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  • Dynamite track. Love the Searchers version, too!

  • Terrible skirt, everything else, fab! Love Jackie!

  • i love her voice

  • Oh Boy.....she is gorgeous AND SEXY in this video and by all accounts is as lovely today 47 years on from '64. When The Searchers released this in '65 Radio Caroline North started playing this original version by its' writer/composer Jackie DeShannon....I, and all of my friends preferred the original....and here in 2011 it STILL sounds GREAT, added bonus? actually seeing the beautiful and sexy Jackie "in action"....God bless you Jackie wherever you are...xoxox..barrie in spain

  • I do love this song - the greatest song that Jacke DeShannon ever sang. I love her dance steps too and her outfit.

    I also like the hairdo that Jackie wore with the bun on the top, and the hairdos that the other girls wore called a page boy. I think the men look very handsome with short hair cuts, white long sleeve shirts, and ties. That's the way it should be - people showing style and respect.

  • Beautiful smile, good record. . .

  • Thank you so much, Jackie, for this wonderful song!

  • Watch the way she comes in too soon with miming at the beginning ha ha so sweet ..

  • oHHHMIIIGAWWWD.. She...is.... SOOO Hot in this vid.. Love LOVE LOVE it....

    Her Eyes are just.. GINOR-mous here....

    Funny how the TV guys always had her perched in such precarious places, tho....

    didn't give her much room ta move... 

  • That is what you called sexy without being trashy!!!! Rihanna, Britney, Katy and many of today's female artists, look and learn what real sexy is.

  • @cboncklis actually friend this was considered "trashy" by the standards of the parents of 64.her far to short skirt more then mid way above her knees along with her form fitting tight display and sexually suggestive hip movements shocked parents and older adults of the day. it's all reletive friend.

  • @TheBabyboomkidof53 I lived during the 60s also and you did not teach me anything I don't already know. I guess I was lucky in life because my parents did not have a problem with it.

  • @cboncklis I know about the short skirts which I didn't see too much back then. when I went to High School the girls wore skirts ankle length.

  • The Searchers did not use a 12 string guitar. They just doubled a six string.

  • I love Jackie DeShannon's original song When You Walk In the Room and Pam Tillis's version of this song also. Pam Tillis's version of this song is on the Sweetheart's Dance album from 1994.

  • better looking than the blond bird in abba and she was a great songwriter,  very very impressive !

  • Art is a very interesting thing. This vid reinforces the idea that the very best practitioners are a rare breed, and it comes naturally and effortlessly to such artists. You can't study, emulate, or practice your way to real ability. This explains why most entertainers are so painfully not up to the task. Just try listening to what passes for singing these days...

  • jackie wrote and recored this in nov.63 but it didn't do well with its heavy orcastation.george harrison recieved the first rickenbacker 360 electric 12 string during the sullivan visit.he popularized its sound on the hard days night LP.the searchers influenced by his sound recorded jackie's song using a 12 and got a hit. jackie after her beatles tour in august re-recored the song with a 12 string intro in sept.64 and released it on "breakin'it up with the beatles on tour" album.

  • I saw Jackie D in August ,1964 at Empire Stadium,Vancouver,BC,Canada,sh­e opened for the Beatles!,thank you Jackie,you are one class act.

  • I loved the way people danced way back then!!

  • @danpfd  Me too.

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  • jackie i love you, please marry  me

  • thats greeeeeet

  • Imagine, all covered up...no skin showing and yet more sexy than anything in the last 20 years!

  • The best female songwrite ever!

  • Thanks for posting. I think this quality is just fine right here! :-)

  • I'm not certin I follow your way of speaking but if I do I suppose you mean previously recorded when you say "premade" and "adding to the template"? I dont know that its easier to add to it. look alot of people have wrote songs that are not very good till someone rearranged them.they would have gatherd dust if someone hadn't. jackie's version of this song went nowhere (at least here in the states). it took the seachers, version for the song to be successful in terms of sales and a hit.

  • Looks like they're mixing concrete on a building site. Was this having fun?

  • @jg33brunner Remember: when Elvis was first televised, they only shot above his hips. This was 1965. TOO much fun and you were off the air. But the fact is, you can tell she's having fun, and if you can't, you've been watching too much Beyonce lately.

  • "I Can Feel a New Explosion..... In My Pants....."

  • This video brings me back to parties when I was a boy we used to do at home, dancing with the record player. The girls, many was a copy of De Shannon, that was the fashion: blonde, ponytail, blouse, skirt above the knee. Simple. Order. As soon as one could, put on a slow. Every one danced. You held her slowly, slowly and she, inevitably, leaning her forehead to your face. They were good times.

  • Beautiful Song ! Beautiful Voice ! Beautiful Lady !

  • FYI ; jackie was the opening act for the beatles first full american tour in late summer and early fall 1964.

  • I've reached the ripe old age of 56-I'm the Production Manager for hard rockers Nazareth and thought I knew my music-I had no idea what an enormous gift we have in Jackie-thanks for the education!Tam Sinclair.

  • @abcdee108 Of course she did in a word great

  • @abcdee108...."Love Hurts.......Love Scars...."

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  • I learned that she had this sound before The Beau Brummels, The Searchers and The Byrds had.

  • This version, and The Young Veins' version are my favorite.

  • @jonesrebel THE ONLY OTHER VERSION TO TO DO THIS JUSTICE IS THE SEARCHERS

  • @burnley5960 jackie did great on this but I think the searchers outdid her abit. they stayed with the guitar sound rather then orcastration and the vocal harmonies gave it a real punch a solo just doesnt have. the searchers gave it that liverpool treatment that shook the world. you metioned the guitar sound jackie had at the start of this being pre-searchers,and byrds. you forget they (and she) were influenced in that sound by george harrison the originator. they copied his sound.

  • @TheBabyboomkidof53 but would it not also be right to say it is easier to add to a premade song than come up with your own. therefore it would be i think, right to say any remake would be better to the listener who favoured the genre it was played in. or at the very least easy to add (or take) to the template of a ready made song ie: baa baa black sheep which can utilise new technology to sound better than the original baa baa black sheep. (shocking example i know) but i hope you get my point

  • 1:31 Dewey, did you just grab my ass?

  • rocker53zero! Here it is! Read a few reviews and I think maybe the Searchers gave her credit for this one.Anyway this is how I feel everytime you show up on my screen! LOL! For real I do! ♥

  • What's she doing standing over by the wall?

  • stunning

  • It´s John Sebastian in the beginning. Who knows how to get the series this clip was in? It is called "Golden Age of Rock´n´Roll". Anybody got it on DVD?

  • I come back to this clip at least once a week and have sent it to everyone I know. Simply brilliant and a reminder of more innocent times

  • Such a magnetic personality. I couldn't watch the other dancers because I had to watch her. That's one lovely lady.

  • Do you have, The Wishing Doll

  • One of the most riveting female rock voices of all time. Smokey, sexy, and artistic. You must watch her in action, over and over.

  • Jackie has always been the complete package - songwriter (she wrote this) with the voice of an angel, and the face of one to boot! Today, at 66, she's still a stunner!

  • I think she is so cute. If only the world consisted of people so innocent as her we'd be all much happier people.

  • 5 morons did not like this haha

  • fanfreekintastic Thanks for posting!!

  • Jackie went to England to tour with the Beatles and hooked up with Jimmy Page...he recorded with her and they wrote together as well!!!

  • She's very special.

  • Thanks - I have never heard of her and always thought The Searchers was the original - she's great!

  • I am so happy that there were no insulting remarks for this beautiful and talented women. After all these years she brings me such joy.

  • I believe she should have gone into another direction, country. She could have been more of a legend.

  • What a dancer she was!

  • I love the searchers recording best but jackies is very enjoyable also. along with carol king,and leslie gore, she helped assure female song writers a lofty place in rock and pop history.

  • OMG , WHAT A gorgeous WOMAN

  • The Searchers, for me, had the better rendition of this song, but Jackie DeShannon's is really good. She was a helluva writer.

  • dam those were the days. Look how hot Jackie was!

  • lets a go go back in time .

  • Everytime I watch this & listen to this I fall right back in love with Jackie De Shannon. So very special.

  • The real thing Agnetha is no match for this only the Searchers come close

  • Love this tune, don't hear it enough on the radio, so once again, thanks to youtube and meowbay. The chick on the right can really shake it, can't she ?

  • I love it

  • I lov it

  • So sexy so passionate so natural...this white girl has got soul!!!

  • what  a doll

  • A fantasic singer and a fantastic song

  • jackie De Shannon didn't write Needles and Pins - but she was the first to record it.

  • This and Needles and Pins...She wrote them as well.

  • I wish she was singing that song about me!

  • I loved the tune, but her moves, I thought, were weird! Good golly, miss molly, I now think she is such a cool chick! I would like to have her child!

  • What a talent. Great, timeless song. I may be wrong, but I don't think there were many women doing their own songs (or men for that matter).

  • One of the greatest rock & roll love songs ever written (this girl knew about love).

  • Sweet lady, great pop tune that always makes me happy, great hook and sentiment and deliverd so beautifully by a beautiful singer. Great moves, and the wonderful wink about :10 secs. in just knocks me out. Congratulations Jackie, on being rightfully inducted into the songwriters' H.O.F. this week.

  • Jackie, you made this song.

  • stunning looking lady, opened the beatles concert  shea stadium early sixties, sixties were so much better

  • I feel that I saw this performance - on TV? I was 15 in 1964, and we used to dance just like this!

    Thank you for sharing this.

  • Rayarena...seems that Jackie has a Celtic soul, and, if you listen to Led Zeppelin's albums, Jimmy Page has clearly influenced the band, they have Celtic mythology falling out of their albums.

    No wonder Jackie and Jimmy shared so much, there Souls were talking to each other, and, I'm sure they never knew.

  • what you mean this wasn't live???? oh dear my dreams have been shattered

  • Questo video mi riporta alle feste che quando ero ragazzo eravamo soliti fare in casa, ballando con il giradischi. Le ragazze, tantissime erano una copia della De Shannon, quella era la moda: biondine, coda di cavallo, camicetta, gonna sopra il ginocchio. Semplici. Ordinate. Appena uno riusciva, metteva su un lento. Tutti ballavano. Tu la stringevi piano, piano e lei, inevitabilmente, appoggiava la sua fronte al tuo viso. Erano tempi belli.

  • She was born in a small town in W. Kentucky.

  • Yeah, she started to lip-sync a bit too soon, but she was so gorgeous we will just give her a pass.

  • She's great.

  • The sixties music was the best ever

  • how lucky we were to be teenagers in the sixties lol

  • Needles and Pins went Number One for Jackie in Canada and this introduced her to a wider Commonwealth audience, including Britain. She settled in London for a while during the mid 1960's, and wrote some beautiful songs. 'Rayarena' check out Marianne Faithful's 'Come And Stay With Me' a DeShannon/Page composition, it is typical of her work, a Celtic 'Yearning soul ' style, its beautiful:-)

  • @DSVOP I checked it out. I had heard 'Come and Stay With Me', but I had no idea that it was a Deshannon/Page composition. Great song! On a sidebar, I've often wondered why singers who also happen to be composers sometimes give their compositions to other singers? By the way, It's interesting that you mention DeShannon's music with its Celtic style. Her real name is Myers, but she changed it to DeShannon in honor of an Irish ancestor that she believed had that name.

  • @DSVOP Where did you hear that Page co-wrote "Come and Stay With Me?' I have it on two Marianne Faithfull albums (her first and a collection) and it's just credited to Jackie DeShannon. Page did co-write "In My Time Of Sorrow," another song on the first album, with DeShannon, though.

  • America's forgotten treasure..the British loved her, and she was a very important part of the groups and artists who became 'The British Invasion' of the American charts.

    One day, the USA will wake up to this young woman's talent, and show her RESPECT...I Pray:-)

  • @DSVOP I knew her from two songs, "What the World Needs Now" and "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," but I didn't know that she was the first to sing the classic, "Needles and Pins," and this particular song, "When You Walked Into the Room," is fabulous! I can't believe that "Needles and Pins" didn't become a hit in the USA until the Searchers. I actually like Jackie's version even more! And "When You Walked into the Room," should have been a monster hit! Somebody wasn't managing her career well

  • As underrated a songwriter as I think she is, she's even more underrated as a vocalist....best version of the song, and she's just adorable in this clip...magic

  • no it is the other way round  jackie was the first after all she wrote this fantastic song

  • she´s a great voice!

  • Take me back Baby great Performance:)

  • does anyone know who plays guitar on this ? sounds like a 12 string electric.

  • Hi rolobur

    Ha Ha What Guitat ???????????????????

    I can only See a Beautiful Blond

    Wirg a Lovely Voice

    Ha Ha 12 String Guitar //////////

    I wonder who made the Coffees between the takes ??????

    Just a Bit of Fun

    From the First & Forever TeddyBoy

  • @rolobur dont know but it is probably one of the famous" wrecking crew" session muso's if jack nitzche produced the record. Maybe billy strange or perhaps glen campbell who was a 12string killer in those days. although i have also heard miss deshannon herself flogged a few 12 strings into submission , most notably on her song "dont turn your back on me"!!!

  • She is like every PRETTY SECRETARY i have ever envisioned jumping up on here desk ,and statse sinigin ....to me,when i walk in her.....office <3 <3 <3

    (cummon...lonely guys can dream can't we?

  • @keeewpid YES! You got it so right! She looks like every PRETTY SECRETARY! She's dressed more like a [sexy] professional woman than a singer. But, you know what? She's so pretty that it works well with her!

  • Im in a 2 piece band, my partner sings this ......& didnt know who sang it lol, we do it live acoustic, i actually think it sounds better on guitar but we knew it was a 60's number was all & by the way all the older generation jive, thanks for posting xx

  • A universal, timeless experience and song.

  • The real thing first division!!!!!

  • I was 18 and in the military and wondering how could a guy like me could meet a girl like her. And I loved the song.

  • LOVE her wink at 0:15!!

  • LOVE her little wiggle at 1:12!!

  • This sounds like something that Bobby Vee would record!

  • She was upset when the Searchers took Needles and Pins from her, but she loved it when they took this one from her because she wrote it and made a lot of money from them. All's well that ends well!

  • Dam she was hot ? never heard of her ...

  • I was 12 years old when Jackie released this son............I've never been the same since!!!!!

  • Dittos !

  • jackie makes a mistake with her intro on 8 seconds ..but i forgive her

  • super!!

  • Baby it's a DREAM come true.....

  • This shoulkd bve up there with Great Balls of Fire as an all time Rock'N'Roll classic!

  • Brilliant

  • The way she sings this song is is like nobody else can make it sound, she has a natural kind of echo in her voice.

    She is fantastic, i think one of the best singers i have ever heard

  • I saw Jackie D at Empire Stadium,Vancouver,BC,Canada,Au­g.1964,she opened for the Beatles !

    Thank you Jackie you are one class act.

  • The real thing Pam Tillis a joke only the searchers come close

  • Jackie rocks. She helped lead the way for the other rock godesses. Defend the faith. I salute u

  • Notice at 0.8 she started to lip-sync too soon, which is why she's laughing.

    Every time that you lip-sync too soon.

  • Every time that you don't read the text in the video description.

  • Every time that I notice it afterwards.

  • @CrankCase08

    lol

  • @CrankCase08 Yes she did lip sync it, but that was her voice singing the song from a tape recording.

  • @CrankCase08 Why point out the obvious. Just enjoy a great song for what it is.

  • @jamesiree1 Why not?

  • Fantastic video, what a performer, what a person.

    Here in the UK, groups from the 60's are still popular. I have been to quite a few shows that the Searchers have performed at and they always credit Jackie De Shannon. To my utter regret, I have never seen/heard the original....well, have I had my eyes opened tonight, thank you educating me.

    Regards

    Dave

  • You might also like my other favourite of her, once kicked off of YouTube due to a claim:

    123video. nl/playvideos. asp?MovieID=143274

    (remove the 2 spaces I put in there, and post in navigation bar)

  • Thanks Meowbay, did check it out - great ballad. Then did a search for the title, very confusing - some credit Jackie with the lyrics, other credit Bacharach/David composition. Never mind, most of the search returns credit Jackie singing it ( there were a couple of other artists mentioned, but I had never heard of them ), so I guess she owns it.

    check out a poster called jameycruz

    He uploads lots of 60s music and uses lots of photos of 60s USA, very atmospheric.

    Dave

  • Very nice -- thanks for (bedankt?) for posting that!

  • @1959bigd Popular with whom? The generation back then or new generations?

  • She owns this - well, after all it's her composition - and what a friggin' babe. Dancers pale. Melody speaks - and that 12 string lick - hell even Leo Kottke hasn't come up with a hook like this (AND TRUST ME - I TOTALLY LOVE LEOK) If you are a 12 srtring guitar player - play this slow. It is powerful. Killer post. ***** and thanks.

  • Here's a good old song I heard in the Trader Joe's today.

  • Why wasn't this a #1 hit?!

  • She looks just like Kim out of Kim and Aggie!

  • whoooooowhoaa!!!!

    Check out them SWEET HIPS man.....

    I am sssoooooo in loooooove wit her.

    (sigh.....)

  • I believe a cameraman and two innocent bystanders were injured in 1:13 of the video because of those very hips you speak of so discriptively.

  • Ha-haaa....

    Yeah.i heard it was all over the news back then....lethal weapons them....things.

    (chuckle....)

  • She's amazing and this film clip is fascinating. Great singer and a great mover and she really is gorgeous

  • You truely rock when most were afraid to cut loose and let it out. All i can say is awesome. Thanks for posting.

  • I'll say it again....she is like every pretty SECRATARY i have ever envisioned...dancin on her desk....singin...to ME.....Sigh.

  • I saw Jackie D in Vancouver,BC,Canada at Empire stadium,Aug.1964,she opened for the Beatles!

    Thank you Jackie, you are one class act.

  • nobody beats this version....but check out this song by Status Quo....sensational!

  • pure majic pure sixties brilliant

  • ...Replay...

  • So I guess Paul Carrack's version wasn't the original...

  • You would probably enjoy the Searchers' version also . It was a big hit in the 60's,and so beautifully done.

  • This is Fantastic ! God ! She is absolutely beautiful.I love that look ! First time I 've ever heard the original. I 've always loved the Searcher's version but this blows me away.

  • This ,the Searchers and Daniel O'Donnell's versions are the best!

  • does anyone know if this is the wrecking crew?

    best

  • I can see where Duffy got her moves from in the original Mercy video. I see resemblance.

  • This lady and her music enchant me! I love her to bits!

  • I disagree with that opinion. I don't even see a remote resemblance, to be honest.

    Aside from that it's quite the insult towards Sharon.

  • must have watched this a hundred times

  • Isn't she beautiful??

  • sigh......

  • Dang !!!! Those are some sweet HIPS on er.. (sigh...)

    I guess BABY GOT BACK too ,woo-hoo-hoo-hooooooo !!!

  • Yes. Jackie almost made a mistake. She did catch the error before it was too late.

  • My friend told that this is from a television series called "Hollywood-A-Go-Go". Great clip! Many thanks.

  • Up there with Great  Balls of Fire as a Rock'N''Roll classic!

  • I saw Jackie D at Empire Stadium,Vancouver,BC,Canada in Aug.64,she opened for the Beatles,thank you Jackie you are one class act.

  • I have not seen this one before, unless I happened to catch the program growing up. Does anyone else hear a touch of Cyndi Lauper in her voice? Actually the other way around of course. Gosh she is so lovely. We wore our hair just like that!

  • I certainly do hear Cyndi in her voice.Even Brenda Lee(listen closely!). I think she was in the writing team that wrote Kim Carnes' humungous 80s hit "Bette davis Eyes".

  • I keep getting drawn back to this. I watch it all the time. Lovely, lovely lady and a cracking sound of the sixties!

  • I 'suffered' from the same addiction before it was in digital format, which was why I decided to convert and upload it.

  • Thanks for such a great video !

    I am watching it whenver I feel like going back to my memories.