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  • IDEOLOGICAL BULLSHIT..THERE IN NO FREEDOM, UNLESS YOU ARE RICH.....THEY OWN US, EXPLOIT US AND TAKE AWAY OUR FREEDOMS..THINK OF THAT...

  • One of the best groups ever!

  • From the late summer of 1968.

    

  • This should not be Ron Paul's campaign song, or any of his fellow contenders. This song is about FREEDOM and UNDERSTANDING. Anyone who considers themselves "conservative" can't possibly relate to what this song means.

  • Awesome just love it!!!

  • THIS SHOULD BE rON pAULS CAMPAIGN SONG!

  • @LynnaRenae Amen. The Ron Paul Revolution - 2012.

  • great song

  • people cant be free until they remove the shakels of superstition have to learn to seperate mythology from reality man invented mythology/gods/religions to cope with the harsh realities of everyday life and to cope with ones own personal mortality its called a denial of fatalism

  • "See that train over there...now that's the train of freedom....."

  • peace 

  • September 1st people UNITE!!!

  • it was number one on the day i was born too!

  • This was the number one song the day I was born. Pretty cool huh? LOL!!!

  • This song has so much soul, can't help but dance.

  • what a great oldie lots of memories BG

  • R.I.P. Bobby Kennedy, for whom this song was written and recorded.

  • @pmginkc

    and martin luther king

  • @pmginkc There were several events that helped create this song: the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., plus the 1968 event known as "Prague Spring", in which the Czech people tried to overthrow their Soviet masters and implement democratic policies. Their country was basically invaded by the Soviets, and most/all reforms crushed. I guess I attributed this song more to that event than the assassinations, but they all certainly could have played a part.

  • The #1 song the week my mom was born! :) funny how this world changes!

  • Youtube is gettin censored

  • Wanna be a hero?.Get into the school PA system and play this...

  • Heb ik altijd mooi gevonden.

  • あなたの歓迎

  • It would still be a hit if it was newly released today. Sadly, few if any singers like Felix even exist anymore.

  • ありがとう。この曲を長い間探してた。

  • occupy a heart ,occupy a mind,occupy oprah.

  • Thanks Jimmy for sharing,have a great day,peace and love to you :)

  • thank you JIMMY..love it.

  • As someone else said, this should be one of the themes of the Occupy Movement. This and Jefferson Airplane's "We Can Be Together" are perfect themes for what they are trying to get across.

  • this song still holds true these days. lets hope for a lot of peace from thanksgiving to new year's day 2012.every have a good one

  • Can you say REAL MUSIC???DEATH to M&M Littl JAYNE and RAP...Your a bunch of SCUM BAGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Kids should listen to this everyday when school starts.

  • @diskeywick YES YES YES!

    peace and freedom kick ass.

  • @dogcat 126 im 56 and totally agree with you :) :)

  • #OWS!!!

  • FREE ALAN GROSS FROM CUBAN GULADS !

    

  • End the Fed.

  • Imagine where the world would be now if this kind of music was still being made. Do you think it was an accident that it stopped?.

  • FREE CUBA NOW !

  • If freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose they look pretty free to me already....

  • turn it up!!!!!!!!

  • just keeps bring me  back to joy back in t he day

  • KTMGG- That's two of on here.

  • love this in 67 bryant high school

  • #OCCUPYWALLSTREET

  • @nisto95 Freedom comes with responsibility. Infringing on others rights, to selfishly promote your views, is wrong. OWS is the other 1%. Selfish, immature, moral narcissists.

    Bringing no change, a noisome irritation, part of the problem not the solution.

  • @kanawa I disagree with your statement & name calling. I gather that it's okay with you that corporate greed & fraud, has cost the American citizens tax dollars, they're homes, jobs, education etc. "freedom comes with responsibility", Wall street acted responsibly with our money? So why the was the HUGE bailout necessary? This didn't infringe on our rights? As tax paying citizens? you're OK with having to pay for Corporate criminal misconduct, yet have a problem with a little noise? Sheesh...

  • @chesapeakepeg, True dat! When the hell are we going to start using more brain power? It saddens me to think that little has changed... too much stupidity and negativity. Man's objectives should be to work for all that is good and better society and the world. It's time we all grow up and open are hearts and mind. I pray for all that is true and good. May G-d shine his ever lovi'n light on us all. Can I get and AMEN?

  • @shuggy1110 Amen!!!!

    hehehehehe ;-)

  • before the Time Machine Tour i had only seen Rush play live 14 times....thanks to the posing dream doors heads on a pillows...

    now it's 20

    eleven? auntie elven do people still count to Emm?

    Another Lead Singer Disorder

  • My 1st Teen Age House Party, 1st Dance, 1st Kiss, 1st Real Boy Friend (14yrs old)

  • I always thought Three Dog Night sang this song.

  • @Reed20009 Me too!!

  • im loving these songs this mornin and yes im 48 and remember the best of times being little and singing the songs... now im playing them for my teenage boys who r shocked that i still remember the words...

  • Seems to me, you've got to solve it individually ! Words to live by. Don't rely on your government to solve your problems or the world's problems. Start by doing it yourself

  • 5 People dont want to be free

  • this song is all about the golden rule...treat others as you want to be treated. never do something to another human that you would not want someone doing to you. simple and real!!!

  • The epitomy of blue-eyed soul, sung from the heart and completely sincere.

  • hear this authority,cause your not one!

  • I love the vocal harmonies. Can't do that now days or you'd be attacked and accused of being a "boy" band for teenage girls.

    That is really sad.

    I love this kind of music. But anything recorded today like this, with vocal harmonies, would be laughed at, and ridiculed. And nobody would confess to actually liking it.

    We all dig the hip hop tho. Don't we?  We be so cool.

  • @BigORat Groove on man, love and peace my brother

  • great song

  • A #1 song during my senior year! Yeah, Rascals!

  • Beautifullll!

  • oh and just because im a redneck and im from down south and wave a confederate flag doesnt mean i support racism. i have alot of black friends that can back that up.

  • @CumminsCrazedredneck How interesting... I don't normally think of white Southerners as being particularly racist. (In fact, I actually think NORTHERN whites AND blacks are more racist in certain ways.) I'd probably look askance at a Confederate flag. I'm sure there are people who DO fly it "to support the southern way of life", but both Confederate flags and "states' rights" are USUALLY a euphemism for something kind of ugly...

  • haha. this reminds me of when i went up to michigan to do some work with my dad whos a truck driver. people up there where talkin about me and my dads southern accent. haha. i just had enough and said fuck off. i usually get along pretty well with northerners, aka yankees. i just heard this song and i had to laugh. i just have to say, dont judge a man by the way he talks or where he comes from yall. just cause we talk slower and live a slower pace of life dont mean that southerners are dumb.

  • haha. this reminds me of when i went up to michigan to do some work with my dad whos a truck driver. people up there where talkin about me and my dads southern accent. haha. i just had enough and said fuck off. i usually get along pretty well with northerners, aka yankees. i just heard this song and i had to laugh.

  • @CumminsCrazedredneck love your friendly southern accents , please don' t blame the whole state just because of a few jealous assholes.

  • @1560jill haha, i wasnt tryin to do that. i also have a few friends from the michigan area. btw, thanks.

  • @1560jill i listen to alot of country and southern rock, but i love this song too. lol. it just has a way of gettin to ya.

  • Who are the 5 idiots who can't dig this tune?! Who could not agree with this message?!!!

  • This message is just as valid and important today as it was back in the 60s!! Thanks for posting.

  • @scubawrestler Ya got that straight brother!!

  • My sister and I were just two little black girls growing up in brooklyn. She had a crush on felix and I loved dino. It was the beginning of so many things, civil rights movement, hippy days. Wonderful time and I loved the rascals. Groovin, how can I be sure, it's a beautiful morning, people just want to be free. Just loved the rascals. Color didn't matter

  • @illadelph12 That is the best comment ever! So sweet.

  • This is James Record Landecker at the Might 690 with: (My ultimate dream to be a hippy, but I was too young! I want to be a hippy in my next life)

  • by far, this was the best song..at least at my party...this song was BLASTING..blowin out the speakers and dancin so free.

  • And in the bass , the Groovemaster, JERRY JEMMOT:THE FATHER OF FUNKY BASSLINES..

  • @funkberto Thank you for the info on the bassist on this song. The Rascals did noy have a bass player in the band so they hired session players. Mr. Jemmot definately is "in the pocket" with Dino on drums .

  • my kind of song , meaningful and honest

  • Great music and a timely lyric, even 43 years after the recording had been released. Thanks for posting!

  • free space A region in which there is no matter and no electromagnetic or gravitational fields. It has a temperature of absolute zero, unit refractive index, and the speed of light is its maximum value. The electric constant (see permittivity) and the magnetic constant (see permeability) are defined for free space.

  • PEACE IN THE VALLEY!!

  • This is the stuff I grew up with. Love the 60's. The message was loud and clear. LOVE.

  • love em !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • What a song!

    Timeless.

  • real music with a real message people!

  • This was the number 1 song in the USA the day I was born. How ironic it's exactly how I feel about the human race: All colors, relgions/non-religions, sexual preferences and genders. I strive to love myself, the environment and all life equally.

  • great song itwas 67 i think and gloria in the 60's was done by van morrison and them and latter on in the 60's the doors covered it

  • this one brings back lots of good memories wasnt this about '68? ok, who did gloria, was it the kinks?

  • Peace in the Valley People got to be free.

  • People everywhere just gotta go pee.

  • @glimmer2158

    Lol!!

  • The Rascals were ahead of their time ! Why can't people just all get along ?

    Wish they would get back together for a concert. LOVE  THEM !

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  • the freedom train has arrived in the middle east-the people and the internet have accomplished what all world powers and religions could not-all tunnisha and egypt and now libya have gotton on board,make sure your on board too!people got to be free!

  • The Golden age of music 1964 through 1974 end of....

  • i agree that this song is timeless-it's a really great song. i am 63 and i remember when this came out-i got the album and loved it. they were a really great group. thanks for posting!!!

  • @dogcat126 / i,m 58........ didn,t we grow up during a great time for music ? peace brother......

  • @Fletch7453  The best!

  • @Fletch7453 the best!

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  • This song is timeless. It always applies.

  • In '69 they changed to The Rascals correct?

  • great song, this song makes me feel soo good. I love listening to the vocal harmoines every time i hear this song i just turn it up

  • To MsNikki11: Amen! Thanks for the comment. I agree with you. I hope that the people REALLY get democracy and true freedom. Also, I say down with Khaddafy!!

  • Great song from my mom & dad's generation!

    "Peace in the Valley/ Now we all can be free....."

    Good stuff!

  • @feabas1 (sarcastically) yeah freedom, thats what i'd call the hundreds of new regulations placed on almost every single productive aspect of the free market... yep i'm sure that will help make a more prosperous independant America

  • We should dedicate this to all the freedom loving demonstrators in the Middle East.

    Bob H.

  • @Ginger32000 Exactly what I was thinking!! Turns out that people really aren't as "different" as we were taught. We've all gotta be free! Peace!

  • @Ginger32000 T all the freedom fighters in the middle rast????? aaa what ,, Dude that song was done in my prime when the freedom that there talking was right here in the good ole USA . I don't know how old you are but did you ever here of Ohio state an all the shit that went down in our own country? read your history book. But things are much better now,,,,,,, Same as it ever was

  • Great song, very relevant to what is happening in Wisconsin,brave people

  • I LOVE THE RASCALS !!!!!!!!!!

  • suck on it righties the world is enjoying a new freedom under President Obama. yes a beck bot transforms an average white man into a whining douche bag. Also great song. Have a nice day.

  • @feabas1 Right on man! Fight the Establishment! Oh wait...you guys are the Establishment. It's your man in the Presidency, most of your people in Congress, your people in nearly every news outlet, teaching position, think tank, and online blog. Tell me, how does it feel to have a near-monopoly on every source of information and power? Amazing song, BTW. Have a terrific day.

  • @bushkini And another Beck-Bot has been heard from....and ignored. Moron.

  • @doktorzoom What's a "Beck-Bot"? A kind of Transformers?

  • As we celebrate the people of Egypt's new found freedom ... it's a time to remember what a lovely world it could be if we call came together rather than using our differences to create hatred.

  • Still a cool song after all of these years

    and I think it always will be.

  • amen skyangel1959

  • I wonder who played bass on this.

  • For the people of Tunisia, Yemen and Egypt.

  • And the US next week, God willing.

  • This is what they are listening to in Tunisia and Egypt in the past week.

  • This was the number one song on the day I was born!!

  • As timeless a message here in '11, as it was back in '68, right, gang? Billboard's 245th #1 hit of the rock era. God bless!

  • One of the greats!!!

  • Listening to this song (and a few other Rascals songs) can pick me up. Sometimes I listen to stuff that's darker or less upbeat when I'm not feeling good, but when I feel or want to feel good, this song and a lot of others from the '60s can pick me up nicely. Can't help but smile while listening to it. Some people try upbeat and come across as annoying, the Rascals did it very well.

    I'm one of those "young folks" too, just turned 24 last month. 60s-80s is my music. Love it.

  • @HomeDepot20TS Check out "Mungo Jerry" "In the Summertime" if you don't know it. There was a really good vid of it on YT, I guess it's still here, I'm going to look right now.

  • xenaaa

    AAA-lalalalalalaaa sheeeeeeee yeaaa

  • what a great old song

  • THIS SONG IS RELEVENT TODAY ! LOVE MY ITALIAN SOUL BROTHERS !!!!!

  • here this obama people got to be free

  • Great thing about The Rascals: they didn't just preach their beliefs, they practiced them. They insisted that a black singer/group be the opening act. That cost them a LOT of gigs in the south.

  • The Libertarian Anthem !!!! This tune is the perfect antidote to John Lennon's Imagine.

  • Great Classic, would be Great for Every Country's National Anthem!

  • Xena sang it better. C:

  • Peace, Love and Soul all the way. Great singing, great playing and great lyrics. That was the Rascals all the way.

  • songs such as this one,have a good message 2 them.and lets not 4get,the 1 by Sly and the family Stone Every Day People,and who could ever 4get the 1 by the Youngbloods Get Together,and it does my heart good 2 see a lot of the young folks,love these OLDIES but GOLDIES.

  • @SkyAngel1959 good music comes and goes, great music transcends generations!

  • @cinqoocho very well put.

  • @SkyAngel1959 Great comment.......... perhaps you could add to the list '' Walk a Mile in my Shoes '' Joe South, a great singer, songwriter of the 60's and 70's...................

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  • THIS WAS SUCH A COOL SONG I REMEMBER WATCHING THEM ON THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW AFTER THE WON A GRAMMY FOR THIS SONG

  • this song promotes a stong universal message

  • Segway this with Its a Beautiful Morning and you started a great day

  • always loved this one - we should crank it up again through the streets of our country!! lol

  • @TJames1081 Amen Brother!

  • I always liked the Rascals, but really got into them when me and a buddy went to Fort Lauderdale during spring break of our first year of college. ( 1969 ) We met a few girls that attended Northern Michigan University and they really liked the Rascals. Two of these girls drove home with us and most of the time we had the Rascals playing on my eight track. Linda Saraphenie and Carol Rudolphi. Those were the days!

  • @Mydickitches1 thats not the story I heard it was they wrote this after being harrased by rednecks in florida

  • I spent part of the summer of 1969 diving for abalone up by Fort Bragg in Northern California Camping at Van Dam park (recommended) This song and other Rascal songs were being played constantly I still play their music all the time. Man the time has just flown by.

  • @fogologo100 did you say fort bragg then watch the green berets with john wayne in youtube then watch damnation alley and the dark of the sun

  • speaking of record turn tables...when my oldest son was young he happened to stumble on some of my old 45s in a record case. Hey Mom, he said...."These records don't have any grooves." I had played those records many many times on my car record player. Every time that I'd hit a bump, the needle would glide over the grooves and slowly wear them down. The records still play to this day, they just don't have any visible grooves!

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  • @bnylons records are perishable did you have a car reverb that sounds like wipeout when you hit a bump

  • @spacepatrolman  I sure did. It was sort of a springy sound. But, for it's time I thought that it was the 'cat's pajamas.'

  • @bnylons hammond organs had the spring reverb first also a black box echo chamber then fender guitar amps had the spring reverb [ my girlfriends father had a car one ]

  • @spacepatrolman And after a very short time I started with the eight tracks. I had a brand new 1968 Mustang when I was a senior in high school and that record player just didn't seem to get it. I can remember those days like it was yesterday!

  • @bnylons yea I graduated in 69 a friend had a 4 track car player the tapes were clear plastic you had to flip them over or listen to the same side over and over no clicking from track to track like on the sheild by deep purple on the other guys 8 track

  • @spacepatrolman Honestly, I have no idea what a four track is or was. In my mind I am visualizing a casset tape. ( clear plastic that had to be flipped ) You must have been ahead of your times.

  • @bnylons 4 tracks were before 8 tracks and cassetes smaller than an 8 track shaped like an 8 track clear plastic with a picture of the album cover pasted on they didnt catch on with the public [the first audio cassettes were experimental not available to the public the size of a beta max tape the player the size of a jukebox] a lot of resarch and developement to get a phone booth full of wires into something small same thing with synthesizers

  • @bnylons that guy had some good records on 4 track ogdens nut gone ,magic bus ,face to face the big hits from eangland ,clear light ,get that feeling.

  • @spacepatrolman check out 'The Pusher' by Steppenwolf. You might have a comment on that one.