Hurt so bad by the Lettermen

[frenchpoulet]

Brings back wonderful memories of the man I fell in love with and married. Nice.

[lettermen1]

@frenchpoulet Great story! Thanks for sharing!

[MechelenManiac]

Good version..........

[takemeback2]

Fantastic music

[dwsingrs]

If I correctly recall at the moment, this superb instrumental arrangement by Mort Garson, who passed away a few years ago. At the beginning of the second verse, there's a superb coupling of high violin and piccolo. Heard in the occasional Lettermen song. E.g., the intro of "Baby I'm a Want You" from their 1972 "Spin Away" album.

[lettermen1]

@dwsingrs Friend, I'm sure there is nothing wrong with your memory.... you highlighted one of the major things the Lettermen had going for them over the years - the many fabulous arrangers, both instrumentally and vocally that only enhanced their tremendous "sound". Mr Garson was undoubtably one of the very best around at that time.

[mus691]

Memoires of 60's when music was music.

[lettermen1]

@26greenrose Thanks Loyd... It's great that I'm getting more views and comments from all over Europe, thanks to Gunter I think! Thanks for watching!

[dlynnatkinson]

The cosmic parody of life: always quick to turn this genre off of the radio when I heard it in my 20s--elavator music, we called it, only to find it the most appealing, lovely sound today in my late 50s. Thank you for posting this type of poetry in motion

[lettermen1]

@dlynnatkinson ; ))) Would it be safe to say you've mellowed? Thanks for watching!

[TheMaria1217]

@lettermen1 hi phil! what's up?

[skynyrdfan56]

Another wonderful song by the Lettermen. I don`t know why they`re not as popular in Germany as in the US or UK. Their singing is more than a feeling...... Thanks.

[lettermen1]

@skynyrdfan56 Could NOT agree more! It makes me so mad that they were never appreciated over in the UK or the rest of Europe.

[lvguy4510]

I love this song. Thanks

[sleepingowl1]

the strings are moving me

[tylersbigsis]

i love this song.. this song fits my life perfectly. when my future husband and i split up this is all i listened to for weeks. months went by and he contacted me again... i went to see him and that was it... i wanted to be with him again. i want to be with him for the rest of my life... we are madly in love and have a precious little baby boy... baby a month old yesterday

[lettermen1]

@tylersbigsis What a great story!! Here's hoping your love lasts!

[TheMaria1217]

phil do you have a facebook account?

[lettermen1]

@TheMaria1217 I do, Maria, but hardly ever visit it now.... More importantly THE LETTERMEN have an account now also, for about the last month or so!

[TheMaria1217]

@lettermen1 phil i am at the school library relaxing before my next class. i am relaxed by the lettermen. school started yesterday

[lettermen1]

@TheMaria1217 No better way to relax Maria! Sorry I've been missing----blame the soccer World Cup- it's taking all my time!

[TheMaria1217]

@lettermen1 yes indeed those 15 year old students of mine are rambuncious!

[TheMaria1217]

@lettermen1 i loved the lettermen phil.

[lettermen1]

@TheMaria1217 Hope you still do, Maria!!

[TheMaria1217]

@lettermen1  as always i am crazy with the lettermen

[lettermen1]

@TheMaria1217 Great! Have you seen all the new videos of Lettermen in concert?? You can find them in my favs!!

[TheMaria1217]

@lettermen1 yes i did and i love that

[TheMaria1217]

@lettermen1 yes i did i loved it. sorry for the late reply i am busy with my job

[DancingSpiderman]

Carol Kaye played the bass on this song.... Carol's a bass legend.

I remember hearing this song play on the AM radio while sitting in the back seat of the car while my dad was driving us to go see the Blue Angels Navy jet acrobatic flying team at Point Mugu in Oxnard CA, I forget what year, 19sixty-something.

The sun was glistening off of the Malibu Coast, driving along PCH. Even now, that roadtrip from South Central LA was just epic.

[lettermen1]

@DancingSpiderman Hi Joe, your excellent memory would probably have been in 1969 when this song was released..... thanks for sharing it with us all, I love to bring back memories like this for people!

[DancingSpiderman]

@lettermen1 so many of the songs of the Sixties , I can remember where I was when I heard them the FIRST time they came out on radio. Sometimes if I'm cruising around town, I have pull off the street to stop for a while, so that I don't wreck, because the memory is such a surround-sound occurrence, like it's happening now instead of 4o-some years ago...

[lettermen1]

@DancingSpiderman I have an abiding memory of arriving at Southport beach here in the UK on a hot Summer's day in the 60's just in time to hear for the first time on someone's radio Connie Stevens new record of Sixteen Reasons.....Total MAGIC!!!!

[DancingSpiderman]

@lettermen1 I played Connie Stevens Sixteen Reasons to a few TY clips of Southport Beach... that's a really fond memory, letterman1 ! I take it some things have changed since that period...

[lettermen1]

@DancingSpiderman Yeah, just had a peek at some vids myself and it is just unrecognizable, it has changed completely. Can't take away the memory though!!

[quirpco]

I LOVE '60s tunes like this, with that "wall of sound" from a big orchestra. Very powerful stuff!

[lettermen1]

@quirpco Thanks, glad you appreciate it. The big band sound is recreated on their new CD, follow the link on my home page. I tried to put it on here but it must be against YT policy!

[TheMaria1217]

phil i love my parents' music

[lettermen1]

@TheMaria1217 Absolutely nothing wrong in that, mate!!

[TheMaria1217]

yes indeed it is lovely than the junk of today

[TheMaria1217]

@lettermen1 yes indeed. for a week i never had internet access

[lettermen1]

@TheMaria1217 Wow! Bet you missed that!!

[TheMaria1217]

@lettermen1 yes indeed i went home to the province for the holy week. i visited my grand aunts and uncles. one of them is 98 years old!

[lettermen1]

@TheMaria1217 Wow again!!  98 years old! Wouldn't we all like to reach such advanced age!

[TheMaria1217]

@lettermen1 yes and he is still alive and kicking. my grand aunts and uncles played a partr in raising me. they helped my mummy and daddy instil in me christian values and i love them.

[1960gal]

Oh wot a larf! I remembered this from way back when....!

Somehow my sister got hold of a copy that had 'Promo - Not for Sale' or similar stamped on the label. What did she have to do to get that I wonder lol!!

Not a fav of mine (think I was 9 or 10 at the time), but nice to hear for the trip back down memory lane.

[lettermen1]

@1960gal LOL!! That's what this channel is all about-- trips down memory lane! Thanks for watching, glad I could take you there for a few minutes!

[TheMaria1217]

phil everytime i hear this song it makes me crazy! i adored this song so much

[lettermen1]

It does seem to have that effect!

[TheMaria1217]

indeed because i use this song to vocalize before i sing for the church congregation phil it works. i better e-mail jim pike again thanking him for influencing me to harmonize and vocals too

[alexanuchid]

Is this from LP ? Ilke it!!!

[lettermen1]

This is one of Lettermen's most published songs. It appears on many LP's!

[riverita4]

This is a BEST VERSION of this song. I liked very much, much, much... Congratulations Lettermen, you are a legend in world's music!

[lettermen1]

Thank YOU!! My first comment received from the African continent, I think!

[TheMaria1217]

ohil the letternen makes me nuts all the time more tunes from them thanks

[JubalCalif]

This is such a beautiful song...almost the same arrangement that's used in the original Little Anthony & the Imperial's version. Both are TOP NOTCH! Thank you so VERY much for sharing this "delightful blast from the past" with us! You've made my day! :)

[lettermen1]

Thanks for watching and commenting! It's been one of my most popular vids, lately.

[robskers]

Slipping and sliding from the 50's into the 60's ... the best era of our " BADLY MISTREATED " world of today. It's a shame to think of what we see, hear and listen to these days... long , live the 50 / 60's era... miracles like these can never happen again... a once in a life time event. For those who had lived this experience, it was / is the most beautiful memory ever; for those who haven't ... sorry dudes y'all just lose out, partners...!

[chkjns]

I put this on my 1969 playlist awhile back, one of 111 playlists waiting to take you back to the music of any past year, all the way back to 1900.

But don't go back for anything but the music, social justice was pretty much in the toilet back then, they were not good times if you were 'different'.

[robskers]

Social injustice will always be with us to the end and I am not happy about that. It's a fact It was " in the toilet " way back then ; we have been " flushing that toilet " over the years and no changes for the better have occurred ... I was born in a society where we were " taught " social values whereas today most people " apply " social / values and acts for their own benefit because they want to be a " somebody " in the public sphere.

[RobSteez]

i love this song alot, i used it in one of my skateboard montages

[lettermen1]

Coooool! Good choice!

[aimeemannfan2010]

Yes, it hurts so baaaaaad

[ImanitheDJ]

EPIC!!!!!!!!

[Atomank68]

Did they have the same producer as Little Anthony and the Imperials? I tell ya, though I was little more than a tot back in the early 60's, it was music and artists like these that gave a much-needed balm to those tumultous times. Espec. for(to me,) the teens and coming-of age youths of that time. I suppose it gave some peace to the "oldsters" as well.

I'm curious, and please indulge me, but was there ever such a genre or motiff as "prom music" as these, and artists like Johnny Mathis sang?

[lettermen1]

They used a few different producers.... the main one seems to have been Jim Economides. I'm not sure who little Anthony and the Imperials used as I don't have any of their old albums

If there wasn't a " Prom music" genre there should have been!!!! GOOD comment, friend!

[TheMaria1217]

billionth time i played this one geez

[lettermen1]

It should soon be top of my "charts"!!! ; ))

[TheMaria1217]

yeah it should be!

[lettermen1]

It is currently #9 in my most viewed.

#1 is "The wonder of you"

[TheMaria1217]

phil i am stoned on this song

[lettermen1]

Not surprising, one of their biggest hits!

[TheMaria1217]

indeed i agree with you. i am planning to see them live soon when they visit manila. and i bet i'd be stoked on them all the more. i love the lettermen a lot.

[TheMaria1217]

phil i am so glad that my mum introduced me to the lettermen at a young age lettermen forever

[lettermen1]

Can't disagree!!

[TheMaria1217]

well the arrangement of this song is a winner and i am singing it aloid much to my mum's anger!.i song this too in the shower you know. whew

[lettermen1]

Maria, your Mum should be harmonising with you!! But PLEASE don't anger her!

[TheMaria1217]

yeah you are right phil. you know the song makes me crazy . yes it does and when i groove to it well i gert carried away

[TheMaria1217]

phil i loved this song so much makes me go nuts

[lettermen1]

Hope you continue to like it!

[TheMaria1217]

stoned on it firever phil

[TheMaria1217]

phil this song is really addictive

[lettermen1]

"Please don't go, please don't go, hurts so....."!!

[TheMaria1217]

lettermen forever

[lettermen1]

Maria, I could never ever disagree with that!

[TheMaria1217]

phil i am stoned in this song

[TheMaria1217]

i loved this song

[TheMaria1217]

yeah

[TheMaria1217]

this song is making me nuts and i love it so much!

[TheMaria1217]

this is the nth time i played hurt so bad geez!

[TheMaria1217]

older guys. besides i fell in love with their music at 6 years okd. the nun heard me sing our winter love at the corridor of the convent school i studied (i was in the 4th grade then) till i was 18 so i ended up being in the glee club until my senior year at high school. i iwill always love their music

[TheMaria1217]

seriously speaking they were the ones i grew up listening to. i ofrwn end up having a relationship with older men (same age of my papa) because of my taste of music. guys my age would be bored to death, sp i dated

[TheMaria1217]

my all time favourite single of the lettermen and i loved to sing it. they influenced me to sing

[lettermen1]

Keep up the singing Maria! Who knows, one day we may be watching you on here!!

[TheMaria1217]

well iloved singing a lot and my fruends said that i had a good voice (not kidding). i loved to sing our winter love too. geez i wish i was alive during that era, i feel that i belonged there.

[lettermen1]

You'd be surprised how many from your age group say the same thing!

[TheMaria1217]

phil i am glad to have been introduced to good music by my folks. music is always a part of my life

[lettermen1]

.....and long may that continue Maria!!

[TheMaria1217]

yes until i die phil!

[GregSr]

Great song! Saw these guys in concert in Long Beach (CA) about 16 years ago.

My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed the concert!

They were touring with Bobby Vinton.

[cherDJ]

Me too - but I saw them in Mt. Pleasant , Michigan about 3 years ago - wonderful show - AND I totally love this song - always did.

[zappadead13]

blue eyed soul !

[fernandez1330]

beautiful....beautiful.....con­gratulations.....

[ElConductista]

Pretty, pretty song, really. The lettermen was a marvelous singers group.

[lettermen1]

Thank you William for your kind comment from so far away!

[lettermen1]

Thank you Hago, I hope you will come back to see and hear more!

[HagoHistoria]

La mejor version de este tema que he oido.

[lettermen1]

Gracias Senor!

[HagoHistoria]

Hi, thanks to you and your excelent works.

[peteboy1113]

this was 1965, how high did it chart.

[tylertenpenny]

So,so true.!!

[rcrrecords]

absolutely love this song!!! I miss this era. The songs had so much feelings.

[lettermen1]

This has been one of the top songs for comments such as yours! Thanks!

[anthonytorrey]

What a pretty song. Thanks!

[lettermen1]

Thanks Anthony, glad you liked it.

[GalenTheGamer]

Awesome song =D

[Marsena]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I love this version of the song, and I've been waiting to hear it for the longest. God bless you!

[lettermen1]

You are welcome! It surprises me that so many people have not heard this for a long time! ; ))

[edex7]

When they sang this at the Aznar Coliseum in Cebu, Philippines, it was quite amazing how Vince Montana and the band carried the exact orchestration of the song with the synthesizer they were using back in the 70's. I thought I was listening to an orchestra.

[lettermen1]

Wish I had been there! I'm still waiting for my first concert!! One day...........!

[WomackPhotoKCMO]

Those harmoinies just rock! Things WERE soooo much better then.

[lettermen1]

I have to agree!

[rodtimmy]

As the song says "It hurts so bad to see you again." I saw her for the first time in 34 years last Christmas. It all came back. She is married with children and so am I. I was only 17 but no one will has before or since made me feel so wonderful. She lives 3 hours away. What I would give to be her husband. It is like a death I can't get over. Even though I have a good life it's not enough. How do I cope or go on? Thanks for posting the pics and the song. Will love her always. Samsonlock

[lettermen1]

There's not much anyone can say in reply as there is no obvious answer to your predicament. I would just wish you (and her!) all the best - especially at this time of the year!

[OldTimerGuy58]

rodtimmy: I cant think of any woman I would want to see after 34 years. I probably dated a couple dozen girls or more, but never fell in love. Always kept backup girls in case one didnt work out. Married my first love at age 23. Been with her for 35 years and counting. I cant imagine how you feel, except how terrible I would feel if I lost my wife. I dont even want to go there.

[angusthethird]

Make that 1969

[lettermen1]

Correct! And thanks for your comment! ; ))

[angusthethird]

A decent size hit for these fellas--

1968

[lettermen1]

Incorrect!

[Livesteam45]

What an amazing piece of work......Lush only begins to describe it.

[lettermen1]

I have to agree! And with only 3 voices! How do they do it??? ; ))

[bheztrina]

i really love the songs of the letermen..since i was a lil girl,,,even send this to susan my sister in calif

[lettermen1]

Thanks for sharing (Again!!) ;)

[memmies]

thank for the tear & I hope both of you are fine

[lettermen1]

Both of us are fine now! We thank you!!

[hootinouts]

I was just a kid when this timeless classic came out and I loved it the first time I heard it. It's been decades since I've heard it but for some odd reason it popped into my mind tonight. It's just like I remembered it:

the vibes in the beginning; the strings, and those awesome harmonies. Thanks for posting!

[lettermen1]

You're welcome! Timeless classics do tend to be able to do this- popping into our heads unannounced and unexpected. Glad you enjoyed it!

[1CoyoteSpirit]

When I was a younger rebel, I used to poke fun at this song. Now I hear it and I have to play it over again because of all the great memories it brings. I guess that's what it's all about even if it does take time. This is truly good music to be appreciated and well done by the Lettermen.

[lettermen1]

Thanks Lonewolf, this shows the power of timeless music!  ;))

[tylertenpenny]

"Timeless music", pefectly said!!

[gorgeous3211]

Endless, never fade still lingers on. Best of all. Beautiful and wonderful... listening to the music of the Lettermen, just makes me remember those good old days.

[lettermen1]

Hi Gorgeous, Welcome to my channel! Hope you hear many more of their songs right here!

[tylertenpenny]

Perfectly said gorgeous3211! This music never dies. Their concerts are still fantastic and it's so great having so many people posting their music. Thanks!!!

[lettermen1]

You're welcome my friend!

[Bon3030]

Thank you so much for posting this! I've been looking for it for a while now, such a beautiful song.

[lettermen1]

You are most welcome! And Thanks!

[statman2900]

I saw the Lettermen in 1973 at the Palmer House in Chicago. I was 15 and attending a national tournament with my high school debate team. We went to a dinner show at the Palmer House (where we were staying, and what a great hotel!) and had a front table. They were awsome. I'm 51 now and still remember it vividly. Thanks for posting this great song!

[lettermen1]

Thanks for a great comment! I'm always fascinated to hear personal stories like this!

[yitz28]

What a wonderful birthday present! 4/24 was my birthday. I first heard this rendition in a bar in West Springfield Mass in 1971, when the boy I was in love with proposed to me (we subsequently broke up) However, I have waited a very long time to hear it again. What a wonderful surprise. Thank you so much for posting.

[lettermen1]

Appreciative comments like this make my day!

That's what it's all about, bringing back memories and enjoyment to people, even though in your case it was bittersweet!

[yitz28]

I went on to marry a wonderful guy anyway. We are together 32 years. 3 kids and 5 grandchildren later, if I had it to do over again, I wouldn't change a thing. But I was only 18, it was my first proposal and this songhas a special place in my heart. Thank you again!

[lettermen1]

I'm so glad life turned out good for you!!

[Ben121974]

Great song! I like this version the best!

[lettermen1]

Thanks a lot!

[edsnantonio]

Yes! Yes! Many, many thanks, lettermen1. Just opened youtube again

[lettermen1]

It's nice to be appreciated!

[ilovelettermen2]

another good one phil

[lettermen1]

Thanks Anne!