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  • Oh yeah! This is the good stuff!

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  • I absolutely love this, a genuine "feel good" song. Unfortuneately we never hear it on the radio!

  • Just love the arrangment of this song........brilliant.........­.up beat but also so meloncholy with those voices and harp.............a harp!!

    What a band.........

  • makes me think of Tommy Madden, probably my very earliest crush at 13 years old...wonder where is Tommy now.

  • The B IG BAND brass instrumentals on this song are awesome!

  • @SkidRowJosephine I love em too. Horn fills in a 60's rock tune were rare.

  • I used to play this song on YouTube all the time and then it just disappeared. Thanks to bosewell69 for uploading this wonderful song so that we may hear it again.

  • Saw the Rascals at the Convention Center in Anaheim, CA late 1969/early 1970. Sold out performance ... 2nd row from the stage ... believe the opening act was Delaney & Bonnie & Friends.

  • REMEMBER ALL THE GOOD TIMES WE HAD AT ROUGES HOLLOW LOL

  • I MISS U DEBBIE L.

  • Honestly, these guys never receievd the respect that they are do. I doubt if they ever read posts like these . I would like to thank them form the bottom of my heart for some of the greatest music EVER made ................Jersey Proud ..........God Bless The Rascals ....Jersey's Own.

  • Love the Rascals!

  • Great White Soul band the 60's ROCK.

  • I like everything about this tune, especially the beautiful horn fills. Pop doesn't get any better than this.

  • @doowaditti Point taken

  • As a European-American, I'm happy that all hyphenated Americans love the Rascals

  • @honeysouldreamstar Because of hyphenated  Americans,the American culture is going,going,gone!good luck to all you DRONES.You are soooooo brainwashed! Wake up!!!!

  • Yeah, you never hear the really good, the really obscure songs....

  • joy, pure joy from every note

    

  • Everyone knows these guys had soul - they clearly listened to the soul greats like Wilson Pickett Jackie Wilson et al. Wish they were making new music cause I like just about everything the Rascals did.

  • Great song! Thanks for posting.

  • Can you upload Baby Let's Wait

  • I still have the original Atlantic single bought in the summer of ' 67, after it was plugged to death on Pirate Radio London's' Fab Forty ' , never really did anything in the UK, they were still ' The Young ' then !.A great record still as fresh as ever.

  • A song of beauty is a joy forever and this one fills the bill.

  • Sweet All Time Fav Drummer Jerry W Kant*

    

  • when me and my friends the Brrokies sing this song i try to sound like David Ruffin and Frankie Valli with that rough tone that what i got in that anger tone and Rick try to sound like Eddie Kendricks,Farnkie Valli and Lou Christie altogether

  • a girl like you by the Rascals Grooving and Beautiful Morning sound something thet the Temptations will sing with David Ruffin on lead with his rough tone and Eddie Kendricks high pitched fastello tone in the background

  • a girl like you by the Rascals Grovving and Beautiful Morning sound something thet the Temptations will sing with David Ruffin on lead with his rough tone and Eddie Kendricks high pitched fastello tone in the background

  • @MrWalterlee011 Write or talk much?

  • Ive been player their c.d in my car for months, yet i havent got tired of them yet ,ill be going down the street with my sunroof down full blast and get alot waves..their music will not fade as long as the fans are there..

  • @60srecords I've done it too. Incredible band.

  • Where are these guys today???

  • Essential classic American blue-eyed soul. Ain't nuthin' better. Rock on boys.

  • Love the horns in this song! Great oldie! Thanks for posting!!

  • no his father was a dentist in the bronx ny on 238 st i know his father was my wife dentist and mine too

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  • I LOVED this song... It came out a few months after I was born, but I remember hearing it a lot on the radio even years later, and one of my cousins had the 45... This one, and "People Got to Be Free", which still had a useful message in the late 1970s...

  • It was a group for the time of love so much soul in such a time of trouble and war GarPeteY yahooo.com

  • You don't here this song much on the oldie stations but it was one of there best. Great voice.

  • @skipper8257 The reason you don't hear this song much on oldies stations is that oldies stations as you and I define them don't exist in American radio. It's the same 50-100 tunes played over and over again ad nauseum to the point that you want to pull the insides out of the radio. This song, along with hundreds of others, should be played regularly on all stations everywhere regardless of format.

    

  • Too good to be called mere pop. Listen to that arrangement, the true soul of the vocals, the craft in the lyric. Musicians' musicians who are still loved all over the world by anyone not encumbered by wooden ears.

  • As an African-American I can honestly say these guys were one of the best soul bands this country has ever produced. I saw them once, I believe at the Winter Concert for Peace at MSG in NY (1970?-71?). They didn't merely play and sing well, but were always respectful of the music and the black performers of the era. Beautiful music, beautiful time.

  • @shellyboy9 As an American-American I can honestly say that you are an asshole if you think being black makes you more qualified to comment on or criticize music. The fact that you and I are both black means nothing. We don't have any rights or claims to certain musical styles and we are not the Trustees of Black culture.MUSIC LIKE ANY OTHER ART FORM IS FOR PUBLIC ENJOMENT. ALL ARE WELCOME So shut up and enjoy.

  • @joeytwosubs Since you seem to be either lazy, stupid, or incapable of seeing beyond your own narcissism (pick two), let me be your daddy. If you had read previous comments, or were knowledgeable enough, you'd know the amount of flack this band has/had taken over the years for being white while doing soul music. I merely wanted to say some (many?) African-Americans applauded this band and appreciated their classy response to this criticism.

  • @joeytwosubs Now, if you can bother to take the time to read these comments, you would see that I had already said pretty much those selfsame comments that you espouse: African-Americans are not and cannot be the only purveyors of this music, or this music will die. The threads of music unite us all. Also, when you have lived as long as I have, and have seen as much live music as I, and maybe have played with as many bands as I, perhaps we can talk music instead of exchanging silly barbs.

  • @shellyboy9 You said it brother. Those were different times... we all shared one goal .. to be as one!

  • @godfather1046 AMEN TO YOUR COMMENT SIR!

  • @shellyboy9 beautiful comment

  • the horns on this song sound so great

  • I love the bass line in this song. Nice,strong and tight,it brings in a big sound with good balance.

  • The best Central New York ever produced.

  • @vteur You mean Long Island...

  • @peeterpoon

    No, I mean CNY: Felix was from Rochester.

  • @vteur I never knew that...I'll be in Rochester next month...

  • What a compilation!!

  • The piano gets stuck at the beginning but the Rascals worked it out somehow. Oh that was part of the song? sorry, great part then. Piano swirling twirling rings round my skull taking me venturing down to the slipstreams behind the viaducts of my dreams in the back-roads ditch of glory dreams that I didn't live out. I'm in ecstasy anyway

  • the best song they ever did..1 of my favortive ...

  • always great to hear!

  • what can i say kick ass

  • OH THOSE VILLA DAYS; YEAH, THERE WERE PAINFUL ONES, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO AFFAIRS OF THE HEART, LIKE DAVE MASON SINGS, "THERE AIN'T NO GOOD GUYS (AND GIRLS); THERE AIN'T NO BAD GUYS; THERE WAS ONLY YOU AND ME AND WE JUST DISAGREED." NONE OF THAT MEANT THAT LOVE WASN'T THERE, JUST BECAUSE....

  • I've collected just about everything these guys

    have recorded and this one is my favorite.

    A great band from a great era.

  • @maddadram1 True...

  • Super song.  Love it.

  • I use to play the hell out of this song back when I was doing a radio show dedicated to the 60's.

  • downvote songs to keep them up so youtube doesn't remove them for copyrite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • love this

  • one of their best ..sister is abig alltime fan.....she got me to listen to them inthe60s.......blue eye soul at its best

  • I had a bigtime crush on Dino Danelli when I was in junior high school. Wheeee!!!!!!

  • The Rascals rocked and still do.

  • I came a little late as always. Spent the 80's and half of the 90's doing stuff I should have not been doing . Rediscovering a bunch groups from the 60's I loved as a kid. No band from America had as much talent as these guys did . What a great band , I truly love this group.

  • @MrJerryw08

    Okay, so what kind of stuff should you not have been doing?? ;)

  • Good stuff! This is one of my favorite songs by the Rascals along with "How Can I Be Sure"

  • the rascals always had the ability to sing songs that were catchy, bluesy, and soulful at the same time. Great vocals and what a great drummer.

  • Sadly, this song does not get nearly as much airplay as Groovin', Good Lovin', A Beautiful Morning or People Got To Be Free. This and I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore are my top favorites by The Rascals!

  • @SellawEvets

    You're right, this is a great song and should have received more recognition. Anyway......it's on MY playlist!! ;)

  • Words cannot convey the happiness they brought to me when i was a kid! Heck, they still make me happy. ;)

  • THE BEST IN ITALIAN BLUE EYED SOUL.

  • @RhondatheRoo You got that right, Rhondaroo from Perri Lou. Saw them in the summer of '68 in Memphis. I was 13 and they knocked me out! Loved them then, love them now.

  • We all Blast this song out our window in The Bronx.

  • @maryziel52

    Bronx was pretty hip in the 60s. Poe Park, Pelham Parkway, NYU, hippies everywere ha.

  • They had to change the name from The Young Rascals to The Rascals because of copyright infringement (remember the old TV show with Spanky?).

  • the very best of blue eyed soul..i am black and I used to blast this song and the young rascals back in brooklyn on our first stereo system..i guess my neighbors thought i was white lol..nope..but young rascals three dog night..used to blast from my windows and apartment..i absolutely Loved them! and later Journey!

  • @blkshepherd good taste is never out of style, I liked your post......

  • @NAMDOG54 see now you got me gettin ready for work listening to this. which i have not since i lost post. makes me want to listen to the original..this takes me back to Brooklyn NYC in the late 60s..boy was i just a Boy!..had to be no more than 11 or 12yrs old..I am now 55 and anytime I hear my blue eyed soul brothers singing ..i am Instantly transported back to Magical Times when i was younger..and Really Innocent..I sure Miss the days of these songs, a different World..oh the memories!

  • @blkshepherd Me too, I was 11 or 12yrs, only from Chicago. We loved the Rascals. One of my older friends started a garage band because he wanted to learn “Good Lovin”.

  • @FullMoonVideo The Young Rascals, 3dogNight, Doobie Bros were battling for the Top Blue Eyed Bros with Soul..before them it was the Rightous Bros. and before them was the King. Elvis..for me when they sang.they had More Soul than some Soul artists.lol.hey I listen with my ears.and heart..Not my eyes, what a person looks like, or their color/race..all I want is to hear is some beautiful Voice tones, inflections..I loved the emotion in Felix, voice. to me he holds his own but was very Underrated.

  • @Bearhawke42 I couldn't have said better myself. In my neighborhood they blast the crap music so load all your hear is a lot of 4 letter words. The artists now a days don't have an origanal thought in thier head, I bet you and I could write better lyrics then most of the rappers out there. I try to get my daughters to listen to this kind of music one is 30 so she likes rap but the 16 year old has better taste and listens to the Rascals,Grass Roots,3 Dog Night etc.. Thier's hope for 1 of them!

  • This is my fave song by the Rascals - I had it on a 45 at one time...

  • Back then us guys wooed the ladies unlike this gangsta rap crap today referring to women as bitches and hos. My have times have changed. :(

  • Wonderful song, brings back such cool memories.

  • Rascals are still the bomb!!! I always loved their music growing up. I still love it. Please keep writing love songs like this. The world needs it while we are going through this rough time in life. Be blessed Felix.

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  • A great turntable hit for The Pirates in the UK in the middle Summer of ' 67, remember exactly where I was when this brilliant record was plugged to death, sadly it didn't chart radically.

  • Felix is a musical genius.

  • Awesome song! They were such a great group!

  • a PERFECT Pop Song................

  • Just the right mix of groovy, syncopated, swinging good-time musicality! Just what the world need today. I'm tired of the all the heaviosity and deadly serious life threatening busta-gang musik that has dulled the emotional and social senses of the young and entrapped...

  • Great song. Thanks

  • Great post. Thanks.

  • now this is my kind of song.

  • go dino! great drummer.this song rocks 

  • 2:50 of perfection

  • Absolute the best song Rascals ever recorded. Short but sweet

  • Absolute brilliance. Thanks for posting.

  • i even called my cat and later my dog rascal.

  • I love, love, love this song. Best Rascals song ever!

  • This is a true masterpiece, fantastic song and group

  • A timeless classic that is rarely played nowadays, even on oldies radio stations.

  • loved the Rascals........great music, great memories!

  • Sigh - Felix, Eddie, Dino, & Gene - the best of the American bands of the late 60's and this is my personal favorite. Takes me back to my early teen years and makes me smile! Felix got his favorite word in these lyrics, too - ecstasy ;-)

  • Absolutely brilliant.

  • I just cranked this up and danced around the living room with my beautiful wife. Good clean fun.

  • Great song and what's funny is that people thought they we're a black band along with the 4 season's because of the harmonies and R&B presence...great stuff!

  • The Rascals are hip. Still. I find this song just as relavant as todays stuff. Absolutely.  It was a really special time in music. What was it? 60's/70's? I was born in 73 but the great 60's and 70's songs were always the best.

  • As good as any song that R&R has ever produced...

  • It just can't get any better than this ! What a masterpiece !

    Can play it over and over again  and never get tired of this.

    Charlene in Miami

  • Is there anything better then this opening?! His voice, the piano, the memories.Perfect.Thanks for posting this.

  • Love this! Thanks for the memories....

  • Thanks for posting this Rascals masterpiece. At times it is difficult to find. I really enjoy listening to it.

  • So glad you put this up here..I've been looking for it..great sound too.

    Thanks!

  • From those magical years when the radio was spewing out hit after hit and the music was amazing.

  • Great tune!! Brings back a lot of memories.

  • Man I just love these old songs. The world was a much better place back when were listening to this music on the radio and life was good! Those times are gone, but the music lives on! Thank you for posting this cute little oldie! It's always been one of my favorites!

  • One of my favorite Rascals songs. It's been hard to find it.

  • IF ANYONE HAS A POST OF THEM SINGING THIS ON THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW PLEASE POST IT!!

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  • @gdwmontg All of their Sullivan appearances were on You Tube at one time but got yanked. Must have been a copyright issue.

  • thanks, for the post. One of my favs.

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