Whaaat? I don't think it is The Poni-Tails' "Born Too Late" but Connie Smith (?) doing a very good cover of "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes" Where are The Poni-Tails???
@Nickie0016 No cable TV (or satelite) just 3 network stations. No dvds, ipods, cds, cassettes, or satelite radio. No email, computers, or internet. No modern medicines or surgical procedures. No microwaves, limited air condition, and one car per family. Few people went to college, high school was considered enough for most people. Things cost alot less but peolple made alot less money. Equal rights for women and minorities were unheard of.
@Nickie0016 The draft still existed and Vietnam was right around the corner so to speak. Cars didn't have power steering or anti-lock brakes. No cell phones, digital cameras, or pocket calculators. The voting age was 21 (but you could drink at 18, I think.) Alot of the things we take for granted were unheard of not that long ago. Its amazing to contemplate.
I was born too late!! Too late to enjoy this when it was first released!! If Dr. Brown's Time Machine was real, I'd go to 1957 and STAY THERE!! The best times ever!!
does anyone remember that, after the key change in the song, there were additional vocals in the background ? i have not heard that version since eons ago, nor do i remember on what record or cd i heard it. any clues ?
The first time I heard this I was in the 6th Grade,,,caddying at MHCC in Indianapolis..on the radio in the caddy Shack..the 50's....can i have an AMEN???!!!
The first time I heard this I was in the 6th Grade,,,caddying at MHCC in Indianapolis..on the radion in the caddy Shack..the 50's....can i have an AMEN???!!!
Great comments thnaks all for the smiles and the memories:) Isn't it amazing how music brings a place right back in a second:) Hopefully someday we can all party together... happy 2011
TenStarsplus!!!! OMG thank you so much for posting this fantabulous song!!! I was 15 when it came out in 1958, and had a crush on a 19 year old girl, so it really fit me because she got married that year and it broke my heart!!! The sax player sounds like Billy Vaughn!!! I'm almost 68 now and wish times were still that simple and laid back!!! Some things are better now, but a lot aren't!!! Thank you for posting this bittersweet memory of our halcyon days!!!
Dave here. Another one of those songs that meant "FREEDOM" when the T.I.s went home in the evening & we had base liberty in '58 at Lackland AFB basic training. Also, The Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace" ("You KNOW what I LIKE!") and Earl Grant's "The End."
I was born in 1943. My daughter was born in 1973 and went to high school in North Olmsted, Ohio with the daughter of one of the Poni-Tails, Patti (McCabe) Barnes. Patti died of cancer in 1989.
I second, third, etc. all other viewers' comments on "Born Too Late." It *does* sound better in stereo, although I too wondered where the girls' backing voices on the last chorus were.
I, too, never knew a later pressing on ABC existed (I do, however, have a copy of the 1958 ABC Paramount original); ABC also did this later with some of Ray Charles' early hits on 45. Maybe the 80's reissue on MCA was in stereo?
I, too, was also "born too late" (4/29/62) - but I think it's still a *great* hit!
Born too late, why was I born too late to have been a teenager of the 1950's LOL I was born 1980 and was a teenager in the 1990's. The 50's were great. I was born too late!!!
@AmericanEvita SAdly my dear, you are so right; it really was a different, more innocent time. Somehow, the girls were sweeter, & more romantic, even though they hardly showed anything of themselves. The music was romantic, & my memories are 4-Ever. Wolfsky9, 64 y/o.
My first cousin, Dianne, had to drop out of the Poni-tails because her mom got cold feet about her 15 yr. old's venturing into the public realm, but this has always been one of my fave classic r&r triumphs!
@WOODBINEXX I always get wistful & somewhat sad when I hear this all-time classic; this, & Chanson D'amour by Art & Dotty Todd, really take me back to very bittersweet memories of growing up in the 50's & early 60's. But no matter what, I'll always--always--love this song. Spring of '58, I was in 6th grade, & The Girl was named Dorothy --well, Dotty Lynes--OMG!! slow-dancing with her! Wolfsky9, 64 y/o
From The spring of '58, I was 11 y/o, in 6th grade, & I had a huge crush on a girl named Mardene ; I'd sing this to her, every time I heard it. From a bettefr time. Wolfsky9
Hey Steve, are all 45s of this in stereo? If I get one with that same catalogue number, will it be stereo? 45 9934. Does it have to be "ABC," or can it be ABC-Paramount? (I read through the rest of the comments and no-one's asked this).
I can relate to this one.I remember having a huge crush on a friend an classmate of my sister,she was in grade 11,I was in grade 8.A wonderful and dreamy song.Peace
I remember this song! No I don,t! Yes I do! I,m confused. It must be the dementia. This song must have hung around for a while because I would have been 5 when it came out and I really do remember it. I love the sax and the voices, great song. Peace.
I havent heard this one since grade school. love it! I loved the boy next door but he never looked my way, now I am 64 and all these guys are making plays for me. ITS TOO LATE
A one hit wonder---but what a HIT---the saxophone is great and the memories even greater. I used to dance to this song at the high school sock-hops at the end of 1958....what en era. Thanks for posting it and the stereo version is a plus.
Great song that bounces along with the wonderful harmony of the Poni Tails. Lyrically the melancholy lament of being born to late contrasts the bouncy happy music.
I would kill to be born in 1942 in Liverpool and grow up into the 60's and have a chance at Ringo or George Harrison. I have cried over that song and ask why was I born too late.
A song from the past!!! I apologize to Jesse for the way that my family treated him. In turn, I treated him bad also. That was wrong. I loved you Jesse. I left you. I know that you never got over me. I am sorry. My family criticized you and made fun of you, however, I know now you are doing great and you look great and guess what, I am not. God Bless YOu.
I was a teenager when this came out and was in love with an older woman - of 19 when this came out ................. thanks.for the memory ...........this song lays out the anguish that these teenage crushes held..............
What a classic ! The songs and music of this era, for me, are captured in the movie American Graffiti. I first heard this song on a double album titled That'll Be The Day.
This song is sooo me!! I wish I could have been around in the 50's or 60's. Boy oh boy.. The music was pure perfection. I think songs back then meant something and now it just brings such joy when I listen to them. Almost like some sort of nostalgia. Which is weird, cause Im a teenager. I never did experience anything from then. But its wonderful either way.
@bluechimichangax3 Gotcha. We do often like to fantasise about living in a former time, I think, as it seems innocent, revealed through our parents' anecdotes most likely. And that link makes it almost obtainable, but not quite... we also seem to share a sort of cultural nostalgia, not just for recent times past, but ancient ones too. The past is explicable, the present is all too often worrying, the future an unknown. So the past can seem a great place to live in.
I aggree with justmusicandme, It does sound great in STEREO. I first heard this on an Oldies station in 1974, then on Happy Days, which was how I discoveed 50s music. There were some great and timeless classics.
When I got here, This song was on the charts. I wish I could find a time machine, and go back to 1956 in either Cleveland, Ohio or Lubbuck, Texas Great Song. Thank You shannonwaxwell for sharing this song with me.
Unfortuantely, this is one song where the mono version is better. this version is missing the beautiful backgrund vocals in the last verse that the mono version has.
@mrstevehartman Stereo isn't always better. I agree, that "theoretically" Stereo is always better... BUT in the 50's and 60's... the Mono single mix (the one that got played on AM radio) of many songs were superior to the stereo mixes of the same songs because more time and attention was paid to the Mono mixes. Mamas and the Papas "Words Of Love" is a good example. the Mono mix has Cass' vocals louder in the mix, they don't FADE her voice at the end, and there are more horns in the arrangement.
@yandrsupreme Stereo adds to the depth and volume of a song. If its not mixed properly, then thats a shame. There's something cool about the seperation of voices and instruments. Quadraphonic ( 4 different independent tracts ) was tried for a while in the early 70s. I thought it was great and still do. I loved the " surround sound " from music mixed that way. Well, to each his own. PEACE....
@mrstevehartman I agree with everything you jsut said... all i am saying that it doesn't apply to "some" of the songs recorded in the 60's. From around 1972 on... Stereo was the standard, and the mixing was perfected by then. So after that.. then YES, Stereo is always better.
@mrstevehartman the million dollar question for me, is WHY are the background vocals on the third verse missing from the Stereo version of this song? They really MAKE the ending.
@yandrsupreme Well, to each his own most certainly. The only thing I can figure is that some sound engineer screwed up on the remastered stereo version ?? PEACE BRO....
@yandrsupreme Well, to each his own most certainly. The only thing I can figure is that some sound engineer screwed up on the remastered stereo version ?? PEACE BRO....
I was born too late as far as hearing when this great song first came out. However I am old enough in that I remember when radio stations played this song enough that I was able to catch the Artist and the name of the song.
I can't believe I never heard of these chicks before now!!! I was born in Lyndhurst, Ohio and went to Charles F. Brush High School (class of 1980...a little after them, but still) I've been checking out all of their songs. They are really quite good! I stumbled upon them doing some online research about Lyndhurst.
I'm in late middle age, to put it kindly, and may I assure you girls out there that if you're over 18, you were NOT born too late for me. Unfortunately, I was born too early for you. (g)
@it401301 Amen brother, and in my case there is one in particular I fell for a few years ago. One look at her and you'd know what I mean; yeah, why was I born too early?
This is mezmerizing! I love this song, mainly because it was the time of innocence, happiness, then, misunderstandings, riots, Vietnam, watergate, and so on and so on.
That's for sure, in the 1950's Stan Rofe was the first to play Rock'n'Roll music on radio in Melbourne, he had all of the new releases from stateside brought in to the country by Qantas pilots.
He was also the driving force for the local music scene.
I remember when this song came out. I was 10 and crazy about our babysitter. She had one eye and no teeth, but love is blind. Sort of like her, actually.
How totally cool that this song was recorded in stereo back in 1958 when hardly any singles were being released in anything but monophonic. Thanks for sharing - what label was this originally on? Does anyone know if The Poni Tails had any other hits of any kind?
i have one of the first high end motorola units made in 1958.2 blond cabinets with a 15" woofer in the amp cabinet and a 12" woofer in the satalitte encloser.its a tube amp with a big ole heavy tone arm.its just too cool
I agree with mezalo8, I feel I was born in the wrong era...If I could have been born in the mid 40's and grew up in the 50's and 60's, the nbe dead by now...I just dont understand these times.....
I wish I could of being born in the 50's there are so many good era's in these time including the songs, but I was born in the late 70's but beautiful song
How were the able to make such beautiful music? The harmonies and melody of this song are just lovely, and the words so simple and innocent. I was born too late; far too late in 1979! I often look at old photographs of our family in the 1950s; the cars, the people and clothes - everything makes me wish I was there in a strange way.
Ahh well, thanks to YouTube the whole world can enjoy this song.
Yes, I was also "BornToo Late", - in fact on Dec 30, 1958, - almost exactly 5 months after this incredible nice song entered the US Top 40 Chart on July 28, 1958.
I have too admit that I have been obsessed with this song ever since I first heard Jimmy Savile play it on the "Old Record Club" on BBC 1 way back in 1977.
Reminds me of my old boyfriend Jesse, from Poth Texas. I know He never stoped loving me to this day. If ever you read this, I want to apologize for the way that I treated you. I regret it, because I hear you are doing great and guess what, I am not. Please forgive me.
I've never, ever, ever, tired of hearing this all-time masterpiece from my youth. I was 11, Summer of '58, and I sang this song all time time. I saw them do it on AB, and had a mad crush on all of them. What times they were; truly, the music of our lives, Forever. Wolfsky9
Never get tired of this record....they had a similar sound to the Chordettes who were very popular at this time and put out some great songs as well, Lollipop, Mr. Sandman, Never On Sunday and more!
This reminds me of a friend who was about four years older than me when I was 12 or 13. Used to go to the Drug Store so I could sneak looks at him. He worked behind the counter of a Drug Store. He would make the milk shakes and banana splits. He moved on as I did. He contacted my last month and told me he remembered me when I was a kid and told me he had thought of me often over the last 45 years. I was stunned. But it's nice day dreaming.
I had my first ever slow dance to this at the Tottenham Royal, her name was Donna and se came from Edmonton London, we had a quick kiss and she tasted of Wrigleys chewing gum.
I hope she didnt limp for too long after me standing on her toes for most of the song.
I wonder what shes doing now, maybe shes on here wondering what happened to the clumsy lad that stank of Brute aftershave even though he was not to go anywhere near a razor for another three years. Thats right son, splash it all over.
does anyone know where i can get a instrumental version of this song?
domo14mom 6 days ago
Whaaat? I don't think it is The Poni-Tails' "Born Too Late" but Connie Smith (?) doing a very good cover of "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes" Where are The Poni-Tails???
Harmonicajello 1 week ago in playlist More videos from shannonwaxwell
I was looking for Saint Vitus but found this instead. Just goes to show how music of different decades and genres can be just as good (:
Beauxbesica66 1 week ago
So is water!
Alikah1 2 weeks ago
When music was real music , and not trash. People in this time had REAL talent, no technology to help them sound good. Wish they'd bring this back!
homeschool1995 1 month ago
OMG! I'm dyin'.
samisunc 2 months ago
Just beautiful harmony....!!!!
centralparocker 3 months ago
Where did you get the full stereo version, it really is. Not "converted" but the real thing. How did you creae something from notning?
35westst 3 months ago
Innocent times. Beautiful song :)
teebee1984 4 months ago 4
You said it all so beautfully!!!!!! LOVE THIS MUSIC, and a big fan of DOO Wops.
God bless youtube!!!!!! have a happy weekend!
Nickie0016 4 months ago
I wish I were a teen in the 50s!!!!!
Nickie0016 4 months ago 2
@Nickie0016 No cable TV (or satelite) just 3 network stations. No dvds, ipods, cds, cassettes, or satelite radio. No email, computers, or internet. No modern medicines or surgical procedures. No microwaves, limited air condition, and one car per family. Few people went to college, high school was considered enough for most people. Things cost alot less but peolple made alot less money. Equal rights for women and minorities were unheard of.
zipsrule 4 months ago 5
@zipsrule And we were very happy!!
tyoun5 3 months ago
@Nickie0016 The draft still existed and Vietnam was right around the corner so to speak. Cars didn't have power steering or anti-lock brakes. No cell phones, digital cameras, or pocket calculators. The voting age was 21 (but you could drink at 18, I think.) Alot of the things we take for granted were unheard of not that long ago. Its amazing to contemplate.
Good Luck....
zipsrule 4 months ago 4
@zipsrule Drinking age has always been 21 and it won't change anytime soon. You can vote and buy cigarettes at 18 but why would you want to?
H1delta 1 month ago
@H1delta The drinking age used to be 18.
zipsrule 1 month ago
@zipsrule At least in some States.
zipsrule 1 month ago
@zipsrule I GAVE UP drinking at 16!
Alikah1 3 weeks ago
@Alikah1 Good for you!
zipsrule 3 weeks ago
@zipsrule Discovered weed!
Alikah1 3 weeks ago
@Alikah1 Than you should try Scotch.
zipsrule 3 weeks ago
@Alikah1 It's bad for you.
zipsrule 3 weeks ago
@Nickie0016 Yes you do. OMG Yes you do.
samisunc 2 months ago
This is one of those songs i will never forget,teenage years,wonderful friends and memories.Hugs and kisses to the Poni Tails for a great song. LOUIS
louisyoung1 5 months ago
That's Billy Vaughn on that Great Sax .
johnhharley48 5 months ago
One of the great harmony songs of all time....!!!!
centralparocker 5 months ago
Thanks for posting this song!! Love the harmonies!!!!!!!!!!
FarfeNuegen 5 months ago
Only the song of my life! Love it!
perfectblueskies 5 months ago in playlist Random Songs 2
I was born too late!! Too late to enjoy this when it was first released!! If Dr. Brown's Time Machine was real, I'd go to 1957 and STAY THERE!! The best times ever!!
MrCarnut123 5 months ago 2
I'm sixteen and i love this song,... this isnt for JUST middle age people.
88RagDoll88 6 months ago
This sounds sooooo early 60s Cleveland to me and always reminds me of that special time in my home town.
flamesounds 6 months ago
@flamesounds They went to Charles F. Brush High School. I think they graduated in 1957. The one singer passed away a number of years ago.
zipsrule 6 months ago 12
I'm born 4 decays too late (I wish I lived in the 60's)!
TeamMastaPr2 7 months ago
Could you imagine any current artist recording a song like this? Neither
can I, this is too innocent for the attitudes you hear in songs these days.
JSTONE9352 8 months ago
Born too early is my delima.Men are given kudos for dating younger woman.A woman
is a predator if she longs for a younger man
wnavynurse 8 months ago 2
A little before my time, but one that I enjoy hearing quite a bit.
coachbk1 8 months ago
One of alll-time classic boy/girl tragic love songs! What memories this song brings back!
Bugsy033 9 months ago 2
Great song. Goes back to Happy Days in an America that will never return....
VIRIATO1942 9 months ago
I think Billy Vaughn played the sax on here. Sexy sound .
johnhharley48 9 months ago
I love the memories this song brings in my life!
cynthia6637 10 months ago
does anyone remember that, after the key change in the song, there were additional vocals in the background ? i have not heard that version since eons ago, nor do i remember on what record or cd i heard it. any clues ?
tennent68 10 months ago
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The first time I heard this I was in the 6th Grade,,,caddying at MHCC in Indianapolis..on the radio in the caddy Shack..the 50's....can i have an AMEN???!!!
lnefouse 11 months ago
The first time I heard this I was in the 6th Grade,,,caddying at MHCC in Indianapolis..on the radion in the caddy Shack..the 50's....can i have an AMEN???!!!
lnefouse 11 months ago
Great comments thnaks all for the smiles and the memories:) Isn't it amazing how music brings a place right back in a second:) Hopefully someday we can all party together... happy 2011
mouse12345ify 11 months ago
Magnífica melodia!!!
vandafbezerra 11 months ago
TenStarsplus!!!! OMG thank you so much for posting this fantabulous song!!! I was 15 when it came out in 1958, and had a crush on a 19 year old girl, so it really fit me because she got married that year and it broke my heart!!! The sax player sounds like Billy Vaughn!!! I'm almost 68 now and wish times were still that simple and laid back!!! Some things are better now, but a lot aren't!!! Thank you for posting this bittersweet memory of our halcyon days!!!
BigDuckKetterer 11 months ago
Dave here. Another one of those songs that meant "FREEDOM" when the T.I.s went home in the evening & we had base liberty in '58 at Lackland AFB basic training. Also, The Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace" ("You KNOW what I LIKE!") and Earl Grant's "The End."
Myrtle791 1 year ago
FANTASTIC HAPPY 2011
mouse12345ify 1 year ago
The 3 people who rated this 'dislike' apparently were born too late to appreciate and enjoy the great music of the fabulous fifties.
HoboGus 1 year ago 37
@HoboGus You are so Right ! Thanks for telling it like it is "and was" Caprice
327caprice 10 months ago
@HoboGus thats right. This is great music
63filmbuff 7 months ago
@HoboGus 3 dopes.
modanco 6 months ago
If I owned a jukebox, I would include this little gem of a song.
lowmazda626 1 year ago
believe or not, this is a great driving song....especially if you have a heavy foot!!!!
centralparocker 1 year ago
VH1 is the only channel on TV for me, he shows us this kind of music and MAFIA II
pagliaccinodlemantra 1 year ago
To the "dislikes" drink an drugs" while listening to decent music does not count as a dislike friends... now "jog on" if ya capable
TaxiRED 1 year ago 2
You guys are sure right the old ones are the best. I'm from the the 40's, I love them.
KZN7404 1 year ago
so true so true
larrrypa 1 year ago
The older songs are still the best. The time of life also has a lot to with it.
michaelfaye2003 1 year ago
Never get tired of certain oldies, this being one of them.
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I was born in 1943. My daughter was born in 1973 and went to high school in North Olmsted, Ohio with the daughter of one of the Poni-Tails, Patti (McCabe) Barnes. Patti died of cancer in 1989.
SneakyGuy77 1 year ago
I think I was born way too early!!
tootsiejoon 1 year ago
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I think I was born way too early!
tootsiejoon 1 year ago
I think I was way too early!!1
tootsiejoon 1 year ago
@tootsiejoon I was born 5/30/62 as well, & have so often felt I was soooooo born too late also. Glad I'm not alone.
ruthstromtx 1 year ago
I second, third, etc. all other viewers' comments on "Born Too Late." It *does* sound better in stereo, although I too wondered where the girls' backing voices on the last chorus were.
I, too, never knew a later pressing on ABC existed (I do, however, have a copy of the 1958 ABC Paramount original); ABC also did this later with some of Ray Charles' early hits on 45. Maybe the 80's reissue on MCA was in stereo?
I, too, was also "born too late" (4/29/62) - but I think it's still a *great* hit!
Kramden429 1 year ago
Great memories -- who played the sax on this record?
fourteenwest 1 year ago
who played the sax on this song? A great memory!!
fourteenwest 1 year ago
Born too late, why was I born too late to have been a teenager of the 1950's LOL I was born 1980 and was a teenager in the 1990's. The 50's were great. I was born too late!!!
AmericanEvita 1 year ago
@AmericanEvita SAdly my dear, you are so right; it really was a different, more innocent time. Somehow, the girls were sweeter, & more romantic, even though they hardly showed anything of themselves. The music was romantic, & my memories are 4-Ever. Wolfsky9, 64 y/o.
Wolfsky9 1 year ago
My first cousin, Dianne, had to drop out of the Poni-tails because her mom got cold feet about her 15 yr. old's venturing into the public realm, but this has always been one of my fave classic r&r triumphs!
banksprogheim 1 year ago
good number isn ,t it ^^
hyoutantugino1 1 year ago
Thank-you so very much for this wonderful version of an all-time 50's classic. I know, I was there. Wolfsky9, 64 y/o
Wolfsky9 1 year ago
Some records just sum up an era,and this is one of them.
WOODBINEXX 1 year ago
@WOODBINEXX I always get wistful & somewhat sad when I hear this all-time classic; this, & Chanson D'amour by Art & Dotty Todd, really take me back to very bittersweet memories of growing up in the 50's & early 60's. But no matter what, I'll always--always--love this song. Spring of '58, I was in 6th grade, & The Girl was named Dorothy --well, Dotty Lynes--OMG!! slow-dancing with her! Wolfsky9, 64 y/o
Wolfsky9 1 year ago
From The spring of '58, I was 11 y/o, in 6th grade, & I had a huge crush on a girl named Mardene ; I'd sing this to her, every time I heard it. From a bettefr time. Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 1 year ago
Hey Steve, are all 45s of this in stereo? If I get one with that same catalogue number, will it be stereo? 45 9934. Does it have to be "ABC," or can it be ABC-Paramount? (I read through the rest of the comments and no-one's asked this).
bencheshire 1 year ago
I can relate to this one.I remember having a huge crush on a friend an classmate of my sister,she was in grade 11,I was in grade 8.A wonderful and dreamy song.Peace
8moody1 1 year ago
I remember this song! No I don,t! Yes I do! I,m confused. It must be the dementia. This song must have hung around for a while because I would have been 5 when it came out and I really do remember it. I love the sax and the voices, great song. Peace.
8moody1 1 year ago
Ha,Ha, ha, smokiebird that's great.
MICKTHEMERC 1 year ago
OOHHHH my goodness, she is to late for me, theres nothing I can do,,,....////
emiliog04 1 year ago
I havent heard this one since grade school. love it! I loved the boy next door but he never looked my way, now I am 64 and all these guys are making plays for me. ITS TOO LATE
wvmtmama45 1 year ago
A one hit wonder---but what a HIT---the saxophone is great and the memories even greater. I used to dance to this song at the high school sock-hops at the end of 1958....what en era. Thanks for posting it and the stereo version is a plus.
59DooWop 1 year ago
i just luv this song....so yummy...owwwwwww.....
NoriTaiga 1 year ago
Great song that bounces along with the wonderful harmony of the Poni Tails. Lyrically the melancholy lament of being born to late contrasts the bouncy happy music.
NYDutch1968 1 year ago
Ah memories. How they come flooding back listening to this cute song.
billboy508 1 year ago
soppy
howgoodwasthat 1 year ago
What a sweet sax!
BobBerkeley 1 year ago 2
Sounds great.
takemeback2 1 year ago
@walshamite: Very well said! I often find myself wishing I could be in another time, you could call it my own "escape fantasy".
MissGoldenDreams13 1 year ago
Nancy, Thank You For your kind comments,
Drop by any time, Maybe you can send me an oldie Song/Video
Now and Then ,Meehall
meehall121 1 year ago
I would kill to be born in 1942 in Liverpool and grow up into the 60's and have a chance at Ringo or George Harrison. I have cried over that song and ask why was I born too late.
zebrastripes044 1 year ago 3
A song from the past!!! I apologize to Jesse for the way that my family treated him. In turn, I treated him bad also. That was wrong. I loved you Jesse. I left you. I know that you never got over me. I am sorry. My family criticized you and made fun of you, however, I know now you are doing great and you look great and guess what, I am not. God Bless YOu.
Monique1948 1 year ago
lol smokiebird
bluiis2003 1 year ago
Classic tune and still poignant today !
jezishere123 1 year ago
I stopped dating a girl because she was too young. Years later she and I are good friends
miguelofthehillcount 1 year ago
I was a teenager when this came out and was in love with an older woman - of 19 when this came out ................. thanks.for the memory ...........this song lays out the anguish that these teenage crushes held..............
1863year 1 year ago
Hey mrstevehartman, I couldn"t agree with you more. Tell the others who claim they upload songs in stereo when they upload in MONO. STEREO rocks.
MrMotownmanny 1 year ago
What a classic ! The songs and music of this era, for me, are captured in the movie American Graffiti. I first heard this song on a double album titled That'll Be The Day.
doinmister 1 year ago
This song is sooo me!! I wish I could have been around in the 50's or 60's. Boy oh boy.. The music was pure perfection. I think songs back then meant something and now it just brings such joy when I listen to them. Almost like some sort of nostalgia. Which is weird, cause Im a teenager. I never did experience anything from then. But its wonderful either way.
bluechimichangax3 1 year ago
@bluechimichangax3 Gotcha. We do often like to fantasise about living in a former time, I think, as it seems innocent, revealed through our parents' anecdotes most likely. And that link makes it almost obtainable, but not quite... we also seem to share a sort of cultural nostalgia, not just for recent times past, but ancient ones too. The past is explicable, the present is all too often worrying, the future an unknown. So the past can seem a great place to live in.
walshamite 1 year ago 2
I aggree with justmusicandme, It does sound great in STEREO. I first heard this on an Oldies station in 1974, then on Happy Days, which was how I discoveed 50s music. There were some great and timeless classics.
MrMotownmanny 1 year ago
@MrMotownmanny Stereo is always BETTER !!
mrstevehartman 1 year ago
Sounds good in stereo!!
justmusicandme 1 year ago 4
When I got here, This song was on the charts. I wish I could find a time machine, and go back to 1956 in either Cleveland, Ohio or Lubbuck, Texas Great Song. Thank You shannonwaxwell for sharing this song with me.
MrMotownmanny 1 year ago
Treasured and cherished.
nancyfloressantos 1 year ago
THIS IS PROPER MUSIC.
GRAEMEOH1 1 year ago 2
Does anybody knows who played the saxophone?
fgonzalezcuba2008 1 year ago
@fgonzalezcuba2008 I think it was boots randolph
kened1954 1 year ago
Unfortuantely, this is one song where the mono version is better. this version is missing the beautiful backgrund vocals in the last verse that the mono version has.
yandrsupreme 1 year ago
@yandrsupreme Mono is never better than stereo ! If its missing something, its cause they left it out !! PEACE....
mrstevehartman 1 year ago
@mrstevehartman Stereo isn't always better. I agree, that "theoretically" Stereo is always better... BUT in the 50's and 60's... the Mono single mix (the one that got played on AM radio) of many songs were superior to the stereo mixes of the same songs because more time and attention was paid to the Mono mixes. Mamas and the Papas "Words Of Love" is a good example. the Mono mix has Cass' vocals louder in the mix, they don't FADE her voice at the end, and there are more horns in the arrangement.
yandrsupreme 1 year ago
@yandrsupreme Stereo adds to the depth and volume of a song. If its not mixed properly, then thats a shame. There's something cool about the seperation of voices and instruments. Quadraphonic ( 4 different independent tracts ) was tried for a while in the early 70s. I thought it was great and still do. I loved the " surround sound " from music mixed that way. Well, to each his own. PEACE....
mrstevehartman 1 year ago
@mrstevehartman I agree with everything you jsut said... all i am saying that it doesn't apply to "some" of the songs recorded in the 60's. From around 1972 on... Stereo was the standard, and the mixing was perfected by then. So after that.. then YES, Stereo is always better.
yandrsupreme 1 year ago
@mrstevehartman the million dollar question for me, is WHY are the background vocals on the third verse missing from the Stereo version of this song? They really MAKE the ending.
yandrsupreme 1 year ago
@yandrsupreme Well, to each his own most certainly. The only thing I can figure is that some sound engineer screwed up on the remastered stereo version ?? PEACE BRO....
mrstevehartman 1 year ago
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@yandrsupreme Well, to each his own most certainly. The only thing I can figure is that some sound engineer screwed up on the remastered stereo version ?? PEACE BRO....
mrstevehartman 1 year ago
i wasnt born to late.... i was born in the forties. how lucky was i to enjoy the best music ever written. love the 50s and 60s...........
ian3150 1 year ago 4
I was born too late as far as hearing when this great song first came out. However I am old enough in that I remember when radio stations played this song enough that I was able to catch the Artist and the name of the song.
jimbobubbadj 1 year ago
@ian3150 I was born in the 60s, and come the 80s how I wished I'd been born earlier.
Of course I've changed my mind now. Why wasn't I born like last year?
monkeyunderground 1 year ago
Does anybody know who who the singers were in the Poni Tails. they sure could sing!
mikeletz 1 year ago
Completely without pretensions or 'attitude' - this would never get recorded these days!
Thanks for posting
PS Anyone who hasn't heard it should also listen to Maureen Evans' version
ashie259 1 year ago 2
Thanks Mike for sharing this...lovely!
TheLDLady 2 years ago
I was -5 years ago when this great song came out. I love the oldies!
jimbobubbadj 2 years ago
I can't believe I never heard of these chicks before now!!! I was born in Lyndhurst, Ohio and went to Charles F. Brush High School (class of 1980...a little after them, but still) I've been checking out all of their songs. They are really quite good! I stumbled upon them doing some online research about Lyndhurst.
jgchilders 2 years ago
I'll second it401301's comment!
mashpeewee1 2 years ago
This is such a wonderful song. This would be fun to slow dance to.
tigermark64 2 years ago 4
I'm in late middle age, to put it kindly, and may I assure you girls out there that if you're over 18, you were NOT born too late for me. Unfortunately, I was born too early for you. (g)
it401301 2 years ago 49
@it401301 Amen brother, and in my case there is one in particular I fell for a few years ago. One look at her and you'd know what I mean; yeah, why was I born too early?
skypilot722 1 year ago
@it401301
What`s late middle age? I`m 47 and love the music of the 1950`s/1960`s as well.
Weidenberg 1 year ago 7
@Weidenberg Totally agree, i'm 45 and all i listen to really is 50's & 60's.
TaxiRED 11 months ago
@Weidenberg i like this song, and im 14 :) it seems that all ages can enjoy it :)
JessiicaFox 6 months ago
@Weidenberg Actually, the Late Middle Ages would be 1200 - 1500.
zipsrule 5 months ago 6
@it401301 .........love it, and the sense of humor x
kazzrust 7 months ago in playlist THE PONI TAILS
Love the harmonies on this one. Great song from what I believe was a great era.
doinmister 2 years ago
My song since I was born in 1958.
ABC "if it's on believe it"
trailboyus66 2 years ago
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i love this song....
giddyupgirl206 2 years ago
I know all about this song. I have a huge crush on my European history professor who is about 9-10 years older then me, and I hate it.
Lordlollygag 2 years ago 2
Thanks a lot for posting this- it brings out many sweet memories from back then...
thomse12 2 years ago
Glad I was a kid in Cleveland in the late 50s and 60s............Thanks for posting this!
flamesounds 2 years ago
This is mezmerizing! I love this song, mainly because it was the time of innocence, happiness, then, misunderstandings, riots, Vietnam, watergate, and so on and so on.
Monique1948 2 years ago 2
That's for sure, in the 1950's Stan Rofe was the first to play Rock'n'Roll music on radio in Melbourne, he had all of the new releases from stateside brought in to the country by Qantas pilots.
He was also the driving force for the local music scene.
RayBushfox 2 years ago
She was 15 - I was 19
This was our song ......
Then Uncle Sam called & I went away ... sniff .. sniff
... Never saw her again .....
s'cuse me - i'm gonna cry .....
2008ranchero 2 years ago 2
This song should be the story of my life, since almost every single one of my crushes except 3 out of like 20 someting were or are older than I am.
oldieschick16 2 years ago 2
Amen
skypilot722 2 years ago
I remember when this song came out. I was 10 and crazy about our babysitter. She had one eye and no teeth, but love is blind. Sort of like her, actually.
smokiebird06 2 years ago 17
I was 8 years old and in love .. sigh ;) with my uncles farm hand...a beautiful tanned boy of about 17. This song meant everything to me ..
jhem50 2 years ago 2
hmm i hope you're a female
nytrini2005 2 years ago
lol...most assuradly ;)
jhem50 2 years ago
This kind of music makes life worth living.
reallygonecat 2 years ago 4
Ahh, lovely! I love the Girl Groups
I was born in the 1940's and grew up with the 50's and 60's music.
There was a huge variety of music on the hit parade those days and we had the best Disk Jockeys to play it, nowadays they are just announcers.
Stan Rolfe's Platter Parade on Radio station 3KZ here in Melbourne and Don Lunn on 3UZ were my favourites.
RayBushfox 2 years ago 6
...and Stan Rolfe was instrumental and promoter of so much of that early Australian popular talent: We could do with someone like him nowadays.
Apollogranforte 2 years ago
How totally cool that this song was recorded in stereo back in 1958 when hardly any singles were being released in anything but monophonic. Thanks for sharing - what label was this originally on? Does anyone know if The Poni Tails had any other hits of any kind?
JohnnyGNV 2 years ago
i have one of the first high end motorola units made in 1958.2 blond cabinets with a 15" woofer in the amp cabinet and a 12" woofer in the satalitte encloser.its a tube amp with a big ole heavy tone arm.its just too cool
nomiclas 2 years ago
I was born to late as I was born to Roll to '50s Rock....and roll and sway with-a some dame. And roll in the hay..ahhh. That's me lol
bellgardens53 2 years ago
Poni-Tails - 'Born Too Late',
Reached a # 5 position on the UK Top 20 list in Sep 1958.
Thanks to Toni, La Verne, Karen and Patti from Cleveland, OH.
How come that only 50 years later it seems impossible for anyone to write such an incredible likable song?
praxc619 2 years ago 3
AAA song for sure,,RWB
rwb010109 2 years ago
I agree with mezalo8, I feel I was born in the wrong era...If I could have been born in the mid 40's and grew up in the 50's and 60's, the nbe dead by now...I just dont understand these times.....
MugenRacer613 2 years ago
Well I was born in the 50's, but it still feels too late. I've tried really hard, but I don't understand these times either.
CAHokie 2 years ago
I wish I could of being born in the 50's there are so many good era's in these time including the songs, but I was born in the late 70's but beautiful song
mezalo8 2 years ago
I wasn't born too late. I was in my teens and listened to AM radio,,,
mashpeewee1 2 years ago 2
@mezalo8
You are so right the 50's were the good "OL DAYS"
mchlweaver5 5 months ago
This is such a beautiful song! There`s a radio station in Mexico that used to broadcast this songs, but not anymore:( Thanks Internet!!!
tube55you 2 years ago
How were the able to make such beautiful music? The harmonies and melody of this song are just lovely, and the words so simple and innocent. I was born too late; far too late in 1979! I often look at old photographs of our family in the 1950s; the cars, the people and clothes - everything makes me wish I was there in a strange way.
Ahh well, thanks to YouTube the whole world can enjoy this song.
Georgiahulse 2 years ago
Hi.
any reason why no video of the group exists?
gilharper 2 years ago
The pride of Brush High School, in suburban Cleveland. AWESOME song !!!
bigdaddy1558 2 years ago 2
Yes, I was also "BornToo Late", - in fact on Dec 30, 1958, - almost exactly 5 months after this incredible nice song entered the US Top 40 Chart on July 28, 1958.
I have too admit that I have been obsessed with this song ever since I first heard Jimmy Savile play it on the "Old Record Club" on BBC 1 way back in 1977.
praxc619 2 years ago
Truly, one of the best songs to come from that unbelievable era.....yeah, baby!!!!
centralparocker 2 years ago
Jesus. Blast from the past.
zeldagoblin 2 years ago
Reminds me of my old boyfriend Jesse, from Poth Texas. I know He never stoped loving me to this day. If ever you read this, I want to apologize for the way that I treated you. I regret it, because I hear you are doing great and guess what, I am not. Please forgive me.
Monique1948 2 years ago
I've never, ever, ever, tired of hearing this all-time masterpiece from my youth. I was 11, Summer of '58, and I sang this song all time time. I saw them do it on AB, and had a mad crush on all of them. What times they were; truly, the music of our lives, Forever. Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 2 years ago 2
just one beautiful song......impeccable harmony....
centralparocker 2 years ago
Never get tired of this record....they had a similar sound to the Chordettes who were very popular at this time and put out some great songs as well, Lollipop, Mr. Sandman, Never On Sunday and more!
PutOnASweater 2 years ago
born to late for this song??? sooooo good even thu i have married a man younger than me i knoe=w i was born tooo late.................
wendyawilliams 2 years ago
Just absolutely mind-blowingly gorgeous!
Fluffets 2 years ago
This reminds me of a friend who was about four years older than me when I was 12 or 13. Used to go to the Drug Store so I could sneak looks at him. He worked behind the counter of a Drug Store. He would make the milk shakes and banana splits. He moved on as I did. He contacted my last month and told me he remembered me when I was a kid and told me he had thought of me often over the last 45 years. I was stunned. But it's nice day dreaming.
dallaselectras 2 years ago
Beautiful!
7855waldo 2 years ago
I had my first ever slow dance to this at the Tottenham Royal, her name was Donna and se came from Edmonton London, we had a quick kiss and she tasted of Wrigleys chewing gum.
I hope she didnt limp for too long after me standing on her toes for most of the song.
I wonder what shes doing now, maybe shes on here wondering what happened to the clumsy lad that stank of Brute aftershave even though he was not to go anywhere near a razor for another three years. Thats right son, splash it all over.
N15gooner 2 years ago 2