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  • .....depression is setting in....

  • reminds me my mother Alice in Paris (France), she loved this song and for diner, we're listened very "religieusement"

  • я в сильнейшем шоке ........

  • Замечательная песня! Я ее слышал еще в детстве. В СССР. Было написано, что музыка шотландская народная на пластинке. Great song! I heard it in childhood. In the Soviet Union. It was written that the Scottish folk music on the record.

  • classic

  • I love the Beatniks but I think of the cafes where they would go to listen to this kind of music. Friend told me about it. It seems so un-hip but it was the hippest of the hip. Miller's finger prints all over this. He liked simple cords and good harmony. This was a bit subdued. Thanks for the post.

  • Good music .. soothing to ears.. thanks for uploading it man .

  • Lyrics of this enchanting song were translated in Russian, and it became a very popular camping song. We would sing it around campfires, and it came as a great surprise to me to learn that it was an American song. Really, how could this beautiful, soulful song be American? It is so much Russian by its nature! But then again, it came as surprise to me that Americans love hiking and camping just as much as Russians do.

  • @TheAmerenglish, you make it sound like Americans are not human beings. Too much Russian brainwash for you, buddy. The reality check is calling you!

  • @TheAmerenglish This song can be American because it is "Folk" music. In every country, the "Folk" music is very good, because it tells stories about the country.

  • This song would've been perfect for Fallout: New Vegas if it was in the soundtrack

  • Rock n roll is here to stay

  • thelksis

    UUHH! Yeh! Your comment --- cross bow!! ---

  • прикольная песня!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • punnannyyy

  • Makes my eyes misty. A masterpiece.

  • 素晴らしい映像、ありがとう。

  • LEMON POPSTICLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!

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  • @honeycombo I agree with you. If things were to go back to what were the good old days, the world would be a better place. We have to balme the hippies and liebrals for their communists values that ruined this great country.

  • @calihartley2010

    settle down, don't make it about anything. This was radio, American Bandstand. Things went forward. You can't go back and re-create. Live your life, work a job, or 2, or 3, whatever it takes, stop whining.

  • @nula07 Not whinning. Just making an observation. I hope you follow your advice.

  • thanks for the upload your an angel....

  • YtR7WNQsJIo

    Soviet version

  • That (Mitch Miller?) fellow has fantastic facial hair. Oh, and cool song.

  • What is cool is that here in Seattle we get to hear them all the time.

  • Где-то есть город, тихий, как сон,

    Пылью тягучей по грудь занесен,

    В медленной речке вода как стекло,

    Где-то есть город в котором тепло,

    Наше далекое детство там прошло.

  • @Fenus4 прекрасный кавер от рождественского и пьехи.

  • @classlion

    Не могу назвать себя фанатом Летова, но его вариант мне больше Пьехи нравится:  watch?v=AcrgmYOqBYw

  • @Fenus4 Ну у пьехи ыло олее ностальгично. Хотя тоже хороший вариант.

  • my favorite song since the 1st time i heard it

    Very beautiful song

  • I once turned this song on out loud then suddenly heard my dad sing it along. I remember I felt so so so great at that moment. Love this song so much. :)

  • I'm 17 and found this song because of my grandpa, I put this song on and he started crying tears of happiness. That was the first time I've ever seen him cry and it was probably the most touching moment in my life. What an amazing song. :-)

  • SOOO much better than the bullcrap people like Ke$ha and Lil' Wayne are putting out. it actually has meaning and feeling.

  • Nghe lại sao thấy bài này giống nhạc Nga quá :)

  • @xacvexuixeo ????????

  • Good grief! It's a lovely song. The Brothers Four are fine musicians, but seriously! Communism? Capitalism? What corner of the Twilight Zone did that drop out of? And given the song's lyrics, why am I not surprised some people haven't enjoyed music since 1961? "Still I'll keep on waiting until you return ..." Tough luck! If you weren't being so willfully deaf, you might find something nice here on youtube, something from the past 25 years even. From their covers, I'm sure the Four Brothers do.

  • i love 1950 1960 song

  • Awesome!

  • Кто скажет, как по русски эта песня называется?

  • @Fatinoula

    Город детства- Эдита Пьеха

  • Ответить на это видео...

  • Mmmm .. I smell the grass ^w^

  • יפה מאד נוסטלגיה

  • They sound a lot like The Kingston Trio! :0

  • where are the green fields indeed.

  • классная вещь!!!!

  • reminds me i was a real human being, once upon a time...

  • So many comments are saying "My taste is better than your taste." Hey, this is an amazing piece of music, and timeless. But there is good and bad, sincere and insincere in every musical genre. That said, it would be great if Zen-simple (as opposed to simplistic) music like this still had a chance in today's broader marketplace. But we're lucky we had this - and still have it. Thanks for posting; with the addition of the stiff Mr. Miller, this is a true treat!

  • the song became our home --- Stas Pieha - Gorod Detstva

  • An idiot below says that the trashy popular music of today is the fault of Capitalism. Well, tell me, idiot, was the USA socialist/communist back in the 1950s? No ?

  • @Baskerville22 I agree with you. The US has degraded to the standard of trash.

  • HOW CAN ANYONE DISLIKE THIS....SOME PEOPLE HERE AMAZE ME

  • ups, i was wholeheartedly under impression such depth only existed the other part of the iron curtain. Shame on me. Check the version where a woman is singing.

  • @macolga100 I mean Edita Piekha Gorod Detstva

  • Wonderful ...

  • I agree wholeheartedly with DLWJohn......why are there no songs with such feeling? Don't people listen to the words any more!!

  • BARFFFFFFF! I'm 62 and a percussionist-and this is crap. I'm afraid friends of mine have committed suicide over this pap!!! Donkey boy you left us too early!

  • @Aerohog1

    It is does have a very small relevance to a drummer boy...

  • Por favor ¡¡que detengan el tiempo!!... Quiero quedarme allí.

  • that presneter looks like a cheapo Devil out of a vintage Twilight Zone episode...just check his evil sly grin out........

    The brothers four dont know it yet, but they have crossed over into...... the Twilight Zone...:)

  • @maxrome67

    Just for the record, the presenter, who you say looks like “a cheapo devil with the sly evil grin out of a vintage Twilight Zone episode” is none other than Mitch Miller.

    He was one of the most influential figures in American popular music during the 50's and 60's, both as the head of Artists and Repertoire at Columbia Records and as a best-selling recording artist with an NBC television series, “Sing Along with Mitch. “

    Everyone knows that.

    Devil . . . . sheesh !

  • this is an aweasome song and we shoud go back to the time that people used songs to tell their fillings and not just to earn money!

  • Such a heart breaking song.

    Old fashion & so unforgettable !

  • There were SO many groups w/ guitars & banjos in the early 60's, during the

    "Folk Scare".. but these guys had something REALLy special in their blend...

    and this has to one of the MOST beautiful tunes to come out of this era.

    SO haunting! Anyone happen to know who wrote it?

  • Classic tune.

  • We've gotten much too sophisticated to like this kind of stuff. I vaguely remember this song playing on the radio when I was a kid in the '60s. I LOVE it!

  • We've gotten much too sophisticated to like this kind of stuff. I vaguely remember this song playing on the radio when I was a kid in the '60s. I LOVE it!

  • @mysunshine413 i amnot sure sophistication has anything to do with the loss of heart, i grieve that at the age of 6 i was a much better person than now.

  • Canción que me lleva a los años cuando aprendí a bailar, abrazando a las chicas, en fiestas que se realizaban en nuestros hogares porque no habían discotecas, pero que nos divertiamos. Quien hace esta clase de música ahora? Me recuerda cuando Guillermo McLean tenía su programa en Radio Zelaya.

  • @Dennismairena Realmente, hoy en día no se hace más música así pura y tan hermosa. Son horribles las canciones que se oyen hoy en día. Las radios ahora sólo ejecutan futilidades musicales, músicas sin comprometimiento con el amor y las cosas bonitas de la vida. Es el fín de los tiempos, se acabó toda la belleza musical que existía.

  • Canción que me lleva a los años cuando aprendí a bailar, abrazando a las chicas, en fiestas que se realizaban en nuestros hogares porque no habían discotecas, pero que nos divertiamos. Quien hace esta clase de música ahora?

  • Great music. I'm not a contemporary but not far from it. Please let's not kid ourselves that this would ever have universal appeal for people UNDER a certain age. It would appeal to only the few and far between younger ones and that is truly sad.

  • ..don't know why, but I keep hearing this song in my head. suddenly it's there. reminding me of army boys, and the one I once loved, who is now gone..once there were blue skies, with white clouds high above..once they were part of an everlasting love..gone.gone.gone.. I only know there's nothing here for me.. nothing in this whole world, left for me to see.

  • Songs like this happens only once!

  • nice voice

  • Красота

  • Timesless classic! Everytime i hear this song.. its very powerful and emotional..

  • That's great. OMG!!!

  • I'm 58 and this music still moves me deeply when I hear it now. Were this music playing on the radio today I believe it would find a whole new audience falling in love with it as we did.  My friends tell me I'm living in the past. But I simply say this music is timeless. It's power to move the human heart endures.

  • Great! I feature them in my "English Through Song" series here on YouTube. Great North Anerican accent too! Teacher Frank

  • Wooow!!!!!!!!! - Sławne "Pola zielone".. - I to w jakim wykonaniu!!!

    Nigdy nawet nie przypuszczałem iż dane mi będzie obejrzenie "Pola zielone" w wykonaniu "The Brothers Four.. - Amazing!

    Beautiful! - Thx!

  • Hearing songs like this makes me wonder what went wrong over the years with entertainment. We need to get back to stuff like this that actually had feeling.

  • @DLWJohn - I know how you feel... Teacher Frank

  • @DLWJohn you said the same thing I say everyday,it's sad that evryone these days don't have the tallent people use to have...

  • @DLWJohn It's called commercialisation. Get used to it. The Corporate Fucking States of America have a big part to play, but overall you can blame excessive greed and a need to squeeze every last cent out of an idea, in a capitalist society.

  • @Sinrius Long live capitalism, the freer of mankind.

  • @DLWJohn

    I couldn't agree more.

  • This is one of the best songs I´ve ever heard and I am so thankful I found it. I am having a moment here as I ponder the concept of watching small fractions of time immortalized through video. Distant ancestors would have called it magic and I am inclined to agree.

  • prachtige tekst en melodie

  • what a masterpiece !

    this song was played just few minutes ago on PBS

  • @ArseneLupin2009 Yeah, I also heard it on PBS -- I'm about 30, so I'd never heard it before. They also played other folk music from artists whose popularity was cut short by the introduction of rock. I don't care for rock music, so it was great to uncover this era.

  • I had completely forgotten about this song until I saw it being performed on TV recently. Every time I hear it my hair stands on end a little bit, and it makes me sad.

  • @Shamagogue: that has nothing to do with this at all.

  • This is the "Post Apocalypse" (Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush & Obama) Theme Song!

  • Real music, gone forever, thankfully, preserved for us to remember...

  • wow nice song i like it jajaja.mr_sadman

  • Are they all still alive?

  • @Qulti: amapola was also a song from yesteryears... you may not have been born yet! here are the lyrics to that song: Amapola, lindisima amapola Sera siempre mi alma Tuya sola Yo te quiero amada nina mia Igual que ama la flor la luz del dia Amapola, lindisima amapola No seas tan ingrata Mirame Amapola, amapola Como puedes tu vivir tan sola
  • one of them is my grandpa!

  • Some of my music is the hardest, fastest loudest you'll ever hear, yet this remains one of my favourite songs. I walked the halls of the hospital singing it to my newborn son, and throughout the rest of his babyhood.

    Now, he's 10, and if I play the song to him, it makes him weep. He doesn't know why.

  • How it warms my heart and tugs at bittersweet memories of life when it was sweeter and so much simpler!! Music was exactly that in those dear days of my youth. Pleasant to listen to, not the offensive, vulagarity so popular in todays "Hip Hop" and "Rap"! I can also remember Mitch Miller, whom we recently lost, and the many wonderful talents he introduced to our TV world. "The Brothers Four" were clean cut and easy on the ears. How lucky I was to have grown up during this era. Beautiful.

  • love this music i feel that this kind of music speaks to the soul that the new music now days can not. It is so nice to see guys this age to be able to do this.

    A life without music can not see the plesures of life.

  • This fantastic song is a legendary classic beautifully sung by these 4 men.

    Hugo, Belgium

  • This fantastic song  is a legendary classic beautifully sung by these 4 men.

    Hugo, Belgium

  • man, im only 15.... and i love this song with a passion!!

    i love this era of music, it is amazing. if i could live when this was on the radio i would!!!!!!!!!..... god this reminds me of my best friend....

  • These guys are fabulous! I grew up with their songs.

  • they were so young, and yet their voice were so warm :">

  • thanks

  • one word AMAZING

  • a priceless gem of a song

  • Imagine what Simon Cowell would say about them.

  • Also.. although its not "So you think you can dance" quality, the dancing in the back adds a nice touch to this video.

  • @CASteinman

    yes

  • The fellow a the start was Mitch Miller (His show was "Sing along with Mitch"). He just died about 6 weeks ago at the age of 99 or 100.

    And the person who wrote this song's lyrics is still alive. He is about 100 or 101 or something.

    So this song is good for a long life.

    There is an excellent version of this by a Burmese Band called "Iron Cross". They have this pretty great guitarist called Chit Sa Mong. Google "Greenfields In Burma" to find that video. Its worth it.

  • That guy in the begining looked like robin williams

  • @Faternbader Hahahaha exactly ,right on the spot dude.

  • great post nice to see mitch miller too

  • Yes, ArcanaThanatos is right. The green fields of music are gone, replace by many with full of craps.

  • I fell in love with this song 53 years ago as a 7th grader. I love it even more now...

    Thanks for posting....

  • They're the best!

  • can't believe it's been 50 years !

  • The Brothers Four from The University of Washington, Seattle. They are all still around and performming, Dick Foley lives on Bainbridge Is, and was a longtime KOMO TV personality for "Northwest Afternoon". A wonderful trip down memory lane and this one"s for Yardbird McKay xx

  • I like this song very much.

  • Those were the days......This song is pure magic....It works its magic each time I listen to it. Cette chanson me plaît toujours autant. Verte campagne en est la traduction et chantée par les Compagnons de la Chanson, elle est aussi enchanteresse que l'est l'original.

  • youtube.com/watch?v=YtR7WNQsJI­o&feature=related

  • I love this song!!!!!!

  • I gotta find the Micheal Stip version of this i heard this and i was trippen off the song man, like I go to sleep to this song and have trippy dreams

  • Este es el primer disco que compré con 13 años en los 60... que recuerdos! la candida adolescencia....es una música preciosa, sentida, armoniosa una gran balada!

  • im 77 yrs. old do not have iphone or mp3 player cannot down load. how many times may i listen to your music? thanks for letting me listen. this is about all the entertainment i get and its the music of my life.

  • @TheMajoo0afspf bless you sweatheart!

  • This song was 50 years ago no.8 in the world charts

  • good music indeed...but Mitch Miller nearly destroyed Columbia Records...Columbia leadership was late in accepting the change to rock and roll music in the 60's. I believe that 1965 was the year that brought Columbia back into the mainstreem music scene.

  • I wonder these 4 guys are doing today

  • Summer of '60, this was just one of so many,many fine songs from that summer. I was 14 y/o, & campaigning for a man named John Kennedy. Where have the years gone?? Beautiful, hantingly sad song. Wolfsky9

  • This song was 50 years ago no.6 in the world charts

  • THIS is music. Not the waste and rap junk of today.

  • This song was 50 years ago no.3 in the world charts

  • Ask me what to right before the point,,,

  • .ws/hraphile/vinyl/The_Brother­s_Four_Greatest_Hits.html

  • This song was in the top 10 in the world charts in 1960

  • This song was 50 years ago no.3 in the world charts

  • This song was 50 years ago no.4 in the world charts

  • Incredible harmonies!

  • This song was 50 years ago no.5 in the world charts

  • gyönyörű (még mindig, még most is, ötven év után).

  • This song was 50 years ago no.6 in the world charts

  • Very Fine Song!

    Thanks for Posting!

    Aloha from Hawaii!

  • This song was 50 years ago no.8 in the world charts

  • I agree with eecortese. I don't know why but it makes me sad; it always has. It reminds me of my father.

  • Interesting how certain songs can have an impact on people. I heard this song when it was first introduced in 1960, I was 8 year old. It gave me a feeling of sadness and melancholy then as it still does today. I feel the same way about Asnavour's "Ne Me Quitte Pas" (If You Go Away.)

    Anyone else?

  • "Ne Me Quitte Pas" is Jacques Brel's

  • i was not even born yet in 1960... when i heard this song in Vietnamese version....in 1975... my heart felt awsome.. i heard first time in english version and from Brothers Four.. it was awsome..

  • Way back in the early 1980's i first heard this song on one of the LEMON POPSICLE films.I liked it then,still do!

  • beautiful! what year was that?

  • No.1 hit in January of 1960

  • Вовсе не удивлен, практически вся русская эстрада построена на плагиате :(

  • @Ram3log Вообще, автора (Джилкинсон) открыто указывали, так что это не плагиат, а скорее киркоровщина (римейк)

  • Это не плагиат. Многие наши певцы включали в свой репертуар мировые хиты, где открыто были указаны авторы, в том числе и автор русского текста. Чаще всего это был Гаджикасимов.

  • to be honest this song is probably better known in Russian language than in English:

    copy and paste "город детсва" to youtube and you will find the authoritative version of this song

  • This beautiful song takes me back to the time when I was a young girl I still love the song.

  • This music remember my daughter Lee... I like Brothers Four. Lee, my daughter, Papa ama usted,...

  • Beautiful, haunting song released Jan. 1960 reached #2 on national pop charts. All four members met while undergrads at Univ. Washington in Seattle in 1957 as members of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

  • Once upon a time this was me and Feefies song,how i wish i had them wonderful times back in my life again......my heart hurts ,love you forever sweetpea xxxxxxxx

  • JOYA !!! GRACIAS!

  • Marvellous!

  • I was in my early 20s when this magnificent song was an instant "hit", now, in my early 70s I am enjoying it even more! It's deep sadness touches my heart. The minor melody (turning into major by "I'll never know..." only to return immediately to minor again with a touch of hope: "I'll keep on waiting..." ) is perfect, and the presentation of the song by these artists (BR4) is simply superb!

  • Being 17 i wish I could have lived in your Era =/.

  • Смысл у песен совершенно разный, так что нельзя сказать, что песня была украдена. Вот музыка была явно "скопирована", это да.

    К вашему сведению, господа критики, еще до Пьехи ст. эта песня исполнялась на нашей эстраде.

  • когда воруют песню, то воруют мелодию а слова всегда другие, если в песне то ностальгия может быть не только по зеленым полям, но и по городу детства. А появилась она на советской эстраде после 1962 года (после дебюта в США). Есть даже сайт где указаны украденные песни

  • lemon popsicle....

  • love this song so much named my band after it

  • Класная песня! Похоже Пьеха еще в советские времена "слизала" эту песню у американцев и переделали текст на русский язык.

    Beatiful song! I like song like it!

  • us teacher teach this song . ^^

    beautiful <3

  • The song that made me know how beautiful popsong is.

  • Beautilul...Immortal... With love..