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  • all 4 sing. maybe the best all around singing group of the decade!

    but The Birds, The Hollies, The Beatles, .

  • @bluegrassreb1 You would have to add the Beach Boys to get my agreement. But opinions aren't right or wrong - they just show our own preferences.

  • @John1948ThirteenA No you are right. I cant believe i left the BB out. I love them!

  • .......and, a bit of Brian Wilson influence? Sure sounds like they studied some

    Pendletones riffs........ aero

  • wow, harmony that rivals any group since. Took us back to 60s in a few chords......the power

    of youthful scripting is stronger than most religion...maybe it is.............aero

  • wasn't this written by bob gaudio of four seasons fame?

  • Hello great song thanks for posting who wrote the song? The four seasons had a big hit with it

  • This was an alltime favourite I had been married 1 year my hubby was in the army and had just been posted to aden i sent this request to a radio station bfpo for servicemen not expecting it to be chosen i said the message was in the song i was mortifieed when it was read out on the station.we had 10 years marriage but later divorced But we remained friends for over 30 years until his death.

  • @videos4ppl Yup great, Mems,,,,,, !

  • This is proper pop music as it always was way back then. The songs of today will never match the songs of yesteryear.

  • The 45 version of this record is so good I never thought I would see a live performance as good as the record. Probably am correct, but this live version is damn close to as perfect. They sound great on this.

  • I'm 32, too young to remember these guys but love the song anyways. I believe that silence is golden!

  • Love it! I was in my early teens when this was on the radio

  • They had a great, sweet harmony - One of the best in that area!

  • This is humane, soothing music.

  • Absolutely beautiful  Great song.

  • One of the few songs that truly reflects the mood of the sixties....

  • Went to a club called the 400 club by the harbour in Torquay England in 1967 when the Tremeloes were there. I was 18. Listening to it now brings it back as though it was yesterday.

  • @tattyhead46 I lived in London at the time they appeared in Tops of the Pops for ther first time; those were the days my friend

  • And to think they are live. No pre-recorded lip-sync stuff.  And they still sound great in harmony and instrumentation on an open stage. Do they even have feedback? Can't tell.

  • Silence is NOT gold; silence is VIOLENCE!!! - depending on the situation!

  • beautiful

  • The harmonies are really beautiful. A classic from the 60s. Great post!

  • you see the tall guy trying to hit on the blonde at the start of the video? he's biting his finger nails, thinking "this isn't going well, is it?" LOL!!!

  • @HSECMAN Been there, done that! lol

  • awesome, close your eyes and listen

  • These guy were much bigger in England than they ever were in North America - PITY

  • no 1 in the week I was born

  • Great clip of a classic song and band, what kind of amps are those, I can't make out the brand name and I've never seen them before.

  • Bravo!!

  • Samwan ??? Samthing ??? 

  • I'm a huge Bee Gees fan, because of the way they harmonize. These guys are right up there with them!

  • You won't find a better example of vocal harmonies than this. Anywhere. Yeah, it's very easy now to scoff at the idea that Decca chose them over the Beatles, but there's a hell of a lot of talent here, and the Beatles sort of blossomed into their talent after they signed. At this point, there was precious little to choose between them.  Fair play to Decca, though history would prove them wrong. They certainly wouldn't be the first or the last.

  • @cromly Very thoughtful commentary.

  • Incredible live performance. Perfect harmonies.

  • Great harmonies and in sync this time just lol

  • This is great, fantastic harmonies, I always loved them...

  • So Decca gave up The Beatles for these guys...

  • @progrockcoffee Stranger things have happened - but probably not more expensive things...

  • @progrockcoffee What's so wrong with the Tremeloes? They're great!

  • @progrockcoffee - these were not the original Tremeloes - this is from 1967, they restarted without frontman Brian Poole but kept the previous three and added Chip Hawkes on bass :)

  • @progrockcoffee Wow! What a trip, never knew that... Well they must have made SOME money off this band, I mean these guys ain't bad and I well remember their music and this tune especially...great harmony!

  • I saw them live in the early eighties...excellent...as was all 60's music...an era we'll never hear of the likes again...sad really.

  • Gorgeous harmonies, something very masculine about it. I'm an older lady and these voices make me feel . . ."younger!"

  • I'm a straight dude and i'm swooning over the melody/vocalizing.

  • GREAT SONG WISH WE STILL HAD MUSIC LIKE THAT

  • they came to our school once

  • the dislike bar is like a ninja its so small but its there

  • me parece un excelente video musical

  • That's good song writing.

  • Live recording? Awesome!!!!! Thank you for posting.

  • Thanksgiving afternoon 1967. Ten bored cousins upstairs in Samantha's room, listening to the Beatles, The Tremeloes and the Mama's and Papa's.

  • Nice live rendition, this song would have been a good fit for the Four Seasons.

  • A nice rock..doo-wop like feel to it

  • Just love this !

  • Still love it afterall these years

  • @Tarn1968 In those days..from which I originate(ha ha!)..many guitar Amplifiers had a a built in effect on the panel(Tremolo) controled by a knob or two, to adjust intensity & speed.The effect varied the straight forward signal(note) to a wavey kind of thing(similar to raising & lowering volume knob).It really was a crappy effect but these guys probably liked the sound of the word and it was kind of new,

  • @merseybeat1963 Yeah - I remember the tremolo effect when my friends brought their amps over. This group was so good in this video - almost like the record!!

  • It bring back a lot of memories!

  • GREAT<MET THESE GUYS IN SEA POINT IN THE 60 S

  • Paul was asked what does he think of todays bands..He replied GIVE THEM A SET OF DRUMS 2GUITARS AND A BASS AND SEE WHAT THEY CAN DO>>There will never ever be THE SIXTIES MAN

  • @MrBertieburger you're absolutely right

  • one of my all time favourite songs!

  • @stoker20 GARAGE - this was a very big song - I was about 11 - but remember it very well & now all this time later - can see what the people looked like behind this Top 40 hit on my little transistor radio.

  • SILENCE IS GOLDEN... LISTEN VERY HARD!!!

  • doesn´t this bring back memories..??

  • I saw this band at the Chelsea Village in Bournemouth in the 60's... I am now 62 and never forgot that performance.............. brilliant

  • The harmony of the voices is a delight to the ear. A precious memory!

  • @rbkpetroleo Magic isn't it

    

  • @tonyhall1 Without a doubt!

  • Thanks John, it is marvelous to see this boys again !

  • this was originally a Frankie Vallie song

  • at times i hate tht The Beatles 'threw' these gud stuffs. back wen i first started to listen to oldies, i only knew of them and elvis. it was much l8r i heard more worthy songs.

  • @Tarn1968 A tremelo is part of a guitar also know as a wammy bar. You remove the knob and screw in the wammy bar which gives the guitarist the ability to quickly change the pitch of what he is playing. I prefer to not use one when I play but some of the best guitarists do like Slash from Guns N Roses. Watch the video "Sweet Child O Mine". At the end of the song Slach uses the tremelo / wammy bar to make the his guitar make a dip sound.

  • @Tarn1968 In non-technical terms, it means when a sound gets louder and softer, 'vibrating' between the different volumes fairly quickly. On some guitars there's a 'tremelo' arm, which when pushed/pulled it makes the tone go up or down, and on some guitar amplifiers and guitar effect pedals there's a tremelo effect which does the former, and you can vary the speed or intensity of the change with a turn of a knob. Pity the rest of life wasn't so simple.

  • Reminds me of secondary school 1967/68 when this song came out. For being a bad boy I had a 100 lines to write of: Silence is Golden, it helps me to work. Yeah..the good old days.

  • Awesome video !!! Great.

  • Harmony and melody supreme.

  • I love this song....and the story that this group beat The Beatles in DECCA records audition is, of course a certain wow...

    Comparing now is no contest, but if Beatles was not beaten that day, we probably wouldn't see Beatles like what we see today..

  • This version is much better than that recorded by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

  • @72Vegaman Are you serious???????

  • yo la quiero bailar...! ♥.♥

  • Not only great harmony but fantastic arrangement as well

  • Wow! Would any of you ladies like to meet me at Teen Town for a dance? Thanks John! for the trip down memory lane.

  • monoatomic gold ormus silence is golden !

  • Thanks for uploading this 'Oldie' :)

  • Wow, how many bands could sing and play this song live as flawlessly as this band does here. The harmonies are perfectly balanced which is quite a feat while strumming and drumming! I love it!

  • Evergreen forever.

  • Nice harmonies. Kind of reminds me of the Bee Gees.

  • one word.brilliant.

  • i wish we had sth like these group in our pojebany country

  • Obgd pela explicaçao do nome do grupo. Gostei muito de saber. Recordo com muita saudade.

    Abraço

  • I think it`s a great song.

  • They don't make them like this any more! Can we rate higher than a ten?

  • great version, three up front, great love song im a 60s man and its great to have these videos to visit the past

  • UN GRAN TEMA ..

  • do harmonies come better then this?, if they do, let me know, what a great song cheers for uploading ........ must say the crowd mostly look perplexed!!!

  • The Tremeloes. 60's legends :)

  • WHAT MEMORIES THANK YOU THE GOOD OLD DAYS. WE ARE SOUTHERN CAL

  • Bien dice el dicho:el hablar es plata mientras que el silencio es oro.

  • Truly timeless and a real classic. The few notes from 1:53 to 2:01 by the drummer are hard to duplicate. A+

  • Silence is golden. Mas às vezes dói demais!

  • live vocals. fantastic. great upload.

  • Ahh, those were the days. Love these American classics, they will live on forever.

  • Awesome Song!!!

  • I'm expecting to see Archie, Jughead, Bettie and Veronica in the crowd. This song just screams 50's American innocence, even though the band is British and the song is from the 60's.

  • love the composition and the mix; done without retakes and remixes......

  • Its funny, I cant stop pushing the replay button on this song. The tenors, countertenors, baritones..they all go so well with each other its not even funny.

  • IF YOU LISTEN THE GUITAR IT HAS THE TREMOLO EFFECT

  • They don't make songs like this anymore!

  • linda rola, me guta, me gutaaaaa mushitoooo ¡¡¡

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  • @marog115 eh?

  • #209 tremeloes silence is golden...now thats my kind of music

  • Beauteous. Zero dislikes.

  • "Silence is golden, as the tremeloes say... Actually, I think the original version is by Frankie and the Four Seasons! (hums the song) OH SHUT UP!"

    Love actually!!!

  • The guy on the left is REALLY cute.

  • @ch1aka2 Totally agree!

    

  • @Tarn1968 Tremolo is a musical term that describes various trembling effects, falling roughly into two types. The first is a rapid reiteration either of a single note or between two notes or chords in alternation. A 2nd is a variation in amplitude as produced on organs by tremulants; using electronic effects in guitar amplifiers and effects pedals; an imitation of the same by strings in which pulsations are taken in the same bow direction; a vocal technique involving a wide or slow vibrato.

  • @John1948ThirteenA , this is what I found on the internet

    Drummer Dave Munden of The Tremeloes explains: "We got our name actually from; you plugged into one of the amplifiers and it gave you the vibrato sound on the guitars. It was what we called a tremelo unit. And that's where we got the name of the band from."

  • How true nation of Australia. God sees all.

  • And they play their own instruments! Take that Monkees!

  • @svenswart Peter played bass, banjo and keyboards; Mike played guitar, Micky played drums, and Davy was a virtuoso on tambourine and maracas. They weren't bad musicians, and had some great songs. And they belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame !!!

  • @ITILII It sounds like you are describing the Monkees rather than the Tremeloes.

  • @ITILII ok, I take that back. Maybe I had them confused with Backstreet Boys and n'Sync.

  • i spent a wonderful in 1959 with the tremeloes playing at butlins ayr. also with the girl i loved and lost. ahhhh. ray s.

  • Absolutely incredible harmonies. Brings back so many wonderful memories. Thanks for posting it.

  • 0:58 he seems shy!

  • I feel like slow dancing all of a sudden. Anyone else?

  • This is the group that beat out the Beatles for the Decca contract in January, 1962.

  • Dedicated to the beautiful Dorota .

  • doesn't chip Hawkes look like Chesney ???

  • This still makes me cry what a wonderful record and what a sound ...

  • I hate being old enough to remember when this was on the charts. I loved it then...and I love it now. This is the group that beat out the Beatles for a Decca contract January 1962. Really. Brian Poole and the Tremeloes (misspelled). Great harmonies. To this day I show this vid to the young musicians in the store where I work to inspire them to be true.

  • Sencillamente ... una canción preciosa ...

  • lol...

  • Legend forever.

  • Thanks got there...

  • 1:50 That guy had an epic smile going on.

  • One of those rare ones where the live version is better than the original recording version. I LOVE this video, and especially this performance of the song.

  • so, so wonderful.

  • Ha ha :55 get that camera out of my face

  • its cool that they were able to pull that harmony live

  • i have a friend from the 70's that had a really hot girl friend. he was cheating on her all the time. i asked him why he cheats in her when she is so pretty, his answer was because i keep getting away with it. i finally told her about this song and asked her to listen to it very closely and she should be able figure it out. she approached me a week or so later and said she listened to it but couldn't understand what i meant. i gave up and walked away. :( oh the wonderful 70's

  • @MrAnozira1 What can I say without making you angry? I think you should have either told her in clear language or kept completely quiet. What you did only helped you to try to salve your own guilty conscience. It did nothing for the girl. It seems a bit timid.

  • @John1948ThirteenA Well i knew her for 6 months and Dale for over 12 years. but that does not excuse what he did. about 4 months later i ran into to her and she was crying because a woman called asking for him. i then told her that he might be cheating on her,she got in her car and drove off. i ran into her the next day and asked if she was all right, to my surprise it turned out it was her identical twin (freaked me out) she said she told her he was cheating on her but she wouldn't listen.

  • @John1948ThirteenA good analysis

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  • @John1948Thirteen-A very astute remark and your're right on the mark.

  • @MrAnozira1 I've also learned through bad experience that people really don't want to hear the truth, even when it might be good for them. The more you attempt to convince her that the alcoholic abusive jerk to whom she is married should be kicked to the curb, the more she will get defensive, clinging to what she has rather than deal with the uncertainty of charting her own course for awhile. And, yes, I am speaking about a specific person who deserves much better than she settles for.

  • @MrAnozira1 Gee, so the girl couldn't read your mind? Oh, yeah, time to give up, oh genius. What did you expect? Nobody can mind read.

    I'm hoping you've learned how to communicate better with people since then, but I doubt it....if you still remember this in vivid detail and writing about it on YouTube, the chances of you having already learned to grow up with your verbal skills, is not likely.

  • My first kiss the summer of 67 .. I remember this song and falling in love at 14. Very beautiful.

  • I don't know if any1 agress with me but I think this live performance sounds better than the actual studio recording. These guys could really harmonize.

  • Thanks John1948 for this video. It's shows them harmonizing without all the stage glitter. If you brought it back from the deleted than double wow! Also love the dancing couples. Soo 60's.....

  • THIS IS A TRUE CLASSIC BUT THERE WAS ANOTHER SILENCE IS GOLDEN BEFORE THIS ONE WITH A FASTER TUNE, SOMETHING LIKE SILENCE IS GOLDEN, STOP ALL YOUR CRYING, ALL IS NOT LOVE, ALTHOUGH WE QUARELLED AND SO FORTH. CANT FIND IT ANYWHERE , CAN'T REMEMBER WHO SANG THAT ONE. CAN ANYBODY HELP?

  • @LOTSAAS Sorry, I don't know that one.

  • @LOTSAAS It was one of the B sides of the FOUR SEASONS, theTremeloes are great but I think you will gree that they ripped it off

  • @MedEsq Hi there, thanks for trying but not that either. It was totally a different song with other words also called "silence is golden" . but i do appreciate your help.

  • @LOTSAAS I think the one you are' looking for is Silence is Golden by The Square Set. But this does feature on you tube yet (",)

  • @LOTSAAS The one you are looking for is from The Square Set, but its not on You tube yet.

  • @LOTSAAS , You may be thinking of "Girl of My Best Friend" by Ral Donner

  • @LOTSAAS , Try "Girl of My Best Friend" by Ral Donner.

  • @LOTSAAS Four Seasons?

  • Evergreen forever!

  • This was one of FOUR songs originally by Frankie Valli and/or the Four Seasons which reached no 1 in the UK as cover versions. The others were The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore (Walker Brothers), Bye Bye Baby (Bay City Rollers) and Working My Way Back To You (Detroit Spinners).

  • @cbak12sg Were not the Tremeloes first?

  • @Persian1Cat Nope. It was originally the B side of Rag Doll by the Four Seasons, which came out in 1964. The song was written by Four Seasons member Bob Gaudio, with his regular co-writer Bob Crewe. The Tremeloes' version came out in 1967.

  • my man on the left is rockin that sgt pepper jacket

  • An outstanding song

  • Pardon the English, but the harmonies is golden.

  • two things, thank god for the germans, so many great 60s british group live performances would be lost forever without them, unlike the bbc, THEY didnt erase history like it was garbage. secondly, thank god decca didn't sign the Beatles, without George Martin and the power of EMI, they would have faded after a few singles and all of rock history could have been changed (or lost).

  • Very underrated band. Not many bands could or can do these multi-part harmonies.