It really doesn't matter what genre of music you like, this is one of the best songs ever written and performed. I don't own a single soul album and have very little interest in the genre, but I heard this song many years ago late at night while driving through Iowa and I have never forgotten it.
this one i dedicate to the man that held my heart, but didnt want it. becuase everything happens for a reason and just becuase you may feel someone is right for you, doesnt mean theyre meant to be yours.
this song came on as i was stuck on the side of highway 95 south at night in North Carolina, i was pn the grass layed out.. thinkin about life and why the fuck was i stuck in that situation.. coulda been at home but instead dedcided to do some dumb shit. as i had my radio turned up, my zune was dead, had the radio on a random station, and as it started to play, staring i the night clouds, tears started rolling down my eyes. i cried like a bitch because this is a beautiful song :)
I first heard this song on Hairspray (well all the songs did) and it really touched me...just when I thought I had found a favorite oldtimey song, and this one comes along :o)
i love this song,i first heard it in the movie hairspray,you know its a good song when you just gotta hear it once to love it unlike other songs that radio forces us to like because of continuous airplay
i knew that mccall had to be connected, to some kind of church, you can hear it in his voice,as for this song it's speaks for ti's self. people back then, wrote and sung with the trueth! they was clean song amen for the yester years!
Soul of the DEEPEST quality. Too much. Pulls at the heart strings and supports every spiritual emotion ever felt. An amazing track. Almost too beautiful for words. I remember buying this originally in 1967 (?) on the UK Pye-International label. Still have it and treasure it to this day. Deep Soul rules!
Toussaint McCall's vocal is one of the most moving I've ever heard - so smooth, & subtle, yet filled with the kind of despair & raw emotion that conveys the meaning of the lyric & brings the song home. The organ, played by TS, helps to underscore the emotion of the track & ultimately, this ends up being one of the most stirring R&B tracks ever recorded. Toussiant McCall is underrated, & overlooked - yet, he remains one of the best f***ing R&B singers of all time. Absolute perfection.
this was some music i am not black but this is some soul music nowadays you can find music like this this song requires you to go through somthing in order for you to dig and put your sweat and tears to get to the finished music all you get now is uh baby ooo baby uh baby ooo baby, shut the hell up baby and if anyone knows who i got that from he is awesome thumbs uo if you agree
this is what music should be short but full of emotion,feeling and most important Meaning wish i were in this period but was born on 86 so didn't get to hear till later from a homeless person that was singing this song and touched the music in me
I knew this song from my father playing it, but I just loved it when it was on the original Hairspray - John Waters picks out such great old songs for his movies.
This is one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever written and recorded. McCall sings it with such raw emotion! I've never heard anything quite l;ike it. It is so powerful and heart-wrenching.
Tab Benoit just recorded this, on his new cd 'Medicine'...awesome song...takes another Louisiana boy to do it justice again and introduce it to a new generation...
Reminds me of the Hairspray original scene when that whino comes out of the alley with just him and his bottle busting out the lyrics, and stops and and tips his hat...I always think of that partwhen I hear the chorus...Classic
Would love to dance to this when I was in high school. Toussaint played for our prom when I was a junior in ;high school. Still brings back good memories.
@52thanks God, I really hate what they've done to YouTube. It makes no sense, this new setup. The way it used to work, when someone answered a comment you left, you were directed back to your own comment when you clicked it. It's really like they are trying to destroy any social aspect YT may have had. I don't know what I said that you're agreeing to. Anyway, I'm sure it was about what a great song this is. Love it. Hate the new YT.
Eyes as deep and wide as a night sky echoing with a sorrow so human that it's almost grief.. This, my friends was not just heart.. Anyone can give their heart, but only a true kat can give his heart and his soul to a woman.
I am a 55 year old white male. This is true emotion from the soul. I grew up with the blue-eyed soul of Elvis, Jim Reeves, Johnny Rivers, Bill Deal, Michael McDonald, and all. I would always want to play the black soul singers my Mom wouldn't want me to play. lol. This is the real thing. Nothing compares.
Everytime I hear this song, I think about my father who's been gone for 36 years. He wasn't much into music at all but I remember he always asked me to play this song for him.I guess it made him think about my mother who had passed before him. Thank you so much for posting this.
I'm only 24 but grew up with oldies such as these and i am truly greatful my mum and dad have such fantastic taste in music so i can show my kids or just sit and sing them to my family as my dad did with us :-)
I never heard this version (I grew up with the Brook Benton version...mama was crazy about him lol). However, I have a new fav version. Very nice posting.
@wcta0608 Brook Benton ??? Toussaint WROTE this. Wolfman Jack always closed his radio shows with this record. You listen to the way he did it (very beautiful) on here. Click on Wolfman Jack THEN listen to the one on THAT OLDIES ALBUM "NOT" THAT DUMB SHORT VERSION with his picture.
@THEMOJOMANsince1959 yes. Brook Benton made a version of this on Cotillion Records (circa mid to late 60's I believe. Someone has it posted on youtube. I enjoy both versions. I'm just used to the Benton version.
this is what the music of today lacks. Soul!!! You can hear the pain in his voice as he is SINGING not screaming or rapping but singing. In order to love the music of today you have to sit back and appreciate the music of yesteryear that brought us to this point!!!!!!!
I have an old cassette recording of the late great Isaac Hayes covering this song and have tried to find it in other formats over the years without success. Any ideas???
Nothing will ever take the place of the Marine Villa, a Kingston brothel where I first heard this wonderful sound while watching a beautiful woman undulating under its spell 43 years ago. Talk about magical moments.
@Lilja124 Actually she was probably the most graceful woman I have ever seen. So sorry if my personalized reflection left you feeling awkward, if that was what you were trying to convey, but brothels still exist and life goes on.
You can visit all the brothels in the world and look at ladies until your eyes crumble to dust in their sockets from lack of moisture. If you share this with the world though, people will think you're giving just a wee bit too much info. Life goes on.
@salmapliz my my arent you a cheery little cookie. at age 68 i give less of a shit what judgmental souls like yourself think is too much information. have a nice life
@salmapliz You got that right. Been There Done That (like you) Bought the T-Shirt,,in fact sometimes I was ON THE T-SHIRT. Radio Station promotion T-Shirts.
@THEMOJOMANsince1959 Mojo: Thanx for the supportive comment...if there is a Marine Villa tee-shirt I need to know how to get one and if you are indeed on it you have already achieved a particularly distinctive immortality and earned my heart-felt admiration.
This song rules, totally different from the crap they play today, it's so empty and meaningless, and even if they can't sing they play their damn music anyway!
This is wild....but this song was released in 1967, but "Hairspray" the movie was set much earlier....1960!? Toussaint must have had to get back in his time machine, after singing it in the movie, and go back to the future!?.......:) Love this song!
" Every now & then, a song hurts you so bad, ...because that Love, was that Fine!" " There really is something to the old saying: 'I never would have known how bad, if I had never known how good!" " Still, ...I'd do it again, in a heartbeat!
you know a classic when you can remember the very first time you ever heard it.......i never tire of this song and i never will. truly a beautifully written song.
Thank you so much. I gave up looking for Toussaint McCall because no one knew what I was talking about. This was played in the 1960's. Still good today.
He's my great step uncle basically my grandpa remarried before i was born and my grandma genivea is his sister I went to a family reunion in Louisianna when I was 13 that was almost 8 years ago for and he sang he still sounds good! I love him he's really nice and accepting all my step gma's family is!
first heard it on radio station WLAC Nashville Tennessee year 1966. So nice to hear it again from a time so long ago.
athan1145 1 week ago
Of course just one of the best!
So alive
So sad
So soulful
MattGibbons22 2 weeks ago
Tho it's a Bittersweet song, I really like it....thx Tony
sleepytimegalz 3 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Toussaint McCall
Breaks my heart every time I listen to it.
shadaniel39 3 weeks ago
It really doesn't matter what genre of music you like, this is one of the best songs ever written and performed. I don't own a single soul album and have very little interest in the genre, but I heard this song many years ago late at night while driving through Iowa and I have never forgotten it.
Falken78 3 weeks ago
Northern Soul classic. Soul masterpiece. Not many performances anywhere can come close to this.
eavitale055 1 month ago in playlist HAIRSPRAY!
such a great song,i love soul ballad....thanks so much for posting.....love this music,sooooooo sweeetttttttttt......
gobbiize 1 month ago
One of the greatest soul ballads of all time. Made the original Hairspray a great movie. The new Hairspray sucked.
Dickneeds 1 month ago
3 people were crying so hard they couldn't see through the tears and hit dislike instead of like.
krsname21 2 months ago 7
@krsname21 :-)
52thanks 1 month ago
@krsname21 bravo!!!!!
TheOwenCarney 1 month ago
I Do For Sure Brother!
NashvilleSoulMusic 2 months ago
I love this tune,its hard to believe that anyone loves it as much as me.its a tuuuunnnneeee .
AmreeBrown 2 months ago
this one i dedicate to the man that held my heart, but didnt want it. becuase everything happens for a reason and just becuase you may feel someone is right for you, doesnt mean theyre meant to be yours.
smittenbykittens 2 months ago
@smittenbykittens this is so true this says it all
WikidAztecBeauty 1 month ago
This says it all... no response needed!
earlyjune43 2 months ago
Thnx for posting this song !
bavariaamstel 2 months ago
OMG THIS WAS MY SONG IN HAIRSPRAY!! I loveee it, damn why I had to be born in the 90's lol
LadiAmber 2 months ago
mmmmmmmm
komatman 2 months ago
this song came on as i was stuck on the side of highway 95 south at night in North Carolina, i was pn the grass layed out.. thinkin about life and why the fuck was i stuck in that situation.. coulda been at home but instead dedcided to do some dumb shit. as i had my radio turned up, my zune was dead, had the radio on a random station, and as it started to play, staring i the night clouds, tears started rolling down my eyes. i cried like a bitch because this is a beautiful song :)
forkinmypasta23 3 months ago
I first heard this song on Hairspray (well all the songs did) and it really touched me...just when I thought I had found a favorite oldtimey song, and this one comes along :o)
mentonegirl5 3 months ago
i love this song,i first heard it in the movie hairspray,you know its a good song when you just gotta hear it once to love it unlike other songs that radio forces us to like because of continuous airplay
ThePearlyrose 3 months ago
OMG WOW!...WHAT A TUNE!
Travlad87 3 months ago
i knew that mccall had to be connected, to some kind of church, you can hear it in his voice,as for this song it's speaks for ti's self. people back then, wrote and sung with the trueth! they was clean song amen for the yester years!
PECOKE9 3 months ago
Soul of the DEEPEST quality. Too much. Pulls at the heart strings and supports every spiritual emotion ever felt. An amazing track. Almost too beautiful for words. I remember buying this originally in 1967 (?) on the UK Pye-International label. Still have it and treasure it to this day. Deep Soul rules!
Bierney45 3 months ago
Toussaint McCall's vocal is one of the most moving I've ever heard - so smooth, & subtle, yet filled with the kind of despair & raw emotion that conveys the meaning of the lyric & brings the song home. The organ, played by TS, helps to underscore the emotion of the track & ultimately, this ends up being one of the most stirring R&B tracks ever recorded. Toussiant McCall is underrated, & overlooked - yet, he remains one of the best f***ing R&B singers of all time. Absolute perfection.
twowaystreet101 3 months ago
Wow! This is definately one for the playlist on that special date, in, with the S.O. ;)
DJGrasshopa 3 months ago
This is the kind of emotional, haunting song that you could actually play at a funeral- I'm sure it's already been done.
billchew450 3 months ago
this was some music i am not black but this is some soul music nowadays you can find music like this this song requires you to go through somthing in order for you to dig and put your sweat and tears to get to the finished music all you get now is uh baby ooo baby uh baby ooo baby, shut the hell up baby and if anyone knows who i got that from he is awesome thumbs uo if you agree
stupidbros1 4 months ago
this is what music should be short but full of emotion,feeling and most important Meaning wish i were in this period but was born on 86 so didn't get to hear till later from a homeless person that was singing this song and touched the music in me
Jbritzwow 4 months ago
just sit back, shut your eyes, and listen...NICE
firstclass227 5 months ago
"Drenched in raw emotion - This is what music & being in love is all about." word. one of the singers who moves me the most.
ardentepatience 5 months ago
Man, this song describes exactly how I'm feeling now having gone thru a breakup.
therealsoulproduct 5 months ago
Awesome song.......
marce35164 5 months ago
Toussaint sang this song at The Colonial Hills Club in Roanoke Virginia in 1966.....Been stuck in my Head ever sine....
33saigon 6 months ago
Just realized the post I was agreeing to was 2 yrs ago. Doesn't matter
the "goodest" version nonetheless.
old guy
5871248 6 months ago
I agree "is the goodest" couldn't put it better.
old guy
5871248 6 months ago
what a great song and lovely vocal xo
1baratone 6 months ago
I have not heard this track in 30years!! i am so pleasantly supprise to have come across it.Many thanks for posting...
ralphsteadey 6 months ago
Man what the HELL do we say when someone sings w/soo much emotion. I was raised on this Music from Heaven.~ it's raining on my window payne (sp?).
rebel2rebel 6 months ago
KIMBERLY!!!!!!! OHHH MY DARLING
SirVic707 7 months ago
I knew this song from my father playing it, but I just loved it when it was on the original Hairspray - John Waters picks out such great old songs for his movies.
vagtasticone 7 months ago
my mom introduced me to this song and it takes me back to her she passed away a year ago.Its a great song.
tracybabe13 7 months ago
I have loved this song since the mid-seventies. Britlliant. Thanks for uploading it for all of us with discerning musical taste. :)
faith1868 7 months ago
i miss my grandma
BliXxMorGrahZz 8 months ago
This is one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever written and recorded. McCall sings it with such raw emotion! I've never heard anything quite l;ike it. It is so powerful and heart-wrenching.
faithmairee 8 months ago 2
they dont come more beautiful than this
loyaldude10 8 months ago
I've been looking for this, thanks. It has haunted me from the first time I heard it, so many years ago.
okalready7 8 months ago
@okalready7 i absolutely understand you. this song did the same to me.
flowersonthewindow 4 months ago
I dedicate this track to MzBlue..I Love you girl!
MidniteMoviehouse07 8 months ago
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brilliant song no more can be said
gunnerjim46 9 months ago
Great! One of my favorite songs.
chris090282 9 months ago
Tab Benoit just recorded this, on his new cd 'Medicine'...awesome song...takes another Louisiana boy to do it justice again and introduce it to a new generation...
check it out, it's here...
bayouman1952 9 months ago
absolutley beautiful
MrChillin65 9 months ago
Praise the Lord for John Waters, Toussaint, Timi and all who kept this great song alive.
caesar0214 9 months ago
Toussaint McCall is the director of music at our church now. We love it!!
Rooster450xl 9 months ago
@Rooster450xl Please tell him he did an OUTSTANDING job on this song. Really.
ELAW67 8 months ago
@Rooster450xl Where is that Church?
devildog2002 1 week ago
@devildog2002 FAITH UMC 1713 W. 108th St. La,CA 90047
Rooster450xl 1 week ago
i love this songg:) and when we watch hairspray 1988 version my mom always waits to watch the scene when he sings this:) she loves it:)....
Captaincrunchrox 10 months ago
yes yes yes
verojudy1972 10 months ago
I LOVE THIS SONG HAIRSPRAY HELPED ME DISCOVER IT!!!
nawfsidehandy 10 months ago
OMG I SEARCHED HARD FOR THIS
vanilla45 11 months ago
OMG!! <3 thanks!
830615521 11 months ago
Hairspray baby!
revheavygandpinto 11 months ago
Folks...THIS is SOUL.
hollies65 11 months ago
I love this song. Thanks, been looking for it for a long time. I think that this song was was the heart of the original - and best - Hairspray.
AnotherCuppaCoffee 1 year ago 7
to my lost love....
kickstandkowboi 1 year ago
Had a hard time finding this album. Bout found it at fye
timpate73 1 year ago
The raw emotion with which he sings this song overwhelms me.
liepinshtein 1 year ago
Uma das musicas mais lindas que eu já e sò pude ter esse previlegio após assistir harryspray.
tarentino3 1 year ago
Beautiful song !
Thank you
123must 1 year ago 2
my mother wrote this song
dedegrown 1 year ago
One of a kind.The very best.One,s you listen to this song you will never forget it.Thanks much.
thmcbb 1 year ago
I love this song and I love (prefer) the original Hairspray movie. Thanks for posting XxX
Patsie2709 1 year ago
Reminds me of the Hairspray original scene when that whino comes out of the alley with just him and his bottle busting out the lyrics, and stops and and tips his hat...I always think of that partwhen I hear the chorus...Classic
77rocker 1 year ago
what is hairspray , urbody talkin about that?
inigo9000 1 year ago
Thankx 4 this one PJ...I have the need of this one once in a while. LOL phyllis
sleepytimegalz 1 year ago
Would love to dance to this when I was in high school. Toussaint played for our prom when I was a junior in ;high school. Still brings back good memories.
rayvillekappa 1 year ago
would like to know song from record store they dance hte dirty boogie to
plowboy43able 1 year ago
The 2 who don't like this are probably waiting for the RAP version to come out
...lol!!!
BeatleJim55 1 year ago 2
@BeatleJim55 tell me about it.some people have no taste.
nuwavething 1 year ago
wow, one of the greatest songs ever. They don't make music like this any more.
Voyagersguidebook 1 year ago
God, I love this song.
MckyMseNTarotCrds 1 year ago 26
@MckyMseNTarotCrds hear-hear...
52thanks 1 month ago
@52thanks God, I really hate what they've done to YouTube. It makes no sense, this new setup. The way it used to work, when someone answered a comment you left, you were directed back to your own comment when you clicked it. It's really like they are trying to destroy any social aspect YT may have had. I don't know what I said that you're agreeing to. Anyway, I'm sure it was about what a great song this is. Love it. Hate the new YT.
MckyMseNTarotCrds 1 month ago
2 people should see their ear doctor soon...
pakiskinhead 1 year ago
i first heard this song watching hairspray an loved it since...thanx 4 da post...fe real...
buttacudawey 1 year ago
True SOUL MUSIC! At it's Best!
psviking1 1 year ago
THANK YOU PJ BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS SOULFUL SONG...PHYLLIS...
sleepytimegalz 1 year ago
uuhhfff... oww.
xdrukqs 1 year ago
oh...ouch : ...(
OneMarianneStephen 1 year ago
@OneMarianneStephen
12 years + 5 months - and still, my darling, I'm so blue, because nothing, oh but nothing, takes the place of you.
deedeethekingofqns 4 months ago
1967...
BeatleJim55 1 year ago
thumbs up if you came here because of John water's HAIRSPRAY
SweetWhiskerz 1 year ago 75
@SweetWhiskerz I had to find this song to prove to my friends that songs in this movie were real and not made up for the film
SweetWhiskerz 1 year ago
@SweetWhiskerz Well, that's where I first heard this song, and I've loved it ever since....but I'll give you the thumbs-up.
MckyMseNTarotCrds 1 year ago
Thanks for this posting cause I love this song!!!
Sangria3 1 year ago
Sorry the Timi Yuro cover is good but not like this! His voice is so rich.
mzzlouie 1 year ago
Beautiful old song, always liked it. It's so heartfelt.
mzzlouie 1 year ago
Eyes as deep and wide as a night sky echoing with a sorrow so human that it's almost grief.. This, my friends was not just heart.. Anyone can give their heart, but only a true kat can give his heart and his soul to a woman.
TNFlightNurse 1 year ago
Ah, that was lovely!
MOTOPAC 1 year ago
i love this song!!!!
Aluna817 1 year ago
I knew Prince Buster's version, but this original one is even better.
hankfuckermann 1 year ago
yes! i have loved this song ever since i used to watch the movie hairspray as a kid, over and over!
the best.
libertygill 1 year ago
I am a 55 year old white male. This is true emotion from the soul. I grew up with the blue-eyed soul of Elvis, Jim Reeves, Johnny Rivers, Bill Deal, Michael McDonald, and all. I would always want to play the black soul singers my Mom wouldn't want me to play. lol. This is the real thing. Nothing compares.
rogee43 1 year ago
@rogee43 Johnny Rivers,,Michael McDonald "SOUL" YOU GOTTA BE KIDDIN ME. Johnny "copycat" Rivers McDonald sounds like he's STRAINING to sing.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 1 year ago
dont come any more soulful than this. Just beautiful!
loyaldude10 1 year ago
Beautiful song. I didn't know he had written it. Johnny Adams did a great version of it.
charlesdespres 1 year ago
Everytime I hear this song, I think about my father who's been gone for 36 years. He wasn't much into music at all but I remember he always asked me to play this song for him.I guess it made him think about my mother who had passed before him. Thank you so much for posting this.
dcmoluv 1 year ago
pour ceux qui aime la vie a deux ces une merveilles
dortoir 1 year ago
wonderful song...pulls at the heartstrings..you can't beat the oldies
msghostwood 1 year ago
One of the Baddest songs of all time!!!!!!!
ibanezweezee1 1 year ago
How can you not love love love a song like this, smooth. . . thanks so much for it
muumuuatl 1 year ago
I bought the original 45 in the Record Museum in Center City Philly in February
1967. Darned if I know what I did with it.
billchew450 1 year ago
I love this song!
GNRSlashLover 1 year ago
I'm only 24 but grew up with oldies such as these and i am truly greatful my mum and dad have such fantastic taste in music so i can show my kids or just sit and sing them to my family as my dad did with us :-)
MegaJackie23 1 year ago
For Brandon
An alley, a bum but a song for all to hear
54Lincoln 1 year ago
beautiful.
eezysqueezy 1 year ago
I never heard this version (I grew up with the Brook Benton version...mama was crazy about him lol). However, I have a new fav version. Very nice posting.
wcta0608 1 year ago
@wcta0608 Brook Benton ??? Toussaint WROTE this. Wolfman Jack always closed his radio shows with this record. You listen to the way he did it (very beautiful) on here. Click on Wolfman Jack THEN listen to the one on THAT OLDIES ALBUM "NOT" THAT DUMB SHORT VERSION with his picture.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 1 year ago
@THEMOJOMANsince1959 yes. Brook Benton made a version of this on Cotillion Records (circa mid to late 60's I believe. Someone has it posted on youtube. I enjoy both versions. I'm just used to the Benton version.
wcta0608 1 year ago
This is so sad, but true..
Karnita 1 year ago
just heard this on Hairspray, excellent song
TheJ5fanclub 1 year ago
Great song! one of my favorite scenes from Hairspray.
kingrob29 1 year ago
this is so sad , but its so good only heard it 6months ago, lovely song.
JUVENTUSBLACK8 1 year ago
this is what the music of today lacks. Soul!!! You can hear the pain in his voice as he is SINGING not screaming or rapping but singing. In order to love the music of today you have to sit back and appreciate the music of yesteryear that brought us to this point!!!!!!!
ppimaro 1 year ago 2
It just doesn't get any better than this.
ScorpioSag 1 year ago
I have an old cassette recording of the late great Isaac Hayes covering this song and have tried to find it in other formats over the years without success. Any ideas???
MsServina 1 year ago
@MsServina :I just checked cduniverse and they have it on the Black Moses cd ($20).
53JoDi 1 year ago
@53JoDi Thanks for checking this out for me, will try again!
MsServina 1 year ago
still one of my all time favs
bjandmatt 1 year ago 2
@phunkyjunction ---this is the definition of what soul is! thanks for posting it
loyaldude10 1 year ago
Nothing will ever take the place of the Marine Villa, a Kingston brothel where I first heard this wonderful sound while watching a beautiful woman undulating under its spell 43 years ago. Talk about magical moments.
salmapliz 1 year ago
@salmapliz
... Awkward....
Lilja124 1 year ago
@Lilja124 Actually she was probably the most graceful woman I have ever seen. So sorry if my personalized reflection left you feeling awkward, if that was what you were trying to convey, but brothels still exist and life goes on.
salmapliz 1 year ago
@salmapliz
You can visit all the brothels in the world and look at ladies until your eyes crumble to dust in their sockets from lack of moisture. If you share this with the world though, people will think you're giving just a wee bit too much info. Life goes on.
Lilja124 1 year ago
@salmapliz my my arent you a cheery little cookie. at age 68 i give less of a shit what judgmental souls like yourself think is too much information. have a nice life
salmapliz 1 year ago
@salmapliz You got that right. Been There Done That (like you) Bought the T-Shirt,,in fact sometimes I was ON THE T-SHIRT. Radio Station promotion T-Shirts.
Keep On Keepin On !!!
THEMOJOMANsince1959 1 year ago
@THEMOJOMANsince1959 Mojo: Thanx for the supportive comment...if there is a Marine Villa tee-shirt I need to know how to get one and if you are indeed on it you have already achieved a particularly distinctive immortality and earned my heart-felt admiration.
salmapliz 1 year ago
@salmapliz THAT IS "SO COOL". Keep On Keepin On !!
THEMOJOMANsince1959 1 year ago
This song rules, totally different from the crap they play today, it's so empty and meaningless, and even if they can't sing they play their damn music anyway!
dordsediekie 1 year ago
My grandmother gave me all her old 45's and this one was in it... what a great song and I just LOVE it!!
t1tspears 1 year ago
I love this song. I love the organ...haunting yet romantic!
LadyofWar1980 1 year ago
This is wild....but this song was released in 1967, but "Hairspray" the movie was set much earlier....1960!? Toussaint must have had to get back in his time machine, after singing it in the movie, and go back to the future!?.......:) Love this song!
djmadlad 1 year ago
Nice post, and the highlight of "Hairspray" for me.
SirBasildeBrush 1 year ago
" Every now & then, a song hurts you so bad, ...because that Love, was that Fine!" " There really is something to the old saying: 'I never would have known how bad, if I had never known how good!" " Still, ...I'd do it again, in a heartbeat!
1950sTrisha1 2 years ago
One of the best..this song will tear your heart out..nothing can take the place of Toussaint's version..
Sugarbehr1967 2 years ago 2
@Sugarbehr1967
"I agree"
Barbara9490 2 years ago
I never heard this song in my life i never heard of this man Thanks barbara
jeridolove 2 years ago
@jeridolove You welcome.Like good music!!!
Barbara9490 2 years ago
@Barbara9490 Ohhh I love this song..."Hairspray"...my favorite movie;)
MsMaJa79 1 year ago
@MsMaJa79 A great love song!!!!
Barbara9490 1 year ago
@Barbara9490 your right about that..lol
MsMaJa79 1 year ago
@MsMaJa79 This is music!!!
Barbara9490 1 year ago
@Barbara9490 yea..back wen music was music;) I love this song;)
MsMaJa79 1 year ago
@MsMaJa79 Now you're talking,:)
Barbara9490 1 year ago
@MsMaJa79 Check out Al Green voice on this....
Barbara9490 1 year ago
I never heard of this man Thanks Barabara
jeridolove 2 years ago
@jeridolove I thought u would like.
Barbara9490 2 years ago
If I was listening to this on a record I would have warn it it out! Love it
Yalandria 2 years ago 2
great song =)
lilli016 2 years ago
you know a classic when you can remember the very first time you ever heard it.......i never tire of this song and i never will. truly a beautifully written song.
randywestvalley 2 years ago 3
this is a much better version than the faster one, great stuff!
FFSAKES 2 years ago
omg! now that is music!
doogleeee 2 years ago
me and my ex slow danced in the rain while he sang this song to me!!!!!!!!!
so this song brings back all the good memories
brilliant song
littlechristian1 2 years ago
This is still on a few Jukeboxes in South Louisiana. So it must be a real classic. Thanks for the Post!
TheFalconracer 2 years ago 3
I love this music..I grew up listening to it, because it's what my mom listened to when she was a little girl.
I never really appreciated it, I just always wanted to listen to Britney Spears or Backstreet Boys. Lol.
zebruhhhh 2 years ago
Oh my lord...this reminds me of "hairspray" I love that movie...and I love this song;)
mademoiselle79 2 years ago
Thank you so much. I gave up looking for Toussaint McCall because no one knew what I was talking about. This was played in the 1960's. Still good today.
drdaisyj 2 years ago 4
Ouch!!!
drdaisyj 2 years ago
Thought I Was A Big, Grown Up Guy,
Met A Girl, Loved Her Dearly, Unfortunately Lost Her, Isobel, Miss You And Still Love you Dearly.........
Thanx For This Post
norriedee 2 years ago
He's my great step uncle basically my grandpa remarried before i was born and my grandma genivea is his sister I went to a family reunion in Louisianna when I was 13 that was almost 8 years ago for and he sang he still sounds good! I love him he's really nice and accepting all my step gma's family is!
CtzMia 2 years ago 3
i love the original Hairspray the new one sucks arse big time
shapes101 2 years ago 14