deserve a happier world like we got to experience. You are seriously deluded. Were you even there?
well, this takes me back. to times when being young was going to be forever, fun was the main ingrediant for life, people came and went and there was no worries, sex drugs booze was life, I miss my youth. it was a blast.
Just enjoy the music! The fun part of this era was how different it all was. Our house hardly even really played any music and when we did it was Country....like what they play now as real country. Hank Williams SR, Johnny Cash, very very twangy, or the old Blues songs. Anything different from that was so fun! Now there is such a selection of music on the radio or internet, you can listen to anything. We had to buy the record to hear our favorite songs over and over!
The boys are singing and playing live. An earlier comment posted here by nylawyer55 explains it perfectly and truthfully. And another poster -- barrickjohn -- hears and sees what I also picked up with the vocals and the 12-string. As one who watched countless TV performances by all the great groups, duos, and solo singers of the rock and roll era, I can safely say some were lip-synced, some were live, and some were a mix of live and tape playback of the original recording.
Froggboots is right. No lipsynching here. I know the record & the phrasing is a bit different on this performance. And also, they are playing live guitars.
"I go the places we used to go but I know she'll never show/She hurt me so much inside,now I hope she's satisfied..." I wish I WAS BORN IN 60'S TOO!!THE BEST DECADE OF ALL!!
I love how back in the day music was based on actual talent and how good you actually were, NowaDays its based on looks. Whats happening to the World?
I love how back in the day music was based on actual talent and how good you actually were, NowaDays its based on looks. Whats happening to the World!!!!
I love how back in the day music was based on actual talent and how good you actually were, NowaDays its based on looks. Whats happening to the World?
If they're lipsyncing here, which I don't think they are, they're doing it to a different track than the studio recording. If you listen you can hear substantial differences in the vocals from the studio version. Also, when Peter really hits the 12 string on this you can hear it - it syncs perfectly. There's no doubt there are other musicians playing - they may be live or a taped backing track, but I'm not so sure on the lipsyncing claim.
@barrickjohn it's another version, yes. Lipsyncing or not? I'm not sure either, but some people don't know that they used to do that in the old days of TV. Always. Till the 70's at least
@Froggboots Luv, I worked for EMI /Capitol from 1962 through 1968 and was in the booth when P&G recorded this track. Here, the backing instrumental track is the studio track, but the vocal are definitely being sung live, as are their guitars. It was a common practice back then to give limited rights to a television network to use tracks to avoid their need for a studio orchestra. P&G, Chad and Jeremy and others needed the backup to make their 'sound.'
How great to hear songs from the great 60s, I was a teen in the UK than, and we set the trends in clothes and music, if it was'nt for us baby boomers there would be no music to day, you cannot beat the 60s love you peter and gordon and the rest of the gang from back than, the 60s rock!!!!
How great to hear songs fromthe great 60s, I waas a teen in the UK than, and we set the treands in clothes and music, if it was'nt for us baby boomers there would be no music to day, you cannot beat the 60s love you peter and gordon and the rest of the gan from back than, the 60s rock!!!!
anyone know what that accessory is on peter's (at least i think its pete, hes the bespectacled one, right?) guitar? Its like a piece of plastic running perpindicular to the strings. ive seen it before but idk what it does or what its called
@mjayell You said it! Not only this tune, but most of what Peter and Gordon did. I don't know if I was a sentative boy or if it was their music that did it but Peter and Gordon songs put me into a mood that was difficult for me to shake off. I could sense sadness in the future (mine anyway, if not the world's) and their music sent me off to Vietnam thinking I'd never return again. That sadness I felt in the 60's comes right back to me whenever I hear one of their tunes. A bitter nostalgia.
EVERY GENERATION HAD IT'S GOOD AND BAD POINTS, IT DEPENDS ON WEATHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO DWELL ON THE POS OR THE NEG. THATS WHY M,USIC IS MY PERSONAL TIME MACHINE
oldermusiclover 6 days ago
The 60's was the best era ever!. God said everything will be ok, My husband of 30 yrs,died in 2004. I have had several of his friends call me lately saying they have had dreams where they actually woke up in a cold sweat as my ex told them Please take care of my wife as she is going through rough times right now, so please be there for her! .I've even had the visions..I need to leave my home in 1 mo..If you know of anyone in the Mpls, MN area, Call Linda @ 612-963-0953, OR flash52155@aol.com...
flash52155 6 days ago
In my opinion, this was their best song.
Tedchicago 1 week ago
what about shutting the f---up and listening to the music
panhead58ful 1 week ago
For years, I thought this was Buddy Holly singing.....Why? I guess because he sang
"True Love Ways" with some simular phrasing.
RIP Gordon.
desert3347 1 week ago
Now THIS is a love song of saddness. Man, what a song! It grabs your heart while it's breaking and turns you around. We've all been there, I'm sure. I know I have. I used to drive by her house long after she left town, just for the wonderful memories we shared.
taypar11 1 week ago
The 60s were when people started protesting Vietnam (even as Johnson escalated the war), and it was also when major steps forward were taken to demolish racism...as for the Cold War, that was a part of Life for about 40 years, and finally ended happily, with the fall of the Soviet Empire.
WarKingRoy 2 weeks ago 2
I remember what she said when she said, "DROP DEAD!"
leo5208 2 weeks ago
Wish we COULD go back to this time....I loved it! We did without a lot of the things that are here today...and it was way better. We didn't want for much. Music kept us busy and happy. It was a trip to just go to the music store and thumb thru the albums. Hanging out at the burger stands. Not sitting by and glued to the tv. No electronic gadgets to tie up our time. GREAT music!!!! Even better memories.
Muffett53 3 weeks ago
Wish we COULD go back to this time....I loved it! We did without a lot of the things that are here today...and it was way better. We didn't want for much. Music kept us busy and happy. It was a trip to just go to the music store and thumb thru the albums. Hanging out at the burger stands. Not sitting by and glued to the tv. No electronic gadgets to tie up our time. GREAT music!!!! Even better memories.
Muffett53 3 weeks ago
I wish those bitches would stop screaming! stop that screechin and listen to the song!
Wiggyify 3 weeks ago
Gordon Trueman Riviere Waller 1945-2009 Will miss you.
Peter Asher b. 1944
Boy, did we get old from the first time I heard this song. Thank you so much for uploading this.
mangledinal 3 weeks ago
Peter Asher became the mgr. for Linda Ronstadt and the Eagles.
eddikon 3 weeks ago
Lovely. Thanks, Del Shannon.
tonywsmith2 3 weeks ago
And all the drugs youth was taking by that time.
jpsmart59 3 weeks ago
I was in "junior high" when this was popular (I think they call it "middle school" now). Such great music
yawhause 3 weeks ago
I was born in 1964 but remember the first time I heard this song when I was three
Poco1997 3 weeks ago
if I had only one wish it would be to go back into the the 60's and relieve the music and my days in high school.....
sixnightsaweek 4 weeks ago 3
Thanks to Ronald Reagan, Pope JPII, & Chernobyl, the West Won the Cold War!
Cold War Patriots Rule
marianvigilante 1 month ago
OOhh, I'd like to have a Jangle on that lovely 12 String....
godsrighthandfull 1 month ago
Damn. It's so easy to get Peter & Gordon confused with Chad & Jeremy. And if John Lennon hadn't vainly avoided wearing glasses during this period, he and Paul McCartney could have been another such duo.
yowzephyr 1 month ago
Luv it...I also love the Rachel Sweet version!
MrNoex63 1 month ago
we used to enter our elementary school (Sackett) through the basement and practice a "nuke" drill every morning until about 1963....heavy stuff for kids.
mdawg1238 1 month ago
Were the 1960s a missed chance?
In terms of popular music: This moment was the very highest point in human history. No matter what happened after that, nothing could ever equal the sublimity of it. It was the very moment when Heaven touched the earth...
ritared236 1 month ago 34
@ritared236 my god what a great comment
krugerfuchs 4 weeks ago 6
@krugerfuchs
thanks so much...
ritared236 4 weeks ago
@ritared236 AMEN PARTNER
pkappel006 3 weeks ago
@ritared236 Very nice.......... when was the last time you Fell to Pieces? Most of us are just numb now. :( Sad.
1960sgirl1 2 weeks ago
@ritared236 I'm glad this was a "hit" way back when, because today it sucks
123itisfree 1 week ago
@ritared236 Perfectly stated.
JET997u 1 week ago
@ritared236 There were some rare and beautiful moments ... it was also a time of idealism ... people spoke out for what they believed in.
margolou2010 1 week ago
YEahhh REAL MUSIC just good voices and nothing electronic !!! The GREAT SIXTIES !!! I am a lucky fellow who really lived those years !!!!!!!!!! :-) Thank you GOD !!!!
Kajunaman 1 month ago
The 60s such an innocent time the only worry was total nuclear destruction.
wavygr 1 month ago 8
@wavygr
what about Vietnam?
ritared236 1 month ago 4
@ritared236 @wavygr obviously misses the troubling weight of expecting nuclear missiles to rain down any day... but glad people today don't know that fear. That was the war won without firing a nuke, thanks to a strong and ready massive deterrent capability.
waginglove 1 month ago
@ritared236 And racism?
oneoneone5 1 month ago 2
@oneoneone5
and cold war?
ritared236 1 month ago 2
@ritared236 ...and Haight/Ashbury......
mdawg1238 1 month ago
@ritared236 The fear of Nuclear Destruction was a big part of the Cold War.
HumanPuddingPgh 1 month ago
and the war on poverty?
hghghghgghgful 3 weeks ago
@ritared236 Perhaps "why" they were considered so innocent is people practiced so many horrible things without any real sense of their consequence. The 60s seem to be magical more because they were a waking point....that place in one's life when people realize Santa Claus isn't real, but Mommy and Daddy had done it solely to give you joy and magic for 'just a little while longer'.
No, the 60s were pretty terrible, but they were powerful too.
mousefir 3 weeks ago
@ritared236 //Been there done that but it does not seem as bad now with immigration and race problems with the white race seems doomed from extinction. this is from a Vietnam vet infantry 68/69 11b10 Phu Bai.
wilcarr1 1 month ago
@ritared236 I agree about your comment re: the music of the 60's and Heaven touching the Earth. A profound observation.
I kept thinking--was it just that I was a teen during that decade that I'm so obsessed and taken away with the music and the ambience of the era or was it something really unique and as you said, "sublime"? I believe it was more than just the fact that I was there.
granitestater1029 3 weeks ago
@wavygr I get a kick out of your tongue -in -cheek sarcasm- very profound(like Woody Allen) .
vanislefan1 1 month ago
@wavygr another worry was going to vietnam, which i did. it was go to nam or go to jail for not going to nam. what an obvious choice!
mydannyfranny 1 month ago
@wavygr Excellent point, and it always blows my mind, that people could be bold an expressive, in that world - it seems figuratively, as if WW2 was 100 years ago in 1965, not just 20 it really was and that nuclear destruction didn't really bother people as much as superannuation does now.
mistersmith6000 3 weeks ago
@wavygr I think I know what you're saying. Even though we had civil disturbances, Viet Nam and the cold war, it was a time of relative innocence. People were idealistic, they demonstrated for what they believed in (not done today). And it was still possible to hear uplifting music like this.
margolou2010 1 week ago
Takes me back to my old flame Beverly B. on a friday crusiing in my 55 Ford, great days the sixites. no political correctness and our country being ruined by illegal aliens to the South.
wilcarr1 1 month ago
Had totally forgotten about this song. Found it while surfing Tube. Wow, must go find the music now. Great acoustic show.
Lennyrou 1 month ago
I agree with ritared236....the 60s had great music and it was REAL music not electronic.
zitamarion 1 month ago
I agree with ritared236....the 60s had great music and it was REAL music not electronic.
zitamarion 1 month ago
O how refreshing it is to watch this kind of performance and listen to this kind of music! It was unpolished, but oh how voices sang with passion and genuine hearts still dreamed with unjaded minds. Today from Pop Music to Politics, we've got finely tuned, technologically polished stagecraft but no soul, or honesty.
jeff62rey 1 month ago
O how refreshing it is to watch this kind of performance and listen to this kind of music! It was unpolished, but oh how voices sang with passion and genuine hearts still dreamed with unjaded minds. Today from Pop Music to Politics, we've got finely tuned, technologically polished stagecraft but no soul, or honesty.
jeff62rey 1 month ago
Bravo, @gkrewer1
ringtalk3 1 month ago
I feel so rich when I think back as young kid growing up with this music. And nothing brings back the feel of those days like music. And today is great because technology has made it so that there isn't a song I can think of that I can't find some where on youtube. This is too cool. Thanx for the upload.
MsThebeMoon 2 months ago
Wonderful. Think about how almost every song from this time period, even the Beatles' early stuff before Rubber Soul, was about relationships.
musicwritersince1980 2 months ago
cool song i like it a lot first time i hear it
LordEizen 2 months ago
This song is officially a heart-breaker,
tear-jerker.
Very nice.
ctjbush 2 months ago
I bought this record in the 60's. I didn't have any idea that "Del Shannon"
wrote this "beautiful sad" song.
My God, Such tender words inside of this man.......He didn't know how many
people his music "impacted"......rip Del and Gordon
desert3347 2 months ago
Great song and simply great performance by P & G.
btaleonard02 2 months ago
great song! Great guys! But like all the other brit groups,,,they were often over shadowed by the fab4, and the stones...This songs story is very similar to ;Patsey Clines,"I fall to pieces" I love both songs!!!
georgehoop1 2 months ago
OH MY GOD BROTHER OF JANE ASHER!!
JaneAsherBeatlegirl 2 months ago
These are the GREAT times compared to now days! Things just seem to simpler then. We had the greatest music in the 60's. RIP Gordon, you and Peter gave us some GREAT Music!!!
jandogg1955 2 months ago
How sad for our children & grandchildren if they don't get to express their feelings in song.I mean melody not noise or mouth.
DThor53 2 months ago
I relate to this song
redheadinsparks 2 months ago
I relate to this song.
redheadinsparks 2 months ago
If I had to pick my 5 top songs of all times. This would be one of them. It reminds me of a time long ago when I was young and this song was popular. It was a time I had I broken up my very first girl friend. It seemed like this song played every time I was out driving around in my hot rod Chevy. It would start me thinking all over again about "her". lol
Don’t know what ever happened to her or the hot rod Chevy, but this song is still one of my favorites.
Thanks for posting.
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pinheadq41 2 months ago
I was lucky enough to be in my teens during the greatest music decade ever...the 1960's.So much great stuff made *before* the British Invasion and so much more from Britain.At least 95% of my 4,000 song library (thank God for CD burners) is 60's music.
listerone 2 months ago
I am soooo glad this was the music of my youth.. I was watching VH1's One Hit Wonders of the 90's. Every other song was how about a woman's ass and how big it was. It was a pathetic display of bad music !!
nickrambus 2 months ago
The Greatest Music, The Greatest Cars, The Dancing, the whole 60's decade was insane. For us that were fortunate enough to have grown up in the 60's it was time that can never be replicated. I was 10 years old in 1960 so that decade was my growing up years. By 1970 I was married, graduated college, had a daughter, drafted, and on my way to Viet Nam. As I sit and look back I would do it all over again. The best times of my life; the 1960's RIP, Gone but not forgotten. We were the Lucky Ones!
2734135 2 months ago
@2734135 Very well said... from a guy of your generation.
mrbigkell 2 months ago
I had no idea that Del Shannon wrote this song. Great song!!!!!! Great duo!!!!
TJCATLOVER 2 months ago
Just awesome :)
Orbisonlover 2 months ago
This is a classic piece of video! In the age before digital character generators, Peter and gordon's name was cut out of plywood, painted white, and hung from very thin wire, so the producers stage hand could "fly it out on cue". In addition, Peter and Gordon are on an "infinity" parallax stage. The stage is not really deep, it is an illusion.
rickyschultzusa 3 months ago
Thanks for sharing ... have always liked this song
jenibfb 3 months ago
Ahhhh, the 12 string!
Nancyjean24 3 months ago
Man, that stage they're performing on in GIGANTIC!!! It must be at least a half a mile deep.
scruffymeigs 3 months ago
SOME TIMES HAVE TO GO TO YOU TUBE JUST TO KEEP MY SANITY IN TODAYS WORLD..THIS BEING ONE OF MY FAVORITES FROM THE GREAT SIXTIES THAT I LIVED IN.
rudeman15 3 months ago
Now I see where the Last Shadow Puppets got the idea for one of their videos.
StephanSandiares 3 months ago
Thanks for posting the great songs of the 60s! Takes me back to those night cruising with the guys, or better yet, THE girl! Love those black glasses. Of course, that's all that was offered for so long. Keep those song going.
61mikemu 3 months ago
Great song. Brought back lots of memories when I was just a kid. So nostalgic.
brotherjohn25 3 months ago
I agree with the gkrewerl person that the sixities was the greatest era for music, and we were blessed to be able to get to grow up in and experience that era. This great song performed by this great British invasion duo, plus the girls screaming just added to the excitement of these times.
sentimental1friend 3 months ago
I totally agree with gkrewer1 that the sixities music was the greatest music of all time and never to be challenged by any era. This great song well done by this great British invasion duo was just many of the great songs we enjoyed then and still enjoy now. The girls screaming just adds to the excitement of the songs and the times! What a great era to be alive and to experience first hand!
sentimental1friend 3 months ago
I love Peter Asher's production work with Linda Ronstadt! Wish they would work together again!!
903davesharonpoky 3 months ago
WHY ARE THOS CHICKS SCREAMING?? i COULDN'T LISTENT TO THIS MASTERPIECE
lieberocker18 3 months ago
@lieberocker18 Maybe it's your computer.
Mark6024 3 months ago
Great song written by Del Shannon. When you hear songs like this, you go back to the 60s, the best time for music. You stay younger when hearing the music of the 60s. You can never grow old.
gkrewer1 3 months ago 38
@gkrewer1
I love Del Shannon
ritared236 3 months ago 7
@ritared236
Me Too!!!!!!
2270HOMEGIRL 1 month ago
@gkrewer1 yes.
Mark6024 3 months ago
@gkrewer1 I didn't know Del Shannon wrote this. I heard he suffered alot in life.
tongerator 3 months ago
@gkrewer1 but then you look at the mirror . . .
Monrocsol 2 months ago
@gkrewer1 Easy to sing to, built for comfort. Thanks, Del. It sounds just like one of your great songs! Del Shannon had such a great voice. Peter and Gordon were big in the 60's and we all listened to their music long before we realized other great artists were writing their songs! Lamar
emeraldfrog1 2 months ago
@gkrewer1
How true. I listen to the music from my childhood and teen-age years (born in '56) and I never feel old; I feel young, unable to age.
utahaztec 2 months ago
@gkrewer1 We had NO Computers, Cell Phones, DVR, VCR, etc..... But We Did HAVE the MUSIC>>>>
Gegamel76 2 months ago 5
@Gegamel76
Electronic is just virtual, music is the real thing
ritared236 1 month ago
@Gegamel76 In the end that's what we really have.
MrMattRocker 1 month ago
@gkrewer1 "You can never grow old"; the very message of "Street Life" as sung by Randy Crawford. "You'd better not grow old"; more like an admonition I'd assert.
TralfazConstruction 1 month ago
beautiful harmony!
tkgirl39 3 months ago
what beautiful im from coloma michigan and im 20 years old and own alot of old records from the past and i love the way the music sounded then todays music is just so dang vulgar
babygrlprincessdchdj 3 months ago
People don't listen they don't seem to care. The best music ever was in the 60s. I'm so lonely I think about the sixties only. I go to peace-ville pieces every-time I think of the great music back then.
11xzxzxz 3 months ago
Beautiful tune that brings back the innocense of the 60's.
SunnyDays951 4 months ago
How can you keep on playing so calmly when you hear people in the audience dying?
Marcus79a 4 months ago
I know what your saying I was born in1947 and to able to go back in time, some were good times some were bad but we all made it
sixnightsaweek 4 months ago
I know what your saying I was born 1n 1947 and to able to go back in time, some were good times some were bad but we all made it
sixnightsaweek 4 months ago
Just one question. Who had the deep voice and who had the high voice?
pistolsfan961 4 months ago
Great tune from an era that was the best of times and the worst of times.
sjtom57 4 months ago
@sjtom57
noooo
it would be soooo great to live in the 60's again...
ritared236 4 months ago 19
@ritared236 I would give my World, right now, & leave....problem is,
I would Never want to come back.
47yesican 3 months ago
@ritared236 I would give my World, right now, & leave....problem is,
I would Never want to come back.
47yesican 3 months ago
@sjtom57 : Very well said. Yes, great times, but also awful. War, drugs, rage. Family, friends, neighbors often at each others' throats. Generational war... A decade full of love and hate.
draygnol 4 months ago
@draygnol
Everytime in the past someone had to die, or someone was crazy or didn't have to much money in the bank, OBVIOUSLY ...but people had high hopes in the 60's . Do you really love this time? The World Has Seen Better Days and the Music TOO!!!
ritared236 4 months ago
@ritared236 Read about Del Shannon, who wrote this song for Peter & Gordon. He was mis-diagnosed, given the wrong "drug", that caused him to take his life. So Sad. rip Gordon & Del.
desert3347 2 months ago
@draygnol Not unlike these days, eh?
heyjudy1 2 months ago
@sjtom57 I remember the summers of the 60's and the radio was always on. Seemed like every song was great. This was one of them
mrbigkell 2 months ago
im 14 and i luv the 60'ssss
now there lil wayne and eminem and all that crap like seriously u can even understand what the hell there saying they sing with no emotions they just spill the words out like shit. i so wish teens from our decade would open there eyes to real music !!!!!
08babymonster 4 months ago 4
The vocals here are definitely a live take of this song. I think Froggboots might well be right about the backing track used here. That much seems synched. But that's them singing. There is no other take of this song by them that sounds like this one. Nice! I love finding old gems when some were still done live. Thanks for the post! I saw these guys at some roller rink gig in Atlanta, Feb 1968. Complete with 2 go-go dancers in cages! Mini skirts. See the panties. Teenage erotic! So classic.
Cyclist0623 4 months ago
"Peter Asher" was On Our Fox Local Station This Morning. He Told About His
Sister, Jane Asher, Dating Paul Macartney. He Still Produces Records. Paul
Lived with Peters Family When He Wrote " I Want To Hold Your Hand"....
Does Anyone Remember Jane Asher And Paul??
desert3347 4 months ago
"Peter Asher" was On Our Fox Local Station This Morning. He Told About His
Sister, Jane Asher, Dating Paul Macartney. He Still Produces Records. Paul
Lived with Peters Family When He Wrote " I Want To Hold Your Hand"....
Does Anyone Remember Jane Asher And Paul????
desert3347 4 months ago
"Peter Asher" Was On Our Local Channel 11, Fox, This Morniang, Sept. 5, & Told Amazing Stories Of Him, Paul McCartney & Others. Peters Sister, Jane Asher, Went With Paul For A Few Years. Peter Was Very Instrmental In Producing Popular Groups- He Still Does. Does Anyone Remember Jane Asher????
desert3347 4 months ago
The fifties & sixties were the best times of our lives. The best cars, the best people, the greatest songs, the simplicity of life. No Cell phones, I-Pads, I Phones, No Computers, No AIDS, no drive bys, just good times at the beach, the pool, the skating rink, the Drive-In theaters, Carvel Ice Cream Stands in the summer and ice skating on the lake in the winter. We left our doors open at night and the milkman, Dugans Bread & Cakes and the sodaman were all I needed to get by. Great Times!
2734135 4 months ago 3
The fifties & sixties were the best times of our lives. The best cars, the best people, the greatest songs, the simplicity of life. No Cell phones, I-Pads, I Phones, No Computers, No AIDS, no drive bys, just good times at the beach, the pool, the skating rink, the Drive-In theaters, Carvel Ice Cream Stands in the summer and ice skating on the lake in the winter. We left our doors open at night and the milk man, Dugans and the soda man was all I needed to get by. Great Times!
2734135 4 months ago
I can listen to this music forever.
CathMar3 4 months ago
I'm willing to bet my life that this performance is NOT lip synched... There is an accompaniment track in the background, but there voices and strumming is LIVE!!!!!!!!!
swilliams9213 5 months ago 2
They aren't lip-synching. Anyone who's listened to the original studio version can tell. You can hear the guitars live. Why would they record a different version to lip-synch on stage. And the so-called techie doesn't know what he's talking about - that's not a cardioid mike; its most likely a bidirectional. Who cares! The audience enjoyed themselves and Peter and Gordon still heard themslves/
channelonesuite 5 months ago
The 50s were not good. They seemed so nice but they weren't. Women had little choice in how they lived and what they did and racism was accepted as the norm.
nelbrewster 5 months ago
@nelbrewster
what about today? millions die of hunger in Africa... drugs and terrorism had made the world smaller and much more terrifying than the 50's. By the way... this music was made in the fabolous 60's
ritared236 4 months ago 5
@ritared236 - I was born Jan 1950 and grew up with this music. The 60's were turbulent but exciting and I believe that we, the youth of the day, changed the world forever - for the good. Is the world a better place now than back then? Let's leave that to future generations - in the meantime, let's enjoy tunes like these and enjoy the memories that they bring back. Hugs and Luv to all!
dsta123 4 months ago 2
@dsta123 I was born Feb 1950 and I feel exactly the same way you do. Those were the days...
Thunder008 4 months ago
@ritared236 i think we are just much more aware now.
OLDIRTYKRISPY 4 months ago
@ritared236 i think we are just much more aware now.
OLDIRTYKRISPY 4 months ago
@ritared236 i think we are just much more aware now.
OLDIRTYKRISPY 4 months ago
@nelbrewster Well, the music was great...
greenbeagle13 4 months ago
@nelbrewster The fifties were wonderful. Social engineering has destroyed the family unit & you say it's better? Our children & families are devastated. As far as racism, who are you kidding? It's worse today than it's ever been against all races and religions. People today are selfish, rude, criminal, filthy and without direction.Young people deserve a happier world like we got to experience. You are seriously deluded. Were you even there?
greenpilgrim50 3 months ago 2
well, this takes me back. to times when being young was going to be forever, fun was the main ingrediant for life, people came and went and there was no worries, sex drugs booze was life, I miss my youth. it was a blast.
critchley3819 5 months ago
This is a Great Song - Flat out !!!!
GreenhouseEffectGE 5 months ago
My favourite Peter & Gordon song!
arejayseeottawa 5 months ago
No doubt they're lip-syncing..I'm a tech...way too far from the mike.
butchblancq 5 months ago
BEST DECADE EVER
OrutheGuru 5 months ago
this is just wonderful how lovely
TheJaspercrawford 5 months ago
Just enjoy the music! The fun part of this era was how different it all was. Our house hardly even really played any music and when we did it was Country....like what they play now as real country. Hank Williams SR, Johnny Cash, very very twangy, or the old Blues songs. Anything different from that was so fun! Now there is such a selection of music on the radio or internet, you can listen to anything. We had to buy the record to hear our favorite songs over and over!
Blujeanspirit 5 months ago
<3
Deaddagger 5 months ago
Del Shannon song, great job by this duo!
buriedinvinyl 5 months ago
thumbs up if your a Pieces!
Docthal010 5 months ago
The boys are singing and playing live. An earlier comment posted here by nylawyer55 explains it perfectly and truthfully. And another poster -- barrickjohn -- hears and sees what I also picked up with the vocals and the 12-string. As one who watched countless TV performances by all the great groups, duos, and solo singers of the rock and roll era, I can safely say some were lip-synced, some were live, and some were a mix of live and tape playback of the original recording.
T40Rulz 5 months ago
Froggboots is right. No lipsynching here. I know the record & the phrasing is a bit different on this performance. And also, they are playing live guitars.
garydemaio 5 months ago
This is definitely not lipsynching. I know the record. The phrasing is a bit different, no question, they are really doing it here.
garydemaio 5 months ago
That's the real music! Real good music! Isn't it?
deepverde 6 months ago
"I go the places we used to go but I know she'll never show/She hurt me so much inside,now I hope she's satisfied..." I wish I WAS BORN IN 60'S TOO!!THE BEST DECADE OF ALL!!
ihkaraka 6 months ago
could a knowledgeable person tell me what kind of guitars they are playing in this video? thanks.
vettefool 6 months ago
Does Gordon sing the high harmony?
AllenOption8 6 months ago
Great song written by the great Del Shannon --rock and roll forever !!!!
w1037 6 months ago
I love how back in the day music was based on actual talent and how good you actually were, NowaDays its based on looks. Whats happening to the World?
Nourberry 6 months ago
I love how back in the day music was based on actual talent and how good you actually were, NowaDays its based on looks. Whats happening to the World!!!!
Nourberry 6 months ago
I love how back in the day music was based on actual talent and how good you actually were, NowaDays its based on looks. Whats happening to the World
Nourberry 6 months ago
I love how back in the day music was based on actual talent and how good you actually were, NowaDays its based on looks. Whats happening to the World?
Nourberry 6 months ago
NOT lip-synching. Sung live. Easy to tell.
wonderboy1069b 6 months ago
reminds me of good old days gone by and will never be again
MX5Digital 6 months ago 2
This song is one of the best and most underrated of the whole British Invasion phenomenon.
Archangel101576 6 months ago 3
Ya'll - they are lipsynching - not singing live. I saw them when they came to Memphis in the 60's and accosted Gordon and held his hand! LOL
Froggboots 6 months ago
@Froggboots
lip-synching was normal 40 years ago
ritared236 6 months ago 10
@Froggboots
If they're lipsyncing here, which I don't think they are, they're doing it to a different track than the studio recording. If you listen you can hear substantial differences in the vocals from the studio version. Also, when Peter really hits the 12 string on this you can hear it - it syncs perfectly. There's no doubt there are other musicians playing - they may be live or a taped backing track, but I'm not so sure on the lipsyncing claim.
barrickjohn 6 months ago 3
@barrickjohn it's another version, yes. Lipsyncing or not? I'm not sure either, but some people don't know that they used to do that in the old days of TV. Always. Till the 70's at least
ritared236 6 months ago
@ritared236 It's another versions your right .... 100% sure
samislooking 6 months ago
@ritared236 HEY - I'M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER LIP SYNCHING - SO WHAT?
They are great ...always.
Froggboots 5 months ago
@barrickjohn mics abit far are aswell >.>
Kalephd 6 months ago
@barrickjohn You are right. I hear it too. It's not exactly the same as the recording.
Tonithenightowl 5 months ago
@barrickjohn Studio tracks and live performances are NEVER exactly the same!
This is 'from the record'!
How do I know? I had the record, I love the song, I've memorized it!
I ALWAYS prefer studio to live!
usandthemx 5 months ago
@Froggboots Luv, I worked for EMI /Capitol from 1962 through 1968 and was in the booth when P&G recorded this track. Here, the backing instrumental track is the studio track, but the vocal are definitely being sung live, as are their guitars. It was a common practice back then to give limited rights to a television network to use tracks to avoid their need for a studio orchestra. P&G, Chad and Jeremy and others needed the backup to make their 'sound.'
nylawyer55 6 months ago 15
@nylawyer55 Was that Vic Flick on the 12-string, as it's been claimed on Wikipedia? And just wondered who that was on the piano?
antilm 5 months ago
@Froggboots no that was a live recording.
cdinfm 5 months ago
How great to hear songs from the great 60s, I was a teen in the UK than, and we set the trends in clothes and music, if it was'nt for us baby boomers there would be no music to day, you cannot beat the 60s love you peter and gordon and the rest of the gang from back than, the 60s rock!!!!
12rustydog 7 months ago 2
How great to hear songs fromthe great 60s, I waas a teen in the UK than, and we set the treands in clothes and music, if it was'nt for us baby boomers there would be no music to day, you cannot beat the 60s love you peter and gordon and the rest of the gan from back than, the 60s rock!!!!
12rustydog 7 months ago
anyone know what that accessory is on peter's (at least i think its pete, hes the bespectacled one, right?) guitar? Its like a piece of plastic running perpindicular to the strings. ive seen it before but idk what it does or what its called
RatherCrunchyMuffin 7 months ago
@RatherCrunchyMuffin ...The one over the sound hole? That's a pickup.
jankbass 3 months ago
@RatherCrunchyMuffin ...the accessory covering the sound hole of his guitar is a pickup.
jankbass 3 months ago
@mjayell You said it! Not only this tune, but most of what Peter and Gordon did. I don't know if I was a sentative boy or if it was their music that did it but Peter and Gordon songs put me into a mood that was difficult for me to shake off. I could sense sadness in the future (mine anyway, if not the world's) and their music sent me off to Vietnam thinking I'd never return again. That sadness I felt in the 60's comes right back to me whenever I hear one of their tunes. A bitter nostalgia.
BackSeatHump 7 months ago 2