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  • This song reminds me of younger days

    Augie7

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  • very nice singing voice

  • Thanks for uploading. I have the Julian Cope (English singer) cover version of this from 1988: This is the first time that I've heard the original...and I like it.

  • @chriscoburn69 omg. same here dude. tonight.

  • One of my all time favorites and its live. No auto tune or any of the other voice enhancements.

  • I think the real sad story about mankind today is that we don't believe in anything but money.

    This is what we all live for - m.o.n.e.y. Nothing else.

  • @charliedesiles WE? Speak for yourself.

  • oh, stop, you little girls. It's 60's music. It's been a long time since then. Don't even try to make it about you. Learn how to spell, learn punctuation. The idiots are....you. Go back to school, get an education, get a job. Read a book, stay home, read to your children. Send them to music classes, theater classes, dance. Martial arts? Really? Sounds more about you. Stereo-type away. You are part of the problem.

  • wow this is awsome

  • Today, it's a 6, 7 or 8 o'clock world.

  • If things weren't so damned crappy now maybe I wouldn't long for the old days so much.

  • Sweater cool. Love the style all around.

  • i associate this song with The Drew Carey Show now, they used it well for that dance sequence

  • @jody808

    Ugh, that show is about Cleveland right? This is a Pittsburgh band.

  • I remember this song from the 60s ,and heard it again when on vacation in Coco Beach Fla. in the 80s ,for the first time since i was a child ,and then heard again on the Drew Cary show ,brought back alot of memories..

  • I listened to “Five O’clock World:” on local radio at Ft. Leonard Wood 374th MP Co. before the daily cannon went off at 5PM. I was later two years in Europe and then 67-68 in RVN. I always thought of the “long haired girl who waits, I know, to ease my troubled mind.” She was not there when I came home. I cannot imagine what my life would have been if that long haired girl had been waiting for me...

  • @LasVegasJim

    I was in RVN in 67-68 Cu Chi my long haired girl didn't wasted any time waiting got my letter two months after I got there. I alway thought of that song, Thank God and Grayhound she gone. Who am I kiding it was a bummer at the time. welcome home

  • @554jim Thank you. Welcome home, my friend. Happy New Year.

  • My kind of hair style.

  • These guys were really manufatured by the record label, told how to dress and stand not to offend anyone!! Assembley line!! This is why the Beatles were a big welcome in 1964!!

  • @johnnyw12 Uh....JOhnny. these guys came after the Beatles. They were just some kids from Turtle Creek who liked to sing.

  • @johnnyw12 ...But wait there's more. this was LATE 1965 or early 1966. They were on a tiny label that certainly did not have the budget to "manufacture" a group. As far as "not offending anyone" I had no idea that was a musical element.

  • Out of class at 4:50 pm and sprinting to work to get there by five.

  • Truly good LIVE performance. Thanks for posting.

  • was this before Dave Clark Five or after there version?

  • @elkhartandy October '65-January '66

  • @sexymama1966 yep!!

  • Ah, the television variety show...family style entertainment. Call it seeing the past through rose colored glasses, but it seems that there was a time when people watched TV in groups and it was considered a warm experience. Now, everyone has their own personal screen and what little interaction there was has gone the way of black & white TV shows, no?

  • @arkady714 yes we watched the same program in groups, family groups! Everyone could tell you what time and channel every major show came on t.v. , some were designed for the whole family, some for mom, pop, and the kids. Mom had daytime soaps, dad had the wide world of sports on the weekends and the kids had cartoons on Saturday mornings. The evening slots were for family shows like variety shows, westerns, etc. that's when the fam gathered together after dinner.

  • @greenpilgrim50 Funny how things change. The anti-TV folk in the '60s complained how no one talked, but just sat in the same room, staring at the "idiot box." Today's generation actually considers it social when a room full of people do just that. In an era where everyone has at least one personal screen (of varying sorts) variety television is sadly outdated. Like all real American families, ours was Ed Sullivan. And, yes, I sat bored, waiting for the last act to come on...the rock act.

  • @arkady714 It was my parents and three older siblings in our home so I NEVER got to pick what was on and I was the remote control. I had to sit next to the t.v. and change the channels, adjust the rabbit ears & the "roller knob"(or so I called it)! It was my duty as the baby of the family. The big family shows I mainly recall other than Ed Sullivan was Lawrence Welk, The Wonderful World of Disney, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and all the sitcoms that came and went.

  • @greenpilgrim50 oh i think the roller knob was called the horizontal hold, is that right?

  • @greenpilgrim50 Sounds very Americana. 

  • @greenpilgrim50 Back when you had a total of THREE stations to watch and there was more good programming then than 300 cable/satellite channel today.

  • @crazyromanian1 in Austria you got the 2 Geman Channels, and the 2 Austrian Channels, and i have to say, this what u can watch today is very better! :D

  • @Fehren129 How are things in Austria? My son studied at a University in Linz last year and loved it.

  • 5 people live in a 4 o' clock world

  • Boss.

  • One of my favorite songs. I love singing and playing this song on my guitar. The Vogues are a great group. I also love "You're the One". That's my other favorite by them... :))

  • freakin groovy baby. Drew carey did a gud job of this tune too. Very mod.

  • The Vogues are a Pittsburgh group. In the '60's, Pittsburgh was the ultimate blue collar steel city.

  • Rock stopped attempting to sing about real life long ago. Country took that over, and it got stupid. Nothing and nobody sings now about normal people.

  • these guys have very good voices .......... not easy singing live .... especially back in those days .... everything was mostly lip sync.

  • This was back when people actually had jobs in this country!

  • Great oldie from the '60's! Remember Hullabaloo?

    

  • @peridotpam sure do and the loyd thaxton show

  • I love this music....the oldies are great the 60s and 70s were the best...I was lucky to have been born in the 50s so I could have it....don't like todays at all and you can do away will all rap wouldn't hurt my feelings!!!

  • @jodybase Actually many some of todays independent bands are inspired with back then surf rock and psychedelic tunes:]

  • Christ. . . it's Alan Partridge :L

  • Made the work-week seem almost worthwhile...

  • my god this is good

    

  • great tune for us workers

  • @Pmcgov3284 Maybe it used to be a song for workers but now it's for us slaves

  • The wonder is, that unlike an awful lot of groups, these gents performed live and sounded about as good as they did on the record. I guess that made some people turn around and look at them.

  • Happy Labor Day.

  • real freedom -the idiots hadnt bred to much back then-i bought a gun and ammo at kmart when i was 17 years old carried it down te main street and no one even looked sideways-built a car from scratch and registered it -nobody cared-the idiots hadnt arrived yet-great days

  • @dogsdinna

    By God you are so right about this. And once the idiots started multiplying, there is no stopping them. My nine-year old was just threatened today at school by a bully two years older than him. After discussing this with the principal, she disagreed with our direction to our son: if he tries to hurt you, you hurt him back, even more. Of course, our son has 3 yrs of martial arts training...So this woman has told our son to get beat up first then come to her! That's our world.

  • @joesphx19

    If you accept it. Call the police, the DA, the school board. Report "this woman". Jeez.

  • @nula07

    Oh it's been taken care of but you missed the point. Music evokes feelings in people, it's not just to dance to, get high to: this song just so happens to evoke feelings in some of us for a different time, one where we weren't the problem as you say, for having the feelings we have. That for me is the success of the performance artist, one who creates the opportunity to express a response. I'll damn guarantee that you cannot understand that, as evidence, I give you your post.

  • @joesphx19

    Talk to me about music? Evoke away, have your "feelings". Music doesn't change, people do. Man up, get over yourself, this ain't the 60's. I was there. Obriously, you weren't. If you can't do the job, why not ? A paid flamer would be best guess. Right?

  • @dogsdinna you fucking kiddin me? you could buy a gun earlier than you could legally buy a drink as easily as that? and you say today we're idiots because in your country it`s a little more difficult for any idiot us cowboy to walk in the street packing heat.

    why don´t you go blow your brains out you lunatic.

  • I am a Baby Boomer. You fellow ''Boomers'', are Goddamned idiots! Life was no ''more fun and simpler". 1965 was the year I went to Vietnam. We had kids dying of drug overdoses, race riots, lynchings in the south, runaway inflation, and the start of madness. You crackers are so damn stupid!!!

  • @publicatdamagnificen Yeah,I think the world was just as fucked up then,those in charge tried to hide it better though.

  • @panzercat39 Thank you Panzer....Another person with a sense of history and common sense! For example: The Andy Griffiths Show was based in Mayberry, North Carolina. They NEVER showed signs that said "White Only''. The Gomer Pyle Show came on between 1964-1969 and NEVER mentioned Vietnam. In other words, the powers that be did everything they could from shielding people from reality.

  • >>Let this video stay alive<<

  • I like how it's only women only doing all the work!

  • we were happier in the 60's then wars and Kennedy's shot and Marilyn Monroe killed and James dean dead and Martin Luther King murdered by blacks and the world of innocence was lost forever 

  • @STEALTHPANDA96: WTH are you talking about? James Dean died in 1955, and MLK certainly wasn't murdered by blacks (maybe you're thinking of Malcolm X?)

  • @STEALTHPANDA96 Yes, i too have heard the King was murdered by blacks and they say that Jesse jackson may have had a hand in it.

  • gotta keep going, gotta make my way, different from other version

  • Brings back memories of the steel mills in the Burgh, where these guys were from, actually Versailles Township I think.

  • Way back in 1988, the "Enfant Terrible" of the English popscene, Julian Cope, made a quite acceptable rendition of this classic and ageless uplifting kind of a song. His version however, runs for approximately 3.49 mins. flat, and bears all

    the hallmarks of a typical "Saint" Julian song: Cool, Refreshing, and downright

    edgy. Or in laments terms: Mental As Anything. LIVE IT UP!

  • Wonderful stuff

  • Me and my daughter were eating dinner at a hamburger joint that plays music from the 60's. I love going going to there because I can hear all the great tunes from the formative years of my childhood. This song came on and I immediately went back in time and wanted to hear it again, knowing I'd find it here on YT. I told my daughter I remember hearing this song when I was in kindergarten so it must've been from '65. She's 29, and amazed that I can remember that far back(lol). Love this song!

  • Yes, the ultimate blue collar workers song, especially if you did not have that "long haired" girl waiting for you at the end of the day....but if she was there, yes it was worth while to slave away..what a classic, what great music...thanks for posting!

  • because credit cards were not invented

  • Weird looking bunch of guys

  • i was lucky enough to hear these guys tonight in the Bellaire, Ohio city park. they still got it. good time.

  • My happy and get up and go music. I listen to it every morning.

  • I love the performances on shows like "Hullabaloo and "Shindig". I suppose they come across as a bit corny these days, but they were fun to watch and there was a constant experimentation and change going on in the music world back then and they were certainly a lot more fun to watch than the blatant occult rituals masquerading as music videos performed by the the likes of Beyonce and Lady Gaga, in my opinion.

  • the fifties was so white

  • @TheRyenRogers 

    This is from 1965, not the fifties.

  • Every time I hear this song, all I can think of is the Drew Carey Show

  • looks like another great american group, squashed under the weight of Beatlemania and the british invasion.

  • @emmers57

    This song was a hit in 1965, after the British invasion, so there was still room for groups like The Four Seasons and The Vogues to have hits along with the Beatles if they had good songs. The Vogues didn't write this song (it was written by Allen Reynolds), so maybe they just ran out of hit-worthy songs to record.

  • The Vogues did a stellar job performing this classic on stage and live. Tight harmonies, great tone. Very impressive considering they didn't have the luxury of digital enhancing equipment in the 60's. My only complaint about this live performance is the sloppy work of the bass player. He's way off time, and his rhythm leaves much to be desired.

  • It was a great time in America. When people stood up for what they believed in. Didnt take any shit

  • @rockythehero - It was a time in America when those who stood up for what they believed in were beaten up, had dogs sicced on them, they were teargassed and called Communists. Some were shot. Probably the majority of Americans hated people who stood up for what they believed in, as a reproach to themselves for not doing it too.

  • back then you werent told what to think all the time like now with these sickening baby boomers

  • @flakbac -- we *were* the baby boomers. And we were certainly told what to think all the time. Remember HUAC, the House Unamerican Activities Committee? Remember the censorship of the mails by the Post Office?

  • For me it was the greatest decade by far.... but it was tumultous in its assasinations and the god dam Vietnam war

  • This was a time when the director's know that shaking the camera only p*sses off* the audience. Something contemporary director's need to learn. The audience belongs *IN* the audience--not on the stage!

  • I'm 20 and can sing this song better than him right here. One of my favorite songs. :)

  • Nice to hear this live.These guys still sound great today.

  • judging by the receding hairlines i'd say these lads are a little too old to be in a boy band.

    now with that being said, i will say that this song has surprisingly meaningful lyrics for a boy band :-\

  • @paragshah2112

    You're seriously comparing this group to modern boy bands? You do know that the beginnings of American pop music featured 4 male vocalists in not a few acts, right? You can't really apply modern music classifications to the 60's groups that were the progenitors of pop/rock music, total misnomer to do so.

  • @sullenday i guess a lot of things we think of as being gay today werent thought of as such back in the day. classic example, the robin costume from the batman comic books. robin was dressed pretty gay even into the 80's ... totally different by today's standards.

  • Not many artists could actually perform like that these days....back when digital enhancing never existed :)

  • This one is live! Most of these are lip-synced. THANKS for posting. This was the first 45 single I got when I was about 4 years, and I've always loved it.

  • WTF is this shit? I understand it's live and all but it has no feeling to it.

  • Nice to see a real live performance, with all the lip-synching that went on back then (and still does today). These guys could really sing. I saw them in concert the other night (Feb 12, 2011) in Queens, NY. The lead singer, Bill Burkette and the lead tenor, Hugh Geyer are still performing in the group.

  • This song stands up so well even 45 years on!!!!!

  • A great song from the Greatest Era of Golden Music! Good, clean and fun!

  • I wouldn't trade My Childhood during the 60's for Nothing. I always get Chills whenever I hear this Classic.

  • One of the few bands from the era that eventually ended up on just the Easy Listening chart in the early '70s.

  • this is great song one of my fav;s from the sixties growing up...big hit before anyone ever heard the name Drew Carey!

  • Awww I LOVE THIS SONG...And im a 35 year old man...LOL...Todays music is CRAP...SORRY KIDS

  • We actually were happier in the mid-60's.

  • @RBEband Amen

  • @RBEband Well yeah we weren't adults yet lol Takes getting older to knock the hope out of you lol Seriously it was a great time to be alive and a teen. I think the compassion we have today is from that time. While hippies didn't last there is still Hippie in our souls. However we also had a war that was shrinking our generation, but it was the power of love not hate that stopped that war.

  • @Tonithenightowl You have exactly hit the nail on the head. I could not, in my wildest dreams, have put this idea so tight. You, Sir/M'aam, are a treasure to be looked upon.

    Joseph F

    Portland, OR USA

  • @B52sguy It would be M'aam and I thank you for your compliment. While no generation is without it's faults there was something about the "love generation" that was unlike any other. We wanted to be enlightened. We knew there had to be a better way. The age of Aquarius began there. We taught it to our children and now it's their turn to teach it to their children. Love is always the better way. Peace on earth is the true treasure. We are all in this together. We are all one.

  • @Tonithenightowl Hi, there "Ma'am"! Sorry to take a couple days to thank you for your thank you for my thank you. Ha!

    Anyway, as I am an Aquarian, and fully conversant with the "hippie" movement, I just decided at the time it was not for me. I had no complaints and learned from an early age that nothing is going to be for free. Somewhere or another a responsible person will have to pay for what they sow.

    Thanks for writing.

    Joseph F.

    Portland, OR USA

  • @B52sguy Hello Joseph, I too am an Aquarian Jan 21st here. You are right nothing is free but LOVE. You can't pay for it, you can't force it, you can't own it. It's given freely or not at all. It wasn't the lifestyle I was attracted to,but the attitude.If you don't work, you don't eat. That's reality. You do reap what you sow. However, what I think they did bring to the table was being none materialistic and more spiritual. I am forever grateful for that and I taught my kids the same.

  • @Tonithenightowl Hey! That's my birthday Too! Although I do agree in principle with what you said, I just don't understand how anyone in this world could be non-materialistic? I mean, your typing on some source of device, and have to have a carrier, and the food in the fridge is cold, and one's car get's them around, etc.

    The spiritual, well that's a whole different ballgame. No greater spirit than the spirit of self.

    See you!

    Joseph

  • @Tonithenightowl Oh come on, you know what I mean. We are not to judge ppl or feel our worth from what we own. We all use things that are materialistic.

  • @RBEband Does race riots and inequality not factor in?

  • @RBEband Agreed...b/c people were actually working for their money and could relate to songs like this.

  • @RBEband You cannot imagine how true that is . Our Nation and the world today makes you very happy that you are 60 years old and thank God you will not have to see it much longer. The fact that we do not live forever is truly one of Gods greatest gifts. The air is turning to poison and people are dying of cancer at alarming rates.

  • @version261 And for this, we thank the collective effort of mankind.

  • @version261 We are only 2 scientific breakthoughs away from unlimited longevity

  • @RBEband

    The saddest part is that the world has actually gotten meaner.

  • @joesphx19 True and the stupid liberals and monorites say that the world is better now. Better for the sinners and for the minorities that want to bleed the system dry. Not for honest people.

  • @calihartley2010

    Couldn''t said it better. Usually I leave out political type comments on these kind of videos but lately when I say that things were better then someone says, "yeah for you a white man". I am sick of that response, it sure was better then and would be now if we go back to the morals and principles that we had then. And the reason we are here, the music was better then, no cRAP singing about murdering, beating women or almost anything else they do.

  • @joesphx19 Well I am glad people like you are on youtube who speak the truth. Please keep up the good word. I see from your pic that you are a Catholic and I think the church was better then too.

  • @joesphx19 I do not like the guns in the hands of Joseph and Mary. Please change that pic.

  • @calihartley2010

    I don't want to go to far off OT, I'll PM you with an explanation. Thanks for caring.

  • @joesphx19 Ok. What do OT and PM stand for? Please explain. How can you expect me to know what they stand for, when they can mean anything.

  • @calihartley2010

    Digital speak. OT=off topic and PM=personal message.

  • @joesphx19 Ok I will wait for the PM.

  • @joesphx19

    You are absolutely correct - war wasn't invented until recent memory.

  • @RBEband

    You're actually near to death.

  • @RBEband Yes and then the world came crashing down with the liberal hippy hoardes breaking the status quo that has made the west decline ever since.

  • i first found this song from the Drew Carey Show, and I love it!!

  • nordiclovequeen, I agree. Unlike bands such as the Mamas and the Papas who lip-synched their live shows, it's refreshing to see great music from that period performed live the way it's meant to be. I think they sound damn good......no need to enhance their performance with the studio version playing along.

  • Just did some quick research. This song reached number four on the Billboard chart in 1965, the second consecutive song that reached that position the same year.

  • rocnrollfool, you probably never heard the song simply because of your age. I'm 44 and have heard the song many times.....and it was popular in its day. Great tune, don't you think? :)

  • Did they sue. That is insane The Drew Carey Show made this song.  Honestly how many times did you hear this song before The Drew Carey Show. I never did I am 23 years old and a fan of all genre's of music. The only radio station I listened to when I was a kid was Magic 105.7 in Cleveland, Ohio and the only music they play was recorded on vinyl. I believe that this song is much more popular because of The Drew Carey Show

  • Amazing how they managed to incorporate actual yodeling into a song. Beautiful.

  • What year? 1962?

  • What happened to nancy johnson from mounds park in the 60's, graduate of harding high school 1970?

  • I remember this from the Drew Carey show. good times.

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  • Did they sue Drew Carey for not getting their permission for using this song in his sitcom?

  • @blodachia How do you know they didn't get permission>

  • Bad direction. The spread-out stage and wimpy sound robs them of their compressed energy. Dial up a YouTube taken off the record to get the full measure of this song.

  • I wish I had one of 'em turtle-necks and the suit that these guys have. >:D Be fucking classy, man.

  • My understanding is the with the addition of Bill & Hugh, the bogus Vogues think they now have credibility. The imitation Vogues (minus Bill & Hugh) were in my home town three years ago. After the concert, I saw them autographing various vinyl LP jackets. It was pathetic to say the least. I think the only winners in this mess are the lawyers.

  • i can why they call them the VOGUES ther still in style. singing live great tallent

  • *sigh* the drew carey show

  • beatles still rule : ]

  • This stellar gem heralded the Dodge Dart Era. I LOVE this song.

    Note the extras in the musical arrangement in this one.

  • I WANT TO BLOW EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE VOGUES AT THE SAME TIME!

  • A truly great song expertly executed.

  • tonight vogues played in cumberland maryland, check out my page to see the live vid of this song i filmed off my iphone back stage

  • @grudainc Thank for that.

  • My sound company is right as we are speaking running sound with the vogues, I'm back stage making sure everything is ok, making faces at the drummer lol. The poor bass players mom died last night so they are with a new bassist and it's shaky, I have 5 o'clock recorded and will be posting soon

  • @grudainc Best of luck to my fellow Pennsylvanians, the Vogues!

  • Saw them in Las Vaegas a year ago; excellent. As far as Drew Carey goes, he was using this song without permission and was asked to not use it, which he agreed to, since the Vogues were not paid for it.

  • The go-go dancer at :27 seems to be a hottie. I wonder what she looks like today! I wonder if she is even still alive.

  • Great listing

    Thank you For the listing.

    Thank you Drew Carry for having this on his show

  • The Vogues best song! Excellent singers and singing it live, and the song has a version where there are lots of strings, which is great also, in my opinion. It is a great working man's anthem, (change a few words and it could be a woman's anthem) with a little underlying sadness, which adds to its power.

  • THANK YOU FOR THE POST.