The Fleetwoods - Come Softly To Me

[southpole419]

I heard this on the green lantern bar scene(:

[fujitsu2171]

This song was played at the last mission in MAFIA 2 :D and I didn't finished the mission, I waited the song to come to end :D ^^

[greasegun49]

Thank you for this upload. I'm 62 and this song brings to me a plethora of memories, some good, some...not so good. Regardless, it's one of only a few "Oldies" that can really take me back to the days when everything was new, and fresh, and begging to be discovered. It's a haunting echo of youth gone by; a beautiful accompaniment to coming of age. So serene, a song to think by. Softly...

[RazorLandStudio]

This was #1 the day I was born

[musicstudio83]

Thank you John 1948five for this song I love it ....brings back beautiful memories of days gone by..

[liop871]

I first found this song on mafia 2 then on green latern which I watched today.

[MrGuerish]

in MAFIA II is my favorite song

[Elixx123]

my choir is doing this at school...

Sight reading and having to keep up with the "dom dom, dom do dom be do be dooo" was one of the hardest things i've had to do. :s

[sliccflip]

Ok, i was watching Green Lantern the movie and had to pause the movie to look for this song cause this song came on when he was sitting in the bar with the girl..nice !!

[santiagogayhost]

@sliccflip the same as me!! the movie brought me here.

[STONECOLD1987]

lovely tunes :D The Fleetwoods are great

[EmpressOfWyoming58]

The quality of this recording is great. Such a sweet and beautiful song.

[nienor9999]

i am 21 years old i am from greece and i totally love this song....!!!!!!!!

[AtheistareWrong]

@LibertyPheonix That's how my parents were, I was born in 89.

[truckereleven]

One of my favorites as a teenager. thanks for posting it.

[lajkobrom]

Love it - it makes me totally relaxed. Eliza Doolittle samples this song in Missing. Check it out!

[damit1020]

im 15 and i love this song.

[HappyFace788]

When I saw green latern I heard this song and tried to remember the beat but couldn't. Then one night I was watching a cermecial for solid gold oldies and found it there!:D

[anyaholla]

I'm hearing this for the first time right now and I'm loving it so much! What a masterpiece...

[jaja904]

I wish I could get a time machine and visit the 50's =)

[ItzAndy87]

@LibertyPheonix Here here good music never dies, the pop of today though will fade away and only the classics will stand the test of time

[EKYXelverdadero]

Lullaby. :)

[Mavi222]

Mafia 2 got me here :) great song!

[U33C]

I remember first hearing this song late at night on a faraway station. The combination of soft vocals and instrumentals with AM radio static gave it a rather spooky quality.

[Timmeh4tw]

@ZykIon88

+1

[Timmeh4tw]

@LibertyPheonix Yeah totally man, no auto tune here! raw talent.

[tikibob57]

Most People do not realize that the Fleetwoods were known worldwide. I was a little kid of the tender age of 8 when I first heard this song in what is formerly known as Dutch New Guinea (western part, right above Australia), now called Irian Jaya, Indonesia. We moved to Holland in 62, where we continued to hear the Fleetwoods (Tragedy, Mr Blue, etc). Their music is timeless.

[callseba]

i was about 3 or 4 when this song first came out and i thought it was magic because of all the different vocal parts. i thought it was the most amazing thing ever, like some great big mystery. listening now, all old and creaky, i still think it's a pretty cool song. :)

[bon1042]

yes.. early '59, winter, skating rink behind Cony High, (flooded sports field), first contact with my first love, only love... lost.

[John1948Five]

@LibertyPheonix 50 cents? When I was in high school it was 25 cents. One of us would get daddy's car, we would each throw in a quarter and cruise for hours. On a really long night of cruising we might through in a second quarter later.

[LibertyPheonix]

@John1948Five

Good book :P and truer words were never spoken, friend. I've introduced this music to nearly all my friends and their friends via the Facebook network and even let some friends borrow my copy of "American Graffiti", it will please you to know that hundreds and hundreds more of youth are learning about what great era's the 50's and 60's were - and some had even said they wish they were born in the 40's so they could be a teen in the 50's :P

[wolfeshadow1313]

I always liked this group, I have their greatest hits on a cassette, hearing this made me go dig it out. Thanks for causing good memories.

[fbenenati]

Mr. Troxel, if you read this, I am searching for your half brother Jerry. He started dental school with me at Creighton University in 1969 but only stayed four weeks. I have wondered since then, what happened to him. Please advise if you read this.

BTW, this song and all of the others by the Fleetwoods are great !!

[John1948Five]

@fbenenati You can reach Gary Troxel through the Fleetwoods website - thefleetwoods[DOT]us/html/cont­act_us - Just replace [DOT] with a period.

[fbenenati]

@John1948Five Sir, thanks so much for your help. I will give it a try. From your YouTube identifier, I suspect that you are only a year younger than I am. I was born in 1947. Am I correct? I sure hope that Gary replies. It would be fun to connect with his half brother Jerry after forty-two years.

[John1948Five]

@fbenenati Yes, I was born in 1948. Here's another coincidence - I got my MBA from Creighton University. It's a small world.

[ultraroadmap]

There were far more concerns in 1969 than in 1959...I was 13 and 14 in 69 but despite all of the negatives in the world, we were still happy kids doing happy kid things...if that's how I felt in 69, I would have been in ecstatic bliss in 1959!!

[John1948Five]

@ultraroadmap You nailed it! In 1959 we never locked our car. We never locked the door to our house. My parents let us run all over town unsupervised and free because it was safe. There were 2000 people living in Millard, NE and anywhere I went someone knew me and would watch out for me.

[smdangel1]

The best dancing and listening music came from the sixties. Thank you for sharing.

[Mellifluous420]

wow.. can't believe a pop song ... mass produced by a large music machine in the 60's ... which was made as fodder for all the innocents that lay asleep in the bedroom comunities of the world... with no real artistic value... (although beautiful to listen to) could cause people to have an ageist argument.

[boxer344]

Great song, thanks for the memories. Much better life "back then". Even the comic books all had moral lessons that taught us values that stuck with us.

[davo67]

....sorry, doom. John is quite correct with ALL of his assertions. We were simpler, happier, wealthier, more romantic, more intelligent, more honest. We had values and valued others and their feelings. We listened, we learned, we worked. We fought to defeat evil. Our one major failure was that we allowed those with less worthy beliefs and opinions reproduce and spawn the likes of you, doom.

[John1948Five]

@davo67 Doom is OK. He is just a bit mixed up about the 60s. He did send me a nice email and we are fine now.

[1BLACKSTONES]

Im 51 years and im from méxico, thanks for the memories, i love this song, recibe my salute from Piedras Negras, Coahuila, México. (sorry for mi english).

[John1948Five]

@1BLACKSTONES No need to apologize for your English. It is much better than my Spanish. I'm glad you are enjoying the music!

[edithlikeseggs]

Aww i heard this on the closeing credits of Roger and Val have just got in and nearly went mad trying to find out what it was. Beautiful song.

[s2mikey]

Best song ever.

[alienmind2007]

absolutely beautiful

[wildshycat38newyork]

OLD

[Pentax645]

A time when performers didn't have to look like freaks to perform. Wonderful harmony

[smdangel1]

@Pentax645 I agree.  Great songs then. You could close your eyes and understand the words.

[LOKISlog7]

Different time; time of innocence. Too bad that its gone.....

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[doom032]

@LOKISlog7 It wasn't exactly a nice time, in reality.

[John1948Five]

@doom032 Yes, it was. You weren't there so you are just repeating revisionist propaganda.

[doom032]

@John1948Five I think you've got hit by the nostalgia bug, broseph. Unless you're going to claim that the cold war, racism, the lack of technology(including medical technology), the gigantic amount of taboos, the cold-war-related nuclear threat, the generally backwards social culture and the general poverty were good things.

[John1948Five]

@doom032 The good outweighed the bad. The cold war was a worry but didn't affect most people directly. Lack of medical technology was more than offset by a healthier lifestyle. Taboos? Not sure what you mean. If you mean we didn't have as much filthy language and pornography I think that was better. Nuclear threat? Threats don't hurt anyone. Backward social culture? I would say we were more civilized. General poverty. We called it living within our means.

[Glowatoke]

With the exception of improved race relations today things were generally better when the Fleetwoods were singing. You had the threat of nuclear war but it was only a distant threat. Today we have the very real threat of terrorism. The economy was better then (what general poverty?). Just because we have cell phones and home computers doesn't mean that we have better lives. Families actually did things more things together rather than going off in separate directions. And no drug culture then.

[11xzxzxz]

3 beautiful people unafraid of soft and gentle love had their place in the sun.

[1234567braeden]

the begging is awsome

[velbra]

I love it! i heart it in the Rodarte's Fall/winter 2010 runway... really lovely song...

[ForeverOldies]

Great posting Thanks!

[injamaven]

back to 14 years old. Thanks.

[tinytalent]

I didn't know Gary had a half-brother who went to dental school - if only for a short time. I wonder if he can sing too. Probably not as good as Gary.

[Spicy2nite1]

Sweet lyrics! Very romantic...like it!

[fbenenati]

GAry's half brother Jerry started dental school with me in 1969 at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. He quit after about five weeks. I would really like to know what happened to him. If Gary or anyone else out there knows him, please help.

Fred Benenati

[sirstephen2001]

FANTASTIC what a reminder of a great song

[felixbautista]

Heard this over and over the Pledge on Channel 9 and never knew it's title not until now. Really enjoyed listening to it. Thanks for uploading.

[John1948Five]

Yes, they were just great.

[smdangel1]

@John1948Five Thank you for sharing this great song.  The best dancing and listening music come from the sixites.

[donthoneydont]

amazing, thanks for post...........