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  • Yes sir, love this song...you dog you, Robert...basically telling the woman to get over it my main squeeze is coming home, you never had a chance, just a fling...stop crying this is hard for me too...lol...what a player...

  • I graduated high school in 1980 and I miss all these songs. Good stories in their lyrics. Take me back!

  • @Ines3185 HighSchool HEARTBREAKS...can't believe we survived!(Mtl.)

  • 70's. Wish we could be there again...

  • Man, I always though this was a BeeGees song.

    Good to ride back to the 70's....

  • MICHAEL GATELY WHERE ARE YOU?? IT'S SUSAN ERIM2000@AOL.COM

  • Feel so bad for kids these days. They'll never know good music like we had in the 70's.

  • I don't mind it now, but I HATED this song back in the day. It was played way too often.

    Like It's a Heartache by Bonnie Tyler.

  • bfirenzi snt me here, all hail BRIAN FIRENZI!! COMMANDER OF THE GODS!!!

  • bfirenzi.

  • You know, if you listen to the lyrics, the guy is kind of a creep. It's about a guy whose wife is coming back and he has to tell his side action that she has to take a hike.

  • @nycalling72 Check out Kiss and Say Goodbye - by The Manhattens.

  • This was actually a really catchy tune back in the day especially the friends who where haveing a break up OMG it was so funny i remember it well its so differcult to belive that all these years have gone by but you got to admitt the 70s and 80s where the best time ever for music and bands and shows,am so happy to have had them times and days cause these days SUCK big time for music and pple. Peace to the new generation cause you guys really need it!

  • I miss this song and the memories it brought with it...kids nowadays will never get to experience what we did back then...

  • Great voice!

  • back before looks and sex sells, and auto tune...

  • Good song ,but that eyeball creeps me out.Sorry

  • Love this song!

  • This was a time when most kids would hear these type of songs after school during TV advertisements for record compilations. It was a great time to be alive back then.

  • How many super hits were there in 1979?? 200!!! Fuck I wish I had a time machine. Music sucks now. No talent anymore just over marketed attitude. You kids missed out. Sorry.

  • The song is great, he sings good, but the background vocals are amazing.

  • Did something happen to Robbie when he was young? Is there a reason why he sounds like this?

  • @areubaked My question is this: Where is he now? It's like he had this #1 on The Billboard Pop Charts in 1979, and then POOF, he was gone. I'm interested into what happened there.

  • @areubaked I'm afraid I am responsible for Roberts high pitched voice. We were sophomore classmates in high school. After going steady for 8 months, he decided to dump me for my best friend Lucille. He had the nerve to ask for his lettermen's jacket back, I knew he was going to give it to Lucille. So when he came closer, I kicked him as hard as I could between the legs. Well the rest was history. We're still good friends, although I'm married to a wonderful man(his brother).

  • @buffet62 omg to dang funny but he didnt complain when he cashed those checks .

  • I Blew my wad in her Eye Ball and it looked sad!

  • What happen to him....this seems the only # 1 recording.....

  • this song was the frist song that my wife and i would dance to when we frist started dateing. witch was back in 1979 .after a few drinks my eyes would look sad.so she would look at me when we were danceing and call me sad eyes.been married to her for 28 years and i love her today as if it was or frist date.

  • Found this piece of music again...but I cannot buy it from "iTune", Canada....you can only buy from the USA "iTune"....now I'm crying, and crying.

  • Love the song but his lip synching is horrible.

  • Remember that LOVE that brought the first tear? I DO!

  • What in the world has happened to music these days?! This was music!

  • @camrobn . Hi, you are so right with your comment, I am so in agreement with you. I feel that things will change though for the better.

  • love this song so much I remember when my sister and I went to her boyfriend house and his friend would be there too when this song would come we would always sing it I had a bad crush on him and my heart still things about him

  • loved this when younger, still do today!

  • beautifulll song!!!! no doubts!!!

  • music much better in these days..

  • great song... not such a great recording

  • this song used to depress the hell out of me back then . I associate it with going to school on rainy mornings , not because of any girl , maybe because i used to hate school and it came on the radio at a certain time like clockwork . i like it a lot now .

  • I haven't heard this song for 30 years, loved it then and still do today !!! Thanks for uploading.

  • beautiful song!!! they just don't make music like this anymore!!!

  • Back inin those Days the singers like Robert John wasn't singing off key or getting Rich off on song that didn't sound llike SHIT!!! 1979 WAS AN AWSOME YEAR FOR MUSICAL ARTIS LIKE ROBERT JOHN AND OTHER ARTIS!!!

  • He is lip synching in this video

  • The falsetto is amazing! I've always wanted to know what woman sang that part, but from my cursory research, it appears Robert John sang it. Absolutely amazing.

  • On Oct 2, 1979

    "Sad Eyes" by Robert John was the #1 song.

  • my favourite song....

  • After all these years, I finally know what this dude looks like. Used to think that it was a woman... such a high voice. But I love this song to death. It's sooooo delicious to listen to.

  • @Tjs964 robet never sounded like a women

    I have heard countless of black singers and white singers do falstto singing but never heard a man who sing falsettao sound exactly like a female. falsetto from most males has a total different sound then a women singing ...It can be a high voice , but never quite female sounding .

  • @MRJACKSON19581 Falsetto was popular for black male groups in the '50s and '60, but I NEVER mistook a man singing falsetto for a woman ... 'til now. I love this song, and I love Robert John's falsetto; and I don't mean to sound insulting, but he sounds exactly like a woman.

  • @blakwriter NOPE HE DO NOT SOUND LIKE A WOMEN.. HE SOUNDS LIKE A MAN WITH A TENOR THATS A TOTAL DFIFERENT SOUND .. GO LISTEN TO THE R*B Group SPECIAL DELEVERY

    They have a song called "I DESTROYED YOUR LOVE..I was driving around in the car the other day playing the song My white friends said "who's the women singing ? We al said -Thats not a guy. It doesnt sound like a women -Its a man with a high soft tenor .We laughed .This itsnt racial .But most black can tell a guy doing falsetto.

  • This guy had the best tenor of a white singer Ive ever heard

    you have to hear his album called BACK ON THE STREET AGAIN Every song is great..I think the album is out of print

    But if you can find it GET IT ...GET IT WHEN YOU SE IT.

    i bought mine new the day it came out..You may have t g to a used record store t find it.  WHERE IS ROBERT NOW!.

  • @MRJACKSON19581 Sure it's a tenor? Sounds like a falsetto to me.

  • Love any song that has a story you can actually understand. The eye close-up I could do without. Lol

  • they don't make music like this anymore......... sad but true

  • I remember when this song came out, the girl I was dating was my first love, her name was actually "Angel" . CY Fair TX She had a brand-new 1979 Camero Berlinetta I believe...........wow I was 15 I think

  • i miss the 70's!!!

  • @nibornna me too! :(

  • Que buena cancion....julio

  • One of the best slow jams of that era!

  • thanks alot KWhopperNZ i appreciate the response.

  • music ppl music.........amazing song!

  • I'm so tired of crying...why guys are so mean.....i wish i just go to sleep and never woke up again

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  • they don`t make them like this again. Its a masterpiece.Where could i get a downloadable copy of this.

  • @Lancer165hp try frostwire bud...

  • they don`t make them like this again. Its a masterpiece

  • always thought he was singing Sarah , instead of Sad Eyes

  • Now this is real music. What happened..... where did it all go?

  • he hits some high notes I couldnt never reach and Im a woman LOL

  • This dude sings like a woman.....

  • what a song, love it

  • Oh what beautiful memories, when day's where simple

  • great song of the 70

  • THIS IS SUCH A GREAT SONG TY FOR THE POST :)

  • Great song from an era of great songs. Thanks for posting!!!

  • Great Song. I remember this is end of seventies.

    This song is a Bee Gees style.

  • @bartalinigibb Falsetto :D

  • Great song.

  • @tomcardello So What  !!!!!! Great Song By A talented Artist Rather Watch great Old tunes Lip syn Or Not He Still Wrote ,Sang & Recorded It , & Its Original Not Like The Shiiiiiiiiiiiite Churned Out Today I Doubt We Will Be Memorising In 30 yrs Time Bout The Garbage Mostly Served Up Today :D

  • ya the background is that he was married to Shania Twain and cheated on her with her best friend

  • @johnyvico

    This song was big in 1979 and if the birth certificate is right Shania Twain was born in 1965 which would make her 14 years old could not have been her!

  • @Kelski1998 SORRY SHANIA WAS MARRIED TO MUTT LANGE TC AND ENJOY THIS GREAT SONG

  • @johnyvico YOU ARE SO WRONG ABOUT HIM BEING MARRIED TO SHANIA TWAIN LOL CHECK YOUR FACTS CHILD YOU ARE DEAD WRONG...

  • Any background on this guy? Where is he from, and what is he up to now? Great voice, and beautiful song; I loved it when it came out :)

  • What a voice! This song really hits the spot from all those years ago!

  • One person didn't like this song! must be Justin bieber fan! or brain dead!

  • Just another example of back when the music mattered not the image.

  • @BerlinFan82 yes "Video did kill the radio star". Whether you like this song or not, this man could sing his ass off. I was born in 73, but I grew up listening to 70's music and I have a great memory. I'm glad we have utube, because I have a lot of my favorites. The earliest recollection I have of music was Boston's More Than A Feeling. My dad's favorite song was Keep on Rockin Me Baby.

  • Young love of the 70's will forever touch the hearts of many of us old rockers. It was at times used as a game and hurting one to get to another was at times fun. 40 years later one wishes they could find some of those people and say I'm sorry. Not to start a new fire or relationship but just to say I'm sorry. I have been on both ends of those sad eyes. Caused them and had them and neither was fun. BUT WHAT A GREAT MUSIC ERA AND SUPER SONG. thanks for the memories..........

  • @tomcardello - Yeah, that was how they did it for most live TV performances back in the day, save for the Midnight Special and maybe a coupla other shows.

  • Back in the day when you didn't have to be 10 years old to get a record deal...

  • @rainonariver Yeah, going by the description he was 12.

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  • lol

  • I LOVEDDDDD this song...wow! 1979 I was 11yrs old...I know one thang...my best childhood buds... April Setzer and Jennifer Marshall should remember how we sang the hell out of this song...lmao! those were the good ole days....OLD SCHOOL RULES!

  • What does it matter if the original singer is Lip Syncing to His or Her own song??????

  • @bee52mitch Ask Milli Vanili that question

  • @vancealastro1 Milli Vanili would not know because they were lip syncing to someone else. Not their voice at all.

  • Reminds me of Ft. Sill, Ok....

  • great music!!!!!!

  • great sad song

  • 2:43 - DAD WHAT ARE YOU DOING !!!

  • I love this song...

  • Tremenda cancion que solo me confirma que la musica de los años 60,70 y 80 es y sera inolvidable,en comparacion a la musica actual,que,salvo excepciones pasara al olvido rapidamente.

  • 1979 the year I got married ,I remember I use to get so high and turn this up has loud has i could ,lie ,cheated and did drugs,amazing how it all comes back on ya.But a very good song

  • Love the high notes!

  • Wow I thought the high note was a lady too.  Awesome Robert John & one of my favourite songs...

  • Stop making negative comments about this great singer. This is one of my favorite songs. If you had any class you'd know that his voice is truly a gift. I could listen to him sing this all day and night., I love Robert John.

  • drummermizike= if this song sucks so bad then why the hell are you here watching this video? You probably prefer these new young talentless models MTV pimps out.

  • this is&will always be1of myF,... 

  • what a voice. robin gibb ear your heart out.

  • @1951barry First, Barry and Maurice did most of the higher parts. Secondly, Robert John is great, but not THAT great.

  • This guy looks sooooo muchlike Maurice Gibb.

  • @DENNISPUPPY His voice reminds me of the Gibb brothers too...

  • sweeeeeet

  • I always thought that high note portion of the song was a black woman singing. Wowl. Ten times more respect for his instrument now than I had back in 79 when I heard this every lunch hour!

  • Thanks for uploading.

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