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  • all that cock that could be sucked back in the 60's. I am first in line.

  • @fran9860 why you little pervert, does your mummy knows what you're doing?

  • Started hitching a ride in 65 to LA .. 45 years later still here....Someone pick me up please !!

  • boy it makes me feel old

  • my son is 29 and he loves this tune. I can't stop playing it got it on a compilation . Think the lead singer Trevor was sooo cute

  • Very catchy tune, you feel kind of happy when listening to this and isn't that the purpose of music? At least music from The Great Era Of Real Music, the 60's, 70's and 80's make me feel that way!

  • I've always liked this song. When I was 4 yrs old, I would play this 45 rpm on my record player. But seriously... what's up with the faggoty stewardess/smock/skirt thingies. A guy turned up on a Paper Lace film recording wearing the same damn thing, but the video is in color and the smock/skirt is powder blue and as fruity as you get. "Night Chicago Died" is a good song. What's up with the homo look? And was he a wash up from Vanity Fair?

  • At certain angles this cat looks la little like Steve Perry. Interesting choice of tunics.

  • Was that Steve Wright introducing them!

  • I sit next to the base players son at work! Good song.

  • A classic tune, I 1st heard this in Oregon in maybe 74? Never forgot it!

  • I got Honorably Discharged from the Marines and was released in San Diego to the streets of California in 1975, I hitched a ride from there to LA it took me two days and I slept on the beach with a fire to keep warm, these days you can't even walk on the beach past dark or you are arrested and insofar as hitching a ride on a California freeway, it's suicide. My what a great world we will leave our children.

  • whatever happened to hitching rides?????????? . no way on earth would I ever recommend anyone hitch a ride as before. but there was a time you could cross all of the USA this way

    I sure miss the Old Ways"..........thanks for this great song

  • @picisa You miss the old ways? So does Ted Bundy!

  • Another classic...

  • I was right there.

  • Wow, it has been a long time since I've heard this, What a happy song! What happened - doesn't seem to be too many happy songs anymore. Thanks for sharing this!

  • Bought their greatest hits CD on the strength of this YOUTUBE post. Timeless

  • If this posting doesn't reach 8.000.000 at the end of 2012.. I will ask Monica Lewinsky for a date.. I swear for my mother!

  • I used to hitch hike everywhere in the late 60's and most of the 70's and pick up hitchhikers as well that is until I picked up a weirdo one day. He made me nervous. I had never been afraid of anyone before. I never hitch hiked or picked up anyone again.

  • Ore Watt!

  • One of my favorites!

  • for all of you wonderful people who posted such heartfelt replies to my post, I didn't mean to take the attention away from such a terrific song and the cherished memories each of you had of it. Regretfully, I selfishly did not keep in touch with the gentleman over the years and by the time I decided to search him out--he had retired to So. Carolina in the mid 80's, he had already passed away 8 years earlier.

    But he made a lasting impression on me for 40 years and counting--a prince of a man!

  • Is this Ashton Kutchers real Dad?

  • Even my friend and I had to hitch a ride to get back to the Hither Hills camp site, after we spent hours hiking west down from the camp site looking for girls when we were 14 or 15! Back in those days, 1976 or 1977, it was still somewhat safe to hitch a ride! I love this great song from my childhood! Peace and Love to All! BobbyK

  • It's 1970 in California. My father pulls over to pick up a hitch hiker on our way up the 99 north. We stop at a fruit juice stand that for 25 cents is all the juice you can drink from a dixie cup. Pixley isn't that the town from Green Acres? Selma the raisin capitol of the world, Fresno no Walmarts, Targets, Panda express, just farmland and the smell of bovine. Clovis and the hitch hiker says " thanks for the ride man, peace". A two lane road takes us up towards Dinkey Creek.  Ahh memories

  • I gave it "like" #2000!

  • i love this song.

  • This is a great song! What kind of wind instrument is that? Lots of experimentation with different instruments in the 60s.

  • Reminds me of my brother riding his 650 Triumph fast fast fast. So long ago - such a great time to be hangin out.

  • @Beck9476 That was a REAL bike! BSA Gold Star was also a 650 I believe.

  • We were so young all those years ago...

  • Complete and utter shite. Mimed by complete and utter shite-sters. Am I right or am I right?

  • Oh yes!!! My AM transistor radio, & nothing else to do except to wear down the battery! The good old days1

  • Hippies hitching a ride all along the thruways & highways going to Woodstock, N.Y. in 1969.

  • @ed917751 I agree......you feel everything like it was yesterday.....

  • AWESOME!

  • a trip thru the past for sure

  • THIS SONG BLARED ON AM ALL 1970 EVERYWHERE U WENT

  • thats the lead singer of shawadywaddy??? i was 41/2 when this came out so only remember it from replays over the years..but i wish i could go back to the 70s and 80s things went baaaaad in the 90`s and are getting worse..anyone got a time machine???

  • After this song, I feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel good!

  • There, don't you feel better now? That's what songs in those days did, more often than not...

  • This song is as old as I am!

  • oh man does this take me back or what

  • takes me back to the days when hitchin a ride was safe! I don't even SEE hitch hikers anymore! LOL!

  • @ReneeEvans27 Surprisingly, I saw a few hitch hikers this summer, when I was on vacation on the Central Coast of California, by San Luis Obispo. Ha ha!

  • Comedy Dave with the intros and outros!!

  • Transition out of 1:26 . Top notch

  • it came out in the 60's.

  • 1970 it was --- great tune

    

  • I hitched a ride to the woods and I ran into Jason. He tried to kill me....lol

    Never hitch a ride again.

  • what year was this out..maybe 70?..i think i was probably 6 first time i heard this, my older sister had taken me to the beach with her boyfriend..what a great time..great memory, thanks for posting

  • This is like a trip down nostalgia lane. Great stuff.

  • Omg this was my favorite song when I was little, wow, haven't thought of this song in forever! Funny how they all wore matching outfits back then lol.

  • when it was safe to hitch a ride ....

  • The 60s were great I was there I loved the music it was great you were able to live more of a free life then we would party for 3 straight days in a cow field we 3 or bands come in and play at different times all the pot food & booze you could eat and drink and smoke with no hassle from the police as long as we stayed cool. It was an-awesome time of my life today they have laws for every thing. I would like to turn the clocks back.

  • WOW THIS SONG BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF GROWING UP IN THE 60'S

  • Damn. I remember hearing this at a the beach in the summer. Going to the beach was a unique enough experience, starting to notice the world and hearing his on the radio made quite an impression, especially the piano at 125. Great rising and falling note thing going on

  • Were they session musicians for some Who early hits...or is that an urban myth?

  • i came here for GREEN DAY

  • I was 13 in Arica.. Chile!! Oh my God! What a memories of my teens! I feelings of peace and great moments playing with my friends at the park! Arica is a Beautiful city..

  • A half case of beer some good smoke and great tunes,it don't get any better.

  • @diskeywick i totally agree!

  • You wouldn't want to try to hitch a ride these days being Whites don't seem to care about their fellow White brothers and sisters anymore.

  • Well shit, I guess I am hitchin a ride!

  • A smooth, well-produced number...not to mention well performed.

  • some of these 1-hit wonder bands actually had decent lead singers. something that i never realized before, scrolling through this era of a.m. radio heaven. i remember all of these songs, though, as a kid; maybe in the back of the station wagon with the metal wood grain paint job. "are we here yet, dad"? 'yeah, were here, but we're not there yet'.

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  • Oh how I used to hate having to play this !!!!!!

  • i wanna go backk.....

  • i want to go down on the lead singer.

  • @fran9860 Why don't you just eat a hotdog with mustard?

  • My God...how can SO many great songs have come out of this period??? Just consider the statistics...it's mindblowing. Everything came together then.

  • Listened to this one almost everyday I had to hitch hike to the Golden Valley Country Club to work at the ripe old age of 12. Carried doubles frequently. Happy to earn the money for a pair of Adidas that my parents wouldn't buy because they were too expensive. No one told me what to do after that. I earned it.

  • the best love it hitchin a ride cooolllllllllllllllllllll

  • I'd listen to this as I read Lord of the Rings when I was12 years old. A song for all generations.

  • @sherriffnoldie ...ahaha...I used to listen to Country Joe and the Fish...while reading Tolkein...I always thought the lead singer of this band was female....great vocal range....

  • great memories!

  • Not sad..this song drives a very intense beat. First time I bought it was on the Detroit CKLW best of album. Super cool melody not equaled by many!

  • mspunky -unfortunately, the vietnam war, like all our wars, save for the revolutionary war, the civil war, and ww II, had nothing to do with our "freedom", and everything to do with yet more unwordly, obscene profit for the ruling class. you can scream nooooooo till you're blue in the face; doesn't change facts.

  • @FellowWorker1905 - Lemme guess... you also tout alien abductions, and have "actual proof" the moon is made of green cheese, right?

  • Wow Jeff I can feel that mans pain...I lost a lot of friends in that dam war....but thank you for sharing that story....and thank you FOR MY FREEDOM JEFF!!!

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  • ay steve perry from journey

  • THANK GOD NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS VIDEO!

  • Jeff that is amazing. :)

  • Didn;t this band take it name froma fashion MAgazine?

  • This song in those muscle cars during that time ..... finding yourself going 100 mph in no time. The music in those cars was a burn rubber fun ass time..............Oh yeah Mach 1 1969 Mustangs and 1970 Super Bees...

  • I remember hitchiking back in the day and singing this song to keep our spirits up till we got a ride. Can you beleive there was actually a time in America when you felt free and safe enough to catch a ride with a total starnger? From the 50's to the mid 70's hitchiking was as natural as taking the bus. But sadly the Creeps ruined it for everyone. Peace.

  • when and where can i get on that bus ready to go right now miss those days so many songs lot of good times gone along with a lot good friends. remember those days when you get old god i hope that you .you can sit back and have something nice to think about while your wife and kids are all rising hell at you. used my thumb alot to get around in 60's and 70's lots of good bud .even the bad days back then are better then goods days now had a good life would be fun to do over

  • yea :)

  • I think listening to these songs brings back many good memories and some not so good but I would love to do it over again.

  • I'm right there with you "myfnjeans"...you can be first in line...I'll be second...lol

    I used to hitchhike all the time back in the '60's...yes I was young...but I never traveled alone...always had my best friend at least...one time there was 5 of us...one would stand and throw out the thumb...the others would hide in the culvert/ditch till a ride would stop...no one ever took off...try that today and see what happens

  • 1:22 Ok lets go for it

  • Can someone please find a time machine to take me back to the 1960s and great music like this - because most of today's music, especially rap, is unadulterated nuclear waste.

  • @primogennaio Looking for that VW bus myself.....:)

  • @primogennaio

    I was 12 when this song was released. It's still good to listen to.

  • @pmccachren You are a few years older.  But I can see you appreciate good music.

  • @primogennaio hello i agree!! but this came out in 1970..at least my mom told me..

  • @exgroupiefromelmont1 Released in 1969, hit the charts in 1970. Both years are part of the 1960s decade 1961-1970.

  • @primogennaio I have to disagree the 70's is not part of the 60's decade. Decades are from 60-69, then 70-79.

  • @keaton1895 You are wrong. Numerically the first decade 01-10, second 11-20, then 21-30, etc. Read my statement. It did not place the 70s in the 60s decade, just the two years 1969 and 1970.

  • @primogennaio I hate to inform you but a decade is 1900-1909, 1910-1919 etc.

  • @keaton1895 You are wrong, I just explained it. How stupid can you be? It is simple math. 01-10, 11-20. Boy, are you ignorant. Please don't reply, I won't open emails from someone with a molecule brain.

  • @primogennaio how stupid of an ass are you, you need to go back to fucking school.

  • @primogennaio Again the 60's decade is the 60's not 1970. The music began to change in 70. And a decade goes from 0 to 9 you idiot.

  • @keaton1895 Poor you....you got hurt...lol!

  • @primogennaio you never know what we might have in the future, we wont need planes in the future and so a time machine is also a possibility too

  • @primogennaio I totally agree with you!lol

  • @primogennaio I've been looking for a time machine for years because the crap today needs to be circle filed!

  • @MrBigoutlaw You are right, right, right!

  • Hitchhiking was fun, did it a few times with a mate when I was a teenager.

    That was 40 years ago, people too scared now maybe.

  • Catchy...

    Makes hitchhiking seem like fun.

  • That was one of the songs I lost when I lost my NAS hard drives last year.

  • are those seersucker suits?

  • I hitched a ride once, but can't remember when it was actually deemed a legit form of transport in this country which kinda sucks. Gotta go to Cuba for that.

  • one of the greatest songs ever!

  • Back in the day, we bought 45's... and this was one of the greatest..driving beat, super melody!

  • And I thought it was ditching a bride

  • I was born in the wrong decade.

  • Was a senior in high school at the time...started ysing the thumb then...

  • He kinda looks like Steve Perry.

  • @bvddan I thought he did, he really looks and sounds like the original lead singer from Head East, and Petra, but earlier style music//

  • that was my first loves song, we danced and to this in junior high school, got my first kiss then.

  • what a gem thanx for posting

  • Thanks for the post!

  • Excellent White band.

  • I'm 62. My main source of transportation in the 60's. Some? I even remember!  Thanks for posting.

  • Wait! Is that lead singer Steve Perry before Journey? LOL

  • @Baritone45 LOl..it reminds me of him...too funny

  • Me and my dad love this song!!!!!!

    Rock on dudes

  • So when did Steve Perry get to sing for this band?

  • I knew all the words and music- they all came flooding back to me as I listened- and I am 50!

  • @MsJavanica I'm 58 and yea, I remember the words to all the ol songs, but funny, I can't remember what I did yesterday... lol

  • @merlin6945 This is funny,these songs come on and you automatically start to sing the words.

    Let's see where was i.... oh,the words....LOL

  • Folks who haven't lived in the 60's and 70's have no conception of the thumb based transit system of the time. Hitchhiking was cool because you got a ride when you needed it and gave a ride when you could. It was an understanding that all decent people agreed on. Our current police state did away with that.

  • @tonemenolc I blame it a bit more on the mass murderers who used to have a field day on all those poor kids. Still, I agreed fully with everything else in your post. It's definitely another world out there now. Too bad, I think we all preferred our innocence.

  • I'm 16 and I absolutely love this song. When I was a kid my brother and I used to dance to it while it played on the record player.

  • Great tune was then and still is today....fun fun fun!!!

  • who is the lead singer?

  • I'm going to be the first one on the Time Machine Bus when it's invented. Hitchin' a Ride to the late 60's!!! One way ticket!!!

  • @myfnjeans ...I'm right with you my friend. I'd go back in a minute. They were wonderful times, and I don't like it much here.

  • @myfnjeans exscuse me , i will be with you ,making two of us

  • I GOT A FEVER,AND THE ONLY PRESCRIPTION IS MORE RECORDER

  • What a babe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    

  • you just don't hear enough 'recorder' in pop music these days hehe

  • this song makes me sad. I was hitchin' home from the army in VA during this time and was picked up in PA by a gentleman who not only insisted on buying me breakfast at a great diner outside of Harrisburg--he watched me eat while he had coffee, but also taking me within 10 miles of my Ohio home--225 miles from his original destination, I later found out his son was killed in Vietnam the year before and he had an affinity for servicemen.

  • @jeff65623: Aw, that's so sad about his son. =( I'm glad the guy helped you out, though. =)

  • @jeff65623 Wow, I guess some people welcomed home Vietnam Vets.

  • @jeff65623 that is a great story. Thank you for serving this country. You are the men and women who truly have kept America free.

  • @jeff65623 WOW..That is a kind of story I wish I could share..makes me want to cry

    

  • @jeff65623 Man....I'll second what everyone else is saying, wow, what a story, gives you goosebumps. Thank you for your service to our country.

  • @jeff65623 - Thank you for sharing this story. As a Psych major, I know there's different ways we humans react to tragedy. Instead of letting his bitterness take over, this man chose to pour his affection for his son onto another soldier, turning a negative into a positive. I hope he has, or will be rewarded for his decency, in some way. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. Best Wishes to You.

  • @jeff65623 i'm so sorry to hear that!!! I did most of vietnam songs this morning and posted them on fb...

  • @jeff65623

    Great story Jeff: Thank you for your service to all Americans. Refreshing to see someone those days cared at all for gentlemen of your fabric.

  • @jeff65623 my heart just broke a little bit more.

  • @jeff65623 ...could have been an angel??

  • @jeff65623 sorry man

  • @jeff65623 That......really didn't end how I thought it was going to

  • @MrJweazy1979 lol me too I thought the guy was going to be a perv. goes to show what our world has become

  • @jeff65623 aww, such a sweet story, ty for sharing

  • @jeff65623 Great story! Did you keep in touch with the man?

  • @jeff65623 That one made me tear up but thanks for sharing it!

  • @jeff65623

    I just read your comment. I'm in the California Army National Guard. Not the song, but your story made me a little thankful sad. Some people that DO support the military are amazing. I'm a veteran of Iraq 2008 and people have been very generous to me as well. I thank God for them every day. I hope you're enjoying time home in the USA fellow soldier. God bless.

  • @jeff65623 The gentleman you talk about "loved" a service member. God bless him and God bless you!

    Regards,

    Willtent

  • Why is Woody Harrelson playing the drums?

  • @maxcohen13 He was young and needed the money?!?!

  • Typical dumass editing of today. Fill the perfomance full of distracting sh*t that didn't happen back then because the production companies back then had respect for the performers/performance. S8hit!

  • @capie44 Oh? You don't think they had go-go dancers who were dancing off beat that the cameras zoomed to endlessly? Filmography wasn't perfect back then... Hell, I'd love to see the audience's faces. But whatever.

  • @JoeAuriun Oh. I wasn't talking about the habits back then, I was talking about all the stinkin' pop-ups during the show that could happen during the commercials. The industry has more respect for the commercials (no pop-ups) than the show--even the next show is advertised as a pop-up during the performance: "this week's special at Pizza world, the actors names and production crew, the next show,the tornado warnings! It is all rude since it doesn't happen on "sponsor" time.

    That's what I meant

  • she has a nice voice

  • my favorite song im using my sons acc this song lit up my life me and my girlfriends would hitch whever we wanted to go it was a blast thank u vanity fair

  • I was five at the time and I remember this being played ALL the time at Butlins in Minehead. I still love this song, happy days:)

  • Pintura Fresca !!!

  • Who could have known in the 60s that mainstream music would turn into this......