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  • As I listen to this song with only a few hours of 2011 remaining, I reflect on everything that has happened in the past 365 days. Good times, bad times. Times that made me laugh, times that made me cry. So many memories that I will never forget.

    Thank you Paul Anka for allowing me to reminisce with this classic song!

  • Best song ever created... Played for Grammy's funeral yesterday.. R.I.P.

    Thanks Paul Anka for lighting up the death.. Your a legend, and always will be.

    Also my hero. 

  • Back in 1997, I flew to California from Louisiana in time to be at my father's side when he passed away. Being the only son, my mother and four sisters were pretty upset--I had to play the tough guy. A few hours after my mom had regained her composure, I took her to dinner. The instant we sat down, this song started playing. I immediately lost it as she did too. This song will always remind me of the great father I had. Thanks, Paul, for a song truly from the heart. And thank you, dad.

  • @TAKR287 so touching  ....my heart go out for you

  • @lisataiwan101 Thank you for the kind words! I know my father also thanks you :-)

  • Every once and a while I listen to this song to put reality in check. I remember this song while growing up in the 1970s. Thank you Paul Anka you are timeless.

  • hi mahal ang ganda po....gandang umaga syu at kay misis.....

  • FOR MY BROTHER WILLARD .....ITS BEEN 19 1/2 YEARS SINCE YOU LEFT US... I STILL MISS U ...VICTIM OF AIDS.... TRANSFUSION.....I REMEMBER THOSE TIMES OF OUR LIVES ,, UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN

  • kodak memory for sure

  • this is the song I want played at my funeral, great song.

  • i like this song very much....

  • Paul Anka 2 decades after "Diana" hit in 1957. I think he sounds even better here, if that is possible.

  • I remember my dad with this song. Miss him! :)

  • I was only 7 when I heard this, and thought this was a great tune!

  • You need to make this available on mobile please

  • I love this song:( I'm only 15, but I've been through alot in the past few years - I don't talk to my mother's family anymore, my grandpa has died. I was very close with him and was with him when he died. We used this song for my sister's graduation video..it just reminds me of everything. All the times we used to have..when everything seemed simple. I miss it so much, but I'm grateful for the time I had with them. And I can't wait for whats ahead. I think I need to let go of the past.

  • @bladesofglory12 You've got the right idea, blade. What's ahead can be a lot better than what's past.

  • @bladesofglory12 yes let go.. but always cherish the good times

  • I was playing "Across The universe" by the Beatles on my acoustic guitar. There is a part that goes from an E minor to a G minor chord It really sounds great because the G minor chord is somewhat of an unexpected tone at that point in the song and It reminded me of this song. I'm not sure if this song is in the same key as Across the universe but they must have a similiar chord progression and perhaps this song was influenced by Across the universe

  • 1977 kodak theme! incomparable!

  • Lord, miss na miss ko po ang tatay ko...How i wish You could send him back to us even for a day or hours or minutes....all I wish is to hug .. kiss.. and be with him...Maraming salamat sa masayang buhay na bihigay mo sa amin ng mga kapatid ko lalong lalo na kay nanay....Basta 'tay tandaan mo lang...mahal na mahal kita...hanggang sa muling pagkikita...i mss you so much...!!!

  • this is such a beatiful and meaningful song. It reminds me of all of the wonderful chilhood times with my parents. I chose this as my Daddy/ Daughter dance at my wedding in 1978. It brings tears to my eyes for all the beautiful memories and that special dance with my beloved father. Sadly he passed away in 1999, yet each time I hear this beautiful song through my tears I still feel that joy I felt that day. God Bless You in Heaven Daddy, I Love You!

  • thanks Paul

  • beautiful, meaningful song. Still love it after three and half decades!

  • Good old English song.

  • this song really makes me cry..it truly brings back the memories of the past especially my childhood...it wanna make me value my life especially my family even more..life is truly short...we should not waste time to non sense coz every moment is borrowed...

  • sang this for our grandparents. hated it but had to do it coz we love them and shit

  • cry every time I hear this one....but it's such a reminder of what's important!

  • remarkable!

  • This one always reminded one of the theme from Brian's Song. Great music!!

  • everytime i heard this song nag pla-flashback ako dun sa naging life ko before sa isang place..hindi ko ma explain kung anong feelings yun..parang nag join yung sadness and happiness..ang gulo:D

  • @BonelessSausage69 You got that right. We need more songs like this to keep our priorities in order. We are only here for a short time.......

  • Such a sad song but I love it.

  • This is a real song....the lyrics are appropriate for the title, the voice is clean a clear, the timing is spot on, the background music is tremendous. Contemporary music lovers take a queue from this old song....it shows how it is supposed to be done.

  • This song reminds of WGUL AM 860 in the Tampa Bay area which used to play big band and easy listening music like this

  • This song is so BEAUTIFUL to listen to

  • this song was made for a camera commercial.... unreal

  • what a beautiful song with a powerful lyrics..

  • Paul hit #7 in Billboard, 2-7-76. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx! Originally used in a Kodak commercial.

  • Thanks for these words in your video, because just hearing the song itself at this part here1:40 I thought he was saying "Here comes the saddest part" ..... instead of "the setting sun". lol thx again...

  • i still remember those good times, always like it was yesterday

  • Oh I luv this song! I could listen to this in the morning, day and nite

    Thank You Mr. Paul Anka

  • I remember this song had been used in our values class. Thank you mam for the experience you had influenced in me. Mabuhay ang mga Guro !

  • I was a young boy of 15 years old. We were going to the ROTC Military Ball. Youn wore the most gorgeous red dress! You were the most beautiful thing I had seen! You spoke my name, I turned to face you, and you gave me the most passionate kiss I'd ever had. God, what I wouldn't give to return to that evening again! Even though I'm happily married, my mind still journeys to the "long-ago and far away"! Thankk You, Angela, for some of the best times of my life!

  • So ironic.

    Kodak was the the leading camera film maker.

    And it's now struggling for survival in the digital age.

  • The kind of song that can immediately make u cry. Such a timeless classic.

  • Great old time song. They don't make songs like this anymore!

  • i love this song...

  • dad always play this song when i was a little girl. miss u dad

  • @JudyKhan500lbSlut............­...........I DO NOT KNOW WHO IN THE HECK YOU ARE, but that was the most disgusting and horrific response to anything I have EVER heard. You have no idea who she was or the amazing young woman she was before she was taken so early from us all in a horrendous auto accident at the age of 19. You are a SICK AND DEMENTED individual!!!!!!!!!

  • @kimwhite231 I knew Connie Clifton as well.She did give great headjobs and swallowed every drop like a drunkin (Gay) sailor.

  • @MrRichardKra

    YOU MY FRIEND, ARE A JACKASS

  • @MrRichardKraniun Connie Clifton used to eat Kim Whites camel toed vaginal area.

  • I heard this song in a prelude to the starting of the 1976 NFL season on CBS and they showed highlights of the Dallas & Pittsburgh SUPER BOWL X. All the could ofs, should ofs and may beeees.

  • This song makes me think of my great uncle... This was his favorite song... :')

  • At least its not "you're having my baby"

  • GOD BLESS AMERICA and protect her from ENEMIES foreign and domestic like the radicals in the White House and the islamic intruders

  • @HHH100 I hope your "enemy" list includes white terrorists like Timothy McVeigh. I don't care how many dumbass black and Asian women fall for you guys, white males like you are among the most dangerous threats today. Just like yesteryear. Despite all those millions of Jews you murdered, the thousands of innocent Japanese women and children vaporized in an atomic holocaust, the millions of Native Americans you enslaved and slaughtered, you white males still get a pass. Unbelievable.

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  • @HHH100 actually, you just hated a man in the White House who happens to be black. Forget about his policies.

  • @TheGeminiStudios Oh you are sooooo wrong my friend, that race card does not work with me. I would take any person whatsoever, who protects, upholds, and believes in liberty, freedom, and the U.S. Constitution as well as the Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence. Including who understands that the government in the U.S. is of the People, by the People and for the People. Something this current mutant has no knowledge of, or in my opinion does not care.

  • @HHH100 another thing: this about reminiscing the days of your youth that passes by not Obama.

  • @HHH100 Why bring that political bullshit into such a good song that reminds those of us born in the sixties of a happier time.

  • @HHH100 Paul Anka is a Canadian

  • teehonky -- reading your comment temporarily made us dumber...stop it !

  • Nichols originally wrote this song with different lyrics, for a competition on the 100th anniversary of the City of Santa Monica, California. He called it "Our Town By the Sea". Kodak took an interest in the melody, however, and paid him to turn it into "Times of your Life" instead.

  • wow, just to think this was written for Kodak!! I love Paul Anka...classic!!!!!

  • Thank you so much for posting this, makes me cry every time

  • This song was before Hollywood took a shit on the US of A.

    California has become a total embarrassment for our country. Yea, read into it.

  • @strela I tend to agree with you on this !

  • @strela VERY TRUE INDEED.

  • love this song, thanks for posting

  • I'm a little confused about the date-I seem to remember this song from the 60's.Oh,well.I guess with the memories goes...the memory!!! Anyway,great song and thanks for the post.

  • @a1orski I remember listening to this song on the radio when I was in nursing school in the mid 1970s, so the date is probably right.

  • @a1orski I think Paul Anka did a remake of an earlier version , I think maybe that's what you're referring to .

  • @Zeuszgrl THANK YOU! I thought I was loozin' my marbles!!!

  • Thanks for putting this on youtube. I thought that was the voice of Andy Williams, but it is Paul Anka.

  • My favourite Paul Anka song ....reminds me of my parents.

  • love this song.. so fitting for the new year upcoming for everybody to reflect and be thank ful>>> I am so happy and blessed and look forward to 2011.. had 5 great things happen in the year 2010.. thankig the lord for all his blessings.. Amen!!!

  • Just beautiful!

    Brunni

    (The Mysterials/Street Corner Memories Radio Show)

  • Co-written by Roger Nichols who also co-wrote "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays" by The Carpenters. Both Carpenters songs were co-written with Paul Williams.

  • I am so happy someone else remembers the Kodak commercial!!!

  • This song makes me cry

  • I remember the Kodak commercial. Was hoping to find it here on YouTube. It was of a family moving out of their home and the mom was reminiscing. Warmed my heart even as a child.

  • this song reminds me of cheap 80's photo slideshows. truly great stuff.

  • this is truly a beautiful song. I'm black

  • If memory serves me, this song was part of a Kodak commercial. Made you want to run right out and buy a camera - with film & flashbulbs!

  • Only song that can put a smile on my face with the first note.....love love it!! Paul Anka, a true talent, poetry at its finest!

  • ..and all this time I thought that he said "Here comes the saddest song". LOL Thanks for posting the lyrics.

  • Such A Harmless Song Filled With Wonderful Lyrics. Thank You Paul Anka For The Times Of Your Life.

  • If you ask a Black woman about the TIMES of HER LIFE she....

    a will cry

    b will open her family photo album

    c  wont remember ANYTHING except the days the COUNTY CHECK was on TIME

  • @teehonky I'm curious...what was the purpose of your comment? I'm not black, nor poor, nor uneducated...the comment seems a bit out of place on this video. What specifically are to attempting to say and why?

  • @marcusliciniusad  Better question......why do you care?

  • @teehonky Answer the question.

  • @marcusliciniusad you first

  • @teehonky Your ignorance, like a dirty slip, is showing...people such as yourself, who use the computer to hide behind and spew ignorance are cowards!!

  • @1hunny51 if I had a tv show , i would use that

  • @teehonky Your ignorance, like a dirty slip, is showing...people such as yourself, who use the computer to hide behind and spew ignorance are cowards!!

  • Thanks for the laugh. Great song by the way.....

  • Was a junior in high school when this was out. Was, and is a great example of real nice music.

  • This song brings me back a lot of great memories that I will forever cherish and it brings a smile to my face getting to hear this song and to relive these special memories

  • I danced at my wedding to this song with my father. Was beautiful. So much meaning!

  • This song when I hear it brings me to tears as I look back and remember all those years of my childhood and those who touched my life who are no longer around. I have been sooooo BLESSED to have such fond memories.

  • @Ricky2400

    So True!

  • my favorite song. the kind that i'll never get tired of hearing everyday. thanks for this song.

    

  • this reminds me of the terrible rape-o-rama murders that afflicted North Side in NJ many yrs ago. this crazy handyman was terrorizng the mothers of our town until he was finally captured. police found him nkaed, drooling over a dead woman, singing along with anka.

  • @BrokenneckYgor are you serious? he was singing this song?

  • Great song.

  • THIS REMINDS ME OF ROSALINA

  • This song hits the soul... I love this song along with Paul McCartney's YESTERDAY!

    However, There is a certain girl in my graduating class that is in my heart along with this song.. AND THE BEACH!

    I'm presently playing my Rickenbacker bass guitar and going back in time! Aloha

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  • Connie Clifton......In your precious memory!!! God Bless you!!! RIP 1977

  • @kimwhite231 Connie Clifton was a nasty whore who loved it when I stuck my 9 inch dick in her fat ass.

  • yahhh times of life,, i really like it very good song

  • This song makes me come close to crying, laughing, thinking and reflecting. I've loved this song for years and havent heard it in at least 20 or so. Thanks for posting this classic. The orchestration and arrangment are superb!!

  • seems just yesterday.,,,you were only babies i fondly kiss & hug....how can i ever forget the feeling i got when i saw your first smile..first laugh..first walk...now you are both grown ups..you will always be my babies sons,,,i love you always...HAPPY BIRTHDAY HANS....HAPPY BIRTHDAY VON...WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST...GOD BLESS

  • Everyone is so busy with "now," but now doesn't last long, it quickly becomes......when. If you do remember, then that time back "when," truly meant something to you.

  • miss ko tatay ko....alala ko sya s kantang to'....

  • i love this song... its always remind me of my father who past away......nkkamis ka papa.....

  • love paul soooo much, loving his daughters new blog tooo right here.....

    antheaanka. com v cool

  • viva la creativity...aLIVE

  • He's so right Memories are just times that we borrow to get us through till tomorrow.

    Make Memories if you ever do anything in this world for a Loved one especially your Children Make Memories as those Memories will help a Child when you are gone and

    I know I would like to know that My Kids are Smiling and Remembering Good Times when I am gone...Have Traditions like at Christmas Birthdays Holidays Vacations the things that will put a Smile on their faces "The Times Of Your Life" May God Bless.

  • @GaCountryGirl024 What a lovely sharing, whenever I heard this song, I became sentimental, a lot of scenes and memories of good old days come up!

  • hola esta hermosa esta cancion y es preciosa

  • i danced with my father at my wedding to this song....now he is gone.

    love conquers all.................

  • @lynnefrnch6

    Love does conquer all...I am glad that you have such a beautiful

    song to remember your Father by and on your Wedding Day of

    all days...God Bless You & Your Memories!!

  • I grew up in downtown L.A. in the late '60's & early 70's. Andy Williams called the downtown area, "The best of times". L.A. is pretty sad now, pretty pathetic, but Il" alwaysremember"we all" got along and it was pretty much a great big family. You old and not so old timers are dead on, The greatest music has already been made. Sincerely, Sgt. Ronald J. Campbell. U.S. Army Ret. P.S. Thanks Paul.

  • To vivaselena: Actually, the two songs you mention below existed before they were used for commercials. Sometimes songs do not seem to get as much exposure as when they are used for television commercials.

  • classic stuff that once was a Kodac commercial

  • @gocartmotzart12345

    I remember that commercial! I feel old...

  • So gather moments while you may.

    Collect the dreams you dream today.

    Remember.........

  • 2 of the best songs of all time were actually taken from commercials, this one for Kodak, and We've only just begun by The Carpenters, for the Crocker bank!

  • This was also our class song, 1979. Apparently it was used for class songs, a LOT during the late 70's! (do they even HAVE class songs now? Who could agree on anything? lol) And yet, this song still has a 'fresh' sound to it. Thanks for sharing this neat presentation of it.

  • This is a beautiful song.

    Every time I hear it, I think of all the times gone by and the years yet to come.

    It all makes me think.

    Time does slip away.

    Thank you for posting this.

    George Vreeland Hill

  • he did it for kodka

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  • Stosh,

    My Memories I Have With You Are So Special...

    I Will Always Remember The Fun Times We Had At Chit Chat's.

    No Matter What I Will Always Have A Spot For You In My Heart...

    You Are My Special Loyal Friend...I Will Never Forget You Baby!!!

    Hugs,

    Country Girl

  • Stosh,

    I will always remember the good times!!

    We never had any bad ones...I'm sorry for everything

    that has happened I can't take that away...

    But I Will Always LOVE YOU...

    Country Girl

  • I love this song, i always remember my family especial my parents and grand parents. It always comes back in my mind all those good old days there in Bukidnon but now im here in Manila far away from them just to pursue my dreams for my family. I feel lonely when i hear this song it seems that makes me cry but happy to remember them always.

  • This was our class song. Connellsville Area High School Class of 1978. So long ago yet like yesterday.

  • thank you so much to annecinaj and i nearly forgot the lyrics of this good song and of course if i can twisted back time to my teen ages and bring back my sweet memories times i could do it and this song made my feeling mixed up between joy and sorrow. thank you once more!!!

  • For my family...

  • i dedicate this song to my one true love. you know who you are. take care always...

  • i want to get drunk everytime i hear this!naaalala ko mga kabiguan ko sa buhay !

  • This song is so moving.....

  • @mymuahh please hold me

  • i remember my special woman in my life. Until now i keep thinking on her.. Our memories never to be forgotten, sorrows, parin, heartaches, laughters, joy etc. if i could reverse my life, i will embrace her and tell here that how i really love her...

  • tell her its not too late...

  • @bugoy15 Thanks but ive already made up my mind... I have someone new in my life

  • at 1:26, instead of "the mem'ries are time that you borrow", it sounds more like "for mem'ries...", with "for" instead of "the"

  • A classic evergreen..... and the lyrics are so meaningful. "Gather moments while you may"... for who knows what tomorrow brings.

  • Beautiful.Great.The words ring so true.I love this song.Definitely a career song for Paul Anka.I wish I could go back to when life was simpler and more pleasant.

  • KEEP THIS SONG MY HUNK....I WILL ALWAYS TREASURE WHAT WE HAD...i'd like to make a movie out of this song but i just dont know how to anymore hehe....THIS VIDEO IS ALREADY PERFECT!!!

    ALWAYS REMEMBER....

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  • I love this song.. it was our HIgh School class song and it always takes me back to a time where life was much simpler and we were all so full of hopes and dreams.

  • Good luck Tom and Barb!

    A new chapter begins......

    Friends forever.

    Steve and Beth

  • If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

  • what a great song!

  • Really love this song, I was surprised to hear this song on Music Choice's "Soft Rock" station last Spring cause you never hear this song anywhere on the AM/FM soft rock stations

  • heard this at my uncle's wedding

  • i love this song coz my older brother played this song every sunday after we have our family lunch, now all of my siblings are happily married and its just me and mom that's left in our old home, i played it every day almost before going to work to remind me the best times i had with my older siblings

  • This is the Graduation Song of INCAT Batch 2009 lol

  • i really looovee this song it's a good dedicated song for ur memories!

  • I remember singing this in chorus in junior high. It was fun to sing and was quite the crowd pleaser.

  • this is and old song but somehow the lyrics are applicable to all ages.

  • THEYS SONGS REMIND ME OF MY DAD..

  • I first heard this song as a 10 year old in 1975 and it is still one of my favorites.

  • My oh my. That Paul Anka sure knows how to write good songs. Italians are known for that.... among other things.... LOL !

  • Does Anka sound like an Italian name to you? He is not Italian at all. Just google it.

  • I believe his parents were from Lebanon... eh?