What an absolutely fantastic song. I've heard this many, many times over the years but only very recently did this rejuvenate my interest once again. Boy have I missed it. I'm a child of the late seventies, but this conjours up images of driving a big, American muscle-car through California in the blazing sunshine during the sixties. Superb. Thank you so much for uploading!
as a teenager when this song first came out, along with a lot off other great songs I just think to myself how lucky I was to have been born at the right time. And been around in the mid 60s.
I remember this because Bob Lind came from that wonderful melting pot in Denver where the Denver Folklore Center helped nurture a series of coffee houses where Judy Collins, Bob Lind and John Denver performed. Lesser known but just as talented were Stephen Frumholtz and "Dangerous" Dan McCrimmon as Frummox. It was a great time to live there and I cherished it as I became a DJ in Denver in the 70s.
I have listened to this song literally hundreds of times over the past 45 years and each time I listen I hear something new. If there is one song that I could play continuously non-stop for the rest of my life this would be it.
one of my all time favorites. only time i could hear this beautiful song was back in the mid 80s dick bartley on saturday nights solid gold saturday night would always get request for this song.but now with the computer age and youtube can listen anytime i want.
Funny how certain songs or imagine can take us back to a particular place or time in our life. I heard this beautiful song for the first time while in England in 1966, marvelous!
I remember getting all misty and sentimental when I used to listen to this song as a kid. I still get that way!!!! It's a great song that can do that so many years later. Wow!
I was 6 when this beautiful song came out, and every time I hear it, I think of the game Candyland. I must have been playing it the first time I heard this . It is weird, but true. This is one of the most beautiful songs I ever heard, and Bob Lind wasn't bad to look at either Lori, Jacksonville, FL
I was ten years old the year this masterpiece came out.I'm 54 now and it still evokes great memories and a wistful yearning for a simpler time in my life.This will be around much longer than the unadulterated tripe that people call music these days.....My God,LYRICS you could understand,not some cretin uttering monosyllabic words talking about bitches and ho's and killing cops........This is MUSIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!
@borecleaner1 I agree wholeheartedly, my friend: THIS is music. And, my goodness, what poignant lyrics! Where, oh where, did the songwriters and singers go? My heart pines for those days of yore.
@chatman2a Thanks for your kind words.I haven't a bloody clue as to where all the great songwriters went off to.All I know is that there aren't very many around nowadays....This music gets better with age....
@chatman2a Another favorite I heard the other week, on a sunny seattle day[not too often THAT happens]while driving my high school sweetheart,and incidentally wife of thirty-three years around after visiting our son on Capitol Hill,was ''Darling,Be Home Soon'',by the Loving Spoonful....What a great feel good 60's tune......Quiet Nights and Quiet Days to You and Yours...........
everytime i hear this, I can smell England and the spring of 66, i was stationed there at chicksands afb and my son was born there and walking to the hospital to see him. such beautiful memories, thanks jim dilks delaware.
I remember waking up to this song as a 11 or 12 year old and fell in love with its gentle message. Thanks for the upload and the memory. I remember trying to chase the butterfly in my half dream state, never caught it though, perhaps it was a foretelling that the joy is in the chase not the owning of it.
Thanks for uploading such a great song, 60otaku3. I always enjoyed this song and the lyrics are so deep. it brought back some great memories. Thank-you.
I still have this very album - and EVERY single song is just as inspirational as this one, which was the hit song on the album. I only wish that Bob Lind could have achieved the success that he so rightly deserved . . . he was a musical genius and a poet.
To qb62ndmaintbn1967 i totally agree with you. Having spent most of the 60's playing organ and lead singer in a rock band this is a song that has stood the test of time. REMEMBER ROCK AND ROLL FOREVER AT 62 I STILL AM
45 years later it could sound a little weird - the guy is running around the girl's house at dawn, breathing heavily, wearing a pair of wings, and carrying a butterfly net - "WTF!?"
But in truth it's a hugely romantic song, surrealistic and magical, moving through the rooms of a multiple metaphor, almost an allegory - yeah, I've always liked this song -
This lovely tune from a time ago even now remains like a permanent fixture that provides light in a life that now it brings back as beautiful as it was then.This is in truth a very lovely song well worth listening to the many times over.It is great to hear and beautiful as ever. A toast to the "Elusive Butterfly" by Bob Lind Hip Hip Hooray Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray
I was just a 12 year old pup then and even at that age I knew it was a very special song.
Many decades later it still stirs deeply within whenever it is heard.
We can all take what we like from this song, but I feel the simplicity of the lyrics belies their metaphorical complexity about the quest for love (and self love).
It is truly an innocent song yet profoundly self realizing.
sorry, otaku-san! no harm meant. i love the song. i'm too young to have heard it when it was first released but it still evokes the epoch so strongly, at least my ideas about the epoch.
Hey, 60otaku3-san! You are to be commended for posting such sensitivity which echoed the delicacies of Bob Lind's album from the same year, entitled, "Photographs of Feeling". While I agree with qb62ndmaintbn1967, that "Bob Lind captured the essence of the earlier era in a manner achieved by only a few", I hasten to say that the song and album also served to introduce the best of the "psychedelic 60's". Aye, it seems that artists like the Moody Blues had taken-up where Bob Lind left-off.
@57highland don't fool yourself. Most North Americans throw out all the good stuff.
I can attest, as I get all that so called 'trash', clean it up , listen to it, record it, and then sell to fine people that know good music, and alot of them are in Japan! The most expensive records I sell, go to Germany and Japan every month !
@oatstao Good thing you do all that in the name of good music. I still have a collection of vinyl, in various conditions, of course, from non-playable to a few never played at all. I'm looking to thin out my collection a little. (Not because I think it's trash, but due to space limitations.) Let me know if there's anything in particular you're looking for.
10/24/10 ... Wow! 1966 the year (May) that I joined the U.S. Army and spent the whole year of 1967 in Nam. I sure do remember this song by Bob Lind it always made me feel good when I would hear it especialy in Nam. It is truly a 'Classic'.
This is absolutely exquisite! I can listen to this voice and arrangement all day..thanx so much 60otaku3/uploader!!..you're pretty cool stuff too dear one! thanx again!
Here in England I remember this as a big hit, with this version competing with Irish singer Val Doonican. Both versions were in the top 10 for several weeks and many of my friends bought both.
This was my sister's favorite song. She passed in 1996 so it always makes me a little sad when i hear it, but it also makes me smile to remember her. Music is wonderful, sad and happy at the same time.
Years ago I read a "put down" about this song. It was a quote by either Clapton or Hendrix - don't remember which. The person was laughing because an agent had tried to convince him to be more "with" the current music scene, and the song that was mentioned was "Elusive Butterfly of Love". I've tried to find the exact quote online, but haven't suceeded yet. Years ago I would have agreed with that disparagement, but more and more nowadays I lean to Bob Lind and other "lesser" artists.
heard this song on local brisbane (australian) station last week for the first time in ages; it still sends shivers up the spine. one of those songs............. if only life were always like this. thank you.
This beautiful young mans' voice, in and of itself, is so pure and resonating that he only has to 'monolugue' the song with enunciation to create "music". Notice how he is just with slight melodic pitch, simply saying these words, and it is the purity of his God given voice alone, that becomes 'music'. This effortless phenomenon is very unusual, and truly exquisite. What a gift! Thank you for the wonderful upload 60otaku3, it means a great deal to me especially!..God bless, Sissy
I grew up listening my Dad's music , which includes alot of Bob Lind. I still listen to it, My girlfriend says I still listen to it (among other dad favorites) to please my Dad. I listened to her, considered the thought, then came to the conclusion, my Dad had great, intellectual taste, I inherited that....... THANKS DADDY
(sigh) Geez.. remember when people actually WROTE poetry like this, and either sang it or spoke their words of love to someone? I doubt they even teach prose like this in any school today... and how sad that is. Thank you SO much for posting this, 60Otaku3. It's a sweet memory for me.
@RitzyTrailer Not only dont they teach prose like this in schools today, a well respected high school music teacher told me recently that almost all students cannot listen to classical music for more than 20 seconds at a time due to its LACK of repetiveness. Very sad.
@chuckfmark Out on the new horizon you may see the floating motion of a distant pair of wings and if the sleep has left your ears you might hear footsteps running thru an open meadow dont be concerned it will not harm you
1967 I remember hearing this song...I used to hitch hike to the beach in Port Aransas from Portland Tx with my David Nuiava surfboard under my arm and I never got a bad ride...I miss those days at the beach but thanks 60otaku3...I have this song.
@RG4242421 ..while your were hitch'n to port aransas,,,I was hitch'n to malibu with my dewey weber....I can't remember getting a bad ride either...did it get any better than that??..I wasn't a good surfer at all....I couldn't even take a board all the time..but went anyway..heard this song so much in those days..too much fun!!
My favorite song in the whole entire world...I was only 9 when it was released and I have loved it forever! How wonderful to be able to listen to it whenever I want on You Tube!
The J.D. Salinger of 60's folk pop. Should be up there with Dylan. Paired with producer Jack Nitsche's strings - it's pure magic. Was cool of him to spit on the music industry and walk away from it early - when so many others in similar shoes put on a phony smile and faded away disgracefully.
1966 was the last year of what I call the "extended 50's". Waiting in the wings was the "summer of love" and all the music that fueled the rest of the decade-the "psychedelic 60's" Bob Lind captured the essence of the earlier era in a manner achieved by only a few. "Elusive Butterfly" is truly a classic.
@packard400 Thank you for the kind words. I also thought of the " 50's 60's" or should it be the "60's 50's"? The "extended" is a little less taxing on my aging brain.
@qb 62nd maint bn 1967 No, the 1950s ended as a cultural era with the Kennedy Assassination in 1963. This was a 1960s song by culture as well as by time.
I was 15...when this was a hit...loved it then...love it today!!...I ended up being a radio personality...and I played this on the air every chance i could!! Where's Bob Lind today??
A truly beautiful song. I was 14 in '66. Loved it then ---love it now. Heard it today on the best oldies station in the country. The True Oldies Channel!!!!! Thanks for posting,
If only "pop" music (this is really more folksy) was as sweet and innocent as this now. My beautiful DD complains that all pop music is rubber-stamped these days.
Reading all these comments is amazing. It seems this song struck a chord with all of us when we were kids... I was 5! But I remember LOVING it, and put it on my wedding CD 5 years ago... something truly magical about this song.
in 1966 I was 3 years old when this gem came out...I love the whispy texture of the wind with the background sounds at "don't be concerned it will not harm you" so loving and sweet
I was 8 years old when this came out...Seems like a minute ago..5/5
This is the most complete collection of rare hits I've found anywhere, let alone on You Tube. I should know, I use music to make my videos..all self created..Thank you.
Love hurts, love makes you alive, love make you want to thrive, makes you want to strive. love is life. O but so hard have and hold. Not easy, not an easy thing at all
I never thought much about the words
to this song in 1966, until now. I've lost him & will never again find my
"Elusive Butterfly".
desert3347 4 weeks ago
What an absolutely fantastic song. I've heard this many, many times over the years but only very recently did this rejuvenate my interest once again. Boy have I missed it. I'm a child of the late seventies, but this conjours up images of driving a big, American muscle-car through California in the blazing sunshine during the sixties. Superb. Thank you so much for uploading!
TheCarouser 2 months ago 2
You're very welcome, TheCarouser-san!!
Otaku3 (*^o^)/
60otaku3 2 months ago 2
Happy 67th Birthday, Bob.........11/25/11 !!!!!
drumsyeah 2 months ago
as a teenager when this song first came out, along with a lot off other great songs I just think to myself how lucky I was to have been born at the right time. And been around in the mid 60s.
jimshopp 2 months ago
I just got this record today!!! <3
adolfofooo 2 months ago
I remember this because Bob Lind came from that wonderful melting pot in Denver where the Denver Folklore Center helped nurture a series of coffee houses where Judy Collins, Bob Lind and John Denver performed. Lesser known but just as talented were Stephen Frumholtz and "Dangerous" Dan McCrimmon as Frummox. It was a great time to live there and I cherished it as I became a DJ in Denver in the 70s.
vaughtmr 3 months ago
I have listened to this song literally hundreds of times over the past 45 years and each time I listen I hear something new. If there is one song that I could play continuously non-stop for the rest of my life this would be it.
songster56 3 months ago
really nice song, but i think i like glenn campbell's version
stonewall857 3 months ago
smashing song.
rostovron 3 months ago
Have always loved this song,beautiful lyrics, music and writer.
69ssrszl1 3 months ago in playlist More videos from 60otaku3
Nets of Wonder.............. i love this!
1960sgirl1 4 months ago
Fresh, beautiful, and sad all at the same time!
MistyBleauAngel 4 months ago
One of the most beautiful songs of the 60's--Summer of '66, I never, ever tired of hearing it. A masterpiece, forever. Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 5 months ago
These songs show the intent of our generation.We lost the path of heart we tried to walk.We landed in the gutter!!
Incomplete6230 5 months ago 2
one of my all time favorites. only time i could hear this beautiful song was back in the mid 80s dick bartley on saturday nights solid gold saturday night would always get request for this song.but now with the computer age and youtube can listen anytime i want.
SIGNALSTAT 6 months ago
loved this one 2 when i was and carefree
TheLESLEY49 7 months ago
This would've been sufficient material for Frank Sinatra to tackle in his warm and deep 1968 voice.
Stunatra 8 months ago
Funny how certain songs or imagine can take us back to a particular place or time in our life. I heard this beautiful song for the first time while in England in 1966, marvelous!
rjosok 9 months ago
I remember getting all misty and sentimental when I used to listen to this song as a kid. I still get that way!!!! It's a great song that can do that so many years later. Wow!
uplinkz 9 months ago
I was 6 when this beautiful song came out, and every time I hear it, I think of the game Candyland. I must have been playing it the first time I heard this . It is weird, but true. This is one of the most beautiful songs I ever heard, and Bob Lind wasn't bad to look at either Lori, Jacksonville, FL
78babyt 9 months ago
I was ten years old the year this masterpiece came out.I'm 54 now and it still evokes great memories and a wistful yearning for a simpler time in my life.This will be around much longer than the unadulterated tripe that people call music these days.....My God,LYRICS you could understand,not some cretin uttering monosyllabic words talking about bitches and ho's and killing cops........This is MUSIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!
borecleaner1 9 months ago 33
@borecleaner1 I agree wholeheartedly, my friend: THIS is music. And, my goodness, what poignant lyrics! Where, oh where, did the songwriters and singers go? My heart pines for those days of yore.
chatman2a 7 months ago
@chatman2a Thanks for your kind words.I haven't a bloody clue as to where all the great songwriters went off to.All I know is that there aren't very many around nowadays....This music gets better with age....
borecleaner1 7 months ago
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Southie99 4 months ago
@chatman2a Another favorite I heard the other week, on a sunny seattle day[not too often THAT happens]while driving my high school sweetheart,and incidentally wife of thirty-three years around after visiting our son on Capitol Hill,was ''Darling,Be Home Soon'',by the Loving Spoonful....What a great feel good 60's tune......Quiet Nights and Quiet Days to You and Yours...........
borecleaner1 7 months ago
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Southie99 4 months ago
@borecleaner1 happy song from a happy era mate, cherish this song and others from the 60's cos they dont make em like this anymore
rich0040 3 days ago
everytime i hear this, I can smell England and the spring of 66, i was stationed there at chicksands afb and my son was born there and walking to the hospital to see him. such beautiful memories, thanks jim dilks delaware.
body0guard 9 months ago
@body0guard Lovely sentiments :)
teebee1984 8 months ago
one of my all time favourites,brings back memories of old times and old friends,thank you for downloading this my friend
halasboy1 9 months ago 7
halasboy1-san,
I uploaded this video on YouTube, but did not download this....
Otaku3 (^_^;)
60otaku3 9 months ago
@60otaku3
I remember waking up to this song as a 11 or 12 year old and fell in love with its gentle message. Thanks for the upload and the memory. I remember trying to chase the butterfly in my half dream state, never caught it though, perhaps it was a foretelling that the joy is in the chase not the owning of it.
doghousemine 5 months ago
You're welcome, doghousemine-san!!
Otaku3 (*^o^)/
60otaku3 5 months ago
It's spring, 1966, every time I hear this wonderful song...
50Emerald 9 months ago
@50Emerald yep-that's when this song came out on radio.
TheClam88 9 months ago
@50Emerald thats when I gave you your first blowjob!
KarenEngSwallows 8 months ago
Nice guitar.
Myrtle791 10 months ago
she LA won't be there now,
I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love
or rumors of footsteps- see A Tasteof Honey video Herb Albert and TJB
I wonder...
harponercam 10 months ago
Thanks for uploading such a great song, 60otaku3. I always enjoyed this song and the lyrics are so deep. it brought back some great memories. Thank-you.
David76324 10 months ago 2
You're welcome, David76324-san!!
Otaku3 d(^_^)b
60otaku3 10 months ago
@60otaku3 thanks from me as well!!
blueinfinite 8 months ago
You're welcome, blueinfinite-san!!
Otaku3 (^o^)/
60otaku3 8 months ago
In France, bybest french singer Richard Anthony, "Un papillon qui vole"
liptonos 10 months ago
One of the very best records ever to be constantly played by TheRadioVenus.
Absolutely beautiful music and words.
"It's only me persuing something I am not sure of"
TheRadioVenus 10 months ago
Beautiful Jack Nitzsche arrangement on this record, but Charles Bukowski's admiration for Bob Lind rested with Lind's skill as a wordsmith.
hookalakah 10 months ago
I still have this very album - and EVERY single song is just as inspirational as this one, which was the hit song on the album. I only wish that Bob Lind could have achieved the success that he so rightly deserved . . . he was a musical genius and a poet.
7ov9 10 months ago
#200 top songs of the 60s Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly
zynjan 10 months ago
my teenage years they were the best!!!!!
dougc426 10 months ago
some great music, from that time, 1965 to 1975, thanks
whitedevilmom 11 months ago
You're welcome, whitedevilmom-san!!
Otaku3 (^o^)/
60otaku3 11 months ago
elusive not only wrote a great song...also he helped fight evil with his investigative reporting in the world weekly news.
pbrick6301 11 months ago
I love this song. The love of my life played it for me recenty. It is so comforting. Cant stop playing it. Thank you!!
lavlawson 11 months ago
You're welcome, lavlawson-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)b
60otaku3 11 months ago
@lavlawson this song makes me think of a beautiful lady I just met....beautiful tune...
pat45068 11 months ago
One of my all-time favorites.
hayesman76 11 months ago
1966 -- oh, to be 16 again and grow up with this kind of wonderful music -- so many memories from this early spring hit that year...
50Emerald 11 months ago
A simple but magic song.
rorigiles 11 months ago
To qb62ndmaintbn1967 i totally agree with you. Having spent most of the 60's playing organ and lead singer in a rock band this is a song that has stood the test of time. REMEMBER ROCK AND ROLL FOREVER AT 62 I STILL AM
stillrockinat61 1 year ago
This is one of the nicest songs I`ve ever heard, it`s like `Day by Day`.
MrDigitaldork 1 year ago
45 years later it could sound a little weird - the guy is running around the girl's house at dawn, breathing heavily, wearing a pair of wings, and carrying a butterfly net - "WTF!?"
But in truth it's a hugely romantic song, surrealistic and magical, moving through the rooms of a multiple metaphor, almost an allegory - yeah, I've always liked this song -
SupernalOne 1 year ago
This lovely tune from a time ago even now remains like a permanent fixture that provides light in a life that now it brings back as beautiful as it was then.This is in truth a very lovely song well worth listening to the many times over.It is great to hear and beautiful as ever. A toast to the "Elusive Butterfly" by Bob Lind Hip Hip Hooray Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray
Uncle65788 1 year ago
Good poetry ... Bad Poetry ..... This was a song of my "boomer" generation .... just take it at its face value
gto66solstice08 1 year ago
Unique gem that has the power to immediately draw me right back to this time, thanks for a great post!
tulsarockfan69 1 year ago
You're welcome, tulsarockfan69-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
great song!.....sure brings back alot of great memories!......
TC6759 1 year ago
Oh my! We have been looking for this piece!! Thank you dear uploader!! Extremely emotional...beautiful.
strangersNparadise 1 year ago
You're welcome, strangersNparadise-san!!
Otaku3 (^o^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
A breath of fresh air. Nice posting poster, thank you.
Emerystreet 1 year ago
You're welcome, Emerystreet-san!!
Otaku3 (^o^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
I was just a 12 year old pup then and even at that age I knew it was a very special song.
Many decades later it still stirs deeply within whenever it is heard.
We can all take what we like from this song, but I feel the simplicity of the lyrics belies their metaphorical complexity about the quest for love (and self love).
It is truly an innocent song yet profoundly self realizing.
gentleguyforu 1 year ago
A beautiful song that you can listen to and understand, and I often come back just to listen to it again
compulsiveguy55 1 year ago
Three years before i was born but this is just something else . Hauntingly beautiful !!
TheDjmurray123 1 year ago
sorry, otaku-san! no harm meant. i love the song. i'm too young to have heard it when it was first released but it still evokes the epoch so strongly, at least my ideas about the epoch.
weezmatron 1 year ago
Thank you for understanding my advice, weezmatron-san!!
Otaku3 (^o^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
weezmatron-san,
Because you posted the comment irrelevant to this song, I deleted it.
In consideration of the song and a musician, please do not such the comment.
...Otaku3
60otaku3 1 year ago
Hey, 60otaku3-san! You are to be commended for posting such sensitivity which echoed the delicacies of Bob Lind's album from the same year, entitled, "Photographs of Feeling". While I agree with qb62ndmaintbn1967, that "Bob Lind captured the essence of the earlier era in a manner achieved by only a few", I hasten to say that the song and album also served to introduce the best of the "psychedelic 60's". Aye, it seems that artists like the Moody Blues had taken-up where Bob Lind left-off.
MysticSojourner 1 year ago
Thanks for your kind comment, MysticSojourner-san!!
Otaku3 (^o^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
I remember this from 1966,such a good year for music, You have some GREAT music my Friend. Thanks.
wolfmantip 1 year ago
You're welcome, wolfmantip-san!!
Otaku3 d(^_^)b
60otaku3 1 year ago
thank you for bringing this back to me.
hms1209 1 year ago
You're welcome, hms1209-san!!
Otaku3 (^o^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
to cib67: thanks for your service to our country. I was still in h.s in 66.
lui1828 1 year ago
Otaku-san, you know good American music better than many Americans do!
57highland 1 year ago
Thanks again, 57highland-san!!
Yes, I know a lot of good American music.
Otaku3 d(^o^)b
60otaku3 1 year ago
@57highland don't fool yourself. Most North Americans throw out all the good stuff.
I can attest, as I get all that so called 'trash', clean it up , listen to it, record it, and then sell to fine people that know good music, and alot of them are in Japan! The most expensive records I sell, go to Germany and Japan every month !
oatstao 1 year ago
@oatstao Good thing you do all that in the name of good music. I still have a collection of vinyl, in various conditions, of course, from non-playable to a few never played at all. I'm looking to thin out my collection a little. (Not because I think it's trash, but due to space limitations.) Let me know if there's anything in particular you're looking for.
57highland 1 year ago
@57highland No BS on that one. We've let ourselves go to hell musically.
StanBennet 1 year ago
10/24/10 ... Wow! 1966 the year (May) that I joined the U.S. Army and spent the whole year of 1967 in Nam. I sure do remember this song by Bob Lind it always made me feel good when I would hear it especialy in Nam. It is truly a 'Classic'.
CIB67 1 year ago
Thanks, one of my all time favorites; makes me feel young again.
lasinlo 1 year ago
You're welcome, lasinlo-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)v
60otaku3 1 year ago
This song and his voice sends shivers down my spine. Thanks for sharing. x
uxb59 1 year ago
You're welcome, uxb59-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)b
60otaku3 1 year ago
Thats realy good music!!!
Stargazar 1 year ago
I used to jerk off to this song in 1966.The singer Bob Lind used to sell Crack cocaine in Dundalk ,Maryland in the eighties to makes ends meat.
whyareyousougly69 1 year ago
This is absolutely exquisite! I can listen to this voice and arrangement all day..thanx so much 60otaku3/uploader!!..you're pretty cool stuff too dear one! thanx again!
3timeskool 1 year ago
You're very welcome, 3timeskool-san!!
Otaku3 (*^o^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
p.s.
Thank you for subscribing and a friend request!!
I hope you enjoy many oldie songs on my channel anytime.
Have a great day!
Your Japanese friend,
Otaku (^_^)
60otaku3 1 year ago
This takes me back. One of the special ones.
8moody1 1 year ago
One of my all-time favorite songs!
GZink1948 1 year ago
wonderful,uplifting
EMCEMITCH 1 year ago
There sure were a lot of one hit wonders back in the day.
hackman1911 1 year ago
This brings back so many memories both good and not so good. A great song that is seldom broadcast on the airwaves.
dinglechip 1 year ago
Here in England I remember this as a big hit, with this version competing with Irish singer Val Doonican. Both versions were in the top 10 for several weeks and many of my friends bought both.
oranah 1 year ago
Very beautifully done, and I don't think I have heard a better rendition. Thanks for the upload!
lifesalaff2 1 year ago 2
You're welcome, lifesalaff2-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)b
60otaku3 1 year ago
Thank goodness for this song and Bob Lind. Now we have Lady Gaga (lady garbage)
and Snooki who looks like a bitch and is a real bitch..!!
Junglehike 1 year ago
I thought then, and I think now that this is one of the best lyrics in a song ever.
chingo41 1 year ago
This was my sister's favorite song. She passed in 1996 so it always makes me a little sad when i hear it, but it also makes me smile to remember her. Music is wonderful, sad and happy at the same time.
plaetoe 1 year ago
Years ago I read a "put down" about this song. It was a quote by either Clapton or Hendrix - don't remember which. The person was laughing because an agent had tried to convince him to be more "with" the current music scene, and the song that was mentioned was "Elusive Butterfly of Love". I've tried to find the exact quote online, but haven't suceeded yet. Years ago I would have agreed with that disparagement, but more and more nowadays I lean to Bob Lind and other "lesser" artists.
twyman 1 year ago
heard this song on local brisbane (australian) station last week for the first time in ages; it still sends shivers up the spine. one of those songs............. if only life were always like this. thank you.
downunder
hams12345 1 year ago
You're welcome, hams12345-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)b
60otaku3 1 year ago
This song tranfixed me to an era of excellent music
mick50651 1 year ago
This beautiful young mans' voice, in and of itself, is so pure and resonating that he only has to 'monolugue' the song with enunciation to create "music". Notice how he is just with slight melodic pitch, simply saying these words, and it is the purity of his God given voice alone, that becomes 'music'. This effortless phenomenon is very unusual, and truly exquisite. What a gift! Thank you for the wonderful upload 60otaku3, it means a great deal to me especially!..God bless, Sissy
missycrissysissy008 1 year ago
You're welcome, missycrissysissy008-san!!
Otaku3 (*^o^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
@60otaku3 god i totally agree
sexygurl10059 1 year ago
This song touches my soul in a way that only true peace and love could. It takes me back to a simpler and more loving time in the world (My Youth).
Thank You.
carlvis1 1 year ago
You're welcome, carlvis1-san!!
Otaku3 (*^o^)b
60otaku3 1 year ago
I grew up listening my Dad's music , which includes alot of Bob Lind. I still listen to it, My girlfriend says I still listen to it (among other dad favorites) to please my Dad. I listened to her, considered the thought, then came to the conclusion, my Dad had great, intellectual taste, I inherited that....... THANKS DADDY
99pnkflyd99 1 year ago
tunes like this helped us feel good.todays music is full of hate and anger [ black rap] i pity this generation who have missed out
MrWogo 1 year ago
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Cinchona 1 year ago
@MrWogo Hate and anger, huh? You must love today's music, then.
Cinchona 1 year ago
You mean I was only 17 when I first heard this beautiful song? Not a care in the world...what a time that was! 1967, life would get even better.
TigerWould1 1 year ago
(sigh) Geez.. remember when people actually WROTE poetry like this, and either sang it or spoke their words of love to someone? I doubt they even teach prose like this in any school today... and how sad that is. Thank you SO much for posting this, 60Otaku3. It's a sweet memory for me.
RitzyTrailer 1 year ago 5
You're very welcome, RitzyTrailer-san!!
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60otaku3 1 year ago
@RitzyTrailer Not only dont they teach prose like this in schools today, a well respected high school music teacher told me recently that almost all students cannot listen to classical music for more than 20 seconds at a time due to its LACK of repetiveness. Very sad.
Screenman5 1 year ago
Ahh, the beautiful spring of 1966...
50Emerald 1 year ago
Sleep will leave your ears?
Really?
chuckfmark 1 year ago
@chuckfmark : Yes, poetically speaking. Like when you're just awakening ? Geez.
RitzyTrailer 1 year ago
@chuckfmark Out on the new horizon you may see the floating motion of a distant pair of wings and if the sleep has left your ears you might hear footsteps running thru an open meadow dont be concerned it will not harm you
Uncle65788 1 year ago
"I chase the bright Illusive butterfly of Love" thats very nice and well liked song from a time ago.
Uncle65788 1 year ago
1967 I remember hearing this song...I used to hitch hike to the beach in Port Aransas from Portland Tx with my David Nuiava surfboard under my arm and I never got a bad ride...I miss those days at the beach but thanks 60otaku3...I have this song.
RG4242421 1 year ago
You're welcome, RG4242421-san!!
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60otaku3 1 year ago
@RG4242421 ..while your were hitch'n to port aransas,,,I was hitch'n to malibu with my dewey weber....I can't remember getting a bad ride either...did it get any better than that??..I wasn't a good surfer at all....I couldn't even take a board all the time..but went anyway..heard this song so much in those days..too much fun!!
pakee64 1 year ago
This song takes me back to my childhood.
prkendora 1 year ago 2
brings back a lot of good memories of people no longer here that you miss, laughter,easier days, doors unlocked, simpler times
elros731 1 year ago 3
My favorite song in the whole entire world...I was only 9 when it was released and I have loved it forever! How wonderful to be able to listen to it whenever I want on You Tube!
DotErnst 1 year ago
What 70's memories!
Puzzler4879 1 year ago
what a wonderful song.. thanks so much for posting this... lots of memories are stirred by this
curtdeath 1 year ago 8
You're very welcome, curtdeath-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
Listened to this song at night on WCFL from Chicago, when AM radio was king and music was real!
wohpdj 1 year ago
@wohpdj give me wls with dick biondi anytime!!
jkoncz 1 year ago
The J.D. Salinger of 60's folk pop. Should be up there with Dylan. Paired with producer Jack Nitsche's strings - it's pure magic. Was cool of him to spit on the music industry and walk away from it early - when so many others in similar shoes put on a phony smile and faded away disgracefully.
kingalow1 1 year ago
Thank ou 60otaku3, i was 7 and still remember this song
peterkastanis 1 year ago
You're welcome, peterkastanis-san!!
Otaku3 (^o^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
an all time fav. i'm on my way to his site. THANKS
juliewilsonable 1 year ago
You're welcome, juliewilsonable-san!!
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60otaku3 1 year ago
1966 was the last year of what I call the "extended 50's". Waiting in the wings was the "summer of love" and all the music that fueled the rest of the decade-the "psychedelic 60's" Bob Lind captured the essence of the earlier era in a manner achieved by only a few. "Elusive Butterfly" is truly a classic.
qb62ndmaintbn1967 1 year ago 29
@qb62ndmaintbn1967 My God!.........."the extended 50's"!!!! I don't think I have ever heard it described so "to a tee"!!! You nailed it!
packard400 1 year ago
@packard400 Thank you for the kind words. I also thought of the " 50's 60's" or should it be the "60's 50's"? The "extended" is a little less taxing on my aging brain.
qb62ndmaintbn1967 1 year ago
@qb 62nd maint bn 1967 No, the 1950s ended as a cultural era with the Kennedy Assassination in 1963. This was a 1960s song by culture as well as by time.
Albacorewing 1 year ago
I was 11 in 1966 and I remember every word of this song:) What lovely sounds, what a delight:)
Thank you dear 60otaku3.
Lance
lancetop 1 year ago
You're welcome, Lance-san!!
Otaku d(^_^)b
60otaku3 1 year ago
@lancetop
I was also 11 when this wonderful song came out. It still echoes in my mind even today!
mmangum4444 1 year ago
What a beautiful, ethereal tune. Try finding
a song like this on today's radio play-lists,
[where so-called contemporary hits and/or
"hiphop" have such disdain and enmity
for everybody and everything]. Our only hope, is that oldies' radio
stations celebrate artists such as BOB LIND! {Old school forever, backward never!}
artuvaas 1 year ago 4
I was only 8 when this song first came out.
nanlisa 1 year ago
This song always reminded me as being something Glen Campbell might have sung. It sounds very similar to "Gentle On My Mind."
padon59 1 year ago 3
Love this song... Just x-c-lent. Was only about 6 when it came out... Thanks for giving us the opportunity to listen to it over and over
563gypsy 1 year ago 2
You're welcome, 563gypsy-san!!
Otaku3 (^_^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
I was 15...when this was a hit...loved it then...love it today!!...I ended up being a radio personality...and I played this on the air every chance i could!! Where's Bob Lind today??
sunray65 1 year ago 2
so lovely to hear this again from all those decades ago...
johnnyfarout 2 years ago 8
A truly beautiful song. I was 14 in '66. Loved it then ---love it now. Heard it today on the best oldies station in the country. The True Oldies Channel!!!!! Thanks for posting,
nancyjoe5158 2 years ago 5
You're welcome, nancyjoe5158-san!!
Otaku3 (^o^)/
60otaku3 2 years ago
17,417 views. Far Out!
harponercam 2 years ago
If only "pop" music (this is really more folksy) was as sweet and innocent as this now. My beautiful DD complains that all pop music is rubber-stamped these days.
binkle1 2 years ago
being 16 and in love, listening to WLS.
what a beautiful more innocent time and
a beautiful song. Thank you Bob Lind!
okerama 2 years ago
Reading all these comments is amazing. It seems this song struck a chord with all of us when we were kids... I was 5! But I remember LOVING it, and put it on my wedding CD 5 years ago... something truly magical about this song.
scouserfourteen 2 years ago
Good for you Bob Lind a very fond memory a very fine song and great to listen to
Uncle65788 2 years ago
in 1966 I was 3 years old when this gem came out...I love the whispy texture of the wind with the background sounds at "don't be concerned it will not harm you" so loving and sweet
frankho99 2 years ago
I was 8 years old when this came out...Seems like a minute ago..5/5
This is the most complete collection of rare hits I've found anywhere, let alone on You Tube. I should know, I use music to make my videos..all self created..Thank you.
Bacmaster 2 years ago
You're welcome, Bacmaster-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)/
60otaku3 2 years ago
Remember this on KHJ Los Angeles in the car...six years old...the '60's were absolutely special...clear, clean, simple romance
glenzhere2 2 years ago
I was 6 when this came out. Yep good ole KHJ in LA. When I moved to S.F. it was KFRC and the Glen Campbell & Bobby Sherman versions
wmhamby 2 years ago
Love hurts, love makes you alive, love make you want to thrive, makes you want to strive. love is life. O but so hard have and hold. Not easy, not an easy thing at all
Byrontheone 2 years ago 2
You're welcome, Gyphia-san!!
Otaku3 (^_^)v
60otaku3 2 years ago
Coil's teenage lightning borrows some lyrics outa this tune
Mcfork 2 years ago
great classic song
ChelseaBabiie09 2 years ago
Otaku Good memories ..a few sad ones too.. :)
SIRONEDRAGON 2 years ago 2
Thanks for your comment, SIRONEDRAGON-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)b
60otaku3 2 years ago
I'm so glad to see that other people like this song.... I've felt a bit silly playing and singing it in the past but... Damn, I like it!!! :)
Whozzo 2 years ago 3