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  • it was the best time ......

  • I was 11 going on 12 the summer of 69. There was nothing like top 40 rock on AM from the mid sixties throught the early 70's Let's let our kids undesrtand this instead of Ipod playlists and rap etc... Come on baby boomers wasn't it the best?

  • ONE OF MY TOP 10 FAVORITE GROUPS OF ALL TIME

  • Awesome song, this is for you Jacqui...

  • Something is wrong with this song. You cannot hear the background vocals, they are unreal! It's too bad they are missing.

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  • listening to this song on headphones is amazing

  • Love how U posted the Intro also..well done..Love this song as well as the group, Best times in my life for music..Late 60's early 70's Rock on!!

  • I can't believe how this song just hit me. This shit is amazing

  • Sweat pouring down my chest, still I cant love you less

    Its worth all the pain and pride

    Baby, I just cant hide all that I feel inside........................­.Awwww sweet, sweet surrender!

  • classic rock....with a touch of soul....g.

  • lol how come in the very beginning it sounds so much like muses resistance. I can tell where they got the inspiration to that song

  • @timaa1224 Wow! That's an obscure reference. You're probably the only person on here who knows who they are. I do see/hear what you mean, but I doubt they ever heard this. Good question to ask them if you ever see them.

  • R.I.P. Rob Grill

  • classic song makes me think of riding in the back of the car with my dad

  • I used to like the lyrics & singing on this as a kid, but God, I didn't reallize just how good and fun the music is!``

  • This is such a great song!!!!!!!!!!  As mention before if your not dancing to this you Haven't Lived!!! The Grass Roots so many great songs. RI.P. Rob.

  • thank you joe sexton

  • sounds great...very cool!!

  • One of the absolute best from one of the absolute best! This is just such a terrific song - this really gets your body moving - it has that effect and you cannot fight the feeling - and who would want to?! Fantastic song from a fantastic group. Love it. Thank you so much for this fabulous post.

  • For the guy that like you keep me hangin on, nobody like vanilla fudge with that song

  • One of the guys from this group just died too now? SHEESH!

  • What an awesome introduction

  • Lead singer died July 11, 2011

  • Is the extended intro found on the LP but not the single? Or was it put out in some rare version on a different album entirely?

  • @cllewis1  Original LP had the extended intro - not found on the single version.

  • Im 25 years old and fell in love with this song when i was ten i didnt understand what they really meant with there lyrics then i suffered a devasting heart break and now i totally know what this song means...and im still waiting

  • Great music..grew up with it!!!

  • Rest in peace, Rob.

  • Shocked to hear of Rob's passing. RIP.

  • now THIS is music!! R.I.P Rob

  • RIP Rob!

  • R.I.P. Rob... The Great Gig In The Sky has been awaiting another great bass player.

  • Music like this is timeless!

  • R.I.P. Rob Grill

  • RIP Rob Grill. Your music will live on forever.

  • ALWAYS LIKED THIS ONE,

  • I can still relive the new car smell of my father's brand new Olympic gold 1969 Chevy Caprice, as this song was playing on the car radio. I was 15 years old. Those were "my" Grass Roots!

  • @327caprice June of 1969, a cold beverage, my lady, and listening to all of the hits of the Grass

    Roots

  • Beautiful and excellent picture and song man!!!!

  • Still a great song!

  • all i can say is the grass roots are definatly1 of the premier groups from the 70s, so many hits and most went gold

  • WHY DOES IT FEEL LIKE IT WILL TAKE THIS LONG FOR THE RIGHT ONE. WHEN I SEEM TO BE HAVING THINGS WORK OUT IT FALLS APART. NO POINT IN REALLY TRYING. A TOTAL WASTE. JUST GO MY WAY AND DO FOR ME ONLY. FED UP WITH THESE TEARS AND FAILURES. I DON'T DESERVE THIS CRAP. CHEERS TO THOSE WHO SUCCEED. TIME TO MOVE ON.

  • and this song can get ya speeding tickets .... glad i cannot get a Singing ticket ha ha ha

  • The best Morse code I've ever heard in my life!

  • JESUS, COULD THE BRASS SECTION BE ANYMORE PERFECT?????????????

  • id kickflip el toro with this on my ipod

  • Okay, this was one of those songs I was a little tite growing up and heard. This was the song I always sang for the guy I always wanted. This song is tough..tenacious. That's me!!!

  • great song.

  • Id wait a million years......

  • Always loved them. It was great when I saw them in a small Gym at Ferrum College in VA in around 1970.....up close and personal... probably 300 or less (maybe a LOT less) folks at the suitcase college that Sat night.

  • Love the photo!

  • Love this song was 12 when it came out.

    If you like the 60's and 70's music then check out this site that WABC music radio has. They have listed the top 20 to 50 songs every week from 1960 to 1982 based on WABC AM NYC. you will be surprised at some of the great tunes that time has forgotten.

  • @RIVERROBBER Oh my gosh that was a staple in my time in the 60's listening to WABC on a Saturday night with our transistor radios lol.

  • Simply epic...As much as I am into metal music,this music is softer yes, but beautiful of course and great!

  • sounds great!

  • just listen to those freakin horns! AHHH!

  • this song never fails to make me turn up the sound and dance around my room like a complete fool!

  • @VthatsME me too!

  • I danced to this song the night my first baby was born, It put me into labor. Today, it almost gave me a heart attack! But, what a way to go...singing and dancing! ^_^

  • im sorry imma stick to rap,pop,and rock thank ya

  • @kayla4560 this is rock.

  • @kayla4560 hahahaha. well ehh err umm what you just heard is rock. i wonder how the heck you got to an awesome song like this when you have ke$ha as one of your favorites hahahaha she's very TALENTED (sarcasm)

  • 14 dislikes? wtf

  • Saw them live many moons ago. A great band.

  • The Grass Roots are one of my favorite bands from the 60's and early 70's! I use to hear all of their great songs as a kid traveling in my mom's 67--I think it was a blue mustang-car as we traveled from here to there! Sincerely, BobbyK

  • This song reminds me of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" by the Supremes, with the 'Morse code' beat and the backing vocals...

  • Screw modern music!

  • Picture an arthritic gangbanger trying to rap, dap, tap and slap in their 50s or 60s. Ain't happening. Thank God, I grew up with music you can enjoy no matter how old you are. Thanks for the post.

  • the grass roots did alot of pop music, but this wastheir only true to the era rock song! find the long version. regards

  • Vivid memories of my dance team dancing to this song in high school during football and basketball half times! Great time if my life, best music, dating, drive-ins, everything you could ever hope for growng up as a teenager in the 70s.

  • great job ... i wish some of these self absorbed nob jobs would do like you did!

  • Nothing like this song. this depicts the late 60;s

  • The 70's will never leave...very awesome

  • what an amazing song!

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  • @rexrockandroll  Pete....I know you didn't write this....we both know you didn't . And since you can't delete it...that means someone else wrote it ...and that's so obvious who. You need to report this to the youtube people. I did more than just report the crap ... as you well know. And she is NOT an issue. I have no doubts. I have to get back to chatting with you.... I love you

  • Good song I love the classics

  • Lem Villemin!!!

  • to kool for school

  • man, songs these days are not as amazing as this!!

  • what was on the flip side of the original 45? Thanks in advance

  • @s2c365 .

    Fly me to Havanna

  • @s2c365  Fly me to Havanna

  • Flashbacks!!!

  • who doesnt like this song? they are dumb and have no clue what MUSIC is...

  • @LadyLissa68 they accidentally hit the wrong button ;-)

  • 13 people don't like this song

  • i'm 18 and i don't listen to any of the top 40 shit. this song is fantastic. anyone else think it sounds similar to "you keep me hangin' on" by the supremes?

  • Geez, I had the 45!

  • only 13 morons that couldn't hit the like button!...I bet they listen to rap "music"

  • @nicenonya3 can you use "rap" and "music" in the same sentence without a negative?

  • @MusicMan7gk doubtful

  • @MusicMan7gk - Rap has let people express their frustrations in a musical way, so then they don't have to pop-a-cap in someone's ass.

  • Those were the days driving in our cars, listening to this music on a warm summer night ,long ago now!

  • this is a badass song

  • this song is the best

  • BRILLIANT AND BEAUTIFUL!

  • k xingona rola

    neta la oiga todos los dias

    mis respetos

  • this is the shit!...snowboard for EvEr

  • This is soooo good; I love this song. It is perfection; I just love every single element that comprised this song. A TERRIFIC post.

  • Are all the grass roots people still alive?

  • @ruellersss yes however every time I've seen them its the bassist/main vocalist with backing musicians

  • @ruellersss Rob Grill the main lead singer still performs occasionally with them, and lead guitarist Creed Bratton is on the NBC sitcom "The Office" playing Creed Bratton.

  • My Dad turned me on to the Grass Roots when I was 5 yrs. old in "74". Blast from the past..thanks

  • Lmao I came across this song when I was watching the "T.V. Guide" channel (the gimped one that's just a directory cuz my cable company is too cheap to actually have the real T.V. Guide channel). I just couldn't help but jamming to this beat. Good song!

  • It was running throughout the entire summer of that great music year of 1969. It was a very well known and popular group. This was played on WABC AM 770 radio in New York all day long that summer. I was very fortunate to have lived through the greatest music period as a teenager.

  • Did this band tour? I love their music but I never heard that they were ever playing anywhere. I thought they were a "studio" band that was put together in the manner later made famous by Steely Dan.

  • @lebarosky Steely Dan did tour. I went to a concert in Columbus Ohio in 1973, they fronted the beach boys and blew them out

  • @likesspice73 ya true but it was basically Becker and Fagin and whatever studio musicians they decided to take with them at the time.

  • 13 suicide bombers hate this song?

  • @setnaffa thumb whore

  • I love this. Does anyone know if this version with the long intro is on any Grass Roots CD?

  • @zibbyzubb

    I don't know which of their original CDs have it but the version I got off of iTunes has the long version, and that is from the 20th Century Masters CD, it's like a greatest hits sort of deal.

  • WOW..I have not heard this great song in many years. They were a great group. Midnight confessions was their best song.

  • Was there anyone that did not like this song? I don't think so!! Thanks for a great post.

  • I weas 11 or 12 when these guys were popular and I LOVED them!!! hanks for putting this song on the Tube!!wes

  • this is real rock and roll not the shit today

  • Son y serán lo máximo, no tienen nadie que los iguale. Como quisiera retroceder en el tiempo , y conocerlos personalmente. Qué es de ellos?.....si eran relindos.

    No me canso de oirlos, les he de jurar que no. Y a aquellos que los conocieron y han tenido el placer de conoserlos los envidio, ( pero sanamente,)

  • this song takes me back to better times

  • @janiree2002 I met them here in NY. Nice guys

  • @ninanwk69 when?

  • @adam360x About 5 years ago. I won tickets on a radio contest to see them in concert. After the concert we talked. They were really nice guys.

  • This is my third favorite Grass Roots song following "Temptation Eyes" and "MIdnight Confession".

  • i remember seeing this and other great musicians from this era on the ed sullivan! they did write some good tunes!

  • I heard this song while getting some hair ties at Walgreen... I've never been so greatful to shopping :) This song is AMAZING!!

  • GialloHorror, you said "The Grass Roots were long gone, before I was born, but there music stands the test of time, and is, still, amazing to this day"

    They are NOT long gone...still play all over the place.

  • i used to listen to this on 8 trac then cassette so fantastic

  • keep the good music coming. thnx ;)

  • Great, great music!

  • I have been listening to this band since my teens it is universal music that even our youth can understand and appreciate-----It is life

  • The Grass Roots were long gone, before I was born, but there music stands the test of time, and is, still, amazing to this day.

    Funny how a GREAT song is still GREAT 40 years later. I GUARANTEE nobody will remembers today's garbage,"music" 40 years from now

  • @GialloHorror I grew up on these guys and they were awesome! I am so happy to see someone much younger than me enjoying them! Thank you!!!

  • I work at a bicycle shop and we have to play music that doesn't 'offend anybody' so we put it on the oldies channel. That's were I heard this and many other songs around. I think all those songs are great

  • the song was wroted for my heart...

  • Dave Bachinsky.

  • This is real music. Not the kind of (c)rap that is prevalent in todays music. The music of the mid to late 60's through the 70's was the greatest period in the history of rock music. I'm glad I was a teenager in the mid 70's and got the chance to hear all of it and still listen to it today. The 70's rocked!

  • @greg8698 absolutely agree with you

  • @greg8698 too true

  • @greg8698 agree 1965-1973 for top 40. 1969-1979 for album rock.

  • @jaytf1231 Amen Brother !!

  • Exactly. The young-ins of today are all wet behind the ears. Our generation knew music. I say let's keep listening to it to the day we die. Yes, "I remember when..."

    Kids today what do they know. We were the generation. We were the generation. May our generation live forever!

  • @greg8698 Im glad i was a teenager also in the 1970's and got to listen to the greastest music of alltime in the late 1960's through 1970's.

  • @greg8698 how witty of you. now is not the best time for rock music but you specifically point to rap. I believe this has absolutely nothing to do with your message.

    this is a good song, but for you to place the blame with such a simple, unthinking blanket statement is kind of mind blowing.

  • Okay, Im not going to defend mainstream music here, but you're an idiot if you consider rap unconditionally crap. There is just as much good rap as there is good 50's / 60's / 70's rock/pop. Just because mainstream hiphop comes from rap, and mainstream hiphop is *generally* garbage, doesnt mean that rap is bad. Thats like saying the 50's / 60's / 70's rock you're talking about is crap by extension because rap comes from it. Educate yourself about music, or shutup. That said, great song :D

  • @ejohnson4 If a rap artist can make music like this then they have talent, otherwise, no.

  • @greg8698 Okay, Im not going to defend mainstream music here, but you're an idiot if you consider rap unconditionally crap. There is just as much good rap as there is good 50's / 60's / 70's rock/pop. Just because mainstream hiphop comes from rap, and mainstream hiphop is *generally* garbage, doesnt mean that rap is bad. Thats like saying the mid 1900's rock you're talking about is crap by extension because rap comes from it. Educate yourself about music, or shutup. That said, great song :D

  • @greg8698 A lot of people would argue that but I completely agree, I hate growing up with the stuff today...disgrace to music

  • I can listen to it every day too !!!

  • Now this is Music to lift up the spirits and words to think about.. Back then most songs had a message.. Todays youth has to suffer from medicore music.. Not all is bad but not as uplifting as this song is..

  • this song is so good

  • I love this band. Thanks for the memories.

  • Creed from The Office is a great musician.

  • @nthman Hes the actual vocalist from this band and uses his real name, doesnt he?

  • FUCKIN' EPIC

  • Brilliance !!!!!!!!!

  • Great, great, GREAT song!

  • Amazing Song, great amazing band!

  • Thanks for posting a tribute to champions, especially when victory eludes them

  • whoa awesone song

  • DAVE BACHINSKY !!!! for life ! sk8 !

  • @skaterchevy hahaha thats why im here

  • Hi, consider adding "stereo" to the title or description. This is much better than the other posted ones.

  • I heard mp3iiiiify is the best site to download songs like this. Google mp3iiiiify.

  • HOT

  • I like is wonderful

  • DAVE BRACHINSKI

  • The great Joe Osborne on bass!

  • AWESOME SONG!

  • @frei2006 Great song, I miss all of the classics

  • great song

  • Wonderful song from when there were no synthesizers, just big, clunky organs, and innovative guitar players. I always liked the beat of this song!

  • 1st time I've heard this longer keyboard intro in ages!

  • Great vocals, great song, good quality recording! I was a kid when this hit the charts and still would rather listen to this than anything else. It was a hippy, happier time for me.

  • @katgrateful - I was a kid too, crazy for Top 40 radio, and it was indeed a happier time. But then we were just kids, taking no notice of war or social problems, though they did exist, but at least the music was great and so were the cars.

  • i watched a skate video and dave B. was skating to this song. since that day, i downloaded this song on my mp3, and this pumps me up while skate. fuck yeah. i'm so glad i found this song. good songs never gets old, bitch.

  • @WINDANSEABEACH they can fuk yur back up dude

  • @teehonky i keep it safe tho. i don't do huge stunts, like, messing with 15 stairs, roofs, and etc

  • cool surf on!!!!!